Will Soon Soak Us
for the Poll Tax
Along about the first of June the city council will appoint a
poll-tax collector, with full powers to go ahead and get the money.
He will be instructed to get you for four large round bones, and
for that he will give you a little slip, which he will tear from a
stub and which will cost him four samoleums. In other words, he
must turn in the goods to the city.
If you are more than 21 years and less than 50 you are hooked
for the prescribed amount, providing you live within the city
limits. Those unfortunate people who live outside this delightful
city may get theirs to the tune of $8, but that serves them right
for not living here.
If you belong to the volunteer fire department you dou't have
to pay, but if there is any rush to join the department “this bull
don’t go."
The poll tax should be paid gracefully and willingly, because
it goes on the street, and makes walking better, and everybody
walks unless he has a wooden leg or is confined in jail. But how
ever that may be, if you don't come through gracefully, they will
slip it over anyway and tack it on to your property tax and take
all you have, excluding $300 worth of clothes. Who ever heard of
anyone having $300 worth of clothes?
Chief Fire Fighter
Not Vet Appointed
The council went to the mat over the fire chief proposition last
Wednesday night, and it will not be at all surprising if they pull
off a four-round go before the thing is finally settled Some of
them want to appoint a permanent chief and others don’t. The
Don’ts say that all applications have not been filed yet, and besides
they wish to think it over.
The question was raised at the council meeting when Eugene
Brunette's application for a temporary release was read. The
present chief asked to be relieved from the arduous business of
drawing a salary and wanted a 30-day vacation, suggesting that
Foster Powers would look after the business while he was away.
He said in his letter that he would always be around handy and
would immediately assume charge in case of fire. Besides this he
relinquished the Salary attached to the office while he chases the
samoleums with a paste brush.
Councilman McDonell came through with the suggestion that
he believed it wise to appoint the permanent chief and get the
thing off their minds. Frank Miller agreed with him.
Councilman Bayles got on his hind feet and told them that the 1
proposition of selecting the fire chief was so important that they
needed a little more time. He thought the fire committee knew !
what it was doing, and asked that Brunelle's communication be re- j
ferred to that committee with full power to act. This proposition
went to a vote and carried.
It is now settled that Foster Powers is to be acting chief, with
Brunelle on hand whenever the fire alarm is turned in. In the
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THE ONLY UP-TO-DATE
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IN IDITAROD
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and Modern Equipment
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SECOND STREET
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Cigars, Tobaccos, Candies, Etc.
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Gonnolly-Berggren Orchestra Tickets $3.00
meantime the fire committee will consider it, and when they decide
on the permanent apparatus for fighting fire they will also decide
who is to use it. |
Bird’s Eye View of City Finances
Thirteen warrants have been drawn on the city up to date, and the
finances of the municipality are already assuming that variegated j
appearance that comes with complicity. Besides that, there were a
number of new bills put in during the week, and things are looking !
much better.
The last tabs slipped to Clerk Hunt were as follows : Cleaning;
court house April and May, $8 ; labor on street, C. Artel, $2; building
culvert on Black street, S. F. Tamsey, $5 ; building election booths, H. j
C Kelly, $5 ; balance on old lumber bill of the fire department with the!
Clark Lumber Co., $218 62 ; wood to courthouse and fire hall, J. D.!
Barnes, $47.
The warrants have been drawn as follows : Salary fund, Pat O’- i
Connor, $250; PL Brunelle, $200; Henry Roden. $100; E B. Hunt, |
clerk, $50 and magistrate $50. General fund : Felix Seppi, $2.50; C
B. Eckert, $1 1 50 ; F'oster Powers, $250; H. C. Ellington, $13 50,
Police department : H. C. Ellington, jailor, $6; Robert Simpson, police
badge, $10 ; fire department, Martin Sickinger, $5; J, D. Barnes,
wood, $24.
The money received up to date amounts to $195. Of this amount
$180 was contributed by the girls on Third avenue, technically known
as the Twilight Zone, and the other fifteen was donated by the guy
who thought somebody was going to commit a murder.
The warrants being issued by the city are almost negotiable. That
is, they are not quite. Anybody holding a city warrant at the present
time is in a bad way unless someone will take him on for a discount. It
sounds bad but it isn’t. It simply means that the credit of the city is
not working yet but will be, just as soon as they can see where they
will get the dough. Even at that, those warrants are not a bad invest
ment, for the city should have plenty of money in 60 days
The poll tax contiibutions will be dropping in next month and
saloon licenses will mount up rapidly because Iditarod is soon to cele
brate her natal day.
King's Island, south of Cape Prince o
Wales, is celebrated as being the abid
ing place of the Alaskan cliff-dwellers.
Their houses are hewn out of the rock
which has a slope of 45 degrees at that
spot.
Ice cream by the pint or gallon
at the Red X Drug Store.
WILL ARRIVE ON FIRST MAT
AND DELIVERED AT FLAT CITY IMMEDIATELY UPON ARRIVAL
Fresh Dates, Apples, Grape Fruit, Figs., Lemons,
Oranges, Eggs, Onions and Spuds
And a full line of Fresh Groceries personally selected. Prices Right
Complete lines carried at Otter City. Outfit with us.
E. W. GRIFFIN
FLAT CITY OTTER CITY DIKEMAN
Thou Shalt Not
Gamble a Bit
It is now considered very impolite to
fill your hand or open a jackpot because
the council says you mustn’t. If there
are any such things as jackpots around
just pass them and let the other fellow
worry.
The question came up before the
council last Wednesday night when an
ordinance was passed declaring that
anybody who played rouge et noir,
rondo, mummeltypeg, catch-as-catch
can or tunk would be considered an un
desirable citizen and slapped forcibly
on the wrist.
The council passed said ordinance
because it is considered the proper
thing to do, but it is a terrible thing to
destroy the prestige of that aneient
and honorable game known as “Help
Your Neighbor.”
Our Nimrods Get Back Once
As announced two weeks ago, the
hunting season has closed, because
Smithy Benbrook, Tom DeCamp and
Arthur Celene got back from down
river. They got all the game there
Gave Him Seven Days
For the Whole Job
The contract for the laying of cross walks in the city was
given last Wednesday night to Tom Walkinshaw, and he was re
quested to get right on the job and put them in. It was thought
that the available lumber would be ready by Monday, but if it
isn’t, Walkinshaw has seven days after he gets the material to put
in the crossings, that the city may look like a real metropolis by
the opening of navigation.
The event was the center of interest for a number of carpen
ters and contractors of the city, and a few of them were on hand
at the council meeting to hear the bids. There was remarkable
unanimity in reaching the $300 mark and four of the bidders had
reached the same conclusion as to their ability to make money at
that figure.
Among those who put in their bids were the following : C. B.
Eckert, 12 crossings for $175; Smith & Wright. $1325 (evidently
figuring on furnishing the lumber); Harry Beach, $300; L. T.
Walkinshaw. $300; Harry P. Main, $300; T. J. Nesbit, $300;
Albert Kiementer, $360; J. H. Sully, $275; Robert Graham, $33.50
per thousand; M. L. Peters, $35 per thousand.
Following the reading of the bids, the council adjourned for
ten minutes and come back with the information that they had
given the bid to Walkinshaw. It was subsequent that they put
conditions on to the contract to the effect that he must get busy
and put the twelve crossings in as fast as possible, following the
delivery of the lumber.
This will doubtless come from the Cleveland mill, since the
bid put in by that firm was the most reasonable, and the council
seems to be figuring on Cleveland lumber. They have not yet
officially placed the contract—unless the street committee has
placed the order, and it has that power under the vote of the
council of a week ago,
Seven days were allowed to Walkinshaw to complete the lay
ing of the crosswalks, and it is very probable that they will be
laid in much less time. It is the desire of the council that the
streets be made crossable by the opening of navigation.
The contractor will lay the walks on the principal streets
first, beginning on First and Willow streets. The number allotted
will not go far toward fixing the metropolis, but they are already
listening to reason, and may call for more bids in the near future.
School Bell Will Ring Next Fall
The board of school trustees will not be very busy this sum
mer. They will only figure out whether to gouge the city for half
or a quarter of w-hat It’s got, and will put in a few pleasant hours
writing carefully-worded epistles to a number of young ladies who
want the job of starting the young idea.
There will be school here next winter and the board of trus
tees will have three or four thousand dollars to do it with. The
only records now held in the archives of the education depart
ment are two letters received from Seward by the Iditarod Pioneer
and which we have been saving just so the trustees can answer
them. The ladies sent their pictures along and that makes it
much more interesting.
was down around those parts, and they
really did sit up and look for it.
Out of the atmosphere they gathered j
about thirty ducks, five geese and one I
sandhill crane. Anybody that says it’s
a good duck country in the face of that!
record has got something wrong with i
his head.
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Now is the time for Spring cleaning.
Chloride of Lime at City Drug Store,
3 for $1. __
Arctic Brotherhood, Attention
The regular meeting of Camp Idit
arod, A. B., will be held on Monday
evening, May 22.1911, at Ansley’s hall, i
at 8:30 o’clock. A full attendance of
members is requested, inasmuch as j
plans will he discussed for the formal :
opening of the new hall, as well as
other business of importance.
J. F. A. Strong, A. C,
H. S. Holmes, a. R.
CO-PARTNERSHIP NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the co-[
partnership heretofore existing between j
F. C. Wiseman, Pat Whalen and L. T.
Chambers, under the firm name and!
style of Wiseman & Co., is this day I
changed by consent of all the parties j
hereto, by the retirement of L. T. j
Chambers and the admission of Charles I
G. Lynn. The new firm will continue
under the old name and style, and will
settle all accounts, both debit and
credit, of the old firm.
Dated this the 17ta day of April, 1911.
F. C. Wiseman,
Pat Whalen,
L. T. Chambers,
Chas. Lynn.
The Regina hot el is being fitted to
a new dress, Mr. Nyliolra clothing the
place in white, with triinrn ings on the
window.
The word “Eskimo” is a term of re^
proach and means “raw fish eater.”
Old papers at Landahl’s, 25c lb.
FLAT CITY
Miss 3. Kotsch,
Tobaccos. Cigars, Confectionery,
STATIONERY
SEWING, CLEANING AND PRESSING
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Cafe in Connections,
Liquors and Citfats
Tel: “Summit Roadhouse.”
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STILL OPEN!
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Board of Trade Poof Room
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