S DITAROO PIONEER
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BY GEORGE M. ARBUCKRK
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JUST A WORD
Throughout the district tickets
for the big A. B. Red Cross ben
efit bull have been placed on sale.
The ball takes place tonight in
the big A. 1> hall in this city,
and the gross receipts will go to
the Red Cross fund. By all
means buy a ticket, come along
and enjoy yourself; but if you
can’t attend, buy the ticket any
how.
Strange as it. may seem, the
Imperial German government is
tiie owner of a United States Lib
erty bond, and, to that extent, is
helping the United States to win
the war, observes the Christian
Science Monitor. A Philadelphia
attorney has been caring for the
funds of German estates in ami
about that city. In settling one
account, recently,he had a balance
of $60 which belonged to the Im
perial German government. Un
doubtedly exercising his best
judgment as a financial agent, he
applied $50 of the amount to a
Liberty bond.
Pope Benedict means well, but
his efforts to bring about peace J
before Germany has been licked;
to a frazzle are only a waste of j
time, and his holiness might just;
as well devote his attention to j
something else. Germany as she;
is today can never be recognized '
in a deal where integrity and;
honor are involved. —Douglas j
Island News. i
AMERICA'S
FOURTEEN
WAR AIMS
1. Open covenants between na
tions.
2. Peace without private interna
tional understandings of any kind.
3. Absolute freedom of the seas in
peace and war.
4. Removal of a!! economic bar
riers.
f>. Establishment of equality of
trade conditions.
(1. Reduction of national aim a
ments.
7. Impartial adjustment of colo
nial claims, based upon the princi
ple* that the people concerned have
equal rights with the interested
government.
5. Evacuation of all Russian terri
tory.
!). Evacuation of Belgium without
any attempt to limit her sover
eignty .
10. All French territory to be
freed and restored.
11. 1’epanuion for Alsace-Lor
raine.
12. Readjustment of Italy's fron
tit I’S.
12. A chance for the development
and freedom of the Austro-Hunga
rian races.
14. Absolute evacuation and res
toration of Serbia. Koumania and
Montenegro, and Serbian access to
the sea.
The German chancellor finds
no fault with the first four of
President Wilson’s fourteen war
aims. For years Germany has
not been in accord with the fifth
proposition, and as for the sixth,
that’s an utter impossibility, and
so on to the end. But, taken all
and all, it’s a hopeful sign: shows
that Germany is two seventh
nearer rationality than for sev
eral decades.
THE CALL AND THE REPLY
(By A. J. Bucher, Editor of Hans and Herd, Cincinnati, O.)
HE fact that the United States are about to enter war
against the Central Powers'of Europe is a cause of great
sorrow and pain to us Americans of German descent. We
find ourselves thrown Into a conflict of feelings and also of du
ties such as we have never experienced before- It must now
become manifest what our loyalty as American citizens is worth.
It is worth nothing if it can not stand the most severe test of
the present crisis. The lines of duty are very clear for every
one that has sworn the oath of naturalization. Under all possi
ble circumstances we have to stand faithfully by the Star
Spangled Banner. The individual has to yield to the will of
the Nation, as it is expressed by our Congress and by the Pres
ident. And no former connections whatever nor any personal
sympathies and apathies, however natural and strong they may
be, must be allowed to influence our sense of duty in this re
spect. To America, which we, prompted by love and gratitude,
have chosen as our new homeland, we owe everything which it
I may justly require from us as citizens. YV lien conscience
speaks, the heart must keep silent.
Let us remember the terrible conflict of feelings under which
many a husSand and father bade farewell to wife and children
during our Civil War to join our armies and to level his gun
against friends or even relatives whose sympathies were on the
other side. Such painfully difficult decisions are being repeated
a million times during the present world war, and we must not
shun them. There is but one authority for us to go by in such
cases—conscience combined with duty. Before these solemn
and stern majesties wre have to bow in absolute submission in
the present crisis. Let us do it in gratituds toward America,
which has welcomed us to its hospitable shores and has given
us opportunities such as the old country simply could not offer
to most of us, and which has granted us golden liberty for
everything noble and good, and which has showered an abun
dance of blessings upon us.
With these convictions we Americans of German descent or
birth shall stand by our flag whatever may come—with hands
folded for intercession, but ready as well for sacrifices and, if
need be, to fight, let us support our Government and pray God
to protect our beloved American homeland !
FINNEGAN & CAMERON
Agency for Edison Diamond Disc Phonographs and Records
TOBACCO CIGARS STATIONERY
CONFECTIONERY AND BILLIARDS
C. R. Cameron Jas. F. Finnegan
FLAT CITY
THOS. McMAHON
DEALER IN
General Merchandise
FLAT, ALASKA
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P-BULLETIN-'
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There is a constant and ever inert as
ing call for reading matter for our sol
diers. Books of almost any kind, and
standard magazines not older thau 191 fi
| are acceptable.
I Remember that, in an army of mil
j lions, and ours will bo that, there will
I be men of all educational grades, and
i of varying tastes, and no book can be
| too “high-brow” nor too trivial to find !
some interested reader. So long as a j
book does not. teach disloyalty, and is
i clean of tone, send it along.
Magazines of recent date very largely ;
have a notice from the postmaster gen-;
eral printed on the front, and these can !
go most cheaply by observing the re- j
quiremengs of that notice.
To facilitate the work and to ensure i
proper sized bundles and safe packing i
the League has appointed Mrs. Arina;
Chittick (the postmaster at Flat chair
man of the Committee on Reading for j
Our Soldiers, ar.d every one is urged to
deliver to her such books and mag'!
az.ines as can"\vell be spared.
In the case of a magaz.ine having the
“Notice to Readers” on the front, if j
you have a one-cent stamp handy, put!
it on, but whether stamped or not, j
please get them in promptly. The:
League will attend to all needed pack- !
ing, addressing, etc., and will provide;
the postage, thus accomplishing three j
good things- putting reading in the j
hands of our soldiers, slightly increas- j
ing the compensation of a worthy post
master, and making wav for a fresh :
supply of hooks for the camp.
Those who find it more convenient to i
to do so. may leave books and maga- j
zincs at the N. C. Co., store, or at the
office of Major Albrecht.
Any member of the League who j
knows the present address of either j
O. Pete Belich orJohn Dow, will please I
furnish the same to the secretary.
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HALIFAX EXPLOSION
A TERRIBLE AFFAIR
Halifax, N. S., Dec. 7.- -Two tbou- j
sand is the estimate of the dead as the
result of the collision between two.
steamships in Halifax harbor, which .
.was followed by a teniae explosion of .
a cargo of war muuitons on one of the i
vessels and by a widespread conflagra- j
tion, caused by the hurling of blazing j
material, in the city. More than 2,000
persons were injured, many seriously. ]
There was not a house in the city that j
escaped damage. One side of every j
house in the city was ruined by the |
explosion. Not even ail- approximate
estimate can be made of the property
loss, but it will run into millions of
dollars. |
The collision between the ships hap
pened at 8:30 o,clock yesterday morn
ing, and the conflagration in the city
was not under control untii 2 o’clock
yesterday afternoon.
Snow aided the firemen in quenching |
the flames, but greatly impeded the j
boric of rescuing the injured and re- j
covering the dead. The lire devastated )
two and a half square miles of the city, j
The dead were brought in wagon j
loads to the morgue. Most of the in- j
jured are suffering from wounds caused
by flying glass and other missiles.
Special trains, carrying doctors
nurses, and medical supplies arrived
from Moncton and Windsor last night
and today.
The commercial district, which suf
fered heavy damage, has practically
suspended all business. All schools
are closed.
In the confusion yesterday, the re
port was current that the ship whose
cargo of ammunition exploded was an
American vessel, but investigation has
proved this to be false. The ill-fated
craft was a French ship. Her name
was the Mont Blanc, and the vessel
which she collided was the Belgian re
lief steamer Imo.
St. John, N. F., Jan. 6.—Eye-wit
nesses of the disaster at Halifax, who
arrived in St. John, gave terrible de
tails of the catastrophe there.
Esmond Barry, a postal clerk said
people in Halifax died like flies. Some
ran about with noses off, eyes out, faces
slashed and limbs torn. They had
been struck by flying missiles. He said
that while he was working around
some of the wrecked bnildings he saw
a baby fifty feet away under a burning
mass, crying for aid. Rescuers were
unable to reach it and had to watch it
burn. Three hundred dead lay in parks
at Halifax when he left there.
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FOR SALE—Five good dogs and sled.
Apply Snyder House.. Flat.
BELGIAN CHILDREN 1
GIVEN RED GROSS AID
The war council of the American
Red Cross announces the receipt of the!
following cablegram from tlie Paris
headquarters of tho American Red
Cross in reference to the work of the
Red Cross in caring for the repatriated
refugees from devastated districts in
France and Belgium;
“There arrived last week at the
town where the repatries from France
and Belgium are received back into
France a train loaded with Belgian
children. There were G80 of them,
then, sickly, alone, all between ages of
f and 12, children of men who refused
to work for the Germans and of
mothers who let their children go
rather than let them starve. They
poured off the train, little ones cling
ing to the oldest ones, girls all crying,
boys trying to cheer. They had come
nil the lone way alone. On the plat
form were the Red Cross workers to
meet ihem—doctors and nurses with
ambulances for the little sick ones
waiting outside the station. The chil
dren poured out of the station, marched
along the street shouting, ‘Meat, meat,
we are going to have meat,’ to the cas
ino, where they were given a square
meal, the first in many months. Again
and again, while ihev ate, they broke
out spontaneously into songs in French
against the German songs, which they |
had evidently learned in secret. The
Red Cross doctor examined them.
Their little claw-like hands were sig
nificant of their undernourished bodies
but the doctors said, ‘We have them in
time. A few weeks oi proper feeding
and they will pull up.'
“Every day 1,000 homeless people ar
rive, of which 60 per cent, are children.
Thirty per cent of the older people die
the first month from exhauston. The !
children can and must be saved.”
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Tub and steam baths at all hours.
Snyder House, Flat, j
Watch Repairing and
Jewelry Work to order.
J. L. SALE, FLAT
FLAT CITY
RESTAURANT **“ BAKERY
Front St., Opp. Flat City Hotel
Our Coffee Is Unsurpassed
All Kinds ot Pastries, Pies, Cakes and Bread
Cleaning and Pressing. Miss Isaacson, Flat
Professional
Mlcltlg-an, 1881 Kentucky, 189 5
Alaska, leto
George Woodruff Albrecht
COUNSELOR AND LAWYER
IDITAROD, ALASKA
The Pioneer Attorney of ItJiturod
CHAS. E. TAYLOR
Attorney at Law
BANK tLOCK
First Avenue Iditarod
DR. M3QRE
PHYSICIAN AMD SURGEON
PROG STORE
J. WILSON REED, m.D,
Physician, and Surgeon
Flat Hospital, Flat, Alaska
DR.H.BEHLA
Physician AND
Surgeon
Dentistry in Connection
RESIDENT PHYSICIAN
Behla Hospital
Flat, Ataska
Fust Reopened
TRY J. K. ROGERS’
Whits Eiepknt hunch Boom
For a Properly-Cooked Dinner. Tooth
some Steaks, Chops, Ere.. Good Coffee
Front Street at Willow, Idltarod
Big Stocks of Fresh Goofs
Everything or the Miner and
Prospector
WAX JJSWEL S
Stores at Cripple 0*ty and Mouth of Tols-tol
Fresh Bread for Sale Daily
Arcade Cafe
FLAT CITY
Open Day and Night
IDITAROD, ALASKA
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Capital, $50,000.00
General Banking Business Transacted Gold Dust Bought and Assayed
Drafts Issued on Any Part of the Worlj
SEATTLE CORRESPONDENT. SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BANK
TERRITORIAL DEPOSITARY
OFFICERS:
CHARLES ROSS, President
CLAUDE BAKER, Vice-President
R. C. BUTTON, Cashier
Front Street, Flat City Formerly the Bagoy Premises
Flat City Hotel BOG KENNELS §
Mrs. J. E. Gunning, Prop. _Special Rates by the Week and Month
Open at All Hours Tke Oid Reliable Place
Disco very Cafe
HENRY DURAND, PROP._Front Street, Flat
Thrs Gc!*st-F,at Cit*
I llo ^Jl r SL W CS Mrs. Gm. Mutchler, Prop.
Nicely Furnished Rooms Barn for Horses and Pops Baths in Congestion
Pioneer Sheet Metal Works
GENERAL HARDWARE
Stoves and Graniteware Gasoline, Goal Oil, Etc.
The Only First-Class Dog Harness In Alaska j