___ _ —^ ^ - Now on display, embracing Cut Glass, Silverware, Silver Depositware and China, which is being offered ■ ■ « ■ Man
Big Stock of New Good3,ic!;XES™.tJLhwirtcomptaeJ‘"‘°,,me"bbywhithwewmma,eo'",,o<'‘‘,,FU1 ■— oALE
Positively the
BEST GROCERIES IN IDITAROD
Everything of the Highest Grade and Strictly Fresh
Prices at All Times Absolutely Right
Rest Attention Given to AH Mail and ’Phone Orders
Sam’l Applebaum
KODAKS
We have a full line of up
to-date Photograph Supplies,
including the "Autographic"
Kodaks. Special rates for
Developing and Printing to
•those who buy their supplies
from us. Our line of Proprietary
Medicines is complete. We also have
a nice line of Rubber Goods,
including Sanitary Syringes,
Wall Bags and Internal Bath.
We have 20 Suits of Clothing,
regular prices $25 to $45.
Jo close them out, $10 to $20.
Ansieys
Iditarod
j HARD TIMES BALL
AT MOOSE HALL FLAT CITY
THANKSGIVING NIGHT
Thursday, October 25
] TAKE PART IN PRIZE WALTZ
THE BEST OF MUSIC
Will Be in Attendance
PI ATARD's klfr and small, primed on
A paper, cardboard or cloth,
,op short notice, at Iditarod Pioneer omce.
HURST BROS.' CIGAR STORE
PURCHASED BY JACK NELSON
The Hurst Brothers, Theodore and
Charles, who have conducted a cigar store
and pool room on First ^avenue for some
years, have sold the business to Jack Nelson,
who will hereafter conduct the business in
connection with his barber business.
Jack is a well-known and popular busi- j
ness man, and will doubtless succeed in his
new' venture.
Charles Hurst will leave in a few days for ,
Bear creek, where he has some mining in- j
terests. He will be accompanied by Clarence j
White.
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ANOTHER IDITAROD CASE
Telegraphic information has been received
here that the case of Sam Sanderson vs.
Alice Schwartz, in which A. E. Maltby was
intervenor, has been decided by Judge Bun
nell by granting the motion of defendant to
strike the intervenor’s amended complaint. :
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The man with a hammer saws little wood
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Many girls obtain their first light upon
kissing in the wark.
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Come to the big dance and swell supper
at Moose hall, Flat, on Thanksgiving night.
Don’t eat at home.
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DOGS FOR SALE, CHEAP
Fifteen good dogs. Iditarod Dog Ranch.
Inquire at Ramps Peterson’s.
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Job Printing at Pioneer office.
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™ PIONEER SALOON
EOR GOOD WHISKEY
Two Barrels of Old California Brandy—Mast Be Sold—$4.50 Gal.
RAMPS PETERSON
CLOSING-OUT SALE
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lima.
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gain prlcaa.
SMITHS GUN STORE,
8EOOND AND WILLOW ST8. IDITAROD, ALASKA
REINDEER MEAT
By the Side or Whole 30c per lb.
Front Quarter . 25c per lb.
Lew than Quarter 30c and 35c per lb.
C. R. PECK FLAT CITY
“BACHELORS’ SOCIAL”
WILL BE GIVEN TONIGHT
Probably owing to the disappointment ex
pressed over the announcement of the in
definite postponement of the “bachelors' so
cial” which was to have been given two
weeks ago. and which was postponed until
last Saturday, and again postponed, it is
announced that the event will take place
this evening without fail. Manager J anise
Farrell announces that although the pro
gram has been changed somewhat from that
published, there will lie presented an enter
t&inment consisting of vocal and instrumen
tal music, concluding with a one-act comedy
skit, that is bound to be interesting and en
joyable. The ladies have prepared bounti
fully for the luncheon part of the program,
and good music has been secured for the
dance.
The entertainment is to commence at 9
p. in. this evening at A. B. hall, and a cor
dial invitation is extended to everyone to
be present.
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CHANGED CONDITIONS
IN GAY FRENCH CAPITAL
(Paris Correspondence of Associated Press)
There are more men in Paris now than
there have been since the eve of the battle
of the Marne, when the army of the de
fense of Paris crept out by night in its he
roic work on Von Kluck’s western wing and
left the city of light drained of every male
uble to bear arms. For, though the French
capital is itself still almost on the front,
there never have been many troops sta
tioned in the city since the ear.y days of
hostilities.
The business of France for the present
hour is war, and those who are not actually
engaged in it are in depots scattered
throughout the republic, making themselves
ready or holding themselves in readiness.
To the casual eye the only men of fight
ing age in Paris, so far, have been the
wounded. But now it is different. The
entire redistribution of the forces of France,
necessitated by the enactment of the Dalbiez
law, is in progress, and thousands of men
are being brought in from the front and
from the depots back of the lines to serve
their country in the production of the ma
terials of war, and to be replaced in the |
trenches by those who lack the skilled tech- |
nical training to be used in this specialized
field.
Ihe Dalbiez I3W was passed out of the
conviction of the French that the war will
last at least another winter, and that it is
well, in view of the enormous consumption
of munitions, equipment, artillery and food
stuffs rendered essential by the nature of
this siege warfare, to organize the entire
nation on the lines of a long campaign con
ducted at the highest level of technical ef
efficiency.
To do this, every skilled workman capa
ble of aiding in the manufacture of any of
the thousands of articles required is being
transferred to the production corps. At
present, and doubtless for some time to
come, while this readjustment is in process,
the people of Paris are being treated to the
sight of their defenders in their mussy cam
paign uniforms and all that shaggy, bearded
unkemptness which has earned them their
nickname of “poilus”—the hairy ones.
During working hours they are scarcely
in evidence. It is along the boulevards in
the evenings or on Sunday, or better still,
in the early mornings, that one sees them,
suddenly reconverted to domesticity, after
almost a year in the trenches, accompany
ing their wives to the Halles, the great
municipal market of Paris, basket on arm,
each in tow of some woman radiant in the
pride of her returned warrior. Now and
then the air of domesticity has bpen ac
quired at the expense of hair and beard,
and the faces and necks of the “poilus.”
shorn of their hirsute adornments, are strik
ing mixtures of piratical tan on cheek bones
and forehead and a curious pallor where
beard and long hair have protected the
skin from sun and wind.
RUSSIA’S RICH PROSPECTS
FOR INDUSTRIAL GROWTH
In the last decade before the present war
Russia had doubled its foreign trade, of
which 56 per cent consisted of exports; yet
its foreign commerce was less than half that
of the United States, and the nation had
scarcely begun to gather impetus for the
prosecution of its projected tasks, says a
bulletin recently issued by the National Geo
graphic Society.
Russia, unlike most other great nations,
is self-sustaining*in the matter of raw ma
terials; but the empire is dependent upon
the factories of other lands for every step
that it may take in the upward scale; it is
even dependent upon foreign manufactures
to maintain standards in its wide-sweep„4f
territory as high as they are today. There
are fabulous riches awaiting transmutation
by Russian industry.
The bulletin sketches the pre-war eco
nomic condition of Russia, which, having
expended 13,500,000,000, having lost hun
dreds of millions of dollars in foreign trade
and cities and provinces worth hundreds of
millions more, is undismayed, confident. The
bulletin reads in part:
“Commercial and industrial revolution
were stirring in Russia before the war; the
work of opening its magnificent domain was
being rapidly carried forward; plans for de-.
veloping its almost unlimited resources werj
in process of confident organization; mod
ern cities were springing up-in rich Siberia;
textile, metal and other industries were lay
ing firm foundations, and foreign trade had
been brought up to about fl,500,000,000.
What has been called “the most powerful
country of the future" was finding itself,
was preparing to enter upon the centuries
of expansion that it will need to exhaust
the possibilities of its boundless natural
wealth.
“About two and one-half times larger |
than the United States, with an area of
S,650,(UK) square miles and a jiopulation of
170,000,000, which is increasing at the rate
of 3,000.000 a year, Russia’s natural re
sources resemble those of this country and
are proportionate. It has nearly 900,000,000
acres of forest compared with the 544,400
acres of the United States much of which,
even now, is carefully administered, and
which, one day, will he the world’s first
source of timber. It has 250,000,000 acres
of land under cultivation, while this country
has a cultivated area about twice as great;
but Russia can expand her farm lands
twenty-fold and still leave virgin land to the
future. It can become the granary and the.
stock farm of the world. While its min
eral wealth has not yet been carefully sur
veyed, known supplies of petroleum, metals
and fuel abound. Russia is a continent in
itself, and, likely, the richest of them .ill.
‘There remain hundreds of millions of
a.cres of fat lands to be brought under the
plow; tens of thousands of factory plants to
build; millions of home builders to be moved
to Siberia, the Silver East of the czar’s em
pire, and many millions of illiterates to bo
educated to a higher standard of life and of
efficiency.
“Russia is a vast storehouse of raw ma
terials, and must for many years remain a
purchaser of machinery and manufactured
goods in increasing quantities. \et the mills
of Russia consume $130,000,000 worth of
raw cotton annually, and Russian iron and
steel rails have already found their way into
competition in the markets of the world.
Germany bought more from Russia than
any other three countries, and sold to the
Russians about half of all their imports.
These two empires did a tremendous, thriv
ing business with one another before the
war, and a great stream of German capital
flowed into the Northern empire for invest
ment. England. Holland. Austria-Hungary
and Italy, in the order named, followed
Germany in business with the Russians.
German trade promotion was thoroughly or
ganized throughout the land, and in Riga,
Petrograd and Moscow names of thousands
of German firms could be seen.
Foodstuffs formed about 65 per cent of
Russia’s total export trade; raw materials
id partly-manufactured goods, about 30
per cent, and manufactures, about 3 per
cent. Russia imports ail those things that
highlydeveloped and specialized countries
have for sale. Therefore, Russian trade
has been a most valuable one for the older
nations.
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OUTLOOK MOST PROMISING
IN BEAR CREEK DISTRICT
A. H. Haines, a miner from Bear creek, on
the Kuskokwim, who has been in the city
for some time past awaiting snow before
undertaking the journey to that district, left
on Wednesday last. Mr. Haines is one of
those who firmly believe in the future of the
Bear creek district. He has been located in
that district for the past six years, and is
well acquainted with its possibilities. He
states that had it not been for legal entangle
ments there is little doubt that a dredge
would be now operating on that stream,
which has been demonstrated to carry val
ues sufficient to warrant such an enterprise.
Mr. Haines says that other creeks besides
Bear creek in that neighborhood are com
ing to the front before long. Carl Heffer
man and Carl Ilellerman, widely known as
"the two Carls,” had a fairly prosperous
season, and on New York creek Louis Huber
and partner put in a flitch and took out
several thousand dollars. This creek has
not been exploited to any extent, but it
will be heard from in the future, according
to Mr. Haines.
Reports from Canyon creek, in the lower
Kuskokwim basin, are to the effect that a
good season was enjoyed there, and that
Joe Jean, w’ell known in Iditarod, took out
a goodly sum. No figures are obtainable.
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Mrs. Lottie Thornton will conduct a spe
cial sale at Flat City during the coming
week.
Dave Strandberg made a trip to Dikemsn
with a dog team Saturday last, returning
on Monday.
Fred Levy, the well-known miner of the
Innoko district, is a business visitor in the
city this week. /
A1 Walsh, who is acquiring the sobriquet
of the “In and Out Kid,” returned yesterday
from Moore creek.
Jack Hines and Harry Nonagaki left yes
terday afternoon from Flat City for the
Kuskokwim country.
James Ebana has filed suit for divorce in
the district court against Mary Ebana,
whom he accuses of desertion.
Dan Hartnett, the retired freighter, this
week sent an outfit to Horsefly creek, where
some extensive prospecting work will be un
dertaken on some claims in which he is in
terested.
Judge Gcraghty presided at a marriage
ceremony last Saturday evening at the Re
gina hotel, in which W. T. Vanderpool and
Sophie Fredericks were the high contracting
parties.
A non-committal letter is the noblest task
of penmanship. '
PROPERTY ON YANKEE CREEK
SUBJECT OF LITIGATION
Suit has been filed in the district court
by Fred Levy, through his attorney, E. M.
Stanton, against Thomas Marling, Charles
Knesko and A. Higgins, involving valuable
placer mining ground on Yankee creek, in
the Innoko district.
The complaint sets forth that the plaintiff
is owner of a one half interest in the lower
250 feet of No. 2 above discovery, Yankee
creek and is also the owner of an undivided
one-fourth interest in and to the upper 000
feet of said claim, and that defendant Mar
ling is the owner of an undivided half in
terest in the said lower portion of said claim,
known as the Valley interest, and is the
owner of an undivided half interest in the
upper portion of said claim; that during j
the spring of 1914, and prior to May, 1914, '
plaintiff executed and delivered to Marling
authority to execute in the name of plaintiff
any lease or lay agreement for the said in
terests to defendant and such other person
or persons as defendant might elect, and
in accordance therewith Marling entered
into an agreement with defendant Charles I
Knesko, John Olson and Richard Conway,
under the terms of which the parties thereto |
were to mine the ground as laymen, and
were to pay to Marling and plaintiff 25 per j
cent of the proceeds. Thereafter, the com
plaint alleges, Marling and Knesko and 01 j
son and Conway took possession of the i
"round and did considerable dead work |
thereon, but did not mine the same nor ex- |
Tract any mineral, and that some time later
Olson and Conway transferred all their in
terest iu the lease to defendant Higgins; that
during the summer c( 1915 the three de
fendants above named worked the said
ground and took therefrom minerals of the
gross value of $11,270; from the Valley in [
terest values to the amount of $9,286 were
taken, and from the upper 600 feet gold to
the value of $2,000 was taken, upon both
of which sums plaintiff is entitled to roy
alty, which defendants have failed to pay.
There is now due the plaintiff the sum of
$1,359.50.
Plaintiff alleges that the defendants are
still in possession of the premises, which is
low-grade ground and in the ordinary run
of events it cannot he expected to produce
an amount, over and above working and
lienable expenses, sufficient to pay plaintiff
the royalties to accrue and the amounts
now due, and that if defendants are al
lowed to continue mining the ground with
out paying the royalties due he will be de
prived of all security for the money due him
and will suffer irreparable injury.
Plaintiff asks judgment against defend
ants in the sum of $1,159.50, w’ith interest
at 8 per cent from October 15, 1915; for
damages in the sum of $500, and that the
defendants be restrained from further min
ing any of the aforesaid placer mining claim
until the said sums be paid. He also asks
a decree that the lease of the defendants be
ieclared forfeited, and that they be re j
quired to surrender his interests in said
claim. He also asks for costs and disburse
ments, and such other relief as the court
may deem just and equitable.
IT WAS HIS DOG
An automobile dashed along the country ]
roal. Turning a curve, it came suddenly
upon a man with a gun on his shoulder snd j
a weak, sick-looking old dog beside him. j
The dog was directly in the path of the
motor car. The chauffeur sounded his horn
but the dog did not move until he was j
struck. After that he did not move.
The automobile stopped and one of the I
men got out and came forward. He had
once paid a farmer $10 for killing a calf
that belonged to another farmer. This
time he was wary.
“Was that your dog7”
“Yes.”
“You own him7”
“Yes.”
“Looks as if we'd killed him.”
“Certainly looks so."
“Very valuable dog?”
“Well, not so very.”
"Will $5 satisfy you?”
“Yes.”
“Well, then, here you are.” He handed
a $5 bill to the man with the gun and
added pleasantly, “I’m sorry to have brokeD
up your hunt.”
“I wasn’t go;ng hunting,” replied the other
as he pocketed the bill.
“Not going hunting? Then what were
you doing with the dog and the gun?”
“Going down to the woods to shoot the
dog.”—Ex. _
A cynic is a man who doesn't believe there
are natural blondes.
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Now’s the time to send out your Christ
mas cards. Get them at Ansley’s, Iditarod.
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Fresh Olympia and Eastern Oysters, $1.50
per can. Iditarod Meat Co.
Hot Air and Vapor Baths with Electric
Vibration and Osteopathy Massages have the
power to cure such functional diseases as
Lumbago Indigestion
Rheumatism Disorders of Liver
Stiff Joints Melancholia
Dropsy Obesity and
Locomotor Ataxia Gout
THE CROSBY MASSAGE AND BATH
PARLORS
A FULL LINE OF
Gordon &. Ferguson Fur Caps,
Wolf Robes, Coon and
Dogskin Coats
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A. J. WEISS’
FLAT
THE HOME OF HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHING
ACCOMMODATING THE PUBLIC
(Communicated)
The postal department of the United j
States is run, not as a money-making estab- ;
lishmeiit, but for the convenience of the j
people. Nevertheless, all its actions are
oedged about by the postal rules and regu
lations so that a postmaster cannot do a
great many things which the public expect
him to do, and curse him if he don’t, and
yet which to do he risks censure and, possi
bly, dismissal.
Here are a few things which he cannot
legally do: Accept postage stamps in pay
ment of postage remaining due on mail mat
ter (“The amount due shall invariably be !
paid in cash”) ; accept foreign money, or |
other money except it be legal tender and ;
in legal tender amounts; exchange postage |
stamps of one denomination for those of '
another; change the site or location of a
postoffice without the authority of the first
or fourth assistant postmaster general, as
the case must be, and he must have a peti
tion signed by a majority of the patrons of
his office that the change is satisfactory to J
them; allow a postoffice delivery box to be
used by anyone other than the renter
thereof, the members of his household, and
those connected with him in business.
The lav/ in relation to renting of boxes is
so little understood by the people generally,
and apparently even by some who aspire to
be postmasters, that a publication of the
full text of he law may be of interest. Thus,
Section 605 of the Postal Laws and Regula
tions reads:
“The use of a box shall be restricted to
the renter thereof, the members of his
household, and those connected with him
in business.
“Mail addressed to the members of the
household of a box-holder, including vis
itors, servants and transient and temporary
boarders, or in his care, and mail for con
fidential or official employes, may be placed
in his box.
“A firm renting a box may have placed ■
therein all mail matter addressed to its name
and to any of its official employes. By con
sent of all the members of the firm any i
member thereof may have mail addressed
to himself or members of his family depos
ited in the box assigned to the firm’s use.
“When a box is rented by a corporation,
association or society, mail for its officials
may be placed therein. [This does not mean
that the personal mail of employes or even
of the officials composing the corporation
can be placed therein. For instance, mail
addressed to Claud Baker, manager, would
probably go in the box of the Iditarod Meat
Market, but mail addressed simply to Claud
Baker should go into Claud Baker’s box, or
into the general delivery, as the case may
be; but in actual practice few postmasters
insist upon this observance of the law,
although when they do the department hum
tains them in this construction. Note.)
“Mail matter addressed to the students and
employes at a college, seminary or school,
who board therein, or to inmates and em
ployes of any public institution, may l>e
placed in the box rented by such college,
school or institution, if consistent with the
usage and rules thereof.
“Mail addressed to guests or transient
boarders at a hotel or boarding house should
be placed in the box assigned to such hotel
or house, or the proprietor thereof.
“Mail addressed merely to the number of
a box may be delivered to the holder thereof
8s long as no improper or unlawful busi
ness is conducted in this manner.
“Bills and circulars shall not be placed in
boxes by postmasters for themselves or any
one else without payment of regular postage
thereon.
Postmasters are not allowed to give public
indorsements of things or persons.
Do not ask your postmaster to violate the
law for your convenience; and do not seek
to save a few dollars by evading the plain
spirit of the law— even if possible for you to
do so. *“*
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SHE CALLED HIM DOWN
The dapper little traveling man glanced
at tilt menu card and then looked up at
the pretty waitress. “Nice day, little one,”
he began. “Yes, it is,” she answered, “and
to was yesterday, and my name is Ella,
and I know I’m a peach and have pretty
blue eyes, and I’ve been here quite a while
and I like the place, and I don’t think
I’m too nice a girl to be working in a hotel
— if I did I’d quit my job—and my wage*
are satisfactory, and I don't know if there
is a show or dance tonight, and it there is
I shall not go with you. and I’m from the
country, and I’m a respectable girl, and my
brother is cook in this hotel and he weighs
200 pounds, and last week he wiped up thi*
dining room floor with a fresh fifty dollar*
a-month traveling man who tried to make
a date with me. Now, what will you have?”
The dapper little traveling man said he was
not very hungry, and a cup of coffee and
some hot cakes would do.—Ex.
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A man feel* awfully rich w'hen he’s got a
few dollars his wife doe n’t know about
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Join the big crowd at Moose hall. Hat
City. Thanksgiving night.
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Fresh Olympia and Eastern Oysters, SI 50
per C3n. Iditarod Meat Co.
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