GOLDEN SPIKE
JUBILEE HELD
AT OGDEN
OGDEN, Utah, May 12 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Utah on Saturday
celebrated in this city the golden
jubilee of the driving of the golden
spike which commemorated the com
pletion of the first transcontinental
railroad connecting the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans. Grizzled veterans of
the west who either worked on the
Central Pacific or Union Pacflc, or
who drove the teams that supplied
the workers were the guests of honor.
Many are here who remember the
race to build the Pacific Railroad,
and there are some who tell of track
layings records made in the last few
days of the race which would make
construction engineers of today
envious.
There were present a few who wit
nessed the driving of the last spike—
made of gold—at Promontory, fifty
miles west of Ogden.
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
officials were here to participate in the
event, for it was their jubilee as well
as that of the men who did the work.
A program of entertainment took
place during the day. A monster
procession wound its way through
the city, in which were a series
of allegorical floats depicting the
building of the railroads and the
progress of the west.
The building of the Pacific Rail
road was begun at Omaha of the
Union Pacific, and at Sacramento of
the Central Pacific, on January 8,
1863. With the granting of a gov
ernment subsidy to the Pacific Rail
read, the work was speeded up after
numerous delays and it became a
race to lay the largest mileage of
rails. The contest ended May 10, 1869,
at Promontory, 50 miles west of Og
den, at which time trains from the
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
met. The Union Pacific had built
1086 miles westward from Omaha the
Central Pacific having advanced 690
miles eastward from Sacramento.
Governor Leland Stanford of Cali
fornia, drove the last and golden
spike, aided by T. C. Durant, president
of the Union Pacific. Just before the
meeting of the rails both railroads
were emblpying 25,000 men and using
6,000 teams in construction work, it
is said.
Utah historical records says that
Union Pacific engine No. 119 and gen
eral locomotive “Jupiter” nearly
touched “nose” at the ceremony.
Edgar Mills of Sacramento was mas
ter of ceremony and after an opening
prayer by a Rev. Dr. Todd of Massa
chusetts, and a brief talk by General
Grenville M. Dodge, superintendent of
the Union Pacific, Governor Stanford
raised the mallet and struck the first
blow, driving the golden spike into
the last tie. The silver spike was
driven by Dr. Durant. The tie into
which the spikes were driven con
tained a silver plate bearing an in
scription commemorative of the
event.
The golden spike was donated by
Dr. H. Herves of San Francisco and
was made from twenty-three $20 gold
pieces. The silver spike, it is said,
came from the mines of Virginia City,
Nevada.
John Hegness of Teller who left
that city to go to the Cape early in
March ran into a blizzard and lost all
but two of his dogs through freezing
and only through locating a cabin on
Lost river in which he stayed while
the storm was raging, escaped a pos
sible death by freezing.
Job printing at Daily Times office.
SHORT STORIES
, BOUTALASKA
OCCURRENCES
The Treadwell Company is offering
a reward of $10 for information lead
ing to the arrest of the person or per
sons who turned In two false alarms
of fire recently.
Three carloads of lignite coal from
the Bums mine were taken to Nenana
last week. Several more carloads of
coal are due to arrive there in the
near future from the same mine.
In the great central valleys of
Alaska the coldest days of winter are
not as cold as are reported from time
to time in the prairie states of the
west, like Nebraska, Montana and
North Dakota.
George Walheim, the Dexter creek
operator near Nome, had the misfor
tune to lose a valuable horse he was
driving recently by the animal break
ing through the crust of snow on the
ground and fracturing a leg.
Allan Crane, a former A. E. C. em
ploye at Nenana, recently returned
to that town after a trip to Seattle,
and the coastal region of the Seward
peninsula, the Kobuk and Koyukuk
region.
Charles W. Thrift, former conduc
tor on A. E. C. trains, who has been
outside for the winter has returned to
Nenana, and says that Alaska is in
comparably better than the states for
a laboring man.
The Deep Sea Fishermen’s Union
at Seattle have agreed to accept the
1918 prices for fish. A referendum
vote was taken on whether they
should strike for a 33 1-3 per cent
increase or accept last year’s prices
and the result was as above stated.
The rate of pay on the fishing steam
ships are 3 cents a pound for halibut,
2 cents a pound for black cod and
1 1-2 cents a pound for all other fish.
This applies only on company boats;
on independently owned boats the
men work on shares.
The shelter cabin owned by the
territory 18 miles east of Golovin
was burned recently. The burned
building has been bought and fixed up
by the road commission for the use
of mail carriers and travelers, and
was one of the most comfortable on ^
the run. It was constructed of logs, —
fitted with bunks, stove, cooking uten
sils and had a roomy dog barn at
tached. This cabin and the one at
Moses are the only places of shelter
on the trail. How the fire originated
is a mystery as no one seems to have
been stopping there at the time, but
it is presumed that some careless
musher built up a big fire and did
not put it out when leaving.
Many Nomeites are at present em- '
ployed in Seattle. Tom Ochman and
Teddy Lundgren are riggers in the
Ames shipyard. John Christensen is -
working in Skinner & Eddy’s yard as
riggers; Skookum Thompson, Jimmy
Portland, Louis Nelson, Frank Smith,
Victor Widell, Alfred Hansen, Billy
Wheeler, Jim Connors, Oosak, Dick
Willis, Dan Cassidy, Sam Larson are
longshoring. Lucky Peterson went to
sea on the Alaska run. Pete Swede
man and Billy Sheridan are working
in a machine shop. Captain Nelson is
working for Skinner & Eddy; Henry
Dorsch from Council is in Seattle.
Jack Winters is working in the
Duthie yards; Jack Shiney Anderson -
is in the city. Big Charles Johnson
and Albert Braten are in Seattle.
John Holm is in Oakland; German
Gus Berndt is working as boss rigger
in Oakland.
The ladies of Nenana have formed
what is called the Orphan’s Fund
club.
George Mails of Nome has been
discharged from the U. S. army and
is following his old vocation as cook
in a San Francisco restaurant. 1
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by Northwestern Hardware Co. 1-tf
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Our stock of
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IGHLAND
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Buy here and feel
assured that your cor
respondence is never
out of vogue, but al
ways smart and correct
and measured by the
latest standards of
good taste. Our dis
play shows a great
variety of charming
selections.
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If only to call.
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Picture Books and Games,
Marbles and Candies and
Dolls without names—
Silks and Laces,
Ribbons by the mile—
And Frances Fraisure there
To give you a smile.
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