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fro ght and passenger launch on the
riser. Good warehouse accommoda
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! will dispatch a launch to follow
the ice, bound for the Tolstoi. Good
passenger and freight accommoda
tions. Make reservations at the
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Pioneer Freighter
PI AdAfjnc big and small, printed oil
* paper, cardboard or cloth,
on sp .rt notice, at Iditarod Pioneer olllce.
O LOCAL AND PERSONAL l
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£0000000000000000 £
Mj Prank Dawson of Discovery was a
vi>itor in the city on Ihursday last.
Dr. Moore was .1 visitor in the city on
Thursday last from Mat.
C. R. Peck, the Flat City merchant, was
a visitor in the city on Wednesday last.
Mrs. George Marsh has been seriously in
disposed for the past two weeks, but is now
rapidly recovering.
Mrs. Herb Riley, who has been very dl
for the past few weeks, is reported to !<<■
on the way to recovery, bhe has been re
moved to her home.
(Vil Barlow i f Moore creek is in the city
on one of his periodical visits. He is accom
panied by Mike Hayes, who recently re
turned from the Tolovana.
The tire alarm siren has been removed
from the lire station, and tires hereafter
will be announced 1«y the telephone oper
ator. three short bells will be the signal.
Mrs. Garrison Costar, wife of the assistant
local manager of the Yukon Gold Com
pany, is dangerously ill at her home on
Flat creek. Dr. Auringer has been in al
most constant attendance for several days
pa.l.
Postmaster William Atvley cnnounc0
that his stock of money order blanks lias
bf°n replenished. Recently the stock was
entirely depleted, and it was impossible for
Iditarod patrons of Uncle Sam's institution
to utilize this convenience.
Joe Kermonde. the Discovery tonsonul
artist, who spent the wint. r in California,
arrived in Iditarod on Wednesday last and
left Thursday for the creeks. Joe came in
over the Reward trail ; nd took in the stam
pede to the Tolstoi, where he located some
claims. He intends to return there in the
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INSIDE INFORMATION
Tommy Mamma, have gooseberries got
Mom Of course, nut. Tommy.
Tommy Then I’ve swallowed a cater
pil’ar. University of Pennsylvania Punch
Bowl.
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Fresh Olympia oysters. £1 per can.
Iditarod Meat Company.
BEST LIQUORS AND CIGARS
Three-Times-McvG Bar
(Formerly the Stanley House)
JOHN BAGOY, PROP.
COOD ROOMS CLEAN BEDS
_FLAT CITY__
HALF-PRICE SALE
Gii Screen Wire Cloth, Wire Screen Doors, Adjustable Wire Screen
Windows \VlT„ n.,w
24-lnch Wire Cloth, per yard. . $ .50 $ .25
28-inch Wire cloth, per yard. .00 .30
36-inch Wire Cloth, per yard. .70 .3 5
2- s-6- 3 Plain Green Wire Doors. 5.00 2.5 0
2-i0-6-10 Plain Greer. Wire Doors. 7.00 3.50
2- 8-0- 8 Paney Heavy Wire Doors. 9.00 4.50
2-io-6-10 Fancy Heavy Wire Doors. 10.on 5.00
Wi e Screen Windows, 20x24. 1.50 .75
W e Screen Windows, 23x24. .... 2.no l.no
Semen Door Hinges, per pair. l.no .50
Sci een Door Sets. 1.00 .70
SMITH’S ~GUN STORE
IDITAROD, ALASKA PHONE G SECOND AND WILLOW
HALF PRIG
SCREEN DOORS
AND WINDOWS
C. ft. PECK - - FLAT
POPULAR CREEK COUPLE
SURPRISE THEIR FRIENDS
BY ANNOUNCING MARRIAGE
On Monday last announcement was made
I hat on March 20 last Miss Marie Coolidge
had been married to Harry Donnelley, the
happy event taking place in this citv, and
Commissioner Guy Gcrughty having per
formed the ceremony.
The announcement came as a surprise
to the many friends of the young couple,
who comprise practica’ly every resident
of the camp. While it has been rumored
for some time that the event was forth
coming, the announcement that it had
taken | lace was totally unexpected. The
young people took advantage of the oppor
tunity furnished by the Pioneers’ mas
(jueiade ball, which was held on the date
named, to come to the city with the big
crowds attracted by that event, evidently
relying on the presence « f so many visitors
from the creeks to veil their movements.
The newly weds have taken up their
abode at Discovery, Otter creek, and on
M( nday ev: uing last they were visited by |
scores of their Otter creek friends and show
ered with congratulations. Kefr*shments
were served, and a merrv time was enjoyed
by all.
The bride is one of the district’s most
eh arming young ladies, and lias b *en a resi
dent here since girlhood. She is the baugh
lor of Mrs. Joseph McDowell, and for the
part two year- has been in charge of the
Otter district school, which she has con
ducted with marked ability.
The bridegroom is one of the Iditarod’s
most energetic and enterprising young bud
i. -s men, who has been a resident here
■iv.ee the early days of the camp. Prior
to coming to this district he was in business
at Nome, and is widely known and re
spected.
The Pioneer voices the sentiments of the
1 entire community in wishing the young
couple the best in store in tie way of happi
ness and prosperity.
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LOCAL MOSQUITO FLEET
STILL AWAITS BREAK-UP
While the weather has moderated some
what. during the past week, there i> ap
parently no immedia.e pro-peet of the go
ing out (;f the ice in the Tiitarod river. The
I wafer has fal > n many feet, and the dropping
of the ice between the banks has broken
it up into fragment^ in many places, so that
should there be even a slight rKe in the
liver the ice obstructions would soon be
carried awry.
The many ve-'-els of the raoHCjuit > llcnt
have been 1 ft high and dry on the batik:
by the receding waters, and the c 1 1 stor
age barge w:-> m a danger.' us position h r \
time, as she settled upon a mas. of ice and
sustained some broken timbers.
Most of the river ert ft are in readuu'w
| for the opening (f navigation, and many
| of the owners are aoxiou.ly awaiting t: ••
break-up i.» s!..j: on ;rips ;•> the new dig
gings oil the Tol-mi. From pre ent indira
tions there will h.e cm-il> raid • freight and
many passenger? f. r the new camp, and the
l reak-up wi l no doubt be the sign d for
more cnnouncmcnw -T railing?. Tim Ivina,
owned by Grids & Holey, and a vv.-el to
be equippcil 1 y Karl liver? ere so f r tie
only one? to make pubhc announcements of
sailings but others are known to be pre
paring for the trio if cargoes can be secure 1.
The icc is said to be oik of the Imtoko
river.
CABLE SERVICE INTERRUPTED
Word comes that ih- Yahiez-S;; ka c. bl*
service is ava il interrupted, and that all
business is subject to del: v.
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HOW GERMANS PREPARED
FOR EAST AFRICA CAMPAIGN
(London News Dispatch) '
It seems to have been the German scheme
to take the offensive on the outbreak of
war, invade British East Africa, cut the
Uganda railway from Mombassa to Lake
Victoria Nyanza, and then dispose o£ the
small British forces in the adjoining terri
tories. This plan was foiled through the
heroism of a small detachment of English
men which stood off an army six times its
number along the railway until reinforce
ments arrived from India and drove the
Germans back across their own border.
Brigadier General Stewart commanded the
British in this action, in which the Twenty
ninth Punjabis distinguished themselves.
The story of how machine guns, small
howitzers and great stores of ammunition
were smuggled into the German colony
without the suspicions of the British being
accused is typical of German methods. It
would have been easy for the German colo
nial administration to send troops and guns
to Dar-es-Salam openly before war broke
out, but it would not have served the Ger
man purpose, which was to catch the neigh
boring British at a disadvantage. Iiad the
British learned that arms were being poured
into the colony they would have sent can
non and stores to Uganda as well, and the
German surprise could not have been at
tempted.
So it was announced early in 1914 that
a great international exposition was to be
held in Dar-es-Salam during the summer.
A plot of ground was staked out, and na
tives put to work on buildings which were
to house the exhibits. British manufactur
ers, and even some Americans, were in
vited to send exhibits in charge of em
ployes, who would take charge of them and
explain them to visitors. Manufacturers to
whom these invitations were sent discovered
that the white population was not much
more than 5,000, and that there could be
no market for their wares among the na
tives, and they declined to participate. But
a few' months after the exposition had been
announced the Hamburg-American liners,
which made frequent calls at Dar-es-Salam,
commenced to unload mountains of crates
and boxes, all purporting to contain pianos,
sewing machines, automobiles and other
bulky exhibits, for the forthcoming “world’s
fair.”
If (here was an officer of the British in
telligence department at Dar-es-Salam he
did not learn until it was too late that the
packing cases contained machine guns, how
itzers, modern rides, and great quantities of
ammunition. With each “exhibit” came
three or four husky Germans, ostensibly
representing the firms participating in the
show. The war arrived not long before the
exposition was to have been opened, and
the newcomers lost no time in donning the
uniforms of German non-commissioned of
ficers and commenced to Grill consignments
of Ethiopian recruits. The officers and mu
nitions which arrived for that mythical
exposition are playing a great part in the
stubborn defense of the Germans against
the British invaders.
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BREACH GF DECORUM
IN SEATTLE’S WAR COLLEGE
(Seattle Post Intelligencer)
The open forum at Second avenue and
Union street, latterly known as the “war
college,” has suffered a wide breach of its
decorum in the violent and reactionary
measures taken by one \ akich with a
pocket knife last Thursday, when four men
were cut and slashed in the processes of
peaceful debate.
Mr. Yakich is no doubt a recent recruit
to the war college membership, otherwise
he would have known that these things are
positively not done in the best curbstone
war college circles.
It is an encouraging commentary on the
growing breadth of the democratic spirit
that the orators and debaters at Second
avenue and Union street have been carrying
on their discussions and controversies for
several years without the slightest evidence
of disturbance. All shades of citizenship
have, at one time or another, stopped to
listen or take part in the Concurrent de
bates on war, finance, sociology or religion-.
From two to four men ordinarily engage
in each debate, and the listeners crowd them
into juxtaposition.
uiseussing me war, a ueoaier recently
ponent’s:
said, with his nose almost touching his op*
“You should go back to your robber na
tion, whose people are thieves and murder
ers, if you have such sympathy for them.
Hut it is useless to tell you this, because you
have not the intelligence to appreciate what
1 say. I doubt very much if you know
what your own name is.”
“But Let us take up the other aspect of
the case,” said his opponent, without wink
ing an eyelash. “You may remember what
Napoleon said in 1798.” and so on to great
1 ngth. with great deliberation and no show
of feehng.
Evidently Yskich listened to some such
argument as this and thought it really
meant something. It was a very great
error of judgment and a grave infraction of
the processes of the forum when he drew a
clasp knife end hecan slashing his neigh
bors.
Here was at least one place in the United
States where a citizen could call another a
liar, a horse thief or an imbecile without
suffering reprisals Mr. Yakich’s violent ac
tion has greatly impaired the confidence of
the forum membership and the calm and
even spirit of the debaters.
CHANGE NEEDED
tFairbanks Times 1
Tiie citizens of Flat, who have petitioned
Secretaries Redfirld and Houston to with
draw their ( b;°c!i-'ns to the development
b . rd plan of Secretary 1.me. for the effi
cient handling of Ab-kan fe ’ , :d affairs,
-b old 1 tl u >port of every secti n
01 the territory. We have had enough of
the bureau system of cornn 1. It has been
demonstrated during ‘b’ years that our af
fair3 lave b'; 11 eir-cml iy department,
leads far removed from the territory end
anfum’diar with conditions in the North
that cliiciency is i::• p;i>Ie main* th * mvs
ent system DcveUpi t
and tlie prosperity of Ala>kn:a j»*>'>u:‘ducd
by bureaucratic n le. We need a cfcanse
md Feevetarv I are has pointed cur the
way to us. The b uU will be ours if con
gress refuses to grant the desired relief.
HE WAS RIGHT
The Pennsylvania Dutch have the reputa
tion of being very economical and very care
fvvl i'n watching the details of domestic af
fairs. no matter how small.
“Heiny,” called (lie father,
at?” answered the son.
“Ron and count deni gec.es again, 11 -my.”
"All right.”
Heiny went; Heiny returned.
“Heiny,” said ti e father.
“Vat?” said (he son.
“Did you count dem geeses again,
Heiny ?”
“Chess.”
“How many vas dey, Heiny?”
“Vun.”
' Dai’s right. Heiny.” Everybody’s Maga
zine.
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IN GERMANY
“Look here, my friend, what on earth
ere you waiting for? You’ve been standing
here for an hour in the pouring rain.”
‘ I’m waiting for a car."
“But at lead five have just gone by.”
“Yes, but not the one with the pretty
conductor!”- Ulk (Berlin).
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POLITIC
Tommy (dictating letter to be sent to his
wife)—The nurses here are a very plain
lot
Nurse—Oh, come! I say! That’s not
very polite to us.
Tommy- Never mind, nurse; put it
down. It’ll please her!”—Punch.
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P’resh Olympia oysters, 51 per can.
Iditarod Meat Company.
Where You Can Get Just What
You Want in the Line of Shoes
A. A. CUTTER’S SHOE PACS
STRONG & GARFIELD SHOES
THE FELDER SHOE
AND THE FLORSHEIM SHOE
eEHSEESE88SSiaSEE®3s3StHffiBffl*M
!S3? FLAT
THE HOME OF HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX
THOMAS PROBABLY SPOOFING
I Tlv mas B. Drayton, whose picturesque '
: vocabulary was commented on by The Pio
! ncer some time ago, has written a letter to
the Seward Gateway which has that pub
Pea*if a an - h t, and in an artieh* headed
•‘Is Ti i :* Roast or a Boost V* it says:
"The ’C* ..way again aeknowl *dges the
receipt < f a letter on statehood from
Th- mas B. Drpyton of Kerii Creek, the
aeird -man who began the agitata n against j
the new dances here some time ago. Mr.
, Drayton i evidently, to borrow hi- own
tyl; . c’dti rating the Mn.-e- aixlong the
m'.i :: ■ bo*v. r:- >' Mil.-* VC 11 • ••annm w*
v\hy {••(**>{ 1 ..* who have been in Alaska s'
1 mg me unable to decide on the be.-t h.rm
cf government. But here is part of Mr
Drayton’s knock or boost :
“When tic Gateway, always able. fre
quently brill:mt, and generally hwnor, ndx
cynical. makes public its confession of : .
non-discernment of a condition too painfully
clear to many of us, it evinces a retiring
diffidence and self-abnegation entitling the
fct to a p'-t celebrity; ad the more that
the Gateway’s superlative modesty had not
previou-lv born suspected.”
O
A GOOD BOY
Mrs. Hai nicin .-lire. I just got t letter
from Barney, . ay!:.' he would be out of jad
tnmorrn'.v; h!‘ go; a month off for good b
h avior.
Mrs. Murphy A month off fer god 1
havior, is it? 1 :ith, amt that’s a lad , )
be proud of. Shell.
Tiir
| If p.3
l 11L
Will Leave on the First ¥/ater for the
Now Strike on ike Tolstoi
She v/lH work in conjunction with a shallow draft scow,
and will get freight as close as possible to the strike. All
keVht offered will he carried at prevailing rates.
HAKE RESERVATIONS ON BOARD THE EDNA
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LtbilI4 'i m & I* t: lyil y^s
THE STEAMER
w flFltW jnj wrw *ir $f
iwj J Jl £**tKal &J jLj iw J
Will Leave for *
MARSHALL HTY
c.3 soon p the river is dear of ice. For freight and passenger
Fu* C5
APPLY ON BOARD
SI M TV/ELL, Master
a.liviivia L/ i I.li UllL.lt
Will Leave for
fi^rr| NaV’oration, will leave tor the new district abcui
Tolstoi District, June i, to connect with Launch Comet
as soon as ice conditions cn the Ditpa River
wiii permit
FOR FREIGHT AND PASSENGER SPACE SEE
HARRY WATSON
rust
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