We Are Pleased to be Able to Announce That
Our Stuck Is Most Complete
And of the Very Beat of Everything
Sam’l Applebaum
p'la.t
DRY GOODS s FURNISHINGS
Try Our Candy
Gunther and Imperial, the Very Best, in Boxes of I to 5 lbs.
LADIES' FURNISHINGS
Still Some of Those $3 Shoes Left
Also Corsets at $1.50. Any and All Kinds of Sewing
Mrs. L. C. Thornton, Flat
NORTONS GOME AND 60
Captain and Mrs. U. Grant Norton,
who were the last to leave this port
last October for Fortuna Ledge by
water, returned here last Monday
night over the trail in the good sled
ship “Nortonia.” They report not an
altogether pleasant trip, both on ac.
eount of severe weather and lack of
sufficient snow.
They report the sudden death of an
old native known on the Lower
Yukon as Coney Jack, at a wood camp
on the big river near the old St. Joseph
mission. With Coney Jack was a young
native boy about tf or 10 years old
named Cenklin, who awoke one morn
ing about two weeks ago to find his
bedfellow dead. The youngster, al
though very poorly clad, traveled afoot
several miles over the rough trail
and ice to a camp of white woodchop
pers, to whom he told his story. The
boy was badly frozen on his trip for as
sistance, but was picked up by a mail
carrier, taken to Holy Cross, where
he is being cared for by the good
sisters.
The Nortons report that a short dis
tance on this side of Holy Cross they
met Joe McDowell and John Novak,
the drill expert, who are going to
Fortune Ledge.
The Nortonia sailed at 1 o’clock
Thursday from Iditarod for Tolstoi
and Seward.
Don’t waste time looking
for what you need in
1918
Just come to us and get it
wt 99V AMO 9CLL FUM
Ansleys
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
IDITAROD. ALACXA
WHEN OLD I0HN
SAID GOODBYE”
The passing of John Barleycorn last
Monday night was somewhat disap
pointing to those who expected and
looked for a spectacular finish. Both
in Iditarod and Flat the event was
very commonplace, scarcely a ripple to
break the monotony. 'Tit reported that
shortly after 11 oclock on that evening
the resorts had “closed out" their
goods, and not a “cough drop" could
be obtained at any of them long before
midnight.
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IDITAROD COMMERCIAL CLUB
Notice is hereby given that the reg
ular annual meeting of the Iditarod
Commercial Club will be held at the
Miners <fc Merchants Bank on Monday.
January 7, 1918, at 8 o’clock in the
evening. Geo. V7. Albrecht,
President.
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STERLING DARK, SPOT PROMOTER
Sterling Dark, who is the owner of
a valuable homestead near Matanuska
arrived in town yesterday Oct. 5th and
is staying at the Richter House. Mr.
Dark has raised a fine crop of potatoes
and his visit at this time is for the pur
pose of disposing of a portion of it.
Mr. Dark is an old timer and for six-]
teen years was engaged in mining in
various parts of the territory. He
took out 850,000 near Fairbanks in the
early days.—Anchorage Times.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
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To Charles Courtright, and to hit heirs
and assigns:
You are hereby notified that the un
dersigned has expended in money, labor
and improvements during the year 1916
the sum of one hundred dollars (1100)
upon placer mining claim known as the
Ophir Fraction, on Willow creek, a
tributary of Iditarod river, in the Otter
mining and recording district, territory
of Alaska, in order to hold said claim
under the provisions of the law respect
ing annual labor on mining claims.
And if within ninety days after the
last publication of this notice you fail
or refuse to pay your proportion of such
expenditure, your interest in said claim
will become the property of the under
signed co-owner, according to the pro
visions of Section 2324, Revised Stat
utes of the United States
Dona LaChance, Co-owner.
First publication, January 5, 1918.
Last publication, April 6, 1918.
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C. R PECK FLAT
One thousand and ten dollars (11,010)
is the amount to be forwarded to the
American Red Cross Society within
the next few days as the first 1918 con
tributions from Otter and neighboring
precincts. The officers of the local
auxiliary chapter express themselees
as greatly pleased with the showing
made by contributors.
Following is the list of subscribers:
Flat-ldltarod-Dla. Otter
$100.00—Iditarod Igloo No.
10, Pioneers of Alaska $100.00
$25.00- Lois A. McMahon,
Win. Lee, J. G. Murdock,
Louis Mattsen, Mrs. M. J.
McKenzie, Mrs. J. P. Al
brecht. 150.00
$20.00—Alex Weir. 20.00
$10.00—S W Dickson, Guy G
Geraghty, Fred Pedersen ... 30.On
$5.00—Ludger Labelle, Geo
Niles, Wm Barta, J Wilson
Reed. Thos Hennessy, Mrs
Oscar Gardner, H R Moore,
C R Peck. Mrs M B Peck,
T McMahon, Mrs F Dickson,
F J Hart, John Todd, Mrs A
D Currie, Miss Fritxie Hill,
N H Thompson, Jno F Kel
ler. Fred Pedersen, W W
Nelson, Rohr Soutar, Paul
Reimer, W W Nelson, Idit
arod Pioneer, Chas Lovett,
A S Bourne, P Wood, W
R Solibakke. R C Button,
R M Hall, Jay J Smith. 150 On
$3.00—Mrs B I Ray, Mrs
J J Smith . 6.0< j
$2.50—E B Hunt, M Ger
hart, Louis Schwarz, Mrs J
E Gunning, J E Gunning 12.5<'
$2.00-Mrs R J Button, Ern
est J Gove, E W Parks. Joe
Konechnej, J E Anderson,
John Shaller. V F Jacob,
Jennie A Jacob. Dan Me
Guire. A M Kilgore. T R
Moore. Bill Smith, Whitley
Ince Ray, Wm Ansley (let
ter accompanying)... 28.Op
$1.50—Anna Young. 1 50
$1.00—Louis Gaunant, Dan
McGinty, Florence Moore,
F Gleason, T H Jasper, Mrs
T R Moore, Abe Audette,
David Strandberg, O M An
derson, D E Brown, Wm
Williams. Mrs C A Duffy, C
Baker, Mrs Claude Baker ... 14 00
Cash.— 3 50
Tokotns
List published Dec. 1, 1917 ... $85.00
*• “ “ 15. “ .... 102.00
r.ist of Dec. 26, 1917—95 each,
John Vogtor, William Goss,
Bob Gerkie; 12 each, Chris
Nelson, Albert Lind, Mrs
Fred Dubois. 21.00
McGrath
$25—T P Aitken; $20—H C
Carter; $10—A Hosiuer,
Joseph Wood. B Y Gros
hong, H Langley. L N Wil
ton, F C Richardson, Dick
Mathews, J Stewart, Dan
Sprague, Thos Gillispie; $5
—Ike Hayes, Chas Carlson.
H Berry, D Clou»h, J New
man, R F McRae Tim
Rahyl, Lee Atwater, Gor
dou Betties, Ben Kokrine,
Louis Blackburn, Bert Eld
ridge, WE Geiger, N Damt
anorich, WillieGeigtr, L W
Bishop, G A Mead, G L
Kemp, Gus Schuler, Ben
Anderson, Dan Aston, Philip
Cochur, J McCauley, J B
Johnson, Karl Shutler, L C
Nichols, Red LaBelle, Jest
Yoder; $1.50—C Nelson. $286.50
Total. $1,010.00
FREE RIGHT SCHOOL
A meeting of all those desiring to at
tend a free Citizenship Night School
is called for tonight, Saturday, January
5, 1918, at the Commissioner’s office,
Flat. The laws of the Territory pro
ride for such school in case at least 12
desire to attend.
A
WEATHER REPORT
Following are the daily temperatures
from readings taken by Captain E. J.
Smith, volunteer observer.
Date— Max. Min.
December 29. — 8 —20
“ 30.. — 4 —16
31. — 6 —18
January 1.— —24 —32
“ 2 . —24 —40
» 3 . —14 —24
“ 4!. - 4 -14
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New Year's eve;Mr. and Mrs. Dave
Strandberg gave a dinner. Those pres
ent were Mr. and Mrs. Monkmao, Mr.
and Mrs A. F. Erickson, Mrs E. T.
Malin, Miss Helen Grant and Oscar
M. Anderson. I
A. J. WEISS
The Home of
Hart, Schaffner & Mare
Good Clothes
THE EIGHT-HOUR LAW
Chapter 55, Session Laws of 1917, Territory of Alaska
AN ACT to regulate the hours of employment for all wage and salary
earners in the Territory of Alaska, to declare the violati-m thereof
a misdemeanor, and to prescribe the punishment therefor.
Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the Territory of Alaska:
Section 1. That a period of employment for all wage earners in the
Territory of Alaska shall not exceed eight (8) hours within any one calen*
dar day, except in cases where life or property is in imminent clanger.
Employment, as herein used shall be construed as the performance of labor
or services for any individual, partnership or corporation, whether the
person performing such laber or service be a member of such partnership
or association or stockholder or officer of such corporation or not.
Sec. 2. Any |>erson, persons, association or corporation who shall vio
late any of the provisions of this act or cause the same to be viola ed, shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shah be
punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars (1100) nor more
than five hundred dollars (3500), or by imprisonment in the federal jail not
less than sixty days (60) nor more than six months (6), or by both such fine
and imprisonment. Every day’s violation of the provisionsof this act shall
constitute a separate offense.
Sec. 3. The Governor of the Territory is hereby given the power to
suspend or modify restriction* contained in this law when *uch shall be re
quested by the Council of National Defense or the Secretary of the Inte
rior and such modification or suspension when made shall continue fer a
specified period and no longer than the duration of the present war or dur
ing the continuation of any future war with a foreign power.
Sec. 4. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after Janu
ary 1, 1913.
Approved May 3, 191".
BYEBS TBY1KG TO BE i BIBDMil
A post card in tha last mail ad
dressed to “Tub” from Captain Earl L.
Byers, dated at Seattle November 17, ;
states that the writer was taking his!
physical examination for a “birdman” j
in the Natiooal army. He said that he !
had already gone as high as the forty
second story of the Smith building, but
be was in an elevator at the time.
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aps at de to order and Furs repaired
Mrs. Shaller, Flat.
The hard time* dance jfiren at Flat
on Naw Yaar'a era wan a quit* affair
and much anjojad br thoaa who
attanded.
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NOTIONS,
Ladies’ Furnisliings
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Mrs. Chlttlck’a. Fiat