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Published Every Saturday Evening at Iditarod, Alaska.
Vcl J Cso. M. Arbuckle. Publisher No. 12
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CONVENTIONS
Democratic* territorial convention, Valdez, March 29.
Republican territorial convention, Cordova, March 80.
Republican national convention, Chicago, June 18.
Democratic national convention, Baltimore, June 25.
APPROACHING CITY ELECTION
At the request of numerous citizens a mass meeting has
been called for next Tuesday night, March 2G, at the
Gularte <fe Fontas builuing on First avenue, to nominate
candidates for members of the town council. All the can
didates then and there nominated will have their names
printed on the official ballot, and the voters will do the rest.
This meeting, therefore, will be a very important matter,
and no one who has the interest of the municipality at
heart can afford to be absent.
Very few of the present board will allow the use of
their names as candidates for re-election. Charles Worden
emphatically declines another election, which is to be re
gretted, for his efficiency and diligence are acknowledged
by all. His reasons for declining are that he hopes to get
into the mining game and may reside on the creeks. An
other efficient and active member who has determined not
to allow the use of his name is George Auten. There is a
possibility, but not a probability, that he may be induced
to reconsider the matter. Dave Mutchler does not want to
hold office again because the nature of his business is such
that he cannot give the attention he would like to his du
ties as councilman. Aside from that he is a first-rate mem
ber and it is possible that he might be induced to run
again if his friends are willing to accept the best services
he can give under the circumstances.
J. D. Barnes, D. S. McDonell and Ira Wood will be
out for re-election. The present council is looked upon by
the public as highly satisfactory, and it would be fortunate
if a majority of them could be carried over into the new
board. The probability that such cannot be done makes it
that much more important for citizens to be on hand at the
meeting next Tuesday night.
REGISTER
Books were opened last Wednesday for the registration
of voters for members of the city council in the election to
be held Tuesday, April 2. It is essential for all such voters
to register, whether they were registered for previous elec
tions or not.
Registration is not required of persons who vote for
member of the school board only, in which case women as
well as men are entitled to vote.
RUBY
One of the things past accounting for is an impres
sion that seems to have obsessed people of Ruby camp that
there is a disposition on the part of Iditarod to knock its
younger brother on the Yukon. Nothing could be further
from the truth, or further from the logic of the situation as
it has developed in the natural course of things. From the
first there has been in the Iditarod a full understanding
and a thorough appreciation of the advantages to Interior
Alaska that would come from the development of a product
ive district on the Yukon below the mouth of the Tanana.
Aside from this, many Iditarod people have interests in
Ruby district, and every one has friends there. Iditarod
would have everything to gain and nothing to lose by the
development of Ruby into an important mining center.
What Iditarod people have done—a little too late in
the game for the good of some—is to receive with caution
the extravagant reports of great finds that have come from
Ruby from time to time. Up to the present nothing has
occurred to make any one regret such caution.
Iditarod would like to see Ruby a great mining camp,
and knows that such a thing is still within the range of
possibility; but it has not been demonstrated that such will
be the case, and self-delusion cannot change the facts.
NOTICE
GENERAL LINE OF GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS
Men’s Underwear, Sox, Mittens, Rubber Shoes, Felt
Shoes and Pacs, Mackinaw Coats and Pants
SHELF HARDWARE
Nails. Building Paper. Dog Fish
We solicit Inspection. Every article guaranteed.
fairvievTtrading CO.
First Class in Fact First Ave., Iditarod /
Furnished Rooms, Bath Rooms, Spring Cots Good Stables Adjacent j
Drink Eastern Beer
Miner's Home Saloon
THE HOME OF THE “QUAKER MAID"
Foot, of Willow St., Iditarod
C. J. Hurley, Presideni J. P. Gleason, 'lice President A. Sruning, Cashier
A ' a
Corner First Ave, and Richmond St., Iditarod
CAPITAL $50,000.00, FULLY PAID IN GISH
General Banking Business Transacted Upon Libera!, But Conservative 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 check 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.
PosVt Give Way to the Blues
SMOKE UP!
Pipes Pipes Pipes
Wellingtons Chesterfields Palmyras Petersons
Mission Cobs Conroys Rudolfs
S¥B€i¥8aiiQii5 Fiat cit7
Famous Old Quaker Haiti Rye!
DRAUGHT BURR, DOMESTIC CIGARS
Good Music Every Evening
= Flat City ——
GOOD STOCK CIGARS AMD LIQUORS
Large Stables, Warm Dog Kennels Open Day and Night
ZEHNDER’S
PASSENGERS FREIGHT EXPRESS
\ Leaves Griffin’s Store, Fiat City at 8:3 > a.in : leaves IFnLveiser earner. *
► Iditaud at 2:30 p.tn., daily except Sunday.
; Goods consigned to Upper Flat and Otter Creeks delivered;
same day as received tor shipment j
EXASPERATION
Some days all tilings seem going wrong, and life is not a grand,
sweet song A man lias work piled up so high that just to view it
makes him sigh; he’s busy right down to his hoots, needs every
minute as it scoots; and while his nerves are all unstrung, there
comes a man with rubber tongue, who holds him with a clatntnv
hand, and says: “I sell Alaska land. O, buy yourself a happv
home! I have some lemon groves near Nome, or I can sell you
woodtd tracts, and mountains; mines and cataracts, and polar bears
and salmon streams, and coal land claims and other dreams.
Alaska, fair and picturesque! Why wear you. life out at vour
desk, when you can seek that magic land, and gather boodle with
each hand?” Why do the agents always come when lile seems
dour and out of plumb, to sell us lands we wouldn’t have, and soap
and sealing wax and salve? And when we kill them we’re run in,
the same as though it were a sin.—Walt Mason.
Fairbanks, March 15.—The report of tlie three stamp test mill a!
Fairbanks shows 75 Ions of ore crushed since Dec 13, with an aveiage
value of $71 per ton.
In an eight-day run the Rhoads mill on Chatham creek averaged
over $1,000 per day.
There is great activity in the stock of the Newsboy mine. In the
past two days 25,000 shares i.ave changed hands, with cash buyers
plentiful.
The annual report of the Tanana Valley railroad shows gross
earnings of $160,000; net earnings from operation, $44,000; number ol
passengers cairie.i, 34,000; tons freight, 12.000; bonded indebtedness,
?579 "°°__
Dog mushers, attention.—I have cut; Select Outside Lumber, cot rugated
the price on dog feed. Ray E. McDon- i ron and roofing paper at Ross Nes
I aid. Inquire at carpenter shop. i tor’s.
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' POLITICAL GOSSIP :
All the Hearst papers came out February 20 strong for Champ
Clark for the Democratic nomination California Democrats are foi
Clark.
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If it is true that Woodrow Wilson publicly declared his views to
he identical with those of Robert M. La Follette in all important par
ticulars, then Wilson is a new breed of Democrat.
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William Brown McKinley, of Illinois, recently named as chairman
of the Republican congressional campaign, figures tint Taft will re
ceive 786 out of a possible 1,078 votes at the National convention. The
standpatters are getting most of the responsible positions in the man
agement of the campaign. It does look like Taft will be nominated on
the first ballot all right
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Florida’s delegation is instructed for Taft. The press dispatch an
nouncing the fact said Postmaster General Hitchcock bad done good
tvotk or Taft, and expressed the opinion that Republicans of the South
would lie solid for the "present incumbent.” Congress is about to in
vestigate the charge that the Department of Agriculture lias been help
ing Fhnidians to boom large holdings of woilhless Everglades lands,
which tire being offered for sale at fancy prices—and that may also have
helped
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Virginia, too, has been instructed for Taft.
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Taft has restored to the public (loin tin 25, 100,000 acre- of forest
reserve laud withdrawn by Roosevelt. Tire land lies in Aiizona, New
Mexico and Montana. That ought to cause a good vvjtd for Taft in
the west.
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At the state Republican convention in Georgia every delegate
favored Taft.
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George Loft us, T.a Follet'e’s manager in Minnesota, gives this out
stiaight trom the shoulder;
“The people do not know Bob La Follette, if the- think he gives
up 'o lastly. He i< a man who never commences to fight tin'll strong
oppositi m has been raised against him His pixt rec-nd. ’> ■:! 1 in the
state ol Wi-eou in and since he lias been in the senate, will co ivi ice
any puson of the fact La Fo iette imy be down and out i 1 the eyes
of Roosevelt and Taft supporters, 1 tit they are running up against a
man who does not know when he is whipped.”
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When the talk first became general about R-osrvtTt entering the
1 ace Secretary Fiaukliu M :Veagh of the T • 1 : irv sat I it w »: a 1 >, to 1
shot that the colonel could not even defeat Taft, ru v'.i le-s wi 1 oil’
himself IE tliougllt Roosevelt hud better sense than to t;y, but in
this las', at least, he was mistaken.
The idea that "the Democrats must nominate nm; o re far the
pre idetscy that will suit bun Ireds of th )•»<■.-t 1; of lissttisS :-l R-pr>'i
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Cans will not he accepted with pleasure hv several milli > t [) u >er,t-s.
1 Within recent years the Dtiirerais flirted with the pvpti-it p.rtv, rhea
i they went to the other extreme and named a man who was supp>sel to
ha acceptable to an entirely different inteieM in the cou rtry, a 1 i al
j these chasings after falsi g > Is prove 1 u a s a eee.si ah S irsiy this year
! the Democrats can nominate a candidate that the Democrats of the
i nation want and lei it go at that, without pandering to a .v element in
..tiler po’itical organ'z nions —Butte, Mon’ , Miner
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(Press Correspondence.)
Washington, D.C., Feb. 2.5. — Figures
on the Alaska telegraph system
showing the difference in the cost
of telegraphing in Alaska and the
United States somewhat staggered the
members of the House committee on
territories, and it is likely they will
ask the War Department why the en
tire cost of maintenance of the cable
ship Burnside is charged against the
Alaska cable when it did service in
Alaska for only eighty days in the
year.
Joslin and His Wireless.
In this connection Falcon Joslin has
financed a proposition to build a num
ber of wireless telegraph stations in
Alaska that will keep the territory in
constant communication with the
United States. Joslin says that he can
cut the rates charged by the govern
ment 5) per cent, and at the same time
make a profit. The company is ready
to install its stations provided the
government will guarantee to take no
more commercial messages.
Joslin has purchased a new motor
car to be operated on the Tatiana Val
ley railroad. It has a capacity of thirty
passengers and a speed of thirty miles
an hour. He has the French rights
for this car. It is equipped with the
Edison storage battery, which fur
nishes energy at the rate of about two
cents per horse power per hour. In
conjunction with others Joslin is ar
ranging to install a number of these
cars in Paris and other cities of France.
The Ice-Breaker.
There has been some activity in the
neighborhood of the Commerce and
Labor Department recently in connec
tion with the proposal' to send the ice
breaker “Kit” from Vladivostok to
Dutch Harbor and thence to Nome
with a load of coal and and other sup
plies for the relief of fuelless citizens
of the metropolis of Bering sea. After
considerable connuviation on the part
of Senator Wilson it was ascertained
that the department could not give
anybody authority to break the coast
"■Ne law, but it was in l,‘is'v)i] that if
tiie Siberian ice-breaker should make i
the journey, the event would be re-|
girded as a mission of mercy in bring
ing relief to American citizens in uis-j
trass.
Sonis Personals.
Richard S. Ryan, formerly of Nome. !
Council City and Dick-to-Diek fame, is j
in New York. From tiie fact that Dick i
is inclined to dismiss his old friends
with a curt nod, it is generally believed I
that he has a wad of bills concealed i
about his person. Just at present he j
is putting on more “side" than a hali
but.
Doc Mading, of Iditarod, and Kelly,
of Seward, are in New York tukiug in
the sights of tiie great white way.
Postmaster at Ophir.
P. W. Carlson has been appointed
fourth-class postmaster at Ophir, the
leading city of the Innoko district, to
replace H. J. Vinal, resigned.
Tiie Postoliice Department has ac
cepted the proposal of John Y. Ostran
der to lease the present quarters for
Sve years beginning March 1, 1912, or
date of completion of equipment, in
cluding heat, light, water and safe.
To Help Natives.
Bishop P. T. Rowe, of the Episcopal
Diocese of Alaska, has been in Wash
ington on and off since congress con
vened and lias made several appear
ances before the committees in an
effort to have created some Indian
reservations in Alaska. As about 9S
per cent, of the territory already has
been reserved by the Forestry depart
ment, the bishop’s efforts have not
been meeting with very brilliant suc
cess. However, tit rough an arrange
ment with W. T. I'Opp, Capt. F. P.
Beitholf and others, it is believed that
the condition of the natives in Alaska
will be ameliorated through the 1
Bureau of Education.
Not Like Anaik.
One of the stories that is going the
rounds of the press in the East is that,
of an Alaskan who, after spending'
twenty years in t lie North, camo to
Washington and was shown around the
city. When asked by a newspaper
man what he thought oF the place the
Northerner said, "‘Well, she looks iiko
she is going to make u permanent
camp.”
The Seal Question.
There is considerable dissension in
the Democratic ranks over the Alaska
seal question. Congressman Snl/.er's
bill provides that the United State
government shall kill off all the sur
plus male bachelors amongst the seal
heard—and sell the skins on the Ivm
don market, turning the money derived
therefrom into a fund to be used for
development purposes in Alaska. Part
of the Democrats contend that tlm
slaughter of these bachelors would
tend to increase the herd, while others
believe that an absolute suspension of
killing for a period of ten years, such
as was adopted by the Hussiars. will
bring the herd back to the raagnilicent
proportions that it enjoyed in its early
history.
The sclent ists aro for Salzor's meth
od, but those who oppose it so; i: is
impossible for science to improve or
nature. Sulzar, however, happens <
be chairman of the committee b.-fora
which the bill cam’ for consideration,
and he forced Ihr bill on to the calen
dar for passage, in spite of the opposi
tion of his confreres. The hill will b ■
considered by the house two weeks
hence, and unless Providence in: er
vencs—something which we all hope
will not oec ir the hi 11 will be eua •
into :i law.
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Best non-astigmatic si.uw glass?.- a
j Simpson's.
Dr.Heinrich Wovimann,
Physician and Surgeon
Office at Oily T)rst>r Store. Tel.
First Avo., Bet. Willow and Kiel,. . i
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CM AS. D. CARTER,
Ban fist
Offices, Pioneer Dr.i^ Sun os.
Flat Creek
DR. F. W. HE RMS,
Dentist
P:\ Wort Qiann's < tfffee.
First Avenue* and Willow Street
DR. H. BEHLA,
Dentist
Gold St., Flat City. Opp. Grand liu-ei
Plione 1
ALFRED E. MALTSY,
Attorney at Law
Notary Publh
Office Simpson Bldgf, First and Willow
CHAS. E. TAYLOR,
Attorney at Law5
Notary Public, Conveyancing,
Richmond St., Iditarod
Wlckersham & Roden,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Iditarod, Alaska
GEORGE WOODRUFF ALBRECHT,
Attorney at Law
Michigan. '81 Alaska, '10 Kentucky, '31
The Pioneer Attorney of this Camp
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Milk-Fed Broilers and Roasting Ghickens
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