CANVAS_TENTS_TARJRAIJUUVS_HOSE
Hunters, Traders and Trappers
Semi us your furs. We are in the market, ami will pay you highest possible
prices.
The Branch
on Discovery. Otter, wi 1 be closed November 1, and we wish to express our
thanks to our many friends who patronized vis there. It certainly was a howl
ing success.
In the meantime we are sti’l at the old stand. A 1914 calendar awaits
you “Did you notice the purple packages?”
H. Boas, Leading Clothier
HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX and CHESTERFIELD CLOTHES _
j COMING AND GOING j
Phil Keith started for Fairbanks last
W ednesday morning with a dog team.
A consignment of 300 pounds of mail
reached Iditarod last Monday about 1 :30
in the afternoon.
Word was received in town early this
week that Charley Denton, who has charge
of the barge Trinder. in winter quarters at
the Halfway roadhouse, had recently suf
fered a partial stroke of paralysis. Bill
Acheson left for the barge immediately after
hearing the rumor, and found that Mr.
Denton was the victim of rheumatism in
Copyright Hart SchaSncr & .Marx
One Very Good Thing About These New
Fall Clothes We Show from
HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX
There are so many different models that we
can satisfy the requirements of men of all
ages, tastes and sizes
This Store Is the Home of
HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX
a. jTweiss,
FLAT
the left shoulder, but his eonditino hac
greatly improved when Mr. Acheson left
fi r Iditarod.
In the commissioner’s court Thursday A
Grubas pleaded guiity to the charge of sell
ing liquors without a license, and was liner
$2o0 and costs, amounting to $274.
From a letter received by the last mail
The Pioneer learned that J. J. Kelly, whe
left this camp while the rush was on to
ward the Chisana, was in Seattle, anc
would probably pay a long-promised visit tc
his old home in Ireland.
Cecil Barlow of Moore creek has been vis
iting Iditarod this week. lie says they arr
very well satisfied with the way things art
going on Moore creek, and they are looking
forward to a proqierous season next year.
Harry F. Yeager was a visitor in the city
Thursday.
Harry AY at sen of Dikeman has beer
spending a few days in the city.
A CARD OF THANKS
Whereas. It has pleased the supreme ruler
of Ala.'ka iaccording to last reports) to
recommend someone else for the appoint
ment as your future postmaster here at
Iditarod. it does not seem that the patrons
of the post office have any voice or choice
in the matter, and will have ot submit, for
the present, to the wishes of someone who.
fortunately f r themselves, do not at the
present time get their mail at this point.
Therefore. I take this means of most sin
cerely thanking my SEVEN IIl-XDRED
FRIENDS in this camp who so wil.ingly
signed a petition requesting my appoint
ment as postmaster at Iditarod. and my
many friends on the Outside, and other
places, who wr oe t<> the Honorable Pre.-i
dent and Postmaster General highly com
mending me for the same.
Hoping and trusting our next postmaster
will give us good service, with malice to
ward none and good will to all,
I am yours to command,
WILLIAM AXSLEY.
Iditarod, Nov. 6, 1913.
ARRIVALS AT THE REGINA
Martin Weboies, R E. Lawrie. Jack
Mutchler. A. Gaslow. Paul Riemer, II. E.
Nordstrom. Thomas McEwan, Julius Rassi
and, P. Jensen. Harry Yeager, J. Martin,
Fred Partis.
A five-story concrete building, the con
crete being of oyster shells from the reelb
of Galveston bay, has been erected at Gal
veston. Texas. The owners of the buildng
and its constructors assert this material i;
better and cheaper than concrete made with
gravel.
A AND
Coal Oil and Gasoline
Paints Oils Window Glass
Shotguns and Shotgun Shells
Victrolas and Victor Records
Carpets Rugs Matting Furniture
Gasoline Mantles and Globes
Harness and Harness Supplies
Stoves Ranges Heaters
Granite and White Enamelware
Bar Glassware Crockery
Skates Hockey Sticks Pucks
Genuine Nome Dog Harness
Yukon Sleds Snowshoes Siwash Mitts
SMITH’S GUN STORE,
IDITAROD, ALASKA
Herman Naehder, who has been work
ing for the Yukon Gold Company for the
past two months, has gone to work on
Happy creek for J. G. Rivers.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dawson have had
their log cabin home at Flat City torn
down and hauled to Glen gulch, where they
are rebuilding it.
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An 11 pound baby girl was born to Mr.
and Mrs. John liagoy of Otter creek last
Saturday evening at 0 :30. Mother and baby
j are doing fine.
Charles Stranberg of Otter creek visited
Iditarod Tuesday.
j
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Stetzcr visited Idita
* rod the first of the week.
J. E. Riley of Otter creek will leave for
the Outside over the Seward trail next
i Tuesday.
Mrs. Margaret McKenzie of Otter creek
met with a serious accident last Saturday
afternoon about 1 o’clock. She was on her
way to Flat City, and as she was passing
over some glare ice just below Jay John
son’s mining | lant she fell and broke her
left arm just above the wrist. Dr. Moore
set the arm Saturday night at the hospital,
where she is being cared for.
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NEW DINING ROOM
i The Adams house, on First avenue, which
has been undergoing many alterations and
improvements during the past month, will
open its doors to the public tomorrow after
noon, when a big turkey dinner vvil1 be
served f r 81 from 4 to 8 p. m. Mrs.
Rimer will be in charge of the dining
room.
SMOKED FORTY MILES
OF CIGARS DURING LIFE
If "there’s peace in a clear Havana,” Herr
Stark, a noted German misogynist who
died recently, had his share of peace in
this world. During GO years of his life he
smoked more htan half a million cigars.
Shortly before he consumed his last Ha
vana he w'rote:
"During my long lifetime I estimate that
I have smoked more than 500,000 cigars,
an average of more than 22 daily for GO
years. I have thus enjoyed 10,000 hours of
such happiness as no woman could have
given men, and which was well worth the
$30,000 that purchased it. My cigars have
been the one solace and sweetness of my life
and my only regret in leaving it is that I
cannot bring my record up to a million.”
Herr Nanas, an Austrian, was even more
devoted to the "great god Nicotine.” From
the time when he was 27 years old Herr
Nanas kept an exact account of all he pur
chased and what he paid for it. His ac
count books show that in 27 years—be
tween 27 and 54 - he consumed 28,786
glasses of beer. A simple calculation shows
that this astounding aggregate was reached
by the modest consumption of only three
glasses a day.
After his 54th birthday Herr Nanas aban
doned the use of beer, but he smoked all
the more constantly, so that when he died,
73 years old, he had consumed 028.713
cigars. Of this number it was estimated
that 42,500 were given to him, and he
spent $12,500 for the remainder. This was
about 2 cents each.
Fixing the average length of his cigars
at four inches, which is probably too short,
Herr Nanas must have reduced more than
40 miles of cigars to ashes and spent 30
.Till years of his life doing it.
By a French inventh n naphthaline has
been made available for automobile fuel
pipes conveying hot exhaust gases from a
-• ccial v designed carbureter, niching the
mo fit! aline.
Singletrees, Doubletrees,
Neckyokes, Sweatpads, tic,
Everything for the Horseman
R.
The Pioneer Liquor House
HANDLES ONLY GROMMES & ULLRICH'S WHISKIES
“Marquette, ”“Monog;ram”and “Gibson” Rye
20-Year-Qid National Club Bourbon
BUDWEISER BEER BEER ON DRAFT
SCOTCH CHAMPAGNE “ DnOTrn
Queen Anne Mumm’s IMPORTED
Black & White Clicquot Qhorni anrl Pnrt
DeWar's Special Pommery Sec OIIBIIJ dllU run,
Thorns’ White Seal Ale and POTter
Hill-Thompson
Imported WINES City and Creek Orders
Claret most earnestly solio
BRANDY Sauterne ited and promptly
*** Hennessy Reisllng tilled,
*** Martell Burgundy , ,
Old California Tipo Chianti Either by Bottle, Gal
lon or Case Lots.
White Rock Apollinaris Waters __
ALL THE LEADING AND POPULAR CIGARS IN THE MARKET
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THE GEOLOGIST’S
MEASURE OF TIME
Paleontology, says Gas Logic, is a much
more important “ology" than most persons
are aware. Briefly, it is that branch of
biological science which deals with ancient
life on the globe. Naturally this is a sub
ject about which the average man or
woman knows very little indeed. It is not
strange, then, that a congressional com
mittee should have once asked Director
Powell of the United States Geological Sur ^
vey to explain the value of paleontology. ;
His response was that it is “the geologist’s !
clock," by which he tells the time when 1
rock beds are formed.
The earliest animals were no doubt soft
creatures of simple structure, whose dead
bodies ieft few traceable impressions ir. the
mud and sands in which they were bur
ied. The successors of these early unknown
animals acquired from generation to gen
eration protective coverings whose remains
in the older rocks are studied by paleontolo
gists.
The fossil shells of these early inverte
! brates indicate the geologic period in which
| the beds containing them were formed
j Each fossilifrous rock bed contains tharac
j teristic forms or groups of forms that de
j termine the period in which it was mud or
sand.
The economic importance of pa’ouitnlogy
has been repeatedly shown. In the r .Gv
days thousands of dollars were fruitlessly
expended in New York in search of coal
beds, until the geologists showed that the
beds in that state could contain no coal.
The fossils are Devonian, whereas the fos
sils of the Pennsylvania anthracite coal beds
i belong to the Carboniferous, a much later
j period.
This discovery at once stopped a useless
I expenditure of money. The fossils of these
1 r< cks were not of “merely academic inter
est” ; they were of immediate practical im
p: rtance. The key to the problem was
found by determining the stratigraphic po
! - it ion, or, as it is caled, the “geologic bori
n’’ of the fossils and the rocks.
Rock beds that were originally nearly
horizontal become in time tilted or even
overturned, so that the original relation of
he beds may be difficult to determine. Fur
I'rermore, the rock beds at any one place
do not rep-resent a continuous series of de
[ T-fwit:-, for as ui-'.-t beds were laid down in
outer, and as sea bottom may have be
) -line land and afterward again become sea
bottom, the story of the rocks is not every
: where clear.
In time of doubt and perplexity the geol
gist therefore turns to the paleontologist
far light on ihe age and original order of
he beds he is studying. The study of the
! animal and plant remains that are era
! iiedded in the rocks has thus became an
important part of the geologic work, and
although those engaged in this study are
few and ra'her poorly paid, their work is
] of high importance.
THE WHIP
The whir. espc. :ally the “black.-nake” va
i 'iety. used by m..nv drivers of hardworked
j reams, will be exhibited in museums a hun
: bred years from now, along with spurs, curb
' '-its. overhead check reins, dog-muz:les. steel
i ; raps and other inventions of the devil for
| K rturing animals, and the beholders will
| wonder how it was possible that such de
vices for inflicting suffering upon our Mlow
I creatures were permitted to exist, and what
| kind of men those were that would manu
| facture and would traffic in those kind of
I wares in the twentieth century, when mil
j lions and millions of dollars were spent, mis
j applied or squandered upon problematical
! betterments for the human race for which
1 there existed no demand or need.
! The horse, of all animals, is ambitious,
I and only too willing to exert himself to the
i imit and beyond his powers in the en
j beaver to please his master by performing
i incredible feats of strength and speed, and
j he is also a very sensitive animal that feels
I keenly the humiliation of being whipped,
j Far from whipping or urging on the horse
by harsh words and cursing, to strain his
muscles and nerves to the breaking point,
and then to turn him out a premature
wreck, to die of exposure and starvation,
j his ambition should be checked by kind
| words to go slowr, take his time, rest a
I little. The horse will protest that he can
pull a great deal more or can go much
faster; is it wise or humane to abuse his
willingness and pile on more and stili more
and then use whip and spur and break the
strength, spirit and ambition of that noble
animal? Never! Shame upon the man
that uses whip or goad of any kind upon his
horse!—New York Women’s League for
Animals.
The New Zealand Farmers’ Union asks
government aid for procuring more labor
ers, more than 6,000 workers being needed.
Canada imported more merchandise from
the United States than from any other
country.
Full Assortment of
Hirsh"
Wickwire Co.’s
Clothing
Best on Earth
The Bayles
Clothing Co.
CLOTHIERS, FURNISHERS AND SHOERS
IDITAROD DIS. OTTER
WE WILL CLOSE AT 8 O'CLOCK EVERY EVENING—SUNDAYS AT NOON
BEFORE YOU HIBERNATE
Get a first-class outfit at the place where you can depend upon getting what you
ask for, and where you are sure that goods will not be misrepresented.
H. DONNELLEY, Pis. Otter__
MOTHER LOVE OF QUEEN
BENEFITS UNFORTUNATES
Stirred by love for her second son. Don
Jaime, who was born without the power to
hear or to speak. Queen Victoria Euzenie
of Spain has become interested in the plight
of the thousands of deaf and dumb chil
dren in the Spanish monarchy, and will
institute schools for their education and
benefit. In the interests of the young Don
Jaime the queen of Spain has sent Dr. \ in
cite Llorente to New York to study the
case cf Miss Helen Keller and the methods
of teaching the mute to speak.
So great a power is the mother love of
:he queen that in Spain it has become a
! national influence. Never before has there
| been any determined or consistent effort to
| better the lot of the thousands of deaf
I mutes in S; aim though King Alfonso and
! Queen Victoria have been intensely inter
este i in all movements looking toward the
betterment of their subjects. It is the opin
ion of many familiar with the work of the
Spanish monarch.-; that the queen never
I realized the extent of this particular afflic
| tion in her domains until it was brought
| h. me to her by the affliction of her own
j sen.
And so this mighty mother love of a
' oueen has resulted in the trip across the
| Atlantic ocean of one of the most accom
plished i hy.de.'urns and surgeons of Spain,
who has spent weeks studying American
methods of treating the deaf and mute, and
es; ecial'y in studying the remarkable case
•■i Helen Keller.
Before sending Dr. I.lorente to the Unit
ed States Queen Victoria exhausted every
expedient known to the experts of her own
realms in endeavoring to better the condi
tion of her son, but all were [Knverles
Then ."he determined to send the famous
physician tu New York, where medical nu- »
agree that medical research is developed to
ihe highest degree and where men know
more about treating the deaf and dumb
than do the most expert specialists of
III rope.
So deep was the queen’s grief over th»*
; affliction of Don Jaime that she was
touched by the thought of other mothers
I in Spain who were powerless to do aught
! for their children, and who might never
hear childish words of love babbled from
; their mouths. She was urged on by the
thought and spurred into even greater ae
! tivity in the case of her own child by re
thought of others. She determined that
whatever she might learn in the investi
: gation of Don Jaime’s case she wm.ld turn
to the benefit of other children who were
: her subjects.
CHARGED WITH GAMBLING
Deputy United States Marshal Condin
arrived this morning from Discovery, hav
ing in custody H. Bismarck. Ciein La
Borde. William Lee. Peter Farrell (Montana
Pete> and Felix Steen. They are charge.!
in complaints- sworn to by Deputy Marshal
Charles with gambling.
They were arraigned before Commissioner
Albrecht and pleaded not guilty, and de
mantled jury trials. The cases were set for
Tuesday morning, November 11, at 1U
o’clock.
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