IDITAROD PIONEER
I ‘ublisbed Hverv Saturday Morning
at Ulitarod, Alaska,
BY GEORGE M. ARBUCKLE
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HOMESTEADER PUT ONE
OVER
I he Denver Cost tells this:
The type of citizen wo want to make
t" a nuipesleader—such a man, for ex
ample. as one out. in Oregon who, while
we were at war, received a. letter from
a linn of lawyers in Washington offer
ing to recover tor him from the gov
ernment $150 which had been overpaid
in making an entry on public iund. The
awyers offered to take the job and
>piit fifty-fifty with the homesteader.
Tins is the letter they received in
reply :
l have yours inclosing contract rela
tive to the claim of my father for the
return of $lo0 overpaid the government
upon the entry of puoitc land.
As 1 view me condition of this gov
ernment at this time it is no time for
such items to tie taken up and harass
ing the departments. You and your
partner ought to be trying to do some
thing to he.ip tue government and your
sel ves.
i. have given personally months of
my time and I venture u is worth as
much to me as yours and your partner’s
.- to yourselves, paid all my expenses,
presented $5U0 to the lied Cross, pur
chased several hundred dollars’ worth
of Liberty bonds, and was one of a
party that raised $55,000 for the. Red
Cross from a population of 5,5 n).
The reason .1 have been able to do
this small amount is directly attributa
ble to the very fact that my father got
title to the very 160 acres of land that
you now seek to have the government
pay us back $75 and put $75 in your
poceet.
f have lived in a very small commun
ity and there is an old saying that, men
do not get bigger than the community
they live in. Washington is a large
community and there are a number of
the largest men we have in the Pnited
States reside there during their term of
office, such as the President and the
senators. You have the advantage of
i If It’s Something Good to
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Arcade
CAFE
Golden & Poirier, Props.
Flat City's Best Restaurant
Every Comfort for the Traveling Public
MEALS AT ALL HOURS
Adams
HOUSE
Formerly the McDonald. Ulitarod
Dining Roams and Baths
POOL ROOM IN CONNECTION
Free Heading Room — Large and
Clean Stables for Horses and Dogs
growing and becoming very large. But
I fee! bigger than the whole hunch of
lawyers sticking around the various
departments and trying to suck some
thing out of the ill-advised citizenry of
the isolated districts.
Trusting that you will take this in
the spirit l write, and that 1 will some
time in the future hear of your firm
doing something worth while.
WILL MEET iFIPARIS
Paris, Nov. f>. —The first meeting of
1 he council of the League of Nations
will be held in Paris, the Supreme
Council decided today, but the date o'
meeting was not fixed upon. The indi
cations are that the Peace t'onforeoce
will end by December 1, when the
remaining American delegates -Frank
L Polk, assistant sec**etary of state;
Andrew I). White and (len. Ill's-, are
to sail for home.
Victor Arnold, aged OJ years, a mem
ber of Ophir Igloo, Pioneers of Alaska,
passed away at Flat last Saturday morn
ing, November 1, after a long illness.
The funeral services were held in this
city at '1 o’clock on Tuesday last at. tin1
mortuaty director's cltapei, the burial
ritual of the Pioneers being employed.
Nearly 50 members of the order from
the creeks wen- in at.tendance. Acting
President Jack Keller cot.ducted the
service, assisted by James \V. Farrell
and Ivan Wales. Several beautiful
lioral pieces were placed on and about
the casket. The burial was in Iditarod
cemetery.
The historian of the local igloo pre
pared the following, which lie read at
the services, and which will be re
corded in the history of the order:
Victor Arnold was born Febru
ary 14, 1850; came to Alaska in
18148; was a charter member of
Ophir Igloo, Pioneers of Alaska:
catLeto Flat about six weeks ago
for medical attention; he had de
veloped paralysis to such an extent
that the attending phvsieiau said
little could be dune for him here,
and advised a change of cliunite;
as the last, boats had sailed for the
Outside, and n. would he six weeks
before the, trail would be in condi
tion to send him out, eveiy car€*
was given him preparatory to the
trip, but his feeble physical condi
tion and age being against him,
his ailments grew worse; general
paralysis set. in and finally claimed
him. Relatives of the deceased re
side at Muscatine. la., and the sec
retary of this igloo has forwarded
them a communication advising
them of his deafh.
Among those from the creeks were:
J. Frank Keenan, I)r. H Behla, Chas.
Courtright, Louis Sanbeck, Thomas
Greer, .Tames W. Farrell, John Fore
man. Richard Kuhloff, Mike Sullivan,
John Novak, Jerome Elliott, A! and P.
B. Walsh, Sandy McDonald, James
Foley, Jack Handley, Jerry Baker,
Jerry Wynne, C. R. Peck, Ivan Wales,
Jack Keller, Louis Gorman, Charles
Enquist, Dr, H. It. Moore, A. J. Weiss,
James Burke.
Job Printing at Pioneer office
For Sale
Good Dry 4-Ft. Wood
Delivered in any quantity at Flat and
Discovery.
TEDDY MILES
The Grand T"":.,
Nicely Furnished Rooms Barn for Horses and Dogs Baths in Connettian
J. W. Farrell,
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Discovery, Otter
Just Received
Full Line of Fresh Rifle and Shotgun Cartridges,
Flashlight Bhtteries, and have Complete Line of Hunters' and Trappers' Supplies
JAS. E. FULLERTON
FLAT, ALASKA
Twenty-Two Years’ Experience in Alaska and Yukon
MUTCHLER BROS.’ ......
Iditarod-Flat Tramway
| Freighting to All Parts of the District.
| Saddle Horses and Teams for Hire,
Sea ttle, Nov. 1 - M rs. NeiI H. Gra
ham. the wife of *i clerk, yesterday
shot and killed her (i-year-old son, Neil
jr., fatally wounded her daughter Dor
olh\. vied then wounded herself. It is
intimated that the loss of her hnsband’s
love was the cause of her dreadful acts.
Seattle, Nov. 4 —Dorothy, the second
child stmt by Mrs. Neil 14. Graham
Iasi I'Viday, died today. This brings
the i • * -.; I number of deaths by violence
or accident in Seat tie during the past
two mouths to 40 including 10 mur
ders.
The Big Idea
A man is mu a success in life tiil a
(lomtn.ua purpose takes hold of him, to
which :i11 other procedures and meas
ures and all the powers of his being
are subordinated.
Sorrowful is the state of the man
who, at any age, has let himself he
tamed and chaseued down to an unsee
ing, unthinking jog trot in the same
old rut, day after day.
A man is not old till he refuses to
admit new light, embrace fresh experi
ences. entertain thoughts that never
occurred to him before, open the doors
and windows of it is mind to the morn
ing.
Perhaps we bugged to ourselves the
delusion that we were doing the best
we could. It is so easy to feed the
espiring spirit upon that anodyne. It
is easier to dream than to make an ef
fort; easier to accept things as they
are titan to change them.
Then comes a vision of what we
might be and are not, and it challenges
us and will not let us rest.
We must be up and doing. We know
at last what we were made for. what
we were sent into the world to do. Life
becomes purposeful, and each waking
minute has its mission.—Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
Frank Keenan, of Flat creek, lias
been in the burp during the past few
days ^circulating among his numerous
f riends.
Wilting Tablets 230 T«; *,.„o
AT PIONEER PRINT SHOP
L|yery Saddle Horses
EXPRESS TO ALL PARTS OF DISTRICT
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Delivered Daily to Your Door.
Dan Hartnett, Flat
THE SNYDER
HOUSE
For Comfortable Rooms,
Good Clean Spring Bunks
Steam, Tub D A TUO
and Shower DM I lid
Fine Dog Kennels
Miss F. Onthiim. Pro|). Flat City
The
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CIGAR STORE
Flat City
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“So Nicely”