HAS A
WHEREFORE
We Are Doing the Business. Why?
Because our high-class merchandise, backed up by
our Closing-Out Brices, proves a persuader that is irre
sistible. Our Cut-in-half Prices will continue until
every dollar's worth of goods is closed out.
Hart, Schaifnsr & Marx Clothing,
Stetson Hate,
Chas. Case and Strong & Garfield Shoes,
And Wilson Eros. Furnishing Goods
Need no recommendation.
BP* Ciosing-Out
r ri Sa,es
AT iDITAROD AND FLAT CITY
DISK AKET and
OFKIR CITY
Ktampeik ;< !• 1 New Sn-ike fan rely on srett’n.' Nico Fresh Goods
at Very Reasonable Prices
BEG STOCKS STANDARD GOODS
< avrv a $7.00
LARCE STOCK Per Case
LUBRICATING
OIL
Miss Grant, of Iditarod. has been
visiting with Miss Koisch and Miss
Murray during the week.
Claude Baker, of the Dominion Com
mercial company, visited Flat Monday.
E. J. Ives, of Flat creek, visited Idit
arod Monday.
Mrs. Longden visited Flat during the
week. She will start a laundry up the
creek, near the dredge.
Charley Ross visited Fiat M m.lay.
Tom Taylor, Dominick Soraei, Bob
Martin and Walter Thomas left for
Bear crack, a tributary of the Tuiuksak,
Sunday morning.
Adolph Rippi has gone to Fairbanks.
Hans Erickson is back from the new
strike. Re panned on the waste at
Discovery and got good prospects. Hans
is one of the men who buried James
Walsh, the miner who starved to death
on Crater mountain last year.
Henry Erickson, who used to run the
roadhouse ten miles from Takotna, and
who later went to Yankee creek, has
left everything, and, accompanied by
Mrs Erickson, is off to the new strike.
He went on the strength of what he
heard from a friend, who claimed he had
panned in the face of the shaft and got
three and four cents to the pan.
Aba Weiss visited IJitarod Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Carter are mak
ing their home at Flat City for the
present.
ENJOYABLE DANCE WEDNESDAY
About 30 couples attended the dance
given at A. B. Hall Wednesday night,
under the auspices of Camp Iditarod
No. 27. The McSmart orchestra sup
plied the music, and the dance was
greatly enjoyed. Owing the its late
announcement, there were but few vis
itors from the creek centers, but other
wise the dance was a pronounced
success._
Fresh halibut 25e pound.
Jditarod Meat Co.
The Pioneer for Job Printing.
I COMING AND GOING
Charles Knell and Eddie MeArdle
[ left for Moore creek Tuesday, where
| they will remain for the summer.
J. R. McGovern came in from Flat
1 creek Monday.
! Charley Worden returned from his
tour of the creeks Monday. Mr. Worden
took in practically every creek whore
work is going on, and also visited the
hillside claims. lie reports Willow as
practically deserted.
Duncan Michie came in from Flat
Tuesday.
Tjieut. Edgerton, of the Alaska road
commission, left on the Comet for
Dikeman Tuesday.
Mrs. McSmart was a passenger for
the Outside during the week.
Among the passengers on the Comet
for Dikeman last Tuesday were Messrs.
C. O. Kahle, Amalong, Willard, Har
vich, E. Orn, S. Luno, Joe Lafernau,
Wilson and Mrs. Dean.
The launch Flyer was chartered by
Cant. Sproule last Tuesday to tako four
tons of freight and two passengers to
Dikeman.
J. II. Richards, the hardware mag
nate of Ruby, left Tuesday fur Dike
man, there to take the Whiio Seal for
the camp on the Yukon. Mr. Richards
shipped his freight a day ahead this
time, just to make sure that it got
aboard.
Attorney Louis K. Pratt was a pas-i
senger on the tram for Flat Tuesday.
He expected to remain at the creek
metropolis for several days.
Mrs. J. B. Mading, Mrs. Duncan
Michie, Mr. and Mrs. Harvin and chil
dren and Miss Lillian Mading left
Tuesday for the Outside. They will
make their home at Tacoma for the
balance of the summer, after which it !
is possible they may go to their old
home in Texas.
Harry Cribb is leaving for Ruby
shortly. He will remove a big portion
of his stock to that place: but plans to
spend the winter Outside, returning
next spring.
Alec Lat-son came in from Flat
Wednesday.
H. Boas received a lot of new goods
on one of the last boats from the Out
side.
The second floor of Anslev's Richmond
street hall has been rented by the court
for a month, and will be used by the
grand jury which meets next Monday.
Max Simel brought in a fine lot of
marten, weasel and other skins from
the Innoko. Some of the marten were
very fine, and much larger than is
usual. They were secured by II. Boas,
who also took 50 weasel skins.
The mail which was to leave yester
day was not forwarded, as the Northern
Commercial Company received tele
graphic advices from St. Michael to
the effect, that the sailing date of the
Senator had been changed.
It is possible that a large consignment
of mail for Iditarod is on the Susie,
from Dawson.
Almost every cheechaco arriving in
Iditarod comes with the hope of getting
work with the Yukon Gold Company.
Alec Larson was a visitor in the city
the early part of the week.
The launcli which left Tuesday fin
down river points carried many passen
gers who expected to connect with the
steamer Victoria for Seattle. Others
intend to take the Herman for the upper
Yukon.
The Nancy Dell will connect with the
Susie at Holy Cross. The Susie is bound
for St Michael, where it will connect
with the Senator.
Judge Overfield and Henry Weir
went to Caribou creek Wednesday for
a little fishing. They had some good
sport.
It, is understood that Charley Hoxie
will not apply fora renewal of the Bank
saloon license, and ths resort wi 11 prob
ably close next week.
The installation of the Iditarod Trac
tion Company’s motor service hits been
delayed on account of the non-arrival of
part of the equipment.
T. L. McGrath, who is running the
hoist for Strandberg Bros. & Johnson,
on Flat creek, spent the Fourth of July
in Iditarod City.
Earl Byers brought up some freight
for the Yukon Gold Company Thursday.
Angus Sutherland visited Flat Thurs
day .
Judge Louis IC. Pratt returned from
Flat City Friday morning.
Walter Rowson, private secretary to
Judge Overfield, participated in the
Flat City Fourth of July celebration.
United States district attorney J. J.
Crossely will arrive at Iditarod next
week. He is coming on the Tanana.
Anderson Bros. & Nerlana shipped a
lot of goods to Ruby during the week.
E. J. Uhl has taken over the machine
shop formerly operated by Brumbaugh
& Hamilton on Black street. He has
been very busy indeed of late.
Mosquito beds $1.75 at Friedman’s
Closing-Out Sale, Flat and Iditarod.
LADIES, ATTENTION
Just received over Lake Lebarge, a
shipment consisting of Ladies’ Ready
to-Wear Suits, Dresses and Party
Gowns, Skirts, Lingeries and Hair
Goods. All the above is of the latest
and newest-made. Popular prices. Al
terations free. Your inspection solic
ited.
First Avenue
A shipment of iatest-stvle Hats and
Flowers expected on the next boat.
ROAD
Lieut. EJgerton, of the Alaska road
commission, left last Tuesday for Holy
Cross, where he expects to ineel, Lieut.
Col. Richardson. After consulting with
the colonel, Lieut. Edgerton will con
tinue on to Nome and other points on
the Seward peninsula. His business in
that section completed, he will go to
Fairbanks, and thence Outside over
the Fairbanks-Valdez road.
Incut. Edgerton arrived in the Idita
rod with the intention of prosecuting
further the work commenced under his
direction last, year; hut before lie could
commence operations a telegram was
received fiora Washington informing
him that the army appropriation bill
had been vetoed by President Taft. As
the provision fur Alaskan roads is in
corporated in the ir rav appropriation
bill, the work in hand or projected for
the territory had to he curtailed-and
in many cases abandoned altogether
until funds beca me available
Lntil a few days ago, Kind Commis
sioner A. E. Eight hud a force varying
from seven to fifteen men employed on
tiie road between Iditarod and Fiat.
Much good work has been done ou the
road, which is now in excellent condi
tion for six miles; and it was imped
this summer would see its completion.
But the telegram announcing the Pres
ident’s veto has nullified these hopes,
and Mr. Eight has been compelled to
withdraw his men.
It had been the intention, also, to
improve the trail between Iditarod and
Dikeraan, and to stake anew the stretch
bet ween Dikeraan and the Yukon river:
h it this will not be possible now.
Iditarod is not the only sufferer by
the veto. There were five parties, to
taling about 120 men and more than 15
teams, on the Fairbanks-Valdez road,
and the completion of that highway
was looked for this season. But the
men and teams are now being with
drawn. On tiie Seward trail there are
two parties at work—one in the neigh
borhood of Happy, and the other at
Crow Creek pass, in the vicinity of
Seward. As these parties hud their
supplies on the ground, however, and
are not easily reached at this time of
the year, they may be able to proceed
with their work without hindrance.
It is hoped to secure money to carry
on some of the more pressing work
from an emergency fund. There is a
provision in the rules goversing the
Alaska education fund whereby sur
pluses in that fund may be turned over
to the general ruad fund, and it may
be that $30,000 will become available
from that source. But this is not a
certainty.
President Taft’s veto is believed to
Of all latest novelties, designs and styles. A large con
signment just received.
Not having ordered such large shipments, and
particularly as we are closing everything out and re
tiring from business, hence,
n
per
ALL LATE LOBBIES
be on account of the reduction in the
number of cavalry regiments provided
for iu the hill, which trie house of rep
resentatives hud insisted upon against
tiie President’s expressed opinion that
tiie number of cavalry regiments in the
United States army should he increased,
rather than diminished* The last time
an army appropriation bill was vetoed
was in 187:;. under tlio Presidency of
Ulysses S. Grant. On that occasion
the rank and file of tiie arint had to
wait until the next session of congress!
before they could get their pay, al
though the officers were successful in
discounting their warrants through the
Knickerbocker Trust Company of New
York._'
EXCITING; BUT NOT ON PROGRAM
Walter Rowson, the court stenog
rapher, arrived at Flat City too tired
to enter for any of the races. But just
to show what lie could do on occasion,
Walter gave a stunt solus on his way
home. He was riding on the tram on
Ids way to Iuitarod, when the idea
struck him that he would save time l»y
walking. He alighted from the car.
and started fur town at a live-miles an
liour gait. This riled the mules con
siderably, and they scarcely needed the
lick administered by the driver to urge
them on. With a supreme effort they
bounded forward, and neat the private
secretary to town by four minutes and
a few seconds.
Iditarod < uy was a quirt 'ittie burg
July I. Half the population wi nt on
t i assist in tlit- Flat City celebration,
and those remaining collected in sin i I
groups, and discussed the Fourths of
bygone days in the North. A few. r.vtr ■
enthusiastic than tin* ottiers. !i id .1
rated their houses and slot- s tin
great day, but they were in u to in
and Front street and other 1 a it
thoroughfares of tliii inetropo: s pro*,
i-nted a scene of pastoral peace, if not
of rustic beauty. True, there v -•>
firecrackers of a kind, but not so you
would notice it: and the moM rabid
agitator fur a safe and sane observance
of the national birthday o >uid no : i i
cause for complaint on that score.
Quitclaim deed blanks- Fioi-n-r.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
I, Isadcre Goldstein, have sold to A. J. Weiss my entire
stock cf Nettleton Shoes and Summit Shirts.
Signed: ISADORE GOLDSTEIN.
i
PS
1
Shave purchased these goods at such
a figure that / can $3II them at a price
that will pay you to investigate.
Exclusive Agent for the Celebrated NETTLETON SHOES
Golden Gate Coffee , ./boH r
Reliance Canned Fruits and Vegetables. “None Eetter in Alaska,"
DIAMOND^O Ham and Bacon
\/ FRESH AND SWEET
Wf JC$ JTCE# Eggs, Potatoes, Onions, Oranges,
Jr JHL iE* aJF iO? Lemons and Apples.
“Obey Your Impulse." Phone your orders. Best attention. Prompt de
liveries. and services that please. ** ■ I t
Sunderbruch’s
TO CLOSE OUT \
' AT OUTSIDE PRICES TILL JULY 15, 1912 |
VICTOR
PHONOGRAPHS
Was Now 9
No. 1 Victors.$30.00 $25.00 g
No. 2 Victors .. 40.00 32.50 g
No. 3 Victors 50.00 40.00 g
| AH Victor Records 33 1-3 Off
Screen Doors, (formerly $6 and $10), Wow $3 and $5
SIXTH’S GUN STORE
Second and Willow Phone No. 6
Crowley & Porter's window at Flat
City attracted much attention on the
Fourth, on account of the elaborate
manner in which it was decorated.
H. Sehlapik, who took a large stock
of ladies' goods to Flat City last Sunday,
is still at the creek metropolis. He is
staying at the Home.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT,
Territory of Alaska, Fourth Division
In tlie matter of FRED WILLISON,
Bankrupt.—Notice of Meeting of Cred
itors.
To tlie creditors of Fred Willison in the
Territory of Alaska, a bankrupt:
Noti:e is hereby given that on the
25th day of June, 11)12, the said Fred
Willison was duly adjudicated a bank
rupt; and that the first meeting of his
creditors- will be held at niv office in
the Town of Jditarod. on the 13th day
of July, 1912, at two o’clock p. ni., at
which time said creditors may attend,
prove their claims, appoint Trustee, ex
amine the bankrupt and transact such
other business as may properly come '
before said meeting.
HENRY RODEN,
Referee in Bankruptcy. 1
Dated at Iditarod, Alaska, June 25, 1912.
EVERYTHING FromDomes
CVUIMIIIIIU tic Sardines
to the Turkey Trot
AT THE
RATHSKELLER
NATURALIZATION PETITIONS
WILL BE HEARD NEXT WEEK
Judge Overfield will hear petitions
for naturalization from those duly qual
ified every day next week until Friday.
Only those whose applications for final
papers have been filed for the pre
scribed period of four months will be
eligible. Successful petitioners will be
able to vote at the forthcoming dele
gate election. Two applications have
been filed to date.
BOAT BUILDERS HAVE BEEN BUSY
A. Watson and Louie Pine have been
quite busy for the past two weeks fix
ing up boats- and launches. I'hey
lengthened the Comet barge to 62 feet,
fixed up the little launch Flyer, and
also fixed up tlie small launch for
Thorns and McDonald.
Mr. Watson is now getting his own
launch into shape, and may place it in
commission later on this season.
Oscar Anderson “nearly” won
several events in the Fourth of July
sports. That sort of thing is getting
to be quite a habit with him.
Tommy McSmart joins the staff of
Issues Bros. & Co., gents’ clothiers,
today.
TEAM CARRIED MANY TO FLAT
In addition to the large number of
people who traveled afoot to Flat for
the Fourth, i he Iditarod Traction Com
pany carried many. The morning trams ■
had over 25 aboard, and others went
out on the cars which left in the after- j
noon. The Traction people are noth-1
ing if not patriotic, and the way those I
Missouri songbirds were decorated for;
the i c a-ion was simply wonderful. Ex-1
lten.se was clearly no object.
SHERIDAN LEAVES ST. MICHAEL
The transport Sheridan, which arrived !
at Nome last week with 1,000 men of
the Thirtieth infantry, sailed from St.
Michael for San Francisco at midnight,
July 21 The Thirtieth infantry will
garrison the Alaskan military Dosts for
the next two years, while tiie Sixteenth
will go first to the Presidio, California, '
and later to the Philippines.
For the second time in history human
beings on May 4 crossed the American
channel just above the falls on the dry
river bed, the dry bed being caused by
an ice jam between the mainland and
Goat island, a mile above the cataract.
Tom Woodson is foreman for Shrop
shire & Burns, on Flat creek.
JUST ARRIVED
— INCLUDING—
Select Petaluma Eggs
Pasteurised Creamery Butter
Large Assortment ftlew Cheese
i^ew Potatoes, Bermuda Onions
Fresh Cabbage, Turnips,
Oranges and Lemons,
Grapefruit, Apples, Etc.
Swift’s Premium Ham and Bacon Lunch Meats
Always a Full Line of S. & W. Canned Goods
CROWLEY & PORTER
“The House of Quality”
First Ave., Iditarod Front St., Flat City
Marquette Rye AA Perla Pei ^ar cigars National Club Bourbon
G. & U. DRY GIN QUEEN ANNE SCOTCH
Those Rickeys are fine made from Fresh Limes. Try one.
THE BUD WEISER JACK BAIRD iditarod flat city ED ANDERSON THE BRANCH