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FLAT CREEK’S
VAR BULLETIN
(Contrilbufrd)
Von Stemburg at (he head of Pm krerk
is digging trenches on the Upgr&d Battle
field which he took lately after being be- j
sieged for the y»ast six months by General
Winter’s white army.
The Dredge not Gugg after a long silence?
is preparing for another attack on the
inner forts.
The 23d Highlander Raiders have droped
back to Chicken Dune. They made a gal
lant stand at Hurry's Bur for the past
moon, reinfre.-hmen's roniming slow they
were forced to retreat.
Renewed attacks occur along the line at
Fiat kitty.
General Von Bonkildi with a corps of
Gallik Uhlans continue the storming of the
Alleys hack the strategic pint being Phlan
nigans Hawl Pool. The Anglos are strongly
intrenched here with m.Klern Pan guns. |
CapL Jinx the hero oi Democracy, and idle I
of many places, is making an offensive move j
lure. He Baffled the Talons yesterday by i
his ultra tactics in a charge up Goal Straat. ]
While Generals Von B nkildi and Gustave
were having a talk-fest over a stinc of bud
weiser, one of Cap*. Jinx’s air men discov
ered their position and reported to the Cap
tain. This atrosity and breach of interna
tional warfare, so incensed ihe Captain that
forthwith he gave the word to charge. As
did the First Nepoleun at the head of his j
army, conquer the Alps, so also Capt. Jinx i
with just one command “By Graceous” lead
the Celtic Sappers out into the thickest of !
the fray ; on he goes intrepid, and undaunted j
by the shre:.king gas bungs, when Lo. a ;
chipper Dame with a Maxixe wiggle, crosses j
his front, she was out for a stroll with i
Seltzer (a Dachshund fr-un Bologne) (he*
troops seeing the “made in Germany” prod- i
net, charged \ "h a vengeance upon it. The j
Dame seeing the comfort of her home about
to be annihilated, Cried Aloud,
Shoot if you will my power of speach
But spare my little doggies screech.
In respunce to the cry of the fair one. I
(.'apt. Jinx vehemently Commands his clans !
to halt, and with the agility of a Dinosaurhe j
sprang forward grappling the canine frank- j
furter in his arms, he restores “precious” i
to its Mistress. She beams a smile on Jinx |
in admiration of his gallantry. An armis
tice has been declared by the waring powers
to decide on i fitting decoialh n. It is ru
mored that he will receive the double cross.
Lumber, all sizes, doors, windows and
corrugated iron for rooting, at Clark Lum
ber Company. Flat City
FOR SALE—A quantity of good copper
mixed lead (type metal . Much better and
more durable for machinery repairing
than the ordinary soft lead. Pioneer |
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Clothing, Underwear, Sox,
Shoes, Hats, Caps, Cigars,
Tobaccos, Pipes, Snuff, Drugs
and Patent Medicines, Cosmetics
Rubber Goods, Photo Supplies.
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GERMAN BUSINESS MEN
TO EMIGRATE TO STATES
The following was writ lew by Herbert
Corey, the noted war correspondent, under
an Amsterdam date line:
“In America,” said the head waiter, in
terrogatively, “you have no conscript
army?”
“No.” said the man at the next table;
“in America wc have no conscript army.”
‘When this war is over,” said the head
waiter, stilling a yawn, “I am ging to
• America.”
He was a shockingly rumple-headed
waiter. He needed a shave worse than any
other waiter ever did at 9 o'clock in the
morning. He couldn't have hidden that
yawn of his in a barrel. When he brought
) err the eggs and bacon he accomplished
the difficult feat of limping perceptibly on
both sides. If you don’t think that is hard,
try it some time.
“Blisters,” he explained. “The heels on.
I was called out at half past 2 this morning
for a practice march, and we marched until
daybreak.”
One can't blame the head waiter for de
termining on emigration when this war is
ver. There are a lot more like him. I miss
my guess if the United States does not sud
denly come into possession of a large body
of young and athletic men who have been
violently disgusted with militarism. They
will come from Holland and Belgium and
Germany and France and they will stay.
I’ve met scores of them.
“1 belong to one of the reserves.” said
the head waiter. “Three times a week we
march. About once a week they wake us
up in the middle of the night, and we have
to hike over country roads for hours. That
is to accustom us to responding to night
calls, if Holland is drawn into the war and
we are needed in a hurry. What a life for
a family man!”
There are 250,000 like this cliap in Hol
land. The Dutch maintain a standing army
of about 40.000 men. The remainder be
long to the various reserves. When the
army was mobilized on August 1 they were
all called to the colors. Most of them are
there yet.. The oldest class of reserves are
permitted to stay at home, on condition
that they drill with their units a stated num
ber of times a week. Night marches are
an essential part of this training. If Hol
land goes into war she will go ready for bust
ness.
Wherever you go in Holland you see regi
ments of soldiers marching. After the first
few weeks they have been tramping twenty
live mile? a day. That nice little round
front which one thinks of when the word
“Dutchman” i.- mentioned doesn’t exist in
Holland any more. Her men are as straight
fronted as any Parisienne. Their faoes are
brown and their eyes bright. And they
march like veterans. It will trouble any
ordinary good walked to keep up with these
chaps over a route.
But. as the head waiter observed, it cer
tainly is hard on a family man.
This emigration to America which I be
lieve will take place will not draw all its
recruit' from the chans who object to being
called to the colors. There are literally thou
sands f solid, substantial business men—at
least they were solid and substantial before
the war who propose to s'ettle in a land of
peace. I met i ne on the train the other
day. He owns one of the leading manu
factories of tine leather goods in Holland.
He made it all himself. He began as a
workman. Now he speaks five languages
and maintains agencies in as many coun
tries.
“I was rich before the war." said he. ‘‘My
only debts were those of current business.
In addition to my Dutch factory I had one
in Belgium.”
German shells took the roof off the Bel
gian factory. Then the French happened
l long and shot the walls down. That enter
prise is out of business.
‘Tve been trying to collect some of the
money that is due me in France and Bel
gium,” said he. “I didn’t try hard. I
knew it was of no use. But I thought some
one might be willing to pay.”
They laughed at him, these bills-due cus- ,
tomers. His request sounded positively ,
funny to them. None of them had any ;
money or any chance of getting any. Be- ,
sides, a moratorium had been declared.
‘‘They will pay when they can,” he said, j
positively. “I know' them all. I also know :
that just now they cannot pay.”
There is a warehouse man in the hotel
where I have been living. Four months ago
his prospects were as bright as those of any ;
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Two Packages for 25 Cents
Wool Blankets, Quilts, Comforters, Pillows, Sheets, Lace Curtains,
Portieres and Couch Covers.
Linoleums, Art Burlap and House Linings.
Picks, Shoveis, Sluice Forks, Mattock#, Brush Hooks, Peavies, Cant Hooks, Pike
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Harness and Harness Supplies. r\D¥T/^C
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SMITH’S CUN STORE,
IDITAROD. ALASKA
man in Amsterdam. His floors were cleared |
of their wares—he deals in rubber—by a
hurry order from Germany just before war
was declared. The incoming cargoes con
signed to him were held up by the English
men-of-war, for rubber is contraband. He
was paid for this rubber by England at
market prices. He and the leather manu
facturer are going to America as soon as
they can realize on some of the debts due
them.
“There is a very rich man in San Fran
cisco who knows my work.” said the leather
man. “He offered to back me once before.
I’m going to accept that offer now. I’ve
|had enough of countries where there is war.”
The rubber dealer doesn’t know anyone in
the United States. He says that doesn't
make any difference. He has money, even
if his business is gone.
“I’m Dutch,” says he. “We get along
anywhere—if there is no war.”
Three Hamburg Germans solid, substan
tial. business like chaps were on their way
to London. Oh. yes, Germans get to- I on
don. They only have to know how a d to
have a knowledge of the English language.
“We sold our business and had th“ money
-all in gold--? month before war fame,”
,-aid they. “Now Hamburg is almost dead.
Not more than 20 per cent of her factories
are still open. Many of these are running
on part time. The harbor is crowded with
dead ships. It will be years before Ger
many recovers. Why should we May ?
So they are going to the United States.
They were not able to get out of the country
with all their gold. But they have enough
to keep them going until they find an open
ing in America, and enough to take ad van
tage of that opening when they find it- it it
takes a year. They’ve had enough of war.
There are thousands more like them. The
leather man said five of his personal ac
quaintances plan to remove t j the States as
soon as they can gather together the scraps
the war has left them. The rubber dealer
knew of others. The three Hamburg Ger
mans said there will be an exodus of men
with money from that part of Germany.
“We could get along under the burden of
taxes for keeping up our armies,” they /.aid,
“but. when the war came and destroyed
fvery one’s business—what’s the use? We’ll
go where peace is apt to last.”
It may be this army of immigration will
not be recruited largely from the day labor
ing classes. Many of them, when the war !
is over, will not have enough money to get |
to the States. Many will be so crippled and
diseased that a remove from their old homes
would be folly. Many will take advantage
of the rising market for labor which will
certainly accompany the rebuilding process
of the belligerent countries, and which will
operate under forced draught because so
many of yesterday’s workmen are now dead
in unmarked rows on nameless battlefields.
But there will be a surprising influx of
business men to America. Most of them
will have some money. Others will have
only introductions and knowledge. But they
will all be inspired by a profound desire to
live in a country in which conditions are
not to be shaken now and then by some
frantic fear of war. They are tired of saber
clanking.
“We are business men,” they all tell you.
“War is foolish.”
The Crosby Massage and Bath Parlors,
the Home of the Twentieth Century Turk
ish Bath.
Lumber, all sizes, doors, windows and
corrugated iron for rooting, at Clark Lum
ber Company, Flat City.
The Home of Hart, Schaffner & Marx Clothes
Bog Bason, 15s.
Bog Ham, 10s.
Bog Buffer, 10s.
C. R. PECK, FLAT CITY
FAIRBANKS PHYSICIAN
ACCUSED OF HEINOUS CRIME
The Juneau Empire of March 20 pub
lished the following dispatch from Fair
banks :
“Dr. M. F. Hall, a sourdough Alaskan
and one of the leading physicians of this
place, was indicted by the grand jury on
two counts for criminal assault on two little
girls, Selma Lappi and Hilma Johansen.
One of the charges includes the crime of
attempted rape.
“Dr. Hall was arrested and admitted to
$2,500 bail, which he furnished.”
MRS. O’LEARY AND HER COW
" Some are born great and some, like Mrs.
Maggie O’Leary, who died recently at Es
canaba, Mich., are elevated to immortality
by the most apparently unlikely causes. The
great fire of 1871, that made Chicago fam
ous and gave it a chance to grow on better
and finer lines, was credited to Mrs.
O’Leary’s cow, which is said to have kicked
over a lamp in her stable in a moment of
ill-humor while her mistress was playing
the milkmaid. The little flame kindled by
the cow spread into a conflagration that
made a new Chicago necessary. The cow
that jumped over the moon made no higher
bid for fame than Mrs. O’Leary’s impatient
animal. She placed her owner and herself
on the heights of history along with the
man who fired the Ephesian dome. The
-ry has been repeatedly denied, we be
lieve, but truth will never overtake Mrs.
O’Leary and her cow. They live forever in
the glory of a great destructive event, along
with other accidental notables whom
chance has thrust upon one of the peaks of
recollection.—Baltimore Sun.
ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD
A meeting of Iditarod Camp No. 27, Arctic
Brotherhood, is hereby called, to be held on
Sunday, May 9 (tomorrow) at 3 p. m. Im
portant business is to be transacted, and a
good attendance is desired.
C. A. DERRY, Arctic Chief.
Harry Sheppard was a visitor in the city 1
on Monday last.
FIELD FOR WHALE LEATHER
Now is the time to realize on that claim
of a few years ago that the whale could
supply the world with leather. It has been
figured out from the war activities of
Europe, the silence of the tanneries and the
shoe factories over there, and the demands
of this country that Americans must make
14,000.000 pairs of shoes a month right
along to supply the world. There is a con
siderable supply of leather for the present,
but the hunt for more must be fast and
furious if the shoes are all to be made of
leather. South America and Australia offer
many hides, but not enough by hundreds of
thousands, and they are far away, with the
ships mostly idle. Then where are the whale
leathers, made not so much from the hides
of those huge mammals as from the insides,
according to the claims of experts? Leather
is going up, and substitutes will be in furi
ous demand before long. Shoes are not the
only important products of hides to be in
great demand. Harness will be needed more :
than usual, and saddles galore. Men at
war have no time to stop to save the hides
of the thousands of horses killed in the bat
tles or the leather goods they fall under.
The cooler heads and hands in the United
States are expected to make the supplies
and provide themselves with the materials
also, and they will get larger profits for their
(vyergy if they go along about it.—Worcester
Telegram.
A quantity of shelving from the Martin I
Sickinger building was hauled to Flat City
by Abe Audette last Thursday, which will
be placed in Tom McMahon’s store.
Diseases we treat successfully by Osteop
athy, Massages with Electric Vibration and
Vapor Baths:
Both sciatica and muscular rheumatism,
stiff joints and neck, stomach trouble, lum
bago, lame back, gastrailgia, indigestion,
TiDurulgia and constipation.
THE CROSBY MASSAGE AND BATH
PARLORS
When you come in from the creeks don’t
foVlget to stop in the Crosby and take a
Twentieth Century Turkish Bath.
Fresh Olympia Oysters, for cocktails, $2
can. Iditarod Meat Co.
PI ACARTK hlS and smaIL Printed on
I .^nLnP.L/u paper, cardboard or cloth,
on short notice, at iditarod Pioneer office.
Pioneer.
NO MAIL WILL ARRIVE
UNTIL NEXT MONTH
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Owing to the impassable condition of the
trails, the three weekly mails due from
Seward over the winter route will not be j
delivered until a water route from Ophir ■
down the Innoko river and up the Iditarod 1
is open to passage. As it is the intention of
the contractors to bring all the accumulated
mail at one time, it is not likely that it will
reach here until some time in June.
Bob Boyd, who left here on April 25
with the last consignment of outgoing mail
over the winter trail to Seward, was able |
to proceed only as far as Moore creek, where i
he was met bj' his brother, Tom, who is in I
charge of the route beyond Takotna. He
had been unable to make connection with
the incoming mail, which was supposed to
be at Berry’s, on the South fork of the f
Kuskokwim. Tom Boyd took the outgoing
mail, which he will attempt to forward, and !
Bob Boyd returned to this city.
It is understood that when all of the in
coming mail has been brought to Takotna
"it will be carried to Ophir and thence trans
ferred by boat to this city.
Mr. Boyd reports the trail impassable for
horses, and it was impossible for him to
secure dogs. The rivers were at flood and
the ice was about ready to go out. It is
presumed that by this time the Kuskokwim i
and its tributaries arc free of ice and prog- j
ress can be made bringing in the mail by j
the use of boats to Takotna.
It is expected that the first mail over the i
summer route will arrive during the latter i
part of May or the first of June. The first ,
mail is .scheduled to leave Nulato during the !
week of May 23-29, upon the arrival of mail i
from Tanana. Thereafter there will be four
mail deliveries each month.
Now that the river is clear of ice, with
plenty of water for navigation, the bright
spring days have brought thoughts of out
door recreation to many of lditarod's citi
zens, Taking advantage of the business lull
preceding the arrival of the Yukon river
boats, parties arc being organized to enjoy a
vacation on the river.
One party of tired business men, fatigued
by the arduous winter’s work, will start out
this morning on the launch Transit, and
will spend several days recuperating for the
strenuous business season ahead of them.
I is not to be understood that this is to be
in any sense an experience of “roughing it,”
as is shown by the lavish supply of cots,
eiderdown quilts and pillows that have been
placed on board that vessel during the past
few days, to say nothing of the ample sup
ply of provisions and such things as are con
tained in jugs. It is in no sense a fishing
or a hunting party, either, although, of
course, arms will be carried by some of the
adventurers to guard against attack by wild
animals. The party is comprised of H. H.
Porter, Charles Hurst. Herb Riley. Isadore
Bayles and Chris Anthonieson. It is not
stated whether Patsy accompanies the party
or not The expedition will be in charge
of Chief of Police Byers.
Another party which is preparing for
an outing of the same nature is composed
of Henry Weir. John Holmes, Harry Yeager
and A. A. Shonbeck. They probably will
leave tomorrow for down the river.
FINE BABY BOY ARRIVES
AT PETER MISCOVICH’S HOME
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Mrs. Peter Miscovich of Otter creek re
turned to her home a few days ago from the
Flat hospital, taking with her the fine and
robust baby bey who was born at that in
stitution on April 23. Mr. Miscovich, the
proud father, is one of Otter creek's most
thrifty operators, and is now busy sluicing a
large dump that he and his partners took
out last winter. Mrs. Miscovich was for
merly Miss ftanna Bagoy, and at one time
resided in this city.
FLAT CITY POSTOFFICE
TO ISSUE MONEY ORDERS
Now that the Flat City postoffice has
been made a money-order office, Mrs. Chit
tick, the postmistress at that place, has been
enlarging and improving the premises and
otherwise preparing to accommodate the ex
pected increase of business. Mrs. Chittick
is also expecting a stock of dry goods on
one of the first boats.
FINE BABY DAUGHTER
AT THE RIVERS HOME
Dr. Moore reports the arrival yesterday
morning of a tine eight-pound baby girl at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Rivers, on
Willow creek, and mother and child are do
ing nicely. Mrs. Rivers was formerly Miss
May Cahill, one of Iditarod’s most popular
young ladies. Mr. Rivers has been operat
ing on Willow creek during the past year.
ADVERTISED LETTERS
The following is a list qf letters remaining
uncalled for at the Iditarod postoffice for the
week ending May 8, 1915. When calling for
these, please ask for advertised letters: j
Aoolested, William Knight, Mrs. Ruby i
Babis, William (14. Morrow, J. & Co. (2) i
Bruiting, Mrs. Jennie Olson, Victor O.
Carr, Frank W. (2) Parlet, E. L.
Cullen, Frank J. Filbok, John
Duncan, E. R. Shea, Daniel
Godboid, Frank Thomas, Geo.
Hawker, Mrs. M. A. Turner, Joseph A.
Keating, J. M.
ALBERT WILE, Postmaster, j
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Bill Mitchell, manager for the Clark Lum
ber Company at Flat, was in the city dur- ,
ing the early part of the week.
Dollars
FOR YOU
FOR HIM
AND
For Them
AT THE
OF THE
COMING AND GOING
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Frank B. Stanley has recently completed
attractive improvements to the interior of
his Fiat City restaurant.
The Grand hotel cf Flat City has recently
been improved by the addition of eight com
fortable rooms on the ground floor, the large
space formerly used as a dining room hav
ing been partitioned.
Considerable dynamite was used on an ice
jam last Monday evening during the high
water a* Flat City to save the wagon bridge
across Otter creek. At 9 o’clock on thm
evening the water was sufficiently high to
float a long stretch of the tramway track
across that stream.
On Sunday afternoon last fire did consid
erable damage to the early vegetation in
B; rrett’s greenhouse at Flat City. The
damage, to the building was not heavy.
The Riverside hotel building, located on
upper First street, the first log structure on
the Iditarod townsite, which was built in
the spring of 1910 by A. F. Morgan <fc Co.,
is being razed this week. It has been un
occupied for nearly three years.
The McDonald house, on First street, has
been in the hands of painters and paper
hangers during the past week, and the en
tire premises have been newly decorated
with fresh paint and new paper. The place
nresents a very attractive appearance.
On Monday afternoon last considerable
anxiety was felt by those in charge of Riley
k Marston's Iredge while the heavy flow of
ice was coming down Otter creek. There
was a high stage of water, and the ice. in
large, thick and solid chunks, tilled the
stream from bank to bank. For many yards
directly in front of the gold ship the ice
jammed very compactly, and many men
were employed in diverting the flow. A
timely recession of the waters relieved the
tension of the dredge’s anchorings before any
! severe damage was done, but on Tuesday
afternoon the operators had several thou
sand tons of nice, clear ice delivered at
their front doors which they never ordered.
FATAL STORMS IN THE SOUTH
NEW ORLEANS, May 7.—Twenty-one
persons were killed by cyclonic storms which
visited Mississippi and Louisiana yesterday,
Lumber, all sizes, doors, windows and
corrugated iron for roofing, at Clark Lum
ber Company, Flat City.
AUSTRIANS PREPARE
TO FIGHT ITALIANS
HOME. May 2. The Austrians are pre
pared to oppose every movement of troop.'
by th- Italians Three hundred thousand
Bav arian troops are massed at Trent and
five hundred thousand Austrians are sta
tioned along the Isonzo river. There are
ninety thousand more at Pola.
Andrians Warned to Leave Italy
GE> \ A, May 2. All Austrian subjects
in Italy have been warned to prepare to
leave tilt- country by May 0.
Honor Italian Patriot
GENOA, May 4. -The Garibaldi monu
ment at Sampierdarena was unveiled today,
and tnousands attended the ceremonies.
KNOX AND PARTNERS
PROSPECTING FOR COAL
A short distance from the summer locu
tion of the Summit roadhouse, on the road
to Otter creek. William Knox, well known
in mining circles, with his partners, are
prospecting for coal. They already have a
shaft down twenty-five feet, and have en
countered a strata of fairly good coal at
least eighteen inches thick, with all indi
cation* of widening as they progress with
their work. A quantity of the coal has
been -acked and will be taken to a mining
plant on Otter creek for a steam-making
test.
RECORD FOR EXPORTS BROKEN
SEATTLE. March 26.—The collector of
customs’ report for February shows the
expor?* for that month to be the greatest
in the history of Puget sound. The exports
were -'0,500,000. Russia was the principal
purch user.
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