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Published Every Saturday Evening at Iditarod, Alaska.
FRANK E. BECKER, EDITOR
V ol 2 Oeo. M. Arbuckle. Publisher No. 10
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LET THEM ALL PAY FOR IT.
On the 11 th of next month the people of Iditarod will
be called upon to register their choice for or against the in
corporation of this city. They will be up against the propo
sition of deciding whether they want their town protected
from fire at the expense of all or whether they shall main
tain a sort of charity fire department as a burden to a few.
The question must be fought out before that voting
day comes ITiound. It has been said that there are many
people in the town that do not favor it, and they will fight
against it, because they do not wish to put their property
within the reach of the assessor, but we believe that the
larger majority of the citizens do favor it, and that they
will prevail to the end that every property holder in Idit
arod will get the protection he pays for and nothing more.
We do not advocate an expensive city government,—
in fact we believe a very simple and economical system will
suffice. What we do want however, is an adequate fire de
partment and an adequate police department, with the
added power to do some sufficient thing for the streets.
Thi3 can be done only through incorporation. The
experience of the last summer and of this winter has been
enough to satisfy anyone of this.
Fire protection is not an idle dream, it is an absolute
necessity, therefore we must have it. Is there any reason
why it should be paid for by the few ? Taking the fires of
the past few months and how many occurred in places whose
owners contributed to the fire fund ? It is subject to com
putation, but we venture to say that in quite a number of
instances has the department been called to save the places j
which paid nothing for the support of the department.
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TWO YEARS MORE OF IT
The issue of this paper today marks the close of the second
year of President Taft’s residence in the White House. Maybe
Bill don’t know that this paper marks it, but we do, and feel proud
of it for we believe ourselves the only people who have thought
of it.
Such being the case, it moves us to be reflective and to cast a
thoughtful and retrospective eye along the trail that Mr. Taft has
blazed since he started to lead Uncle Sam through the wilderness.
It’s a wobbly path and he has the old man groggy already; we
wonder what will happen in the next two years
Sam remarked last summer that he didn’t like the pace that
Bill was cutting out for him. He said that he had led him into a
bunch of tariff niggerheads, and got him mixed up in the tall uncut
where .the Interests jumped out from behind big trees and sand
bagged him into insensibility.
Sam said that Bill tried to follow the blaze that Teddy had put
in the year before, but it seems the snow was deep that year and
Bill couldn’t see the slashes ’way up there among the branches.
And so we wander back aimlessly over that wandering journey
thinking how sad it is that a fairly good judge had been spoiied to
make a poor President.
Of course Bill is not wholly to blame. He took directions from
a bunch of old sourdoughs, like Nelse Aldrich and Joe Cannon and
a few more of those early pioneers who had been all over that coun
try of Special Privileges, and they gave him a bum steer. But he
should have been wise to those old Indians and might have used
his knowledge of political woodcraft to have steered clear of the
rough places. In fact, they seem to have led him on a wild goose
chase right into the stronghold of Uncle Sam’s enemies.
While they blinded him with will o’ the wisps, and put him off
on false trails, they continued to juggle the tariff schedule and
gouge the people and made him think they were doing the right
thing for the good of the entire country. They increased the cost
of living and made it harder to earn a living. Then they made
Bill think that he was still on the highway of national progress,
and got him to endorse their cajolery while he calmly ignored the
promises of the party that had put him at the head of the expedi
tion.
In the meantime Teddy, the trail blazer, is way off in an un
known country. He is swash-buckling around in a circle trying to
get back on the road to Truth, while the party that he once led
has forged on ahead without him.
Both Bill and Teddy have lost their bearings apparently, and
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Photographic Supplies
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it is interesting to try to figure out where they will be in two years
from now. The people they led are tired of their leadership, and
it is entirely probable that unless they get on the true scent, they
will either wreck the Republican party or that new leaders will
develop to lead it out of the woods, with only a slight chance to
save it from defeat at the next election.
Wireless for Iditarod
Seems Assured Thing
Fairbanks, Feb. 2—Another evidence of the certainty of a wireless
service for the Kuskokwim and tire Iditarod ir given the people today
G. L. Milligan, ,he wireless expert, who is manager for the Alaska
Wireless Telegraph Co., organized here last summer to provide a wire
less service lor the Iditarod, has at last succeeded in having his resigna
lion accepted by the war department, and left this morning at 10 o’clock
for the Outside.
He goes first to Seattle, and thence to New York to superintend
matters in connection with the packing and shipping of the three Tele
fuuken plants that have Ixeu ordered from Germany.
'I'wo of these plants, the one for Kaltag and the one for Iditarcd,
will be sent in via Raberge, and the third will be shipped from San
j Francisco to the mouth of the Kuskokwim and sent up river to George
town.
After he has attended to these details, Mr. Milligan hopes to get
back to Fairbanks before the breakup, in which case he will go to Idit
arod on the first boat and have the sites secured and the buildings
erected before 'he arrival of the Telefunken plants.
This done he can have the plants set up and in working order
ready to transact business within thirty minutes after the delivery of
the shipment.
Grocery Representatives
Visit Iditarod Trade
Brought by fastdogteams from Fair
banks in the care of Jack Phillips and
Tommy King, there arrived in Iditarod
last Saturday the Optimo Kid and the
Lovera Lad, known to the Pacific coast1
and to Alaska as Dave Dunbar and Sam !
Newman, the genial representatives of
the National Grocery Company and
Schwabaeher Bros, respectively. They J
had just come in from the Outside, and
had hurried on to the Iditarod to chat
a while with their customers, after!
which they go back to put the jinks on i
the trade of Fairbanks. They are due
to leave here today on their return •
journey.
They had rather a severe trip down,
running into the midst of all that
weather that blest us for three weeks
past. They came in over the Lewis
Cutoff, and encountered all the snow
this side of the Arctic circle, including
some that had blown in from Siberia.
Both are well known to the buyers
of the North, and in spite of the hard
ships of winter travel, they seem to
rather enjoy these hurry-up expeditions
through Alaska.
Northerners in the South
Ed Jesson, the Ester creek miner
who went Outside more than a year
ago, is now located in old Mexico
where he divides his time between
cruises in his big motor boat, fishing,
and looking after the ranch he has
purchased, and whereupon he expects
to spend the remainder of his days.
Dave Cascaden is there, and was
cured of the rheumatism in a fort
night. Dave fears he will have to
come North for a few minutes for the
cleanup, but will hurry back to the
land of the Montezumas.
Harry Havery has his poke with
him, and will probably not return. He
will buy land and a boat and stay in a
warmer climate.
Bo!. Jock Ousby
Again in Limelight
—
Jack Ousby, who fills the dual role of
ieputy marshal and mail carrier, occu
pied the limelight in the commission
?r’s court here last Wednesday when
the case ot the United States vs. Chris
tensen came up for trial. It appears
that Christensen is a man of mighty
prowess and woisted the Council City
ieputy and Ousby, who came to his as
sistance. On ‘‘the morning after” the
.''ouncil deputy-marshal had Christen
sen arrested for assault and battery,
put a Council City jury acquitted him
fhen Ousby had Christensen arrested
pete on a similar complaint, and with
i similar result. W. A. Gilmore, who
lefended Christensen, scored Ousby un
nercifully while addressing the jury
'or his client, to the amusement of a
irowded court room.—Nome Industrial
Worker, Jan. 4.
Colonel Claypool Now
Olympia’s City Attorney
At the municipal election held in
Olympia, Wash., recently. Col. Chas.
K. Claypool, the widely-known attorney
pf Fairbanks, was elected city attorney
pf the capital city, and is now on the
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One 30-h.p. Scotch marine boiler 9J
ft. long, 44-in. in diameter, water back,
tip ft. of stack. All in first-class condi
tion. Address Pioneer.
Have your nuggets made into souve
nirs at Simpson’s, the tpioneer jeweler.
OR. B. F. BROOKS,
Physician and Surgeon
Over Merchants Cafe, First Avenue.
Telephone 30
Dr. Heinrich Wortmann,
Physician and Surgeon
Office at City Drug Store, Tel. 30
First Ave., Bet. Willow and Richmond
DR. E. T. BRADBURY,
Dentist
Over Merchants Cafe, First Avenue
Telephone 30-B
CHAS. D. CARTER,
Bent 1st
Offices, Pioneer Drug Stores,
Flat Creek
McGowan, Clark & Albrecht
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Iditarod. Alaska Phone No. 7
The Pioneer Attorneys of This Camp
ALFRED E. MALT BY,
[U. S. Commissioner]
Attorney at Law
Notary Public
Practice only in District Court. IDiTAROD
J. 5. HARDING,
Attorney at Law
Room 1, Iditarod Hotel
Iditarod. Alaska
BIGHAM & BECKER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Office—Ansley Bldg., Richmond St.
CHAS. E. TAYLOR,
Attorney at Law,
Notary Public, Conveyancing',
Abstracts of Titles
Iditarod City
DUKE K. STUBBS,
U. S. Deputy Surveyor
Civil and Mining Engineer
Assayer—Determinations ot Gold, Silver, Mer
cury, Platinum, Uranium. Lead, Tin,
Tungsten, Monazite
GEORGETOWN, ALASKA
Starting from heated electric wires in the ceiling hack of the
judge's bench in the courtroom, a disastrous conflagration swept
through the upper portion of the Fairbanks courthouse on the morning
of Feh. rst, starting at about 11 o’clock in the forenoon and threatening
the destruction of the whole block before it could be put under con
trol.
As it was the whole upper portion of the building was burned and
every thing in it, more or less injured by the great weight of water
they were compelled to throw on the flames.
District Attorney Crossley was the first man oir the job with a
hose, having unreeled an indoor line that hung in the hallway. He
fought the fire single handed until the department arrived, and although
the balloon ceiling was blazing merrily, they were able to put so many
lines in action that the fire was checked and drowned out in an hour’s
time.
On the first floor the marshal’s force and the clerk of the couit’s
torce burned their records into their vaults. Most of the commissioner’s
lecords were in the vaults and escaped damage, but Judge Dillon's
private library in his office was badly damaged by water.
The land offic records and the library of Judge Day of the land
office also suffered somewhat lrom water hetore the/ could he rescued.
All of the records and law books of the district attorney’s office were
damaged by water while Judge Overfield’s library suffered from both
-moke and water.
Ad the furniture oir th v lower floor was also removed from the
building, windows being smashed in and tire furniture lifted through.
Meanwhile the buildings across the street on both corners, were
covered with canvas and wet blankets to prevent their catching should
:he file get beyond control.
'Idle fire was caused by a short-circuiting of the wires and it seems
j probable that the short-circuiting was due to discharge of static elec
i tricity lrom the wireless station. The damage is figured at $2000.
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