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FOR GOVERNOR OF ALASKA
,1. F. A. Strong _
A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM
Under tlie leadership of Woodrow Wilson the Dem
ocratic party has won its greatest victory since 1852. But
this victory is no tawdry partisan triumph. It is no vote
of confidence in the Democratic party as a party. It is a
mandate from the people, and woe be unto this Democracy
if they falter in obedience to that mandate.
The country is seething with political discontent in
spite of its unparalleled material wealth and prosperity.
This discontent is confined to no particular class or section.
Rich and poor alike, children of fortune and children of
poverty, have begun to lose faith in the efficacy of their
Government to establish justice and promote the general
welfare. They are not sure where the fault lies; they are
not united as to the remedy; but this they know that
their institutions have been seized by privileged interests
and turned against them; that subtle, mysterious forces
operating unseen have proved time after time that their
power over public affairs was greater than the power of the
people as a whole, and they demand that their government
be emancipated from this partnership.
This is the great work that, confronts YY oodrow \Y ilson
and the Democratic party—to restore popular confidence in
the institutions of the Republic and re-establish a govern
ment of tlie people, by the people and for the people.
For sixteen years the Republican party has been in con
tinuous control of national affairs. In 1896 it polled
7,104,799 votes. In 1900 it polled 7,207.923 votes. In
1904 it polled 7,623,486 votes. In 1908 it polled 7,678,908
votes. But suddenly this seemingly invincible organization
came crashing down to ruin because it had not kept the
faith. The Democratic party in turn will go crashing
down to ruin if it does not keep the faith.
The American people are no longer hypnotized by
party labels and party emblems. They are concerned with
principles of government and with parties as a means of
translating those principles into action. They have made
Woodrow Wilson President because they believe that his
ideals are their ideals: that his courage is their courage,
and that he will find a way to right the wrongs against
which they have protested.
A man of lesser character, of lower ideals, of smaller
ability, could not have won the victory that Governor Wil
son won. He could not have appealed to the imagination
of the country as Woodrow Wilson appealed to it. No
man has ever been elevated to the Presidency who was more
fully the people's President than this college professor who
scorned alike the support of the bosses and the support of
Plutocracy. It is a tremendous compliment that the voters
have paid to him, but the responsibility is equally great.
If he should fail, the consequences must be doubly
disastrous, If he succeeds, as The World believes he will,
a new era will have begun in American history, with a new
vindication of Republican institutions and a new vindica
tion of the immortal principles of the Republic, the Nation
will indeed have a new birth of freedom.—New York
World.
JURY DISAGREE
IN WHARF CASE
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Juneau, February 5.—The second
care against the Skagway Whaif
Company, in which the defendants
were indicted for unlawful dis-:
elimination against the Humboldt
and other independent steamship
companies, resulted in a hung jury.
The first case against the company
was dismissed.
Judge Peter I). Overfield is try
ing the cases
Fresh codfish, over-the-ice, 35c lb.
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On Monday next, February 10, our Bakery and Lunch
Room will close for a few weeks, during which period our
premises will be thoroughly renovated and remodeled.
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THE 'HOME OF THE “QUAKER MAID”
Foot of Willow St., Iditarod
THE ALSO RAMS
“HE country’s full of also rans, who tell us why they got
left; the Peepul queered their little plans, and now they
stand bereft. The little snaps for which they yearned
don't come their way at all: the sacred Peepul rose and turned
their pictures toward the wall. The holy Peepul, standing pat,
a halo o’er each brow, said to their aspirations, “Scat,” and so
they’re frequent now. They’re well supplied with lids and
cans, and they have soup to burn; but will the tireless also
rans a useful lesson learn? Will they emerge from mire and
murk, the debris of defeat, and bravely say: “We’ll go to work,
and earn our bread and meat?” Will they forsake the idle
course of all the statesmen crew, who rant and howl till they
are hoarse and nothing useful do? Will they upon a farm
abide and labor as they should, and let the sacred Peepul
slide while they are sawing wood? You littie know the also
rans if you are dreaming thus; already they are forming plans
for stirring up a fuss. Again they’ll soon be 'waving flags and
toiling with their jaws, distributing the same old gags about
the Peepul's cause. The drunkard who for years with gin his
played-out tank has warmed, may by the docs be gathered in
and by their skill reformed; the dope fiend, when the doctors
try becomes a useful man; but all the docs beneath the sky
can’t cure the also ran. — Walt Mason.
COMPOSITION OF PRESIDENT
WOODROW WILSON’S CABINET
I llNCIi the ele:tion of Woodrow Wilson to the Presidency, the
composition of bis cabinet lias been a source of much specu
lalion among pubiic men at Washington. The following
list was prepared by a leading Democrat, who wished his name to he
withheld, and it will be interesting to keep it and see hew it compares
with the cabinet as named by Mr. Wilson next month. Several names
are naturally put forward for each position, as all sections of the coun
try wish to be represented in the cabinet:
Secretary of State—William F. McCombs, Senator James A. O'Gorman.
Attorney General—Representative Henry 1). Clayton of Alabama. Repre
sentative A. Mitchell Palmer of Pennsylvania, Representative Swager Sherlev
of Kentucky, Joseph Davies of Wisconsin, and Louis D Brandeis.
Secretary of the Treasury—Henry Morgenthau of New York (the Demo
cratic national treasurer). Cleveland H. Dodge.
Postmaster General—Josephus Daniels of North Carolina, Col. Robert
Ewing of Louisiana.
Secretary of Commerce and Labor—Judge Martin J. Wade of Iowa, Repre
sentative William C. Redfield of Brooklyn.
Secretary of Agriculture—Representative Albert S. Burleson of Texas,
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, former chief of the Bureau of Chemistry.
Secretary of the Interior—Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia, William R.
King of Oregon.
Secretary of the Navy—Representative Lemuel P. Padgett of Tennessee,
Representative Richmond P. Hobson of Alabama.
Secretary of War—Representative James Hay of Virginia, William G.
McAdoo.
Frank II. Foster lias taken over
the management of the Chitiua
Leader.
The Golden Gate hotel, Fair
banks, has been leased by Mrs.
limtna Harrington, formerly of
Chatanika.
Juneau Elks will enlarge their
commodious club buildings, having
decided to purchase an adjoining
lot.
The Seacoast Mining Company
at Valdez will have a five stamp
mill and accessories within six
months, announced the president,
Joseph Bjorne.
Joseph Anicich says that he does
not believe there is another mail
trail in the United Slates as bad as
the seven miles of hillside trail be
tween Tanatia and American creek.
Stumps and glaciers are the princi
pal cause of the trouble.
The total valuation of town
property in Ketchikan has been as
sessed at $767,525, Exemptions
aggregating $76,100 leaves a bal
ance of $691,425 for tax purposes.
A levy of 1per cent, for munici
pal and school purposes was de
dared, which will create a revenue
of nearh $10,000 when the tax col
lector has finished his labors.
District Attorney Crossley has
been granted leave of absence by
the Department of Justice for the
purpose of going to the states to
have an operation performed for ap
pendicitis. It is understood that
Mr Crossley was suffering consid
erably from the ailment during the
hearing of the bank cases at Valdez.
It has been recommended by
Marshal Love that a deputy mar
shal be authorized for the old In
uoko camp, where the deputyship
was abolished May 1.
M. Twohy and Pat Casey have
taken a lay on the fractional claim
betweeu 4 and 5 below discovery.
Goldstream, Fairbanks district, and
are planning to open up within the
next few days. There is supposed
to be a good sized block of un
worked pay on the claim, and it is
the intention of the men to sink a
shaft and lift the gold-bearing dirt
to the surface for spring sluicing
John Rosene, of Seattle, who
worked on a farm in Norway, be
came a sailor, landed in Philadel
phia after a shipwreck in 1880.
worked for two years in a Pittsburg
iron mill, ran a grocery store in
Chicago, and then became wealthy
in Alaska, is just back from a two
months trip to Europe. lie says
that work on the Alaska Midland
railway, which he expects to build
from Fort William H. Seward, near
Haines, to Fairbanks, will com
tnence in the spring.
From theOutside comes the news
that Edward Tyndall, the Ester op
eratoi, was married 011 Christmas
day at Renton, Wash. The event
was followed by a honeymoon trip
to San Francisco, New York and
Boston.
Since the first wild rushes there
have been no such efforts to be
corue possessed of mining property
as those made on the last night of
the year 1912, says the Nome Nug
get. Even on New Year’s day the
deputy recorder was asked to re
ceive location notices for record,
hut of course he could not do so
The opening of the office on Janu
ary 2 was accompanied by an im
mediate rush to get papers on file
The whole country is said to have
been overrun hy stakers.
Charles Columbe and several
mining men from Rampart are said
to bt prospecting on a creek com
ing into the Yukon about balf-ivay
betweeh Fort Gibbon and Ram
part.
A bill has been introduced in
congress to erect a great lighthouse
at Cape St. Elias, Alaska, and the
sum of $125,000 will be appropri
ated for the purpose should the bill
become a law.
Charged with illegally supplying
half-breeds with liquor, Julius
Rahmstorf, of R.impart, was de
clared not guilty by a Fairbanks
jurv. Evidence showed that the
men whom Rahmstorf was accused
of supplying had been educated in
American schools and were accus
! touted to the ways of white men.
—
WORST COLD SPELL
SINCE NINETEEN FIVE
Fairbanks, January 31.—After a
siege ot several weeks, the cold
spell broke yesterday. Not since
rgo5 has such weather prevailed in
the Fairbanks district, the cold
being exceptional in its severity
and length.
Writing from Fairbanks to Sam Bay
les under date of December 28, Henry
Roden wished to thank all those who
aided his candidacy during the elec
tion. It was the knowledge of what
his friends in this section were doing
that kept him in tlie race to the end,
says the senator elect.
Olaf Iverson came in from Flat
Tuesday and took out a load of sup
plies.
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Time and
Worry
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or friend who is now on the
Outside, placed on the sub
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OH, YOO CHARLEY |i
Peeking from the observatory in
dark gray dawn of morning on Friday
last, Long Shorty, the Flat-creek as
tronomer. espied a unique luminous
body fringing the continental divide
’twixt Flat and Happy creeks. Mount
ing his conning tower in the vain hope
of bestowing the new planetoid with
his first wife’s name, the eminent star
gazer rushed to his telescope, swung
the big machine on the object and got
it within range.
Unable to decide whether the new
comer was a satellite, or of the planet
family, Long Shorty in fixed gaze saw
it, splutter repeatedly, then regain its
luminous glory, and to his infinite dis
gust it lost itself in a willow patch.
Thirty minutes later the Hon, Char
ley Maltby. glass-eyed and frost cov
ered, and armed with a (10-candlepower
carbide lantern, made his appearance
at Shorty’s headquarters and remarked
incidentally that he had staked a mill
site for his quartz mine while the moon
was on the wane What the astrono
mer said is another story.
Charley left the hilltop by lamplight
next evening, returning to Iditarod the
following day.
FEROCIOUS HUNTING DOG
DISTINGUISHES HIMSELF
Al Walsh has a hunting dog of which
he is very proud. Al claims it is ab
solutely fearless, tackling anything that
comes along, and looking upon a light
with a grizzly simply as a diversion to
be liShtly indulged in before break
fast. An example of this animal's skill
and ferocity was brought back by a re
cent arrival from the Aniak.
It appears that while on the trail
with the team Al espied a wolverine of
ferocious aspect. Quickly unhitching
the famous huntingclog. he turned him
loose on the trail of the wolverine.
The dog broke into the w Hows in pur
suit. Presently he returned, with the
corners of his mouth drooping and tail
between legs.
Al surmised that his famous hunting
dog had caught up with the wolverine,
worsted it, and then been ashamed to
acknowledge so easy a victory. So he
started otf with a gnn to bring in the
booty. But not a sign of Mr. Wolver
ine could be seen—no blood, nor fur,
nor any indications of a mort al combat.
Disgustedly he returned to the sled,
where the famous hunting dog was
slinking around as though he had stolen
the butter. Al gave him a withering
look, and all that could be heard for
hours afterwards was: “Mush, you mal
amute, mush!'1
Huntin' dawg? Nit.
IS DNCLE BILLY A CARD SHARP?
Is Uncle Billy McDonald a card
sharp? That is the question that is
agitating the minds of the members of
the Flat Creek Social Club just now.
Mrs. D. Stranherg and Uncle Billy
were the prize winners at bridge whist
last Saturday, and the other guests are
wondering how Billy managed it.
Some openly declare that he played
crooked—dealing from the bottom of
the pack, etc. Next week a careful
watch will be kept, when any fancy
tricks of his will be resented and he
forcibly ejected.
. People are asking: If he’s that bad
now, what must he have been in his
early years?
The Fairbanks commissioner’s
office shows an increase in receipts
during January over the same
month last year.
Location Notices at Pioneer office
Best of Everything
ALL THE TIME AT THE
Stanley Cafe
FLAT CITY
Open Day and Night
Dr.Heinrich Wortmann,
Physician and Surgeon
Offices: Iditarod and Flat City
Telephones at each place
DR. H. BEHLA,
Dentist
Offices, Pioneer Drug Store.
Flat City.
Appointments by Telephone
Wickersham & Roden,
Iditarod, Alaska
Michigan, 1881 Kentucky, 1891 Alaska. 1910
George Woodruff Albrecht.
COUNSELOR AND LAWYER
IDITAROD, ALASKA
The Pioneer Attorney of this Camp
E. M. STANTON,
Attorney at Law
! Office in Wickersham & Roden Bldg,
Second Ave.
! IX THE UNITED STATES COMM IS
sioner’s Court for the Tnnoko Pre
cinct, Fourth Division, District of
Alaska.
; Max Simel, Plaintiff, vs. G. P. Mar
shall, John Doe and Richard Roe,
master and owners of Steamer “Ben
Hur,“ Defendants.
SUMMONS.
To tfie United States Marshal of the
District of Alaska or any deputy:
In the name of the United States of
America we command you to summon
G. P. Marshall, John Doe and Richard
Roe to appear before the uudersigned,
a justice of the peace in Innoko pre
cinct in said district, on the 28th day of
March, 1913. at the hour of 2 o'clock in
tiie afternoon of said day. at our office,
I at Ophir, Alaska, in the said precinct,
■ to answer tlie complaint of Max Simel,
founded upon a contract for the pay
ment of money, and wherein lie de
mands seven hundred and sixty-seven
and 65-100 dollars.
; Given under my hand this 29th day
of November, 1912. W. A VINAR,
U. S. Commissioner and ex-officio
Justice of the Peace.
The New Placer Law
The following is a copy of the law recently enacted by Congress amend
ing the mining laws of Alaska:
A bill to modify and amend the mining laws in their application to the Ter
ritory of Alaska, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted, etc., That no association placer mining claim shall here
after be locate 1 in Alaska in excess of 40 acres, and on every placer mining
claim hereafter located in Alaska, and until a patent has been issued therefor,
not less than $100 worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made
during each year, including the year of location, for each and every 20 acres
or excess fraction thereof.
Sec. 2. That 110 person shall hereafter locate any placer mining claim in
Alaska as attorney for another unless he is duly authorized thereto by a
power of attorney in writing, duly acknowledged and recorded in any record
er’s office in the judicial division where the location is made. Any person so
authorized may locate placer mining claims for not more than two individuals
or one association under such power of attorney, but no such agent or attor
ney shall be authorized or permitted to locate more than two placer mining
claims for any one principal or association during any calendar month, and
no placer mining claim shall hereafter be located in Alaska except under the
limitations of this act;
Sec. 3. That no person shall hereafter locate, cause or procure to be lo
cated, for himself more than two placer mining claims in any calendar month:
Provided, That one or both such locations may be included in an association
claim.
Sec. 4. That no placer mining claim hereafter located in Alaska shall be
patented which shall contain a greater area than is fixed by law, nor which
is longer than three times its greatest width.
Sec. 5. That any placer mining claim attempted to be located in viola
tion of this act shall be null and void, and the whole area thereof may he lo
cated by .any qualified locator as if no such prior attempt had been made.
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