F7V* ^ ww & 4 r* C f* £$4 & LARGE assortment of silverware, cut gl*ass AND SILVER DEPOSITWARE I I G A| g*
A U& VnriSUnaS tAlllS DIAMONDS AND HIGH GRADE WATCHES AT LESS THAN OUTSIDE PRICES » Li OAbb
Positively the
BEST GROCERIES IN ID1TAROD
Everything of the Highest Grade and Strictly Fresh
Prices at All Times Absolutely Right
Eest Attention C. ven to All Mad and Phone Orders
Sam’l Applebaum
CHRISTMAS
WILL
SOON BE HERE.
TOYS AND NOVELTY
GOODS ARE SCARCE. DON’T
WAIT TILL LAST DAY TO MAKE
YOUR PURCHASES OR YOU
WILL GET LEFT. FOR
THE BEST LINE
CALL AT
Ansiey's
Iditarod
DECEMBER
to be my last month in business. Ail
Witch Repairs should be called for be
fore January I
My Lines of CUT GLASS. SILVER DE
POSIT, COMMUNITY SILVER and
CHRISTMAS GOODS are sellinc at rea
sonable prices.
Sterling Silver Souvenir S toons,
Engraved, $1.00 and $1.59
FIRST-CLASS ENGRAVING
WM. TAYLOR, Flat
PRESIDENT TO SPEAK
COLUMBUS. Dec. 10.— President Wilson
arrived here today, and will mak-* two pub
lic addresses.
THE TEMPERATURE
The severe weather which has prevailed
in this region since Thanksgiving day gives
promise of a break at last, although as yet
•there is no evidence of it. The wireless
operator at Niriato informed the local sta
tion last night that the temperature on the
Yukon had risen to zero during the after
noon, and there is a strong probability that
warmer temperature will prevail here
shortly. The record of temperatures during
the past week, taken at 1 a. m. at the
N. C. Co. corner, is as follows:
Above Below
Zero. Zero.
Pee. 4 35
5. 34
0. 30
7 36
S. 37
9. 33
10. 30
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ILLICIT LIQUOR SELLING
Deputy Marshal Billy Thomas and George
Adams returned from die Innoko on Thurs
day last, having in custody Ed Anderson of
Yankee creek, charged with selling liquor
without a license. Later in the day the
latter appeared before Commissioner Ger
aghty and pleaded guilty to the charge, and
was assessed the minimum penalty, $100
and costs, which was paid.
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REQUISITIONS CANCELED
WASHINGTON. Dec. 10.- The American
steamship Hocking and other vessels which
were requisitioned by the British govern
ment will go to the prize court, the British
having canceled the requisition orders.
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All the theaters in Constantinople have
been closed for some time, for the reason
that Italian and Trench actors, who are
practically the only one? who perform
there, refuse to go to Turkey now’ for fear
of risking their lives.
™ PIONEER SALOON
FCil GOOD WHISKEY
Two Barrel* of Old California Brandy—Must Be Sold—$4.50 Gal.
RAMPS PETERSON
CLOSING-OUT SALE
$50,000.00 “:;r
Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Our entire atock of High-Class
Merchandise must be sold before June 1, 1916, as we will close our store at that
time.
Come yourself or send in your orders and they will be filled at genuine bar
gain prices.
SMITH'S GUN STORE,
SECOND AND WILLOW STS. IDITAROD, ALASKA
DOG HARNESSES
DOG COLLARS
WEBBING
SNAPS
RINGS
BUCKLES
SINGLETREES
WHIPS
Anything and Everything you need in the dog lice except the dog
C. R, PECK FLAT CITY
FIONEERKETIM
Sourdoughs Initiate Candidates and
Determine to Hold a Grand
Ball on New Year’s Eve
The Pioneers held their monthly meeting
at Iditarod last Wednesday evening, and
a fair bunch of old sourdoughs pushed their
beaks through the frosty atmosphere from
the creeks to town to help in the torture of
Jonas Brewis and Jack Brunno, who were
the victims selected for the evening's sac
rifice. There gvas much discussion as to
what should be done to Jonas—lie deserved
plenty—but after he had been dropped from
the top of the ginpole aad landed a straddle
of the windlass be was all in, and he was
spared further torture for the sake of his
family. Harry Belaud was elected to mem
bership, and will he the fail guy at the
next meeting, at Flat City, December 22.
Harry should furnish quite n little amuse
ment if properly handled, so be on deck,
old-timers.
Officers for next year will then be elected,
followed by u lively social session.
Big Time New Year's Eve
Iditarod Igloo No. 10, Pioneers of Alaska,
will spread themselves on New Year’s eve
with a huge entertainment, dance, supper,
etc. A committee consisting of Charles E.
Taylor, Sam'l Applebaum, Frank Kern, Ira
F. Wood and Jonas Brewis are arranging
the details, and Frank Keenan will be the
grand master of the eats. Looks as if it
would be a wild night, folks.
HOLIKACHEK COUPLE WED
On Thursday evening last Commissioner
Guy Geraghty performed the ceremony
which united George Turner and Lucy
Dutchman, both from the native village of
Holikachek, in the bonds of matrimony.
The bride gave her age as 16. and presented
the written consent of her parents.
KRAUSE SENTENCED
JUNEAU, Dec. 10. Krause, the man
brought htroe from Seattle under extradi
j tion papers, was sentenced to a years im
prisonment in The federal jail here today by
1 Commissioner Marshall for impersonating an
1 officer.
CHINESE SAILORS MUTINY
SHANGHAI, Dec. 6.—A mutiny has oc
curred on board a Chinese cruiser at Chao
Hao. The city was shelled by the mutineers,
who were finally overpowered and the ship
; recaptured.
WILSON'S CANDIDACY
LINCOLN. Neb., Dec. 2. The name of
Woodrow Wil*on has been placed on the
primary ballot of this state as a candidate
; for the presidency.
A BIGGER JAPANESE NAVY
I TOKIO. Dec. 7. Premier Okuma an
nounces that Japan will not lose a single day
: in building a great na\y.
MANY KILLED *IN EXPLOSION
| LONDON, Dec, 6.—A large ammunition
! factory at Halle, Prussian Saxonia. has been
i destroyed by an explosion. Three hundred
persons were killed.
WAITING FOR VICTIM
GALVESTON, Dec. 6. A British cruiser
is steaming outside the five-mile limit, wait
ing to seize the steamship Ausable, loaded
with cotton for Denmark.
CLOSE OF^BIG SHOW
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 6.—The Panama
Pacific exposition closed Saturday at mid
night. The last day’s attendance broke all
records.
MOVEMENTS OF KAISER
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 10.—Kaiser Wilhelm
intends to make a visit to Brussels before
the holidays._
CANADIAN PARLIAMENT
OTTAWA, Dec. 10.—Parliament has been
called to meet on January 12.
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Fresh Olympia and Eastern Oysters, $1.50
per can. Iditarod Meat Co.
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A few more Hamiltons left.
WM. TAYLOR, Flat.
-e
Hot Air and Vapor Baths with Electric
Vibration and Osteopathy Massaees have the
power to cure such functional diseases as
Lumbago
1 Rheumatism
I Stiff Joints
| Dropsy
I Locomotor Ataxia
Indigestion
Disorders of Liver
Melancholia
Obesity and
Gout
THE (JliUSBY MASSAGE AND BATH
PARLORS
♦oooooooooooooooo^
O LOCAL AND PERSONAL °
O OI
♦oooooooooooooooool
A1 Walsh was a visitor in the city on
Sunduy lust.
Clyde Colman, a mining man from Ophir,
arrived in the city yesterday.
C. J. Whitney returned during the week
from the Oitna, where he has prospects
that arc very encouraging.
Joe Hitchener left Flat City for Canyon
creek, where he is interested in mining
ground, during the past week.
A false alarm of fire was turned in yes
terday afternoon, and caused a little diver
sion on the busy down-town streets.
Frank and Harry Larson have purchased
the wood saw of John C. Currin and will
operate it during the balance of the winter.
Abe Audette is moting his outfit to the
head of Caribou creek, where he will haul
wood for Dave Strandberg. He will be ,
there five or six weeks.
A1 Thorns, the well-known operator, who
is developing some claims on Ganes creek, |
in the Ophir district, arrived in the city on i
Monday last. He left later in the week for |
Ophir.
Ed Smith, who has been suffering from
stomach troubles for some time past, has
become an inmate of Dr Auringer’s has- i
nital at Flat City, and will undergo a j
course of treatment.
Abe Weiss and E. M. Stanton left Flat 1
City on Saturday last with a dog team to j
make the trip to Iditarod. The dogs ar
rived in the city considerably in advance of
the merchant and the lawyer, and for some
time there was some uneasiness manifested.
But later they turned up all right, pushing .
the sled ahead of them It seems to be a
dark secret as to what reallv happened.
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WEDDING OF PRESIDENT
WILL BE QUIET AFFAIR
NEW YORK, Dec. 4. -The wedding of ;
President Wilson and Mrs. Norman Galt will
take place on December 18 at Mrs. Galt’s
Washington home. The wedding will be
strictly private, and no invitations have j
been issued.
LABOR SPENT ON TRENCHES
COMPARED WITH PANAMA
PARIS. Oct. 22. A statistician has just
figured that the French soldiers in building
their many lines of trenches have exca
vated twice as much dirt as was taken
from the Panama canal.
This dirt would cover the great Sahara
desert to a depth of two and a half feet and
convert this barren region, with the neces
sary water, into one immense garden.
These figures are supplied by an officer
who spent many dull hours in a front line
trench on the necessary computation.
Germans and French have both dug rows
of sets of trenches, and full 500 miles from
Switzerland to the sea. In each set of
trenches there are perhaps eight separate
individual ditches, while between the sets
are stretches of barbed wire sai l often to
be a mile in width.
The trenches are about six feet deep. Be
sides these parallel lines there are an enor
mous number of cross or “communicating”
trenches, besides bomb-proof shelters, and
big underground caves used for many pur
poses—a3 dining rooms, first aid dressing
stations for the wounded, and sleeping
places.
All this digging has been done by labor
writh pick and spade. When it is remem
bered that large steam shovels were used
on the Panama canal, the vastness of the
work here is understood.
Much of this earth has been put in bags
about the size of the ordinary flour sack
I and used as parapets for the trenches.
1 It is figured by this same statistician that
if all the earth thus dug out were put in
such receptacles, 936,000,000,000 sacks
would be needed. Of course, no such num
ber of sacks has been used.
In Roubaix the German invaders started
the French factories making such trench
bags. The patriotic women and children
reused to work on the bags. The general
in command, as a result, arrested the mayor
and more than a hundrd leading manu
facturers and sent them to a concentra
tion camp in inner Germany. By interna
tional law no enemy has a right to force a
captive population to fight or work against
their country.
The earth thrown from the trenches w-ould
form a parapet five feet high long enough
to inclose the whole French frontier of the
north and east and leave enough over to
Cii^se Italy and encircle the republic of
San Marino, if thrown into the Darda
nelles the dirt would fill them up.
EPIDEMIC IN MEXICAN CAPITAL
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 8.—Typhus fever is
claiming a hundred and fifty victims daily.
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Job Printing at Pioneer office.
HORSEFLY RUMOR
Stories of Rich Finds Lack Verifica
ton, but the Indications Are
Good—Much Prospecting
Reliable news as to the progress of de
velopment work at Horsefly creek is some
what difficult to obtain. Many stories are
in circulation as to pay having been found,
and even the values are given with a pre
ciseness that engenders belief in the stories;
but the stories are conflicting and seem to
be more in the nature of guesswork than
an attempt at the relation of facts.
There appears to be little doubt, how
ever, that the men who are interested in
the new diggings have the utmost faith in
the outcome of their work, and look with
certainty upon pay being found. Men who
were among the first to rush to the creek
have returned with outfits and gone seri
ously to work to uncover bedrock, and dur
ing the past week there has been a constant
stream of outfits journeying to the new
camp.
On Saturday last Julius Shaffrick, Jay
Johnson and the “Oregon Kid” left for
Horsefly creek to prospect Dawson & Olsen’s
ground, and on Sunday last Lars Olsen left
with a hot water thawing pump.
A1 Jones and Tony Tropea went down
Saturday to commence work on Byers’
claims, and Frank Morgan returned to the
creek the same day.
Bob Roberson and Wilson returned from
Horsefly early in the week, and their re
ports seem to have been satisfactory to
those interested with them.
There is little doubt that with the outfits
now at work on the creek it will be but a
short time until its value is determined.
Statements put in circulation that pros
pects showing several feet of gravel which
went 0 cents to the pan seem not to be
borne out; but that for the work already
done the indications are good all who have
investigated agree.
SAM ADAMS FILES ANSWER
In the case of M. L. Peterson vs. Sam
Adams, in the district court, the defendant
has filed an answer in which he dentes each
and every allegation contained in the first
cause of action, except as to items of in
debtedness of specified dates. He admits
the execution of the note set forth in the
complaint, but denies that he owes any
money upon said note. He stands ready
and willing to transfer a two-sixths interest
in the Ben Hur Association to the plaintiff,
but this, he says, has been refused. Answer
ing the third cause of action, he denies that
l.e is indebted to J. A. Peterson in the sum
mentioned, hut admits that he borrowed So
from the latter.
MRS. McKINZIE SURPRIZED
A surprise party was tendered to Mrs. Mc
Kinzie by her many friends on Otter creek
on Thursday of last week. There were six
teen persons present, and a program of
music, recitations and dancing was carried
out, and an appetizing supper was served.
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KARL THIEL’S PLANS
(Seattle Post Intelligencer, Oct. 7i
Karl Thiele, the Alaska merchant and
trader who lost his complete outfit when the
gas schooner P. J. Abler was burned to the
water’s edge September 28 at Juneau,
reached Seattle yesterday and has wired his
partners in the North of the disaster, so
that they may obtain other provisions for
the winter. He cabled friends in the Idita
rod to send a messenger across the country
to the Kuskokwim river, where his partners
are mining. They expect him to return
with a'large supply of provisions for the
winter. Besides supplies for his partners,
Mr. Thiele’s outfit contained 300 tons, which
was to have been used to start a new trad
ing post on the Kuskokwim river, fifty
miles above Bethel.
Mr. Thiele is confident his partners will
not suffer sa a result of the loss of the P. J.
Abler and the cargo of supplies, although
it is now so late in the season that any at
tempt to reach the Kuskokwim would meet
with failure.
As soon as Thiele can arrange for the
sending North in the early spring of an
other cargo of supplies he will leave for the
Kuskokwim, going in over the road from
Seward to the Iditarod and then crossing
the divide to the Kuskokwim.
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ALBERT AN ENGLISH COLONEL
LONDON, Nov. 3.—There is a movement
to obtain the presence in London of King
Albert of Blgium. He has been made colo
nel of an English regiment of Life Guards,
and the Belgians in London desire to see
him riding at the head of his command.
London would give him such a reception as
no foreign king ever had before.
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REMOVAL NOTICE
Fred Harrison has removed his law of
fices to room 1. Merchants’ Cafe building.
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Lowney’s candy, fresh, 1 to 3-lb. boxes.
DR. MOORE.
The Coming Week
B Will Have on Display a
Well-Selected Stock of
Christmas
Goods
A* X WEISS flat
THE HOME OF HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHING
GEORGE FRIEND LEAVES
George Friend, who has been in the dis
trict since shortly before the close of navi
gation last fall, left for his home in San
Jose, Cel., last Monday, via the Seward
trail. Having some spare time on his hands
while waiting for tlie mail carrier, George
favored his friends with copies of poems
which he dashed off for their edfication.
Lack of space forbids the reproduction here
of these “poems." Bill Ansley denies that
he collaborated with Friend in their com
position. He says he merely made copies of
them at the latter’s request.
The Seward Gateway of November 1 con
tains the following relative to Mr. Friend's
interests here:
“Bennett Janies received a wire from his
partner. George Friend. Iditarod, today, sav
ing that their property in that camp which
the Guggenheim dredge is now digging on
is much richer than they had expected. Mr.
Janies left this afternoon on the Farragut
for the Outside, but will return on his way
to the Interior about the middle of Feb
ruary.”
Gaze at This Ginkier
Why is Ha So Sat?
He’s prosnect:ng cn Horseshoofly
Creek and ain’t found a ftyspe'L
in twenty-nine pans. Y/orse yet,
he can i get in to the
GRAND ENTERTAINMENT, FETE, CARNIYAL, CONVERSAZIONE,
FEED, DANCE AND HOT-STUFF HURRAH
To Be Given by the
NEW YEAR’S EVE, AT A. B. HALL, IDITAROD
'Twill be some joyous jamboree. Full dope later
THE HOUSE OF QUALITY
FOR
Best Goods
and
Right Prices
Fresh Draft HE EH
PROM FAIRBANKS
New Shipment RAINIER BEER From the Outside
nmnragm
RING US UP_ANY SERVICE WE CAN DO YOU___UP
WESTERN UNION AND BEDFQRD-McNEIL CODES NO TROUBLE TO FORWARD YOUR MAIL THE AMERICANA—16 VOLUMES FIRST EDITIONS OF THE NEW ALASKA MINING CODE
Old White Pert Wine a drinking place for m id hite Pert Wine
GEORGE MARSH BUDWEISER witarod flat cm THE BRANCH a. d. currie
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