| IPITAROD PIONEER |
Published Every Saturday Evening at Iditarod, Alaska.
FRANK E. BECKER. EDITOR
V*1 2 Cto. M. Arbucklo. Publisher No. 25
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WHY THIS HESITATION?
While we have been sitting idly by, calmly chewing
the cud of reflection on this 4th of July business, the en
thusiasts of Flat town have been running around in circles
cooking up a celebration and putting in plenty of season
ing. As has happened before, they have beat us to it on
the matter of public spirit and in spite of the fact that we
will doubtless have many visitors, no one seems willing to
make a move toward providing an entertainment on our
greatest national holiday.
We believe that a number of representative citizens
should get together immediately and call a mass meeting of
the town for the purpose of discussing ways and means. This
should be done at once, for the time is getting short, and
if we are to have a celebration we want time to plan it
properly and advertise it.
Inquiry about the city elicits the fact that people
generally favor a celebration and are willing to put up for
it. They refuse to take the lead however, and the result is,
we are apt to lose out altogether.
MORE GREEN FIELD8
Last fall we published an editorial wherein we rose to
make a few brief remarks about the folly of chasing off to
the green fields beyant and leaving good things right at
your very doorstep. As was predicted, nearly all of those
stampeders came back from the Kuskokwim wondering how
their winter’s grubstake had vanished so uselessly.
Now we have the spectacle of a number of men hiking
to anolher portion of the country on the slenderest sort of
a rumor regarding a paystreak, and leaving thousands of
feet of proven ground and a prosperous season coming up.
From where we sit, it looks as though Alaska is breed
ing a new vocation, coming under the head of professional
grub-staking and stampeding. Through experience, the
wiseuheimers of the land have learned that it is easier to
follow stampedes on. a grubstake than it is to work for
wages, wherefore they get as skittish as a trotting mare,
ready to be off in a cloud of dust at the first hint of a new
camp. Further than that, the made-to-order stampede is
becoming quite au fait and while the “honest'’ prospector
rustles around for his favorite backer, the professional town
site boomer gets on the job and waits for his victims.
Aside from tlie fact that men are leaving jobs that are
going begging here at $10 a day, the conviction is forced
upon us that they are going without sufficient evidence.
We have not talked to a man who has actually been on the
creeks in the Ruby district,—they all looked at the town,
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WHEN IN FLAT WHEN IN IDITAROD
EAT AT THE
Merchants Cafe
The Only Restaurant that
Did Not Raise Prices Dur
ing the Winter Months.
First Class in Fact §
Beattie House |
FIRST AVENUE
Furnished Rooms, Bath Rooms, Spring Cots
Good Stables Adjacent o
.. 4 k
Open-Cut Headlights
TO DO YOUR MINING
Three thousand and five thousand candle power, throwing a shaft of light
1500 feet.
Call at the Iditarod headquarters for information concerning the J. B
COLT’S ACETYLENE LIGHT MACHINE.
Pioneer Sheet Metal Works
Just Arrived, Latest Styles
MILLINERY
DIRECT FROM NEW YORK
I. GOLDSTEIN F~ 30
City Drag Store
Z. J. LOUSSAC. Prop.
SPECIAL THIS WEEK ONL Y
Genuine Waterman's Self-Filling Fountain Pens, $3.50 Each
All STATIONERY and CUTLERY at Special Reduced Prices
Telephone 36 First Ave., Iditarod
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C. J. Hurley, President J. P. Gleason, Vice President A. Binning, Cashier
American Bank of Alaska
Corner First Ave, and Richmond St., Iditarod
CAPITAL $50,000.00, FULLY PAID IN CASH
Genera! Banking Business Transacted Upon Liberal, 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.
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and judging from the activity of the lot-jumpers, concluded
that there must be a good camp. This may be good reason
ing for the man who has a little quick bacon or liquor to
sell, but for the wage-earner or the man without an outfit,
it looks like being a gambler with poor judgment.
WHO IS THE HAPPY MAN?
A New Yorker celebrated for his many millions declares that
the rich are not as well off as the poor, who have not such heavy
responsibilities to worry them.
Many other rich men, perhaps most of them, hold in then
hearts somewhat the same opinion
And every poor man believes exactly the opposite.
To the man without money his responsibilities appear heavy
indeed, while thought of wealth is like a dream of glory.
It is a deep question? No; not even skin deep.
The commonplace fact is that nearly everyone of us is more
or less dissatisfied with his lot, and jealously thinks the other
fellow has the best of it.
In youth we long for maturity, and in maturity we yearn for
the happy days of childhood again.
Every thin woman wishes she was fat. Every fat woman
wants to get thin.
Nearly every farmer looks forward to the time when he can
afford to quit the farm and move to the town and take life easy.
And nearly every city man longs for the time when he can retire
to the quiet of the country.
There is no particular reason for it all, except that we are
just built that way.
You have noticed the donkey leave his own grass to hang his
head over the fence, with drooping ears and drooping mouth, and
look longingly upon the next field where the grass, though pre
cisely like his own, seems ever so much sweeter.
Well, the extra sweetness is all in the fence.
And not all donkeys drooling over the fence stand on four
legs.—Muskogee Times-Democrat.
Thirty-five Passengers
On Steamer Reliance
Following the lull of ten days that intervened between the
arrival of the first boats and the long-waited-for arrival of the
Tanana. the steamer Reliance got in Wednesday night from the
mouth of the river, bringing about 35 passengers and 100 tons of
mixed freight. These she had transferred from the Tanana at the
mouth of the Iditarod, and brought on through, the Tanana fol
lowing as far as Dikeman.
The passengers came from all points, some of them dropping
down from Dawson on the Schwatka, which boat brought the
barges of the ill-fated La France, carrying the over-the-ice
freight. Other passengers came from Fairbanks and some from
Ruby city.
Additional representatives of the Ouggenheims wTere on board
from Dawson and the boat also carried drills, which will be used
in prospecting Flat creek. Part of the wireless apparatus was
also brought in and it is expected that work on the plant can pro
ceed at once.
Among some of the well-known people to arrive were Dave
Cascaden from Fairbanks and the Outside, Bob Martin from Ruby,
C. E. Bryant, general manager of the Pacific Cold Storage com
pany, Andy Mersereau, of Mersereau & Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Dave
Strandberg and child and Misses Cora and Lillian Smith. Besides
this the complete passenger list is as follows:
J. A. Fisher, S. Lajoviez, M. Miseovich, A. Johnson, R. A. Goddard, R. H
Dodge, N. Okason, H. Waechter, J. Snodal, Leroy Moyer, F. Nix, Mine. Mel'
bourne, T. P. Bell, F. R. Short, Jan Lemieux, S. Johnson, R. Bloom, W. D
Thompson, C. H. Williams, M. Wagner, Miss G. Huben, Miss McDonald, K. L.
Laughlin.
Hay and grain for Sale at the Pio
neer Storage. Phone 54.
Pool is sociable at the Sherburne.
DR. B. F. BROOKS,
Physician and Surgeon
Office: Discovery Otter.
Dr. Heinrich Wortmann,
Physician and Surgeon
Office at City Drupr Store, Tel. 36
First Ave., Bet. Willow and Richmond
Office Hours—11 to i, 3 to 4. 7 to 8
DR. E. T. BRADBURY,
Dentist
Over Merchants Cafe, First Avenue
Telephone 30-B
CHAS. D. CARTER,
Dentist
Offices, Pioneer Drug Stores,
Flat Creek
McGowan, Clark & Albrecht
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Iditarod, Alaska Phone No. 7
The Pioneer Attorneys of This Camp
ALFRED E. MALTBY,
fU. S. Commissioner]
Attorney at Law
Notary Public
Practice only in District Court. IDiTAROD
J. S. HARDING,
Attorney at Law
Room 1, Iditarod Hotel
Iditarod. Alaska
If you want your clothing cleaned or pressed
| ring up Wile fhe Tailor -Phone 68
Meet me at the A. B. hop, Sat., 24th.
CHAS. E. TAYLOR,
Attorney at Law,
Notary Public, Conveyancing,
Abstracts of Titles
!flat City
A. J. DALY,
Attorney at Law
M. & M. Bank Bldg, Iditarod
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Wickersham & Roden,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Iditarod, Alaska
E. COKE HILL,
Attorney at Law
i Simpson Building, Iditarod, Alaska
KNOW All Men by These Presents,
| that I, Walter Thomas, of Tofty. Alaska,
hereby revoke the general ]x>\ver of at
torney given to R. W. Martin, Iditarod.
i Alaska; any use of the above power of
| attorney after the publication and re
cording of til is notice will be null and
void.
Whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and seal this 13th day of April, A.I).,
i 1911. WALTER THOMAS.
In presence of: E. I) Howe, Robert
Compton.
On this 13th day of April, A.I)., 1911,
1 before me, a notary public for the dis
| trict of Alaska, duly commissioned and
sworn, personally appeared Walter
, Thomas, personally known to me to be
j the party who signed the within instru—
; ment, who said to methat he signed the
| same freely and voluntarily for the uses
and purposes therein mentioned.
Witness mv hand and seal the day and f
vear first above written.
K. D. HOWE,
| Notary Public for District of Alaska.
ALL DIMENSIONS Barge Near Slippern Mill
R. RUTHERFORD, MANAGER
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For inspiration
Corner Second Avenue and Willow Street
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Candies, Etc.
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FR IGHTERS
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$ Rates: To Flat Creek, 3 1-2 cents a pound. To Creek Points?
g Above Flat, 4 1-2 cents. To Discovery, Otter, 4 1-2 cents. >
| Stage Line Between Iditarod and Flat Cityj
g Leaves Flat City 8 a, in. Leaves Iditarod 2 p. m. >
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