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OF A SPORTING NATURE JOE STECHER IS REAL MARVEL IN WRESTLING. NKW \ IKK Joe Steelier, the . : ier boy from Dodge Neb threw Mort Henderson, the Masked Marvel twice in less than sixteen minutes lull *e a crowd of 6.500 wrestling enthusiasts at Madison Square Garden recently. Siei her "• tired tlie first fall i'l " tninu'i seconds with a bod> s. i.- i.irs and arm lock. lie threw Hender.-on tla second time in 5 minute- 1 seconds with a body scissors and double wrist hold. S ei ler wei;l.ed 20 ' pounds and the Marvel 1U:> pounds. llendi tseii stati d while he was resting' aiu-i tlie lirst fall that he had w ighed 21$ pounds when he t;: t i titered the wrestling tourna ment at tin Manhattan Opera House. He did not, however, at tribute tiis defeat to this loss of weight or to his present condition or lack of it. as after the bout was over lie made a public statement in which lie said tiiat Stecher ivas easily the greatest wrestler he had ever met. George Bothner, the referee, was also enthusiastic over Sterher. "H< certainly is a bear." he said to some of the newspaper men after the match, “and hi is so fast that he should make a good boxer.” The match itself was an unequal one. Steelier, rool and confident, was continually on the offensive, and from the first it was apparent that tile only question was how long Heiidiison could keep his shoulders from the mat. In fni, the Marvel was on the di I'.-nsi * e\ery second of the firs' bout and managed to get only one hold in the second which Steelier broki as easily as a child would a strand of worsted The entire lower part of the Gar den and the main part of the gallery were filled with wrestling fans. The crowd that had been going to the Manhattan Opera House flocked to see the new star of the wrestling game, and evening clothes were in evidence in most of the boxes. As a matter of fact the gather ing resembled a theatre crowd more than the u.-ital as emblage which collects at wrestling bouts, as many women were present. All th< Broadway notables were there, and upper Fifth avenue was well rep resented. There were fans from as far north as Y> nkers and as far south as Staten Island, as far west as .New .1. ; m V Him a. Iiir ' asi a Lon a Island. Most of them con sider! d tht-ms'-lv: s wall repaid for any distant t they may have tra velled. T; main bout >va advertised for 9 :::u o’clock, but it was not until liu>7 that Mort Henderson climbed bet', -on the ropes in his black mask and figur d bathrobe. There is no doubt t at a mask giv< s a sinister appear: nee to even the must peaceful eoumenance, and even when unmasked Henderson has a fighting face. Steelier followed cio-e upon the heels of the Marvel. About him there was nothing sinister. He has good features, dark, well marked eyebrows and a ditnpu 1 chin. He wears his hair parsed in the mid dle and brushed batik in the- college fashion. As a mutter of fact, h-1 looks much like a young college toy with a fresh, wholesome face He, too wore a flowery b.ithroje His step was light and springy, and his flesh pink and firm. Tnere was something about him that gave one the impression of the very es sence of vigor and youth. Dr. B. I-’. Holler and “Strangler” Lewis clamboied into the ring and were presented by Joe Humphries, who had previously made an a.: nouncement that these two men alone were barred in Stecher’s oi ter of $500 t: any man who v.ouid wrestle him f r fifteen minutes w t i out being thrown. This did not mean in all prob ability that Steelier f-ared either uf these distinguished rivals, but merely that they were being saved fur future nu.tch.-s. As a matte! of fait Humphries thought the Ne braska boy would be eager to meet either of them in a finish match. Dr. Roller is evidently a favorite with tie crowd, which cheered him to the echo. Lewis was also ap plaud'd generously, but the mar \ el’s name produced a pandemoni um. Humphries announced that the con ditions of the match were the best two falls out of three, with no holds ban d except the strangle. Tli men threw off their bathrobes a' livid, and never were t lie atlrac tions of a chorus girl viewed more closely by the crowd than wen Steeher’s famous logs. They were worth looking at, too Under the maroon tights which covered their calves great knots of muscles wound and unwound themselves. His sturdy ankles ap peared slender by comparison. Pro1 t hip to knee was the development often seen on the old time cowboy or broncho buster who rode witu a long stirrup and retained his seat by the grip of his legs. Steepl er also wore black trunks, but fiom the waist up bis body was bare 11 is upper torso resembled the fight er rather than the wrestler. The muscles are not knotted, but flow smoothly under the skin in long ripples. When he is in ac tion they stand out and he up pears to have no superfluous flesh, lie is not thick through the chest a.- was Gotch. nor are his arms so large, but for all that they ap pear to have the strength of wire cables. The moment the men met at the center of the mat Steelier took the offensive. It was evident that he was in no way troubled by the size of the crowd or the fact thai it was his first appearance in this city. His manner was most busi ness like. He was there to throw his opponent and to do it in as short a time as posssible. His strength appeared to be su perior to that of Henderson and he handled him easiiy In almost no time at all Steelier had the Marvel on the mat and was seek ing to pin him down. Henderson put up the best resistance he was able to offer and several times slipped out of what looked lik-* finishing holds. It was Steeher's deadly legs that did two-thirds of th< work. They curled around the Marvel in Re fashion of the elephants trunk, and with the intelligence and control usually attributed to arms. The men wrestled to the edge of the mat and Bothner brought them in. Again the Marvel squirm- 1 toward the ropes, but this time Steelier had him. With his famous body scissors and arms lock he laid Henderson’s shoulders squarely on the .1 at. During the ten minutes itm mission Strcher left the ring with his brother. * * * TINKER GRABS STEVE YERKES. Baseball sharps say that Joe Tinker knew what he was doing when he paid $6,500 to President Gwinner, of the Pittsburg Federals. for the release of Second Baseman Steve Yerkes. When Manager Carrigan. of the Boston Bed Sox, unconditionally re leased him in 101! it caused great surprise. Whi'e more than one team at the time needed a reliable key stone guardian, he was permitted to get out of the major leagues. It was said Yeikes was a Jake S'aiil adherent and therefore was in bad with Carrigan, who seized the first opportunity to let him out. Carrigan had cause to regret let ting Yerkes go. Janvrin, whom he put in his place, did not make good and Carrigan had to pay a sum cf $14,000 to obtain Jack Barry of the Athletics. Had the Red Sox been unable to get Barry, Detroit, and not Boston, would have won last year’s pennant. So. therefore, i the summary release of Yerkes cost Owner Lannln a large amount of money. To go back to Yerkes. no other major league club would handle him, but the Pittsburg Federals needed a second baseman and land ed him. He played 121 games at the keystone kiosk last season and batted .288. When the peace pact was signed. Yerkes was overlooked in the shuffle, but not by Joe Tink er. Tinker preferred Yerkes to a half dozen others he had available for the post. "Yerkes is a much bettei ball player than the geueral public knows,” said Tinker. "There isn't any department of the game he hasn't mastered. He is a sure and active fielder, a great hitter espe cially for hit and run plays; can run the bases in fine style and has a great head on him. With him to fill up that gap at second base, we will have a stonewall infield. Vic Saier. Yerkes. Doolan and Zimmer man form a quartet that can't be beaten." Yerkes, by the way, was the hero of the world's series in 1912. It was his quickwitted, heady play in'-: on the d< fens? and liis timely batting that made victory possible. He outplayed Larry Doyle in every department of the game. * c * HOW MEREDITH WON GREAT RACE, Patriotism is seldom thought of as the motive power in athletics, but it was a prime factor in one of the greatest middle distance races on record. The event was the combination 800-meter and half mile run at the Olympic games in Stockholm in 1912, and Ted Mere dith, the present captain of the University of Pennsylvania track team, was the hero. At that time Meredith was a Hu- ; dent at Mercetshurg Academy. He had won a good deal of fame by running a quarter of a mile in 48 4-5 seconds and a half-mile in [ 1:55 4-5. But the old timers were sure that his inexperience would be fatal to him at Stockholm. When the runners toed the mark for the final heat of this event, it was the consensus of opinion that the fight would be between Mel Sheppard, Ira Davenport and Hans Braun, of Germany, with Meredith, the school- | bov. a possible contender. Sheppard jumped into me iron: at the start and took the pole, fol lowed by Meredith and Braun. Shep- ! pard was up 'o his old trick of set ting a killing pace at the start I then to gradually slow down in j order that his phenomena! sprint j might beat the field at the finish, j But he had beaten Meredith with j these tactics once before, and the j Mercersburg boy was waiting for i him. Meredith moved up, deter mined to take the pace the mo ment Sheppard slowed down. With two such men as Meredith and Braun at his shoulder Sheppard did not dare to slacken speed, with the result that he continued to set the pace and made the first quarter in the phenomenal time of 52 seconds. The men remained in this order until seventy-five yards from home. Meredith never sup posed that he had a chance to win. and, as he said afterward, was sat isfied so long as the winner was an American. But suddenly Sheppard began to tire and Braun spurted and moved up on even terms with the two Americans. “I may be beaten by an Ameri can,” said Meredith to himself, “but never by a foreigner.” With this he dug in his spikes for one supreme effort. It took him past Sheppard and caused Braun to collapse. Meredith won the race struck the 800-meter tape in 1:51 7-10, and the half-mile in 1:52 1-2, both world records. Of course, Meredith was a great runner, but li is sturdy Americanism was the contributing factor. ^ General Mining News j * CHISANA COUNTRY IS WRITTEN UP. CORDOVA March 3 I. B. Hurd of McCarthy has just returned from a trip to th. chi ana, and he says things are looting very good in there at the pro--i:t time. He writes the Daily Tinn-s as follows: “I had a very good trip going in and out, wit a the exception of a little storm en the summit which one must expect at this time of year, but the trail is in very good condition, and there is going to be quite a large amount of freight go in this spring, and there will be more actual mining and develop ment this summer than ever before. "There are some parties down 60 feet on the left limit of Johnson, and were getting some very good prospects and expect to strike t very good. “There are several parties work ing on Notch creek and are also gptting some very good prospects, and while I was there they made arrangements for a big boiler and moved it over and are going after It. “The best strike of all has been made on Gold Run. on No. 1 below discovery. The pay is sixteen feet wide and is about twenty feet to bedrock; they have had three and four cent pans from the surface down, and on bedrock they have had as high as $2 pans, and they don't think that they have found tho best pay yet “James & Nelson are putting in a big hydraulic plant this spring, their entire outfit will amount to about 35 ton:;, and there are sev eral other good sized outfits going in, and taka it as a whole, the Chisana district has never looked better than it does at the present time.” QUARTZ STAMPEDE IS ANCHORAGE, Mar. 1 —The news has just arrived of the discovery of a monster lode in the Squentnu country, and considerable excite ment has resulted here. Several are already departing for the scene of the strike, and quite a stampede may be looked for. The lode Is fifteen hundred feet In width and carries (jold values of five dollars a ton and upward. The rock is of \ a bluish color and good looking. Ten locations have already been made, but this number is expected to increase very much right away. The ledge is ten mites from the Byers road house. CANDLE CREEK HAS BONANZA. IDITAROD. Feb. 5.—“I took three pans from the roof of the tunnel that went 45 cents in gold; one pan two feet from bedrock that panned $5, and one pan on bedrock that produced $25.” The above quotation is not the result of a “pipe dream” nor the idle mountings of a so called pros pector intent on starting a stam pede to some distant locality. They are the words of Dr. W. F. Greene of Takotna. and refer to a recent visit he made to the workings of Dan McDonnell and Billy Bevans. on Candle creek, near Takctna, on ground leased from Tom Aitken and Tom McKinnon. "I know I will be accused of ex aggeration in making this state ment,’' said Dr. Greene yesterday, “but I am willing to make affidavit to the truth of my assertions.” No one wno knows Dr. Greene, who is one of the best known citi zens of the Kuskokwim region, will consider that such a guarantee of the truth of his words is neces sary, and while the values indicat ed by such casual tests are start ling. the doctor says that there have been individual pans taken out on the claim much richer even than the ones he mentions. Candle creek, according to Dr Greene, is bound to prove one of the great producers of Alaska. The ancient channel of the creek has been located, and proves to be much deeper ground than *he pres ent creek bed, which runs from eighty-five feet to upwards of one hundred and twenty-five feet. McDonnell & Bevans, according to tlie doctor, have uncovered 3,600 feet of bedrock, which carries two feet of sand permeated with values such as he mentioned. The lucky miners will make no estimates on the value of their ground, but are quietly working and preparing for the rich harvest. On Karl creek considerable pros pecting is being done. Much low grade gravel has been revealed, and apparently so far nothing bet ter than a wage proposition has been developed. Higgins & Thoms, operating on Gaines creek, in the Innoko district, have commenced the work of freight ing machinery from Takotna to their workings. The machinery was re ceived on the last Kuskokwim boat last fall, an.i consists of a self dumping slip scraper. PROSPECTORS WORKING ON LOWER POORMAN. RUBY, Feb. 26.—W. J. Henry, of Poorman. writes that "there are now six outfits trying to pick up the Johnson & Johnson pay on the left limit of lower Poorman. Sev eral holes wiR be bedrocked with in a week. It looks good to see all these little 'bilers' strung out and spitting smoke and sparks till you would think of a Fourth of July celebration." COPPER MINERS ASK INCREASE IN WAGES. CORDOVA, March 3.—'The em ployees at the Bonanza and Jumbo mines at Kennecott have asked for an increase in their pay, the re quest being made to Superintendent Seagrave by a committee of two from each mine. On March 1 the- Kennecott Cop per corporation voluntarily gave the men an increase of five per cent in their wages, but they now ask for fifty cents a day more for all class es of labor, and it is reported that the company has been given until March 10 to make their decision. At present machine men are paid $3 per day and board, and helpers $2.50 and board. ANOTHER COPPER DIVIDEND DECLARED. NEW YORK, March 2.—Further large dividends wore declared by the leading copper companies to day, Utah Copper declaring an extra dividend of one dollar in addition to the regular quarterly dividend of one dollav Butte & Superior declared their quarterly dividend of 75 cents, and an addition announced of an extra dividend of ten dollars. FOURTH OF JULY IS NOW PAYING CREEK. RUBY, Feb. 26.—Fourth of July may now be safely counted among the producing creeks of the Ruby district. Exaggerated reports have been going the rounds for several days about $5, $6 and $7 pans be ing common; but the truth is good enough: Fre.l Swanson and George Cahill have a 25-foot crosscut on their ground which will go frot j $1 to $2 to the pan. They picked up a $42 nugget in the tunnel the first of the week. Swanson and Cahill do not know the width of the pay, but it is their belief and the belief of others who are familiar with conditions that a paystreak of from 60 to 75 feet will be uncovered before spring. About seventy-five feet above the crosscut, Swanson and Cahill have prospecting shafts front which the dirt pans from ten to fifteen cents to the pan. Some distance above Swanson and Cahill, C. K. Snow, Hugh Cray and Andy Garvin have hoisted gravel from which it is next to impossi ble to get less than five to seven cents to the pan, and they are very optimistic about the future, feeling that further work will show better results. The Carpenter hrothers ana Rob ert Kells are working hard trying to line up the pay gravels just be low Swanson and Cahill. Dan Sutherland has taken a lay on C. K. Snow’s half of the Garvin ground on Fourth of July creek. Mr. Sutherland Is abont finished on Flat creek. LAUGHS TWO HOURS. KANSAS CITY.—Betsy Green, a “stout” negro woman, stood beside a big fat man at Riverview station here, when down the street flitted a puff of wind and neatly removed the fat man’s hat and sent it sailing up Central avenue. Every one smiled as the fat man gave chase as best his avordupois would permit. Betsy laughed. When Betsy had laughed two hours without be ing able to stop, an ambulance sur geon stopped it with a dose of morphine. Ford Owner (going down road with throttle wide open—Gee! I must be making fitteen miles an hour. Motorcycle Cop—Halt! You’re un der arrest. F. O.—Pinched? What for? Speed ing? M. C.—No! For rushing the can on Sunday. VOTERS RATIFY REJECT OTHERS PROPOSITION TO ELECT MAYOR CARRIES—OFFICIALS WILL BE APPOINTIVE. The election held in Fairbanks last Wednesday for the purpose oi ratifying or rejecting the law passed by the last Alaska legislature, rela tive to the election of a mayor and three city councilmen for two years and the eledion of certain of the city officials, resulted in the passing of the first measure, while the lat ter was defeated. The election was quiet, in that only 338 votes were cast. Some ot the voters balloted on only one of the propostions pre sented. The first measure carried by a vote of 228 to 110. The second lost by a margin of only eight votes the vote cast being 160 against and 152 in favor. I The election will take place on Tuesday. April 4, at which time the annual school election will also be held. The city election will be for a mayor and six councilmen. as usual, the only difference being that three of the councilmen will be elect ed to serve two years. Just how they will be selected has not been stated, but it is supposed that some special provision will be made or else that the three councilmen get ting the highest number of votes will get the long terms. No candl dates for aldermanic honors have as yet developed. The election of last Wednesday means that all city ollices will con tinue to be appointive instead of elective. Delegates Elected By Coast Repubs SEWARD, Mar. 13. (Delayed). ~ The primary election held here for the election of delegates to the Re publican territorial convention was very quiet. In fact, there was practically no contest made to the election of the delegates whose names had been placed before the Republican voters by the commit teemen. It is believed that all of the dele gates elected are auti-Wickei sham men. although none of them have been questioned concerning how they will vote at the convention Those chosen were J. Alison Bruner, Matt Button, E. E. Chamberlain, J. Fin negan, W. P. Henry, L. L. James J. M. Sloan and E. E. Whittemore At Cordova. cot;IK)VA, March 13.—There wore no contests here at the Republican primaries held Saturday. All dele gates elected are anti Shackleford men, but are strongly in favor ol peace within the party. The dele gates elected to the convention front this section are : Cordova—-George Hazelett, H. G. Steel, Thomas Scott George Dooley, Harry Thisted, 11 V. Boyle, C M. Frazier, Robert Gottschalk. Eyak- - Jack Johnson Jack Shepard. Katalla—A. M. Keel ing, A, G. Thompson. Valdez Primary. VALDEZ, March 13. -Eight dele gates were elected at the Republi can primary held here on Saturday. The ticket was headed by Ritichie and was elected without serious opposition. Almost all chosen are against a coalition of Wickersham and Shackleford forces, but are fa vorable to harmony and a patching up in the Republican ranks. Fight At Juneau. JUNEAU, March 13.—Rustgard, of Juneau, and O’Connor, of Doug las, opposing a coalition of Wick ersham and Shackleford forces in the First division, were badly beat en at the primaries on Saturday. Advices from all precincts show that the solid delegation from the first division will go to Seward prepared to nominate Wickersham for delegate. Terminal City Has Another Big Fire SEWARD, Mar. 13. (Delayed).— This city was visited by another di sastrous fire at an early hour this morning. The loss is estimated at about $25,000. Lack of water bin dered the efforts of the fire fighters, otherwise it is thought that the loss of part of the property burned could have i een prevented. The city council is now making an in vestigation of the water famine. The Daggett block, which housed Colwell’s stare and the printing plant of the Alaska Evening l’ost, was the building destroyed. Two or three adjacent cabins were also taken by the flames, the fire de partment being unable to prevent the spread of the fire on account of the water shortage. Practically all of the Evening Post equipment, including the press es and linotype, which were locat ed in. the basement of the building, was completely destroyed. It is understood that the publishers of the Post have ordered a complete new plant from the Outside. The fire was caused by an over heated furnace in the basement of the building which burned. R. C. WOOD. LUTHER C. HESS. GEO. HUTCHINSON. President. Vice Pi esident. Cashie n of Fairbanks, Alaska. RESOURCES OVER $ '50,000 UNDER SUPERVISION OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT GOLD DUST purchased and ass,•.yeti. We guarantee our assays to check with the U. S. Mint. BANKING BUSINESS of every description transacted, and our fa cilities for transferring monev to all [parts of the world are ur. excel It'd PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL AGENTS: Hank of California, N. A San Francisco, Seattle, Portland. Tacoma and Virginia City, Nevada. Chase National Bank. N< tt York Continental and Commercial National Bank, Chicago. BOY WIZARD JUGGLES FIGURES It is reported from India that a ! mathematical genius has been dis ! covered there. He is about fifteen years of age, is wholly illiterate, looks simple, almost witless, and I is very shy. His brain is a mathe ! matical machine, and seems to con lain nothing hut mathematics. Any I question that you may ask him that j relates to figures he answers with astonishing rapidity. ! One of his feats was the division | of a line of sixteen figures by an i other line of six. In another case lie was asked the cube of a large number, taken from a table of such calculations in a book. One nuni j eral in his answer differed from j that in the book. The examiner showed him the book, but lie insisted that he was right; the sum was worked out on paper, and it proved that the hook was wrong and that the boy's computation was correct. Physi j r ally the boy is abnormal. He j has too many fingers and toes, and J is probably defective in other ways. IDITAROD NEWS The weather of the past week has been suggestive of the latter days of April rather than the first half of January, so mild has it been Indeed, on several days the ther mometer registered well above freez ing point, with every indication of ! a continued thaw. The following table of temperature is from a record kept by Fire Chief Currin from readings taken at 1 a. m daily at the fire station: Above Below Zero. Zero. Jan. 8 . 26 9 . 30 10 . 16 11 . 24 12 . 28 13 . 30 14 . 32 Mil Smith of Smith’s Gun Store, is making arrangements to leave soon for file Outside. Mr. Smith has been itt poor health for some time, and has been advised to sub mit to an operation. Joe Smith, his brother, had intended to leave for the Outside soon, but his plans have been changed on account of Ed’s serious condition. Mrs. Joseph Smith may come in over the trail later. “Ramps” Peterson, who has been in the saloon business in Iditarod since the e tidiest days of the camp, on Tuesday 'ast completed a deal by which the business was turned over to George March, of the Utidweiser, and on Wednesday last the "Pioneer" saloon closed its doors it is understood that it >viii not be reopened. Abe Weiss lias received a letter from Ike Bavles. formerly in busi ness at Iditarod, in wlii he states that he expects to locate at Oatman. Ariz. 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