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NEW RESTAURANT AT FLAT
This afternoon at ti o’clock is the adver
tised time for the opening of the new
Northern Restaurant and Bakery at Flat
City by Pete Michaels, and a big dinner
bill of fare has been prepared by the chef
and baker, who are recent arrivals in Alaska
from trail Francisco. The place will be
open for business at all hours, and it is
Mr. Michaels’ intention to maintain a high
standard for excellence.
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Max Lohbrunner was a visitor in town
yesterday from the upper part of Flat
creek, where he is mining.
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Fresh Olympia and F astern Oysters,
SI.50 per can. Iditarod Meat Co.
Entire ftlew
Stock of Goods
AT
IDITAROD DRY GOODS STORE
MRS YOUNG
OREGON WOOLEN MILLS
LOGGERS' SHIRTS
GOODRICH
HYPRESS and LITPAK
SHUPAKS
HEAVY SHIRTS
KODAKS
AND SUPPLIES
IDITAROD, ALAFXA
THEY MAY COMPEL HIM
TO TAKE THAT CONTRACT
"While the people of lditarod have heard
nothing further in regard to the aerial mail
contract for which Earl Byers was the only
bidder, and which was supposed to have
been dropped, it seems that they are still
talking about it in Washington, and if the
lditarod man doesn't take cure he may I
have a contract thrust upon him willy- j
nilly. A special dispatch from Washington
in the Juneau Empire, dated September 5,
says:
“Preparations of the postoffice depart
ment to let a contract for mail delivery in
Alaska by aeroplane was announced in the
house of representatives just before ad
journment by Representative Murray Heu
bert of New York, who inserted in the
Record figures relating to the pioneer
| aerial mail route. The delivery of mail by
| aero; lane, according to Mr. Hsubert, will
! be made between Seward and Nome, with
I lditarod as a distributing center, for In
terior deliveries by the dog-sled routes.
| Quicker deliveries will be possible through
! out Alaska, he says, because of the aero
I plane transportation.
I “ ‘The department,' says Mr. Keubert.
| 'has received a bid from Earl Byers for
i aeroplane delivery at -S‘9,500 a year. Tins
calls for deliveries twice a week all the
year and a weight limit of 1,000 pounds,
j The inauguration of the first aeroplane
I delivery will soon be announced by the
department.’
“Mr. Keubert explained that his interest
in the mail route was in spirit with the
interest of his district in aeronautic devel
[ opment.”
“NIGGER JIM” AT HOPE
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James Daugherty, known throughout
; the Dawson country and much of Alaska
j by the familiar cognomen "Nigger Jim,”
] has been in town this week shaking hands
i with his legion of friends, says the Anchor
I age Star. Jim has been around Hope for
the past year or two.
A TEST OF FAITH
Love is something, says Luke McLuke,
that makes a girl have faith in a man even
when she sees that the engagement ring he
gave her is leaving a green mark on her
finger.
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C. R. PECK - ■ FLAT
Winter Outfits
Quality and Prices Guaranteed
CANDY \
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Society Chocolate Creams, per lb 5 -75 <
Imperial Chocolate Creams, per lb. . 1.00 ,
n A cm fMC Cl AT IDANC Acorn Special Flat Iron, eacl. 7.60 *
LlAoULIIlt TLA1 ll\Ut1i5 American Flat Irons, each. 7.50^
Tents, Tarpaulins, Nome Dog Harness, Webbing, Gasoline Lamps, Guns, Am- 4
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IDITAROD, ALASKA PHONE 6 SECOND AND WILLOW <
LONG ARM OF THE LAW
STRETCHES UNDER THE SEA
NEW YORK, Sept. IS.- Sir. years ago,
when the rye and barley shocks dotted the
vast fields of the North German plain,
Valerie Klescznaka, a harvest hand, was
murdered. She was a peasant girl from
Russian Poland who had come down with
thousands of others for the harvest season
to Mecklenburg-Schwerin. She was one
of hundreds working on the R.tter-Gut
estates, the property of Prinz Eitel Fried
rich. Her body was thrown into a pond,
weighted with a steel rail.
Since those peaceful golden days has
come a war that enveloped Germany on all
sides. Army corps have tramped and great
guns rumbled over the fields where Valerie
labored ami died. Her foes have boasted
that Germany was cut off from the world.
The other day Wadislaw Kubick was ar
rested at his home at 199 York street, Jer
sey City, charged with the murder of Va
lerie Klescznaka, and the warrant was
signed by the magistrate of a town in Meck
lenburg-Schwerin.
Accompanying the document were sixty
typewritten pages of evidence gathered in
the six years by painstaking German police
men. Also there were photographs of Ku
bioki, of Valerie and of the pond in which
her body was thrown.
The Deutschland, pioneer undersea mer
chantman. has found room among its pre- i
cieus cargo for the documents that were 1
to permit a German detective to report to
his chief that the Kie-cznaka murder case
was complete and the alleged murderer un
der arrest awaiting trial. It was just com
monplace crime in an outlying section, but
the German police system found time and
opportunity despite war’s demands and re
strictions to follow it up to the end.
It was November 10, 1910, that Valerie
was missed. She had come from Gustyen,
Russian Poland. From the same village
came Kubicki and his wife. Not until eleven
months later was it known definitely how
she died. The summer and early fall of
1911 were exceptionally dry in Mecklen
burg Schwerin. A little pond on the R'.tter
Gut estate dried up. Valerie’s body, lashed
to a steel rail, was disclosed. A careful
examination and analysis showed that she
had been strangled.
From Poland thousands come every year,
in time of peace, to help harvest Germany's
grain. The host moves across the face of
the land as opportunity and ambition moves
it. The problem of the police was to find
the one in the multitude who had strangled
the Polish girl.
RESULTS OF PRIMARIES
IN STATE OF WASHINGTON
Seattle dispatches of September 1 ■'* and
14 give details of the state-wide primaries
in Washington, which brought out several
surprises, the most important being the de
feat of Congressman W. E. Humphrey for
the United State, senatorial nomination by
Senator Miles Poindexter, Progressive Re
publican. by a [ iurality of between 6.000
and S.000. The defeat of Humphrey is a
severe blow to the old-line Republicans, and
the Post-Intelligencer, the leading Repub
lican newspaper of Washington, shows indi
cations of its intention to bolt the nomina
tion.
The defeat of Humphrey is attribute!
largely to Seattle Democrats, who resented
his abuse of President Wilson, and. having
few' contests of their own, went into the
Republican booths and voted as Republic
ans against him.
Former Governor Henry McBride w'as
successful in the race for the governorship
in a field of seven candidates. Former
Mayor of Seattle John F. Miller was nomi
nated for congress to succeed W. E. Hum
phrey from the First district, and Albert
Johnson of Hoquiam was renominated for
the third term from the Third district.
Governor Lister was renominated by the
Democrats by an overwhelming majority
over Dr. W. E. Cass of Vancouver. The
indications were that former Senator George
Turner had been nominated for senator
over Robert Bridges.
Former Mayor George F. Cotterill was
nominated for congress in the Seattle dis
trict. and Edward Cudihee, for three terms
sheriff of King county, was again nominated
for that position.
HOW HE MADE GOOD
LONDON, Sept. 18.—All England is ring
ing with praise following the publication of
the story of Lieutenant John Elkington.
At the beginning of the war the army offi
cer was “cashiered” and he immediately
joined the French Foreign Legion as a pri
vate. He rose from the ranks by leaps
and bounds. Yesterday the former officer
of the British army returned home badly
wounded with two coveted military honors.
Today he was reinstated in his old regiment,
the Royal Warwicks. Both of Lieutenant
Colonel Elkington’s knees are shattered.
“They are just fragments from France,”
he said. “My career is ended, but I paid
my debt to my country, and once again I
have the confidence of my king and coun
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HUI.LY GEE! LOOK WHO'S HERE
Jack McDonald, the genial heavy-weight
bar pilot of the Grand thirst bazaar of Flat
City, was a visitor at “the Landing” last
Monday, attending to some business mat
ters, and incidentally to give Dave Mutch
ler’s tram car a “proper try-out.” The. car
stood the test, and Jack returned home
safely the same day.
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A late arrival from Fortuna Ledge in
forms The Pioneer that several former resi
dents of Iditarod who recently went to the
new diggings had started for the Outside,
among whom were “Smithy” Benbrook,
formerly of the Regina hotel.
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2 LOCAL AND PERSONAL «
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Mrs. Harry E. Krause and Mrs. Robert
Lowrie of Elat City spent last Saturday at
“the Landing” on a shopping trip.
The launch Sea Wolf, with two barges
containing the outfit of George Marsh, left
port at peep o’ day last Saturday morning
for Fortuna Ledge.
Launch Nancy Bell (Captain Paprica Jen
sen) arrived in port shortly after 8 o’clock
Wednesday morning from a trip to the Mar
shall diggings. Among her cargo was 600
pounds of mail. The Nancy “sighted” the
oig Porter barge about thirty miles above
Holy Cross.
John Bagoy was a visitor in the city
from Fiat on Wednesday last.
Alex Conlin, formerly deputy United
States marshal at F'lat, was a passenger on
the Nancy Beil for Shageluk. He brought
with him from Nome a hand drill, and will
spend the winter prospecting some promis
ing claims in that vininity.
Thomas Luseombe, the Willow-creek
mining man, arrived in town last Thursday
evening.
Jonas Brewis arrived in the city last Mon
day from his mining operations on Willow
creek to visit with his family a couple of
days.
James Walsh came down from the Sum
mit on Wednesday last to transact business
in the city.
RECALLED MUNICH CONSUL
USES INDISCREET LANGUAGE
NEW YORK. Sept, IS.- T. St. John
Gaffney, former United States consul gen
eral at Munich, Germany, who was re
called several months ago by President Wil
son for his alleged unneutral utterances,
on his arrival here recently denounced the
American diplomatic service as pro-British.
When the Frederick VIII. reached Kirk
wall on the trip to New York the British
officers gave Gaffney a thorough looking
over, inspecting his person and his per
sonal belongings. He asserts that they took
his private address book and two $100
bonds of the Wisconsin Edison Company
and violated his rights as an American
citizen. He intends to file a strong protest
with the United States government.
“1 would like to pull down the British
Hag in America,” said Gaffney, when he
arrived. He had been reported as saying
that he would like to see the German Hag
over the Capitol at Washington, but this
he denied.
“No,” he said, “I did not say I would
like to see the German flag flying over
the White House. What 1 said was that
1 would like to help haul down the English
Hag from the White House. The at mo
sphere of the White House is viciously pro
British. Wilson reads the London Times
and the Post and would rather believe what
they say than the truth.”
Because of Gaffney's outspokenness in
airing his sympathies numerous sharp tilts
between him and other passengers occurred
on the trip. United States Consul General
William F. Pike, returning from his post
at Coburg, Germany, and John G. Simon,
a well-known merchant of Boston, assert
that Gaffney, in the smoking room of the
Frederick VII, said: “I wish I were the
man that shot the torpedo into the Lu
sitania.”
ALASKA’S AUGUST EXPORTS
JUNEAU, Sept. 6.— According to a re
port issued today by Collector of Customs
J. F. Pugh, Alaskan products valued at
more than the purchase price of the terri
tory were shipped to the States during the
month of August. Copper shipments took
the lead, with a total of nearly $3,000,000,
and white canned salmon shipments ex
ceeded $2,000,000, The report shows the
following products, aggregating $8,245,754,
were shipped to the States during August:
Antimony ore, $75,46.5; copper ore,
$2,830.082; curios, $626; fish fertilizer,
$3,695; fresh fish other than salmon, $28,
706; fish, dried, smoked or cured, $22,706;
pickled fish, $105,875; canned salmon,
$2,129,568; all other salmon, $102,669;
shrimps and clams, $5,591 ; all other fish
products, $3,737; furs, $64,566; lead ore,
$4,979; fish oil, S4S.S76; stearin, $390; mar
ble, $8,242; whalebone, $5S0; gold ore,
$709,211; gold bullion, $1,925,859; silver
ore, $65,272.
PRISONERS FOR OUTSIDE
The marshal’s party of prisoners and
guards for the Outside, headed by United
States Marshal L. T. Erwin, left in three
automobiles for the coast on September
23, according to the Fairbanks Citizen. The
guards were Deputy Marshal George Berg
and Fred Van Raes, with Miss C. O. Heid
acting as matron. The prisoners and their
sentences w'ere as follows: Kaltcg Nicoii,
life sentence; Nellie Douglas, three years,
going to Canon City, Colo.; Charles Grover,
eighteen years; Charles S. Covey, three
years. All the prisoners with the exception
of Nellie Douglas are bound for McNeil’s
Island. The following insane were taken
out: Hank O’Neil, Henry Wahrkamp and
Miss lone Jones.
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the under
signed has been appointed agent in Iditarod
for H. H. Porter* and that he will collect
and receipt for all bills due him.
GUY G. GERz\GHTY.
A. J. WEISS,
THE HOME OF HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX
I ENGLISH CHANNEL TUNNEL
LIKELY TO BECOME REALITY
LONDON, Sept. 18.—Advocates of a tun
nel under the English channel between Eng
1: nd and France express high confidence
that the construction of such a tunnel will
begin immediately after the conclusion of i
the war. This, great work will absorb much
labor released by demobilization.
Workers will be required in large num
bers, not only for excavation, but for mak
ing the necessary plant and machinery.
Business men have long favored the j
project, but the politicians, supported ap- j
parently by the nation, have clung to in- j
sularity. Now the Anglo-French peace has
been unbroken for more than one hun
dred years, and the French and British
are prosecuting side by side the greatest
war in history.
Fear of the French was what stopped
the channel in mid-Victorian days when j
I
time of profound peace might send troops j
through the tunnel, seize Dover and cap
ture London, overbore the champions of
I the tunnel, Gladstone, Bright and Langs
downe.
] Eince those days, not to mention the im ■
| provement in Anglo-French relations, the j
j Zeppelin, aeroplane and submarine have j
! come to affect the English insular position. j
1 Besides, it is seen that if the tunnel had i
i existed this war would have been much <
; easier for Great Britain. Troops and sup- !
plies could have been poured through it
in absolute security, sparing the admiralty
the heavy task of protecting the seas, and
leaving many millions of tons of mer
chant shipping free to do its accustomed
work. This would have meant cheaper
food and coal, a great boon and the safe
and comfortable transportation home of I
the British wounded.
| When built the tunnel will consist of i
| two tubes twenty feet in diameter, driven
| some forty feet apart, and connected at !
j short intervals by galleries. The tubes will ;
j be large enough to accommodate great
j trains, with restaurant and sleeping cars, I
j bringing London into close touch with the
j whole continent and making it more than
j ever the center of the world.
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MINERS COMMEND SULZER
Over the signatures of its president,
Thomas H. Butler, and secretary, H. It
It' fflesnn, the Miners’ Union of Sulzer, the j
home town of Senator Charles A. Sulzer,
has issued the following:
“At a meeting held in our hall on .Tune
6, 1916, all members being present, a mo- |
tion was made, seconded anti unanimously j
! carried to give Senator Charles A. Sulzer ’
of the .Alaska legislature our entire sup- j
port in his campaign for delegate to con- ;
gress.
“Mr. Sulzer has been a resident here for !
fourteen years. Until the last year he was j
general manager for the Alaska Industrial
Company, but since last year he ha= oner
atetl the mines himself as a lessee. During
all these fourteen years he has provetl him
self a true friend of unionism, a good fellow
and a friend of labor in general.
“He gave the eight-hour day of his own
free will in 1902 upon starting operations j
in Alaska, and this was long before any
one else had the same rule in Alaska. He j
has always paid the highest wages in this I
district, given everybody a square leal, j
and treated everybody as a man. There is |
not a man who has ever worked in Senator j
Sulzer’s camp who will not speak of him j
in the highest, terms, and we know from :
long observation that, he has the quali- |
fications to ably represent us in congress. !
“The foregoing are only a few of the j
main facts of Mr. Sulzer’s character which
have endeared him to the workers, so we
wish you to rally to his support and leave
no obstacle in the way for his election for I
delegate to congress from Alaska.”
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RESTAURANT AND BAKERY
PETE MiCHAELS, Prep.
Front St., Flat, Opo. McMahon’s
NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS
Day and Slight
fresh Pies, Cakes and Pastries Always
on Hand
PICTURES OF ALASKA GAME
FOR PATRONS OF MOVIES
Al Smith am! wifi: recently parsed through
Juneau on their way to the Outside, says
the Dispat'h "f that city. Mr. 'kni’h has
been busy with t! : cavern hunting Alesk'i
wild game. He first hied to get brown
bear picture.-: at Kodiak, and -ays he suc
cceded beyond a’l ex; marions of a twenty
day tiip up Polly cr vk. on the west side
of Cook inlet.
"We were told about this spit by Andrew
Berg of Kenai, who said there were mure
bear fishing along that creek than any
I lace in Alaska. We built a raft and poled
up the creek, and I went to say tha he
was right. We saw fifteen bears during
our twenty day stay, and secured pictures
at close range of a brow bear with cubs,
and one of those 'broncho’ bears—a long
legged brown fellow with a hump on his
nose, making a regular Roman effect and
giving him more the appearance of a
broncho than a bear.
“Leaving >ewaru, \vp vent mu over me
line and took pictures all the way to An
chorage, including the Turnugatn arm bore
and out to the coal fields. Then we cstne
back to Kenai, secured some sheep pic
tures on the mountains, and then went to
Katchemak bay, where the moose were
ihick and tame, after whrh we crossed the
inlet for bear. At a river near iVliy creek
we took pictures of the famous beluga
whales chasing salmon in shallow water,
which ought to make a show all by them
selves.
“We had only one real adventure,” con
eluded Smith, “and that was when I tried
to pick a brown bear cub out of the water
and fell in. Tire mother, an old broad
headed brute, was feeding on the bank
with her two cubs when one of the young
ster? knocked the other into the vtream.
It drifted down by the raft from which I
was taking pictures, and I reached out to
get it, but the raft tipped and into the
water I went, camera and all. The old girt
stood up on her hind legs and woofed, but
made no effort to enter the stream, although
it was only five feet deep. On a bar below
the cub crawled out. The old lady cuffed
it and they hiked for the brush.”
Smith took 10,000 feet of film and ex
pects to be able to show something unique
in animal pictures.
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is,Tc7 THORNTON
Brought with her from the Outside some
BEAUTIFUL NEW YARD GOODS,
LACES AND RIBBONS
CALL AND SEE THEM
Watches and Diamonds
At
STRICTLY OUTSIDE PRICES
J, L. SALE
FOR
GOOD POTATOES AftiD CIGARS
CALL UP
We Still Rave Some to Wholesale
RING US UP ANY SERVICE WE CAN DO YOU RING US UP
Just Received a Shipment of Fresh Draught Beer
GEORGE MARSH BUDWEISER ID1TARQD FLAT CITY THE BRANCH A. D. CURRIE