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THE KUSKOKWIM
The news from Washington to the effect that Secretary Rcdfield has
announced the discovt. ry of a practicably navigable channel at tnc
mouth of the Kuskokwim river has a great deal of significance to this
section of Alaska, and will have a tendency to stimulate interest in un
developed districts tributary to tnat great nawgaole waterway.
The kuskokwim river is the second largest of Alaska s rivers, and is
navigable for several hundred miles from its mouth. It has its source
in tlwk Mount McKinley region of the Alaska range, and (lows in a
southwesterly direction to where it empties into Kuskokwim bay, ar
mlet of Bristol bay. The mouth of the liver is an immense estuary,
said to be of considerable depth, there is no oar. Small trading
schooners at present ascend the river as far as Bethel, whence river
steamers ply to the upper reaches of the stream, to Georgetown, Fa
kotr.a and McGrath.
It is believed that with a navigable channel for ocean-going vessels
to Bethel the problem of cheap transportation for the immense tract
of undeveloped country known as the Kuskokwun country wul have
been solved, and that supplies will eventually be laid down at Takotna,
McGrath and other points on the upper river at a saving of fully one
half as compared io present rates by the Yukon and iditarod rivers to
Iditarod and surrounding territory. The significance of this is immense
when the fact is understood that the Kuskokwim region is known to
contain large areas of taw-grade auriferous gravels which can be profit
ably worked only by means of dredges. With cheap transportation will
come cheap fuel oils and coal, thus enabling the exploiting of ground
that could not be worked under present expensive conditions.
At a point near Russian Mission there is a portage between the kus
kokwim and Yukon rivers which, with but little expense, compara
tively, could be made available for interchange of traffic between the
two streams. This could be utilized in connection with the up-river
Yukon steamers, thus avoiding the necessity for using the tortuous and
dangerous entrance to the Yukon and shortening the distance between
Seattle and the upper Yukon by several hundred miles, with a corre
sponding reduction in transportation rates.
The unfortunate failure of Iditarod ? fire-fighting machinery to per
form its allotted task at Thursday night’s fire is a matter of the gravest
concern to all our citizens. The question of who, if anybody, was to
blame, is one oi minor importance now'. The task before the city
council is to endeavor to make a repetit on of this incident an impossi
bility. It has been demonstrated that the system is adequate for the
city’s needs, and steps should be taken to see that it is at all times
available.
VICTOR HUGO’S FHOPHECY ON PRESENT WAR
On March 1. 1S7I. when the French national py.-embly met at Bordeaux, at
the close of the Franco-Truss', an war. to ratify the p/elininary articles of peac* i
with Germany, Victor Hugo spoke. He foretold bow Franc.* would some day arise
from her ashes and take her revenge upon her foes.
“Then," he said. “France will suddenly arou. v herself. She will become for
midable. She will regain Alsace and Lorraine. Is ii enough? No! No! She
will capture—listen! Treves. Mainz. Cologne, Coblenz! and you shall hear France
cry: ‘The clock strikes my hour! Germany, hear me! Am I thine enemy? No,
I am thv sister! I have taken all from thee. I return all to thee, upon one condi
tion: That we shall no Huger be a divided people; that we shall be one united fam
ily. one republic. I will demolish my fortresses, thou thine. My vendetta is —
brotherhood!
“ ‘No more frontier. The Rhine, mine and thine. We shall be the same re
public; we shall be the l nited States of Europe, we shall be the continental federa
tion, we shall be the liberty of Europe. And now let us clasp hands, for we have
rendered each a reciprocated service. Thou hast freed me from my emperor. 1
will free thee from thine.' ”
ALASKA COAL TESTS
WERE MOST SATISFACTORY
WASHINGTON, Dec. I' Alaska’s coal
is the future fuel for the American navy in
the Pacific. This, in brief, is the result of
the tests made by United States cruisers,
and when the news was made public late
yesterday afternoon the little colony of
westerners in Washington met in a local
hotel to paint pictures of a great future
for the coal industry of the North.
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels,
testifying before the house committee on
naval affairs yesterday, said:
“I nltke the Tests made with the Bering
river coal, we have used hand-picked Mat
anuska coal for our latest t?.-ts. The coal
so tested is in all respects highly satisfac
tory for the navy’s use, and if the coal tested
is a fair indication of the general character
of the coal in the Matanuska field, our fuel
needs for the Pacific fleet will be supplied.
"An official report on the te«ts made by
the United States cruiser Maryland states
that the firemen pronounced a ‘forced draft’
trial of the coal gave the Maryland the easi
est twenty-knot run the cruiser ever made,
hiring was easy and the steam pressure was
easily maintained. The coal is said to have
burned ‘like pine knots.’
An unomcial report on an evaporative
test at one of the experimental stations prac
tically confirms the tests on the Maryland.
The general result was gratifying to the
navy department and points the way to an
adequate supply of coal on the Pacific coast
for the navy as soon as reasonable trans
portation facilities are available.”
Ihe testimony of Secretary Daniels was
made the feature of newspaper accounts in
several of the Eastern papers this morning.
“Misnamed Conservation” Dead
SEATTLE, Dec. 15.-The Washington
correspondent of the Times today tele
graphs his paper that “two members of the
house naval-committee tol l him that ‘mis
named conservation’ is dead as far as Alaska
is concerned, and that an era of real con
servation and development is about to be
gin.”
The naval committee members are also
said to have stated: “Heretofore owners of I
Eastern coal fields have been able to main- I
tain a grip on the throat of the navy de- 1
pnrtanent and force the government to nnv i
, ‘any old price’ for its coa! for warships.
The line test the Matanuska coal has passed
will end all this and it will end the prac
' tice of carrying cod from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, at a tremendous expense to the
government.”
LIFE IS BEST AFTER 50
(From “The House We Live In,” by Dr.
William Elliott Griffis)
Neither the beauty of spring flowers nor
J the splendor of summer’s harvests equal the
! mellow affluence of autumn’s glory. For
! personal enjoyment and exercise of the
nobler powers, human life is at its best
' after 50: and if personal experience be the
criterion, the writer would say, after 60.
Not for command, or for executive ini
tiation, neither for animal pleasures nor for
worldly amusements, nor for easy conform
ity to the tyranny of social custom, but for
t pure delight in the higher realms of hap
piness, no previous period in life, no April,
May, or even June or July of existence can
I compare with its glorious October.
Then are at their best the treasures of
memory, and of hope, the rich fruitage of
intellectual culture, the satisfying pleasures
oi me minu ana me raptures oi iaiin.
From these resources is spread the table
of life as never before, and for the daily
banquet at which sits as guest the infinite
friend of man.
Life, as it lengthens in perspective, be
comes more interesting, and its outlook
grander. There is ever more that one wishes
to live for. here cr hereafter. If one has
cultivated his mind and taken a wider view
of history and humanity, then for him the
drudgery of text books, the grammar and
dictionary are largely over. He sees with
clear vision where he once groped to find
a clue. He enters into his intellectual in
heritance. Where was the sowing is now
the reaping—sheaves borne where or.ee lares
fell. He is no longer the heir, under tutors
and governors, but the possessor of riches,
of which no slump in the market, no panics
or national convulsions can rob him.
SOX HAVE CHINESE PITCHER
CHICAGO, Dec. 5. Lai Tin, an Oriental,
who has developed considerable ability as a
pitcher, has been signed for the coming sea
son by the management of the White Sox.
ARCHDEACON STUCK
ON CROSSLEY’S REMOVAL
l)r. Hudson Stuck, archdeacon of the
Episcopal diocese of Alaska, writing in the
New York Evening Post, says that the news
of the resignation of United States Attorney
James J. Crossley of the Fourth Alaska di
\ision is “received with a sinking heart by
the well-intentioned people of the interior
of this territory, for it means the victory
cf the vicious and corrupt element that hits
long labored for his removal.” Continuing,
the archdeacon says:
“Appointed by Mr. Roosevelt six or seven
years ago, and reappointed by Mr. Taft two
or three years ago, there have indeed been
almost ceaseless efforts to secure his re
moval ever since his character and capacity
manifested themselves, but when a govern
ment a different political complexion
came into power in 11*IS, the attack was
renewed with more vigor and hope In th"
last nine months it lias remixed irself into
a conliiet between those who favor the en
forcement of the law and those who are op
posed to the enforcement of the law and
the latter have won.
“For Mr. Crossley’s politics have really
nothing to do with the case. He has not
moved in any political matters at all since
he entered upon his public duties, but has
devoted all his lime and energies to the exe
cution of his office. Herein lies his offense:
He has stood, fearless and incorruptible and
able, for the execution cf the law and the
punishment of the law-breakers. Especially
in connection with the honor lnws enacted
for the protection of the Indians has Mr.
Cros-l.y given offense, and it is the whisky
dealers and all the lewd following of the
whisky dealers who triumph in this re
moval.
-The thing has not been done ignorantiy.
Again and again the true conditions have
:>een represen ed at Washington in speech
mid writing. So h.ig as Mr. McKaym-lds
remained attorney general me prev-uie
seems to have been resisted, and indeed il
k. rks as though some subordinate but
powerful official of the department of jus
tice had taken advantage of the change in j
the head of the department to effect the re- ,
move.!. j
“Mr. Crossley has never cared how much
political influence was wielded by those
v erm he felt il his duty t > proceed against, j
Was it the powerful (' Id Storage company. ;
caught selling frozen putridities, or the great
Alaska Commercial Company itself, evading
the paymen* of its just dues to the govern
ment, it nt dr no difference to him, and, in
like temper, he cured naught how small
end weak those might be -vho were op- j
rowed and sought his protection. bast
winter he sued out and secured, against
.-hues' the whole Fairbanks bar, a perpetual
injunction restraining certain white men.
among whom was the agent- of the chief
Alaskan coumurrati company referred to.
from intruding upon the native village at
Fort Yukon and taking the land that has
l, t! aged to the natives immomorially. This
summer he has secured no less titan four
convictions of white men for peddling
liquor to Indians, an unprecedented success
in (.tie term of court.
“Moreover, he has won his successes
against the scarcely concealed antagonism
and intrigue of the United States marshal's
* flice. instead of with its hearty co-opera
tion. hi the scandalous trials of Fort Yu
kon cases lact winter at 1 airbar.ks. when
the most unscrupulous efforts were made,
and made successfully, to secure the ac
quittal of offenders bound over from this
outpost of dissolute whites, the influence of
the marshal’s office was used to help in de
feating the ends of justice and to secure the
j removal of the intrepid missionary physi
I cian. the resident magistrate of the place.
! .lodge Fuller refused to receive the report
i rf the packed grand jury recommending
5 this removal, and sent the magistrate back
i with cordial approval and with enhanced
i powers.
I “But when the United States marshal was
I required to send a deputy to reside at Fort
Y ukon he sent, first, a notorious drunkard,
who became the leader of the licentious
gang; and when this man’s conduct was
so open and scandalous that he was com
■ pelleu to recall hint, he sent one of the
members of the grand jury referred to, who
had been most active in endeavoring to
secure the removal of the magistrate and
his indictment on any sort of pretense that
would serve to put that umbrage and in
dignity upon him. When I returned to Fort
Yukon this summer I was shown the doors
and windows in the native village that had
been swashed by a drunken gang of whites
under the leadership of this first deputy.
"Details like this will give perhaps* some
inkling to those who are unfamiliar with
conditions in rhe Interior of the territory
of the dismay with which Mr. Crossley’s re
moval is regarded. He stood between us
and the undisputed reign of the whisky
ting, the wholesale dealers and the illicit
peddlers; for it must not be forgotten that
while the licensed dealers do not themselves
sell to Indians, yet they notoriously sell to
men who notoriously peddle to Italians, tint 1
i any serious mterlerence witn mis uespicame
traffic would greatly invade the total sales
in the territory. Mr. Crossley knew the
country, he knew the men of the country;
every year made him more efficient and a
greater terror to evil-doers. There have
been governments, one thinks, which de
ilghted to honor and advance faithful and
fearless public servants; here is a public
servant removed for no other reason than
his fidelity and fearlessness.
“It is a matter of wonder to some of us
who have admired the high-minded attitude
and the large views which characterize the
'resent administration in international af
fairs that in domestic affairs such petty
policy should be pursued. Doubtless Mr.
Crossley’s removal from oce in Alaska and
return to the States will redound to the
advantage of his career in the long run.
The qualities he has so conspicuously dis
played are not so common nowadays that
(heir possessors are long neglected, and it
is a safe prediction that in natural opera
tion of human affairs he who has been so
faithful in a few things will by and by be
made ruler over many. But it is matter
of discouragement and chagrin to the whole
law-abiding element in the Interior of
Alaska, and particularly to those interested
in the protection and survival of the Alaska
natives, that James J. Crossley has been re
moved from office.*'’
THE FOXY CZAR
(Skagway Alaskan)
Pretty foxy of the czar to shut off vodka
for his soldiers and then head them toward
the German rathskellers.
Cyril Wood has received a post card from
Frank Haslund, former Northern Commer
cial Company agent at Takotna, -who left
here for the Outside last summer. He was
in Christiania, Norway.
Steps are being taken in Ihe British par- I
liament to stop all trading by the British
with either Germany, Austria or Turkey.
The loss of the Austrian steamer Joseph
ine, blown up by an Austrian mine off Pola,
which was engaged in an alleged contra
band trade between Trieste and Venice, will
prove a serious blow to Austria, as she was
one of the largest vessels in the traffic.
Emma Calve is singing to the wounded
in France.
The police of Vienna, according to Vene
tian dispatches, are adopting more severe
measures against British internes.
It is proposed in Great Britain to dupli
cate the territorial force, making one bat
talion of each regiment for home defense
and the other for foreign service. The
present territorial army in England, it is
stated, is GC0.000 men. This numl or is not
reckoned in Kitchener’s army at the front
or the army preparing in England.
English football clubs, criticized because
they play while men are needed to make tar
gets for the Germans, declare themselves
ready to suspend their schedule simultane
ously with the race courses, golf links, the
aters and picture palaces.
Venice declares that \ic-nna is suffering
because of the exorbitant prices of food.
An Amsterdam di-patch states that Ger
mans are taxing Hour sent from the United j
States to the Belgians at the rate of $1.18 >
tier hundred pounds.
A Touting mine is reported off 'few York ,
by Contain Davies of the British steamer
E'tr mutt.
It is announced officially from Luxem
burg that Germany .-o far has paid $260,000
I for damage done to fields and Crops by the
j passage of the German army, and $62,000
| for that done to streets and roads.
The Chamber of Commerce of Armentiers
I ha. protested formally to Washington,
through tht American con.id at Ilunkirke.
| the bombardment of their city by the Gar
j mans, although the town is not occupied
by the allies.
A wholesale expulsion of Germans has
taker, place in I’etrograd, the press declaring
ihe measure to have been taken in view of
i ri: riens for the building of a new Ger
man ilect.
The American commission for relief in
Belgium categorically denies the report that
if Amerrans had not sent relief to Belgium
: the Belgians would have been relieved by
I Germany. Germans, it stati -. have nit only
I denied .ouch relief when asked on several
! occasions by different districts and cities,
j but have denied permission to buy food sup
I plies in oermany to bring over tne boruer
The first graduate of an American col
lege to fall in the war was Lieutenant
George Williamson of Harvard, class of
1905. He btl n red to the Duke of Welling
i ten's regiment, and is reported on the cas
I m.lfy !i;* O' having died from his wounds.
Fritz Kreizl- r, the Austrian vi linist,
I wounded ne ar Lemberg on September 1(5.
has arrived in New York.
Turkey has notified neutral powers that
it will not permit their representatives to
correspond i:i cipher or code.
Three Turks have been arrested in Lon
don. Outari ». charged with an attempt to
ussasdmim Major General Hughes, Canadian
war minister.
Contributions for the work of the German
Red Cr<. s received through New York total
o for $57(5,071.
Tlie private wireless plant of the Babbri
Bros, of New York is under investigation
because of a suspicion that they have been
cf mn.sideating with German cruisers in
the Atlantic.
The British prize courts have ruled that a
1 British vessel carrying an enemy’s cargo is
! liable to seizure anywhere in war time.
| American passports in future must bear
! the photographs of the persons to whom
I they are issued, according to a ruling by
the American embassy in London.
The Knight Woolen Company of Provo,
Utah, received a rush order for 50,000 war
blankets from Europe.
The French government his issued per
| mission for the reopening of theaters and
concert halls on condition that a part of
the receipts be given to the aid of the scl
(tiers and to relieve distress.
Grand Duke Michael of Russia has pre
sented to the French army 1.000,000 pairs
of shoes, which have been ordered from
Webster, Mass., at an average price of $3
a pair.
The German government has added to
the list of contraband all kinds of wood.
Machines to dig graves, perfected in Chi
cago, are being ordered by Europe. They
| can also be used in digging trenches.
I The United States has addressed a note
j of inquiry to the sublime porte. asking its
1 intentions in preventing the American am
ijjjassador from telegraphing in cipher or
code to the home government.
According to a dispatch from the ftague,
| the kaiser has ordered all his diplomatic
i agents who were in belligerent countries to
I seek other employment.
I It is proposed to introduce legislation in
England forbidding all professional foot
ball during the war.
The woolen mills of Wisconsin are stated
to be working on rush orders for 108,000
dozen pairs of woolen socks for the British
and French governments.
Eight more Victoria crosses have been
bestowed for conspictuous gallantry on the
field. Five have gone to privates and three
to officers.
According to Berlin advices, there is no
H(£uth in the story that there have been
serious disagreements between Austrian and
German military commanders.
A brother of Genera! Von Mackensen,
who is reported to have defeated and to
have been defeated by the Germans at
Lowicz, is living a few miles from Van
couver, B. C., on a ranch. He has to re
port to the police regularly, being refused
naturalization.
Forty armored cars have been ordered by
the Canadian government. They are to
carry five men and a quick-firer and to be
bullet-proof at 100 yards.
The German bundesrath has determined
to take care of wives of husbands at the
front in time of childbirth.
Chancllor Lloyd George declares that the
only danger to British trade at the begin
ning of the war was the uncollectability of
the large sums owed to it abroad.
Copenhagen states that all German corre
spondents at the front in Poland have been
forbidden to transmit news to their papers.
Warsaw announces the organization of a
Polish national council to prepare the peo
pie for the union of the dismembered parts
of Poland.
Tureky refuses to pay interest on its 1909
loan of $31,800,000, due December 14, ex
cept to such bondholders who are personally
present in Constantinople.
American newspapers are not allowed to
cross the Canadian boundary from the state
of Washington because of the fear that some
one will receive information about the war
which the censors believe should be sup
pressed.
CONSTANTINOPLE TO BE
OCCUPIED BY RUSSIANS
Some English publications have taken up
very frankly the question of the future of
Constantinople, in view of the “suicide of
the Turks,” says the New York Sun. Times
have changed wonderfully since a primary
aim of British diplomacy was to keep Russia
bottled up in the Black sea. Today the
cession of the great city on the Bosporus to
the czar is generally accepted as the nat
ural outcome of the present war. Not only
that, it is recognized that Russia must have
land access to her new stronghold, a phrase
which means Russian control of the entire
southern shore of the Black sea. England
is apparently willing to throw in command
of the Hellespont so that Russia may have
free and unrestricted access to the outer
world for her southern territories.
Time was when such a prospect would
have been regarded as most menaeng to
British interests in the Levant,, and as
even threatening her Indian empire, by al
lowing Russia to embarrass her line of
communication through the Suez canal.
Now al! the discussions ignore this phase and
profess to regard Constantinople as worth
less to any nation from a political point
of view, and of only moral and economic
importance to the Russians as being the key
to the back door of their trade. The Spec
tator quotes Napoleon’s saying at Tilsit,
that “Constantinople means the empire of
the world” only to brush it aside as a “very
bad reading of history and a very bad piece
of political strategy.” It is pointed out
that no power that has ruled at Constanti
nople has ever dominated the world. What
importance it had in old times, it is ar
gued., has been navigation an assumption,
it may be remarked, that will hardly look
so plausible should Russia eventually bull'!
up a great naval power.
.as to wna? ruissia may on wun uir cn>
when she gets it. there is little difference
of npimon. The notion that she might
transfer her capital to it is dismissed as a
dream. It has no trauiton or interest for
the Slav, and with the present, war Russia
becomes more Slavic than ever in her pride.
The new possession will i>c a gateway ana
a defense for her. It will bring her more
than ever into touch with the West. It
'll turn her face from Asia to Europe.
But it will never be her heart as Moscow
is. or her right hand, like Petrograd.
Only two conditions seem to enter info
the British mind as essential in the transfer
f the Turkish capi’al and territories. One
is that Russia should treat her new M
hammedan subjects liberally anu humanely.
This is regarded as guaranteed by her re
lations with the several millions of follow
ers of the Prophet already under her stand,
ard. The second point is the free naviga
tion of the two straits and the Black sea.
with free privileges of trading in what will
be to all intents an?! purposes inclosed Rus
sian wafers. The plan contemplated is the
commercial neutralization of the Dardan
elles and Bosporus upon terms similar to
those governing the Suez and Panama
canals.
GENERAL’S WIFE ARRESTED
EECAUSE OF ESC FEET
LONDON. Dec. 15. There has been a
terrible stir in army circles at Dunkirke.
The wife of a French general was arrested
because she had big feet, it has been learned,
and, furious at the publicity whch resulted,
accompanied by the heralding of facts con
corning the size of her feat, life has been
made uncomfortable for more than one of
ficer.
This is how it happened. A German spy
| was recently captured in Dunkirke. He was
dresser! as a woman, but the size of his feet
betrayed him and he was captured. Then
i everyone in Dunkirke began watching feet.
The wife of the French general sallied
forth and her feet attracted the attention
of a soldier. She was arrested, and now
even those who had not looked before the
spy scare struck Dunkirke know that she
has big feet.
BELLIGERENT NATIONS
CIRCULATES WAR NEWS
LONDON, Dec. 19.—The spread of offi
cial news by wireless broadcast over the
globe for whoever can pick it up is a new
method of political propaganda which has
been introduced through the present Euro
pean war.
When the German-owned Atlantic cables
were cut and Germany’s intercourse with
the outer world and with some of ts colo
nies by English and French routes was
stopped, the German high-power wireless
began sending news north which was des
tined primarily for the United States and
the German colonics.
It was picked up, however, by various
wireless stations operated by different sys
tems in countries everywhere withn its
radius, which is a wide one, extending from
Germany to the American shores of the
Atlantic.
Both the French and British governments
concluded it would be good policy to com
bat this wireless news campaign oy spread
ing reports of their own through the same
agency. Accordingly the French are now
sending military and political buUcdns on
the progress of events from the French
point of view from their station on the
Eiffel tower. The Marconi company is dis
seminating British bulletins composed by
the foreign office.
AND VICE VERSA
We hesitate to speak harshly of the far
famed human race, as we count some of
our best friends among its members. But
we know about a man who refused to give
to the Belgian relief fund because, he said,
there were so many more urgent cases just
around the corner; and he refused imme
diately after to help somebody he knew,
alleging that the isolated case was nothing
compared to thousands of starving Belgians.
As to perspective, we also know a man
who came to the office yesterday with a
button off his coat. “Will you sew this
on?” he begged. “My wife was busy this
morning knitting hosiery for the Germans.”
—New York Tribune.
FOR SALE—1,000 reindeer, male and
female, $30 per head. Mis Klemetsen
Cnalakleet, Alaska. ’ I
PIONEER CREEK AGENCIES
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FLAT CITY.Mrs. C. C. Chittick .
DISCOVERY OTTER . Harry Donnelley :
DR. MOORE,
Phvsician and Surgeon
Cold St., Opposite Postoffice, Flat City j
Eye-Glass Fitting Telephone j
DR. H. E. AURINGER,
Physician and Surgeon
Office: Gold St. Flat City, Alaska
Consultation Hours in Forenoons and by
Appointment
E. M. STANTON,
Attorney at Law
Office: Corner Willow and Second Sts.
Iditarod Pioneer Building
W. F. HARRISON,
Attorney at Law'
SDITAROD, ALASKA
Rocrr. 12, Regina Hotel
CHAS. E. TAYLOR,
Aliorney at Law
BANK BLOCK
First Avenue Iditarod
l
j OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
!
j i
| CAFE
| FLAT CITY HOHBACK &. DURAND
j Bet. the Grand and Bagoy’s Bars
i THE BEST ALL THE TIME
Y7E ARE HERE TO STAY
SCATHING ARRAIGNMENT
OF TRIAL JURY EY JUDGE
Judge Jennings of the l'irst Alaska judi
cial division, in dismissing the jury which
acquitted the officials of the Astoria & Pu
■;pt Sound Cannery Company at Juneau re
cently, said:
"There is riot a petty larceny thief, caught
n the act. with his hand in another man's
pocket; there is not a burglar caught in
another man’s home; there is not a mur
derer caught with the blood of his victim
recking from his hands, that wouiu not re
joice to be tried by such a jury as you!
“The law in this case was absolutely clear
in lhr» court’s charge to you, and the facts
in the case were undisputed. \ou have dis
regarded both the law and the facts and
have found a verdict in your own caprice!
Vou are finally discharged from any fur
ther services in this court room!”
HER FORMER SUCCESSES
(Seward Gateway)
Mrs. R. II. Tiffany opened her new store
today next door to the Gateway office. She
carries a stock of ladies’ and childrens goods
and various articles of ill kinds. Mrs. Tif
fany has formerly conducted successful
stores in Fairbanks and Iditarod.
Location Notices at Pioneer office.
Adams House
FIRST ST., IDITAROD
Clean, Warm Rooms, Gas-Lighted. The
Only First-Class Horse and Dog
Stable: in Town
Travelers Taken to the Creeks
Free Library and Reading Room
Dog Salmon for Sale
Best of Everything
ALL THE TIME AT THE
Arcade Cafe
FLAT CITY
Open Dav and Night
For a Q'jiet Sleep
FURNACE HEAT
REASONABLE RATES
Second and Willow Streets
MRS. N. P. GILMORE
DISKAKET AND CRIPPLE CITY
Big Stocks, Standard Goods
Gasoline and Lubricating Oil
Good Roadhouse m Connection
| Both Winter and Summer
Locations
INQUIRE AT THE ROADHOUSE
! BEST LIQUORS AND CIGARS
(Formerly the Stanley House)
JOHN SAGOY, PROP.
I GOOD ROOMS CLEAN BEDS
FLAT CITY_
EQil?ER BOOMING
i aSWtft house
Dis., Otter Mist; M. Earl, Prop.
Warm and Clean Rooms
Porcelain Tub Baths
CONVENIENT DOG KENNELS
Twenty-two mile.' from Moore Creek
Twenty-eight mile.-, from Takotna
GOOD BARM AND DOG HOUSES
Dog Salmon for Sale
SMITH & SNOW, PROPS.
Gold Si., Flat City
SES3 PS*S>
I Mrs. Geo. Mutchler, Prop.
Hioely Furnished Rooms Barn for Horses and Dogs Baths in Connection
: Seward Gold Sea! Pacs
I ARE THE BEST ON THE MARKET
) H, DONNELLEY.__
McDonald House accommodation
Furnace Heat in Every Room Large and Warm Dog Houses
FREE READING ROOM.—Ail the Late Outside Papers and Magazines.
When at ■ n e CLEAN, WARM ROOMS
stop “at,1 ^he Snyder House T«bst-m B.th.
New Stables tor Horses and Dogs MRS. DICKSON, PROP.
Beef, Poultry, Fish
Dry Packed Butter
s.=o„dst.SDITAROD SI EAT CO. "><■"•15
THE BEST OF EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME I
Caribou Cafe
s —esssk GOOD MEALS
ytBer^'BSiiHassB SHORT ORDERS aEsaraai^™*
FIRST AVE. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT n0B;rosPOUTflR |