CANVAS_ TENTJS_ TARPAULINS_WOSE
Creditors’ Sale
TO SATISFY MY CREDITORS, 1 WILL SELL MY ENTIRE
STOCK OF CLOTHING, HATS, BOOTS, SHOES AND FURNISH
ING GOODS A TREDUCED PRICES.
H. Bobs, Leading Clothier
HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX and CHESTERFIELD CLOTHES
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Another costly lire visited Flat City hist
Sunday afternoon, while the wind was blow
ing .1 tolerably pert gale, and had not there
been exceptionally effective and vigorous
work by volunteer firemen, there is n->
guessing where the conflagration would
have stopped. The fire originated in a large
cabin located at the corner of Second
street and the Hue de Nymph, and was
under good headway when the lire lighters
arrived on tlie scene, and they got there
i:i quick rime, too. Early in the game it
was found that it would be impossible to
rave the adjoining cabin, so the firemen,
armed with long iron hooks attached to
poles and steel cable, turned their attention
to razing the adjoining frame structure.
'Twas but a few minutes before the power
ful men had the building leveled, and the
danger of the fire spreading was greatly
reduced. While the house was being torn
down a regular avalanche of large chunks
i i snow was heaped on the flames ot the
burning cabins and those close by. which
h:.it Uu' g.n'il nice; hi i.’.-M’niug iciiui.-. 11
wus this gooil work which xivci! I-rsnk
Stanley’s ice house from destruction, its it
stood within t!ir danger zone.
The enlenriid work of the lire fighters was
the topic of general comment and com
mendation by all who witr.cx-cd the fire.
TO CARRY IMMENSE SHAFT
OVER TRAIL TO IDITARQD
- (Seward Gateway. Feb. S
George Riley, who arrived on the Ala
meda, has brought in a tumbler shaft which
lie went out to secure. The shaft weighs
l.fiOO pounds, and will be drawn in over
ihe snow to be ready for the work in the
spring, instead of waiting for the opening
"i' navigation. Tin task take :t over
the trail will be a huge one. but Mr. Riley
believes that the improvements recently
made in the trail, which he took some part
in having done, will lie a big help. It is
worth mentioning in this respect that thou
sands of tons of stuffs are being shipped to
the Interior during the summer by the
Yukon river which will he taken by rail
road when the railroad is an accomplished
fact. In that way a railroad will have the
chief tonnage of the whole country.
SENTENCE COMMUTED
WHITEHORSE, V. T.. Teb. 4.—Romilo
Oaesari, convicted of murdering Dominico
Melis a year ago this month, and sentenced
to be hanged tomorrow, has had his sen
tence commuted by the Dominion govern
ment on the ground of insanity.
There will be a Sale at Miss Peterson’s
Store, at Richmond and First streets,
beginning Monday, March 8.
On all Dresses, Waists, Underwear,
Night Gowns, Towels and all Curtain
Goods.
ONE-FOURTH OFF ON SHOES
This Sale Will Last for
TWO WEEKS ONLY
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Attorney Ned M. Stanton, convoyed by
I oldie Anderson and Henry Martella of Yan
kee creek, left last Thursday morning on a
short business trip to the Innoko mining |
district. He expects to return in about ;
two weeks.
(deorge Adams, proprietor of the Adams I
house, was taken suddenly ill last Saturday
evening, and was confined to his bed a
goodly portion i f this week. He is now able
lo be around, but is still a little weak from
the atiack.
John Holmes of the M. & M. bank of this
city, who has been making a trip to the
Innoko and Ruby diggings during the past
four weeks, returned home last Thursday
afternoon.
MEETING GF PIONEERS
NEXT THURSSDAY NIGHT
The next regular meeting of Iditarod j
Igloo No. 10. Pioneers of Alaska, will be i
held at Hat Pity on next Thursday night,
March IS.
PAST DICTATOR’S BADGE
FOR “B-A-W-CIL” CLEMONS
There was a large attendance at the regu
lar weekly meeting r>f the Moot lodge at
Hat on Sunday night last, at which time,
in addition to the routine business of the I
lodge, officers for the next term com- i
mincing with the first of April were nomi
nated. The election of officers will take
[lace next Sunday night.
A beautiful past dictator's badge, with I
the name of Basil Clemons thereon, was i
recently received from the supreme lodge 1
of the order, which will be presented to
that gi»n*!"mr.n in recognition of his splen
did work during the past year in organ
izing lodges in this camp and at Ruby. The
bailee will be forwarded to Long City,
where Mr. Clemons is now residing, and the
presentation will be made at that place.
WILL SHOOT CLAY PIGEONS
The bright sunshine and the lengthening |
days of the past few weeks have had a ;
tendency to turn people’s thoughts to out
door pursuits and diversions, end as a be- j
ginr.er for the season a number of gentle
men have arranged a clay pigeon shoot for
tomorrow afternoon which is likely to be
the forerunner of many events of this oa- j
ture in the future. There are said to be j
some experts with the shotgun in Iditarod. ;
and these will be given a chance to show |
their prowess. The shoot will be held near 1
the tramway in the vicinity of John Cur- \
rin's house at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon.
BELLINGHAM BREWERY
TO BECOME FACTORY
BELLINGHAM. Wash., Feb. 11. The
stockholders of the Bellingham Bay brew
ery have decided to turn their brewery
into a dairy and butter and cheese fac
tory when :he prohibition law takes effect
on the first day of next January. In this
way the owners of the brewery believe
they may not only overcome the losses to
them caused by prohibition, but that they
can establish a business which ought to
be most prosperous.
Several other breweries in the state are
also figuring on some way by which they
may save some of the money which pro
hibition will cost them.
Best Line ot WHISKIES AND WINES tn the Camp
MONOGRAM, MARQUETTE, NATIONAL CLUB, (fed rn
GIBSON RYE (ALSO SCOTCH), and all lines of 111
Whiskies bottled in bond, per bottle. t*' ^ S ’-as W
Imported Port and Sherry, Three Star Hennessey and Bulk Whiskies cut in
proportion
PHONE “RAMPS” At the PIONEER
Just Received
A Choice Lot of the Latest
Victor Phonograpii Records
Come In and Hear Them
SMITH'S GUN STORE,
IDJTAROD, ALASKA
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DEPUTY MARSHAL SHEPPARD
HAS PAINFUL ACCIDENT
Harry P. Sheppard, who recently took
charge of the deputy marshal’s office at Flat
City, met with a painful accident last Sun
day night while inspecting the ruins of two
burnt cabins. In some manner he made a
false step and was thrown to the ground,
striking his left shoulder with sufficient vio
lence to dislocate the same. He was taken
to Dr. Auringer’s office and the shoulder
was put in place. Harry now has that
member lashed to his side, and within a
few days will be able to tote it in a sling.
This is the third time this particular shoul
der has been put to the bad—the first ac
cident having occurred on St. Patrick’s day,
11U2. while he was driving Jack Holmes'
red dogs to victory in the big dog race in
this city. The second accident occurred
about two years ago, while he was mushing
between Fairbanks and Tanana.
J. E. RILEY EXPECTED
’MOST ANY OLD DAY
(Seward Gateway, Feb. 10)
J. E. Riley, the Iditarod operator, and
Dick Hyland left this morning with two
good dog teams for the Interior camp. The
shaft being taken in by them will be picked
up at Beluga.
(Beluga river is u tributary of Cook inlet
from the north, coming in about twelve
miles to the west of the Susitna-river delta.
The dredge shaft was taken to that point
by the water route.)
PLENTY INTEREST SHOWN
IN RUBY’S DOG RACE
According to reports brought to this city
by Jack H< lines, the towns of Ruby and
Long City are very much interested in the
big dog race of St. Patrick’s day (next
Wednesday), which will be run over the
fifty-eight-mile course between those places
for a purse of $550. At the time Mr.
Holmes left Ruby there were at least ten
possible entries for the event, several of
them being teams that participated in last
year’s race. Holmes says there are some
splendid racing teams in that part of the
country, and the sports were very anxious
for him to remain until the 17th and get
into the game.
A CHANGE
m BUSINESS
Having bought a stock of Cloth
ing anti Gents’ Furnishing Goods
at sacrifice sale, we intend to
dispose of them the same way.
If you need anything in the way
of Hats, Shoes, Mitts, Gloves,
Sox, Underwear, Shirts, etc., we
have a large line to select from,
and will be pleased to have you
call and let us show you the
goods. _
flasley’s “store
Fresh Killed Beef
Pure and sweet. Once you try it, you will eat no other. Insist
on getting it
SarrP! Applebaum
The Home of Hart, Schafrner & Marx Clothes
Dog Bacon, lSc.
Dog Ham, /®£.
Butter; Wo.
C. R. PECK, FLAT CITY
JAP RECEIVES LONG SENTENCE
K. Yamaguchi, a Japanese convicted of
manslaughter in the killing of a fellow
countryman at Sitkoh Bay cannery la^t
April, was recently sentenced by Judge Jen
nings, in the district court at Juneau to
serve twenty years in the federal peniten
tiary at McNeil island. Washington. The
defendant had nothing to say when Judge
’minings asked if he wished to make a state
ment before sentence was pronounced. The
judge told Yamaguchi that he had had a
fair trial, that he had been ably defended
and that there were no extenuating circum
stances to w’arrant a lesser sentence. The
prisoner will be held in jail at Juneau until
alter the trial of H. Yamachita, alleged to
have been an accomplice.
HEROES REWARDED
Captain Thomas Moore, master of the
freighter Cordova, and his officers are now
the proud possessors of handsome and val
uable mementos given by the officers and
men of the United States revenue cutter
service in appreciation of the rescue of the
revenue cutter Tahoma’s crew in Alaska
waters last fall. In addition, each member
of the crew on the freighter at the time
of the rescue received a $10 gold piece.
Captain Moore received a beautiful silver
tea set and tray. Each of the other officers
was presented with a silver cigarette case.
The presentation was made by the rev
enue cutter service through Kenneth C.
Kerr, editor of Railway & Marine News, of
Seattle, who eulogized the heroism of Moore
and his men.
Fresh Olympia Oysters, for cocktails, $2
can. Ichtarod Meat Co.
i MAJOR ZACHARY T. V/OOD
DIES IN NORTH CAROLINA
Word has been received of the death of
Major Zachary Taylor Wood, assistant com
missioner of the Northwest Mounted Police
of Canada, at Asheville, N. C., January 15.
Of all the officers of the Northwest police
who were connected with that very impor
tant and exceedingly useful branch of the
Canadian government in the early Klondike
days, probably none was so widely known
as Major Wood, and none more generally
respected.
Major Wood was a grandson of President 1
dpachary Taylor. His father, Captain Wood
of the Confederate navy, commanded the
Confederate cruiser Mississippi, which prob
ably ranked next to the Alabama as a com
merce destroyer. After the war he was one
of those of the South who fled to Canada,
locating at Halifax with his young South
ern wife. Their son, named for his distin
guished grandfather, the hero of Bueno
Vista, and the twelfth President of the
United States, was raised in Canada and
became an officer in the Canadian North
west Mounted Police. He lived an active
life in the service in the Northwest terri
tories and the Yukon, and died in the South
land, where so many of his kinsmen had
lived and added to the glory of their states
a*hl country.
^ At the time of his death Major Wood’s
command was at Regina.
Major Wood possessed many of the
brusque and direct characteristics and man
nerisms that made “Old Rough and Ready”
a popular hero in the United States during
the midway portion of the last century.
Always honest and honorable, efficient and
capable, Major Wood will be sorely missed
by many friends and admirers.
BRITISH SERGEANT GIVES
OBSERVATIONS ON A CHARGE
Herbert Corey, the writer on war topics,
sends the following from London:
The sergeant was cross. He was dis
tinctly cross. At first he seemed disin
clined to take up the role of wounded hero
of the Great War which several of us had
pressed upon him.
“Don’t get too bally near me,” said the
sergeant. “First thing you know you'll be
stepping on my sore foot. And then I’ll
jolly well bash the man as does it.”
But there are ways of mollifying wounded
heroes, and a British soldier could never be
convinced that ale could be the slightest
drag upon convalescence. He had just re
turned from France, where he had been
wounded in a battle with the Germans.
His wound was not serious. He hoped to
be back on the lighting line in a month.
“Where was the battle in which you were
wounded?” someone asked.
Then was revealed the fashion in which
a fighting man looks at a battle much as
an ant would look at a sandbed. He could
see only the little grain of sand immediately
before his eyes. Of the strategy involved,
of the numbers in connict, oi tne general
plan of battle, he knew no more than we
did who had stayed at home.
“All 1 know is they were lighting h’all
over,” said he. “Mornings you’d wake up
to ’ear them same guns going.. Everywhere
they were at it all around. Sometimes the
Germans seemed in the rear of us and
sometimes we were in the rear of the Ger
nuns. I don't know what happened. We
were somewhere in Belgium.”
The troop of cavalry to which he be
longed had not been engaged during the
first, day of the big battle. Three or four
time they had been ordered here or there.
“Just like we’d be going out to exercise
our ’orses, like,” said he. “We never got
near the Germans. Sometimes we’d see
’em, and they’d see us, hut both of us went
on about our business.”
He saw the wounded brought back from
the front. It was pretty tough, he said,
to stand in ranks and watch w'agons full
of groaning, cursing, screaming men file
past. The worst of it, he thought, was to
watch the blood drip through the seams
of the wagon beds. The undergear of some
of the wagons grew to a dark, dusty pur
ole. When his troop was ordered on scout
ing duty the men took it as a relief.
“It was odd now',” said he, “to watch the
water wagons that used to sprinkle London's
streets conn- jolting up with water for us.
They took our minds h’off the fellows that
’ad been ’urt. And the busses. When I got
my ’urt I rode to the rear in a Charing
Cross bus that maybe the old woman used
to ride in every morning when she went
to ride down town. Rum, aren’t itt”
His troop was sheltered behind a hi!!
he said, where the shells couldn’t get at
them. It was hot. and most ol inf men
were standing by their horses. They had
loosened the girths and opened their own
tunics. He was concerned about his own
horse.
“Old ’Ydraulic,” he said, “got to lath
ering bad that morning. I feared the old
beggar were going to be sick.”
A staff officer cantered up in a perfectly
resile- o* faet wav ,jr1 I gi-i3 an o J?f to
he con1 randing i d' °r 1 hM u 'd to
mount was passed along. L was i oci.-us
that another scoutine expedition wa. oil
foot. This sergeant heard one of the men
in ranks say to a comrade that one of these
days they’d get bally well caught by the
Sausages, going around this way, careless
like tie reprimanded the speaker.
“'E was just a cornerboy in London,”
said the sergeant. “I could tell w-hat sort
> is directly 1 laid eyes on 'ini. They al
ways have more strategy than Ole K. him
self.”
The troop took the long hill at a wak.
The warm, tired men lodded in their sad
dles until the sergeant made them straighten
up to save the backs of their horses. They
were distinctly not interested. Half a
dozen of these expeditions had been un
fuittul. They had seen nothing of sig
nificance in the movements of the enemy.
“H’all at once,” said the sergeant, in a
louder tone, “’e sounded the charge.”
The men took the crest of the hill at a
gallop. The first of the troops were already
tearing down hill toward a company of
German lancers, who were on level ground
not 100 yards away. The noise of battle
which filled the air for seventy-five miles
on either side had masked the approach of
each from the other.
“It was a ’ell of a charge," said the
sergeant in disgust. "We didn’t ave no
chawuce to get into proper formation or
nothing. We just beat it down that ill,
’ell for leather. My poor ole ’Ydraulic, he
planted them forefeet 'ard every jump. . He
bally near shook me h’out of the saddle.
11 was JUM a lUSUiucuj --
men upon an equally disorganized other
group of mounted men, the sergeant said.
On his way down hill he remembered that
his knee was bruised against the saddle of
the man on the right. He wanted to but
ton his tunic, which had been flying open,
but abandoned that as impracticable. Some
one behind him had lugged out a revolver
and was shooting. It annoyed him exces
sively.
“Me beink a sergeant, like,” he said, it,
would look bad hif I was to be shot in
the back by one of my own men. Wouldn’t
it. now
So he sat his horse in that yelling, swear
ing, sweating rout, and kept his saber up
in the first position—which is a guard
and wondered how he would dodge the
Sausage’s lance when the collision came.
The guards he had been taught in saber
school seemed absurdly ineffectual. Ten
feet away from the other line he and a
big German sergeant, profuse of whisker,
seemed to get each other’s eye. But. some
one got between them.
“I hit ’im”—referring to this unlucky
other fellow—“in the ’ead with my sword.
’E cussed like anythink in Dutch. I ’eard
’im.”
The two troops passed through each other
in some miraculous fashion, as though they
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For General Express and Deliver?
of Wood in the City
Leave Orders at Iditarod Hotel
DAN HARTNET
Bayles Clothing Co.
IDITAROD DISCOVERY, OTTER
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were country dancing. Halting to reform,
they saw a French mounted battery bounce
over a hill, swing into position with the
dust of the hillside rising in huge clouds
from the scoring wheels, and the gunners
leap from their seats and begin to whirl the
muzzles toward the Germans.
“So we got under the ’ill again,” said
the sergeant. “The Frenchies had took over
our show. They was giving them Sausages
what-for almost before we was under cover.
So that night I was sent to the rear and
come on ’ome with this hole in my foot.”
“But how did you get your wound?”
asked one.
“I don’t know,” said the sergeant.
SURVIVORS OF KARLUK
GRATEFUL TO RESCUER
T. W. Maurer, a fireman of (he lost
whaler Karluk, and Ernest F. Chafe, cabin
boy, who recently arrived in Victoria, have
presetted to Captain Olaf Swenson of the
King & Winge a solid silver cup in token
■f their thanks to him for his timely rescue
of the survivors from Wrangell island.
The cup was presented without formality,
Captain Swenson expressing his thanks to
ihe men who had made him so splendid a
gift. The cup itself stands about fourteen
nches high, and bears the names of W. L
McKinlay, John Munro, F. W. Maurer, J,
a. Hadley, R. J. Williamson, Robert Tern
Ionian, E. F. Chafe and H. Williams, the
eight survivors of the schooner.
SUICIDE OF A NORTHERNER
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 2. -Leaving a note
j n which he declared that Rose Malburn,
1 a well-known former Dawson vaudeville
star, had persecuted him beyond the point
! )f endurance, Clegg Morris ended his life in
j .his city. Morris met the Malburn woman
1 I* the North in the early days of th^• Klon
| dike.
WHERE SYMPATHY BELONGS
“With whom do we sympathize in the
lending war?” asks a correspondent. Well
answer that. W'ith the German, French,
Belgian and English boys who man the
ranches. W'ith the Ge’man. French.
■’"‘dish and Belgian boys 'too crowd the
ao.-pitals. Wan the mothers who bor.
hese boys. With the taihers who saw
hem grow to manhood and loved them as
hey grew. With the women who wet:
wedded to tho-’ boys With the children
.hey left when tney marched to me P m
With the poor peasant who struggles against
the press of war engendered poverty. With
those who in the cities cry out for food.
W'ith the men who fight for fatherland,
j hating war in their hearts. W'ith the great
j artists like Kreisler, who must turn their
j marvelous melody-producing fingers to
' works of destruction. W'ith the people who
: must live out their days with lives forever
| blighted by this war. With the innocent
whose fields have been trampled under foot
■ by marching armies. W ith all the host of
j -hose who, under the press of a mistaken
| patriotism, must offer up their lives. These
i are the ones with whom we sympathize.
I Johnstown Democrat.
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OSTEOPATHIC MASSAGES WITH ELEC
TRIC VIBRATION
| Increases the blood supply to the muscle,
i renders it firmer, more healthy and more
clastic. . .
And it will rapidly diminish contracted
muscles and soreness and the tense hard
ness due to local status so characteristic of
the affected parts.
After the first treatment, properly admin
istered, the parts treated usually have a
feeling of warmth and comfort.
THE CROSBY MASSAGE AND BATH
PARLORS
The Home of the Twentieth Century Turk
ish Bath
Fresh Olympia Oysters, for cocktails, $2
can Iditarod Meat Co.
f (MENTALLY
SHOT IN THIGH
George Shimada, a Japanese, who has
mi in the Bear creek country for the
pi 't two years, was brought to the Emer
ge icy hospital at Flat City last Saturday
evening, suffering from a wound in the
r: gh received from a .22-caliber rifle about?
a week previous. The gun was being ban
filed by Shimad&’s partner, Marry Hamada.
who accidentally discharged the weapon at
flise range. Hamada brought his partner
; from near Bear creek, where the accident
I . (turret!, to Flat City in a little over four
i d ys. Dr. Auringer examined the wounded
; to an and located the bullet in close pruxim
ir. to a large artery, and its removal with
out complications will require delicate sur
i e ry. Shmiada, who is physically the
h rgest Japanese in the territory, is com
p lied to remain very quiet on his couch,
| a • aiting a favorable time fur the operation
j ti remove the ball.
| DIG MOOSE ENTERTAINMENT
NOW IN PREPARATION
The entertainment committee of the
V cat lodge has been prevailed upon to
g've an ther entertainment and dance be
fore the social season is called off for the
- ■ring, and Saturday, March 20, has been
decided on as the (late of the event. All
i ih ladies of the community are invited to
j a.tend, and their escorts, although the;’
| may not be members of the Moose organ
| ication, will be welcome. Local talent vill
furnish the songs, recitations u:..i ether
j stunts, and those selected for participation
I tie already perfecting themselves 'ti t'.eir
| parts of the program. Each social i%ent
given by the Moose during the present sea
son seemed to be an improvement or. its
Predecessors, and this one will surely test
the seating capacity of the lodge budding
j ac Flat City.
CAUSE TO MISS HER
“You seem quite positive that your hus
:)and missed you while you were away. I
■Arissh I could feel half as certain about
I '-nine.” , ,
“I do feel certain. \ ou see. my nusbana
I hr.d to cook his own meals.” Louisville
1 :pr-J^urnal.
A KODAK
FOR YOU
A Kodak will make a
boy or girl smile, also
grown-ups. The light is
getting good and now is
the time to take pictures.
We have a good supply of
Cameras and Kodaks from
$1.50 to $75.00, and
plenty of all kinds of
Films and other supplies.
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Ansley’s Book Store
I Iditarod
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FRESH VEGETABLES
nice and crisp
Cabbage, Rutabagas,
Celery, Turnips, Carrots,
Parsnips and Beets
CROWLEY & PORTER
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