- IDITAROD PIONEER
Published Every Saturday Evening at Iditarod, Alaska.
V el J Ceo. M. Arbuckle. Publisher No 49
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FOR GOVERNOR OF ALASKA
,1. F. A. Strong
During the past few weeks letters have been arriving
in Iditarod from Ruby and Fairbanks which give anything
but a hopeful view of present conditions in those camps,
and it does not appear that either of the places mentioned
is desirable at the present time. Not only so, but the im
mediate future does not give hope of improvement, and
next spring is likely to witness a flow of population towards
the iditarod. Innoko and Kuskokwim valleys. From Ruby
in particular is the news doleful. Whatever may happen
later, it must be admitted that finds worthy of note have
not, been made, and many who stampeded in that direction
last fall are wishing themselves back in Iditarod. Nor is
Fairbanks much better off. Owing to deliberately-planned
concentration of business in Fairbanks town, such as the
removal of the railroad shops from Chena, that place has
not felt the pinch as it otherwise might have done, but
business is not expanding. Future quartz developments
may revive old-time prosperity, but the rapid decline in the
placer output—from nearly §10,000,000 in 1910 to less than
half that amount in 1912—is having the inevitable result
of causing an exodus of laborers, upon whose presence in
large numbers nearly all business must depend.
But while other camps are succumbing to old age or
falsifying earlier hopes, there remains at least one great
district in the interior w here the outlook never was brighter,
nor tire future more full of promise for the individual,
whether merchant or miner. That district is the southwest
portion of the Fourth division, which includes the Innoko
and Kuskokwim valleys, and it is generally conceded that
the next year or so will see remarkable development within
its boundaries.
The Iditarod will, of course, receive the most attention.
Work already in hand will call for large numbers of men;
new work for dredging and other schemes on Flat and
Willow creeks will need many more, while at any time we
may expect to hear of new finds on Happy, Cleary, Slate,
Chicken or some other of the creeks now being prospected
in the neighborhood. Then there is Cripple creek, in the
Innoko district. From all accounts they have pay and a
small camp, at least is assured. Moore creek is now being
tested as a dredging proposition; the Ditna has received
much attention and prospectors have been stampeding
there forthe past month: New York creek has shown a pay
streak as a result of the first real work done on the ground;
while Bear creek miners claim very rich pay.
There are good grounds for the assertion one hears so
frequently nowadays: “We are in the best camp in Alaska
today.” We are, and the next few months will prove it.
COMPOSITION OF
THE LEGISLATURE
Complete returns from the vari
ous divisions show the following to
compose the First Alaska legis
lature.
The Senate
First Division—Henry T. Tripp,
J M. Tanner.
Second Division — Ellwood Brun
ner, Conrad Freeding.
Third Division—George K. Bald
win, Col. F. B. Millard.
Fourth Division—Henry Roden,
Dan Sutherland.
House of Representatives
First Division-—Arthur G. Shoup.
William Stubbins, E. E. Ingersoll,
N. J. Swindeth.
Second Division— Thos. Gaffney,
Charles Jones, J. C. Kennedy,
E A. Grimm.
Third Division—Dr. F. M. Boyle,
Milo Kelly, II. C. Ingram, R. I)
Gray.
Fourth Division—Wm. Burns, J.
J. Mullally, Dan Driscoll, E. B.
Collins.
Of the senators Messrs. Tripp,
Baldwin, Millard and Sutherland
are connected with the mining in
dustry, Elwood Brunner and Henry
Roden are lawyers, and J. M. Tan
tier (mayor of Skagwav) and Con
rad Freeding are merchants.
GOMPERS APPEAL
Washington, December 5 —The
United States supreme court bas
set the month of January for hear
ing the appeal of Gompers, Mitch
ell and Morrison against the sen
tence of imprisonment imposed
upon them by Judge Wright fot
contempt. This will be the second
time that this contempt case has
been before the supreme court, the
labor leaders winning out on the
last occasion when it was ordered,
without dissent, that the case he
sent back to Judge Wright for re
view.
All Hours Alike in This House
COME ONCE AND YOU WILL COME AGAIN
FIRST AVENUE. SOUTAR & SUTHERLAND, Props.
AGAIN IN BUSINESS AT THE OLD STAND
Iditarod Saloon
FRONT ST. Manuel Gularte, Prop.
Home Cedarbrook and Old Lewis Hunter Rye
i HAVE JUST RECEIVED AND PLACED ON DISPLAY
THE LATEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL DESIGNS IN
Wallpaper
PAINTS, OILS, ETC.
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Prints Eastern Beer
Miner’s Home Saloon
THE HOME OF THE “QUAKER MAID"
Foot of Willow St., Iditarod
THE HOME rLAT c,J^r:£Tr
Furnished Rooms, Clean Spring Beds, Bath, Dry Rooms, a"Jev'rtvhZ“i'r"c'i"
SNYDER HOUSE Company Depot
Nicely Furnished Rooms FLAT CSTY Large Drying Room
The Restaurant formerly called The Rathskeller has been
turned into “A PLAGE TO EAT” B* g,jrllyatp'c0SyNS0N'
Beef, by the side,.$ .40
Veal, “ .50
PiJistton, by the carcass. . .35
Fowl,, per lb.40
Halibut, “ .25
fPfTAROP MEAT CO,
Second St. Phone 15
Henry Weir and Charley Worden
returned from a hunting trip Sunday
last. They went down river below
Dikeman, and had much good sport.
I
Robert C'ockburn, the well-known
roadhouse man and storekeeper of Dike
man, spent Thanksgiving in Iditarod
and returned home Tuesday.
A dream of wisdom I will give to you;
Of thoughts so beautiful, of Life so true;
A mind so powerful, so deep and yet so broad,
Will take man to his zenith, up beside his God.
Man's birthright through Creation
To wisdom we all should know,
And this knowledge, truth and beauty
Are gems we all should grow.
Let us don a coat, of armor
Made from these gems of power,
And take from the grave its erroneous right,
And grow Life each passing hour.
Let us stand together readers,
With all our mind and might,
And force our lives through eternity,
l'p to its crowning height.
I’jie world will still grow brighter
When death is made to sleep,
To sleep all through eternity,
While we, with wisdom, are complete.
And we will still grow dreams of wisdom,
Each more beautiful than before,
And each one will be a reality,
And prove Life is Evermore.
Cripple City, Innoko,
November 18, 1912.
FREDERICK WILLTSON.
The New Placer Law
The following is a copy of the law recently enacted by Congress amend
ing the mining laws of Alaska:
A bill to modify and amend the mining laws in their application to the Ter
ritory of Alaska, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted, etc., That no association placer mining claim shall here
after be located in Alaska in excess of 40 acres, and on every placer mining
claim hereafter located in Alaska, and until a patent has been issued therefor,
not less than $100 worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made
during each year, including the year of location, for each and every 20 acres
or excess fraction thereof.
Sec. 2. That no person shall hereafter locate any placer mining claim in
Alaska as attorney for another unless he is duly authorized thereto by a
power of attorney in writing, duly acknowledged and recorded in any record
er’s office in the judicial division where the location is made. Any person so
authorized may locate placer mining claims for not more than two individuals
or one association under such power of attorney, but no such agent or attor
ney shall be authorized or permitted to locate more than two placer mining
claims for any one principal or association during any calendar month, and
no placer mining claim shall hereafter be located in Alaska except under the
limitations of this act;
Sec. 3. That no person shall hereafter locate, cause or procure to be lo
cated, for himself more than two placer mining claims in any calendar month:
Provided, That one or both such locations may be included in an association
claim.
Sec. 4. That no placer mining claim hereafter located in Alaska shall be
patented w’hich shall contain a greater area than is fixed by law, nor which
is longer than three times its greatest width.
Sec. 5. That any placer mining claim attempted to be located in viola
tion of this act shall be null and void, and the whole area thereof may be lo
cated by any qualified locator as if no such prior aitempt had been made.
ASSESSOR’S REPORT REVIEWED
BY COWMEN LAST SIIDAY
An informal meeting of the Iditarod town council was held at
the residence of Mayor .T. D. Barnes last Sunday evening for the
purpose of making a preliminary examination of the figures turned
in by the city assessor. The figures submitted were, on the whole,
satisfactory to the councilmen present, but in some instances where
the amounts were considered too low they were raised, and arbi
trary valuations were made in those cases where owners had re
fused to hand in their returns, or had apparently overlooked some
of their assets,
In those instances where increased valuations have been made
notices will be served upon those interested, so that they will be
enabled to appear before the board of equalization which meets
from December 9-14 inclusive. Even those not so notified are en
j titled to appear before the board if they have reason to believe
l that they have been unfairly treated by the assessor.
As a result of last Sunday’s meeting the taxable value of per
sonal property was increased by nearly $40,000. In some instances
the property so increased belongs to absentees, but in most cases
those interested are residents and will be able to appear before the
equalization board next week.
As was to be expected, the Northern Commercial Company is
far and away the largest holder of real and personal property —
their holdings in the town amounting to $100,000.
SUCH SS LIFE
“Oh. why be farmers, stockmen, sawyers?” the college clamors, loud
and clear;“Wby Dot be editors or lawyers, and wear fine linen all the year?
Why soil your hands with loathsome labors? Why carry swill to cow or
hog? Rise, rise above your toiling neighbors, and be a fourth-rate peda
gogue! Why wear duck overalls and curry the humpbacked mule and
brindled steer? Come to the college in a hurry, aDd learn to be a bank
cashier!” Through all the land the boys are dropping the yoeman's tools,
in deep disgust, resolved to learn the trade of yawping, resolved to wear
boiled shirts or bust. Professions all are overcrowded; the starving law
yers throng the streets; and there are men in surplice shrouded who
should be busy hoeing beets. Stenographers wm’ve by the legion who
haven’t learned the way to spell; and in the fertile farming region the
grangers raise an awful yell. “Oh, send us help,” we hear them crying,
imploring with teD thousand tongues; “send us the husky skates who're
trying to earn their living with their lungs! Send us a grist of half-baked
preachers, of lawyers who have known no brief, send us stenographers or
teachers, to shuck the corn or bind the sheaf!” Above the grangers’
mournful bawling, above their pleas for working men, we hear the college
sweetly calling: “Forsake the plowshare for the pen.”—Walt Mason.
CHANGE IN POSTOFFICE HOURS
There will he a slight change in the
hours of business at the postoffiee dur
ing the next week or two, on account
of the short days. Postmaster Thurs
ton announces that until further notice
the hours will be from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30
p.m., instead of from 9 a.m. to 5 p.ra.
as heretofore.
Location blanks—Pioneer office.
PIONEER DRUG CO., FLAT CITY
Telephone us your wants in the line of
Phene From
McDonald
Hotel,
Iditarod.
Orders Promptly Filled.
Dr. Heinrich Wortmann,
Physician and Surgeon
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Offices: Iditarod and Flat City
Telephones at each place
DR. H. BEHLA,
Dentist
Offices, Pioneer Drug Store,
Fiat City.
Appointments by Telephone
Wickersham &. Roden,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Iditarod, Alaska
GEORGE WOODRUFF ALBRECHT,
Attorney at Law
Michigan, '81 Alaska. '10 Kentucky. SI
The rioneer Attorney of this Camp
E. M. STANTON,
Attorney at Law
Office in Wickersham & Roden Bldtr,
Second Ave.
BASIL CLEMONS
Commercial Photographer
Agent Eastman Kodak Co. Flat City
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