| IDITAROD PIONEER j
Published Every Saturday Evening at Iditarod, Alaska.
Vol 2 Geo. M. Arbuckle. Publish or j\'q4 42
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THE NEWS FROM HOME
When an Iditarod man received his home paper through
the mail this week he hurriedly glanced through the sheet
to see what was going on back in God’s country. It was
not an exceedingly large paper nor ultra “yellow”—just
the kind that would give him an inkling of the things that
were claiming the attention of the relatives and acquaint
ance whom he left behind when he determined to take the
hazard of a Northern mining camp.
Below are a few of the headlines that caught his eye:
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Boy Won't Go to Gallows
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Tries to Commit Suicide When Divorced Hubby Dies
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Just Won’t Let Actor Kill Himself; Tries 4 Times
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Woman Shot Dead at Her Own Door By Negro Fiend
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Police Capture Leader Gotham Black Hand Gang
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Four Women Swallow Poison; Two Are Dead
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Woman 1 Hop” Fiend Dies
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Jilted Suitor Kills Girl
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Saw Mrs. Beattie Slain, Says New Witness
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Girl Kidnaped From Bed
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Wife Slashes Husband With Razor; Drinks Cyanide
and Drops Dead; Barber Kills Self
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Leaps From High Window to Death on Pavement
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Mother and Baby Slain in Cabin; Father Missing
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Woman Robbed and Attacked
May Call on Troops to Run Town, Says Woman Mayor
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Maker of Governors, Woman Drug Fiend Dies
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Young Man Beaten to Death By Jealous Husband’s
Order.
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Girls in Knife Duel When One Steals Rival’s Lover
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Only the first “section” of each heading is given and these
only of the most prominent articles. The deaths by auto
mobile and by aircraft, the stage aspirations of Beulah
Binford, the harem maintained by Colonel Astor before he
was divorced from his former wife, the opinion of Upton
Sinclair's wife and her poet lover Kemp on trial marriage,
a colored man’s contention that the rising generation would
be better for having been sired by negroes—these things
were not “featured,” strictly speaking, but they were all
there, besides many others calculated to relieve the tedium
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A HOME-COOKED DINNER AT
The of fee House,
From 5 to 7 p.m
Folvtcj & Pot arson. Props.
C. J. Hurley, President J. P. Gleason, Vice President A. Bruning, Cashier
American Bank of Alaska
Corner First Ave, and Richmond St., Iditarod
CAPITAL $50,000.00, FOLLY PAI0 IN CASH
General Banking Business Transacted Upon Liberal, But Conservative Lines
GOLD DUST PURCHASED UPON ASSAY VALUE
And we guarantee our assays against any of the government assay offices.
Clippings from your gold furnished you for the 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.
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FLAT CITY LTel. 7 Large Drying Room |
FOR FRESH GOODS AND FAIR TREATMENT
Try McMahon Fla,CilJ
LET HIM FIGURE ON YOUR OUTFIT
General Merchandise_
of life in Alaska and turn the exile’s thoughts back to the
fond environs of the old home.
It is pleasant to reflect that the people doomed to the
primitive conditions that surround them here will be blessed
by a mail service which each week will bring them cheering
news from home and keep them in touch with civilized life,
though so far removed from the scenes of modern progress
and the social and family pleasures that are so dear to the
normal man’s heart.
THE LAST TERRITORIES
From the Rocky Mountain News, Denver
When the present writer was in school, he used to re
cite glibly that the “United States comprises thirty-eight
states and ten territories, not including Alaska.” Why
Alaska was not included, and what sort of classification
would include Alaska was not explained, any more than
why “United States” should be followed by a verb in the
singular. But the figures of thirty-eight and ten were
recited with as much confidence as if tliev were the change
: less laws of the Medes and Persians; things fixed and im
! mutable.
And the other day a bill was passed and signed admit
ting the last of the territories—“not including Alaska.”
Ten commonwealths have graduated from irresponsible ado
j lescence to full maturity in—well, it doesn’t matter just
how many years. The point is that, “not including Alas
ka,” the United States is henceforth composed of states
alone.
Forty-eight stars in the flag which began with thirteen.
| Not a bad record, that. And if the United States ever
comes to really include Alaska, instead of leaving it to the
| outer darkness of an experimenting ground for half-baked
political theories, there will be room for another star or two.
\roters should not fail to call at the city clerk’s office
and have their names enrolled on the registration list. The
books close next Monday evening at 4 o’clock. Register
and avoid disappointment for yourself and trouble for the
judges of election.
The dance at the A. B. Hall last Saturday night was a con
siderable surprise to devotees of the Terpsichorean art. it was not so
much the dancing, nor yet the music which caused comment, although
both were up to high-water mark; but what was particularly noticeable
was the appearance of so many new faces at the dance—-new, that is, to
a ball room in the Iditarod.
To many it was the first dance in years, and in one case that could
could be mentioned, fifteen years had elapsed since the gentleman had
last attended such a function. Needless to remark, these visitors en
joyed the dance thoroughly, and are looking forward to many similar
evenings.
It is pretty generally understood that the Saturday evening dances
will be discontinued by the A. B.’s and that mid-week dances will be
substituted. This change is in deference to the expressed wish of
many members, and a committee is now considering the matter. That
the A. B. dances will be well attended this winter seems to be assured.
No chance to catch a cold if you use
the porcelain tub baths at the Iditarod
hospital,
Select Outside Lumber, cotrugated
iron and roofing paper at Ross & Nes
tor’s.
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German Dark Horse
in Olympic Games
That Germany is the dark horse
in the running for next year's
Olympic games is the opinion of
Norwegian athletic experts. They
are taking this into consideration in
weighing the chances of their own
men in the Stockholm stadium,
where the contests will take place
next spring.
There will be about 140 Norwe
gians in the games; from two to
thirty competitors in every branch
of the sports. In gymnastics they
look for several winners, in riding
and rowing they have Capable en
tries, and the raw material for gen
eral athletics is excellent.
When asked whether he thought
the Americans, English and Swedes
would again annex the bulk of the
trophies, the secretary of the Chris
tiana athletic association said: ‘T
am prepared for surprises from an
other nation—the Germans. They
know the value of systematic train
ing in Germany and they withhold
no sacrifice that will enable German
sportsmen to perfect themselves
under the most favorable condi
tions. The Germans have learned
much trout the contests at which
they have assisted, and the effects
of the determined efforts to make
the Germans the best athletes in
the world are already noticeable.”
A BALE OF HAY.
Some bards their harp strings
deftly strike, and sing of roses and
the like; of coral isles and starlit
seas and birds whose plumage gilds
the breeze, but when I sing at close
of day, my song is of a bale of hay.
O, wondrous bale, that takes me
back across the years on dreamy
track to sunny fields, where strong
men wrought—the fields that idlers
never sought. With wringing rai
ment on their backs they shaped
their wind rows and their stacks;
I see and bear it all again, tlie
cheery voices of the men, the
thirsty with uplifted jugs, the
horses straining in their tugs, the
mower’s clanking, raucous roar, the
glad march home when day was
o’er. And when the hay was cured
and bright, and aptly named the
mules delight, they fed it to the
press and made the bale for which
my iiarp is played. Each handful of
this fragrant hay suggests a long,
long summer day of honest, wise,
productive toil, of wrestling with
tiie parent soil. No dreamers made
this bulky hale; no trifling men or
poets pale; no loafers placed the
wire around, no lily fingers raked
the ground; but men of might were
there that day, and wrought to
build that hale of hay. And so with
lilting roundelay do I embalm the
bale of hay.—Walt Mason.
The Danish composer Hallvoisin has
composed a musical comedy in which
Dr. Cook of polar fame is the principal
character. The piece will be produced
at Christiana early this winter.
The August output of the Johannes
burg (South Africa) gold mines was
713,407 ounces. This broke all month
records.
Collier's: We recently quoted the
New York court of appeals for the
statement that General Grant’s name,
originally “Hiram Ulysses,” was en
Winter Is Coming I
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tered by mistake on the records at
West Point as “Ulysses Sydney Grant.” :
The New York court of appeals gives '
Larke’s “General Grant and His Cam-;
paigns” as its authority. Larke’s work j
was published in 1804. In a footnote
on page 13 he gives General Sherman
as tlie supposed authority for the name
as given by him and as originally in
scribed on the records at West Point.
The encyclopedias give Grant’s middle
name as “Simpson,” that being his
mother’s name. In his personal mem
oirs General Grant makes no mention
of his middle name. The original en
try at West Point would be the best
evidence, perhaps.
The Zulu woman wears her wedding
ring in her nose. A double purpose is
thus served. It discourages promiscu
ous kissing and she is in little danger
of losing her ring: in fact, she always
knows where it is.
Denton T. Young, better known as
“Gy,” who was recently released by
the Cleveland club, has been a big
league pitcher for twenty-two years
and is one of the two modern ball
players to hold the lecord of pitching a
no-hit nobody-reach-first game, Addie
Joss being the other. In his twenty
two years’ pitching Young won 507
games and lost 310.
TAKE NOTICE
We hare sold The Combination saloon
of Flat City to George Kinman & Co.,
and will not be responsible for any
debts contracted after Sept. 22, 1911
MANUF.L GULAHTK.
F. 3. FONTAS.
DISSOLUTION NOTICK
The law copartnership heretofore ex
isting at Iditarod, Alaska, between
Thos. A. McGowan, John A. Clark and
Geo. W. Albrecht, under the firm name
and style of McGowan. Clark & Al
brecht, is dissolved as of the close of
business August 31. 11)11.
Geo. W. Albrecht will close up the
business, collecting all accounts and
paying all bills.
Thos. A. McGowan.
John A. Clark.
ot,21Geo. \Y. Albrecht.
OP ALL KINDS
CLEANED AND REPAIRED
Second- iff?"’ Furs Bought
WILLOW ST.
H. SCHLAPIIf
Films Developed
And All Kinds of Photographic
Work Done.
MiSS TJERNSTROM, McOONALD BLDG
Dr. Heinrich V/ortmann,
Physician and Surgeon
Office at City Drug Store, Tel. 30
First Are., Bet. Willow and Richmond
Office Hours- 11 to i. 3 to 4, 7 to 8
CHAS. D. CARTER,
Dentist
Offices, Pioneer Drug Stores,
Flat Creek
DR. F. W. HE RMS,
'Dentist
Dr. Wortmann’s Office,
First Avenue and Willow Street
DR. H. BEHLA,
Dentist
Gold St., Flat City, Opp. Grand Hotel
Phone 4
ALFRED E. MALTBY,
Attorney at Law
Notary Public
Office Simpson Bid®1, First and Willow
J. S. HARDING,
Attorney at Law
Room 1, Iditarod Hotel
Iditarod. Alaska
CM AS. E. TAYLOR,
Attorney at Law,
Notary Public, Conveyancing,
Abstracts of Titles
flat City
Wickersham & Roden,
AT I.
Iditarod, Alaska
E. COKE HILL,
Attorney at Law
M. & M. Bank Bldy. Iditarod, Alaska.
GEORGE WOODRUFF ALBRECHT,
Attorney at Law
Michigan, '81 /Icska, MO Kentucky, '81
The Pioneer Attorney* of this Camp
Play pool and solo at Ansley’s.
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