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COUNCIL
MEETING
The old municipal council met on the
evening of Wednesday last, canvassed the
returns of the election, allowed bills for
current city expenses, passed an ordinance
prohibiting the running at large of certain
animals within the limits of the municipal,
ity, heard and adopted the reports of the
treasurer and clerk, decided the tie vote for
councilman between Currin and Larson, and
adjourned sine die.
The meeting was celled to order at 8
p. m. by Mayor Baker, and roll call dis
closed all members present. The minutes of
the previous meeting were read and adopted,
and a recess was ordered while the finance
committee audited certain bills. When the
meeting was again called to order these bills
were ordered paid.
Horses Must Not Run at Large
Under third reading of bills an ordinance
prohibiting the running at large of certain
animals was passed, signed by the mayor
and clerk and is now a city statute. The
emergency clause was attached. The ordi
nance was primarily intended to prohibit
the running at large of horses, which have
in the past caused great destruction to the
none too substantial sidewalks of the city.
As drawn up, however, the document in
cludes quite a number of animals which
have not yet made their appearance in Idit
arod. But the writer evidently believed in
preparing for any eventuality.
The ordinance was passed by unanimous
vote.
City Treasurer's Report
The retiring city treasurer. John Holmes,
presented he following report, w'hich was
accepted:
“Iditarod. Alaska, April 7, 1915.
“To the City Council. Iditarod, Alaska:
“On April 8, 1914, w’hen the present coun
Ansley's
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Clothing, Underwear, Sox,
Shoes, Hats, Caps, Cigars,
Tobaccos, Pipes, Snuff, Drugs
and Patent Medicines, Cosmetics
Rubber Goods, Photo Supplies.
Your Films Developed and
Pictures Made.
Ansley's
Iditarod
cil went into office, there was on hand the
sum of $2,002.83. During the year the city
has received $5 from the sale of old equip
ment and $5,020 from federal licenses.
“The treasurer has paid warrants to the
amount of $7,021.21, leaving a balance on
hand of $11.62. This is in agreement with
the accounts of the city clerk, whose report
shows the purposes fur which the warrants
were drawn.
"There is due the sum of at least $1,000
from the clerk of the ilistrict court for the
March licenses. This amount should be on
the next mail.
“During the past two years the treasurer
has made several efforts to secure from the
clerk of the district court's office itemized
lists of the amounts paid in as federal
licenses. So lar this has been unsuccessful,
but believing that a considerable revenue is
lost to the city that would be paid in if the
amount paid by each individual or firm in
business were known, a continuance of this
effort is urged.
“Yours very trulv.
“JOHN HOLMES, Treasurer."
Report of City Clerk
The report of City Clerk Meyers was as
follows:
“Iditarod, Alaska, April 1, 1915.
“To the City Council, Iditarod, Alaska
“Gentlemen: Herewith 1 beg to submit
report for year of April 1, 1914, to April 1.
1915:
Available '‘ash. April 1, 1914. SI.1)90.(IS
luveivetl during year account old
equipment . 5.00
Received during year account _
federal licenses . 5,025.00
Disbursements by warrants Nos.
:!73 to 170. 7,834.40
Cash m hands of treasurer, April
1, 1915 . 47.09
Warrants outstanding and not
cashed . SGI.59
“There have been expended in the differ
ent departments amounts as follows:
: street department. 81,230.75
j Fire department . 4,991.49
| Election expenses . 172.7a
1 Genera! expenses. 4aS.41
School board. 980.40
Total .. 87,839.40
“Respectfully.
“B A. MEYERS, Municipal Clerk.”
New Council Sworn In
After the tie vote received by Messrs.
Charles Larson and John C. Currin had
been decided by the flip of a coin, which
I was won by Currin. the council adjourned
j sine die.
| The members of the new council were
j then sworn in by Commissioner Guy G.
| Geraghty, and E. M. Stanton, by virtue of
j the custom which has heretofore prevailed,
j by which the councilman receiving the high
I est vote became mayor, called the new
council to order.
I A motion tc adjourn until next Wednee
j day, April 14, was put and carried, and at
that time it is presumed the formal election
I of a president of the council, clerk and treas
| urer will take place.
Tom IIcrime, the Yankee-creek operator,
I was a visitor in the camp during the early
I days of the week. He came to secure a
! scraper for his diggings.
Billy Bevans and Ray Longton returned
I last week from a winter trip to the Koyu
kuk country.
j When you come in from the creeks don't
i forget to stop in the Crosby and take an
1 Electric Vapor Bath.
: THE CROSBY MASSAGE AND BATH
PARLORS
The Home of the Twentieth Century Turk
ish Bath
—
Fresh Olympia Oysters, for cocktails. $2
can. Iditarod Meat Co.
Ramps’
FOR PURE LIQUORS
Fresh Vegetable and Flower Seeds
Two Packages for 25 Cents
Wool Blankets, Quilts, Comforters, Pillows, Sheets, Lace Curtains,
Portieres and Couch Covers.
Linoleums, Art Burlap and House Linings.
Pii-ks, Shovels, Sluice Forks, Mattock*, Brush Hooks, Peavies, Cant Hooks, Pike
Poles. A complete assortment of Cooking Utensils and Silverware.
Harness and Harness Supplies. nonrc nonrc
Tents and Tarpauiins—all sizes. UKUU5 UI\Uui5
SMITH’S GUN STORE,
IDITAROD, ALASKA
COMMISSIONER
ON THE CARPET
The Juneau Empire of March 6 contains
the following:
“Charles E. Davidson, secretary of
Alaska, took a long, healthy swat at Com
missioner John F. Dillon of Fairbanks in
his answer today to the house of representa
tatives' request for information as to the
evasions of the territorial law. The report
was referred to the judiciary committee. Mr.
Shoup suggested that it be turned over to
the grand jury.
“Secretary Davdson’s renly declared
in the enforcement of the vital statistics
registration law Mr. Dillon has ‘shown utter
contempt for the territorial laws.’ Commis
sioner Albrecha of Iditarod also was hauled
on the carpet by the secretary, but it was
said that he had now written his intention
to bring ins records up to date. Other j
commissioners in Alaska, particularly in the j
Fourth division, were named as having i
evaded or neglected to carry out the duties
of their office.’'
Cause of the Trouble
In reference to the above it will he re
membered that the First Alaska legislature ,
passed a vital statistics law which made it |
the duty of the several United States com
missioners to keep the records required.
A decision of the attorney general of the
United States made it clear that the terri
torial legislature was without authority to
prescribe dunes for federal officials. There
upon congress passed an act which gave
the required authority, but as there was no
provision for fees nor no means of com
pelling the placing on record of the statistics
required, the duty has been merely a per
functory one. Ex-Commissioner Albrecht
states that he made an attempt to secure
the desired statistics, but under the cir
cumstances they could by no means be re
garded as complete. He had had some cor
respondence with Secretary Davidson on
the subject prior to the passage of the con
gressional act, in which he had stated that
while he would carry out the intent of the
territorial act as far as possible, it would bo
done as a voluntary act.
There appears to have been no occasion
for Mr. Albrecht being “hauled on the car
pet.”
KING THURMAN’S DEATH
IS ATTRIBUTED TO BEARS
That bears killed King Thurman, who was
found dead in a cabin in Chickaloon flats
some time ago, is a fact made certain by an
examination of the body by two men who
were sent out a few days ago to bury the
remains, says the Seward Gateway of March
12. These two men, whose names are not
known, sent word to Commissioner Conroy
and Deputy Marshal Evans today that when
they examined the body they found it to
have been horribly torn. The limbs and
body were in so frightful a state that burial
was out of the question, so the cabin was
fired and the remains cremated. Thurman
had been missing since last July or August,
and several attempts were made to find him,
without success, until hunters happened on
the cabin a few weks ago. It is evident that
he had been attacked by bears and rent
almost limb from limb before he managed
to get away and crawl to the cabin to die.
The message to the local authorities came
from Fred Bunce.
Location Notices at Pioneer office.
j
Pure and sweet. Once you try it, you will eat no other. Insist
on getting it
Sam’l Applebaum
The Home of Hart, Schaffner & Marx Clothes
Dog BaGon, I5g.
Dog Ham, 10g.
Dog Butter, 70&.
C. R. PECK, FLAT CITY .
FOREST RESERVE FUNDS
SUBJECT OF CONTROVERSY
There is in the hands of the territorial
treasurer a large sum of money which has
been apportioned as the territory’s share of
the proceeds of timber sales from the na
tional forest reserves. Under the federal
law this money must be expended for road
improvements in the counties in which the
forest reserves are situated. Inasmuch as
the Territory of Alaska has not been di
vided into counties, an attempt was made
to have the money apportioned to the judi
cial divisions in which the reserves were
situated. The interior department, how
ever, ruled that this was contrary to the
intent of the law, and that the money was
to be used by the territory itself for road
purposes.
In order to get the benefit of these funds
for the localities in which the reserves are
situated, bills have been prepared or have
been already introduced in the territorial
legislature providing for their distribution
in the judicial divisions so favored. There
is a question as to the wisdom of devoting
the entire amount of these funds to road
betterments in such a limited area, but prob
ably there is no question of the legislature’s
authority to so dispose of the money if it
so desires.
Senator Charles A. Sulzer has introduced
a bill which provides for the construction
of roads within the First division from the
proceeds of the sales of timber in the Ton
gass national forest which contemplates ap
propriating a total of $49,000 for various
roads, trails and bridges. Senator Sulzer is
quoted in the Juneau Empire as saying in
behalf of his bill:
“In my bill for the construction of roads
and trails in the First division from moneys
paid in from and belonging to the First
division 1 have included all the urgent needs
that have been brought to my attention. I
know that these roads and trails are very
badly needed. There may be others of
which I have no knowledge at this time,
3nd if so, I will be glad to do what I can
to have such projects included in the bill.
“The money in the forest reserve fund
represents only 25 per cent of what has
been paid in by the people. In my judg
ment it should be 75 per cent in Alaska,
and I am in favor of a memorial to con
gress to this effect. It is a matter which
vitally concerns the First division. We are
going to pay in more and more money for
the use of forest products; we need roads
and trails badly; in fact, our section is im
passable without them, and we can not
hope for very much aid from the national
government while so much wrork is under
way in the great Interior of Alaska..’
^The wives of municipal councillors in
France have received the right to vote, in
place of their husbands, on urgent matters,
such as sanitation and relief funds. They
will retain their new political rights while
their husbands are away at war.
We bought from the Schneider estate all
wall paper, and it will be sold at cost.
PIONEER DRUG STORE, FLAT
COMING AND GOING
J. Ernest Beattie, master of transporta
tion and boss canvassman of Professor
Drapeau’s Mammoth Inter-Ocean Moving
Picture Extravaganza, returned to this city
last Saturday afternoon after a very suc
cessful tour of the Kuskokwim, Ophir and
Ruby mining districts with that famous
amusement aggregation.
Lars Olnes, night foreman for Bates
Bros. & Brown, on Otter creek, arrived in
Discovery last Saturday, after spending the
winter in the States.
Mrs. M. J. McKenzie returned to Iditarod
last Monday, after spending the winter in
the States. While on the Outside Mrs. Mc
Kenzie made a journey to her old home in
Nova Scotia, to visit her mother and other
relatives, and had only returned to the
Pacific coast when she received telegrams
announcing the deaths of both her mother
and younger brother. After spending a few
days “at the landing," she will return to her
home on Otter creek.
Mert Marston returned from California
last Monday, where he had spent a goodly
portion of the winter. He was accompanied
by Jimmy Farrell.
H. Boas, the clothier, went to Discovery
yesterday to make the necessary arrange
ments for the opening of his branch store
in that town. He expects to have the place
open by the loth.
George Nelmeyer, the Otter-creek miner,
accompanied by Mrs. Nelmeyer, were vis
itors in Iditarod a couple of days during the
early part of the week.
All patent medicines and sundries from
the Pioneer Drug Store stock for sale at
Outside prices at Dr. Moore’s.
POSTAL SERVICE NEWS NOTES
The Iditarod and Flat postoffices have
been ordered to advertise for bids for the
summer mail service between the two points.
It is understood a weekly service is re
quired.
An order has been issued by the post
master general to the effect that the post
office at Aniak, Alaska, of which Duke E.
Stubbs is postmaster, is to be supplied with
mail from the Iditarod office. The fre
quency of the service and the days upon
w-hich the mail shall be carried are left to
the discretion of Mr. Stubbs.
The mail which arrived on Thursday last
consisted of a consignment of 200 pounds,
mostly second-class. One hundred pounds
was delivered at Flat.
CASTELLANE DIVORCE SUIT
IS FINALLY DETERMINED
Dispatches from Rome announce that
the famous suit of Count Boni de Castellane
for the annulment of his marriage to Anna
Gould, daughter of the late American tail
road magnate, and now the Duchess of
Talleyrand, has been finclly rejected by the
Rota tribunal of the Vatican at Rome. Ar
guments in the third trial of the case were
closed on February 10, and the decision was
announced shortly afterward.
Count Boni de Castellane's appeal to the
Vatican courts for the annulment of the
marriage has been pending since 1910. Co
der the ecclesiastical judicial system, before
a religious marriage is annulled the case
must be heard three times by the Rota tri
bunal. each time by three different judges,
and two decisions must favor the contestant
oefore the judgment is final. In the Cas
tellane case the psesent Duchess of Talley
rand has won two of these decisions.
If the count had been successwul in ob
taining annulment of the religious marriage
he would have been enabled to marry again.
Under the French law he would have ob
tained possession of their three children,
vho were given into the custody of their
mother when she obtained a divorce in the
Paris courts in 1906.
De Castellane based his petition upon affi
davits made by Prince del Drago and Jean
de Castellane, the count’s brother, who de
clared the then Miss Gould invalidated the
religious ceremony by declaring to them a
quarter of an hour before the ceremony was
performed that she intended to divorce her
husband if ever he were unfaithful to her.
Fine Baby Boy at Mutchlers’
Early this morning Dr. Aurin
ger received an urgent call to
hurry to Iditarod to swear in a
new American citizen that ar
rived and was demanding his
rights at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Davie Mutchler. Mrs.
Mutchler and the baby boy are
both getting along fine, but
Davie is still considerably fever
ish. __
WE OFFER THE PUBLIC THE SUMMER
“THREE R'S”
Rest
Recreation
Recuperation
While we call our institution a Healtha
torium, it is in reality a university of health,
and a more desirable place for recupera
tion could not be found.
We discourage the appearance of illness
to such an extent that patients who come
here are soon imbued with the cheerful
ipirit which eliminates all outward signs of
illness.
This is our idea of an intelligent “getting
well” process. We “talk health” and “think
health.”
THE CROSBY MASSAGE AND BATH
PARLORS
OUR ULTIMATUM!
To patrons of our establishments, to those that should have been,
and to those that might have teen, irrespective of their politics,
immaterial whether they are sympathizers with the Allies or admir
ers of the Teutons in their present terrible struggle, that this coming
season “IS POSITIVELY OUR *.AST” in this neck of the woods.
Our entire stock, without any reservation, IS TO BE AND WILL
BE DISPOSED OF. How? BY THE PROCESS OF KNIFING,
CUTTING AND SLASHING. As to the character of our merchan
dise, we contend there is none better. Our motto always has been,
“The best is none too good,” which we have made a life study to
fulfill and carry into practice.
Wi"h this, our first announcement, we will not endeavor to indulge in quoting
prices, for the reason that our lines of MEN'S OUTFITTINGS are extremely large
and numerous, and this space costs real money, which we are now after. But we
give you our hearty assurance that’it will more than pay to visit our stores before
purchasing elsewhere. Bear in mind, our stock is vast and intact, the population is
meager and declining, and cleaning up we are determined to do. Hence you realize
what IT IS UP TO US TO DO and what method we are forced and compelled to
pursue!
PERUSE OUR ADS AND FOLLOW THEIR DICTUM
Bayles Clothing Co.
IDITARGD DISCOVERY, OTTER
j
CLAIMS VON BERNHARDI
WAS SPY IN UNITED STATES
(Toronto Globe)
In the early summer of last year General
Friedrich von Bernhardi, the famous Gar- |
man cavalry officer and military authority. '
crossed the United States. He came by
way of the Pacific. His coming was tin- j
heralded. His speeches were unreported.
His going was unchronicled. No American
newspaper ''played up" the visit of one of
the most talked of Germans in the world
today. His new book, “Germany and the
Next War," was published early in 1922, 1
while he was on this world tour. A copy .
of it reached him by mail at Singapore. In [
the United States he was the guest of the I
German consuls. His addresses were in Ger- i
man, to Germans invited individually by j
the consul. His mission was to advise Ger
mans in the various German centers of the j
purpose, the plans and the rightness of the (
then impending war that now “staggers the j
world.” He told its story, the essentials j
of its program, the year before it began.
These things the Globe learned since the
war broke out, and on two occasions they
were referred to editorially. But no details
were given. No names or places or dates 1
were mentioned. Of the facts there could j
be no doubt. San Francisco was believed j
to be the place of Bernhardi’s arrival, and ;
New York the port of departure. It is now
possible to fi’l in important details.
On Monday of this week the editor o1 j
the Globe met with Dr. David Starr .J. r- j
ian, and as he is a distinguished Californian, ]
the chancellor of Leland Stanford uni', ur
sity, and a great student of international ;
problems, the fact of Bernhardi’s mission to <
America was mentioned. Dr. Jordan’: on- :
swer was in substance as follows:
“I met Von Bernhardi in San Franci-co
and heard him give an address on May 26, j
1913, just as I was leaving for Europe, Gar- j
many, the Balkans and Australia. The in- |
vitation was from the German consul in :
San Francisco. It was on the official paper
of the consul’s office. The gathering was ;
composed of about three hundred persons. 1
all Germans except one other American and
myself. The consul presided, and the meet
ing was semi-official but private. So tar
as I know there was no reporter premt
and no report published. I would not have
known that the German cavalry ger»ral
was in America except for that meeting He
went to Los Angeles for a similar gathering, I
then to St. Louis and Eastern center rf
German population. I understood he came
over from Japan.” j
Dr. Jordan described Bernhardi as a tall, j
re, very erect man, his beard streaked
with gray, his head straight in the back -a
typical heel-clicking Prussian officer of’ 65
or 70, very aggressive in his manner, but as
a speaker rather prosy. He read his ad
dress, which followed the arguments of his
book—the historical, psychological and bio
logical arguments for war. Asked as to
Bernhardi’s mission and purpose, Dr. Jor
dan said:
“Bernhardi’s mission was to Germans in
America. His very evident purpose was to
neutralize the policy of good will among
the nationalities represented in our popula
tion, to counteract the work for interna
tional peace, to prepare the Germans for the
coming war, which he said was both in
evitable and near, and to convince them
that Germany’s idea of war is righteous, and
that this particular war was thoroughly well
planned and would be carries! out to the
greatness and glory of the German empire.
“Very unmistakable were his references
to the planned march through Belgium and
the taking of Paris. He did not mince mat
ters. Questions of morals, of international
‘Law,’ he said, ‘is a makeshift; the reality
treaties and national rights he brushed aside,
is force. Law is for the weaklings. Force
is for strong men and strong nations.’
“Perhaps his chief purpose was to advise
Germans in the United States that Britain,
not France, is in Germany’s way, that Brit
ain would soon be reached, and reached by
Germany’s war.
iiernnarcus address was a tune more
unreserved, more brutally frank than his
book. His work was part of the campaign
to organize German opinion in the United
States and to separate it from American
opinion. That campaign was begun here
fifteen years ago by Professor Karl Lamp
recht of Leipzig. The same campaign has
been carried on in Brazil, only much more
openly. Its note was struck by General
Keim in Germany, who preached the doc
trine of Faith, Hope and Hate. Belgium
was to be invaded for the purpose of secur
ing Antwerp and other naval bases from
which to strike Britain. When I heard
Bernhardi 1 thought his words those of an
other of the war mad militarists. When I
was in Germany last August and saw his
plan of campaign adopted by the German
army. I knew be spoke for the general staff
and that they were all victims of the same
madness.”
When asked his opinion of the justice of
the allies’ cause, Dr. Jordan answered:
“When I read 'Germany and the Next War,’
before meeting its author. I said that if
Germany really adopted Bernhardi’s views
Europe would have to crush it out as a.
nest of snakes. Germany is now trying to
carry out those views, and there can be no
more peace or safety until the snakes and
the whole system that has produced them
are utterly crushed out.”
WHO KNOWS F. E. LUNDWALL?
Postmaster Wile has received a letter of
inquiry from Wallace E. Lundwail of Sumas.
Wash., who desires to learn the whereabouts
of his father, F. E. Lundwail. who was in
Iditarod about three years ago.
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