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A NEW JEWEL 2ft ALASKA’S CROWN
It is a glorious thing to be in on the opening up of a
new country. Who can resist the call of the stampede or
the lure of gold when dressed in the promise of excitement
and adventure ? Who can sit calmly back, anchored on the
more or less barren ground of old endeavor and watch the
argonauts of fortune flocking away to a new camp, without
catching the spirit of unrest that starts a man to packing
his pie-box and shaking hands with his housekeeper?
All of which is simply preliminary to the statement
that we are here with both feet, and we are here to stay.
We brought along our plant. We have type, presses,
plenty of ink and some paper—all we lack at the present
writing is a devil, but we have hopes.
The present issue of the Iditarod Pioneer is the first
bud on a new tree of journalism that is meant to flourish in
this land, to send a pleasant rustle into every home, and
cast a cooling and beneficient shadow over heated strife and
sectional controversy. We feel like a debuante, but unlike
the tender, blushing maid in her first decollette, we do not
hesitate and tremble for we have been there before and
know a good thing when we see it.
In making our bow to the public we want to say right
here that we like the country and are glad we came. Hav
ing seen the rise and fall of many placer camps we are be
ginning to wise up on placers, and the stuff they are find
ing around here looks like the real thing. There seems to
be plenty of it, too, and it is our firm intention to stay right
here until we get a strangle hold on some of the vintage of
1910-11-12, or as far as she car-^s to go.
We heard a great deal about this country before we
were finally induced to uproot ourselves, but now that we
have come here and looked about us, we find much that is
satisfactory and hope for more. We have heard members
of the Anvil Chorus, in session and on vacation, and we
have listened to their lusty blows with compassion. .Back
to the Morris chair for theirs, the camp don’t need them
and some bereft community is undoubtedly grieving for
their return.
When you stop to think of it, this birth of a new coun
try and new cities is a wonderful thing. As if a magic
wand had been waved over the land, communities have
sprung into being, streets have been laid out on the bare
tundra, and men are bartering and trafficking where but a
brief month ago the wild duck was calling to its mate.
All these things are good, for from where we sit it
looks as though a new and a rich placer district has been
added to the wealth of Alaska. We do not look for a big
camp here this season, but there can be no mistaking the
fact that for the length of its life the Iditarod has every
other placer camp in the North beaten to a Chinese whisper.
We are in a placer country and the discoveries already
made are but the first guns in what shall become a general
fusillade. No man shall say where the gold district begins
or ends here, and many creeks will unquestionably be added
to the galaxy of producers that will bring wealth and fame
to the camp.
A newspaper does not actually lift the gold from the
gravel—it only wishes to get its fair portion after the miner
has disturbed its ancient bed. In return therefor the paper
does what it can for the general good, bringing the news to
each door, crying out against evils, boosting for the things
that are worthy.
That shall be the mission of the Iditarod Pioneer. We
CARRIES A FULL LINE OF
Hardware,
Bar Glassware, Guns,
Ammunition, Harness,
Building Materials, ]
Stoves, Ranges and ]
House Furnishings, ]
MINERS’ AND TRAPPERS’ SUPPLIES |
Pool Tables Furniture 1
NATIONAL CASH REGISTERS j
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Second and Willow Streets, Iditarod City <
Pioneer Barber Shop
Front St., Id it a rod
Otto Kientz, Prop.
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Ladies’ and Gents’ Furnishings
SPECIALTY IN LADIES' AND GENTS' SHOES
Front Ave., Between Richmond and Willow Sts., Iditarod
Fay & Loussac* Ph. G.,
Ai'O open for business with a fresh line of
Drugs, Druggists’ Sundries, Perfumes
AND STATIONERY
First Avenue, Bet. Willow and Richmond Sts., Iditarod City
H. C. Hamilton Raymond Brumbaugh
E. E. Kellogg, Consulting Engineer
Brumbaugh, Hamilton & Kellogg
MINING MACHINERY, HARDWARE.
STOVES. TIN AND GRANITEWARE
E. J. Baker, Manager Str. Samson, Hogular Sailings
intend to back the camp, and we want the camp to back
us. We intend to give everybody a square deal and we
look for it in return, and be it winter or summer, hot or
cold, wearisome or pleasant, you will find us always on the
job and hammering away.
LET TE-E GOOD WORK BEGIN
In response to a need that is imperative, a provisional
government has been provided for Iditarod City, the newest
and best thing it the way of cities that can be found on the
map.
Having lived but one brief lunar period we are already
equipped with a perfectly good board of city dads, includ
ing one mayor and four trustees. We have also a good
constitution, no laws to bother us, an unwritten tax list,
plenty of daylight and several streets that need fixing,
wherefore our motto shall be,
“Let us nowr be up and doing.”
The board of trustees that resresents us was elected by
the common consent of all the people. Anything they may
do might be ultra vires, according to the common law and
the Pandects, but for the time being wTe will carefully
pigeon-hole said common law, put our shoulders to the
wheel of municipal progress and start her rolling along a
well-ordered highway.
It is also possible that the said city fathers may do a
lot of things that wdll not please all of us. That will be
all right too, it they only clo something—we win take a
track at their mistakes later.
The provisional government plan was adopted because
it takes a long time to organize on a permanent basis and
there are several little matters that need attention in the
immediate future.
First we want sidewalks. Then right after that we
want more sidewalks. If the trustees will furnish us side
walks we will supply the people to walk on them, and no
one shall gainsay the equity of the bargain.
Having sidewalked the town, we believe it can be
stated without fear of successful contradiction that some
thing must be done to the streets. They need a massage,
a manicure, a mackintosh or something, but whatever it is,
they need it.
There is a great and glorious work, a noble mission to
which the trustees may devote themselves. They have a
chance to bring undying fame upon their own heads and
peace and comfort to their constituents if they will only do
something to the streets. We have never done much street
fixing, but we would suggest that if they were wrung out
thoroughly and hung on the line to dry, it might help
some, but these matters, of course, should not be under
taken without mature consideration.
Having groomed the streets, it is then up to the coun
cil to keep them peaceful. To do this it will be necessary
to hire a large man or two, equip him with a badge of
authority and a grave demeanor, and start walking round
about wherever there might be anything unpeaceful doing.
All of these things will require time, attention, a lot
of thinking and some profanity on the part of both the
board of trustees and the citizen who is to pay for it.
However we have plenty of all of these necessities, and if
the council should at any time run short we have a heavy
thinker that can be supplied without extra charge.
HE WAS CAUGHT
WITH THE GOODS
Caught with the goods on his
person, William Hanauer, who
claims to be the representative ol
an Everett brewery, is now in a
very bad way indeed, occupying
one of the new cells at the new
Federal jail and said to be facing a
possible term in the penitentiary
of from one to ten years on the
charge of grand larceny.
Hanauer was at rested last Thurs
day by Deputy Marshal Donovan
on the complaint of Otto Kientz,
who bad lost his purse containing
$ioo in cash and a $400 diamond
stickpin. Hanauer had been sleep
ing in the back of Kientz’s barber
shop and about a week ago Kientz
missed his pocketbook from the
shelf where he had left it.
Through several circumstances,
suspicion rested on Hanauer and
he was taken into custody. Capt.
Donovan put him through a short
and effective course of the “Third
Degree’’ and he dug up the spark.
The money, however, was gone be
yond recall as he had spent it.
He waived his preliminary hear
ing before Commissioner Maltby
and has been bound over to the
grand jury, which will sit in Fair
banks, presumably, some lime in
September. The bond was fixed
at $2,500. _
Radies’ Rubber Boots, Kemp & Co.,
Second ave.
Anderson Bros. & Hand
Building Materials of All Kinds,
Glass, Sash, Doors, Printed and Plain Honselining,
WALLPAPER
Carpets, Rues, Curtains,
Sign Painting, Paper Hanging and Decorating
Corner Second and Willow Streets
A. Longneeker, the pioneer sawmill
man of the Innoko country, who is now
located at the mouth of Otter cr'-.ekj
was in tbo city a couple days early last
week. __
Cloth signs for trail advertising
at the Pioneer office.
For a
Home-Cooked
First Ave., Iditarod
Henry Schneider
j fok
Wallpaper, Paints,
Oils, Glass, Sash
and Doors
SIGNS
Got Our Prices
FREIGHT left at Greer's Warehouse,
Iditarod City, for Carl Carlson smd
Johnson & Anderson. Please call.
DON’T RISK TYPHOID FKVJSK
Use Well Water for cooking and drinking/—
delivered daily by K. M. Sullivan. Supposed
springs are merely surface water carrying fever
germs.
DR. B. F. BROOKS,
Physician and Surgeon
Red Cross Drug Store
DR. £. T. BRADBURY,
Dentist
Temporary Hcadquarte-s. Red Cross
Drug Store
A. J. DALY,
Attorney at Law
Iditarod, Alaska
HENRY RODEN,
Attorney at Law
Iditarod, Alaska
McGowan, Clark & Albrecht
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Iditarod, Alaska
The Pioneer Attorneys of This Camp
ALFRED E. MALT BY,
[y. S. Commissioner]
Attorney at Law
Iditarod, Alaska
Practice only in District Court.
F. E. BECKER,
Attorney and Counselor at Law
Office—Richmond St., near Second
MARCHES!
Coffee House
and Bakery
Front Street, Iditarod
Oh, Ho I Here's a Tin Shop!
Pioneer
Sheet Metal Works
Willow Street, next to Anderson Bros., Iditarod
FRED BRUHN,
mining Broker,
Heal Estate, Employment Agency, Notary Public
Postoffice Building, Iditarod
Just Received Large Shipment
From the Outside. Give Us a Call
JOHNSON & CLARK
Iditarod Dis. Otter
Clark Lumber "Co.
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IDITAROD
New Wharf Now Ready to Receive
Freight and Steamers