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IDITAROD PIONEER
Published Every Saturday Evening at Iditarod, Alaska.
\ o! M Coo. M. Arbuoklg. Publisher No. 32
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A MERRY CHRISTMAS
Christmas in this country has a double significance.!
The fact that it marks the advancing period of lengthening!
daylight is in itself cause for general rejoicing and it is|
worthy of appropriate celebration on that account alone.
By the close of the twelve days which are included in the;
Christmas festival of the church the increased light will be
quite perceptible.
In its more general sense Christmas day w ill be ob-;
served by all. By many the rejoicing will lie shared in
without serious thought or clear understanding of the
purely religious meaning of the time, but the goodfellow
ship and sociability will result in moral good nevertheless,
and thus Christ's will will be done, whether his name be
called upon or not.
Here, then, the very absence of universally expressed
religious convictions may be made to serve a good purpose,
and to that end the Pioneer wishes every one a merry
Christmas. _
RESULTS SPEAK FOP THEMSELVES
Now that the revised returns make it certain that the
production cf gold in the Iditarod the past season exceeded
three million dollars, the question of whether the district
lias made good or not may be safely taken as settled with
out further debate. It has.
From the beginning the district’s most enthusiastic ad
herents only claimed that there would be “a good little
camp”; and already the results are almost equal to those in
camps which have been heralded far and wide as good big
ones.
This has been done with remarkably little noise. In
reverse order to the usual course under such circumstances,
the public has heard only the complaints of the less fortun
ate. while those who have prospered most have had little to
say. The cost of installing machinery and getting ground
into the productive stage has been great, so that operators
in a good many instances will have to look to another
season for their actual profits, and this has furnished fur
ther excuse for people disposed to knock. Il is beyond dis
pute, however, that laborers have fared better than in any
other camp, and there are none without a winter grubstake.
This is a condition favorable to the prospecting of the
country; and whatever may result in the way of a mining
camp at Ruby, or at any of the points which are attracting
LET THE
FAIRVIEW TRADING GO,
Figure on Your Outfit
Telephone 73 Next to Postofiice
PASSENGERS FREiGHT EXPRESS
Leaves Griffin’s Store. Flat City at 8:30 a.m.; leaves Budwoiser corner,
Iditat-od at 3 p.m., daily except Sunday.
Goods consigned to Upper Flat and Otter Creeks delivered
same day as received for shipment
GRAND HOTEL, FLAT CITY
Nicely Furnished Faoms First-Class Cafe liquors and Cigars Pool end Billiards
N. GLANTZ AND MRS. SWANSON
First Class in Fact First Ave„ Iditarod
BEATTIE HOUSE
Furnished Rooms, Bath Rooms, Spring Cots Good Stables Adjacent
Drink Eastern Beer -w*
Miner's Home Saloon
- 1 HE HOKE OF THE "QUAKER MAID"
Too! c illow St., Tdifarod
Holiday Gifts
We have a nice line of HOLIDAY GOODS.
Should you intend giving your lady or gentleman friend
a gift, come and inspect our stock.
GOLDSTEIN'S, °pp-Ho,eK
C. J. Hurley, President J. P. Gleeson, Vice President A. Bruning, Cashier
American Bank of Alaska
Corner First Ave, and Richmond St.. Iditarod
CAPITAL $50,001 LLY PAID M CASH
General Banking Business Transacted Upon Liberal, But Consenative Lines
GOLD DUST PURCHASED UPON ASSAY VALUE
And we guarantee our assays against any of the government, assay offices.
Clippings from your gold furnished you for the purpose
of obtaining cheek assays if desired.
We solicit your business, and assure you of our courteous, prompt and
careful attention combined with fair treatment, whether
your account may be large or small.
PUDIQTMAO Corn'F8!l Turk8>s'
Ipilnlo I IviAoFres! Fas,t3r" Krs
-Fresh Vea! and Mutton
Milk-Fed Broilers and Roasting Chickens
IDBTARQP SV1EAT CO.
Second St. Phono 15
FOR FRESH GOODS AND FAIR TREATMENT
Tfy IV8cfV§ah©n Fla,Cit?
LET HIM FIGURE ON YOUR OUTFIT
Genera! Merchandise
SNYDER HOUSE
Nicely Furnished Rooms enclosed cos kennels
The Ceeinelly
Famous Q!d Quaker SYlaid Rye
.
DRAUGHT BEER, DOMESTIC CIGARS
Good Music Every Evening
^ — nat city—■■■■=
Don’t Get Lonesome
Drop Into the 9 ^J| 2 JSa emq
idifarod
^Manuol Gularie, F. B. Fontos^
) Proprietors (
There Are Still a Few of Us Left
attention on the Kuskokwim, will be largely due to gold
taken from the Iditarod.
Results speak for themselves, notwithstanding it is the
fashion to knock. And when the great number of pros
pectors who have left and are trying their fortunes else
where are taken into consideration, one is constrained to
ask, What kind of a country are they looking for, anyhow i
Their actions bespeak an unbounded faith iu the country
as a whole.
TO TAKE OOT WINTER POMP ON GLEN GOLCH
“Big” Donald McDonald, who was employed on Flat during
the summer, has taken a lay on Glen gulch, and will take out a
dump this winter He will employ several men.
Mr. McDonald has already put down a shaft which ran
into an old one. He will now start on a new shaft.
Last winter a dump was taken out on the lower end of Flat
and several small dumps were taken out on Willow, but the dirt
was low-grade, and the operations were not very successful from a
financial standpoint. It is stated that Otter creek properties have
a much brighter outlook i& this respect.
TRAVEL OVER THE SEWARD TRAIL
Travel over the Seward trail this j
winter shows a great improvemet over
last year; the work of the Road com
mission having straightened out the
trail and smoothed over many of the
rough places. As reported last week, j
Doc Madiug cut two days off his last ’
year’s record, and reached Seattle from !
here in 21 days. Capt. Boerner came |
in from Takotna in a little over two I
days, although lack of snow compelled ]
him to take a circuitous route. A. A. I
Zimmerman made the journey from S
Knik to Iditarod in 13 days. Several !
others have made equally good time.
In view of these facts it would ap
pear that the Seward route is not only
the most economical, but also the quick
est route between Iditarod and the
Outside. The Fairbanlts-Ohitina-Cor
dova route is longer by 17 days.
CAUSES TEKPOBARY
SHORTAGE OF SILVER
There was a noticeable shortage of
stiver coinage during the latter part of
last week and tlie beginning of this,
and it was with difficulty storekeepers
and restaurants kept sufficient small
change on hand. It appears that the
hospital carnival gathered in all the
loose silver, and it was out of circula
tion for a few days.
INSANE TOTAL PASSES HUNDRED
Since the establishment of the Fair
banks recording precinct 100 persons
| have been adjudged insane there, says
| the News-Miner.
The hundredth man was a laborer
! named O’Sullivan, who was arrested
| upon tlie complaint being sworn to by
; VV. F. Whttelv. It is believed that
| O'Sullivan’s dementia is due to exees
| sive use of alcohol.
! BUSHES BU GENED WITH SNOW
Rob Nesbit, prospecting on Moose
| creek in company with Bob Andrews,
was sledding out supplies the first of
the week. He said the sledding is
I fairly good, but owing to the absence
of wind the bushes are burdened with
snow, which they shed on mushers
I from head to foot and it is not east
| to keep some of it from goiDg down
| one’s back.
ERECT PEACE STATUE AT PANAMA
Mrs. Caroline M. Severance, known
as the l:Julia Ward Howe of the
Pacific coast,” is leading the movement
to erect a colossal statue of Peace at
the entrance to the Panama Canal.
The proposed statue is to show a beaut i
i ful American woman, with a lion and
a lamb lying down together at her
feet. _
ORIGINAL SHERLOCK HOLMES DEAD
London, Oct. 5.—Joseph Bell, the
eminent Scottish surgeon, who was the
original of the character of Sherlock
Holmes, died yesterday near Edinburgh.
He was born in Elinburgh in 1837, and
was an instructor of Conan Doyle. His
hobby was the study of mysterious
crimes. _
RUBY SENDS GOLD AND SILVER
When they brought in the mail
last week Norton & Lriffis also
carried a quantity of gold and sil
ver currency for the M. & M. hank
As this money came Horn Rub'
it is safe to assume that we arc
mere!) getting some of our own
back
OUR NEAR NEIGHBOR9.
An effort is forming to secure the
promotion of Siberia from a crown
possession to the rank of a colony. In
that case the land, all of which is held
by the crown, will be sold to the set
tlers, who now rent it.
Emigrants fight shy of Siberia owing
to heavy taxation, climatic drawbacks
and lack of communication. The change
is sought in order to encourage people
to go there instead of in America. The
proposition is to reduce taxes to a min
imum and give newcomers special
grants of gtain and facilities for ob
taining agricultural implements on
long terms of credit. The completion
of the Amur Railway and the double
tracking of the Siberian Railway is
expected to encourage settlers from
those parts of European Russia where
the land famine is most felt.
VVe are here to stay—will be at the
old stand to make good anything infe
rior in quality, as everything sold is
guaranteed. Northern (,'ommercial
Company.
A Merry Christmas to All
F. E. WEBBER & CO.
Genera! Merchandise
FLAT CITY
Wish All
A SVierry Christmas
And Thank Their Customers
For Past Patronage
THE WRESTLERS.
The beefy sports of E trope are
coming to these shores, and soon
their loud ki-y oodles will til] all
out. of doors. All through the long,
sad winter they'll bind us with a
spell, and make the sporting writers
roll up their sleeves and yell. With
deli and with challenge they'll fill
the public prints, they'll dish up
threats corrosive and most blood
thirsty hints, They'd thunder and
they'll chortle, they’ll bellow and
declaim, and they may do it safely,
for Gotch lias quit the g hup. Oh,
Gotch The cornfield called him
and so he quit the mat, to feed hi»
Poland Chinas, and watch them
pile on fat: and while he gathers
henfruit and plants the mellow
spud, a lot of foreign “lions” are
clamoring for blood. A lot of
j brawny terrors are telling what
! they'll do to this or t’other terra
when he comes into view; ao.l so
they nail the rubles and burnish
up their fame, and nothing cm
prevent them, for Gotch has quit
the game. And when the foreign
wrestlers become too great a bore,
it may be Gotch will offer to chase
them from this shore. Forgetting
■James ,J. Jeffries and all that Reno
dope, the husky Humboldt farmer
will come forth as a hope—bullet
us draw a curtain upon this mourn
ful theme; the beefy sports of
Europo are coming in a stream.
Tlte rabbits roar like lions, and oh,
it seems a shame to earnest, thought
ful people, that Gotch lias quit the
game!—Walt Mason.
BANKER IS CALLED TO FAIRBANKS
George B. Wesch, acting manager
of the Iditarod branch of the American
Bank of Alaska, left for Fairbanks
Friday of last week. He has been
succeeded by H. F. Yeager, formerly
of the Fairbanks Banking Go. and un
til lately manager for Frank Manley
on Willow.
Mr. Wesch was in charge of the de
funct Washington-Alaska bank at the
time it suspended payment, and he has
been called to Fairbanks to testify in
connection therewith.
Staley underwear. H. Boas,clothier.
Notice of Marshal’s Sale
j United States of America, )
I Fourth District of Alaska, f ss
Public notice is hereby given, that by
virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias (or execu
tion), dated December Sth, A. D. 1911,
issued ou; of the District Court of the
United States for the Fourth District of!
Alaska on a judgment rendered in said j
Court, on the 12th day of October, A. D. !
1911, in favor of Ernest Slenter and}
against John Hansen, I have, on this j
13th day of December, A. D. 1911, levied
upon the following described real estate,
situated in Otter Precinct and Territory
of Alaska, to wit: All of the right, title
and interest of John Hansen in and to
the ground known and described as the
Idaho Association Placer Mining Claim,
situate at the head of Flat Creek, in the
Otter Recording District of Alaska, and
that I will, accordingly, offer said real
estate for sale, at public vendue to the
highest and best bidder, for cash, on the
8th day of January, A. D. 1912, at n
o’clock a. n., at the front door of the j
Marshal’s office in the town of Iditarod, !
Territory of Alaska.
Dated, Iditarod, Alaska, December
13th, A. D. 1911. H. K. LOVE, I
U. S. Marshal, Fourth District of Alaska. !
By H. P. Sheppar 1, Deputv.
E- Coke Hill, Plaintiffs .Vtoruey. ' I
CHANGE ARRIVAL AND
DEPARTURE OF MAILS
The cjays for the arrival arid depart
ure of the mail have been changed.
From now on the incoming mail may
I)** expected even '! " ->d iy. r-:» i i .>f
Friday a-> heretofore. The outg.T -
mail is now sc’mn.dnd to leave in n-rnd
every Wednesday morning.
In the Court of the c in - . ;<>r
Otter Rn circt, Foii'ih i)\\ i*ion. Tet -
ritory of Alaska. K. G. Noves. •
Receiver of the Wr.-shinytmi- Ai;i*k s
Hank, a corporation. Plaintiff. v*
Geo. M. Shil and O. Green, dc -
fendanis. —No. 1‘. Summon* f .
RuM :c:i1 ion.
Tii » President of the Glided State-, t.»
Geo. R. Shirley, one of the defend
ants in the above entitled i:ui>c.
greeting:
You are hercbx ie '-red to appear
before the undrr^u’ned, a justice of the
the peace for O *er I*ivci*i«-i. Distr.ef
of Alaska, within rhi. t\ da\* from the
date of the la*t p..blicai ion of ib;- sum
mons. at the t-.ITi c ■ < f the I’nited S'ate*
Gomnus* ;onei\ in -e Miner* and Met
chants ha \k b.s: ii'.jj, M-i;trod. Alaska,
j to answer the roinpl.ti of the plain
tiff above naaii'i! in U. above entbled
cause, wherein i.c \ demur.d *• veu
! hundred and mxr. • doin;:-., posts
: and attorneys fr-s ai . tt s-monts
i therein, and in r.isc : fail to so
appearand answer, judgment wi' i.
■ granted against, nu and in th-ir 1 . v.
I for the said am tuns and the pro|
‘attached in the ahm entitled > s'
will b-sold to p s H-ii judgment.
Ti.i.s otM.ni.io is |'nhlisl;'.(i pni' i m;
to an . r It-,- or p.;hl..miion made b\ the
!.; 1. 11 • mo ■ »• pm it ipd e •ort
l.\ C»-li. b: f 12 It. i .*! I
I d.i » «;f iii>t publication is
L)t vc ':i:ber 10 b.i.li.und ihe dti c of t be
; lust pa!-I;•* i' ion i* .T;n u.;r\ ].'}:|i, l‘)12.
\v it in >* t lie i»: 1 j■ *i. ! *^;i: and si^iia
j lure of tin* jiid^c- of the above entitled
I court.
K. M. STANTON.
1 S. Corami»ior.( r and ex-oftioio
J ust ice oi the Peace.
In tlu Justice’s Court, D.striet of Alaska,
Fourth Division, Otter Precinct.—
Starr Ballard, Frank Chew and j, I,.
Jean, plaintiffs, vs. Rothcllild Bros., a
corporation, defendant. — No. ~j.
Summons for Publication.
! The President of the United States, to
I Rothcllild Bros., a corporation, greet
ing:
j You are hereby required to appear be
I fore the undersigned, a justice of the
| peace for Otter precinct. District of
| Alaska, within thirty days from the date
| of the last publication of this summons,
at the office of the United States com
! missioner, in the Miners & Merchants
i bank building, Iditarod, Alaska, to an
swer the complaint of Starr Ballard,
Frank Chew anil J. L. Jean, plaintiffs
above named in the aboveentitledcau.se,
wherein they demand one hundred and
fffty dollars, costs, and attorney’s fees
amonnting to seventy-five dollars, and
in case you fail to so appear and answer,
judgment will be granted against you
j and in their favor for the said amounts
I and the property attached in the above
j sntitled cause will be sold to pay snch
judgment;
This summons is published pursuant
to an order of publication made bv the
judge of the above entitled court De
cember S, 1911.
The date of the first publication is
December 9, 1911, and the date of the
last publication is January 6, 1912.
WITNESS the official seal and signa
ture of the judge of the above entitled
couru E. M. STANTON,
U. S. Commissioner and ex-officio
_ justice of the peace
DISSOLUTION NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the part
nership between John Ronan, Frank
Monktnan and A. V. Thorns has been
dissolved and that the undersigned will
not be responsible for any indebtedness
hereafter incurred on account ot said
partnership or on account ot any rnetn
ber thereof
Dated this 8th day of December, 1911.
JOHN RONAN.
FRANK MONKMAN.