A HAPPY NE W YEAR
AND A PROSPEROUS ONE TO ALL, AND ESPECIALLY
TO THE RESIDENTS OF THE IDITAROD DISTRICT
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A
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TO ALL.
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1916
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SPECIAL SALE
Hand-embroidered Infants' Wear, Luncheon
Sets, Sofa Pillows, etc.
This Week Only
MRS. L. C. THORNTON
TO ADVANCE CREMATION
The Cremation Society of America, at its
recent convention in Buffalo, adopted reso
lutions calling on the Congregation of the
Inquisition of the Roman Catholic church
to abrogate the decrees of May and De
rember, 1886, prohibiting the cremation of
Roman Catholics, and also calling upon
President Wilson to appoint Dr. Hugh Erich-,
sen. president of the cremation association,
to a place on the inactive list of the United
Stales medical reserve corps, so that Dr.
Erichsen may submit to the surgeon gen
eral of the army a report upon cremation
on the battlefields.
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WHAT HE WANTED
Arthur Id. Engelbach, in his collection of
anecdotes of the bench, tells this story about
Lord Braxfield, who was among the last of
the Scotch judges that rigidly adhered to the
broad Scotch dialect:
“Hae ye ony counsel, mnn?” he said to
Maurice Margot when placed at the bar.
“No,” was the reply.
“Do ye want to hae ony appointit?” con
tinued the judge.
"No,” said Margot. “I only want an in
terpreter to make me unlerstand what your
lordship says.”
THE WEATHER
The weather during the past week has
been of variegated nature, ranging from
a few degrees below zero to well above freez
ing point, and during the early days of the
week one of the worst storms in years pre
vailed. It was a southerly zephyr, however,
and outside of tilling up trails and playing
havoc with eaves, rooting and signs, no seri
ous damage resulted. On the 27th and 28th
rain in considerable quantities fell. The
! temperatures for the week, recorded at 1
I a. m. daily at the N. C. corner, were as
1 follows:
Above Below
Zero. Zero.
Dec. 25 . 26
26. 2(1
27 . 9
28 . 36
29 . 33
30 . 0
31 . 8
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HE SAW A FRONTIER TOWN
I _
Harry E. Nolan of Forks, Wash., veteran
I of two months’ service last fall in the French
j army, has added a little far Northern ven
j ture to his experiences. Mr. Nolan returned
| to Seattle yesterday after having spent sev
! eral months in business in the new town
of Matanuska, Alaska. He says there was
pretty near as much excitement in Mata
j nuska as there was in the war trenches of
j France. Of Matanuska he said yesterday:
“I am glad that I lived in Matanuska,
! as I saw a town that I did not believe could
! exist in these days. We had a real fron
! tier town—open gambling, blind pigs with
[ their eyes wide open and looking for cus
tomers, and I even had the pleasure of
' attending an old-fashioned miners’ meeting.
| which gave notice to an undesirable indi
vidual to get out of town within a few
minutes. One other person who was lo
cated in the business district was declared
a menace to the prosperity and business
life of the city. A miners’ meeting was
held on this case and the offender was
1 ordered to move to the outskirts. The or
der was not complied with, and the miners
picked up the house, occupant and alb and
moved the whole concern bodily.”—Seattle
Post-Intelligencer.
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Pioneer Woman Is Called
As the result of an attack of pleuro-pneu
monia, Mrs. C. 10. Ross, a pioneer resident
of Fairbanks, passed away at St. Joseph’s
hospital on November 11. Mrs. Ross was
one of the real pioneer women of the North,
having reached Dawson during the early
days of the Klondike stampede. She re
sided in Dawson until 1914, when she went
to Fairbanks. In 1907 she was married
to E. C. Ross, the well-known machinist
in the employ of the Northern Commercial
Company. Deceased was bom in Ireland
40 years ago, and came to America when
quite young. She is survived by her hus
band, one sister, Mrs. W. F\ Kramer, and
a niece, Mrs. William Goodrich.
A Happy and Prosperous
New Year
IS THE WISH OF
RAMPS the PIONEER SALOON
I wish ali a
Prosperous and a
HAPPY NEW YEAR
C. R. PECK, Hat
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O LOCAL AND PERSONAL «
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The Regina hotel will be closed tomorrow
and will not reopen until March.
Angus McKinzie and Joe Laurenger spent
part of Christmas day in the city.
Eddie Anderson and Teddy Cassidy left for
Ophir last Wednesday with a load of perish
aides.
Garrison Coster, manager of the Yukon
Gold Company, was in Iditarod for a few
hours Wednesday.
C. T. Surridgc, agent for the White Pass
company at Dikeman, who has been spend
ing the holidays in the city, visited Flat on
Wednesday last.
Bob Roberson took a heavy load of sup
plies to the Horsefly this week, and intends
to continue the prospecting which he has
been conducting there for some time past.
.1. G. Rivers, bookkeeper for Riley <fc
[ Marston, the Otter creek operators, was a
business visitor in the city yesterday, and
took advantage of the opportunity to attend
the Pioneers blow-out last night.
Jerry Baker, the old-time prospector and
trapper, blew in with the gentle June zephyr
that prevailed last Monday, and has been
1 renewing acquaintances in the city during
j the past week.
Ben Andersen of the Sullivan Creek road
house, on the Seward trail, was a visitor in
| the city this week. Ben is one of the many
roadhouse men cn that trail who thoroughly
appreciate the weekly visits of The Pioneer
Joe McDowell was a visitor in this city
early in the week. He is making arrange
ments to form one of the party which will
leave soon for the Ku.skokwim to seek rest
and recuperation at the noted hot springs
of that district.
Jim Fullerton, ex-postmaster of Dikeman,
was a visitor in the city on Wednesday and
Thursday. While here he completed the
severance of his official relations with Uncle
Sam by turning over the Dikeman postoffice
supplies to the local office. Mr. Fullerton
reports Dikeman very quiet this winter.
C. R. Cameron, of the firm of Finnegan &
j Cameron, the Flat City tobacconists and
I confectioners, made a trip of inspection tc
Ibis holdings on Horsefly creek this week
He reports no new developments, but sig
nificantly remarked that he might have
i something to report “in about a month.”
NOTICE
A general meeting of the Iditarod Com
mercial Club wi 1 be held in the Miners
Merchant? Bank at 8 p. m. on Monday next
January 3. for the purpose of electing ntfi
cers for the ensuing year and transacting
such other business as may properly come
before the meeting.
P. G. CHARLES, Secretary.
SOMEBODY’S YOUNC HOPEFUL
MUST HAVE BEEN LICKED
(Humorous Jane, in Juneau Sunday Post)
We wish to announce to the parents
whose children—boy children, we mean
i who are over nine years of age, that our
interesting “hopeful” is, although scarred
[ and disfigured, still able to be seen on
\ the school ground, and if the parents of
' the other boys really wish it Humorous
i Jane will let her boy fight. We like to
[stay out of a scrap as long as we can, but
; when we give the signal our kid will go
the limit, and he’ll fight as he is told. We’ll
j tell him to fill his pockets full of rocks, so
' that after his knuckles are all broken he
[ can fellow the other kids home and fire
j the rocks through the front windows of
i the kids’ houses. He’d follow up the system
j that was started on the school grounds
i recently and clean up just like Sherman
; cleaned Georgia. If the school authorities
I cannot stop the system of the big boys
licking the little ones Humorous Jane can.
j You can stop any fightin’ game that comes
; up by prosecuting the same to the limit.
It’s just like a law—if you want it re
pealed see that it’s enforced to the letter;
[ then the people won’t have it. If the
[school authorities want this fightin’ to go
on we’ll see that the children fight.
A _
A CAT OR A FATHER
In his “Life of Thomas B. Reed,” Samuel
,W. McCall tells this story about the former
speaker, who was an unusually large man:
■f When his daughter Katherine, or “Kitty,''
is he called her, was a little girl, she had a
cat to which she was much devoted. One
day the kitten was sleeping in Reed’s chair
when he was about to sit down. His daugh
ter, in horror, gave the chair a sudden pull
to save the cat from annihilation, and as a
result Mr. Reed sat down heavily on the
floor. It was a rather serious happening for
a man of his size, and even a lesser man
might easily have lost his temper. But the
only notice he took of the matter was to
say gravely, after he had got on his feet,
“Kitty, remember that it is easier to get
another cat than another father.”
’ $100 CASHREWARD
to anyone giving information leading to the
detection of the person or persons stealing
my wood. No questions will be asked.
FRANK STANLEY, Flat
GLOOMY VIEWS ENTERTAINED
BY GERMAN NEWSPAPERS
BERLIN, Oct. 29. Three questions of
the very gravest importance are occupying
the minds of the German people money,
soldiers and the economic situation.
The strongly patriotic Vossiche Zeitung
states that while the three war loans issued
respectively on August 14, 1914; December
2. 1914, and March 20, 1915, asked for
20,000,000,000 marks, only 13,000,000,000
were raised. Other papers frankly admit
that at present the country’s financial posi
tion is desperate.
A new effort is to be made to raise new
armies to make up for the dreadful losses
suffered in Poland and Russia. The three
, classes of 1917. 1918 and 1919 are to be
called to the c( lors at once.
At the recent convention of Prussian
bishops at Fulda, under the presidency of
Archbishop Hartmann of Cologne, the? ques
tion of how to get new candidates for eccle
siastic offices was seriously discussed, as al!
seminaries have been closed because the
students are at the front. Forty thousand
; Prussian teachers also are in the trenches,
and of these no less than 0,000 have been
killed or wounded.
As tor the economic situation, it would
be absurd to say that the Germans are
starving, as it is really still possible to get
practically every article of food here. Neigh
boring neutral countries have been sup
plying Germany with all the foodstuffs
needed, but the prices have gone up at en
alarming rate and it is becoming evident
that the moment is drawing nearer when
the neutrals have nothing more to sel'.
The Leipziger Neueste Naobriebten writes
of the economic situation. “Unfortunately
there is no prospect whatever that ;he
prices of bread and other articles of food
will go down even temporarily, though the
German harvest has been goo;!. We dread
the misery the coming winter will bring.
“Until recently our country population
has been able to walk barefooted and the
need of clothing has not been fell, but
what is to become of us during vhe ap
proaching winter in spite of all the heroic
sacrifices we have made? During the last
year the prices of ail the necessaries of life
have been doubled and the people who need
food and clothing most are almost penni
less. How is this going to end?”
The Berliner Tageblatt writes: “As a re
1 suit of the lack of food during the early
part of the war thousands of head of cattle
were slaughtered throughout the counry,
more than 1.000.000 pigs also were killed,
■ and breeding was practically stepped. We
are now about to feel the effect of this
: —famine and misery are approaching.”
j Part of the German press also takes a
J very gloomy view of the military situation,
■ particularly with regard to Russia. Thus
the Meunchner Neueste Nachrichten
j writes:
“The object of the German army should
be to destroy the Russian armies rather
1 than capture fortresses. The Russian ar
i ies continue to carry out a retreat that
I was planned by a master mind and splen
I didly carried out. Only in the open held
1 may we hope to win a victory that will seal
\ the fate of the Russian armies.
“The capture of fortresses is all very
well, but if we do nothing but that the
Russian army leaders have every reason to
' feel exultant. The great question is, When
I shall we succeed in annihilating the Rus
j sian army? To be or not to be is the ques
j tion which today faces the German as well
I as the Russian army.”
UP TO THEM
_ _
Little James, aged 6, had been taught to
j r ray each night for all his relatives and
: friends, and consequently the list had grown
I quite large. So one night when it came
i time for the customary prayers he refused
to say them.
“Well, well, James!” said his mother.
“Why won’t you say them? All good little
boys say their prayers.”
“Yes, but I’m too tired.”
“Oh, my, that’s no excuse. Come, now,
' that’s a good boy.”
“Well, relented James, “I guess I'il have
I to. But, anyhow, I’m not going to pray for
J everybody. I’m going to cut a lot of them
out. Some of 'e mwill have to save them
! selves.”—Harper’s Magazine.
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THE SILVER LINING
| War does not make all men bloodthirsty,
j On the banks of the Yser, in Belgium,
j where there has been such fierce fighting,
j the ambulance men one day found a young
German badly wounded; and in the midst
of the bursting shells they stopped to scrib
ble a line describing what they had seen
and heard, and pinned it on the blanket
that enveloped him.
When he reached the improvised hospital
the nurses read the blood-stained sheet of
packing paper, and one or two brushed away
j tears as they did so. It bore these words:
“He saved the lives of seven British sol
diers.” It is good to know that, tenderly
cared for by an English doctor, he eventu
ally recovered.—Youth’s Companion.
Happy
New Year
A. J. WEISS
GET READY FOR IMMIGRANT
How shall we take care of the great immi
i gration tide to this country which will fol
! low hard upon the heels of peace in Europe?
asks Leslie’s Weekly, which continues: That
I it will come in mighty force there can be
no doubt. Immigration following the Franco
i Prussian war was record-breaking, while the
: Russo-Japanese war tremendously stimu
lated immigration from Russia. At the close
1 of the present w'ar, with the industries of
eight great nations prostrate, with all Europe
undercapitalized, with her finances so crip
! pled as to be unable to give adequate em
! ployment to labor, there will be such a rush
1 to this country as has never before been
1 witnessed.
| For the first time in the history of this
country an opportunity wi.l be presented to
these immigrants to get on a steamship at
home and sail direct to the Pacific coast of
| the United States via the Panama canal.
! What this will mean to the Pacific coast >s
| beyond conjecture. The Eastern cities and
| states already have received all the immi
I grants they can well care for. Land is high
I and makes no special appeal to the immi
■ grant; but land is cheap in the South and
i on the Pacific coa^t. Ships could stop at
; rll the Southern ports as far as New Or
' leans and Oalveston, wherever settlers are
needed, and then go on to the great Pacific
coast. The vast majority of immigrants
j from Europe are agricultural. If they could
be shown how cheap /American farms may
i be bought, and how low the taxes are com
I pared to what they have been accustomed
| to, and what great returns would come from
! intensive cultivation, a vast army could be
! diverted to the land.
| Nor will there be the same return to
i Europe as in the past; and the yearly sav
ings, amounting to $275,000,00(1 or $300,
! 000,000, usually sent back to the mother
countries, will be left here for investment.
It will take efficient advertising to convince
| the immigrant of these opportunities, but
Canada has gotten a fine class of agricul
| tural settlers in this way, and there is no
| reason why the United States, with even
j greater opportunities, might not be able to
j do so. Dr. Frederick C. Howe, commis
I sinner of immigration predicts that immigra
j tion of all kinds will rise to an unprece
| dented height when the war is over, and
| (hat a host of widows, crippled soldiers and
| rovers from the armies of Europe will be
i part of our heritage from the war. Those
| likely to become public charges will have
j to be carefully scrutinized, but there will re
I main a vast number of desirable immigrants
—
who will contribute greatly lo our produc
tive capacity, thus tending to decrease the.
cost of living, the rise of which will be one
effect of the war not only in the countries
actually engaged in the conflict, but
throughout the world.
THE JOLLY SAILORMAN
Just before the Farragut passed by the
last time a schooner with a cargo that in
cluded a barrel of whisky was sailing into
Kodiak with two men for crew. The man
who was steering during the daytime threw
over the anchor but kept the sails hoisted,
and the other man came to steer for the
night. The wind was fresh, and the waves
beat around the stationary vessel so that
the steerer in the dark tho ught he was
making good headway unf-il day broke,-and
he found he was still the same distance
from shore. Then up came the day pilot
with a large quantity of the whisky stored
away inside his belt, and with alternate
shifts to port and starboard.—Seward Gate
way.
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THE WARM BATH
Smythe’s mistake, which is described in
an English contemporary, says the Youth >
Companion, must have been disconcerting,
lo tc.y t he least.
“You’ll find your bath in the out’ouse.”
Thus he had been directed the night be
fore at the Iittlp inn where hp was stopping,
and that is why he was now, in his dressing
gown, pushing open the outhouse door. It
was dark, but there was the tub. and if
would do. He hopped in. In the middle of
his ablutions the red-faced landlord thru-t
his head in at the door. In the dim light
he failed to see the man in the tub.
“Water quite nicely warm, thanks,” ob
served Smyfhe, “but it’s a trifle muddy."
“Muddy be hanged!” roared the landlord,
bursting in suddenly. “Your tub’s in the
next place. Git out of it, you blitherin’
idiot! Not a word of this in the 'ouse.
mind! not a word of this in the ouse
That’s my ’ome-brewed ale you’re a-washin'
in!”
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EVERYTHING HAS ITS USE
It has been found that barnacles so en
crust the firing mechanism of floating mines
that after a while the infernal machines
will not explode, and become as harmless
as so many buoys.
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Fresh Olympia and Eastern Oysters, SI.50
per can. Iditarod Meat Co.
M Happy and Prosperous
New Year
to Ml!
H. H. POR TER
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We Wish You a Happy and Prosperous New Year
GEORGE MARSH BUD WEISER 1DITAROD FLAT CITY THE BRANCH A. D. CURRIE