IDITAROD PIONEER
Published Every Saturday Evening at Iihtarod, Alaska.
FRANK E. BECKER. EDITOR
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FLOWERS THAT BLOOM IN SUMMER
We are all in a receptive mood. That is to say,—we
are waiting for the big tiling to come off this summer.
With the tide that will set in shortly will come hope
ful and trustful ones, eager-eyed for fortune. At the same
time we will greet them with eager eyes and look for a
likely spot to put the lever so we can pry loose a few of
their unnecessary impediments. This is the prescribed for
mula, “Do as you would not be done by and do it first.”
But aside from this pessimistic view, we might turn a
benevolent eye upon the picture of adolescent chechakoism
butting up against oui hardened frontier. With what
dreams of fortune they come to this nigger-headed empire.
With what fancy phantoms have they beguiled the sunlit
hours as they steamed their way to this magic land through
the sombre hills that brood along our western portals.
They come with faith and they will remain with faith,
but there will be many changes in their mental focus ere
the leaves once more turn to gold.
All of which is meant to convey that Alaska is different
from any other country on earth. We breed a new strain
here and we lead a different life from those who wobble in
the narrow confines of Outside existence. The country
moulds us in the first instance and we mould all the rest of
them, wherefor an Alaskan is just as noticeable to the other
world as a newly-branded maverick. The old timers will
be back and the lambs will mingle with ns,—soon they will
mingle their individualities into our cosmos and the North
will have their goat.
THAT GUGGENHEIM GARGLE
Our much respected contemporary—which is the Idit
arod Nugget—published very Roycroftie on the west side
pf our very good city, had a lot to say this week about the
“Guggenheim Bogie.” Since we are the only other paper
published in the district and since the Nugget gets all of
its news that is of vital interest to the country from our
columns, we take it that the Nugget was “alludin’ at” us.
That word “crapulent” had us going until we ran it
down in the columns of an ancient work and if he was re
ferring to us, we wish to point out that the editor of the
Nugget has missed again. Out of forty issues of this per
fectly good family regulator, the week we published that
Flat creek story was the only one we have been on the
wagon, but true to its policy the Nugget got it wrong.
Along side of the personalities stirred up by the publi
cation of the story, the reported purchase of Flat creek
pales into insignificance. However much stalling the
Nugget does for the sake of its circulation the fact remains j
that Flat creek is being boiight and that our story will bei
proven correct within the next twelvemonths.
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LET’S TALK IT OVER
Jim VV ickersham will be here along about July and we j
have been thinking about giving him the glad hand. Jim
has been down there in Washington, chewing the fat with
those representatives of the uncommon money-getters until
his jaws ached, and there is no question but what he would
welcome a little diversion. We gave him our votes last fall
because we thought he was the best man for the place, and
he certainly has been going to it since then.
When he comes here we might spend a little of the
rakeoff of that $50,000 that he got for us, and cook him up
a potlatch that will give a chance to work up a lot of talk.
We can shake him by the hand and tell him we are glad he
put up the good fight for Alaska and was right at the bat
every time his name was called. We can' give him a little
good cheer in the place of criticism and tell him to go to it
some more.
We are not unmindful of the fact that Jim is up against
a hard proposition when he tries to stick Alaska’s oar into
the muddle out there. He has been working the full 3hift
Union Launch Office j
In Connection with Dick’s Cigar Store
K. L. Carlisle Willow Street s
WHEN IN FLAT WHEN IN IDITAROD
EAT AT THE
Merchants Cafe
The Only Restaurant that
Did Not Raise Prices Dur
ing the Winter Months.
Open-Cut Headlights
TO DO YOUR MINING
Three thousand and five thousand candle power, throwing a shaft of light
1500 feet.
Call at the Iditarod headquarters for information concerning the J. B
COLT’S ACETYLENE LIGHT MACHINE.
Pioneer Sheet Metal Works
SPECIAL SALE—THIS WEEK ONLY
Ladies’ Silk Kimonas
I. GOLDSTEIN “;e*,
City Drug Store
'/. J. LOUSSAC. Prop.
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SPECIAL THIS WEEK ONL Y
Genuine Waterman's Self-Filling Fountain Pens, $3.50 Each
All STATIONERY and CUTLERY at Special Reduced Prices
Telephone 36 First Ave., Iditarod
C. J. Hurley, President J. P. Gleason, Vice President A. Bruiting, Cashier
American Bank of Alaska
Corner First Ave, and Richmond St., Iditarod
CAPITAL $50,000,00, FULLY PAID IN CASH
General Banking Business Transacted Upon Liberal, But Conservative Lines
GOLD DUST PURCHASED UPON ASSAY VALUE
And we guarantee our assays against any of the government assay odiees.
Clippings from your 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.
SICKINGER if you
have Butter, Ham,
Bacon, Beans, Cream or Canned
Goods to spare
WE WILL BUY OR TRADE FOR SAME
—..Ring Up
MAM SICKER
Willow Street, Iditarod Phone 46
You Don’t Have to Frog
WE SELL
Cigars, Pipes, Tobaccos,
Candies, Etc.
CAP’S PLACE
Imperial
however, and we might just add a little good will onto his
time check.
First, we might put him up on a bigstumpand let him
tell us what has been going on ; then we can take him to
a handy eat emporium and give him a feed with a drink on
the side. These things will doubtless please him for he
gets the hammer pretty regular.
Just as soon as we can get the news regarding the date
of his coming, we will set the date of the Wickersham ban
quet and everybody who hasn’t got a grouch and who
thinks Jim is on the square can declare himself in. We be
lieve in him and we are going to get him a feed if we have
to buy it ourselves. _
ABOUT THAT FRONT STREET
There is perhaps no question in the minds of anybody
but that First street and Willow are the principal streets
of this city. Further than that, its a lead pipe cinch that
those streets are most disreputable-looking thoroughfares.
A few people were fortunate enough to locate then
places of business on the aforesaid principal streets, so it is
principally up to them to make them look the part.
Both of these avenues now look like the breaking up
of a bad winter. They are absolutely disgraceful, and it
would be a monumental shame to force them on the city’s
guests this summer.
The new-comers this spring will judge our town just
the same as they will judge us individually if we carry egg
on our vests. The streets need a shampoo and a bath, and
if the people don’t get busy and clean up their front yards,
we will advocate a vagrancy ordinance aimed at those who
are paupers in municipal spirit.
Everybody better look out when Mrs. Garcken moves
her building off the alley on Richmond street because its an
awful good site for a blacksmith shop.
Iditarod’s birthday will be here on the first of June.
It’s the first anniversary, and if it isn't raining we might
dig into the old horse-hair sofa and go some.
Henry Roden and E. G. Lindberg did a little swearing
before the council the other night. They insisted that they
would uphold the constitution of the United States but
what that has to do with governing this perfectly good
moss-covered city has not yet been explained.
The garbage ordinance was read the third time and
passed. I hat means that the council slipped it over and
the garbage man will get you if you don’t watch out. The
ordinance in question has a lot of things in it about the
personal appearance of your back yard. Look it up and
get jerry to all its provisions because your back yard may
be among your liabilities.
Fire Hail on Way
to a New Location
J. Ryan was awarded the contract for moving the fire hall, hav
ing offered to do it for $99. The council took his bid under advise
ment for a few minutes Wednesday night and then handed him the
contract.
The occasion was an opening for a number of bids, but there
was confusion in regard to the foundations of the building after
being moved and the actual operation of transporting it from First
street, where it has stood during the winter, to the waterfront
corner of the N- C. company's lot, where temporary space has
been secured.
Among the bidders were Harry Beach, who offered to put in
the foundation and move the building for $110. J. H. Sully offered
to put in a solid foundation by sinking piles for $75 and move the
building for $150. His bid overstepped the mark because a solid
foundation was not desired.
Walkinsbaw, who was given the contract for putting in the
crossings, was also commissioned with the job of putting down
the foundations for the firehall, which he agreed to do for $30.
Ryan was informed that haste was a part of the contract and the
hall was to be removed today or tomorrow.
In its new location, fronting on the river side of First street,
it will be used until the permanent tire apparatus is arranged by
the council, and thereafter the building will doubtless be sold and
moved to another location.
Tramway Will Improve
Appearance of Willow
The tramway now being built by the Mutchler Bros, will help
Willow street, according to the terms of the amended ordinance
passed at the last meeting ot the council.. This amendment was
tacked on to the franchise ordinance passed some time ago. which
first gave lhe Mutchler Bros, the privilege of entering the city.
It is now thought proper to give the tramway and ordinary
traffic equal opportunity on Willow street, and to effect this end
the track will be laid along the west or upstream side of the road
way. This will be done from the waterfront to Third avenue.
The amended franchise also requires the tramway builders to
put in a brush or slab road between iheir track and the upstream
sidewalk, thus assuring a street with a semi-multiplex appearance.
KNOB HILL IS THE
PLACE OE LUXE
\Yi li the addition of a trolley
line and a taxi-cali service Knob
Hill on the eastern side of town, !
\ ill be about our niftiest residence!
pillion. From that eleva’ed pa
vilion they can see the rest o the
town,—which is a geodetic v ctory,
—and enjoy the antics of the pro
letatiat.
Among the new arrivals there
are Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Shea who
moved into their new residence last
week. They have a very pretty
home which they now call city and
country residence.
Among other residenters of Knob
Hill who have welcomed the melt
ing of the huge snow barrier,
Manuel Gularte, Curley McIntosh
and Eddie Troughton have all been
sharpening up the lawn mower and
will be clipping the yew trees on
the arrival of those soft June days
POT THE HOBBLES
ON ’EM WEDNESDAY
The council passed a tanglefoot bill
last meeting which will unquestionably
meet with the approval of all people
who get the chickens to bed first. This
ordinance defines the state of intoxi- j
cation and places upon the chief of po
lice the burden of carrying all packages
to the hay or cooler, whichever may be
handiest.
It further goes on to say, that if the
subject promulgates his attainments in
a large and boisterous manner he shall
straightway be pinched and fined not
more than $100 and pigeon-holed in the
city jail not more than 90 days, which
is a whole summer in the Iditarod.
The reading of the ordinance brought
out a laugh when Clerk Hunt got to
that portion which declared that “in
the opinion of the council an emergency
exists, and this ordinance shall be ef
fective fioru and after its passage.”
Just what tlie emergency was, nobody
explained at the time.
Council Approves the Bonds
The bonds of the city clerk aud
the city magistrate were approved
Wednesday night, as was also the
bond for the chief of police. Isadore
Bavles, Herman Anderson and
Martin Sickinger were sureties for
Eirl Hunt for §2000, w'hile J. E
Beattie and J. F. Baird were sure
that Pat O’Connor was worth a $3,
000 risk.
The bond of Treasurer Eindberg
was approved provisionally, as he
desired the names of Charles Ross
ami T. J. Nestor and had only se
cured the siunaltvre of Mr. Ross.
The tiond will stand until Mr. Nes
lor at lives from the Out i.ie.
The mission at Bethel was established
by the Moravians. Revs. Hartmann and
Weinland in 1884.
DR. B. F. BROOKS,
Office: Discovery Otter.
Dr. Heinrich Wortmann,
Office at City Drug Store, Tel. 36
First Ave., Bet. Willow and Richmond
DR. E. T. BRADBURY,
Dentist
Over Merchants Cafe, First Avenue
Telephone 30-B
CM AS. D. CARTER,
Dentist
Offices, Pioneer Drug Stores,
Flat Creek
McGowan, Clark & Albrecht
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Iditarod, Alaska Phone No. 7
The Pioneer Attorneys of This Camp
ALFRED E. MALT BY,
ft'. S. Commissioner]
Attorney at Law
Notary Public
Practice only in District Court. IDiTAROI)
J. 5. HARDING,
Attorney at Law
Room 1, Jditarod Hotel
Iditarod, Alaska
CM AS. E. TAYLOR,
Attorney at Law,
Notary Public, Conveyancing",
Abstracts of Titles
_ flat City.
A. J. DALY,
Attorney at Law
WILL ARRIVE ON THE FIRST BOAT
919-923 Leary Building, Seattle, Wash.
All Conimissions Given Personal Attention.
Wickersham &. Roden,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Iditarod, Alaskrt