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Published Every Sunday Morning at Iditarod, Alaska.
FRANK E. BECKER. EDITOR
Vtl t Gao. M. Arbucklc. Publisher No. 2
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THE GROUND IS TOO HARD, ANYWAY
Speaking of those patent health resorts where they
feed you on fragments of Ostermoor and de-odorized milk,
what do you think of the Iditarod as a place for the preser
vation of the human species ? In spite of the fact that there
there were seven retail undertaking establishments using
their utmost efforts to sink their hooks into our little burg,
there has not been a single demise in this perfectly good
city since the boat landed last spring.
Now there are many people who are afraid to refer to
so somber a subject in a manner lightly t urned, but believe
us, we apprehend that it is a splendid advertisement for the
camp and we are willing to dwell a brief space upon so de
lectable a subject. We know that it is good to laugh in j
the face of Fate and entirely healthful to thum our noses atj
Old Man Nemesis, wherefore we would expatiate on the j
beauties and vigor of this, our lovely Iditarod climate.
Firstly then, we should drop a confidential letter to
our old friend John D. who has more money than can be
packed into his coffin and who can’t even take along a bank
roll to play poker with his friends in Hades. Now John
might be induced to come to Iditarod to spend his declining
years and he might bring a library along with him. Think
of John munching our Northern ozone and taking a disin
fectant bath in our moss-soaked water. We have plenty of
health but many of us are short on the mazuma, wherefore
the idea suggests itself that a health syndicate might be
formed to trade the real goods for the collateral.
To laugh and to put the kibosh on old Grouch-Faced
Worry,—that perhaps, is the best receipt for health. Every
one seems to know it around these parts, and although we
are pretty wise, we can't tell them anything better.
Taking it by and large, what is it that makes this
country so healthy ? Once in a while somebody gets a kink
in the kazuzulum but it rarely has fatal tendencies and is
administered apparently just for the purpose of showing us
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Wedding Dinners and Large Parties
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Telephone Main f>4. Office at Ophir House, Willow St.
TRIPS EVERY DAY EXCEPT SUNDAY
Leaves Flat Creek .8:00 a. m.
Leaves Optiir House, Iclitarod.2:00 p. m.
Passengers, Express and Freight
FELT SHOES,
I. .GOLDSTEIN
Drugs, Prescriptions, Rubber Goods,
Cutlery, Stationery and Photographic Supplies,
Circulating Library.
QUART THERMOS BOTTLES SI0.00
TEL 36. FRONT STREET.
C. J. Hur.'cy, President J. P. Gieasen, V on President A. Branisg, Cashier !
Cornor First Are, and Richmond St., Iditarod
CAPITAL $50,000,[ LLY PAID IN CASH
General Gankins 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 vour 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.
that Alaska was not meant as a breeding ground for
Methuselahs.
We’d take a long chance and say it was the air first.
Then we would say that it was the spirit of the people.
After that we would mention a laven of confidence and
enthusiastic ideals, mixed witli the feeling that we didn’t
care a Continental Cuss whether Amalgamated Antimony
went up and down or whether the Tuberculosis Tommyrot
Tribunal tinkered with Ptomaine Tantrums or not.
Some people want to migrate to lands where the festive
microbe meanders, but as for us, give us the place where
the bacillus is backed into beautiful, bucolic beatitude and
the undertaker taps thoughtlessly on a tenantless taber
nacle.
IT MEANS ACTIVITY
It is a source of congratulation to the entire district
that the keystone of Otter creek has been lifted and that
the miner will be able to get directly at the vitals of that
stream next summer.
The deal of last week by means of which the heavy
hand of conservation was raised from Discovery, means
much to the camp and everything to Discovery City. Il
means a probable doubling of the number of men employed
on Otter and a possible doubling of the output. It will also
settle beyond dispute the existence of a regular paystreak
on Otter and will doubtless open a large area of ground
below Discovery.
Since the claim itself will be stripped in a wholesale
manner, it will be like screwing off the lid for the people of
Otter so that they can see what makes it run.
More Telefunken
Plants Ordered
Word which G. L. Milligan, the wireless expert connected with
the Fairbanks wireless station, has just received from the Iditarod
inclines him to the belief that there will be business in the Kus
kokwim for the newly-organized Alaska Wireless Telegraph Com
pany, and he has accordingly wired the president, Falcon Joslin,
who is now in Seattle, to order two extra plants, says the Fair
banks News-Miner.
The Alaska Wireless Company was organized a couple of
months ago to provide a wireless service for the Iditarod and other
new camps of Alaska, under a working agreement with the govern
merit lines, the War department having no desire to go to the extra
expense of building branch lines if private capital can provide the
service. As the company purposes to make use of the cheap but
very efficient German Telefunken system of wireless stations, many
local men saw an opportunity to make a little money, and the stock
was speedily snapped up.
Two of the Telefunken plants were ordered, and now that the
Kuskolrwim appears as though it needs a service, two more doubt
less will be ordered. Each of the plants cost about $5,000, and
they are so arranged that they can be t-ransportad on a wagon and
set up and put in working order in a very brief period of time. The
Telefunken plants make use of the quench spark system, in which
the spark is broken up into a series of short sparks by a number of
plates.
Of the plants already ordered, one goes to Nulato and the other
to Iditarod city. If Georgetown, in the Kuskokwim. is the main
town of that section, a third station will be located there, while a
fourth would be needed at Bethel, the head of deep sea navigation.
The quench spark system of wireless sending, which has proven
so efficient, may be installed by the signal corps in all of the Alaska
wireless stations next summer. At the present time the system is
being installed in the local station, and as soon as this work is com
pleted, or about December 1, Mr. Milligan, who is manager of the
new Alaska Wireless Telegraph Company, expecte to leave Fair
banks for beattle. If possible, he will bring the Telefunken plants
into the country next spring over the ice of Lake Leberge, so that
the system can be working early in the summer.
After he arrives in the Iditarod with his Telefunken plants, the
wireless expert will look over the situation there, and if conditions
justify it, he will establish a summer wireless station at Dikeman,
the warehouse town, in addition to the one that will be used the
year round at Iditarod city.
An Accounting to
Those Who Helpad
The following accounting is rendered
to the public by the Dog-Race Com
mittee which had the handling of the
funds collected from the various busi
ness houses of the city. The list shows
the amounts subscribed and the amount
collected, both through subscription
and entrance fee. The necessary ex
penditures are also given.
The following is the list of subscrib
<*rs:
Empire Commercial Co. $50
Northern Commercial Co. 5 >
Brumbaugh, Hamilton & Kellogg, 25
Northern Saloon .
The Budwciser
Miners & Merchants Bank .. .
Johnson & Clark
American Bank of Alaska ..
Suter & Sullivan
Merchants Cafe .
Chas. Worden.
Slippern Mill .
J. I. Johnstone.
1. Golds! ein .
Red Cross Drug Store
A. B. Rome
Marlin Sickinger
Auten & Ferguson.
Jos. H. Smith. It
Anderson Bros. & Norland It
Iditarod Telephone Co. 15
Ramps Peterson . 15
J. H. Rogers It
C. E. Hoxsie. . . . 25
J. L. Sale. It
Landahl’s Emporium. It
Frank Miller 1<
Clark Lumber Co. ... 1.
Barrett & Letvin ....... ... It
Crowley & Porter. It
Manuel Gularto . It
Total . .. . 8561
Total amount subscribed . . $5G!
Total amourt collected ol1
Entrance fees collected 5'
Total cash received . 856*
EXPENDITURES
Trail marking . . 8 25
Extra telephone service reporting
progress of race. It)
Printing of posters. 25
Amount of awards 53<
Total expenditure $56t
Frank Cotter,"0, B,"
Tells About Seward
When W. A. Dikeman arrived ai
Discovery Otter from Seward, afte,
completing his trip over the trail, hf
brought a letter to the Iditarod Pio
oeer from Frank Cotter, who will b<
remembered as one of the first settler'
of tliis country.
Frank is an eld newspaper man and
1 knows what the public wants in th,
way of news. He sent in election re
turns, but, of course, he sent some
news about himself and people every
body knows, and it is a pleasure to
publish it.
For instance, he speaks about Hugher
Dougherty, Captain L. B. Anderson
and Jack Noon, all formerly of Fair
banks. Anderson is mining and looks
prosperous, he says, while Noon has a
contracting firm and is getting the
money. Dougherty is also mining and
is doing very well. Captain Barnette ,
and Jimmy Hamii, also of Fairbanks,
were there the other day and said they
liked the looks of the place. They
also opined that they would be back
there shortly, which looks as thongh
Seward is about to notice something.
He said the town was planning much
on the trail to Iditarod, and was doing
its best to boost fot a mail service. As
for himself, he is running a store, and
admits that he has no kick coming.
He wanted to be remembered to Ashby
| Bain, George Wallace, Doc Carter, the
Maltby boys, Karl Thiel, B illy Wise,
and all the rest that remembered him.
Everyone who lived in the Iditarod
last winter will remember the time he
got lost in the fastnesses. He had a
close shave and nearly passed in his
checks. Everybody who knows him
was glad that he didn’t.
It is a matter of no little pride to us
to announce that the big dog race post
ers made a hit with a number of people
who are desirous of sending them to
many portions of the earth. Besides
those which are being sent to other
portions of Alaska, many are going to
the states and some are being sent to
England where they have already heard
of Alaska dog racing. It all goes for
the boosting of the national sport of
Alaska.
Save the pieces! broken lenses re
placed at Simpson’s.
LAYMEN NOW
TALK BUSINESS
When laymen lake a lease on a
quartz vein and agree to put boilers
and compressors on the ground within
a certain time, it begins to look like a
real showing in hard-rock mining.
This is the dope according to a letter
to Dave Caseuden here from Alois
Friedricks, one of ilia owners of the
famous ledge at the head of Vault
creek in the Fairbanks district. Dave
and John Cascaden are also interested
in tliis property, and it appears that
the latest development work lias dis
closed a true fissure vein varying from
4 to 5 feet in width, and laying be
tween walls of porphyry and schist.
The rock assays $200 to the ton, and
is believed to be one of the very best
propositions in the district.
Two lays iiave been let on the
ground, one being taken by Glazier Ac
Crochet and tbe other by Krnest Pe
terson. Both lessees agree to put on a
30-h.p. plant at once with air com
pressors and drills, with the under
standing that active development and
mining shall begin at once.
FOI SALE
One Scotch marine boiler fjj ft. long,
44-in. in diameter, water back. 40 ft.
of stack. All in first class condition.
Address Pioneer.
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