IDITAROD PIONEER
Published hivery Saturday Morning
at Iditarod, Alaska,
BY GEORGE M. ARBUCKLE
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Vol. 10 No. 2
SOME 3RI33AN! A
Don’t be deceived by private owner-!
shin advocates who tell you that gov |
ernment ownership “has proved a fail
ure in railroads, telegraphs and tele
phones.” The situation is 1 his: Rail
roads were taken over by the govern
ment and left, in the hands of the sal
aried employes of private owners. The
same thing was dune with telegraphs
and telephones. These salaried em
ployes were ordered to make the oper
ation of railroads, telegraphs and tele
phones a failure, as had. as expensive,
as inefficient as it could possibly be.
This was done.
Don’t you suppose the postoffice
would he a failure if the managers of
it were instructed to make b as bad as
possible, to delay delivery, to increase
charges?
Government ownership has not been
tried, hut a swindling of the public, a
rebuilding of railroads and telegraph
lines with public taxes to be handed
back later to private individuals. This
has been tried, and proves eminently
satisfactory to the private owners.
Five men were on their hands and
knees in a field yesterday weeding
beets. One was the farmer trying to
make his living out of the land. The
other four were hired men, each paid
$3.50 for a short day. An experienced
farmer going by, said: “fie will have
to get some price for those beets to pay
for THAT labor.” There is your eco
nomical problem in a few words. Labor
Big Stocks of Fresh Goods
Everything for the Miner and
Prospector
MAX Si MEL
Store at Mouth of Tolstoi
goes up, the price of beets goes up;
also the price of bread and meat and
rent and shoes. A dollar is worth f>0
cents, $4 a day is worth $2.
A lady, artist, painter and sculptor,
is getting a divorce from one Japanese
gentleman, and meanwhile living with
another.
She says, excusing the second Japa.
nese gentleman, taken on without di
vorse formality:
“When one dares be true to self,
what a wonderful vista opens up—a
world where everything abides by a
law born from itself, all fitting into a
beautiful, mosaic court of the uni
verse.’*
That is undoubtedly true, BUT, when
a white woman is true to herself she
doesn’t, live with Japanese gentlemen
at all, not one, or two, nor a dozen of
them. And if she does, the vista that
opens up, eventually, is a vista of the
gutter, or hours of brutal misery, spent
in punishment for self respect bet rayed.
Even the Englishman that most ad
mi real the Japanese and showed most
attention to Japanese women was com
pelled to say that the half Japanese,
half white child was inevitably a
failure.
The white woman that uses hei
st rength to give birth to mongrels
“opens up a vista” that she can find
weil described in Dante’s “Infesno.4’—
Arthur Brisbane., in CJhicago Herald
and Examiner.
Hereafter political orators will have
to he careful how they appeal to the
‘‘plain people.” Women compose a
large part, of the voting population
now. -Kansas City Journal.
ft is now possible to ship gold abroad.
We print the information for the ben
efit of our readers who are overstocked.
Greenville Piedmont
We don’t, mind feeding the small na
tions. but we should like them to stop
lighting between meals.—Ex.
Even the wets declare that John Bai
ley corn should be behind the bars.—
Los Angeles Times.
Everything changes. Even high
prices. They get higher. — Hopkins
Journal.
All Right, Send Moxie Along
Copenhagen, Aug. 4.— Herr Krem
denblatt. of Hamburg, announced today
that MaxiraiIlian Harden, the famous
editot, would probably bn the first am
bassador of the German republic to
Washington.
Ladies' Furnishings
MANY NEW NOVELTIES JUST UNPACXED
Mrs. L. C. Thornton, Iditarod
J. W. Farrell, '
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
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Stoves and Graniteware Gasoline, Goal Oil, Etc.
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Twenty-Two Years’ Experience in Alaska and Yukon
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Freighting to All Parts of the District.
Saddle Horses and Teams for Hire.
JAS. E. FULLERTON
DEALER IN
General Merchandise
FLAT, ALASKA
Tom McMahon’s Old Stand
WICK COMING NORTH
Seattle. Aug. 4.—Judge Wickersham
arrived in this city today from Wash
ington, on his way to Alaska for male
rial to substantiate his claims in the
delegate election contest. Mr. Wicker
sham. while talking with friends, ob
served that ‘'the Democratic govern
ment ot Alaska is the most perfectly
organized and smoothly running, and
unbustable political machine in the
wot Id.”
Judge Wickersham stated that he
believes ho will eventually be seated.
Ho alleges, among other things, that
a certificate of election was not issued
for the laie Charles A. Sulzerunt.il two
days after his death.
Grigsby Answers Wick
Washington, Aug. 2 — Delegate
Grigsby, in Ins answer to the charges
tiled in the House by.fudge Wicker
sham in the later's contest of election,
se** forth mat the late Charles A. Sul*
zer at the election held last, November
received a plurality of if votes, and that
Sul zer had received the certificate of
election as Alaska’s duly elected dele
gate to congress. Grigsby further al
leges that through fraud a large num
ber of alien persons had been permitted
to vote for Wickersham, and that the
former delegate had not received le
gally aU votes accredited to him. He
also alleges that additional voters who
would have voted for Sulzer were ille
gally restricted from casting their bal
lots. Mr. Grigsby’s reply was referred
to ttie committee on elections.
SIBERIA ATTRACTS OLD ALASKANS
Purchased by the recently organized
Siberian Commercial Company the
steamship Gedney, well known here
for years as a vessel of the U. S. coast
and geodetic survey fleet, will depart
for St. Lawrence Bay, Siberia, to estab
lish a trading post for the new corpor
ation and laud 25 stockholders who are
going to try their luck washing the
Sibet ian sands for gold, says the Seat
tle Timas.
The new Siberian company was or
ganized and financed by nearly fifty
residents of Seattle and Bremerton, in
cluding 12 old-time Alaskans, the com
pany being formed for trading pur
poses. It will establish its first trading
post on the south shore of St. Lawrence
bay, concentrating on the fur trade
this year. The Gedney will go north
with a full cargo of tfading supplies,
principally merchandise. Officers of
the company estimate tnat tee cargo
will cost close to $40,000 by the time it
is delivered to the ship.
Louis C. Stringer, formerly of Cor
dova and Cbitina, is president, and
James A. Boove is vice president. Mr.
Stringer spent 13 years in the North,
including two winters iu Siberia.
“We closed the deal for the Gedney
two weeks ago,” said Mr. Stringer,
“and now have arranged to have the
vessel painted, overhauled and cleaned
at the Anderson plant. We will have
bunks built between the decks to ac
commodate 25 of our stockholders, who
will try beach mining on St. Lawrence
bay.”
The mining proposition, however, is
an individual venture on the part of
each of the 25 stockholders—tiie com
pany confining itself to fur trading this
year. The company plans on sending
a representative to Vladivostok nex>
fall as the first step to enlarging tiie
corporation’s sphere of operations in
Siberia. __
More “Flu” Predicted
Another epidemic of influenza,
greater in proportion than tiiat which
prevailed last year, is almost certain is
spread over the country this year. Dr.
Charles FL Duncan, of New York, told
tiie Allied Medical Association of
America. Dr. Duncan said lie dis
agreed with statements that “nothing
lias been done that will provide a suc
cessful means of combating tiie influ
enza.” On tiie contrary, he added,
“we have a method, and that method
is in use by some of tiie members of
this organization who have treated
many cases, and have not lost one.*’
Davis Runyon, traveling auditor fsr
Waeehter Bros. Meat Co., arrived in
town Inst Sunday, transacted his busi
ness affairs on Mondav, and made his
getaway on Tuesday for Yukon-river
settlements. Mr. Ruuvon is an Alaskan
of over 20 years’ standing.
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