IDITAROD PIONEER
Published Every Saturday Evening at Iditarod, Alaska.
FRANK E. BECKER. EDITOR
^ Coo. M Arbuckle. Publliher No 30
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PUTTING HOOKS INTO IT.
Now and then we feel called upon to take our trusty
pen in hand and stick it into Congress, just because that
august assemblage of unpunished malefactors with wealthy
inclinations persists in doing the thing it shouldn’t.
Having taken said pen in hand it immediately becomes
pertinent to inquire wliat became of that non-association
staking proposition that Jim Wickersham handed the House
some time last winter. Jim waited until the night watch
man went off the job and then slipped that infant measure
into the cold, unfeeling halls of Congress without its swad
dling clothes. The House regarded it with much glee,
poked fingers at it and made faces, but finally bought a few
frills by way of amendments and sent the dimpling child to
the Senate.
Strange to relate that child must have become a crip
ple and it’s quite apparent that the Senate hit it with a
mallet. The hopeful is now passing its declining years in
some infirmary for Sad Ideas That Have Been Frowned
Upon by the American Aristocracy.
As near as we could find out, the Wickersham bill to
amend the placer law and prevent further abuse of the
association-staking evil was effectually killed in the Senate.
It got through the House, apparently, because nobody was
looking, or the lobby of the interests was out playing golf.
x\fter that, it seems the bill got into the Senate and
went into a total eclipse. It faded away, so to speak, be
came de trop, sunk into innocuous desuetude, had an at
tack of locomotor ataxia and was squashed.
Maybe it’s no good to say anything about now, unless
we shield our mournful lamps and drop a few moist tears
upon its tender memory. Still we can pass a few idle re
marks on the beautiful system of Kill It, If You Don't
Like It.
1 he association claim reached a sturdy growth in
Alaska, whereby all the fertile gold-bearing country was
cornered with the aid of a few barrel staves, a small ax and
a pencil. But it wras not until the oil barons of the West
discovered its beauties for tying up oil ground that it be
came a full-fledged plant of iniquity. After that it was
only a question of keeping the law on the books to permit
the promiscuous rape of Nature in all her lovliest forms.
In this country we can see the fine Italian hand of the
syndicate sticking the hooks into any measure that will
curtail the wholesale corraling of ground. In the States it
must be quite apparent that there are still many townships
of unappropriated public domain that give promise of
bearing crude petroleum.
The fact that it has gummed the Alaska mining game
for years seems not to have been brought to the attention
of that precious crew of magnates who steer the devious
course of questionable legislation in the Senate. The fur
ther fact that it has caused all kinds of litigatic n and oil
stealing in California seems only an added reason why the
Wickersham bill got it gently but firmly in the neck.
Some day it may be possible that a man with a strong
constitution and a long pencil will not be allowed to tie up
MME. HOFFMAN,
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. Old Postoffice Bldg, Willow St.
LOMEN BROS.,
AGENTS FOR
Eastman Kodaks
and Films
PHOTO SUPPLIES, MAGAZINES, BOOKS, STATIONERY
Iditarod and Nome
First Class in Fact
Beattie House
FIRST AVENUE
Furnished Rooms, Bath Rooms, Spring Cots
Good Stables Adjacent
Open-Cut Headlights
TO BO 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 Works
SPECIAL FOR THIS WEEK
Ail Our $15 and $18
PETTICOATS
This Store is the Home tor
Hart, Schaffrser &. Harx Clothes
I. GOJLI >STKIN F~ 30
C. J. Hurley, President J. P. Gleason, Vice President A. Bruning, Cashier
American Bank of Alaska
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 the purpose
of obtaining cheek 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.
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Ail Sizes in Mattresses, Quilts, Sheets, Portieres, Burlap
We Can Finnish Homes and Roadhouses Completely.
We Carry Full Lines of S. & W and Reliance Croceries.
Willow Street, Iditarod Phone 40
STOP YOUR LEAKY ROOF
PLENTY OF THAT CELEBRATED
PIONEER RUBBER FLAXINE ROOFING PAPER
Also extra cans of Rooting Cement. Will stop a leak immediately. This
papet may also be used for floors and decks of steamboats wears longer
than linoleum. Also a large stock of
Doors, Sash, Windows, Glass, Etc.
Rugs, all sizes, Linoleum, Shades
New and Beautiful Designs in WALLPAPER Direct from Nesv York.
Anderson Bros. & Nerland
all the creeks in a new district, but we venture to say that
this Utopia will not exist until somebody gets a muzzle on
the Watchdogs of the Rights of the Common People.
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ON BEING CHEERFUL.
We know a man with a lame face caused by falling in
i to Grouch Slough and getting it all over his countenance.
\ He now sits before his empty place of business, mournfully
shaking his head and kicking at any stray dog that comes
along wagging its tail. If you speak to him he growls and
if you should fall into the error of trying to do him a kind
I ness he would probably bite you on the ankle.
This man, who is a composite cuss and the father of
| many progeny now living, is an example of cheerfulness.
Every time we meet him we feel like throwing a rock at a
small kitten just run over by a truck.
There are some people who are too busy to be cheerful
and others who simply hate themselves from habit. The
busy man consoles himself with the reflection that he is
| making money, and to make the play good, boosts the bill
! a little and swears while doing it. The guy with the in
growing belly-ache who hasn’t much to do but ache, just
sits around and cusses the weather and hurts little boys if
they happen to interfere with his observations on the tariff.
People who are normally cheerful enough somethin s
| get the idea that their importance will be better recognized
I if they get heavy and pass around a few choice scowls. If
you grin at one of these and pass some pleasantry he
I puts up his umbrella aud ducks.
I he point of these few observations brethren, is simply
this: any time you are in danger of libeling your reputa
tion as a heavy thinker bypassing out a few unstudied
smiles, step on your foot,—you never did and never will do
j any corpulent cogitating.
We remember hearing of a man who would stop right
in the middle of a weighty talk on national matters just
when the whole works seemed headed for the rocks, and
would get off some fool crack about a mule down in Ken
tucky. Everybody would laugh, including the man liim
j self, and then they would all take up the work again feel
| as though a stray bit of ocean breeze had crept in the win
! dow.
Some people say, ‘ ‘Nix on that stuff, I’m not going around
grinning like a Cheshire cheese.” Well and good, but if
you try it, you’ll find it pleasant to err on the side of cheer
fulness, and mayhap, somewhere in the gloom you will get
the answering heliograph of a gladsome and whole-hearted
smile.
Telegrams From Kaltag
i
Charles Marlin brought several tele- j
grams from the Yukon early this week
and delivered them at the Budweiser. j
ff they have not yet been delivered you !
may have them by calling up Jack i
Baird. Hero is the list:
John Ronan, Luther Hess, Captain j
Langley, Dominion Commercial Co. (2),
Jos. H. Smith, Miners & Merchants
bank, Postmaster Thurston, Jim Wil
son, Brumbaugh, Hamilton & Kellogg,
Northern Commercial Co., Charles j
Knoll, Miss Lillian Smith, M. Schultz. I
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Some Flat Creek Items
Hampered by water, boulders and a !
thousand and one otherdifficulties, Me- [
Kay & Hotts, Riley and Aitken and j
the hill operators are plugging mert-i-1
ly along, tearing out tlie money, and iD
their spare time prayirg for rain and
hurlfng defiance at the lazy clouds that
amble by.
Doc Mading has been compelled to
shut down on his upper lay and is
sluicing under difficulties on the John
son lease.
Scott & Martin, on the Dakota bench,
are tearing the ground up in great I
shape and are adding materially to the I
nation's wealth.
The “Guggs'' are working a big !
crew of men and are handling some
good dirt.
Mahoney & Iticii have their other
boiler installed and keep a big crew
busy. Their ground is averaging up
better than they expected.
Bolton & McKenzie, on tlie lower
end of the Wild Cat, are keeping up
he good work, despite the shortage
of water.
Shropshire & Burns have suspended
operations on the upper c-nd of the
Gink and Sourdough fraction. The pay
is very wfide at this point of the creek
rod will take considerable time to
•vork out.
St rand berg & Johnson are working
steadily with both plants, but are ham- J
pered considerably for want of water.
Henderson & Iiippa have some good 1
ground at tlie lower end of the Fox j
and are hurrying to finish up their lay
. iiis summer.
Friend & James, on the upper end ol
lie Bonanza have some very rich
ground in both cuts and will make big j
returns if tlie water holds out.
Honan & Monkman on the lower e»d j
of tiie Bonanza, are now sluicing, ,
They had considerable had luck in j
starting off, through some of theii i
standing rigging tearing up their dead- j
men. A big clean-up will he in the
foreground from this lay about the
niddle of the week.
A1 Thorns has started sluicing and
>s agreeably surprised with the pros
pects. He will have a clear.-jp in the
latter part of the week.
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Charles Knell writes from Moore i
creek that he and partners have all j
the dead work done and that they !
would be sluicing about July IS. Then- !
lore Witte is already sluicing with !
good results and other operators are j
about to take advantage of the heavy j
rains that have prevailed there. Knell i
and Eddie McArdle expect to he here I
al ou: August 10. 1
DR. B. F. BROOKS,
Physician and Surgeon
Office: Discovery Otter.
Dr. Heinrich Wortmann,
Physician and Surgeon
Office at City Drug Store, Tel. .'!(i
First Ave., Bet. Willow and Richmond
Office Hours— 11 to i, 3 to 4, 7 to 8
DR. E. T. BRADBURY,
Dentist
Over Merchants Cafe, First Avenue
Telephone liO-B
CHAS. D. CARTER.
Dentist
Offices, Pioneer Druji Stores,
Flat ('reek
DR. F. W. HERMS,
Dentist
Dr. Wortmann's Office,
First Avenue and Willow Street
DR. H. BEHLA,
Dentist
Suter Building, Flat City
McGowan, Clark & Albrecht
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Fditarod, Alaska Phone No. 7
The Pioneer Attorneys of This Camp
ALFRED E. MALT BY,
fU. 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
CHAsTe. TAYLOR,
Attorney at Law,
Notary Public, Conveyancing,
Abstracts of Titles
flat City
A, J. DALY,
Attorney at Law
M. & M. Bank Bldg, Iditarod
Wickersham & Roden,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Iditarod, Alaska
E. COKE HILL,
Attorney at Law
Simpson Building, Iditarod. Alaska
The gasoline launch Edna was on the
ways this week while they removed
tlie barnacles from the hull. Captain
Larson and Chief Mate Haley were
superintending the operations.
You Don’t Have to Frog
WE SELL
Cigars, Pipes, Tobaccos,
Candies, Etc.
CAP’S PLACE
Imperial
HARD’S
Blacksmith Shop
FOR ALL KINDS OF HEAVY ANO LIGHT
FORGINGS ANO REPAIRS
We have for sale one four-ton chain
block Carrier and Derrick
Black St., near Slippern Mill
Mil Hours Alike in This House
GOME ONCE AND YOU WILL GOME AGAIN
FIRST AVENUE. SOUTAR & SUTHERLAND. Props.
TURN YOUR FACE TO
The Mecca
For Inspiration
Corner Second Avenue and Willow Street
George Auten Dave Ferguson