THE IDITAROD PIONEER
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Published E»ery Saturday Morning at Idltarod, Alaska
Yol. 8 CHARLES A. DERRY, Editor No. 9
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BRYAN’S INDEFENSIBLE ACTIONS
The spectacle of W. J. Bryan, former idol of the
Democratic party, three times its candidate for the
presidency, and erstwhile secretary of state (who
resumed in the face of a serious crisis), leading a
mob of fanatical ’’peace at any price advocates in
an effort to sway the actions of the President in fa
vor of their disgraceful doctrines, is not an edifying
one for the citizens of this republic, to say the least.
Do Mr. Bryan and his blind followers wish to con
ve> the impression that they are more patriotic than
the men with whom the people have intrusted the
administration of the affairs of the nation? Do they
we h to convey the impression that they are more
humane than the President and his advisers? and
that unless they are present to pour admonition into
unwilling ears the country will he immersed m the
horrors of war to satisfy a bloodthirstiness which is
net at all apparent in the policies of President Wil
son? Do they believe that they are more capable of
advising the President as to his duty in the present
crisis than the hundreds of members of congress
intrusted by the people with the task of helping to
guide the destinies of the nation? In any light in
which the doctrines of the Bryanites may be viewed
they loom out as the egotistical vaponngs of men to
whom a nation’s honor, or dishonor, is as nothing
compared to the horrors of war.
The probabilities are that President Wilson and
his advisers fee! their responsibilities under the cir
cumstances far more keenly than can any of his self
constituted monitors. With a full knowledge of his
views, and with the record of the past four years be
fore them, the people of the United States again
placed the affairs of the nation in his hands. Common
sense and common decency should direct that he
be not harassed by a lot of cranks whose horror of
war blinds them to their duty as American citizens,
to the duty of the nation to civilization, and to the
responsibility which rests upon the government to
safeguard the interests of its people and those of
generations yet to come.
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FAMOUS WRITER PUNCTURES LURID STORY
Some time ago a Fairbanks newspaper, the Citi
zen, printed a rather lurid story concerning a native
woman who claimed to be the former wife of Rex
Beach, the famous writer of romantic Northern
fiction. The story, which was reproduced in many
publications, finally was called to the attention of
Mr. Beach. With remarkable self-control under the
circumstances he thus refutes the story in a letter to
the Fairbanks newspaper:
The Editor, the Alaska Citizen, Fairbanks, Alaska.
Dear Sir: I am in receipt of a copy of your newspaper, dated
September 25, 1916. containing a story headed: "Rex Beach's
Former Wife in Jail Here—Alaskan Wife of Famous Writer Is
Serving Term for Vagrancy.” There follows a unique and highly
imaginative account of a drunken squaw, who poses for kodak
bearing tourists at four bits a pose, on the strength of the state
ment that she lived as my wife in the early days of Rampart City.
1 am lost in admiration of the Alaska Citizen’s enterprise, its
accuracy and its nose for news; it represents journalism in its
highest form. And I congratulate the Citizen upon its staff of
fiction writers. Undoubtedly there is something in the Alaskan
climate w'hich stimulates the imagination.
Your story gains in interest and impressiveness, if that is pos
sible, by reason of its grave, almost melancholy assumption of
truth, and in its amazing positiveness. When you assert
' * The former wife of Rex Beach is therefore practically
certain that she will not want this winter * * and “there
is but little doubt that the woman’s story that she lived with Rex
Beach is true * * I note that you do not make use of the
customary “It is alleged.” “She states,” “We are informed,” and the
like. Doubtless you consider such qualifying phrases to be mere
rhetorical refinements or literary airs, without meaning or pur
pose, and totally lacking in journalistic vigor.
My dear Alaska Citizen, allow me to assure you in all gravity,
and in earnestness equalling yours, that the matrimonial claims of
your injured squaw are purely imaginary, and that her past, so far
as I am concerned, is blameless. As to your assertion that I
"taught her to drink” and that her association with me is respon
sible for “all of her troubles”—I must likewise deny the soft im
peachment. Crimes of various sorts you nt3y attribute to me,
and perhaps with reason, but 1 have no squaws upon my con
science
N'or do I drink. In view of your rugged virility, I make the
latter confession with trepidation, if not with shame, for doubtless j
by so doing I fall even lower in your estimation. And yet in my
I
endeavor to be strictly truthful to you, at whatever cost, to my
own feelings, I shall confess more. Now that I am in a mood to
confess, I shall bare my darkest and most secret past to your ac
cusing eye, even at the risk of reputation, honor, everything! Yes,
even at the risk of being misquoted in your inaccurate but enter
taining columns.
Here, then, is the horrible truth: 1 did know a squaw named
Annie—perhaps she was Lyon then, as now—certainly somebody
is. J’lease take no offense, dear Citizen. Her name was Annie,
but she was better known in the colorful and expressive idiom of
Rampart as “Short and Dirty.” The nickname, I assure you, was
not unwarranted. The huly who languishes in your local bastile
as the result of evil influences you so generously attribute to her
association with me may be the same—I don't know. I am led to
believe it is. for I recall no other “Annie” in Rampart, and the one
I knew was even at that time marked with a ravenous appetite for
booze.
You will doubtless find verification for your assertion that she
was my former wife when I confess that the same roof sheltered
both of us for a time. But it so happened that it likewise shel
tered five other white men. two of whom had come from the
Slates with me in search of gold and glory. Those two young
men, each now prosperous in business, were my partners. They
will undoubtedly find much interest in your story of my past.
But to return to that roof-—alas! it and Annie herself belonged to
another—a man from whom my partners and 1 had taken a min
ing lease. I regret to state that we were not a happy family
even during the brief interval that we all dwelt there together.
Memory tells me that one reason I left that roof and sought an
other was because Annie, my “sourdough” associate’s helpmate,
insisted upon boiling frozen fish heads in a tomato can and eating
1he. eyes while we college boys were at our meals. It was not ap
petizing to try to eat while those fish omniums were being vacuum
cleaned. Nor were Annie’s other habits those to which we were
accustomed in our homes.
Anyhow. 1 moved. I am moved now to tears at the thought
that, all unwittingly, 1 injured the maiden’s prospects, wrecked
bet later life and became a squawman, by refusing to stand for
those fish heads. 1 am assuming, of course, that the intemperate
lady mentioned in your columns and my ex-associate's light o’
j love are one and the same. But 1 hear you scoff. 1 hear you
i exclaim, "Ha! the wretch betrays himself! Another’s wife, for
[sooth! This Beach has written nothing but lies about Alaska.
| This is a gross libel upon the name of her fair daughters and con
[ stitutes his crowning infamy "
i In the light of those mortifying disclosures contained in your
dignified editorial page of September 25 1 am remindeu that a
! man’s evil deeds will rise to plague him, and I am constrained to
I advise all young men that they cannot be too careful in sowing
| their wild oats, lest, surer than shooting, some insane editor will
: harvest them, and offer them for public side.
My dear Alaska Citizen, you cannot know what emotions you
i have aroused in this breast of mine by thus prying into a past
j which I considered dead and gone, nor with what feelings I shall
j paste your clipping into my scrap-book, after it has gone the
j rounds of those other fellows who knew "Short anil Dirty.’ It
I has the makings of a splendid press story in it, and I trust you
j will pardon me if I avail myself of that fact, giving due credit, of
< course, to the Alaska Citizen.
i In closing, permit me to assure you that you have added
[greatly to the enjoyment of a dull winter, even though that en
[ joyment is tempered by the melancholy conviction that your
| paper is edited by a maniac.
j Admiringly and sympathetically yours, HEX BEACH.
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I Secretary of the Interior Lane, whose plan for a development
[board for the handling of federal government affairs in Alaska has
not met with the response he had hoped for, evidently is becoming
discouraged. A Washington correspondent of a Seattle news
paper, in what appears to be an article inspired by the secretary,
says: “If the people of the Pacific coast want to secure the re
forms they have desired in the systems of governing Alaska, which
have been recommended from time to time by Secretary of the
Interior Franklin K. Lane, the people of the coast will have to
get busy to create a demand that is not local, but nation-wide in
its scope, for them. The secretary of the interior has gone as far
as he can in the matter. It is obvious that he has not secured
the enthusiastic support of President Wilson for his proposal to
create a development board to control matters affecting the re
sources of Alaska, which are now handled by twenty-two different
departments and bureaus. This does not mean that the President
is opposed to the plan. It simply means that he is passive, or has
not given it sufficient consideration to arrive at a definite con
clusion.”
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The Alaska Evening Post and the Seward Gateway, the two
Sew'ard dailies, have consolidated, the announcement having re
recently been made by the Post as follows: "Owing to the tre
mendous increase in the cost of print paper and other supplies
necessary to the publication of a daily paper, negotiations were
entered into several weeks ago looking to the amalgamation of
the Post Publishing Company with the Seward Gateway Pub
lishing Company, for the purpose of covering the daily field here
with a single publication, and the same in the weekly field. These
negotiations are complete, and the owners of the two companies
have agreed that the Alaska Evening Post and the Seward Gate
way shall be published together. • * * The daily publication
will be the Seward Gateway and the weekly issue will be printed
under the style of the Alaska Weekly Post.”
Senator Owen of Oklahoma has introduced a joint resolution
providing that any federal judge who shall henceforth declare any
act of congress unconstitutional shall thereby forfeit his place on
the bench, and the President shall nominate his successor. His
dismissal is to be based on the ground of “judicial usurpation,”
and the violation of his constitutional obligation of “good be
havior.” In other words, it would seem that if a federal judge be
convinced that a certain act is unconstitutional, he must violate
his oath of office and declare it constitutional in order to retain
his position. It is hardly likely that this method of intimidating
judges will become popular, especially in view of the fact that
many acts have been passed by congress in recent years the con
stitutionality of which was at least doubtful even to the members
of the house and senate.
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The enormous demand for metals is reflected in the activity of
that most wonderful of American mining cities, Butte, Mont. The
payroll of the Butte mining companies was the largest in history,
the total for all mines aggregating $2,509,000. Miners are being
paid $4.75 per day. All lines of labor in the city and district were,
paid the total of $4,500,000 in wages for December.
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A MISGUIDED LAWYER
(Seward Post)
Comments by that New York lawyer on Alaska women will
certainly be resented both by the men and women of this terri
tory. There is considerable doubt as to whether the lawyer visited
the respectable sections of Alaska towns. Individual cases of im
morality among the supposedly respectable stand out like a sore
thumb and if he could see no farther than these his viewpoint of
life is unfortunate.
Ball Band Rubber Boots and Pacs
Ball Band Rubber Boots and Pacs
Hunt’s Supreme
1 Fruits.Vegetables
$. & W. Fruits aud Vegetables
We Still Have a Few Seconds in the
Staple Brand, and THIRDS in
the Happy Home Brand
N. C. Co. Sole Agents for Alaska
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N. C. Co. Sole Agents for Alaska
THE HERALD OF EMPIRE
The following paper was read at the en
tertainment of Ophir Igloo, Pioneers of
Alaska, on February 10;
If we try to outline the earliest history
or man we find him dwelling In caves, liv
ing on the flesh of animals and the fruits
of trees. His weapons were his cunning
and strength. .Not until he gave up the
chase and turned tils face to the soil was
he able to develop those social Instincts out
of which grew the complexities of civiliza
tion.
As tie turned his fare to ttie soil he found
he must have material wherewith to fashion
his implements. These he sought and found
in varied guise in the earth under foot -
gold ror ornament, copper for weapons and
iron for the itrst plowshares of man. Those
who gave up the chase and delved In the
git und became known as miners. These
learned that the material for Which they
sought was not to lie found in the fertile .
valleys of their tribe, but In the far dls- ,
tant mountain ranges, where swift-running
streams had worn away the rocky wastes,
leaving behind tile heavier grains or metal
they sought. They Journeyed thither, and
In their wanderings not only found the
metal they sought hut discovered new and
fertile valleys, which they reported and *o
which their tribes migrated, while they. In
search of new and richer finds, again jour
neyed afar Into unknown lands the mo
peers of their tribes, “The Heralds of Em
pire."
The first settlements along the shores of
the Mediterranean sent their prospectors to
the hinterlands of Europe, Asia and Africa.
“The gold of Ophir,” “the Popper of .Sinai"
and the •‘Silver of Laurlnium” formed a
part of the web which went to make up
those earlier nations. Later came the
Phenlclans, who sailed through the Pillars
of Hercules to tile enter ocean, utsem cring
these tin Islands which today are the home
ot the Cornish miner. After them came
Greece and Home, who, following on the
I rail of the l’henielnns, founded those ear
lier countries ot Europe. Here tor a time
the mining Industry was a! a standstill.
Europe was in the toils of war. but even
in this tine’ of strife, Spain, while sending
her explorers in search of a newer route
to the treasure-houses of India, discovered
America.
The discovery of America added to the
mineral wealth ot Europe hy the conquests
or Cortez and Idzarro. who robbed the
lir as of Ihc treasures it had taken ecu
urles to store. It was not until later, when
those men from Saxony and Cornwall came,
applying the mining Industry In a peaceful
wav'in chile. Peru ami Mexico, that mining
was first begun bv white men on the Amer
ican continent. I rom tills dale, which is
within the reaches of our present history,
we etui take up the trail of the prospector
and see how emigration and commerce,
following hi his tracks, has thrown light
on the still, dark places of the globe.
With the discovery or America. England,
France and Spain sent Ihclr explorers in
search of Pie riches winch were reported
hy the earlier discoverers, lint these, not
finding the treasures they sought, returned
home. Later the oppressed of Europe
founded their first settlements along the
Atlantic coast. These, although reaching
inland as far as the .Mississippi, were be
holden to the mother countries tor the
sinews of commerce, it was not until the
world first heard the faint echo of the
miner’s pick far to the westward that ex
pansion and commerce became independent
ot Europe. Let us review briefly these
later discoveries and see how the nag has
followed the pick into the wilderness ot
yesterday.
Gold was first discovered in California,
i at Colen, thirty-five miles northeast of Sac
ramento, on the south fork of the American
river. James Marshall had built a sawmill
for Sutter. After the mill was finished he
saw that the tall race or ditch leading the
water from the wheel was not deep enough.
He proceeded to deepen it by opening the
floodgates to scour the bottom. He allowed
the water to run all night. In the morn
ing. after turning off the water, and while
noticing the effects, he found several yel
low nuggeis. These he examined and found
they were heavy. He hammered some and
found they were metal, whereupon he trav
eled to Sutter’s Fort to tell Sutter he had
round gold. Sutter compared the nuggets
with coin. He tested some with nitric acid
and also pronounced them gold. The news
spread. Others found gold In near-by
streams. The news reached the Atlantic
and finally Europe. At once from all parts
of the globe a migration set In. Some trav
eled across the plains, others over the isth
mus, while others came by way of Cape
Horn. A new era set In. The vast wdlder
ness ot the West began to teem with lire.
Gold, which lends wings to all things, be
gan to pour from the treasure vaults of
the Sierra Nevada. The miners, sending It
abroad to their homes In various parts of
the world, set In motion the world or In
dustry In their native lands, that they, too,
might share In the golden harvest. The
pony express rider, galloping across the
plains, brought news or the tropical val
leys ot the West. The Tarmer and mer
chant followed In the track or the miner, to
help build those great cities we see In the
,San Joaquin and Sacramento today. Later
ramp the capitalists, who. following the
trail of the pioneer, have linked the East
and West with bands or steel.
Volumes could he. written regarding the
land within the Golden Gate, did time per
mit; but we must follow the trail of the
miner to the extreme end of the. earth,
where lies the oldest known continent or
the globe.
Among those who joined in the rush for
gold In California was an Australian named
Hargrave. By what he saw and learned
ot the formation he had reason to believe
that gold existed in his native land. He
returned home, and in IS51 was able to
inform the colonial secretary that gold ex
isted at Lewis Pond and other places. Al
though ills discovery was not the most im
portant. vet It led the prospector to search
elsewhere. In August of the same year the
rich fields near Ballarat were discovered.
sailors ten tneir snips in uic mu dim, uu-m
journeyed from all quarters of the globe to
hew down the eucalyptus and start the
wheels or modern progress In the land
where the Hottentot had Tor centuries held
full sway.
We all have read how the slave-trader
called along the roast of Africa for his load
of slaves and how the Dutch trader sold
his wares in exchange for ivory. The set
tlers on its southern shores xvho traveled
inland as far as the Congo were slow in
parting those curtains which shrouded the
Dark Continent. It remained for the miner
to draw aside those curtains and expose to
the world the riches within its borders that
had slumbered for ages.
Even the ilrst discoveries seem to dale
back to the dark ages of the past. Vet we
can trace the birth or those free nations to
.the finding of diamonds among the Jasper
sands of the Congo. I xvill not go into the
details of the work the pioneer has done in
that far country. After the diamond dis
coveries came ttie gold mines of the Rand,
which, pouring a golden stream into the
rollers of the world, have helped ,ot cause
that commercial jealousy among the rulers
of Europe which today threatens to shake
the foundations of civilization.
A glance at the past and we see how the
farmer and merchant have followed the
trail of the prospector—how the captains
of industry have in turn followed in their
tracks. But to realize how quickly those
wheels are set in motion we must glance
at our last frontier, where but twenty
years ago (he miner's pick proclaimed to
the world a nexv discovery in the ice-clad
peaks of Ihe Arctic. What has taken place
within these borders in that short space
or lime is a history within itself. It Is
not Tor me in try to tell the history of each
new discovery, but rather to show with
what feverish haste commerce, following in
thi' track of the miner, has again linked an
unknown land with the nerve centers of the
world.
Little, is known in regard to the early
history or this country. Whale fishing had
been carried on in Its waters for years, a
few eannerles existed on its southeastern
shores, the Hudson Bay trader had pene
trated its interior, and he, returning with
his load of furs, had caused no stir. Not
until the miner sent forth the whisper of
gold in '97 did the. world respond.
It spems but yesterday since that endless
chain of humanity climhPd over the Chtl
koot to the Interior. The broken rocker
on the ruby beach at Nome serves as a re
minder of the short time gone by since
the miner sounded the advance.
Yet In that short time, what a change!
Towns have sprung up as ir by magic; chil
dren play where yesterday the moose and
caribou roamed. Farming has begun along
the Arctic Circle. Railroad lines have been
built and are building The wireless ticks
out Hie news or the world on the banks or j
the river where but a year or two ago the
(lrst prospector moored Ills boat. Already
we hear rumors of statehood.
We all know it was the ‘‘lurs of gold"
that urged the prospector on. We have
seen huge mining machines succeed the
sluice box. In place or the first cabin stands
a city. Steel rails are following the path
or those who blazed the trail.
History lias again repealed itself. The
smokestacks of industry and commerce in
those great cities of the Northwest today
stand as a memorial to you, "the early pio
neers of '98 and 1900." The pioneers of
this camp, as in times of old. are again
sending the "gold of uphir” afar to help
build the temples of civilization.
You are not only the pioneers of out
last frontier, hut you can claim kinship
to (he Ural miner who placed in the hands
of Ins tribe the metallic hammer, he who
first started the wheels of industry, he who
blazed the trail and was "The Herald or
Umpire."
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THE PIONEER ALMANAC
MAHCH, 1917
Day Minns** Sunset
t . 7:00 5:2*2
V <:•(■{ 0:25
3 7:0U 5:28
4 . 0:57 5:30
5 .. ... 0:33 5:32
6 . 0:49 5.3 5
7 .. .. 0:40 3 7
8 0:43 5:40
9 . 0:40 3:43
10 . 0:37 5:40
11 0:33 5:49
12 0:30 5:52
13 . 0:27 5:55
14 ... 0 :*2(> 5:58
15 . 0:20 0:00
10 . 6:17 6:03
17 . 6:14 0:U5
IS . 0:12 0:08
19 . 0 :OS 6:11
2 0 6:07 6:14
21 . 6:01 0:10
2 2 . 5:53 6:19
23 . 5:52 0:22
2 4 5:49 0:25
25 5:45 0:28
90 . 5:4 1 6:3 1
27 . 5:38 6:3 4
28 . 5:35 0:37
29 . 5:32 0:4U
3 0 . 5:29 6:49
31 .. 5:25 6 40
Note.—The above table is com
puted for the latitude nr Idirarod,
end for the mean local time of sun
rise and sunset for the sun’s upper
limb. The argument used fur com
puting the fable Is the sun’s d»-e
llnatlon. There is a very small
error at the lime of the equinoxes,
greater at tin* time of the vernal
equinox: but !t Is exact at the time
of the solstices.
I! some kind of standard time is
wanted, say for meridian 105 de
grees west, subtract 20 minutes
from each time of sunrise and sun
set as given in the table; or if tor
meridian lad west, add 32 minutes
to the time given.
Health Hint for March.—Avoid
dug bites during this month.
Editor Almanac: When a man Is
lost without a compass, and can’t
see the snn or stars, Is there any
way or telling the direction?—J. W.
Ans.—By observing the clumps
or rather tail spruce trees it will
be seen that on one side the limbs
are longer and thicker than on the
other sides. The heavy foliage is
on the south side. Pretty good Idea
to carry a compass always.
To Light a Wet Match—Bub the
head and stick in the hair and the
match will light when struck In the
usual way.
About That Summer Job.—Otto
bang, street commissioner or Dal
las, Texas, has figured out that In
his department nobody works.
I.ang proves his assertion thus:
Each year has 365 days. You sleep
eight hours each day. which equals
122 days. This leaves 243 days.
You rest eight hours each day,
which equals 122 days. This leaves
121 days. There are 52 Sundays
that you do not work, or 5 2 days.
This leaves 69 days. You have one
hair day off each Saturday, or 26
days. This leaves 4 3 days. You
have one and a hair hours each day
for lunch, or 28 days. This leaves
15 days. You get two weeks’ va
cation each year, or t 4 days. This
leaves one day, and this being the
Fourth or July, we close on that
day. so you’ve done no work at all.
Of course, this humorous calcu
lation is raise, but an analysis to
discover the errors leads to some
impressive conclusions.
Editor Almanac: I am a young
lady 23 years old. 1 have a pro
posal or marriage from a man from
a distant camp who owns four
claims and another front a man a!
another ramp who owns three
claims and a dog team. Which
should I accept?—Miss B.
Wait a while. Y'ott might do bet
ter on the Kuskokwim. D. F. S.
THE WRONG BOTTLE
That Frank Hoffman has an eagle eye.
One evenng this week he observed that
there w'as a constant train of people pass
ing in and out at Shonbeck’s grocery. He
investigated farther and found many of
them had bottles in their outside coat- pock
ets. His surprise was great to think that
the leading groceryman in town had gone
to bootlegging, and finally, to get conclu
sive evidence, he held one of his customers
up and asked to examine the bottle. It
proved to be kerosene, and Frank remarked,
“That’s one on me.” Mr. Shonbeck, at
considerable expense, sent to Knik and se
cured a number of cases of oil, and was
supplying each of his customers with a can
or bottle full. Frank hurried home and
brought his own bottle up and had it filled.
■—Anchorage Star.
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Fresh Olympia and Eastern Oysters, 11.50
per can. Iditarod Meat Co. I
Professional
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George Woodruff Albrecht
COUNSELOR AND LAWYER
IDITAROD, ALASKA
The Pioneer Attorney of IdlUrod
E. M. STANTON
Attorney at Law
Office: Corner Willow and Second Sta.
Iditarod Pioneer Butldiny_
CHAS. E. TAYLOR
Attorney at Law
BANK BLOCK
Firtt Avenue MUarad
DR. MOORE
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
DRUG STORE
DR. H. E. AURINQER
Physician and Surgeon
Office: Flat City HotpiUI, Flat Grty
Consult ation Hours in Forenoons and
Appointment
FLAT DRUG STORE
Best of Everything
AM. THK TIME AT THE
Arcade Cafe
FLAT CITY
Open Da* and Might
FINE WATCH REPAIRING
NUGGET JEWELRY TO ORDER
j. L. SALE, Flat City
pi and 5,raI1* printed on
rLnvAI\l/j paper, cardboard or eJortt.
| on snort notice, at lditarod Pioneer office
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
DISCOVERY
CAFE
FLAT CITY HOHBACK A DURAND
Bat. tit* Grand and Bagoy't Bar*
THE BEST ALL THE TIME
—
WE ARE HERE TO STAY
French Joe’s Roadhouse
SOUTH FORK KUSKOKWIM
DOC BACON AND FISH
FOR SALE
Big Stocks of Fresh Goods
Everything for the Miner and
Prospector
MAX SI MEL ™Z£!
Stores at Crlppls City and Mouth of Tolstoi
WHITE PASS RAISING RATES
As a result, it is said, of higher passenger
fares put into effect by the steamship lines
with vessels plying from Seattle to Alaska,
and increased cost of operation, traffic offi
cials of the White Pass & Yukon route have
decided to advance all round-trip tourist
rates, effective with the opening of naviga
tion on the Yukon river this year, accord
ing to a Seattle dispatch.
The advance announced recently by A. I
Zipf, traffic manager of the line, follows:
Seattle to Atlin and return, from $100 to
$110; Seattle to Dawson and return, from
$160 to $1”0; Seattle to Fort Yukon and
return, from $200 tc $215; Seattle to Fair
banks and return, from $250 to $255. The
excursion known as the “grand tour,” v’.
includes a trip down the Yukon and to S
Michael and Nome, will cost $305, co n
pared with $300 last year.
FINNEGAN & CAMERON
FLAT CITY
Agency for Edison Diamond Disc Phonographs and Records
TOBACCO CIGARS STATIONERY
CONFECTIONERY AND BILLIARDS
C. R. Cameron F. Finnegan
THOS. McMAHON
DEALER IN
General Merchandise
FLAT, ALASKA