IDITAROD PIONEER
Published Every Saturday Morning
at Iditarod, Alaska,
BY GEORGE M. ARBUCKCE
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Vol. 10 No. 12
ALASKA DAY
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Today is the 51st anniversary
of Alaska as an Atnerican'posses
sion. Its non observance seems
to be general throughout the dis
trict, and entirely safe and sane.
THE OPPORTUNE SEASON
This is the season of opportunity in
Yukon. The sun is on the back track
I rum .summer, ami within a few weeks
problems for the winter must be faced,
says the Dawson News of recent, date.
The mail who is foot loose should
begin to lay bis plans now. Nearly
'. very able-bodied man in the camp is
working. By ’.lie time the river closes
each should have enouglt saved from
his wages to give him a grubstake for
the winter.
It is an easy matter to dissipate that
grubstake to no advantage even before
the ice chokes the river. It is just as
easy to buy a prospecting or a trupping
outfit with the money and to get into
i be hills.
The wise man will not hesitate to
capitalize Ins winter days. lie can do
so in this country by purchasing picks,
shovels and pans, or traps and snow
shoes, and a moderate quantity of food
and clothing.
The man who lies idle in the cabin
in town all wittier is of no service to
himself or the country during that
period. In tiie hills he has the great
advantage of opportunity, tie will eat
no more while busy prospecting or
trapping than if idle, and he will have
an appetite which will he the envy of
potentates and plutocrats.
For some there awaits the great
prizes which nature has secreted in her
pockets. For ail there is the eternal
joy of the doing, it has been proved
time and again that it is nut Lite having
of the gold or the rich furs half so
much as it is the joy of pursuit of the
same which constitutes the real happi
ness. Occupation, after all, is the chief
purpose of man on this earth. Where,
then, can lie find occupation half so
congenial as in this God-blessed realm
amid the free and far-flung hills and
vales of Yukon?
Some may leave the Yukon for the
Pete's Bakery
And Coffee House
Front St., Flat
Regular Meals, Short Orders
Fresh Bread. Pies arid Cakes
Always on Hand
P MICHELS, PROP.
Big Stocks ot Fresh Goods
Everything for the Miner and
Prospector
MAX SIMEL SSST
Stor# at Mouth of Tolatol
Outside hoping for easier paths. Those
who nurse this dream must, remember
that in the old centers is ever the
massed population, the lense and selfish
struggle for existence, the glassy stare
and the rotary eye for the stranger.
Even there friend strives against
friend, and it’s dog eat dog.
Yukon gives every man a chance,
holds every law-abiding man in equal
esteem, eatertains no traditions of rot
ten prejudice or caste, scorns the snob
and exalts every man who will peel his
coat and plav the game.
Yonder is industrial upheaval, here
calm and prosperity, wonder uncer
tainty, here the assured future; yonder
the limited field, here the region of un
bounded opportunity.
This is the land, litis is the place,
and this the time. Preparedness for
winter will open the way. Entries are
opptt to all. Make ready.
NEWS OF KOSKOKWIM
The N. C. Co.’s gaspower freighter
Ozrno reached Bethel on her second
voyage September 18. The steamer
Tana (Capt. Wally Langley) laden with
Oztno cargo, was halted by the ice at1
McGrath on September 2M. On the
Tana was an outfit of mining machinery
and suDplies, amounting to 80 tons, for
Tom Ait ken’s quartz properties at
Nixon Fork, where, it is stated, a crew
of about 15 men will be employed dur
ing the winter, It is expected that a
thousand tons of ore will he ready for
shipment by the opening of navigation
next spring. Should the Tana he un
able to proceed further up the Kuskok
wim this fall, the A it ken tonnage
would have to be freighted over the
snow about .’!(» miles.
The Tana also delivered a big con
signment of supplies for the Parks
■‘quick” works.
VEDIN LOSES APPEAL
Washington, Oct. 14. The const itu
tionality of the Alaska legislative act
of 1915, requiring affidavits showing
that the annual assessment work iiad
been done on mining claims to be in
effect, was sustained today by the Su- |
prerne Court of the United States,
which declined to interfere in the con
viction of <J. A. Vedin. of Fairbanks,
under this Territorial statutes. Vedin
was sentenced to three years' impris
onment in McNeils island by Judge
C. E. Bunnell, of the Fourth division,
and had appealed.
RADICALISM DECLARED A MENACE
Seattle, Oct. 11.—The American Ee
lion last night passed a resolution de
claring that radicalism on the Pacific
coast, particularly in the Northwest
ern part, has developed to such an ex
tent that it is recognized in many
places as a menace to the welfare of
Lite American people.
TO DEVELOP ARMY Alii SERVICE
Washington, Oct. 11.—The Senate
military committee today Toted to rec
ommend an additional #15,000,000 for
army aircraft construction. This ap
propriation is to aid the air serrice on
routes to be established in Panama,
Alaska and Asia.
ALLEGED BOMB MAKER ARRESTED
Chicago, Oct. 14.—Federal authori
ties today arrested the alleged maker
of the bomb which exploded on June 3
in the doorway of Attorney General
Palmer’s home in Washington
BUSTEDUPTHEPARADE
New York, Oct., 11.—Heads were
broken on Fifth avenue today when
the mounted police charged a mob of
several thousand rndicals who at
tempted to parade up the avenue with
out permission from the city authori
ties. Banners which bore incendiary
slogans were confiscated by the police.
CROP NOT SOLD TO JAPS
Washington, Oct. 13.—Judge Ballou,
at torney for the Hawaiian Sugar Plant
ers’ Association, denied today that, next
year’s Hawaiian sugar crop has been
sold to Japanese interests, as charged
in ltie Senate recently by Senator
Smoot. __
IT CAN'T BLOW AWAY
Now that the council of our gay me
tropolis has securely “•anchored” the
pole bridge across the ravine at the
lower end of Willow street, making the
same proof against the fierce winds of
winter by placing large sticks ot tim
ber lengthwise of that noble structure,
and securing them firmly from the
gales by leaning shorter sticks thereon
partially buried in the ground, our res
idents may with a great feeling of se
curity face tlie terrors of winter. And
now if there's funds enough in the
town’s strongbox to “anchor” those
t wo masterpieces of sidewalk construc
tion leading to t he homes of our
worthy mayor and a former city clerk,
the community’s anxiety in regard to
its cherished institutions would he re
duced to a Scandinavian whisper.
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Toe sidewalk on the east side of Wil
low street, between First, and Second,
contains nearly as many broken boards
as whole ones, making walking upon it
a very dangerous venture. Those de
tects have been entirely overlooked by
the city dads many months.
bast Tuesday’s Wireless Bulletin an
nounced that the telegraph station at
McGrath would lie closed for the win
ter season when the Candie-cieek
dredge ceased operations.
CAN'T GET MONEY YET
Washington, Oct. 11. — The
money for the Alaska, railroad
will not become available for
some time after the bill is signed
by the President. The bill must
be returned to Congress to be
considered by the appropriations
committees of both the House
and Senate, and passed by both
branches and signed by the Pres
ident before the money will b«
converted to the use of the
Alaska Engineering Commission.
This procedure is merely per
functory and will take time.
HI’S DIREFUL PICTURE
Seattle, Oct. 11.—Picturing the na
tion i*L the crossroads of its destiny,
with the tortuous, sinuous and cynical
path of European and Asiatic diplo
macy on one side and the straight and
narrow path of 100 per cent. Ameri
canism on the other, Senator Hiram
Johnson tired a verbal barrage at the
League of Nations covenant last night
at the Arena and the Metropolitan the
atre. The crowd in both places was
about one-fifth of the number that
sought entrance when President Wil
son spoke three weeks since.
Professional
ALBRECHT and TAYLOR,
Attorneys--Counselors at Law
Iditarod, Seattle,
Alaska Washington
DR. MOORE
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
DRUB STORE
DR.H.BEHLA
Flat
HARDWARE AT COST
Entire Stock of High-Class Goods to Close Out
Heavy 24-Gauge Stovepipe, 50c Joint
Pioneer Sheet Metal Works
STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE
Miners & Merchants Bank, of Iditarod, Alaska,
AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS OCTOBER 6, 1919
Resource*
Loans and discounts $ 82,724.45
Liberty Bonds 20,967.45
Other Stocks and Bonds 24,443.75
Overdrafts. 829.13
Cash and Bullion on hand, 75,160.87
Due from Banks 114,643,25
#318,768.90
Liabilities
Capital $ 59,000.110
Surplus and Und. Pfis. 34,720.96
Deposits 234,047.94
*318.768.00
I, It. Button, cashier or the ab ove-named bank, do solemnly swear that
tile above statement is true to the best or my knowledge and belief W
Correct—Attest: It. C. Bt'TTOTV, Cashier.
R. C. Button', Director.
C. Baker, Director.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 13th day of October. ly|y.
[Seal] Geo. W. Albrecht.
Notary Public in and for Alaska.
My commission expires 8th July, I92J.