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LET’S GIVE OURSELVES THREE CHEERS
The P. M, G., meaning his Nobs, the Postmaster
General has turned down the appeal of the Iditarod and of
Alaska's friends in Seattle, for a weekly mail service foi
this section. He says, “Tut tut, we haven’t got the money,
and if we had you wouldn't get it any way.”
In the same week comes the news that the attorney
general has cut out a few important provisions of the liquor
law which he does not think belong there, and by a pro-;
cess of judicial legislation, attempts to put all of the bar-!
rooms of Alaska out of existence with one stroke of the pen.
Say, let’s secede from the blooming country and go over;
and live with the Russians.
With regard to that weekly service business, fair and
honest reader, we have only this to say “To hell with|
them.” We have wasted more good paper ringing the!
changes on the mail situation than seems justified, while
our ambassadors in Seattle have spread around big iron
dollars in telegraph tolls. Hence for the time being we
will holler “S’nnfl,” and let her go at that. Resides if we!
did start to say anything we would only swell up and begin
to splutter with a choice line of cuss words that would have!
to be mailed to Hitchcock private.
But when it comes to this Wickersham-Grossley dictum j
about no man being able to sell a bottle of liquor in thisj
territory, it gives us a chance to discuss the thing in a calm j
and impassiouate manner for of all the asinine doings we j
have ever heard of, this is it.
It all came about through the migration to the North-!
laud of the reformer from tlie corn belt. Knowing corn on
its native heath, he was naturally all swelled up and
thought to teach ns all about “corn” in Alaska. He was
sent as an appointee to the office of district attorney of the
fourth judicial district, but lie came as a reformer of the
rough and uncouth ways of the Northerner. He has over
stepped the bounds of his office so many times,—always
with his ear to the ground to catch any vibrations from
Washington—that he is now believed to be more intimately
identified with the missionary movement in Alaska than
with the judicial branch of the government.
Immediately upon taking up his duties here, Crosslev
cast a worried optic in the direction of the down-trodden
aborigine. He perceived that the red-skin was getting too
much red-eye and it fretted his sensitive nature to a degree.
He set the machinery of justice in motion and threw many
an honest underground-railroader into the booby hutch,
securing a comiction now and then showing that a bottle
of home-grown tanglefoot had passed from the busy marts
of trade into the out-stretched hands of a copper-lined son
of the wilderness, contrary to the statute in such case made
and provided.
These abortive attempts did not satisfy the thirsting
soul of our patriot. He must skin the cat some other way,
wherefore he pondered long and deeply within the confines
of his sacred sanctum at Fairbanks.
To make a long story short, Crosslev cooked up this
construction of the liquor law, about the stuff being con
sumed on the premises, which, s’elp me, has never before
been thought of by God or man. Wherefore it can he
readily seen that Crosslev put one over on Jehova.
Tn his fantastic zeal for the Si wash, our knight forgot
all about the thousands of straightforward and open-fisted
saloon men in Alaska who paid their money to secure their
licenses to sell booze because the people wanted it. He for
got that they paid out their good dollars in the purchase
of a stock that they could sell by the drink, by the bottle,
or by the gallon, and he knew blamed well that when the
law was passed, the legislators had no such damn foolishness
in mind that the purchaser should drink his gallon on the
premises. In order to get at a few crummy, little road
houses along the Yukon, where the natives were securing
Merchants €afe>
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liquor, he calmly tries to wreck the liquor business of Alaska.
Through some miracle he gets the approbation of “Our
Friend” George Wickersham, the attorney general. From
the letter he sent back, it is evident that George gave the
matter but a fleeting thought, and coincided with Crossley
to save worry.
Under the law, as it is now interpreted, the sale of liquor
in larger quantities than a drink, or in less quantities than
five gallons is stopped. The former you can secure under
a barrom or retail license,—the latter under a wholesale
license. The construction is utterly absurd, and of course,
no one will pay any attention to it. He would be a full
sized chump if he did.
Crossley knows that it’s wrong, and so does the attorney gene
ral. We suspect a niggerhead in the woodpile, however, and it is
this. By balling the law up in this outlandish manner, Crossley
hopes to force an issue and secure the passage of an amendment,
requiring three different licenses, to-wit: wholesale, retail and
barroom. Thus will he have saved the aborigine.
Now its all right to save the redskin, but let it be done by
some oilier method. The liquor traffic of this territory has suffered
enough regulation, and we need no Moses to lead us out of the
wilderness.
THE CASE OF IVIR. GRANT
Some time ago we had occasion to tear out a few
bunches of hair over the fact that the court at Fairbanks is
engaged in the highly commendable practice of ruining
the business of certain of our well-known citizens by drag
ging them away to Fairbanks in the mid-winter season at
great expense and inconvenience, when it would be much
better for all concerned if the court were to pass those mat
ters until they could be heard here.
This week, we got our answer right in the neck, for
bless us, there is a man in the jail right now whose case has
been passed until the court sets here.
This man was accused last fall of assisting another man
to steal four dollars and fifty cents worth of oats. He was
placed in the federal club building and has been there
something over four months. He was taken before the
local commissioner during the early period of his incar
ceration, and having been bound over to the grand jury,
he has been held here pending some word from those higher
up.
From a hurried calculation, it is now costing the
govenment Slo a day to keep this man in jail, to say noth
ing of the wood that is burned. He is supposed to have
swiped a sack of oats, but his pal, who was afterwards
caught, says that he did it and that Grant is innocent.
Now then, it appears mighty strange that they should
be in such a hurry to get that Sheedy case before the giand
jury and leave Grant down here to get fat at the expense of
the government, the while he pines for liberty, and would
be at large, oats or no oats. Somebody said that they had
to put Sheedy up before the jury or they would have had
to count him out, but if that is* so, why not Grant ? It
seems to be a strange inconsistency, but either way you
take it, the government and the citizen is getting the worst
of it.
Aii English periodical compared the Kaiser’s poetry
| with that of Mr. Alfred Austin. War between Germany
-and England probably cannot be avoided much longer—
j Washington Herald.
Why not put Mr. Ballinger’s face on the postage
stamps' He is one of the greatest stickers this country
ever saw.—Grand Rapids Press.
“i like the earth,” says John D. Rockefeller. Prideof
possession is one of the strongest of human traits.—Roches
ter Post-Express.
'Discovery Otter lews items
Man.v are returning dailv from the
Kuskokwim, bringing in dogs aiui Imdlv
decimated out lit s. Their news of the
country is not encouraging.
Bain & Peterson started putting on
the roof of their big pool room (24x48)
on Main street, last Wednesday, This
is one of the biggest buildings in the
town, and will soon be ready for occu
pancy.
Karl Thiel, proprietor of the cigar
store and billiard room, began work
this week on a 20x30 addition lo his al
ready extensive premises.
Ciu-slcy, Iiyan & Kehoe will begin
work on a warehouse in the near fu
ture. __
Wiil See Him Saw on Otter
Starting about the middle of the
week, Karl Slippern, of the Klippern
boys’ sawmills of Iditarod and Flat,
began excavations for the foundation
of Ills Discovery mill, which will he
running on Otter creek just as soon as
it will be possible to get the mill set
up and logs on the ground.
The boiler is at Discovery, and the
mill carriage will be hauled up from
Fiat. It is planned to saw some 200.000
feet for Discovery to be used by Riley
&. Hurston, and for the building opera
tions of the town. Following the saw
ing of a sufficient supply for Otter, the
mill will probably be moved down lo
Flat for further work next summer.
This story was told by a preacher: A
| man died and went to the bad place,
where he took on a pompous and over
bearing manner. Finally the devil ap
proached him and said: "Who are you,
any way V You act as though you owned
tills place.” "! do own it,’’ replied the
man: "my wife gave it to me before I
died.’’ _
Fives examined free—Simpson’s.
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DR. B. F. BROOKS,
J Over Merchants Cafe, First Avenue.
Telephone 30
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Dr. Heinrich Wortniann,
Office at City Drug Store, Tel. 30
First Ave., Bet. Willow and Richmond
DR. E. T. BRADBURY,
Dentist
Over Merchants Cafe, First Avenue
Telephone 30-13
CHAS. D. CARTER,
Ben fist
Offices, Pioneer Drug Stores,
Flat Creek
McGowan, Clark & Albrecht
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Iditarod. Alaska Phone No. 1
| The Pioneer Attorneys of This Camp
ALFRED E. MALTBY,
ft'. S. Commissioner]
Attorney at Law
Notary Public
Practice only in District Court. IDiTAROE
J. 5. HARDING,
Attorney at Law
Room 1, Iditarod Hotel
Iditarod. Alaska
CHAS. E. TAYLOR,
Attorney at Law,
Notary Public, Conveyancing,
Abstracts of Titles
Iditarod City
A. J. DALY,
Attorney at Law
WILL ARRIVE ON THE FIRST COAT
919-923 Leary Building, Seattle, Wash.
All Commissions Given Personal Attention.
DUKE E. STL'BBS,
U. S. Deputy Surveyor
Civil and Mining Engineer
Assayer—Determinations ct Cold. Silver, Mer
cury, Platinum, Uranium, Lead, Tin,
Tungsten, Monazite
GICORGKTOWN, ALASKA
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Sixteen scientists belonging to the
Canadian geological survey have ar
rived at Winnipeg from Hudson bay,
after encountering many hardships
owing to the extreme cold. They had
to mush 1,100 miles.
A hundred girls who were caught in
a burning factory at Atlanta. Gn., were
saved by the heroism of the firemen.
Dredging machinery worth half a
million dollars is being constructed in
Seattle for use in the Nome mining
district.
Senator Works, of Los Angeles, says
Roosevelt is only a make-believe in
surgent.
Several high-school and college stu
dents in Russia have been exiled to Si
beria for making a demonstration after
the suicide of one fiasonnoff.
John Redmond, the leader of the
Irish Nationalists, has been confirmed
as president of the United Irish League.
Senator Fletcher declares that the
actions of Secretary Ballinger were
just inside the line of criminal guilt.
Trouble growing out of litigation re
garding oil leases led A. L. l'ruskett, a
prominent business man of Cannev,
Kan., to shoot and kill D. S. Neeley,
also a leading oil magnate. A mob at
tempted to lynch Truskett.
The liquor dealers of Tacoma have
demanded the recall of Mayor Fawcett.
In retaliation, the mayor has issued
orders that all saloons be closed at ti
p.m.
At Kansas City last month Frank
Gotch won two straight falls front
Ameiicua.
A Fan Antonio message says that the
Mexican revolutionists defeated the
federal troops in a 30-hour battle.
I A new oil company has been organ
i ized at Philadelphia to deal with Alas
| kan properties.
The U. S. navy will be increased
during the year to the extent of two
battleships, two colliers, eight torpedo
boat destroyers and four submarines.
Fifteen were burned to death at a
fire w hich occurred at the Western
hospital, Toronto, last month.
Senator LaFollette itas written a let
j ter to President Taft, asking if the
latter is trying to dodge a decision on
the Cunningham coal claims.
A representative of the Guggen
j heims appeared before the House cotn
j mittee on territories and urged that
railroads in Alaska be exempt from
the license tax of $100 a mile.
W. Dilling was elected mayor of Se
attle February 11. ffe appointed Cap'.
i Bannick chief of police to succeed
I Wappenstein, dismissed.
John Hays Hammond, self-selected
candidate fur vice-president at the last
national Republican convention, is op
posed to tHe Republican Progressive
League. He says it is directed against
President Taft.
A monument to the late K. H. Harri
man was unveiled at Arden on Febru
ary 25. The monument was designed
by Hilaries Kaninsry, who married
Harriman's d tughier last year.
The L'nitrd States government has
refused to recognize the Portuguese
republic, until the people have ex
pressed their opinion on the change at
a general election.
A 42-storv building will he erected
in Seattle. The plans have been ap
proved by the city council.
President Robin, who is accused cf
wrecking the Northern Batik <>f New
York city, created a sensation before
the investigating c mimission bv stat
ing that Morgan and other iinanciers
were forcing weak institutions to the
wall, so that they might pick up bar
gains.
A Seattle dispatch of l’t-ln miry 12
states that the spirit city is "tighter
than hades" at the present time. Chief
of Police Bannick has warned all un
desirables to get out of the city. The
saloons are now clo-ed at midnight on
Saturday, insir.td of 1 u.m Sunday as
here! afore.
Twenty-four Sht iners, together with
their wives and families, lei: I, - An
geles recent1;, on a trip to the Hawai
ian Islands, whore a lodge is about to
be installed.
Alderman Merriman, of Chicago, i-;
ambitious to be mayor of the windy
city. To further his object he offers
to accept $10,000 yearly instead of *ls..
OOD, the salary at pro -*>U111- pH 1 *.l.
Douglas Papar 12 Years Old
As an evidence that Alaska is not as
new a country as some people imagine,
it is cited that the Douglas Island News
on November 24tb, completed the 12th
year of its publication on Do iglas
island. _
Save the pieces! broken lenses re
placed at Simpson's.
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