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1011ARGO PIONEER, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2, I9ii
j IDITAROD PIONEER | J
Published Every Saturday Evening at Iihtarod, Alaska.
l&l r Cos. M. ArbuckJe. Pai-JJsher No. 49
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INDICTMENT OF FA I! NET IF
The indictment of (’apt. F. T. Barnette in connection
with the failure of the Washington-Alaska Bank at Fair
banks nearly a year ago doubtless erunes as a surprise at
this .late day to many who are familiar with the circum
stances of the case. Borne of the transactions which ren
dered Barnette culpable in the opinion of a large number of
people occurred so long ago that they are now barred by
the statute of limitations.
They go back to-- or antedate —the failure of the Fair
banks Banking Company in 1908, which put the business
of the Tanana camp on a scrip basis. At that time the
banking company was a partnership affair and Barnette
was its head. The business was reorganized as the Fair
banks Banking Company, a corporation, with Barnette as
president. The reorganized concern took over from Barnette
some $8f)0,000 in stock of the Gold Bar Lumber Company,
a corporation doing business in the State of Washington.
It is all - red that the weight nr this st ck was too mu ‘h for
the newly incorporated bank to carry and impaired its;
business capacity from the start, and, further, that Barnette
was in a position to, and did, force the bank into takimr
over this stock and doing other things of personal interest |
to himself rather than that of the bank.
Later, when the Washington-Alaska Bank had suc
ceeded the Fairbanks Banking Company, it is alleged the;
failure of the latter institution was but the culmination of;
the wrongful acts of Barnette while piesident of the Fair
banks Banking Company.
These are tlie things with which Barnette has stood
publicly accused and for which he ought to have been in-;
dieted long ago, if at all. Of course it is not to be said
offhand that it is now too late for the facts to be ascertained
and justice to be done: but it is undeniable there has been
a delay not warranted by the circumstances.
The two failures at Fairbanks caused incalculable in
jury to the credit of interior Alaska, where to the present
time gold bullion in bank is impotent in business transac
tions Outside.
ALASK \ NOT INCH 1)ED
Not long ago an Alaskan coast paper criticised some
department of the federal government for classifying Alaska
with the “insular" possessions. The paper professed to be
tickled because the numerous government agents, depart
mental and personal representatives and other dignitaries
who have so long been journeying to Alaska in search of
information have failed to learn that the territory is for the
greater part situated on the mainland. \Vre took it that
the government’s classification was made to obviate the
breakage of a string of red tape, for a reason analagous to
that which causes a postal official stationed at Xanana to
be styled a “railway mail clerk.”
A document lately issued by the bureau of statistics,
department of commerce and labor, drives home the convic
tion that Alaska is either seriously held to be “insular” or
non-existent as part of the United States. Among the in
teresting statements in the document is the following: “The
area of continental United States was 843,255 square miles
in 1800, advancing to 1,734,030 square miles in 1810; to
2,995,536 square miles in 1850. and 3,026,789 square miles
in 1853, since which date no change in area was shown.”
Alaska was acquired since 1853: and if it is not continen
tal it must be insular, or at least peninsular; and if it is
continental, then it is not part of the United States, else it
would have increased the area since 1853. With these re
marks the reader will be left to rassle with the problem on
his own account.
Location Bianks at Pioneer Office
LET THE
FflIRVIEW TRADING CO.
Figure on Your Outfit
Telephone 73 Next to Postoflice
Martin’s Cafe
FOOT OF WILLOW STREET. PHONE 76
A Place to Eat
TO BE GIVEN R WA Y
HALD-PAINTEB CHINA FLAGON AT GOLDSTEIN'S STORE
For every Dollar spent in Ladies’ Goods a ticket will be given entitling
holder to a chance in the big drawing Xmas eve.
All our goods are marked down—some of them below cost. Now is the
time to buy. as the benefit is doubly yours, i. e. Low Prices and a chance
to gel one of thu swellest pieces of Hand-Painted China north of San
Francisco.
GOLDSTEIN'S, Hotel
C. J. Hurley, President J. P. Gleason, Vice President A. Bruning, Cashier
J Corner First Are, and Richmond St., Iditarod
CAPITAL 550,000,00, FOLLY PAID Ifl GASH
_
General Banking Business Transacted Upon Liberal, But Conservative Lines
GOLD DU3T PURCHASED UPON ASSAY VALUE
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.
AVe solicit your bittiness. and assure you of our courteous, prompt and
careful at ten lion combined wiih fair treatment, whether
>< ur acet unt may be large or small.
Corn-Fed Turkeys,
Fresh Eastern Oysters
Fresh Veal and Mutton
Milk-Fed Broilers and Roasting Chickens
SDSTAROP IVIEAT CO.
Second St. Phone (5
FOB FRESH POOPS m FAIR TREATMENT
Try McMahon Rs,0i,?
LET IiLM FIGURE ON YOUR OUTFIT
General Merchandise
SNYDER HOUSE ’SS‘
FLAl' CITY 'l'e 1. 7 I^iirge I)r_yiiijT Room
DRAUGHT BEER, DOMESTIC CIGARS
Good Music Every Evening
- ■ ■ =FIa i City ~ =
AS THEY USED TO APPEAR.
Backward, turn backward, oli time
in your flight, and give us a maiden
dressed proper and right. We are
so weary of switches and rats, Billy
Burke clusters and peach-basket
I hats. Wads of jute hair in a horri
ble pile, stacked ou their heads to
| a half of a mile. Something is
J wrong with our maidens we fear;
j give us the girls as they used to
j appear. Give us the girlies we
| once new of yore, whose curls didn’t
I come from a hair-dressing store.
| Maidens who dressed with sensible
j view; and just as nature intended
| them to. Give us a girl with a
figure her own, and fashioned divine
ly by nature alone. Feminine styles
getting fiercer each year, oh give
give us the girls as they used to ap
pear.—Sterling (Kan.) Journal.
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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
MAKE INVESTIGATION
Indianapolis, October 27.—The fed
eral government is to take a hand in
the McNamara dynamiting cases.
Today the special officers delegated
to make an investigation of the whole
'proceeding commenced to take evi
dence The government will investi
gate the ease from start to finish — not
only the alleged dynamiting of the Los
Angeles Times building, but will look
into the procedure of taking the Mc
Namaras out of this city, from which it
is stated the men were kidnapped.
Just why the government is taking a
hand in the matter is not known, but
feeling is running so high in certain
localities over the trial, that the gov
ernment is anxious to find out a few
things for itself.
JUDGE HARLAN DEAD
News has readied Fairbanks, says
the Citizen, of the death of Judge N.
V. Harlan, which occurred a couple of
months ago at York, Neb. Judge Har
lan, who was a relative of the late
Justice Harlan, of the supreme cour,
of the United States, at one time was
distr ict attorney for this judicial divi
sion, and made his home at Fairbanks
The former court official came to
Alaska in 1901 and served until 1907,
when he resigned on account of ill
health. Judge Harlan was 70 years of
age.
The illness of the former district at
torney may be said to date back to the
death of his son, Edwin V. Harlan
who died at Valdez in 1907. From this
shock Mr. Harlan never recovered.
ANDREW CARNEGIE HAS NEW PLAN
FOR PROMOTING THE WORLD'S PEACE
Paris. Working under the direction of Andrew Carnegie, and
well supplied with funds by the multimillionaire, a group of for i
tner diplotnatsof various countries, and a few trained journalists,
are busily engaged upon preliminary plans for an international
newspaper, which has for its primary object the death of war.
Mr. Carnegie has recognized the fact that the press is the
mightiest weapon he can command in his hobby for the creation of
an epoch of world-peace, and to this end has determined to subsi
dize a powerful publication, which can learn the diplomatic secrets
of the world and through these means circumvent secret plans
calculated to incite nations to war.
Secrecy is the basic principle of the whole undertaking, but
by this means and by means of his unlimited supply of money, Mr.
Carnegie expects to be able to know in advance the innermost plot
tings of every cabinet in Europe.
A Budapest editor, said to have been highly recommended by
a former minister of Hungary, is now living in Paris and working
with editors from other countries who have been selected under
similar circumstances.
Ottawa, October 25.—R. S. Elmsley is now in this city arrang
ing for a party of prospectors to go back with him to Baffin’s Land
or Labrador, where, according to his statements, he discovered a
gold deposit that for richness has been unequalled since the days
of ’49 in California. A? a result of a trip in a small steamer
named The Kite, which returned to St. John's, Newfoundland,
some two weeks ago, Elmsley is well supplied with gold in dust
and nuggets, having returned from his trip with five tons of highly
mineralized rock, in which the gold could be scooped out in chunks
with a pocket hnife.
Elmsley is refitting for a trip next spring, and is forming a
company for the purpose of developing his ground. He will have
no difficulty in financing the enterprise, and it is believed a big
stampede will take place to the new strike in the far North.
CLUBS TO
FOR
At a meeting held at Flat last Saturday night by the Otter
Masonic Club, it was decided to co operate with the Iditarod
Masonic Club on December 27, for the purpose of celebrating
St. John’s day. The celebration will probaoly take the form of a
banquet to be held in Iditarod.
After the meeting the members of the club and a few visitors
were entertained at the residence of Mrs. N. N. Jaffe bv Mrs.
Jaffe and Mrs- J. McMahon, assisted by Miss Roberts. A fine
luncheon was served and a most enjoyable evening was spent
FOR
Before Commissioner E. M. Stanton
last Tuesday, Herman Fuchs was sen
tenced to nine months in the federal
jail on a charge of petty larceny.
The charge on which Fuchs was ar
rested was that of larceny from a dwell
ing, which constitutes a felony. Upon
the intercession of Henry Ruden, at
torney for the accused. Justice Stanton
agreed to accept a plea of guilty on the
reduced charge.
The specitied offense was the larceny
of jewelry of the value of $25 from
Mrs. Emma Mutchler. It appears that
Fuchs was left in care of the dwelling
during the temporary absence of Mrs.
Mutchler and is accused of climbing
into her room through a transom and
committing the theft.
mens was betore Justice htanton a
few weeks ago on a charge connected
witli the molestation of women. He
was then dismissed with a severe rep
rimand and a caution. He is said to be
addicted to the peeping habit.
Sentenced for Vagrancy.
George Bennett, charged witli va
grancy, was sentenced on Monday to
pay $150 and costs and to be confined in
the federal jail for a period of twenty
five days.
Wow Barber Shop
Phil the Barber has opened a new
barber shop on Willow street, two
doors from the Red Cross drug store,
where a first-class shave costs 2-5 cents
and an up-to-date haircut is marked
down to 75 cents.
four Chance to Help
Patronize the porcelain baths at Idit
arod hospital—every convenience for
ladies and gentlemen.
. P°°l) solo, and the. best clear Havana
cigars at Johnstone’s
Just received a fancy iine of Graven
stein apples, $3 a box: fancy red apples
$7 a box. At Johnstone’s.
GEORGE WOODRUFF ALBRECHT,
Attorney at Law
Michigan. '31 Alaska, '10 Kentucky 91
'1 he Pioneer Attorney of this Camp
UP TO DATE
IDITA ROD HOTEL
l*me Enclosed Dog Kennels Furnace Heat n.sLLht
Don't Get Lonesome
There Are Stiii a Few of Us Left;
GRAND HOTEL, FLAT CITY
Nicely Furnished raoms First-Class Cafe liquors and Cigars Pool and Billiards
_N. OLANTZ AND MRS. SWANSON
First Ciass in Fact First Ave., Iditarod
BEATTIE HOUSE
Furnished Rooms, Bath Rooms, Spring Cots Good Stablas Adjacent
From a Stein
at tiie
Miner's Home Saloon
THE HOME OF THE “QUAKER MAID”
Foot of Willow St., Iditarod
And All Kind* of Photographic
Work Done.
MISS TJERNSTROM. MCDONALD HOTEL
RIVERSIDE HOTEL i.s hm' op fo,
business, under new management.
Warm rooms and bunks, good accom
modations for tings: reasonable rates
to suit the times. Mr. and Mrs. F.
McGibney. umnag«*rs.
Dr. Heinrich V/ortmann,
I’livsician and Surgeon
j O
Office at ('ity Drue Storm Tel. 3G
First Ave., Her. Widow ami Hichmond
Office Hours*—!! to i. 3 to 4. 7 to 8
CHAS. D. CARTER,
Dentist
Offices, Pioneer Drug Stores,
Flat Creek
DR. F. W. HE RMS,
Dentist
Dr. Wortumnn’s Office.
First Avenue uml Willow Street
DR. //. BE ML A,
Dentist
Gold St., Flat City. Opp. Grand Hold
Phone 4
ALFRED E. MALT BY,
Attorney at Law
Notahy Public
Office Simpson P.liisj, First and Will
J. 5. HARDING,
Attorney at Law
Room 1. Iditatod Hotel
Iditakod. Alaska
CHAS. E. TAYLOR,
Attorney at Law,
MoUu v Public. Coi.vi'vunciiijr,
Alvst racis of Hi 'os
fi.at City
Wiekersham <&. Rodsn,
ATTORNF.VS IT LAW
ldilaro.l. lask.i
E. COKE HILL,
Attorney at Law
M. sY M. Hank Hldrr. Idiumx). Alaska.