With the Arrival of Our Goods From Dikeman We Will
Have the Most
COMPLETE STOCK
OF
res Groceries
IN IDITAHOD.
ALL GOODS OF THE HIGHEST GRADES ONLY
PRICES ABSOLUTELY RIGHT ALL THE TIME
WE WILL BE PLEASED TO RECEIVE YOUR INQUIRY
Sam’l Applebaum
FLAGS FLAGS FLAGS
ALL SIZES, SILK AND
COTTON, CREPE PAPER
STREAMERS MADE FOR
THE FOURTH OF JULY.
SEND IN YOUR ORDERS
QUICK, AND THEN YOU
WILL NOT BE SORRY
THAT YOUR NEIGHBOR 13
AHEAD OF YOU IN
DECORATIONS.
I DiTAROD, ala::ca
AN ELEGANT LINE OF
Silk and Y/oo! Poplins, Silk Crepe
tie Chine in Colors, and
Georgette Crepe Waists
Will Be on Display Next Week
Watches and Diamonds
At
STRICTLY OUTSIDE PRICES
J. L. SALE
BEST LIQUORS AND CIGARS
Three-TImes-Movs Bar
(Formerly the Stanley House)
JOHN BAGOY, PROP.
GOOD ROOMS CLEAN BEDS
_FLAT CITY
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In The Iditarod Pioneer’s 1918 con
signment of newspaper and job-printing
stock will be found a splendid and varied
assortment of Calendars for 1917, which
will be displayed immediately after un
packing.
The business houses of the community
are asked to defer ordering their next
year's Calendars from Outside until The
Pioneer's supply has been inspected.
There are about twenty-five different
kinds, and they are all beauties. And
the prices will be right, too.
Kay Longtin, the Otter creek operator,
was iri the ei y yesterday.
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Fresh Olympia and Fasiern Oysters,
#1.50 per earn Iditarod Meat Co.
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
Judge Bunnell was a visitor to the creeks
on Wednesday last, and returned yesterday.
Mrs. C. A Dully was a passenger for the
Outside on the boat leaving here on tin
30th.
C. R. Peck, the department-store man
of 1 lat City, was a visitor at the landing
last Thursday.
Jonas Brewis, the Willow creek operator,
was in the city on Wednesday and Thurs
day of this week.
John Holmgren, the well-known and suc
cessful mining operator, returned from the
Outside on Thurday of this week.
Luther C. lies, the Fairbanks banker
and mining man, was a passenger on the
Sea Wolf, arriving on Thursday last.
Dr. H. Behla, the Flat City dentist, who
has been studying in Chicago during the
past several months, returned to the city on
Thursday last.
Fred Levy, the Ophir mining man, who
has bean attending the lditarod session of
the district court, departed for his home
Its! Sunday.
That was a tremendous mail delivered
at the 1 cal p --(office last Saturday morn
ing. It eon.'i-ted of one letter only, and
mi second-class.
Miss Rose Murray of Flat City came to
Idit: rod last Thursday to meet her sister.
Mrs. Henry Riley, who arrived from her
California home.
Wi v- rhra : --er Mitchell, the Moose
creek 'a’v’udl man. returned to the city
V - v.-'k. hav.ng link-bed up the season’s
. - rk at the mill.
Henry Riley, the well-known operator,
arrived from Candle creek last week ar.1
as been in the city since, awaiting the ar
rival of his wife, who reached here on
Thursday last.
The well-known [■Id-timer, Charley Wor
den, came down from Willow creek early
in the week to spend a few days with his
• Id frond Henry Weir prior to the latter’s
departure with, his family to Fairbanks.
Attorneys Janies (’. Moody, John L. M -
Ginn and Ned M. Stanton made a trip to
the creeks afoot last Wednesday, as a hit
of recreation after several weeks of hard
work during the recent term of the dis
trict court.
Robert Andrews, head sawyer at Weyer
haeuser C. Mitehcl ’s sawmill, arrived in the
city during the week, and is spending a
few days and dollars among old acquaint
aoces. James Douglas, also an employe
of the same works, accompanied Mr. An
drews.
On Thursday last K. A. Austin of the
Yukon Gold Company and Cyril Wood of
the Northern Commercial Company con
ducted a party of guests by gasoline boat
on a trip up the lditarod river, the objec
tive being the power plant of the Gold
Company. Low water compelled the’return
of the party before reaching the plant, how
ever. and they returned to the city about
inidnight. Besides Messrs. Austin and Wood
Hie party consisted of Henry Roden, Joe
Clark. Reed ileilig and wife and Miss Grace
lisher.
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Job Printing at The Pioneer office.
HALF-PRICE SALE J
On Screen Wire Cloth, Wire Screen Doors, Adjustable Wire Screen <
Windows were Now <
2 f-ill ell Wire Cloth, per yard....... $ .30 I .23 <
28-itieli Wire Cluili, per yard. .00 .30 <
30-ineh Wire Cloth, per yard.. .70 .35 4
2- 8-0- s Plain Green Wire Doors. 5.00 2.50 1
2-10-0-10 Plain Green Wire Doors. 7.00 3.50 4
2- 8-G- 8 I alley Heavy Wire Doors. 0.00 4.50 <
2-io-o-lo Fancy Heavy wire Doors....... 10.no 5.00 1
Wire Screen Windows, 20x2 1. 1.50 .75 4
Wire Screen Windows, 23x24. 2.00 1.00 *
Screen Door Hinges, per pair. 1.00 .50 j
Screen Door Sets... 1.50 .75 *
SMITH'S' GUN STOREI
iDITAROD, ALASKA PHONE 6 SECOND AND WILLOW <
! FIRST UP-RIVER ARRIVALS
REACHED HERE THURSDAY
AFTER TEDIOUS JOURNEY
The first passengers to arrive at Iditurod
this season from the Outside by way of St.
Michael reached here early on Thursday
morning last, when the launch Sea Wolf
docked at 4 a. m. They arrived at St.
Michael on June IS, and report a tedious
journey up-river. The Sea Wolf’s passert
ger list was as follows:
F. RUMREY
DR. II. BEHLA
W C. A ELIS
11 M. CLARK
LUTHER C. HESS
S. PALMER
C. CUNNINGHAM
TERESE ISAACSON
MRS. HENRY RILEY
JOE LEONARD
R. E. COX
DOUGLAS CURRIE
JOHN HOLMGREN
BOB MITCHELL
ROBERT ANDREW;-;
ISAAC FISHER
MRS. CAREY AND DAUGHTER
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CAPTAIN JESSE H. ROGERS
LAUNCHES FINE NEW BOAT
One of the most interesting events along
the water front this season occurred last
Tuesday morning, when the Jolly Roger II,
the fast and trim-built boat of Captain Jesse
11. Rogers, wa- successfully launched on the
classic and placid bosom of the Iditarod
river at the foot of Willow street. The
exercises were attended by many of our
leading citizens and prominent merchants,
who were allowed to participate in the
happy event to the extent of helping to
“tote” the craft from the shipyard to the
place of baptism. The Jollv Roger II was
built this spring “along the lines” furnished
by the owner, and that it gracefully sits
upon the water as jauntily as the proverbial
i swan goes without saying.
PRAIRIE BELL ARRIVES
The launch Prairie Bed. with j a.-.-, n roc
front the steamer Washburn and a con id
( ral 1 ■ quantity of freight, atrived frt i
Dikeman at 1). m. Thttr day. This was
(practically the first of the up-river / eight
fo be received here this season.
SERIOUS LOSS SUSTAINED
BY GAME WOOD CHOPPER
When T. M. Case, a wo dchopper wlm
has a camp at the- head of h • ui■: r to k,
returned to his cabin on Tur.-dav 1 .-t. after
work in the woo as, ho four:. 1 d .it a i . 1 • -1
fir*' had crept up on his home end iom
pleteiy destroyed it. together with mt
-even y-five cords of wood piled near by.
lie had but reeendy purchased a summe:
outfit, amounting to about >2b0 • r s.'.p;)
worth of goods, all of which was burned,
together with his clothing, took, furniture,
etc. His loss will amount to between ;SO0
and $900.
Mr. Case, however, is not discouraged by
his Is and with true Ala kun grit he
has purchased a new outfit and iv-unm 1
work. He says he will make up for hi
loss by cutting an extra cord of wood each
day.
BOAT FOR UP-RIVER POINTS
TO LEAVE SUNDAY EVENING
The steamer Washburn is expected to
leave Dikeman on Monday next to connect
with boat f r tr uer Yukon river pour- at
H >ly Cross. Judge Bunnell and the mem
ber? of the court party, who expected to
leave yesterday, will be p-oemrer - at this
time for Ruby, where a term of court i
lo be held.
LOSSES OF BRITISH OFFICERS
LONDON. June 30. -Tim total number
of British officers lest since :hc commence
mr-nt of the war now reaches 27,900.
Everybody Is Invited
to the Big
AT
There will be horse races, mule races,
a big tug-of-war, and many
other amusements
A BIG BALL
IN THE EVENING
The best music obtainable. Admis
sion to dance, $1.50. Everybody is
assured a good time.
BRING THE LITTLE ONES
SEE POSTERS NEXT WEEK
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; MEXICO AND THE MEXICANS
The Amigo
(By James J. Montague)
He tells you “Me Amigo,” and he smiles a
friendly smile;
He bids you share his “poolky” in the
courtly Latin style;
He chats with you politely as he whiffs his
cigarette,
And lingers long at parting to express his
deep regret.
And when you ride off down the trail you
hear a rille eraek ;
It’s only the Amigo; he ha» shot you in
the back.
His leaders arc Amigos, too. They wish
you all success;
“We serve one cause,” they softly say. ‘ We
fight together -yes?”
And when you sight your quarry on the rim
of the ravine,
You see their soft and friendly eyes begin
to glitter green;
The faces lose their kindly smile and wear
a savage frown,
And that's the time your “friends” begin to
shoot your troopers down.
Amigos every one of them, wth nil the I
crafty arts
That treachery c: n find to hide the black
ness of their hearts.
Amigos when your gun is drawn, and when
it serves their ends
Which always happen to be bad to wear j
the guise of friends.
But when yonr dead are littering the battle
stained defile
The sworn Amigo parses by and smil *s an
ugly smile.
Latin America to Back Uncle Sam ;
A Washington special to the Chicago Iler- i
aid says.:
Should the attitude of the de facto gov- i
eminent of Mexico force tire hand of the j
United States government and co;.t| d I
American armed intervention in Mexican j
affairs, the l nited Slate- would have the i
morel support of those pan American na- |
tii-i.s that participated in the joint appeal
made lu.-t year t the Carranza and Vi la
factions to enter a peace conference for ,
the a Ijmimei t of their differences. These
governments are those of Argentina, Brazil,
tT-.ilBolivia, Uruguay and Guatemala.
The fact recently became kn wn th
administration had learned im-dlLially fmm
official oi:rc< that tht pan Vmcric 1 signa
tory mo mi.s are ready to back up th ■ United :
States government sin nld it be forced tu
intervene in Mexico.
It has been ascertained that high official,
in these countries zre of the opin: :t th !
the VV 1 on administration has a!nvv-t
i ached int 1 xhausling it patience
in the treatment of the Mexican situation:
that they are convinced that the United
States government has no agar---i\o aims'
nr ulterior motives against Mexico; that
our good faith in dealing with M-xu-. ha
been ami ly shown, and that the American
nation has tolar ted more from Mexican
outlaws than almost any great power .' mid
accept without intervening to re-tore order
and protect its border and citizens.
Wh'lc this infurmati n has reached
Wasi ington through absolutely definite
channels in a way that lias impressed and
greatly pleased officials of the admir.is'ra
ti-a. President Wilson is vigorously op
posed to armed intervention, end is deter
mined to exert his influence to the fullest
extent against it.
The Pre ident knows that the senate and
house would support him in an interven
tion policy at tins time, but bus informed
senators with whom la has talked that he
c< tisiders it the duty of th? i nited States J
government to cmk avnr to solve its Mex
ican problems with ut armed intervention. I
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Mexican Hate
I I.inc In Steffens, in Everybody'* i
“Hr,re you?” said a wild young Mexican;
officer to me one day on a troop tram.
"The Mexican hate for you Gringos would
put fire into the flames of arson, virtue
into robbery, and a crown of glory on death
and defeat at war with you.”
When I i i; liia! in the face of Ids hate
and remarked that it was too well expressed
to bp deeper than hi; mind, he choked:
“Both, both with cur heads and our heart.
we hate you.”
“Yes.” said a thought ft.I member of j
Carranza’s cabinet cirel". ‘ there is hatred
among us for you. and it is dangerous: as a
prejudice it is very dangerous. But also it
has reasons for being, and- the reasons eon
be reasoned with - and in time removed, if
there be time.”
True. The enmity in Mexico against the
“Colossus of the North,” as they cell the
United State*, is all sorts of hate held by
all sorts of people there. It. is reasunaU
and unreasonable; it i* thought and felt;
it is open eyed and it is blind; it is .suspi
cion and experience. It is racial, religious,
economic and it is historical.
They have their own ideals, and. better
or worse, they prefer theirs. W e. sure of
the superior excellence of ours -we con
tinue to thrust ours upon them —our ideals, j
our ideas, our virtues, and also (as they j
see! our vices, and our methods, and our j
corruption; and all for their good. This:
is the height of our offending; our philan
thropy.
“If,” said a Mexican statesman to me at
Eagle Pass last fall, “if you Americans would
look across the border there and say that
Mexico is a rich country and beautiful, and
that you covet it; that we Mexicans are a
weak people and you are strong; and that,
therefore, you are going to come over and
take Mexico—wo could understand that. We
would fight, and we would probably die, but
we wouldn’t hate you so much.”
Indians in Mexico
(Christian Science Monitor)
How many have been prepared for the
statement recently made by the National
The Real Day of Celebration
til of Ju
The Day of Our Independence is Nearly Here!
if You Contemplate “Dressing Up” for the Holiday,
You’d Better See Abe.
Don’t Forget the Big Hop at SVIoose Hall in the Evening.
t3>p FLAT [
THE HOME OF HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX \
Geographic Society r f Wa.-hington that there \
are more Inoians today within the territory
originally comprising Mexico than ever ex- |
isted at any time in all the rest of the j
western hemispfcfei* combined? Of the I
15,01 4’.000 ii.h .'•••:ants of Mexico ft-.liy 3-8 '
per cent, il is held, are Indians, while 43
Per c<ul are of mixed blood. In round fig
i:f . are 11,1100.00) Indian in Mexico.
i:.rev • i’ whom are descendants of the
.■'.sties. The latter are frequently of a most
ndteere ! type, and from them have sprung
some very able men, as, for instance, Juarez
ml Du v Altogether, however, the degrees
■ f civilization are various. Authorities have
it i:;.11 in Mexico at the present time the
Indi ii population may be divided into
four:-an families and 132 tribes, wit!; fitly
one languages and sixty-nine dialects.
Mexicans Respect Colored Troops
(Gregory Mason, in The Outlook i
The Mexicans m rvfl at the negro regi
ments. of vvhkdi there are four, or part- of
four, in the expaditk n.
The uegriby the way. make splendid
soldiers. They are, on the whole, more ,
proud of the uniform than the white men, J
th si- more amenable to discipline, less |
inclined to grumble, and they are fully as,
brave • nd enduring a.- the whitc-s, although
they have less individual menu lity and
live. Most c f them are negroc i from
the Southern states, and most of them are j
commanded by officers from the South, j
whom they und. r.- land and respect thor- ■
oughly.
Perhaps il is beeaus. the negr.M* • do look ,
to them wire ferocious and formidable than 1
the white soldiers, or perhaps they have |
learned the contempt of familiarity for the j
white Americans having done a; they;
; lea.-in with American Ch ilians it, Mexico1
p.r SLvrral years, that the Mexicans ate ;
much more in awe of the negroes than of ;
die vhi:cs. In their half savage minds the .
1 ready have concocted a mythology j
about die negro, which paints him as a !
terrible creature, tireless and aim: st inwd- j
tier.1 I ■. whose favorite food is tender M x- ■
ican l ubv.
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A HINT TG FLAT CITY’S CLUB
Physicians of Green county. Wisconsin,!
which had the Invest death rate in the;
suite ;a.-.t summer, attribute the health con
ditions of the con munily to the eating of
hmburger chtv-e. Last year 3.041,435 j
pounds of this cheese w: re produced in the
crt'iity. and as a s f a: 1 of f ■ id it largely
disi laced meat. The quarterly report of
the state board of hsaldi gave Green county
a death rate of 7.2 per 1,000. compared
with 0.2 for the state at large.
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An Irishman end a Scotchman were mak
ing repairs on a wharf when the Scotchman !
1 ■ his balance and fell into he water. j
Sandy shouted to Pa' : "I say, Pat. drop
me a iine, will you?”
“What for?” -aid l’at. "There ain't any
I istoSlices where you're going.’’ -Ex.
I am prepared to receive
and store all arriying freight.
Have large warehouse accoia
ncdaiiom, and will check in
s'! freight and attend to ship
ment to creeks. i
W. C. MITCHELL.
REASONS ARE REVEALED
FOR OLD SUPERSTITIONS
Why do widow- wear cap- ' Ii i- b*
cause when the Romans were in Engl -n 1
they introduced the custom of .-having the
head as a sign of mourning, (if c-iur.-e
women couldn't 1 t themselves be seen with
shaved heads, so they made theinseive
caps. Though the custom ha- pu.-.-cd tii"
caps remain.
Why do ladies break a I ■ of wine
on the -hip they are christening? The real
reason is enough to make your blood cur
die. In the day- of sacrifice to th - god r
was customary to get some poor victim
when a b- at was being launched and to
cut his throat over the prow, so that ins
bl iod baptized it.
Why do we throw shoe.- mit-r bride ?
The reason is scarcely compii;. entary. hr in
time immemorial it has been the custom
for parent.- to chastise tin or chi! Iren with
a shoe; and fern th:.- the i-n-vm ;.r- >■
of the father of the hri-t- ma’dng i present
of a shoe to the brim-groom a a -ign that
ir was hi- right to !■ ep her in order.
Lastly, why do we .-hake hand. ? To show
our friendship, nmay.-; but not in tin
days of yore. When our forefathers v-i.
all fighter- they .-sized each other’s t:
hand during a pause in the duel to prev nt
a treacherous blow! Ex.
KENTUCKY PRISON BOARD
MAY PARDON H, E, YOUTSEY
FRAXKFORT. Ky„ M y 29 irini.-I 1
O’Sullivan, cl:airtn.;:i t.f the state prison
commi. -ion, has announced tl he w: >:!•!
present fur pan 1 to the cum: ■-i m tv
name of Henry E. 1 outsey. convicted six
teen years ago of the murder of <■ vern-.r
William Goebel and sentenced to id- im
prisonnient.
O’Sullivan’s announcement rect1"- :i at
Yotit.-ry i- entitled to parole "by leu ’ -
service, by continuous valuable work
the .-tate. and by the provisions of the 1 .
and every dictate of fairnes and human
ity." He points out that those “who sough:
to profit by his act are all free, the b, :.e
'ficiaries of pardons, while kout-ey alone
is tortured on the rack of life imprison
nient."
The law under which Youtsey was sen
fenced provides for parole after serving lit -
years.
Covi-rm r Goebel was shot and kill-! ;
Frankf rt, January 30, 1900, by a con
coaled assassin. A period of p litica! tur
moil preceded his murder.
FLAT POSTOFFICE
Until further notice, mail will h-ave ! hit
postoffice everv Wednesday at 8 a. m.
A.' CHITTICK, 1’. -nini t. :•
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Having recently purchased the Beattie
House, I will on July 1 com -li-Nte the
same with the Adams House. Ail the p.
Irons of the Adams Hm;<e. as well as th. •
of the Beattie, w»’l find me at the la>t
named place. Mrs. Dunn, who has recently
returned from the States, will l*e in charge.
The Free Reading Room, with all the late
magazines, will be in connection. 1 wd!
make many improvements mi the premises,
which will make the same 'eond to none
in Alaska. (*. V> . ADAMS.
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