j. l. sale just in—Gold Enameled P. of A. Buttons, $4
Leading Jeweler of the North ___*_____
CANVAS_TENTS_TARPAULINS__-J1SS5
Creditors’ Sale
TO SATISFY MY CREDITORS, I WILL SELL MY ENTIRE
STOCK OF CLOTHING, HATS, BOOTS, SHOES AND FURNISH
ING GOODS A TREDUCED PRICES.
K. Boas, Leading Clothier
HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX and CHESTERFIELD CLOTHES
COMING AND GOING
The teamsters of Riley & Marston are
busy these days hauling large tanks of dis
tillate for the Otter-creek dredge. A four
horse team easily draws ten of the filled
tanks.
11. .1. Atwell, the timber inspector of the
federal land olliee, arrived in the city best
Tuesday, and departed Thursday.
Billy Sehernieyer of the HtTfwav road
house was a guest at the Adams house this
week while on a short visit to the great
eit y.
A1 Jones, a well-known river man. who
has been spending the winter prospecting in
the Ruby country, returned to this city
last Wednesday.
Although Uncle Billy Ansley, the fashion
plate clothier, has been a very busy man
during the past week arranging his new
line of goods, he will take a day otf today
and join the crowd of merry-makers at
Flat City.
George Adams and Frank Hudson have
formed a uartnership to conduct a paint
ing. paperhanging and decorating business.
Ned M. Stanton, the popular attorney and
wandering minstrel, after a two vveekss out
ing m the Ophir diggings, returned home
yesterday afternoon. He was accompanied
ivy Ed Anderson.
Mrs. Charles Stanford of Moore creek
was a visitor in the city last Wednesday
for a few hours.
Messrs. George Phillips. Tommy Moore
and J. E. Kettlewcll. snip oyes of the A ukon
Gold Company, with their families, have
recently moved to the new power plant on
the Iditarod river, at the mouth of Otter
creek.
Mrs. Oscar Gardner of Flat creek is |
suffering from a sprained ankle, caused by
a fall on slippery ice last Sunday,
Grant Murdock. Billy Taylor. George and
Jimmy Kav. Malcolm McDonald, Chester
Brink and Ivan Wales of Flat City attended
the A. B. lance in this city last Wednesday
night.
Mavor Claude Baker recently purchased
a frame building in the lower part of the
town and has removed it to his residence
mi Richmond street, where it will he useu
to enlarge his home.
Billy Ptoneman was a visitor in the city ;
for a few days this week from Hat.
The stock of wall paper and paints of ]
the estate of the late Henry Schneider has
been removed to the building at the corner
of First and Willow streets lately occupied
by A. B. Rome.
C. A. Duffy received a letter on the last
mail from his son, W. t Duffy, who re
cently left tor the Outside. Mr. Duffy
made the trip to Seward in thirteen da\s
and was in Seattle twenty days after leaving
Iditarod.
\ telegram, received in this city on Thur.-'
dav last from Frank Morgan, who convoyed
Mrs. Campbell and Miss Murray to Seward
by dog team states that the party arrived
ill that city on the 16th inst
Commissioner Albrecht has been officially
notified of the apprehension of ex-Deputv
Marshal Kelday on the charge of larceny
by bailee at San Francisco, and his release
oil bonds to appear for trial in Iditarod on
July 1. 1015.
ADAMS & HUDSON,
Painters, Paperhangers, Dec
orators and Kalsominers
OFFICE ADAMS HOUSE
We are prepared to do any of the
above classes of work with neatness and
dispatch, and in a workmanlike manner.
Give us a chance to figure on your
spring work.
There will be a Saie at Miss Peterson's
Store, at Richmond and First streets,
beoinning Monday, March 8.
1-3 OFF
On all Dresses, Waists, Underwear,
Night Gowns, Toweis and all Curtain
Goods.
ONE-FOURTH OFF ON SHOES
This Sale Will Conclude on
Monday Evening, March 22
RUSH TO THE NORTH
REPORTED FROM COAST
Word comes over the Seward trail to the
effect that something in the nature of a
stampede is in progress from Seattle and
other Pacific coast ports to Alaska, one re
port stating that passenger accommodations
on vessels making Seward their destination
were booked ahead up to July. The travel
northward is in anticipation of the com
mencement of construction work on the
government railroad projects. It is said
that some anxiety is felt as to the result
of the somewhat p'remature rush. The new
comers are .-aid to be mostly laborers, with
little means, and as nothing definite has
vet been announced as to when construc
tion will commence, it is probable that there
will be much destitution.
It is believed that large numbers of the
new arrivals will make their way to the
Interior camps.
OSTEOPATHIC MASSAGES WITH ELEC
TRIC VIBRATION
Increases the blood supply to the muscle,
renders it firmer, more healthy and more
elastic.
And it will rapidly diminish contracted
muscles and soreness and the tense hard
ness due to local status so characteristic of
the affected parts.
After the first treatment, properly admin
istered, the parts treated usually have a
feeling of warmth and comfort.
THE CROSBY MASSAGE AND BATH
PARLORS
The Home of the Twentieth Century Turk
I ish Bath
RING US UP___ANY SERVICE WE CAN DO YOU_RING US UP
WESTERN UNION AND BEDFORD-McNEIL COdIs NO TROUBLE TO FORWARD YOUR MAIL THE AMERICANA—16 VOLUMES FIRST EDITIONS OF THE NEW ALASKA MINING CODE
Marquette Rye a drinking plage for men National Club Bourbon
GEORCE MARSH BUD WEISER IDITAROD FLAT CITY THE BRANCH ED ANDERSON
MANY GOING TO
NOOSE SOCIAL
From paily-morning indications, all roads
lead to Flat City today. And, as the maga
zine advertisement says, “there’s a reason.”
At Moose hall in that city tonight the
Moose lodge will give a social entertainment
land dance that promises to he a splendid
affair from start to finish. A program of
unusual excellence has been prepared tor
the edification of the lodge’s guests, and
there’ll certainly be a crowded house to en
joy the fun. There will he a few surprises
among the numbers that will cause great
merriment.
All the ladies of the surrounding country
are invited by the lodge, and their escorts
(whether or not they are members of the
Moose I will receive a hearty welcome.
CHARLES THOMPSON MISSING
Postmaster Wile has received a letter
fr, in Mr.-. Emma Thompson, 1411 Sixteenth
.-.net. West Oakland, Cal., inquiring for
Charles Thompson, who was supposed to be
in Iditarod. A letter was inclosed for Mr.
Thumps- a ami one was also set-.', to George
imvn. He is described as about six feet in
h i-ht, weighs 174 pounds, has blue eyes
and black hair, mixed with gray. He has
a scar on his neck.
SENATOR RODEN OF ALASKA
(Juneau Empire. Feb. at
Senator Henry Roden of Alaska- for Mr.
Roden says that is his address at the
present time—was in the capital city last
night. He is a passenger on the steamship
Alameda for Cordova, on his way to Idita
rotl on legal business.
A1 Berglund, proprietor of a trading post
on the Crooked river, was on a business
trip to this city last Thursday.
Miss Marie Coolidge came to the city
last Wednesday to attend the A. B. dance.
AnsBey’s
Is the place to get
Clothing, Underwear, Sox,
Shoes, Hats, Caps, Cigars,
Tobaccos, Pipes, Snuff, Drugs
and Patent Medicines, Cosmetics
Rubber Goods, P'noio Supplies.
Your Films Developed and
Pictures Made.
Aissley's
ldilarod
Pure and sweet. Once you try it, you will eat no other. Insist
on getting it
Sam’l Applebaum
A. J.
The Home of Hart, Schaffner & Marx Clothes
Dog Bacon, ISg.
Dog Ham, 10g.
Dog Butter, /Os.
C. R. PECK, FLAT CITY X'2\l "C** ' |
Best Line ot WHISKIES AND WINES tn tlis Gamp
MONOGRAM, MARQUETTE, NATIONAL CLUB,
GIBSON RYE (ALSO SCOTCH), and ail lines of
Whiskies bottled in bond, per bottle.
Imported Port and Sherry, Three Star Hennessey and Bulk Whiskies cut in
proportion
PHONE “RAMPS” At the PIONEER
Just Received
A Choice Lot of the Latest
Victor Phonograph Records
Come In and Hear Them
SMITH'S CUN STORE,
IDITAROD. ALASKA
MRS. HILLMAN SUES,
AND THEN SHE REPENTS
LOP ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 25.- Alleging
cruelty, Mrs. Clarence D. Hillman, who
came here from Seattle two years ago,
yesterday tiled suit for divorce from her
husband, the former Seattle real estate
dealer. A few hours later she announced
that she had effected a reconciliation and
that the suit would be withdrawn. Hill
man said business had caused him to neglect
his wife, and that she had grown lonely,
and in a fit of anger had filed the suit.
INJURIES OF BISHOP’S SON
NOT THOUGHT DANGEROUS
(Juneau Empire, Feb. 2)
Bishop P. T. Rowe received a telegram
today saying that the injuries to his son,
who was burned Saturday night by an ex
ploding gasoline lamp, are not dangerous,
and are such as to cause no alarm. The
bishop will, therefore, continue his trip to
the westward and into the Interior, leaving
Juneau on the Alameda.
SALES OF REAL ESTATE
Sam'l Applebaum has purchased the two
story building adjoining his store on First
street.
C. R. Peck is named as the purchaser of
the Kempf building, adjoining the old post
office on First street, transfer of which
was made this week.
JIM B l PIONEER.
DIES AT VICTORIA
I
(Dawson News, January 22)
A telegram was received today by Daw
son Lodge No. 1 of the Yukon Order of
Moneers. stating that Jim Beck, one of the
oldest and best known members of the
order, died yesterday in Victoria. He passed
away at the Jubilee hospital in Victoria
after an illness of several weeks. He left
here last fall suffering from a cancer in
the abdominal region. During the last year
or two he had been in poor health.
Jim Beck was 70 years or more of age.
He came to the Yukon, says Tom O'Brien,
in 1895, accompanied by his brother, Bob.
They had mined for years in British Co- i
lumbia, and are said to have crossed the
divide to the Cassiar via Teslin lake. Jim
landed at Fortymile in 1895, was in Circle
in 1895, and came to Dawson in 1897, and
had been in the Yukon country mining
e(]£J since. His brother Bob died in Vic
toria in 1911.
Earl Byers Iditarod’s chief of police, has
received from a correspondence school for
detectives in Boston, Mass., an invitation
to take up a course of study in the art of
thief-taking and kindred subjects. It is
probable that if Earl decides to make the
profession his life work he may take a post
graduate course.
CAMPBELL SEEKS WITNESS
TO PROVE HIS INNOCENCE
Joseph Campbell, the man convicted in
Iditarod in 1912 of the murder of the Nel
son brothers, in the Kuskokwim country,
and sentenced to life imprisonment, has
written the following letter from the fed
eral penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., to
the postmaster at Nome:
“Dear Sir: I am going to ask a favor of
you, although I do not know whether or
not you will be able to help me.
“I am trving to locate a man by the
name of Billy Barnhart; the name, how
ever, may tie differently spelled, but this is
as near as I can remember. I left Barnhart
at Rayson Mission, on the Yukon, about
July 10. 1911.
“At that time he was undecided whether
he would go to Ruby or not. 1 have
caused inquiries to be made all over the
upper country, but so far have not been
able to get any trace of him. I know that
he had been in the Nome country before,
and I now think it possible that he may
have drifted back around there some place,
possibly in some of the smaller outlying
camps. I have been compelled to put peo
ple to a considerable amount of trouble in
this matter, and 1 am sorry to have to do
it, but I am here in the penitentiary serv
ing a life sentence for a crime I never com
mitted. If I could find this man Barnhart
and one or two more I am looking for I
could prove my innocence and possibly get
out of here. It is possible you have heard
of my case. 1 was arrested in June, 1912,
at Ruby, Alaska, and later on, in the fall,
I was convicted of having killed the Nelson
brothers.
They were supposed to have been killed
in June or July, 1911, on their way down
the Kuskokwim river, on a stampede into
that country. I was going down the river
on the same stampede, and that is how I
happened to be convicted of the crime. I
was acquainted with the Nelsons and good
friends with them. 1 did not know they
had been killed until shortly before I was
arrested in Ruby. At the time of my first
trial I hardly knew what witnesses I would
need, and when the trial was over it was
too late to procure them, and those I would
have had to help me could not be located,
[f there is any way you can help me in
finding the whereabouts of Barnhart I will
very much appreciate your kindness and it
may help to secure the liberty of an inno
cent man who is serving time for a crime
he never committed.
“Yours respectfully.
“JOSEPH CAMPBELL."
LUSITANIA STRATEGEM
UNFAIR TO UNITED STATES
LONDON, Feb. 9. Asserting that the
Lusitania adopted a “permissible stratagem
it, hoisting the American flag to avoid dan
ger in the final staee of her dash for
Liverpool," the Manchester Guardian de
clares: “An act may he perfectly lawful
without being expedient or altogether fair.
The paper says:
“The fact that our fastest liner had to
change her flag has shocked our pride as
much as the loss of the ship would have
shocked humanity. If all or many of our
merchant liners were to do the same the
result would be, as American papers are
pointing out, to diminish the value of pro
tection given by the American flag. Nut
only would that be undignified in us and
unworthy the nation wnich rules the seas,
hut it also would he unfair to the United
States and it would reflect on us the same
indignation as was aroused by Germany s
threat to disregard neutral flags.”
IMPORTANT STRIKE MADE
NEAR CITY OF NOME
NOME. Jan. 19.—Edward (“Nugget”)
Johnson, a well-known miner in the Nome
district, has struck gold on a tundra lake
near Montroville, half way between Nome
and Little Creek, about two miles from
Nome. Johnson is working the ground un
der lease from a large gold-mining com
pany. The strike was kept secret about two
weeks, and the news has just leaked out.
Johnson drifted under the frozen lake
end found a body of gravel four feet deep,
Carrying values with an average of 40 cents
(* pan. Drifting has been done for a con
siderable distance. The pay continues to
hold as far as the ground has been drifted,
and Johnson says he has at least $100,000
(already blocked cut.
Many miners think this strike is a con
tinuation of the Walrus, on Little creek,
which produced a million a few years ago.
Numerous mining outfits are now prospect
ing in the vicinity of the strike, and mining
activities have received a new impetus.
McCarthy people divided
OVER DELICATE SUBJECT
The new school promised the town of
McCarthy by Delegate Wickersham on his
last visit has brought up another problem
more puzzling to solve. It is the question
of a teacher. One faction wants a teacher
voung and prettv, while the other faction
wants an equally efficient but homely
teacher.
Old-timers, pointing to the example of
other camps, declare that a young and
pretty teacher will not be able to stand
out the first month, but will succumb to
the many offers of marriage which it is
confidently declared will come from the
susceptible sourdoughs and lonely miners
of the creeks.
The parents of the children to be edu
cated want a plain, if not positively homely,
teacher—one who will stay on the job
while the ardent would-be swains are just
as warmly espousing the cause of beauty.
Frank Keenan, George Adams, G. E. Aus
tin, Percy Charles, George Marsh, Harry
Harmon, Isadore Bayles, Sam’l Applebaum
C. E. Taylor and several other members of
the Pioneers went to Flat City last Thurs
day night to attend the semi-monthly meet
ing of the igloo.
Bayles Clothing Co.
IDITARCD DISCOVERY, OTTER
—
j Cyril P. Wood, the Iditarod factor of ;h-*
Northern Commercial Company, returned
late Wednesday night from a trip to Ta
kotna, McGrath, Ophir and Candle creek.
While at Takotna he instituted Takotna
Igloo No. 11, Pioneers of Alaska, which
started doing business with a list of thirty
two members. The charter, as is the cus
tomary procedure in such cases, will remain
open for a period of thirty days, and at
the expiration of that period it is quite
certain that at least sixty names will ap
pear on the charter granted by the grand
igloo. Mr. Wood is very much pleased with
the success he had in the formation of the
new igloo, and says the old-timers took to
the proposition like young ducks to water.
The membership of the new igloo is com
posed almost wholly of pioneers residing on
the Kuskokwim river, and it is highly prob
able that a charter will be applied for
shortly to establish an igloo at Ophir City,
where many old residenters reside.
Officers Elected
President Captain J. H. McLean.
First Vice-President- E. M. Whalen.
Second Vice-President Charles Reabaum.
Secretary Archie Higgins.
Treasurer Adolph Carlson.
Historian Harry Lawrence.
Sergeant at Arms -Chris Peterson,
i Trustees 1L S. Eldridge of Candle, John
! Estleman of McGrath and Charles Smith of
Takotna.
ALASKA APPROPRIATIONS
AMOUNTED TO $2,868,000
WASHINGTON. Feb. 5. The .-uirl-y
' ' , 1 ■ ■ Mi. I)~ I. H £1 ! :■ ' ■'!
appropriations aggregating ?2,8,.SA0J i r,
Aia-ka. including an i;em i.f WiU i.t
I continuing work on the Juneau public build
j ing. The bill appropriates $2,000,000 for
| Alaska railroad construction and $289,000
1 for the construction cf two vessels for the
| Alaska coast survey. Other appropriations
I will permit Secretary of Commerce William
■ C. Redficld to place two additional wire
} drags in the Alaska service.
! The complete list of Alaska appropriations
i is as follows:
Alaska railroad construction. $2,000,000;
construction of two vessels for Alaska coast
'survey. $289,000; continuing the Juneau
public building, $75,000; seal regulation,
j $65,000; Alaska fisheries service, $29,000;
t investigation of mineral resources, $100,
000; care of insane, $75,000; education of
natives, $200,000; regulation of liquor traf
fic, $15,000; protection of game, $20,000.
ONLY WIRELESS USED
I Wireless has now practically usurped the
place of the land lines between St. Michael
and Gibbon, ami messages are now radio
graphed from Gibbon to Nulato and from
Nulato to Nome. The heavy storms have
broken clown miles upon miles of the wires
| and posts in the land lines, and it is not
, likely hat any repairs will be attempted
[ before spring. The wireless gets the mes
sages through just the same, with, how
| ever, a delay for a counle of hours as a
1 general rule. Thus, messages which should
be ordinarily received about 9 come in at
11, and at 1, arrive about 3. This accounts
in some measure for the tardy issuance of
the daily paper.—Nome Industrial Worker.
Job Printing at Pioneer office.
FRESH VEGETABLES
NICE AND CRISP
Cabbage, Rutabagas,
Celery, Turnips, Carrots,
Parsnips and Beets
CROWLEY & PORTER
IDITAROD The House of Quality
WIFE CF CHIEF JOHN
SEPARATED FROM AFFINITY
(Fairbanks Citizen i
How Chief John of the Gakona Indians
thwarted the plans of the youngest of his
two wives to escape and elope with Chief
Henry of the Salcachet tribe is told by
people arriving front the coast by way of
the trail on Saturday.
Chief John is getting well along in years,
and thus when the younger chief from this
side of the Alaska range met the young
wife < i the former she was soon captivated
by his youth and strength. It was dis
covered by the older chief that an elope
ment was planned, and he began to take
precautions to prevent it.
Chief Henry set up a tent on the Chitina
trail, this side of the mountains, and ac
cording to previous agreement, waited there
for the object of his affections to come
to him at such a time as she could escape
from the vigilance of her lord and master.
The young wife made good her escape
a few days ago, but the old chief was
swift in pursuit, and overtook her about
the time she reached the young chief’s
tent. Then she was led home by the ear.
it is reported.
JITNEY BUSSES BECOMING
MENACE TO STREET CARS
SEATTLE, Feb. 20. The number of jit
ney busses appears to increase daily. All
kinds of autos are pressed into service, from
the seven-passenger limousine car to the
small Ford, the latter, however, being
largely in the majority. One of the news
papers the other day summed up the Se
attle situation as follows:
“Jitney Cabs Increasing in Numbers
Over 650 Already Licensed—Carrying Daily
Seventy-five Thousand Passengerss—Means
Great Curtailment in Street Car Service
if Not Final Destruction - Means Reduction
in Suburban Property Values and Corre
spending Reduction in Taxable Value.
May Mean Complete Suspension of Street
Car Service and an Enormous Loss to hte
City."
ITALY PREPARING FOR
EARLY INTERVENTION
ROME. Feb. 8. -All foreigners now re
siding in Italy are being subjected to the
most rigid surveillance on the part of the
authorities. When the time comes for Italy
to carry out its present plans of intervening
in the war for the purpose of retaking
the two provinces of Trieste and Trent, as
well as a portion of the Dalmatian coast,
she does not propose to have her efforts
handicapped by the presence of any in'
ccuous-looking strangers who might in real
ity be spies. All Germans now in Italy arc
being watched with especial care and every
effort is being made to ascertain whether
or not their alleged reasons for being here
are the actual ones. In addition to this
surveillance the minister of foreign af
fairs is also preparing a list of the foreign
ers whom Italy deems it will be desirable
to expel the moment that hostilities be
come certain.
Letters received by the last mail from
Charley Miller, formerly proprietor of the
Merchants cafe in this city, state that he
is thinking seriously of going in for farming.
He and Mrs. Miller are at his old home at
Lancaster, Pa.
Job Printing at Pioneer office.
For Generali Express and Deliver'1'
of Wood in the City
Leave Orders at Iditarod Hotel
DAN HARTNET