Alaska Banking & Safe Deposit Company

Episode Information

Episode UID: 1692485391211
Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: state
Bank ID: 169248539 hash
Start Date: November 8, 1900
Location: Nome, Alaska (64.501, -165.406)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
Short Digest: b53ea236472207af

Response Measures

None

Description

Article refers to a court-appointed receiver at 'the Alaska bank' in Cape Nome but does not spell out the full bank name.

Events (1)

1. November 8, 1900 Receivership

Newspaper Excerpt: When it became known that McKenzie would not obey the order of the court, it was rumored that the defendants would seize the gold dust lying in safe deposit boxes rented by the receiver at the Alaska bank.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. November 10, 1900 Bismarck Daily Tribune Bismarck, ND

Article from Bismarck Daily Tribune, November 10, 1900

Click image to open full size in new tab

Article Text

NO BLUFF GOES. ALEX M'KENZIE DECLINES TO BE BLUFFED BY C. D. LANE. Seattle, Wash., Nov. 8.-Voyageurs from Cape Nome tell interesting tales of the bearing of Alex McKenzie during the crisis over the receivership. When it. became known that McKenzie would not obey the order of the court, it was rumored that the defendants would seize the gold dust lying in safe deposit boxes rented by the receiver at the Alaska bank. It happened that on the same day McKenzie went to the bank for the purpose of withdrawing some dust that he was storing for a friend. A crowd of men, including the original stakers of the Anvil Creek disputed claims, and headed by a son of Charles D. Lane, were in front of the bank door when McKenzie started to leave the building. When he reached the door young Lane stepped forward, shoved a revolver in the receiver's face and said: "If you come outside the door you are a dead man." McKenzie looked at the young max over the barrel of the six-shooter. "I am an American citizen and a free man," he said. "I go where I please." And, with no sign of excitement, he walked out and passed up the street before the eyes of the uggliest-looking assemblage that has been seen in Alaska this year. Young Lane didn't shoot. Later in the day McKenzie met some members of the crowd that had tried to intimidate him. He was warned not to go to the bank where the Anvil treasure was stored, under penalty of death. He visited the bank three times that day. "Not that I had any business there," he has explained, "but just for the deviltry of it." And now the inhabitants are wondering what will be the outcome of the stubborn stand taken by McKenzie and the Anvil Creek jumpers.