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ONCE MORE WITH POSITIVELY THE BEST GOODS IN IDITAROD.
OVER LEBARGE
SHIPMENT OF
SWIFT'S PREMIUM Haiti 8!Ml 880011
Fresh Ranch Eggs,
Fresh Fruits,
GOLDEN GLOW BUTTER,
AND LOTS OF OTHER GOOD THINGS TO EAT
Sam’! Applebaum
GETTING READY
AT FLAT CITY
Citizens of Flat City and vicinity met at
Moose hall on Monday last to make the
preliminary arrangements for a proper cele
bration of the national birthday July 4.
A. J. Weiss was elected chairman of the
meeting, and Marius Jacobsgaard was unan
imously chosen secretary by a gladsome
outburst of spontaneous combustion.
Owing to the fact that the Fourth of
July comes on Sunday this year, the meet
ing voted he celebration to take place on
Monday, the 5th.
Committees were chosen as follows:
Finance A. J Weiss. A1 Currie and Bull
Cameron.
Sports—Frank B. Stanley. H. F. (.’rouse.
William Taylor. George Mutchler, Dr. M••ore.
John Bagoy. lleinie Hohback, Max Boas,
.lames Krv and 1 red Dickson.
C. R. Peck was chosen marshal i f the
day.
The grand ball on the evening of the
t51h will be under the auspices of the Moose
lodge, in the Moose hall.
Harry Harmon, who fur the past year
has been the efficient chef at the Merchants
Cafe, will leave for Dikeman today, where
he will board the Washburn for the first
stage of his journey Outside. Harry in
tends to take an extended vacation and
probably will return to Alaska during the
coming fall.
Is the place to get
Clothing, Underwear, Sox,
Shoes, Hats, Caps, Cigars,
Tobaccos, Pipes, Snuff, Drugs
and Patent Medicines, Cosmetics
Rubber Goods, Photo Supplies.
Your Films Developed and
Pictures Made.
Ansieys
Iditarod
LOCATING WATER BY THE
AID OF “WATT15. WITCH ’
“Kellogg's Springs" the place is now
called. Water has brought life where be
fore there seemed only the suggestion of
death. Pilgrims are forever climbing the
hills to view the wonder. The price of
hill land has advanced about 300 per cent.
'What I did was entirely simple.” Kel
logg insists. “Anyone might have done it
Since my boyhood I have been using the
so-called ‘witch’ to locate hidden treasuries
of water. I have located many wells. If
the work is carefully done there need never
be a mistake. Of course, where no water is
no water will be found, but water i> nearly
everywhere. Sometimes the ‘water witch’
fairly twists out of the hands, so strong is
the attraction. The explanation of its prin
tijle is simple. The water in the ground
0 under terrific pressure, which causes an
inaudible hissing. When you hold the wil
low or peach ‘witch’ above the spot it
bends downward because it is vibrating at
the same rate as the water note, and the
moment, they synchronize they are drawn
toward each icher.
“The water witch will not work over a ]
lake, a tub of water or a large buried water
main, because in either case there is a lack
of the pressure necessary to bring out the
note. If. however, the water main is tapped
by a smaller pipe, a pressure is created and
that smaller pipe can be followed without
difficulty.’’ Sunset Magazine.
MINISTER WAS PUZZLED
At a marriage service performed some
time ago in a little country church in
Georgia, when the minister said in a solemn
tone. “Wilt ihc.u have this man to be thy
wedded husband?” instead of the woman
answering for herself, a gruff man’s voice
answered. “1 will."
Again the minister looked up. surprised,
not knowing what to make of it. when one
of the groomsmen at the end of the row
said:
".''he is deaf. I am answering for her."
Lippincott
PAID IN ADVANCE
"Now, lemme see," said the rural justice, j
figuring on the back of an old envelope. I
"Your bill will come to jest forty-seven |
dollars.”
"Forty-seven dollars?” echoed Wiggle- j
thorpe. "Why, Judge, the fine for over
speeding is only fifteen dollars.”
“Ya-as, I know,” said the justice. "The |
thutty-two dollars is fer contempt o’ court." ;
“But I haven’t expressed any contempt
for this court.” protested Wigglethorpe.
“Not yit. yc hevn’t,” grinned the justice,
"but ye will, my friend, ye will before ye
git a mile out o’ town. I’ve made the fine ;
putty stiff so’s t' give ye plenty o’ room to i
move ’round in. Harper’s Weekly.
Camel’s flesh tastes like beef, though it j
is white like veal The beef of the camel’s j
hump is regarded as a delicacy by the |
Arabs.
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FOR PURE LIQUORS
Fresh Vegetable and Flower Seeds
Two Packages for 25 Cents
Woo! Blankets, Quilts, Comforters, Pillows, Sheets, Lace Curtains,
Portieres and Couch Covers.
Linoleums, Art Burlap and House Linings.
Picks, Shovels, Sluice Forks, Mattocks, Brush Hooks. Peavies. Cant Hooks, Pike
Poles. A complete assortment of Cooking Utensils and Silverware.
Harness and Harness Supplies. nDItrc r>DIirc
Tents and Tarpaulins—all sizes.
SMITH’S CUN STORE,
1DITAROD. ALASKA
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INTENTIONS OF RUSSIA
AS TO CONSTANTINOPLE
In a manifesto to his people at the com
mencement of hostilities with Turkey, Czar
Nicholas said:
“We have directed our ambassador in
Czargrad and all our consuls to leave the
Turkish empire. With perfect calmness and
trust in the help of Cod Russia will meet
the attack made upon her by the ancient
persecutor of the Chri.-tian faith and the
Slavonic peoples. Our brave army has van
quished the Turkish hordes in times past,
and now. once more, we shall conquer the
enemy of our native land. We firmly 1>;
lieve, and the whole Russian people be
lieves, that the ill-advised interference of
Turkey in the present struggle will not only
hasten the progress of events that for her
will be fatal, but will also open for us a
way to the solution of the historic prol -
leans connected with the Black sea which
we have inherited from our ancestors.”
The significant use of the name “Czar
grad (Czar's City / in this manifesto, instead
of the better-known m ine Constantinopl •
shows clearly the tendency of the Russian
emperor’s ambition. He hopes- or at that
time hoped not only to control the outlet
of the Black sea. but to make his seat in
the “Czar’s City” on the throne of a new
Byzantium. His ambition and hope were
undoubtedly shared by an overwhelming
majority of his people. At a great Pan
Slavonic demonstration in Moscow on the
24th of January a long procession of Rus
sians, Poles, Servians and Montenegrins
marched through the streets to place
wreaths on the monument of Alexander II..
Alexander III. and General Skobelef, and
the banners that they carried bore such in
scriptions as “On to Czargrad!” “The Chris
tian Cross on the Church of St. Sophia!”
and “Hurrah for Poland! Free in Faitti, in
Language, and in Self-Government!”
At the meeting of the imperial cluma on
the 9th of For ruarv Paul N. Miiy ik >v,
leader of the Constitutional Ih-mocrnts, . aid:
“We are convinced that the accom; 1 sh
ment of our principal ta-k the acquisition
of the Straits and Constantinople will be
guaranteed in due time, both from a mill
tary and from a diplomatic point of view.
Many of the Russian newspapers went
even further than this. Some of liven oC
cussed th; expediency of annexing the east
ern part of .V-ia Minor, including Cilicia and
the Mediterannean port of Alaxaniirott a;
others, sympathizing with the racial and
j national aspirations of the Armenians, pro
i posed to create between the Caucasus and
1 the Mediterranean an autonomous Armenian
state under the protection of Russia; while
| at least one the “Nov" declared that
“after this great war Russia must have her
i natural boundaries. The terms of peace
should give her control of the whole Turk
i-h empire, including Adrianople and Pales
tine. and excepting only Arabia, which lies
outride the field of Russian interests.”
With the desire of Russia to have free
egress into the Mediterranean it is impossi
ble not to sympathize, ^he is situated very
much as we should be if the peninsula of
Yucatan were extended four hundred miles
to the northeastward, so as to leave a pas
sage only three or four miles wide between
it and tin* end of l inrida, and if both penin
sulas were in the hands of the Mexicans.
How should we like it if our southern neigh
bors controlled absolutely the outlet <>1 the
Gulf of Mexico? And yet we should be in
finitely better off than Russia is. because
wc should have a dozen good ports on the
Atlantic seaboard as well as free access to
the Pacific, while Russia, with a population
of 170.000,000. has not a single port on
<-:ther ocean that is not closed in winter by
ice. George Kerman in The Outlook.
LUMBER AND THE CANAL
At a period when the war and depression
in Canada and the reaction from a general
period of over-cutting had thrown the Pa
rifle coast lumber a drug on an over
glutted market, the American Hawaiian line,
in November, brought a shipload of lumber
through Panama and, without breaking
bulk, through New York harbor up the
Hudson as far as Poughkeepsie, where a
Washington lumber firm has just expended
S3C0.000 on a new plant. Fur the first
time in the hi. w ry of the I’.iited States,
river and cam;! and ocean traffic have
been co-ordinated in the cheapest freights
ever enjoyed by the shipper.
Tr.es“ inbound shipments are signifi
cant as the outbound. They mean more
than cheeper lumber to the buyer. If Pa
cific coast lumber can bo bn ughi direct in
land on river and canal without breaking
bi lk at the Atlantic seaports, it means that
the Atlantic seaport? are going to lose a
certain proportion < f their traffic unless
they can reduce terminal charges to a lev i
that breaking bulk will no» add to the
buyer's pric*-. American He\iew of IF
views.
om the First Beat
FROSV3 LAKE LEBARGE
I will have a shipment of new goods that the camp is short of a
present
Hen’s Underwear, Shirts* Hats,
AND A MAMMOTH STOCK OF THE
SMEW WHITE RUBBER GOODS,
IN BOTH PACS AND HIP EOOTS
Khaki Trousers and Goats
The Home of Hart, Schaffner & Marx Clothing
He Is C@niingl
WHO?
C. R. PECK, FLAT CITY
With a Choice Line of Fresh
Goods
TO OPERATE AUTOMOBILE
AS POWER FOR TRAMWAY
Nrls Glantz’s automobile, which has en
(lured a somewhat tempestuous career in an
effort to negotiate the apologies for road:-'
in this part of Alaska, spending a large por
tion of the time in the hands of mechanics
for repairs necessitated by frequent break
downs, is shortly to receive its metamor
phosis. Instead of an ordinary road ma
chine, dependent upon the degree and qual
ity of the mud which it traversed in its
journeys between the metropolis of the dis
trict and the creek towns, it will blossom
forth as the motive power of the Iditarod
Flat City tramway.
In order to effect this transformation it
was brought to town a few days ago, and
in the hands of skilled artisans will be fitted
for its new field. The wheels are to be fitted
with flanges and reset to meet the require
ments of the tramway rails, and other ini
provements made in the vehicle. When
yhis work is completed it is expected that
>he car will be able to handle the creek
traffic at a much greater speed than is pos
sible under present conditions.
The Boas Clothing Store at Flat. Prices
reasonable.
Job Printing at Pioneer office.
WEALTH IN PUBLIC LANDS
The multiplication of Minnesota’s talents
proceeds at a rate that must leave her sis
ters ruefully conscious of the saddest words
f tongue or pen. Her auditor’s pertinacity
[ m discovering that previous estimates of
the public land values were all too low is
nothing less than an attempt to rub it in.
Last year the prediction was that Minne
sota. from her iron, timber and farm lands,
would ultimately have a fund of $200,000.
000; now it appears that it will be still
greater, and may be much greater. Her
iron lands this year bring iti a million; by
1920 they should bring in four millions.
North and South Dakota are abetting her,
moreover, in the humiliation of the remain
der of the West. Each is likely to have in
the end a fund above $50,000,000—the one
having 2,500.000, the other 3,000.000 acres.
In painful contrast, Iowa has $4,800,000 to
«how for her lands; Wisconsin has soi l all
Tout 16,000 acres, and has a debt; Michigan
has sold all and has $5,000,000; Illinois has
sold all and has $1,200,000. The original
patrimony of each of these states was from
6,000,000 to 9.000.0G0 acres. Texas alone
is an exception, with an enormous area ex
pected ultimately to accumulate $80,000.
000. All these wastrel commonwealths must
now sutler the spectacle of Minnesota buy
ing their state bonds and battening on the
interest. New York Evening Post.
MAKING LOVE IN SPAIN
QUITE A STRENUOUS TASK
Espousals in Spain are still romantic af
fairs, invested with a character very dif
ferent from anything that obtains else
where. The novio and the novia make their
choice of one another independently, and
unbeknown to their parents, at the hazard
of an accidental meeting in the street, after ■
which the young man, having followed the .
girl to her home, knows that if she appears
*:t the window his attentions are agreeable
to her.
This is the beginning of relations offi- '
cieuses between them which her family ig
nores, or pretends to ignore. The lovers are
1 ;11 first restricted to seeing each other at a i
j distance, on the promenade, at* the theater
j or in church; afterwards they communicate
I in writing, still without parental interfer
| ence, and begin to peiar la pava (“pluck the
j turkey”) that is to say, to converse of an
| evening, he from the street, she from her
l balcony.
In Andalusia the rejas (grilles) of the
houses that abut onto the street lend them
selves admirably to these intrigues, but tlse
where in the great towns the buildings con
! tabling several lints are less favorable, and
j they are obliged to have recourse to means
j of communication such as pocket telephones
end the deaf and dumb alphabet.
Later on they are permitted to walk to
gether under ii: surveillance of the mother
>r of some other trustworthy person; but,
even so. the betrothal has not yet become
“official/ and it is only at the end of sev
eral months sometimes of several years •
that the suitor demands his sweetheart’s
hand in marriage and is allowed to enter the |
house. As a result of this free choice it j
follows that many unions are one-sided in
the matter of class or fortune, affection
alone being considered, and it is frequently
ikcessary to oveicome the opposition of the !
narcnK In such a ca-e the man has the !
I right to place Ins sweetheart in a convent j
iMil -he attains her majority.
I «.r:• . 11>■ they could a.so se manor par
surprise by -s lilenly kneeling before the
prie-i ol inrs-. (luring the benediction, but
this custom has been abolished. In the
villages, betides the custom of ‘‘plucking
the turkey." it is usual to woo the novia
with nocturnal serenades, rendered either as
solos or as choruses Ir ,ndallasl. and on cer
ten days of the year the nnvio must climb
to his iadv’s balcony and leave a bouquet
there.
Th ■ essentially religious ceremony of mar
rirge is charac vrirod in Spain by the pres
ent’atir-n to the bride of gold or silver array
the gift of the husband or of the husbands
father, and by the circumstance th.s the
newly wedded must follow the service kneel
in;:, with their heads covered by the same
veil a- symbol of their union. But there
i are many other customs peculiar to certain
localities. In Lagartera, for instance, the
| bridegroom must have a’l the male guests
| ,-havcd at his expense, and must give all
the women folk n! the bribes family richly
ambroid1 red shoes.
bach guc.-t in his turn offers the bride
a pfecs of silver, which she buries in an
apple stuck on the point of a knife and
holds in her fiend while dancing in front
of th, donor. Amongst the Maragatos (for
merly at lea-t' the fiance* might not speak
to any man except her lover, failing which
she pi: 1 a forfeit; and even today (as also
ill son..’ pari.- of Andalusia i she is ietciied
from her home by a large cortege of friend?,
who tire off u.u.-kets a sign of joy in the
Ar.ib Kt.-h’on. i
(■, ipr riwi e to whut obtains in toe re. t
of r; :r, ; , . the worn n may b said to be
more emancipated a.- a gill than when she
is married. It is while she is -nigh; that
.he speikles and. adorns herself and dirts to
vein tm no\io i.f her choice, but a- a wife
and the moth, r <.f a family she passes her
life, in the majority of c:-■:■?. in the retire
ment of her home. Spanish jealousy is al
most proverbial, hut it is perhaps not gen
era’ly known that in Spain the women take
particular rare to hide the foot. Or at
1, - llu v wire at pains to do so. for th,
invasions of foreign fashions has nioditie;.
this usage, and today the Madrilenas wear
the short or slashed skirt from Paris, ihc
women of Monteh-rmoso and Legartera.
however, were never disturbed by any scru
pies in this direction.- London Times.
THE ST. BERNARD DOG
IN HIS NATIVE HABITAT
In keeping with the considerate hospital
jty of the Hospice, the dogs did not bark
uni’l it was time for everyone to be up.
and then two elders of the race emitted ]
thundering salvos as they ran back and !
forth in the echoing hall. They were only ;
sounding their breakfast hour, and when
an attendant appeared they rushed out of
doors to the cellar entry. There they
boomed again until this door was opened
and the rest of the pack fourteen in all
were let out.
Please don’t be deceived by the pictures
of untraveled artists. The pampered St.
Bernard of the .suburban piazza is a very
different animal from the smaller, short
haired. sober, almost unfriendly dog reared
on Alpine snow and monastic fare.
Baedeker, the crabbed old disillusionist of
travel, says the St. Bernard breed is extinct
at the Hospice, but the brothers insist it is
not. Only a few Newfoundland dogs were
called in at a time of great mortality in the
pack 100 years ago. and much breeding back
to the original stock was required to get rid
of the long coat the strangers brought and
•which interfered with the work in the snow.
Another familiar pictorial feature now miss
ing from the real dog is the little barrel of
brandy about the neck, for it was found
that prowling topers were converting that
agency of mercy into a relief for their thirst.
The dogs not only fail of a full growth
at the great altitude of the Hospice, but
their lives also are stunted and they seldom
live more than seven years. Hens, too, fall
a pray to the blighting air and last but a
brief while. --“In the Path of Napoleon, j
by James Morgan.
Job Printing at Pioneer office. j
YE MEN
Io the fact that the CLOSING-OUT SA I J\ of ours means con-- I* ruble to you!
Have you given it a thought? Behold! you have the opportunity it hand of get
ting fitted and suited in everything pertaining to your “DRESS WEARING AP
PAREL” of choice standard fabric an ! makes for less
than was ever offered you ere this CLOSING-OUT SALK Nor will vou ever have;
the chance again in the future. We are displaying merchandise 11 <it is highly
prais.d and commended by the most critical indulgers of dres- and -:y 1 ■ ■
at either one of our stores, for your consideration and keen i aspen ion. W II do
know the verdict will be in oui favor. “Be persuaded to call." V\'e as~ur** > u
that you Will be well compensated by the character of clothes at the price- attained.
USE THE PASSWORD—‘HELLO, CENTRAL." GIVE US THE
Baylss Clothing Co.
fDITARGD DISCOVERY, OTTER
WHY KE CAME TO ALASKA
AND WHY HE STAYED
(Alice Ilarriman in Juneau Empire*
And the sourdoughs’’? The tidal wave
of 1898 brought into and washed <*ut of
Alaska hundreds of thousands of w m. With
•rood wi'l toward all. one can say the! ?!n> >
who stayed, amid many discouragements,
had it in them to win «u:t.
1 e k< d a m::n m S \\ ird neainsulu why
i o had c one thn**\ Bev« ml Nome i< a i no
distance from home. Why had he slaved
after die first, ihe second and the third
beaches had yielded their millif ns and no
“.-plendif; r 'o<lv" rich strike f-r him had
promp ly ftTowcd. I was S'>rt o’ wandering
and he was a New York man.
‘Til tell you why I came.” he said slowly,
after a long silence. ”1 sat one day in the
diner office of one of the most carefully
nunaged organizations in the world. The
whole building v.: - well lighted, well ven
tilated in short it was :• model institution.
Hundreds of young girl- with an average
wage of >•"> a week, as I knew, were busy
with their typewriters just without the door
near which I sat. I could hear someone
crying hy.-tcric; liy : ‘Maggie went crazy la-t
work because she said the list of names she
had copied and copied for weeks didn't
mean anything.’ And then, more peg
m ntlv: ‘I can’t make them do more. I
can’t! I can't!’ ”
“Presently me of the chiefs and the
head of ill • eopyisis’ department came in
Thev in; rely la tided to me, as 1 was well
known.
“ ‘W hat's the matter with that girl in
the re i room:' a-ked the grand mogul.
“‘The gills have fallen down from 2.400
to 1.700 a day.'
•• \W r tn 1' lips sucked in. ‘I see '
“'And I told .iane. who’s sub-head, she
must speed ’em up.’
"'Ye-. That's it Speed 'em up! speed
’em up!'"
Another 1 i.g pens”, which I did not
break.
“['m n'U judging." the man in Nome
wen: on. “but all of a sudden I made up
:nv mind to g-1 out of New York. The in
cident made me sick -phydcally sick. What
[ get here, from the pan, the rocker, the
-.luice box. the dredge, I get direct from
nature. What man takes from the earth
God!” he broke off. “1 live in this country.
No slave drivers north of 53."
I met that same man the following even
ing. He was immaculately clad and carried
himself much like our beloved -Augustus
Thomas, an" it you please. And his charm
ing wife was equally delightful.
Argentina has 15,300,000 acres sown to
wheat.
Fresh Olympia Oysters, tor cocktails. S2
can. Iditarod Meat Co.
“UNCLE DAN HARTNETT
LOYAL TO HIS ALMA MATER
Uncle Dan Hartmol recently closed :t deal
for the parch.-c of William Finger- re-i
dence. located on Black street, between
First and Second, ami will shortly move it
to a more pr nninent he tion at the corier
f First ami Black reels, where it will o
converted into general offices for all to •
Hartm-tt en erpri-es in this part of Ala.-k
A may-tic ihgpole will be erected in fr■ i '
vu the building, surmounted by a weal her
van;- <•[ the latest and most scientific pat
tern. winch Uncle Dan will consult whih
making hi* tu.-riing weather prognostic.!
tions. If ■ proper materials an* avail
able this -pr o;: tin* .-•picture will be painted
a refreshing green tint, while the roof will
be embellish'd with paint of the purest ox
blood hue luck Dm'- college ( ‘hr
PIANO TUNER
George Anderson. • expert, on pianos,
player pianos and ele. tic piano-, also fac
tory representative t< r high grade pianos,
will visit Iditarod ti >■ coming summer on
his sixth annual trip. Any per>->n in nee*l
-f expert piano tuning and repairing, or
wishing to purcahs:* a piano, commumcat -
Box 991. Juneau, any time before Ma\
1915.
Concerning the came of rheumatism, the
field is still ([ten for discussion. But the
fact has been demon-1rated that heat has
cured after every '• t means had failed.
People who had en: :•*. !y lost thp use of their
limbs have been re-:..red to perfect health
by using hot air. with electric vibration, and
vapor bath treatnirn’. There never was a
case that e«,uld not be cured, or greatly re
lieved. bv this treatment.
THE CROSBY MASSAGE AND BATH
PARLORS
The Iditarod public school will close its
191-4-15 term on Friday next with appro
priate exercises by the pupil-'..
PI APADHC big!
l.
Geo. Adams
ANYWHERE
In the district is not too remote for us
to go to do paperhanging, painting and
sign writing. Our splendid new stock of
WALL PAPER
Ik ready for votir inspection
GOOD WORK, PROMPT SERVICE
OFFICE ADAMS HOUSE_
FRESH
Ga: ’den
JUST RECEIVED OVER THE WINTER TRAIL
CROWLEY & PORTER
ID1TAROD The House of Quality