GOLDEN GLOW BUTTER
THE FINEST BUTTER PRODUCED
A1S Our Goods
Are the Best in the Market
Every Article
Is of the Highest Grade Only
Sam’i Applebaum
GET BUSY WITH
YOUR KODAK
Now is the time to take
pictures, while the light
is good. We keep a full
line of Photo Supplies
and Kodaks, do Developing
and Printing at reasonable
prices.
If you need Shoes. Clothing.
So.\, Underwear. Plats,
Or anything in the Drug line. I
can supply you with better
goods and at lower prices
than any place in the camp.
Ansley s
IDITAPOD, ALACXA
MRS, L, C, THORNTON
GENERAL
LADIES’
FURNISHINGS
FINE WATCH REPAIRING
NUGGET JEWELRY TO ORDER
J. L. SALE, Flat City
I WILL DISPATCH
A LAUNCH FOR THE
RflSouth of
Boob
On the Tolstoi
IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE
BREAK-UP. MAKE RESER
VATIONS AT THE BANK.
EARL BYERS
Job Printing at Pioneer office.
WHEN THE ICE BROKE UP
IN THE IDITAROD RIVER
The ice moved in front of the city of 1
Iditarod last year at 4:48 p. ill. on Satur
day, April 24, the time being indicated by
a clock in the Budweiser, to the pendulum
of which there had been attached a wire
which was fastened to a tripod on the river
ice. While this was given as the official
time of the break-up, the real ice move
ment did not take place until Monday
morning, May 3.
The date of the break-up of the ice in the :
Iditarod river for each year since 1911 is
as follows:
1911 May 11, ti :57 :30 p. in.
1912- April 22- 10:40:00 a. in.
1913 May 9. 12:41 :4o p. in.
1914 May 9, 10:41 :51 a. in.
1915 April 24, 4:48:00 p. m.
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THE WEEK’S TEMPERATURES
The following is a record of the week's
temperatures, taken at 1 a. in. daily at the
fire station:
Above
Zero.
April 15. 11
Hi 19
17 22
IS 19
19 . . 20
20 . ti
21 . 0
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CHARLES EKLUND INSANE
Charles Eklunrh who was bruoght in from
Otter creek last week on a warrant charging
him with insanity, was given a hearing be
fore Commissioner Geraghty on Monday
last, and was declared to be insane by a
commission composed of Harry Watson, Si
Atwell. P. Donovan, James Crawford, H.
Boas and Charles Hurst. The unfortunate
man seems to realize his condition.
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BERT GREEN IN TOWN
Bert Green of Tokctna was an arrival in
the city during the past week. He was one
of those who took in the stampede to the
Tolstoi, and reports that practically the en
tire adult male population of that thriving
burg did likewise. I.ike others who returned
from the new camp, Bert reports that the
prospects are excellent.
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NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION
To Whom It May Concern:
Notice is hereby given that any partner
ship that may have heretofore »\isted be
tween tin* undersigned, Tnivo Totiila, and
H. Bismarck, has been and is now dissolved,
and that I am tin* sole owner or the build
ing and business now being conducted by
myself at Discovery, Otter creek, Alaska.
'Dated April 14. KUt>.
TOIYO L OTI LA.
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Fresh Olympia and Eastern Oysters, $1.50
per can. Iditarod Meat Co.
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First-class dog kennels at the Regina.
LUMBER FOR SALE
1- In. Boards, rough Window Frame Material
2- In. Dimension Window Frames, ready-made
4-In. Flooring, Outside fir '/4-in. Round
8-In. Shlp-ep, Outside fir Doors and Windows
4-In. Celling, Outside fir Window Glass
1 \ 2-ln Sluice Box Bottoms, Outside fir Tar Paper
Stains, Varnish, Paints, Oil and Turpentine
C. R. PECK • ■ ■ FLAT
CLOSING-OUT PRICES
All Drugs at Outside Prices
Wood Alcohol, per bottle.$ -BO
Gasoline, per bottle. .BO
Coal Oil, per bottle.25
Shaving brushes .BOo to 1.BO
Whisp Brooms . 60
Bath Brushes .61 .BO to 2.00
Mellin’s Food .75
Sal Ilepatica .76
Vaseline, large bottles. .26
Witch Hazel Salve . -25
Arnicated Salve .25
Bromo Quinine .$ .25
Compound Cathartic Pills.. .25
Beer ham’s Pills .25
Ayer’s Pills . .25
Sanitol Face Cream.25
Pompeiian Cream .25
Stearns’ Headache Powders.25
Seidlitz i’owders . 25
Witch Hazel . 50
Pond’s Extract . .50
Snow Glasses .25c to .50
SMITH'S GUN STORE
Iditarod, Alaska
NEW MUNICIPAL COUNCIL
INDUCTED INTO OFFICE
AND ELECTS NEW MAYOR
The outgoing city council met on Thurs I
day evening last at the city hall, with Mayor !
Stanton and Councilmen Smith, Anslev, But- |
ton and Weir present. After reading the j
minutes of the previous meeting, which were i
approved, a number of bills, aggregating I
something more than $300, were passed ]
upon by the finance committee and or
dered paid.
At the conclusion of routine business the
members of the new council were sworn in
by Commissioner Guy Geraghtv, and or
ganization was proceeded with. The mem
bers of the new council present were Messrs.
.Joe Smith, Major G. W. Albrecht, Paul La
Plant, II. H. Porter and Prank Larson.
Joseph IP Smith was unanimously elected
president of the council, and he then an
nounced the appointment of the following
committees:
Tire Riley, Byres and Porter.
Streets Porter. Riley and Leplant
Finance- Albrecht and I.arson.
Messrs. Albrecht and Porter were up
pointed to audit the books of the outgoing
officers.
A new board of health, consisting of Dr. !
Auringer and Messrs. Albrecht and Smith,
was also appointed.
The offices of treasurer and clerk were
tilled by the re-election of Messrs. Button
and Geraghtv respectively, and after decid
ing to retain Fire Chief Currin until the first
of May. the council adjourned.
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IDITAROD TERM OF COURT
SHORTLY AFTER BREAK-UP
Thursday's mail brought official an
nouncement that the special Iditarod term
of the district court will be held com
mencing June 5. Contrary to expectations,
the court party was unable to leave Fair
banks for Ruby over the ice, owing to the
long criminal calendar, and therefore the
Ruby term will follow that held here, the
court and officials coming here direct from
Fairbanks as soon as navigation opens.
The time set for the holding of court is
regarded here as most inopportune for the
convenience of litigants. At that particu
lar time the only means of travel will he
by water, and many cases in which the in
terested parties reside at places remote from
navigation will have to be postponed. The
new strike in the Tolstoi country has drawn
persons from all camps in this section, and
it is expected that there will he difficulty
in securing witnesses and jurors m many
cases.
BELATED MAIL ARRIVES
The mail, which usually arrives on Satur
day or Sunday of each week, did not make
its appearance until midnight of Wednes
day. The soft weather of last week had
made it difficult traveling, and it was re
ported that the horse and .-led driven by
Bob Boyd had broken through the ice be
tween Ophir and Fritz’s roadhouse. The
second-class matter showed evidences of a
recent immersion. Siegfrid Wiig, with a
dog team, went from this city to Fritz's and
brought the mail here. With the present
cold weather better time should be made by
the carriers.
The mail which leaves on Monday next is
the last consignment of the winter mail
service to leave here. There will be live
more consignments to be received, however.
FREE DANCE MONDAY NIGHT
The free dance which was to have been
given some ten days ago, and which was
postponed, will be given on Monday night,
April 24, at A. B. hall. Good music will
be in attendance, and everyone is invited to
participate.
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O LOCAL AND PERSONAL <>
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Tom Dean is now employed at the House
of Quality.
Jim Fullerton made a hurried trip to the
city from Dikeman early in the week.
Tomorrow is Easter Sunday, and as far
as known there will be no public observance
of the festival.
W. E. Duffy, who left here last summer
on a prospecting trip to the Koyukuk coun
try, returned last Sunday. He left during
the week for the Tolstoi.
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SHE ALSO WAS A SLACKER
An anaemic elderly woman, who looked
as if she might have as much maternal af
fection as an incubator, sized up a broad
shouldered Cockney who was idly looking
ii*o a window on the Strand, and in a
rasping voice said to him: “My good man,
why aren’t you in the trenches? Aren’t you
willing to do anything for your country?”
Turning slowly around, he looked at her for
a second and replied contemptuously:
“Move on, you slacker—where’s your war
baby?”—Everybody’s Magazine.
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APPROPRIATE
“Howr shall I press this mourning suit?”
“I guess you had better take a. sad iron.”
Ex.
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ITS DIFFICULTY
“There is one thing contrary’ about a
ship.”
“What’s that?”
“It is when she’s tied up that she can’t
make knots.”—Ex.
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Job Printing at Pioneer office.
SENSIBLE PLAN IS ADOPTED
BY SECRETARY OF INTERIOR
TO HANDLE PUBLIC DOMAIN
WASHINGTON, April 15.—Secretary of
the Interior Lane has announced the estab
lishment of a land and industrial depart
ment under the Alaska engineering com
mission. Andrew Christensen has been
made manager, with headquarters at Skag
way. He will have charge of the public
lands along the routes of the government |
railroads.
The aim of the department is to aid in j
the development of the agricultural and [
other resources of the country.
TRADER FROM HOLIKACHEK
TELLS HIS STORY TO JUDGE
George Turner, the Holikachek trader, |
appeared before Commissioner Geraghty on j
Monday last and told his side of a story 1
that recently had reached the commissioner
in the form of a complaint made by a na
tive of that place.
A short time ago a native with a bruised
and swollen face appeared and swore to a
complaint charging Turner with assault and
battery. As the expense of proceeding to
Holikachek in the present condition of the
trails is a serious and expensive matter,
no warrant was issued for the arrest of
Turner, but an intimation was conveyed
to him of the proceedings. As the costs
would have been taxed to him in case he
was found guilty of the charge, Turner de
cided to save that expense, and proceeded
immediately to Iditarod by dog team. After
explaining the matter to the commissioner
it was decided to drop the matter.
It appears that Turner’s wife, who is a
young native woman, was grossly insulted
by one of the male aborigines resident at
the-down river village. Turner warned him
that a repetition of the offense would bring
about a severe chastisement. The native
became insolent and, according to Turner s
story, which appears to have been corrobo
rated. he dung off his coat and invited Tur
ner to immediate combat, which invitation
was accepted. The result was that the na
tive came out a poor second, and probably
to get revenge he came to Iditarod and
swore to the complaint.
UNMERITED NOTORIETY
BESTOWED ON HORSEFLY
(Cook Inlet (Anchorage) Pioneer, March 23'
Mrs. Hearlein arrived from Ophir yester
day, on ; ;’.Ie to the Outside, where site is
’linking the trip for her health, h r the
past nineteen years this laay has been a
resilient of Alaska, having visited every
mining cutup of importance during that
time. For the past seven years Mrs. Hear
lein and her husband have been living at
Ophir, where her husband has been oper
ating mining property. Mrs. Hearlein re
pons that, at th' time she left Ophir there
was a great stampede lo Horsefiy crc-eK.
about thirty miles from Ophir, and that
the town was almost depopulated when she
left. Every camp along the trail was clos
ing up shop, ami the inhabitants were mak
ing for the new camp. She came over the
trail from Ophir with the mail teams, and
says that she received royal treatment at
the hands of those who acted as her con
voys. Joe Wilson will leave with his dog
team tomorrow with Mrs. Hearlein for Sew
ard, where the lady will take the first
steamer for the Outside. While here she
was a guest at the White House, on West
Fourth avenue.
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PRESIDENT OF LABOR BODY
SUBJECT OF INVESTIGATION
NEW YORK, April 11. Mayor John Pur
roy Mitchel has become aroused by an al
leged insult to the Hag, and a.-ks that an
inquiry be made as to remarks made by
James Maurer, president of the Pennsyl
vania State Federation of Labor.
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WAITE WILLING TO DIE
NEW YORK, April 6. The trial of
Waite, the man accused of poisoning his rich
father-in-law, has been postponed because
of the collapse of the prisoner.
Waite has announced that he is anxious
to pay the death penalty for his crime.
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FLOODS IN MICHIGAN
DETROIT. Mich., March 28.—Southern
Michigan is menaced by serious flood con
ditions. Two days of rain have followed a
heavy- fall of snoyv.
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JOHN IS ALSO STRENUOUS
NEW YORK, March 30.—John McGrath,
secretary of the Roosevelt committee, has
been sentenced to jail for thirty days for
disorderly conduct.
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RUMORS OF FAVORITISM
OTTAWA, March 30.—Charges of favor
itism in the awarding of munitions con
tracts have been made in parliament.
FRANCE WANTS MONEY
NEW YORK, April 15.—France is seek
ing a big loan in the United States, and the
negotiations already are well under way.
NOT THAT SORT
Helen—Do you love me, dear ?
Jack—Dearly, sweetheart.
Helen—"Would you die for me?
Jack—No, my dear. Mine is an undying
love.—Ex.
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Regina Hotel—'First-class in every respect.
Where You Can Get Just What |
You Want in the Line of Shoes
A. A. CUTTER’S SHOE PACS
jBBBEBgBBgSBBgEggBES
STRONG & GARFIELD SHOES
THE FELDER SHOE
AND THE_FI^RSHEIi\^SHOE
THE HOME OF HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX
SCHOOL EXERCISES
The friends and patrons of the Otter!
school are invited to at’end the closing
exercises, to be held at Ivlooae hall, !
Flat, on Friday afternoon, April 2tJ, at
2:.id u’ch ck.
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SUPERiNTENDENT OF FORESTS
TELLS OF RUSH TO NORTH
SEATTLE, Wash., March 12. Alaska na
tional forests are being populated rather rap
idly as a result of the development of the
new government railroad, many homestead
ers entering them the moment construc
tion of the i'tie was assured. Word of this
movement was brought to the University
of Washington recently by W G Weigle,
supervisor of national forests in Alaska.
The territory’s two reserves comprise
close to 20.000.000 acres, but sawmills are
very scarce. The few that are operating, ,
according to Mr. Weigle, are running only
about 40,000 feet in a ten-hour day. Trans
portation is limited to water in the re i
serves- and the forest rangers are com- .
polled to operate six boats for inspection
purposes.
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STUDENTS OF UNIVERSITY
TOLD ABOUT RICH KNIK MINE
SEATTLE. March 12. Miners attending
the short session at the University of Wash
ington recently heard described the opera
tions of the Grid Bullion Mining Company
at Knik, Alaska, which took out $136 000
in 1915 with a seven-stamp mill, ’i Jo
speaker was John L. McAllen, superinten
dent of the company, who was an instructor
in the short session last year.
The property described is the richest in
the Willow creek district, and it yielded |
$125,000 year before last.
Two of the members of the class have
worked at the Gold Bullion mine.
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ASQUITH MAY RESIGN
I LONDON, May 19. The belief prevails
that Premier Asquith may he forced to :
I resign. Lloyd George and Bonar Law are
I being discussed as hossible successors to the
j premiership.
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DEATH OF SENATOR SCHIVELY
j WASHINGTON, March 15. -Senator
; Benjamin F. Schively of Indiana died at j
I his home here yesterday, after a long ill- '
: ness. He was 59 years of age, and was |
first elected to the United States senate in
i 1909.
HAS NOT TROUBLES ENOUGH
SO FRANCE IMPORTS MORE
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PARIS, April 19,—France is bringing five ;
thousand laborers for industrial work.
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ARMISTICE IN CHINA
WASHINGTON, April 19—The state de
I parlment has been informed that an armis- \
i tire has been declared between the Chinese
! rebels and Yuan Shi Kai.
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HIS PRESENT MISSION
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“Pa, what is a peacemaker?”
“Fie is the man, my child, whose main |
success lies in precipitating a fight.”—Ex.
NO DIFFERENTIAL CHARGES
AT SEATTLE ASSAY OFFICE
A letter from J. L. McPherson, manager
of the Alaska bureau of the Seattle Churn
her of Commerce, says:
“We understand that it is not generally
known among the Alaska miners that the
differential charges formerly in force at the
Seattle assay office have been removed and
the office placed on the same basis as other
United States assay offices and mints. With
these charges removed, the Seattle assay
office affords the Alaska miner a saving on
his Alaska gold-dust shipments equal to the
extra cost of transportation from Seattl" to
other assay offices and mints, together with
a saving in time and resulting interest
charges.’’
He calls attention to the following letter
from J. W. Phillips, ussayer in barge of
the government assay office at Seattle:
“Seattle, Jan. 28, 1916.
“J. L. McPherson, Manager Alaska Bureau.
Seattle Chamber of Commerce:
“Your recent letter of inquiry defines a
strange lack of information that has for "tie
past two years worked to the disadvantage
of the Alaska miners, possibly due to a
misunderstanding as to the modified charges
now in force at the Seattle assay office.
"Two orders of the director of the United
States mint, dated June 9, 1913. and another
of November 30, 1914, abolished the so
called different:::! charge of one-eighth of 1
per cent, equal to $1.25 per each $1,000,
previously in force at the United States a*
say i flic, in S'". t "
“Ci: : I Si'!-' . • WIT • th d.UV.eit
v itH : ■: I lio'v ..re n d■ ■ same 1 :he
present cnarges at Hie united .'’.ate* mints
at Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco.
“The Seattle assay office is from SOU to
1,000 miles nearer to Alaska than any other
United States government purchasing
egency: and Alaskans depositing gold in Se
attle can save from two to four days re
quired to ship a thousand miles farther, and
secure, payment therefor; also there will be
a saving in transportation charges.
“In payment for deposits of gold at the
Seattle assay office the government fur
nishes no cash, but only checks to be issued
by the assayer in charge, drawn on the
United States treasurer at Washington City.
Said checks may be cached in any of the
United States sub-treasuries or at the active
United States depositary banks.
“If the Alaska shipper of gold sends a
written request for currency to be sent to
him in Alaska, less cost of insurance and
transportation, the assayer in charge draws
a check so that it will be cashed by one
of the local United States depositary benks,
which wi 1 send the necessary currency at
the risk of the Alaska owner, after securing
full insurance against loss of the money. The
cost of said insurance, and all express
charges, or cost of postage and registration,
will first be deducted by said bank.
“There is another way by which the
Alaska shipper may secure currency—by the
use of one or several United States postal
orders, purchased by the assayer in charge
at the Seattle postoffice at a cost of 30
cents per $100 and drawn and mailed as
directed by the Alaska depositor of gold;
then United States currency or silver coin
may be secured at any of the sixty-four
United States money order postoffices in
Alaska. The cost of securing the money
orders, the postage and 10 cents register
stamp are first deducted by the Seattle
postoffice when issuing the said orders and
elso furnishing the necessary stamps.
“This office was established to aid in de
veloping Alaska.”
HOUSE OF QUALITY
HR^FRVF ! FNT eating a nice, fat No. I Mackerel.
ID^vr, LLl,* jj^e same can j,e said of fat, blood-red Salmon Bellies
Also Alaska Herring
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