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Start the Mew Year Right
WITH A
H. Boas, Leading Clothier
HART. SCHAFFNER & MARX and CFiESTERFIELD CLOTHE.S
The attendance at the first meeting of Iditarod Igloo No. 10, Pioneer ,
of Alaska, at A B. hall last Wednesday night proved to be much larger
than any of the promoters of the lodge had hoped for. The meeting
was originally advertised to assemble in Commissioner Albrecht’s court
room but within twenty-four hours of the meeting time it became
known that there would be such a gathering of sourdoughs on hand thai
the A. B. hall was secured.
Both Flat and Otter creeks were well represented, and several old
timers from the kuskokwim were in attendance.
The meeting was called to order by the organizer. G. R. Austin, wno,
after a few appropriate remarks, submitted the following list of ap
plicants for membership:
WILLIAM B PRINGLE
,1 B PRICK
,1. C WILSON
A B. EVAN'S
J. C JENKINS
h IE -TW I A.
ALEX HATLEY
EMIL ANDERSON
R. D BRl'NN
C. V PEARSON
C. A DEI I V
P. t; CHARLES
A. IE CON LIN
MAX EOllBRENNER
JOHN AEU)
MAI.COl.M McMIEEAN
ALBERT WILE
0. SANDERS
JACK PETE!'-ON
HENRY MARTEN
J. W. DOWNEY
O. CHRISTOPH
P. R. KELEETT
A E. BAIN
JAMES CHEONIS'I ER
E. B. FONTAS
C ERANSEN
S. E. BENBROOK
JAMES BLODOETT
C .1 MAI.lBi
AI PALMER
CHARLES LARSON
.L L KEENAN
JOHN REST
H \\ RANTER
0 M. ARBUCKLE
JAMES CODY
A. B. ROME
MAX BOAS
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H R. HARMON
\Y J. WILLIAM
IRA F. WOOD
C W. JACKSON
W LEE
JOHN A. NELSON
W. L. HARRISON
J. M pirnh:
GEORGE YOUNG
CHARLES LOVETT
J. A. PETERSON
JOSEPH 1L SMITH
JOE VENUS
GUS SCHULER
WILLIAM E. LEONARD
GEORGE ADAMS
FRANK LARSON
C. R. PECK
Election Officers
The following officers were elected for the ensuing term:
President—Percy G. Charles
First Vice-President—G. M. Arbuckle.
Second Vice-President—Victor C. Pearson.
Secretary—George F. Marsh.
Treasurer—James Cody.
Historian—W. Fred Harrison.
Sergeant-at-Arms—George W. Adams.
Trustees—For three years, Frank B. Stanley; for two years, Ira F
Wood; for one year, Pat Kellett.
Among the Membership
There is a great disparity in the ages of those who were admitted to 1
membership in the order last Wednesday night, ranging from 22 to 72
years. Among the real old “sours” is genial Frank Keenan, who came
to Alaska so many years ago that he will only tell it in the strictest con
fidence—but some say it was when Mount McKinley first began to ap
pear above the surface. And there was J;m Chronister; he arrived here ,
the spring after jack McQuesten finished digging the Yukon river. T
is extremely doubtful if even Cap Mayo can remember when Fran'
Stanley first hit the Rampart country. Max Boas is the youngest mem
ber of the igloo. He is 22 years old, but came to Dyea in 1897. Maxie
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ID IT A ROD, ALASKA
was born in far-away Posen, Germany, and at the tender age of 4 he
took his father by the hand and told him that Alaska was a better place
than Posen in which to bring up a promising young man, and conse
quently the Boas family came to the Northland. Among the older mem
bers is “Dad” Duffy, who has been pioneering for the past sixty years.
He first came north over the Edmonton trail, and took a year to make
the trip. “Rip” Maltby was among the mavericks- -he hasn’t even
thought of going Outside since 1893.
Meeting at Flat City
The meeting of the igloo at Flat City next Wednesday night will be j
something like a social gathering that Tony Wolfe attended in Olympia
some twenty-three years ago—“a little out of the unusual.” It gives
promise of being the greatest gathering of sourdoughs ever corraled
under one roof in the Iditarod valley. All the members of the igloo
express their intention of being on hand, and with the “bunch” that will
gather from the surrounding creeks and settlements, Moose hall will
be crowded to the doors. A committee of seven was appointed by the
president to arrange a special program for that occasion, and there will
be something “stirrin’ ” all the evening. The meetings of the various
igloos throughout the territory are noted for the good fellowship dis
played, and the local lodge will prove no exception to the rule.
The Home of Hart, Schaffner & Marx Clothes
Dog Bacon, ISo.
Bog Ham, /Os.
Butter, /Oc.
C. R. PECK, FLAT CITY
Job Printing at Pioneer Office
V Oft
Duke E. Stubbs of Aniak. on the lower
Kuskokwim, arrived in the city on Monday
last, and after transacting business here,
!• fi for home on Thursday last.
Mr. Stubbs, who is United States com
missioner fbr the Kuskokwim precinct and
United States deputy mineral sur\eyor, has
recently had additional official honors thrust
upon him. Last summer, while on one of
his semi-annual visits to this city, he wrote
to Delegate James VVickersham regarding
the need of his section for a postoffice, and
with the promptness characteristic of the
energetic Alaska representative in the na
tion;.! legislature, he secured the necessary
rder for the establishment of a post office
at Aniak. and Mr. Stubbs was named as
postmaster. As showing the lack of mail
facilities in Mr. Stubbs’ section, it is notable
that the letter containing; the official docu
ments had lain in (he Iditarod pcstoffic j(
since last September, no opportunity of for
warding it to its destination having pre
sented itself.
it is not tne intention oi Mr. mudos to
a’low the matter to rest merely with fhe
designation of a postoffice and postmaster,
and he has aireadv set in motion plans for
a mail route to Aniak. and hopes to have a
mail contract awarded for a semi-monthly
service between Iditarod and Aniak. The
residents of that district feel that they are i
entitled to more consideration at the hands :
“f the postoffice department than they have .
been receiving. An instance of the neglect i
to which they are subject came to light last I
summer, when a consignment of mail which
had lain at Holy Cross for a year was re- ]
turned to Seattle and reshipped to its des- !
tination on the Kuskokwim. It reached ,
there before the close of navigation, and !
in it, Mr. Stubbs says, were letters dated
in 1911. This condition will cease now that !
they have a postoffice, Mr. Stubbs hopes, i
There is no greater believer in the future
of the great Kuskokwim valley than Mr. |
Stubbs. He knows the country thoroughly,
and speaks of its mineral possibilities in a
glowing manner. He says that the cinnabar
and quartz prospects oil the lower river
will some day be opened up, and the placer
prospects are excellent.
The disappearance of Tom Killea. an old
prospector, on the headwaters of the Aniak
river, has created some excitement in that
vicinity. He disappeared last spring, and
A1 Walsh, the well-known mining man of
this district, is now conducting a search
for him. Mr. Stubbs says there is little
doubt that Killea has lost his life, as other
wise he would have been heard from. In
quiries have been made at Nushagak and
other ! laces on Bristol bay. and it is cer
tain that ho did not leave the country by
that route. Although an experienced pros
pector, it is believed that he met with an
accident ami was rendered helpless. There
are few prospectors in the region visited by
Killea.
ID-TAROD POSSESSES
DANCING ACADEMY
I finder the direction of Professor Frank
AUi'N' ii, a number of Iditarod’s graceful and
Inimble young men (including Uncle Billy
Ansley > are engaged in learning the steps
of the dilTerent popular society dances. The
professor has established his academy over
Anslev’s book store, and the youngsters
receive instructions two or three nights
each week. After the class becomes a little
more proficient in the desired art an im
promptu dance may be given by them.
’Twould prove a rare treat for their lady
friends.
FORMER CHENA LADY
MARRIED AT KETCHIKAN
Willipjn Spmar and Miss Margaret Strong
jWere married at Ketchikan on November
T2. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. William G. Strong, one of Ketchikan's
prominent families. The groom is Alaska
representative of the Weise Packing Com
pany, with headquarters in Ketchikan. A
handsome new residence has just been com
pleted in Ketchikan which is to become
the future home of Mr. and Mrs. Semar.
_
JACK BAUD AT
PORTAGE BAT
]•'. Koltchoff, an old-timer who has lived
for years in the vicinity of Holy Cross,
;fffer spending about five months in the
States, returned to this camp last Thurs
day by way of the Seward trail, making
the journey afoot in twenty-three days. He
will probably remain in this camp until the
spring break-up.
Mr. Koltchoff came North on the steam
ship Admiral Evans, and had as fellow -
passenger John F. Baird, the former well
known Idifared business man, who was go
ing to Portage Bay on a business ven
ture. Mr. Baird had aboard the vessel
a consignment of about thirty tons of gro
ceries and provisions and sufficient building
material with which to construct a store
house. It is reported that people had not
as yet begun to arrive at that place in
large numbers, and certainly John has a
rare opportunity to be in on the ground
floor.
There was absolutely nothing stirring at
Ship Creek at the time Mr. Koltchoff
passed, and from what he could see and
learn, cannot understand why some people
are so eager to reach the place where the
government railway construction work is
supposed to start.
FOUND AT MET
After many months of watchful waiting
on the part of his numerous friends in this
community, who were ever anxious as to
hi< whereabouts and his well-being, the
tension was greatly relieved last Thursday
when a letter was received from Frank E.
Becker, former editor of The Pioneer.
“Beck” writes from Beaver City, Utah, arid
what he says of that country makes power
ful good reading. That he is satisfied with
his present surroundings and prospects is
evidenced by the fact that he wants all
his old-time Alaska friends to go there and
jump right into the tide that leads to for
tune. Big mining propositions now occupy
Beck’s attention, and when J. Barleycorn,
Fra Diavolo, Old Dobbin and the shay are
mentioned in his presence they receive but
faint recognition from “Little Bright eyes”- -
for he’s all business now. From the tone
'if the j ■•tier it may be inferred that Beck
has a down hill pull on a big stake, and all
his old friends hereabouts express the hope
that such is the case.
What a weary, dreary world this would
be if there were no I . E. Beckers in it.
SKCKER TO BE GIVEN
BY MOOSE LODGE AT FLAT
The members of the Moos? lodge at Fiat
City h vo made big arran laments for the
smoker and entertainment which is pro
grammed for tonight, starting at 8:30
o'clock. Ail .tie ladies of the community
are requested to attend, and they, with their
escorts, will be heartily welcomed, as will
also the members of the fraternity. A large
crowd is expected, and ample provision has
been made to guarantee all a pleasant even
ing. Many have signified their intention
of going from Iditarod.
C. R. PECK TO TAKE
WELL-EARNED VACATION
C. R. Peck, who has been in the general
merchandise business at Flat City since the
spring ;f 1910, and has been on the job
steadily all that time, will leave for the
Outside next Tuesday morning over the
Seward trail, traveling with Dan Crowley,
who reached this city from Nome last Sat
urday. Mr. Peck expects to return on one
of the first- boats leaving Lower Laberge
During his absence his business affairs will
be taken care of by V. F Jacobs, his
brother-in law.
Mr. Peck’s many friends wish him a pleas
ant vacation during the next few months,
and will give him a hearty welcome when
he returns, as he has always been one of
the most enterprising and substantial busi
ness men of the camp.
Knute Keland, the old reliable freighter
and road builder, who is busily engaged
filling a big wood contract on the creeks,
was a visitor in Iditarod for a short time
last Thursday.
OLD IDITARODER NOW A RANCHER
Hans Walby, an cld-time Nomeitr, has
just taken lip a 320-acre homestead in the
Matanuska valley. Mr. Walby will start in
immediately clearing up the land and build
ing a cabin on his property.—Knik News.
FOR SALE—1.000 reindeer, male and
('••mal'-. .*?:;*» per head. Nils Klemetsen,
I'nalakleet. Alaska.
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Black
Dress Goods by the Piece
Aprons, Hosiery, House Comfys
Arctics and Shoes
CLEANING AND PRESSING AND
PLAIN SEWING
MISS PETERSON, IDITAROD
Winter
lothing
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IDITARGD DISCOVERY, OTTER
A letter received in the last mail from
Los Angeles gives the very interesting in
formation that “Fesrgy” Ferguson had
lately invaded that part of California as
the general manager of a moving picture
show. Before leaving Seattle “Fergy” wa
: liter viewed by a reporter for the Seattle1
Post-Intelligencer relative to the educati >ri !
of Alaska natives, and the following ter-v |
sentences contain “Fergy’s” gems of j
thought:
“A. B. Ferguson, known all over Alaska I
as ‘Long Fergy/ owner of valuable raining ;
properties at Iditarod, and one of the old- i
timers of the North, ha^ rather positive !
ideas about the efforts being made to edu- |
cate the Indians of Alaska At the Frye |
he put into speech some of his ideas on
the matter. ‘Both the government schools
and the secular schools of Alaska,’ he said,
with the emphasis of conviction, ‘are going
about this matter of Indian education
wrongly, if anybody can judge by results. I
1 have seen little Indian kids that could
put me to shame with the English they can
! talk, who know how to speak and nog in
Latin, in addition to knowing how to use
their own tongue. But what < '.hey amount
j to? Some of them get to be guides, and
they don’t make very good ones, either;
j they are too proud to do any work when
j it’s needed, and they l >ok with scorn on the
| other natives who haven’t as much knowl
| edge and who manage to get an honest liv
I ing by hunting and fishing without putting
j on any airs. Mrs. Ferguson taught at the
i Indian school at Nenana during the winter
of 1909-10, at the request of Archdeacon
^tuck and Mr. Betticher. and she came
during that time, to love every Indian chill
in the whole of Alaska. After that winter,
though, she was asked by the department
of education what she thought of efforts
being made to educate those people. Her
letter is on file in Washington now. She
wrote that in her opinion most of the work
being done was a mistake. She said that
in educating them iheir traditions and all
things that they honored and loved were
being taken away from them, They were
raised above the level of their own people
without being able to enter any other social
level or to associate on equal terms with
white men, and that eventually most of
them gravitated back from the veneer of
civilization to their own people and the
ways of their people. And I could add that.
| their ways aren’t half so uncivilized as
•hose of some Christian nations that I
I might mention."
SPY IN BRITISH ARMY
IS SUMMARILY EXECUTED
—
READING, England. Nov. 28.—A lance I
corporal of the Hants regiment of Kitch
| encr’s new army was summarily shot yes- j
| terday as a spy. lie was caught with let*
I ters in his possession dealing with the move
' ments of British troops, and it was clearly ;
: shown that he was in the employ of the
! German general staff. This man was sta ,
! tinned at Codford. and had shown such j
diligence in drill that he was promoted :
: from a private quickly. This is the second
! man shot as a spy in England within a ,
1 few weeks. The last one was a former
i German lieutenant named Lody, who had
I lived in the United States for years. He
! was tried in London and, having been found
! ruilty, was shot at the tower of London.
He refused to the last to give information,
j but it is becoming more and more evident
' that the Germans are maintaining a most
complicated and thorough spy system in
fhis' country, and no mercy need be ex
! pected by those caught from this time for
ward.
Assessment Work Blanks at Pioneer.
D. E. Crowley, of tin firm of Crowley
& Porter, grocers of Nome and Iditarod,
arrived in the city last Sunday from Nome,
having marie the trip through from the
by dog team. Mr. Crowley is on his way
Outside, and intends to leave over the
Seward trail next Monday.
Speaking of business; condition.- it N r •
Mr. Crowley stated that while there v.
nothing of importance doing this winter, still
business was fair, and conditu ns were
about the same as in previous winter- ap
proximatelv the game number of (arsons
wintering there a.- last winter TL ar
look was hopeful.
.vir. L-rowiey states trial ne was torn mo-i
discouraging stories along the Yukon in
regard to the Seward trail, and there seemed
to be a desire to deter persons from making
the trip Outside by that route. He ex
pected two other persons from Nome to fol
low him within a few days, but thought
that they might have been influenced by
these stories and gone through by the Fair
banks trail. He was agreeably stirpri.-ed
when he learned of the excdl nt time fl
ing made between this city and Seward.
DRIVEN INSANE THROUGH
CALAMITIES OF THE WAR
GRASS YAI.LEY. Cal.. Nov. 21. 1 or
sons killed in battle, the mother a suicide,
and the father insane, is the fate of the
family of S. Neuberger of this place.
The young men answered the first call
and fell at the same time in one of the ' urly
battles of the European war.
When the news of the deaths reached
home the mother committed suicide and the
father became insane, and now wanders
•ver the country placing flowers on . very
lick thinking it the grave of h:s sms.
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Kodaks, Safety Razors, Soaps,
Tooth Brushes and Blank
Books, Smokers’ Supplies,
Candies, Nuts and
Fruits, call at
Ansley's Book Stars
Iditarod
Where you can always find a good
supply at reasonable prices
ANNUAL ASSESSMENT WORK BLANKS —
™ The Iditarod pioneer ha> just finished
and placed with dealers throughout the dis
trict a new blank Form for the proper re
cording or annual assessment work on
placer mining claims in Alaska. The blank
rorm conforms strictly with the new min_
iny law. and contains ample cautionary ana
explanatory notes, which will greatly aid m
the tilling out of the same. For sale at
Ansley’s. Iditarod, file lN.xtofnre. Flat
City, and Harry Donrellev's. His. Otter.
The House of Quality
For Best Goods
and High! Prices
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