SDITAROD PSONEER
I’cuushko Every Saturday Evening at Iditarod, Alaska.
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FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
( INI I.UDIXG AT.A K A )
\Voodk<i\v Wilson, of New Jersey
FOR YR’E-RRESIDENT
Tu<*\, . Y vimr,all, of Indiana
FOR GOVERNOR OF ALASKA
,!. E. A. Study.;
Oi l; FFTl'RE
Today Hie po.-imist is abroad in the land, and his]
plaintive waii may 1 e lieard from afar. He says Hint our
fair city is dea i. • r dying, and that within a few weeks it
will he in order to ; ■•••form the last sad rites over a mefropo-j
]is that might have been, and depart for fields that an j
green and pastures new.
It may be fancy, but it seems to us we have heard that
cry before. For 1 t years or more the first, shadows of win
ter have been ushered in with gloomy forecasts of the hard I
times ahead for th .se who had the temerity to remain in j
the country; but ju-t as regularly the people have weith
ered the storm and stress of the winter, and the succeeding
spring has witnessed a return of the prodigals, with spirits
chastened by contact with the strenuous life of the great
Outside, and with, renewed hope and confidence in the
North.
But while the pessimist is predicting divers troubles,
and “beating it, while his shoes are good,” others, with far!
more reason, believe that this district has but made a begin-j
ning, and that ere mane moons have passed, Iditarod cit\ \
will be the hub of an < xteusive and prosperous mining dis
trict. the like of which has not hitherto been seen in lute-j
rior Alaska. The farsighted man or woman points to the
many advantages already possessed by Iditarod city: to its
central position: its location on a navigable stream: its
banking and postal facilities: its wireless communication
with the Outside: it-commissioner and recorder’s office; its
courthouse: its tine hotels, and many other of the conveni- j
ences of civilization which make for permanency.
It is true that the advent of the Yukon Gold Company
has had a temporarily demoralizing effect; but the coming
of the big corporation is but an incident, and will not in
terfere with the development of much ground in the dis
trict which is unsuited to their methods of working. Even
now Iditarod city is the converging point for travelers from
the old Innoko diggings, Takotna, Georgetown and even
the Tuluksak, who come here to make use of the facilities
enumerated above.
But that is not all. This coming winter there is going
to be a great deal of prospecting in the district tributary to
Iditarod city—more than has ever been done in the past—
and it is only reasonable to assume that some of the ground,
at least, will prove to be of value from a mining standpoint.
A great deal of this ground is at present held in associa
tions, and has never felt the disturbing effect of the pros
pector’s pick. At the new year it will revert to the govern
ment. and will once more become available for staking—
but in 40-acre associations only. The difference this will
make to the Iditarod district within a year or two it is im
possible to estimate: but that it will be a factor in the
future growth of th • camp is certain.
As we have before remarked, Iditarod city is already
the converging point for many camps—a veritable metrop
olis. Here, at any time, may be found men from the lu
noko, the Aniak, the Tuluksak, the Yukunilnuk, Takotua,
Mud river and other places, and this transient traffic alone
must inevitably grow to large proportions.
Let us therefore approach the future with complacency
—not forgetting that Alaska is now a territory, with a
house and senate all its own: and that it is on the eve of
such a period of prosperity and development as it never be
fore has seen—and iditarod will get its share. Don’t be a
pessimist. Wait and hope. It will pay you.
MUNICIPAL LIMITATIONS
In the Ala.-ka home-rule bill, which went into effect
last Saturday, there is a clause which has peculiar interest
for Iditarod city residents. That is the clause regulating
municipal expenditures, and the manner in which revenue
may be raised.
Dealing with this matter, section 9 of the territorial
bill provides that “no municipal corporation . . . shall
have power to assume any bonded indebtedness . . . nor to
create, nor to assume any indebtedness, except for the actual
running expenses thereof, and no such indebtedness for
actual running expenses shall be created or assumed in ex
Beef, by the side,.$ .40
Yea!, “ .50
fijluiton, bv the carcass.. .35
Few!,, per lb.40
Halibut, “ .25
IP1TARQD MEAT CO,
Second St. Phone 15
First Class in Fact First Ave., Iditarod
BEATTIE HOUSE
Furnished Rooms, Bath Rooms, Spring Cots Good Stabies Adjacent
G. J. Hurley, President J, P. Gleason, Vice President A. Bruning, Cashier
Corner First Are. and Richmond St., Iditurod
CAPITAL S50.000.00, FOLLY PAID it] CASH
General Bonking Business Transacted Upon Liberal, But Conservative Lines
The iditarod Branch of the
American Bank cf Alaska
Wili be Discontinued After Sept. BO, S9!2
CTfiO AT C|iM| fS3&*> LPify
Mibr Ai fQ S.&&12 Sfejp & ‘ 'dl U«W
Glean Furnished Booms Fine Cafe in Connection
GOOD STOCK CIGARS AND LSQUORS
Large Stables, Warm Dog Kennels Open Day and Night
'T’E* ,-v m m/n fUNf Ihe Fsa!CB5 0ld Quaker Maid Rye
i SIB €tOffiHQIiy flat CITY
Draught Beer Dos-sstio Cigars Good Music Every Evening
TW ¥4ft WJIW FLMT C!TY’ RoberVropLoirri3'
M MA ML am 1¥AML front street
Furnished Rooms, Clean Spring Beds, Bain, Dry Rooms, and“ct in
cess of tlie actual income of the municipality for that year:
Provided, that ALL such indebtedness shall be paid in the
order of its creation.’’ 'This provision clearly makes it ille
gal to establish preferential creditors of any sort.
There is another point which is of even greater impor
tance—especially in view of the fact that the city assessor
will shortly be at work again. It is this. The section above
quoted provides that the assessments shall be according to
the actual value of the property. Last year, it will lie re
membered, after the assessor had turned in his report, the
equalization board arbitrarily advanced the amounts which
tiie assessor had fixed as the value of many of the proper
ties listed, in order to collect a larger revenue. Asa result
much property was assessed greatly in excess of its actual
value.
MFM’CJ ITftCr A f* ARTFRC TPl Fill ft TM
MLij >3 n-Jiafe mite wA&itensa ill ilULiJ infi
j -ST, LOUIS I AIDS SAY STOCKINGS ARE HEATING
St Louis, Mo., July 24 —St. Louis society girls are wearing men’s
silk socks and using garters to hold ’em up just because the weather’s
warm. That’s the reason they give, anyway, tor the latest fad.
They don’t confine themselves to black and gray and brown, ac
cording to inside information, but some of the most liotous colors in the
rainbow are now in demand. And so far not a protest against this ten
dency to appropriate another of man’s cherished rights has been heard.
Although a flimsy lace stocking does not impress one as being
heavv, ihe advocates of short hose say there is a huge difference. They
wouldn't go back to the long ones for anything.
One giii, who was among the earliest this summer to buy socks
instead of stockings, was asked by a curious visitor, to whom she had
confided her new scheme to keep cool, how she kept ’em.
“It’s a funny tiling, but I find I don’t need to use any garters,’’
'he raid. “They stay up by themselves.”
However, she admitted that most of her sisters had to use the ini'
euline style of garter if they expected to wear socks an 1 not have to re
ire every few minutes to hoi-t ’em up again.
Clerks in the hosiet y departments of downtown stores were puzzled
for some time by the requests of young women for small pairs of men’s
socks. Usually at first they were “for a f;iet;d.” Yet the f; fend had
Tet of surprising smallness in nearly every case
When a request for Mo S socks would be met by the production ot
■lie ordinary, medium-sized article, horror would be expressed. A
much smaller sock would have to be dug out from tire shelves This
puzzled ti;e cletks sorely, until recent!'-, one maiden admitted she was
going to wear the socks, and that the "friend” did not exist.
WATTERSON SWALLOWS PILL
Louisville.—Henry Watterson, whose
activities both in behalf of and against
Woodrow Wilson in the preconvention
campaign received considerable atten
tion, in the Courier-Journal, says: “In
a contest between three tickets headed
respectively by Taft, Roosevelt and
the devil, the Courier-Journal, being a
daily newspaper and unable to take to
the woods, perforce will be obliged to
support his satanic majesty. The wav
the result of the Democratic conven
tion has been reached puts in doubt an
outlook which a week ago was straight
ahead and as sure for Democrats as
any future event could be. The play
of the Roosevelt progressives will be
to carry states enough to throw- the
election into the house. This is a
menace and many prove a handicap.
However, let all good Democrats pray
for the best. The Courier-Journal ap
proves at least the platform and will
support the ticket.”
THREE DOGS—brown and white
spotted, part collie; owner can have
same by paying for feed and this adv.
Carl CarlsoD, Granite creek.
Gold dust melted into bricks of any
size. W. Taylor, Klat City.
WORK ON BENCHES OF
WILDCAT ASSOCIATION
Duncan Michie and partners, who
sold out their lay on the Greek claim of
the Wildcat association to the Yukon
Gold Co., are now working on the right
limit bench claim of the same associa
tion. They have two outfits of about
12 men each working on the ground,
which has an average depth of about
15 feet and is partly frozen.
The ground is said to run about $1 to
the foot, but as the laymen are working
in a very economical manner, dispens
ing with the use of expensive machin
ery, they are doing very well. Next
year, says Mr. Michie, a much larger
force will be employed, as the lay ex
pires in the fall of 1913.
Brevvis & Co., who are also working
on the benches of the Wildcat associa
tion, have uncovered about 130,000 feet
of bedrock this year, and taken out a
lot of money.
Of the $3,100 received by the city
from the clerk of the court on account
of licences, 50 per cent, was placed in
the’salary fund, and 50 per cent, in the
general fund, to the available for pay
ment of outstanding warrants.
The Pioneer for Job Printing.
Two men were killed outright and
three others wounded, one fatally, at a
church social near Sullivan, Indiana,
recently.
A move is on at Los Angtdes to close
the saloons at 6 p. in; to abolish treating,
free lunch and salt herring; limiting
tiie amount of liquor which could be
consumed at the lunch hour to one
drink; and providing imprisonment or
heavy fines for violation of the
ordinance.
W. J. Breenan, of Pittsburg, has
been elected grand president of the
F. O. K.
Four hundred people were killed 01
wounded when a powder magazine ex
ploded at Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
August 8.
Men employed on the coalfields oi
Vancouver island are demanding more
pay.
Over 1,000 people were killed during
ihe earthquake in the Constantinoph
district August 11.
Thieves broke into a New York bank
August 11 by boring a hole through
the floor into the strong room. They
got away with $72,000, overlooking
$8,000,000 which was within their reach
A Turkish battleship was torpedoed
hv the Italians Augus It), and all tin
officers and men lost their lives.
A member of the I. VV. W. was shot
dead dy a policeman in Los Angelos
August 12.
Four women, yet to be named, will be
placed on the Roosevelt campaign
committee.
They are going to tax cats it.
Switzerland.
The Blue funnel liner Teucer ar
rived at Tacoma from the Orient tin
first of the month with a cargo valued
at $3,000,000, $1,250,000 of which repn
-onted silk.
Because the foreman and male cm
ployes were addicted to profanity, -100
factory girls of Brooklyn went o.
si ri ke.
The Washington Standard, the oldes'
newspaper in Washington state, pub
lished for 52 years by John Miller, the
dean of Washington newspaper editors,
was sold recently to .T f-I. Brown.
Fugle Freshwater and I). K. Brown
The Standard is a Democratic news
paper.
Gov. Woodrow Wilson says that
parties should be sidetracked at local
elections.
The deepest spot in the sea has been
located near the Philippines, where
soundings showed a depth of (i miles
40li feet.
The British parliament has passed a
law providing for the flogging of con
victed whit e-slavers.
Fairbanks. August 23.—Governor
Clark, accompanied by Mrs. Clark and
his private secretary, left for Nome
Tuesday. Mrs. Clark is suffering from
a nervous breakdown, and is being
accompanied down river by a trainer
nurse. latter reports sty that she Is
much better.
Fred Lubelle reports that Gordot
Betties has disposed of his salmon
cannery lo Harry Crimras, a well
known oldtimer of the Kuskokwim
Gordon was not led to take that mo
mentous step for want of success; quilt
the contrary. But he has a newer, and.
he hopes, an even more profitable
scheme.
It appears that residents of the
lower Kuskokwim are developing
epicurean tastes, and demand luxuries
that would make the old oldtimers gasp.
Their latest request was for musk room
ketchup, and Gordon felt it incumbent
on him lo provide for them. A.s it
happened he had a plentiful crop of
mushrooms this year, and is turning
them into mushroom ketchup at a pace
that will make old man Snyder sit up
and take notice.
BOASTS OF HUNDREDS OF CRIMES
Calgary, Alta., August 21.—Pursued
for four months through the wilds of
Northern Canada by members of the
Northwest mounted police, Will Ropp.
said by the police to be the most
notorious horse rustler and cattie thief
in the Western country, has been appre
hended and is in the barracks here
awaiting trial. The chase covered
nearly 2000 miles.
Ropp, tired of being hunted, finally
gave up and confessed to a list of offenses
which was a revelation even to the
officers.
His confession tells in detail of
| several hundred crimes, and Ropp adds
the statement that he probably com
mitted as many more, details of which
he has forgotten.
Annual assessment work blanks at
Pioneer office.
Opp. Traction
Company Depot
Nice!y Furnished Rooms FLAT CITY Large Drying Room
pgr AND BAKERY,
■ Foot of V/illOw Street
Now Open for business. CUISINE UNEXCELLED
Hest oi iiverything in the Market Served MEALS 73c AND UP
BE GAY ANYHOW
I don’t care what the weather is
lot all kinds be invented! Let
zephyrs zepli or blizzards bliz, I still
shall bo contented! All kinds have
their peculiar joys to please the soul
ful native; naught atmospheric e’er
annoys the man appreciative. When
joyous sunshine is on file I find it
most, eut raneing; 1 kick my heels and
run a mile and do some song and
dancing. When rain is p airing from
t he eaves, in endlesiorront s fi >\v; i.g,
I watch the wet and sodden loaves,
and say: “Thr wheat, L growing!’’
This p an of thinking of the wlieat
when days are soaked and soggy,
. brings consolation full and sweet
just try it when you’re groggy.
When winter days are stark and sour,
I seek my chimney corner, and read
’’Nick (Airier” by the hour, “Old
Sleuth’’ and “Johnny Horner.”
■ When earthquakes jar this footstool
l loose, or cloudbursts swamp the cities
, 1 put my phonograph in use, and
1 grind out playful ditties. All
; weather is the same to me. and each
day is a dinger; 1 am happy as a
bumble bee that has a patent stinger.
— Walt Mason.
REDWING ARRIVED
AT BETTIES JULY 15
Fred Schulte, iormc11 y with the
C Co.. KltirneJ to Ruby born
'lie Kovukuk the first week i
kiigust, bringing word that J. K
Beattie and pat tut rs a;iiv i T
Betties July 15
1 he party left Iditnnil for the
RoytiKuk Jut.- 16 on the uier
Redwing — the journey' to Betties
•ceiipy in g 3 > days When Mr.
-•ehir.ie left, Bcitiie was prepniug
.0 dismantle the Redwing, intend
ug to take tlie 9 horsepower b iler
ip to Hamm : d River, where he
nvns ptonrsi ig ti:i ling ground.
fLYNN WILL TAKE ON
NO MORE COLORED HEN
Chicago, August ?j. "X 1 more
colored fighters for mine,” was the
.•erdiet of -Tim Fl.voa, tin? Pueblo fire
11 an and white ho per, when approached
regarding a match with ,loe Jeanette
be Tore the Harden A. (J., in New York,
"Pi! mest any white man, but Johnson,
■Jeanette and Langford—never.”
Flynn is believed to feel this way
because he has been twice knocked out
ry Sam Langford and twice by Jack
Johnson, both of whom are decidedly
colored.
CHANGES AT N. C. CO.
STORE AT BUSY CITY
Fred Rhind, form *rly c mneoted with
lie N. ('. Co., ;it this place, and evil
recently mami^T for the same concern
at Ruby City, has j^onc <)u:side. He lias
been succeeded at Ruby bv A. J
("Bert”) Day, well-known to all
Iditarodeis.
Billy DeBiun who bad been connected
with the local N. C. store for the past
15 months, left last, week for Ruby,
where he will he sia'iu:i"d for the
present.
NOTICE OF SPECIAL TERM OF COURT
Iii tlie District Court foi ‘lie Territory of
Alaska, Fouitli Division.
In the matter of calling a Special Term
of Court for the Fourth Judicial Divi
sion, at the town of Iditnrod, Alaska.
In pursuance of an order ot the Hon
orable F. K. Fuller. District Judge,
made this 20th dm- of August, 1 q 1 2,
NOTICE IS IIKRHBYGIYFN that a
Special Term of tlie District Court for
the Territory of Alaska, Fourth Division,
will be held at the Court House in the
town of Iditarod, Alaska, beginning on
I September 20, 1912. at the hour of i 1 :oo
j o’clock a.m., for the transaction of ail
business which may be then and there
pending, and which may regularly conn:
I before the Court.
I11 witness whereof, I have hereunto
i Net my hand as Clerk of the District
j Court, and affixed the seal thereof this
| 20th day of August, 1912.
C. C. PAGE,
Clerk of the District Court,
Territory of Alaska,
Fourth Division.
Dr. Heinrich Wortmann,
Physician and Surgeon
I Offic.es: Iditarod and Flat C'ity
Telephones at each place
obs, behla & Carter,
k to
£s# O ! i Uol©
Oiiiccs, Pioneer Drugstores,
Flat City
Anpoinitneots In Telephone
ALFRED E. MALT BY,
Attorney at Law
Notary Public
| Office Simpson Bldsr, First and Willow
CHAS, E. TAYLOR,
Attorney at Law,
Notary Public, Conveyancing,
- Richmond St., Iditarod
Wickershnm cS Roden,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Iditarod. A;:.-ka
GEORGE WOODRUFF AL3RECHT,
Attorney at Law
Michigan, '81 Alaska, iO Kenluc'ty, 91.
The Pioneer Attorney ol’ this Camp
Films Developed
, And .Mi Kinds of Photographic
Work Dono.
MiSS TJEBNSTROM. MCDONALD HOTEL
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF
BUSINESS AT THE QLO STAND
FRONT ST. Manuel Gularts, Prop.
I Old Lewis Hunter Rye
From a Stein
at the
Miner's Home Saloon
THE HOME OF THE “QUAKER MAID"
Foot of Willow St., Iditarod