I OITAROD PIONEER
Published Every Saturday Morning j
at Iditarod, Alaska,
BY GEORGE At. ARBUCICLE
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Advertising Ratos on Application
Vol. ft No. 8 |
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FOOD ADMINISTRATION
A letter received this week
from Hon. Royal A. Gunnison, of
Juneau, the Federal Food Admin
istrator for Alaska, contained
the following timely paragraphs
from Mr. Herbert Hoover, chief
of the United States Food Admin
istration :
“It is the hope of the Food Ad
ministration to so guide t-he trade
in the fundamental food commod
ities as to eliminate vicious spec
ulation, extortion and wasteful j
practices, and to guard our ex-i
ports so that against the world’s
shortage we retain sufficient sup-,
plies for our own people and to
co-operate with the Allies to pre- j
vent intlatiou of prices, and that
we stimulate in every manner
within our power the saving of
our food in order that we may in
crease exports to our Allies to a
point which will enable them
to properly provision their armies
aud to feed their peoples this
winter.
“The Food Administration is
called into being to stablize and
not to disturb conditions, and to
defend honest enterprise against
illegitimate competition. It has
been devised to correct the ab
normalities and abuses that have
crept into trade by reason of the
world disturbance, and to restore
business as far as may be a rea
sonable basis. ’’
The
Branch
CIGAR STORE
Flat City
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It You’fe Looking tor
Anyone, RING US UP
STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE
Miners & Merchants Bank, of Iditarod, Alaska,
AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS FEBRUARY 14, 1918
LINCOLN RED * CLUB
In celebration of Abraham Lincoln’s
109th birthday, we, the undersigned, do
hereby each agree to pay to the Amer
ican Red Cross Society, through its
local organization, five dollars ($fi) on
the 12th day of eneh and every month
of the duration of the present war.
Geo. W. Albrecht A. S. Bourne
C. P. Wood Chus. K. Taylor
R. C. Button Win. L>. Thomas
Mrs. C. Baker Iditarod Pioneer
W. R. Solibakke W. W. Nelson
Sam’l Applebaum R. M, Hall
Alex Dickson Harry Roland
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HE WANTS TO KNOW
Parks’ Mine. Kuskokwiru River,
Alaska, .Tan. .‘50, 1918.
Iditarod Pioneer:
I would like to inquire through your
columns if all Territorial officials and
other employes of this Territory are
working 12-hour shifts for $5 a shift,
and paying their expenses out of their
wages under the new 8-hour law?
The season I ask is, 1 have the honor
of appointment as one of the judges of
the coming pr imary election at George
town, Alaska.
As 1 live 15 miles from Georgetown,
it takes me one day to go and one day
to return home, and we must keep the
polls open 11 hours on election day,
then make up the returns—making a
12-hour shift for election day.
The cheapest roadhouse expense is
$1 a day for hoard and lodging. When
I turn in my account to the Territory
for service —32 hours’ actual service,
$12 actual expense - I get $5 for it all,
one year after. I had tiie same experi
ence and the same job at the Novem
ber election, 191G.
In a place like Flat and Iditarod the
clerks and judges live in town—it only
costs them $7 or $8 each. They don't
mind that. Common labor over here is
$5 per day, 8 hours, board and lodging,
and we think it is cheap enough. We
are ardent advocates of self-govern
ment and taxation to support, and if a
man is asked to serve the Territory,
we want to know the reason why he
is not paid for it. There must be a
reason. F. W. Parks.
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Sture Stenberg Not to Return
Mrs. George Mutchler received a
telegram last Saturday from her
brother, Sturo Stenberg, in which he
stated he would not return to Iditarod
this spring, as he had intended. In
stead, he and John Stolsmarkare going
into the fishing business on the coast
of Alaska. Mr. Stolsmark was form
erly night foreman on the Flat-creek
dredge.
Resource*
Loans and discounts - $178,848.70
Overdrafts. 11.31
Liberty Loan Bonds 20,000.00
Cash and bullion 37,788.85
$236,048.02
Liab!!iti«3
Capita!, surplus and undi
vided profits $ 70,281.62
Deposits. 100.129.90
Duo Banks 6,227.21
*220,648.92
I. It. C. Button, cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that
the above statement is true to the best of my Knowledge and belier.
correct-Attest: “■ 1UTT°^ ,;ashler
C. Baker,
R. C. Button, Directors.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 19th day of February. 1918.
[Seal] Geo. W. Albrecht,
Notary Public in and for Alaska.
My commission expires 2d June, 1918.
Front Street, Flat City Formerly the Bagoy Premises
Flat City Hotel DOG KENNELS
Mrs. J. E. Gunning, Prop.Special Rates by the Week and Month
Open at All Hours Tbe Old Reliable Place
Discovery Cafe
HENRY DURAND, PROP. Front Street, Flat
Thp
I IIV 3 Mrs. Geo. Mutchler, Prop.
Nicely Furnished Rooms Barn for Horses and Dogs Baths in Connection
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Pioneer Sheet Metal Works
GENERAL HARDWARE
Stoves and Graoiteiare Gasoline, Coal Oil, Etc.
The Only First-Class Dog Harness in Alaska
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FAMOUS ALASKA GEOLOGIST NOW IN FRANCE
Washington, Dec. 24.—Practically I
every resource of the country and every j
trade and calling of its people are in-]
voked by the government in the pro
secution of the war. This fact was em
phasized in the annual report of Secre
tary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane, J
and in illustration he made reference i
to a government geologist, no douDt
Alfred IT. Brooks, well known in j
Alaska, who is with the American
troops in France. ‘ The making of
war today.” said Secretary Lane, “is |
far more than a test of primal re
sources; it tests the full powers of the
nation in every resource and capacity
and especially along lines of scientific
knowledge. And here again we find
that the ways of peace have given
something in the way of preparation
for war. The scientific bureaus of the
government found themselves con
verted over night into adjuncts and
auxiliaries in the great international
contest. Men who had regarded them
selves as modestly useful only in the
discovering and revealing of new
sources of material strength found that
their years of experience in the moun
tains and on the desert, in laboratories
and in mines, called them at once into
the thick of the European struggle.
'’it was not long after our entrance
into the war that one of our geologists
came into m.v office, proudly dressed in
an army uniform. The last time I had
seen him he had come to make a report
on the tungsten field in Alaska, almost
within the Arctic circle. He had spent
more than twenty summers in that dis
tant territory, taking here and there a
sample of rock, studying the peculiar
upstanding and twisted beds of coal in
the Matanuska and liering fields, rush
ing from one placer gold field to an
other, reporting on each new find o^
metal, until ho had become identified
with the rise of Alaska and was the
embodiment of its hopeful spirit.
“ ‘I have come to say good-bye,’ he
said. ‘My next address will be some
where in France as a member of Gen.
Perishing’s stalT.’
“I naturally asked the kind of work
that an Alaskan geologist would be
called apon to do with an army. His
answer illustrates how much of science
has gone into war.
“ 'My work,’ he replied, ‘is to be
concerned with the location of trenches
and dug outs. Wo must have trenches
into which the country will not drain.
These slashes in the earth can be made
so that thay will do their own draining.
Mud, mud, mud! That is the trench
curse which brings cm trench feet and
[Hits the soldier out of business.”
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And then on a sheet of paper he
draw the slope of a hill and explained
| how if located in one place, because of
the peculiar stratification of the earth,
the trench would act as a cesspool or
reservoir, gathering in all the waters
of the neighboring terrain, while if
placed elsewhere it would be immune
I from this disadvantage and through cer
tain strata furnish a natural waste pipe
for the superficial waters. So was the
American soldier to be given a
healthier place in which to live and
work and be more efficient.”
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE PATRIOTIC
The following' resolutions were
adopted at the eleventh annual meet
ing of the American Jewish committee ^
held in New York, November 11: “It |
seems fitting that at the eleventh an- ]
nual meeting of the American Jewish !
committee, the first since the war, at ,
which are gathered representatives
from all parts of the country, ex pres-1
sion be given to the love, the devotion ;
the gratitude, and the loyalty which j
fill our hearts and souls toward the j
United States of America, the land ;
where we were born or which with]
open arms adopted us, the sacred!
shrine of liberty and equality, where j
tyranny can not exist, where human j
rights have ever been triumphantly
maintained, and where justice and
righteousness have reached their high
est development
“We recognize in the war in which
the entire American people is now en
gaged a condition unsought but inevit
able, a conflict willfully and deliberatly
thrust upon a peace-loving Nation, that
dreamt not of spoils or conquest, and
the direct consequence of machinations
long concealed which threatened our
repose, our independence, our honor,
and even our cherished freedom.
‘‘In common with our fellow citizens
of every race and creed, we renew our
allegiance to our government and to
its flag which symbolize the most pre
cious hopes of mankind; we pledge to
them our unstinting and whole-hearted
support; and we dedicate to the perpet
uation of American ideals and institu
'ions, to the maintenance of the honor
of our country and the preservation of
the principles for which it stands our
lives, our possessions, and those we
hold most dear, to tfie end that liberty
shall not perish from the earth.
FROM UNCLE DAN’S PEN j
Bonaparte’s Parable on Christ
While in exile, an officer said to him
one day that Christ was only a man.
Bonaparte’s reply was: “When gener
als were alive and in power, men were
willing to die for them; but after they
were dead or lost their power, as I
have, who could be found to die for
them? Not so with Christ; when He
was in the world men followed Him
every place, after He died tens of thou
sands have died for Him.”
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CONSERVATION
My Tuesdays are meatless,
My Wednesdays are wheatless,
I’m getting more eatless each day;
My home it is heatless,
My bed it is sheetless—
They’re all sent to the Y. M. C. A.
The barrooms are treatless,
My coffee is sweetless,
Each day I get poorer and wiser;
My stockings are feetless,
My trousers are soatless;
My God. how I hate the kaiser!
—W. F. T., Fairbanks News-Miner.
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Living Monarchs
There are crowns worn by living
monarchs, the price paid for them
would be difficult to estimate. The
price paid for their jewels is the least
part of it. They cost thousands of
lives and rivers of human blood. Yet
in His esteem, and surely in ours also,
Christ’s crown outweighs them all. He
gave His life for it; and alone, of all
monarchs, He was crowned at His coro
nation by the hand of death. Others
cease to be kings when they die; by
dying He became King, He laid His
head in the dust that He might be
head over all- He entered His king
dom through the gates of the grave,
and ascended the universe by the steps
of the cross. Dan Hartnett.
| Flat, Alaska. Feb. 15. 1918.
[In a note accompanying the above
| communication Uncle Dan wrote: Next
; week I will have a short piece about
women in the European war that has
never been in print. You know I place
women about equal to men In many
things. You remember the Dawson
News grabbed that article I wrote in
regard to woman suffrage. This arti
cle I can write will strengthen women
in the war line to work in their capa
city.] _
Oscar Evans Inquired For
The Iditarod postoffice has received a
letter asking for the whereabouts of
Oscar Evans. Anyone knowing any
thing of him will please notify the
local postoffice.
LA FOLLETTE SHONHED
BY FELLOW SENATORS
Washington, Dec. 4.—Senator La
Follette sat like a graven image in the
house today as President Wilson deliv- ]
ered his war message. He did not ap-!
pl&ud at any time, did not rise when
other members did. Not a member j
would walk with La Follette from the
senate to the house. Others marched
in pairs. La Follette walked alone.
He took a seat within 20 feet of the
President. No one look the one next
to him.
The seat remained vacant until al
most every other chair in the house
was filled. Then an usher took Harry
S. New, of Indiana, to the place, and
the Hoosier senator sat down beside
La Follett.e. The Wisconsin senator
sat with his chin cupped in his hand
from start to finish of the message. At
its conclusion he stalked out defiantly
alono.
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Frank Manton arrived from Fair
banks the first of the week, and is
spending' a few days on the creeks,
after which he will continue his jour
ney to Good News Bay. Mr. Manton is
a pioneer of this camp, and is having
many a pleasant chat with old friends
after his two years’ absence.
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Job Printing at Pioneer office.
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Michigan, 188! Kentucky, 1891
Alaska, 1910
George Woodruff Albrecht
COUNSELOR AND LAWYER
1D1TAROD, ALASKA
The Pioneer Attorney of Idltarod \
CM AS. E. TAYLOR
Attorney at Law
BANK BLOCK
First Avenua fditarod
OR. MOORE
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
J, WILSON REED, M.D.
Physician and Surgeon
Flat. Hospital, Flat, Alaska
DR.H.BEHLA
Physician »»■>
Surgeon
Dentistry in Connection
RESIDENT PHYSICIAN
Behla Hospital
Fiat, Alaska
Big Stocks of Fibs!) Goods
Everything for the Miner and
Prospector
MAX SIMEL ”
Stores at Cripple City and Mouth of Tolstoi
Fresh Bread for Sale Daily
Arcade Cafe
FLAT CITY
Open Dav and Night
FLAT CITY
RESTAURANTmBAKERY
Front St., Opp. Flat City Hotel
Our Coffee Is Unsurpassed
All Kinds of Pasfries, Piis, Cakes and Bread
Cleaning and Pressing. Miss Isaacson, Flat
Watch Repairing and
Jewelry Work to order.
J. L. SALE, FLAT
FINNEGAN & CAMERON
Agency for Edison Diamond Disc Phonographs and Records
TOBACCO CIGARS STATIONERY
CONFECTIONERY AND BILLIARDS
C. R. Cameron Jas. F. Finnegan
FLAT CITY
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DEALER IN
FLAT, ALASKA