iDITAROD PIONEER
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FINE!
The present winter’s engagement will he up in just
a little more than a month. To he exact and authoritative,
March 20 at 2:29 ]>. m. is the time set by the Gulden North
Almanac for winter to turn over the affairs of office to gen
tle spring, who even now may be on the way from the Out
side with instructions to inaugurate proper reforms in tin
dispensation of Alaska weather. Mure light, more warmth,
with more work and mure business in the foreground: these
are the things wc want and know have been ordered for m
through the agency of spring. When the time comes W:
shall not fail to acclaim with pure delight the new admin
istration.
But if winter can but hold to its exemplary manner
vet a little while longer, we promise that the sound of it
praises shall cause its successor to turn green with envy.
Even now its reputation is so well established that a littl
waywardness would not weigh heavily against il and n
amount of misdeeds can totally mar it. Tnis time white,
has foresworn its grimness, it Isas given us scarce a tasb
of bad weather. It has furnished soft skies with jus!
enough cloud to daintily curtain at morning and evening
sky that otherwise would he tiresome in its uurelief, am
has hung around the rising and setting sun the tinteo
draperies of a fairies' abode. With just enough snow b
make the sleighs slip easy, just enough frost in the air h
make movement a pleasure, the chronic grouch has bee
iobbed of his birthright and the kicker’s heel has bee
made to forsake its accustomed job and rattle off the liveh
tattoo in the pleasureable dance. Ah, but it’s tine! Am
as was intimated before, while ,ve shall welcome the cumin
spring in all sincerity, we shall speed the parting winter ..
honors befitting the best of its kind it has been our fortun
to know.
The national conventions of the two great politic
parties are to meet within a week of each other tins year—
that of the Republicans at Chicago, June 18, and that n
the Democrats at Baltimore, June 25. It is the establish
custom of the Republicans to nominate by a m tj >rity of a
the votes east, and of the Democrats to adhere to the tw
thirds rule. At present dissension marks the Republic,
situation and at least a tentative peace prevails among t!
Democrats. Among the latter, however, the divergence
as real as among the Republicans, and the four months b
tween now and the meeting of the conventions aiFord ;
fine an opportunity for making quarrels on the one hand
for mending them on the other. Everything points
a mighty interesting fight, and one is almost justified n
entertaining the hope that it will partake of the nature o
the famous duel recorded by Captain Marryatt in the stor
of “Midshipman Easy.”
By the time the proposed railroad to the Yukon is con
pleted the government will at least have mastered consider
able of the intricacies of the Alaska conditions which hav
so long baffled administrative understanding.
Capt. Crane is prospect! -g < n
Flint creek
Tom Patterson aid partner have
quit Eldorado.
The Record says there is a mile
of pay on Long creek
Jim Lawton has reached bedrock
on Tip creek at a depth o! 125
feet.
Alex McComber says that Ruby
will not only be a camp, but a big
camp.
Fred Harrison, formerly editor
of the Ruby Citizen, has opened an
* ffice it Ruin , o here he will pr -t
li-'e ins jiiofrs i in i s s - e o ■> t ph
I nr Independent L, 11u!>et Co o
Ruby will start up tiieir mill on
April i.
“One year from today eveiv on
ot us will take his hat > ffo Ruby ’
— II irry Shaw
Lou Dog get is taking a rest i
Ruby city alter a stiei.u u- pro ■
peeling campaign.
Sam Abelsou, one of the pionee
business men of Ruby, has t.ong! !
some mining ground on the S lain
Old Lacey, Tyler, .Monogram, Ather
ton and Cedarbrook, also fine old Port.
Sherry and Clarets at Empire Com
rnercia! Co.
Sled covers, tarpaulins. H. Boas.
Milk-Fed Broilers end Roasting Chickens
Fresh Vea! and Mutton Fresh Eastern Oysters
Coro-Fed Turkeys
Dog Feed 5c, I0e5 85c lb.
ID8TARQD HEAT CO.
Second St. Phone 15
First Class in Fact First Ave., Iditarocl
BEATTIE HOUSE
Furnished Rooms, Bath Rooms, Spring Gots Good Stables Adjacent
Drink Eastern Beer
Miner’s Home Saloon]
THE HOME OF THE “QUAKER MAID" j
Foot of Willow St., Iditarod 1
C. J. Hurley, President J. P. Gleason, Vice President A. Gruning, Cashier
American Bank of Alaska
Corner First Are, and Richmond St., Iditarod
CAPITAL $50,000.00, FULLY 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 check assays if desired.
We solicit your business, and assure you of our courteous, prompt and
careful attention combined with fair treatment, whether
jour account may be large or small.
Ponvt Give Way to the Blues
SMOKE UP!
Pipes Pipes Pipes
Wellingtons Chesterfields Palmyras Petersons
Mission Cobs Conroys Rudolfs
Wl. € H all Q11 g Flat City'
nicely Furnished Rooms enclosed log kennels
Famous Old Quaker Pffaid Rye
ggagssfrea ~
DRAUGHT BURR, DOMESTIC CIGARS
Good Music Every Evening
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GOOD STOCK CIGAR ? AND LIQUORS
Large Stables, Warm Dog Kennels Open Day and Nigh
PASSENGERS FREfGHT EXPRESS
Leaves Griffin’s Store, Flat Gity at 8:1!*) n.m ; leaves Budweiser corner,
iditarnd at 2:150 p..u.. daily exc ept Sunday.
Goods consigned to Upper Fiat and Otter Creeks delivered
same day as received tor shipment
Nome, Feb 14 —The Seward Peninsula Republican convention
reld last Saturday adopted a comprehensive program, taki g the plat -
f ums of the Socialists. D mocrats, Wickershamites, Laborites, etc., and
incorporating them all bodily with their own Coming from avowed
standpatters such a declaration was a tarce. especially v\ hen the dele
gates endorsed the Taft administration, describing it as “wise, patri
t.c and progressive ” and expressing themselves as solid for Taft’s
enomination Among other things included in the platform may b.
mentioned the following; —
Ut qualifi d elective territorial government,
Inspection of mines,
Abolition of the in id tax.
Provision for lire care of indigents.
Prohibition o pauper labor from Siberia,
Government ownership, operation, and control of a railroad
from tidewater on the Gulf of Alaska to the Yukon and
thence to Nome,
The immediate opening up of the coal lands,
The installation of an ice-breaker at Nome during the winter
El wood Burner presided at the meeting and Joe Badger acted a*
ecre'arv Speeches were made In Dt Srhoefief , D Mitt ud Lome
a"d Judge M lira' e
Judge Murane said that ihe Regulars had a good chance of electing
a candidate it selected from the Second er Fourth division. Any man
nominated from Southeastern Alaska, even if as white as snow, would
be dubbed a cor poration man, and the Republicans wouM have to fight
'he same opposition as last time
There were about 60 present
Herron leaves today lor Cordova with the pr xies
C. W. JOHNSON WRITES
FROM GRANT'S PASS, ORE.
Ip a CPtnmunicaton to the Idi'a
rod Pioneer, C. W. John on, of the
Johnson Tent & H'>se Co.. sa\s
that lie i^ leaving tor the Iditarod
February 25.
Mr Johnson is now ranching in
Southern Oiegou. He bought 18
acres of land withi two block'ot
! the cit\ of Grant’s Pass and set
i practically all of it to apple', pen-,
land cite ries, and expect' to have a
] swell ranch in font in five years
Mr Johnson savs that the cli
m ne of Grant’s Pass is very fine—
much milder than Portland or Se
attle There are many Alt'kaus in
the district, mostly ranching, and
they all steal to be contented.
Political Gossip
That the Outside political situation
is attracting considerable local atten
tion is evidenced by the turn of the
conversation at almost any time when
a few Iditarod men find themselves
together with a little leisure on their
hands. This is particularly noticeable
since the ant horitative announcement
that Colonel Roosevelt would not re
ject a Presidential nomination if it
should be offered him.
The local pro-Roosevelt people seem
inclined to discredit the assertion that
Wall Street is favorable to his candi !
dacy. “How could that he,” they ask, j
“when Roosevelt is tlie great original
trust boster and champion of the square
deal?” The situation does present some
strange discrepancies that are hard to
reconcile, and that is a fact; for Colonel
Roosevelt adds insurgency to his other
qualifications and seems to carry in
stock every kind of political goods that
can be required by t lie most “advanced”
adherents of Republicanism.
li is none tne less a ihci in;u ne ir»
carrying a line specially made for
the Wall Street trade; and it is also
noteworthy that many of the standpat
Taft organs this winter have called
him the logical candidate for 1916
no matter what the outcome of Taft’s
present aspirations may be. but espe
cially so if that gentleman fails to make
his second landing. With Mr. Tab's
failure conceded to he probable, what
is the use of the standpatters deferring
a good thing like Colonel Roosevelt for
four troublesome and mutable years?
Those who decline to accept the
truth of the Wall Street side of the
Roosevelt story do so because their po
litical studies have been interrupted bv
a long season of inadequate mail serv
ice. Early in November Colonel Roose j
| veil pur himself on record as favorable |
! 10 more “trust regulation” and less |
“trust busting” in an article in the'!
Outlook scoring the Taft administra
tion for the prosecution of the big
interests. The Ou'side Republican pa
pers of all shades of belief declared
| Colonel Rooseveb had come to tin*
I rescue of * "business,” and the standpat
IPofland Oregonian hut repeated the
generally admitted truth when it com
mented on R )osevelt’s stand: “Herein
he the opportunity and occasion ot
Wall Street’s enthusiastic rejoicing'.”
[n the article f,,om which the forego
mg quotation is mule the Oregonian
'anded R oseveh’s claims for 1916
o o o
Anothet thing that has been thrashed
over by the local minds who are wres
tling with the complexities of modern
p lilies is the imperialism, or alleged
imperialism, of President Taft—more
particularly w ith regard to his attitude
in the recent past toward Arizona and
New Mexico: There does not appeal*
to ho any noteworthy difference be
tween the arguments advanced by the
opposing Iiiitarod partisans and those
used by the star players in the great
game Outside. If the Pioneer may be
permitted to intrude a guiding word
into the discussion it will state the
proposition as follows, which will give
i at east a faint idea of the opposing
principles that have always existed
with varying degrees of exactitude in
! American politics:
In 1910, when s’iiteho i! was 111 <J ab
sorbing topic in Arizen i. President
j Taft was present at. a gathering in that
leriitory when a gentleman present
spoke of the ‘‘inherent rights” of liis
fellow citizens. President Taft told
him, will) emphasis, that ho had as
well understand, once for all, that lie
and his people had no rights except
such as had been, and might be from
time to time, granted them. There, in
a moment, the crux of all American po
litical difference loomed up as big as a
mountain. President Taft in a sen
tence laid bare tlie heart and brain of
his political school. No shade of Re
publican opinion would question the
President’s ruling on tiiis fine technical
question of American rights. On the
other hand the Democrats would con
tend that the people of Arizona do have
inherent rights; and that one of the
most vital of these is the right of home
rule on an equality with the other com
monwealths which go to make up the
United States — such right carrying
with it, of course, the right of propor
tional representation in the federal
government, which, in turn, leads back
into the basic ptinciple on which the
general government was founded.
Later, when President Taft vetoed
the Arizona statehood bill on the spe
cific ground that the proposed state
constitution provided for the recall of
judges, the Republican contention was
that the President was exercising an
unquestionable constitutional preroga
tive, whether his personal objections
to the state constitution were valid or
not; that his duly was as binding in re
gard to the elimination of what he
deemed an evil in the state constitution
sait was in the scrutiny of any law
passed by congress, and that the mere
wishes of Arizona did not, and should
not, enter into the consideration at all.
To this the Democrats interposed the
argument that the state constitution
contained nothing antagonistic to the
federal constitution; that, this being
so, the President had no right to pass
judgment as to what should or should
not be contained in the basic law of
lie stale; that, once admitted to state
hood, Arizona cuuld insert i lie mooted
jlause in its constitution and the Presi
dent would be powerless to strike it
out and congress could not change it;
and that it was foolish for the Presi
dent to assume the authority to impose
a condition upon the state at its admis
sion that would not bind it a moment
after admission.
So it will be seen that the Arizona
question contained a great deal of the
essence of party politics; and tlie same
is true of most of the questions that
are stirring the public pulse.
THE CLOCK.
I liked to watch the good old
clock that tiling upon the wall; I
really think a man might walk from
Cleveland to St. Paul, and not be
hold a smoother piece of skillful
craft manship• the wheels went
round as slick as grease and never
made a slip. I dearly loved for
hours to stand and watch the pendu
lum; and note the active minute
band and hear the flywheel hum. I
liked to hear tiie blamed thing i
strike—but on one fateful day the
boss remarked: “You’d better hike
—you arc not worth your hay.
You're paid to help to sell my stock I
and do some other chores, hut. all
the day you watch the clock, so
chase yourself outdoors.” And then i
lie pushed me with his feet, and I
fanned me with a chair, and when I
landed in the street mv shoes were
in tlie air. Oh! clocks are fascinat- I
ing ihings, and they have lovely 1
works, and pendulums and hands
and springs, but they are bad for
clerks, who yield to their seductive j
charm, and watch the hands go
round, and listen to the loud alarm
and hear the striker pound.—Walt
Mason.
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Puerto Rico Cigars at Empire Com
mercial Co.
High-top moccasins tit FT. Boas’.
ALL GOODS
Formerly Mrs. Silbersteiti's,
Are Now Being Sold a! Very
Reasonable Prices
Ail alterations on Lidies’ Garments
purchased will be free ol charge.
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LEW YORK'S GOVERNOR UNWELL
New Yolk, Feb 9. — Oovcn.r •
[ohti A. I )ix of New York is stiff.{.
ng from a nervous breakdown and
tas been compelled to abandon his
public engagements.
Dr. Heinrich Wortmann,
Office at City Drug Store. Tel. 3(i
First Ave.. Bet. Willow and Richmond
• *fiice Hour'—11 to i, 3 to 4, 7 to 8
CHAS. D. CARTER.
Dentist
Offices, Pioneer Drug Sioiv >
Flat Creek
DR. F. W. HERMS,
Dr. Wort mann's Office,
First Avenue and Widow Street
DR. H. BEHLA,
Dentist
Gold St., Flat City, Opp. Grand Hotel
Phone 4
ALFRED E. MALT BY.
Attorney at Law
Notary Public
Office Simpson Bldg, First and W i h;»
CHAS. E. TAYLOR,
Attorney at Law,
Notary Public, Conveyancing.
Richmond St.. Iditarod
Wickersham & Roden
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Iditarod, Alaska
GEORGE WOODRUFF ALBRECHT.
Attorney at Law
Mbtsisan, 'g| Alaska. '*0 Kuihickr, '31
The Fiooecr Attorney of this Camp
TO CREDITORS
Fairbanks, Doc. :>
Editor, Pear Sir: I will feel uv', •
debt of gratitude if you admit n. u
in your paper 10 inform ai.t i . tb
I o«e any money to in the '■ eoe
any wages I owe to any bo w » . :
for me personally during the time i w.<<
operating on the G»«m a»scc:ai._L.
any bills contracted Yer-or.ally. T u
pay all my bills as soon as they ait pit
sente l to me in Fairbanks.
Respectfully.
PETER MAT.ONE.
Wotico of IViarshaPs Sals
| United States ot America, )
| Fourth Dis’rict or Ala.-ka, ' ss’
I Public notice is hereby given, that ! \
j virtue of a writ of F: ri Facia* 'or tx -cu
j t.on), dated Janu. v 23rd, \. D. 1912,
! issued ou of the I - -tr.i t Court of ti
j United Slates f«*r the Fourth I).strict t
Alaska on a judgment rendered in sa d
: Pour .on the 7th day of Dec- :ub r, A D
1911, in favor of William S. Clark, doing
business as the Clark Dumber Compur.' .
and against Jake Mutchler, I have, on
; this 24th day of January, A. D. iqt?.
j ievied upon the follow ing described ri A
: estate, situated in the city of Iditarod.
jand Territory of Alaska, to wit: All of
i that certain pi ce or parcel of ground
situated uid lying between lot No. 1 and
: lot No. S of block No. 4 west, in the
i town of Iditarod, Fourth Division, Ter
ritory of Alaska, together with all and
] singular the one story frame building
| situated thereon, known and described
| as the North Star blacksmith shop, and
: that I will, accordingly, offer said real
| estate for sale, at public vendue to the
' highest and best bidder, for cash, on the
20th. day of February. A. D. 1912, at
II o’clock a. m., at the front door of the
| Marshal’s office in the town of Iditarod.
I Territory of Alaska.
Dated, Iditarod, Alaska, January 24th
1 A. D. 1912. H. K. LOVE.
; U. S. Marshal, Fourth District of Alaska.
By H. T. Shepparl, Deputy.
'Chas. E. Taylor, Plaintiffs A’torney
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