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Sam’l Applebaum
ESCAPE FROM PRISON
OSSINING, N. V., Oct. 21. Six con
victs today effected their escape from the
state penitentiary in the prison automobile.
They were all long-termers. One of them
was overtaken and shot when he refused
to surrender.
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GRAND IGLOO OFFICERS
The Nome Industrial Worker of Sept. 25
gives the list of officers elected by the Grand
Igloo, Pioneers of Alaska, on September 24
as follows :
Grand President .I. G. Ileid, Juneau.
First Vice President- Cecil H. Clegg, hair
banks.
Second Vice President C. M. Day.
V aldez.
Secret ary-Treasurer--Charles 44. Thorn
ton, Nome.
Historian* Judge G. J. Lomen, Nome.
Trustees Phil Gallagher, Ruby; Isaac
Kvans, Seward; George Dreibelbis, 44 ise
man; J. G. Dehn, Tatiana; Fred Harrison,
Iditarod.
Sergeant at Arms—A, Higgins, Tokotna.
The next session will be held at Juneau
on the fourth Monday in Mar-h.
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A! Walsh and his nephew, Jimmy, ae
companied by Harry Johnson, have been
in the city for a few days this week, having
made everything shipshape at the Summit
in preparation for next summer’s opera
tions
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Brazil is calling attention to its vegetable
“ivory."
Stop! Look! Listen!
WALLPAPE
Brightens Up the Home
We'have a complete line of Wall Paper in
Various Colors and Designs
50c A ROLL AND UP
LINOLEUM
Linoleums—Beautiful Patterns, Extra
Heavy Weight
$1.50 A YARD
Ansley
IDITAROD, ALAfXA
COPPER LODE IS LOCATED
WHEN GLACIER RECEDES
Using a rope and ladder to mount the
glacier, Charles Emsweiler and Frank
Skeen located a lode of copper ore on the
old Likes property, at Porcupine bay, for
which search has been made ever since
there has been a Seward, says a dispatch
from that city.
This strike may put Resurrection bay on
the map as a copper producer, for should
investigation show the values discovered
to continue it will rank with E.lamsr and
Latouche.
The lode is high grade copper, running
from 31 to 35 per cent, and at the point
leached by means of scaling thp ice and
cliff was thirty feet in width.
STEAMER ATLAS WRECKED
The steamer Atlas, owned by Martin Mo
ran and Cap. Flannigan, was wrecked in
the Tatiana river near Dad Martin’s road
house on September 20 last. Her cargo
was a total loss. All members of the crew
were saved, though they report narrow
escapes.
Moran and Flannigan had invested all
the money they had in a stock for a trail
ing post, and were taking it to the Lake
Tctlin country. There also w'ere on board
the Atlas several outfits for Ilealy river
prospectors, as well as a few tons of flour
and sugar for Newton, the Healy river
trader. The loss will be a heavy one for
the trappers and prospectors of those dis
tricts, as all of them were practically de
pendent upon the Atlas cargo for their
winter’s supplies, according to the Fair
banks News-Miner. Their nearest supply
points will now be hte Delta and Tanana
Crossing points, neither of which has 8
supply to fill the expected demand.
HUGHES’ REPERTOIRE
Press reporters who have been with the
Hughes party on his campaigning tours
say that the Republican candidate has
just five set speeches one emphasizing the
need for executive efficiency, another the
urgency of a greater Americanism, a third
the attack upon Wilson’s foreign policy, a
fourth an attack upon Wilson’s domestic
and foreign policies, and the fifth the Re
publican platform and the need of a tariff.
In each of these the other topics also
enter, but emphasis is placed upon the par
ticular topic chosen in one of the five set
speeches.
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Job Printing at The Pioneer office.
Children’s
Dresses and Hose
Ladies' and Children's Munsing Underwear
Ail-Wool Serges in All Colors
Kimono Flannels in attractive patterns
An Extensive Line of Toys, at
MRS. YOUNG’S
“Just look at these old harnesses. I'm ashamed to put them on my dogs again
this year. I’m going right down to PECK’S and get a complete new outfit for
them. He makes a specialty, you know, of
Dog Harness, Collars, Snaps, Rings, and Everything in That Line.”
I CANDY
£ Society Chocolate Creams, per lb. 5 .75
£ Imperial Chocolate Creams, per lb. 1.00
if ACfll INE El AT IRflM? Acorn Spoclal Flat Iron, eacl 7.50
UAiULIIlt rLA 1 nvuno American Flat Irons, each 7.50
Tents, Tarpaulins, Nome Dog Harness, Webbing, Gasoline Lamps, Guns, Am
j> munition, Hardware, Stoves, Heaters, Furniture and Bedding, Rugs.
SMITH’S GUN STORE
J IDITAROD, ALASKA PHONE 6 SECOND AND WILLOW i
i PIONEERS7
MEETING
An important meeting of Iditarod Igloo
No. 10. Pioneers of Alaska, will be held at
8 :30 o’clock on the evening of Wednesday,
November 1, 1916, at A. 11. hall, and a 1
members of the order are earnestly re
quested to put in an appearance on that
occasion. Several vacancies exist in the
roster of officers, which will be filled, and
the summer's accumulation of routine
business will receive attention.
By order of
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
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LOCAL AND PERSONAL
Commissioner Geraghty has received a j
telegram from Judge Bunnell authorizing j
him to expend money out of the indigent ,
fund to care for Mike M. Powers, who is 1
sick and destitute at Flat. I
An accident at the Iditarod river power |
plant of the Yukon Gold Company last Sat- j
urday resulted in a hurried call for mechan
| ics and equipment from this city, and after j
slight delay the breakage was patched up. ;
Mr. and Mrs. C. It. Peck were host and
| hostess at a dinner party given at the new j
Northern restaurant at Flat last, Sunday. |
i The guests were: Mrs. Chit tick. Miss Mur- !
I ray. Miss Grant and Mr. Jacobs.
A1 Perry arrived in town early in the
i week from Donlin creek, where he has been
j mining during the summer.
j Clarence White came in last Tuesday
I from Otter creek, where he has been work
' ing during hte past two years, and renewed
acquaintanceship with many of his old
time lill'cums.
Messrs. Regan and Walker, who have
! been spending the past ten days in this
! place, left early last Wednesday morning
' in a well provisioned small boat for some
j point below Dikemen, where they will hunt j
and trap during the coming winter and j
1 spring. _
THE “GERRYMANDER”
It was an early American newspaper
editor who made the word “gerrymander.”
He was Major Benjamin Russell of the
Massachusetts Sentinel, which he and his
partner. Warden, founded in 1784. He
was a fighting man. and the Centinel was
| no tame journal, but. whacked blithely and
j f ared not where the chips fell.
In 1811 the Masscahusetts legislature, un
; der Governor Gerry, made a neat new di
1 vision of districts for congressional elec
tions. The most insidious and ingenious
I arrangement of districts was the one for
j the county of Essex. With great giee
| Russell took a map of the county and col
j ored the districts to show the heinousness
J of the device.
Gilbert Ftuart, the famous painter, saw
I the map and suggested that the apportion
| ment looked like a reptile. He made a few
I marks on it with his pencil and said, “There!
it's a salamander!”
j Russel! jumped up, laughing. “Salaman
I der!” he shouted, looking at the hideous
| figure: “Gerrymander!”
: An engraving of (he ‘‘gerrymander” was
| made and hawked through the slate. Thus
j was born what probably is one of the most
; constantly used of all manufactured news
j paper words.. Lines o’ Type News.
THE LINOTYPE’S OWN SONG
Ail things that be make grist for me.
For me the baseball twirls. For me there's
news of crops and shops, and names of
pretty girls, with interviews and murder
news and hints for dress designs. I put
’em through the melting pot and cast ’em
into lines.
The air may shake. The earth may
j quake, lands pass in fire, or drown; I note
serene the changing scene of field and sea
and town. Men conquer there, men perish
here; no offering I refuse; alike to me all
things appear—a simple take of news. A
deed of fame, a deed of shame ,a deed of
king or clown - I reach into the melting
;iot for type to set ’em down.
Financial news, religious news, humility
and pride, I make bedfellows of them all,
each strictly justified. To me are screamed
gll agonies; to me all joy inclines. I put
’em through the melting pot and cast 'em
into lines.-" Line o’ Type News
JUDGE BUNNELL OVERRULED
IN MECHANICS’ LIEN CASE
A wire received by Attorney Harry E.
Pratt of Fairbanks on September 19 from
San Francisco informed him that the cir
cuit court of appeals had overruled the
decision of the United States district court
for the Fourth division of Alaska in the
case of Jack Irvine vs. Angus McDougal
et ah, according to the News-Miner. When
this case was tried in the district court in
Fairbanks a year ago last May the court
held that Irvine could enforce his own lien
against mining property of the defendant,
but that he could not realize on liens as
signed him by six other miners.
The contention of the defense, which was
sustained by the district court, was that
the six miners had assigned their liens to
the plaintiff before filing the lien, and there
fore the assignment was void. The conten
tion of the plaintiff was that the six miners
had assigned the assignment of lien, but
that the assignment was not delivered until
the lien had been placed on the property,
and it was good.
OLD IDITAROD HOSPITAL
OBJECT OF CONTROVERSY
The old Iditarod hospital building, on
West Front street, which has been vacant
for some years, is the center of a contro
versy of no little interest, involving pos
session and title, in which Sam’l Apple
baum and Paul Laplant are the contenders
and the present and former mayors and the
city council are incidentally involved.
The hospital was built for the Episcopal
church by public subscription, and after
being conducted by the church for some
time was abandoned and the fittings moved
to Hat. When Archdeacon Stuck was here
two years ago he is said to have intimated
that he would deed the property over to the
city, after he had had an opportunity to
take the matter up with Bishop Rowe. This
apparently has not been done, and the title
to the building still rests in the church offi
rials.
Under the regime of E. M. Stanton as
mayor, Sam’l Applebaum, desiring to use
the building as a warehouse, claims to have
purchased the building for $150, but the
money was not to be turned over until title
could be conveyed. Recently Mayor Smith,
apparently without knowledge of the pre
vious transaction, sold the building to Paul
Laplant for the sum of $160, and the town
council at a meeting held last week con
firmed the sale. Mr. Applebaum contends
that he was a bona fide purchaser and has
not yet turned the building over to the
subsequent purchaser. He has addressed
the following letter to the city officials:
“Iditarod, October 21, 1916.
“To the Mayor and Common Council of the
Town of Iditarod.
“Gentlemen: I am in receipt of a com
munication from Joseph If. Smith, mayor,
informing me that the council has ratified
a sale of a building known as the Iditarod
Hospital to Mr. Laplant, and notifying me
to vacate the building at once.
“I sincerely trust that the council, as a
whole, was not aware of the facts in the
case, or it would not have committed an
act which otherwise could only be regarded
as an extremely unfriendly one to me.
“I therefore beg to call your attention to
the following facts:
“In September, 1915, I bought the Idita
rod Hospital building from Mr. E. M. Stan
ton, then mayor of the town of Iditarod,
for the sum of $150, and was given pos
session of the above-named building by
Mr. Stanton, and in which possession I have
been ever since. Mr. Stanton wished to
communicate with Bishop Rowe or Arch
deacon Stuck in order to be able to give
me the proper deed for the hospital build
ing, and requested me to hold the check for
the $150 until such time as he heard from
them.
“For your further information I will add
that the check for $150 was at all times
ready for Mr. Stanton or his successors in
office, at any time the same was called for.
“With these facts brought to your atten
tion I sincerely trust that you will readily
perceive my inability to comply with the
order to vacate the building in question.
“Yours trulv.
“SAM’L APPLEBAUM.”
FUEL REDUCTION WORKS
PURCHASED BY LARSON
I -
Captain J. If. Rogers on Tuesday last dis
| posed of his gasoline wood-sawing outfit,
i now at Hat, to Captain Frank Larson, who
j will operate it during the winter in that
! city and vicinity. Captain William Stone
man. who has been connected with the
j Rogers works for the past two years, has
been retained by the new management in
I the capacity of chief of the advisory board.
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HEAD OF CHINESE REPUBLIC
!S CATHOLIC COMMUNICANT
PEKIN, China. Sept. 25. I.i Yuan Ifung.
i China’s new president, is a Christian, a
I communicant of the Roman Catholic
j church, and has always been strongly op
| nosed to connecting of church and state.
At different times he has openly; opposed
efforts to make Confucianism the state re
ligion of China, and stands for religious
freedom in the republic.
Since he assumed his official duties, June
7, he has often consulted his four foreign
advisers Dr. W. W. Willoughby and Dr.
Jeremiah W. Jenks, both Americans; Dr.
George E. Morrison, an Englishman, and
Dr. N. Ariga, a Japanese.
Li 5'uan Hung’s accession to the presi
dency has worked a wonderful change in
China. The whole spirit of public life in
Pekin has been altered. Democracy seems ,
to have come into its own again.
The new president lives infornia'ly in his
palace outside the Forbidden City and drives
about Pekin in an automobile with only two
soldiers to guard him. Chinese of all fac
tions have a high personal regard for Li
Yuan Hung, and his life seems to be in no
danger. He moves about in a manner
which would have been impossible for Yuan j
Shi Kai.
No other man in China is so universally
beloved. He has always had the reputation
of being honest, and patriotic, and is the
one man who has the full confidence of the
Chinese people, southerners as well as north
erners.
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GETTING AROUND IT
“They say you can’t square the circle.” |
“Well, you can do it after a fashion,” j
said the mathematician, “just as when you
go out for a walk you can circle the |
square.”—Pittsburg Post.
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WELL FIXED
“I see Smith is building a garage. When
did he get. a ear?”
“He hasn’t got one yet, but he’s got an
option on ten gallons of gasoline.”—New
York World.
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Job Printing at The Pioneer office.
THE HOME OF HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX
GROWTH OF NENANA
IS MOST REMARKABLE
IN HISTORY OF ALASKA
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(Nenana News)
From a wilderness, a moose pasture, with
nothing but a lone trading post within'
-iviy p iles of it, to a town of 1.200 people, j
, and ; 11 within three months, is the record
i of Nenana, Alaska. Where barked six I
i malamute dogs, and rushed madly back and j
: forth along the river bank in front of the |
I trading post on June 15, 1915, as the rail- |
; road engineers disembarked from a Tanana
I river steamer, today. September 24. are |
| found 1,200 busy people, engaged in con-j
j strueting a railroad, founding a town and I
I developing the great Interior of Alaska, j
Thus has “Nenana, the fuel depot of the j
Interior.” outstripped in rapid development |
| any town in Interior Alaska, and in the j
whole territory, with the possible exception j
i of Anchorage. And a year from now, the J
business people of the town confidently!
; expect, there will be a population of 5,000 ;
J people, of which a large portion will re j
main at least until the completion of rail :
' road construction.
Histoty of the Town
Many years ago James Duke established |
l a trading post on the south bank of the j
' Tanana river at the point that is now the j
! town of Nenana. Here, for years, he con- |
, ducted a trading business ann ng the In- j
: dians, and kept open a roadhouse whioh |
i was visited but seldom, except by a stray |
traveler over the winter traii from Fail
| banks to lower river points, or by a pros
! pector bound for the hills.
After the passage of the railroad bill an
j thorizing the construction of a railroad
: from the southern coast to Interior Alaska.
! and after the Alaskan engineering coin
| mission had been formed, with W. C. Erles
: as chairmen and Thomas Rigg5*, Jr., and <
; Lieutenant Frederick Mears as the only \
j other members, a party of surveyors came j
to Interior Alaska to make a preliminary j
| survey of several proposed routes. This i
i party was headed by Thomas Riggs. Jr., ih** i
member of the commission to whom was j
•Hotted charge of the work in the In- j
tenor.
The first party was divided upj into two
sections, both landing at Nenana on June
15, 1914. One of these parties went to j
Broad pass and worked toward Nenana. j
while the other went to the coal fields j
and tried to locate a feasible route, direct j
from there to Fairbanks. These parties!
went out in the fa!! and returned in the
Spring.
After other surveys during the summer of !
1915 the commission decided upon the route j
over which the railroad is being built now.
Work Starts
On June 15 of this year, just two years
from the arrival of the first party, an
other crew of men, headed by F. H. Bailey,
who, incidentally, was in the first party to
arrive in 1914. arrived, end that day
started the work. The actual construe- j
tion, however, and the day which will be I
celebrated annually by the people of Nenana |
as anniversary day, is July 7, the day on j
which the commission started to drive |
piling for the water front. That day marks I
the commencement of the real town of Ne- j
nana, and it will be remembered as such. |
Coal Next Fall
According to estimates made by' Mr. ;
Riggs and Mr. Bailey, coal will be landed
in Nenana about a year from now, pro
vided the commission is able to get its I
freight and supplies next summer and i
able to secure the men necessary to do the !
work. To a representative of the News Mr.
Riggs said that the commission cotdd use !
5,000 tons of coal this winter if it were j
available, and will want a much larger
supply next year.
The coal mines, of course, will be oper- 1
ated by' private parties or companies, and ■
it will depend upon them as to whether or ,
not the fuel will be ready for shipment
as soon as the railroad is ready to receive it. j
At the present time there is a water I
front, with piles driven along the whole
length for a distance of approximately
1.000 feet. Of this 700 feet has been re
served for the commission dock and ware
house purposes, anti will be retained for
that purpose. The remainder of the wharf
will be leased to private parties. None of it
'vill be sold, as the government wishes to
retain control of the water front.
Telephone System
If no private company or individuals
build a telephone .system, the Alaskan en
gineering commission will provide one. Mr.
Riggs stated, however, that the commis
sion would prefer to have this matter han
dled by private parties.
An order has been placed for a big. up
to-date sawmill, which will be installed on
the ground below town, which has been
used for a baseball park during the past
summer. This will be an electrically-oper
ated plant. The sawdust from the mill
will be used for filling purposes, and for
fuel for the power plant.
The amount of lumber to be cawed will
depend upon the time that the plant ar
rives in the Interior, but Mr. Bailey stated,
that he thought fully 2,000,000 leet would
be cut next summer.
More Than Five Hundred on Dayrc!l
At the present time there arc more
than 500 men on the payroll of the Alaskan
Engineering commission. At the close ot
business for the month of August then
were 495 persons, including the contractors
and their men. Since that time seventy
five more names have been added, bring
ing the number up practically to 000.
Of the.-e. about 200 will be k-’pt bu.-y
this winter during the cold months. As
soon as weather conditions permit next
spring the number will be increased, Mr.
Riggs estimating that fully 1.500 men will
i;e employed before the end. of summer.
At the Fairbanks end. working toward Ne
ncna. about 700 or S00 men will be work
ing. The commission will no import any
me n from the States, as it has adopted a
policy that all men must c .me to thi- In
terior and secure their employment on thc
cround.
Bridge Work
The construction of the bridge across the
Tanan'a river will not be in full swing until
the summer of 1918. Next summer, how
ever, some men will be employed putting tit
piers and foundations. When the big con
struction work starts on the bridge about
200 men will be employed on this work,
alone. The final plans for the bridge hav
not been drawn as yet nor determined
upon.
Repair Shops
The railway repair shops will be located
at Nenana, according to the present inten
tions of the commission. The big railroad
shops will be at Anchorage, and only a
small force of men will be employed in the
repair shops in Nenana.
Money Spent This Year
Of the money spent for construction pur
poses this year, approximately $400,000 has
been disbursed, or will have been disbursed
in the Interior by the end of the present
fiscal year. This money is for wages and
merchandise bought in the Tanana valley,
and does not include the money spent Out
side for supplies.
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Fresh Olympia and F'astern Oysters.
$1.50 per can. Iditarod Meat Co.
Ladies’ Furnishing Store
MRS. L. C. THORNTON. Prop.
Exquisite Shadow Lace
Crepe de Chine in Colors
India Silk and Messaline
Watches and Diamonds
At
STRICTLY OUTSIDE PRICES
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