ii u v i A ROD PIONEER
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BY GEORGE M. ARBUOKLE
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Vol. 0 No. 22
DO YOUR BEST
Today marks the beginning of
the big ten-days’ drive in Alaska
for the Red Cross Second War
Fund. By the time this issue of
The Iditarod Pioneer is in the
hands of most of its readers, the
committees in different parts of
our district are at work receiving
contributions and pledges.
Can anyone imagine a more
worthy or humane cause to make
a contribution 'J.
No, indeed !
And especially at this hour,
when the vast legions of spear
helmeted warriors of autocracy
are grabbing at the throat of
Freedom on the bloody fields of
France. Those gentle Germans
are shooting allopathic doses of
their damnable kultur into the
ranks of the thousands of Amer
ica’s young men who cheerfully
made the big sacrifice in their
effort to save the world from des
potic rule.
fsovv, good neighbor, when you
are approached by a worker for
the Red Cross and asked to con
tribute $f> monthly for the next
four months, don’t ask him what
they are going to do with “all
that money’’ and what became
of “them kopeck's we coughed up
last winterr'"—the chances are
the Red Cross worker couldn’t in
form you, and he shouldn’t be
expected to do so. The work of
soliciting contributions for this
cause, even though it be the most
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j meritorious, is by no means a
[pleasant task, and to be put
through a catechism of unneces
sary questions while at it, makes
[the task all the more irksome.
It may be considered a great
sacrifice on the part of many
worthy persons to pledge the
payment of $5 monthly for four
months. The Pioneer has not
the faintest doubt that it would, in
many instances, prove to be the
Case. But when one thinks for a
brief moment of the exigency of
the call, the givingof any amount
of coin is infinitesimal in compar
ison with the supreme sacrifice
made by the tens of thousands of
our noble young men who arc
offering their all in the stupen
dous effort to halt the Hun.
When a Red Cross worker calls
on you, do the very best you can
for the good cause; by so doing
you'll certainly enjoy the splen
did satisfaction of knowing that
it was the best spent money you
ever separated yourself from.
This part of Alaska has a glo
rious reputation for its whole
some liberality, and in this in
stance it will not be found a
slacker. ___
It is feared that when Russia
finally finds herself she will not
know what it is that she lias dis
covered.—Kansas City Star.
Nearly everybody nowadays
appears to be in favor of govern
ment ownership of something if
if belongs to somebody else- -
N. Y. World._
The periscope of 'he sub is be
coming more peri Ions daily.
Don't be cross with the Red
Cross worker.
FARM SPECIALISTS
Ln out- little town, oh i sad to tell.
There is a merchant who doesn't know
how to sell,
A sawyer whodoesn’t know how to saw,
A teacher who doesn't know how to
teach,
A preacher who doesn’t know how to
preach,
A painter who can’t paint very well,
A printer who doesn’t know to spell,
An odd-jobs man with never a job,
A cobbler who doesn’t know how to cob,
A miller whodoesn't knowhow tomill,
A butcher whodoesn't know how to kill,
A racer who doesn’t know how to race,
A mason who doesn’t know how to mace,
A clocksmith who cannot mend a clock,
And a doctor who doesn't know how to
doc:
And since none of these are busy men.
You will find them again and yet again,
Kver anon and a few times more,
'Round tlie stove in Mendolsen's store.
Kadi talking freely and through his hat,
Doing the one thing they are expert at.
Giving advice to farmers.
—Prairie Farmer.
Miners & Merchants ^
IDiTAROD, ALASKA
Capital, $50,000.00
General Banking Business Transacted Gold Dust Bought and Assayed
Drafts Issued on Any Part of the Worii
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HOW THE SUBS
ME TRAPPED
London May 2 One of Llio methods
by which, as the first sea lord, Sir Eric
Geddes, said recently, (lie submarine
menace is being' “held" is vividly de
scribed by a writer in the Liverpool
Journal of Commerce.
A seaplane bad “spotted” a subma
rine lying on the sea-bed. Instantly,
the observer’s finger commenced to tap
a key and ten miles away, a long, lean
destroyer and four squat trawlers
detached themselves from a pack of
hounds working a covert, and hastened
to the kill. Meanwhile the seaplane
circled around, lint when the surface
ships ariived her instructions delivered
by wireless, were curt and precise.
Acting upon thorn tlie trawlers sta
tioned themselves at the four corners
of a wet quadrangle, while the de
stroyer kept her guns ready to talk to
Fritz should he appear above the sur
face.
The trawlers at the corners of the
wet quadrangle got out their sweeps
—long wire hawsers of an incredible
stoutness, with a heavy “kite” in the
in the center to keep their brights
on the seabed—and commenced to
steam toward each other. As the pairs
of vessels met, their wires simultane
ously engaged themselves under the
U-boat’s bow and stern and commenced
to work their sinuous way between
her hull and the sea bottom.
Then the strange thing happened
fo round, black objects seemed to de.
tach themselves from her hull and
;!oat surface wards, to hover a second
and then to commence bobbing down
a lane much frequented by those ships
that brought food, munitions of war,
and hundreds of other things to Ung
land's shore.
“Minelayer, oh'.J” called the sea
plane’s observer.
“That's it, lad,” came the telephoned
answer, “but her eggs can wait for a
minute.”
The trawlers now crossed their de
pendent cables and thus held the L
buat in a kind of a wire cat’s cradle.
She seemed to suddenly wake from her
danger, for with a bound she tried to
disentangle herself from the meshes
which held her. But it was no use;
the trawlers had been too long at the
game to leave any loopholes and the
submarine was doomed.
“Got mm, signalled the seaplane.
“Thanks,” replied the destroyer.
“We’ll give him live minutes to come
up and breathe, but no longer ” That
time passed but still Fritz made no
further move.
At a flagged signal from the destroyer
the port foremost trawler and the star
board after one clipped a small red tin
of high explosive to the bar-taut wire,
and allowed it to slide down till it
touched the U-boat’s hull. It was the
seaplane's turn to wave a flag, and im
mediately there followed the crashing
of two lists upon two tiring keys: the
up rising of two grey mounds of water
[and a rumbling, muffled explosion.
“The seaplane circled twice above
the patch of rising oil ascertained that
Fritz had been destroyed, and notified
the destroyer of the fact. Then with
her observer slipping a drum of cart
ridges into his machine gun, she sped
on after those objects bobbing down
tide. A burst of rapid firing—and the
first of the devil’s eggs, its buoyancy
chamber punctured, sank with a gur
gle: the second gave a better show for
it exploded grandly—and harmlessly
—as the bullets reached it.
WHY IS A CALORIE;
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
How many know what a calorie of
food is or ever heard of one until the
high cost of living forced government
experts into finding out and telliDg
people a good many important dietetic
secrets? A calorie is a unit of measure
of nutrition. As farms are measured
by the acre, lumber by the foot, grain
by the bushel, meat by the pound nutri
tion is measured by the calorie, says a
Chicago Society of Medical Research
Bulletin and a calorie is equivalent to
the amount ot heat sufficient to raise
the temperature of a pint of water four
degrees Fahrenheit.
There are five classes of food pro
tein, carbohydrates, fats, minerals and
water. The protein is comparable to
the metal that is originally used in
making the engine, and that used in
making repairs of worn-out and broken
parts. The carbohydrates may be com
pared to the fuel used in the engine.
The fats to the oil used to lubricate the
machinery. The mineral elements of
the food to the sand so necessary to
i
overcome slippery tracks. The water
to the water so necessary in the boiler
of tiio engine. Every one of these
things is necessary for the construc
tion of a locomotive. Likewise every
one of these classes of food is necessary
to the life and functions of the body.
Experiments have shown that an
average-siza individual may require
from fifteen hundred calorics to six
thousand a day, fifteen hundred being
required by an average-sized healthy
person at rest in bed, while six thou
sand was required by men doing the
hardest and most strenuous manual
labor in the open field.
The Department of Agriculture has
published complete reports on the ca
loric value of every known article of
food. For instance, a pound of pure
lard supplies about four thousand cal
ories. Thus a pound of lard would
supply all the calories that a heavy
man would need in twenty-four hours.
But we appreciate the fact that no one
would like to be confined exc'usively
to a diet of lard. Hence tlie necessity
of many classes of food.
Los Angeles, Cal , May 2.—Scientists
from the southwest are preparing to
visit Montana early in June, in order to
be in the southwestern part of tin
state on June 8 to observe a total
eclipse of the sun, which will occur at
that time.
Prof. W. S. Adams, of the Carnegie
observatory on Mount Wilson, near
here, will be the leader of the expedi
tion, which will include a number of
astronomers and mathematicians from
the Mount Wilson and Echo mountain
observatories, and a number of Los An
geles and Pasadena men who are inter
ested. The scientists plan the trip be
cause they believe conditions for ob
servation in Montana will be more
favorable than elsewhere.
Elaborate preparations for making a
photographic record of the eclipse are
in progress. It. is said the eclipse will {
not last more than two minutes at any
point, and will complete its path over
the United States in 47 minutes.
Pike's Peak, Colorado, will be an
other favorable point for observation,
the astronomers say, and it is reported
that several hundred scientific men will
view it from that eminence.
NOTICE OF SPECIAL TERM
OF COURT
In the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska. Fourth Division, fn the
matter of calling a Special T ■: :r. •/
Court at Flat. Alaska.
In pursuance of an order of the above
entitled court, made and entered herein
on the 22nd day of May, 1918.
Notice is hereby given that a special
term of the District Court for the Ter
ritory of Alaska. Fourth division, will
be held at the United States court
house at Flat, Alaska, beginning on
June 24. 1918, at the hour of 11 o’clock
a. m., for the transaction of all business
which may then and there be pending
and which may regularly come before
this court.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto!
set my hand as clerk of the District i
Court, and affixed the seal thereof this
23t'd dav of May, 1918.
[Seal] " J. E, Clark,
Clerk of the District Court. Territory
of Alaska, Fourth Division. '
Bv A. M- Kilgore. Deputy. !
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PROBATE NOTICE
Tn the Probate Court for Otter Pre-j
ciner. Fourth Division, Territory of
Alaska: ..before Honorable A. M. Kii- ;
gore. Commissioner and ex officio!
Probate Judge. |
In the Matter of the Estate of Joseph i
E. Riley, Deceased.- No 10.—Notice i
to Creditors. i
Notice is hereby given that letters o: ;
administration of the estate of Joseph
E. Riley, deceased, having this day j
been issued to the undersigned, all per-1
sons having claims against said estate
are required to present site same to tn<
administrator, each duly verified ami
with proper vouchers, at the office of
Geo. W. Albrecht, attorney for the es
tate, in the town of Iditaroci, Alaska, j
within six months of the date of this .
notice.
Claude Baker, Administrator.
Dated: May 6, 1918.
TO OUR SOLDIERS
Wishing to do my bit, notice is
hereby given to those men who are
going out as soldiers, on the steamer
Washburn, that I will give the time
each day from ten to eleven in the
morning to doing whatever dental
work may be necessary to put them all
in first-class condition.
No change whatever for my work;
come ear; y and get the work or make
an appoin ment.
Dr. H. Behla.
Flat City, May 15. 1918.
TEDDY AND BILL HAVE GABFEST
Chicago, May 27 —Former-President3
Roosevelt and Taft held an extended
meeting and conversation here today.
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