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Highest Prices Paid for Raw Furs
Much indignation has been caused by an
i:u uient connected with the recent ladies
(i. y team race. Last Monday, while hauling
u r.i • t it ou r,! i rg's sled fell t-> pieces.
On v;vn:inination i; was lound that all the
r/ ' c'cept ni!1 had been sawed nearly
L. couch with a tine wood saw L was the
Jirst time the sled had been user! since Mrs.
Swanson won the dog ran' with it. Appar
r! 11'. it was done before the race, but for
tnu'iiiiv no uijury wc.s d-lie l> lliP pluck)
winner of the race, for the unloved rib was
tin berk one. where she stood on the run
ners all through the race, and it h.eid like
iron But had she attempted to ride in the
sled the evd design would have succeeded,
it is dirtbuL to eontvdve of anyone in the
community being giuipv of such a dastardly
set.
An ennyabie mem.iw the social club
in rial creek was hell Lwt naturdav night,
many visitors from 1 lat ait; tiding. Pro
gressive whist was ; 1 a> <-1 the first aprt oi
the night, for which suae jnc:y mid am us
mg prizes were awarded to th*' winners,
after which supper was served. The ful
lowing took part in the program after Min
per Address. C. R. Peck; song, Mrs. Soli
i.iakke; recitation, Biiiy ihvan.-y “History
of the Blond Eskimo." Dave Stranberg.
After the program dancing was indulged in
until o o'clock Sunday morning. At the
close of the dance a vote of thanks was
given to the musicians, Messrs. Lowrie, Er
ickson and Lund.
A1 Thorns and Mike Lucey are j'respect
ing on Willow creek.
Louis Syler and Hank Cramer have gone
to the new Kwikli strike, on the Kusko
kwim.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Sou* r and Miss Jobn
si ui nia )-• a tour of tin creeks lay Sun
il u\
Bob Lowrie made a trip to Prince creek
last Monday, where lie has two men pros
pecting. He says they have five feet of
dirt that h panning gold, and they have
And Let the Gliiidren Kodak
We Have Pictures of the Ladies’
Dog Race
Don’t you wish you had had a
Kodak the day of the dog race?
We are agents for Eastman Ko
dak Company and can supply you.
Ansley's Sock Store
not reached bedrock yet. Bob thinks it is
pay. and is going to put sluice boxes in
end slu.ee up some of the dirt this spring.
He * ays the w things 1. «*k i.«.w he will
be mining next summer.
Chris Hanson, who ha been rutting w*>od
at the head of the Iditarod, is spending a
few days at Flat.
Chester Brink and William Boardman
left for the Kwikli strike, on the Kusko
kwim. last Sunday morning
Angus McKinzie left with the reindeer
herders on their return to tin* Kuskokwim
bust Sunday. He is headed for the new
Kwikl. strike.
Ora Burnh.rt arrived at Hat from Wil
law creek, in the (. corgi* river country, this
u;vk. He nine to get help and medicine
h r Tru. And.resell, who has met with a
-orieii- accident. He -ays Anderson had
gone t * the cache to get some provisions,
and, as la reca lled the top of the ladder his
foot .dipped and he fell. in falling he
-.truck hi - side and broke two ribs just
b ! • w the heart. He had been suffering for
ten day.- before Barnhart arrived at the
ic.bin \ ic Chon, his partner, was with
huu and was doing his best to care for him.
Me Barnhart got bandages am! medicine
and left on his return Tue.-day.
PINCHOT NOT POPULAR
Much ainusPTi 1 *en ca »v
the speech of J. \V. Bryan, representative in
congress from Wa>hihglon, delivered at the
Arctic Club love feast November 8. Bryan
lauded to the skies the arch enemy of
Western progress, Clifford Pinchot, the d»s
credited conservation fakir, and absolutely
advocated the Pinchot policy, which has
strangled Alaska for lo! these many years.
I He also attempted to bolster up Theodore
Roosevelt, Pinchot’s boss.
There were some 300 people at the ban
quet. representing the brain and brawn,
i the inuusirial and commercial life of a
grout Western city. Due to the instinct- of
gentlemen, cat calls and his-es were omitted,
but a; the conclusion of the speech dead
si!nee reigned. Not one handclap, not one
cl.t or for either Roosevelt or Pinchot in a
gathering made up of the city’s really big
men. Quite to the contrary, the toastmas
ter. with true Irish wit. had a few things
to sav about Pinchot and his policy in
Alaska, which were cheered to the echo.
..nd his introduction of Senator Wesley L.
Jones of Washington, whose whole politi
ca! life shows a record directly opposed to
the insecure policy of Gifford Pinchot. w::.
foil >\v i uproai is appl uise, sh< v\ing in
''very w y that a: this representative bun- !
:u*; <>{ Seattle bu-iness men and Alaskans, |
ib;oM4veIt and Pinchot, through their weak
ke.-msn. Bryan, were absolutely ignored,
ub.l honesty and fair play for Alaska, as
represent- d by W I,. Jones, were cheered to
the ec!i Seattle Railway and Marine
New.-.
DOG RACE PHOTOS
i lemons (t Koon succeeded in getting a!
scries of splendid pictures of the dog team l
races of January 1 and 14. On sale at the ■
post office in Iriitarod and at their studio in
Plat City.
Man leaving for Seward about March 1
with dog team will take passenger. Apply
Pioneer office.
For spring fever and general debility, try
the Crosby Hot Air Baths.
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SEC( DANCE
WILL BE TONIGHT
The second of the series of ‘‘0 Be Joyful ’ j
dances being given by Camp Iditarod No.
27, Arctic Brotherhood, will be hold this 1
evening, and it is expected that an even
larger crowd will be in attendance than at
the opening dance last Saturday.
The •() Be Joyful” dunce held last
Saturday night made a great hit, and seems
to have met with universal favor
among the people of the city. The hail
was comfortably filled, the music was good
and everyone seemed to be enjoying a good
time. Dancing commenced at 9:20 and
dosed at midnight, and every minute of tin*
time was taken advantage of by those who
attended. The dance tonight will probably
be attended by an even larger crowd.
He Ddn't Want Much
The conversation led to the beauty of
having abundant nerve, when Senator Clapp
of Minnesota told of a man who went into
a fashionable restaurant, accompanied by a
couple of children, and after ordering a
lemon soda, asked the waiter to bring him
three plate.-.
This, according to Senator Clapp, the
waiter did. but when he saw the man take
some sandwiches from his pocket, put them
on the plates and pass, them around to the
kids, he reported the matter to the boss.
“What are you doing?” indignantly cried ,
the manager, rushing over to the sandwich
party. “Don’t you know that this isn’t a
free picnic ground, where you bring your |
own food?”
“Is that so?” was the calm rejoinder of
the man. passing along another sandwich;
“who are you?”
“I'm the manager!” blustered the boss,
with rising heat, “i
“.lust the very person that I have been
1 >oking for.” interjected the unperturbed
party. “Why isn't the orchestra playing?”
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SOCIAL BALL TONIGHT
AT FLAT A. B. HALL
everything is in readiness for the social
dance at Mat City tonight. The enter
tainment committee of Camp Flat has se
cured good music for the occasion, and
the hall presents a most inviting appear
ance. This is splendid weather for dancing, ;
and a great turnout is expected.
Divers are now equipped with a tele
phone so they are at all times in communi
cation with the surface.
For quick service and courteous treat
ment, try the Crosby Massage and Bath
Parlors.
Fresh-Kited Reindeer Moat
By the Carcass, Side, Quarter and Pound
Sam’I Applebaum
Ygu will find a good many different styles in the showing we
make in
Hart Sctiaffner $Iarx
Clothes
Some of them you will like, and some you won’t. But they are ail
good in quality and your choice is among them
No TROUBLE TO SHOW THE GOODS
A. J, Weiss, Flat
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C. R. PECK, FLAT
The Pioneer
Ramps Peterson
INFANT FOUND IN ASH CAN
WINS PRIZE IN BABY SHOW
New York, Dec. 12.—Sadie Hinchman, a
babe found by a policeman 17 months ago
in an ash can, has taken the first prize (
at the Bronx baby contest at Battery B
armory.
The policeman who found the abandoned
baby, then only a few days old, sent her
to an asylum. Later she was adopted by
Mrs. Sarah Hinchman of 1137 Washington
avenue, the Bronx, a widow who had lost
her only child.
In the contest there were more than 150
babies, but Sadie was declared by the
judges to be the most perfect of the con
testants, and their verdict was soon reached.
Job Printing at Pioneer office.
TWIN BABIES ARE BORN
UNDER DIFFERENT FLAGS
Eagle Pass, Texas, Oct. 15. In the great
crowd that Hocked on foot into the United
States to escape the atrocities of the Mexican
belligerents was Alarai Hernandez, who had
given birth to a child on the night pre
vious at the detention camp near the bor
der.
The following day another child was born
to her. Thus twins were born three days
apart, one in the United States, the other
in Mexico, breaking medical records in the
matter.
Antonio Zeiperden and his band were to
be deported, but today a child was born,
and the immigration superintendent has be
fore him the question of deporting a nat
ural-born American citizen.
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Washington, Commissioner General Clay
Tollman of the general land office, in his
annual report, recommends that the area of
homestead entries in Alaska should be re
duced to 1 GO acres, and that the area of
cultivation required thereon should he re
duced to one-fortieth of the entire area filed
upon in the second year and one-twentieth
the third year; that an absence of six
months per year from homestead entries
shall be permitted Alaskans. He suggests
further that the right to make homestead
entries in Alaska should exist notwithstand
ing the fact that the applicant may have
acquired title to a homestead outside the
Territory of Alaska.
Seattle, Evidence of a mail robbery was
discovered here December 27, when a mail
sack, slit, and rifled, was found floating on
the hay. Fifteen hundred important letters
from parties in Anacortes to Seattle were
discovered to be missing.
Tulsa, Okla.—Mrs. Albert, Fh Patrick, wife
of the New York lawyer who served con
siderable time in the penitentiary for the
murder of his millionaire client, Rice, and
who was pardoned by Governor Dix a few
months ago, died here December 19.
Seattle.—Claiming that he had bothered
him for 20 years past, N. W. Geddes, a
wealthy Davenport, Iowa, farmer, on De
cember 19 shot and fatally wounded Jo
seph Blaine, quartermaster of the steamship
Humboldt, and also wounded John R. Er
ickson, a Humboldt sailor.
Chicago.—Mme. Schumann Ileink, the
great prinia donna, has entered suit against
her newest husband, William Raap, Jr., for
divorce.
Denver- Lulu Elder of Seattle on De
cumber 2-4 shot and killed Frank Gregory of
Denver, and then committed suicide. They
were to have been married.
Washington. President Wilson, in a let
t(i t. Secretaries Garrison and Daniels, re
quests that a “very severe reprimand” be
administered to the officers who were re
sponsible for the Garaboa Society's pro
gram.. in which the administration was bur
lesqued.
Washington. Secretary of the Interior
Liiii1 in his annual report, says in part: “In,
my opinion, the way to deal with the Alaska
prei 1 •'!■: and the resources of Alaska is to
establish a board of directors and give them
full charge of all the national, assets of
Alaska, to be used primarily in her im
provement her lands, fisheries. Indians,
seals. Eskimos, forests, mines, waterways
and railroads, for the improvement of the
territory and the development of its re
sources This would, of course, have noth
ing to do with international affairs or or
ganized territorial affairs of Alaska.” Sen
ators Pittman and Poindexter have an
nounced themselves as unalterably opposed
to the secretary’s proposal.
Washington. The supreme court has re
fused to grant a writ of error in the case of
Linda Burfield Hazzard, who was convicted
of second degree murder in the death from
fasting of Claire Williamson at the Olalla
sanitarium.
Washington.—The organization commit
tee which is to launch the federal reserve
banking system provided for under the new
currency law, has announced its plans for
the marking of the boundaries of reserve
districts and the selection of the cities where
| will be established the reserve banks. Pub
lic hearings will be held in 14 of the large
cities of the country in New York, Boston.
Chicago, St. Louis, Denver, Seattle, Port
land, Ore., San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Houston, New Orleans. Atlanta, Cincinnati
and Cleveland, before the selected sites are
named.
Washington.- Plain Arabic “1914” will be
chiseled on public buildings completed this
year, instead of the “MCXIV.” Secretary of
the Treasury McAdoo has issued an order
that the Roman numerals be dispensed with
and the generally understood Arabic be
used. He says: “The reason for the order
lies in the fact that few persons can read
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eral public is in ignorance of their signifi
cance over the entrance to a building."
Mexico City. Dictator Huerta has an
nounced that he will shortly resign the
presidency and take the held against the
rebels. Enrico Gorostieta has been decided
upon for provisional president to succeed
Huerta.
Montreal. A mile of hose was stretched
from the outskirts of the city to the sub
urban town of St. Lawrence and that place
was saved from destruction by hre because
of the failure of its water supply. After a
block of stores had been destroyed the
Montreal hre department obtained control
of the flames.
Seattle.—Mystic Shriners, 210 strong, de
parted on the steamship Minnesota for Ma
nila, to install a chapter there.
Los Angeles.—One man was killed and a
dozen injured in a riot of the unemployed.
The police raided the mob and disarmed
many of them, jailing quite a number.
Washington. —Professor John Ba.3sett
Moore denies the newspaper story that, ow
ing to friction between himself and the sec
retary of state, and disgust on his part over
the secretary’s incapacity, laziness and ig
norance. he had reached the point of hand
ing. in his resignation. In proof of his state
ment that there is nothing in the report he
points out that only recently he has leased
a house in Washington.
Rheims, France.—The remarkable speed
of 118 miles and hour was attained here re
cently by Vedrines, the French aviator.
More dangerous even than these high speed
contests were the efforts made by the avi
tQrs who had entered the low speed con
tests to remain in the air at an altitude as
low as 150 feet and to fly a distance of six
miles with ut going higher than this. Four
teen entrants qualified for the race.
Liverpool. The greatest drydoek in the
world has just been .completed here. It is
said that there is a larger dock under con
struction at Boston and that one will be
started soon at Glasgow.
Seattle.- A man and his wife named
Longlines were found overcome by gas in
their apartments by the police. The man
was dead and the woman was barely alive.
Restoratives were applied to the woman and
she was sufficiently revived to admit before
she expired that she had turned on the gas
with the intention of killing her husband
and herself. She* told the officers that she
had suffered much from her husband’s dis
solute habits, and that when he had gone
out the night previous she had warned him
that if he did not reform she would kill
him and herself. Notwithstanding the warn
ing. the man came home in an intoxicated
condition, and as soon as he was asleep she
plugged the openings in the room and
turned on the gas. Then she sat down be
side the man to await death.
Tacoma.— When it was announced that
the hours of labor in the smelter here
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would be increased from eight to twelve f
shift men and from eight to ten for di
laborers, the order was followed by 300 ei..
ployes walking out. The company, which
a subsidiary of the smelting trust, is si.
to see in the present depressed condition
the labor market opportunities for chea;
labor. The number of idle men in this ci
as well as throughout the Puget 3ound cou
try, makes the company confident there w
be no shortage of men willing to work tl
longer hours. Practically all the furnar
are frozen, which will represent a large 1
to the company, and they are now makii
strenuous efforts to fill the strikers’ plac<
JURY IN SCHMIDT TRIAL
FAILS TO REACH VERDIC
I New York, Dec. 31.—After deliborati;:,
for 36 hours, the jury in the trial of Han.
Schmidt, the ex-priest who was indicted foi
i the murder of his former domestic, Anna
Amuller, faiied to roach an agreement and
was discharged by the judge.
The able defense put up by the attorneys
for Schmidt, who claimed that the man
i wras insane, as well as the erratic conduct
of the ex-priest during the trial, had con
, vinced many of his insanity, and it was
expected that for this reason he would be
exonerated and placed in the Matteavo.a
1 asylum.
j It is freely charged that prejudice*?
against Schmidt as a former priest in 11 u
meed some of the jurors to such extent
that they held out to convict the man of
! murder in the first degree.
The authorities, including a special c ru
1 mission of alienists appointed for the pur
pose, testified to the man’s sanity, wl ;le
the mother, father and sister of the ac
cused testified that the man had always
acted queerly, and the father swore that his
son was insane to the best of his belief.
It was brought out in the trial that
. Schmidt had been excused for a heinous
i crime in Germany when it was shown to
i the authorities there that he was not re
! sponsible for his acts.
; The prosecuting attorney, who seems to
be much surprised and disappointed at the
result of the trial, asserts that Schmidt v. 11
be placed on trial again without any •
I cessive delay, and that he has no doubt
j that the man will be convicted at the next
trial. The prosecutor says that there wa.
! nothing but generalized statements to show
that Schmidt was at any time irresponsible
mentally.
HAD DIVORCE HANDY
FOR USE WHEN NEEDED
Louisville, Ky.. Dec. 12.—That P. A. Fox
1 secured a divorce from his wife without her
knowledge and then continued to live with
her several years was the allegation made
her by the former wife in a suit to de
‘ prive him of any claim to her property.
She left him as soon as she learned of
the divorce.
The only reason given for Fox getting
the divorce is that he wanted to “have it
: handy,” though he did not intend to leave
his wife.
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