COUNCIL
MEETING
Petorsen'e Charges.
True to his word of a week be
fore, Capt. A. H. Petersen was on
hand at the council meeting
Wednesday uiglrt with specified
charges against Mayor Barnes.
It was noticeable, however, that
good humor had in large measme
replaced the fighting spiiit pre
viously manifested by Capt. Peter
sen; and it is also ttue that Mayor
Barnes allowed no manifestation ol
anger while from the chair he
lectured Capt. Petersen lor shirk
ing his sworn duties and sulking
like a schoolboy instead of being
on hand and guarding the city's
interests while the transactions he
complained of were taking place
To Mayor Barnes’s reprimand for
remissness in attendance to his own
duties, Capt. Petersen replied that
he had seen the futility of contend
ing against the combination op
posed to him, and had therefore
withdrawn until a more favorable
opportunity for effective resistance.
In the document containing the
charges against Mayor Barnes, Capt.
Petersen disclaimed any other
motive in his motion at the last
meeting than to get the city started
off right - strictly following the
Jaws—and on a business system, as
he had trie 1 ever since his election,
without results, against the Bayles
Baines-Anderson combination and
the political machine hack of them;
and theiefoie, taught by experi
ence, he knew tue only way to
accomplish this was by an absolute
reorganization—a fresh start with
new men.
Saying that the city has had an
income so far of more than $9,900,
that this is all disposed of and the
city owes bills amounting to $9,
S79.98, and has, furthermore, $to,
020, just in salaries and rents, to
meet before April 1, 1912, Capt.
Petersen's communication contin
ues: “Mr. Barnes doesn’t seem to
want to loot matters straight in
the face, but wants spec.fic charges
preferred, and, although not at all
necessary, I will prefer a few
charges, where charge after charge
could be preferred, but first I will
have to call your attention to City
Ordinance No. 13, an ordinance
providing for the presentation, ex
amination and payment of claims
against the town of Iditarod.”
After quoting paragraph 6 of the
ordinance, charges were made as
follows:
First. Not being elected chairman of
this council, I charge Mr. Barnes’
holding the chair illegal.
Second. Showing an absolute wrong
idea of the chair's duties and rights by
overruling motions without asking for
seconding, dictating to fellow council
men and city officials, et cetera, I
MERCHANTS CAFE
NOW PREPARED TO DO A
GENERAL GROCERY OUTFITTING BUSINESS
At Lowest Prices. All Fresh, NewGoods
See Us Before Buying Elsewhere.
MILLER & SLENTER, PROPS.
GRAND HOTEL, FLAT CITY
glcely Furnished Rsoms First-Class Cats Liquors and Cigars Pool and Billiards
_N. GLANTZ AND MRS. SWANSON
A FEW THINGS FOR WINTER
Extra Large-Size Horse Blankets
Yukon Sleds, Snowshoes Coal Oil aud Gasoline
Cole's Air-Tight Heaters
SMITH’S GUN STORE
! Phono No. 6 Iditarcd, Alaska
Miners & Merchants Bank
IDITAROD, ALASKA
Capital, SIOO,000.00
General Banking Business Transacted Gold Dust Bought and Assayed
Drafts Issued on Any Part of the World
SEATTLE CORRESPONDENT: SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BANX
OFFICERS:
T. J. Nestor, President
Chas. Ross, Vice President
E. G. Lindberg. Manager
John Holmes, Cashier and Assayer
NOTICE THIS
MONEY-SAVING
Special Offer Sale
ONE-THIRD OFF
On all our first-class and This Season’s ’GOON SKIN
FOR COATS, WOLF ROBES and FUR CAPS. Now get
busy, boys, and take advantage ot this 1-3 Off Sale.
WE LEAD^THE REST J^OLLOW
FRIEDMAN'S STORE
; charge Mr, Barnes unfit for the chair.
Third. Knowing Ordinance No. 13,
paragraph 6, and at the council meet
ing June 7 warned by undersigned
chairman of finance committee, Mr.
; Barnes lias continued to uin bills upon
bills on the city without the knowledge
and sanction of the council, without
even knowing himself if certain labor
j was performed or certain material de
livered.culminating in a bill of $1,029 -
, 86 for slabs and sawdust being pre
i sented to the city for payment; only at
j the meeting September 6 having men
! tinned that repairs on the north end of
First avenue amounting to $120 iiad
been done, not asking permission and
the council therefore passing it up
without acting and not mentioning a
single word about the balance of the
$1,029.86.
Unlawful for this council to pass on
certain hills, warning you new fellow
councilmen not to get mixed in any
trouble—Mr. Barnes appointeg you all
on the finance committee—I charge Mr.
j Barnes, not worse, responsible for set
; tlement.
When the charges had been read
I
First-Glass Accommojatians
Anderson & Pierce, Props, f. M. Pierce. Manger,
i . ■ —
Mayor Barnes invited Capt. Peter
sen to take the chair and name a
committee to refer their considera
tion to. Capt. Petersen declined
to take the chair or suggest names
for the committee, saying that he
had the utmost confidence in the
fairness of Mayor Barnes. Mayor
Barnes named as the committee the
chairmen of the fire, finance and
street committees, Wotden, Auten
and Mutchler.
Bills Ordered Paid.
The huance committee reported
favorably upon the following bills,
and warrants were ordered drawn
in payment of same:
Salaries —
E. B. Hunt, as magistrate $50,
clerk $150. $200 00
Henry Roden, attorney 150 00
.1. R. McGovern, fire chief . 250 00
Frank Gularte, lire captain .. 200 00
Monthly Claims—
Banks & Howland, power. 600 00
Annie Clifton, ground rent . 40 00
Miscellaneous Claims—
Low man A Hanford,tax book and
receipts. 47 50
City Drugstore, two seals . 15 00
Iditarod Pioneer, printing no
tices and ballots. 15 00
Mutcltler Bros., 4 cords wood 48 00
3 “ " . 30 00
Anderson Bros. & Net'land. dec
orating city hall and school .. 1S1 69
Pioneer Sheet Metal Works, 2
toilets $60, 4 ventilators $12 72 00
Ross&Nestor, lumber, windows,
etc . 94 50
N. C. Co., hardware. 30 80
Martin Sickinger, soap. 1 00
Independ’t Lumber Co , lumber, 60 75
W. O. Mitchell. Act., lumber 122 52
Chester, Ryan & Keltoe, case oil, 8 00
Riley & Beattie, water. 5 00
Smith's Gun Store, hardware .. 25 75
Dan Hartnett, scavenger work.. 3 25
Clark Lumber Co., lumber.112 65
slabs . 23 50
Slippern Mill, slabs and sawdust, 84 44
John Nelson, bridge bet. Black
and Willow streets. 18 00
A. Watson, 70 hours carpenter
ing on city hall . 105 00
C. E. Duffy, 70 hours same .. . . 105 00
G. S. Lee, 70 hours same. 75 00
T. E. Jones, 50 hours same . 75 00
E. B. Hunt, matches and express
advanced on tax book and re
ceipts. 6 00
Chairman Auten of the finance
committee reported that he had
j taken up the matter of a certain
I bill, amounting to $i,ooo or more,
with F. A. Cleveland. He had
tried to get Mr, Cleveland's con
j sent to a 20 per cent, reduction,
j without success, and had absolutely
j refused to O K. many of the items
100 the bill because there was 110
| receipt from anybody showing de
j livery of material and no evidence
that it had been delivered at all.
The matter was gone into very
fully by the council. The claim
bad not been presented promptly as
it should have been in the first
place. Mr. Funk, employed by tLe
i city, whose duty it was to receive
SEW FINDS MAT DEAD TO I
i MM GREATER FAT AREA
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Word was received the first of the week that exceedingly good
| pay has been found by Jim Chronister on the Pack Mule associa
j tion, Black creek, of which Martin, Chronister, Ellinger & Thomas
I are owners. The pay is said to run 8 cents from the surface down.
iThe find is considered important inasmuch as it indicates a line of
' pay extending through a locality between discovery. Otter, and
I the head of Flat creek where little or no prospecting has been
| done.
Within the last ten days the “Little Guggs,” of the Wildcat
i association, have also located new pay the consequence of which
; may be extensive development. This pay is on the right-limit
[ bench of Flat creek and promises to be richer than ground in the
j creek proper. Gold was known to exist there, but hitherto nol
enough work had been done to determine its quantity or extent.
[The find has led to speculation regarding the possibility of a large
extent of bench pay along the right limit of Flat.
It is the opinion of experienced men that, should these two
finds lead to the amount of prospecting which they warrant, the
result will be a large addition to the area of known pay in the
district.
and receipt for the material, had
been absent on two days and there
had been no one to check the
material. The finance committee
unanimously decided it could not
approve payment without some evi
dence that the city owes the money
claimed, and the matter went over.
City Finances.
The clerk’s report showed the fol
lowing condition of city finances:
Deficit in salary fund.$1,338 00
•' in general fund 4,002 63
Total deficit .$5,340 63
Less a balance of $23.50 in the emer
gency fund.
To Improve Fire Service.
A resolution was passed author
izing the placing in the emergency
fund of sufficient money to pay the
N. C. Co. for i.ooo feet of fire hose
uul fittings tor same. The money
will be transferred from the first tax
receipts. C. P. Wood for the
company said it proposed to pay its
axes promptly, and it is believed
that the money will be on hand b
February i The cost of the
apparatus will be $1,300 or more.
Similar ariangement was made
tor providing a sleigh for hose cart
Providing for the School.
John Strelic, chairman of tile
school board, asked what the conn
cil proposes to do iti regard to pro
t iding school money He said the
board is in debt $750 now, and the
running expenses amount to $too a
month. He intimated that ii the
council did not supply funds lie
would secure advice ami appeal to
Fairbanks. The council ordered
$2,000 of the first license money
received placed in the hands of the
school boa i<l. Capt Petersen
assured Mr. Strelic the money is
as good us wheat in the mill, his
house having sent $2,000 to P'air
hmks which has not been le
;urned to the city
CAMP FLAT SMOKER
FAST AND FURIOUS
The A. B.’s of Flat City held a meet
ing in their hall last Tuesday for the
purpose of electing officers for the next
six months, and to discuss matters ot
interest to the membership. The
business of the meeting disDosed of,
those present formed themselves into
a mutual entertainment committee, and
a most successful smoker followed.
From the first the fun was fast and
furious. Everybody present seemed to
be imbued with a spirit of good cheer,
and music, wit and wisdom followed in
rapid succession.
It is understood that this smoker was
but a sample of many that are to fol
low during the winter, which means
that there are rip-roaring times ahead
at Flat. _
MORE LIFE MEMBERS FOR A. B.’S
The following have become life mem
bers of the Arctic Brotherhood in ad
dition to those mentioned last week:
H. H. Porter, T. L. McGrath and
Manuel Gularte.
Cow’s milk for sale, Iditarod hospital.
COMING AND GOING
George Friend and Frank Lawson
came in from Flat Tuesday.
Oscar Latourneau plan- to leave
Iditarod and Flat for Seward direc
about November 10, according to trai
conditions, He lias a fust dog-lean
and will carry private mail and express
Latourneau will leave Seward on tht
return journey December 10. Leave
letters, etc., at Manuel's Iditarod sa
loon or at E. W.- Griffin’s store, Flat.
Billy Casey will leave shortly for
Fairbanks and the Outside. He will
winter in California.
Mrs. C. A. Boerner, wife of the N. C.
Co.’s agent at Takotna, expects to
leave for the Outside as soon as the
going is good over tlie Seward trail
Mrs. Boerner will be accompanied by
her mother, who has been spending
tlie summer in tlie Kuskokwim country.
Capt. C. A. Boerner is expected to
arrive here from Takotna within a few
days.
Dr. C. D. Carter came in from Flat
City yesterday.
A. K. Light returned from his trip
along tlie Dikeman trail early in tlie
week. He brought with him a fine
sample of oats grown in the vicinity
of Dikeman.
Doc Madia? brought in a large
amount of dust last Tuesday.
Starr Ballard came in from the Sum
mit roadhouse Wednesday.
Jack White came in from Flat dur
ing the week.
IDITAROD HOTEL
IN NEW HANDS
F tl Biulin, Iditarod City’s first
pcs'master, who lias been running
h roadhouse on the Dikeman trail,
lias taken over the Iditarod hotel
from Ilolke & Rippa, and will con
duct the same in such a inaunei
is will ensure liberal patronage.
The hotel is being re decorated
throughout and will be found
second to none for comfort, cleanli
ness and its central position.
AT IDITAROD HOTEL
J S Harding, Frank Griffin, Otto
Moses, Mrs F McGibnev, W W Ward,
Frank Keenan: Mert Marston, George
Riley, J C Johnson and wife, August [
Keranen, A Letness and wife, Casper j
Ellinger, Dis Otter; George Friend, I
Hans Olson, W H McWhorter, C E j
Taylor, J Hakulin, A Arndt, H E j
Crause. Tiros McEwan, John Savola, :
S G Lipsett, Dan Aston, V H Pierce, j
Win Cribv, A1 Goslow, Geo C Kay, j
Irene Harvey, Flat.
TONIGHT.
A meeting the Iditarod Kennel Club
will be held in the parlor of the Bud- 1
weiser bar at 8 o’clock this (Satuiday)!
evening, for the purpose of drawing up
a set of rules and electing permanent 1
officers. Ail members, and those who
intend to become such, are asked to be
present. Those joining tonight will be
considered as charter members and
will be admitted at the nominal fee of
$5. The Committee. ,
FOR SALE-Fi ve dogs, large sled,new
harness. Inquire Julius', Dis. Otter,
$275.
COMPETITION
THE LIFE OF TRADE
Legitimate competition unquestionably IS. It has
a tendency of stimulating trade. It satisfies patrons
that there was no individual manipulation upon the re
quired wares, besides compelling every merchant to keep
up with the times, and constantly retain a keen edge. <
Illegitimate competition, such as v ill stoop to the<
low-down level of practicing imposter, mimic and other <
trickery is not alone detrimental, but is positively dis-<
gusting to the well aiming merchant, discouraging pub-<
lie patronage in general, and will ultimately extinguish <
the smouldering spark of life that is left in trade.
This firm shall nevertheless maintain its dignity of
Fair and Honorable Merchandising in future, as it has
in the past, with the motto—
HIGHEST CLASS MERCHANDISE
AT LOWEST PRICES
Our Prices on Solid Black and
Blue Serge Clothing still
ISAACS BROS. & CO.,
LEADING CLOTHIERS
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
The Only First-Class House in Hown
See Us for SPECIAL WINTER RATES
JOS. H. SMITH
HAS ACCIDENT
1
Last Monday Jos. H. Smith
slipped upon a frozen board-wa k
and suffered serious injury. When
examined by Dr. Wortmann it was j
found that three libs had been
biokett and Joe will probably be
confined to the Iditarod hospital
for three weeks.
It was only a couple of weeks
igo that he got busy ami nailed
c.eats along several crossings to
prevent others slipping, and it is a
strange freak of misfortune that
he should be the first person to suf
fer from such an accident this
season.
THE LADIES' HOSPITAL AUXILIARY
Mrs. Davis intends to leave foi the
creeks early next, week for the pur
pose of organizing a branch of the
ladies’ hospital auxiliary. A meeting
will be held in the A. B. Hall, Flat
City, Tuesday next at 2 p.m. to discuss
Die matter, and all ladies interested in
good work are invited to be present.
The days of meeting of the Iditarod
auxiliary have been changed. In the
future meetings will be held at the
hospital every Monday and Saturday
evening.
Mrs. Cheslev requests the ladies of
the auxiliary to meet ather residence
every Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
Delegate Wickersham says that the
Canadians have practically defeated
President Taft’s chances for re-election
by throwing overboard his reciprocity
proposals.
Beds with bath $1.50 per night. Cari
bou Bath House.
How Would You Like
To Be in My Clothes?
§m 1 A THE PI0NEER
1 Tailor
First and Willow Phone 68
BIG QUARTZ DEAL AT NOME
Nome, October 28.—'Thomas Gaffney
has purchased an interest in the lode
mine ou Glacier divide for $50,000.
This is the first big deal in quartz
which has been consummated in this
district.
Get us quote you prices on outfits.
Everything absolutely guaranteed.
Northern Commercial Company.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned will not be responsible for
any debts contracted by any person or
persons performing labor on Contact
association, Happy creek, Otter pre
cinct, Alaska. Alfred Matson.
Axkl Johnson.
Dated November 3, 1911.
WATCH THIS SPACE
Stop at Ed Kelly's Roadhouse, Diskaket
The Bud weiser The Branch
Idltarod Flat City
PURITY -A DRINKING HOUSE FOR MEN— - QUALITY
JACK BAIRD ED ANDERSON