CANVAS __TENJTS^__TA RHTULINS^^ HOSE
.. Special —
A Few Pairs of
Ladies Felt Shoes
LEATHER-COVERED AND ALL FELT
H. Bobs, Leading Clothlor
HART. SCHAFFN E R & MARX and CHESTERFIELD CLOTHES
\ A Slmnbeck w. - a vi<itoi n the virv
v n 1 ue>da> last
John Hagoy and hi- famil> were among
the ll ii (:»> \ < *nlt* who < ame m to al
[• id tl <• kilgor* funeral
Among the Mat (htv people present at
• • Kilgore funeral were C K I’enlv. Mr.
> : 1 ks n. Mr and Mts. T. 1 Me
i Mr.- Cl Mutchler Jerry 11 rd.
B Hart VV ill tn I a\h r and Grant Mur
Ain- Wei-- wa< in : h * * city from Mat 1 ;i-*t
M :: : ;>
Pro!--- - Charle- Brapeau, the aim:-"
: m amrU’f. was in the city from Satur
i. ..y u Mi :ida\ !.*.-'. making arrangement -
for tl.- lahi.rate hall to he given at Flat
<\ y : night.
A1 Walsh was a visitor ni the city for
a • oi;r•!■• of days during the past week.
Tom Aitkcn and "Red" Kills arriveil in
Seward n Friday November 6. according
; i t telegram received by business associate-.
W >rd c .mo from Takotna that Thomas
delivered himself of remarks derogatory :■>
the mental capacity of a man who will
• t.ri on at. extended journey with a dog
ti am before snow falls.
• iii : u< a\ N »vemb< r o electioi
a bain gitl weighing eight and a. half
j :;m:- w - imrn t - M; md Mrs. O-c ."
l.t id ami tin } :i ud parents arc re
ceiving the congratulation- of jheir many
ii. m- on the advent of the little suffru
g :te
Many burning parties have been out in
the hills recently, but wi;ii imum-rent suc
c. Thu- a; i ar.- to be an off year f* r
game.
R* ul winter weather set in last Saturday,
ami has •■mitimied since that tune, CMd
v.;nds ha\e pro ailed, and the mercury has
We Have only a small stock of
Christmas Goods this season,
and you had better send in your
orders early. Send cut your
Christmas cards now. Your peo'
pie and friends will be pleased
to know you have not forgotten
them. We are better prepared
to do Photo Work than ever.
Send us your films to develop.
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,n Iditarod. also the Finest Selection of
Souvenir Cards in Iditarod
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Buy Your X-IVlas
Gifts Early
Full Line of Fine Linens and the En
velope Pillow Cases. Novelties for both
iadies and gentlemen in the new Art
Leather Goods. Fancy Pin Cushions,
Work Bags, Calendar. Porpurri Jars,
Sweet Sachet Bags, Baybsrry Candles.
FULL LINE OF
ALL NEW NOVELTIES
MISS PETERSON, S0STAR00
Corner First and Richmond
hovered near the zero point, and for the
first lime rite river has been frozen solid.
As yet there is not enough snow fur ded
ding. much t- the inconvenience of the
w ml haulers.
Frank Morgan, who has had charge of
the dining room department of Fullerton’s
hotel at Dikeman during the past six
im nth.', arrived in I htarod last Tuesday
aften.'.(in. He is at th<* Adams house.
N 1 M. St ant m. the rising young bar
ris’.'T. sauntered to Flat City last Tuesday
night. Other than to make observation
from the Summit that the moon changed
as advertised on the currm® calendar,
the citizen did not make his urgent errand
to the creek metropolis known.
The hunting party headed by Ira Woods
has been having . ome success, and Harry
I.arson and Joiusey" brought in some of
the game shot this week.
Frank I.arson and Bert Thor,sen are away
on a hunt ng expedition.
RATIONALISM IS OUR MOTTO
The In ..l ag power of the Turkish Bath
will overt me all prejudice by a careful
trial. The benefit of the bath on skin
diseases hardly rmeds emphasizing.
The three million pores an* flushed, the
glands are relieved from congestion, and the
blood i- oxvgeimted, therefore reacting b« in
fit i ally < n :i -kirn
The skin is the regulator of the bo lily
temp* ratui", and the preserver of the in
ternal or. au> from infection.
Keep this wonderful organ in good con
dition and half the battle over disease is
won.
THi; CROSBY MA-SAGi: AND BATH
PARLORS
Preaching to the Poor
\t the close .-f the ser\iece a certain New
’ York city mini'ter ad: “Brethren, 1 have
! been earnestly trying to reach the poor of
New York and have been urgently inviting
l them to rmme to church. 1 infer from the
amount of the collection just taken kk 7,">
that they have come! Lx.
THE PIONEER SALOON I
Has Just Received From f
GROMMES & ULLRICH ♦
$5,000 Worth of |
National Club, Marquette Rye and Monogram Whiskeys, Imported J
Port, Sherries, Brandies, G;ns, in balk and case, Porter, Ale, Cham- J
pagne, Burgundy. Also the Celebrated AMERICAN GIRL CiGARS. %
Phone “Ramps” PSOMEER SALOON|
....
MORE BARGAINS |
Besides Eia’ne Oil at $6.00 per case ♦
Wc are selling more New Toilet Articles, Patent Medicines and Cut Glass, which £
have just arrived, at greatly reduced prices ^
YUKON SLEDS SNOWSHOES BABICHE ♦
SI WASH MITTS SLEIGH BELLS I
HORSE BLANKETS t
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THIRD DIVISION
CORDOVA, Nov. 13.—The election for delegate in the Ihnd judi
cial division resulted:
Wickersham 1.29 2
Bunnell _ .............. 969
Brooks 167
Tom Price, Democrat, leads Judge Hubbard, Wickershamite, for
senator for this division. The vote is very close, and it will require
the official count to decide the contest.
FIRST DIVISION
Wickersham. 1,337
Bunnell i ,078
Brooks 12!
Charles Sulzer, Democrat, was elected to the territorial senate.
SECOND DIVISION
NOME, Nov. 13.—In the Second judicial division the election for
delegate to congress resulted:
Wickersham . 649
Bunnell ... 534
Brooks. 127
Successful Legislative Candidates
Frank Aldrich, who was a member of the First Alaska legislature
as a representative, was elected to the senate to succeed Conrad breed
ing one of the “seven signing senators,” who is now a resident of
Seattle.
The new representatives are James P. Daly, a brother of the late
Alfred J. Daly, who was the Democratic national committeeman for
Alaska at the time of his death two years ago; Nate Coombs, Martin
Moran and W. W. Jcthrell.
Charles D. Jones, a member of the First Alaska legislature, who was
identified with the anti-labor legislation that was considered at that
session, was defeated for re-election.
FOURTH DIVISION
FAIRBANKS, Nov. 7.—Election returns from the ou’sicle divisions
are coining in very slowly. Present figures available for the whole of
Alaska show:
Wickersham.. . . 5,1 18
Bunnell . 3,284
Brooks. 82 1
The Fourth division, with about 400 cotes still to hear from, gives
the following figures:
Wickersham... 1,608
Bunnell . .. . 668
Brooks .. ..... .. -- .. 431
Thirty small precincts are yet to be heard from, the largest oi which
is V iseman, m the Koyukuk d strict.
ihe estimated cote this year is about the same as two years ago,
the women’s votes making up for the decrease in population in the
Interior.
Wickersham carries every division, the Second and Hurd by small
pluralities. It is reported that the Non-partisan or Wickersham legis
lative tickets have been elected in all districts.
Bunnell lost his heme town of Valdez by 100 votes.
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Pure and sweet. Once you try it. you will eat no other. Insist
on getting it
Sami Applebaum
And All Other Goods That Are Necessary for
Winter Wear
The Home of Hart, SchafFner & Marx Clothes
Yes, this is a fine fall.
No, 1 don’t know when it’s going to snow.
Yes, it’s all right for the wood choppers.
No, it isn’t any good for the wood haulers.
Oh, we’ll have a change of moon next week some time.
For any further information or for your winter’s outfit call on
OLD MAN PECK
FLAT
■.wt’wiTtrxft WTMMunrwniiiTrfrB^aarrii ■■ ■■■■■■—
HOW PETER THE HERMIT
INSTIGATED THE CRUSADES
Peter the Hermit was a wandering monk.
He was also a dwarf, misshapen of form
and thick-bearded of face. He had a gift
of eloquence that lifted men out of them
selves and stirred them to a mad zeal.
Silling astride a donkey in the central
! square of a French city one day in the
; eleventh century, and waving a great cru
cifix above his head, Peter preached to
the surrounding throng a sermon that
awoke in his hearers’ heart a mighty im
pulse. This impulse was fed by later ser
no ns and exhortations from the dwarf ora
tor until it blazed forth at last into a holy
war a war which did not die out for hun
dreds of years.
Peter, in his impassioned sermon, re
j minded the crowd that the holy sepulcher
j and the other sacred landmarks and shrines
of Pah: 1 ine were in *he hands of Moham
medan- to mutilate or destroy at wiil
■ and that Christians could make pilgrimages
| to the Holy Land only at great peril and
| by permission of the country’s Moslem mas
! tors.
Europe was ripe for a religious revival,
i And the revival, quickened into life by
i Peter’s fiery eloquence, took the form of a
mighty resolve to free Jerusalem from the
clutch of the unbelievers. The movement
j spread with incredible force and speed.
A host of men from all stations in life
: dropped their* work, left their homes and
'followed Peter the Hermit across Hungary
! and to Constantinople on their way to Pal
i estine.
They were blit a small fraction of the
full tide of humanity that surged eastward
on the first < f the several efforts to cap
ture Jerusalem. The cry, “Deus Yult!
/• God wills it !” > was raised. The pope and
i nearly every other civilized monarch urged
mi the enterprise. The badges < f the sol
diers who marched to the holy war were
m the form of a cross. From this the
movement was known as the “( rusade, a
, term that . • ill survives to denote many
an enterprise which is in no way connected
with religion.
Godfrey do Bouillon, Duke of Lorraine,
led a h •-? to tiw Holy Land in Hi.
: army included natives of many countries
I* comprised princes and paupers, friars and
hl"ns, seers and peasants.
Godfrey won a continuous line of vic
tories. thrashing every M hammedan army
gain.-t him II 1 Jer
: afior .1 short siege, and after taking the
Holy City, th- Crmaders wantonly baP-h
ertd thoiii-aiids of Moslem women and fhil
( ion, ■• aining with horrible barbarity their
< .v'ediiion's .-acred purpose. Gmlfrev was
! cho.-i-n king of Jen; \ in. But In- 1 sign
wa- .-hort.
A second crt;- ide cMitenl ar< und an of
f rt i > c: ’ure ! >•••:.- "is. It was a fizzle.
After the (Tri.-iians had occupied Jerusa
lem for • i :hty eight years they lost their
I; Id ■ n the place. The M fins recap
tured the If ly ('it}- and they have held it
| ever since.
A third and even more pretentious cru
IKK) in
Jeru.-;.! *m. King Richard I of England
C Lc n Heart”) was its prime mover. From
the start, its leaders -nsrfd and quarreled
among themsch . Petty jealousies were
rife. One chief the king id France —de
cried his fellows and went home in a
huff. A few minor triumphs that led to
nothing marked the cour.-e of the third
crusade. But on the whole it was a ghastly
1 and ridiculous failure. The squabbles of
the leaders at last broke up the army anil
sent it straggling back to Europe with no th
ine accomplished.
After this there were other crusades, some
big. some little; none of them achieving any
measure of success. Pitifully tragic among
these was tin* Children’s Crusade, perhaps
the most pathetic in history.
About 50,000 children, in 1212, set out
for Palestine. All were little. Some were
scarcely more than babies. People hail
j grown to feel that the failure of other
crusades had been due to the wickedness
of the men engaged in them. The crazy
: idea was advanced that through the pure
hands of children alone would heaven grant
, the restoration of the Holy Land.
The children went forth, by their parents’
i orders, on what was intended as a miracu
lous conquest. They believed what they
were told. The poor little people died by
the thousands from illness or exposure or
starvation Mo>t of the survivors were
! seized and sold as slaves. Scarcely any of
the 50,000 lived to come home again.— Al
I ben PaysoB Terhune.
Emperor William of Germany, who is a
member of the Prussian state church, is
leading in flans for the observance of the
[ 100th anniversary of the German reforma
tion. This occurs in 1917. and Lutherans
; all over the world will celebrate, it comes
three years before the Puritan celebration in
this coutnry, in 1920.
Assessment Work Blanks at Pioneer.
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Ail “Wool Pants
Heavy Tweeds, Plain Gray and Mixtures
Mackinaws, Blue and Brown, pair,
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IDITARCD DISCOVERY, OTTER
I
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The effort of The Pioneer to interest the
I people of this district in the appeal of the
| American P d Cross Society for funds to
relieve distress and suffering in the war zone
of Europe, in accordance with the request
l of the Fairbanks committee, has so far met
with little re-pome. The urgent need for
funds for this purpose, the fact that d'-pite
everything that can be done by the philan
I thropic people of the world, much suffering
| will necessarily be unrelieved, does not seem
to have impressed itself upon our read
ers as yet. It is probably a case of “what
is everybody’s business is nobody’s,” and
i perhaps it needs the element of personality
in the matter. It is no doubt true that
were a single person, or a committee, to
j canvass the district, urge the need for funds
and explain the objects of the Red Cross
moiety, liberal donatir ns would pour ii..
Every little village and hamlet in th-*
civilized v.; rid is at present doing its part
in this noble work, and the fact that I« ita
rod is apathetic in the matter is greatly to
be regretted.
The luon* u r will k op open it- subscrip
tion list until December E when the
amount subscribed will be sent to Fair
banks. Subscriptions may fee made at the
Miners iV Merchants Bank.
Contributions Received
Cash.$10.DO
Cash. 5.00
GRAND THANKSGIVING BAIL
TO BE GIVEN BY A. B.’S
Kl.ibi rate [ r ■; ^rations are i \ng made
by the entertainment committee of Can:;»
1 '.itarod. A. B. for '.he grand ball t i be j
given on Thank.-gi ving eve, November 2">. '
The fund • a i.- .-tyled a turkey tr -t
' whatever that nia% be1, and it i.- sugge>
tive of the Thank.-gi vug fe. rivitie- Trm
' commit;ee. which i.- con.p'.-td of Percy G.
( Gailo-. iieri) Uiiey aim A. Ik Maltby, j
as.-urt - everyone of a good time, with .-[den- j
did mu-'c and the clo-es; attention to the j
( mion of the dancers. The 1 all will be
ning f he
program. arid it is hoped that a good attend
a:.ee will reward the effor;.- of the camp
to pro-.ide entertainment for the people of
the city and district
SOCIAL ENTERTAINMENT
TO FOLLOW INSTALLATION
The installation of the new officers of
. ! (i No. -7. Arctic Brotheri.nod.
which has been twice postponed, will take |
n 1 ' next Jos h H.
Smith, ; - deputy Grand Arctic Chief, will I
emid :d the v r. mony.
At 9v>‘i, after th • business session of the
camp, the doors will be thrown open and
the general public is invited to attend a
social entertainment to be given by the
camp, which will consist of vocal and in
strumental mu-ic and other features, to
ronciude v.ith a lunch and informal dance.
No t Ini: -!< n wiil be charged to this (nter
taiiunent. and the committee in charge ex
, tends a cordial invitation to all members
! and non-members alike, to be their guests.
! A special invitation is extended to the
| ladies.
Al Walsh left Thursday for a short visit
to Donlin creek.
FOR SALE—Two fast dogs, one Iri-h set
ter. one shepherd. Inquire of J. J
Smith, Iditarod.
FOUND—Near my residence, a sack con
taining one hammer, two dry-cell- and
package of horse-hoe nails. J. J. Smith.
FLAT GTY LADIES WILL
GIVE DANCE NOVEMBER 26
The la lies f 1 iat ( .
ing preparations for their annual Chr..-.trims
tree and dance, which they hove decided
will he free to all for adul’- of the com
munity as well as the “kiddies In order
to boost the fund for providing entertain
ment at Chri-tmas, the ladif ~ have decided
to give a dance a' M ose hall, Hat (ty.
Thanksgiving night. Novell.-: er 2d. for v. . < i
cvent an admi-.-ion fee of $2.50 will be
churged. including the lunch to he .-served
by the promoters. The entire proceeds of
the Thanksgiving fiance will go m: • Th
fund f'*r the big t.'hnsr party. ’ll:
ladies have secured good music for the af
fair, and it is needle- to state that the
lunch feature will be A1
JOLLY TIME ON FLAT CREEK
On Thursday evening last, on tipper Flat
(reck, dohn Holmgren and Billy Bevu
were the hosts at a jolly feast, at which a
number of congenial friends met at the fes
tive board end enjoyed a “cold bottle and
a hot bird." From the meager report? ob
tained T- of the joyous event, we find no
negative opinions expressed as to it.- sue
ee—. bur all agree that they could wish for
nothing be= ter Pi the line of sub-t an*’.a!
entertaining. Those pr:--n? w»-re- Messrs.
Tom McKinnon, Barney \\ ,14i. Harry
Tfaritis. A1 Wal-h. Angus M < B >
McDi nalfl, Billy Bevi: > and J. hn li b-.
eren
NEW KIND OF SLED
Hurry Punter, the roaster -id builder,
k busily engaged in constructing a large
d'"i fir 1’. (i:\.\t Norton, to b. u>'d this
winter on the biirartfl-Sewar*: tr-ol. lhe
Med. which i< being bind • n tduns fur
nished by Mr. Nnon will : •* •. • r twelve
feet in length, in tide of lo rd, ckar-gntin
wi od, ai uci.ly ribbed an i e veo-i with
heavy < mvas. in 'Trier to it.uk ■ *:••• ui’.: ■
body of it waterpro f :.'id re . -:*• k •’•!'• ’ti
case a stretch of water i> encounter'd The
idea is something altogeth r new in si 1
building in rid.- neck o’ woods.
DOB GRIFFIS IN TOWN
B< b Griffis, the veteran mail carrier, wi: ,
h’ft here ivt August to make the mail trp»
from Holy Cross ; • < >: hir. arrived in town
last Monday from the lower river. It ! .1
been expect’d that Mr. Griffis v 'uJ J hr.:-;:
with him '• n>ignmc nt of mail -
have been lying at H ly C'r—. but
that There is no nml at the Auk"!! rr.• r
points for Idu -nod Hi at tin imul "
‘oaek to i’uh v j«*r mm t.» I;»k• >t:. i
seems to he the gener; i belief
FLAT CREEK DREDGE
SHUT DOWN WEDNESDAY
The drodrn of tue A n n tk Id Company
closed d< wii for the winter la. t W - ’.nesduy.
and prepara -i.,.ns are being male fur safe*
guar-ling the equipment fr- m tin* elfects
of the winter storms. Th;- is e .n-iderablv
earlier than the clo.-ing d-.>wn I t year, and
is said t 1 ivc be n ma 1c : - ■ try by the
lack of water.
The new re.-1 mrant at H City con
b> He nit ! I '
Rand has been cl ster
cafe the name by which Mr. Bnl’.m . -
(dace on Otter creek was known. The boys
am meeting with very good sir. cess in the-r
new home.
Jerry Ford has commenced suit against
k. R. King in the district court to validate
titles to certain mining claims at The head of
1 iat creek. James C. Moody is attorney for
the plaintiff.
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