ID3TAROD PIONEER
Published Every Saturday Evening at Iditarod, Alaska.
I cl 3 Geo M. Arbaoklo. Publisher No. 19
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CONVENTIONS
Republican national convention, Chicago, June 18.
Democratic national convention, Baltimore, June 25.
WIIAT WILL UK THE END?
With the treasury empty and the city’s credit dead—
■with the majority of Hie eouncilmen filibustering and par
rying everv movement looking toward retrenchment and
reform the question is, What will be the end i
It will perlmj s be two months before the district court
sits in Iditarod. It may be that it will become necessary
for the court to take measures to stiaighten out—and per
haps wind up -the municipality’s affairs. By that means
or some other the present chaotic condition will be turned
into one of orb. r and justice, and then the righting of j
accumulating wrongs will proceed, however slowly. One
thing at this stage of the game impresses itself upon usj
forcibly: henceforth every dollar of the city’s obligations;
should be met in the order in which it lias been incurred;
not a new creditor of any kind or under any pretense should
be given preference or precedence over an older one. The
court would doubtless uphold this principle; and in justice
to themselves the older creditors should contend for it. Let
Banks W Mikuda, with their water service, and McGovern
and O’Farrell, of the fire department, and every one who
becomes a creditor of Hie city, understand that the horse
play of members of the council will not be allowed to work
injustice and favoritism any longer.
J. R. McGovern doubtless had tiiis principle m mind
when for the second time lie submitted his resignation last
Wednesday night. He said he realized fully that a reduc
tion of expenses is necessary: and he set the members of j
the council a good example which they refused to profit by. 1
lie deserves credit for the move he made—whether he wasj
impelled to do so because lie does not want money the city
cannot rightfully pay him, or because he fears the city will
not be permitted to pay him such money. At any rate he
manifested a desire not to he even indirectly involved in a
transaction which carries with it a gross wrong.
To go to the bottom of this city council muddle one
must deal in personalities. Mr. Barnes received the high
est number of votes cast for any candidate and was accord
ingly, by the new council, declared mayor. He at once
took a firm stand for retrenchment and reductions in the
expenses. Mr. McDonell lent him a half-hearted support.
Messrs. Auten, Wood and Mntchler opposed him, with their ,
strenuousness ranging in the order named. Bradley, being
new, was not at once pronounced on either side. It seems
that Barnes's opponents must have been all along actuated
by personal feelings antagonistic to Mr. Barnes; for at the
public meeting last Thursday they declared themselves in
sympathy with the very things he has been contending for.
They made that delaration to the business men who had
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met with them last week: in regular session this week they
defeated the very things they had said they wanted.
Are they letting personal prejudice outweigh public
good W ho is occupying the vantage point in relation to
the public, themselves or Barnes ?
Messrs. Auten, Wood and Mntchler, you are wrong!
You have no right to let your personal feelings come be
tween you and your duty. By your action, yon have de
stroyed the city's credit, brought it into disrepute and
worked a serious injury upon yourselves in common with
all other citizens. _
It redounds to the credit of the city council that Aider
man Bradley's motion for the establishment of a Cemetery
fund was not adopted. The councilman doubtless think
there are cripples enough, without adding to the number.
Dr. Wiley is being mentioned for the Vice-Presidency,
which bears out the theory that his enemies have not yet
given up the fight against him.—Louisville Post.
Who. two years ago, would have believed that T. R.
would lie allowing everybody to state his position except
himself G -Boston Transcript.
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Davenport, la., April 1.—William R.
Benkert, of this city, national chair
man of the United Christian party, has
issued a call for a national conference
of the party to be held at Rock Island,
[II., May 1. The call announces that it
is the purpose of the United Christian
party to end war and capital punish
ment, and to settle the tariff, liquor,
trust and high cost of living questions
hv a direct vote of the people, and by
the golden rule.
ENGLISH PRINTER’S ERROR
HARD ON SIR ARTHUR
—
The Western Daily Mercury, a Ply
mouth (England) newspaper, published
the following paragraph recently:
“We deeply regret that in a portion
of our issue yesterday there appeared
a most unhappy printer’s error in a
report of a speech by Sir Arthur
Quiller-Couch at Fowey. Sir Arthur,
speaking of an 'efflux of words’ on the
part of Sir Reginald Pole-Carew, said
that it was sometimes traceable to
last Sunday’s ‘Observer,’ often trace
able ‘no whither.’
“This was set up by the printer as
‘to whisky,’ but, unfortunately, the
reader’s correction of this error was
not made until a portion of our issue
had been printed. Immediately it was
discovered the correction was effected
and the accurate version of the speech
appeared in later editions.”
BEAR GREEK MEN'S
NAMES MISPRINTED
One of the especially hard things to
do in this country is to “get people’s
names right.” Men may be acquainted
for years and not know more than each
other’s first names — sometimes not
even that. Names are often written and
printed in such a way that their own
ers can scarcely recognize them.
Iu last week's Pioneer, speaking of
miners and prospectors on Bear creek,
Kallerman and Wolfern were made to
read “Kallerman and Wolfort,” Jack
Miller was called Jack “O’Meara,”
Ted Florence was named “Florne,”
Hynes was printed “Heins” and Bob
Hammond was named “Ben.” That
was quite a bunch of errors to crowd
into a small space, but, as was said
before, it is a hard matter to get names
right.
Sara Godfrey, Al Thorns, A1 Goslow
and Bob Hart floated down Otter creek
and Iditarod riverr to this city and
spent several days duck hunting during
the voyage with fair to middling’ luck.
Fresh eastern oysters $1.00 per can.
Iditarod Meat Co.
PRACTICAL JOKfcS.
Methouglit T’d seat me in my
chair, and fall into a study brown,
but some blamed aleck standing
there withdrew the chair as I sat
down. And so I sal upon the floor,
and broke two boards and eke my'
spine; and even as I write I’m sore,
and vengeful thoughts and dreams
are mine. I weigh three-quarters
of a ton. and when I’m down I can’t
get up: a joke like that seems
measly fun, and it with sorrow fills
my cup. I do not like these dizzy
jests which cause some fellow mor
tal pain, and stir up anger in their
breasts and make them act, as though
insane. The man who cannot see a
joke, who cannot spring a sunny
smile, unless some fellow’s slats are
broke—his sense of humor’s out of
style. Because I’m like a load of
hay, and can’t get up when I am
down, I am the fall guy every day
for all the alecks in the town. 1
think the correspondence schools
should start a now and useful
grind, and teach new folly to the
fools—some harmless and denatured
kind. —Walt Mason.
IN BIS DIAL
—
Henry Isaacs, head of the firm of
Isaacs Bros. & Co., prominent in
Iditarod and Fairbanks, was recently a
party to one of the largest real estate
deals in the history of the ghetto dis
trict of Chicago, and what the Chicago
Tribune pronounces the second largest
merchandising deal in the entire his
tory of that city.
Mrs. Flora Phillipson, as administra
trix of the estate of Joseph Phillipson,
conveyed to Henry Isaacs and Joseph
Weissenbach all the goods, merchan
dise and other chattels in the store at
Halstead and Twelfth streets, as!
well as in the warehouse building at '
the northwest corner of Jefferson and
O'Brien streets, for $339,757.
The heirs of Joseph Phillipson also
leased to Mr. Isaacs and Mr. Weissen
bach the six-story building where the
Phillipson store is located, for a term
of twenty years, for a total rental of
$392,500, or at the rate of $19,500 an
nually for the first ten years and
$19,750 for the remaining ten years.
The lessees are to pay all taxes in
addit ion.
I he direct associate of Mr. Isaacs of
tlie Alaska firm, Mr. Weissenbach, is!
an attorney with offices in the Tribune
building, and is a son-in-law of Leon
Klein, of the L. Klein department
store at Halstead and Fourteenth
streets. The far* that the Kleins
guarantee the payment of the rent in
dicates their interest, in the new pro
prietorship of the Phillipson store.
The name of the establishment will be
changed to “TheTwelfth Street Store.”
Mr. Phillipson began business abou
twenty years ago in the building at
Jefferson and O'Brien streets, where
he opened a notion store and jobbed to
peddlers. His business grew steadily
and developed into a department store.
About four years age he erected the
present building at Halstead and
Twelfth streets, which is of fireproof
construction and cost over $200,000.
Within less than a year after its com
pletion be died.
BOAT ARRIVALS
OF LAST SPRING
The very first water craft to arrive
at Iditarod last season was a poling
boat brought from Boulder creek by
“Big John the Swede,” May 2.
The first steamboat to arrive was the
Reliance, May 22, from her winter
quarters 40 miles below Dikeman. She
was the first to depar' for the Yukon
river, May 26.
The first steamboat from the Yukon
river was the White Seal, which left i
LeBarge May 22 and arrived here May
29. The Minneapolis, from Lewis
Landing, where she was frozen in with
a Fairbanks party the fall before, did
not arrive until June 2.
MATRON TO CARE
FOR TWO HOSPITALS
The new emergency hospital for Flat
City has been established in the Tay
lor building, corner of First avenue
and Gold street. Mrs. Davis, the
matron, will divide her time between
Flat City and Iditarod, according to
where her services are most needed.
Dr. Heinrich Wortmann is establish
ing offices at Flat, and will also divide
his time between that place and his
Iditarod office. It was given out some
time ago by Mrs. Davis that patients
in the hospitals will have the privilege
of choosing their own physicians while
being treated at either of the places.
I Fresh eastern oysters $1.00 per can.
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OUTLOOK GIVES
The Outlook Magazine, of
which Col. Roosevelt is asso
ciate editor, printed an edito
rial in its issue of February 17
containing the following. It is
not a very striking argument,
and is of interest mainly because
Col Roosevelt is connected with
the magazine:
"In Jefferson's time there were real
dangers against which the anti-third
term was directed. In the early his
tory of the country it was not impos
sible that a President might so in
trench himself, by the use of patronage
and tlie support of office-holdirs, as to
make it difficult to elect an opponent,
even when the country desired to do so.
We think those dangers have passed
away, and we see no reason why an
efficient President of the United States
should not be re-elected, like the presi
dent of a business corporation, us long
as he does his work satisfactorily. We
repeat what we said thirty-three years
ago when the debate was acute re
warding a possible “third term for
General Gran'. In the issue of this
journal for April lfi, 1879, when it was
under the same editorial direction
which controls its opinions today, there
appeared the following editorial:
“ ‘This idea of a one-term limitation
is an invention of small politicians, who
want a fair chance at the Presidency;
it is the, cry of tlie small boy in the
shooting match, “Alj chance next." it
is based on the idea that the American
people have not sense enough to know
when they are well served, and to
choose their own servants. It tends to
abnegate the right of free citizens to
he free in their choice. It says to the
people, You may choose any man who
is raw, hut a man who has learned the
work, who lias experience, you must
not citoose. As to tlie fear of a bureau
cracy, if tlie bureaucracy does not hurt
the people enough for then to rise and
throw it off, it does not really hurt
them at all. There is no objection to
three terms or thirty terms, if the man
is a good one; no reason why America
should not keep her Prime Minister—
and tlie President is her Prime Minis
ter—in office as long as England kept
Pitt in liis place. Indeed, a good
Presidency that should last twenty
years would be a great boon to the
country, which suffers very serious in
jury from the Presidential battle, which
not only occurs every four years, but
keeps the great political parties skir
mishing all the meanwhile.’
“But those who do not accept this
view, and think that it is still unsafe
to elect a President fora third term,
should recall the fact that the objec
tions to a third term were formulated
against a third consecutive term.
Stan wood's “History of Presidential
Elections,” states that many opponents
of President Grant’s third-term nomi
nation in 1876. joined the movement to
nominate him in 1889, on the ground
that an election after an interval of
four years would not be a breach of the
"unwritten Constitution” against a
“third term.” A man who leaves the
Presidency, and is re-elected after a
lapse of tour or eight or twelve years,
lias no hotly of office holders behind
him, does nut possess the power of
patronage, and therefore stands on the
same footing as any other private citi
zen. In Mr. Roosevelt’s specific case
it is sometimes said that his statement
in 1904 and 1907 that he would not ac
cept another nomination would make
his acceptance of a nomination this
year inconsistent. What Air. Roose
velt said in 1904 and 1907 referred, of
course, to a consecutive third term.
Mr. Roosevelt believes, all hough we do
not share his belief, that the settled
policy of this country makes a third
consecutive Presidential term for an-,
man impolitic, if not improper; but tho
Outlook has a better appreciation of
his intelligence than to suppose that he
had in 1904 or lias now tho slightest
idea of defining a third term except in
tho way in which we have defined it.
The situation may perhaps he made
clear by a homely illustration. When
a man says at breakfast in liic morning
"No, tlmnk you, I will not take anv
more coffee,'’ it does not mean that lie
will not take any more coffee tomorrow
morning, or next week, or next month
or next year.
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WGTICL
Ail persons indebted to the estate of
the late .John S. Harding, deceased, ui<
requested to make settlement with 111• ■
undersigned, so that claims against tin
said estate may be liquidated.
HENRY RODEN,
Administrator, estate of
John N. Harding, deceased.
Dr. Heinrich Wortmann,
Ottice at Oily Drug Store. Tel. d(>
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Office Hours- ir to i, 3 to 4. 7 to 8
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Flat City
Appointments by Telephone
DR. F. W. HER MS,
Dentist
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First Avenue and Willow Street
ALFRED E. MALT3Y.
Attorney at Law
Notary Public
Office Simpson Bldg, First and Will r.\
CHAS. E. TAYLOR,
Attorney at Law,
Notary Public, Conveyanei ..
Richmond St., Iditarod
V/ickersham & Roden,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Iditarod. Alaska,
GEORGE WOODRUFF ALBRECHT,
Attorney at Law
Michigan, '31 Alaska, '10 Kentucky. 91
The I'ior.eer Attorney of this Camp
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