| ID1TAROD PIONEER |
Published Every Sunday Morning at Iditarod, Alaska.
FRANK E. BECKER, EDITOR
Vs* I Ceo. M. Arbuakle. Publisher No. 24
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CAN WE MAKE IT AN INSTITUTION?
On New Year’s day the first dog race of the Iditarod
will be held. With the start of the first team will begin a new
era of sport in this country and one which we hope will be
marked by an annual event of no little magnitude.
This race is merely preliminary to the big race we will
hold in the early spring. It is designed to fan the interest
and to develop that latent sense of enterprise that only
needs one example to foster a sense of pride in an event
that will become a recognized institution in another year.
The North has a long cold spell. The winter months
take up most of the time, and in the summer we are too
busy fighting the festive mosquito to dwell on the lightei
forms of amusements, and besides the moss won’t do it.
There is a national sport in Alaska,—to-wit, driving
dogs. They are not an exotic flower,—they belong to the
soil, the gravel, the tundra or whatever you may call it,
and by lb * same token, so do we.
Her ca, it might become just as important to race dogs
in Alaska as to run equines in the states, and we can do so
until congress or some of its misguided representatives
make us stop. They might say that its just as immoral to j
run dogs for a prize as to guess when the ice is going out, '
so the only thing to do is to beat them to it.
Dog racing has a number of interesting angles, it
means good dogs and good drivers. The man that can
deliver the goods with either or both takes the money and
everyone will cheer him when he gets it.
Besides, dog racing offers a chance to develope some
thing that has never been developed before. It means a
chance to introduce a strain of thoroughbreds into a race ol'
animals that have had so much to do with the develpment
of the North as the sourdough pancakes.
Nome has clung tenaciously to her annual race, and it
hks proven the preeminent sporting event of Alaska. We
haven’t fast dogs and perhaps we are too new a camp to
have the money just at this moment, but we have the spirit
that wins, and in another year we will lie able to challenge
Nome for a race that will make the entire country sit up
and take notice.
Therefore, we admonish everyone who has a drop of
sporting blood in his vains to look into this matter of the
New Year race. If it is a success, it will mean a bigger
race in the early spring, just about the time the violets be
gin to peep over the adjacent snowball. It will mean a
national sport for Alaska and we might as well make up
our minds that it is time to secede in sport as well as in
politics and make Alaska what she should be,—a complete
individuality. _
FLAT PUTS ONE OVER
The Arctic Brotherhood will build the new social hall
at Flat City and it will be one considerable affair. It will
have bay windows and a refrigerator and a man standing
at the door to let you in. There will be a stage and a cur
tain and some bum performers, and now when the people
of Iditarod City want to see a show, they must go to Flat.
What does all this mean. Why it simply means that
Flat has us beaten to a Chinese whisper when it comes to
public spirit. They can go out there in one night and do
more than we can in a week, kase why ? Kase everybody
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Idilarod’s Leading Dry Goods House §
Second Avenue. Retween Willow B
and Richmond. Phone r)i g
Victor-:Palmberg; a: miner who
has worked on Ester creek for some
time, was placed in the federal.jail
charged with insanity. .
“Wise Mike" Stepovilch, the
man who tried to hold down all of
im' mrmam w a—ana— mam m
Fairbanks creek and who recently
recovered £700 from two and a
half tons of float rock on Bedrock
creek, is reported to have picked up
the main lead.
J. Albert Jaekscn, manager of
the Wastifngpoh Alaska bank, , re
cently .consolidated with the Fair
banks Banking Company, has gone
Outside for a vaction accompanied
by his family. Cashier Frank Haw
kins is acting in his stead.
The Arctic Brotherhood of Fair
banks are planning a graft'd mas
querade ball for New Year’s eve
Deputy Marshal Hansen, accom
panied by “Arctic Jack’’ Cornell
who is acting as guide, is some
where in the Chandlar country in'
quest of the body of J 1). Clark
who is believed to have been mur
dered by the Indians more than a
year ago,.
The Sirnson brothers, who have
conducted a large mercantile estab
lishment in Fairbanks for a num
ber of years, have closed out their
business and w ill open a store at
Portland, Oregon.
The annual Thanksgiving ball
given by the Eagles was a huge
success this year.
Miss Katherine Trimmer, former
school teacher in the Fairbanks
public school lias just instituted a
suit against Murdock McKenzie
for $324 alleged to be . due on a
note,
William K Ammer, a young
man of 20 years who was employed
as milkman at the Hinckley dairy
in Fairbanks, committed suicide our
the steamer Northwestern while on
his way Outside.
The Sideboard sells Bock cigars.
Red Cross
Drug Store
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Telephone S
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Drug Store
Prescription Druggists
j Prompt Attention to
Telephone ana Creek Orders
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GENTLEMEN
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Gloves, Pajamas,uMfflers and
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! C. J. Hur'ey, President J. P. Gleason, t ea President A. Bruning, Cashier
Corner First Ave, and Rich mond St . iditarod
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General Banking Business Transacted Upon Liberal, Gut Conservative Lines
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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
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around here is too busy trying to get a strangle hold on the
almighty samoleum to pay attention to anything that looks
like public spirit.
Flat creek is to be congratulated on having some live
Arctic brothers. Also she is to be congratulated on know
ing she has them.
Insulting Wire
to Beveridge
Seattle, Dec. 3.—Alaskans headed by George Baldwin sent de
feated United States Senator Beveridge of Indiana, who introduced
the bill providing for a military form of government for Alaska,
the following telegram:
“An enemy of repbblican institutions, a man who malignantly
hates a democratic form of government and who sought to estab
lish despotism in Alaska, now lies in the political morgue, cold apd
stiff as the marble which supports his attenuated form. All Alas
kans rejoice in his downfall.”
Senator Beveridge merely prepared the bill at the President’s
request, and many Alaskans belive the telegram to be ungraceful
and ill-advised.
Will Recommend
Civil Government
Washington, Dec. 3-—President Taft, while, on his Panama
voyage, wrote his annual message which will be read at the open
ing of congress
It is believed he will recommend a ship-subsidy bill, anti in
junction, federal incorporation of railroads, conservation of na
tional resources, the reorganization of the postal system (which
last year showed a deficit of $17,000,000', and the fortification of
the Panama canal. It is expected he will recommend a civil gov
ernment for Alaska.
Important for
the Territory
Washington, Doc. 3.—The attorneys for the Humboldt Steamship Co., who
hare applied for a writ of mandamus to compel the interstate commerce com
mission to extend its jurisdiction to Alaska, have presented their arguments to
the supremo court..
Nome steamship companies discriminate in freight rates in favor of certain
Alaskan towns. The interstate commerce commission has held that its juris
diction does not extend to Aiaska waters. The decisian of the United State*
supreme court is watched with great interest by Alaskans.
URGES NEW TARIFF
Seattle, Dec. 3.—United States Senator Wesley L. .Tones, of Washington
says the people's verdict at the last elections is that they demind a new tapiy,
and says President Tdft should call a special session of congress to frame one
m THE ViN'YARD
I said: “I am tired of my labors, of putting up hny in the
sun; I'm weary of watching my neighbors whose life is one
long round of fun; I’m weary of sowing and reaping, as busy
as five hundred bees, while others are playing or leeping in
languid or insolent ease. I’m tired of the constant endeavor
for victories tawdry to see; I long for the rest that is ever a
thing in the distance for me.” Then the Wise Man, he tight
ened his gallus, and parted his whiskers and said: “You live in
that big wooden palace that’s painted butt' cochin and red?
Your stand off is good with the grocer, your larder is amply
supplied? And yet you are loaded with woe, sir? You give
me three pains in the side! You’re big, and you’re husky and
healthy—I think it the rankest of shames that you should de
sire to be wealthy, and sit and crochet with the dames. A man
with the thews of a bison should glory in-doing his chores,
should ask nothing better in bis’n than wrestling around out of
doors! Oh, sail in and toil never shirking, and cut out your
visions of pelf; the pleasure of life is in working, and work’s in
a class by itself!”—Walt Mason in Hampton’s Magazine.