IDITAROD PIONEER
Published Kveky Saturday Fvening at Iditarod, Alaska.
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GOVMRNOR STRONG
Never before, perhaps, has the governor of a territory
been accorded a reception equal to that which greeted
Ihe lion. ,1. i'. A. Strong upon Ids arrival at Juneau last
Tuesday. S- veil men have preceded him in the guberna
iorial i (iice. Some have been Alaskans of experience; most
have been men of ability: but not one of his predecessors
Isas come so well qualified as Governor Strong. The reason
for this is obvious. Governor Strong's acquaintance with
the North is not confined to one small section thereof. It
is as broad as the country itself. After a year or so in the
Yukon territory he migrated to Nome, where six winters
were spent without a visit to the Outside. Then came
prriods of residence at Natalia, Iditarod and now Juneau.
Wherever he went he earned the friendship and esteem of
all who came in contact with him, and closer acquaintance
amply confirmed earlier impressions.
So that when it became necessary to select a governor
for Alaska it is not surprising that the choice fell upon
Major Strong—he was the one logical candidate. His
inaugural address is full of hope and confidence; his warn
ing against a spirit of sectionalism is timely—“the welfare
of each section is the concern of all." Governor Strong
asks for the co-operation of all Alaskans in order to make
his administration a success. He shall have it—of that
there can he no doubt: for no governor of Alaska ever took
office under happier auspices or more general expressions
of goodwill.
THE DEiT TY-MAKSHAL
Prominent residents of Iditarod are making an effort to
secure the retention of Harry P. Sheppard as a deputy
marshal for this district, and at last week's meeting of the
town council a resolution endorsing him in the highest
terms was carried without a dissenting voice.
Deputy-Marshal Sheppard has been in the Iditarod for
the past two years, coming here from the Ophir precinct.
Since his arrival in this camp he has impressed all who
have had any dealings with him that he is a thoroughly
capable and conscientious officer, and the proposal to con
tinue him in office is an excellent one. and worthy of sup
port. It is understood, of course, that th,e accession of L.
T. Erwin to the marshalsliip of the Fourth division will
mean many changes in the personnel of the deputies who
are to serve under him: but it does not, or should not fol
low that tried, competent officers are to be let out simply j
because they were appointed under the old regime. Effi
ciency and reliability are the prime qualities necessary in a
United States deputy-marshal, and as Mr. Sheppard pos
sesses both of these virtues, to retain him would be good
.judgment on the part of Marshal Erwin, and good fortune j
for the people of this district.
The position of deputy-marshal in a community like
our own is a difficult one to fill—not on account of onerous!
duties attached to the office, but because of the close per
sonal relationship which exists between all residents. Not
all officers can stand the test of such close acquaintance,
and several in this district have failed in the past. Witli
Deputy-Marshal Sheppard it is different. Not since he took
over the office does the Iditarod Pioneer recall a complaint
against him that would bear investigation.
An Iowa man asks if the people rule. 'They do not.
The women do.
FRESH HEATS
Veal, “ “ 40c
Mutton, by the carcass 35c
Fowl, per !b, 40c
Halibut, per lb 25c
Roast Chickens 40c
Pork Loins 40c
Codfish 35c
Frankfurter Sausage 40c
Spri ng Chickens 75c
Lamb Saddles 50c
ScDoncISt. HOITAR'OO PflUAT CO, Phone 15
And Saddlery
Snaps, Rings, Buckles,
Straps, Etc.
Most Complete Display Ever
Made in the District
Peck, Flat,
Drink Eastern Beer ■w
Miner's Home Saloon
THE HOME OF THE “QUAKER MAID’’
Foot of Willow St., Iditarod
SNYDER HOUSE Company Depot I
Nicely Furnished Rooms FLAT CSTY Large Drying Room j
THE HOME FLAT c,Jro'nt'7I"Jeet
Furnished Rooms, Clean Spring Beds, Bath, Dry Rooms, nnd "''ViJ hou«ie',ce
WHITE
Sydney. Australia, May 16.- Two planters, named James and
Herman Weber, brothers, have been captured and eaten by New
Guinea cannibals. They were set upon unexpectedly by a band of
savages from the unexplored interior. 'Fite news of the tragedy
was taken to Port Moresby, the capital of British New Guinea, by
friendly natives, who say that the same tribe has been carrying
on a campaign of butchery throughout the district for some
months .•
Brititish New Guinea is administered by the Australian gov
ernment, who will send a punitive expedition against the cannibals,
who also are notorious head-hunters.
_
Washington, May 10.—Col. Goethals reports that he expects 1
to send a ship or two through the canal early in the autumn as an
experiment. This does not mean that the canal will be finished j
at that time, but that the excavation will be completed and the j
great locks in working order. There still remains much surface!
work to be done, warehouses to be built, barracks and fortifications
constructed, etc. Then it will take months to train the operating
staff. It will be opened to the commerce of the world not later,
than January 1, 1915.
TO
At last Monday’s meeting of
Camp Iditarod No. 27, A 15., the
entertainment committee was de
puted to make preliminary arrange
ments for a grand ball to be held
Jm.e 10 next, which is the second
anniversary of the dedication of the
hall. Further particulars will be
given later.
He is 56 years old.
Dislikes military display.
He never drinks ire water.
He wears eyeglasses all the time
His best speeches are impromptu.
He is 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighs
177 pounds.
Ills favorite recreation is golt, but
he waiks much.
Sleeps from 9 to 12 hours out of
every 24.
Was a good baseball and football
player when a young man.
Likes to go to the theatre. Pre
lers comedy or light opera.
He has enormous ears and a large
mouth, with large, irregular, some
what discolored teeth.
Except for a few hundred dollars
which he saved from his salary at
Princeton, lie lias no money oi
[i; opt-rty.
lie does not use tobacco. Drinks
a little wine sometimes, and a 1
Scotch highball when very tired
buttermilk is his favorite beverage.
He is a shorthand and typewrit
ing expert. Writes all his speeches, :
lectures and books that way. li -
ases the Graham svstem of short- '
hand
He is neatly blind in his right j
eye as the result of an accident in [
youth. When reading lie holds a
monocle in front of the damaged
eye.
Considers 13 his lucky number
There are 13 letters in his name,
and in his 13th year as professor at
Princeton he was elected its 13th
president —Ex
ALL THAT IS LEFT OF JERRY
All that is left of Jerry the Mule
arrived in Iditarod this week in the
form of snowshoes made from his
hide. Jerry hauled some freight to
the upper Iditarod for a party of
prospectors early this year. When
he left here all hut Jerry himself
knew it was his last mush, as it was i
recognized that once his mission
was accompli died he would be more
valuable for dogfeed than for any
thing else. Anyhow, that’s what
became of him.
The Iditarod meat market is out of
beef, but has a plentiful supply of other
meats. _
Korns Kured at the Krosby baths.
THE GOOD SPORT
ME birdman who is cleaving the higher atmosphere,
_ among the planets weaving, who laughs when death is
near; the sailor, all undaunted, who sails the stormy
seas, by grim disaster haunted—good sports, indeed, are these!
The man who bears his burden and bravely plays the game,
with little chance of guerdon, and little hope for fame; the tor
tured men who suffer from sickness by the year and use no
language rougher than moralists might hear; the men who
smile when sizzling, who chortle when they freeze, kyoodle
when it’s drizzling—good sports, indeed, are these! Good
sports, my friends, are scattered, all o’er this sporty land;
though by misfortune battered, till they can scarcely stand,
and though they stagger lamely, each, captain of his soul, still
struggles onward gamely, toward his chosen goal. Of high or
low condition, on ship or cattle range, whatever his position,
his grit will never change. He does no foolish whining, he
wears no crape or shrouds; his sun is always shining, regard
less of the clouds; he utters no reviling of fate or circumstance;
the good sport comes up smiling, whene’er he has a chance.—
Walt Mason.
Ilenry Moses, a well-known fur
trader, recently returned to Juneau
with the pelt of a bear that is some
thing of a freak of nature, 'file
pelt is that of a black hear with
white ears.
Senator Tripp, of Juneau, and
others have taken an option on a
group of lode claims named the
Alpha for the sum of $175,000.
John Palmer, formerly of the
Hotel Chit ina, has resumed control
j of the Log Cabin bar at the same
place. The bar has been titidei
lease to Dee Davis.
Grant Reed, formerly station
agent for the Copper River railroad
at Cordova, has been appointed
cashier of the railioad.
Recause the Alaska legislative I
was opened with prayer is no sign j
that the members do not under-I
stand the proper use of a cork
screwDouglas Island News.
An outbreak of measles among
the natives of Ketchikan, Metla
kahtla, Saxman and Hasan, caused
considerable alarm among resident.1
of other town in Southeastern
Alaska. Many deaths were re
ported, but the epidemic has been
stayed.
When the Shlopeck Fish Com
pany, of Southeastern Alaska, had
trouble with their fishermen some
weeks ago they imported strike- |
breakers from Gloucester, Mass.
The strikebreakers returned Hast
alter 12,000 pounds of halibut had
been secured.
The tug Richard Holyoke, Capt ;
C. L. McGregor, arrived at Skag- j
way recently towing the barge
Washington, with 1,200 tons of
Tacoma coal on board lor the
White Pass railroad. After dis
charging the coal the barge took on
1,300 tons of copper ore Irorn the
Pueblo mine, lor shipment to the'
Tacmn.i smelter.
Julian Trafert, one of the old
timers of lire Klondike, died in his
s'eet> recently at Grand Forks, V.
T. But a few days before he had
celebrated his 53rd birthday. lie
was a native o: Belgium.
Mi.-s May Roberts, who has
toured Alaska several seasons, is
now leading lady in a dramatic •
company which is touting the Fat
Flast, visiting all the important
coast cities ol Japan and China.
While Hans Madsen, of Engineer
creek, Fairbanks district, was vis
iting friends in town recently,
thieves entered his cabin ar.d
cleaned it of all the grub he had
t here.
Indians in the Tatitlek district
are starving because the Ellamar
mine has changed Irora wood to oil
ior fuel. Members of this tribe
lived entirely on what they made
by carrying wood to the mine. Aid
has been asked from Washington. {
''Captain Swift” Miller, who has
been prospecting on 2 b., on Mat
son creek, a tributary of Sixtymile,
claims to have located a paystreak j
on his claim. Tue gravel is said to;
be nine feet deep, and pay is said
to have been found iS inches in!
the bedrock.
Sixty' men are now employed at
the Cliff mine, near Valdez, and
the five-stamp mill is working
ing night and clay, with sufficient
oie in sight to keep it going for
several years.
A company has been formed with
a capital of $125,000 for the pur
pose of manufacturing briquettes
trom the vast Alaska deposits of
lignite coal. The incorporators are
H Sundermeier, a wealthy Ger
man capitalist of St Paul , and W.
Summerville Royle, representing
English capital.
James T. Warded, of Katalla,
who recently took the steamer from
Cordova for Seattle, intends going
back to Washington to interview
the Secretary of the Interior. Mr
Warded is one of the hitherto un
fortunate coal land _ claimants in
Bering river district, where he lo
cated a claim of 160 acres stveral
years ago. He has been trying to
bring it to patent, but so far has
not been able to get it out of the
Juneau land office-—the alleged rea
son being that the office has not
bad lime to get around to it.
A. B. Rome has taken over the Mar
ston building, on Discovery, for the
summer season, and will move his stock
of goods out to Otter forthwith.
Visit the
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The Npw aid Up-to-Date Place to Eat
D!S. OTTER A. VfZE
MRS. SWANSON, PROP.
Nicely Furnished
R O O M S
BATHS
in Connection
For Horses and Dogs
AT ANY HOUR AT
The Bank Cafe
FLAT CITY
CURLY ROBINSON, PROPRIETOR
Best of Everything
ALL Till: TIME AT THE
I-LAT CITY
Open Day and Night
COMPLETE LINE OF
OPTIMO. LOVERA
and JUAN DE FUCA
FULL LINE OF
Delivered in an.v part of town
Notice of Forfeit tire
To William Albright, ('.dirge Broadhiut. Hugh
Dalv, Kdie Crackett, James Hood man and
Thomas Ilanlan, their heirs, assigns, suc
cessors or personal representatives:
You are hereby notified that we have expended
in labor and iniprov ements for each of the years
of 1912 and 1913 the sum cf one hundred dollars ,
—$100—on the Vivian association placer mining
claim, situated 011 Moore creek, in the Takotna
Mining and Recording District, Territory of
Alaska, which has been duly recorded at the
commissioner's office at Takotna. The above
amounts have been expended in order to hold
the said cla;m under the provisions of the law
concerning annual labor upon mining claims,!
being tlie amounts required to hold such claim. 1
And you are further notified that if, within
ninety—90—days after the last publication of
this notice, you fail to contribute your propor
tion of said expenditure, your interest in said
claim will become the property of tlie under
signed, your co-owners
EDWARD MICHELSON. I
Z J. JEWELL,
first publication May 10, 1913.
Last publication August 9, 1913.
FOR SALE — Restaurant, everything
complete and first-class; will sell with
or without building; next door to A.
13. Flail, Second ave., Iditarod; apply
on premises.
Dr. Heinrich Wortmann,
Offices: Iditarod and Flat City
Telephones at each place
W. F. GREEN, M. D.,
DISCOVERY, OTTER
Telephone
DR. H. BEHLA,
Dentist
Offices, Pioneer Drug Sr<v <*,
Flat. City.
Appointments by GT phone
DR. CM AS. D. CARTER
Gold Street. Flat City.
Appointments by Telephone.
HENRY RODEN,
Attorney at Law'
Iditarod. Alaska
ichisan. 1981 Kentucky. 1831 Alaska. 1910
George Woodruff Albrecht,
COUNSELOR AND LAWYER
11) IT A ROD, A LA-K \
The I'inDcer Attorm-v g! thi- Camp
E. M. STANTON,
Attorney at Law
Office in Wickersham & Uoden Hld£.
Second Ave.
CHAS. E. TAYLOR,
Attorney at Law,
Notary Public. Conveyancing.
Front St.. Tditamd
NOW LOCATED
ON THE SUMMER TRAIL
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NICE CLEAN ROOMS BY THE DAY.
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Bath Roam in Cornection
Outfit Flero for Innoko and Mud
River Camps
Dikeman
Roadhouse and Store
ROitl . COCKRURN, l’Ror
Everything First Class
Otter Creek Roadfioirse
One Above Discovery
LODGING, MEALS AT ALL HOURS
Everything Comfortable to1. Travelers. JOHN SAGOY. Prop.
IDITAROD
BAKERY
Foot of Willow St.
Best Cop of Coffee in Town
Fresh Bread Every Day
Choice Pies. Cakes, Etc.
51 White Seal
WILL GIVE
Regular Service
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First Sailing May 15th
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