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IDITAROD, ALASKA
Capital, $50,000.00
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SEATTLE CORRESPONDENT: SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BANK
OFFICERS:
CHAS. ROSS, President
JOHN HOLMES. Cashier
R. C. BUTTON, Asst. Cashier
KING GEORGE ENJOYS
OUR NATIONAL GAME
The king of England witnessed the game
* f baseball between the Chicago White box
and the New York Giants on February 26
last, and experienced the thrill that comes
as the result of a spectacular hit which
breaks up an extra-inning game.
Sated within a wire-inclosed box be
hind the plate of a diamond laid out on
the Chelsea football field, his majesty saw
in the second half of the eleventh inning
'I', mi my Daly of the White box drive a fast
ball delivered by Faber of the Giants into
the topmost bleachers for a home run, and
win the game for Chicago, a to 4. The
king applauded vigorously as Daly trotted
around the bases, and the others of the
bO.OUO spectators followed his example.
The game between the American world
1,, anug teams had been widely advertised,
and having King George as a patron, at
tracted persons from all branches of British
sports, members of the nobility, cabinet
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ministers, diplomats and society leaders.
The American colony in London was out
to a man.
King George, who was accompanied by
Walter Hines Page, the American ambassa
dor, watched with great interest and seem
ing understanding of the game the closely
contested eleven innings, applauding
heartily brilliant field and battery plays.
This was especially noticed when, about
midway of the game, Faber, pitching for
the Giants, got himself into a hole, hav
ing three men on bases and only one man
out. Steadying himself, the Giant twirler
retired the White Sox without permitting
a man to cross the plate. His majesty ap
plauded Faber as enthusiastically as did any
of the American fans.
So well did the king understand the game
that it was seldom he hatl to request Mr.
Page to explain any of the intricate plays.
He led the applause at one stage of the
contest when, with three men on bases and
only one out, the Sox were retired on a
clever double play.
As for the average Britisher, however, as
much cannot be said. Before two innings
had been played many of them confessed
themselves mystified. For the remainder of
the game they sat as in a daze.
It was a field day for baseball-hungry
American residents in London, and they
cheered and rooted in the manner custom
ary in the United States. In the lulls they
tried to explain the fine points of the game
to their British neighbors, but their efforts
were without much success.
All in all, it was a splendid game, de
spite the soggy field, marked by frequent
good hits and fine base-running. In addi
tion Daly, whose home run won for the
White Sox, Crawford of the Chicagos and
Lobert of the Giants drove the ball into
the stands for the circuit of the bases.
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At the office of the N. C-. Co. last Tues
day a telegraph was received from 0. S.
Laning, at Dawson, stating that the pas
sengers on the steamer Schwatka for Idit
arod, which left there on Monday last,
were: Bill Dutch, Mike Hudak, Pete
Radich, Joe Radich and W.Y. Fitzgibbons.
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RILEY & HURSTON'S DREDGE
NOW WORKING SPLENDIDLY
The dredge erected on Otter creek by
| Riley & Marston is now in operation, and
from all appearances it will easily come up
to the expectations of its builders. It was
started up for a trial run Sunday night.
Monday morning, after it had been tun
ning for some time, a hot box caused a
shut-down until repairs could be made,
and it was started up again Tuesday and'
is now running smoothly.
The operation of this dredge will he
watched with considerable interest in min
ing circles. It is in the nature of an in
novation in the North, and should it be
successful, of which there is little doubt,
others of a similar nature may be estab-,
lished in various localities.
The dredge is operated by two fifty horse- ,
power gasoline engines, one of which oper
ates all of the machinery in connection with
the handling and disposal of the gravel, and
the other operates the pumps. A third en
gine of seven horse power furnishes power
for the electric light plant.
The fuel question has been and always
will be a big factor in dredging operations I
in this vicinity. Wood is very costly and
entails much expense in handling. Riley &
Marston expect to effect a considerable sav
ing by the use of distillate. While it is
said to cost 50 cents a gallon laid down on
Otter creek, it is claimed that it will prove
far more economical than the more bulky
fuel.
The firm of Riley & Marston controls an
immense area of ground on Otter creek,
and it is stated that it would take from
ten to twelve years to work it with one
dredge. Three millions and a half dollars
have been taken from this creek by the
firm and its laymen under the old expen
sive methods.
DR. BEHLA, THE DENTIST.
PREPARING TO GO OUTSIDE
Dr. II. Belli a, the Flat City dentist, an
nounces that he will soon leave for the
Outside, and will close his office on July 15.
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SENATOR HENRY RODEN
ARRIVES UNEXPECTEDLY
Senator Henry Roden surprised his
friends by appearing in Flat City last Tues
day evening in the garb of a travel stained
musher, and successfully disguised behind
a luxuriant growth of what Mike Maher
terms “curtains.’ Many of the senator’s
friends expected that he would come to
Iditarod from Fairbanks on one of the first
boats this spring, but owing to the fact
that he was unable to leave the Alaska
coast at an earlier date, he decided to come
by a much shorter route than that sup
plied by either the Valdez or Seward
trails.
Mr. Roden left the town of Seldovia
about one month ago. and has traveled by
very easy stages. He went from Seldovia
across Cook inlet to lliamna village, at the
eastern end of lliamna lake, and then
around the eastern short of Lake Clark |
■ to Bonanza creek, a stream lying to the
north of Lake Clark that is being pros
pected by an old-time Iditarod man Dave
Johnson, with whom he traveled from Sel
dovia.
After remaining at Bonanza creek for
several days. Heinie proceeded on his way
rejoicing all alone, and with his cook:i.g
outfit and blankets on his back (as a gentle
1 reminder of ‘"those good old times” in the
I Rampart diggings), after several days’
mushing over the moss and niggerheads he !
reached a native village on the Stony river,
about eighty miles from its mouth. He got
to the village but a short time after the
ice had cleared, and was fortunate in se
curing passage down that swift-running and
dangerous stream with a native and his
klootch, who were about ready to start to
Georgetown, on the Kuskokwim, with their
winter’s catch of furs in a three-holed
moosehide bidarka. The senator, who, by
the way, possesses the happy faculty of
| adapting himself to existing conditions, was
j chucked in the third hole of the aforesaid
j bidarka. and the trio started, and were not
| many hours in reaching the Kuskokwim
| river. The last of the ice flow in the Kus
j kokwim was passing the mouth of Stony
I river when the senator and his fellow voy
j agers reached that point, late in the after
noon. On the following morning the Kus
kokwim was free of floating ice, so they
proceeded to Georgetown, a distance of
about eighty miles down stream.
Arriving at Georgetown. Mr. Roden had
the good fortune to meet Tom Taylor, the
well-known guide and prospector, who had
reached there only a couple of days be
fore from a winter's prospecting on one of
the upper forks of the Kuskokwim, and
together they came to Iditarod, making
the trip in four days, during which time
they encountered some of the worst snow
storms they ever experienced in their long
years spent in Alaska. They were com
pelled to remain in one camping place for
more than a day on account of the ter
rific snowfall.
Mr. Roden states that the route he trav
eled is, in his belief, the shortest and easi
est means of reaching tidewater from Idita
rod, and is satisfied that one can make
the trip afoot from Iliamna village to this
city in ten days, and not exert himself.
The trail> leading to the headwaters of
Stony river from Iliamna village are old
and well-defined paths that have been used
by natives, trappers and traders for more ,
than a hundred years, and there are set - j
tlements along the way at convenient in-1
tervals that make camping out unnecessary
except on one or two occasions at the end 1
of a day’s travel.
At Bonanza Creek
Harry Stevens. Billy West and Joe Ko
nechney, all former residents of Otter pre
cinct, are prospecting on a tributary of j
Bonanza creek with a hand drill, and at >
the time of Mr. Roden’s visit they had not .
reached bedrock.
At the mouth of Stony river Henry met
two old friends from this district, Hank
Downing and Bill McPhail. who had been i
trapping on the upper Stony river during:
the past winter, and were on their way to
Takotna. Hank and Bill had just killed a
big bear, and with Henry and his native
companions they enjoyed a fine potlach.
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FLAT CITY MOOSE LODGE
HOLDS A MERRY SESSION
After the Moose meeting at Flat last Sun
day night a short social session was held.
Basil Clemons stated that he wished to pre
fer charges against a member for conduct
unbecoming a Moose, consisting of causing
the publication in The Pioneer of a piece
of poetry (?) described by the complainant
as scurrilous, which referred to certain
brother Moose in a way to cause the said
brothers to feel great humiliation and suf
fer untold anguish on account of the ridicule
j heaped upon them by those who had read
the piece.
A kangaroo court was immediately or
| ganized, with Ivan Wales as judge and the
| members who remained in the room (about
thirty-five) as a jury.
[ Fred Harrison volunteered to defend the
] accused man, who turned out to be Jimmie
Krough, but as Krough did not jump
quickly enough at the offer, Harrison de
clared that he was open to employment by
the prosecution, and was thereupon en
gaged as prosecutor. Frank Hudson acted
as attorney for the defense, and the trial
proceeded.
The prosecution read and introduced in
evidence the writing upon which the charge
j was based, and then rested. The defense
placed Brother Lowrey on the witness stand
to prove that Finnegan had hired Krough
to write the poem in order to advertise
his (Finnegan’s) business, but hardly met
with the success that was looked for. as
most of the evidence Lowery attempted to
give was ruled out as being hearsay.
A great flow of oratory was then pro
duced by the respective counsel, during
which several amusing tilts occurred.
The verdict of the jury stood as follows:
Guilty. 29; not guilty, 4; hang him. 1;
give him 25 years, 1.
When called upon to state any reason
he might have why sentence should not
be imposed upon him. Jimmie made an ad
dress full of the flowers of rhetoric, wherein
he frequently referred to Caesar, Brutus.
Robert Emmet and other celebrities of the (
past. Most of it got over the heads of his |
audience, but he so affected the judge that
he was let off with a reprimand and a warn
ing to sin no more.
A ROMANTIC JEWEL
A jewel with a most romantic history was
exhibited at the Royal Society's conversa
zione recently. It is a priceless ornament
of carnelian, lapis luzuli and turquoise, and
was made by order of the pharaoh of
Egypt 3,400 years before the birth of Christ.
It was given by the monarch to one of his
favorites, and when the latter died it was
! buried with him in his tomb.
Some years aftenvard the tomb was en
tered by a thief, who was about to steal
the precious gem when the heavy slabs that
i formed its roof fell on him and killed him.
In the course of centuries all traces of this
ancient tomb were lost, and as a result of
frequent sand storms it lay buried deep un
der the sand. It was excavated, however,
last March by Professor Flinders Petrie, the
great Egyptian achaeologist. The crushed
body of the thief in the act of stealing the
jewel was found and told its own story, and
the beautiful gem was brought to England.
It is worth a fortune.—Milwaukee Wiscon
sin.
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MEXICAN WAR FALLS
HAKUtST ON WOMEN
Eagle Pass, Tex.—The enforced partici
pation of women in the Mexican war is
one of the most deplorable and perhaps
the saddest feature of the long conflict.
Even the constitutional government of
Mexico gives semi-official recognition to
women and children as being important ad
juncts of the regular fighting forces. The
same thing is done by the various oppos
ing elements that are fighting for suprem
acy in different parts of the country.
The first definite knowledge that the non
combatants in Piedras Negras, situated just
across the Rio Grande, had that the fed
eral?- were about to take possession of the
town recently was when a special train ar
rived from the south, pulling several freight
cars filled with women and children. They
had been sent on ahead to forage for food
and have dinner ready for the hungry
horde of soldiers who arrived an hour or
two later. This advance contingent of
women dumped their bundles of dirty cloth
ing. crude open-air cooking utensils and
other portable property from the cars and
in a few minutes an open square near the
railroad had been picked out for a camp
site for the soldiers.
Women Forage for Food
Bare legged, half-clad children—boys
and girls- ranging in age from 4 to 12
years, rustled around and in a very short
time they had the camp fires going. In
the meanwhile the women were foraging
through the town for food. Here and there
a stray pig would be found wandering along
the street. Then the women would silently
give chase to the animal, and its fate would
soon be settled. If a cow' fell into their
hands, so much the better. They showed
themselves expert in slaughtering the ani
mals. If these women foragers happened
to spy a flock of goats in the chapparal,
they quickly rounded them up and drove
them down to camp, where the animals
were kept under guard, to be used as
needed.
u was a money collection oi euiuic mu
cles that the crowd of foragers brought into
camp that first day. Each woman works
for her own particular mess, if it may so be
called. It usually consists of her husband
and perhaps another male relative or two.
and maybe some particular friend. The
soldiers are permitted to form their own
messes as they see fit. There is much
rivalry between the women in the matter of
foraging and preparing meals for their re
spective patrons.
k One woman arrived in camp at Piedras
Negras carrying a squealing young pig by
one leg and holding a squawking goose in
the other hand. The glimmer of a stoical
smile played around her mouth. Other
women greeted her with envious eyes as
she tied the pig to a stake and placed the
goose under a box near her own particular
camp fire. Her thoughts were of Juan, her
dark-skinned husband, who was on his way
up from the south with the other soldiers.
Women Real Commissaries
“The L-ord is good, my children," she
said, as she devoutly crossed herself in
thankfulness for the success of her for
aging trip. “You anti Juan shall feast
this day.”
Indeed, it was a grand day for the fight
ing Juan, for the little, thorn-scarred boys
and mite of a girl, and for Carmencita her
self as they sat around the festive board
and gorged themselves to their hearts’ con
tent. When the repast was over Juan and
the children lay flat upon the ground and
\enjoyed a delightful siesta, while Carmen
cita busied herself with other duties.
In the proper sense, the hundreds of
poor women and children who attend so
faithfully to the material wants of the sol
idiers are not “camp followers." In reality
.•they are the commissary departments of
■the armies. The officers and the privates
depend upon them absolutely for their sus
tenance when on the march and when in
camp.
The uncomplaining women are often
forced to perform services of the most dan
gerous and painful character. They have
tnarched hundreds of miles through the
cactus-covered deserts, carrying their
smaller children and pots and pans upon
♦heir backs, while their older offspring trot
led by their side. When the son of one of
these women reaches the age of 12 years he
is given a gun and becomes a soldier.
Seldom has the world seen such an ex
ample of devotion to men as is shown by
the women who attend to the commissary
needs of their husbands and friends in the
ranks of the fighting forces in Mexico. To
be sure, these poor creatures are densely ig
norant and have little knowledge of even |
the ordinary comforts of life, but their
hearts are tilled with deep love for their j
tioniadic home and fireside, despite its hum
| ble surroundings.
In the freight cars that are used to
transport the federal as well as the con
stitutionalist troops from place to place
'over the country the women and children
are crowded together like so many sheep
and cattle. Often they are made to ride
in flat cars, which are uncovered. In these
unsheltered cars the rain pours down upon
their unprotected bodies. When the sol
fliers become hungry the women and chil
dren must make the fires and cook some
kind of a meal. Each woman usually car
ries a meager supply of corn and beans with
Iher, and if foraging is not good in a par
ticular locality the meal is made up of
•tortillas and beans.
It is not only in foraging that the women
adjuncts of the different armies in Mexico
perform remarkable and burdensome serv
See, but they are frequently sent out on
scout duty and to discover the plans of the
enemy. Many acts of heroism which will
probably go unknown and unsung have1
been performed by them. Only occasion
ally does a performance of this kind come
to public notice. A notable instance oc
curred just before the fall of Torreon.
General Trucy Auburt of the federals was i
anxious to learn the strength of the con- i
stitutionalists in the Nazas valley region, i
of which Torreon is the commercial center. ;
Unconfirmed reports had come to him j
that the rebels were gathering close about
the town. lie needed all of his own officers
and personal staff, and he did not care to
intrust the important mission of learning
the actual strength of the constitutionalists
to any man in the ranks of his troops. He
mentioned his need of a trustworthy spy
to Senorita Lomesa Bordaz, an ardent sup
porter of the government cause, and daugh
ter of a former banker of Torreon. She
had displayed her courage by refusing to
seek safety in flight when an attack upon 1
the town was imminent. She volunteered j
to make a trip through the constitutional
ist lines and visit their different camps.
General Aubert finally consented to the j
plan.
Disguised as an old woman of the peon
class, Miss Bordaz set out on the back of
a burro and for ten days traveled from
place to place in the valley, visiting many
rebel camps and taking careful note of the
strength of the forces that were preparing
to attack the city. At night she slept upon
the ground with the canopy of heaven for
a covering. Upon her return to Torreon
she made a complete report to General
Aubert, which showed that more than 0,000
constitutionalists were within striking dis
tance of the towTn. For the small force of
federals to have remained in Torreon would
have meant their utter destruction. The
town was therefore evacuated by them after
a small show of resistance, and it fell into
the hands of 1he rebels.
Many women and children have- been
killed in battle. Not infrequently they have
been shot down in ambush along with the
j soldiers. They perform the services of
nurses upon the battlefield, the armies not
being provided with even the semblance of
a hospital department. Upon the women
also falls the sad duty of burying their be
loved dead who fall in battle. In a multi
tude of other ways do they perform notable
service for the men who are doing the
fighting.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat special.
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LAWS WHICH ARE NOT ENFORCED
With the national congress in session
three-fourths of every year, and with forty
eight state legislatures making laws, it is
not astonishing that the people of the
United States are the subjects of more laws
than any other population in the world. If
the ordinances of the various towns and
cities are added there was never before such
a mass of legislation in the world.
A recent writer has stated that on an
average 200 new laws went into effect every
day in the year, and yet who knows what
is the law? Hundreds of courts are every j
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day engaged in explaining, interpreting and
deciding what is the law, and yet among
the civilized countries of the world there
is not one other in which, in proportion to
the population, there are so many Homi
cides. so many crimes of all sorts, so many
divorces from wedlock, and so many dis
putes about property as in our grand re
public.
It all shows that it is not the enactment
of laws, but their enforcement, that is the
test of public order, of protection to life,
rights and property, and of public decency
and morals. By this test our showing is
not very admirable.—New Orleans Picayune
The Cause
Two men on a train were apparpntlv old
acquaintances, and they were in a josial
mood. Both were gray, but each had a
luxuriant head of hair. Near them sat a
stout party with a shining dome that was
almost dsetitute of hirsute covering.
The two friends exchanged facetious re
marks about silver locks, then indulged in
some pleasantries about the “thinning of
the thatch," with casual references to door
knobs and billiard balls, much to the amuse
ment of the passengers, but to the evident
discomfiture of the bald-headed man.
The talk finally developed into an argu
ment of the cause of baldness, and after
considerable jocularity, the pair turned to
the pearly-pated stranger, and one said
“My friend and I have been discussing
the cause of baldness, but we can t seem
to agree. Would you mind telling me
what you regard as the real cause of bald
ness?”
The stranger wheeled about, eyed his
questioners fiercely, and snorted:
“Brains!”
Summons for Publication
No. 1 76 I
In the District Court for the Territory or
Alaska, Fourth Division. Fred Labelle,
plaintiff, vs. Mary Labelle, defendant.
The President iff the Cm ted States of
America to the defendant Mary La
belle, greeting:
Whereas, on the 27th day of January,
19 14, plaintiff filed in this court his
complaint wherein he prays for a decree
dissolving the bonds of matrimony now ex
isting between plaintiff and defendant, .on
the ground of willful desertion of the
plaintiff by the defendant, as set forth lo
said complaint; and
Whereas, on the 10th day of March,
1914, an order was made and entered by
the above entitled court, directing that the
summons herein be served upon the de
fendant by publication thereof in The hilt
arod Pioneer, a newspaper of genera! cir
culation, published at Iditarod, Alaska, for
a period or not less than six consecutive
weeks:
Now. therefore, you are hereby required
to appear m the district court in and for
the Territory of Alaska, Fourth division,
within thirty days after the completion or
said publication, that is to say. within
thirty days after the 6th day of June.
19 14, and answer the complaint of the
above named plaintiff, otherwise your dr
fault will be entered and the plaintiff will
apply to the court for the relief demanded
m his complaint, to wit, a decree dissolv
ing the bonds of matrimony now existing
between plaintiff and defendant.
Witness the Honorable Frederick E. Ful
ler, judge of said court, by the clerk of
said court, with his seal of office, oa the
21st day or April. 1914.
(Seal) ANGUS McBRIDE, Clerk.
GEO. W. ALBRECHT, Deputy.
First publication, April lf», 1914.
Last publication, June C, 1914.