liners & merchants Bank
IDITAKOD, ALASKA
Capital, $50,000.00
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General Banking Business Trm-sted Gold Dust Bougnt and Assayed
Drafts Issued on Any Part of the WorJJ
EEATTLE CGRRESPOfJDEffT. SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BANK
OFFICERS:
CHARLES ROSS, President
JOHN HOLMES, Vice President
R. C. BUTTON, Cashier j
Satisfaction Guaranteed or rr.-ney refunded. Our entire stock of High-Class
Merchandise must be sold bafora Jj.io 1, 1316, as we will close our store at that
tlrr.e. .
Oorr.e yourself or send in year orders and they will be filled at genuine bar
gain prices.
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SECOND AND WILLOW STS. 1DITAROD, ALASKA
BEST ACCOMMODATIONS
RATES REASONABLE
FLAi Cl ‘ V FINE DOG KENNELS IN CONNECTION
MRS. DICKSEN. Pro?. ____
iflfri fmiir Cl'SAR AND POOL ROOM
t/iiH IM'mb AlEX GRUBAS, Prop FLAT ClT*
SS fts&nUUBwlea Ciders, Candies, Fruits and Soft Drinks
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PIPES AND TOBACCOS
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Nice, Fresh Chocolates, Nuts, Candies and Fruits
POOL BARBER SHOP
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Me HURST BROS.
RAMPS PETERSON
Wishes Everyone ia 'the Iditarod Valley
A VERY KERRY CHRISTMAS
Once every year he opens hss heart! He will bust it wide open
on Christmas Day
A MERRY CHRISTMAS
and a
HAPPY NEW YEAR
FINNEGAN & CAMERON
FLAT CITY
NOTHING BUT THE BEST
_ The Place to Meet
FLAT CITY Your Friends_
Stores at Iditarod Highest Prices Paid
and Flat City P for Raw Furs
A Full Line of Clothing and Furnishings
HiPPRESS WHITE RUBBER SHOES AND BOOTS
PRICES REASONABLE
NiCELY FURNISHED ROOIV1S BY DAY OR WEEK
Warm. Clean Well Ventilated
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
TOE nnnonv Passage and
I _ bmm f Bath Parlors
MEDICATED, MINERAL VAPOR, STEA t gpg ^
TUB, SALT AND FRESH WATER DmjCHIISI
Caribou St., Bet. Black and Willow Sts., on Waterfront
Electric and Faradic Massage Treatments by Expert Attendants
Lighted by Gas Heated by Steam
If You Are Interested in
LIFE INSURANCE
Let me talk it over with you
EARL B. HUNT
BEST LIQUORS AND CIGARS
Three-Times-Move Bar
(Formerly the Stanley House)
JOHN BAGOY, PROP.
GOOD ROOMS CLEAN BEDS
FLAT CITY
ROUND THE STOVE
Some of ilie Yarns That Help While
Away the Time While Old Sol
Enjoys Annual Vacation
The crowds around the .‘■loves of the sev
er::! resorts of the camp dining the frigid
1 days through which we have just passe;l
whiled away the tedium of the hours and
relieved the monotony of existence by the i
relation of yarns, and, as is usually the case ,
! with Alaska crowds, they mainly relate to
experiences in various parts of the North
! land. For the Iditarod crowds are com
| posed of men who have visited every sec
j ii(.n of Alaska and the Yukon, and the»*e ]
is not a camp in tho length and breadth j
i of the vast country that has not at least 1
i one representative here.
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Fiest-Fcotel Oxen
! A group of men were discussing the rda
! tive merits of the horse and ox as beast
i of burden, and one contended that the
patient ox was more than a match for the
: equine friend of man in the carrying of
j >ig loads. Ramps Peterson was telling
how, many years ago, he alighted on Tex
j ada island, Briti-h Columbia, where the
abandoned iron mines were located. 1 :
was in search of tra il meat, and expected ,
to kill a deer. The en.y animals seen, lmw I
ever, were some oxen which had been used
in work around the iron mines, and which j
in the years since they were turned 1 >ose :
I to browse on the bland herbage had be
! come extremely wild. “Those oxen.” said
i Ramps, “were as wild as any deer you ever
I saw, and quite as fleet-footed. We were
unable to get within range of them.”
The fact of great, lumbering brutes such
as oxen becoming so nimble and active as
to be compared to deer, after hauling heavy
loads of iron < re for years, sugie-ted to
Charley Courtwrieht a story that Jerry
Raker, the weii-known <i 1-time trapper and !
miner, used to tell.
Jerry Baker ’Was Some Packer
“Jerry,” explained Courtwright, "is en
thusiastic when telling a story, but never
• passes the boundary line of truth. So that
what I am going to relate may be taken as
fact. Jerry prided himself on his ability a~
■\ packer, and used to be very fond of tel
ii:g i:f the immense loads he could pile on ;
a pack animal without danger of the load
j shifting, and such was his skill that the
beasts could carry a much greater weight i
when the load was packed by Jerry than
when it was done by less skil ed hands.
Jerry and his partner were on a journey at
( ne time, and their pack animal was an ox. ;
and Jerry had succeeded in 1 ading it with
a pack of 1.200 pounds. During the first !
day’s travel the animal ran away from the j
travelers, and in spite of diligent search, he j
coul . not be found.
"Four years later, while Jerry was pros- ;
pecting in the hil s. and had run short of i
crub, he was lucky enough to come across ]
his lost puck ox. and (you may believe it or j
not t he still carried his pack, which had not !
! shifted a particle, ‘ihe ox.’ concluded!
I Jerry, ‘was so fat that we had to kill him. j
and the fre.-h meal thus obtained and the i
outfit contained in the pack enabled us to !
continue prospecting indeunitdy.’ ”
Jcra: Rs'ates Ons
This reminded Jonas Brewis of an inci- j
dc-nt (an actual fact, too) which :howed the .
stamina of the -1 w-going but strong and
patient mule, it occurred in the Dawson
country in early days. Stander. the mil [
Ixnaire mining man. had broken a piece of .
heavy machinery at his workings r n one \
of tine outlying creeks, and had to send ,
; to Dawson for the part to repair the break- j
age. The heavy casting weighed 800 ■
pounds. Some said it was nearer 1.200. i
but Jonas would not vouch for the larger j
figures. The only mean* of transportation i
for the bulky object was by pack animal,
end Standt-r was compelled to buy a muD
in order to convey it to the creek. The
sturdy animal made the trip all right ;t
was a considerable distance, too by being
allowed to rest frequently. This was ac
complished by propping up the animal's load
with two-by-ours resting en the ground, thus
relieving his back of the immense strain.
The crew which had superintended the load
ing and conveying of the mechanical con
trivance were so elated when they reached
their destination that they repaired to the j
nearest saloon and left the patient mule j
standing outside, pack and all; and worst I
of ill. they forgot to prop up the load. 1
They celebrated the event so hilariously that
they all became intoxicated and forgot about i
the poor mule; and for all Jonas’ auditors
know, he may be there yet, as he never
completed the story.
Percy Had “Coffee and”
Can you imagine Percy Charles, the genial
and debonair United States deputy mar
shal, roaming the streets of Seattle in the
half-light of an early winter morning, scan- j
ning anxiously the signs displayed outside
of cheap beaneries on the lookout for a ■
place where “coffee and” can be had for
the trilling sum of 10 cents? Well, this
really happened, the head of the Pioneers’
igloo having had that experience some years
ago. When the old sourdoughs are en
gaged in telling hard-luck stories some even
ing he may be induced to enlighten the old
fellows on how it feels to be in a great city
with nothing between him and gaunt hunger |
but two miserable jitneys. And this is how
it happened:
“I arrived in Seattle very early one morn
ing,” says Percy, “having disembarked from
! one of the Princess boats from Vancouver.
I had registered at the hotel, and still had j
[several hours,to kill before business would:
I open up. and while wondering what to do •
[ to put in the time I bethought myself that I
I was hungry, an.d started to find a restau
rant. Luckily, before I had entered one of
the prosperous-looking eating-houses I hap
pened to remember that the only piece of ,
money in my possession was a 10-cent. piece. 1
I had a United States check for some hun ;
| dreds of dollars, but absolutely no money (
I except the sum mentioned. It would not do
. to ‘spring’ the check on a restaurant, so I
waited around until 8 o’clock, when the ex- I
j press office opened. After what seemed to j
be an interminable period the clocks indi
; cated 8, and I made for the express office. '
The man in charge, when confronted with
the check, stated that he had not that i
amount of money on hand. It was Monday j
j morning, and he had banked all his funds
i on the Saturday previous. By this time i
i was ravenously hungry, and the inability to 1
I get the check cashed seemed to accentuate
j the emptiness of my stomach. Hours must 4
rfapse before the bank troubi and 3
grew desperate. I recalled that there were
places where coffee and doughnuts could be
had for 10 cents, and this, meager as it
seemed, would stave off starvation for some
time- J repaired to the back streets, and
after careful scrutiny of the restaurant signs
1 found one that read, ‘Hot cakes and cof
fee, 10c/ and inwardly blessed the god of
compelitit n which made such things possi
ble. Looking around carefully to see that
no one who might know me was in sight
\It wouldn't do to Jet my Northern friends
see me tackling such u dump), I went in
dde and mounted a high stool at tin* coun
ter, again careful y scrutinizing the sign U
see that I had made no mi take. J onterec. ;
hot cakes and coffee, which 1 devoured with :
gusto and good maple syrup. And/’ con
dueled the government official, “they wen j
delicious.”
Frank Manley’s Pensioner
All Iditarcd remembers the care and so j
licitude bestowed upon the ancient horse \
which Frank Manley took wilh him to the
Outside last summer, nnd the comments on
he humanity .-hown by tin* (J 1 time Alaskan
in making provision for a peaceful retire
inenl for his d I and worn-out horse. The
Seattle Post-Intelligencer thus describes :hr j
arrival of the animal in Seattle:
‘‘Prank Manley, cue of the big mining on
crator.s in the Iditarod, took a horse into the
country twelve years ago. The horse was a
faithful animal, and never had shirked, bu‘
did his part with his follows and even put e
little extra strength into the collar when
necessary. Yesterday this pioneer Alaska
horse arrived on the Victoria, and was me
< n the pier by Mr. Manley, who saw tha
he was escorted safely to a stable, whence
after he recovers from the effects of th«
rough sea voyage, he will be taken to ;
farm to rest and kick up his beds in knto
hi.'h grass for the balance of his days. I
was a hard trip for the veteran, who F no\
in his 18th year, and he was so weak tha
he was hardly able to reach the stable. Hoy
ever, Mr. Manley expects that his form i
equine servant vvil soon be strong cnoue ;
o enjoy life and leisure and j 1 nty of gra
and good, sweet water.”
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“BUCK” AN EYE-WITNESS
TO AVIATION ACCIDENT
A letter received in last Sunday’s mad
from G. M. Arbuckle, dated S:n I rancisci '
’ )ct< ber 2fi. inc uses a newspaper tlippin j
of ail account cf an accident to Chari -s 1
Niles, an exposition aviator, in tl e pres |
nice of 30.000 persons. "Buck” says he ;
was standing within a few feet of Nile i
when he landed. The account cf the mis j
han is in pert as f flows:
“Crashing vi< bntly into the groun 1 after 1
a swoop of 500 feet downward at a steep I
angle, Charles F. Niles, exposition aviator i
had a narrow escape from instant death i
on the Marina aviation field yesterday aft j
erncon. His mi not-lane turned a com- ,
I lete somersault and crumpled into a shape
less mass of twisted wire*, shattered wings
and st Filtered wood. The accident oc
curred within 2C0 feet of the hanger at
the east end of the field.
“Niles escaped with a broken nose, a j
light concussion of the brain, and a hie ly
shaken body. His escape from death wa
ke to the fact that the bather harnes
in which he straps himself v.ITb Ilyin;
was ripped asunder by the f rce i f th
impact, flinging hiis body clear of the
wrecked machine. The aviator declare*
he will be ready to fly again Wednesday
“The accident happened in the presence
of a crowd « f 30,000 persons, most of whom
were school children, for whom Niles vn
making a special flight in honor of ‘Chd
dren’s Edison day’ at the exposition. Thi
aviator had just made a splendid flight, in
which, after releasing a huge American fla !
suspended from a parachute, over the field j
he performed a number of thrilling feats. I
't hen he made a daring, rapid swoop for i
the field.
“As he prepared to alight, the sun’s rays j
struck full on the zinc cowl of his engine, j
blinding him. The result was that hr I
-truck the ground at terrific speed and at j
too sharp an angle.”
DOES THIS FIT EARL HUNT?
To no other class cf men more than to
the life insurance salesman fall-? the duty
of replacing ignorance with enlightenment,
selfishness with benevolence, indifference
with love, negligence with providence. He
is a conserver of the home, he alleviates
miser - and dispenses comfort. He requires
the sturdy motive temperament of the re
former, with an unconquerable purpose,
conscious that his cause is just and noble;
and in handling people and overcoming i
prejudice and ignorance he is a psychclo- 1
gist, a true disciple cf the most beneficent
institution of modern times, a high priest
of the temple of progress.—Rockford Star.
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Fresh Olympia and Eastern Oysters. $1 50
per can. Iditarod Meat Co. ;
FURS WANTED
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H. Boas, the local clothier, has an order J
for 200 red and cross foxskins from one of
the largest fur houses in the United States.
He will pay the highest prices for such skins
if received before January 1.
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Job Printing at Pioneer office. 1
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Cliurrb for Anchorage
! Rev .Rimes L. McBride passed through
Sewjird recently on his way to Anchorage,
where he will commence the erection of the
new Presbyterian church at that place. Mr-.
McBride expeers to join him vvii.hm a few
weeks.
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Man's Body Found in Yukon
A Nome dispatch of October 14 says bat
a white mail's body was found floating in
the Yukon river by a native near Birches,
it is thought to be that of u man named
Hudson, who left for down the river in a
small boat during a gale.
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Henry Goods Old Home Town
Former Senator Henry Itodc-n. who :s it:
hineau for a few weeks on business, says
Iditarod is tiie best placer camp per capp t
in Alaska. He predicts that its l!ll 5 output
will total 83,090.000- within 8500.000 to
81,000,000 of the tote! for the so-ceiled [''nil
banks district, and the latter draws Von:
several, camps located 100 to 150 miles away.
A’hile the luitarod output is for the di-tnet
in the immediate vicinity of that town. ”01
course,” said Mr It 'den, atrbaitks is the
leading town in the Interior of Alaska, but
that is not because it is a better placet camp
han Iditarod. It is because it is the com
tercial and otliciel c.r.ter of the Interior
ountry, and. as such, draws from the wh !
,’ukon arid daJiaiui v:.U.-ys. oluncau i t :
)ite.
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Mining on the Kuakokw.m
Capta:n Ii. R. Luketns of tJa#» Coast nrl
Geodetic Survey bout Yukon, who arrived in
Seward on October 11, teld the Gateway that
ioout t<o,000 was taken out of Cany; n
ireek, m the Kuskokwim country, during
he past season. and that next yvsr ii i •
hought th■ t two dredges will be in
r that di-strict. The quicksilver d.—overy
oporled some time ago has been found to
■e of the best in the country. An innnm.-*
1 ercury deposit has been discovered ."Jit
u the water’s edge, accessible to mi
boats, at a camp cel ed Parker’s Place. Mm
ng in the Good -News Bay district i o ! v
:aken a decided turn f. r the better,
hought that mining activity in the Ku
kokwim next summer will be bv no means
small.
Disputed Forest Funds
While the suit of Charles A. Sulzer et al.
against the treasurer of the territory of
Alaska is working its way through the courts
m the effort to restrain the treasurer in 'lie
disbursement < f moneys in the forestry fund
to districts ether than those in wifob the
moneys were actually earned, warren's have
been issued fr. m the treasurer’s office t-> t’ ■*
amount of $12,097, which amounts *•> a
trifle over one-fifth of the entire fund of
$60,000. The greater part of this disburse
ment has gone to the Second division. The
Nome roads have used up 11! of the appro
- nation for that section, according to the
Tuneau Empire. J. G. Held, as attorney f .r
he plaintiffs in the suit, has asked hr an
•xten.-'ion of time and the request has b • n
granted.
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Enormous Profits of Kennecott
The Boston News Bureau says that the
basis for expectation of dividends on the
Kennecott Copper stock at the rate of $5 per
-hare per annum in January is that from the
••resent price of copper the company i-- eani
ieg more than twice this sum. Under the
mortgage indenture one-half of the net earn
ings must be set aside ft r the redemption of
the $10,000,000 ten-year bonds until these
have been paid off or converted into st ick.
The binds are callable after June 1. 1917.
at 105, or exchangeable into stock at $25
-•er share between June 1. 1917, and June 1.
1927. The company began its veer June 1.
and by January 1 there should be a produc
tion of 63.000.000 pounds for seven months,
and a profit therefrom of about 13 cents, nr
over >8 000.009. Out cf this must be taken
interest at the rate of 6 per cent on the
bonds. A quarterly dividend of $1.25 in
January on 720.000 shares would c: 11 for f
only $900,000. When Kennecott bonds an
converted the dividends cn 1.120.000 shares
should be no le=s. even with a 13-eent cop
per market. Kennecott people say that
everything is now arranged so that monthly
shipments in winter should equal those in
the summer months.
Dissatisfaction at Anchorage
Anchorage is in the throes of a labor war,
according to advices dated early in October.
The contention is that the desirable con
tracts are being given to Greek concerns,
who send Outside for their help, and leave
ti e resident labor to face privations during
the winter. The Chamber of Commerce held
a meeting at which the question was dis
cussed, and adopted a report which was
i >nsidered “too strong for publication.” At
khe meeting it was stated that in nearly
every case fat contracts were secured by
Greeks, who used their countrymen to the
exclusion of those of other nation> and that
no American stood a chance to secure work.
One case was quoted where a setiler bid
22 cents on the pipe line, which was turned
! down by The. |owrar^i« apwtf > \hr
J eon tract awarded in an outsider for do cents
i Thr officials claimed that flic man could
' not do the work for 22 cents. The con
j tractor securing the plum .sublet it. for 15
cents to Greeks, end they claim to be rank
mg money. The matter has been taken up
with Senator Thomas McGann of the Second
i division, Nome, who wrote a prominent cbi
zen of Anchorage rs follows: “I am much
surprised to learn of the discrimination be
ing made in favor of foreigners in connec
lion with government construction work at
! Anchorage. If the government cstablishe
! 1-ss than Alaska standards in connection
! . i.h milioad construction or any other im ■
! (• work, a great mistake will be made. Such
! a policy u.h be retire ted throughout the
! territory ami will have an evil effect on the
.veilare of the workingman, who mu.-t be
■oroidered the main factor in this country.
in;t excepting those htuchmrn connected
.vilh g )\{.rnment raJr »:.•! A Manama stand
i aid <f living emu lot be maintain'd in
Ala. l a. and it the r nui cannot be built by
American workmen and an A! ukan wage
them i . it v*iff prove a di.<>•.-1or rathe)
! il.an a bcuciit to toe ter-riII -p»* the
• ■ : ■ 1 >ur division will vigorously pro
ic.-t agaiiut cheap men and cheap method.*."
‘DUBE" THOMPSON GETS
SOUGH E-FOR PUBLICITY
WI en W. F h >mj Fairbanks
(News-Miner left Fairbanks la-, f.il lie >»n
j nouneetl that he would 1 at the Outside vrorJ 1
[ know all about Fairbanks, and the infer
I nice was rr n\ eyed that it would also b arn
(about Thompson. The nun of unique ideas
* m newspaper editing and ; s-t ma-fer in the
j art li getting up publicity i r- .grams 1 -i no
I ;inie in breaking into the news, as the f? i
| towing dispatch tram Montreal in the N.-.v
Vci'k World would indicate. It i. noticeable
that in the relation of the incident which is
the .*i:bcct of the news dUp-Htah V. Fen
coutri\es to keep himself well in the fore
ground, which is typical y Thonip'Oui;m :
‘ .VLntrc* h Oct. 9. The arrived of :u
Alaska newspaper man hare, on his way U*
visit his sick father in the United Suite.',
has unc cored a story of exceeding rich -
lie-- itiv. King die ra. l.cay deed »pmcnt of
Alaska and the pr-i-und: y of Franklin K
Fane, secretary of the in'erior. The trav
dor ;• \v i:l:;...i i . 'I hoi:,?.-on, pubdsher of
the New.-Min. r at Fairbanks. Mr. Thnnsp
. "11 ti 11s hi' '• i hi way :
" ‘We h ive a tiinkly little narrow-gauge
i :. lroad there, linaucially in bankruptcy in
a thousand ways, inefficiently equipped, and
therefore run at an enormous extravagance:
can't pay the interest on the bonds, and i
therefore getting worse al the lime. So;:ic
body made the supreme court conclude that
the ra-lways of Alaska came under the
interstate commerce commission, and the
clerks of the commission began to hand out
orders by mail.
“ 'Every railroad in Alaska had to quit
except the Guggenheim road, the Whit*' Pas
ifc Yuk. n and our lh:!e foity-five-mile road.
Our road could not quit; *o long a they
kept running they were on earth and had
a chance—when they quit they were dead.
“Pina ly. after the interstate commerce
ccninibsn n had piled up ab.,ut $100.OuG
tine and 2ti3 years in jail for the president
the manager—a very good carpenter, by the
way came crying to me, asking what he
should do. It was so funny I told him to
forget it and leave it to me.
“ ‘Three weeks later FranHln K. Lane
president of the interstate commerce com
mission, received a Liter from me which
read:
“ ' “Dear Frank: When you and I used to
work together on the old Tacoma News, *
generate n and mere ego, you used to be a
good fellow, but today you are not. and if
you don’t change your system »r.'o‘hin:
bad is apt to happen to you. For in-ram-,
you threaten to put our little line of ra:lr ad
out rf business unless it hauls dynamite in
ten car lengths from the engine. In the
first ; lace, the blamed railway hasn’t get
ten ears, and in the second place it hasn’r an
engine that could haul ten cars if it had
them. The only wav they can comply with
your demands is to hitch a car of dynamite
onto the engine with a ten-car lengths rope.
Do you care to b ■ responsible for what hap
pens to the engine and crew thereof when
the train starts down hill?”
“ 'I continued in the letter with the actual
story of the road, and three weeks later both
the railroad and myself received letters from
Lane assuring us that the interstate com
merce commission would make no more
trouble for the road—and they have kept
their word.
“For six months afterwards, after Lane
became secretary of the interior, I kept get
ring letters from different members of the
interstate commerce commission explaining
why they had “mixed it" with our rail
road, and apologizing.
“ ‘Three months ago the commission
formally remitted the immense fines against
President Joslin, told him ho needn’t go to
jail for more than 300 years, to which pun
ishment he fell heir under the interstate
rules—congress had passed a new law re
milting the tax of $100 a mile on a'i Alaska
railways for all the time it had not been paid
and for all time to come—just because Lane
and I used to work together more than
twenty years ago on a little hand-set daily
paper in the state of Washington, and be
cause he is a human man when you can
ret him to forget his official position.’ ”
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