canvas tents_,iiS^S
. ' ABOUT JUNE 4TH
Over l ake 1 .charee. fresh from the Outside, will arrive a big shipment of
‘ l.a Crosse'' Brand Cubin g, tin1 new rubber pnc for whieh we have seeured the
local agem \ a pao with a reputation in Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Pakotas, etc,,
on account of it- great wearing quality.
The l.a Crosse" is a Pure Gum Rubber Pac. as good a par as there is on the
market, and "not made by a trust.'’ Kvery pair is guaranteed to us ami we guar
antee same to you.
\\ ateh this space for rubber talk. In the meantime remember the first boat
and the new ‘‘l.a t'rosse" Rubber Pars. __
H. BOMBS' Leading CIothiOF
HART. SCHAFFNER & MARX and CHESTERFIELD CLOTHES
TMIS STORE CLOSES AT S P M.; SUNDAYS AT NOON
OTTER_-_TWO STORES--1DITAR0D
etisdi
THE HOUSE OF RflAX-J-R'IUWI
DISCOVERY IDITAROD
HERMIT OF MT. BAKER 1
FOUND DEAD IN CABIN
A Bellingham. Wash., dispatch oi 1 eh.
20 relates that ‘“Buckskin Joe" Eaton, the
hermit f Mo mt B k< r. d id His body
was found by forest rangers in the little
cabin he had na u; ied for ten years, lie
had be n dead possibly two weeks.
That Eaton was not his name is aim »>t
certain. In ail the years he lived at the
of Mount B r he pro >ai ly ne\er
spoke a dozen w .ids to any human being.
JIt lived by fishing and raising potatoes.
li. would n-'t permit any domestic ani
mal about his place, and alwa>s carried a
n
u
We are selling out our
Candies, Nuts, Napkins,
Books. Cigars. Tobaccos,
Cigarettes, Pipes and
, other SmokerT Supplies
so cheap we can't
cut our prices any more.
We are agent
for EASTMAN KODAK CO.
Have a nice line of local
Post Cards, including
explosion and high water,
May 10. Sends us your
films to develop
IDiTAROD. ALASKA
joelt of shells ami an old unloaded rusty
revolver. As far ns is known, he never fired
a shot while a resident of Uncle Sam’ re
stricted domain.
The forest ranger> permitted the ol ! man
to stay, hut could never learn anything of
his antecedent', further than to get the
admi.-sion from him that, he was a brother
to a United St ite> s» nator. Hi- hearing
and what little conversation he held
stamped him as a man of keen intellect.
Uana rs buii.d his body in the little
cleared oil space hack of his cabin that
the .'’range old man used as a potato patch
FELICITATION AND SOLICITATION'
(Valdez Commoner)
That message sent to the President by
the C nmiereial Association of Valdez was
a humdinger. Here it is:
Valdez, Alaska, March 12. 1014
The Preside!.;, Washington. !>. C.
Valdez appreciate? your sph ndid efforts
culminating in enactment railroad legisla
., and predicts that your name will go
down in history a-- Alaska’s greatest bene
factor.
\ ildez ff( rs the best harbor m I - rt
est route for railroad into interior, and will
furi h ( ip n< . ■ pr >1 to your re;
M-ntatives as soon as they are named.
VALDEZ COMMERCIAL ASS'N.
This remind? us of the undertaker who
had a v» ry dear friend visiting in Texas
at the time hi? wife died at home ::i Se
a;;le. The undertaker wired him ai; hi
lows: “Your most estimable and dearly
in! veil wife died last evening at G o’clock.
My he a Iced for \ l thy, for
l ku w how bereaved you will be. Will
bury her in good shape and put up an oak
slab three feet high and ten inches* broad
for S">4.'J'v If anyone bids under me write
inunediately. Yours in sorrow—Jim.”
Assessment Work Blanks at Piiviioc’*.
: RAWS PS PETERSON
New Stock Just Arrived
Carpets, Rugs, Linoleum, Burlap, Cocoa Matting, House Lin
ings, Shades, Screen Wire, Screen Doors.
Dynamite—Fuse—Caps
Pitch—Oakum—Calking Cotton
Waste—Cup Grease—Motor Oil
Dry and Wet Batteries—Spark Coils
Harness—Furniture—Bedding Shotguns and Shotgun Shells
Hardware—Building Materials Magnetos—Motor Supplies
SMITH'S GUN STORE,
IDITAROD, ALASKA
A subscription list is being taken lip at
Flat City to provide funds to pay for the
work of turning the water of Otter creek
hack into the old channel that runs past
Flat City, for the purpose of clearing away
the accumulated rubbish. The creek chan
nel was changed three years ago by the
('hittick brolrhes, to enable them to mine
the creek bed. William Taylor is doing
the engineering.
*4, -
Miss I'driea Peterson and Mrs. Rimer cf
Iditarod visited the creeks last Monday.
Tom Aitken returned from Candle creek
the first of the week.
William Taylor, the Mat City jeweler,
| lias just completed h.> new place of hud
| ness, and is having a new sidewalk built
and seats installed for the accommodation
of the public.
A baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. |
Miskovitch of Discovery, Otter. Thursday I
morning at G o’clock, and died a few min
utes later.
A gang of seven men left Iditarod this
morning to \<mrk on the new power plant
at the mouth of Otter.
George Riley has had his residence
moved onto one of tl old tailing piles and
has had an addition built onto it. The
cabin had to be moved so that the ground,
could be dredged.
When you come in from the creeks don’t
forget to stop at the Crosby and try the
hot-air and Turkish baths at the Crosby
Bath House. The Crosby Massage and
Bath Parlors, the home of the Twentieth
Century Turkish Bath.
WATCH "REPAIRING tc^vlor
Fresti-Killed Reindeer Meat
By the Carcass, Side, Quarter sad Pouud
Sam’! Appiebaum
We Are Still Doing Business at the Same Old Stand, and in the
Same Old Way
Cl©¥®r Leaf
HG©ts §nd Paes
Made by the Gorham Revere Rubber Company
A. J. Weiss, Fiat
This Store b the Home cf Hart, Sdkaffner & Marx Clothes
Screen Deers znd
Window Screens
Extra Fine Mesh Wire Mosquito Netting
C. R. Peck, Fiat City
TWO POKER HANDS
One of the passengers in the smoker of
a sleeping car out of Chicago relate.! wuh
much gusto an encounter which he recently
: with a desperate We rn man. the
wrap' ns being card.-. The game was poker,
the special occasion was that old familiar
“big jack pot." which so often figures in
pn fane history, and the two principals were
armed with straight flushes. “It was a SI
limit game," remarked the young man.
“and we bet .-i\ty seven times and then I
called him. lie had a sequence Hush
queen high, and I had one king high, Yuu
should have heard him swear.”
An old man sat listening with great at
tention to the story, and at its conclusion
he exclaimed with much candid astonish
ment :
"You call him
The young man blushed and acknowi
edged his guilt.
"Well, well.’’ said the old man, shaking
his head, “these times is suit inly not what
they used tubbe. You see, I cum from
Tennessee, and we ain’t up to this way er
doin’ things. Why, I’m playin’ a hand yit
the hank till both of ’em got more stuff,
an’ old Jedge Dubbin of Murfreesboro, they
set into a game one night in September of
1857. an’ they bet an’ bet an’ bet, an’ when
they run out of cash they bet mules, an’
then hosses an’ then niggers, an’ at last’
they took to beltin’ acres of lan’, ail’ then
they run outer everything, an’ it was agreed
that the han’s should be put in sealed en
velups an’ marked an’ kept in the vault of
the bank till both of ’em got more stuff.
Well, it went on that way off an’ on till
the war cum, and the old jedge had died,
an’ pap was killed at Seven Pines, an’ then
' \i:ung Jim Dubi.in he tuk his ill man’s
j laee. an’ I tuk dad’s. Well, gen’elmen
we’re just beltin' yit whenever we git tht
cash, an' there ain’t no signs of quit tin’,
but I v.ud >uttiulv like to see them hem’s
,,f ji.,ii M .b-dge Dubbin's afore I die."
lax.
CAUSE OF THE DELAY
Chairman William C. Houston of the
house committee on territories was asked
why there had been so much delay in pre
paring the conference report on the Alaska
bill. The bill had been before the com
; mittee nearly two weeks.
‘‘Well, that committee is a good deal
like a ramp meeting which was described
| by an old negro on our plantation in Ten
I nessee before the war, said Mr. Houston. I
! “This old servant had gone off Saturday
night and had come home ogle-eyed and
sniHicated with drink. The horses hadn’t
been fed and the calves hadn’t had any
milk, so my father was very angry.
“ Why do you insist upon being so con
foundedly no account?’ demanded my
father. ‘Why don’t you go down to the
camp meeting like the other?, instead of
getting drunk?’
“ ‘Huh, dat camp meeting don’t get any
where,’ replied the old servant. ‘What
do they all do at a camp meetin’? All
they do is to arguefy, inagree and condis
pute to no necessity.’
“And that is about what we’ve been doing
in that committee,” added Judge Houston.
-Washington correspondence of Seattle
Post-Intelligencer.
King salmon—caught at mouth of Yukon
—fine, fine. 35c lb. Iditarod Meat Co.
AMERICANS IN MEXICO
WHO DON T DARE TO FLEE
Mexico City, Feb. 25. Here is the oiank |
which American citizens tleeing from Mex- 1
iro must sign before they receive assistance !
from American consuls:
"I declare that I am an American citizen, j
a refugee on the steamer. from .
iiiy home in Mexico, and that at the pres ,
ent time 1 have with me $•••• and that j
the American consul at this [dace has fur
nished me with - and with ticket trans
port ation from. to.• • >
which cost from funds placed with
him by the department of state of the
United States to defray the cost of my.
transportatiin to..or as tern-j
porury relief while in Mexico. My reason
for leaving Mexico is. 1 a111
employed by. I mu nimble
at the present time to secure funds from
re|atj\rs or friends. This statement is made
to secure relief."
But there are two sides to this reiugeoing j
business. There was a time, it will be re
membered, when the United States had no
extradition laws with Mexico, and the
American fleeing fr in justice in his home
land rushed into Mexico. There are some
of him here yet. It may prove warm for
him here, he knows; but it will probably
prove warmer for him back home. So he
remains. You can’t tell this sort of a
“slayer," as Americans who won’t go home
are called, from the “stayer" who is suck
ing by his business simply because it is ;
rule of his life that he won’t run from any
thing. Some of these stayers are success
ful business men; others of them are hang
crs on in the various sporting establish
ments in Mexican cities. The '‘stayers’ of
this latter type took instant and insistent
advantage of the offer of Uncle Sam to
give them money and tickets to go home
They were the first to rush to the con-ular j
offices. Then most of them sold their free |
tickets and spent Uncle Sam’s money in
tlie cantinas and gambling houses of Mex
ico. Some of them had the nerve t;> go j
back to certain consuls a second time, ex- j
plaining that they had been taken ill and
been forced to dispose of their tickets and
money. It is safe to say that no American
has been able to “graft" a second ticket
home.
Up in Chihuahua, in the very heart of
the rebel district, where federal*? rule cue
day and the rebels the next, and where
i very change means a corpse-strewn street,
there live.- an American who hasn’t moved
and won't move. His consort is a Mexican
girl, an I they have three children who
are famous throughout the mining district
f< r their beauty.
"I can’t i’.» back." be explained to ihe
ias* little knot of Americans to leave. ‘But
veil -fund all tie* expenses of moving your
dm. !y." they oifered. "Thank you, very
: h . ' : . I'll have
-lay here and : *n b
He is Harvard man, the refugee minor.
y mme than that, and the fact that
he i .1 tine, strong man, with some mistake
m his past, they know nothing. In Mcx
ieo in the-e bays you d.m't ask about a
man'- past. Why a man Is a “stayer” i- his
own business'.
Another American who won't flee from i
Mexico. ill( matter what happens. i< a i.
tl* dnetor who had made himself very rich
up along the northern border. The -ton
the refugee Americans tell about him is
thirty years rid, and he is a gray-haired j
« Id n ■ w! ■ h !.: <
back ti. tlie United States and spend his I
d*iy.- in pi ace if he could.
Ihc s-p ry is that he lived in a cer!ain ■
large Amer:v;.n city, and that one day,
while he was traveling in a transcontinental
tram along the boundary between the Unit
ed States and Mexico, the train was
wrecked, and then took fire. The little doc- j
tor was missing. His wife put in a claim j
for his life insurance, $28,000. The insur !
ance company could not prove that, his i
bally was nr t among the charred and un j
identified corpses, anil the wife got the '
money. A few weeks later she went to a !
certain Mexican town, near the border, only
a short distance from the scene of the
wreck, and met her husband, whole and
sound. They started their life anew, and
built up a small fortune, but it is one they
cannot enjoy in the United States.
The rebels had cleaned him out over
night and left him only money to get to
Mexico City. He had b-en used to having
plenty of money, and one of his practices
was to buy a ticket in each monthly lot
tery. One of these tickets was in a pocket
of his only suit when he entered Mrs. Por
ter's hotel in Mexico City. “Let me put
up here, will you?” he asked the good
dame. “I'll get some refugee money from
the American consul to pay you. All I’ve
got is a lottery ticket.” “Let’s see the
ticket," said Mrs. Porter, who knows a good
deal about lotteries. He fished out the
crumpled bit of tissue paper. “You can
stay in this hotel $10,000 worth,” said Mrs.
W% ROBBER BOOTS AND SHOES
„ cgATS
am, p®» m a
OiL clothing
EVERYTHING STRICTLY NEW GOODS
Bayles Clothing Co.
IDITAROD DISCOVERY, OTTER
STORE CLOSES AT 8 P. M.; SUNDAY AT NOON
L _
Porter calmly, lit* did not know how to
draw the money, so Mrs. Porter went with
him to the headquarters of the national
lottery and saw a clerk hand ten packets
of SI,000 each (Mexican money to the
penniless man. “Me for Chicago,” he de
clared. He’s on his way there now. He
said his name was Albert Dwininghain and
that Chicago was his home.
The navigation season may be said to
aave opened Wednesday, when the Little
• )elta. Captain Si Atwell, left for Dikeman.
She will return immediately with a cargo
of supplies for Riley A Marston.
The launch Standard. Captain Billy
Peterson, arrived from her winter quarter
Wednesday.
1 rank Larson brought the Yentna into
port early Wednesday morning.
The welcome sound of a steamboat
whistle brought the people out of doors
Thursday afternoon to see the arrival of
the steamer Pup, with Ray Henderson at
the whet 1.
The steamboats which wintered down the
river seem to have had a strenuous time
of it during the recent break-up. The high
water caught -- me of them quite unpre
pared, and some thrilling tales of miracu
lous escapes and wonderful seamanship are
due to be recounted within the next few
days. Ray Henderson’s experience with
the Pup was notable. When the break-up
occurred his vessel was lifted bodily over a
high cut bank and deposited on the tundra
sever..! hundred feet from the channel of
he river, where the receding waters left
hi u high and By i r at good luck
the watt r again r >se and he was enabled to
steam out to a safe position in the river,
and escaped unscathed.
The steamer Little Delta arrived from
PiP t: • ruing wit!
fitter a fast trip. One of the barges was
fur Karl Theile and the other for Riley &
Marst « n.
The Wa.-hburn is expected to arrive to
day with the cold .- "rage Large.
TP trP: little launch Arrow, budt for
Mos-ts. L. A Austin and Cyril Wood. was.
launched Thursday evening before an in
i ‘-rested crowd. She left for Dikeman this
morning with a party consi.-iing of John
Holmes. William TP-mas and Cyril Wood.
The latter is making his semi-annual stock
taking trip.
“Tite" YV ada. one of Iditarod’s leading
renovator-, is now the proud possessor of a
horse and wagon, which he uses in his busi
ness instead of the dog- and .-led he used
last winter.
COMING AND GOING
Bob Plummer and Ole Hofstad left yes
terday morning for Bear creek. They are
traveling by way of the upper Iditarod
river route.
1 Jim Lewis (Larg- Jarne- who has been
| holding a responsible position during the
i past few months with the Shallow Freight
ling Corporation of thi.- city, re.-igned last
week, and L now mining at the hen! «- f
Flat creek.
4
Harry Donnelly, the Otter merchant, was
a vi-:tor in the city in the early day- of
the week, to participate in the excitement
during the high water,
Mert Marston has been in the city Lr
several days p.-ist. arranging for the ’r im
portation . -upplies W'. -.-ary for th * (it
eration of the Otter ercek dredge.
JOB PRINTING
>iDITAROO PIONEER?
GOLDEN EAGLE HOTEL
First Ave. J. H. Rogers. Prop.
Good Accommodations for
Travelers
Ext lush V y : 1 ■ Cel rated
Shoe
A ALL SHOES /£ A
Ladies' and Men’s
Confectionery and Cgars. Pooh e:c._
Best of Everything
AM. T'liK TIME AT TilE
Arcade Cafe
I'LAT CITV
Open Dav and Nig: lit
FINE NEW STOCK OF
Just unpacked and placed on
display at my new Willow-street
store room.
HOUSELINING. BURLAP. ETC.
All Shades of IViixed Paints
H. SCHNEIDER
: The House of Quality
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F©r Best Goods
night Prices
CROWLEY & PORTER
ID IT A ROD The House of Quality FLAT CITY
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