IDITAROD PIONEER
Published Every Sunday Moknino at Iditarod, Alaska.
FRANK E. BECKER. EDITOR
i ll X Ceo. M. Arbucklo. I ub.'hher No. 1
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AND NOW THE NEW YEAR
The Swear-Off Day has came. Anybody with virtues!
to acquire or vices to slough better get busy this very even
ing and make peace with Old Man Nemesis for that vener
able person who is now slipping into oblivion can help you
none whatever, and the kid who is arriving is not as wise
as he will be a year from now.
The New Year privilege of swearing off is one of the
dearest and most sacred of American institutions.
If the disease really catches and von make crood on j
your intentions you then become a hero and may have your
bust in the Hall of Fame. But if, like all frail and com
mon mortals, your foot slips or you stub your top, then you !
merely slide back and become a human being for another
twelve months.
The game is played something like this : The playei;
goes to bat and assumes a thoughtful attitude with his
right hand held straight up. With careworn expression!
he thinks of all the nice things he does that he shouldn’t do. j
and of all the bum things he should do that he doesn’t do. |
Then he mutters to himself and names over a lot of stunts]
that lie will never do again but if he is a good player, and j
you watch him closely you may notice his left hand behind!
his back and under his coat with the fingers crossed.
This is the time-honored way of swearing off. Henry,!
of the 8th, one time kink of Merrie England, played that
way when he swore off on getting married again. Adeline
Patti swore off that way when she spoke of her farewell
tours of America, and Willie J. Brvan is stili swearing off
on the presidency.
Since Henry pulled off liis little one-act comedy there
has been but little change in the rules except, that when ;
man swears off on drinking these days he feels it incumbei tj
to get as tight a skinful as he can the night before. May hi- '
Henry swore off that way, but if he did he bribed the conn !
chronicler to say nothing about it. Maybe the court ciironi
eler was swearing off,—but there, that’ll do, we’re not u;
on history much so we’ll just drop Henry.
Speaking of swearing off on joy water, one wants t<
ponder it carefully for when one starts to throwing off si
heavy a consideration it becomes a weighty proposition.
Having searched your past carefully and convinced your
self that you have contributed enough to the Anti-Prohi
bition fund you proceed to go out and get pickled. This b
merely to show your friends that you can do it if you warn
to. You may forget that its tough going to wrestle wit!
sweet-faced Reform when you have a headache, but yon
have been taught that there is only one way to swear off 01
drinking and that is to accumulate a farewell souse.
On New Year’s morning your eyes are red and you*
tongue feels like a piece of felt roofing. You would givt
four dollars for one cooling drink that would relieve tha>
furry sensation, but there’s nothing stirring, you hav.
sworn off. Stay with it,—you can go around and wink a'
the bartender tomorrow and everyone will think you goi
away with it._
WISE LEGISLATION
III spite of the fact that the merry holiday spirit pre
vails, we must drag out our little hammer and bang away
at a few of our old friends, the enemy. In conducting this
little Anvil Chorus, we will sing in the key of optimistic
Merchants Cafe
Wedding Dinners and Large Parties
a Specialty,
Strictly First Glass. Open Day and Night
Chas. E Miller & Ernest H. S’.enter, Props.
Automobile
Stage
Leaves McDonaid Hotel for Flat City daily
at 10 a. m. and 4 p. m.
Stage Leaves Flat City daily at II a. m. and
5 p. m. _
Fare $2. H. H, ROSS, Prop.
Bank Sagoon
M. & M. Bank Building
Bar Whiskey Spring IS99
LLao§6s
$5 and $6
FELT SHOES, Reduced to..
I. GOLDSTEIN
NEW YEAR SPECIAL- QUART THERMOS BOTTLE $10.00.
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C. J. Hur.ey, President J. P. Gl&ason, Visa President k. Boning, Cashier
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tope but we can’t say anything very nice about those legal
sharps who are carpentering the laws for Alaska.
Take for instance that bill that was slipped through
Congress last session providing for detention hospitals in
Alaska for the insane. We never did get the straight of
the proposition, but it appears that an appropriation was
nade for putting up hospitals but no allowance was made
for supplying the site. In other words, we were expected
to build the hospitals in the air and house the unfortunates
in the atmosphere.
Now as a piece of legislation we call that a master
piece. After grudgingly admitting that the insane patients
>f this territory should be cared for and not herded in small
jails like criminals, congress hands us a measely little
twelve and a half thousand to build and maintain a de
tention hospital,—one in Fairbanks and one in Nome. We
are to look to the Morganheims or some gouty philanthro
pist in Pennsylvania to supply the site. Having secured
the site through charity we are to build a reasonable struc
ture and maintain it with a sum that is so totally inade
quate that it makes one smile at the same time he swears.
Alaska, thou art indeed a favored climate.
Plans to Cater
to the Mtaskan
Portland, Ore., Dec. 7.—In an effort to outbid Seattle for the
Alaskan trade and to encourage the investment of Alaskan money
in Portland, the Alaskan Club held a meeting here yesterday at
which it was decided to start an active campaign. W. R. Downing
and A. G. Shoup were appointed a committee to find suitable club
rooms for the entertainment of Alaskans visiting Por tland. Local
hotels wil' then be visited every day and Alaskans will be wel
comed to the club.
It was pointed out at the meeting that many of Seattle’s build
ings were erected by Alaskan capital and that many of the sub
stantial business houses there have their foundations on money in
vested by Alaskans.
The Alaskan Club was successful in its campaign to bring the
grand camp of the Arctic Br otherhood to Portland in 1911. The
1910 convention was held at Vancouver, B. C., last month, and a
delegation was sent to extend Portland’s invitation. The local
commercial bodies co-operated with the Alaskan Club in its effort
to obtain the convention.
The clubrooms will be furnished with all the Alaskan newspa
per's as well as those published in Portland and the Northwest. In
time an exhibit of Alaskan r esources, mineral and agr icultural will
be placed in the rooms.
IT BRINGS IN A
STAKE FOR KIDDIES
A1 Morency is in receipt of news
that causes him to strut around
with some degree of affluent front
The word is from his partner, Geo.
Hprington, who writes from Fai..
banks under date ot Dec 4th, that
he laymen on the Wild Goose as
ociation on Engineer creek are
cleaning up 600 ounces every fivt
da\ s.
Henning is the layman and In
recently tan into some excellent
ground on a claim that has beet ]
the despair of more than one at
tempt With two three-inch pumps,
he is pumping the water from th
sump, as it is very wet ground, am
is using tl c water for sluicing
Besides Morency and Herington
Bob Geis and others ate owners o
Wil l Goose, and the royalties art
feeing split in a number of ways
However there are other lays ot
the gtottnd that et-m to be gel i >g
into the money, w hereto e it i
possible that ti e own cis will c 'tin :
into their own a :e 1 the long \car- I
if waiting
The Fiench boys Eimieux, Du
iteau and Bollard a e taking ou
good money irom ground adjoining
he old C iscatleu lay vvhete Dave
Cascade!) pet in a wad of money s
t ear ago. With the underground
water they will be sluicing all win
ter 0.1 this claim.
Gilcher Estate Left
With Big Oamage Claim
From the latest advices received ol
the street-cur accident, in Seattle which
resulted in thedeatli of "Dutch Henry"
Gilcher, the old-timer who was so weil
known in the North, it appears that
the street-car company was grossly
negligent in the matter, and may have
to settle with the relatives of the de
ceased.
Henry had gonp out to the suburbs
to visit a friend and was returning to
the city when the accident occurred.
He was about to get onto the car and
tiad one foot on the step when the ear
started suddenly and threw him undet
the wheels.
The street car coin; any came out in
tie local papers i\t;h a statement to
the-effect that Gilcher was laying 01
(lie track and that the motortnan could
not slop in time. George Butler am
other friends 01 the Northerner got the
story direct after the operation at the
hospital, and tried to get the statement
published but the papers retired u
uandle the story.
As is already known here, Gilcher
underwent two operations, losing boll
.eet. He could not survive the shock
und died within two weeks after tin
incident. It is prubable that some
action will be taken against the com
pany. _
’Twas Only a Frgnch Dream
Last week this paper publisher
< clipping from a coast paper, pur
porting to be the account of a fabu
.ous strike on the Koyukuk river
(bout 150 miles from its mouth
which had been kept a secret foi
wo years.
In the story, one George Dupuy,
r bo claimed to be a special corres
poudent of the Paris Pigaro, au<
from Dawson, told about the has
sets full of nuggets they were pick
mg up over there, which weighed
naif a pound.
The story was published as a
josh, in other words, we were jus',
spoofing you. Since then, we bare
itard however, that some people
have taken it seriously and are con
emplating a stampede to this mag.
rc laud.
It don't seem possible that a man
would go stampeding on such news
as that, but if he does, vve would
advise him to take along a guard
isn, because be needs one.
NOTES ABOUT
NOME PEOPLE
Sam Adams, formerly of Steitiruan &
Adams of Nome, and previous to that
time the proprietor of a big depart
ment store in Butte, Montana, arrived
last week from the Bering sea port
with turkeys for an Iditarod holiday.
Henry Rowe was to start from Nome
for the Iditarod shortly after Thanks
giving.
Carl Mint and Tom Jacobson were
g dng into the Kuskokwin country.
Chas. L. Fox was due in from Nome
last week.
Fred Peterson, the man who went to
Nome for drugs was encountered on the
trail by Gertie Keehnel and Mrs. Dora
Vt adman as those two hardy travelers
were mushing in two weeks ago. They
also reported seeing Frank Wilkins
who was on his way to Nome. He said
he was coming back.
“Mizoo” Walters and his sister-in
law accompanied Contractor Snow out
on his-last trip with 'tie mail. They
will go to Fairbanks and possibly out
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CAPS PLACE
Imperial Cigar Store
Just received lar*;e stock of Peterson and
Calabash Pipes
NEWLY BUILT PRIVATE CARD ROOMS
To enjoy an evening call and see us
WII.I.OW ST., IDITAROD
CRYSTAL nSTilQ
springs dh s na
The only bath house i-t Iditarod
using Crystal Spiiug water.
tilers. C. J, Sellander,
Willow Street
j WRITE A LETTER HOME AT
Ernest's Cigar Store
“You Don't Have to Frog."
Cigars, Tobaccos, Candies, Lemonade,
j Milk Shake, Stationery and Fruits
NIEHOrF &. HAKES,
1_First and Willnw._i
ALL KINDS OF MACHINE REPAIRING
PUMPS A SPECIALTY
77
Black Street, Near Slippern’s Mill
FOR A OUIKT SLF.KP TRY
Rooms by tbs Day, Weak or Month
3rd and Willow St.
Ed Grider left Dikeman recently for
a business trip to Gibbon. He expected
to be back by the 8th of January.
DR. 3. F. BROOKS,
Physician and Surgeon
Over Merchants Cafe, First Avenue
Telephone 30
Dr. Heinrich Wortmann
Office at City Drug Store, Tel. 3f>
First Are., bet. Willow and Richmond
T. B. CRAiC.
Temporary Office,Red Cross Drug Store*
DR. E. T. BRADBURY.
Dentist
Over Merchants Cafe, First Avenue
Telephone 30-H
McGowan, (lark & Albrecht
ATTORNEY'S AT LAW
Iditarod, Alaska Piiokk No. 1
The Pioneer Alton evs »'.! This Crimp
ALFRED E. MALT BY,
(T. S. Cc-tmuis.sioucrj
Attorney at Law
Notary Public
Practice otilv in District Court. IDiTAROD
E1GHAM & BECKER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Office —Ansley Bldg.,Richmond St.
CHAS. £. TAYLOR,
Attorney at Law,
Notary Public, Conveyancing,
Abstracts of Titles
Iditarod City
J. 5. HARDING,
Attorney at Law
Room 1, Iditarod Hotel
Iditarod, Alaska
First Avenue.
Modern Throughout. Bath Booms in Connection
Furnished Rooms and Spring Cots,
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Whitefish, Arctic Trout, Pickerel and Arctic
Halibut dressed to order.
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J. A. SLIPPERN,
Carries the LARGEST and WIOSWCOIVIFLETE Stock of
Sash, Doors, Glass,
MIRRORS AND BUILDERS' HARDWARE IN IDITAROD
Store Fronts and Fancy Windows
Of any Size and Design Made to Order
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For inspiration
Corner Second Avenue and Willow Street
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