I IDITAROD P!OIMEER | |
Published Every Saturday Evening at Iditarod, Alaska.
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CONVENTIONS
Republican national convention, Chicago, June 18.
Democratic national convention, Baltimore, Jane 25.
AN UNEXPECTED SALLY
That was an unexpected shot the Pioneer got last week
when it was told in a telegram from Nome that the Repub
licans down there assert the paper is controlled by the
Northern Commercial Company. The standpatters sur
prised their enemy, and no mistake. The implied hostility
of their candidate to big business is a complete reversal of
the old order of campaigning in Alaska. Heretofore big
business and regular Republicanism have been pupularly
supposed to fight in the same line of battle, with the same
guns loaded with the same ammunition. That has been the
rough-neek theory in past campaigns, and upon it every
successful candidate so far has gained his battle. It has
not only been a theory, but an absolute fact. The only sup
port standpat Republicanism has had has been from the
office-holding class and such help as they could command
from the interests.
If the standpatters now choose to eliminate the inter
ests from their following and go it entirely alone they as
suredly have the Pioneer’s consent. That done their only
backing will come from Washington, and will not be very
effectual so far as getting votes is concerned. It will be a
novel political move—but it will not get any results.
If the Northern Commercial Company and other big
concerns will grasp the truth that their own interests as
well as those of the people at large are suffering from un
natural conditions imposed upon Alaska, and strive for a
change of those conditions, the Pioneer will wish them god
speed in their efforts. It will welcome the day when such
concerns will be permitted to use the fuel and other re
sources of the territory necessary to their own and the peo
ple's prosperity. It is not true that any company controls
this paper, or has sought to do so. But knowing that un
necessary hardships and expenses imposed upon huge and
small concerns alike must be borne in reality by the people
at large, we will welcome justice even to a powerful corpor
ation.
If the people who are anxious to have Gilmore elected
can get any comfort ont of these admissions they are wel
come to it. _
TIIE END OF 1HE HOPE
If all signs do not fail the Iditarod town council is very
near the end of its tether. Inexorable laws of business and
common sense are ready to do that for it now which it ought
to have done for itself a good while ago. When warrants
drawn on the over-worked salary and emergency funds will
lie as worthless as those drawn on the wrongfully depleted
general fund, then expenses will reduce themselves auto
matically, for even a sinecure would cease to be such when
it carries with it nothing of value.
A report read by the clerk at the meeting Wednesday
night named a deficit at the end of April amounting to
$6,207.61. This indebtedness is not alarming in its pro
portions; but when it is being steadily and persistently in
creased at a rate exceeding any possibility of future income,
1 he climax is made inevitable. The credit is killed. The
three items of fixed expense consisting of salaries, watjr
for the fire department, and rent amount in round figures
to $1,000 per month -the utmost sum that the monthly
liabilities of all kinds should be allowed to reach between
the present time and late autumn. The utmost reasonable
monthly outgo is taken up before any incidental or extraor
dinary expenditure is reached: nothing is left for streets
and the numerous needs that are so insistent as to be as
nearly indispensable as possible. It has been the fashion
for the council, instead of cutting out the non-essentials, to
expend all its substance on them and then hypothecate its
expectations as exigencies arise, regardless of any claim of
past creditors on those, expectations. At this very moment
it is understood there is an effort being made to apply tins
method in the procurement of a quantity of material from
NOTICE
GENERAL LINE OF GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS
Men’s Underwear, Sox, Mittens, Rubber Shoes, Fait
Shoes and Pacs, Mackinaw Coats and Pants
SHELF HARDWARE
Maiis. Building Paper. Dog Fish
We solicit Inspection. Every article guaranteed.
From a Stein
at the
Miner's Home Saloon
THE HOME OF THE “QUAKER MAID"
Foot of Willow St., Iditarod
MAX SIMEL, Diskaket anti Ophir City..,.
Miners’ Supplies and General Outfitting a Specialty
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| C. J. Hurley, President J. P. Gieassn, Vice President A. Bruning, Cashier
American Bank ef Alaska
Corner First Ave. and Richmond St., Idilarod
CAPITAL 550,000.00, FOLLY PAIO IN CASH
General Banking Business Transacted Upon Liberal, But Conservative Lines
GOLD DUST PURCHASED UPON ASSAY VALUE
And we guarantee our assays against any of the government assay offices.
Clippings from your gold furnished you for the purpose
of obtaining check assays if desired.
We solicit your business, and assure you of our courteous, prompt and
careful attention combined with fair treatment, whether
your account may be large or small.
w. In.. SK&fffiK Men's Heavy Shoes
So mu i imber. Men's Fine Shoes
$9.50 Shoes Reduced to.,. $7.50
$9.00 “ “ 7.00
$8,oo “ “ “ 6.00
$7.00 Shoes Reduced to.,. $5.00 j
$6.00 . 4.00 j
$5.00 “ “
McMahon, Flat City >
The Connolly
1 Famous Old Quaker SVIaid Rye |
DRAUGHT BEER, DOMESTIC CIGARS
Good Musis Every Evening
-Flat City
COOD STOCK CIGARS AMD LIQ’JORS
Laige Stables, Warm Dog Kennels Open Day and '.'iylo
flat any,
FRONT STREET
F .Risked Rooms, Glean Spring Beds, Bath, Pry Rooms, 311<lev^,ZS"Ci Ll
the Northern Commercial Company, the company to be paid
out of certain of its own roomy to eventually reach tin
city through the channel of a federal license. Observe, it
is not the general credit, but a specified expectation that
the city seeks to hypothecate.
This practice of realizing on futures gave great satis
faction—for a time. Then up jumped the devil in tin
person of Mr. Banks. Wednesday night he demanded that
$500 a month be paid him out of the salary fund, because
warrants on the general fund will buy him nothing. Told
that if all payments were ordered out of tlie salary fund
the public would get wise and warrants so drawn would
he no better than tlie others, he said lie would have to have
something on which lie could realize, or he could not keep
up the water supply. What would the men of the fire
department do if they had to take pot luck with other cred
itors equally deserving?
It lias now come to a point where the juggling with
“fluids” will not avail. It is funds in the concrete sense
that alone will buy anything. It is but just to Chairman
Barnes to say that he has offered the only feasible plan for
|restoring the city’s credit. The plan has been opposed by
I every member of the short-handed council except Mr. Mc
Donell. Matters have now reached a point where perhaps
jbith members of the fire department may have to be dis
! pensed with. When there is no more milk in the teat they
will soon dispense with themselves.
These remarks are being put in type Thursday. The
council lias determined on the commendable move of in
viting some business men to an informal conference in the
evening. If a committee of three business men could be
named and given access to the books, they might estimate
the approximate income and tell how much the expendi
tures may aggregate with justice to the city’s creditors.
William O’Connor, Martin Harrais’s right-hand man,
is a politician of versatile genius. In 1908 he legged for
John W. Corson. In 1910 he tried to make people believe
he was out for himseif. This year his cheeks are being
fanned by a so-called wing of the Democratic party. If he
lives long enough and keeps on trying he ought sometime
to play some worthy part in territorial politics.
i Gov. Foss had a large force of militia stationed in Law
rence, Mass., to protect the woolen mills from the strikers.
Isn’t Schedule K protection enough ?—Kansas City Times.
CITY NOTES
James Morton, John Erickson, Tom
Conley anti H. H. Hanson arrived at
Fiat Iasi Saturday. They came in over
the Seward trail. Mr. Hanson left
here last fall for Seward. FJe got as
Far as Susitna station, where he spent
the winter freighting, and (lien turned
back to Iditarod. James Morton has
been tunning a roadhouse at the mouth
of nappy river and this is his first visit
to Iditarod. John Erickson and Tom
Conley are newcomers from the coast.
Just as lie was leaving Susitna Erick
son heard that Eugene Norton had left
Seward for Iditarod with two women
passengers.
Lewis Wilhi and Geo. Baker have
opened up a store and restaurant on
i lie government, road opposite tlie
Wildcat association.
Mr. McDonald of Glen gulch spent
Sunday at Flat.
George Riley of Otter creek will put
on a big force of men in a few days.
Louie Sietzer is working a gang of
men on Otter.
Lipsett Bros, are doing considerable
work on Otter.
N. Honda, who has lieen running the
Japanese roadhouse at tFie head of
Moore creek, arrived last week. He
plans on starting a Japanese restaurant
at Flat.
Frank Ivanako, toe Japanese who
was . tinning a roadhouse on Iiappy ,
river, fourteen miles up fiom the;
m :U h, arrived at Flat Saturday.
II. H. Porter, of the firm of Crowley
& Porter, visited his new store at Flat
last Sunday.
Jack Peterson of Iditarod has be
come a resident of Flat.
Air. Howatd of Black creek was a!
visitor at Fiat Sunday.
Doc Mading will be in on the first |
bout.
Miss Coolidge got home Sunday from i
her visit to Mrs. M iss and Mrs. Wil
i in ms, at l lie head of Fi it.
A. A. Hhonbeck visited Flat Sunday. I
.Shropshire & Burns, iay u.ro on the
Sourdough association, Flat cock, are
putting a crew of men to work.
■I n- McDaiveli anti I’ony Z tber have I
a big guilt* of men working and com-I
rnenced sluicing Monday.
The Ii.it t’it.v basket hall team had;
pictures taken a few d tvs ag >.
Major & Merman, at, the heal of
Flat, had a cleanup last S Kuril iv
" hich surprised them, b ;ing much ,
saver than was expected.
lXmneilv. Dcetering & Clark 'live a
vur g of na n working and will be pat j
i.ig on more soon.
Owen Grey, who !ef; here last fall j
for Ruby, arrived las: week over the
Lewis i rail.
Kri s vc Phillips, of Willow creek,1
ha ve a ga ig of men working anil have ;
■i*<-i) sluicing for the past week.
The basketball game and dance at !
Foil was a great success. An excellent j
inch was served during t he evening.
Diligent inquiry has established the j
fact that Itie white mule complained'
•if by Councilman Bradley hist week
for hanging around and eating the
artificial floral wreaths placed upon j
graves in the u-n fenced iditarod re me- j
ery is none other than Mother, a well
known animal belonging to Tom Sbal-1
low. Mother has long been a familiar
figure around town. She is not inten- I
tionailv wicked, but has simply been
trying to solve the grubstake proposi
tion in her own peculiar way. Old j
barrels and boxes have yielded her |
many an acceptable morsei that a mule |
of ordinary talents would have over- j
looked. Tin cans, even, she sometimes I
considers worthy of her notice. But it i
was not until last week that it was sus
pected she includes the graveyard in
her regular free lunch route. It may
be that Mother is growing avaricious
of late, or perhaps the extent and vari- ;
I ety of her enterprises are only just,
| becoming known; any way, several new
charges have been laid against her
this week. One allegation is that, she
ate a rat and a coiffure belonging to a
woman who resides west of the ceme
tery, and chewed other articles belong
ing to the same person. Now that
these offenses are charged against her
she will.be under more careful scrutiny;
and if she develops other sins they
will be sure to find her out.
TITANIC HAD MUCH ALE ABOARD
When, on April 10, the White Star
liner Titanic sails on her maiden voy
age from Southampton to New York,
she will carry the enormous number
of 12.000 pint bottles of Bass for the
passengers. This is another record for
the well - known Burton brewers.—
Lloyd’s Weekly News, Feb. 18.
The Beattie lodging house has been
greatly improved in appearance during
the week by liheral applications of
paint artistically apnlied.
STEAMER POT
ARRIVED MAY 1
The first steamboat to reach Iditarod
:his season was the Pup, Captain Jack
Green, which tied up at the City dock
at tiie foot of Willow street at 2 o’clock
in the morning of Wednesday, May 1.
A fe y ladies and gentlemen who had
been attending a party were the only
people on hand to greet the gallant
little craft,.
The Pup came from Dikeman and
brought as passengers Thomas New
iands, of Ruby, who had just mushed
over the trail; Antonio, who kept a
winter roadhouse on the Lewis trail
twenty-five miles beyond Diskaket, and
four prospectors from Mud river, who
have come in to earn a grubstake.
Mrs. Green was at her old post as
purser of the Pup.
All day Tuesday people had been
watching for the steamer’s smoke.
Some of them with fieldglasses would
occasionally mount the housetops, and
on one or two occasions a false report
was given that she was cornin’ ’round
the bend. It was too bad that she ar
rived at so lute an hour, otherwise she
would have been honored by a great
turnout and Captain and Mrs. Green
might have been tendered the golden
key to the city intended for presenta
tion to the representative of the Gug
gles. who was expected to arrive on
tiie Pup. but who failed to do so.
TOM LAWSON OF ALASKA
TO INVESTIGATE BOLIVIA
Valdez Prospector: Tom Lawson, who
left on the Bertha for the States, in
tends going to South America. He will
investigate the truth of the placer
strikes which are reported to have
been made i:i Bolivia.
TH: WORLD,
What, maledictions have been
hurled at this poor uiisbegLten world
by human failures, shorn of hope,
who've reached the end of all their
rope. A'thousand young men you
may see. who w iste ea.*h unp.u*
tunity; who g:ve their da;, s to c: eip
delights, and hold high vassal
through the nights, aud tvh”n de
parted is life's morn, and they are
poor and sick and worn, they’ll cuss
the poor world to its face, atrl say
it is a mean old place. A thousand
others you may find tvh i d> not
like the beastly grind; they do not
care to earn their bread by h most
toil, and so, instead, they take the
path of vice and crime, and when
at last, they're doing time with
zebra clothes upui their hicks, they
breathe a I asses and a lacks; they
cuss tile world up hill and dawn and
sty it always wears a frown. But
hones; men who earn their pies by
methods . and sound and wise,
tile, men who work for all they get
and bathe their earrings with their
sweat, all sav the world that we
infest, will stack up with the very
best. —Walt Mason.
The first boat will soon arrive.
PRESS UP
and ra ike a hit with the cheohacoes.
See
and he will do the rest.
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We clean Panama Hats jci 311 ike
Outside.
At Our Old-Time Location
ON THE SUMMER TRAIL
SUMMIT
ROADHOUSK
Meals at All Honrs.
Liquors and Cigars
Tel: “Summit Roadhouse.”
Is Now Open for Business
ut Our New Sto>-e,
Front Street, Next Stanley Restaurant
FLAT
Where we will be pleased
to have the public call and
examine our stock of
Fancy and Staple Groecrie ,
and get our prices. With
Best Goods, Right Prices
and Courteous Treatment,
we solicit your patronage.
We have exclusive agency
FRESH-1 A!D IBITAROD EGGS, AND FRESH
LETTUCE AK3 RADISHES
CROWLEY & PO R
ALL GOODS
Formerly Mrs. Silberstein's.
Are Now Being Sold at Vary
Reasonable Prices
All alterations on Ladies’ Garment*
: purchased will be free of charge.
WORK GUARANTEED
Ho SCHLAPIK
First Avenue
Dr. Heinrich Wortmann,
Physician and Surgeon
Otlice at City Drug Store, Tel. 30
, First Avo.. Bet. Willow and Uichmoi.d
Office Hours— : i to i, 3 to 4. 7 to :
OHS, 8EHU & CARTER,
Dentists
Offices. Pioneer Drujr Stores.
Flat City
Appointments by Telephone
DR. F. W. HE RMS.
Dentist
Dr. Wortmr n1 ■t'i’r.-r.
, First Avenue and \Vi;i >.v Street
ALFRED E. MALT BY.
Attorney at Law
Notary Fcbtjc
1 Office Simpson BUljj. First and Wil, . v
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CHAS. E. TAYLOR.
Attorney at Law,
Notary Public, I'onveyaneinjr.
Richmond St., Iditarod
Wickersham & Roden,
| ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Iditarod, Alaska
GEORGE WOODRUFF ALBRECHT,
Attorney at Law
Michigan, '61 Alarka. '10 Ksniucky S1
The rioncer Attorney of this Camp
FIRST-CLASS ROOMS AND BONKS
I. NY HOLM. PROP.
Renovate*!^ Iditarod, A!a$ka Sp!2ndid Rooms
FRESH MEATS!
Beef Pork Veal button
HALIBUT, SAUSAGE, HEADCHEESE, ETC.
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IDITAROD MEAT CO.
Second St. Phone !5
First Class in Fact First Ave., Iditarod
BEATTIE HOUSE
Furnished Rooms, Bath Rooms, Soring Gots Good Stabies Adjacent