IDITAROD PIONEER j |
Published Every Saturday Evening at Iditarod, Alaska.
FRANK E. BECKER, EDITOR
Vtl 2 Coo. M. Arbuchte, Publisher No. 24
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THE DAY WE CELEBRATE
If it hasn’t occurred to you that the 4th of July is in
the offing, we wish to remind you that it is just over beyond
and will be here in mighty short order. We also wish to
call your attention to the fact that nobody seems to be
making any preparation for its reception.
Outside of the fact that the day commemorates that
eventful occasion when a lot of our illustrious forefathers
gathered around a Chippendale and pushed a vigorous quill
all over the place, there is every reason why we should
pause a moment and regard the day as something that
should be observed apart from this eternal scramble we are
all engaging in.
The old “Spirit of ’76” sits by the roadside and watches
us sorrowfully as we push and fight and squabble along the
miry way to wealth, and one can even fancy him wiping
his brow in perplexity and wondering if these are his
people.
There’s no denying the fact that ideals are hard things
to cling to in this workaday world. Most of them, tu bej
sure, are children of our own brains, conjured from other
days, but this Old Fellow Seventy-Six ;—he certainly was
no fancy. He was a rock-ribbed reality and the quicker
you lay off a day and think about him and honor him, the
sooner will you overcome the forces that are working against
you.
But this is not a sermon we would be writing. It’s
merely a call to a holiday. We just want to put a little
sand on the track and advise you to sit down and rest for a
day and think it over and enjoy yourself.
Iditarod should have a celebration and a good one.
The creeks will doubtless have their own celebrations and
the roads are in such shape that little exchange of visits
can be counted upon between them and our city. Still that
need not deter us for we will have many visitors, and we
should show them to the best of our ability tiiat we are
alive, well and happy. We should show them that we are
prosperous and progressive with an abiding faith in the
camp, and that we are not afraid wealth will get away from
us if we quit chasing it for one day.
To that end then, let us raise a little money and pull
off a few events. There can be novelty races on the street,
poling boat, canoe and launch races with a log-ioiling con
test on the river and a big dance in our perfectly good hall
in the evening.
It’s absolutely no use repining if luck seems to be going
against you. Remember that our forefathers got right up
on their hind legs and fit when they found things going
against them. If things don't suit you now, lay off for a
Just Arrived Just Arrived
NEW GOODS, NEW PRICES
Wholesale Outfitters
VACHON & STERLING,
l Next Hussey’s, Fiat City Opp. Postoffice, Iditarod
Union Launch Office
j Iii Connection with Dick’s Cigar Store
j R. L. Carlisle Willow Street
WHEN IN FLAT WHEN IN IDiTAROE
EAT AT THE
Merchants Cafe
The Only Restaurant that
Did Not Raise Prices Dur
ing the Winter .Months.
| First Class in Fact !
I Beattie House ]
X FIRST AVENUE ;
| Furnished Rooms, Bath Rooms, Spring Cots i
♦ Good Stables Adjacent <
Open-Cut Headlights
TO DO YOUR MINING
Three thousand and five thousand candle power, throwing a. shaft of light
1500 feet.
Call at the Iditarod headquarters for information concerning the J R
COLT’S ACETYLENE LIGHT MACHINE.
Pioneer Sheet Metal Works
f^ One-Piece Wash Dressesl
| JUST THE THING FOR PARTIES AND DANCESf
§ Come and inspect our line before purchasing for the A. 15. Ball, g
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SPECIAL THIS WEEK ONE Y
Genuine Waterman's Self-Filling Fountain Pens, $3,50 Each
All STATIONERY ant CUTLERY at Special Reauoed Prices
Telephone 36 First Ave.f Iditarod
C. J. Hurley, President J. P. Gleason, Kies President A. Brining, Cashier
Corner First Ave, and Richmond St., Iditarod
CAPITAL $50,000.00, FOLLY PAID IN CASH
General Banking Business Transacted Upon Liberal, But Conservative Lines
GOLD DUST PURCHASED UPON ASSAY VALUE
And we guarantee our assays against any of the government assay offices.
Clippings from your gold furnished you for the purpose
of obtaining check assays if desired.
We solicit your business, and assure you of our courteous, prompt and
careful attention combined with fair treatment, whether
your account may be large or small.
! FURNITURE
i Tron Bedsteads—All Styles, All Sizes
3 Bureaus Centre Tables Commodes
g Lounges Reinforced Springs
t; Ostermoor and Wool Mattress, All Sizes
3 Complete Line of Crockery
'i Fresh Sleek of Groosrles Wiil Arrive This Week
I MARTIN SfCWER
| Willow Street, Iditarod Phone 40
I An Alaskan Product!
; 4-;ry the-°
11BARTHEL BREWING CO/S
X Bottied and Draught
Wholesale, Retail and Family Trade Supplied §
| X Joe Heacock, Agent, Miners’ Home Saloon ?
! | (lay and make merry over the fact that you are still able to
i fight.
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WHO OWNS THE RIVER?
River transportation just now is about the most im
portant part of our activities and the waterfront is the
liveliest portion of the city. But if you want to find some
thing dead down there you might look up the subject of
harbor regulation or official courtesy.
For a general cateh-as-catch-can or survival of the fit
test, this waterfront is the original Roman arena. While
the crowds line the shore and cheer the arriving and de
parting ones, the boats of the various companies rampage
around in the river, neither one giving the other the best
of it and each one saying, “If you don’t take off your hat,
11 won’t take off mine.”
There seems to have been an entire lack of courtesy
I between masters and pilots and of course there have been
J oo landing regulations made. Driven to it, everyone has
done the best he could in the small maneuvering space
available, with the result that serious accidents have been
> avoided only by a small margin, and small craft have suf
> fered to a considerable degree.
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► ROADS IS ROADS
► rl he slinging of plenty editorial ink is an edifying
► occupation, but it takes shovels to build roads.
► With this preamble we wish to remark that we would
► like to see ONE good road between this city and Flat
► whether said road enters this town at the slaughter house
► or at the Five Points.
We walked over that seven or twenty miles that sepa
_ rates this city from Flat the other day and we speak from
the heart out. _
Ihe Gruggenheims have come.’ And now let the
irresponsible alarmist continue to sound the tocsin. Pound
the hewgag. Play upon the psaltery. Get out the old
ramshorn. Or pipe the Dead March in Saul. But it’s an
arrant coward that cries out before he is hurt ” Don’t know
what the Nugget means by all of them there funny words,
but we’ll bet it’s sure glad to throw ’em off its stomach.
There’s so much mud on the ground about here, it
: gives us a pain to see gobs of it flying through the air.
Baby Perambulators
Only Are Permissible
According to one of the late ordinan
ces passed by the city council, anyone
caught pushing a peanut wagon around
the streets of this city -instead of a
baby perambulator will be pinched.
The ordinance was intended to pre
serve the sacred character of our
thoroughfares, and was ordained in a
throbbing desire to maintain that aes
thetic regard for civic beauty which
lias characterized this municipality
since the day of its birth.
Not only are peanut wagons, with
their tooting whistles, considered a de
plorable departure from the artistic
line of beauty, but likewise do flaring
bills and posters come under the ban,
with their flambouyant coloring and
unsightly jangling with the harmoni
ous coloring of the streets that has
hitherto prevailed.
Neither is the conduct of mining |
operations in the street considered
good form, for prospecting holes are I
not conducive to traffic, and the unwary I
pedestrian might find himself reduced j
to mining under unfavorable circum- !
stances and totally unprepared.
Peanut wagons are barred all right, I
but if somebody had some nice] hot ones \
lie could probably get. a permit.
Mr, Fltzwatsr Is
Making Fizz Water
Having arrived with the plant of the
Tan an a Bottling Works of Fairbanks.
Everest Fitzwater, a bottling expert j
who has been in charge of that busi- j
ness in the upper city, has opened a j
place on Caribou street in this city,
and for several days back the bar
tenders of the town have called him
pleasant names every time they lifted
a siphon.
Although the country has done fairly
well this winter with those make-shift
siphons that at e loaded with a speed- i
ball, it is indeed a pleasure to see a
full throated, foaming blast issuing
from the nozzle of a real syphon once
more.
Besides preparing fizz water, Mr.
Fitzwater does other stunts equally
attractive, such as preparing sodas and
syrups, and blueberry wine when the
blueberry blooms.
Iditarod Club Has
All Home Comforts
—
Housed in the center of the town, |
taking the whole upper floor of the
new Pioneer building, with room en
ough to spread out to their hearts’
content, and with all the latest im
provements, including a noiseless
dumb-waiter, the Iditarod Club, which
moved from its old location in the M.
& M. bank building, now occupies
quat- ers that are among the finest in
Alaska.
Besides the card rooms and the well
lighted reading room in front, there is
a large billiard room in the rear, open
upon a big vjmanda that overlooks the
river, where during the hot summer
days, the convivial members may nib
ble the foliage of the festive julep and
discuss the possibilities of low-water
transportation.
Since the first of the month the
membership roll has increased by leaps
and bounds and a prosperous social or
ganization is assured for the year.
Get your films developed by Miss
Tjornsrtom, McDonald Hotoi.
Portland Houses
After the Trade
Representing the big Portland houses
of Rothschild Bros., liquor dealers,
and Mason Ehrman & Co., cigar im
porters, J. Gruenbaum, the popular
salesman who has visited Alaska for
a number of years past, is now in Tdit
arod booking orders for those con
cerns.
Rothschild Bros, handle the famous
brands of whiskies known as J. H.
Cutter, Magnolia, Glenwood, Jas. E.
Peppf r, Hunter Rye and Yellowstone,
besides dealing in barroom supplies
and billiard fixtures. Mason Ehrman
& Co. are the chief distributors of the
favorably known Carabana cigar.
Only fresh-roasted peanuts at the
Sherburne.
Modern, comfortable, Iditarod Hotel
DR. B. F. BROOKS,
Physician and Surgeon
Office: Discovery Otter.
Dr. Heinrich Wortmann,
^ Office at ('ity Drug Store, Tel. 30
First Ave., Bet. Willow and Richmond
Office Hours—ii to i, 3 to 4. 7 to 8
DR. E. T. BRADBURY,
Dentist
Over Merchants Cafe, First Avenue
Telephone 30-B
CHAS. D. CARTER,
Dentist
Offices, Pioneer Drug Stores,
Flat Creek
McGowan, Clark & Albrecht
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
[ditarod, Alaska Phone No. 7
The Pioneer Attorneys of This Camp
ALFRED E. MALT BY,
fr. S. Commissioner) f
Attorney at Law
Notary Public
I’ractice only in District Co£rt. IDrTAROD
J. S. HARDING,
Attorney at Law
Room 1, Jditar.id Hotel
Iditarod, Alaska
CHAS, E. TAYLOR.
Attorney at Law,
Notary Public, Conveyancing,
Abstracts ol Titles
, ft,at City
A. J. DALY,
Attorney at Law
M. & M. Bank Bid", Iditarod
Wickersham & Roden,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Iditarod, Alaska
E. COKE HILL,
Attorney at Law
Simpson Building, Iditarod, Alaska
I W. F. H A R RI SON,
| Stenographer, Notary Public j
| Office—Landahl’s Emporium Telephone 75 t
You Don't Have to Frog
W E SELL
Cigars, Pipas, Tobaccos,
Candies, Etc.
CAP’S PLACE
Mutckler Bros.
FREIGHTERS
g 'l
g Telephone 67 Wood for Salec
>> Rates: To Flat Creek, 3 1-2 cents a pound. To Creek Points £
g Above Flat, 4 1-2 cents. To Discovery, Otter, 4 1-2 cents. ?
j Stage Line Between Iditarod and Flat City!
| Leaves Flat City 3 a. si. Leaves Iditarod 2 p. m. jj
g Iditarod Office, Next to Sherburne House, Willow Street, £
g Flat City Office, Grand Hotel. g