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| IDITAROD PIONEER j
Published Eveuy Sunday Morninc at Iditarod. Alaska.
FRANK E. BECKER. EDITOR
V61 I Geo. M. At buckle. Publisher No. 4
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THE DESTINY OF ALASKA
The votes that are to he east at the coining delegate
election will not be the dry formal ballot disfigured by cold
type; they will not be the mute unfeeling record of a citi
zen’s suffrage—they will be as the leaves of the forest blown
across the road of Destiny.
And this is no idle figure of speech, for as sure as
human events move onward in their inexorable march, so
also moves Alaska on tin; course of empire and according as
she is great, steadfast and commanding, or weak, vacillat
ing and contemptible shall the record run of the work of
this day and generation.
As man is the architect of his own fortunes, so the cit
izen is the boss carpenter on the state’s construction. With
plans and specifications let mm approach the job witn care
and pondering for the foundation of a future state is being
laid, and it is designed to live for many years. Shall we
then take upon ourselves’the building of this edifice seeing,
that each timber is placed straight and true, or shall we
hire out this great work to unreliable contractors to pack
the casements with false promises and loot the strongboxes.
Down in Southeastern Alaska there lives today a small
coterie of would-be contractors who are ready and willing
to take upon their shoulders the great work of building up
Alaska. Aye, they arc even anxious so to do, and will fur
nish nice blue prints to tell us how they would start the
thing. Chief Architect Shackleford and his assistants,
Hoggatt and Clark, have been working on these plans for
many moons; every now and then they hurry down to Wash
ington to submit them to the President, seeking his ap
proval. Then they come back and give it out that each
commissioner will have a suite with southern exposure and
three bath rooms.
To further their building operations which the people
of Alaska are to know nothing about, until they and the!
President decide to enlighten them, they have selected Ed
S. Orr, a pliant instrument and political has-been to pose
as superintendent of the job. Not to be outdone by the
cheerful spirits of Seattle who robbed an Indian graveyard
to adorn Pioneer Square with a totem pole, these bouyant
buccaneers rob the political graveyard of Tacoma to adorn!
the delegate race in Alaska, thus rudelv disturbing the
spot where Git's political corpse was sweetly sleeping.
From Juneau, then, the word goes forth that the plans
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Rates Reasonable
First Avenue, Between Willow and Blade Streets
^JuiS€i@i~iii5 LARGEST ST0C!( INTf!E country
wilgJgJ GLASS,
Pciper, Eoclts, Mirrors, Etc.
A%ft| y* Warehouse on Waterfront,
■ W¥ ■ a Si Foot of Richmond Street
Cigars, Tobaccos, Soft Drinks
Card Tabies and Reading Room
Cafe in Connection Front St,, Editarod
Merchants Cafe
First Avenue, Near Corner Richmond Street
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OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
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Charlie Miller, Prop. Iditarod, Alaska
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...Hartnett k Co., City Scavengers...
ALL KINDS OF SANITARY WORK DONE
Leave Orders at Beattie Lodgincr Ho's-se
ISRDORE GOLDSTEIN
COMPLETE LINE OF
SPECIALTY IK LADIES’ AND GENTS' SHOES
Front Ave., Between Richmond and Willow Sts.,. Iditarod
Will toll you that it is the bottle that carries OUR
LABEL that he lias learned to have conlidecc ; in
BECAUSE we have proven to his satisfaction that
the drugs we have ■are all that eouid be desired for
his assistance in curing for his patients, and BE
CAUSE every prescription is put up hv a gradu
ated pharmacist of 1-1 years’experience in the larg
est drug stores from New York to’Seattle.
Fay 8& Loussac, Ph. G., S5ESL«!?S:
FINEST EQUIPPED LOG HOTEL IN THE NORTH
Furnished Rooms and Bunks at Moderate Rates
Every Bunk a Spring
have been agreed upon, and that with Orr on the job, the
building will go forward rapidly, providing as soon as pos
sible Comfortable living quarters for a commission, each
member thereof to be appointed by the President at the in
stance and request of these, his faithful servitors and the
friends of Alaska.
At the same time, there is another architect moseying
around who was given the job by the people of Alaska. He
took a look at the plans drawn up by the regular Repub
lican dictators, otherwise known as the Shaekleford-Hog
gatt-Clark triumvirate, also known as “the rule or ruin”
gang, and he didn’t like them. He said they left too much
air under the sills, and provided too much space for the ad
ministration cat. He got out and told the people about it,
and then he went down to Washington and told them nunc
more. In fact he snorted around quite lot, because it
made him mad to see a bunch of political sand baggers tell
ing the people what to do, and stuffing the state mattresses
with sawdust.
He said that the foundations they were ’planning to
put down were worm-eaten and full of graft-holes, and he
ranted about it so much that they all got sore at him and
wouldn’t invite him around to breakfast. At the. same time
he flashed a roll of plans that he had been working on and
asked congress to approve them, because his foundations
were good and strong, and would last until Mt. McKinley
becomes a hole in the ground.
Wickersiiam hasn t succeeded in getting his plain
adopted yet. But he has succeeded in advertising them
and the country they were made for. until everybody knows
about them and is interested in seeing what will happen.
He is going hack this year, taking along the same roll of
plats and he will hold forth some more until congress gives
him what he wants, just to get rid of him.
Wickersiiam says his plans and specifications are ap
proved by the people of Alaska. And we think they are.
All of us carpenters are on the job, and we will get out our
little hammers for that clique down at Juneau. They pose
as representing the thought and sentiment of Alaska. We
know that they do not. We know that their house would
be built upon the sands and that it would collapse of its
own weight. We know that they and their party have
shamefully neglected Alaska for twenty years, and tiiat the
sooner their power is wrested from them the sooner will
<. oo 1 come to the territory. We know they are bum archi
tects, and we will have none of them.
WHO GAVE THEM THE RIGHT?
Who conferred upon that self-appointed bunch of political
fashion dictators down at Juneau the right to declare the political
modes of this territory V Who endowed them with their vaunted
privilege of running our delegates around the political haystack in
an attempt to make monkeys of them, and discredit the people’s
chosen representatives in the eyes of congress? By what right do
they now say that because Wickersham had quarreled with them
that he is a has-been and ineffectual for further work at Washing
ton ?
These people, known as the “rule or ruin” gang, purport to
represent the administration in Alaska. Shackleford, Hoggatt and
Clark are all administration men, the two latter having lived in
Washington for years where they were in touch with the powers
that be. They purport to represent the political sentiment of the
territory, in spite of the fact that the people have registered their
choice by ballot, choosing a man who is against the things they
stand for. They represent to the President that the people who
inhabit Alaska, outside of the fair city of Juneau, are a band of
snow-eating savages unfit to govern themselves, and accept with
cunning enthusiasm the God-given relief of a commission that the
administration would force upon us.
Representing a political party that has systematically neglected
Alaska for years, they now ask us to vote for a man who would
stand for the things they stand for, and who, though unquestion
ably honest, would insensibly work for them. They have nothing
definite to offer save a commission government which is absolutely
one of the most distasteful and un-American suggestions that could
be put before the people of the territory. Because he has fought
them at every turn of the road they denounce Wickersham, and
have tried to hinder his work at Washington.
They have thrown the political hooks into every representative
the people of Alaska have chosen. Through their control of the
j poison bouquet for Tom ('ale, and they tried to lay a bear-trap for
! Wickersharn. L.
This last proposition was not their one best bet. They caught
then ->eat all tight, but they are now calling loudly for assistance
to turn the bear loose.
1 hej tijfto tell us that Wiekersham has crippled himself by
making enemies of everyone. We will copper all these bets
because most. ol his enemies are against the common good in
j this territory. Wiekersham is a fighter, and he is fighting for the
things that are fundamentally right. Confronted by the almost
j superhuman task ol getting anything from a party that has ignored
us consistently and long, he has yet stirred up the question of
Alaska s needs until this territory is the talk of the entire United
States, and until the public are wanting to know why something is
not done.
Were Orr elected he would perforce bo compelled to work with
his henchmen, else they would throw the hooks into him. If lie
works with them, then he works for the things we do not want. If
he works against them for the people, they will cripple him.
Wiekersham is looking to the future. He is building from the
ground up. The only enemies he has made are these people who!
would saddle Alaska with a commission and prostitute her riches
to the greed of a bureaucratic government. And we back him in
the tight. The enemies lie has made are our enemies and the more
of them he gets the better, the people are behind him, and we want
every weasel to come out of his hoU and fight.
MOSQUITO PROOF F3ED3
First Avenue, Flat Orest;
JACK CONNOLLY
DR. B. F. BROOKS,
Physician and Surgeon
Opposite Red Cross Druqt Store
HEINRICH WORTH ANN,
M. D., D. D. S., Ph. C
Temporary Office at Fay & Tjoussac’s
I’revcriiJiiori Deny Blore.
DR. E. T. BRADBURY,
DeotS st i
Temporary Hcudij iart" s. Red Cross
DrULt Store
CM ns. D. CARTER,
Khgnitlisi
Odices, Pioneer Day .Stores,
Flat and Otter
Will 43 at Fiat last iao tasks at cacti noitii
h. J. DALE,
& 1 s’ v t""3 £>T P
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Tditauoo, Ala.aca
HENRY RODEN,
Attorney at Law
Iditarod, At.as::a
McGowan, Clark & Albrecht
ATTOHNKVS AT LAW
Idit.uiod, .Alaska Phone No. ~
Tiit- Pioneer Atiunnys of Tins Camp
ALFRED E. MALT BY,
fr.S Comniisiioner]
Attorney at Law
Notary Public
Practice only in district Court. IPiYAfi:'*P
F, E, BECKER,
Attorney and Counselor at Lav;
Ofliee—.Richmond St., neat’ Second
CHAS. E. TAYLOR,
Attorney at taw5
Notary Public, Conveyancing:,
Abstracts of Titles
Flat Creek_
J. S. HARDING,
Attorney at Law
Iditarod, Alaska
MRS. HARRIS,
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General Stenographer
N. C. Co. Building
Fort Gibbon's Ua-io-Pate House
Golden North
HOTEL
Finest and Neales! Rooms
Caters Especially to Family Trade
XO Bar
EO Y. LEE, PROP.
Bonanza
^ures
On Bonanza. George Myers. Shorty
Nelson and a few of the “Bonanza!
Kings” are still chasing the streak in
the neighborhood of Chicken and
Prince creeks. George has heen there
since August last, and only leave- when
compelled *«• rep t nish his larch
One of these damp days it is hoped
that these determined prospectors will
hit it. and hit jt. good, m that locality,
though their mascot, ‘‘fjobo Prank,
turned it down to s<»ek pastures new on :
the Kuskokwim side.
For a
Home-Cooked
DINNER
TRY
Hiss Karlsoa,
First Ave., Iditarod
STOVE THAT IS
SAVING OF FUEL
From Dawson comes a suggestion in
regard to a new arrangement of stoves
and stovepipes during the winter time
that is said to have heen generally
adopted in the upper country affecting
a great saving in wood consumption, a
greater healing capacity and an actual
decrease in (Iredanger.
As explained hv Harry Landahl, the
hook store man, who has used Hie new
system in Dawson, it. involves the drum
principal on an enlarged scale, and can
be made to work in two rooms from the
same stove, l lie stove is placed in one
room, (he pipe being carried to the
ceiling and through the next room
where it is allowed to drop and is con
nected with the top of a huge drum
standing on legs the samehis the stove.
Prom the opposite side of the drum a
straight pipe, which begins inside the
drum near toe bottom, runs through
the roof.
1 he bottom of the drum slopes to the
center and 'jV'provided with a small
aperture, below which may he placed
a receptacle for catching the creosote.
It is said that where this system is
used, a saving of nearly one-half is af
fected in the wood, and two rooms are
heated with 'one “stove with not the
slightest possibility oi sparks escaping
from the chimney, it will ho found
necessary to change t lie connecting
pipejr tween stove and drain occasion
ally, since creosote wilt form here also.
In spite of the fact that the pipe runs
downward into the drum, the draught
is affected but little, ami can be reme
died by burning a little paper in the
start the air current.
'flie Pioneer last week failed to state
that Mr. .T. I. Johnstone had ecu! rib
ut* d $2o toward.! tin* go* vi - road ■? fund
instead of $Ld as appealed in our issue
of .July 17.
\ ■ e can put y efu in . comfort
able limi-e in a jiffy. See Anderson
P • s. A Norland- sash, doors, wall
paper, carpets, window shades, etc.
MRS. ill. L. PETERSON,
Stenographer and Notary Public
LEGAL WORK A SPECIALTY
S3** «*
Pwneer
Front Si., Sdiiarod
Otto Kienii, Prop.
STRICTLY UP TO DATE
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•pr? G .
JT is ^ $s£g? M
Willow Street, next to Anderson Bros., Iditarod
STMMLEY9S At the Mouth of Flat Creek
SERVES THE BEST
'MEALS AND LODGINGS
Telephone Connections With All the Principal Creeks.
Wei! Stocked With Soft Drinks, Cigars,
Tobaccos, and Fresh Fruits of the Season
A place where you can meet all the boys. -
FRANK B. STANLEY, PROP,
Formerly of the Stanley House, Hot Springs, Alaska
Rea! Estate, Employment Agency, Notary Public
PoatoflB.ee Building, Iditarod
ID IT A ROD
New Wharf Now Ready to Receive
Freight and Steamers