Did You Notice Our
St 0 Suit Window?
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It has caused great, excitement. The cutting and slashing is simply
awful in this Knifed-in-ttulf Sale, and iho knife is good and sharp.
I offer at your mercy COO Suits of Clothes consisting of Q* | (j|J
up-to-date styles, and the very latest fabrics at .
1 Come early while the picking is good.
THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING DOING AT
FRIEDMANS
COUNCIL
MEETING
The greater part of last Wednes
day \s council meeting was devoted to
the Bunks & Howland contract for sup
ply ing the oily with water for use by
the tire department. The committee
who hud been in conference with Mr.
Banks reported that the best offer they
could get from him was to provide the
service for $.'>00 u month, payment to
be made in warrants drawn on the
salary fund. The committee recom
mended that the contract be closed
provided Mr. Banks would accept half
pay on the salary fund and half on the
general fund. A vote on the adoption
lu the recommendation of the com
mittee wits carried, all voting in the
affirmative except Mayor Barnes.
Mr. Banks was present and in
answer to a question as to whether he
would accept tTie contract on the terms
proposed by the committee, said he
would have to consult his partner,
Mkuta, before answering. He would
let the committee know the next day.
However, he finally agreed tentatively
t » the terms, saving if he could not
realize money enough on the warrants
to keep going he would come before
the council and say so.
The question then arose as to whether
the new arrangement would require
the drawing of a new contract, or it
would be treated as a modification of
the old one. The time for termination
of the arrangement was also discussed.
These things were left for Attorney
Koden to look after.
Claims Allowed
Regular monthly claims amounting
to $1,205 were allowed, as follows:
Henry Roden, salary..$ 85
J. R. McGovern, salary. 250
Frank O’Farrell, salary. 250
Banks & Howland, water . GOO
Annie Clifton, May ground rent. 20
Fire Protection.
The question of fire protection was
gone into and the proposition to lay
mains and place hose reels at different
points in the city was favorably re
ceived. The scheme contemplates 500
All Goods ^REASONABLE
Making Room for Spring Shipment
Miss Kotsch, solo ST FLAT CITY
feet of hose ut the old fire hall, 500
feet at the dock, 250 feet at the A. B.
corner or the Joe Smith corner, etc.
The fire committee was given power
to procure necessary pipe and arrange
the details.
Crossing Ordered.
Chairman Bradley of the street com
mittee said a crossing was badly ;
needed between the old Mecca saloon
building and the Regina hotel. The
council agreed with him and author
ized him to have the work done. "How
about the lumber—would Cleveland let
us have it?" asked Mr. Bradley, doubt
fully. He was told that he would have
to find out for himself.
The Cemetery.
Mr. Bradley also called attention to
the bad condition of the road to the
cemetery. In a littla while it will be
so boggy that the pall bearers at a
funeral can scarcely proceed on foo..
Cleveland, he said, ought to let the
city have sh.bt enough to build a walk. j
The cemetery itself needs fencing. Mr.
Bradley says there is an old white
mule which hangs around and after a
funeral is over walks up and eats the '
wreaths off the grave. He named in- '
stances whi r t the mule had recently j
done so. No action was taken, either
as to the road or the fence.
Officers Named.
T. I.. McGrath was elected poll-tax
collector; E. G. Lindberg, city treas
urer: J. R. McGovern, city magistrate.
Henry Roden promised to swear the
officials in and look after the fixing
of their bonds.
Erroneously Reported
The Pioneer last week, in the
proposition to retain both of the men
on duty in the fire hall, erroneously
said "Barnes and Bradley were the
only nays." It should have read
"Barnes and McD.mell.” Mr. Bradley
voted for the retention of the two men.
MAKING MANY IMPROVEMENTS
Sam Wilrner has been having the
Miner's Home saloon repainted and
otherwise beautified during the past
week. Mr. Wilrner also intends to
make an attractive summer garden on
the lot between the Miner’s Home and
the launch office building.
Get your screen doors, adjustable
window screens and extra line mesh
wire netting at Peck’s, Flat.
LOST—Between J. B. Mading’s and A.
Larson’s, Flat creek, a silver-back
hairbrush with the letter “M” en
graved thereon. Finder please return
to J. B. Mading.
Sunderbruah’s
‘‘Obey Your Impulse” and "Get the Habit" of Buying and Phoning Your
Orders
For Choice Family Groceries,
Dependable Goods, Quality Unsurpassed
Prompt Deliveries.
Reliance Canned Goods Reliance Evaporated Fruits
Best Hams and Bacon Reliable Outfitting
YOUR ORDERS SOLICITED
Victor
Phonographs and Records
SPORTING RUBBER BOOTS
SHOTGUN SHELLS
Hoes Spades Rakes Tents
SMITH’S GUN STORE
Phone No. 6 Iditarod, Alaska
EARLY BREAKUP
BEGAN MONDAY
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Nolwithstanding the numerous
evidences of an early spring follow ,
ing a winter unprecedented it its
'emperateness. the breakup arrived
beloie tbe time predicted by the:
great majority of gttessers. The:
first movement of the ice occurred
Monday mottling just before iij
o’clock Impatient to send it on
its way to Holcacltaket and the
places beyond, dynamite was em
ployed in tbe hope of expediting I
its final exit, but there was no’
i
general movement until nearly 61
.’clock Thursday afternoon. The
flag that bad been planted opposite
he foot of Willow street went down
and out at 10:40 a.m Monday, and
the river cleared lor a quarter of a
utile or more below; but it held
above Willow. According to ptec
edent that movement matked the
“official” breakup.
'I'lie ice is still running today,
but is thinning out.
Last rear the first movement oc
curred Thursdav evening, May it.
at about 7 o’clock. Then, also,
the break was at tbe foot ol Willow.
It acted very much iu tbe same
way it has done this year, taking
several new starts before the final
departure was made.
TRACTION COMPANY
RESUMES BUSINESS
With a track practically clear of
snow and the mules in good working
trim, the Iditarod Traction Company
resumed operations last Wednesday.
Two round trips are being made daily
between Iditarod and Flat City, and
from Flat daily trips on wheels are made
to Discovery and up Flat creek. Passen
ger, freight and express business is ac
commodated, and everything is being
carried on just as if it were really sum
mertime. _
\ ALASKA1!
Miss Brookie Lloyd, of Hot Springs,
Ark., has been engaged as teacher for
the Tanana public school. She is a
sister of Mrs. R. R. Stoddard of Tati
ana.
At Tanana Robert Herold (‘'Hot Air
Bob'') was bound over to the grand
jury. Liquor to an Indian. Out on
$1,000 bail.
W. W. Wile, who was recently
drowned in the Innoko river, was form
erly employed in the fire departmentof
Fairbanks.
Captain Barnette, the banker whose
case is attracting so much attention,
says the rebels have damaged his Mex
ican ranch.
lhe report that Major Ktchardson
would not return to Alaska as the head
of the road commission is denied. Dep
uty Marshal Goshaw at Valdez received
word from him saying he would return
to Alaska as soon as possible and re
main all summer.
“Waterfront” Brown at Fairbanks
has been bound over to the grand jury
on a charge of embezzlement by bailee.
Mrs. Walker owed Deimy Goheen $oO.
Goheen gave the claim to Brown for
collection. Brown collected the whole
amount on the installment plan and re
fused to turn it over to Goheen, but
threatened to lick him when he asked
for it.
William Midgley, a prospector well
known in the North and lately of Ruby,
recently got hold of a type-written copy
of a letter alleged to have been written
from Bolivia to Jim Ferguson in
Alaska, and was so favorably impressed
by the Bolivia outlook that he imme
diately started out over the trail. He
passed through Fairbanks March 26.
W. J. Cody, who went Outside last
fall, reached Seward on his way in, but
it is believed he was too late to make
it over the trail. The last mushers to
arrive said Mr. Cody wan undecided
whether to attempt the trip or not.
Flume hose, tents, canvas. H. Boas.
FLAT CITY NOTES
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Mamie! Vidal, the Marathon runner,
has moved from Dikeraan to Flat City.
Bill Keitli and W. B. Crawford were
in town last Saturday from Slate creek,
where they have been taking out a
small dump during the winter. They
left again Monday to commence sluic
ing up.
A big crowd witnessed ladies’ and
men’s basketball games at A. B. Hall
last Saturday night. The games were
exciting and warmly contested. In the
ladies’ game, the A. B. team, captained
by Mrs. I.aing, won by a score of 20 to
17 from the Flats, captained by Mrs.
Suter. In the men’s game the Scrubs,
captained by Hanson, won bv a score of
23 to 14 from the A. B.’s, captained by
Labeile. i
Alec Grubass is opening up the
Forks roadhouse. He is remodeling
the place, and will have a roadhouse,
store and poolroom combined.
Strandberg & Johnson are moving
their boiler into place, and also doing
considerable preparatory work.
Joe Roy, a layman, is working about
30 men on Flat, drifting and hoisting
into the boxes.
Riley & Marston are doing consider
able preparatory work on Otter creek.
Jay Johnson, l b. Otter, has about
ten men working, and will soon begin
operating.
H. Boas spent Wednesday and Thurs
day visiting at Discovery.
Harold Young was a visitor at Flat
last Thursday. He returned to Otter
creek yesterday, where he is prospect
ing.
Hall & Streib have started a barber
shop, store and poolroom on Flat creek
opposite the Wildcat association.
George Friend made a visit to ldita
rod Wednesday.
Fred Anderson, of Iditarod, made a
visit to Flat last Monday.
Frank Stanley has been suffering
from ear trouble during the past, week,
but is again able to attend to business.
Road Overseer Cleveland is doing
some good work on the Flat-creek road
by graveling mudholes and leveling
bad places.
Nearly all the basketball team of
Flat worked out their road tax during
the past week.
There is a big jam of ice up Otter
creek, about two miles above Discov
ery, which prevents the bringing down
of timber needed for repair work.
Sluicing lias begun on Willow creek.
Tom McMahon has torn out the en
tire front of his store building and is
putting in a fine new glass one.
Lawrence Ramus, the discoverer of
gold on Flat creek, has moved his fam
ily from Flat City to the creek for the
summer.
George Ouzuonin arrived Friday from
the Kuskokwim country. He has been
prospecting on New York creek, about
dO miles below Georgetown. He says
good prospects have been found, and
thinks he will return there next fall.
A basketball game and dance will be
given at A. B. hall tonight. There
will be both ladies’ and men’s teams.
A1 Anderson, who has been running
the Ruby roadhouse on the Seward
trail, 14 miles from Discovery, Otter,
has closed the place for the summer,
aud is in town.
Dawson, on lower Flat, put on some
men this week.
AT IDITAROD HOSPITAL
Starr Ballard, of the Summit road
house, was admitted last Tuesday even
ing for a treatment for a severe case of
la grippe. He is progessing favorably,
and is expected to be out in a few days.
Mrs. Harry Johnson, who has been in
the hospital fora week, is convalescing
and will soon be discharged.
Joe Mkuta has been an inmate for
four weeks. He has a most obstinate
case of rheumatism.
MEN FROM BEAR CREEK
EXPECTED BACK TODAY
Jack Baird and party, who have been
prospecting on Bear creek of the Tul
aksak for a couple of months, are ex
pected in today. Mushers arriving at
Flat say they saw Baird, Al Welch,
Wada and another man at Crooked
river headed this way.
Best non-astigmatic sno w glasses at
Simpson’s.
WINTER MAIL
NEARING END
This is a land of surprises. Ice hav
ing moved in the river and the side
streams being in flood, it was consid
ered a tossup whether the mail would
arrive this week or not. Some re
marked that it made little differenct
anyhow, “for,” they said, “if it gets
through at all there’ll only be what
the carrier can pack on his back, and I
that’ll not be much over the bare nig
gerheads and overflowed swamps.”
The unexpected happened again,
therefore, when A1 Chapin hove ii
sight Wednesday afternoon, on time.
His 11 dogs were all tuckered out and i
Mayor Barnes hastened to his assist
ance with his favorite mule. The
mayor and Maud soon found out they j
had taken a big contract, for the load I
aggregated tSOO pounds. Chapin only
knows how he ever got through with
it. It is said he hired help at Dike- :
man.
Auother surprise was in store for the
people who cheered the big incoming!
consignment. There was little in it j
but catalogues, congressional records
and other junk. The letters and news- |
papers were very scant. But Chapin ;
did his part well, and Mayor Barnes!
and his mule did theirs—we were all i
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blessed with the blessedness of small i
expectation, and so everbody is satis-1
fled.
Another wall to Come
Chapin left with outgoing mail jester-:
day. This time he took a boat and a
helper. He will abandon the boat at
the Indian village, half way between
here and Diskaket. Thence he will go j
across country to Diskaket, then take
a launch down to Mud river, thence;
up Mud river to a point opposite
Nulato, and from there he will goover
land to the Yukon and keep going
till he meets Hob Griffis. Griffis will
come in over the same route, taking
the launch and boat sidetracked bj
Chapin.
Griffis was due to leave Nulato last
Tuesday, but word has been received
that he had not started up to Thursday.
It is believed lie was waiting to con
nect with a mail recently reported at
Fairbanks, said to be the largest ever
arriving at that place. It is also
believed that an extra consignment, or
a double limit weight, will he author
ized by the department this trip, but
there is no positive information to this
effect.
Word was received that traveling
was “perfect'1 on the Yukon last
Thursday, so mail movement should be
ultra expeditious along tiiat famous
watercourse.
EXCURSION CARS
FORTH DANCE
It is reported that the ladies having
in charge the May Day dance to be
given at Flat City next Wednesdaj
evening, for the benefit of the emer
gency hospital soon to be established
at that place, are assured of a large
attendance. Arrangements have been
made with the Iditarod Traction Co. to
run excursion cars from Iditarod, leav
ing at 6 o'clock and returning immedi
ately after the dance is over. The fare
for the round trip will be but $2. The
price of admission to the dance is only
$2, including refreshments. The
season for such affairs will soon te
over, and this will really be the very
last dance before everybody's time will
be taken up by business pursuits.
CITY APPOINTEE
WILL NOT ACCEPT
T. L. McGrath, appointed to the
position of poll-tax collector l>y the
city council last Wednesday night,
says he has concluded not to accept the
job. He was under the impression that
the taxes were collectable at once, but
looking up the city ordinance govern
ing the matter ho finds they are not
due till June. That is too long for Mr.
McGrath to wait.
Old Lacey, Tyler, Monogram, Ather
ton and Cedurbrook, also fine old Port,
Sherry and Clartts at Empire Com
mercial Co.
Now that spring has come, drop in
and see if Peck, Flat, has anything you
need.
$12.25 SUITS
Displayed in our window lias caused the commotion we forecasted in our
last week’s ad., and was tli« teal sensation as well as the talk of the town.
Men that haven’t even dreamed of new clothes, couldn’t resist the
flattering inducements as such. Not alone one suit uid they buy. but in
pairs. Our high-class SPRING SUITS enjoy equally as good a patronage.
We shall continue enforcing our sales by steadily furnishing you with
GREATEST VALUES, HIGHEST GRADES AND BEST-FITTING
CLOTHES FOR THE LEAST MONEY.
Look and watch our furnishing window , you will note
STETSON HATS at $4.00
and other good snaps that you can’t very well afford to let. slide by.
Gel in the band wagon and enjoy GOOD GLOTHKS HARMONY.
Leading Clothiers
AYERS SENTENCED
TO THREE YEARS
K. Q Avers, who was iu luitarod j
last year, was convicted at Dawson last
month of stealing $210 from a road-1
house at the mou.h of Indian river,
and sentenced by Judge Macaulay to
serve three years in jail at hard labor.
Says the Dawson News: Ayers was
given a jury trial. The jury was out
half an hour. In returning tiie ver
dict it strongly recommended the pris
oner to mercy. Justice Macaulay took
tiie recommendation into considera
tion and said that he had intended to ,
sentence tiie convicted man to live;
years at hard labor, especially since I
tiie evidence indicated that an attempt |
had been made by Ayers to shift tiie
biatue to Smith, who has been ac
quitted. This, the judge said, had
made tiie offense of such enormity as to
deserve severe punishment, but, said
tiie court, in consideration for the wife
and family of the convicted man and on
recommendation of tiie jury, ami out
of sympathy, the sentence would be
reduced to three years.
When Ayers was sentenced he took
the matter coolly, and, on departing \
with tiie guard, showed no evidence of
being dismayed.
Cow Miller, a well-known Northern
character, was recently reported on his'
way to Fairbanks. He has lately been !
in llie dairy business in Washington i
state. _
Ladies’and children’s boots $2. Boas";
When you are lonesome, yo lo Ans
lev's and lose your blues.
Notice of Marshal’s Sale
United States ot America, t ^
Fourth District of Alaska. ) '
Public notice is hereby given, that bv
virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias (or execu
tion), dated April 25, A. D. 1912. issued
out of the District Court of the United
States for the Fourth District of Alaska
on a judgment rendered in said Court, on
the 19th day of March, A. D. 191 2, in favor
of \V. S. Clark, doing business as Clark
Dumber Company, and against D. I<
Doggett and W. C. Granger, I have, 0:1
this 27th day of April, A. D. 1912,
levied upon the* following described real
estate, siuated in ilie town of Mat and
territory of Alaska, to wit: All of the
leasehold and other interests of the
defendants D K. Doggett and W. C.
Granger in and to a piece or par
cel of land known and described as .1
portion of lot 2 in block 2 in the town of
Flat, in Otter precinct. Fourth division,
territory of Alaska, the said portion
said lot being more particularly describ-d
and bounded as follows:
Commencing at a point on the west
erly boun lary line of said lot 2, on Wick
erskam street in said town of Flat, their
southerly along said WickerMi.ua strv
a distance of 30 feet; thence easterly
across -aid lot 2 to the easterly boundary
line thereof; thence northerly 30 fey
thence westerly across said lot to pla<
of beginning; to ether with all and
singular that certain two-story log and
frame building situated on said portion
of said lot 2; all of which said property
and premises is known as the Doggett
building anti property; and that I will,
accordingly, offer said real estate for sale
at public vendue to the highest and best
bidder, for cash, on the 25th day of
WSay, A. D. 1912, at 11 o'clock a. ni at
the front door of the Marshal’s office
Flat, Alaska.
Dated, lditarod, Alaska. April 26th.
A. 1). 1912. H. K. 1.0YF.
IDS. Marshal, Fourth District of Alaska.
by ID P. Sheppard, Deputv .
Chas. R Taylor. Plaintiff - A
first Boat (or Ruby anil Yukon
Str. “PUP” Cap, Jack Oraen
Will Leave Id it a rod for RUBY CITY AND WAY POINTS immediately
after the Opening of Navigation.
For Freight and Passenger Rates Apply on Board.
MERCHANTS CAFE
:
Caters to Large aiiti Small Parties
PRIVATE DINING ROOMS
Popular Prices Everything First Class.
CHAS. E. MILLER, PROP.
Open All Night Open Ail Night
THE NORTHERN
Family Trade a Speolalty
Goods Delivered to AH Parts of City Day or Night
HARRY ASHLAND GEO. F. MARSH
__The Budweiser Parlors Are Always in Readiness for Public Meetings and for Private-Business Consultations_
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