J. L. SALE
Leading Jeweler of the North
Just in—Gold EnameSod P. of A. Buttons, $4
J. L. SALE
Front St., Iditirod
CANVAS TENTS_TARPAULINS_HOSE
REMEMBER
OUR SPECIAL SALE IS STILL GOING ON AT OUR NEW
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H. Boas, Leading ClothlQF
HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX and CHESTERFIELD CLOTHES
Saturday. March 27. was a big day in
Iditarod. It was the occasion of the first j
social event under the auspices of the newly
formed igloo of the Pioneers of Alaska, and
the manner in which the people of the dis
trict responded to the invitation to partici- 1
pate was a tribute to the old trail-blazers
that was both spontaneous and general.
Possibly at no other event of a like char
acter in the camp’s history was the attend
ance from all parts of the Iditarod mining
district so general as at Saturday's enter
tainment. From early morning until the
opening of the entertainment the trail be
tween this city and Flat was fairly alive
with pedestrians, as well as with numbers
who came by conveyance They came from
Flat City and Flat creek. Discovery and
Otter creek, from Happy creek. Chicken
creek and other near-by settlements, and
numbers who were on the trail from dis
tant parts speeded up in order to be on
hand for the great occasion.
When Percy Charles, as master of cere
monies, announced the opening number of
the entertainment at A. B. hall at 9:30 p. m.
there was not a vacant seat in that spa
cious building, and many were compelled
to stand during the rendition of the concert
program that preceded the ball. It was
estimated that nearly three hundred per
sons were in attendance, and but for the
wretched condition of the trails there doubt
less would have been a great many more.
And the event proved to be well worth
the trouble experienced by the out-of-town
residents in getting here. It had been well
advertised. An attractive and unique poster
that hail attracted a great deal of comment
had aroused the interest of the community,
and the fact that some of the best amateur
entertainers in the district were billed to
appear was no small factor in attracting the
large attendance
I he Concert
The program opened with an instrumen
tal duet by Miss Coolidge and Mr. Jacobs,
which was followed by a song, “Sunshine
and Roses.” by Mrs. Charles Larson, ten
dered in most pleasing manner and calling
for an encore. Jack Smith, “the Alaska
Harry’ Lauder,’ gave some topical Scotch
songs, which made quite a hit. Mrs. Cyril
P. Wood rendered “The Four-Leaf Clover,”
in which her splendid contralto voice was
heard to great advantage, furnishing one of
the most enjoyable numbers on the pro
gram. For an encore she sang “The Per
fect Day." Harry Leland, popular as ever.
ADAMS & HUDSON,
Painters, Paperhangers, Dec
orators and Kalsominers
We have purchased 2.000 rolls of wall
paper from the Snyder estate, and will
remove it from Dikeman within ten
days, the fir>t consignment arriving on
Tuesday next. This lot comprises all
the latest designs.
OFFICE ADAMS HOUSE
sang two numbers in his usual finished
manner, and was given an ovation. Miss
Lucille Tavlur, with a piano solo, won the
favor of the audience, and Miss Lillian
Smith sang a rather grotesque ditty, with
a darkey song for an encore. “Uncle Billy”
Ansley created much merriment in a black
face sketch, making numerous local hits,
which were well received. Mrs. Percy G.
Charles favored the audience with a vocal
solo, and Mrs. George Mutchler gave her
locally-famous monologue, "An Aid to Di
gestion.” Billy Stoneman presented some
coster songs in excellent manner. I*or an
encore Billy essayed to “pull off a joke on
a local attorney, but his assistants whom he
had scattered through the audience evidently
were seized with stage fright, and they left
him in the lurch. Charles E. Taylor and
Cyril P. Wood gave an excellent banjo and
guitar duet, and Percy Charles sang pleas
ingly. Mrs. Ray D. Clarke sang sweetly a
tuneful darkey melody, and Chris Hanson
and George Kay also sang. Owen Sanders
rendered an original song dedicated to the
Pioneers, whch was well received, and Harry
Alois sang “Rolling Home,” and for an en
core. the “Marseillaise.”
At the Banquet Boarq
It was at first intended to intersperse the
concert numbers with dancing, but the en
croachments of the audience on the dancing
fioor made this plan impossible, and the
dancing was postponed until the conclusion
of the program. The many encores de
manded by the audience from the various
entertainers prolonged the program until
midnight, when supper was announced. It
was necessary to serve this to relays of
about one hundred guests at a time. The
old Budweiser building had been engaged
for this purpose, and was prettily and taste
fully decorated for the o«casion. And such
a supper! It is safe to say that no more
elaborate spread has ever been served at a
public entertainment in this city than that
of last Saturday night. It was prepared un
der the skillful supervision of Frank Keenan,
and was a credit not only to his genius as a
chef, but also to his excellent management.
For several days he had worked to make the
supper a noteworthy one, and that his ef
forts were crowned with success was con
ceded by all. The dispatch with which the
large crowd was served by the volunteer
waiters was also the subject of much ap
preciative comment.
Dancing was indulged in after supper,
music being furnished by Miss Coolidge.
Charles Taylor and Mr. Jacobs. The hall
was uncomfortably crowded during the
early numbers of the dance program, hut
it was a most good-natured crowd, and all
seemed to enter into the spirit of '.he oc
casion. Dancing was indulged in until a
late hour, and day was breaking when the
tired revelers dispersed for the night.
Many of the out-of-town visitors returned
home early Sunday mori/ng. but most of
them spent the day here resting up. The
tram had been especially engaged by the
Pioneers to bring the ladies and children
from the creeks, and this returned at 2 f>. m.
Sunday. _
Job Printing at Pioneer office.
FOR PURE LIQUORS
Just Received
A Choice Lot of the Latest
Victor Plionograph Records
Come In and Hear Them
SMITH'S GUN STORE,
ID IT A ROD. ALASKA
(Knik News, March 6)
SHIP CRICEK, March 2.—At no time dur
ing this winter would it have been at all
difficult for a large steamer to reach Ship
Creek. The weather has been ideal. In
November the thermometer registered be
low zero three days; in December, three
days; in January, four days; in February,
eleven days. The total snowfall to date
was thirty-three inches; the greatest depth
on the ground at any one time was 14.21
inches.
No one here knows anything about the
townsite question. Those building are just
taking a chance. Two business structures
are in course of construction, but cannot
be completed on account of the lack of
finishing lumber, doors, windows, etc. The
government mess house is similarly handi
capped. A commodious roadhouse and a
pool room are the structures being erected,
and the owners are W. S. Perkins and
O’Connell & Prairie respectively.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Brown and Mr. and !
Mrs. McCullough have built comfortable
homes and several log cabin* are built and
in course of building. There will be little j
building until title can be obtained to lots. !
The government will erect a large hos- j
pital here in the spring, according to a I
letter received.
Thomas Parker, said to be representing 1
Francis Roach, member of the Washington j
state senate, has located a manufacturing |
and mill site on the water front here.
Those here now are Captain Porter, offi
cial weather observer; E. L. Remore, in
charge, and Messrs. Jackson, Charlton, Per
kins and Blackburn, in the railway com
mission’s employ; Mr. and Mrs. Jack Brown,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jones, Mr. and Mrs.
McCullough and daughter, Thomas H. Jeter,
Joe Prairie, Hunk O’Connell, Paddy O'Don
nell, John Olson, Frank Butterfield, P. John
son, Bert Mahoney and Robert Small. Mr.
and Mrs. Bud Whitney reside on their home
stead, some four miles up Ship creek.
The government has recently made a re
serve at the junction of the Ship creek
branch with the main railway line.
Jack Brown, former forest ranger, is
bu'd'hng a launch for use on the arm.
Odin A. Olson, interested with Mr.
Getchell in claims on Albert creek, Nelchina,
departed for that place Sunday. He ex
pressed the opinion that the Nelchina will
develop into at least a small mining camp.
ARE NOT CANDIDATES
To the Voters of Iditarod: My name was
presented to the mass meeting last Mon
day night as a candidate for councilman
without my knowledge and entirely against
my wishes. I am not a candidate, and were
I elected I would not qualify for the posi
tion. Respectfully, H. BOAS.
To the Voters of Iditarod: The under
‘■■ietied is not-a candidate for councilman at
the election to be held next Tuesday. April
6. and would not qualify for the position if
elected. The electorate is hereby requested
not to waste votes.
GEORGE F. MARSH.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Clarke moved their
•me this week from the Byers cabin to the
house lately occupied by Mrs. Campbell, on
Third street.
For one week, wall paper at cost. Pio
neer Drug Store, Flat.
Pure and sweet. Once you try it, you will eat no other. Insist 3
on getting it jj
— •
Sam’l Applebaum
The Home of Hart, Schaffner 8c Marx Clothes
Dog Bacon, 15c.
Bog Ham, 10c. j
Dog Butter, 10c.
C. R. PECK, FLAT CITY
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MARCH SURE WENT
OUT LIKE A LION
i In keeping with the extraordinary
I weather conditions prevailing throughout
! the winter, the closing days of ti e month
of March were signalized by a spell of soft
weather which seriously threatened to put*
an abrupt end to travel over the winter
trails, and to bring about a break-up that
would have been unprecedented in the an
nals of Interior Alaska. Reports reached
here of streams overflowing, causing great
inconvenience to travelers, in some instances
water to a depth of two or three feet flow
ing over the ice. Clarence White, who came
up from Bear creek, in the Kuskokwim
country, on Saturday last, reports that he
was compelled to build a raft to get his
sled and dogs across Little Eldorado creek,
and it was reported that the mail carriers
were having serious difficulties on the other
side of Takotna. On Sunday a slight change
was experienced, and the wind veered to the
north and brought freezing weather. By
this time the snow had almost gone from
the trail, and wheeled vehicles came into
use. Toward Moore creek, where there had
been more snow than in the vicinity of Idit
arod, conditions were not so bad, but the
trail has been what the mushers term as
“tough.”
Some anxiety was expressed about the
large number of persons who are known
| to be on the way to Iditarod over the trail
from Seward If the weather should turn
I warm again there will be much difficulty
, experienced in negotiating the various
streams which the trail crosses.
While the indications all pointed for a
time to an early break-up, there were few,
especially among the old-timers, who be
lieved that was due so early in the spring.
And yet the wise ones hint at certain sure
; indications that that momentous event in
I Northern latitudes is close at hand. Last
. Saturday a hock of robins was seen on the
{frail between Iditarod and Flat City, and
! this is said to be an almost infallible sign
! that no more severe weather may be ex
; pected. However, the old-timers shake their
, heads and quote the old adage to the effect
| that “one swallow does not make a sum
j mer.”
But somewhat of a damper was put upon
i the talk of an early break-up by Tuesday,
| when a northerly gale sprang up whch
; chilled the pedestrian to the marrow and
I put the fuel question uppermost in the
! minds of the people. For more han forty
j eight hours the cold wind prevailed, and
March went out in a blaze of glory, accord
[ ing to the old saying that “when March
^ponies in like a lamb it goes out like a lion.”
Gillie Bates of Otter creek and Jack Fol
som of Moore creek arrived in the camp
early this week from the Outside, where
they spent the winter.
PI AfARIVx h*? and smaI1' Panted on
paper, cardboard or cloth,
on short notice, at Iditarod Pioneer office.
Pioneer.
TUESDAY’S
ELECTION
FOR COUNCILMEN
GEORGE W. ALBRECHT
WILLIAM ANSLEY
RICHARD C. BUTTON
JOHN C. CURRIN
CHARLES LARSON
JOHN A. NELSON
HERBERT E. RILEY
JOSEPH H. SMITH
EDWIN M. STANTON
HENRY A. WEIR
FOR SCHOOL TRUSTEES
PERCY G. CHARLES
dan McDonald
J. F. KEENAN
DAVID MUTCHLER
CHARLES E. TAYLOR
From the above list of candidates the
voters of the town of Iditarod will on Tues
day next, April 6, select seven members of
the municipal council and two members of
the school board. All of the candidates
whose names appear in the above lists were
nominated at a mass meeting of citizens
held last Monday night, with the exception
of E. M. Stanton for the council and J. F.
Keenan for the school board, who were
nominated later by petition. The council
men to be elected will serve for one year,
and the members of the school board are
to be elected for terms of two years and
one year respectively. It is not stated
how the terms are to be apportioned, but it
is presumed that the successful candidate
for school trustee receiving the highest num
ber of votes will receive the long term.
It has been customary for the council
man receiving the highest number of votes
at the election to be considered president of
the council, or virtually mayor, but it is
possible that this custom may not be ad
hered to this time.
Up to the eve of the mass meeting there
had been little interest in the forthcoming
e'ection, and there seemed to be a dearth
of candidates, but since then the public
has taken notice of the event, and the in
nate fondness of the average American citi
zen for the game of politics has begun to
manifest itself. It is likely that there will
be keen competition for the honors.
At the mass meeting held at the city hall
last Monday evening eleven nominations
were made for municipal councilman, but
some of these at once signified their inten
tion of withdrawing.
In spite of the warning given in The
Pioneer last week, to the effect that persons
should not be nominated at the mass meet
ing without their express consent, no sooner
was the meeting opened than indiscriminate
naming of possible nominees began, with
out reference to the wishes of the persons
named. This, of course, resulted in a flood
of declinations from those present who did
not aspire to public office. But some of
the nominees who were not present found
themselves in a rather peculiar position, and
were put to a great deal of annoyance. As
no one withdrew their names, it was taken
for granted that they were willing candi
dates, and their names were handed in to
the municipal clerk as among the nominees
i cf the mass meeting and entitled to a place
j upon the official ballot. Despite the efforts
j of some of the unwilling candidates to with
! draw their names, they were informed by
e clerk that he had no authority to omit
| their names from the ballot, citing an opin
' -n of a former city attorney of Iditarod to
that effect. Thus they were in the rather
anomalous position of having been nomi
nated against their will and being compelled
to stand for election or rejection by their
fellow citizens in spite of their assertion
that they would not qualify if elected. The
municipal officials later allowed the names
to be dropped from the ballot.
LOSS OF BATTLESHIPS
SUBJECT OF INVESTIGATION
LONDON, March 17.—Considerable niys
| tery still surrounds the sinking of the Brit
! ish battleships Formidable and Bulwark
| and secret inquiries are said to have been
{ ordered in addition to ordinary official in
! (juiries. The Bulwark had just finished
coaling when she was blown up in Sheer
ness harbor. The Formidable also coaled
at Sheerness, and it was only a matter of
a day after leaving that harbor that she
sank in the channel off Torbay. While of
ficial explanations were that the ships were
sunk by submarines, private investigations,
it is said, show that explosions in both cases
occurred in coal bunkers, leading to the be
lief that they were caused by infernal ma
chines placed in the coal.
When you come in from the creeks don’t
forget to stop in the Crosby and take an
Electric Vapor Bath.
! THE CROSBY MASSAGE AND BATH
PARLORS
| The Home of the Twentieth Century Turk
ish Bath
I
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FLAT CITY
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ID1TAR0D DISCOVERY, OTTER
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HOMESTEADS LOCATED
IN THE KNIK COUNTRY
(Knik News, March 6)
The following-named persons have located
homesteads adjacent to or near Knik:
A. G. Swanson
O. G. Herning
1*. D. Whitney
Albert A train
John Wilson
A. A. Cobb
0. c. Miller
Joseph Grimes
E. Weiss
Peter Hebert
K. H. Andrews
H. c. S'hotiRh
F. Shepard
G. J. Blake
Martin Feekvold
c. B. White
John Barks
Adam Werner
William Campbell
A. G. Henry
F. Terry
W. J. Bogard
J. J. Page
G. Danielson
J. F. Edlund
C. H. Bauer
G. A. Haller
Boy Cornelius
M. M. Kinsinger
Axel Olsen
A. H. Olson
D. Gre< nwaldt
J. W. Hoope
H. JI. Drake
G. J. Hertel
\. J. Pierce
Flerman Hugh
A. Thorsen
H. Hoppell
Helsintr
William Dalton
John Eusturin
C. C. Thorpe
S. I.utchinger
Anton Schmidt
C. Fgtvef
Hans Walby
!.. O. Olson
F. K. Duncklee
Tohn Snringer
N. Nek la son
Bay Haugham
H Brown
Charles Schiller
George Clyde
C. stern
i H. Conway
Kenneth Iarsen
F. A. Brown
n. j. Jaeohson
G v Gates
William Hughes
t J n’Brien
M Crocker
\. C. K’-amer
Tacob Metz
George Nylen
T. II. Jeter
Axel HirvIIla
Herman Nelson
H. II. Sharp
P. E. Pltclih.rd
Timothy Caine s
A. W. Madsen
E. W. Lawson
II. McCaughey
M. E. Shortleigh
J. \V. Downing
John M. Loken
Estelle Dalton
John Lanquist
G. IE Fisk
Curtis Ross
Charles Johnson
Louis Lund
Henry Wilson
T. S McDougall
I. V. Miller
Ben Marino
A. E. Danielson
S. Anderson
Dan Sloan
E. IE Sparling
T. O. Larsen
F. F. Winchester
C. A. Larsen
F. M. Crocker
Samuel Marsh
'.). N. Nelson
Olaf Hjelm
J. Flef-kinstein
C. H. Wilson
Hans Hugh
J. Ci. Johnson
William Larsen
John Noon in
G. MolTat
L. B. Anderson
Mary Morrison
J. Rasmussen
J. Bugge
A. Engl vet
1. N. Bennett
p. Fleckinstein
C. W. Dietzel
H. Asbron
(Kear Carlson
Charles Martin
V Walter
A. Ghristopherson
F. J. Tomlinson
M. K Sullivan
W. S. Ferguson
S Lee
w S. Fenton
D W. M'fehcll
t’harles riankey
H. McKinnon
P. J. Jewell
Fred winter
F F. Krueger
James St. Clair
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i
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Rubber Goods, Photo Supplies.
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Iditarod
WAR’S HORRORS
And I saw these scenes repeated along
the eastern border of France. Always there
were to be seen women and children, hope
less and helpless. Now and then among
the nomads, driven here and there by the
tides of battle wandering bands upon whom
this heavy punishment had been visited, al
though they had no part in the crimes that
brought it—there were to be seen men. old.
d iddering, whose presence made the busi
uess of Might more difficult.
Out of the welter I select two scenes—
they are typical of thousands. I saw a
bride of four weeks—the daughter of a
prosperous farmer—whose husband had
been killed in battle. On the day she got
that news there was a raid on the little
town in which she lived. A “skirmish," so
it was called in the official reports, and
therefore unimportant from a military’ point
of view. But when the marauders left, the
village lay in ashes and in the ashes lay
the bodies of the woman’s father, her father
i) law, her 14 and 16-year-old brothers, her
bedridden uncle, and to make the score com
plete, her mother brought down by a stray
shot. She was left alone. She wore a
dress, but che did not have a hat when I
saw her.
She told me her story in a curious dead,
impersonal manner, quite detached and dis
interested. Now and then, at some expres
sion of sympathy, she smiled. I wished she
had not smiled in that way. It hurts to
recall it. The story was bad enough, God
knows, but that smile made it worse. And
all the way through her voice never varied
from a monotone, even when she told how
she had prayed hourly that her man might
be brought back to her so that he could
see the child that was to come.
I saw a man 75 years old and his wife,
a few years younger, who had six sons to
meet their death on the “field of honor.”
And from this field had come shots and
torches that fired their home and drove
them forth, wanderers without shelter, with
out food and without hope.
I think the horror of it all was driven
home more deeply by the sight I had at
Luxemburg. There the towns are lively
and the fields are full of workers, for w*ar
has swept to one side of that country as
if to give a living contrast instead of com
pelling one to depend upon memory for the
picture of what had been before the horror
came. And what a contrast was presented
on either side of that little place! Ruin
as far as the eye could see—ruins marked
by graves and ashes and everywhere sor
rowing wanderers, staring women and little
children.—Herbert Bayard Sw’ope in the
New York World.
V/ANT CONSTRUCTION
OF CAPITOL TO BEGIN
Business men of Juneau are discussing
the idea of taking organized action to hasten
the beginning of construction work on the
Juneau capital building. The sundry civil
bill passed by the recent congress provided
for a continuation of the work and appro
priated $75,000 additional money for that
purpose.
Of the original appropriation for a Juneau
public building, $177,500 remained after
the site and the work of investigating the
foundation were paid for. This sum is still
available, and the addition of the $75,000
carried in the sundry civil bill will increase
the total available sum to $252,500. This
is $375,000 less than Secretary of the Treas
ury William G. McAdoo has estimated will
be required for the building, but it is enough
to pay for all the work that can be per
formed before another congress convenes,
which can make additional funds available.
—Juneau Empire.
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