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THE MOST IMPORTANT PEOPLE
Hack of every man is the boy that math' him; back of
every woman is the girl she was.
The most important people in the world are the boys
and girls in their teens.
It i< they who settle all the great questions of life.
What are the great questions? They are not the tariff,
money matters, the election of mayors and presidents.
These are superficial issues. The great matters are: W hat
calling are you going to follow? What woman are you
going to marry? What are you going to do with your
ideals: What will be your philosophy of life—will you bej
sensual, materialistic, egotistic, or altruistic and a lover of
right and beauty? All of these subjects are disposed by
the children under twenty.
Did you ever think upon the envious fact that tin*
happiness* of this world is in the hands of the boys and
girls? It is the boy that selects the trade or profession that
the limn has to follow, ll is the girl who chooses the hus
band the woman has to put up with all her life. It is the
child that, as a rule, determines the religion tlie adult
must adhere to until death or lie called an infidel.
When we remember that the most weighty, impo.wiiii
and fateful issues are in the control of children, it h iiums
ine- to see the airs grown people give themselves, when in
only a few ye ars they will be shelved, sitting around clubs
’‘reminiscing.” smoking in the chimney corner, basking in
the sun at the Old People's Home, or getting up at 4:30 to
do nothing at all. About all a man does after 25 is to try:
to realize a little of what lie conceived before that age. All
of Caesar's conquests. Webster's eloquence, Hladstones
statecraft, and Thorwaldson’s art was but the outeropping
of what they each had seen in the visions of youth. A
grown man never has a “great idea” that cannot be traced
back to youth.
And we treat young people as though they were neg
ligible, they and all they say and do and feel! We look on
ihe age between 10 and 20 as a sort of interlude to life.
Their babyhood was ours, their manhood is their own, their
teenhood is nothing. But what happens to a boy in his
teens is of more importance than anything that may hap
pen before or after.
There is no need to draw wrong conclusions from this,
to lock your child up and feed him with a spoon, and try to
keep him out of harm by tyranny, but there is need to re
member that it is when in their teens that boys and girls
need more companionship more sympathy and more atten
tion than they needed before or v.ili need again.—Seattle
Sun.
PARCEL POST
HE postman's brow is sad and stern, the postman’s eyes
with anger burn, he prays with doleful sound; his heart
is full of woe because he’s loaded down like Santa Claus
each time he goes his round. What wonder that his spirit's
sore? He looks like a department store that lias been placed
on legs, with crates of turnips and cf cheese, and scythes and
forks and bumble bees, and packages of eggs. To Jones
he brings a crocodile, to Mrs. Jones a new' spring tile, j
to Smith a rocking chair; he carries churns and catalogues
and groceries and shepherd dogs—oh, brethern, is it fair? Our
postman, who is tired and frail, resembles much an auction sale
as he toils up the street, three cords of junk upon his back, and
you can hear his muscles crack and mark his aching feet. Old
Uncle Sam should now change the rule and for each postman i
buy a mule, or else a chug chug cart; it isn’t fair to load him
down with all the brie-a brae in town and break his honest
heart. The postman’s heart is full of grief as he conveys a
side of beef, a pitchfork and a churn, three cuspidors, a phono
graph, a sawbuck and a crated calf—his eyes with anger burn.
—Walt Mason.
GRAND BAR nothing but the best
FLAT CITY The P!ace to Meet
xeis c.iani/. iM-op.Your Friends
All Hours Aliks in This House
CARIBOU CAFE
GOME ONCE AND YOU WILL GOME AGAIN
FIRST AVENUE. SOUTAR & SUTHERLAND. Props.
I FRESH MEATS
\ Beef, by the Side 40c
I< Veal, “ “ 40c
Mutton, by the carcass $5c
Fowl, per lb. 40c
Halibut, per lb 25c
Roast Chickens 40c
Pork Loins 40c )
Codfish 35c |
Frankfurter Sausage 40c >
Spring Chickens 75c
Lamb Saddles 50c >
; Second St. |DIXAROO IVS E AX
SNYDER HOUSE Company Depot
Nicely Furnished Rooms FLAT CITY Large Drying Room
THE HOME FLaT
Furnished Booms, Clean Spring Beds, Bath, Dry Roams, a,,d c'c\l^ZZT',,c"1,1
From a Stein
at tiie
Miner's Home~ Saloon
THE HOME OF THE "QUAKER MAID”
Foot of Willow St., Iditarod
ivory fnitial Stick Pins
and Broaches
Made to Order
Souvenir Jewelry F ¥ ^ 11 ¥ f*F LcJdlna Jeweler
Made to Order %£> „ £^9 iW £Ll of the north
I
And Saddlery j
Snaps, Rings, Suckles J
Straps, Etc,
Most Complete Display fiver 5
Made in the District (
C. R. Peck, Fiat.j
House Document No. 1.34(1, being a “Message from the Presi
dent of the United States iff. li. Taft) transmitting report of com
mission appointed to conduct an examination into the transporta
tion question in the territory of Alaska, etc.,” arrived on the last
mail.
After outlining the origin of the railroad commission which
visited Alaska last fall, President Taft goes on to point out why
railroad construction in Alaska is an absolute necessity it its great
resources are to be opened up.
The investigations of the commission indicate that the route
from Cordova to Fairbanks by way of Chitina would furnish the
best route to the Yukon and Tanana waters, because it requires the
shortest route of construction, and would give the lowest freight
rates into the Tanana valley, But the commission also finds that
a railroad to Fairbanks would not solve the Alaska transportation
question, because it will not give access to the Matanuska coal
fields, tlie fertile lands and mineral wealth of the lower Susitua, or
the great Kuskokwim basin This province properly belongs to
an independent railroad system based on the harbor at Seward.
“The commission recommends a railway from Kern creek, the
'present inland terminal of the Alaska Northern railway, to the Sn
sitna river (115 miles; estimated cost $5,029.000. with a branch line
to the Matanuska coalfields, 38 miles, estimated cost $1,01*,000';
and the extension of the main line through the Alaska range to the
Kuskokwim (229 miles; estimated cost $12,760,000).”
The total construction recommended is 733 miles, at a cost of
$35,000,000.
The passenger rate suggested is 0 cents a mile, and the freight
rate 5.49 cents per ton-mile.
Under these conditions the fare from Iditarod to Seward would
not exceed $30.
The President concluded his message as follows:
“I urge the prompt and earnest consideration of this report
and jts recommendations.”
Lima, Peru, April 25. —The Lima Union, the leading newspa j
per of the capital, declares that it will be almost impossible to
avert war with Bolivia at an early date. Bolivia is making war
like preparations, and the expressions of Gen. Ishmael Montes,
Bolivian ambassador and other Bolivian officers in various capitals
lead to the belief that a clash is imminent. Bolivia is said to be
on the point of demanding a port on the Pacific.
LAST WINTER MAIL
ARRIVES NEXT WEEK
The last mail to arrive under the
winter contract will be that expected
next Monday or Tuesday.* It will con
sist of 200 pounds of mail matter, of
which 50 pounds will be first class, and
the balance second.
The mail which arrived last Monday
was the heaviest on record, weighing
524 pounds, or 124 pounds more than
called for by the contract. The mail
carriers received no extra allowance
for the excess carried.
Bob Griffis, who brought in the mail
j this week, was compelled to delay his
departure owing to a bad attack of
. stomach trouble, which was serious
enough to confine him to bed.
Watch repairing work guaranteed.
Wm. Taylor, Flat City.
Korns Kured at the Kroshv baths.
—
HGilE AGAIN!
ON THE WINTER TRAIL
nnrmnn
ROADHOUSE
Meals All Hours.
Liquors and Cigars
Tel: “Summit Roadhouse.”
HAY GET j
—
Some weeks ago it was an
nounced in the Iditarod Pioneer
that the Alaska Wireless Telegraph
Company would be prepared to op
erate a station at Takotna or Ophit
if the business interests there would
consent to hear some of the cost of
installation. Talking to a repre
sentative of the Pioneer last Mon
day, Mr Haslund, of the N. C. Co ,
said he did not believe there would
i>e any difficulty in raising the sum
requited to make the scheme feas
tide.
That Ihe installation of a wireless
plant at Takotna would be an un
told boon to the Innoko district
goes without saying, and it should
also ittetease business between Idit
arod and that district.
Takotna already has a large trade
with the Innoko diggings, over n o
tons being freighted over the ice
dining the p->st winter. The dis
'ance from Takotna to Ophir City
is only 2i miles, over an excellent
trail.
ANVIK TRIBUTARY
Mike Powers, who runs a road
house at Ui.alakleet, told the Nome
Industrial Worker that good pay
has been located on McDonald
cieek, a tiibutaryof the Anvik
There is gold throughout the
length of the creek, and the conn
try' is a likely one, being granite
with porphyntie intrusions.
While the pay is undoubtedly
'heie, Mr. Power', sitd it was noth
ing to warrant a s'ampede.
Tilings have been very quiet at
Dnalakleet this winter,
San Francisco, April 1.- Nearly all
the refugees arriving here from Mex
ico urn Modern mpat hizers and d.
p'nre his death. They tell a realist'c.
siorv of tin- ban le for supremacy in
the capital of the sti:horn republic.
Henry L. Wilson, formerly ambassa
dor lo Mexico, was amui.g the more
recent arrivals. He refused to discuss
the Madcro murder. Tlie most im
portant statement that fell from Ids
lips was that the immensely wealthy
engineering and contracting firm of
Pearsons, Limited, of London, financed
the Diaz revolt to the extent of $14.
OoO.OOO. _
Fresh codfish, over-t lie-ice, .Ac lb.
Jiiiiarod Meat Co.
Forfeiture Notice
Mil a rod, Alaska. 23 April. 1913.
To Tom D.-t'amp. .Mrs. Tom DaUamp.
Isadora Goldsiein, Julius Schrader,
P. (). Sundberg and B. N. Thorsheira:
You and each of you are hereby noii
fiad that 1 have expended during the
year nineteen hundred a nil t we I ve ; 1 o!2
one hundred dollars ($100) in labor and
improvements upon the Third tier,
bench, left limit, opposite One Above,
Otter creek placer mining claim, situ
ated on Otter creek, a tributary of the
Iditarod river, in the Oiler Mining and
ReCfliding District, Territory of Alaska,
notice of location of which is found in
volume one, at page 289, in order to
hold said claim under the provisions of
section 2324 of the Revised Statutes,
and the amendment thereto approved
January 22. 1880, concerning annual
labor upon mining claims, being the
amount required to hold said placer
mining claim for the period ending on
the 31st day of December, 1912.
And if, within ninety days after the
publication of this noticeyou fail or re
fuse to contribute your proportion of
such expenditure as a oo owner, your,
and each and every, of your interests
in the said Third tier bench, left limit,
opposite One above, Otter creek, afore
said placer raining claim will become
the property of the subscriber, your co
owner, who has made the required ex
penditure, by the terms ol said section.
EARL B. HENT.
First publication 26 April, 1913.
Last publication 26 July, 1913.
Notice of Forfeiture
To D. Sayles, her heirs or assigns:
You, and each of you, are hereby
notified that the undersigned has ex
pended in labor and improvements the
sura of one hundred dollars ($100) for
each of the years of 1911 and 1912, on
that certain fractional placer mining
claim and mining ground known as and
called “Sayles Fraction,” situated on
LitUecreek, a tributary of Gane creek,
Innoko Mining District, District of
Alaska.
You are further notified that if, at {
the expiration of ninety (90) days after !
the last publication of this notice, you
fail or refuse to contribute your proper-;
tiou of such expenditure, your interest |
in said claim will become the property
of the undersigned, your co-owner, j
under section 2324 of the Revised Scat-!
utes of the United States.
NIELS J. VIBE. Co-Owner.
Date of first publication April 26. 1913. I
Date of last publication July 26, 1913. j
i
I
LIZATIOK
_
To date there are four applies- :
lions for citizenship filed in Idita-!
rod for tlie purpose of being heard
during the July term of court.
They are as follows;
Carl Thiele, of Torgulow, Ger
many, now residing at Discovery;
landed in the United States at Port
Huron in July, 1905. Witnesses
—Dave and George Mutchler
Nels Glantz, from Stockholm, j
Sweden; landed in United States I
August, 1903 Witnesses—Claude j
Baker and William Aeheson.
Ben Btomberg, from Warshawa, ]
Russia; landed at New Votk Janu
ary, 1904 Witnesses — John E.|
Keenan and Capt Albert Wile.
Frank Hercus, from Erie, Oik
nev islands; arrived at liagle May,
1906. Witnesses—C. C. Hurst and
William Achtson.
Samuel Appeibaum, of Suvalki,
Russia; aniveel at fvigle Septem
ber 17. 1904 Witnesses—Claude
Baker and Jos. H Smith.
The Carl Thiele mentioned is not
the me.cant of that name, who
spells Karl with a K .
The Idltarod meat company has im
proved the approach to their market
on Second street by dumping several
loads of gravel ill the roadway.
Claude Baker is remodeling l.is home
on Richmond street, putting on a new
roof and a new floor, and repapering
the rooms.
The town council is calling for bids
for moving tlie olu fireball back on to
the piling.
Notice of Forfeiture
To. tV. T. Sweenes Fied A mlrnk. . Dried man
ua 1 | Dark their heirs, assigns, xuccjssors or
personal representatives
yon me hereby notified that I have expended
in labor nr,d improvements for ynr -A : ;:2 the
■stpii of one hundred dollar--Jioo—on the Pine
Tire ga-oeiation placer mixing claim.-it .ateci
t:je head of Mat creek, in the otter Mixing
„ucl Kreordlng District, Territory « f Ala-ha.
whit it has been duly recorded at the commix
onei -. office at Idita; od Hi ab< • mount
been expended in Older to bold the said
claim under tin provisions of the law concern
: ing annual laoor upon mining claims, being the
; amount required to hold sucii claim. And you
further n itihed tb. it if. within ninety days -
90— »*ays after the lust pub ication of tlii - m lice,
you fail to vontj-ibu!-.' your proportion of said
expenditure, your iuMrest in s. id claim will be
come the pro; ■{ i tv . t t! u udvgut l.sor.rco
< • in 1 \v. h. c k ■ 1 ; >
1- ir st publication lubrircy S. 1.
Last publication May u , mm.
Notice of Forfeiture
TO LIMP HACKl.l'N I), or Hems or Agents
Von. and eaciv of you. are hereby notified t!:.it
the undersigned has expended in labor and im
pr■■ wement- ihe sum ofoi.e hundred dolhus
: for tl rs of k,i
1 'lowing mini 1 l plac-.r mini >g claim, lo-wit:
No 1 Iipricli hclir.v Discovery on Yankee creek,
and the \ ears mi: mi2 upon the follow ing
named p! ce: mining in wit N »
I u-t • ry on Yanki e cr-m k. . tributary of In
ioko !i ko Mi
i p.t :i be-Mg r»*c« »: d» d in Vol 1 at Page 273. and
at Page 274. all c: t! • rec-'rds of the Innoko
Mining and according District, Distiict of
.Alaska. You are fart In.: notified that if at the
ex juration of 11 it tty < < -days af'te 1 the last pub
lication of this notice you fail or refuse to con
tribute > our jtrojiorfion of such exjienditure
\ oar interest in said claims will become the
property of the underu d your c< ivnet
under Section -.4 of the Kcvi -ed statutes ef the
I'uited States.
O[.OF ul.Sf'X. Cu-Owuer.
TNrst jmKieation February 1. 1913.
Last {'obligation Muv 1913.
Notice of Forfeiture
To F'. Moreucv. J. I’icrsoti and Dave Cascade:!.
their he;:-. a--'g::-, successors or personal
representatives:
You arc h< rehy r tifi-.d that 1 ha • ex;ended
in lab'.r and impro ymeits for v u igt.’ the
sum i font hundred dollars- f :•:••• on tin- Moun
tain Home association placer mining claim, sit
uated on Willow creek a tributary of Idilarod
river in the > >tter Mining and Recording Dis
trict. Territory of Alaska, which has been duly
recorded at the commissioner's office at blit
a:' ll. The above amount has been expended in
order to hold the said cla:m under the provi
sions of the law concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount required to
hold such claim. And you are further notified
that if within ninety go—days after the last
publication of this notice, vou tail to v on tribute
your proportion of said expenditure, your in
terest in said claim will become the property ol
the undersigned, your co-owner
C. I.. JONHS.
First publication February S, 1913.
Last publication Mav 10. 1913.
Notice of Forfeiture
TO CHARI,HY MACK:
You and your heirs and assigns are hereby
notified that tlie undersigned has expended in
labor and improvements the sum of one hun
dred dollars 5100- ior the year 1912 upon placer
mining claim known as the lianor association.
Willow creek, a tributary of the iditarod l iver.
( tter Mining District. Territory of Alaska You
are further notified that if at the expiration ol
ninety—90—'days from the last publication ol
this notice vou fail or refuse tocontribute to the
undersigned your proportion ol such expendi- ;
tnre, your interest in said < laim will become the ;
property ol tlie undersigned, under Sec. 2324 ol
the Rev i ed Statutes of the United States
A. ST LAWRENCE.
First publication March 1, ’.913.
Last publication May 31, 1913.
Gone] cooking1 and reasonable charges
at Du Rand’s Discovery Cafe.
Korns Kured nt the Krosbv baths.
Dr. Heinrich Wortmann,
Offices: Iditarod and Flat City
Telephones at each place
DR. H. BEHLA,
Dentist
Oflices, Pioneer Drug Stole.
Flat City.
Appointments by Telephone
DR. CHAS. D. CARTER
Gold Street. Flat City.
Appointments by Teb-phone
HENRY RODEN.
Attorney at Law
Iditarod, Alaska
Ichigan, 1831 Kentucky, 1891 Alaska. 1910
George Woodruff Albrecht,
COUNSELOR AND LAWYER
IDITAROD. ALASKA
The l iourcr Attorney of thi«* Camp
E. M. STANTON.
Attorney at Law
Office in Wieker.-diam &. Itoden Bldg.
Second Ave.
CHAS. E. TAYLOR.
Attorney at Law,
Notary Public, Conveyancing.
Front St., Iditarod
NICE CLEAN ROOMS BY THE CAY,
WEEK OH MONTH
Bath Room In Connection J
Porfsiri'm Notice
Idilaiod Alaska, s Mar-1
To Mont Don ng, J - :
\V. 11 ' ■ . ' John M C
('•raw. Joe Porter and .Minnie l'liom-..
You arc- hereby noli!:' ! tli.it I !'. ive* <-\-perde '
daring the year niiictA'i h. 1 tidied and. twehc
iui2—one h.mdi < 1 dollars—«t in labor l
improvement*' upon the H a a tun as-., i.v. i
placer mining claim, on I »■ .n m :on creek a ’ *: *
nlarv 'H S.i!ii'o:i river K ask- if.* ini V :n*ng and
K'C >1 ding dmtri'-t. Terr; pn \ < i Alaska n tic
t.f 1. .<.;;*.*.f -.i i: is 1; is f-.uwi :*i v.-l-m:- N .< . :.t
page . cyr. in order to h>*ld said < '.aim unde: the
]-: :.*vi«: ns < -f sec tion • .>4 <•! th*. Revised •■•tat
r.;cs of the fniic \ eud the amendment
thereto ipproved ' 111 :ry 22 > concerning
uriiiia! p-dre.r up-m m.in ;ia claims. Iteinc the
rein mi a t : ■ : • id I t uing
cl.Am 1- r the peri d. - e.P.ug to t he 31st d.av <■:
J u her. ■ Viul •:. within ninety days
aft- ; the publicati. :i of thi w ie- \ ■ ; tV.l >•:
■
c- cry - f your interests in the said Ron a 11 a as
sociation placer miring claim will become tin
property 1 f the subscribed, your co ■ wnei wu.»
i:s made the required expenditu'-e. b\ th
terms 01 mi id sec; ion ' J M Pick’.!.
v. has 1< Tavlei Iditarod. Alaska, attorue. tor
j M Picket
hirst publican* *:i March ~. ■• '
Last publication Mav 5:, wpp
Notice of Forfeiture
To ,T. B. Connolly, Frank Graham alias
Blink)*), George Shaw. Gordon Shea
and Ben Smith:
You are lierehy notified that I have
expended during the year 1912 one bun
dled dollars in labor and improvements
upon the Hard Luck association placer
mining claim, situated on I .at creek, a
tril>utar\ of Otter creak, in the Otter pre
cinct, Fourth division .territory of Alaska,
the location notice ot which appears ol
record in volume one of locations, at page
502. under date of5 Jan., 1911, and index
No. 6456, in office of the recorder of said
Otter precinct, in order to hold said
claim under the provisions of section 2324
of the Revised Statutes of the United
States, and the amendment thereto ap
proved January 22, 18S0, concerning the
annual labor upon mining claims, being
the amount required to hold said placer
mining claim for the period ending 31 >t
December. 1912.
And if. within ninety days from the
personal service of this notice, or within
ninety days after the publication thereof,
you fail or refuse to contribute your pro
portion of such expenditure as a co-owner
your interest in the said claim will be
come the property of the subscriber, your
co-owner, who has made the required ex
penditure, bv the terms of said section.
Iditarod. Alaska. 11 Jan.. 1913.
A. B. CURRIE, as it appears of
record, blit whose true name is
A. D. Currie.
First Publication April 5. 1913.
Last publication July 5, 1913.
Regular Service
BETWEEN FAIRBANKS AND ID1TAR0D
First Sailing IViay 15th
For Information and Rates Write to Owner:
CAPTAIN G. P. SPROUL, FAIRBANKS