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iol J Geo. M. Arbuekla. Publisher No. 23
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Republican national convention, Chicago, June 18.
Democratic national convention, Baltimore, June 25.
BETTER BAY COMING.
In April when the Democratic convention of Cook
county, Illinois, got into a wrangle over a contested dele
gation, an order of court was secured commanding the seat
ing’ of the delegates who had been rejected by the credentials
committee, and oflicers of the court battered down the doors
and forcibly seated the rejected delegates as members of the
convention. A month later, there being two conventions
each claiming to be the “regular” Republican convention
of the state of Washington, the court was called on to de
cide which was the genuine Republican body—with just
what result we have not yet learned. These are funny
things to be put up to a court, but perhaps not more so than
hundreds of others which are less noticeable only because
more common. Thinking about them, it seems we can re
call the hearing of a maxim of the law some time in tile
dim past, having as its meaning the proposition that there
is no wrong but what it is the business of the law to set it
right. Which sounds fair enough and in the carrying out
would provide the law with a long run of business.
It is not for us to uoubt the efficacy or capacity of the
courts for establishing justice. If they can’t do it it can’t
lie done. Not only can they do it: but we shall accept the
maxim at iis face value and applaud the legal claims to a
hearing at court by any political faction that may find itself
in a minority and still be conscious that it is in the right.
If that system had been carried out, either Martin Ilarrais
or Robert Jennings would have been squelched and the
Democratic situation in Alaska simplified. Fact of the
business is, the theory could be carried a little further with
greater and more palpable benefit. There is no good
reason why the courts should not decide all political
disputes on their merits, and, following out tiie system,
declare which candidate of a party, and which party of a
municipality, state or nation is entitled to recognition and!
preferment. Thus justice would be secured and the vexa
tion and rancor of political campaigns and elections would j
be avoided altogether. That something approaching this j
happy solution of troublous political questions is approach
ing there are many signs visible.
OPHIR’S COMPLAINT.
In the dissatisfaction manifested by the people of
Ophir precinct there is a deeper meaning than will probably
be comprehended by the officials who listen to their com-1
plaints. The withdrawal of a deputy marshal from the!
region is but an incident in a long chain of mistakes. The
idea of centralization seems to have gotten such a hold upon
the minds of officials that they are largely blinded to the
force of reason and the practical side of governmental
affairs.
In communities close in to court headquarters deputies
are stationed where population, production and probabili
ties of future growth are all inferior to those at Ophir. The
system is favorable to the firmer established communities as
against those which are but in the formative period: it
makes for contraction, where expansion offers the only hope!
for anything worth while. This is noticeably true not only
in the failure to provide officials for the lesser developed
regions, but also in the failure to recognize their claims for
roads and other improvements, in many cases applying the
taxes collected from them to the direct interest of the. most
advanced centers of the territory. The more just way and
me way more calcinated to promote me advancement ot
Alaska as a whole would be to reverse the order and let the
benefits rather flow outward from the center of greater
development. We believe this is a principle that holds
good in any kind of a country, and especially so in one
where the resources are mainly undeveloped and their
character and extent undetermined.
In the ease of the people of Ophir, however, there is a
higher principle involved than mere material expediency.
There is a gross moral wrong in the government holding
the people amenable to law and withholding from them the
means of its application.
The scandalous things that have taken place in the
Kuskokwim in the past ought to be sufficient hint to not
let them be repeated in other localities not so far away.
The resignation last Wednesday night of Frank P.
O'Farrell from the positions of municipal magistrate, mu
Beef, by the side,.$ .40
Yea!, * “ 50
EV!uttors, by the carcass.. .40
Turkeys, per lb.40
Haiibut, “ .35
ID1TAROD MEAT CO.
Second St. Phone 15
First Class in Fact First Ave., Iditarod
BEATTIE HOUSE
Furnished Rows, bain Runs, Spring Cots Good Siabies Adjacent
C. J. Hurley, President J. P. Gleason, Vice President A. Bruning, Cashier
Corner First Are. and Richmond St., Iditarod
General Banking Business Transacted Upon Liberal, But Conservative Lines
GOLD DUST PURCHASED UPON ASSAY VALUE
And we guarantee our assays against any of tlie government assay offices.
Clippings from your gold furnished you for ttie purpose
of obtaining check assays if desired.
We solicit your business, and assure you of our courteous, prompt and
careful attention combined with fair treatment, whether
your account may be large or small.
THE GIGGEST AND BEST
FLAT CITY
Glantz & Swanson, Props.
Stables in Connection |
We have sn's Heavy Shoes \
So many 3 Fine Shoes \
$9.50 Si;o3s Reduced to... $7.50
$3.00 11 “ 7.00
$8.00 “ “ “ 6.00
$7.00 Shoos Kodiiood to... S5.00 1
SG.oo “ “ 4,001
$5.oo “ “ “ 3,00 [
McMahon, Flat City
Famous Old Quaker Maid Rye !(
DRAUGHT BEER, DOMESTIC CIGARS
Good Music Every Evening
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Clean Furnisfied Booms Fine Cafe in Connection
GOOD STOCK CIGARS AND LIQUORS
Large Stables, Warm Dog Kennels Open Day and Night
THE HOME FLAT aJLr mm
Furnished Rooms, Ciean Spring Beds, Bath, Dry Rooms, and lvr7h“,'mt«lcIlce 111
nicipal clerk, chief of police and captain of the lire depart
ment interrupted his rapidly accumulating honors just at
the time a municipal dog catcher was needed. He might
have had that job, too, for the asking.
p POLITICAL GOSSIP {\
The members of the Republican national committee were to
meet in Chicago last Thursday, June G, and pass upon contesting
delegations to the convention and name those to le seated. Many
contests have been filed, and three weeks ago the Roosevelt fac
tion had given notice that it would make a vigorous fight against
more than a hundred of the delegates who are instructed for Taft.
The chairman of the national committee has given it out that
the contests will be taken up alphabetically in the order of states
and territories, and all contests will be disposed of by June 18, so
that the convention will not be delayed in settling down to business.
The Commoner, Bryan’s paper, came out May 9 with a long
article commenting upon a published assertion that Taft and
Roosevelt had agreed upon Bryan as a compromise candidate for
the Republican nomination. It is said the Bryan-compromise pro
posal was made because it was known to be impossible to close the
breach between Taft and Roosevelt. The authenticity of the Re
publican movement toward Bryan was questioned; but the Com
moner treated it seriously and made it plain that Mr. Bryan would
not accept a nomination at Republican hands, or countenance or
affiliate with them in any manner.
“Bryan is a Democrat, and if both William H. Taft and Theo
dore Roosevelt would rather see him President he would never
become a party to any such Republican compromise,” declares the
Commoner.
BEDROCK CRIB
MS PAY COLD
A discovery of gold of more or less
importance has lately been made on
Bedrock creek, in Ophir district. Bed
rock creek is a tributary of Beaver and
is just across the divide from Gaines
It is several miles long. The find was
made by Huey Morrow. He will work
there this summer on the bench. Evan
Jones and a helper will also work in
the vicinity, and it is believed some
gold will be produced this year.
Otter, Spruce, Gaines and Yankee
Creeks till had satisfactory spring clean*
ups and summer work is now starting
up on them. Men from the district
said water was beginning to run short
several days ago, but it lias rained since
t lien.
< 'aptain ,T. J Donovan has now taken
a flyer in the mining game in South
America. Together with Dave John
s r, ati old-timer in llie North and
one of the lucky Iditarod miners, he
has taken a lease and option on the
Cachi Cachi mining property in the
Province of S.tndia, Peru, according to
a tetter to Marshal H. K. Love, of
Fairbanks, dated Arequip.t, Peru,
March 2(> last.
The option had been taken three
days before. Donovan and Johnson in
tended to leave for an examination of
the placer property the next day. The
captain said lie was in good health and
was gradually becoming acclimated.
A copy of the agreement, as well as
a typewritten report of the property,
made previously by an English mining
engineer, enclosed in the letter to the
marshal, proved interesting. The
two Northerners have under option a
total of 123 claims of four hectares
each. As a hectare is equal to aliout
two and one-half acres, tlie total area
that the men are to prospect comprises
1,230 acres of land. The land is owned
by one Godftoy Sahli. He is to get a
2-3 per cent, royalty of the gross out
put for all work done on the claim, and
in (lie event that an option to purchase
is desired tube made binding, a deposit
of £200 must be made to insure good
faith. The option to purchase expires
September 30, 1913, the pries being
stated to be £50,000, less the amount
paid in as royalties.
The report of the engineer on the
pioperty is, on the whole, promising.
The claims are 779 kilometers from
Moilendo. the seaport. Two hundred
and thirty miles has be traveled on foot
or with mules. The freight rate per
ton to the diggings is equivalent to
11 in gold. The supply center is Are
quipa, on the railroad from Moilendo
to the interior.
The gravel deposit that is believed
by the engineet to be gold-bearing and
workable by the hydraulic method, is
on the eastern slope of the Andes and
at an altitude of 6,500 feet. Old work
ings are still in existence on sorao of
the claims, and, according to tlie en
gineer, considerable gold lias been
taken out. The workings are very ex
tensive. and it is said that about 6,000
Indians were at one time employed on
the claims by the Spaniards, probably
in the year 1650. The old canals that
were used to convey water are still in
fairly good condition and can be made
usable.
PEOPLE QUiRED
John Stephens, 54 years old; formerly
ran a roadhouse somewhere near Flat.
Inq bred for by wife and daughter.
A r si Mrs. Nettie Stephens, 4529
Q . vas si ivet, Denver, Col.
Thomas Davis, a prospector, last
wrote from Meehan in October, 1911;
had previously lived at Fairbanks,
probably still has interests there. Ad
dress Miss Maud Davis, State School
No. 3,208, Neilborough East, Victoria,
Australia.
Herman Omen, came tolditarod from
Fairbanks. Inquire! for by his brother
El Omen, Cus'er County, Neb.
BILL HDNTER OFF FOR OUTSIDE
Bill nunter, a well-known oldimer,
came over from the old diggings the
first of the week and left for the Out
side last Wednesday. He will probably
summer at San Francisco and other
coast places and return to Alaska in
the fall.
Mr. Hunter landed at Circle in 1892.
He has not been Outside in eight years.
He was first to discover gold on Hunter
creek, Rampart district, which never
fulfilled its early promises, but has
been tried out by many oldtitners.
O. C. Clements is reported to have run
into a new bunch of pay on that creek
last winter.
Select Outside Humber, coirugated
iron and roofing paper at Ross & Nes
tor’s.
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Flat City
Nicely Furnished Booms Large Drying Boom
Opposite Traction Co. Depot
THE DELL CAFE flrt city
Now Open for Business Under New Management. JOE N. HONDA, PROP.
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The following letters remain un
called for in the Iditarod, Alaska, Post
Mice on June 1, 1K12. Parlies calling
•or same will please ask for ‘•adver
tised letters.”
T. la. THURSTON, Post master.
Anderson, 1 p Lovegren, erika
Alexander, g li
Maglin. j e
Berris, euselio, 2 Merrill, jno
Black, a Mi tier, j ick. 2
” alex Mitchell, benjamin
Bo -nnan, jas " j t). J
Moat, john
Uamuselti, ralph e Morvan, emil, 2
Creamer, dav id t, 2
McNrjll, g b
DeChampiain. McQueen, rov. 2
earnest. McSberry. jamex
j Ros.ui, mike
Nessen, hubs
, Edmunds, in c Newton, w li
Erickson, chas Nickels, otto
j Estabrook. jas e, 2 Nielsen, tnagnus
| Evans, davis. 2
Oil me, paid, J
I Fischer, Oswald
Ford, mrs julia, 2 Parioloko, puris, J
Petuberloti. peter
Gibson, jas. 3 Peterson, guilder 3
“ j r Pillar, wm
Grier, j
Gulkinson, tom Randal!, w s
Redd, levi
Hampton, w s Richardson, j 6, 2
Harris, mrs jennie Ross, h
Hauptkorn, martin
Sacdstrom. E 1
Jones, w p, 2 Sig weds, john
Smith, frank m
Kinman, geo w, 3 Soeda, joe. Japanese
Krino, heinv Sweeney. Stephen
Kunz, chas, 2
Tobin, idexar.dcr
LaBell, H Truran, j
Larsen, miss marie Tsons, gos
Larson, john e
Lewis, frank, 3 Ward, eric
” liarry WultT, john
The following was the standing of
the clubs in the different baseball
leagues May 29:
National League
Won. Lost.
: Now York 19 5
I Cincinnati .21 6
: < hieago. 13 13
Pittsburg It) 13
Philadelphia ....... 9 13
St. Louis . .. . 11 18
Boston . 10 17
Brooklyn . 8 l(i
American League
Chicago 23 (>
Boston It! It)
Detroit 15 14
Philadelphia 12 12
Washington 12 11
C evelan i. 11 13
New York 7 Hi
St. Louis ...... 7 18
Northwestern League
] Vancouver 18 11
Victoria ... Hi 14
! Port land 17 15
Sj okat e . .. 1 i 15
I'acoma. . .. 14 Hi
Seattle 13 18
Wa a^e closing out our entire
Circulating Library at 50c per vol
ume. LOlfftEN EROS.
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FOR SPEEDING
Washington, D C , May 24 -■
(Delayed) —The repent of the Sen
ate comn.ittee having in eha.ge the
investigation of 1 he loss of 111 e Ti
tanic censuies Captain K J Smith
for speeding the ship Oilier ships
had inhumed the Titanic by wire
less that icebergs were in her path
and wee dangerous, but the ship
was not slowed down. The night
was clear and the captain took a
desperate chance in trying to lower
his recoid lime for the previous
24 houis. Had the weather been
foggy the speed would probably
have been reduced and the shi
saved.
After the Titanic struck Canto
Smiths conduct was her.de. He
remained petfectlv collected and
saw to saving the women and chil
dren and the preset va ion of order,
ml died at his post with no effoit
at saving his own life.
Poivefsof-aitorney thanks -Pitmen:
Or. Heinrich Worimann,
Offices: Iditarod and Flat i n v
Tclepi-unrs a! w . -h pl.t
H. BEHLA t • D. CARTER
OHS, BEHLA & GARTER.
Dentists
Offices, Pioneer Drug Stores.
Flat City
Appointments by Telephone
ALFRED E. MALTBY,
Attorney at Law
Notary I'ritr.n
Office Simpson ISUlg, First and Willow
CHAS. E. TAYLOR.
Attorney at Law,
Notary Public, Conveyancing,
Iliclimorsel St., Iditarod
Wiokersham & Roden,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Llitaro.T. A hi ska
GEORGE WOODRUFF ALBRECHT,
Attorney at Law
Michigan. ’81 Alaska. 'ID KcA • -</ 91
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