Our Positive guarantee
Bv far better goods at the same and lower prices.
Our goods are all Strictly f resh and of the
May we have the privilege of proving it to you !
Our Swift's Premium
Hams and Bacon
Shipped in Cold Storage, without the heavy wrappers,
have arrived.
These Hams and Bacon are the Highest. Perfection in
Smoked Meats.
Sam’I Applebaum
!'re>h Olympia and Eastern Oysters, $1.50
per can. Iditarod Meat Co.
Now on Display, a Full Lins of
NEW GOODS
JUST RECEIVED
Mrs llurrv Donnelley ami Miss A dell a
Mi Dowell of Discovery, after a visit to Mi
ami Mrs. Joe McDowell at the Yukon Hold
Company’s power plant, were in the city
Ti: sduy on their way home.
Jack llunniwell was one of the arrivals
from the Tolsioi on Monday last. lie i.
linn in the belief that the Tolstoi will be
c mil' a producing camp, and will return
after the freeze-up.
The House of Quality Is Receiving by Every Boat a
COMPLETE — FRESH —SEASONABLE APPETIZING
FOR
GOOD POTATOES AND CIGARS
CALL UP
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We Still Have Some to Wholesale
Save money on Groceries while they are cheap, and buy a new
Of which we will have an assortment in Family Sizes in the fail.
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C. R. PECK • ■ FLAT
Fancy Cast-Iron Top with Nickel Trimmincs
S 2 I x . $15 00
8*>r»X . . 20.00
N'-’f'X . $25.00
YUKON STOVES
Y ikon ^loves, I 1x0 i to;.- s 8.00
Yukon Stoves, Ux:pi tops. 10.00
Hull' Hound stove-, i ixnu tops . 10.00
lU'IIIns .$ 5.00
Cast Top, four holes. 12.00
TENTS AND TARPAULINS
Sx 1II 8-<>Z. Tents $ 9.00
8X10- I0-OZ. Tents . 10.CO
ld\l-J 8-oz. T'-n Is 10.00
luxli? lu-oz. Tents 12.00
?x 0— s-oz. Tarpaulins.$ 3.00
7x (i in-oz. Tarpaulins . 3.BO
10x10 —10-0*. Tarpaulins. 10.00
All Sizes Tents and Tarpaulins Carried In Stock
Acorn Special Gasoline Lamps $ 9.00
Air e lite Gasoline Lamps. 10.00
< olcman Gasoline Lanterns.
$8.00 and 15.00
LnLv Ifi>i Mantle- .doz. 2 00
l.arjre liajr Mantles. doz. 3.00
linin' flu-carls .. $10 and $1250
Heavy 1’rnted Linoleums, 0 feet
wide, per yard ... 2.25
Inlaid Linoleums, 0 reel wide, yd. 3.00
Hues, 8.:sxlO.«. $15.00 In 25.00
Hues, \ ! v.$20.00 to 30.00
Drugs at Outside Prices
SMITHS GUN STORE
IDITAROD, ALASKA PHONE 6 SECOND AND WILLOW
IDITAROD HAS REPUTATION
AS ASYLUM FOR IND1GENTS
AMONG YUKON NATIVES
The federal skooknm house of lditnrod
evidently in getting n wide reputation ffjr
hospitality among the natives of Interior
AI:1.-kh. 1 luring last winter or spring an
Indian lad was given two thirty-day sen
truces in the jail for vagrancy, ami died,
it is stated, a few days after serving his
second sentence.
Owing to Alaska’s lack of statutes to pro
vide relief for indigents, it seems that the
only remedy available in such cases is to
hale them before a commissioner’s court
and inflict a sentence for vagrancy in
many instances convicting deserving unfor
tunates of an offense peculiarly repugnant
to them.
Blind Andrew, a native who has lived for
years in the vicinity of Anvik, on the
Yukon liver, reached this place during the
early days of the present month, with the
aid of and accompanied by a couple of his
fellow-tribesmen. Shortly after arriving
here Andrew's crafty companions, after
bringing the sightless native hundreds of
miles up the long and winding curves of
the fnnoko and Iditarcd rivers, made ap
plication to Commissioner Gen.ghty or Hep
uty Marshal 1 nonius tor rebel tlom their
burden. The proposition did not exactly
appeal to the officials, and they declined
to act at that time. The story goes that
Blind Andrew was placed in a cabin in the
lower part of town by his friends, who
left him to shift for himself. It is aim
stated that Andrew's friends had thought
lessly failed to stock up his larder. Poor
Andrew, besides being blind, was also a
stranger within our gates, and could
scarcely be expected to find his way to
a restaurant, and had no funds wherewith
to pay for a meal had lie found the eating
house. During the past week the gropings
of the blind man along the water front
had begun to "get upon the nerves” of
the people thereabouts, who feared he might
fall into the stream and drown. On Tues
day Captain J. !i. lingers applied to the
e mmissioner for a vagrancy warrant, and
Andrew was brought before the court, en
tered a plea of guilty and was sentenced
to thirty days in the local jail. In the
meantime Commissioner Gcraghty will com
municate with the Fairbanks authorities
with a view to the course to pursue in the
matter.
For years Blind Andrew has been a source
of wonder to travelers passing tip and down
the Yukon, who have wane -ad the re
-ourcefidness ami industry of the sightless
Indian. It is said that he is an excellent
cook, and showed wonderful skill, consider
ing his condition. He always has been able
to earn his own living, by cutting wood
and other pursuits, and wits the recipient of
considerable sums in charity offerings from
travelers on the steamboats during the sulu
t cr ami mnslier- along the trail in winter
But he is said to have been the victim of
the hcartlessnes.s of other Indians, who,
whenever so inclined, took from him the
fruits ol his labor amt the contributions ol
visitors. It is presumed by those who
know the character of the Yukon natives
that he has refused further to provide for
ihese dishonest and shiftless Indians, and.
being no longer a source of profit to them,
and as they consistently refuse to provide
for their helpless brethren, they conceived
the idea of making others provide for him.
bo, after being unoccupied for -.vend
weeks, the fcdcial ia'.l of Iditarod is again
doing business at the same ol 1 stand, and
*o furnish relief to a poor, hi'ml native
(who doubtless is deserving), the govern
ment brands him a vagrant, furnishes him
with three meals per day (at ?1 per meall,
employs a guard at hi per diem to look
after his comfort and prepare his hominy,
and to see that he is tucked nicely into his
little bunk after the shades of night h„vc
fallen—totaling, possibly, front $12 to $15
per day.
Bur what’s the difference? Who cares?
Uncle barn's rich- he pays the freight.
And in the meantime, as the reputation
for hospitality (if the local jail spreads
throughout the territory, it will not be sur
prising to have several additional cases of
like character “dumped” in our midst be
fore the close of navigation.
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On (he next day the tall flagstaff which
for years has stood in front of the jail, and
from the apex of which the flag of the
free kissed the blue heavens, fell and
stretched itself across the highway.
NEW SUITS FILED
Suit has been filed in the district court
by Fred Harrison against Gilbert Bates and
John Beaton, in which judgment is asked
for $982.43, alleged to be due for legal serv
ices. Attachment has been issued.
The Clark Lumber Company has com
menced action in Commissioner Geraghty’s
court against Wilfred Renaud, asking
judgment for $159.75.
Two accounts, one for $43 due the Clark
Lumber Company, and one for $40.75 due
the Pioneer Sheet Metal Works, the latter
assigned to the plaintiff, are the basis of an
action instituted in the commissioner’s court
by the Clark Lumber Company against W.
W. Acheson. Attachment has been issued.
G. W. Albrecht is attorney for the lumber
company.
A storm of considerable violence prevailed
in this vicinity on Wednesday anti Thursday
last. It was accompanied by considerable
rain. Outside of slight interference with
the telephone wires, no damage has been
reported.
Watches and Diamonds
At
STRICTLY OUTSIDE PRICES
J. L. SALE
AS TO WINTER MAIL SERVICE
Tom Boyd of Tokotna was a visitor in
the city this week. He states that crops
this year in the Kuskokwim valley will
Viot be as abundant as formerly. Mr. Boyd
is one of the sub contractors on the winter
mail service, and he states thut he has not
been informed as yet us to any intended
change in the route during the coming
winter.
Mr. Boyd states that arrangements have
been made which will insure a much speedier
delivery of mail during the coming winter
than heretofore. It will be the duty of cur
riers to continue their journey with the
j mail utitil the connecting carrier is met.
even though they should be compelled to
pass the customary meeting place. In this
manner the mail will be currii I through
without delay, and Mr. B yd expects that
a service of twenty-one days between Seward
and Iditarod will be possible.
Another innovation will be the use of
dogs instead of hones on this end of the
route, and also at the coast end. Horses
only will be used between the Interior sta
tions.
GOVERNMENT SALE OF LOTS
AT NEW TOWN OF MENANA
Word wa* received in this during the '
week that the government suction sale of
town lots at the new railroad town of |
Nenana. will take place on Augu.-t 22. I;
is gleaned from the Fairbanks m wspapers •
that the city already has a population of
about 450 person*, halt of whom are em
ployes ( f the Alaska railroad commission. (
engaged oft railroad construction work. .
While many persons have squatted on lots ;
in the new town, this will have no effect
on the ale. as the Townsite was reserved |
many months ago by the government.
There is quite a movement on from Fair- ,
banks to the new Interior railroad head- I
quarters.
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ADVERTISED IETTERS
The f'.il' ’.vine is list of letters remaining 1
unei.Ill'll 1;.1- k! the Iditatmd pn-t'iftice for j
the we *k aiehrig AngiiO 10. 19!(1 ^
calling for these please ask ter advertised 1
1,'tiers. WILLIAM ANSI.KY, i
11 Iinigan, Joseph
Jacobson. lv!
Koteh, Otto S.
Maikell, Mr.
Miller. A.
Mi rim 1 i, Pete
Mattson. John
Matieh, Mato
Mantling, C. il.
Metz, Jake
McPherson. Doml 1
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Postmaster,
Radicevicb, Peko
Schwartz, Louis
Saucier, Charles
Swan-' ii. Mrs. Oscar
Stahl, Mr.
Sharj'C, Mil!.urn
Simon, Alfro.i
S; eneer. Julian
Tiirvien. Strok
TantrL.lOlaf
Welch, Barney
Postmaster William Ansley has received i
letters of li.omry <• -in- sung the I 'ilo'.vmg j
persons:
Francis Janie- Kelly, by his sister. Mr-.
Charles \V Bel!. Mason. Mich., care Ingham |
Company.
T. F. Murray By his brother. C». E. j
Murray. Pittshurc. Cal., box 503.
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