I01TARQD PSONEER
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id J Geo. HI. Arbuckle, Publisher No. I
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HARMONY: THE LESSON OF I1IE HOLIDAYS
Flirt holidays are past and everybody lias gone back to
work. Fora week or two there was nothing but hilarity
and a good time. Christinas came after Thanksgiving; but
from the number of entertainments, amusements, invita
tions to dinner and presentations of the “keys to the city”
bv those assuming to possess tb m, one would find it hard
to determine just where Thanksgiving terminated and
Christmas commenced in the Iditarod. ‘ In the Iditarod”
is used advisedly, for not only the residents of the town of
Iditarod, but our friends of Flat, Discovery and all sections
of the surrounding country were possessed of the same
spirit of good cheer.
Everybody made a firm resolution at the big masquer
ade ball New Year's evening to go back to work for awhile,
but the old. familiar sound of hammers has not been heard
to evidence the keeping of the self-made promises. This
delinquency is attributable to the good spirit and good
feeling manifested so markedly during the recent celebra
tions. The Pioneer has not heard a single complaint by
anybody against anybody on account of anything that may
have happened during the holiday season. As a matter of j
fact, this paper sincerely congratulates all those who had j
anything to do with getting up anything', whatever it may
have been, which promoted the spirit of friendship and
festivity; and, further, it congratulates the entire people
of the district for the way they have worked together in
making the celebration, in each instance, a huge success.
A lesson can be learned from all tins run. It has been j
shown that whenever a society, a number of men. a few j
towns or settlements make up their minds to do anything
and doit right, and conclude to forget what little differ-j
ences they may imagine to exist between their members,
they succeed in every instance and nothing can prevent;
them from making a success of an undertaking. It doesn t j
matter what it maybe. One time recently it was a big
society event that proved an immense success on account of j
harmony and liberality and an “I'ln-no-better-than-you '
disposition: the next time it was a masquerade ball, and on j
account of everybody counting everybody in it proved the
event of the season. And many other illustrations could;
be given to prove that in harmony is strength. Continue!
the same spirit not only in town but all over in Alaska, and I
you will get what you want and unitedly ask for.
A COLORADO VIEW
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I believe in the ownership of land by the people and
not by the nation. There has never been a landlord in the
history of the world as oppressive as a national landlord.
Great Britain is three or four times as liberal as it was 150
years ago. Canada is freer than Colorado today.
1 favor putting public lands in the hands of the people
as fast as possible.
The theory on which we began this government was
that the people and not the government should own the
land. It is not right to exploit us in the West here for the
benefit of the federal government. Illinois and those East
ern states did not have to suffer. hy should we have
to here l
The natural riches of this state don’t belong to all the1
people of the Union. They belong to tlie people here, and
I believe that the men out here will stand up for their
rights.
I know that the State of Colorado owns every drop of
water within its boundaries. The supreme court has re
peated fifty times or more that each state owns its own
water. We declared our ownership of this water in the
constitution; but it was not necessary. The question had
been decided long before. The water is the most necessary
thing we own except the air out here.—Teller of Colorado.
HAPPILY NAMED
A monument is due to some unknown adventurer, or
adventurers, for at last introducing to the Alaskan world a
geographical name that is at once euphonious, correct in
NOTICE
GENERAL LINE OF GROCERIES AND PROISIONS
Men’s Underwear, Sox, Mittens, Rubber Shoes, Felt
Shoes and Pacs, Mackinaw Coats and Pants
SHELF HARDWARE
Nails. Building Paper. Dog Fish
We solicit Inspection. Every article suwanteed.
fairvieWTrading CO.
j Don’t Get Lonesome
i Drop Into the H II glia rm a a!
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’ ^Manuel Gularte, F. B. FontaaC ^ ^
! J" Proprietors f '$§# && I I 1
There Are Still a Few of Us Left;
MAX SIME L5 Olskaket and Optiir Pity....
Miners' Supplies and Genera! Outfitting a Specialty
C. J. Hurley, President J. P. Gleason, Vice President A. Bruning, Cashier
Corner First Ave, and Richmond St., Iditarod
General Banking Business Transacted Upon Libera!, But Conservative Lines
GOLD DUST PURCHASED UPON ASSAY VALUE
And we guarantee our assays against any of the government assay offices.
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.
Egg uM • Coro-Fed Turkeys,
I § Fresh Eastern Oysters :
___Fresh Veal and MuttsiU
Milk-Fed Broilers and Roasting Chickens ;
fPiTA^QP mEAT CO
Second St. Phone 15 <
SNYDER HOUSE
ENSiceSy Furnished Rooms enclosed dog kennels
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Famous_ issker
| DRAUGHT BEER, DOMESTIC CIGARS
| Cooci Music Every Evening
j ■: ■■■ —Flat City ..- - -■ ■=
derivative and appropriate in the only common meaning
that can he applied to it. Whoever initiated the name of
Aniak deserves especial honor; for Eldorado, Bonanza,
Bear, Long, Short, Crooked, Straight, Deep, Clear, Swift.
Cold, Fish, Moose, Cariboo, Lynx, Dominion, Gold, Glen,
Quartz. Granite, and all the other appellations so dearly
beloved by the Alaska prospector, were passed up and the
name.chosen to fit the country and the occasion.
Aniak is the Americanization or a native word whicn
means “comaand go” and was applied to the river before
the white hi eh went into the region. It did not result from
the nomadic disposition of the natives, but from a circum
stance that once happened when a party of them were at
tempting to boat up the stream. The current was swift,
and the more dextrous of them, after passing a most diffi
cult piece of water, resolved to wait for the others. After
a while the laggards were seen poling laboriously up the
rapids and some one said, “Here they come.” Just then
the men lost control of the boat and it shot back down the
river at incredible speed. “And there they go,” remarked
a second member of the waiting party. Ever after that
the river was called by the word that the white man’s
tongue has fashioned into Aniak.
The town that is to be established at the mouth of the
i river will be called Aniak City—“come and go” city—which
I will be expressive of the shifting proclivities of the popula
tion of mining camps, as well as perpetuate the native
tradition of the liver and region.
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Tiie principal activities of the Koyu
! kuk district, are centered on Hammond
river this winter, according to Deputy
Marshal Tom Howell, who arrived at,
Iditarod direct from Wiseman last
Tuesday.
Pay was struck in the deep channel
of Hammond river the 6lb of lust Sep- ;
tetnber, at the end of a long drift or
tunnel. The tunnel was very danger
ous, but the pay was rich and over
$6,000 was taken out before the tunnel
was abandoned.
The Koyukuk region is spotted and
not enough work has yet been accom
plished to determine the extent of the
rich ground. Koyukukers are confi
dent, however, that the Hammond
river channel is a winner; and at the
time Mr. Howell left, Dec. 1, eleven
outfits were at work between the
mouth of Swift creek and 2 below, ag
gregating a distance of nearly two
I miles. All the outfits have self dump
ers and five have large working plants.
The following firms are on the ground:
Olson & Smith, Goodwin & Burke,
Bowker Bros.. & Gibson, Peterson
Bros., Hastings & Watts, Wilson &
Merrill. McKenzie & Crawford, Hays
ifc Woods, Johnson & Dali, Mattson &
Strombahl, and Nelson & Sivelrv. Be
sides these, several others were pre
paring to go to work.
Only about 200 men are in the Koyu
kuk this winter and Hammond river is
looked upon as the hope of the district.
COMMISSIONER’S SON VERY ILL
J. M. Galiaher, son of Commissioner
Phil Gallaher of Ruby, has been un
well for several months and was re
cently placed in the military hospital
at Fort Gibbon. An arrival from Gib
bon this week says the post medical
officer pronounces the young man’s ail
ment enlargement of the spleen and
declares his condition very serious.
NOME HOLDS HOSPITAL CARNIVAL
Nome. Dec. 29.—Nome is how holding
her annual hospital carnival. The
election of the carnival queen netted
$2,090.
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Tripoli, the bone of contention between Italy and Turkey,
possesses little natural wealth, which accounts for its having es
caped the European influences so noticeable in Cairo, Tunis and
Algiers. Archaeologicnlly it has little to show, with the sole
exception of a Roman triumphal arch, solitary relic of a previous
occupation, alongside of a barrel organ and a loud gramaphone
wailing Arab dirges in a wayside cafe.
The triumphal arch has now lost its pristine glory. Delicate
carvings adorn the marble capitals and panels, but the sand of
centuries blown from the Sahara has swallowed i p the lower half,
leaving visible little more than the circular arch. An enterprising
tradesman has carefully boarded up the apertures and a first rate
dried fish provision shop is tin1 result.
The capital is crescent in form, being about two miles from
tip t-o tip and one mile wide. The inside of the crescent is bounded
by a magnificent bay and the outside enclosed by huge ramparts,
except to the south-east-, whence lead the principal routes to 1 be
Sahara.
Here, if anywhere, is a city of romance. Pirates and corsairs,
.doomed by obsolete Turkish gunboats and modern progress to
idleness, still throng the marina cafes. In blue zouave jackets and
loose, baggy trousers, faced with brilliant touches of gold and red
embroidery, they remain at heart untamed.
A maze of narrow, winding streets leads from Custom House!
and ramparts to the business quarter. High whitewashed public
buildings, quaintly corbelled projections and perforated casements,
whence the harem ladies see, themselves unseen, combine in
riotous fantasy of street architecture. Here and there the street
burrows through a house or underneath a series of arches, built
apparently to keep the houses from collision.
So by devious and marvellous ways do all streets lead to the l
business center. Suk-il-Turc (street of the Turks) is half a mile j
in length and fifteen to twenty feet in width. Shops and bazaars
occupy both sides. Overhead a latticed roof densely overgrown j
with vines runs from end to end. Brilliant splashes of light
flicker down on a moving mass of Orientals.
Ever race from Constantinople to Morocco is represented;
Jews. Armenians, Sudanese, Arabs and Bedouins bargain and bar
ter in the coo! twilight. Donkeys nose their way through the j
chattering crowd, while beggars appeal silently for alms.
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When a man ain't got .t cent, and lie’s feeling kind of Mue,
\ ;j’ the clouds Hang dark an1 heavy, uid don't let the sunshine I iir< ugh.
i’s a great thing, O my hr tliren, tor a fellei ju-t to lay
His hard upon your shoulder in a friendly sort of way 1
It makes a man feel queerish; it makes the tear drops start
\n’ you sort o' feel a flutter in the region of the heart;
You can't look up and meet his eyes; von don’t know what to say
When his hand is on your shoulder in a friendly sort of way !
■ ) the wniId's a curious compound with its houev and its gall,
Wi'ii its cue and hitter dosses, hut a good world alter til!;
\u’ a go>d God must have made it—least wavs, that is what I say,
When a baud is on my shoulder in a friendly soit of way.
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY.
"GE9EGE HUNT"
The following cutting was hamieil in
by a Pioneer reader, who considered it
of local enterest, inasmuch as Mr. Hunt.
Iiad “plunged into tho Iditarod stam
pedes.” We did not have the pleasure
of meeting Mr. Hunt, when he was |
plunging around these parts, but tie!
must have been a most interesting j
conversationalist.
Los Angeles, Sept. 30.—With a
story as startling as true, and with
a bride of Indian blood, George
Hunt arrived at a swell hotel here
and registered from Iditarod.
Hunt left New V irk several
yeas ago as a “news butcher,” and
soon heard tales of Alaskan gold
He went to Dawson. From there
he went to Fairbanks and arrived
there at the time of the first Idita
rod stampedes. Into these lie
plunged, became lost and might
have perished had he not stumbled
across the camp of Indians.
The daughter of tlie old chief
took a likingto him. He wasshown
places where gold was to be found.
He uncovered claims on the Mc
Kenzie river that brought him in
$100,000, and these claims he still
holds.
While he worked the chief's
daughter brought him delicacies
from her home and he taught her
American cooking.
He was taken into the tribe and
the chief gave him his daughter.
The ceremony was performed by
one of the tribal priests i.i the
rites of the fantastic faith, a biend
ing of old Indian, Russian and
more modern doctrines.
WOMAN KLONDIKER OF ’98
SUING EASTERN MERCHANTS
Belinda A. Mulrooney Carbonneau,
according to an Eastern paper, has
sued Tiffany & Co, for $11,540, and
Ravillon Freres for $6,400 for the loss
of valuables said to have been placed
by her in the care of these houses
when she went to France with her
husband, the “Count.” The paper de
scribes Mrs. Carbonneau as a woman
who made $1,000,000 in the Klondike.
Bob Martin has disposed of one-thir.l
of his Ruby holdings to Shaw & Bag
! gerlv, receiving $5,000 and the balance
| of $10,000 in instalments.
DISSOLUTION NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the part
nership between A. G. Dickinson and
■T. S. Duffy. of the Arcade U siaurunt,
Fiat City, lias been dissolved. All out
standing bills contracted during the
sdd patttiership will lie paid by A. G.
Dickinson; all bills owing to (he above
firm should be paid ai once to A. G.
Dickinson. J. S DiTrT’i'.
A G. DICKINSON.
Duled Dec. 23. 1911.
Quitclaim deed blanks—Pioneer.
NOTICE T3 TAXPAYERS
Notice is hereby given that the tax
books of the town of Iditarod, Alaska,
have been delivered to t he undersigned,
municipal treasurer of the said town of
Iditarod, for tint collection of taxes
thereon, and that the undersigned will
accept the payment of taxes at the
Miners & Merchants Bank at Iditarod.
Alaska, on any day, except Sundays
and legal holidays, between the hours
of 10 o'clock a.m. and 2 o'clock p.m.
A rebate of 10 percent, will he allowed
on all taxes paid prior to Eehruurv 1,
1012. E. G. LINDBERG.'
Municipal Treasurer.
Annual assessment work blanks at
Pioneer office.
In the Court of the Commissioner for
Otter Precinct, f ourth Division. Ter
ritory of Alas.ka.—F. G. Noyes, as
Receiver of the Washington-Alaska
Bank, a corporation. Plaintiff, vs.
Geo. R. Shirley and V. O. Green, de
fendants. — No. 75. — Summons for
Publics! ion.
[Tie President of the United Slates, to
Geo. ft. Shirley, one of the defend
ants in the above entitled cause,
greeting:
7 on aro hereby repaired to appear
before the Undersigned, a justice of the
the peace " Oner Prcci.’ jt, District
of Alaska, withi. thirty 0 .vs from the
date of the last pubiicaiio of this sum
mons, at the office ol tie- nited States
Commissioner, in the Mb rs and Mer
chant-, hank building:, 1 i arm;, Alaska,
to answer tire complaint of the p'air -
tiff above named in the above entitled
cause, wherein they demand seven
hundred and sixty-one dollars, costs
and attorney- fees and disbursements
therein, and in case yon fail to so
appear and answer, judgment will lie
granted against you and in their favor
for tile said amounts and the property
attached in the above entitled cause
will be sold to pay such judgment.
lilts summons is published pursuant
to an order of publication made by the
judge of itie above entitled court
December llMi. 1911.
The date of first publication is
December Kith, 1911. and the dat e of the
last publication is January 13tli, 1912.
Wit ness t lie official sea! and signa
ture of the judge of the above entitled
court.
K. M. STANTON.
U. S. Commissioner and ex-officio
Justice of the Peace.
In th • Justice’s Court, District of Alaska,
Fourth Division, Otter Precinct.
Starr Ballard, Frank Chew and J. I.
Jean, plaintiffs, vs. RothchiM Br.»--.t i
corporation, defendant. - No. 75.
Summons for Publication.
'i he President of the United States, to
Rothchild Bios., a corporation, gic 1
ing*.
You are hereby required to appear ’
fore the uudersigned, a justice ot t.
peace for Otter precinct. District
Alaska, within thirty days from the <0?
of the last publication of this sunimo:
at the office of the United St.iU- cm-.
missioner, in the Miners, oc Merchant
bank buildiug, Iditarod, Alaska, to an
swer the complaint of Starr Ballard,
Frank Chew and J. I,. Jean, plaintiffs
above named in the above entitled cause,
wherein they demand one hundred and
fifty dollars, costs, and attorney’s fees
amounting to seventy-five dollars, and
in ease you fail to so appear and answe r
judgment will be granted again.-.t • < 1
and in their favor for the said
and the property attached in the ah
sniffled c ruse will be sold to pay Mich
judgment;
This summons is published pursuant
to »u order of publication m..d-* bv the
judge of the above entitled court De
cember 8, 191 j.
The date of the first publicati - 1
December 9, 1911, and the date o: t ..
last publication is January 6, 1912.
\Vi 1NFSS the official seal and sign..
1 lure of the judge of the above entitled
i court. K. M. STANTON,
U. S. Commissioner and ex-ofticio
justice of tile Peace.
Notice of Marshal’s Sale
: United States of America, i
1 Fourth District of Alaska. \ s'*
Public notice is hereby giver., that F\
virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias or execu
tion), dated December 8th, A. I), loir,
, issued out of the District Court of the
j United States for the Fourth District of
! Alaska on a judgment rendered in s r.d
K'ouri. on the 12th d; y of OctdF r. A. D.
,19*. 1, in favor of Finest Sleater and
against. John Haiusvn, 1 l.ave. on this
1 13th dry of December, A. l>. u,n lev: 1
; upon the following described re 1 estate,
situated in Otter Precinct and ’Arrr.urv
j of Alaska, to wit: All of tile right, title
j and interest of John Hansen in and to
'the ground known .r.d described as the
Idaho Association Placer Mining Claim,
situate at the head of Flat Creek, in the
Otter Recording District of Alaska, and
1 that I will, accordingly, offer said real
' estate for sale, at public vendue to the
highest and best bidder, for cash, on the
8th day of January, A. C. 1912, at 11
o’clock a. ci., at the front door of the
Marshal’s office in the town of Iditarod.
Territory of Alaska.
Dated, Iditarod, Alaska, December
13th, A. D. 1911. II. K. LOVE,
: U. S. Marshal, Fourth District of Alaska.
By H. P. Sheppari, Deputy.
E- Coke Hill, Plaintiffs Attorney
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PASSENGERS FREIGHT EXPRESS
Leaves Griffin’s Store, Flat City at 8:30 a.m.; leaves Budweiscr corner, ■
Iditarod at 3 p.m., daily except Sunday. ]
Goods consigned to Upper Flat and Offer Greeks delivered;
same day as received for shipment
GRAND HOTEL, FLAT CiTY
Nicely urnlshefl aoms Flrst-CUss Cafa Liquors and Cigars Pool and Billiards
_N. GLANTZ AND MRS. SWANSON
First Class in Fact First Ave., Iditarod
BEATTIE HOUSE
Furnisbed Bums, Bith Booms, spring Cots Sood Stables Adjacent
Drink Eastern Beer “-i
Miner’s Home Saloon]
THE HOmF^F~THE~^QUAKER MAID”
Foot of Willow St., Iditarod