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Pum.ism n Kvkuy Saturday Kvkning at Iditarod, Alaska.
ri J Geo M. Arbuckle. Publisher No. 13
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CONVENTIONS
Democratic territorial convention, Valdez, March 29.
Republican territorial convention, Cordova, March 30.
Republican national convention, Chicago, June 18.
Den oeratie national convention, Baltimore, June 25.
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HOW IT WORKS OUTSIDE
ikat Alaska is not the only place where administrative
red tape prevents the rules of common sense from being
applied to every-day affairs of life is being constantly
made apparent to even the most casual readers of Outside
newspapers. Here is a typical case that recently came up
near Lapine. Ore.: A rancher near that place applied to
the forest supervisor for a permit to pasture a flock of 1,200
turkeys on a reserve. The reserve is infested with grass
hoppers, and the rancher had visions of benefits to be de
rived by himself while clearing the reserve of what might
well be looked upon as a pest. The supervisor, however,
after pei using his schedules, found no rules applicable to
turkey fh ks >warms of grasshoppers; so the permit
was refused, v.ill. an intimation that the matter might be
ret erred to \\ asbington for an authoritative opinion.
That is the end of the story, so far as we know it. But.
like many another comedy that the curtain has dropped
upon, it leaves the imagination quickened and trying to
follow the thread of the matter on to a more natural jump
ing off place. Suppose it should really be “carried up” to
Washington: what an opportunity it would open up for
high-priced entomologists and zoologists to apply their
learning -to quote Linmes and other celebrities living and
dead: to make bureaus get busy, and perhaps sow seeds of
dissension in high places which might weigh in a campaign
four years hence or even wreck a great party.
All these things are within the range of sequential
possibility. But if we allow our thoughts to lead us off in
this way we shall certainly forget all about the rancher and
his Hock of turkeys out in Oregon and lose all interest in
the fui- of ?k ■ .grasshoppers. And. supposing that same
rancher submits to Washington his application for a permit,
he had as well do so in the hope that in some undefined and
inexplicable way the move will benefit posterity, for bis
turkeys, the grasshoppers now chirruping so merrily in the
neighboring wood, and himself, all are likely to have made
room to successors before his permit is favorably acted upon.
Had it not been for the women Hi Gill would now be
mayor of Seattle. The registration amounted to 74,619,
about equally divided between the sexes. Gill favored a
“wide-open" town, and the women knew by the scandals of
a year ago what this would mean to the city. The primary
election of February 20 eliminated the so-called business
men’s candidate and the Socialist candidate and left the
contest narrowed down to a choice between Gill and George
F. Cotterill, a single taxer, temperance advocate and reform
faddist. At the primary Gill led Cotterill by 10,000 votes.
Granting that it was the women who overcame this lead
ami elected Cotterill. and considering that civic decency
wa their aim, it is plain that the women of the two ex
trem -3 of society must have worked for a common end. It
was the supporters of the Socialist and Business Men’s
tickets at the primary who turned Gill’s primary plurarity
of 10,000 into a minority at the final election on March 5.
This is by no means conclusive evidence that women’s suf
frage would have a salutary effect on society at large; but
it does go far to disprove the claims sometimes heard that
"bad women” would predominate at elections.
Now then, gentlemen, it is up to you. The prelimina
ries are completed and the election will take {dace next
Tuesday. You have all had an opportunity to he heard in
the selection of candidates, and from these candidates you
are yet entitled to make a final choice of seven. What
more can you want? A failure to get out and do his duty
now, according to his best judgment, will leave any man a
mighty lame leg to kick with if things don’t go to his
liking later on. _
In the early part of the winter representatives of vari
ous tribes of Indians met in Washington and formed what
is known as the Federation of North American Indians.
Accounts of the proceedings denoted that many men and
women of ability were among the delegates to the conven
tion. Now it is announced that Andrew Carnegie has
offered to donate §850,000 for a building to be used as
headquarters for the federation at the national capital.
Register—do it now.
NOTgCE
GENERAL LINE OF GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS
Men’s Underwear, Sox, Mittens, Rubber Shoes, Felt
Shoes and Pacs, Mackinaw Coats and Pants
SHELF HARDWARE
Nails. Building Paper. Dog Fish
We solicit Inspection. Every article guaranteed.
FAIRVIEWTRADING CO.
First Class in Fact First Ave., Iditarod
BEATTIE HOUSE
Furnished Rooms, Bath Rooms, Spring Cots Good Stables Adjacent
C. J. Hurley, President J. P. Gleason, Vice President A. Bruning, Cashier
American Bank of Alaska
Cornet- First Ave. and Richmond St., Iditarod
CAPITAL S50,000,GO, FULLY PAID 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 i lie 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.
Weha,e QUOfl’Q Men's Heavy Shoes
So many gg |J || Cl ,u" ",nber' Men’s Fine Shoes
$9.50 Shoes Reduced to... $7,50
$9.00 .. 7,00
$8.00 11 “ “ 6.00
$7.00 Shoes Reduced to... "5.00
$6.00. 4.00
$5.oo “ “ •* 3.00
McMahon»Flat City
DRAUGHT BEER, DOMESTIC CIGARS
Good Music Every Evening
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GOOD STOCK CIGARS AND LIQUORS
Large Stables, Warm Dog Kennels Open Day and Niglit
ZEHNDER’S “
PASSENGERS FREIGHT EXPRESS ‘
Leaves Griffin's Store, Flat City at 8:30 a.m.; leaves Budweiser corner, ‘
Idilurid at 2:30 p.ro., daily except Sunday.
Goods consigned to Upper Flat and Otter Greeks delivered,
same day as received for shipment
Flat City
SIX MONTHS FOR THEFT
GIVEN MAN AT RUBY
Rtihv Record Citizen, March 2:
Hied Christiansen, who started up
river about ten days ago. was
stopped at Tanana by a wire from
Deputy Marshal Snow, he being
charged by his partner with hav
ing stolen and disposed of a pair of
libber boots belonging to him
Christiansen also disposed of part
nership property consisting of a
cabin and household utensils.
Christiansen was brought back
o Ruby by the marshal on Thurs
day on a charge of petty larceny,
for which he was tried before Com
missiouer Gallaher Friday after
noon, found guilty and given six
months. _
NOTED MOUNTAIN PEAK
COLLAPSES IN COLORADO
With a crash that was heard for
miles, 300 feet of the top of Mount. Liz
ard Head, which was 14,160 feet high,
and the highest peak in the San Juan
district, Colorado, collapsed and mill
ions of tons of rock roiled down the
mountain side on Chrisimas day. The
summit of the peak was a jagged
spiral, and it is the theory of geologists
that water from melting snows, to
1 gether with the added weight of the
heavy snows, caused disintegration of
the conglomerate rock upon which the
crest rested, causing the top to slide
off. The reduced height of Mount Liz
ard Head leaves an unnamed peak at
least 50 feet lower than the former
altitude of Lizard, now the highest
peak in the district.
The city is soon to lose the services
of Chief McGovern, who lias been at
the head of the fire department since
soon after the organization of the
municipal government. Mr. McGovern
will submit his resignation upon the
organization of the new council, to be
elected next Tuesday.
Mr. McGovern was put in charge of
the fire department shortly after the
big fire of last June. Since that time
the city’s facilities for fighting fire
have been greatly improved; and.
while it is true he is not to be credited
with the improvements made, it is
none the less a fact that most people
have looked upon him as a capable and
conscientious officer who has been at
tentive to his duties and has taken ex
i traordinary precautions in safeguarding
the city against fires, as well as hand
ling such as did occur very effectively.
Mr. McGovern has no intention of
leaving the city, but has not given out
what he will devote his attention to
after his resignation takes effect.
NOTICE
All persons owing the City Drug
store are hereby notified that their ac
counts have been assigned to the under
signed, to whom they are hereby re
quested to make payment.
. CYRIL P. WOOD.
Old Lacey, Tyler, Monogram, Ather
ton and Cedarbrook, also fine old Port,
Sherry and Clartts at Empire Com
mercial Co.
' POLITICAL GOSSIP ^
There will be one consolation for the country at large if.Taft
is renominated and re elected: he will never aspire to a third term. j
He will have enough to satisfy him to the end should he serve]
another term. One of his latest troubles came with a gentle hint!
that if he expects to get the New York delegation in the conven-]
tion he will have to select James S. Sherman ns his running mate]
again and look pleasant. Mr. Taft for a long time has been]
barely on speaking terms with the Vice President. The latter
says lie is entitled to endorsement just as much as Taft is, and his [
up state friends in New York appear to agree with him. Mr. Taft |
will probably swallow the pill — but resolve never to take another!
dose.
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Impure baking powafer had a good deal to do with raising the:
protest that ousted Dr. Wiley.
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La Follette’s friends are saying bitter words about Roosevelt.
Th'-v say La Follette would never have announced himself except;
for assurances from Roosevelt and his understrapper Pinchot and
that Roosevelt has now “double-crossed” La Follette. No matter!
what course La Follette may pursue, many of his friends will pro-!
coed with the single purpose of revenging themselves on the;
colonel.
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A press dispatch from San Juan del Sur, dated February 29,
said: “Arrangements are going forward to give Secretary of State
Knox a warm reception when he arrives upon Nicaraguan soil.”
Later events indicate that the press agent down there is a pretty
good hand at crackin’ a joke.
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“I want Teddy!” screamed the Abernathy Kid as he rode his
pony down the aisle at the Republican convention of the Fourth
Oklahoma district.
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William Jennings Bryan is going to the national Democratic
I convention as a delegate at large from Nebraska. That he is going
i as a candidate for the Presidential nomination is equally certain,
: in the opinion of some observers of the political situation in that
state.
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“Polecats of Special Privilege” is what the Rocky Mountain
j News calls grafting politicians and other understrappers who try
j to ruin honest public officials at the behest of the interests.
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Roosevelt’s declaration has started off the politicians” is the
I wtiy some one put it after the cathop of last month Most of them
re-echo the World's “I told You So” and the Taft supporters take
the announced willingness upon the part of Roosevelt very bitterly.
Some of them have gone back over the old files and one paper has
published twenty-six positive and distinct declarations upon the
part of Roosevelt that he would never again accept tire nomination.
They ask why this change. Roosevelt himself is surprised a!
the volley which is fired at him, and his pronouncement has not
been greeted, except in certain quarters, with tire popularity he
surely expected it would receive. The New York World leads in
the attack upon the colonel as ‘‘Wall Street’s Cmdidale” and
directly charges that Morgan has had Roosevelt in the background
all this time as the most reliable man for tire position.
Piblic sentiment unexpectedly seems to ho against Roosevelt,
and although many progressives favor his nomination it seems to
he far from acceptable to the great majority of the party. “Taft’s
nomination is in dan e •" is the cry in the Republican quarters in
many slates. The attack on Roosevelt seems to be surprisingly
general, and the Democrats seem to he rejoiced beyond measure,
as they are satisfied that it means that the split in the Republican
ranks which now exists will be opened wider than ever. Taft sup
porters it is taken will knife Roosevelt if he is nominated, and he
will receive the same treatment as was given him in New York
state elections after his return from Africa and his historic row
with Boss Barnes.
INVENTS NEW
STYLE OF BRILL
Fairbanks News-Mine : A Is:
prospecting drill of the chum till
t>pe, which he thinks will pr* we a
boon to the poor prospector, has
just been invented by ('rank But*-, u,
who .successfully used it in sinking
a well under his tesidenceon upper
Second avenue.
The hit cuts a two-inch Hole and
is worked by hand. In connection
Buteau uses hydiauiic pipe casing
with an inside measurement of two
inches To facilitate sinking, the
inventor makes use of long steam
points, and he thinks that with this
system two men can sink 30 or 40
teet a day in muck, driving and
casing as they go, and can make 30
i or 40 feet in gravel. Two windlasses
are used to carry the cables, which
pass over three pulleys in the frame
work over the whole The three
pulleys are used so that no time
will be lost in changing cable from
the drill to the pump, and from the
pump to the driver which is used
in driving the casing or in pulling
it. With hydraulic pipe, the Buteau
outfit will weight about 400 pound
irrespective of the boiler. Buteau
is using a little pipe boiler of 550
pounds weight.
Select Outside Lumber, cot ruga ted
ron an d roofing paper at Ross & Nes
tor’s.
Best non-astigmatic snow glasses at
Simpson's.
NEW MOTORCYCLE RAN
AWAY WITH OWNER
San Francisco, Feb. 16.—Tazoi Hat
lori got a tew motorcycle—minus in
structions how to stop it. Starting was
easy. For four hours he rode around
a block trying to stop. Finally friends
relayed instructions.
There seems to be no kind of insect
powder that is fatal to humbugs.
Visit Boas, the big busy corner store.
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THE SUBSTITUTES
I ctiled upon the grocer man and
asked hint for a gallon can of syrup,
and he cried: “Too bad. We've just
sold out the last we had. But we
have something just as good: this
kc >ne of ours has stood the fierc
est est you ever saw; and scientists
lay down the law that coal oil is a
class apart; it tones the liver and
the heart; it fills you full of rich red
blood, and makes your hair and
whiskers bud. So throw your syrup
jug away and buy some kerosene
today.” i smote that merchant with
bis scales and soaked him with a
keg of nails, and biffed him (irmly
with my lyre, and set his one.horse
Store afire. I wished to buy a foun
tain lien. “I do not keep such,
such things,” he said: “the trade in
tiiuniain pens is dead, tliei seldom
serve you as they should i.d here
is something just as good. Now. i vs,
a squirtgun here, my friend, that 1
can freely recommend. The London
Lancet rightly claims there are no
better, saner games than squirting
water from a gun— -” 1 reached
across and poked him one. Is there
a merchant in this land to say:
“Such goods are not on hand: there
is none in this neighborhood, and
none that can be had.- Walt Mason.
Information is sought as to the where
abouts of Alexander T. Marshal! by the
postmaster of bhtarod
Best non-astigraalic snow glasses at
Simpson’s.
Dr. Heir rich Wortmann,
Ottice at (’itv Thug Store, Tel. 30
First Ave., Bet. Willow and .Richmond
Office Hour.' i i to i to 4, 7 to S
CHAS. D. CARTER,
Dentist
Offices, Pioneer Drug Stores,
Flat Creek
DR. F. W. .HERMS,
Dentist
Dr. Wortmann’s Office.
First Avenue and Willow Street,
DR. H. BEHLA,
Dentist
Gold St., Flat City. Opp. Grand Hotel
Phone 4
ALFRED E. MALT BY.
Attorney at Law
Notary PriiLr.*
Office Simps m B!o£. First aiul Willow
CHAS. E. TAYLOR.
Attorney at Lav/,
jSotary Public, Conveyancing,
Richmond St., Iditarod
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Wloker^hiiin ■& Roden.
! ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Tdi:at. i!. Alaska
GEORGE WOODRUFF ALBRECHT,
Attorney at Law
Michigan, ’81 Alaska, ’10 Kentucky 91
The Fioneer Attorney of this Camp
First-Class Accommodations
Anderson & Pierce, Props r. M, Pierce, Manager,
Milk-Fed Broilers and Roasting Chickens
Fresh Veal and Mutton Fresh Eastern Oysters
Corn-Fed Turkeys
Dog Feed 5c, 10c3 15c lb.
1P8TARQP EffEAT CO,
Second St. Phone 15
MAX SIMEL, JMake^^
Miners’ Supplies and General Outfitting a Specialty
Drink Eastern Beer'»
Miner’s Home SaIgon\
THE HOME OF THE “QUAKER MAID" )
Foot of Willow St.. Iditarod 4
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