By far better goods lit the same and lower prices.
Our goods are all Strictly Fresh and of the
HIGHEST GOMES ONLY
May we have the privilege of proving it to you '
Our Swift’s Premium
Hams and Bacon
Shipped in Cold Storage, without the heavy wrappers,
have arrived.
These llams and Bacon are the Highest Perfection in
Smoked Meats.
Sam’l Applebaum
HIS AIM IN LIFE
"That's the second untruth you have told
me lodav. \\ hy do you persist in telling
lies this way ?"
"1 don't know, ma, unless it s because 1 ni
practicing to he a diplomat when 1 grow
up." Detroit Free Press. _
NEW FLOOR
LINOLEUM
COMFORTERS.
COTTON CLOTH,
GINGHAM GOODS,
FLANNELS, THREAD,
BUTTONS, NEEDLES,
COTTON FLANNELS,
MEN’S UNION SUITS,
RUBBER "LITE PAK" SHOES,
FHOTO GOODS,
FILMS DEVELOPED.
Ansleys
IDITAROD, ALACXA
WHERE MOSES MADE PLEA
FOR RELEASE OF HEBREWS
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 9. The Museum
of the University of Pennsylvania has marie
public a report from Dr. Clarence S. Fisher,
leader of the Eckley B. Cox, Jr., expedition
to Egypt, in which he tells of what appears I
to be the di.-eoverv that Meremptah had in |
his palace at Memphis an archeological mu
seum something like those of the present
day. Meremptah was the son of Rameses
the Great, and by many is identified as the
Pharaoh of the oppression, as described in
the Book of Exodus.
The palace was discovered early in the
present ye '.r. the report says. It was large
and elaborately decorated, but at some time
it was destroyed by fire, traces of which are
abundant. The palace was about ISO feet
long and 100 feet wide, and contaned about
1 twenty rooms. The throne room was a mag
niticcut chamber of about GO by 40 feet. In
describing this room the museum announce
nient state that “it is probable that this
throne room, if not the same one, is similar
to the one in which Moses and Aaron con
fronted the Pharaoh, demanding that the
people of Israel be permitted to go.
The authorities in Egypt admit that a
great discovery has been made.”
In the throne room were found gold orna
ments, scarabs, vessels for various purposes
and vases. The most interesting find, the
report states, was a collection of relics partly
of the stone age and partly of the >ixth
dynasty (about 4500 B. CD, indicating
that Meremptah was a collector much like
modern men or nations. The stone imple
ments included knives, razors, sickles, etc.
Save money on Groceries while they are cheap, and buy a new
LANG RANGE
Of which we will have an assortment in Family Sizes in the fall.
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C. R. PECK - ■ FLAT
Fancv Cast-Iron Top with Nickol Trimmings
V O IX $15 00 I
305X . 20.00 I
828X .525.00
YUKON STOVES
Yukon Stoves, 14x2 4 top?.$ 3.00
Yukon Stoves, 14x30 top?. 10.00
Half Hound Stoves, 14x30 tops.... 10.00
Drums .$ 5.00
Cast Top, roiir holes. 12.00
TENTS AND TARPAULINS
8x 1 0— 8-oz. Tents ..$ 9.00
8\10 — lo-oz. Teats . 10.00
] n\ 1 s— 8-uz. Tents . 10.00
10x1 S—lU-oz. Tents . 12.00
7.x 9— 8-oz. Tarpaulins. 5 3.00
7\ 9—10-oz. Tarpaulins. 3.50
lux 1C—10-oz. Tarpaulins. 10.0C
All Sizes Tents and Tarpaulins carried tn biocK
Acorn Special Gasoline Lamps. $ 9.00
Air-o-lite Gasoline Lamps. 10.00
Coleman Gasoline Lanterns.
$8.00 and 15.00
Baby Hag Mantles.dnz. 2 00
Large Bag Mantles.doz. 3.00
Baby Go-Carts .$10 and $12 30
Heavy Prnted Linoleums, 6 feet
wide, per yard . 2.25
Inlaid Linoleums, 0 fret wide. yd. 3.00
Hug’S, 8.3.X 1 0.0. $15.00 to 25.00
Hugs, 9.\12.$20.00 to 30.00
Drugs at Outside Prices
SMITH'S GUN STORE
IDITAROD, ALASKA PHONE 6 SECOND AND WILLOW
ROBBERY AND ASSAULT CASE
OCCUPIES ATTENTION OF
COMMISSIONER GERAGHTY
In Commissioner Geraghty’s court on Mon
day morning last Diva Dale, a resident of
I'lat’s restricted district, pleaded guilty to a
charge of assault and was fined $200 and
costs, amounting to about $250 in all. The
fine was paid.
The woman was arrested on Saturday
evening last on a warrant sworn to by
Deputy Marshal Billy Thomas, charging her
with having ‘unlawfully assaulted and
wounded one J. P. Courtney by striking him
with a bottle.”
There was no hearing on the charge, the
woman appearing and pleading guilty, her
attorney making a plea for leniency on the
ground that ‘‘as far as the records show,
this was her first offense.” Commissoiner
Geraghty, in assessing the fine, took occa
sion to warn the residents of the restricted
district (hat the recent disgraceful occur
rences in their midst must cease or he would
“til! the jail with them."
The ease was the outgrowth of an alleged
robbery which is said to have taken place
on the night of Saturday, August 12. The
victim of the robbery accused the woman
of taking a sum of money from him, and
she in turn accused Courtney. During a
heated colloquy between the three the
woman is alleged to have seized a bottle and
to have assaulted Courtney with it. So vio
lent was the assault that the weapon was
shattered. Courtney was considerably cut
and bruised, and was under the care of Dr.
Moore for some days.
Arrested tor Larceny
Immediately upon the release of the Dale
woman a warrant was sworn out charging
her and J. P. Courtney jointly with the lar
ceny of $250. The prisoncs were brom-ht
to the city by Deputy Thomas and the 1
woman was released on bail. The hearing
came up at 3:30 p. m. Tuesday, E. M. Stan
ton appearing for the government and Major
Albrecht ami Charles E Taylor representing
Diva Dale. A separate examination was !
demanded for the woman prisoner, and her j
case was immediately proceeded with.
The complaint had been sworn to on in
formation and belief by the partner of the |
man alleged to have been robbed, and in
the testimony it was brought out that the j
victim, who had been drinking, fell asleep \
in the Dale woman’s place. Upon awaken- j
ing he found, he said, that he had been j
robbed of $250. Cross-examined by Mr. Tay- I
lor, he admitted being intoxicated, and ex j
hibited much reluctance to testifying. But \
he stuck to his story about losing the 1
money in the woman s house, but could not
swear positively that the defendant took j
the money. The door of the place was not j
locked, and others might have been in the |
place while he was sleeping.
Reluctant Witnesses
Other witnesses examined, including an- j
other woman resident of the restricted zone,
also showed themselves to be unwilling wit- J
nesses, and Mr. i'tanton intimated that they j
told different stories than they had pre- j
viously told him in his office. The woman j
witness apparently had no recollection of
any of the proceedings connected with the
alleged crime with the exception of that re
lating to a bottle of gin. On this point her
mind was perfectly clear.
J. P. Courtney, the second of the defend
ants, was placed upon the stand, but upon ,
objection by defendant’s counsel he was not
allowed to testify. Mr. Stanton immediately
moved that the charge against him be dis
missed, and the order was entered and the
witness was examined.
The theory of the prosecution apparently
was that the Dale woman, after securing j
her victim’s money, had turned it over to
Courtney; that he had failed to return it !
to her. and in reprisal had been accused of
the crime by her, the outcome being the
beating up of Courtney, for which the
woman had paid a fine the previous day.
But as far as the evidence elicited from him
would show, not only had there been no
robbery, but he had received no beating;
or at least he did not know who committed
the assault upon him, or what it was about.
He had had no conversation, apparently,
with the prisoner, and altogether he was a
most unsatisfactory witness from the prose
cution’s viewpoint.
Courtney described himself as a messen
ger anti general roustabout,” and his testi
money showed that he was employed in the
most menial tasks by the residents of the
“row.” He showed familiarity with court
procedure, and immediately after taking the
oath he asked the court whether he was
to testify as a defendant or as a witness.
He said the prisoner never gave him the
$250 to take care of for her.
At the conclusion of the hearing Com
missioner Geraghty granted the motion of
the defense for the dismissal of the pro
ceedings, and the frail sisterhood and their
satellites left the court room in high spirits.
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WASHBURN’S PASSENGERS
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The following is a list of the passengers
arriving at Dikeman on the last trip of the
steamer Washburn, August 19. They were
brought to the city on the launch Sea
Wolf, arriving here early on Monday morn
ing :
A. Lindquist
J. E. Walsh
M. J. Florence
Miss H. Grant
Frank Moran
J. Saupe
Ed E. Overand
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J. E. Walsh, a nephew of A1 and Barney
Walsh, arrived on the Sea Wolf on Monday
morning last, and is stopping with his uncles
at the Summit mine. The young man j
conies from Wisconsin.
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Fresh Olympia and Eastern Oysters, $1.50
per can. Iditarod Meat Co. j
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Job Printing at The Pioneer office.
COMMISSIONER W. A. VINAL
IS LEGISLATIVE CANDIDATE
In a letter to an Iditarod friend, W. A.
Vinal of Ophir, United States commissioner
for the Innoko precinct, announces that a
petition placing him in nomination for
member of the territorial legislature has
received about 225 signatures. It is under
stood that the petition has been sent to the
clerk of the court at Fairbanks for eertiti
cation, which insures his name a place on
the ticket. He announces a desire to stand
with the “so-called Wickersham ticket.”
For the information of the voters of the
Fourth division Mr. Vinal states that he has
been in Alaska sixteen years, and in the
Innoko district nine years. “My relations
with the men who have worked for me
have always been of the most friendly,” he
says, and continues: “Inquire of any man
who has worked for me in the past, and I
will be willing to stand or fail by his truth
ful answer. Oh, what is the u-c? if I am
elected I will just be an average kind of
a fellow, anyw-ay. A leopard cannot change
his spots; neither can I. My neighbors
know that I can say to them—
“ ‘I have eaten your bread and salt,
I have drunk your water and wine.
The deaths you have died I have watched
beside,
The lives you have lived were mine.’ ”
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Mrs. Horvath and little daughter of Dis
covery, were in the city this week on their
way to the Marshall camp, where Mr. Hor
vath is now located.
Joe Kermonde, the tnn-orisl artist of
Discovery, was in the city this v.eek.
I eo Clifford, formerly with The Pioneer,
left Seattle tor Iditarod on the Liinvtiila,
sailing from that port on the 24th.
Tom McKinnon, the well known mining
man. arrived in the city on Thursday la t.
coming from Fairbanks by private launch.
Mr. McKinnon has been in the Tolovana
country most of the summer.
J. E. Kettlewcll of the Yukon Gold Com
pany’s power plant was in the city Monday.
The Prairie Bell departed for Dikeman
on Monday afternoon last, to make con
nections with upper and lower T ukon boats
for the Outside. Among her passengers
were Mrs. and Miss Albrecht, Mrs. Oscar
Gardner. Charles E. Estmere and Cyril
Wood.
The launch Sea Wolf, leaving for Dike
man last Wednesday afternoon, had as pas
sengers, among others, bred Harrison anv
E. E. Kellogg.
Harry Leland was a visitor in town early
in the week.
M. H. Guise was a visitor in town from
Flat creek last Monday.
Mrs. George W. Albrecht, accompanied
by her daughter, Miss Cliff Albrecht, left
for the Outside on Monday last. They ex
pect to make an extended visit to theii
former home at Middlesborough, Ky.
Mrs. V. J. Jacobs of Flat was a visitor in
the city on Saturday last.
A telegram received in this city last
week from Mrs. Lottie C. Thornton, whc
was at her home in Arlington, \\ ash., an
nounced that she would leave Seattle foi
Iditurod on August 24. Her throat malady
had responded to surgical treatment, anr
she was on the way to complete recovery
Cyril Wood left for the lower river or
Monday last to meet Mrs. Wood and chil
dren, who are expected on one of the early
boats.
Charley Worden came down from Wil
low creek early in the week and spent !
few days visiting in the city.
Louis Peime, the Innoko gasboat man
was a passenger for the Outside on Monday
Louis has met with a streak of had lucl
this season. The engine of his vessel, th<
Thomas Flyer, which was put out of com
mission in a recent accident, w;^ found tr
A. J. WEISS,
THE HOME OF HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX
be so badly shattered as to be beyond re
pair.
Henry Riley left on Thursday for Candle
creek, where he and his associates are in
stalling a dredge. He expects to be gone
at least three weeks.
i
I ALIAS SUMMONS, FOR PUBLI
CATION—No. 162
In the Commissioner's Court for Utter Pre
cinct, Fourth Division. Territory of
Alaska; before Hun. Dny u. ib-caglily, I
Commissioner and ex ollleio Justin- ...
the Peace. I
re. k I umber i i mpany, a Corporation, !
PlaimilT, vs. William W. Acheson, lie- i
femlanl.
j Th "■ ■ s|,lent of the rnite.l states, to
William W. Acheson, llie above-named
j defendant:
i ,,u ,ei hereby summoned to appear be
fore the undersigned, commissioner and ex
ollleio jiislire of the peace for utier pre
i rinrt. Fourth division, territory of Alaska.
| oil tile I ilh day of Uetnbrr, lit Id. :tl the
; i, i,i- of -j , "eh rli i: the arte.. al the
office of said commissioner in the town
of Iditarod. in said precinct, and answer
tile complaint of the plaintiff, founded upon
an open account and an assigned open ac
count, both for goods sold and delivered.
And in case ot your failure to appear and
answer the plaintiff's complaint at the time
mid place aforesaid, judgment will lie en
tered against ' m for lie- sum or I'orty
lliree d .liars ' ■- i ’’ . w'Hi inn rt st i h< re in
i at Die i ate of i a go t per mil per ani'dii
from (he idth day of Man h, !: i, and i ir
I the. further .-uni of forty dollars and
j seventy-live rents (*l.|,75 •. with interest
Hirer..i, at the rate of eight per -ent per
I annum front the vis'd day ot .Inly, 191.1;
|and the costs and disbiir.-rin n!s ,,f tliis
acltoii.
Pursuant to an order of the above en
titled court, this day made and entered,
this alias summons .- e onl upon voi by
piiidicalion in I he bios: d Pi he i r. a lev
paper published m the town of Iditarod, in
said Utter preriieO. oner a week for six
weeks, the nrst publication thcivur bring on
tlie hr,th day of August, tilth, and the last
publication thereof being on the . tit day ot
(lx■ r, ! y i.■. aficr which i t.-1-named date
i f publication service upon you will bo
completed. .
diven under my hand this, tile -J id day ot
August. 191'I.
,hs,.;.| c. i;. Dill!Al.til A .
Commissioner and ex offbio .Insure of the
i .-are.
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SCHOOL TEACHER ARRIVES
Among the arrivals on Monday morn
ing’s boat from I he Outside was Miss Helen
Grant, who ha been engaged by the trus
tees of the Oiler school district to have
charge of the school at Mat during the
coming term, which commences September
4. Miss Grant is well and favorably known
in the district having formerly been in
charge of the school. She left here two
years ago.
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FROM MARSHALL CAMP
“Shorty” Butts was an arrival in the
city on Tuesday morning last from Mar
shall. He says that that camp has as
sumed a lively appearance, and that the
recent clean-ups have borne out the con
fident predic ions of the miners th re
Ground recent y cleaned up by McGrath and
partners and by Curly Smith has produced
better than $ - to the foot. “Shorty” also
says there i- good ground on Wilson and
Disappointment creeks. He intends to re
turn within a f w davs.
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Fresh Olyunba and Eastern Oysters,
$1.50 per can. Iditarod Meat Co.
New on Display, a Full Line of
NEW GOODS
JjST received
mbs, i. s,"Thornton
Watches and Diamonds
At
STRICTLY OUTSIDE PRICES
J. L. SALE
The House of Quality
General Merchandise
FOR
good potatoes a^d cigars
CALL UP
We Still Have Some to Wholesale
Bail Band Rubber Boots and Pacs Ball Band Rubber Boots and Pacs ,~|
Cut Price
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RING US UP ANY SERVICE WE CAN DO YOU , RING US UP
Just Received a Shipment of Fresh Draught Beer
GEORGE MARSH BUD WEISER ID1TAROD FLAT CITY THE BRANCH a. d. currie