mM JL — P ■ n ri JL 3 jriL ■■ In CUT GLASS AND SILVER DEPOSITWARE. To save the risk and expense of repacking our stock when we move to Flat about October 1st, everything in the H Hj Ek R ffF®
F Caff S *0* 3 B store, particularly Cut Glass and Silver Depositware, at greatly reduced prices. Save money by selecting your Christmas presents now. P jfjLsi p ^r:S
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« We will guarantee to give you Better Goods than anybody else in^
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l SWIFT'S PREMIUM |
l HAEV1 AND BACON j
♦ With the seal-tight covering—the best money can |
♦ possibly produce 2
l SILVER LEAF LARD j
| GOLDEN GLOW BUTTER!
| Selected Petaluma !
♦ FRESH RAICH EGGS f
FULLY MED YAKIMA POTATOES f
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J Both Eggs and Potatoes with exceptional keepring qualities for the ,
♦ winter. All Happy Home and S. & W. Canned Goods, etc. <£
J In fact, everything we carry is of the Highest Grades only, anc v
£ strictly fresh. We will guarantee that every article coming from 0
♦ us will more than please you. £
l LOCALLY GROWN ON J. J. SMITH’S RANCH *
♦ Fresh Carrots, 5 cents per pound t
j Fresh Turnips, 5 cents per pound i
J Fresh Celery, two heads for 25c J
| Sam’! Applebaum :
Visit our new store at Flat.
Trunk, Handbag, Grip,
Suit Case. White RubDer
Shoes. Quilts. Blankets,
Sox, a Suit of Clothing.
Gloves, Mitts, heavy and
light, Shoes. Suspenders,
Hats, Caps. Underwear, or any
thing else to wear. Blank
Books or other Stationery,
Drugs. Cosmetics, Photo Goods,
your films developed or
prints made (special rates
to those who buy their
supplies from us). Don't go
out without a Kodak. Keep
a picture record of your
trip out, and before you go
call at the only up-to-date
store in the camp, where
you can get your money's
worth,
Ansleys
Iditarod
Bergen’s
Rich
Heavy Sterling Depositware,
Community Silver and Toilet
Novelties
At that ALWAYS reduced prices. Na
tive Ivory and Nugget Jewelry or to
order.
WSVL TAYLOR,
_FLAT
AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURER
INTERESTED IN SUBMARINES
NEW YORK, Sept. 23. Henry Ford, the
automobile manufacturer, recently appointed
a member of the newly-created naval ad
visory board, has been spending the past
few days making a study of submarines.
He will endeavor to perfect a new gasoline
motor.
Assessment Work Blanks at Ftoue«rr
All Rubber Boots Reduced in Price|
While B©©fs5 ’ j
Still a Few Pairs of No, 7 Gold Seal, $5 f
€. R. PECK, FLAT j
j™ PIONEER SALOONl
<> FOR GOOD WHISKEY ♦
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j|Two Barrels of Old California Brandy—Must Be Sold—$4.50 Gal. %
!S RAMPS PETERSON f
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| CLOSING-OUT SALE j
ij $50,000.00 !
it Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Our entire stock of High-Class ♦
Merchandise must be sold before June 1, 1916, as we will close our store at that T ;
i ► time. Z |
it Come yourself or send In your orders and they will be filled at genuine bar- ♦
J > gain prices. T
SMITH’S GUN STORE,l
SECOND AND WILLOW STS. IDITAROD, ALASKA %
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ONLY ONE MORE
OUTGOING MAIL
According to Postmaster Baker, there
will be but one more outgoing mail during
the coming open season, so far as he has
knowledge, and this probably will leave on
Wednesday next. There may be more than
one consignment of mail received here, how
ever, as Percy Charles reports that Mr.
Randles, superintendent of the Interior
Alaska mail service, located at Tanana, told
him that if arrangements could be
made for transporting it from Holy Cross to
Iditarod, he would forward all mail accumu
lating at Ruby up to October 9 for this dis
trict to Holy Cross.
The terms of the summer mail contract
provide for a mail service four times a
month from June 1 to September 30, and
as much oftrner after that as the contractor
may be able to operate his vessel. So it is
not unlikely that other mails besides the
one scheduled for next week will arrive by
the river route.
The winter mail service does not go into
effect until November 1, and from that time
until spring a weekly mail service is pro
vided for. According to an article in the
Anchorage Pioneer, that city is to be the
chief distributing point for all mail matter
destined for the surrounding country and
for the Iditarod region. This statement is
credited to Postoffice Inspector Neil, who re
cently visited that place. It is thought that,
this will result in more satisfactory service
than last year, as Anchorage is now a town
of considerable importance, ami mail matter
can be forwarded with dispatch.
It is learned that a force of men has
ben engaged for some time past in cutting
out the new trail between Ophir and this
city, which will shorten the mail route to
a considerable extent.
JOE SMITH RETURNS HOME
FROM TANANA METROPOLIS
Increased in avoirdupois to the extent of
about twenty-five pounds, and looking at
least ten years younger than previous to
his departure. Joe Smith, the local merchant,
returned early yesterday morning from a
holiday trip of thre months’ duration, dur
ing which he rusticated at Fairbanks, took
a trip to the Tolovana. and reveled among
the bucolic scenes of the famous Tan an a
valley. Joe speaks in glowing terms of the
agricultural wonders he saw while away, and
to mention the dimensions of the cabbages,
turnips, beets, potatoes, etc., which he de
scribed would be to cause skepticism. One
of the scenes that impressed the local busi
ness man puriicuiariy was me operation < i
a threshing outfit, which was at work on
a field of oats that produced eighty bushels
to the acre. A moving picture concern took
films of the event, and movie patrons the
world over will have a chance to learn of
farming operations in this far northern land.
Mr. Smith has nothing to add to what
already has been published regarding the
Tolovana. He believes that it will eventu
ally make a good small camp, but it is not
thought advisable for great numbers of men
to rush there at present, as developments do
not warrant a stampede.
BYERS’ LAUNCH TRANSIT
IS DESTROYED BY FIRE
At a late hour last night Earl Byers and
Jimmie Hardaway returned to Iditarod with
the story of a narrow escape from death
when the launch Transit, which they were
taking to Dikeman for cargo, burned to the
water’s edge.
Byers has chartered the Ruby Tam
arack to replace ]he lost vessel.
NOTICE. Dogs molesting my reindeer
will be shot, and owner held liable for dam
ages. Please tie your dogs.
A. H. TWITCHELL, Flat City.
Ripe cucumbers for preserving.
Crowley & Porter.
Fresh Olympia Oysters, for cocktails, $2
can. Iditarorl Meat Co.
If you are in need of anything in our
line, see us. Two stores—Flat and Iditarod.
Boas the Clothier.
For fine silver salmon, see Mitchell, at
Flat City.
Green tomatoes for piickling.
Crowley & Porter.
Hot Air and Vapor Baths with Electric
Vibration and Osteopathy Massages have the
power to cure such functional diseases as
Lumbago Indigestion
Rheumatism Disorders of Liver
Stiff Joints Melancholia
Dropsy Obesity and
Locomotor Ataxia Gout
THE CROSBY MASSAGE AND BATH
PARIJ3RS
COMING AND GOING
Harry Yeager was a visitor in the city
early in the week.
Mrs. M. H. Marston was a passenger for
the Outside this week.
Harry Watson came up from Dikeman
on Sunday last, and returned Tuesday.
Phil Keith, the Willow creek mining man,
was in the city several days this week.
Ray Henderson succeeds Ray Clark as en
gineer on the Prairie Bell for the balance
of the season.
Commissioner Guy Geraghty has pur
chased from Ray D. Clark the latter’s cot
tage on Third street.
Jake Mutchier left for Seattle last Tues
day, where he will visit his parents. He
will come back over the trail.
Mrs. Frank Fontis left for the Tolovana I
last Tuesday. Her husband has been in the
new district for some time past.
Frank Gularte. brother of Manuel Gu
larte. the well known local business man,
left for the Tolovana on Tuesday last.
Mrs. Nellie Gilmore left last Tuesday for
Salt Lake City, Utah where she will visit
her mother, who is in failing health.
Sam Wilmer, the liquor man, was a de
parting passenger on the last trip of the
Washburn. He goes to join his family in
Arizona.
Mrs. Frank McGibney was a passenger for
Marshall City on the boat leaving on Tues
day last. Her husband will work some
ground in the new camp.
Trvkn Si/vll vizou « nnsfipncrnr frnm Out
side arriving on Friday morning’s Prairie
Bell. He brought with him a span of
draft horses.
Vic Pierson is now mixologist at Manuel
Gularte’s refreshment parlor, where he has
taken the position vacated by Frank Gu
larte. The versatile Vic fills the position as
Henry Riley, who returned from a ten
days' trip to Ophir and the Kuskokwim just
in time to catch the boat, was a passenger
for the Outside Tuesday, lie goes to his
home in California.
Janies Wilson, pilot on the launch Beaver,
was a passenger for Seattle on the Wash
burn when she left Dikeman this week on
her last trip of the season. Jimmie will
visit relatives in Seattle and New York, and
will return in the spring.
Mrs. Dave Mutchler and baby left for tin1
Outside on Tuesday last. Dave wiil join his
family later, going out over the trail. Mrs.
Mutchler probably established a record, as
she had not made up her mind to leave
until 11 a. m. on the day of departure.
Garrison Costar, the newly-arived man
ager for the Yukon Gold Company, was in
the city Tuesday to see Mr. and Mrs. Austin
depart for the Outside. Mr. and Mrs. Costar
i nd young son are now established at the
headquarters of the company on Flat creek.
Mrs. George Marsh, wife of the proprietor
of the Budweiser, returned from San Fran
cisco on last Tuesday’s boat. Mrs. Marsh
spent the summer at the exposition city, and
had a splendid opportunity to view the won
tiers of the big show.
Mrs. W. Y. Fischer and Miss Esther
Fischer, wife and daughter of a Marvel
cr‘ek miner, were arrivals in the city from
the Outside on the last boat. They will
remain in Iditarod until after the freeze up.
when they will make hte journey to the
Kuskokwim by dog sled.
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Mrs. Lottie Thornton has bought out the J
stock and business at the corner of First
avenue and Richmond street heretofore con
ducted by Miss Edrica Peterson, who left
for the Outside last week. The stock con
feists of ladies’ and children's goods, and ac
cessories, dry goods, shoes, etc., and em
braces one of the best assortments of such
articles ever displayed in the city.
In addition to the regular business, Mrs.
Thornton, who has had considerable ex
perience in this branch of the business,
will conduct a pressing and cleaning depart
ment for men’s clothing, and also will do j
plain sewing and dressmaking. In the latter ,
branch Mrs. Thornton is particularly well j
qualified, having been with the dressmaking j
department of Frederick & Nelson, the great
Seattle establishment, for several years prior
to coming North.
In her new venture Mrs. Thornton is
bound to meet with success, as she has a
Jhost of friends throughout the district, and
Ns greatly respected among all classes of
our people.
In the entry of Mrs. Thornton into the
Iditarod business field, mercantile circles are
augmented by the addition of a progressive
and enterprising business woman, and one
\vho is imbued with a public spirit that is
worthy of emulation by the business people
of the sterner sex. During her residence in
the district she has always taken a promi
nent part in matters of public welfare. It
was largely due to her efforts, aided by those
other residents of Otter creek, that the
government appropriated $4,000 for the con
duct of a public school at Discovery; and it
is worthy of note that the teacher of that
school was paid Alaska wages—$10 per day
—during the entire school year.
Fresh Fairbanks cabbage and cauliflower.
•'Crowley & Porter.
JUST RECEIVED
Fresh Shipment of S. &. W.
STAPLE and FANCY GROCERIES
Swift's Premium
HA FAS AND BACON
see us yyinfBr Outfits
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CLOSES
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Frank Manley, who has been operating
on Willow creek this season with one of
the latest mechanical devices for \ lacer min
ing, what is known as the drag-line scraper,
was a passenger for the Outside this week.
He was accompanied by his wife and son. j
The new machine used by Mr Manley
was not put in operation until the season .
was well advanced, hut it was operated long
enough to demonstrate that it was a pro
nounced success, more than coming up to ■
expectations. The plant was shut down
earlier than was anticipated, owing to the
fact that frost was struck. The plant oper- ;
ates without the aid of thawing machinery, 1
large areas of ground being stripped,
allowing the elements to clear the ground
of ice. In this way a large saving is ef- j
fected.
It is understood that the work of Mr. !
Manley on Willow creek will he pushed with j
vigor next spring, and with his modern fa- .
cilitics, splendid results are looked for. j
Willow creek is destined next year to be
the scene of the greatest activity in its his- j
tory. Besides the operations of Mr. Man
ley. Jonas Brewis, who is working a group
of claims there, will conduct extensive op
erations. He already is making prepara
tions for next season's work.
While exact figures are not available as
to output from this creek, a well-informed
mining man is authority for the statement
that half a million dollars already has been
taken from Willow creek.
The steamer M. L. Washburn arrived at
Dikeman at 5:30 a. m. on Monday last with
the following passengers: Mrs. Ethel Marsh,
Mrs. W. L. Fischer, Miss Esther Fischer,
Joseph II. Smith and P. G. Charles and
wife. She brought two barges, which con
tained the last Iditarod freight of the season. ,
On Tuesday the Washburn left for White- |
horse, where she will go into winter quar- J
ters, carrying the largest passenger list of
the season. Many of the travelers will go
up river with the vessel to her destination,
but a large proportion will take the lower
river route for the Outside.
Splendid ripe tomatoes.
Crowley & Porter.
Reindeer skins. S3.00 each.
A. H. TWITCHELL, Flat City.
For fine silver salmon, see Mitchell, at I
Flat City.
Nice, delicious casabas just received.
Crowley & Porter.
The Boas Clothing Store at Flat. Prices
reasonable.
Just received, nice assortment of winter
ipples. Crowley & Porter.
For fine silver salmon, see Mitchell, at
Flat City.
Watermelons, juicy and crisp, just re
ceived. Crowley <fc Porter.
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Latest Styles of Stetson Hats!
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% All brands of Smoking Tobacco cut to Three Packages for 50c a
% Other goods in proportion £
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