CANVAS TENTS _JTARPAULINS^_HOSE
flow Gold Sea! GUM BOOTS
FRESH STOCK JUST ARRIVED
Price, either at. Otter or Iditarod..
Gold Seal Rubber Pacs, while they last, per pair, $3.00.
Suits, $12.50 to $35.09. “Hats just arrived.”
ask the man inside for prices
H. Bobs, Leading Clothier
HART SCHATFNER Sl MARX and CHESTERFIELD CLOTHES
OTTER—_TWO STORES-IDITAROD
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A Full Line of Smoking and Chewing Tobaccos
and Cigarettes at Right Prices
KARL THEILE
THE HOUSE OF SyiAX-i-WHJRfl
DISCOVERY IDITAROE
.]f,hn Baery of Discovery has moved his
farn.iv fo Hat City, aim B occupying the
Bain cabin, on Gold street.
Mrs. Ru4: and Mrs. Bain of the (ok
t been visiting in Mitarod during tlie
i a.-t week.
L. X. Ellis of Otter creek had his final
clean-up last Tuesday He will leave in a
few days for Gains creek, in the Innoko
counnv. and will m e his new ground a
Flags Flags
Get your Fourth of July Dec
orations now. Vve have small
flags, large flags, cotton flags,
silk flags, from 10 cent: dorren
to $10 each. Crepe paper
streamers, Stars, Stripes and
Eagles. Come quick. Get first
pick.
A full line of Inks, Blank
Books, Dianes, etc., just re
ceived.
SD5TAROD, ALASKA
; thorough prospectm?; He expects to return
' to Iditarod before the freeze-up.
| Duncan Dickson, who has been laid up
1 hit City with paralysis, is leaving
m nly for Sitka. A subscription has been
i aken up for him. and he will he sent to
to • old prospector.' home. Mrs. Margaret
M tcNimiie is h aving on the same boat, and
will c..n for Dad < n his journey.
Mrs. Siranberg and family and Mi-v Jo
sephine Johanson art leaving on the White
, Seal for Fairbanks, where they will spend
! the summer, and return before fail.
NEW LOCAL MANAGER
FOR IDITAROD MEAT CO.
C. E. Bryant, the general manager of
i the Pacific Cold Storage Company, has
been in Iditarod for the past ten days on
his annual trio of inspection of his concern’s
, branch hotm -. of which the Iditarod Meat
i Company is mis While here he appointed
Mayor Claude Baker as the manager for the
local pl-.n*. .-m-. ceding W. W. A besom who
resigned several weeks ago and is now look
mg after his mining interests on Marvel
creek.
Mr. Baker has b* en connected with the
local meat shop for the past two years, and
it would be a hard matter to make anyone
in these ’parts !..'heve that Mr. Bryant made
an error in promoting Claude.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY IS
ON IDS WAY TO IDITAROD
In a wire received from Seattle on June
24. District Attorney Crossley informed his
1 assistant at Fairbanks. L. It. Gillette, that
he would sail from that city on the 25th
■ on the steamer Northwestern. While he
i did not state definitely his plans, it is ex
1 pected that he will go front St. Michael to
i Iditarod. in order to attend the session of
court here. On his way up the Yukon
lie will also stop at Ruby for a short time.
“Overland Jim” Burton, after two years'
wandering in different parts of Alaska, re
turned to this camp lust Tlmr.'duv.
RAMPS PETERSON
Everything for Fourth of July
Decorations
SMITHS CUN STORE,
lD'.TAROD. ALASKA
0YD DEAD
(Fairbanks News Miner, .Tune 25»
“What do you do with your gold dust ?
What do you do with your pay .
Tell me. are you rocking,
Rocking every day?”
N(> more will Billy ldoyd sing the old
song which he composed and loved so well
and which he sang from the Klondike to
Fairbanks, to the delight of every old sour
dough who heart! ti. His heart went out
•n that song, and when he sang it visions
.if the golden days in new diggin’s and the
music of running sluices and creaking rock
ers moved those around him.
lli> voice is now stilled in death, and his
warm, generous, true heart has ceased to
heat, but his memory will live long in every
camp in the far North, for he was known
and respected in all of them. In the
diadow ( f Mount McKinley, on the upper
waters of the Kantishna. in the land he
loved, Billy Floyd crossed the Great Hi
vide on June I F in the cabin of his friend.
\\ illiam R. Taylor, who today wired the
j news to William McPh.ee. Death came
j from stomach trouble and natural causes
| after a short illness which he could not
i survive. He was 04 years old, and of
! English birth.
William R. Lloyd came to Alaska in
: 1S8S, the same year as William McPhee,
j win) knew him throughout his later life.
That year he went to (he Yukon prospect
ing, and ever since then, with pick, shovel
and pan, has followed the fortunes of the
various camps in the North. lie was well
known in tlie early Dawson days, and when
gold was discovered in Alaska crossed the
boundary and cast his lot with the new
country. For many years he was a United
Slates commissioner on the Kantishna, and
was one of the earliest pioneers of the
Mount McKinley district, at the head of
the Kantishna river. A year ago last win
ter he was in Fairbanks, but since then
had lived in precarious health in the little
camp which was his home so long. I here
he was interested in some quartz pros
pects, who, so far as known, is the only
property he left behind.
lie was a member of the Pioneers of the
Yukon, and also one of the oldest members
of the Pioneers of Alaska. Although noth
ing was said of his burial, it is presumed
that it took place on the Kantishna, which
is a hundred miles from here, and twice
that distance by trail or river.
AT THE REGINA
F. II. Paterson. A. IF Anderson, Alec
Right. P. Snoden. George Blank, IF Rober
son. E. Wheeler, J. M. Fonteneux, F. E.
Fuller. A. McBride, Walter Rawson, Edgar
E. Raine, Thomas De Camp©, James M.
Wilson.
On Saturday last John Fockner was held
by Commissioner Albrecht for grand jury
investigation on a charge of assault with a
deadly weapon.____
FRESH OVEB LAKE LEOfiRSE
Washington Selected Fresh Ranch Eggs
Swift’s Premium Hem and Bacon, Foil Cream Ciieesa
Sami App 1 ebaym
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That’s about all we need to say to most of you—vou know
so well the value in these good clothes, lo those who don t know:
There never will be a better time to get acquainted—never a big
ger chance to get the best clothes made at sucn extraoroinai}
prices.
A. J. Weiss,
B3P I
rt i
AED EXTRAS
Have Just Received a New Supply of All Kinds of Straps, Collar
Pads, H ames, etc.
C. R. Ps
TOWN COUNCIL MEETS
AND ALLOWS MANY BILLS
A meeting of the town council was held
Thursday night at the tire hail. The ses
sion was presided over by Mayor Baker,
and all the councilmen were present.
The principal business of the evening was
the allowing of bills incurred in the recent
street work, and also providing payment
for the gasoline pumping plant recently
ordered. The total tails allowed amounted
to $2,493.60. As the cash on hand amounts
to only $1,180.78, there will be a deficit
of $1,314.82, but as the payment on the
machinery is not yet due, it is expected
that the necessary funds will be on hand
to meet all bills. A general discussion of
wavs and means was indulged in by mem
bers of the council.
The cmmiltec to whom was referred the
drafting of an ordinance regulating the
storage of explosives and combustibles
within the city limits was not yet ready to
report, and it is expected the ordinance
will be ready for passage at a meeting to
be held next month.
SEES WRITING ON THE WALL
(Juneau Empire)
If the various Democratic clubs in Alaska
would serve Alaska and the Democratic
party as they are capable of serving they
should take up Alaska problems and dis
cuss them. They should think less of pat
ronage and more of the government and
development of the territory. They should
develop a program for the application of
Democratic principles to the problems that
confront the people who are erecting a com
monwealth in the North. They should con
sider the enlargement of the application of
the Democratic principle of self-government
here. They should look carefully into the
proposed development board or adminis- ;
trative commission that is proposed for |
Alaska, and consider whether or not any of
the bills now pending before congress pro
vide for encroachments upon the right the
peot le have to manage their own affairs, j
These things are of far mere importance j
than the personality of the man who is to j
become the next delegate to congress. In j
fact, the discussion of such matters is far
more likely to result in the choice of a
suitable candidate for delegate to congress
than the discussion of the way men have
been voting in the past, l^et the time from
the present until the meeting of the nomi
nations! convention be devoted to a careful
consideration of Alaskan problems, and the
character of the democracy of those who
discuss them will disclose itself.
The Democrats of Alaska should go to
the territorial convention with a thorough
working program which they would have
the next delegate to congress and the next
territorial legislature carry out. If they
have that, the selection of candidates should
not be a difficult matter.
Assessment Work Blanks at Biouocr.
And More Coming
Picture Strew Sunday,
General Admission, 50c; Children, 25c
AT FLAT CITY—July 7 and 9
AT IDITAROD—July 10 and 12
Change of Program Nightly
Commences at 9 p. m. I
COMING AND GOING
John Lemond was taken in charge by
Deputy Marshal Charles last Sunday night,
lie is believed to be demented.
Judge Frederick L. Iuller of the Fourth
judicial division, accompanied by Angus
McBride, clerk of the court, and Walter
Rawson, official stenographer, arrived in
Iditarod last Monday morning about 4
o’clock—nearly seven days from Ruby.
Mrs. Rae Carter, formerly of this dis
trict, now of Fairbanks, arrived in the city
last Monday morning, and is now about
the precinct looking after her mining in
terests.
Mrs. J. E. Riley reached home last Mon
day, after spending the winter on the Out
side. While absent Mrs. Riley visited her
old home in Europe.
After spending a delightful winter in the
Stales, Mrs. Charles Worden returned to
her home in this city last Monday, and
was warmly greeted by her many friends
and neighbors. Mr. and Mrs. Worden will
again occupy their Second-street home.
Harry Watson came up from Dikeman
Wednesday.
James Finnegan of Flat City was a vis
itor in the city Wednesday.
,1. VV. Woods, the roving United States
deputy marshal, arrived in Iditarod last
Monday morning, and will be in attendance
on the special July term uf the district
court.
John L. McGinn and John Knox Brown,
prominent members of the l airbanks bar.
arrived in the city Thursday last on the
White Seal to attend the July term of the
district court.
0. L. Ryder, attorney for the receiver of
the Washington-Alaska bank, accompanied
bv Mrs. Ryder, was among the passenger*
on the White Seal from Fairbanks last
Thursday.
Luther Hess of Fairbanks arrived in the
city on Thursday last.
K. C. Raine, the internal revenue inspec
tor. was among the passengers on the White
Seal last Thursday morning.
Boh Cockburn came up from Dikeman
Thursday. He will remain until after the
Fourth.
Office quarters have been fitted up for
Judge Fuller in the old Budweiser building,
at the erner of Richmond and Second
streets. This was made necessary by the
fact that the picture show will use the
A. B. hall at night.
MR. LANE’S ASSISTANT
IS WELL-KNOWN SEATTLEITE
B" Sweeney, wealthy Seattle attorney,
and for many years pr n mem in Demo
crat ie councils, has taken up his duties at
Washington as assistant secretary of the
interior under Secretary Franklin K. Lan
As a member from King county of the
Democratic state state central committee
Mr. Sweeney was one of the iirst and nm-'
active supporters of Woodrow WiDon i r
the presidential nomination.
While having taken a prominent part i;:
Democratic politics of the state of \\ ash
ington for many years, and having been
a prominent figure in almost every cam
paign, he has but once before accepted ;i
n »m:natn n. It is understood that the pres
ent appointment came to him without so
licitation on his part.
Previous to his removal to Seattle, wher:
he has lived almost eighteen years. Mr
Sweeney was a member of the Colorado
state legislature for several terms, residing
at the time in Trinidad. He had built up
a good practice, coming from Columbia col
lege. at Lebanon, Tenn.. where he received
his training. After a ten years’ residence
in Colorado he went to Seattle to settle
permanently. He has enjoyed a thriving
practice in that city.
He is 49 years of age, and has a wife
and lo-year-old son. As a member of the
Arctic Club. Mr. Sweeney is well known to
many of the most prominent business men
of Seattle1.
Mr Sweeney’s Christian name. Bo, often
has caused speculation among friends, and
no little comment. He has explained that
it was pinned to him at an early age in
a more extended form, the spelling being
changed afterwards to shorten it. In its
abbreviated form it is a model of Jeffer
sonian simplicity, says the Seattle Sun.
CONVICTS OBJECT TO
BEING TREATED AS BEASTS
Keokuk. Ia.. June IS.—Federal Judges
Smith. McPherson and Bollock are hearing
the attack upon Iowa’s new law calling for
the sterilization of insane and habitual
criminals by the state board of parole.
The attack is being made by thirty con
victs in the state penitentiary at Fort Mad
ison. who have bonded together and em
ployed a lawyer. The state parole board
has already put the law into force in three
insane asylums, where fifty operations have
been performed. The board issued an or
der for operations at Fort Madison, but it
agreed with the attorney for the convicts
to withhold action until the law can be
tested in court The convicts claim that
the law is in violation of their rights guar
anteed by the federal constitution.
Colorado has 5,917,456 acres of land un
der irrigation.
For Everybody, from $10.00 to $17.50
Worth Double the Amount
DRESS UP AND CELEBRATE THE FOURTH
Bayles Clothing Co.
[DITAROD DISCOVERY, OTTER
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To Provide Work for Prisoners
United States Marshal H. L. Faulkner of j
I the First judicial district wrote to the gov- j
I ernor of Alaska while he was at. Washington
• recently requesting that he take up the
j matter of working the prisoners in tin* fed
! f*ral jails of Alaska on public roads and on
i public improvements with the attorney gen
; eral and superintendent of prisons in his
I department. Mr. Faulkner believes that j
I nothing could 1done that would count ,
more for the welfare of the prisoners or :
that would make the work of caring for
them easier. In addition the people would
get the benefit arising from their labors.
Wiii Abandon Trip
f It has been learned that Governor Ernest
Lister of Washington has abandoned his
I proposed trip through Alaska this summer.
! for the reason that he will not again leave
the affairs of his state in the hands of
Lieutenant Governor Louis F. Hart.
A Koyukuk Nugget
| The second largest nugget ever found in
| the Territory of Alaska was recently found
| in the Koyukuk region, according to Dep
! uty Marshal E. D. Heppenstall of Wiseman.
I The nugget, weighing 137 K* ounces, was
found by J. C. Kinney on No. 4 above,
Hammond river, and is valued at approxi
mately $2,600. In addition to the large
nugget, the laymen Kinney, Charlie Mur
ray and Billy Redmond working on the
property belonging {•> James Schofield and
John Bauman, have taken out a number of
nuggets valued at from $200 to $600. The
largest nugget ever found in Alaska was
located ar Nome, and was valued at ap
proximately $3,200.
Big Concern to Operate in Alaska
One of the biggest marine transactions of
recent years was closed recently in Seattle,
when the Pacific Sea Products Company, of
which John Lind, who was President Wil
son’s representative in Mexico, is a stock
holder, bought the vessels, stations and
equipment < i the Alaska Whaling Company,
in which Captain Otto Sverdrup, the Mor
es I iea*. iy inte1 ted
Property vnlie i :' a million dollars changed
hands. The deal included the transfer of
j the whaling steamers Unimak and Kodiak.
; the big N< . w
j and a whaling station at Akutan. Alaska.
on which the Ala-ka Whaling Company
j spent $200,000. A new whaling station i>
tu be built in the North, where both tin
whale blubber and carcasses will be relined
on shore. This plant completed will cost
more than $300,000. Interest.■•{ in the com
pany are some well-known business men
and capitalists of Minneapolis, where 11; *
general offices are located, including John
Lind and W. S. Dwinnell. owner J large
tracts of timber land in Oreg >n are! Britp.u
Columl)ia. Mr Dv\ nell hold th< ...
of treasurer of the new mrporari'm. The
Pacilic Sea Products C\ mpany will eventu
ally expand into general fishing.
ADDITIONAL SUBSCRIPTIONS
TO FOURTH OF JULY FUND
Iditarod Bakery .$10.00
Frank Kern . 10.00
Dan Hartnett . 5.00
George Adams . 5.00
Harry L >coy . 5.00
Paul Kiemer . 5.00
Commodore A1 Lowe. 5.00
Have your pet negatives enlarged by
Clemons 6c IU- n
Monday. June 29. Alaska up Eagle, 6:15
p. m. '28th. Gen. Davis and Gen. Jacobs,
Gibbon for St. Michael early morning 30th.
Julia B. up Birches 2:45 a. m. 28th. Robert
Kerr at Chena. Louise up Kotlik. 22d.
Sarah up Kotlik, 24th. Schwatka up Eagle,
4 :30 p. m. 28th. Shush anna at Fairbanks.
Tanana down Birches, 6:25 a. m. Jana
down McCarty, 6 a. m. White Seal d >wn
Ivaltag, S a. m. Louise up Kaltag, 11a. in.
Tuesday, June 30.—Gen. Dav: down
Birches, 5:55 a. m. Julia B., Gibbon for
Chena, 10 p. m. 20th. Louise up Koyukuk,
4:15 a .m. Sarah up Kotlik, 14th. Tanana
up Koyukuk. 4 15 a. m. Tana down Delta,
5 a. m. Yukon, Gibbon for Dawson, 10:5')
p. ni. 29th.
Wednesday, July I.—Radio A zoo anl
Mary Utch at Nulato.. Alaska at Circle, up
bound. Gen. Davis down Kaltag, 1:15 a. rn.
Gen. Jacobs down Kaltag, 1 :30 a. m. Julia
B. up Hot Springs, 1 a. m. Louise up Ko
krines, 8:15 a. m. Sarah up Kaltag, 8:35
a. m. Tanana up Kokrines, 9:45 a. m.
Tana down Delta, 30th. Yukon up Ram
part, 12:30, 30th. Reliance at Nulato,
leave midnight.
The Keystone left for Dikeman Wednes
day and will take a load from there to the
new' power plant of the 5 ukon Gold Com
pany above the mouth of Otter creek.
Thu red ay July 2. Alu-ka at Ran: art,
down-bound. Davis down Kab sg 1st. Delia
at Nulato, up-bound. Gen. Jacob's d- wn
Kaltag 1st. Julia B at Hot Sj rings.
Louise. Gibbon for Andreafsky this after
noon. Reliance up Koyukuk river. 3 a. in.
Sarah at Louden, up-bound. Tanana. Gib
bon for Fairbanks this morning. Tana
down Salcha. 1U p. m. 1st. "i ukon up Ram
part. 30th.
The Prairie Bell arrived Monday morning
early with passengers of the steamer Re
liance from Fairbanks and Ruby. She
arrived Wednesday evening fr-'-m a second
trip, having a barge load of freight but no
passengers.
The Little Delta, Captain Si Atwell, made
a remarkably quick trip to Dikeinan and
return this week. She left here Tuesday
evening at S o’clock and arrived back in
Ulitarod at 2:20 Thursday afternoon with
a barge load of supplies for Riley & Mar
st on.
Friday. July 3.—Alaska up H t Sprdigs.
4 a. in. Delta up Kokrines. S a. m < »en.
Jacob? d wn Kotlik. 2:30 a. m Jul B
up Tolovana. 2 a. m. Louise down K"
: krince-. 8:45 a. m. Schwatka t .wing St.
Michael down Eagle. 7 a. m. 2d. Tanana,
Gibbon for Fairbanks. S p. ni. 2d. Tana
down Salcha 1st. Yukon at Circle, up
bound.
The following were among the passengers
of the B' iver, which arrived Thin- lay
afternoon: J. J. Price and wife. Henry
Riley and wife. R. X. Hall. Mr. Kennedy,
A. G. Maddcrn. Mrs Ray, James Wilson,
M - Marie Co< >hn
IF Scott. A. Mattison, Miss J 1 ran^e. Mr.
Jesson. Torn Ilowell, Miss Albrecht, R.
Hartley.
Assessment Work Blanks at Pioneer.
best Liquors and cigars
Thres-TImes-Move Bar
(Formerly the Stanley House)
JOHN SAGOY, PROP.
GOOD ROOMS CLEAN BEDS
_FLAT CITY_
The House of Quality
For Best Goods
and Right Prices
CROWLEY & PORTER
ID IT A ROD The House of Quality FLAT CITY
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