We Are Now Located
in our new quarters at Flat City, in the store room formerly occupied hy
William Taylor, where we will be glad to meet all our old friends and to
show our splendid lines of Watches, Jewelry, Silverware, Cut Glass, etc.
J. L. SALE
Swift’s Siivsr Leaf Lard
In 5, 10 and 50-lb. cans
This Is an Absolutely Pure and the Only High-Grade Lard in the
Market. It is in keeping with the rest of our goods.
The Highest Grades Only
Sam’l Applebaum
msK MASK M1SK
Get your mask and get
ready for the GRAND MASK
3ALL February 12, 1916.
We can also dress you and
fix you up in the latest
styles in Shoes and Clothing..
Kodaks at Outside Prices
Wo do developing and printing at reason
able prices. Pend in your orders. If we
haven't what you want we will get it for
vou if it's in the camp.
Ansley's
MBS. L. C. THORNTON
GENERAL
LADIES’
FURNISHINGS
If You Are Interested in
LIFE INSURANCE
Let me talk it over with you
EARL B. HUNT
BEST LIQUORS AND CICARS
Three-Times-Move Bar
(Formerly the Stanley House)
JOHN BAGOY. PROP.
GOOD ROOMS CLEAN BEDS
FLAT CITY
Mine. Caillaux, the French ex-premier’s
wife, who was acquitted of the charge of
murdering M. Calmette, is now in command
of a nursing corps at the rear of the main
French army.
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
Deputy Marshal Billy Thomas was a vis
itor in the city from Flat on Friday.
Sam Stanich and John Popovich will leave
today for the Koyukuk country on a pros
pecting trip
Louis Siler braved the low temperature
on Saturdaj' last to make a business trip to
the city by dog team.
Ira Wood, Charles Denton and Herb Riley
will leave today for the head of the Ditna
to enjoy a season of caribou hunting.
Frank Morgan, who has been engaged for
fcome time past in prospecting some claims
on Horsetly creek, returned to the city on
Sunday last.
Joe Lewis, the Ophir creek miner, started
on his homeward journey from this city on
Saturday last, undeterred by the fact that
the thermometer indicated 40 degrees below
zero.
C. H. Christie, writing from Marshall City
under date of January 4 to Claud Baker,
says there are possibly ten claims in that
district which are very rich, and, he adds,
“we have $5 dirt; at least the clean ups last
fall showed that.”
C. A. Duffy has received a letter from
his son, Will, who left here last summer for
the Koyukuk. The writer states that he
and his partners have secured leases on good
claims in the Wild river country, and that
they abut on ground that has yielded big
returns. He speaks well of' the prospects.
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A WEEK’S TEMPERATURES
During the past week the lowest tempera
tures of the winter were recorded, the mini
mum being 52 degrees below zero at 10 a. m.
on the 24th. On Thursday a welcome change
was noted, and variety was added in the
shape of a violent windstorm on the morn
ing of the 28th, which, however, wa3 of
short duration. The following readings were
taken at 1 a. m. daily at the fire station by
Fire Chief John C. Currin:
Above Below
Zero. Zero.
Jan. 22. 40
23 . 45
24 . 46
25 . 50
26 . 44
27 . 16
26. 20
CLOSING-OUT PRICES
All Drugs at Outside Prices
, Murine Kve Water . $ .60
, Garlleld Tea . .25
, Sal Hepatica . .75
, Witch Hazel Salve . 25
. Carbolic Salve .25
.Japanese Toothache Drops .25
.Blue jay Corn Plasters.25
, Quinine Capsules, 3-gr., 3 doz.50
, Bromo Quinine .25
, Cascarets .25c and .50
, Calomel, Vi-gr., 2 doz.25
Bay Rum . .50
Wood Alcohol, per bottle.50
Gasoline, per bottle.25
Coal Oil, per bottle. .25
Mellin’s Food .75
Stearns’ Headache Wafers.. 25
Cashmere Bouquet Soap, 3 cakes.... 1.00
Pears’ Soap, per cake. .25
47 l l Glycerine Soap, per cake. .25
Jergins’ Toilet Soap, 3 cakes. .75
Armour's Toilet Soap, 3 cakes. .50
SMITH'S GUN STORE
Iditarod, Alaska
C. R. PECK ■ FLAT CITY
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
TO MASQUERADE
Farrell Comedy Company to Act as;
Sponsor for Entertainment on
Lincoln’s Birthday
In view of the fact that the next sched
uled dance is somewhat remote (the Moose
dance, February 22, at Flat), a number of
enthusiasts have prevailed upon the “Farrell |
Comedy Company" to give a masquerade, I
which they have decided to do, and have |
set the date for Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday, |
Saturday, February 12.
The comedy company state that they will j
make an endeavor to make this number the I
most enjoyable affair of the season. As it
will probably be the only masked ball of the
year, the patronage of the creek towns is
earnestly invited. The creek people are ad
monished not to miss this event, as it will
be the special aim of those in charge to
please the visitors. Good music has been
secured for dancing, which will be furnished
by Messrs. Lowrie & Taylor.
A lunch par excellence will be served in
the balcony, prepared by dainty feminine
hands.
Prizes will be given as follows:
Best-costumed lady.
Best-costumed gentleman.
Best-sustained character—lady.
Best-sustained character gentleman.
Most original costume—lady.
Most original costume—gentleman.
Most, novel costume—lady.
Most novel costume—gentleman.
First prize for a feature by two or more
parties.
Second prize for a feature by two or more
parties.
Best representation of comic supplement
character—lady.
Best representation of comic supplement
character—gentleman.
Best lady waltzer.
Best gentleman waltzer.
The list of prizes will be published in
next week’s issue of The Pioneer.
One of the features of the evening will be
an introduction and demonstration of the
“fox trot” by J. W. Farrell—a dance which,
it is stated, has taken the Outside by storm.
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PIONEERS WILL HOLD
PUBLIC INSTALLATION
Next Wednesday evening, February 2, at
A. B. hail, Iditarod, Igloo No. 10, Pioneers
I of Alaska, will install the officers elected
| for the coming year. The instalation will
1 be public, and everyone is cordially in
: vited, particularly the ladies of the com
1 munity. Following the ceremony an in
formal dance will be given and a buffet
: lunch served.
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BROTHER OF DUNCAN MICKIE
KILLED AT DARDANELLES
; .
' According to a Dawson dispatch of De
cember 13, Duncan Mickie, the well-known
! mining man. formerly of Iditarod, has re
ceived word from his old home in Scotland
that his brother, William, who was with the
Western Australians, has been killed and
buried in the Dardanelles fighting. His age
j was 45, and for many years he was a
j miner in Western Australia.
I Duncan Mickie is at present interested in
j the Tolovana district.
! “CO AWAY FROM HOME
TO LEARN THE HOME NEWS’’
I -
The following from the Seward Gateway
of December 27, although slightly in need
of retouching in places, is another example
of the old adage with reference to “going
| away from home to learn the home news’’ :
“With Bob Griffis, one of the old-timers
'of the Dawson, Nome and other Alaska trails
i in charge, accompanied by Jim Haley, Ern
' est Beattie and William Lodge, other well
known old-timers, the big shipment of Idit
arod gold arrived in Seward Saturday. It
amounted in weight to 2,416 pounds, and
in value to almost $600,000, all from the
! Iditarod camp. Of this amount, $401,000
is for account of the Yukon Gold Company
and $172,000 from the Miners & Merchants’
Bank at Iditarod for account of various op
erators in that camp.
“The Yukon Gold Company is one of the
Guggenheim corporations, and operates a
tract of ground sub leased from George C.
j Friend, Bennett James and T. F. Lawson,
who originally leased the ground from Riley
& Aitken.
“The party left Iditarod November 22,
and consisted of three teams, composed of
thirty-eight dogs, all told. Nothing of par
ticular importance occurred on the trip, and
the entire party arrived in Seward safe and
well.”
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RECOVER BODY OF RUSSIAN
BURNED IN FAIRBANKS FIRE
A Fairbanks dispatch states that the body
of George Saloff, a Russian, was recovered
from the ruins of the disastrous fire which
swept the western business portion of Fair- j
banks on the night of December 19. Saloff j
.was in the back room of the California ;
saloon when the fire started, and was suf- j
focated while trying to escape. The fire
started from the explosion of the gas light
ing system of the saloon. The loss was
estimated at $40,000. The temperature was
20 degrees below zero, and although the cold
hampered the attack on the conflagration,
the firemen were helped by the absence of j
wind. This resulted in saving the Northern j
Commercial Company building. '
WANT BETTER MAIL SERVICE i
ON LOWER KUSKOKWIM j
ANIAK, Alaska, Jan 0. —The people of
this vicinity are trying to get the present
star mail route from Bethel to Holy Cross
changer! from Bethel to Iditarod, and to
have a twice-a-month service inaugurated.
A subscription paper Is being circulated to
get it carried for three months, in the hope
that the government will give a permanent ]
service. A year-round twice-a-month serv [
ice is wanted. The Bethel-Iditarod route is j
much easier and has about the same mileage i
as the Bethel-Hcly Cross route. The new j
route would supply four established past- j
offices—-Iditarod, Flat, Aniak and Bethel, >
against two on the old route. Iditarod has j
a weekly mail, against a monthly at Holy |
Cross, with an additional delay of some j
twenty-five days on out-bound mail.
Robert H. Countryman, Mills building, j
San Francisco, is inquiring for information [
of William A. Copeland, thought to have !
been drowned in the Kuskokwim about !
1898.
J. N. Hathaway of Dugger, Ind., is mak- j
ing inquiry for his brother, “Dock,” or
“Jack,” Hathaway, who has been away
from home a great many years. His mother j
is becoming feeble, and would like to hear
from him.
Hon. Aug. J. Gliylione, Royal Consolato '
dltalia, 413 Lyon building, Seattle, Wash., j
would like information of Sam Sebatino,
thought to have been lost in company with
Byron Allen between the Aniak and Lake
Tic Chic. Will the partv who gave informa
tion concerning Sabatino in Louie’s Bo
nanza roadhouse last winter please send his
address to D. E. Stubbs, United States com
missioner, Aniak?
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SEWARD MAIL CONTRACTOR
FIGURING ON NOME MAIL
When the contract for carrying the mail
between Iditarod and Seward was awarded
to Colonel Revell, nearly two years ago, he
made a trip over the mail route between
the coast and this city for the purpose of
perfecting his arrangements. At the time
of his visit to this city he stated to The
Pioneer that he was convinced that he could
prove to the postoffice department that a
saving of one week in the time of trans
porting the Nome mail from the coast to its
destination could be made by using the
route from Seward to Kaltag.
The present route of the Nome mail car
riers is from Cordova to Chitina and Fari
banks, Tanana, Kaltag and Unalakleet.
Recentlv word came that Colonel Revell
would make a trip over the trail again
this winter, and the Seward papers an
nounce that the postal department has de
cided to test the trail between Seward and
Kaltag, with a view to carrying the
winter mails to Seward peninsula over
that route, and it is presumed that the ap
proaching visit of the contractor is in con
nection with this test.
The award of this mail contract to be
carried over the Seward-Iditarod trail
would be of inestimable benefit to this dis
trict. The Nome mail consists of 800
pounds per week, and the freighting of the
additional loads over the trail would help
keep the trail open and facilitate the dis
patch of mail for Iditarod. The time limit
now between Seward and Iditarod is twenty
five days; but it is believed that this could
be cut to twenty days, and even less, were
the trail traveled more.
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MAIL TO GO OUT ON TIME
Despite the extremely cold weather of
last week and the first part of the present
week, the mail arrived on Monday forenoon
last and the outgoing mail left the same
day. There was a double consignment. In
the event that the mail is late this week,
arrangements have been made so that the
outgoing mail will leave at the usual hour,
on Monday forenoon. George Adams will
convey it by dog team.
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INQUIRIES FOR MISSING ONES
The following inquiries for missing per
sons have been received by Acting Post
master Baker:
Mrs. J. F. Todd, Lock Box 381, Neola,
Kan., wants information concerning Reuben
Earle Todd, who came to Alaska in 1903.
He was last heard from in Dawson on his
way. He is about 35 years old.
S. M. Leonard of 266 East Sixth street
north, Portland, Ore., wants information
concerning his brother, Homer Leonard.
He says: “He left Ruby, Alaska, August
8, 1914, down the river, and we have traced
him as far as Dave Lewis’s store, about
twenty-eight miles down from Ruby. After
he left Lewis’s store we can find no trace
of him.” Letters from Dave Morris of Ruby
express fear that some accident may have
happened to him.
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ORIGIN OF THE FINNS
A Flat City inquirer is informed that the
Americana encyclopedia is authority for the
statement that F'innic is the name applied to
one of the five chief branches of the north
ern or Ural-Altaic family of peoples and
languages. These people formerly were
spread over the whole north of Asia and
north of Europe, and they are divided into
five families—the Tungusick, Turkik, Mon
goiic, Samoiedie and UraloTinnic, or Finnic
family proper. The last or most westerly
family still forms the population of north
Europe and northwest Asia, and formerly
covered the greater part of Scandinavia.
We Can Fit
Tall, Short and
FLAT
THE HOME OF HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX
BREEZY LETTER RECEIVED
FROM MRS. RAY D. CLARKE
_
Mrs. M. L. Peterson Las received a most
interesting letter from Mrs. Ray D. Clarke,
who left this city late in September last. It
is dated at Napa, Cal., December 9, and
gives a description of her trip Outside, of
having met many Iditarod people in Seattle,
of her trip to the San Francisco exposition,
with which she wa3 greatly impressed, and
a dissertation on business conditions, which,
she says, 2re excellent, despite the talk of
“hard times.”
Mrs. Clarke mentions that her husband
met Ed Rusk, formerly of Iditarod, and
that they saw G. M. Arbuckle at a ball
game. Ray also met Jim Chronister “at
the horse races,” and Chris Hansen and
George Kay were among the Iditaroders
they met in San Francisco. An interestnig
paragraph of the letter is as follows:
“Powder works are being blown up all
around. There are several plants within a
short distance from us, and on Sunday our
house shook and the report was plain from
an explosion in the mixing room of the
powder plant at Pinole, about five miles
awav. Fortunately no lives were lost.
The letter concludes: “We long to be
back in Alaska, thinking it is the best place
of all. Ray is particularly anxious' to re
turn ; but whether he will or not I can’t
yet tell.”
IDITAROD PATIENTS IMPROVE
WITH PROPER TREATMENT
Mrs. C. B. Sims, a former resident of this
city, who left for the Outside during the
summer of 1915, is now a resident of Seattle,
after having made an extended visit to Port
land. While in Oregon she visited the Morn
ingside sanitarium at Mount Tabor, near
Portland, and in a letter to an Iditarod lady
she says of the visit:
“I went out to see Harry McLean. He
looked better, and I think the doctors there
understand mental troubles. They seem
doubtful about Harry’s recovery, as he has
trouble in walking. However h'e has im
proved. Mr. Keilett looked fine, and was
also greatly improved. Mr. McKenzie is
completely recovered in some respects. He
knew us.”
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ANCHORAGE LIVELY PLACE
In a private letter received by an Iditarod
resident from Anchorage mention is made of
the many former Iditarod people in that
new and promising city, among them being
Arthur Shonbeck, Billy Murray, George Lee,
Mr. Kemp, .Tack Roberts, Breese, Ray Mc
Donald and Taylor, a carpenter. The letter
continues:
“This is the levelest and biggest laid-out
town in Alaska today—that is going some.
The streets are about two miles long, and
a'l surveyed by the government. The lots
are all sold, and brought from $100 to
$1,200.” The weather (during the latter
part of November) had been extremely cold.
There are said to be about four thousand
persons there at present, and much anxiety
is displayed as to the appropriation by con
gress of the $8,000,000 needed for the rail
road work.
REINDEER MAN OFFERS
BIG REWARD FOR WOLVES
A. H. Twitcheli, the reindeer man, ha*
been investigating the stories current here
for some time to the effect that wolvee
were unusually numerous and ferocious this
year in the Ditna and surrounding country
It is a matter of vital concern to him, and
he has taken particular pains to find out
the truth. As far as he has been able to
learn, however, there are no great numbers
of these predatory animals in these parts,
and while there have been instances lately
in which wolves have been seen and been
killed, there probably are no marauding
bands, as had been intimated. However,
so interested is Mr. Twitcheli in the matter
that he is offering a reward of $40 for the
skin and skull of any wolf killed after
January 25, 1915, not more than fifty mile*
from Iditarod, “payable only to the person
who killed the animal," on satisfactory evi
dence that the animal was killed a* above
stated.
The territorial law now provides a bounty
of $10 on wolves, but the bounty is no in
ducement to hunters and trappers in this
section of Alaska because of the fact that
the skin and both bones of the left forearm
must be delivered to the authorities. As
wolf skins are worth from -So to $10 Out
side, and as they are worth from $15 to $25
in this section of Alaska, acceptance of the
bounty would not be profitable.
The reason for the high valuation placed
on wolf skins in Interior Alaska is that they
are in great demand both by natives and
whites who indulge in winter travel for the
trimming of parkas, for which purpose they
are especially adapted.
Mr. Twitched states that many wolk skins
are shipped in from the Outside because the
supply in this section of Alaska is not equal
to the demand.
Mr. Twitched has removed his reindeer
herd to new feeding grounds, somewhat re
mote from Iditarod, because of scanty feed,
and will not put his animals on the market
for the present.
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HUNTING PARTY RETURNS
WITH TROPHIES OF CHASE
Jay Johnson, Sid Sloman, Julius Shaffrich
and Earl Byers returned Friday from an ex
tended hunting trip. As a tribute to their
prowess they brought the carcasses of twelve
caribou, and as a memento of the extremely
cold weather they each suffered from frost
bite.
According to reports, caribou are plenti
ful in the surrounding country this year.
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“MOOSE” JOHNSON WEDS
Everybody in the district remembers
“Moose” Johnson, the energetic young man
who organized the local lodge of Moose two
years ago, and will be interested in hearing
of his marriage in Portland, Ore., last No
vember. Newspaper reports are to the ef
fect that Mr. Johnson was married to Mrs.
Stella Curry, a niece of Mrs. William Evans
of Fairbanks. The bride came to Alaska
five years ago, and returned to Portland
after a three-year residence. She met Mr.
Johnson in Fairbanks. _
THE HOUSE OF QUALITY
DOG FEED
Dried Salmon, Tallow, Corn Meal and Rice
Fresh Draft
FROM FAIRBANKS
New Shipment RAINIER BEER From the Outside
nnruFir saloon j
RING US UP ANY SERVICE WE CAN DO YOU . RING us up
NATIONAL CLUB and MARQUETTE WHISKEYS_
GEORCE MARSH BUD WEISER IDITAROD FLAT CITY THE BRANCH A. D. CURRIE