Large Assortment CHRISTMAS GOODS Al Lowest Prices
Leading Jeweler of the North J. L. SALE McDonald Hotel Bldg, Iditarod
Miners & Merchants Bank
IDITAROD, ALASKA
Capital, $50,000.00
General Banking Business Transacted Gold Dust Bought and Assayed
Drafts Issued on Any Part of the World
SEATTLE CORRESPONDENT: SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BANK
OFFICERS:
CHAS. ROSS, President
JOHN HOLMES, Cashier
R. C. BUTTON, Asst. Cashier
LADIES, ATTENTION! |„3 OFF
on all ready-made goods, such as Ladies Fur Coats, Cloth Suits,
Dresses and Waists. Latest styles to select from
BIG REDUCTIONS ON RIBBONS AND LACES
H SCHLAPIK, DRY GQQDS AND LADIES’ furnishings
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Danny Bryce arrived in town hist Sun
day from Bear creek. After remaining a
few days he started over the Seward trail
cn a business trip to the States.
Paralysis, locomotor ataxia, scientifically
treated at the Crosby Massage and Bath
Parlors.
Fine and ri[>e limburger cheese.
Crowley ife Porter.
Charles E. Seneco, who has been con
nected with the transportation business of
the camp for the past three years, has left
or will shortly leave over the Seward trail
for the Outside.
Fresh celery and cabbage.
Crowley & Porter.
Good dog feed, 10c lb.
Iditarod Meat Co.
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WHAT CAN I GET THEM FOR CHRISTMAS?
Safety Razors.$1.00 to $15.00
Kodaks and Premos. 2.50 to 90.00
Box Writing Paper. 1-00 to 5.00
Fountain Pens . 1-00 to 20.00
Fancy Box Candies. 1.00 to 5.00
Mechanical Toys . 1.00 to 2.50
Assortment of Dolls.50 to 4.00
Rabbits That Jump, Dogs That Bark, Horns, Rattles,
Snakes, Books, Balls, Games, and Many
Other Nice Christmas Presents
HURRY UP AND GET FIRST CHOICE AT
Ansley’s Book Store,
IDITAROD, ALASKA
CLEMONS & KOON
PORTRAIT AND VIEW
> Photographers
To Remain in the District Only a Few Weeks
Will Visit All the Towns of the Gamp
Corner Wickersham and Front streets, F'lat City.
MERCHANTS CAFE
Caters to Large and Small Parties
PRIVATE DINING ROOMS
Popular Prices Everything First Class
CHAS. E. MILLER, PROP.
T!««t ■ <*old St” Fut City
1 IIP Mrs. Swanson, Prop.
I IIW ■ MfllM Dining Room Now Open
Nicely Furnished Rooms Barn for Horses and Dogs Baths in Connection
¥% |0 S PIONEER DRUG STORE
I’JT ■ % FLAT ClTY, ALASKA
A FEW FACTS
Greece has 345,950 acres in vineyards.
Cotton is the chief crop of southern
India.
Egypt in 1912 imported goods valued at
$128,062,035.
China in 1912 exported 82,244 packages
of firecrackers.
Hungary exports much of its hay crop
at $15 to $18 a ton.
Peru has passed a law to encourage irri
gation projects in every possible way
Swiss will colon!re ',000,000 acres or land
along Magdalena bay, Lower California
Ceylon has about 1,000 mines for plum
b'go, that country.-' most important min
<ial product.
The spring sheep shearing in Utah
brought about 13,000.000 pounds of wool
from 2,000,000 sheep.
A sailing vessel built 103 years ago re
cently began another voyage from England
to South Africa.
Irrigation has been practiced in Spain
nearly a century, the first canal having
been begun in 1814.
The official headquarters of the Percheron
horse industry are at Nogent-le-Rotrou, near
Paris.
A motor-driven reciprocating saw has
been patented by a California inventor for
.dicing meats evenly.
There are nearly 6,000 professional for
esters in Germany who are associated with
various technical societies.
The people of the United States read
and support as many newspapers as Eng
land, France and Germany combined.
The German navy has converted an old
torpedo boat into a combined tugboat and
ice breaker for use around Berlin.
The government of Panama has given a
new concession for the establishment of a
hippodrome near Panama City.
The Panama canal lock gates are receiv
ing a coating of marine paint that will av
erage one-sixteenth of an inch thick.
The United States and Russia together
own about one half the horses in the world,
each having about 21,000,000 head.
A motor-driven machine, operated by one
man. has been invented to harvest sugar
cane and deliver it ready for the mill.
By inventing delicate apparatus a Rus
sian scientist proved that light waves ex
erted a measurable mechanical pressure.
The Asiatic town of Maiwatch, on the
borders of Russia, is peopled by men only.
Women are forbidden entrance there.
Two of the largest circuses carry their
own electric plant, illuminating everything
from the largest to the smallest tents.
A portable machine has been patented by
a North Carolinian for cutting leather belts
or perforating them accurately for splicing.
Greece possesses a curious criminal law.
A person condemned to death there waits
two years before the excution of the sen
tence.
The value of the grindstones and pulp
stones produced in the United States last
year was the greatest in the history of the
industry.
The Balkan war brought about a rise in
certain lumber prices in Europe because of
the big demand for wood for ammunition
boxes.
To keep automobilists’ feet warm in cold
weather an Englishman has invented a hot
water tank with foot-shaped depressions in
the top.
According to a French experimenter, the
temperature of the carbon filament in an
ordinary incandescent lamp approaches 2,900
degrees.
The German army expects to spend
nearly $25,000,000 in the next five years
for dirigible balloons and aeroplanes, and
the navy half as much.
A single turn of a corkscrewlike imple
ment that a Pennsylvanian has patented
cuts out the core of a grapefruit and loos
ens the pulp from the skin.
Nearly 70 per cent of the residents of
the United States are using electricity in
some form every day, if only for telephon
ing or ringing door bells.
Trade in human hair is a big industry
abroad, exports sometimes reaching a total
of $3,000,000 to $4,000,000 a year. Italian
merchants lead in the trade.
The first extensive list of books and arti
cles on industrial, trade and vocational edu
cation yet compiled has just been issued
by the United States bureau of education.
In the hope of introducing it into the
United States, an expert from the depart
ment of agriculture has been sent to Man
churia to get specimens of a peach that
weighs a pound.
In 1912 British Columbia admitted 56.817
settlers, not including settlers from the mid
dle west of Canada, as follows: Great
Britain, 16,518; United States, 28,688; oth
ers, 11,611.
Of the 220,002 Germans who emigrated
in 1881, 206,189, or 93 per cent, went to
the United States. Throughout the suc
ceeding three decades the proportion
ranged about 90 per cent.
In most parts of China wood is very
-carcc and costly. Most of the trees were
cut down long ago, and everey year dry
leaves and grass are raked and gathered
with the utmost care.
The Tasmanian apple orchard e'ght years
old will net the owner in an average year
from $200 to $300 an acre. The increase
of orchard area in Tasmania is at the rate
of 2,000 acres a year.
Chinamen are at present showing a
strong sentiment in favor of using Chinese
products instead of those of foreign origin.
This tendency is especially noteworthy in
the case of tobacco.
The coast land of western Norway is
almost devoid of forests, except where pro
tection is afforded from the sea winds. The
bulk of the forests, consisting of pine, birch
and spruce, are found farther in the in
terior, at the heads of the fjords and in the
valleys.
With the completion of the Canadian Pa
cific railway’s new passenger station, at a
cost of $1,000,000, and the terminals of the
Great Northern railway and the Canadian
Northern railway, at a cost of several mil
dons of dollars, Vancouver will be a rail
way center of importance.
BASQUE BAIL
NEW YEAR’S EVE
What promises to be one of the most
enjoyable events of the coming holiday
season will be the Comic Supplement
Masque Ball which is scheduled to take
place at A. B. hall in this city on New
Year’s eve, under the auspices of the en
tertainment committee of Camp No. 27.
It is proposed to give numerous and
valuable prizes for the best make-ups of
the many humorous ami ridiculous char
acters which have appeared in the colored
sections of the big Outside Sunday papers,
and 11 would be difficult to conceive any
thing more ludicrous than a large ami bril
liantly lighted ball room full of Katzenjam
mer Kids, Hooligans, Gloomy Guses, etc.,
cutting up all sorts of capers and dancing
about to the time of entrancing music.
The committeemen will held frequent
meetings to perfect the many arrangements,
and will be glad to receive suggestions from
anyone that may add to the mirth of the
ccasion. Splendid arrangements for the
convenience of out-of-town folks will be
made with the stage line people to enable
guests to reach their homes immediately
after the big event.
If you want to start the New Year off
right, make your date book read: ‘Big
Masque Ball at Iditarod, Wednesday eve,
December 31, 1913. Good night, old year."
Tom Aitken and ‘'Red” Ellis left last
Monday for Candle creek, on the Kusko
kwim river, where they will spend a few
| days, and then proceed toward Ophir, Crip
ple, Poorman, Long, Ruby, and then go to
i Hot Sphings to look after some mining in
, terests.
Mrs. Dickson, well known throughout the
district, is now in charge of the dining
room at the Adams house, in this city.
A. B. Rome, the hustling young clothier
of Discovery, was a visitor in the city last
Wednesday.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
! To Mat Pesola and E. Oksanen, and to your
heirs and a.-signs:
You and each of you are hereby notified
that the undersigned has expended in labor
i and improvements the sum of one hundred
| dollars (9100.00) for each or the years or
19 11, 19 12, 19 13, upon placer mining
1 claims numbers live and six (.Nos. 5 and o
above discovery, situated on Yankee creek,
| a tributary or Innoko river, in the Innoko
mining and recording district, District or
Alaska.
Lncation notices thereror being or record
in Vol. s at Page 63, and in Vol. 7. at
Page 289, or the records or location for
i said mining district.
You are further notified that ir at the
! expiration or ninety (90) days after the
j last publication of this notice you fail or
! refuse to contribute your proportion or
such expenditure, your interest in said
claims will become the property of the
undersigned, your co-owner, under Section
2324 or the Revised Statutes or the United
States.
Date or first publication, Dec. 6, 19 13.
Date of last publication, March 7. 1914.
CHARLES ANSIO, Co-Owner.
HO WDY, PAP !
The Loyal Order of Moose is now in all the principal camps of Alaska and Yukon
territories, and Iditarod can enjoy the same distinction if the citiiens so desire.
A lodge outfit is on the way, but no attempt will be made to institute unless 36
respectable English-speaking white men voluntarily make application.
The Moose is acknowledged to be the fastest-growing and most popular order in
the world—700,000 members in over 1,500 lodges scattered from Nome to Panama and
from Berlin to Manila—and only 25 years old.
All the members enjoy all the privileges of every Moose club house anywhere, and
the International Home University, where indigent Moose widows and orphans are cared
for, and Moose children given a college education absolutely free.
The lodge provides free medical attention for each member and his family, weekly
sick benefits when unable to work, funeral benefit in case of death, etc.
Charter initiation fee is $10, and covers all cost of joining. Dues are only $13 a
year, and no assessments.
A1 interested should send their names and addresses to Basil Clemons, district
(iirector Loyal Order of Moose, at Clemons & Koon’s studio, corner Wickersham and Front
streets, Flat City
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HOW LIVING COST
HAS INCREASED
Washington, Oct. 17.—The startling in
crease in the cost of food products to the
consumer within the past 23 years was
graphically shown in a tabulated report
here by the bureau of labor statistics. This
table chronicles an increase during that
period of from 2S.6 per cent on flour to
128.5 per cent on bacon.
The only commodity on the American
table which was shown to have declined
n price was sugar, upon which the Wilson
administration has centered its fight for
free trade. This article decreased 8 per
cent.
A comparison of the retail prices June 15,
1913, in 40 widely distributed cities of the
United States, with the average prices in
the same cities for a ten-year period, 1890
to 1899, shows the following advances:
Bacon, 12S.5 per cent; round steak, 102.5
per cent; hens, 76.8 per cent; rib roast, 75.5
per cent; corn meal, 57.3 per cent; butter,
41.3 per cent; mi;k, 3S.4 per cent; pork
chops, 111 per cent; smoked hams, 84.5 per
cent; sinoin steak. 75.2 per cent; lard, 66.5
per cent; flour, 28.6 per cent.
The average increase in prices of food
June 15. 1913, was 59.2 per cent above the
average price of food during the 10-year
period, 1S90 to 1899; 3.3 per cent over the
price June 15, 1912, and 14.4 per cent above
the prices of June 15, 1911.
Prices were investigated in Atlanta, Bal
timore, Birmingham, Boston, Buffalo,
Charleston, S. C., Chicago, Cincinnati.
Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Fall
River, Mass., Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Fla.,
Kansas City, Mo., Little Rock, Ark., Los
Angeles, Louisville, Manchester, N. II..
Memphis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Newark,
N. J., New Haven, Conn., New Orleans, New
York. Omaha, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh,
Portland, Ore., Providence, R. I., Richmond,
Va., St. Louis, St. Paul, Minn.. Salt Lake
City, San Francisco, Scranton, Penn., Seattle
and Washington, D. C.
POSTOFFICE NOTES
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There will be no inbound mail until Sun
day, December 14. which consignment will
contain a small outside mail.
The outbound mail will close every Sun
day (four times each month) at 11 p. m.
Registry closes at 1 p. m.
The first large through Outside mail, con
taining the limit of 400 pounds (via Fair
banks), will arrive here about the 28th of
this month.
No mail will be sent in over the Seward
route this winter, as was generally sup
posed.
Assessment Work Blanks at Pioneer
CAMP MOD'S FESTIVAL OF FUN!
COMIC SUPPLEMENT
New Year’s Eve., Dec. 31st.
Many Big Special Prizes
All the humorous characters of the Newspaper Colored Supplements will
be represented, and then some. Liberal prizes wid be awarded for the be>t Happy
Hooligan, Gloomy Gus, Susanne, The Newlyweds, Fritz and Hans Katzenjammer,
Mother Katzenjammer, Der Captain, The Inspector, the Three Herring Brothers,
Alphonse and Gaston, Foxy Grandpa, and all the rest of the funny folks.
TICKETS $5.00 PER COUPLE, INCLUDING SUPPER
GOOD MUSIC PUNCH SERVED
Arrangements will be made for stage service from Flat and
Otter creeks at a very reasonable cost for round trip—returning
to the creek towns immediately after the dance.
Watch The Pioneer every week for new features that will be added to make
the New Year Ball of 1914 a glowing success.
Dogwood, the principal source of shut- j
j ties for use in cotton mills is growing
scarcer year by year, and various substi
tutes are being tried, but with no great
success
Oysters cannot live in the Baltic sea
The reason is that it is not salt eonugh.
They can only live in water that contains
37 parts of salt in every 1,000 parts of
water.
Full Lino of Cigars
Optimo, Lovera- Juan deFuca
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