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Cutting Prices
does not necessarily mean markings of red ink and advertising of figures, but
cutting prices means low prices on well-known goods, makes or brands. Ask for
anything you want and note the cut in prices.
Until we closo up. prices will speak louder than words.
H. Boas, Leading Clothier
I HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX and CHESTERFIELD CLOTHES
THIS STORE CLOSES AT 8 P. M.; SUNDAYS AT NOON
Highest Prices Paid for Raw Furs
THECREEKS
The Flat Creek S >cial Club met last Sat
urday night for thp election of officers. Dave
Stranberg was elected president and Mrs.
Monkman secretary treasurer. An entertain
ment committee was appointed, consisting of
Mrs. Oscar Gardner. Mrs. Solibakke, Mrs.
Naehter, Mrs. Onyett and Grant Murdock.
After the election card-playing was indulged
in until 12 o’clock, after which dancing was
enjoyed until 2 :30.
Dan Van Waltenberg and Frank Morgan
left yesterday for the Mount McKinley coun
try on a hunting trip. They plan on being
gone about six weeks.
Ben Kokrinc and Tony Tonda arrived at
Flat Tuesday. Tony came from Bear creek,
and left yesterday for the Outside over the
Seward trail. Kokrine came from Koloma
koti.'ky. He will visit here a week or more
before returning home. They report a small
stampede to Fog river, a tributary of the
Tuluksak. about 30 miles above the mouth
of the river, but said they knew nothing
about the strike.
Mrs. McKenzie of Otter creek visited Idit
arod Monday, accompanied by Mr. Tan
Lyck with his dog team.
Mr*. Lottie Thornton is visiting Mrs. J. G.
Pavers on Happy creek.
Mr. and Mrs. Charley Stranberg of Otter
creek visited Flat Thursday.
Mrs. Stetzer of Otter creek is being, cared
for at the hospital at Flat. She has a very
bad cold, which has settled in her lungs.
Mrs. George Nehmeyer of Discovery, while
on her way to Flat last Saturday after
noon. slipped and splained an ankle so badly
that she could travel no farther. She was
compelled to sit by the trail for a quarter
of an hour before a traveler with a dog team
picked her up and hauled her home.
\ telegram was received at Iditarod last
Monday morning telling of the death of Mrs.
O. M. Grant of Flat City. Mrs. Grant died
KODAK
And Let the Children Kodak
We Have Pictures of the Ladies’
Dog Race
Don t you wisn you had had a
Kodak the day of the dog race?
We are agents for Eastman Ko
dak Company and can supply you.
Ansley's Book Store
on Sunday night at Providence hospital, Se
attle. The deceased left here in November
for the Outside over the Seward trail, ac
companied by Sam Adams. She was on her
way to Mayo Bros.’ hospital at Rochester,
Minn., to bo treated for cancer. The trip
to the coast wrus l'tig and severe, which
probably hastened the eud.
Mr. and Mrs. Ostr< m of Discovery visited
Iditurod yesterday.
Miss Edrika Peterson of Iditarod is vis
iting on the creeks.
A letter was reeei\ed on the last mail
from W. II. Crawford, who left here last
fall. He was at Tacoma. Wash. He stated
that Mrs. Crawford had undergone an op
eration and had been in the hospital for
three weeks. lie said he longed to be back
in Alaska again that the howl of a malu
mute would be soothing to his ears.
DICK ELDRIDGE’S GRANDMA
DEAD AT ADVANCED AGE
Mrs. Isaac I. Stevens, widow of the first
governor of the Territory of Washington,
died at Boston November 4. word t;> that
effect having been received by her grand
son, R. S. Eskridge of Seattle.
Mrs. Stevens has not been a resident of
the state of Washington since 1876, when
she accompanied her son, General Ilazzard
Stevens, to the East.
As Margaret Lyman Ilazzard, Mrs. Ste
vens was born 97 years ago, the daughter
of Benjamin Ilazzard and Polly Lyman,
both of long established Newport families.
It was in Newport that General Stevens
I first met his future wife. They were mar
ried at the home of the bride, one of the
colonial landmarks of Newport, September
S, 1841.
President Franklin Pierce named General
Stevens governor of Washington Territory
March 17. 1853, and after a hazardous over
land trip he reached Olympia November 25
-of the same year. Governor Stevens re
moved his family to Olympia from the East
the following year, bringing them by way
of the Isthmus of Panama.
Mrs. Stevens removed to the national
capital in 1S61, when Governor Stevens,
serving as a delegate to congress, took nart
in the civil war. He was killed at Chan
tilly. Va.. in 1SG2.
Mrs. Stevens returned to Washington in
1867 with her son, General Ilazzard Ste
vens, who was receiver of the United States
land office for Western Washington, then
located at Olympia.
Mrs. Stevens is survived by her daughter.
Mrs. Sue Stevens Eskridge of Boston, and
Mrs. Kate Stevens Bates of New York, and
her grandson, Richard S. Eskridge.
LOST—On the trail between Idilarod and
Discovery, Otter, a book. Please return to
the Pioneer Drug Store. Reward.
FOR SALE- Six good-sized dogs, well
trained and in good condition. Inquire at
Grand Bar. Flat City.
DILL OF SALE BLANKS.—For ine correct
D transfer of articles of value, have re
■ntl\ been printed at tlie oillce of The
Iditarod Pioneer, and contain several cau
tionary and explanatory notes for the guid
ance of interested parties. The blanks are
on sale by An«ley at Iditarod, Harry Don
nelley at IMs. otter, and the Pioneer Drug
•store at Flat City.
W. F. HARRISON,
Attorney at Law
IDITAROD, ALASKA
1 DRUGS, GOAL OIL AND GASOLINE
Paints, Oils, Window Glass
Shotguns and Shotgun Shells
Victrolas and Victor Records
Carpets, Rugs, Matting, Furniture
Gasoline Mantles and Globes
Harness and Harness Supplies
Stoves, Ranges, Heaters
Granite and White Enamelwaro
Bar Glassware, Crockery
Skates, Hockey Sticks, Pucks
GENUINE NOME DOG HARNESS
Yukon Sleds Snowshoes Siwash Mitts
SMITH'S GUN STORE,
1D1TAROD, ALASKA
-NEWS
BULLETINS
San Francisco.- -Lively interest was ex
pressed by both advocates and opponents
of enforced total abstinence in the North
ern California Baptist convention’s decision
at Oakland recently to caution prohibition
leaders against submitting the issue to a
state-wide vote until a more favorable time.
Argument concerning the wisdom of push
ing the movement at once centered around
the question of the present attitude and
strength of the women electors.
Los Angeles. Miss Gladys Lynch wants
be the first American girl to swim the Pan
ama canal. Sfre started for the zone with
her mother a few days ago. She will take
along the niftiest red bathing suit money
can buy.
Liverpool. A suffragette bomb, unex
ploded before its fuse had fizzled out, was
found in the palm house, Nefton park. Had
it exploded it would have ruined an almost
priceless collection of plants. A suffragette
threw first a tomato and then a hammer at
Justice Lawrence as he was presiding at
the Old Bailey trial of Rachael Pearce, a
suffragette accused of arson.
Kansas City. Alfredo Madero. a brother
■ f tlie late President Francisco 1. Madero
of Mexico, started south from here accom
i allied by two strangers. He refused to
state his destination. Two of his trunks,
however, were checked to El Paso.
Paris. That Princess Wiliam Eitel
l riederich, wife of Kaiser Wilhelm’s second
son. had deserted her husband was a report
widely circulated here. One rumor stated
that the princess had lied here, but was
intercepted and returned to Germany. An
other stated that she had gone to America,
traveling incognito.
Cedar Rapids. Ia. E. Gross, a Chicago
diamond merchant, reported here that he
had been robbed of gems worth $35,000
while traveling between Davenport and
Minneapolis.
Manila.—The naval collier Ajax went
aground off Guam. The cruiser Galveston
went to its assistance.
Washingtno.— President Wilson has sent
to the senate the nomination of Brigadier
General Wi liam Crozier to be chief of the
bureau of ordnance, and that of Lieutenant
Colonel Benjamin Alvord, to bo.an adjutaut
general with rank of colonel.
Cleveland, 0^-Congressman Gordon tele
graphed to President Wilson asking a full
investigation of the service given by the
weather bureau in connection with the re
cent storm on the Great Lakes, as a result
rf which between 200 and 300 lives were
lost and property, according to some esti
mates, valued at $10,000,000, destroyed.
Washington - The Argentine Republic
has accepted the state department’s invita
tion to send representatives and warships to
Hampton Roads early in 1915 to join the
international fleet which will pass through
the Panama canal at its formal opening.
Washington. -Secret divorce proceedings
have been abolished in the capital's courts
by a revision of the rules.
Chicago. A bulletin issued recently by
State Factory Inspector Nelson declares that
parents in many districts force their chil
dren to work at home under far worse con
ditions than-obtain in factories. He says
children 5. 6 and 7 years old are pulled
out of bed at 5 o’clock, shaken into wake
fulness, given a drink of strong coftee and
made to stand for hours at one monotonous
task.
Hazeltrn, Mo. A mistake in one letter
in an order sent by them to St. Louis was
responsible for the death of T. J. Jackson
and Ge rge Hash, who died from drinking
wood : Ieoh. 1. They had ordered “good"
alcohol. Four others who drank part of
the wood alechol will recover.
Sacramento, Cal. Recently the tango and
other “rags" invaded the state as\lt:ms for
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By the Carcass, Side, Quarter and Pouud
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Sam’l Applebaum
A. J. Weiss, Flat
AND THAT IS ALL
This store is the home of Hart, Schaffner & Marx Clothes.
I Now that the excitement of the ladies’ dog r
race is over, and we have again settled down )
to the common routine of business life, we \
will be pleased to have you call upon us for c
your bacon and beans, and other incidentals )
of household necessities. j
C. R. PECK, GENERAL MERCHANDISE, FLAT
The Pioneer
Ramps Peterson
the insane, and the patients are becoming •
proficient in the steps. Dr. F. W. Hatch,
state superintendent, says there is no rea- ;
son why the patients should not indulge in
the new dances, as they may have more ^
of a curative effect than the old forms. j
New Haven.- -According to a statement
filed recently with Town Clerk Whitaker,
former President Taft has property valued
at about $150,000. He filed an inventory j
of his estate in response to the demand that j
lists of securities of persons liable to the .
income tax be submitted for registration. |
New York. Hurry K. Thaw, the fugitive
from Matteawan, has sent a signed state
ment to the New York Sun attacking for
mer District Attorney Wi.liam T. Jerome.
He charged that Jerome allowed many mur- t
derers to go free during his term of office. 1
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Portland, Ore. Circuit Judge Cleeton up- '
holds the constitutionality of the minimum ;
wage law, passed by the last legislature, giv- j
ing the industrial welfare commission power
to regulate the hours of work, wages and
working conditions of women and minors
employed in Oregon.
Denver. The state supreme court has
sustained the constitutionality of the com
mission form of government in Denver,
thereby upholding the lower court’s ruling
in a lest case.
Council Bluffs. A highwayman boarded
a Burlington sleeping car on a west-bound
train, compelled the porter to take up a
collection from the passengers, and escaped
with about $300.
Kenosha, Wis. Bound by contract in
-tead of religious vows, Miss Gertrude W.
Hassler, concert and church singer, and
Frederick A. Carpenter, a Chicago business
man. were married here recently by Judge |
Clifford E. Randall. The bride was recently j
awarded 2.>0.000 for breach of promise from
Carl (h Fisher, the Indianapolis millionaire
clubman. In the contract signed by the ;
i rib • ?he promires “to be faithful so long |
i a-; he proves true, and I will strive to fill j
with a vast measure of contentment each ;
day of our lives thus joined.” Mr. Carpen- j
er agrees “to be true, faithful in words
and tholights and deeds, to protect and <
i love and dev-te my life to her to bring her j
t lo h.m’ n.wss and contentment she so well )
I ,
; deserves.
| Calgary, Alberta.—A- woman vaudeville
I erformer whose real identity is hidden be
: ' ind a number of stage names is dying in a
1 I cal hospital because her partner in an
. :,cr. butic act sneezed. During an aerial act
I lohn Bartlett, a strong man, hung by his
knees from a traj-eze while the woman,
hanging at the end of a strap gripped in
Bartlett's teeth, spun dizzily while vari
colored lights flayed upon her. Uncon
sciously Bartlett sneezed and the woman
fell 30 feet, alighting in the orchestra pit.
WIFE’S SEVENTEEN HATS
BRING ABOUT DIVORCE
Seattle, Dec. 5.—When his wife came
home with 17 hats, Harold Forrest made
such strong objections to the wholesale
shopping that he precipitated a domestic
disturbance that finished yesterday, when
he obtained a divorce. Forrest married
Mrs. Gertrude E. Forrest January 29, 1911,
and they have one child. The husband told
the c. urt that his wife has an obsession on
the subject of hats, and now has 50 at
home that she never has worn. In addi
tion Forrest has been obiiged to prepare
his own meals, according to his testimony.
Trouble arose also through the fact that
Dr. Hazzard prescribed the starvation cure
f r children of Mrs. Forrest by a former
husbtn i.
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCER TO RETIRE !
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San Francisco, Dec. 6.—Rotund and rubi- !
cund Billy Jordan, with his snow-white hair
and his bull’s voice, is to retire shortly as
official announcer of the prize ring. He is
S2 years old, and expects soon to retire to
the Old Settlers’ home at Yountville, Cal.
Fight followers all over the country know
Billy Jordan. He announced the Jeffnes
Jchnson fight and almost every other cham
pionship event that has been held west of
the Rocky mountains in the past two gen
erations.
Once a good lightweight himself, he is
one of the fewr men now living who saw
the famous battle at Fredericksburg, Va.. in
184S, when Tom Hyer defeated Yankee
Sullivan in one hour and forty minutes un
der the old London prize ring rules.
Pictures make nice Christmas presents
See Clemons <4; Koons, photographers, Flat
City.
Furnace refuse from ocean steamers is i
nowr discharged from an opening below the j
water line. I
In These Days
Of Modern Advertising
The words "Best" and "Leaders" are used freely. For that reason we dislike to
use those terms, but good dressers ■know standard makes, and we carry nothing
but the most standard makes in Clothing, Furnishings nad Shoes.
Eayles Clothing Co.
IDITARCD DISCOVERY, OTTER
STORE CLOSES AT 8 P. M.; SUNDAY AT NOON
JAPANESE ARE NOT CIVILIZED
SAYS A GERMAN JOURNALIST
Berlin, Dec. 1. A German journalist re
dding in Yokohama warns the civilizer!
world against looking upon Japan as being
n the same class as the western countries
she tried to imitate.
The veneer of civilization in Japan, he
writes, is an exceedingly thin one, and there
,s no better proof of this than the enor
nous number of parricides in the empire
if the mikado.
The animal instincts of the Japanese are
Aroused at the slightest provocation and
Manifest themselves in an almost incredible
lumber of murder-. very few of which ever
icnie to the knowledge of the world.
A short time ago a Japanese workman.
Tamada, from Shikoka, discovered that his
wife was deceiving him with a friend. She
confessed and begged her husband to for
give her. which he apparently did. He then
went to the home of the betrayer, where
tie was insulted by his friend’s father and
another man. The following morning he
arose took his arms, ordered his wife to
accompany him, and murdered his friend,
his father and mother, another old man,
and final y his own unfaithful wife.
In a house in the district of Aka-hi was
found the dead body of an old woman.
Suspicion fell upon her son, a letter carrier,
whose wife had been continually quarrelling
with her mother-in-law. For this reason the
.son had had a small house built for his
mother and brought her food every two or
three days. His wife objected to this, and
for the sake of domestic peace the son
murdered- .his. mother. In both of these
cases the murderers were acquitted by a
jury of their peers.
A young man in Kiushiu g-'t angry with
his father, an old basket maker, with many
children, because he scolded him for being
lazy and squandering his earnings, and in
his anger the son threw the old man on
the llocr and in cold blood sawed off his
head.
£o common are this kind of crimes in
Japan that they cause little or no comment,
and in many cases no attempt is made to
bring the murderer to justice.
TRIBUTE TO BISHOP ROWE
\Y. 1). Boyce, editor of the Saturday
Blade, in a descriptive article on Alaska,
says:
“The best-loved man in all Alaska is
Bishop Peter Rowe of the Protestant Epis
copal church. He is the most trusted man
in all this land of distrust. The shy Indian
child or abused, hungry, outlawed dog come
to him in confidence. The busted miner or
down-and-out bum almost feels the touch
and presence of his mother of childhood
when near him. God was good to Alaska
when he sent Bishop Rowe to represent
him. He was there before gold was dis
covered, before he was a bishop. He has
pulled hi3 own sled wdth only a poor In
dian to help him over the thousands of
miles of unbroken snowy trail. He has
frozen and starved with the poor, been the
honored guest of the rich, and the host
to everybody white man, Indian or half
breed. He has not been particular about
creed, nor has he favored, as many mission
aries do, only the “members of the church,
fie first considers the temporary or worldly
need of those with whom he come* -n con
tact, and afterward explains that that wn-*
what Christ taught: “Feed my lam**.”
POPE IS TO DECIDE ATTITUDE
OF CHURCH ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE
Rome, Dec. 1.—Pope Pius has just been
asked by a large number of leading prelates
of the Catholic church for a definite oxpree
siou of the church’s attitude on the ques
tion of woman suffrage. High Vatican ofti
ciills who have discussed the subject with
his holiness state that the ruling of Pope
Pius would unquestionably be aaginst th»>
suffragettes. Ii is exacted that his deci
sion in the matter will take the form of
an encyclical letter to [ relates in all parts
of the world.
Until very recently it was generally sup
posed that Pope Pius had long ago officially
placed the church in opposition to woman
suffrage.. It now develops, however, that as
a matter of fact he has expressed hmself on
the subject only once, and this in a per
fectly informal and unofficial way.
Three years ago, when his holiness re
reived a large delegation from the Union
f Cath lie Italian Won\en, he expressed th<‘
! desire that they would confine their of
| forts entirely to the home and to the
! church, and not be led into the politicu!
I movement with which the women of other
; countries were occupying themselves. This.
1 one expression, together with his well
j known opposition to many phases of “form
i ninism,” created the impression that the*
! church was officially opposed to woman suf
| frage.
The prelates who have now asked his hob
! ness for a definite utterance have pointed
I out to him that the lack of this in the past
! resulted in a great diversity of position
i taken by some of the most prominent pre
iates of the church. The late Cardinal Mo
I ran of Australia, w here woman suffrage is
j widely enjoyed, was openly in favor of it.
| Cardinal Bourne of London has recently
' been forged to speak on the subject, but
j contented himself with a more or less neu
| tral stand, merely pointing out that out
j rage and anarchy cannot be legitimately
i used to aid the movement.
Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore has been
1 one of the most outspoken aga*mt ik •
I tight. The archbishop of San Francisco,
j however, where women have recently ac
! quired suffrage, has spoken in favor of it
| Archbishop Mussncr of Milwaukee has stat
j ed publicly that while personally convinced
I that woman suffrage is not intended by th**
| Creator for the human, he could not advo
; cate that as a doctrne because the church
! has not yet expressed itself upon the que-o
, tion.
I It is this diversity of opinion that Das
; resulted in the present request being made
| to Pope Pius for an official expression of
I the church’s position. It is probable that
| this will be forthcoming in a very tew
weeks, according to high official^ at the
Vatican.
The population of the Danish colony of
Greenland increased more rapidly in the
, last 10 years than in any similar former
period.
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