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PIONEERS WILL ENTERTAIN
ON ST. PATRICK'S DAY
There was a well attended meeting of the
local igloo of Pioneers at A. B. hall last
Wednesday evening, and considerable
routine business was transacted. By a big
vote the igloo decided to give a ball and
entertainment in this city on the night of
March 17 (St. Patrick’s day), and a com
mittee to handle the affair was appointed.
Of that glorious event more anon.
The next meeting of the Pioneers will be
held at Moose hall. Flat, on Wednesday,
P'ebruarv 21.
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BURNING OF ROADHOUSE
SEVERE LOSS TO OWNER
The burning of the Ophir roadhouse,
which occurred some ten days ago. proved
to be a severe loss to its proprietor, William
Jones. It appears that the fire swept the
building so suddenly that absolutely none
of its contents were saved, and the oc- j
cupants were fortunate in escaping with
their lives. Besides the roadhouse and its
equipment Mr. Jones lost a considerable
sum in money, and his total losses are
estimated at about SS.OOO.
Temporary quarters have been fitted up
and Mr. Jones is still catering to the trav
eling
For steam bathe, go to the Snyder House, .
Mat. |
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Men’s Furnishings
HATS SHOES TIES i
Q 9
A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT
READY-MADE CLOTHING
Closing out our Suits—Get our
prices—You can carry them away
for a song
OVERALLS AND JUMPERS j
Rubber Overshoes and Arctics
DRIVERS’ GLOVES
WOOD CHOPPERS’ AND MUSH
ERS’ CLOTHING AND HAND i
GEAR OUR SPECIALTY;
Sweaters, Mackinaw Coats
“Everything for Everybody”
Ansleys
IDITAROD, ALACXA
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
At the meeting of the Moose lodge last
Sunday night it was decided to give a dance
at their hall in Flat on the night of Wash
ington's birthday, Thursday, February 22.
Patsy Fleming was a visitor in town last
Monday from Otter creek.
Manuel Gularte made a trip to Flat last
Sunday, and returned home in the evening.
Sam'l Applebaum, the hustling wholesale
end retail grocer ami student of political
economy, made the ambient atmosphere of
Flat City more tolerant last Sunday and
Monday by lending the presence of hi
radiant personality.
George Kay and Sture Stenberg returned
from Tolstoi last Sunday evening.
Frank Joaquin of the Kuskokwim Com
mercial Company, Tokotna. was a visitor
m the city last week.
E. W. Parks, the cinnabar miner of the
Kuskokwim region, was a visitor in the
city durnig the past week.
Bill Lee was among the visitors from
Flat who attended the Pioneers’ meeting
last Wednesday night.
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REINDEER HERD HERE
A. IF. Twitched, the reindeer herder, ar
rived from the Kuskokwim country on
Thursday last wth a herd of something more
than a hundred animals, which have at
tracted a good deal of attenton among resi
dents of the district. Scores of photographs
have been taken of the herd. This is a por
tion of the band that broke away from the
main herd last summer and made for their
old pastures.
ARRIVAL OF MAIL
The second consignment of belated mail
arrived at Iditarod on Sunday evening. The
outgoing mail left as usual on Wednesday
morning. and another mail is due at any
time now. Tom Boyd, the mail sub-con
tractor, is still in the city, not having been
able as yet to arrange his difficulties with
Contractor Revel!.
FINED FOR GAMBLING
Before Commissioner Geraghty, on Thurs
day last, Messrs. Cameron & Finnegan, who
conduct a pool room and cigar store at
Flat, each pleaded guilty to a charge of
gambling, and a fine of $450 and costs was
assessed in each case. The complaint,
sworn out by Deputy Marshal Charles,
charged them with committing the offense
on Octolier 21 last.
C. R. PECK, FLAT
General Merchandise
CANDY
Society Chocolate Creams, per lb. $ .76 <
Imperial Chocolate Oreame, per lb. 1.00
fACAIIAIC Cl AT IDANC Acorn Special Flat Iron, eacl. 7.60
llAM/LlNE, FLA I Ilvuna American Flat Irons, each 7.60
Tents, Tarpaulins, Nome Dog Harness, Webbing, Gasoline Lamps, Guns, Am
munition, Hardware, 8toves, Heaters, Furniture and Bedding, Rugs.
SMITH'S CUN STORE
IDITAROD, ALASKA PHONE 6 SECOND AND WILLOW
AN APPEAL TO BE TAKEN
AGAINST FOREST DECISION
That the cities and towns of the First
division are to stand the cost of perfecting
the appeal to the circuit court in the case
l of the First division members of the last
■ legislature against the territorial treasurer
| is indicated by .the fact that the city coun
I oil of Juneau has, acting in conjunction
| with the councils of the other towns of the
division, agreed to advance the sum of ap
iroximately $420 for that purpose, says the
Juneau Umpire of recent date.
The suit is the one brought by the mem
j icrs of the Second legislature from the
First division to prevent the distribution of
he forest reserve money among the four
livisions of Alaska. This money was a
lone of contention in the legislature, and
ifter a hard fight the members voted to
listribute it equally betwreen the four divi
sions. The members from the First divi
sion claimed that as this money was de
rived wholly from forests in the First and
Third divisions, and under a law which pro
vides that the money shall be spent for the
benefit of the county or counties from
which it is derived, the legislature had no
-ight to distribute it as they did, and the
Second and Fourth divisions have no right
to any part of the sum in question.
The suit brought and financed by the
members of the legislature from the First
Iivision was decided against the First divi
ion by Judge R. W. Jennings.
A letter from John G. Held, one of the
laintiffs, to the city council of Juneau in
regard to the matter sets forth that the
estion is of vital interest to the entiri
iivision, as the sum already approprated
amounted to $52,968.17, and that there will
oe $40,000 additional within the next two
years. The letter ests forth that the cost
,f the suit so far has been borne by him
self and associates, and that he personallv
is acting as attorney in the suit without
ay. but that the cost of an appeal and the
| rost of a trip to San Francisco, which will
i >e necessary, is too much for them to carry,
j The letter asks for assistance from the city
I rouncil.
j The Juneau city council agreed to stand
' ihe costs of the appeal, and if possible, to
eeure the co-operation of the other towns
n the division.
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WHY BARROW DIDN’T VOTE
Point Barrow did not send any election
returns, says the Nome Industrial Worker.
Jnited States Commissioner Richardson, at
.hat point, explains that there were only
nve voters there, including the illiterate
wife of a trader, and so, although they have
he honor of having the largest voting pre
cinct in the world, they didn't want the
honor of casting the smallest vote. The
voters felt they didn’t know a thing about
the candidates, so didn’t see the necessity
for putting the government to the expense
f a vote being taken. The hope was ex
pressed that some time when the precinct
. as mere developed they might be able to
cast a vote proportionate to its size.
ORIGIN OF NAPKINS
When you see the waiter standing mutely
with a napkin over his left arm, tloes it
ever occur to you that he is but adhering
in a custom that used to extend not only
o waiters, but to diners as well?
That is really the fact, for when napkins
•irst came into use, about forty years be
fore Christopher Columbus discovered this
hemisphere, they were properly kept over
he left shoulder. They were sometimes,
by the most elegant, tied about the chin
ver the lordly starched ruffs that at a,l
times made eating daintily something of a
task. And in the French equivalent of our
expression to “make both ends meet,” which
is. literally translated, “to tie the two ends
of the serviette,” it was not at all incorrect
thus to protect the ruff and the coat front.
And in th« days when napkins origi
nated folks stood in much greater need
them than they do today, for it was
before the introduction of forks, and even
the daintiest and most elegant of silk and
satin-clad courtiers ate with their fingers.
Napkins were an absolute necessity in those
lays. That is, napkins or something else
on which continua ly to wipe the fingers
.vhen eating. The something else for many
centuries before, the advent of the napkin
had been the tablecloth itself, and in fact
the tablecloth was not originally devised
as a cover for the table so much as for
something on which to wipe the hands. It
was made of generous proportions and the
diner kept his portion spread over his lap,
where it would be of most service. One
would like to believe that tablecloths never
did more than one meal’s service, but laun
dries were few and folk were not so fas
tidious as they are today, in spite of their
starched ruffs and satin doublets.—Ex.
NOME MINING MAN ILL
SEATTLE, Jan. 29.—Jafet Lindeberg, the
well-known Nome mining operator, has
been down several days with pneumonia.
Physicians think he is now out of danger.
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A WEEK’S TEMPERATURES
The following is a record of the week’s
temperatures, from readings taken at 7 a. m.
daily, compared with the temperature on
the same date a year ago:
Date— 7 a. m. Min. 1916.
Feb. 3. —34 —3S - 4
4 . —18 —34 — 8
5 . —8 —18 —18
6 . 8 2 —15
7 . 16 18 —18
8 . 30 38 —23
9 . 30 24 —10
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Mr. and Mrs. Frank Larson and baby
daughter of Flat were visitors in town for
several days during the week.
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THE HOLY CITY IN WAR TIME I
AS VIEWED BY YOUNG LADY
OF KEEN OBSERVATION
In these days of wars and rumors of ware, |
it is somewhat unusual for a letter to filter j
through from any of the European capitals ,
which has not been written with the knowl
edge that it must pass the gauntlet of the
arbitrary censor. The following letter, how
ever, written by a young American lady in
Rome under date of November 1916, and
received in a recent mail, evidently was not
subjected to censorship, and it presents an
interesting picture of the Italian capital in
war time. For obvious reasons names are j
suppressed:
VVe reached Italy the end ol July, alter a !
most interesting week in Paris. Such a j
changed, grim place it is now. I won’t at
empt to describe it. Mr. P-went to
the front (not to the Verdun front) and
lad a most interesting time. He met Gen.
Gourant, who commanded the French at
Gallipoli, and the famous General de Castel j
'nan. Well, we got here in the blazing heat !
and went to Fiuggi for a month. It is a
‘cure’ about two hours by motor from ;
Rome, on the way to Naples. It wasn't ]
wildly interesting, but restful, and 1 cn- j
oyed the motor rides we had every day.
hen we took a motor car to Lake Como,
ia Orvieto, Florence, Bologna and Milan.
* * * Mrs. P-and I settled down at
Oerubbio. I was wild to go to Venice, and
;o was Mrs. P-, but Mr. P-wouldn’t
iet us. They had an aeroplane raid while
ie was there, ami it was thrilling. It takes
leroplanes about forty minutes to reach
Venice from Trieste, but the Italians have
in instrument which registers their ap
proach long before they reach Venice. So
hey blow a siren to rouse the inhabitants
nd the anti-air craft guns begin firing and
oedlam ensues. They had been having raids
n the full moon of each month up to
'eptember, but we haven’t heard of them
; -itely. They have been talking of raids
’re, and everything is kept pitch dark,
•me say, however, that the emperor of
\ustria has promised the pope that Rome
ill not be raided.
City in Darkness
“One really seems very far away from
he war here. Of course the city is de
oid of tourists, and there are few motors
n the srreets, and not many people in
mourning. Paris is heartrending, with its
ndless women in crepe veils' Of course
conomy is being urged on all sides. Elec
tricity is being saved in the streets, which
re pitch black; the shops close early. As
r food, of course we eat only brown bread.
" -gs are so scarce that there are times when
lot an egg can be found in Rome. The
iek can get them on presentation of a
doctor’s certificate at certain places only,
sugar is becoming very scarce; they have
had sugar riots here and there, and you can
only get a minimum amount at a time.
But these are only trifles, and one doesn’t
mind them really.
Work for the Hospitals
“* *’ 5 My days tear by. Every morn
in, from 10 to 1. we work hard for the
soldier*. The wife of the American am
bassador has opened an ‘ouvrior,’ where
ladies of the American colony come and
work. We give out work to be made up by
ooor women, wive* of the sol iiers, or rather
Tichiamcti’ (literally, ‘the called out’l who
come here once a week and fetch it and
bring it back the next week. In this way
pajamas, surgical shirts, chest protectors,
dressing gowns, etc., are made and sent to
hospitals at the front. Last Thursday 611
ai tides were collected, the work of the j
.veek. In fourteen months of work more !
‘han 91,000 articles have been distributed
by our ouvroir! Of course we tlso get
boxes sent out to us by the American Red
Cross. The need of warm things is simply
harrowing. The Italian fighting is all in
the mountains, and the cold is almost be
yond endurance in some places. They write
such grateful, touching letters of acknowl
edgment.
Cheerfulness of Maimed Soldiers
“After this war Europe will be full of
maimed humanity. The blinded by battle
are too heartrending in France. I visited
one place (Miss Holt’s institution), and it
was no uncommon sight to see a blind man
who had lost an arm as well. They fre
quently lose both arms as well as their
sight. One young officer who was blind
had lost an arm, but he rides in the Bois
every day, and when I saw him he was
learning to weave with his one good hand
end an artificial hand; also learning English
hrough talking to his instructor, an Ameri
can woman. I have visited hospitals in
Paris and here, and, like everyone else, I
am am?.red beyond all words at the in
variable cheerfulness and spirit of all these
mangled, maimed things. The other day I
went to an enormous military hospital here
of ‘mutilati.’ Every man had lost an
arm or leg—mere contadin boys. Every
one smiled and was glad to talk to me as
1 distributed cigarettes. I went with the
Contessa Cadoma, the wife of the com
mander in chief. One man from Tunis,
they said, was trying to teach himself
English to pass the time, and he produced
a tattered English grammar proudly—his
nly book—from under his pillow. They
aid he lay there day after day turning
over the leaves. He beamed as if I had
nromised him a gold mine when I said I
would get him a dictionary. I have sent
vim some books with footnotes in Italian.
“We often see interesting people here—
Americans with missions. One man came
from the American Relief for Belgium com
mittee in London to ask the pope to ar
range for the Catholic children in the
Jnited States to give toward the starving
lelgian children. The suffering in Belgium
:nong the children is so great that many
normal ones are becoming mentally defi
cient through lack of proper food.
Thrilling Scenes at Concert
“I began this yesterday and stopped be
ause I had to go to a concert. Well, it
was a wonderful experience. It was the
first concert of the season, and Toscanini,
the famous conductor of the Metropolitan,
Our Slogan Is Quality!
WE TAKE GREAT PRIDE IN SUP
PLYING THE WANTS OF MEN.
EVERY ARTICLE WE SELL HAS
A REPUTATION THAT IT HAS
EARNED BY BEING PUT TO THE
TEST.
A. J. WEISS
THE HOME OF HART, SCHAPFNER & MARX
'•'as to lead. Everyone was curious to s*e
w'bat would happen when they started to
lay the two Wagner numbers. The first
bars of the forest music of ‘Siegfried’ had
hardly been played when a voice from the
.cilery roared ‘Basta,’ and a man Hung
over tricolor manifestos into the pit. Then
the uproar began. That enormous concert
hall, the ’Augusteo,’ that Augustus built as
a circus, was one seething mass of excited
humanity. Rows were going on all over
the place. The police tried mildly to eject
some too zealous patriots, when in the
midst of it all the great orchestra burst into
the Italian national air, the ‘Marcia Reale.’ j
Tt was magnificent the way all quarreling ]
ceased and everyone sprang to their feet j
and clapped furiously. I had never heard i
; he roar of an angry mob before, and in a !
crowded amphitheater it was like wild sni- ;
mals broken loose—the outraged patriots j
who wouldn’t listen to German music and j
the indignant music lovers who thought j
art was being profaned!
The Proverbially Obtuse Englishman
“Well, when the ‘Marcia Reale’ w'as over
the audience felt calmer and settled down
to listen to ‘Siegfried.’ A titled English
lady who was with us decided not to hear
Wagner. Such an amusing thing hap
■ ened to illustrate the traditional British
slowness of perception! Lady R - leant into
into the next box, where a young English
man of prominence was sitting, and said, j
I’m going, and I think you’d better go. :
too.’ The young Englishman stayed on, [
however, as we did, to see what would
happen next. What happened was that
he audience remained peaceful during
‘Siegfried,’ but when they started the
funeral march from the ‘Gotterdammerung’
a voice from the gallery said: V es, a
funeral march for the victims of Padua.’
i A Zeppelin killed over sixty persons there i
.ast week, mostly women and children I. j
Then bedlam broke loose again, and Tos
canini threw down his baton in a rage and
left the hall. The thing was all up then
and everybody left. But just as we were
ping down the stairs the young English
man said to me that he had just under- j
A ood why Lady R-* left. It had just j
dawned on him!”
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MISSING
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Inquiries have been received at the office j
of Deputy Marshal Charles for the follow- :
ing-named persons:
Eleckious K. Hudgins, alias Leek Hudg
ins; weight, about 170 pounds. Last heard of
in Alaska. Brother in Eastern Illinois in
quires.
Jack Rooney, missing for ten years
Brother lives in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario,
Canada.
I-rank W. Stowe, who sailed for Alaska
from Seattle in 1898 on steamer Harry
Morse. Mother, who resides at present at
Shelburn, Mass., formerly of Conway, Mass.,
makes inquiry.
ANCHORAGE PIONEERS
ELECT NEW OFFICERS:
At the regular meeting of the Pioneer* of j
Alaska last night the following officers w«re
elected to serve the ensuing year: John W. j
Frame, president; J. R. McKay, vice presi
dent; J. H. Matthews, secretary; Ray C.
Larson, treasurer; Skookum Johnson, chap
lain; W. A. Moon, sergeant-at-arms, and H. !
M. Lynch, Sam McNiece and George Vause, |
trustees.—Anchorage Times.
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RESIDENTS OF THIS DISTRICT !
ON THEIR WAY TO SOUTH;
On the steamship Alameda, sailing for j
Seattle from Seward on January 3, were
the following passengers, among others:
Jack Ronan, Bennett James, P. B. Welch,
Danny Bryce, Dave Edwards, Frank Kern,
C. S. Sinclair and W. H. Parmelee.
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Fresh Olympia and Eastern Oyster*. $1.50
per can. Iditarod Meat Co.
MEETING OF TOWN COUNCIL
ACTS ON HOSPITAL MATTER
A meeting of the Iditarod town council
was held at the office of Commissioner Ger
aghty last Saturday evening. The meeting
was called to order at S :45 p. m. by Mayor
Smith, and after roll cell, which showed
Councilmen Smith, Riley, Byers, Laplant
and Albrecht in attendance, the minutes of
the meeting of October 19 were read by the
clerk and approved.
Councilman Riley reported on behalf of
the fire committee that during the absence
of Joseph H. Smith, chairman, Cyril Wood
had protested against the dangerous fires
maintained at the fire hall, and requested
that other arrangements be made for hous
ing the chemical engine. Arrangements had
been made with J. A. Nelson to take care
of the machine for a consideration of eight
cords of wood. The action of the fire com
mittee was unanimously approved by the
council on motion of Mr. Albrecht, seconded
by Mr. Laplant.
Bills were presented as follows, and after
having been approved by the proper com
mittees, were ordered paid: Ira F. Wood,
wood and hauling, $210; Dr. Auringer, serv
ices, $25; Smith’s Gun Store, sundries,
$1.50; Iditarod Pioneer, publishing, $21;
Iditarod Machine Shop, welding, $5; II L.
Riley, services, $12.50; Pioneer Sheet Metal
Works, stove, $55; Paul Laplant, hauling,
521; Northern Commercial Company, bat
teries, $5.
On motion of Mr. Albrecht, seconded by
Mr. Riley, $1,100 was ordered transferred
from the general fund to the school board.
The matter of the sale of the old Emer
, encv hospital building was brought btfore
the council. The deed from Bishop P. T.
Rowe, trustee, as bishop of Alaska, convey
:ng the same to the municipality, was form
.illy accepted by the council and ordered
placed on record, on motion of Mr. Albrecht,
seconded by Mr. Byers.
It was moved by Mr. Byers, seconded by
Mr. Riley, that the mayor and clerk be in
structed to execute a good and sufficient
deed conveying the old Emergency Hospitrl
building to Paul Laplant for a consideration
f $160. Roll call resulted: Aye—Smith,
Byers, Riley and Albrecht; not voting—La
plant.
A motion by Mr. Byers, seconded by Mr
Riley, that the city present a bill to Sam'!
Applebaum for the rent of the Emergency
Hospital building during his occupancy of
the same, and that Attorney George W. Al
brecht be authorized to collect the amount
on a fifty-fifty basis, and without expense
to the city, was adopted.
M avor Smith and Councilman Albrecht
were appointed a committee to settle on
an amount which would be considered a
fair and just rental for the above-mentioned
building during its occupancy by Sam'l Ap
plebaum.
The council adjourned at 9:30 p. m., »ub
ject to the call of the chairman.
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at the McDonald
Charles Schubert, Robert McMillan, E.
W. Parks, William Lee, J. Wilson Reed,
M. D., Tony McDonald.
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Clothes Cleaned and Pressed
Dog Moccaelna for tala
Parka* Bad* to Order
MRS. YOUNG’S STORK
Next Door McDonald Hotel
General Ladies’
FURNISHINGS
Ladies’ Furnishing Store
MRS. L. C. THORNTON, Prop.
FOR
GOOD POTATOES AND CIGARS
CALLUP
ubiidesbq: Tsaloon~1
We Still Have Some to Wholesale
RING US UP ANY SERVICE WE CAN DO YOU RING US UP
Marquette AA Rye National Club Bourbon
GEORGE MARSH BUDWEISER ID1TAROD FLAT CITY THE BRANCH A. D. CURRIE