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FORT LISCUM POSTMASTER
IS SHORT IN HIS ACCOUNTS
A Valdez dispatch states that on com
plaint of Postal Inspector Neil, J. B. Keene,
formerly postmaster at Fort Liscum, has
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LOGGERS' SHIRTS
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HEAVY SHIRTS
KODAKS
AND SUPPLIES
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been arrested on a charge of being short
in his accounts.
A hearing had before United States Com
missioner Love resulted in the finding o'
probable cause, and the binding over d
the prisoner to the grand jury under bonds
of $1,500.
Inspector Neil was the only witness in t1 e
case. He testified that a shortage in the
accounts of the Liscum office, amounting
to $1,044.13. had been discovered, of ■ hie a
amount the accused had made up $226. I he
accused waived his privilege of making a
statement.
Keene’s friends believe that he can eadly
explain the shortage to the satisfaction of
the officials, and that there has been no
intention of wrong-doing.
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Fresh Olympia and Kastern Oysters.
$1.50 per can. Iditarod Meat Lo. j
Now on Display, a Full Line of
NEW GOODS
JUST RECEIVED
MRS, L cTtHORNTON
Watches and Diamonds
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STRICTLY OUTSIDE PRICES
J. L. SALE
! Save money on Groceries while they are cheap, and buy a new
LANG RANGE
Of which we wil! have an assortment in Family Sizes in the fail.
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C. R. PECK - ■ FLAT
COLUMBIA
AIR-TIGHT HEATERS
Fancy Cast-Iron Top with Nickel Trimmings
8*2 1X . $15 00 I 8 *2 8 X .$25.00
8 *2 '• X . 20.CO I
YUKON STOVES
Yukon Stovf-s, ii\2{ top-. $ 8.00 Drums ..$ 5.CO
Yukon Stoves, l 1x30 tops. 10.00 Cast Top, four iiol«*s. 12.00
Half Round .stuvrs, I4\3u top- . 10.00
TENTS AND TARPAULINS
8x10— 8-oz. Tonis ...$ 9.00 7x 9— 8-oz. Tarpaulins.$ 3.00
8.\I0—lo-oz. Touts . 10.00 7x 9—10-oz. Tarpaulins... 3.50
10x12— 8-oz. Touts . 10.CO 10x10—10-oz. Tarpaulins. 10.00
10x12—10-oz. Tents . 12.00
All Sizes Tents and Tarpaulins Carried in Stock
Acorn Special Gasoline Lamps... $ 9.00 Baby Go-Carts ...$10 and $12 50
Air-o-lite Gasoline Lamps. 10.CO Heavy Prated Linoleums, 0 feet
Coleman Gasoline Lanterns. wide, per yard . 2.25
.$8.00 and 15.00 Inlaid Linoleums, 0 feet wide, yd. 3,00
Babv Rag Mantles.doz. 2 00 Rugs, 8.3x10.6.$15.00 to 25.00
Large Rag Mantles.doz. 3.00 Bugs, 9x12 $20.00 to 30.00
Drugs at Outside Prices
SMITH'S GUN STORE
IDITAROD, ALASKA PHONE G SECOND AND WILLOW
RESIDENTS OF KUSKOKWIM
WILL INAUGURATE SERVICE
TO DUTCH HARBOR DIRECT
ANIAK, Aug. 27. It will be remembered
by Pioneer readers, and especially those liv
ing on the Kuskokwim river, how during
the past two years mail for points on this
river has been allowed to accumulate at
IIolv Cross, on the Yukon, the transfer
point for the single mail service which sup
plies this region, and has then been sent to
Seattle and back here on another boat.
Last year it was said that something like
four or five tons was thus accumulated and
sent to Seattle, and about 200 sacks were
returned on the schooner Bender Brothers,
which arrived at Bethel on October S, and
the balance was sent on the P .L Abler,
which was burned at Juneau, the mail all
being lost.
After the Bender Brothers arrived it was
too late for the river steamers to make a
trip, and nearly 100 sacks labeled for Aniak.
McGrath and Tokotna lay in the Bethel
postoliiee until the Quickstep made her first
trip in the spring of 1916.
Again this summer the mail accumulated
at Holy Cross away over the limit of the
single carrier, which is 200 pounds once a
month, and the excess accumulating there
is reported to be something over half a ton
a month.
Postoliiee Inspector Whitney came this
way in July, and reports that the excess
mail at Holy Cross has again been sent out
to St. Michael, and will then be taken to
Seattle by the Nome boats, which have not
much iu the way of Cargo going back, and
will then, the Lord willing, be reshipped
the second time to Alaska, and the first
time to the Kuskokwim river, its destina
tion.
When the mail was at Holy Cross it was
within about forty miles of the Kuskokwim
river, and the mail carrier, who for a
small pittance carries the mail across the
portage twelve times a year, offered for a
few cents a pound to bring over all the
mail, but according to the wise and eco
nomical (?) postoffice mathematicians, it
was too expensive, so they pay the Yukon
river boats something like 4 or 5 cents a
pound to take it to Sr. Michael, and prob
ably 6 cents per pound to Seattle, and then
the boats from Seattle to Bethel get 6 cents
per pound, and the Kuskokwim river boats
get 5 cents per pound, and tlie mail lands
back the second time in Alaska, forty miles
from where it started, in a most delight
ful (?) state of preservation.
It is reloaded at Holy Cross, unloaded
and reloaded at St. Michael, and then un
loaded at Seattle, and probably hauled up
to Third avenue and hauled back again,
and loaded on a boat to Bethel, which, if
it does not burn, will get the mail soaking
wet; the boat reaches Bethel and lie> at
anchor whi'c the mail comes ashore in a
launch, with a sailor sitting on the sacks
marked with a red tag, ‘‘Fragile."
This mail is no doubt addressed to some
body who needed it to use tlie winter be
fore.
Inspector Whitney got one impression on
his trip to the most promising section of
Alaska today the Kuskokwim and that
was that the people want a mail service,
and wmt it badly. He went up the river
on the Tana, and will cross to Ophir and
out that way.
New Company to Solva Problem
Necessity has been ca led the mother of
invention, and the merchants, miners and
residents of the Kuskokwim river section,
driven to the verge of desperation by the
tardy and irregular ocean service from the
Outside to the mouth of the Kuskokwim
river, have proposed to form a new com
pany, which to serve this river. It is ex
pected to become a reality by another sea
son.
The plan is to charter a vessel of about
ninety tons net capacity, which can ac
commodate both passengers ami freight, to
ply between Dutch Harbor and the mouth
of the river, a distance of about 2i0 miles,
twice a month. All Nome boats pass Dutch
Harbor, and will make a very low rate of
some S3 or $4 per ton, which will enable
the shippers to get a through passenger
and freight rate to any point on the Kus
kokwim river.
It is planned to have the first sailing in
the spring, about the latter part of May,
and the last sailing in the fall, about the
first of November or latter part of October.
This route will enable Iditarod people to
mush across to the Kuskokwim, a distance
of some thirty-five miles, and go Outside
six weeks later in the fall, and get back
six weeks earlier in the spring than is now
possible by the Yukon river. A wagon road
from the Kuskokwim to Iditarod would
would make the plan available in bringing
reduced transportation charges to the people
of the Iditarod district.
Captain Wallace Langley of the steamer
Tana has gone into the details of the pro
posed line, and says it would be a winner
from the start. He has the assurance of the
freight for the Innoko country, which is a
large item, and w'ould be new business for
this river. --
News Notes
Dredge machinery is now coming in on
\ every boat, and more is lying on the wharf
j outside, awaiting space for loading.
On the Fourth of July the river steamer
Tana was turned over to the citizens of
Bethel and the lower river for an all-day
picnic down river. The trip on the bcauti
ful Kuskokwim was a delightful one.
Efforts have been made in Washington
to get the government to place a company
of the signal corps on the Kuskokwim.
i This would bring a government radio sta
tion with it. A promise has been made to
look into the matter.
Private advices from Washington give the
information that the matter of organizing
a Fifth judicial division has been broached,
to include a part and perhaps all of the
Kuskokwim drainage, and part of the Idit
arod drainage, with Iditarod as temporary
headquarters, at least.
WORK OF THE JAPANESE !,
IN EQUIPPING RUSSIANS
DESCRIBED BY OBSERVER
PARIS, Sept. 4. The extent to which
Japan is clothing, shoeing, arming and mu
nitioning the Russian army was forcibly
presented to a military observer who has
just returned from a trip along the Russian
front.
“I was astonished,” he said, “to find great
numbers of Russian soldiers clothed from
head to foot in uniforms made in Japan,
not only the tunic and trousers, but even
the leggings. They carried on their shoul
ders Japanese guns. Their cartridge belts
were filled with cartridges made in Japan.
Their leather belts and buckles were from
Japan. And the stout hobnail shoes they
wear are from hides gathered in Korea and
made into shoes in Japan. So that there
you see a Russian soldier in Japanese clothes.
Japanese shoes, with Japanese guns, Jap
anese ammunition and Japanese accoutre
ment.
“How ditl these supplies get from Japan
to the Russian front?" the observer was
| asked.
| “It was noted,” said he, “that about the
• only vital point where the Germans had not
been able to send their submarines was in
the waters of the East China sea. the Strait
of Korea and the Sea of Japan These are .
the waters separating Japan from Russia
anti the Asiatic mainland, and the route’
over them, commercial and military, are
open and without menace.”
“What sort of arms and munitions i j
Russia getting from Japan?”
“All sort-." was the reply, “front the
service rifle and small field pieces up to the
big twelve-inch guns.”
“It is said that French and Japanese
officers are now furnishing the expert tli
reetion of the Russian artillery fire, which
has made it so effective. Did you see any
of these officers?” was asked.
“No, and the report is not correct.” sai l
the observer. "The Russian artillery offi
cers are directing their own fire and are j
getting splendid results. The only Japanese
and French officers are those temporarily j
assigned to explain the workings of a r.ew
piece, just as an expert is sent along to ex- j
plain any complicated piece of machinery, j
“Jat atw-e experts accompanied the big (
twelve-inch Japanese guns, not to maneuver j
them in action, but to explain how they
were to be maneuvered. That is the extent .
j of their help, and the Russians should get j
! full credit for what they have accomplished
iii operating their artillery. No, the Jap
I anese have done remarkably tit armin '
clothing end munitioning the Russians, but
they have not had a chance to do the fight
mg."
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TEMPERANCE CONVENTION
IS HELD AT CAPITAL CITY
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| The second annual convention of the j
Women's Christian Temperance l nion wa
i held in Juneau commencing on August 25.
I Addresses of welcome were delivered by
| Governor Strong and Mayor Stewart. The
i former took occasion to say: “5 our work
! will be crowned with success, because you
stand for civic righteousKtSss.” Mayor Stew
I art assured the convention “that the city is
j in hearty accord with your attempts.”
On Friday, August 27, K. J. (Strolleri
1 White, editor of the Douglas Island New.-,
delivered an address before the convention
in which he said:
| "Many people entertain the notion that
a newspattor is to be run for the benefit of
the community without regald to financial
j gain. There’s nothing to it. It's a busi
| ness proposition. And 1 contend that though
: all editor may be a temperance man. using
| his editorial columns in the interests of
| temperance, he is justified in inserting in !
his advertising columns an advertisement of :
the Dutchman down at the corner who
] sells Milwaukee or Anheuser-Busch. But I
! would like to see conditions in Alaska such
| that newspapers could afford to refuse the
I support of liquor interests, because I believe
i four-fifths of them at least wish to.”
While defending the right of the news
I paper man to sell advertising space. Mr.
j White flayed unmercifully those who sell
their editorial columns. “The American
i -press is a great institution,” declared Mr.
! White, “but its crowning disgrace is the
ease with which liquor interests find access j
to its columns when they want to bring
discredit to the cause of temperance.”
The convention passed a resolution of
praise and thanks to Mr. White and to the j
editor of the t-kagway Alaskan as the two :
editors who, to the knowledge of the union,
i had refused to accept this material for !
i publication.
j The election of officers resulted in the re
| election of Mrs. Cornelia T. Hatcher of Knik
1 as president. Miss Margaret Keenan of j
! Fairbanks was chosen vice president,
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PROVIDES FOR BLIND ANDREW
A telegram from Judge Bunnell to Com
missioner Geraghty last Saturday stated
that provision would be made out of the J
indigent fund for returning Blind Andrew,
the native who has been held at the local
jail on a charge of vagrancy, to his former |
home at Anvik, and authorized Mr. Ger
aghty also to expend 830 in the purchase |
of provisions for him. The judge suggested
i that the case be brought to the attention of
Governor Strong.
GASOLINE LAMPS
|
Billy Taylor has shipped in a small con
signment of Gasoline Lamps similar to those
he handled last winter, also the very latest
in Gasoline Lanterns. Anyone needing
same can get them at the Postoffice Store,
at Flat. MRS. CHITTICK.
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Fresh Olympia and Eastern Oysters, $1.50
I per can. Iditarod Meat Co.
A. J.WEISS,
The
Clothier
THE HOME OF HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX
BRITAIN’S MAIL HOLD-UP
IS EXPLAINED TO LANSING
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4. An explana
tory at element of how Great Britain's ex
■miration of mail- is being con looted was
presented to Secretary Lansing by the Brit
i-h embassy recently. It i- preparatory to
the more comprehensive reply to American
representations now being prepared jointly
by the London and Paris foreign offices.
Figures are given in the statement to
show the average time for examination of
intercepted mail is from one to three days.
The minimum delay to mail between the
United States and 11cHand is given at two
days, and the maximum at seven. Banish
mails have been delayed from seven to ten
days when it has been necessary to remove
them from a ship; otherwise only four days.
“It is admitted.” srys the statement,
“that at the outset neutral correspondence,
in which enemy interests were in no way
concerned, was subjected to delay, which
is greatly regretted, ami which has since
been reduced to a minimum. It must not
be imagined that the mails were removed
from neutral .-hips for ex. initiation without
careful consideration of the arrangements
which world be requited to deal with them
quickly as possible All preparations
wh 'eh seemed necessary were with this ob
ject, but. unfortunately, those responsible
i r them were m t aware of some of the
difficulties which would be encountered.
“lor instance, there \wi- no reason to
suppose that (as proved to be the case! mail
bags marked a.- dispatched front one neu
tral country to another neutral country
would contain nothing but mails for or from
an enemy countrv; that bag re; resented as
containing printed matter would contain
rubber, coffee, jewelry, etc., sometimes di
guised a.- newspapers, a- w. 11 as correspon
dence of all kinds, r: gistei ed and unregis
tered, or that per-ots writing to or from
enemy countries would already have adopted
the practice of sending their letters under
cover to intermediaries in neutral countries,
or that great numbers of complete sacks
appearing to contain merely bu.-ines.s cir
cular; from neutral countries would contain
in reality nothing but propaganda from
Germany under covers bearing neutral post
age stamps.
“These and similar unforeseen peculiari
ties made it impossible, until the staff en
gaged had been largely increased and had
become accustomed to them, to select on
any fixed principle those mail bags which,
when all could not be examined within a
reasonable period, should be forwarded
without examination.
“The delay of shipping documents car
ried by the same ship as the cargo to which
they refer can be. and has been in some
cases, avoided by the simple expedient of
inclosing such documents in specially
marked bags."
The statement concludes by showing why
the dispatch of intercepted mails is best
facilitated by examination in London, and
not at points nearer the seizure, as has
been suggested.
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Ilurry Donnelley, the Di-covcry to
chant, has received a letter from I>. Q. Me
Gregor, formerly a well known resident .f
this district, dated “somewhere" in Iran- ■
or Belgium. which is of considerable inter
est. Mr. McGregor i.s fighting in the trend;'
with the British army, and his letter tells
of the confidence of the men of the nlli-h
forces of ultimate victory for their cam
The letter shows that the strict een.-ors!i’ >
in force in 11t*■ early stages of the war h;.
been considerably relaxed.
George Mr Ime.yer. after a re-idence in this
camp of more than six years, during the
greater part of the time engager1, b, mining
on Otter creek, left for the Marshall digging
libs week with a good operating outfit i
work ground controlled by his partner, Mr.
VTon. Mr. Wimever was accompanied
by his wife.
Mrs. Frank Dawson and Mrs. Harry D .
neliey of Otter creek were visitors in ! . ' .
rod la.-L Thursday to say farewell t.
parting friends.
The f-'tar restaurant building, on Will- -,
street, has ;,c nc the way of many other of
the city's structures. It was leveled this
week by the destructive hand of Fred Kal
toff, and 1 sided on II. II. Porter's leg barge
for transporiation to Fortuna Ledge.
“Hank” Martin, one of the best known
rl 1-timers in these parts, who has been in
the North continuously since ls’lT, wo- a
down-river passenger this week to -pend
the winter on the Outside. After a -o >
grind during all these years, taking an 1
tive part in all the stampedes the country
has afforded, “Hank" feels slightly “tuck
ered out.’' as the old saying goes and be
lieves. with his many friends, that a winter
in a milder climate will have a wonderful
effect h r the good on him. He has made
arrangements lor his fine String of mala
mutes to meet him a! Seward next Spring,
and will return before the break-up.
Mrs. Henry Riley left on Thursday
on tiit' mail launch for the Yukon, wl r
she will lake passage on the Susie for Ss
Michael and the Outside. She was a< in
panied by little Adella McDowell, who 1
going Outside to school.
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WILL STAY WITH OLD CAMP
After laboriously razing and getting the
material of the Golden Eagle hotel building
ready for shipment, Captain Jes-e 1! Rogers
disposed of the same to Miss E. Kiev, and
has decided to remain in this vicinity during
the coming winter, snd the spasmodic
whir-r-r and whiz-z-z of the gallant captain's ,
wood saw will be heard in the land as of
yore.
For MARSHALL
The Fast and Pov/erful
i
Launch Loew-Victor
(Captain Dan Giilis)
Will Leave Idltared for
MARSHALL DIGGINGS AND ALL WAY POINTS,
On or About Monday, Sept. 25
Will Return to Iditarod immediately After Discharging Cargo
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Just Received a Shipment of Fresh Draught Beer
GEORGE MARSH BUD WEISER ID1TAROD FLAT CITY THE BRANCH A. D. CURRIE