IDITAROD PIONEER j
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THE COMING MUNICIPAL ELECTION
The circumstances of the case call forth the injunction
to Iditarod residents, Get busy, or forever after refrain
from butting in.
Three members of the city council are to be elected the
17th of this month. This is nearly half the board; it is
quite enough to constitute a strong fighting force, if there
is anything in the municipal situation calculat ;d to raise
the public’s dander. If there is not anything that may
develop frictional heat (and nothing of the kind is visible
on the surface), then every citizen should be happy to iden
tify himself with the peaceful state of affairs. Seriously, it
is a debt of duty people owe to themselves and to their
neighbors to take an active interest in the city’s affairs.
In consideration of the facts, therefore, it is urged that
the matter of selecting candidates may be given due and
speedy attention; and especially is it pleaded that the gen
tlemen upon whom the honors fall take up their burdens;
cheerfully and without groans. By so doing they will earn
the public’s gratitude, whether they are ever paid in full
or not. _
TRANSMUTATION OF METALS
For many centuries the theory that the baser metals
may be transmuted into gold has attracted the interest of
experimenters, but so far nature has been refractory and
the al lemists have been frustrated. For some time Wizard
E isou has been known to be devoting a portion of his
w aide ful mental resources to an attempt to bring about a
redization of the age-long dream, and to him "is tlue in
gi iat measure present-day interest in the problem. In
France a few weeks ago Mr. Edison was questioned about
his recen’ statements with regard to the possibility of man
uf iring gold. “Only a matter of time,” he replied.
“1 discovery of a proper combination and treatment ot
metal is bound to come soon; it may arrive tomorrow. It
makes some of you goldbugs shake a little, doesn’t it? But
scientist!: all over the world are working at metal combina
tions and the crucible will betray things sooner or later—
and + lien what about those clauses in contracts to pay in
gold coin of standard weight and fineness? Supposing the
railroids suddenly become able to pay their bonds in gold
whir i tlmy know how to manufacture at a cost of only £5 a
t n. Mark my words, it will come.”
is not meet for the layman to pass judgment on so
j >f und a scientific problem as Mr. Edison and his broth
wisdom are pondering; nevertheless it may be stated
as an abstract principle that the mere fact of so many
learned men devoting their time to the undertaking century
after century is a strong argument that solution of the
problem is possible—for thought cannot run indefinitely in
a course not sanctioned by natural law.
On the other hand, it is easily within the province ol
the least learned to speculate on the consequence should
Mr. Edison’s predictions become fact. Had it not been for
tin gold the world would not have progressed as it has—
.■online ourselves to comparatively recent times, the Aus
tralian continent and a large part of North America (with
Alaska certainly included) would probably at present be
almost totally devoid of white population. The wide dis
tribution of gold has attracted men to the remotest regions
of the world, where they have carried civilization and from
First Class in Fact First Ave., Iditarod
BEATTIE HOUSE
Furnished Rooms, Bath Rooms, Spring Cots Good Stables Adjacent
Short Orders and Meals
Model RESTAURANT.... j
Willow Street
DAN DANIELS, DROP.
Meats
CALL UP flBl w ^ 'Ca '^E®*'
IDITAROD MEAT CO.
Iditarod, Phone 15 Flat City, Phone 20
Fresh Mutton, Por/r auc/ Fea/
Drink Eastern Beer -1
Miner’s Home Salopn\
THE HOME OF THE "QUAKER MAID” |
Foot of Willow St., Iditarod %
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JUST RECEIVED fulllinkuk
Summit Military Collar Shirts, Scotch Wool
Sweaters, Moccasins, Parkays, Etc.
HEADQUARTERS FOR
Hart, Schatmer & Marx Clothing and Nettleton Shoes
t GOLDSTKIN 30
A HOME-COOKED DINNER AT
The 'offee House,
From S to 7 p.m
_ _FoIvIq & Paterson, Props.
C. J, Hurley, President J. P. Gleason, Vice President A. Bruning, Cashier
American
Corner First Ave, and Richmond St., Iditarod
CAPITAL $50,000,00, FOLLY PAID lil CASH
General Banking Business Transacted Upon Liberal, 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.
I SNYDER HOUSE “l~s,
l'LAl' CITY T'el. 7 Large Drying Room
FOB FRESH GOODS AND FAIR TREATMENT
Try McMahonFla,Gi,y
LET HIM FIGURE ON YOUR OUTFIT
_General erchandise
Don’t Get Lonesome
Drop Into the |j ^ajj ge
Manuel Gularte, F. B. Fonta^
) Proprietors (
There Are Stii! a Few of Us Left
HAL5!A£?IFFiS' General Merchants,
D13KAJIET MINERS' SUPPLIES 4 SPECIALTY
whence strength of body, of mind and of morals is con
stantly flowing back to keep the older peoples from letro
gression and final decay. The placing of gold on the cheap
level of articles of ordinary manufacture would change all
this. Perhaps the change is near at hand anyhow, for the
conquest of the earth is almost finished. As to the imme
diate effect on industry, that should receive no insuperable
shock. In fact it might appear to one of a speculative turn
of mind that the elimination of gold from the problem
would simplify matters and lead to the adoption of a uni
versal Socialism, with the kind of millennium that would
inevitably attend it.
TO REVOLUTIONIZE
FREIGHT CARRYING
The first caterpillar traction eti
gine shipped to the country is now
at Fairbanks, and was to have been
put in operation a couple of weeks
ago by the owners, Parkin, Sayers
& Pinkerton. If as successful there
as elsewhere these engines w ill rev
olutiouize the freighting business
of the camp, either in the woods or
on the trail, in winter and in sum
mer.
This particular caterpillar engine
is of a 6o-horsepower gasoline type,
with a hauling capacity of thirty
horses. It has a single steering
wheel in front, and rests on two of
the caterpillas treads, 16 inches in
width.
The machine weighs 9 tons and
cost $4,000 on the Outside. It will
be used in bringing strings of trail
ers to and from the creeks and the
woods.
Experiments made last winter
with one ot the engines of this type
on the Whitehorse trail show that
it cannot be stopped by any ordi
nary fall of snow. This 45-horse
power steam-driven engine was
taken from Whitehorse down the
river and down the lake through
unbroken snow three feet deep with
a string of trailers.
Moreover, after the engine has
gone through the snow it leaves a
good Mail for other vehicles.
Old Lacey, Tyler, Monogram, Ather
ton and Cedarbrook, also fine old Port
Sherr.v and C'iartts at Empire Com
mercial Co.
Gleaned
and >
Repaired /
First- I
Class \
Made to
Order |
THE PIONEER
» Tailor
Second Ava. Phone 68
Is Sulzer Crazy, or
Did Somebody Lie?
Numerous people have been sent
from Alaska to the Mount Tabor
sanitarium whose symptoms did
not as certainly indicate a disor
dered mind as dc the strange hallu
cinations attributed to Congressman
William Sulzer by the author of the
remarkable press clipping reprinted
below. It was found in the Fair
banks Times, and it is to be hoped
either that paper or its news agent
has lied horribly—else Sulzer b
’‘bugs" as suie as fate:
Seattle, August 20.—The sensation
created by Washington B. Vanderlip,
of New York, cousin of F. A. Vander
lip, president of the National City
3unk of New York, when he stated
that Alaskans would revolt because of
the government's refusal to hasten the
opening of the Alaska coal lands, were
as nothing compared to that created
when Congressman William Sulzer’s
interview was cabled down from Ketch
ikan early today.
Sulzer arrived there together with
Secretary of the Interior Fisher. Sul
zer declares that troops will have to be
sent Into Alaska in the immediate fu
ture, as a revolt by the pioneers seems
certain. He believes the formation ol
rille and gun clubs at Fairbanks and
other Alaska cities have a sinister pur
pose.
He will introduce three radical bills
affecting Alaska as a result of bis trip
to Alaska this season, and he outlined
them at length.
Colorado River
Plays New Prank
The Colorado river, which gained
world notoriety a few yea.s ago b\
changing its channel and causing
the Sal ton sea to cover the spac;
formerly occupied by an immense
area of desert land, has sprung an
other sensation down where tilt
cacti flourish and tne horned toads
grow.
The river was ’tending prett>
much to its own business when the
couset vationists came along with
an augmented sense of the superi
ority of their mental calculus ovet
the laws of nature. They said
"Behold, we will build a great dam
and sell to people places vvhereoi
they can raise enough lor them
selves and have left for us a large
amount also.” Straightway the
dam was built. It was a good and
expensive dam. The river could
not break it; so it sluiced out a war
| around, destroyed six'y-five miler
of railroad and put a great sea
which was not wanted where thc
irack had been, and did other dam
age on a big scale. The conserva
tionists said, ‘‘We’ll fix it if any
body will furnish the money.”
Uncle Sam said, “All right,” and
planked down a few million dollars
A year or so later the eminent en
gineers who had taken the mattei
in hand reported to this effect;
"We’ve got her back in her own
bed, but it’ll take about two million
more to keep her there.” That, too,
was all right with the Uncle, who
still thought he had a bargain in
the big dam.
Therefore, his disappointment
must have been sore when he got
his paper the other morning and
read that the dammed old river had
done the unexpected again and
played a prattle that has upset all
the plans entirely. But so it is
Through an underground passage
that the engineers didn’t know
I anything about the Colorado, tiver
outlaw, has escaped and is con flu
encing with the Gulf of California in
the wrong place. No official re
port of the occurrence has reached
here, so it is not worth while to
speculate on the amount of money
it will take to bring the river back
onto the reservation again.
GEORGE E. BAKER WITH
AMERICAN BARK OF ALASKA
George E. Baker, until recently book
keeper for Brumbaugh & Hamilton,
has accepted a position with the Amer
ican Bank of Alaska.
Mr. Baker is an accountant widely
known in Northern business circles.
He was at Fairbanks before coming to
Iditarod.
1 resident Hurley of the bank is now
absent from the city.
Save the pieces! broken tenses re
placed at Simpson's.
Get My Price
on Your Outfit
Positively the Best Grades
at the Lowest Prices
in iditarod,
SAUL. APPLEBAUM,
Wholesale Groceries and Outfitting
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THE SEXTON
It was a bent and withered knave j
who labored in a frozen grave with
all his grisly tools, and muttered,
with his wintry tongue: “ They
come to me, the old, the young, the
children from the schools; they
come to me among the tombs, with
sable steeds and nodding plumes,
the sightless and the dumb; from
lowly huts and crumbling walls,
from palaces with sculptured balls,
they come to me, they come! They
shun me in the light of day, for I
with dust of tombs am gray, a thing
of fear to men; but when the long
night closes in, on pomp, and vanity
and sin, they seek the sexton then !
In winter’s cold and summer’s heat,
from country lane and city street,
from vineyard and from slum, from
gay saloon and house of woe, from
places high and places low, they
come to me, they come.” A
stranger stalked among the graves,
and called this dreariest of knaves :
“My name is Death,” said he; “and
when I call a soul away, even the
sexton must obey — so come, my
friend with me ! ”—Walt Mason.
SEWARD TRAIL
TRAVEL TO BE
CONSIDERABLE
The exodus witnessed from this camp
during the past few weeks practically
ended with the departure of the Sam
son from Dikeraan, and although a few
venturesome ones continue to leave
travel on an extensive scale is atanend
until after the freezeup.
Travel over the Seward trail will be
much heavier than last year—the work
of the Road Commission shortening
the journey by many miles.
About the middle of this month a few
wili leave Flat for Seward, but judg
ing by last year’s experiences it is
doubtful if much time will be saved
by starting out before ample snow- has
fallen. A party which left Iditarod as
'ate as December 12 last with dogs oc
cupied 31 days on the journey to
Resurrection bay-.
Charles Knell, Eddie McArdle and
several others expect to get away
about November 1 It is the desire of
this party to reach Susitna station in
time to catch the last A. C. Co. boat
for Sew-ard, and thus save the 180 miles
of bad trail between those two places.
It is said that roadhouses are met
with at fairly regular intervals, and
travel is likely to bo fairly heavy.
DISSOLUTION NOTICE
The law copartnership heretofore ex
isting at Idirarod, Alaska, between
Thus. A. McGowan, John A. Clark and
Geo. W. Albrecht, under the firm name
and style of McGowan, Clark & Al
brecht, is dissolved as of the close of
business August 31, 1911.
Geo. W. Albrecht will close up the
business, collecting all accounts and
paying all bills.
Thos. A. McGowan.
John A. Clark.
ot.2l Geo. W. Albrecht. I
Dr. Heinrich Wortmann,
Physician and Surgeon
Office at City Drug Store, Tel. 30
First Ave., Bet. Willow and Richmond
Office Hours—u to i, 3 to 4, 7 to 8
CHAS. D. CARTER,
Dentist
Offices, Pioneer Drug Stores,
Flat Creek
DR. F. V/. HERMS,
Dentist
Dr. Wortmann’s Office,
First Avenue and Willow Street
DR. H. BEHLA,
Dentist
Gold St., Flat City, Opp. Grand Hotel
Phone 4
ALFRED E. MALT BY,
Attorney at Law
Notary Public
Office Simpson Bldg, First and Willow
J. S. HARDING,
Attorney at Law
Room 1, Iditarod Hotel
Iditarod. Alaska
CHAS. E. TAYLOR,
Attorney at Law,
Notary Public, Conveyancing,
Abstracts of Titles
flat City
Wickersham 6c Roden,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Iditarod, Alaska
E. CGKE HILL,
Attorney at Law
M. & M. Bank Bldg, Iditarod. Alaska.
GEORGE WOODRUFF ALBRECHT,
Attorney at Law
Michigan, *81 Alaska, '10 Ontucky, J1
The Pioneer Attorney of this Camp
OF ALL KINl*S
CLEANED AM REPAIRED
Second-is-tP"" Furs Bought
WILLOW ST.
H. SCHLA P1K
Films Developed
And All Kinds of Photographic
Work Done.
MISS TJERNSTRQM, MCDONALD BLDG
If you want your freight see Byers
& Co. They will guarantee to deliver
freight front Dikeman three days after
receiving expense bill at any stage of
water. _
It is reported that the Manley hotel
at Hot Springs will be closed during
the winter.
IDITAROD HOTEL
First-Glass Accommodations Your Patronage solicited
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FOOT OF WILLOW STREET. PHONE 76
A Place to Eat