__j_IDITAROD PIONEER j
Published Every Saturday Evening at Iditarod, Alaska.
FRANK E. BECKER. EDITOR
~ Coo. M. Arbuckle. Publisher No. 29
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year. .'...$10,001 One Month. 1.00
Six Months. 5.00 | Single Copy. 25
Advertising Rotes on Application.
MOKE ON SAME SUBJECT,
During the past week this city has enjoyed the privi
lege of talking over postoffice matters with two gentlemen
who knew something about it. As a consequence we all
know more about things than we did before.
Having cogitated over the proposition once more, as
we have frequently cogitated before, we cannot say it is any
better than it used to be. Tlieie is only one explanation in
view of the- fact that every other human agency is pro
gressing, and that is this : there must be something wrong
with the postoffice department.
Taking this thought as the basis for our argument,
-why not concede that the postoffice department knows
nothing about Alaska. That makes it much simpler and
brings us at once to the point of our discourse.
We have said things frequent about Alaska mail and
the chances are we will continue to say them for years to
come if the typewriter don’t wear out. During this season
of our activity, we have boldly boosted for the mere privi
lege of having someone on the ground that knows some
thing about it.
The idea of having a Director of Posts for Alaska has
been promulgated by this same type heretofore. We called
him a director of posts just because it sounds good, but we
are willing to call him an inspector if we get him.
Our Friends, the inspectors who have just visited us,
admit that they cannot absorb a full knowledge of this
country in one hurried trip through it. At that, they have
managed to get next to several important ideas, which as
dreamers they conceded to be good, but they insisted that
Congress knew nothing about them. They said that Con
gress had made an especial appropriation for this trip, but
that apparently Congress had profited little from all the
years that have gone before.
They will make their recommendations in November
after they get back to the national capital. They will sum
the entire Alaska situation in a few reams of thought and
this will stand as the guiding star for future Alaska service
until Congress gets someone else to look it over again.
Out of their trip we will doubtless get a weekly winter
mail service, but if anything happens anywhere else in the
next six months off the beaten line of travel, the unfortun
ate people who attend that opening will get their mail
next year,—maybe.
All of which is preamble for the statement that Alaska
mail service can not be handled from Washington.
Heretofore we have boosted Major John P. Clum for
the office of Director of Posts for this territory with author
ity to do something when the emergency presented itself.
W e are willing to call the office “Resident Inspector'7 oi
“Main Squeeze,77 just so the man occupying the particulai
office will be making money enough to live in Alaska and
will have power to do something if it seems to be good.
Coast cities are not troubled with the mail question
like the interior or the outlying sections where the rank
and file of Alaska empire-builders are opening up a new
lay-out. Hence it would be by courtesy only that the
MMF. HOFFi\ 1AN,
Formerly of Fairbanks, Just In From the Outside,
GOWNS MADE TO ORDER
MATERIAL FURNISHED.....
Also Small Select Line of Ladies’ Goods
Latest Styles, Come and See Us. Second Av0., near Willow
LOMEN BROS.,
AGENTS FOR
Eastman Kodaks
and Films
PHOTO SUPPLIES, MAGAZINES, BOOKS, STATIONERY
Iditarod and ^oroe
First Class in Fact
FiRST AVENUE
Furnished Booms, Bath Rooms, Spring Cols
Good Stables Adjacent
Open-Gut Headlights
TO DO YOUR MINING
Three thousand and five thousand candle power, throwing a shaft of light
1500 feet.
Call at the Iditarod headquarters for information concerning the J. B.
COLT’S ACETYLENE LIGHT MACHINE.
Pioneer Sheet Metal V/orks
LATEST STYLES DIRECT FROM THE EAST
GOLDSTEIN 30
C. J. Hurley, President J. P. Gleason, Vice President A. Bruning, Cashier
Corner First Ave, and Richmond St., Iditarod
CAPITAL $50,000.00, FOLLY PAID IN GASH
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 flic 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.
Just Arrived
COMPLETE LINE OF
Carpets, Linoleum, Floor Oilcloth,
Chairs, Shades and Furniture
of All Descriptions
—ALSO—
Fresh Stock S. & W, and Reliance Groceries
Willow Street, Iditarod Phone 46
PLENTY OP THAT CELEBRATED
PIONEER ROBBER FLAXINE ROOFING PAPER
Also- extra cans of Roofing Cement. Will stop a leak immediately. This
paper may also be used for .'loot's and decks of steamboats—wears loupe:
than linoleum. Also a large stock of
Doors, Sash, Windows, Glass, Eio.
Rugs, all sizes, Linoleum, Shades
New and Beautiful Designs in \VALLF’API’.R Direct from New York.
Anderson Bros. Ik Neriand
coast papers would help us in the fight for improved postal
conditions in Alaska, including a separate postal division
and a resident inspector. Congress might be made to listen
to reason, if you could show them that we are getting a
worse mail service than the niggers in the Philippines.
Otter Creek Getting
Stride For Summer
With 200 men now working and the chances looking toward
an increase during the extreme activity of the remaining summer,
Discovery Otter and One above are now good places to show
the visitor how mining is done in Iditarod. They have caught
their stride and their machinery is just losing the kinks.
George Riley is looking after three plants and the mere fact
that he has been obliged to break in new machinery has afforded
two or three interesting weeks. Riley & McMillan are working
on One above bench, Riley & Stetser are working on One above,
and Riley & Marston are tearing the lining off Discovery. These
plants will be sluicing in a few days, with cleanups due toward the
end of this month.
Andy Hensley is hoisting on One above and the Bates Bros,
are stripping preparatory to an imminent sluicing spasm. Ellis is
using a slip scraper on One above bench and will soon be ready to
look at the riffles.
Price & Ives are shovelling into the boxes from a new line ot
pay that they have found in the channel of Glen gulch. Lipsett,
on Two above bench, is hoisting with the assistance of 35 men.
Fellmet & Goodwin cleaned up nicely on the Celene fraction
and haye gone Outside to help themselves spend the money. They
will be back again just as soon as circumstances permit.
Micky McHale and partners are hoisting on One below and
are cleaning up at regular intervals. J. Johnson and Cy Atwell
are digging a ditch to get water from Boulder creek, to be applied
on the lower end of One below.
There is nothing exciting on Two above, but Peterson & Co.
and Fowler & Ostrom are investigating the mysteries of Two
above bench, second tier, with much success. The Otter associa
tion is quiescent and Granite creek is laboring under the disadvan
tage of all summer options that put the creek out of the running
for another year.
A Place to Get Films
Ralph Lomen has opened a store on
the same corner that passed through a
heavy sea last fall. In other words the .
Lomen Bros, have started a photo- j
graphic supply store on the corner of
First and Richmond, where Landahl’s
emporium used to empore. Besides
films and things, they have stationery
and blank check books. If your bank
account gets beyond you, buy a foun
tain pen and get busy.
Try a Portola Eggnog—they are the
rage Outside. Johnstone’s,
Government Fight
Hunt Coal Locations
Seattle, Juno 23—It became evident
today, in the course of the first day’s
hearing in the case of the Alaska coal
lands commonly known as the Hunt
group, that the government would en
deavor to show that an agreement in
the nature of a contract existed
between the individual locators and a
central company, whereby the central
company was to take over the in
dividual claims after title passed into
the hands of the individual claimants,
and work them as one property. This
would constitute violation of the law,
and would entail forfeiture of all rights
to the claims.
The principal witness today was
T. S. hippy, one of the claimants. Mr.
hippy is organiser of the Alaska
Petroleum company. He denied em
phatically that any such contract or
agreement was ever entered into be
tween tlie locators and the supposed
corporation, and assured the govern
ment that it would be a useless waste
of time on their part to continue the
investigation.
Soslp of Gen. Otis
Los Angeles, June 23—Articles of in
corporation were filed in this city to
day by the Morning Tribune company,
a corporation formed for the express
purpose of fighting the Los Angeles
Morning Timet, which for years has
been supreme in its field. It will be
the fight of union labor against Gen.
Otis, who has waged sucli relentless
and brutal warfare, as Colonel Roose
velt recently stated upon union labor.
The new paper will sell at one cent a
copy, The corporation is capitalized
it $100,000.
On June 25 Arthur J. Williams and
Mrs. L. MeCatthey were married at
Fairbanks, the ceremony being per
formed by Rev. J. H. Condit, and
aking place at the Meyer’s residence,
in First avenue, which has evidently
been taken as the abode of Mr. and
.irs. Williams.
The groom is the well-known res
aurant man of Dawson and Fairbanks,
ind the bride was at one time a tele
phone girl in the latter city.
ri/ickersliam Bargains
Washington, I). C., June 23—Accordi
ng to statements made here today by
acquaintances of Judge Wickersham.
ielegate from Alaska, the delegate is
willing to promise not to run for re
election if tlie Democrats assist him in
his efforts to secure tlie passage of an
Alaskan Home Rule bill through con
gress. _
For goodness sake drink Gold Belt
-odas.
GASOLINE ENGINE
F sitings
AT THE
Iditarod Machine Shop
DR. B. F. BROOKS,
.Physician anil Surgeon
J O
Office: Discovery Otter.
Dr. Heinrich Wortmann,
Office at City Drug Store, Tel. .36
First Ave., Dot. Willow and Richmond
Office Hours—ii to i, 3 to 4, 7 to 8
DR. E. T. BRADBURY,
Over Merchants Cafe, First Avenue
Telephone 1S0-B
CM AS. D. CARTER,
D&ntht
Offices, Pioneer Drug Stores,
Flat Creek
DR. F. W. HERMS,
Dentist
Dr. Wortmann’s Office.
First Avenue and Willow Street
McGowan, Clark & Albrecht
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Iditarod, Alaska Phone No. 7
The Pioneer Attorneys of This Camp
ALFRED E. MALTBY,
ft'. S. Commissioner]
Attorney at Law
Notary Public
Practice only in District Court. IDiTAROD
J. S. HARDING.
Attorney at Law
Room 1, Iditarod Hotel
Iditarod, Alaska
CM AS. F. TAYLOR,
Attorney at Law,
Notary Public, Conveyancing,
Abstracts of Titles
flat City
A. J. DALY,
Attorney at Lav/
M. & M. Bank Bldg, Iditarod
Wickersham & Roden,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Iditarod, Alaska
E. COKE HILL,
Attorney at Law
Simpson Building, Iditarod, Alaska
HARD’S
Blacksmith Shop
FOR ALL KINDS OF HEAVY AHQ LIGHT
FORGINGS AND REPAIRS
We have for sale one four-ton chain
block Carrier and Derrick
Black St., near Slippern tVlill
All Hours Alike in This House
OARieaU CAFE
GOME ONCE AND YOU WILL COME AGAIN
FIRST AVENUE. SOUTAR & SUTHERLAND, Props.
You Don’t Have to Frog
WE SELL
Cigars, Pipes, Tobaccos,
Candies, Etc.
CAP’S PLACE
Cigar
Store....
TURN YOUR FACE TO
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For Inspiration
Corner Second Avenue and Willow Street
George Auten Dave Ferguson