Iditarod Pioneer
Onf Doiuh Per Month _ IDITAROD, ALASKA, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 22, 1913. _Two Bits Per Copy
MEXICAN REBELS
WINNING BATTLES
(By Wireless to Tile Pioneer)
El Paso, Texas, Nov. 21 .—A force of 5,000 rebel soldiers dis
guised as federal troops early this week entered the town of Juaiez
and captured the garrison. During the past few weeks many rebel
leaders have been executed by the federal military authorities, but
order now prevails in the district.
Rebels Victorious at Victoria
(By Wireless to The Pioneer)
Brownsville, Texas, Nov. 21.—A strong force of rebels under
command of General Gonzales early this week captured the fedeial gai
rison at Victoria, defeating 3,000 government troops, who are now
prisoners of war.
Rebels Capture Cuiiacan
.By Wireless to The Pioneer)
Nogales, Ariz., Nov. 21.-—A commando of General Carranzas
rebel army last Monday, after a very feeble resistance on the part of
the federal troops, captured the town of Cuiiacan, a Mexican settle
ment near this city.
Hale Stops Negotiations
American Envoy Hale, who came to this place to hold a confer
ence with Mexican leaders, has closed negotiations with the rebels
because General Carranza and his officers refuse to answer the ques
tions put by Hale or give the information desired by President Wilson.
Aldape Goes to Paris
(By wireless to The Pioneer
Mexico Citv, Nov. 21.—Provisional President Huerta has forced
the resignation of Minister of the Interior Aldape, who has left this City
for Paris.
Huerta continues to imprison his political enemies, and scarcely
a day passes that does not witness the incarceration of several promi
nent citizens whose actions have aroused the hatred of the dictator. .
He is still defiant in his attitude toward the United States. j
Both houses of the Mexican congress have been organized, and
are now in session daily.
‘ Hands Off” Is Britain’s Policy
(By Wireless to The Pioneer..
London, Nov. 21.—The foreign office has announced that “hands
jff” will be Great Britain’s policy in the Mexican complications.
The British cruisers Berwick, Suffolk and Lancaster have been
o.dcred to Mexico, waU.,'Drift the West Indies to look after Eng
land’s interests. ___
SAM GOMPERS PANS” THE I. W. W.
By Wnvloi t-'i The Pioneer
Seattle, Nov. 21.—President Samuel Gompers, in a speech at the
annua! meeting of the American Federation of Labor, which was held
in this city, bitterly denounced the organization of the Industrial Work
ers of the World, saying that its membership consisted of frivolous and
worthless people. The speech or Mr. Gompers created a great sensa
tion, and has been widely commented on. __
NO ANNUAL ASSESSMENT WOER THIS YEAR
(By Wireless to Thy Pioneer
Washington, Nov. 2i.—Both the senate and house have passed
the resolution introduced by Representative Johnson of Washington
state, relieving the miners of Seward peninsula from their annual as
sessment work on placer mining claims for 1913, on account of the
heavy losses recently sustained by the destructive tidal wave.
COMING AND GOING }
The heavy wind of Wednesday night last
lifted a large section of the galvanized iron
awning that adorns the building of Ander
son Bros. & Nerland, at the corner of
Second and Willow streets.
J. H. Rogers has temporarily closed the
Golden Eagle lodging house, on First street,
and will devote his time to private busi
ness affairs.
in the commissioner’s office last Tuesday,
ou motion of the prosecution, the charges
of gambling against Peter Farrell, Felix j
Steen, William Lee and Clem Laborde were
dismissed.
Joseph H. Smith and Ned M. Rusk left
last Monday morning for Moore creek,
where they will remain for several weeks to
look after the mining interests of Mr. Smith
in that vicinity. Their outfit was hauled
over to the scene of activity by Joe Jean
and a string of 13 dogs.
0. M. Grant visited Iditarod Friday.
Mrs. I. Bayles made a tour of the creek
■by dog team Thursday, accompanied by
Fred La Belle.
DILL OF SALE BLANKS.—For the correct
D transfer of articles or value, have re
cently been printed at the office of The
Iditarod Pioneer, and contain several cau
tionary and explanatory notes Tor the guid
ance or interested parties. The blanks are
on sale bv Ansley at Iditarod, Harry Don
nelley at Dis. otter, and the Pioneer Drug
Store at Flat City.
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BISMARCK AND STEEN
CONVICTED OF GAMBLING
The case of the United States versus
H. Bismarck and Felix Steen was tried in
Commissioner Albrecht’s court on Thursday
last before a jury. The defendants were
charged with gambling on or about October
.30 and on divers occasions for a period of
three months prior thereto.
The defendants pleaded not guilty and
offered rio testimony. The jury, after being
out but a short time, returned a verdict of
guilty.
The jury was composed of the following:
W. B. Thomas, C. P. Wood, J. J. Smith,
B. A. Meyers, .1. E. Beattie, H. H. Porter,
Frank Kern, R. C. Andrews, Harry Panter,
J. J. Brunno, James C. Wilson and H.
Schlapik.
On Friday morning Joe Honda pleaded
guilty to a similar charge and was fined
$60 and costs.
TEMPERATURE TABLE
Readings taken daily at 4 a. m. at the
Budweiser, corner of First and Richmond
streets:
Above Below
Zero. Zero.
Nov. 16.. 21 Clear; light wind
Nov. 17.. 11 Cloudy; light wind
Nov. 18.. 28 .. Cloudy; blustery
Nov. 19.. 9 Clear; light wind
Nov. 20.. 19 .. Blizzard
Nov. 21.. 17 .. Clear
Nov. 22. . 17 .. Cloudy
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dawson of Glen
gulch visited Flat City Thursday.
Harold Seddon and A1 Thorns left for
Candle creek yesterday.
GOV. TENER HEADS
BASEBALL LEAGUE
(By wireless to The Pioneer)
Philadelphia, Nov. 21.—Governor John
K. Tener of Pennsylvania has been elected
to and has accepted the presidency of the
National League of Baseball Clubs. Gov
ernor Tener was formerly a professional
baseball player, and was a “big leaguer” for
three years. He was born in Ireland in
1SG2.
BACK TO FARM
SAYS BABELS
(By Wireless to The Pioneer)
Kansas City, Nov. 21. Josephus Daniels,
secretary of war, in a speech delivered last
Wednesday before the National Waterways
convention, predicted a great “back to the
farm” movement in the United "taU-s
within the next few years.
MORE PRESENTS
FOR JESSIE W.
(By wireless to The Pioneer)
Washington, Nov. 21 A great array of
wedding presents have arrived in this city
•or Miss Jessie Wilson, whose marriage takes
place at the White H. use next Tuesday.
ALFRED WILLIAMS
DIES AT SEATTLE
(By Wireless to The Pioneer)
Seattle, Nov. 21. Alfred Williams, who
was formerly associated with the late Michael
J. Heney and K. J. Hawkins in the
construction of Alaskan railroads, died in
this city yesterday after a lirief illness.
ELIANA CONFIRMED
BY U. S. SENATE
(By Wireless to The Pioneer!
Washington, Nov. 21.—The appointment
of Eli ana Olson as postmaster at Treadwell,
Alaska, has been confirmed.
BIG TIME AT FLAT
ON THANKSGVIING DAY
The first serial dance of the 1913-14 sea
son to be given by Camp Hat No. 26, A. B.,
will be the Thanksgiving affair, on next
Thursday night, November 27. The enter
tainment committee has been avery busy
bunch of citizens during the past few days
making the many necessary arrangements,
and are now prepared to insure an even
ing of splendid enjoyment. A big supper
will be one of the features of the dance, and
the price is only $3.50 for both supper and
ball.
ARE TAKING OUT GOOD COAL
Dr. J. A. Holmes, director of the bureau
of mines, has returned to Seattle, where he
will take the train for Washington. He re
cently visited the Matunuska coal fields and
watched the progress made in taking out
several hundred tons of coal for testing pur
poses. He reports that the coal is of a
cood quality and that it will be brought
from the mines to Knik over the ice this
winter.
Mrs. A. M. Auten, who conducts the Elk
lodgings, on Willow street, has been con
fined to her room since last Wednesday
with an attack of heart trouble, but is this
morning reported to be much improved.
Occasionally a woman weighs her words—
then throws in a lot for good measure.
MAR8T0N PARTI
REACH SEWARD
(By Wireless to The Pioneer)
Seward, Nov. 21.—A party of
Iditarod mushers, consisting of
Mert Marston, Arthur A. Schon
beck, Eddie Henning and Mike Mc
Carthy, arrived in this city this
afternoon, 17 days on the trail.
They report the trail as being in
good condition during the journey,
and speak well of the roadhouse
accommodations along the route,
especially in regard to the wayside
inns on this side of Rainy pass.
WISES DOWN
AEONS MON
(By wireless to The Pioneer)
Nuiato, Nov. 21. The government land
telegraph wires between Nuiato and St.
Michael have been down for several days and
all telegraphic business fur Seward penin
sula has been going from Nuiato to Nome
by wireless.
Heavy snow and windstorms are reported
along the lower Yukon during the past
week. About 16 inches of snow has fallen
at this station.
(By Wireless to The Pioneer)
San Francisco, Nov. 21. Frankie Burns
and Johnny McCarthy, the lightweight pu
gilists, wi.l meet in this city next Monday,
November 24, for a 20-round contest.
(By Wireless to The Pioneer)
Sacramento, Nov. 21.-'-Johnnie O’Leary
and Dick Hyland fought a lively 20-round
battle in this city last Wednesday. O'Leary
was g ■ <:n a well-earned decision by the
referee.
(By Wireless to The pioneer)
Milwaukee, Nov. 21. Jess Williard and
George Rodel, heavyweight pugilists, fought
a 10-round draw in this city last Tuesday
night.
(P.y Wireless to The Pioneer
Boston, Nov. 21.—Gunboat Smith, the
heavyweight boxer, was last night given
the decision at the end of the twelfth
round over Sam Langford, the colored
fighter.
ANNOUNCEMENT
I will divide my time. The first of the
week I will be at the Grand hotel, Flat;
Friday. Saturday and Sunday in Iditarod of
fice, on Second avenue. Phone to Grand
hotel or the marshal’s office. Go anywhere
any time when needed.
DR. H. R. MOORE.
NOTICE
Mrs. Chittick has opened a candy and
stationery store on Gold street, Flat City.
She has a fine line of Christmas candies,
strictly fresh, and a large variety. She
would also like to mention that the sup
plies for the Flat posoffice are now due and
will probably arrive on the next mail.
DOWER OF ATTORNEY BLANKS.—New
* Form. Made to conform with the re
quirements <»r the new territorial mining
law, containing’ cautionary and explanatory
notes, are now on sale at Ansley's in Idita
li. l>iumclley's at Ins. Otter, and at
the Pioneer I>rug Store in Flat City.
Grayling, whitefish and ptarmigan.
Crowley &. Porter.
WILL ESTABLISH
SCHOOL SYSTEM
(By Wireless to The Pioneer)
Seattle, Nov. 21.— William I. Lopp, su
perintendent of education for Alaska, leaves
this city within the next few days for
Metlakahtla, Alaska, where he will estab
lish a public school, thus deposing the ven
erable Rev. William Duncan, the mission
ary who has looked after the education of
the natives of that district for the past 40
years.
UNLAWFUL
TO KILL FOXES
(By Wireless to The Pioneer)
Washington, Nov. 21.—Secretary Red
field of the department of commerce this
week issued an order making unlawful the
killing of foxes on the Afognak (Alaska)
reservation until the year 1918, and the
slaughter of land otter until 1919.
Red La Bell, one of Flat City’s crack has
ketball players, who went Outside last sum
mer to receive treatment for an injured
eye, returned to that place yesterday after
noon, accompanied by William Thoms.
They came over the Seward trail, and re
port that they encountered very heavy
traveling on this end of the journey. John
Holmes, of the M. <fc M. bank, was at Ta
kotna when they came through that place.
H hues’ dogs were suffering from sore feet,
and lie was giving them a resting spell.
J. E. Riley, who left Dis. Otter with
Holmes, was met by I.aBell about 40 miles
beyond Takotna. but Riley wasn’t burning
up much trail by making hot time. Herb
Lynch was met between Moore creek and
Takotna, and was endeavoring to reach the
latter place before Holmes left there. Mr.
LaBell saw Harry Sheppard at Takotna.
and Shep told him that he was going to
Ophir City, and would later make a trip to
Iditarod. John F. T. Baird and Charley
Marsh were met at Moore creek, having ar
rived there about the time that LaBell and
Thoms landed. They had had a hard day’s
work on the trail and had made only 10
miles.
Labe'.l and Thoms made the trip in 15
• lavs from Seward, and had a very pleasant
ourney until they reached Takotna, and
i he heaviest snows were encountered be
ween Takotna and Moore creek. Messrs.
Marston, Shonbeck, Henning and McC’ar
hy were met on the summit of Rainy pass,
and they were hiking along under very fa
vorable conditions.
DUKE WAS DANGEROUSLY DRUNK
Seattle, Oct. IS. The coroner’s jury to
inquire into the death of Saloonkeeper
Henry G. Farr and Clerk Thomas H. Sim
mons. who were killed in their auto when it
was run down by the machine driven by
Duke, the son of the tobacco king, found
hat they came to their death by the negli
gence of Duke, who ran them down in
his racer while he was taking a drunken
ride. Duke will be held to the granad jury
on the charge of manslaughter.
MRS. SULLIVAN KILLS BIG MOOSE
Delta, Alaska, Oct. 13. -Mrs .lack Sulli
van of Sullivan’s roadhouse went out in
the yard this morning to hang out the
morning’s washing and for'.no her presence
there disputed by an immense hull moose,
'he dropped the c.othes basket, ran into the
house and grabbed a 30-30. Sullivan’s road
house had moose on the Loll of fare this
evening.
Assessment Work Blanks at Pioneer.
Camp Flat Will Open the Season’s Entertainments With a
SPLENDIDL Y-ARRANGED
SOCIAL BALL
On Thanksgiving Night, Nov. 27th
Everybody Invited to Come and Enjoy the Holiday
Good SVIusic* Smooth Floor
Tickets $3.50, Including Supper
LANE SPEAKS FOR
SKA RAIL
(By Wlreloss to The rionecr)
Washington, Nov. 21.—Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the in
er or. who has almost recovered his former health, made a vigorous
nd telling speech in this city on Tuesday last before the annual mect
ng of the American Conservation Congress, which is now in session.
The secretary expressed his conviction that instead of the gov
ernment giving extensive land grants to railroad companies to build
railway lines into the interior of Alaska, the people ought to build the
nes themselves, in order that the government should have the con
rol of all the public lands and use them for the benefit of the settlers
of the territory. _
EX-BOV. PINBALL APPOINTED
AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA
(By Wireless to The Pioneer/
Washington, Nov. 21.—Xenophon Overton Pindall, former gov
ernor of Arkansas, has been nominated by President Wilson to be
n ted States ambassador to Russia, to succeed Curtis Guild of Massa
' usetts. S'nee his retirement from the governor’s office, in 1909,
Mr. Pindall has been practicing law at Little Rock. He is 49 years
of age and a native of Missouri.
For Consul General at Large
Stuart Fuller of Wisconsin has been nominated by the President
o be consul general at large in Russia for the United States.
lHy Wireless to The Pioneer j
Seattle, Nov. 21.—Mrs. Cornelia Noble, a middle-aged woman,
ho was for several years the court stenographer at Nome, Alaska,
o m it ted sucide in this city yesterday by putting a bullet througn
er brain. Since leaving Nome Mrs. Noble had made an extensive
our of Europe, and had spent $1,000 which had been entrusted to
er by her mother. The loss of the money is said to have been the
'ause of her suicide.
Pinrim
iuuiiij
(I3y Wireless to The Pioneer;
San Francisco, Nov. 21.—During the past few weeks this state
uas been experiencing an egg famine, the worstjn its history, and as
onrequence fresh ranch eggs are retailing at /0 cents a dozen, and
re a very scarce article at that price. This is the highest price quoted
or hen fruit in this market since early mining days. _
THEY WANT TO GET RID OF PARTY BOSSES
(By Wireless 10 The Pioneer,
Washington, Nov. 21.—Chairman William McCombs, of the Derm
ocratic national committee, who has just returned from Europe with
his bride, arrived in this city last Wednesday, and has since then been
n conference with President Wilson and other prominent Democratic
eaders, devising methods to eliminate political bosses from the lanks
of the Democratic party organization.
BIG TIM'S” DAUGHTER
TRIES TO PROBE MYSTERY
New York, Oct. 10.—Word has been re
ceived from Miss Aida Sullivan, a young
chorus girl who for years has been known i
as a daughter of the late “Big Tim Sulli
van, the famous Tammany leader, announc
ing that she is on her way to New York
; > fight for a share of her father’s fortune.
Miss Sullivan intimates that she will also
endeavor to have the dead politician’s body
exhumed for the purpose of determining
whether he was murdered. She asserts that
of recent years he had repeatedly expressed
the fear that someone would kill him.
District Attorney Whitman is conducting
an investigation into “certain features of
he death of Sullivan," whose dead body
vas taken from beneath the wheels of a
New Haven switching locomotive near the
Westchester yards on the morning of August
31. The district attorney directed Freder
ck H. Groehl, one of his assistants, to in
vestigate a number of allegations.
“A!! I can say,” the district attorney said,
“is that the information given me is related
so certain features of Mr. Sullivan’s death.
There is nothing definite yet, and I cannot
iscuss the matter until I get something
more than surmise to work upon.”
Since the funeral of “Big Tim” reports
have been, persistent that he did not suffer
death accidentally. Some of the stories
rave been that he shot himself or threw
himself before a train. Others have been
that he was set upon by thugs, and if not
killed outright by them was left uncon
scious upon the tracks. Still others have
intimated outright murder. An anonymous
attendant at the Twenty-sixth street morgue
was given as authority for the declaration
that marks of a blackjack were found on I
the “big fellow’s” skull.
HORSE MEAT MUST BE USED
UNLESS MORE BEEF IS PRODUCED
Chicago. Sept, 24 - Horse steaks, rare,
well done or medium, and roast horse with
brown gravy, will be the diet of the Amer
ican meat eaters within the next few years
unless something is done right away to in
crease the production of beef cattle. This
is the opinion expressed here by Melvin A.
Traylor, vice president of the National Stock
Yards of East St. Louis, 111.
Mr. Traylor is in Chicago to attend the
eighth annual convention of the American
Meat Packers' Association, which begins a
three-day session at the Hotel Sherman
Tuesday. He will be one of the principal
speakers.
"Because of the decline in beef cattle pro
duction,” said Mr. Traylor, “the French and
Germans were compelled to fall back on
horse meat several years ago. The Ameri
can people will have to do the same unless
immediate steps are taken to populate our
Western ranges with cattle. The supply
right now is far below the demand and
conditions are getting worse daily.
“There are a number of reasons for the
decrease in live stock production. One of
the serious causes is our vicious tenant
system. Then again, our population is in
creasing at a much greater ratio than our
production of live stock.”
Fresh celery and cabbage.
Crowley Porter.
annual assessment work blanks.—
" The Idltamd Pioneer has just Ihtished
and placed with dealers throughout the dis
trict a new blank form for the proper re
cording or annual assessment work on
placer mining claims in Alaska. The blank
rorni conforms strictly with the new min
ing law. and contains ample cautionary and
explanatory notes, which will greatly aid in
the (tiling out or the same. For sale at
Xnslev's, iditarod; Pioneer Drug Store, Flat
n-v, and Harry Donnelley'?, Ids. Otter,