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A WEEK’S TEMPERATURES
The following record of temperatures for
the week is taken at 1 a. m. daily at the
fire station:
Above Below
Zero. Zero.
Jan. 29. *
30 . 10
31 . 25
feb. 1. 26
o. 18
3 . 4
4 . 8
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VINAL FOR THE LEGISLATURE
The report comes from Ophir that H.
Vinal, the United States commissioner at
that lively camp, is being groomed for the
territorial legislature by his friends. It is
not stated whether he is to be a candidate
for the upper or lower house, but it is ex
pected that announcements will soon be
made. Mr. Vinal’s friends claim that their
section of the district is entitled to elect
a member of the legislature this year, and
Mr. Vinal, who is a well-known and highly
respected old-timer of the Innoko district,
is the proper man for the place. Mr. Vinal
is and always has been a Democrat, but
he prefers to run on the non-partisan ticket.
BABY GIRL AT OLSON HOME
Joy reigns in the home of Osmond Olson,
on Flat creek, because of the arrival of a
seven-pound baby girl on Thursday evening
last. Mother and daughter are reported to
be “doing nicely.”
CLOSING-OUT PRICES
All Drugs at Outside Prices
Murine Eye Water.$ .BO
Garfield Tea .25
Sa! Hepatic* . .75
Witch Hazel Salve . 25
Carbolic Salve . .26
Japanese Toothache Drops .26
Blue Jay Corn Plasters.26
Quinine Capsules, a-gr., 3 doz.60
Prorno Quinine .2B
CaS'-arets .-.26c and .50
Calomel, V»-gr., i tjo?.?..26
Bay Bum . .50
Wood Alcohol, per bottle.BO
Gasoline, per bottle. .25
Coal Oil, per bottle. .25
Mellin's Food .75
Stearns’ Headache Wafers. 25
Cashmere Bouquet Soap, 3 cakes.... 1.00
real's’ Soap, per cake.25
4711 Glycerine Soap, per cake.25
Jerkins' Toilet Soap, 3 cakes. .75
Armour's Toilet Soap, 3 cakes.50
SMITH'S CUN STORE
Iditarod, Alaska
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MYSTERIOUS DAWSONITE
FAILS TO REVEAL IDENTITY
William Roman, a singular character
who has lived within the shadow of Daw
son seventeen years, and has family ties,
his friends believe, which probably, if fully
known, would identify him as a member
of the Norwegian nobility, passed away
evening before last in St. Mary s hospital.
Roman Game to Dawson in 1898, and most
of the time since had led an obscure and ]
modest life as a woodchopper, in a cabin
located on the high ridge overlooking Daw- |
son, between Dion and Sourdough gulches, i
He said little of his past to his friends, j
and cared little to be known to those in j
the outside world, and died without leav i
ing any addresses of relatives. However,
from his remarks to friends some time ago,
it is believed that he was from circles in
close touch with the king of Norway, and
perhaps was a member of the nobility.
Roman leaves practically no estate. He ,
has a son somewhere Outside, possibly on ,
the Pacific coast. In his conversation Ro- j
man told some friends of late of one mem
ber of his family who endowed a univer- :
eity in Norway, at which anyone bearing ;
the name Roman was entitled to free edu
cation.
Roman was about 50 years of age. He )
was taken down August 15 from a run- ^
down condition, and from a cold devel
oped stomach trouble, and finally pneu
monia, from which he died.
Roman also claimed to be the discoverer
of the famous Engineer group of mines
near Atlin.—Dawson News, Nov. 19.
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BIG GUNS ON BRITISH SHIPS
England now is building six battle cruis
ers of thirty-two-knot speed, which will
be mounted with a new sixteen inch gun.
Such is the assumed perfection of the
building arrangements under the special
speeding plans prepared by the admiralty
that these ships, it is expected, will all be
launched within five or six months from
the date of laying down; and they will
therefore be in condition well within the
present year.
These ships are supposed to be “the last
word” in naval construction. They will,
of course, all have their proper comple
ment of light cruisers and destroyers.
A sixteen-inch gun should hurl a ton >
' of explosive from sixteen to twenty miles.
Artillerists usually calculate a mile-fire ra
dius for each inch of caliber in the big
guns, but the latest large caliber guns are
believed to have bettered this proportion.
It has been said, for instance, that the
new fifteen-inch guns of the superdread
naught Queen Elizabeth would drop shells I
almost twenty miles away.—New York
Times.
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Fresh Olympia and Eastern Oysters, $1.50
per can. Iditarod Meat Co.
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Job Printing at Pioneer office.
FOR MASK BALL
Preparations Complete and Prizes
Apportioned for Big Event to
Be Held on the Night of
Lincoln’s Birthday
Final arrangements have been made in
letail for the mask ball to be given at A.
B. hall next Saturday night, Lincoln’s
nirthday. From all indications, there
should be a large attendance, as a great
amount of interest has been created in the
:vent, which probably will be the only
:vent of the kind during the present winter
season. In answer to a number of in
quiries, and as a matter of general in
formation pertaining to the ball, Janies
Farrell, who is in charge of the arrange
ments, says that an admission of $3 will
oe charged to all gentlemen maskers. La
lies will be admitted free. An admission
j{ $1.50 will be charged to gentlemen spec
tators, which will include lunch, but not
dancing. All dancers must be masked un
til the award of prizes has been made.
Five judges will be selected in the hall to
award the prizes—one from Discovery, two
from Flat City and two from Iditarod.
The merchants have donated very gener
ously in the matter of prizes, and the list
is a good one. The prizes to be awarded
are worthy the best efforts of the contest
ants.
The fact that one of the features of the
occasion will be the introduction of the
“fox trot” is creating no little comment.
Mr. Farrell states that it will not be merely
a demonstration of the fox trot, but a les
son, and it is for everyone who cares to
learn modern ball-room dancing. Dancing
has changed so in the last few years on
the Outside, he says, that if one from here
were to attend a ball there he would be
very much spectator, and that there is no
reason why anyone should be placed in
such a position when he has an opportu
nity to learn. Besides the fox trot, Mr.
Farrell will introduce at another date the
“one-step,” the “hesitation” and the
“Maxixe.”
The Prizes
The prizes to be awarded will be as fol
lows :
Best-costumed lady—Hand-painted vase,
donated by Chris Anthonieson.
Best-costumed gentleman — Calabash
pipe, Nelson’s pool room.
Best-sustained character, lady—One box
of silk stockings, Mrs. L. C. Thornton.
Best-sustained character, gentleman
Swift's Premium ham and bacon, Sam'l
Applebaum.
Most original costume, lady—Fancy pil
low cushion, Smith's Gun Store.
Most original costume, gentleman -Pi
nochle set, William Ansley.
Most novel costume, lady—One pair
“Mary Janes,” M. & M. Bank.
Most novel costumed gentleman—Gen
tleman's set, A. J. Weiss.
First prize for a feature by two or more
persons—Two bottles of champagne, N.
C. Co.
Second prize for a feature by two or
more persons—Two bottles imported
fcherry, Manuel Gularte.
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ANRSHIP TO CARRY GOLD
FROM IDITAROD TO SEWARD
Hie limn it recently printed a £to’\
clipped from an exchange in which the queer
doings of a former Nome resdient were re
corded. It appeared that Leon Richardson,
the man in question, had been reported to
his wife as having committed suicide, but
the story was proven to have been a canard,
evidently worked up by the supposed sui
cide himself. The dispatch was dated De
cember 6. In the Seward Gateway of De
cember 17 appears the following yarn in re
lation to the same individual. It is headed
“Seward Will Have Airship”:
“That an airship has already been taken
over by a Nome man, and that it will be
used for the run between Seward and Idit
arod, is the news contained in the Los An
geles Examiner of the 4th of this month.
Some time ago it was proposed to carry
the Nome mails overland to and from the
coast by aeroplane, and we may come to
that yet, but for the present it is interesting
to know that a man is now experimenting
on a machine for the Seward run. The
story appears on the front page of the
Examiner. The only thing objected to in
the story is that the aviator speaks of never
taking less than $200,000 worth of gold, but
that would not be very often unless he
tapped some other camp, besides the Idit
arod. The plan of taking gold and passen
gers is quite feasible. The following is the
story from the Examiner:
“ ‘An aerial gold-conveying service, the
first in the history of aviation, to be used
solely for hurrying gold from 600 miles in
ib£ interior of Alaska to the coast in one
instead of sixteen days, as required by
the dogs on the trails, is shortly to be estab
lished with a Glenn Martin sea plane as the
carrier, according to Leon Richardson of
Nome, Alaska, who has just arrived in Los
Angeles.
“ ‘Mr. Richardson came here from Alaska
three days ago. Since then he has been
experimenting with Mr. Martin's machines.
“ ‘ “I have selected a sea plane produced
by Mr. Martin which can easily carry two
passengers and 1,000 pounds of gold,” said
the aviator yesterday at the Lankershim,
wfefcpe he is stopping. “I shall drive it
myself daily from Seward to Iditarod,
straight across two great mountain ranges,
the Coast and the Alaskan. I shall never
carry less than $200,000 on a trip. The in
terest saved by my short cut will make my
venture well worth while.” ’ ”
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Job Printing at Pioneer office.
ENJOYABLE SMOKER GIVEN !,
BY MOOSE LODGE AT FLAT
At the conclusion of the regular meet
ing of the Moose lodge at Flat City last
Sunday night a smoker was indulged in,
during the course of which an excellent
program was rendered. Abe Weiss and
Billy Day, as a committee of two, were
in charge of the program, and succeeded
in gathering up an array of talent which
was a surprise to all, and brought forth
story-tellers who, according to those pres
ent, could interest any metropolitan audi
ence. A quartet also had been organized,
which rendered “Ballads Queer of Mother
Dear and Poor Old Dad in Debt.”
After two hours of hilarious story-telling
and fun, a lunch was served; "cafe
chantant .style,” by Frank Stanley.
The attendance was good, and everyone
was so pleased with the smoker that an
other will take place soon if the expressed
wishes of all present are consulted.
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DISMISSAL IS ASKED FOR
IN CLARK LUMBER CO. CASE
In the case of Mrs. Annie Clifton Cleve
land, as administratrix of the estate of
Frank A. Cleveland, deceased, against, the
Clark Lumber Company, George Hamilton
and George W. Albrecht, the plaintiff has )
moved for a dismissal, as the matters in
dispute between the parties have been
adjusted and settled. The action was up
before Judge Bunnell last summer on pro
ceedings seeking the appointment of a re
ceivership for the company, which motion
was denied.
Under the terms of the settlement Ham
ilton’s ownership of the Cleveland interests
in the lumber company has been confirmed
by the action of the commissioner end pro
bate judge, allowing the administratrix to
complete the sale, which was the subject
matter in dispute. ^ j
CLYDE COLEMAN LEAVES
Yesterday’s arrivals from Ophir report
that Clyde Coleman, the well-known mining
man, departed for the Outside on Tuesday
last. Prior to his departure a farewell party
was tendered to him at the home of Mr. j
and Mrs. H. Vinal. The guests were numer- j
ous, and an enjoyable feature of the occa- :
sion was the bountiful feast spread before j
her guests by Mrs. Vinal.
It is said that Mr. Coleman has closed j
out his interests and is leaving Alaska for
good.
POWDER WORKS EXPLOSION
i SHENANDOAH, Penn.. Feb. 4. - Another
j explosion has occurred in the Dupont pow- j
der works at the Fernodal plant.
j FAIRBANKS’ UNIQUE PLAN
TO RAISE CLASSIFICATION
OF POSTOFFICE THIS YEAR
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(News-Miner, Dec. 31)
Because the receipts of the Fairbanks
pcstoffice fell below the amount set by j
, the department for second-class offices it j
| was classed as a third-class office. Now j
! indications are that it will be placed in j
1 the second class, thanks to the tungsten |
J industry of the Xanana valley. The tung- ;
sten industry is a new one in Interior
Alaska, and many wonder how it can put
the office from third to second class,
fact remains, however, that the produc
tion of tungsten means this much to lair
banks, and possibly more.
Some months ago Charles Johnson dis
covered tungsten on Tungsten hill, at the
head of Giimore creek. The prospector
reported that the property was likely
looking and he believed it would prove a
valuable mine. He came to town, short
of available cash with which to work the
property, and laid his proposition before
George Ewers, a well-known Dome creek
iperator, and formerly of Goldstream, and
the latter immediately agreed to buy an
interest. The partnership was formed, and
with the new capital invested by Mr.
Ewers, together with his assistance, they
started to develop the property.
For more than four months now they
have been opening up the ground and
tracing the ledge, which has widened to
four feet. They have traced it to a depth of
fifty feet, and indications are. that it con
tinues deep into the ground. Just how
much tungsten ore the property will yield
cannot be stated now, but it will probably
run into the hundreds and possibly into
the thousands of tons.
The Premus Chemical Company of Penn
sylvania saw the accounts of the find and
immediately took the matter up with
Messrs. Johnson and Ewers After ascer
taining the grade of the ore the company
offered the operators $2,800 per ton for
the concentrates and urged that the tung
sten be shipped immediately. The oper
ators at once informed the company of
the poor transportation facilities of Alaska
and the great expense of moving freight
in the summer, to say nothing of the win
ter. Then the company suggested that
owing to the high price to be paid it
might be advisable to ship the ore by par
cel post. That suggestion will mean that
the Fairbanks postoffice will go back to
the second class.
During the present winter the operators
will have ready for shipment about fifty
tons of concentrates. To ship this by
Parcel post will cost 12 cents per pound,
or $240 per ton. In addition to that, there
will be a slight cost for the careful bag
ging of the ore in suitable sacks, so that
will cost approximately $250 per ton to
ship out.
But few if any stages that leave Fair
banks for the coast have the weight limit
of mail. From now until late spring the
postoffice will be able to ship out large
quantities of this ore every week, thereby
assisting the operators and raising the :
postoffice to the second class.
We Can Fit
Tail, Short and
Stout Men
A. J. WEISS, FLAT
THE HOME OF HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX
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Tom Dean was a visitor in the city dur
ing the past week.
Dave Strandburg telegraphs that he will
leave Seattle for Iditarod on February 7.
Max Boas, the young Flat City business
man, visited his father in this city over
Sunday.
Phil Keith, who is prospecting on Wil
low creek, spent a few days in Iditarod
this week.
Bob Hart came in from Discovery to
be present at the Pioneers’ doings last
Wednesday night.
Tom Howard, a miner and prospector of
the Kuskokwim region, has been in the city
during the past few days.
John Bagoy of the “Three-Tiines-Move”
bar, Hat City, was a business visitor in
the city on Thursday last.
“George” Riley is reported to have left
Seward on Tuesday last with members of
his dredge crew for Iditarod.
Leo Clifford left on Thursday last for
Cripple creek, by way of Ophir, where he
will look after his mining interests.
Mr. and Mrs. Garrison Costar of Flat
creek have been spending a few days in
the city as the guests of James Cody and
family.
Mr. Bishop, a trader whose place of busi
ness is located at Sleitmut, on the upper
Kuskokwim, was transacting business in the
city yesterday.
George Young, who never misses a Pio
neers’ gathering, was among those who
came in from the creeks for the entertain
ment last Wednesday.
Louis Siler has taken a lay on the Sliver
Fraction, on Flat creek, and will begin
prospecting next week. The claim is the
property of Jerry Ford.
M. H. Guise, bookkeeper for the Yu
kon Gold Company, and Fred Dieksen of
Flat City left on Wednesday last for the
Ditn3 country to engage in an extended
hunting trip.
Dr. W. F. Greene is here, prepared to do
all kinds of dental work. He will be at
the Grand hotel, Flat City, for a short time
only, so hustle if you wish him to do any
work for you.
"Big Fritz,” who conducts the roadhouse
on the trail to Ophir, known as ‘Tritz’s
roadhouse,” was a visitor in the city this
week. He returned home Friday with a
load of supplies.
Earl Byers has let a contract to E. J.
Smith to build a barge for him to replace
the one burned on the river last summer.
Byers already has sent Outside for the
latest model Loew-Victor engine for the
craft.
Frank Dawson and wife, who have been
visiting in Ophir for some time past, are
reported to be having such a splendid time
that they may not return until shortly be
fore the break up. They are paying a visit
to Tokotna this week.
A1 Jones, who has been doing prospect
ing work on claims in the Horsefly dis
trict for some weeks past, returned to the
city on Sunday last. He reports that there
are still many prospectors on that creek,
but he states that there have been no de
velopments recently.
A letter received here recently states
that Harry Sheppard, formerly deputy
United States marshal here, is at present
in Mount Vernon, Wash., where Willian*
Atcheson and fsmily reside. Mr. Atche
son, formerly manager of the Iditarod Meat
company, is in business there, and reported
to be doing well.
Henry Martella, the Innoko miner,
came in from Ophir early in the week and
after transacting business here left for
Takotna on Wednesday last. He reports
that A1 Thorns, who has been moving
some machinery from Moore creek to tho
Innoko diggings, succeeded in landing his
heavy freight a few days ago.
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i ‘‘BUCK’’ VISITS FRIENDS
IN UNCLE SAM’S BIG SHOP
I (Washington Post, Dec. 12)
George M. Arbuckle, who formerly
worked as a printer on the Pacific coast,
now publisher of a newspaper—The Pio
i neer, at Iditarod, Alaska—has been in the
city several days visiting friends, and was
shown through the government printing
| office Wednesday by Operator Joe L. Hoi
j land of the monotype keyboard section.
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'“WAR TAX” LICENSES
MUST BE RENEWED AT ONCE
| United States Commissioner Guy 0
Geraghtv has received the following tele
■ gram, evidently sent by mail to Nu ate.
from Collector of Internal Revenue Will
iams of Seattle, dated December 29, 1915
“Congress having extended the emer
gency revenue act, ail so called "war
: taxes will remain in force. Licenses of
! dealers in tobacco, theaters, billiard hails,
j etc., must be renewed in January for the
j remaining half of the fiscal year ending
‘ June 30, 1916. to avoid the 50 per cent
| penalty'. Alaskans in remote district#
| should immediately make informal returns
I by letter, inclosing proper remittance.
| Where forms already mailed them cannot
] be executed and delivered to the collector
j within the month of January, formal re
turns noting date of their letter to fcw
, forwarded promptly thereafter."
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ARREST GERMAN SOCIALISTS
ROTTERDAM. Jan. 1.—The Berlin
s Voerwarts, the organ of the Socialist party
, in Germany, publishes the information that
| ten members of the Socialist party have
I been arrested charged with high treason,
i They are charged with being engaged in
! circulating peace propaganda, and they
i have been placed in prison pending a mili
j tary trial. Included among the ten ar
j rested there is a woman, Clara Zetken by
name.
It is believed in this city that the arrest
of the Socialists has been for effect, as the
I government fears that the work of the
Socialists will embarrass the officials.
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I Fresh Draft
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