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Gloves, Mitts, heavy and
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Hats, Caps, Underwear, or any
thing else to wear. Blank
Books or other Stationery,
Drugs, Cosmetics, Photo Goods,
your films developed or
prints made (special rates
to those who buy their
supplies from us). Don't go
out without a Kodak. Keep
a picture record of your
trip out, and before you go
call at the only up-to-date
store in the camp, where
you can get your money's
worth,
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IMPROVEMENTS AT FLAT
C. R. Peek, the Flat City merchant, has
purchased the building lately occupied by
the Bayles Clothing Company at Iditarod.
He will dismantle it immediately and the
material will be used in fitting up the new
quarters l.ciy ucquired by him adjoining
his present business location. He will put
in a new glass front on the Second street
front of the store, and will then have two
main entrances. The lloor will be raised
and the entire building renovated. When
, completed he will have a commodious and
handsome store.
Messrs. Finnegan <fc Cameron, who re
cently vacated the quarters acquired by
Mr. Peck, have already moved their pool
room, cigar and confectionery store into the
Hussey building, and are now comfortably
i situated.
William Taylor will continue business at
his jewerly store until after the first of the
; year.
BUILDER OF GREAT CANAL
WITHDRAWS RESIGNATION
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i PANAMA. Get. S.—Colonel Goethals ha-^
withdrawn his resignation as governor of
the Canal Zone, and will remain in office
until the slides which have been interrupt
ing traffic in the canal have been overcome.
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ENGRAVING
W*TAYLOR, Fiat.
At! Rubber Boots Reduced In Price!
White B®@ts, t
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COMIL HOLDS A
BUSY SESSION
John C. Currin Resigns as Council
man and Is Elected Fire Chief.
Defective Sidewalks Come
Under Discussion
The municipal council met last Monday
night, and with no absentees, cleaned up
considerable business. All outstanding bills
for various items of work done for the city
were approved and ordered paid.
After a statement by Mayor Stanton as
to the city's finances, the funds on hand
and probable income and necessary expen
ditures during the coining month, the coun
cil appropriated $1,000 for the present re
quirements of the school board.
The salary of the tire chief was fixed for
the coming winter at $150 per month, and
John C. Currin was elected to the office,
to serve from October 15 to April 15.
B. A. Meyers tendered his resignation as
municipal clerk, which was accepted, and
0. G. Geraghty was appointed to the va
cancy.
The fire committee was directed to let
bid.-* for supplies for the fire department in
the quantities fixed by the council. It is
understood that the offers for bids will be
published shortly.
The council also considered the condi
tion of the street and road leading to the
cemetery, and the question of doing some
thing to prevent a recurrence of the unfor
tunate conditions which so far have existed
on the hill during the wet months every
summer. In the course of the discussion
Mayor Stanton said he had been instructed
by one of the societies in the community to
have certHin work dune on several of the
graves of its deceased members. The street
committee of the council was directed to in
vestigate the situation and let bids for what
work it considered necessary.
The street committee also was directed
to see that work is done by the persons con
cerned m keeping sidewalks in proper con
dition. Some of the walks are not in the
shape they should he, and the repairs ought
to he made before snow falls.
Mr. Currin. after his appointment as fire
chief, tendered his resignation as a mem
ber of the council, which was accepted, and
after voting the payment to E. J. Smith of
a sum of money as compensation for work
which he had dune voluntarily about the fire
hall during the past summer, the council
adjourned to meet at the call of the chair.
ALASKA GIRL OF FOURTEEN
AS MOUNTAIN CUMBER
Elizabeth Foster, 14 years old, Alaska’s
youngest mountain climber, reached Seattle
yesterday on her way back to her home in
Fairbanks, says the Seattle Post-Intelligen
cer of September 7. Mrs. F. I. Foster, her
mother, and Richard Fester, her brother,
are with her at the Frye hotel.
Miss Foster, a red-cheeked, healthy out
door girl, has the distinction of having been
farther up the side of Mount McKinley,
the highest mountain peak on the conti
nent, than any other child. In 1910. with
her father and mother, she mushed from
their home in the Kantishna hills to the
pass which connects the Yukon with the
southern watersheds. She has her own
dog team and mushes into the hills often
from the little cabin where her father and
mother live.
“I am tired of the Outside,” she com
plained yesterday to a friend. ”1 want
to go back home. I want to be where I
know someone, where there are mountains
and, most of all, dog teams.”
Miss Foster was born in Dawson, and,
then moved to Fairbanks with her parents
when the Tanana stampede was on. Her
father was for years United States com
missioner in the Kantishna district. On
several occasions she has driven her own
•og team over the lonely 200-mile trail from
Fairbanks. On one occasion, when she wa?.
but 10 years old, she traveled 200 miles,
and at the gee pole of a sled at that.
“FIRST NATIONAL BANK”
GOES OUT OF BUSINESS
“The First National bank,” established by
women, no longer is being used as a deposi
tory this warm weather. It has gone out of
business—at least the stockings have be
come detached, which makes it useless as a
bank. They are worn “rolled” now down
to the ankle. New York has been afflicted
from time to time with many freakish fash
ions, but this seems to be close to the limi'f
The novel spectacle of a pretty girl saun
tering leisurely along with her stockings
rolled down to her ankles, leaving a goodly
display of bare white limb below the skirt
hem, is cause enough to make any staid
citizen to stand in the sun. It has been the
fad at the beaches this summer for the fair
sex to promenade with their stockings ar
ranged thusly, but, seen on Fifth avenue,
the effect is somewhat different. “It is much
cooler.” is the excuse the girls give who are
following the fashion. New York Letter to
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
It is never too late or too early to ac-/1
commodate the people from the creeks wheir
they come to the
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E. J. Davis was among those leaving for
the Outside Wednesday.
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R. D. Brunn, the steamboat man, was a
passenger for the Outside Wednesday.
Louis Sevier, the Flat creek sports pro
moter, was a visitor in the city this week.
Tom McMahon, the hustling Flat City j
merchant, was a visitor in Iditarod on Mon- j
day last.
Mrs. Charles Estmere was one of the pas- I
sengers for tlie Outside on the boat leaving
last Wednesday night.
Jess Ferce was a passenger for the Out
side Wednesday. He will go to his old home
in Arizona, and thence to Mexico.
Janies Fullerton, known as the “mayor of
Dikeman,” was av isitor in the city this
week. He left for home Wednesday night.
Jerry Ford and wife were passengers for
die Outside on Wednesday's boat. They ex
pect to spend considerable time in Seattle.
C. D. Surridge, the White Pass agent at
Dikeman.” was a visitor in the city this
week. He left for his post on Wednesday
night.
Si Atwell and family have moved to Dis
covery, Otter creek, where Si has accepted
a position with Riley & Marston for the
winter.
Ray Henderson took out a large quantity
of mail with him, which will be turned over
to the postmaster at St. Michael to be for
warded.
Fred Courtney, Barney Walsh, Sam
Vorkisch and the Japanese wrestler, Iliyeda,
were passengers for the Outside on the
Tramp.
xiarry lacker lore iiiuiseu aw a\ inin ins
arduous duties on the hill long enough to
come to the city to see friends depart on
the last boat.
\V;tda, the enterprising little Japanese,
has had a force of natives employed this
week in building a road connecting Willow
street with his barn.
J. E. Kettlewell. electrician at the Idita
rod river power j lant of the Yubon Gold
Company, was a visitor in the city Wednes
day. He was accompanied by Jack Hanley.
Henry Riley, who said that the report of
his departure on a previous boat “was
greatly exaggerated," left for the Outside
on the Tramp, which departed Wednesday
night.
The good ship Edna, Captains Bob GritTi
' and Jim Haley, arrived from the Innoko on
I Wednesday last. They brought a cargo of
I 25,000rfeet of lumber from the Cripple City
sawmill.
The announcement of the “gasoline kids’
ball” will be received with pleasant anticipa
tion of a season of gayety which
promises to be more enjoyable than usual
this year.
Mrs. Helen Landerking, who has been
seriously ill f- r some time past, was re
moved from the Flat hospital to the Beattie
house in this city on Sunday last. She is
still quite ill.
Jack Cameron, ihe well-known freighter,
left for the Outside Wednesday. He goes
to make arrangements for machinery to
work some ground in the Marshall City
camp which he has accjuired.
Mike Lucey. the veteran prospector and
miner, came in from Moore creek this week.
He reports that that section had an exceed
ingly good season this summer, and ar
rangements are being made for consider
able work there during the winter.
Al Walsh was in town Wednesday His
brother Barney was a passenger for the
Outside on the Tramp. According to cur
rent report, there have been some wonder
fill clean-ups on the Summit Association
claim during the past few days, but Al
does not relish publicity, and would neither
confirm nor deny the reports.
Among those leaving for the Outside on
Wednesday hist was B^rt Meyers, who has
been with the Iditarod-Flat City tramway
since the inception of that enterprise. Bert
will go to San Francisco to see the fair and
will then continue his journey to Los An
geles, his home. He was a busy man dur
ing the last few days of his stay, making
his farewells to his hosts of friends through
out the district.
New goods--about two tons. Drugs,
candy (Lowney’s), toilet and rubber goods,
hot water bottles. Get a Thermos bottle.
DR. MOORE.
Maine i< now the only state which holds
its elections in September. Arkansas, which
was the only other state to do so, has de
cided to hold its election in November.
Building and roofing papers. .
Crowley & Porter.
The elephant has only eight teeth, four
on each side.
Large, medium and small mantles.
Crowley & Porter.
Many nice things for the evening lunches.
Crowley & Porter.
Old papers for Sale—Large bundles, 50c.
At the Pioneer office.
DIKEMAN IAN IN
LAW’S CLUTCH
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W. T. Vanderpool Is Arrested, j
Charged With a Serious Of
fense, and Bound Over
to the Grand Jury
W. T. Vanderpool, a resident of Dikeman, I
was brought before United States Commits- j
sinner Guy Geraghty on Tuesday afternoon ;
last, charged with unlawful cohabitation !
with a native woman known as Sophie. He !
waived examination and was bound over to ;
the grand jury in the sum of $2,000. At j
last accounts the bail had not been fur- ;
nislied, and the prisoner was in the custody j j
of tlie marshal at the federal jail.
The case is one which has created a good
deal of comment, and it had been expected
that some action would be taken by the 1
authorities. It is said that the young na- ’
tive woman is about to become a mother, 1 *
and there is another child issue of the ilie- *
gal union. Vanderpool was granted a di
vorce from hi.' white wife, who is supposed j
to be in Fairbanks, last summer by Judge
Bunnell. It was expected that he would !
marry the native girl when he was free to 1
do so, and his failure is responsible for his
arrest.
The witnesses summoned in the case were
James Fullerton, Umil Jensen, Jerry Baker
and Frank Watson.
dan McCarty’s hunch
WON FOR HIM A FORTUNE
Seventeen years ago Dan McCarty, Alaska
sourdough, { laved a prospector’s hunch in
the gold mining game and lost, says the
Seattle Pnst-I ntelligencer. He staked a claim
in the creek bed of the most promising
stream in the Fairbanks district; other pros
pector.' c a me along and staked claims on the
hillsides. He went broke; others made for
tunes. Dan McCarty, six months ago, left
Seattle and went to the Tolovana. the new
<vt of Interior Alaska’s mining camps, mush
ing forty miles over a rough trail from
i Fairbanks. He played a prospector’s hunch
again, bin this time it was a different hunch
from his first. Others staked claims in the
creek bed; he staked claims on the hillside
and won. Less than a month ago he sold
:: half int re t in his holdings fer $34,000.
Dan McCarty reached Seattle Monday,
prepared to see the exposition and then the
East.
Pioneers in the Fairbanks district know
Dan McCarty well. He was among the first
to stake on (1 ary creek, a stream which
has rolled up a gold production record of
$10 UOU.Ol/O in ten years’ time. He couldn’t
find the pay. while a stone’s throw away
| other miners were cleaning up their riffles
1 and filling their pokes with dust.
The Tolovana district, northwest of Fair
banks, was discovered early in th<> winter.
When the news of the discovery seeped to
the States, McCarty started North.
‘‘The camp looks like it will amount to
something after a little more prospecting
has been done.” said Mr. McCarty. “Four
miles of pay has been proved up already, but
the ground is likely to be spotted, for the
formation is slate instead of schist, as are
both the Fairbanks and Ruby districts. Bed
rock is from forty to 100 feet deep, and
prospecting is slow work.”
DIDN’T WANT FILM SHOWN
TIENTSIN. China. Sept. 4.—An incident
which probrbly will have serious conse
quences took place in Peking the other
night.
Twenty Austrian marines belongin'!: to •h'1
legation guards entered a British owned
moving picture theater in which Lusitania 1
films were being shown, cut the screen to '
pieces, broke into the operator’s room end ,
forcibly carried off the film.
The Chinese police arrived too late to as- •
sist the proprietor, who has applied to rhe ,
Briti.-h legation in order to secure redress, j
WOULD TAKE UP ARMS
AGAINST UNITED STATES !
NEW YORK, Sept. 22. Alphonze K.
Koeble, president of the Germ an-American
Society of New York, and honorary presi- (
dent of the German-American Alliance of <
the state of New York, just returned from *
Europe, said the majority of the Germans i
condemned the sinking of the Lusitania 5
and were sorry for the loss of so many non- J
combatants. J
When asked what would be the attitude l
of the German-Americans if the United !
States and Germany went to war over the ; {
sinking of the Lusitania and the Arabic, Mr. j (
Koeble replied: j:
“It all depends. In a just cause they ! £
would stand behind America, but in an un- j <
just cause th,ey would not tight unless they J:
took up arms against the United States.” <
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Many of the “straw” hats of Europe are ^
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Green tomatoes for pickling. ^
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Paper clubs for policemen, practically in
destructible, have been invented by an Eng- ^
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Residents of Iditurod Will Be Fur
nished With an Okl-Time and
Popular Form of Recreation
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Harry Watson is preparing to furnish the
'esidents of Iditurod with :i ii“w f. rm of
eereation this winter, which promises to
be exceedingly popular, and to provide a
change from the customary dancing parlies.
In one of the last shipments from the Out
side Mr. Watson received a consignment of
re,Her .-kates; and as soon as arrangements
are made for a hail they will be unpacked
and put in use.
It is the plan of Mr. Watson, if arrange
ments can be made, to secure the A. B.
hall for a skating rink on sevr id nights a
week. A small fee will be charged, but it '
is not expected to be a big money-making
enterprise. The object is to furnish a pleas ,
ant and healthy form of recreation. Harry
states that the use of the hall for this pur- :
pose will in 1:0 vde injure the i! r for
rlancing purposes, and a demonstration of ;
the effect of ’he skates on the hardwood ,
floor will be made within a few days.
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TRAILING A MOOSE
Apropos of the story of the moose which
visited Flat creek a short time ago. which
,vas mentioned in last weekA Pioneer, a
Fiend of this newspaper sends us the fcl- ,
owing:
“It is not altogether an unusual occur- |
■ence for moose to come down on the creeks |
vhcre mining operations are in progress, for |
the .same thing occurred in the }„ .
of the Dawson country, when a mo
ds appearance on Hunker r r<- i i •. -
promptly laid low. And there are m
on Mat creek who were present <-n tr »• -
casion when a moose came down < n V- .
above. (,n Ester creek, in the Fairbanks < ;
trier. ;-i:d 1 i.-unlv Mrr lied along the
liiuit, to tiie astonishment of the many
miners working there at the time. Thi
moose aEo met an untimely death at the
'ands of one who was a ready shot an-1 w s
po«sessed of a cool head, and choice m >< e
cutlets were the order on the menu f.r -
era! days.
“It has not been g< nerall
moose would come on this >ide - f the M
creek divide. It is a well-known fact among
moose hunters that a man ran outwalk, --r
rather lire out a mo(wo. . r even horse, by
continuous pursuit, and that inside of two
or three days a moose can be overtaken !•;.
a tireless pursuer. This has been prov
time and again by professional moose hu;
ers. The reason is that a human being 1
more stamina than any other animal. ;r
can go for long interval without re r
food, whereas a nmose. after • certain lens -
of time. must have both f-.-od mid r—' T:
persistent hunter, well ke ' c - r*
lentles'-ly pursues his vi>-rii.. giving it »
time to rest or feed. < ’n ?!.- • >n . <i v
he will come close enough ' > n< i.* where tr.»*
.animal has lain down to r»' and a-:-in be n
obliged to flee from his pur.-uer But the
hardy huntsn
pushing onward, giving his helpie.-' \ictim
little or no t r sh ts
lost energy. On the third d:?v. at ‘he late-f.
the moose will be overtaken. «rimice the
hunter is within rifle range • ■ end m :n
sight, and the monarch of the \ >rdi falls a
victim of man’s superior strong’::, cum.mg
and skill.”
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