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PROTECTING THE BIRDS
A treaty between Greet Britain and the
United States has been signed with the ob- i
juet of assuring protection to insectivorous !
birds on either side of the Canadian boun
dary. It is not quite exact to say that this
is the first treaty for the protection of ani
mal life; the fur seals are thus protected,
and they live in the ocean, which belongs
to no man. The only way in which the
treaty can be enforced is by the enactment
of laws arranging closed seasons in accord
with the migratory habits and the breeding
seasons of the birds. This has been done
by the lmted Stales, though the constitu- ;
tioiiality of the law is being tested. Tin1 .
Canadian parliament is under no embarrass- ,
ment in this respect. What it decrees is
constitutional. Let us hope that the treaty
and laws for the protection of bird life will
be better observde than many treaties and
laws for the protection of man life. Phila
delphia Record.
PIPE WOOD
On account of the present scarcity and
high prices of French briar, a number of
pipe manufacturers in this country have
been on the lookout for substitutes, and the
Forest Products Laboratory has conducted
experiments to determine the availability
of other woods. It is reported that the
mountain laurel root burn out more readily
than briar, but forest service experts are
trying to find a method of hardening the
wood, End have succeeded to an appreciable
extent. They have also found that a num
Christmas
CARDS
YESTERDAY WAS,
TOMORROW MAY BE.
TODAY |3
The time to mail Xmas Cards to
your friends and relatives on the
OUTSIDE. It will please them
to hear from you.
We have a complete assortment
of XMAS CARDS, FOLDERS.
TAGS. STICKERS and WAFERS.
her of the various kinds of chaparrel which
are abundant in the West give promise of
yielding material which will be the, equal
of French briar. Other woods now widely
used for pipe making arc apple wood, red
gum, ebony and birch, together with
smaller amounts of olive wood, rosewood
; nd osage orange. Considerable amounts of
the laurel roots are used, large sales having
been made to manufacturers, and officials
expect to make further sales. The lands
purchased by the government in the south
ern Appalachians are reported to contain
unlimited quantities of laurel Bradstreet’s.
TO EXAMINE CANDIDATES
The Chicago Herald still champions the
direct primary as a great reform, although
it is conceded that it has not met the ex
pectations of those who believed that t
would simplify nominations and make it
easier for the deserving to secure recogni
tion. On the contrary, it has enabled men
of means and demagogues with strong or
ganizations behind them to have their own
way. The direct primary has put into the
United States seriate and at the head of
some state governments men who would
never have been selected on merit or fit
ness. If it were possible and practicable
to compel alt candidates for public office
to submit to a preliminary examination as
to their capacity the direct primary law
would work out its own salvation. What
great state in the Union has the nerve to
try this latest experiment and thus to vin
dicate the direct primary law? What say
the Dakotas. Oregon, Washington, Wiscon
sin and Michigan ?—Leslie’s.
TO SHIP ORE BY AEROPLANE
The Wright Aeroplane Company has
been asked by a New York banker for
estimates on ten airships, each capable of
carrying ten tons of freight. He contem
plates using them to carry workmen and
tools to an almost inaccessible mine in the
mountains and to carry valuable ore out.
This type of airship would cost about $00,
' 000 each. If a round trip were made daily
on 300 days a year, an airship could carry
900 tons of ore a year. At only 3 per
cent interest on their cost the transporta
tion charge would he $3.33 per ton of ore.
Much ore has stood a higher freight charge,
with the addition of mining cost and smelt
ing. -Oregonian.
NOVEMBER TEMPERATUREr
The following table of temperatures is
from readings taken daily at 7 a. in. at the
fire station, compared with similar readings
of the same date last year. The minimum
is for the preceding twenty-four hours:
Pate- 7 a. in. ’ Min. 10 1.”
Nov. it. . ::t,
I-J l'S
11. -Jo so —'
!•'.. IS 1 :t 10
1 '• . 1 -J io -
17 . IS it.
i:. J. SMITH, Observer.
"Just look at these old harnesses. I'm ashamed to put them on my dogs again
this year. I’m going right down to PECK'S and get a complete new outfit for
them. He makes a specialty, you know, of
Dog Harness. Collars, Snaps, Rings, and Everything in That Line.”
CANDY
8oclety Chocolats Creams, per lb $ .75
Imperial Chocolate Creams, per lb 1.00
P.ASOIINF FIAT IRONS Acorn 8P®cial Flat Iron, eact 7.50
llAJULIilE. iLn I IlVUnJ American Flat Irons, each 7.50
Tents, Tarpaulins, Nome Dog Harness, Webbing, Gasoline Lamps, Guns, Am
munition, Hardware, Stoves, Heaters, Furniture and Bedding, Rugs.
SMITH’S CUN STORE
IDITAROD, ALASKA PHONE 6 SECOND AND WILLOW
SILK SOX SUPPLANT COTTON
OWING TO RISE IN PRICES
It has remained lor Americans to make
good an apparent anomaly. Marie Antoin
ette made the world laugh when she asked
why the starving people of France did not
eat cake when they had no bread, says the
Chicago Herald.
A year or more ago American hosiery
manufacturers were facing a shortage of
cotton. Then someone asked: “Why not
use silk?” There was not even a snigger,
and since that time the majority of Ameri
cans have been wearing stockings and socks
woven of that material.
This was but one of the many interesting
facts disclosed by an investigation of fhe
hosiery industry now being conducted by
William Killian, a hosiery buyer for one ot !
Chicago's large department, stores. He has 1
not yet found a satisfactory answer to the j
question why there should be a shortage of
cotton, but that silk is rapidly supplanting
that textile is a fact that is becoming more !
apparent every day.
“The modern merchandising world fur j
nishes no more curious example than that ■
to be found in the hosiery market,” Mr. j
Killian said. “Our grandfathers who wore (
sturdy woollen socks knitted by our thrifty
grandmothers would open their eyes in
honest amazement if they could peep at the
ankles of present-day men ami women.
“ihe pedal extremities ot the lowliest
shopgirl and the most humble clerk are clad
nowadays in the finest silk. The iceman,
the butcher and baker who deliver our
supplies at the bark door wear just as fine
socks as the master of the house.
“Just why the situation has developed
not even experts have been able to answer
so far. unless, perchance, it is because
Americans are demanding and are willing
to pay for the best that the market affords.
1 personally know of cases where a clerk
making a salary of ?(i a week pays £1 a
week for a pair of silk socks of the fittest
qu ality."
Hosiery prices in general have advanced
from 10 to 20 per cent during the last year,
and. with the shortage in dyestuffs and the
growing shortage in cotton yarn, will ad
vance still more,
“This advance, however, has not involved j
ereat hardship, continued Mr. Killian, “for ,
the reason that wages have increased pro j
portionately. The dye situation furnishes
another example of the adaptability of the
American public.
“When the European war broke out man
ufacturers were panic stricken. What will
we do for black dye?’ they asked. And
the answer came when the consuming pub
lic said, 'We will wear light-colored hosiery.’
Since that time black socks and stockings
have become positively ‘dowdy' and ihe
smart dresser wears white or gray.
“Of vastly more importance is the fact
| that the closing of the dye markets in
i Europe hr.s stimulated the industry in the
United States to the point where we will
practically be independent of foreign sources
when peace is concluded, if the war lasts
another year or so. While prices are ad
vancing the situation is not serious, and
there seems to be slight danger of a stocking
; famine.”
IDITAROD MAY BE STATION
■ ON THIS PROPOSED RAILROAD
(Kansas City Star!
The old project of a tunnel under the
Strait of Dover, to link England aivi France,
has been revived. Leading men in both
nations see that if such a tunnel existed
| British troops, munitions and military sUp
! plies could be sent through it safely, and
: this would release a fleet of war vessels anil
transports on duty in the channel and let
them work elsewhere. It seems probable
now that as soon as the war is over the
I tunnel will be built. It is estimated that
j such a tunnel would be thirty-five miles
| long and would cost ¥50,000,000.
i When King Edward opened the great
j Forth bridge in Scotland a London artist
drew a picture of a train crossing it. bound
south and bearing this prophetic legend:
“Through Train Aberdeen, London. Dover.
Channel Tunnel, Paris. Berlin, St. Peter
burg, Alaska. Canaria, New York."
A dream? Yes, but they said Goethe,
the German poet, was dreaming when he
prophesied that some day a canal would
cut the I-thuius of Suez, another would
unite the Atlantic and the Pacific at Pari
a, and a third would join the Danube and
the Rhone. All three have been accom
plished.
And who will assert that the time will not
conic fhen through passage may not be
booked from New York city, or from Kan
sas City, by way of Canada and Alaska,
across the narrow Bering strait by bridge,
which has been declared to be wholly prac
ticable. thence by rail to Vladivostok, to
Petrograd by the Siberian railway, to Ber
lin. Paris, and through the channel tunnel
to London? Such a line would connect
! all of Europe with America by a land route.
I And when the North and South American
railway has been built, and the Cape-to
Cairo road Ls finished, traversing Africa its
full length from north to south, the traveler
from Patagonia, having reached Berlin with
out wetting his feet, could go on, dry shod,
by way of the netv Berlin-to Bagdad rail
way, the building of which was interrupted
by the war, across the Bosporus bridge into
Asia, by rail down through Palestine, to!
Suez by the new German military railway,
now almost finished, from there to Cairo,
and across Africa to Capetown,
Thus would the two Americas, Asia,
Europe and Africa be linked together by
a chain of steel, unbroken in its whole
length, and a through train could be sent
almost around the world, traversing every
continent except one—Australia.
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A good-sized crou’d attended the regular
semi-monthly meeting of the igloo of Pio
neers at Flat Wednesday night, and a splen
did social session was enjoyed by the old
timers, A. H. Twitchell, the reindeer herds
man, was made a member on that occasion.
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Miss Floan, the night telephone operator,
was taken seriously ill early in the Week.
She is reported to be improving rapidly and
will soon be at her post again.
Henry Martrlla, the mail carrier, arrived
here bust Saturday about noon with the first
mail of the season over the Seward trail. It
consisted of a small local consignment only.
Captain U. Grant Norton, the tireless Tro
ian of the trails, with a long string of dogs
lashed before the mast of the big sled boat
Nortonia. made his get-away for Tolstoi on
Wednesday last with a load of merchandise.
It is Captain Norton's intention to maintain
a regular service between this city and the
new camp during the entire winter season if
business Conditions will warrant the enter
prise.
Captain Paprica Jensen has accepted the
assistant editorship at Billy Schermeier's
Halfway roadhouse, and is now on the job.
Captain Jeftsen moved his family from this
city to the scene of his new endeavors last
week.
A. J, Weiss, the busy and enterprising
lothier of I-fat, paid a long overdue visit
\> Iditarod fast Wednesday, and returned
home the following day. While in town Mr.
Weiss selected a couple of The Pioneer’s
oeautifu! calendar designs for 1017, which he
% ill distribute among his many customer,
during the next few weeks.
A letter from Earl Hunt, dated Tolstoi.
November 7, tells of the recent strike made
by Dawson and Ostnes at the mouth of
Glen gulch, and says that quite a number
of men are arriving in the camp every day.
Ho also mentions the strike of Beattie and
partners on No. 3 above, Boob. Earl
speaks most hopefu'Iy of the future of the
camp. He expects to visit Iditarod soon.
Willi: m ReitT. one of the earliest stam
peders to Otter creek, and who has lived
n that famous little watercourse constantly
-in.ee fii- : rrival thereon, paid his annual
visit to “the landing’’ this week, and re
ceived a hearty welcome from his numerous
acquaintances.
“Sandy" McDonald, an employe of the
Flat creek dredge during the season just
cl >sed, is enjoying a short rest in the city,
having arrived last Wednesday.
Henry DuRind, the Flat re-taurateur.
returned on Thursday evening fast fre m a
hart visit to the Tolstoi. He \va- aceom
•'anied by Louis Sevier, who has interests
i n Boob creek.
After the summer’s activities on Flat
creek. Charley Jackson took in the sight
of the great city this week. Charley is one
'if the < M reliable wheelhorses of Interior
Alaska Democracy.
More than a foot of snow fell early in the
week, and being soft end wet, made travel
extremely arduous. But it gladdened the
heart of the musher. who has been re.-tive
while the trail- hvae been rlmost bare
Colder weather set in on Tuesday, and soon
the trail- will be in shape for the heavy
travel that is promised between Iditarod
and near-bv camps during the winter.
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FAILS TO SPECIFY
The campaign story always applies to the
“outs" - the story of ?. negro preacher who.
when informed by the board of deacons
that his services were to be dispensed with,
demanded an explanation.
“Ain’t Ah argufied wid de sinner?” he
demanded.
“Yes, brudder, you has been long on
argufication.” replied one of th^ deacons.
“And ain’t Ah sputified concernin' de
Scriptures?”
"Yes, brudder. you am powerful strong
on sputification,” admitted another of the
deacons.
“Den what am de matter wif malt serv
ices?” demanded the pastor.
“Well," responded one of the church
board, scratching his woolly pate, “it am
like dis. You argufy and you sputifv, but
vo’ don't specify wherein."- Sioux City
Tribune.
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THEIR PLACE IN THE SUN
In enacting child labor legislation, Wilson
and congress are endeavoring to give the
children of the United States of America
their piece in the sun, in the great out of
doors, where they rightfully belong.—Sioux
City Tribune.
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NOT ALL MILLIONAIRES
It takes a general street car strike to dis
close that there are still a few people in
New York who didn't clean up in munitions
to the extent of at least one automobile.
Boston Transcript.
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GENERAL CONSTRUCTION
As the term generally is construed, a
“good husband” is one who makes enough
money to keep his wife in luxury and idle
ness.— Topeka Capital. ,
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WHAT TIME IS DOING
Time’s mutations are seeing to it that
Africa shall eventually belong to everybody
except the natives.—Washington Post.
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For steam baths, go to the Snyder House,
Flat.
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Fresh Olympia and Eastern Oysters.
81.50 per can. Iditarod Meat Co.
FINE WATCH REPAIRING
NUGGET JEWELRY TO ORDER
J. L. SALE, Flat City
A.J. WEISS,
The
Clothier
THE HOME OF HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX
Mrs. Anna Young, Mitarod’s enterprising
!ry goods dealer, spent a coupk? of days
n the creeks this week in tin* interest of
her store, ami reports a successful trip.
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TYPEWRITER FOR CHINESE ,
HAS 4,000 CHARACTERS
A Chinese typewriter of unique design, I
utilizing no less than 4,000 written char
acters, has just been invented by Hou Kun
( how, a graduate of the Massachusetts In-I
litute of Technology, '(fie of the first Chi
ne-e students to be educated in this coun- ;
try. and now a mechanical engineer in
Shanghai.
The ordinary Chinese printing office use
bout t>,000 character-, while a complete ;
Chinese dictionary may contain as many
.< 50,000. For all practical purpose.-, how
,-ver, the 6.000 characters commonly used
■ n a Chinese printing office are sufficient.
Mr. Hou’s invention has been exhibited
by him at the American consulate general
t Shanghai. It is simple in design, port
able, and should be comparatively inex j
pensive.
The 4,000 character- are di-tributed over j
an ordinary metal matrix drawn about a
winder which is approximately six inches
in diameter, and his the appearance of
being about sixteen to eighteen inches in
; ngth. 'I he characters represented on the
•winder are printed on a flat table sur
face attached to the front of the machine,
and by means of a rod attachment to the
cylinder it is pos-bile to I cate any ch: r
acter by placing the pointer at the end
of the rod above the character on the flat
-urface. When this is done the character
n the cylinder is in exact position for se
, curing an impression by the dropping of
a hammer on the plunger. In this way
several carbon eopies may 1*0 secured.
Mr. Hou first thought of the practi
ability of a Chinese typewriter while in
pecting American typewriters at Boston
as a student at the In-titute of Technol
)gy. He has met with great obstacles
because of a lack of technical assistance at
-hanghai.
Inasmuch is It would be utterly impossi
ble to construct a typewriter having keys
orre-por.ding to the multitudinous Chinese
■haracters, Mr. Hou resorted to the device
f having the revolving cylinder attach
ment. The first model of the machine,
now exhibited, weighs about forty pounds.
By improvements which are under way the
■ eight will probably be reduced to thirty
•sounds. - Ex.
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EVERY ALASKAN WILL WRITE
In memory of the late Archdeacon Wil
berfcrce. a staunch and fearless friend of
animals, Miss Edith Latham, one of the
founders of the department of ethical and
humane education in connection with the
Oakland Society for the Prevention of fru
ity to Animals, will pay tribute to dogs
for heroic and memorable acts in a publi
cation to be entitled, “Hero Dogs in Peace
and War." She asks owners of dogs which
have performed brave and interesting deeds
to send pictures and stories to her in care
of the Fifth Avenue Bank. New York. -
Chicago Herald.
Ladies' Furnishing Store
MRS. L. C. THORNTON, Prop.
T T O Sewing and
v_^ 1 V Repairing
Cleaning and Pressing
Watches and Diamonds
At
STRICTLY OUTSIDE PRICES
J. L. SALE
LANDLORDISM IN ENGLAND
TO RECEIVE HEAVY BLOW
(The Outlook)
A dispatch from London announce- that
the Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George has pro
posed a scheme for the acquisition of land
by state compulsory purchase for cutting
Up into small farms. This is the mo.-t
radical proposal yet made for the freeing
of England from landlordism.
The solution of the land problem in any
country underlies all other economic proi>
Ictus. Tlie land is our mother. We an
primarily dependent upon it.
Nowhere is the need to make the utmost
possible use of the land more imperative
than in England. This is not mote evident
in consideration of the grain crops than it
is in consideration of forest crops. The
land commission appointed by the present
government recently reported that there
were no less than eight and a half million
acres in England, now practically w. ste
lands, which could be forested. Commenting
on lhis, Mr. Lloyd George said:
“This is a very important mutter for th>
state. Takp Germany. Every acre of land
of that sort in Germany is covered with
the most magnificent forests, providing em
ployment for a population--population, not
workmen! permanent employment for :»
population of over a million, and occa
sional employment for a good many more
The German states are deriving every year
ftoni these forests a net profit of over seven
mil-ions sterling ($35.000.000 from land
which we treat as perfect waste."
*.\ another place Mr. Lloyd George said .
"The land system of Great Britain is a
ghastly thing. The percentage of oulti
vated land is lower than in any other coun
try of Europe. This state of affair- i- due
to the fatuous and unbusinesslike methods
of the landlord.”
Many game preserves occupy areas which
ought to be devoted to the production of
food or timber. This is the first evil of
landlordism in England and Scotland.
But there is a second evil rents. The
large farms are, in the main, fairly rented
This is not true, however, with regard to
the small farms, and it is to the creation
of small holdings that Mr. Lloyd George’s
latest reform is. directed.
It is true that the agricultural holding
act of 1916 improved the position of tin
tenant farmer, particularly because it pro
vided that a dispossessed farmer should be
adequately recompensed for the permanent
improvements which hp had made in the
farm he had rented. But the act did not
go fur enough. The reform now needed is
to get away from renting to owning. As
Mr. Lloyd George says, with regard to
changes of view among landlords:
“The mere fact that the landlord wants
to change his investments is no reason for
turning a man out of the farm which he
has cultivated. If a notice to quit is served
it should be for the seller io couipeiisat.
the farmer, not merely for his improve
ments, but to give him substantial com
pensation for turning him out.'’
Hence Mr. l.Ioyd George, who has already
proposed to revalue the great holdings and
to tax unused lands, such as game pro
serves and parks, at the same valuation as
tilled lands, now proposes to acquire lands
by state compulsory purchase for cutting
up into small farms.
If such a reform has the success in Eng
land, Scotland and Wales which it has al
ready had in Ireland, it will transform the
wretchedly paid landless toilers of a mod
urn land monopoly into men who will feel
inclined to stay at home instead of emigrat
ing to Canada and Australia.
It will also convert England from her
present position of dependence on foreign
countries for her food supply into one of
far greater independence.
For steam baths, go to the Snyder House.
Flat.
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Fresh Olympia and Eastern Oysters, S1.50
per can. Iditarod Meat Co.
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