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Notwithstanding the extremely mild
weather of the past week and. the wretched
condition • >f the trails, the Pioneers Pot
lach billed for tonight at A B. hall, this
city, has all the earmark.- of being a record
breaker. If preparation and anticipation
count for anything in an atiair of this
character, the members of the local igloo
uf Pioneers id Alaska haven’t overlooked a
single opportunity to make a huge succe-s
of their first attempt at enter'aining. Bn
ergetie and hard-working committees have
been at work nearly all week arranging de
tails. The big A B. hall was found too
small to accommodate the banquet ting and
circusing and dancing at the same time, so
*hc l ,rge budding formerly occupied by the
Hud we i so r bar has been beautifully decor
ated for the ‘‘feast room," and the adjoin
ing room is equipped with a large range
and the necessary utensils. Kverything
served at the banquet the meats, salads,
cakes, etc., will be prepared under the per
sonal supervision < i that sourest of all
sourdoughs. *•'••• Konivin. !f anyone fails
receive all his little heart desires at the
Pinners’ feed room it will be his own fault.
Mr. Keenan will be assisted by a force of
active e.r.d willing waiters, and everything
in this particular will move with clocklike
precision.
For the accommodation of the ladies, a ■
well appointed lest room has been provided,
under the supervision of an experienced
matron, which will be a convenience for
the mothers and children.
Tramway in Commission
The Hr.'t cars over the Idilarod liar tram
way this season will he run today for the
benefit of the creek ladies. The pile of
wood which has been on the tram track
near the Summit was removed in quick
rder \«.-vr(.ay by a gang of volunteers
from Flat City, thus giving a clear right -
of way for the exeur.'ions to the Pioneers’
Great and Gh lions Sprngtime Fe.-'ival <-t
Song and Frolic.
Musical Program
The entertainment committee is certainly
deserving < f much credit for the splendid
musical program it has provided. Not only i
were the musically-inclined people of the i
town called upon for numbers, but the ;
eretks were requisitioned, with the result I
that such good entertainers as Mrs. George j
Mutchler. Miss Goolidge and Mo-srs. 1* \ .
Jacobs. Jack Smith. Harry Leland, Billy j
Stoneman. Chris Hansen, oeorge Kay aim :
Malcolm McDonald will contribute to the |
evening’s joviality.
On pleasing feature of the program’s ar- 1
rangement will be the interspersing of the !
songs and r-pecialties with the dancing. By
this innovation there will he something hap
pening every few minute.' that will be agree
•al'.le to everyone’s partiality.
1 he program follows:
Instrumental duet. .
. .Mr. Ja"Ijs amt Mi.-s Coolidgo
Sen:-:- Mrs. < liarle< I.arson
r- IIS'- .lark smith
' urn. ..Mrs. • veil I*. \V«md |
.Harry I.eland j
M i- " l.ueilie Taylor 1
Mi" 1.1 Ilian ^mu It i
S pee ia 11 v William - ley J
Minif Ml". I‘« r-ey *1. i liar ! " j
IteeitalU II. . Mi ", 'ieorge .Mll|e||Ier ;
"< :m ..Mrs. M. Mailer
Si ng. William Siiiiieiuan
Instrumental duel
(:iiai !t " I'ayli>r and d. I‘. \\ < • q
Percy H. dlmrli " i
- inr Mrs. Hay I». Clarke i
Seim- . i:hris Hanson j
Hi '-iiatu n..Malcolm Mel» maid .
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Rubber Goods, Photo Supplies.
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We are prepared to do any of the
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dispatch, and in a workmanlike manner.
Give us a chance to figure on your
spring work.
F. A. CLEVELAND
i
—
Frank A. Cleveland, formerly manager of
the Clark Lumber Company of this city, I
and widely known throughout the North, j
died at Portland, Ore., on February 2G of i
cancer of the stomach. About two months
previous to his death he was married in \
that city to Mrs. Annie Clifton of Iditarod. 1
Best Line ot WHISKIES AND WINES tn the Damp
MONOGRAM, MARQUETTE, NATIONAL CLUB,
GIBSON RYE (ALSO SCOTCH), and ail lines of
Whiskies bottled in bond, per bottle_
Imported Port and Sherry, Three Star Hennessey and Bulk Whiskies cut in
proportion
PHONE “RAMPS” At the PIONEER
Just Received
A Choice Lot of the Latest
Victor Phonograph Records
Come fn and Hear Them
SMITHS GUN STORE,
IDITAROD. ALASKA
MOOSE SOCIAL WAS
GREATLY
The Moose hall at Flat City was crowded
to its capacity last Saturday to listen to
a splendid program arranged by the lodge’s
entertainment committee for the ladies of
the camp and their escorts and also the
fudge members. The evening's entertain
ent commenced with card-playing, fol
lowed by an excellent program of songs,
monologues and recitations, which was fur
nished by a large corps of local talent. Every
number was splendidly performed, and
highly appreciated by the audience. A fine
lunch was spread for tiie guests in the
lodge room cn the second floor, after which
dancing was indulged in to a late hour.
During the winter just past the Flat City
Moose lodge has been the host at many
social events that will long be remembered
by all who attended.
RUSH FROM
(Ruby Record-Citizen. March 3
Dr. and Mrs. Good arrived from lditarod
la:t night, bringing news that a stampede
is on from Poorman to a point about thirty
miles southwest of that place. Coar.e gold
found by Billy O’Conm r and Jack O'Melia
is the cause of the excitement.
Elza Fischer, the Kuskokwim g3s boat
man and miner, was an arrival at Flat last
Monday.
There will he a mass meeting of citizens
of Iditarod at the tire hall on Monday even
ing next. March 29, at 8 o’clock, for the
purpose of nominating candidates for the
municipal council and the school board.
All the mile and female voters of the
municipality arc urgently requested to par
ticipate.
Much confusion and embarrassment can
be avoided if persons will refrain from pro
posing candidates who have not signified
their willingness to accept .such nomination.
REGISTRATION BOOKS
AT THE M. & M. BANK
The registration books for the
! municipal election to be held on
| Tuesday, April 6, are now open at
| the Miners & Merchants Bank, and
| voters may register at any time
during banking hours until March
:31st.
: _
Tom Boyd, the mail contractor, accom
panied by Mrs. Boyd and three little Boyds.
| arrived at Discovery last Wednesday morn
j ing, where they are the guests of Mrs. J. E.
I Riley, Mrs. Boyd’s sister.
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on getting it
Sami Applebaum
The Home of Hart, SchafFner & Marx Cioihes
Dog Bason, 15g.
Dog Ham, /0c.
Butter; /0c.
C. R. PECK, FLAT CITY
DETAILS OF ACCIDENT
TO YOUNG ELMO KEITH
(Fairbanks Citizen, March H
As the result of a bullet wound from a
.22-caliber liHe, sustained Saturday after
noon while he was out hunting rabbits
along the Valdez trail with a youthful com
panion, Elmo, the young sen of Mr. and
Mrs. Phil Keith, died yesterday afternoon
in great agony at St. Matthew’s hospital.
The boy was brought to the hospital Sat
urday afternoon in a condition too weak to
stand an operation for the recovery of the
bullet, which had entered the abdomen,
coursing downward. Death was the direct
result of the shock and from internal hem
orrhage.
Young Keith, in company with John
Day, a boy of about his own age, was
hunting along the trail all day Saturday.
They started on the return trip to town
late in the afternoon, and when about
one-half mile from town, each started to
climb a tree. Elmo placed the breech of
his rifle in the crotch of a tree and started
to pull himself up by the barrel, keeping
hold of the end. In some manner the
trigger was pulled, and the bullet front the
gun, passing through the boy’s hand, en
tered his abdomen.
The Day boy says that he was climbing a
tree when he heard the shot from Elmo’s
rifle, and heard Elmo shout that he was
shot. The boys were but a short distance
from the trail at the time. When he dis
covered that his companion had been shot
and had fallen from the tree to the ground,
| John jumped from the tree and ran out to
the trail and down it for a short way, until
he met young Rodney Johnson with a dog
! team, who brought the injured lad into
j town.
When Dr. M. F. Hall was first summoned
he thought that the boy’s life could be
• aved by an operation, but after a con
sultation in which Drs. Sutherland and Mc
: vJallum took part, it was decided that he
was too weak from the shock and from
internal loss of blood. However, it was
expected that the lad would gain strength
Ao permit the operation, but instead of that
~he gradually sank until death came merci
fully to relieve his sufferings.
Elmo Keith was born in Dawson on
March 4, 1904, and would therefore have
j been 11 years of age had he lived until
I next Thursday. He was a likeable little
chap, the idol of his doting parents, having
the general make-up of a man of promise. i
1 It is said that when he was injured Satur- ,
. day he took the wound philosophically and
j courageously, those two qualities having
| been expected to be a great factor in the
i saving of the boy’s life by the physicians.
| However, it was not to be.
Harry Harms, the chief cook for the
'Akon Gold Company, who has been pros
pecting near Takotna during the past few j
months, arrived in Flat City last Wednes
day.
Postmaster Wile announces that on and
after April the postoffice will be open from
9 a. m. to 5 p. m, instead of from 9:30
a. m. to 5 :30 p. m., the winter hours.
GERMAN ADMIRAL TAUNTS
GREAT BRITAIN’S FLEET
BERLIN, Feb. 7. Grand Admiral von
Koester, president of the German Navy
League, in an address at Kiel university
today, discussed the considerations gov
erning the part that is to be played by
the German navy in the present war. He 1
said that the relative strength of the Ger
man fleet, compared to the Anglo-French
Russian fleet, is perhaps one to four. The
British, he added, perhaps estimated Ger
many's lust for battle so highly that they
hud said to themselves, “Some day they will
come and we shall be able to assume battle
in a situation favorable to us.”
Another possibility. Admiral von Koester
declared, was that the British have a higher
regard for the German fleet than Nelson
• ad for the French or the Spanish. That
he offensive spirit of the Germans s
greater than that of the British, the da
dural continued, can justly be assumed when
no recalls that the Germans took the
offensive against England’s east coast,
whereas the English have not dared to
approach the German coast.
“We are full of the firmest confidence in
our fleet,” said Admiral von Koester, “but
we know that a sea battle means death or
victory, and that a destroyed fleet cannot
replaced in the course of the war, even
f it lasts for years. We must, therefore,
under all conditions be cautions in our pro
lure and allow ourselves to be incited to
no deed which might eventuate in our de
“Our fleet must protect us under all con
ditions, and may accept battle only when
it can reckon on victory.”
Admiral von Koester said that the course
of the naval war up to the present had
caused him great surprise. He added that
the British secretary of state for the navy
seven years ago stated that Germany would
wake up some morning and find her fleet
zone. He also recalled the utrernace of
Winston Spencer Churchill, first lord of the
British admiralty, in a speech in London
last September, in which ihe German fleet
was designated as a “luxury,” and in which
he said that if the warships did not come
ut and fight they would be “dug out like
rats in a hole.”
“After these .-livings,” Admiral von Koes
declared, "one expected other things
rom the British fleet than it has accom
h/hed. 1 am almost templed to believe
that the spirit of Nelson no longer lives
in it.”
TWO AMERICAN NURSES
“EFFECTUALLY DEALT WITH”
LONDON, Feb, 29, That two nurses of
.American nationality but German sym
pathies. serving with the Briti-li army in
France, have been detected acting as spies
and “effectually dealt with” it the asser
• ion made by the Nur.-ing Mirror, which
adds:
“There have been persistent rumors of
female spies masquerading as nurses, both
abroad and at home, but we have been
bw to believe them. Unfortunately, evi
dence of a convincing character has been
placed before us. Lord Kitchener, it ap
pears, was afraid that the reports were not
groundless, and earlier in the war, when he
was a; Southampton, he discovered that
there was a leakage of news going on, and
made inquiries, with the result that four
women were found to be the culprits. Two
f these were nurses, and they were re
quested to go inland at once, not because
they wen suspected of willfully giving in
formation to the enemy, but because they
had been lacking in discretion. On the
other side of the channel matters have
been far more serious. Two nurses were
proved to have acted as -pics. They were,
of course, effectually dealt with, and it is
good to ltn >\v that they were not of English
nationality, but Americans with German
sympathies. Still, the incident proves the
urgent importance of no nurses or women ,
being allowed to enter homes or foreign
hospitals whose attendants have not been
subjected to the most careful investigation ;
by a responsible official.
THE KIND OF “PATRIOT”
DESIRING MEXICAN INVASION
1.08 ANGELES, Feb. 20- Henry Chand- ;
Lr, sun-in-law <:f General Otis of the Los i
Angeles Times, anil a millionaire stock- !
man. has been indicted with six others by j
th? federal grand jury on the charge of |
conspiracy to invade Lower California, take ;
it from the Mexicans and open it for the ■
free entry of cattle. The charge on which I
they have been indicted is that of conspir
acy to violate the neutrality of the United j
States. The alleged conspirators are de- i
dared to have intended a regular armed in- i
vasion, and it is said that funds were being I
raised to secure arms and a force of ad- j
venturers for the attack. How far the j
plans had proceeded is not yet known to ;
the general public, but the fact thu' the
grand jury has secured sufficient evidence
to hold them on the charge is taken as ,
proof that the men w'ere in earnest.
BILL/ RICKARD MARRIED
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Clarke received by the
last mail an announcement of the marriage
at Redding, Cal., on January 26, of William
Rickard and Mrs. Frances May Petty, and
that they are at home on East Tehama
street in that city.
Mr. Rickard, who left here last fall for
the Outside, after many years spent in the
Interior, was a resident of the Rampart
Hot Springs dsitrict for several years, and
was one of the first stampeders to this
camp. Billy has a host of friends in this
vicinity who will wish him much happi
ness.
Tom Boyd came in with the mail on
Wednesday in place of his brother Bob,
who went on with the outgoing consign
ment to French Joe's.
Eayles Clothing Co.
ID3TAR0D DISCOVERY, OTTER
- i
HENRY THORSEN LOSES LIFE
IN UP-RIVER COUNTRY
One of the grim tragedies of the North
was enacted on the Johnson river a few
days ago, whereby Henry Thorsen, a young
prospector, returning to his camp, lost his
life, says the Fairbanks News-Miner of
March 2. From all appearances young
Thorsen and his outfit went through th°
ice, en route up the Johnson. He managed
to get out in a wet condition and tried to
start a fire, hut failed. Then he endeavor*1 1
to make a small cabin five miles this side
of his own camp, one occupied by Wesley
and Grimsmore. He managed to go within
a mile of it when he could travel no fur
ther. and froze to death on the trail. Ole
Wesley found him and brought the body out
to the McCarty.
From there a wire was sent yesterday to
his brother, Edward Thorsen, who is in the
city temporarily, and who expected to re
turn to Johnson river yesterday. He saw
the' he left Henrv at th.j steamer Samson
on the morning of February 20. The Sam
son is frozen in on the Tanana, twenty-two
miles above Healey river and eight miles
below the mouth of Johnson river. Henry
was to return to the camp of the brothers
that same day, but evidently delayed until
jificr the cold snap which prevailed about
that time, although it had broken when he
*°rted home. It was thirty-one miles to
his camp.
Henry Thorsen was quite well known
here and well thought of. and last summer
worked for Engineer Railey cn the railway
surveys near here. He came o Fairbanks
three years ago. He was born in Black
River Falls, WR, twenty-two years ago
hot October. The parents of the boys
are living ->n Whidby island, near Evere.t.
Wadi., and the mother is in such critical
health that Edward Thorsen will make an
effort to beat the news home, as he is afraid
the shock would result fatally to her. He
ha*-' arranged to have his brother s body sent
down to Fairbanks and held until it is de
termined whether it will be shipped Outside
for burial or buried in Alaska. In the
meantime, by arrangement with Out.-ide
correspondents, the story is withheld from
publication. Thorsen will leave within
three or four days, and says that after
losing his brother he has not the heart to
continue prospecting in the North.
NOTED NORTHERN GUIDE
LOSES LIFE IN ARCTIC
ItAAVSOX. V. T. Feb. A. Letter- re
eeiveil here today by the Northwest mounted
police by Indian carriers from MacPhemm,
at the mouth of the Mackenzie river, tell
of .he finding if the body on October 1
of Joseph Jacquot, the noted halfbreed
• radcr and guide. His canoe and other
belongings were found near Point Separa
tion.
Apparently he was on his way from .Arc
tic Red river to Fort Maepherson when
drowned. Jacquot had been buying furs
a the Macpherson district several years
in competition with the Hudson Bay Com
,1 acquot was a close friend of Hubert
Derral. the English explorer, who was lo-t
two years ago east of the mouth of the
Mackenzie while exploring the land of the
white Eskimos. Jacquot was on this trip
with Durral. but returned earlier in the
season, while Darral pushed on alone, facing
severe storms.
The only traces ever brought in since
of Darral was news of marks on trees lo
cated by Eskimos.
FOAM AND GIBLETS
Flirtation is just the foam on the giblet
of love—and usually, the more foam, the
less love.—Juneau Empire.
ANOTHER SIDE TO STORY
OF REV. FATHER DUNCAN
Mark Hamilton, in an interview in tin*
Petersburg Progressive, gives the side of
:he Metlak.ihtla Inmans who are opposed to
1 Father Willi am Duncan in the controversy
at that Indian town. He says:
“I am one of the many who came from
British Columbia to Metlakahtlu with Mr
Duncan, twenty-seven years ago. The
church mis -ions had given £.50,000 to estab
l:-h a place for the natives and carry on the
work. This money was never used for
I either houses or food. This is the origin
, of the trouble at the mission.
‘‘The cannery, sawmill and the water
1 works were the result of the natives' labor,
together with £25,000 that was donated by
the United States missions. Subsequently
Mr. Duncan expressed a desire to retire
from (he M<;I.:kah;la mission and told the
natives that if they would give him $500
he would will them the entire property
iThis was agreed upon; the money paid over
and Mr. Duncan left. A year later, or
thereabouts, he was back and in full pos
session of the property, valued at the time
a *25 000.
“It is the claim of the natives that the
I property is thfir own. from the fact that
they contributed their labor and that the
; money \va* riven for their benefit.
"Si me ten years ago the natives de
manned a gov rmii- nr school of Mr. Duncan
IF.* answer was. ‘Not until my head is cut
off will there be a school in Medakahtl t
It is a well-known fact that he is bitterly
I nnjvs.-d to the education of the natives.
: (sntwir! .standing that fact, the natives re
! quested and petitioned the officials for the
: establishment of a government school, which
| has resulted in the present trouble.
“Some think that the governmnt. by the
''stablishment of a school, ha-* spoiled Mr
Duncan’s work, and blame the officials for
i the present chaotf condition at the mi
I don. That is wrong, as, long before the
! government official- appeared on the scene,
the natives had agreed that Mr. Duncan’s
usefulness had ended
“Mr. Duncan wants the natives to believe
that the officials are ‘tools’ and meddler.'.’
t's he calls them, but the natives know
better; they know that the officials are
merely obeying orders, the result of the
natives’ unceasing supplication for relief.
FORMER DAWSON LAWYER
DIES AT WINNIPEG, MAN.
WINNIPEG, llm. Jan. '-’7. Nathaniel
l r: m is Ha-ii l K <\. a well-known criminal
lawyer of Winnipeg, (lied today, aged Oh
Mr. Hagel had been ill since the trial and
conviction of his only son. Percy Hagel. m
connection with the Krafchenke jail do
liverv. He leaves a widow, one son and
two daughters.
WANT EMBARGO ON WHEAT
NEW YORK. I'eb. K> The mayor of
New York recently app- mod a commis
don to inquire into the foodstuffs conditions
of the East. Today that committee, of
which George W. Perkins, the millionaire
Progressive, is chairman, handed m its r*
:rt. and it recommends to President \\ d
son that an immediate embargo upon the
exportation of wheat be declared in Amer
ic a. for the protection of the people of the
United States, who are apt to feel the
y Sects of a shortage if precautionary steps
are not taken. __
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