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SWEDISH E UEMEHS TO DEVELOP MAINE
It will only be a matter of a tew years—after the;
commencement of railway construction into the Interior oi
Alaska and the coal and other questions are settled, and I
settled right when the people of this Territory will witness,
only on a much larger scale, what is now going on in the
old state of Maine, of which the Boston Herald of recent
date says:
It is good news for Maine that arrangements are being
made for the establishment of a large colony of Swedish
farmers in Washington county in the southeastern part of
Hie state. The fow score of Swedish families whom the
iniluence of Hon. W'. \Y. Thomas, late minister to Sweden,
brought to Northern Maine a generation ago have grown,
through natural increase and the coming of recruits from
the home land, into a leading factor in the development of
the great Aroostook region. The Swedes are thrifty, in
dustrious and temperate people, and it would be a splendid
tiling for rural New Kngland if half a million of them came
here, as they have gone into Minnesota, Wisconsin and tlie
Dakotas. They would prosper on the farms that are aban- j
dont-d or running out, and would add to the greatly needed jj
agricultural output of this section.
The Washington county colony will be the result |
of the efforts of the industrial bureau of the new railroad j
systems which recently bought a tract of 30,000 acres,
fifty-seven square miies, in that part of the state, and has
been developing it in a scientific way to show the agricul
tural possibilities of a part of Maine that has thus far been
little developed. Last year a tract of twenty acres there|
produced 5.000 bushels of potatoes, 2-4) bushels to the acre
— the kind of a yield that has made Aroostook the most
prosperous farming region in this part of the Union. Such j
a region will be a paradise for the 400 Swedish farmers who i
are expected to come with their familiee. Thus far this j
part of Washington county, far stretching plains with little
timber, has been considered as good for little except the .
raising of blueberries for the canning factories.
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SASKATCHEWAN HAS A PROGRESS!VE TOWN
A town of 5,000 people attracts the attention of a city
of 7,202,000 inhabitants. The town is the Canadian one of
North Battleford in Saskatchewan the city the capital of
1he British empire. The occasion is the starting of an
apartment house owned and operated by the little town.
Two years ago people were swarming into North Bat
tleford too rapidly to he housed. The city council appro
priated $20,000 for a municipal lodging house, and within
40 days had an apartment building with 50 rooms in full
swing. It helped to solve the problem of bousing, made
money for the progressive little city, and served to draw the
attention of English capitalists to it as a promising field for
investment, says the Spokesman-Review.
American communities have given the towns and cities
of western Canada their ideas, but the Canadian communi
ties in turn are giving municipal suggestions to tlie greater
American cities. James (>. Cunvood claims that only one
of the 5,000 residents of North Battleford is 70 years old.
and that 4,600 are under 40. Everything there that can he
municipally owned is owned municipally. This manhood
at prime believes in small cities wearing the clothes of a big
city from the start, and at North Battleford seems thus far
to have shown that the experiment is profitable.
It is chiefly young Americans that are turning the trick
Bai^e Trinder enroute with supply of Fresh Beef, Mut
ton, Pork, Poultry, Oysters, Fish, Smoked Meats,
and Dry-Pack Butter
You'll find no mold on our smoked meats.
Second St. f O 0 l¥S 00« Phone 15
AH Hours Alike in This House
CARIBOU CAFE
COME ONCE AND YOU WILL COME AGAIN
FIRST AVENUE. SOUTAR & SUTHERLAND. Props.
nrannonaam saloon
Full Line of Cigars
Optimo, Lovera - Juan deFuca
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SNYDER HOUSE Company Depot j
Nicely Furnished Rooms FLAT CITY Large Drying Room j
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Furnished Rooms, Giean Sfrmg Beds, Bath, Dry Rooms, ^,l1'vcrtvh“1,:;u™','',ce 111
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Diamonds -- Watches -- Nugget Jewelry
FINE LINE OE
CUT GLASS and SILVERWARE
AT REASONABLE PRICES
Watch Repairing and Nugget Jewelry To Order
Souvenir Jewelry W $$ W J&T Leading Jeweler
Made to Order m Aj? #"8 ILj iL* of the North
Our place of
business, carry
ing a full line of
Fresh Groceries, Workingmen's Clothing, Shelf Hardware, Notions,
Stationery, Pipes and Tobacco
We hope to meet all old friends, and wish to make new ones.
McMahon, Flat City
Are Von Going to the Kuskokwim Thia Fall ?__i
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j Full Line Provisions Clothing and Hardware £
j 5 Flour .... 80.00 Bacon .... 32-jC. S
i Sugar .... 10c. Beans .... 7-I>c.
i Rice.10c. Ham .... 30c. o j
EAGLE MILK, $10.00 CASE
EJk Fail Lines Hunt's Canned Geods and Kills' Tea. Co'fee and Buffer J®
Mam TraO to AoiaU anti Bear Diairict>
iu western Canada. Eastern Canadians and Englishmen;
find no opportunities in the communities west of Winnipeg. I
Big European interests are looking’ on western Canadian |
cities as they never before regarded cities. A London cor
poration six months ago, though North Battleford has but
5,000 inhabitants, asked a franchise for a street railway and
was thankful for a franchise so liberal to. the city that it
would make an American city gasp, Until North Battle
ford becomes a city of 15,000 people the corporation can not
have any profits. But the push and enthusiasm of the in
fant communities in northwestern Canada force capitalists
to enter now instead of later and contribute directly and
largely to the making of the community. If their terms
and methods are not liked the cities take the proposition
and operate it as a municipal property.
Mr. Cur wood maintains that, municipal ownership in j
western Canada has been the main fount of its cities' pros*:
perity. At least, their securing the square deal from cor-j
porations has contributed to public welfare.
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The following telegram was received by the Pioneer last Mon
day morning:
“Nulato, August 11, 1013.
"Iditarod Pioneer. Iditarod, Alaska
, ’ i
T.xpress to the people my sincere regrets that I cannot visit
Iditarod this year.”
“J. P. A. STRONG.”
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A MAIL ORDER DEAL
Down in Oklahoma the other day, said the drummer, a
man went into a store to buy a saw. He saw the kind he
wanted and asked the price. It was $1.65, the dealer said.
“Good gracious,” said the man. “I can get the same thing
from Sears, Roebuck & Go. for $1 35.”
“That’s less than it cost me,” said the dealer, “but I’ll
sell it on the same terms as the mail order house just the same.”
“All right,” said the customer, “you can send it along and
charge it to my account.T
“Not on your life,” the dealer replied. “No charge
accounts. You can’t do business with the mail order house
that way. Fork over the cash.”
“Now 2 cents postage and 5 cents for a money order.”
“What-”
“Certainly, you have to send a letter and a money order
to a mail order house, you know.”
The customer, inwardly raving, kept to his agreement and
paid the nickel.
“Now, 25 cents expressage.”
“Well, I’ll be—,” he said, but paid it, saying, “Now hand
me that saw and I’ll take it home myself and be rid of this
foolery.”
“Hand it to you? Where do you think you are? You’re
in Oklahoma and I’m in Chicago, and you’ll have to wait two
months for that saw.”
Whereupon the dealer hung the saw on a peg and put the
money in his cash drawer.
“That makes $1.67,” he said. “It has cost you 2 cents more
and taken you two months longer to get it than if you had
paid my price in the first place.”—Fairbanks News-Miner.
J. C. Currin, of the local wire
less station, left last Saturday in
the launch Felly for Kaltag, where
he is this week superintending the
razing of the company’s station at
that point, which is to be shipped
to Fairbanks, and later, if devel
opments warrant such a move, it
will be taken to the scene of the
Shusana strike.
On completing his work at Kaltag
Mr. Currin will return to Iditatod
arrd assume the management of tire
local station, succeeding R. M.
Hall, who will follow the Kaltag
plant itr its meander ings,
(Dawson News, July 10.)
Troughton Out of Job
R. E. Troughton, former deputy
United States marshal at Eagle, ar
rived from Eagle last, evening on the
Alaska, for a visit of a few days. Mr.
Troughton was a Republican, and was
relieved June JO to make room for a
good Democrat, John 15. Powers, an
old resident of Eagle, Troughton re
tired at the time Marshal Love was
succeeded. Troughton is now getting
out a big lot of wood at Eagle under
contract for the White Puss. He
formerly was purser on N. N. floats.
Mrs. Troughton is in Eagle looking'
after the garden while the head of the
house gets a breath of metropolitan air.
Back to Oeutshland
{ Otto I-Cientz. for several years in the
I barber business here, will leave lo
j morrow or Monday for that dear old
j fatherland where he will settle down
! on a farm. Otto says the memories
! of old days make it impossible to stay .
] away longer, but his friends say Otto j
i will hike for dear old Dawson again
[ within a few months,
: SITKA HAS OLDEST
ALASKA INHABITANT
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Sitka, July 6. — I lie enumeration
of the people of Sitka in connection
with the liquor licence problem
j here disclosed that probably Sitka
has not only the oldest resident o!
Alaska but the oldest white citizen
| living within the teriitory. Mis,
! Solimakoff, of this place, is ioi
; years old. She came to Alaska
' with her husband in 1830, when
1 she was 18 years of age. She was
born 011 the banks of the Amur, in
j Siberia, in 1812, at a time when
i the American settlement of the
I
country west of the Allegheny i
mountains was just beginning to j
make itselt a factor in the new
American nation.
Mrs. SclimakofT has rented a
family at Sitka, and lias children,
grandchildren, and great grand
children here. Her husband, who
came to the tenitoiy as a boat build
er for the Russian American Fur
Company, died about twenty-five
years ago, and last winter a son
died of old age. All of her children
were born in Alaska.
When yon get off the boat take a
steam bath at the Crosby baths, Cari
bou street.
Notice of Fofeiturre
TO TOM TURN HR:
You and your heirs and assigns are hereby
notified that the undersigned has expended in
labor and improvements the sum of one hun- j
, dred dollars —$ too—for the year 1012 upon placer I
, mining claim known as the Ben Ilur associa- 1
1 tion, Chicken creek, a tributary of Bonanza I
creek. ( ttcr Mining District. Territory of j
Alaska. You are further notified that if at the j
expiration of ninety—90—■'days from the last pub- j
lication of this notice vou fail or refuse to con- j
tribute to the undersigned your proportion of j
such expenditure, your interest in said daim
will become the property of the undersigned,
1 under Sec. 2324 ot the Revised Statutes of the
I United States. S. C. ADAMS.
l-'irst publication June 14, 1913.
I Last publication September 13, 19^3.
1DITAROD
BAKERY
Foot of Willow St.
Best Cop of Coffee in Town
Fresh Bread Every Day
Choice Pies, Cakes, Etc.
Beautify Jour Homes!
H. SNYDER,
Has Many Beautiful Designs of
WALLPAPER
And also a goodly supply of
PAINTS, OILS, ETC.
Willow Street, Iditarod.
Dr. HeinrichWortmsnn, j
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OIEc.es: Iditarod and Flat City
Telephones at each place
W. F. GREEN, M. D.,
DISCOVERY, OTTER
Telephone
DR. H. BEHLA,
Oflices, Pioneer Drug Stote,
Flat City.
Appointments by Telephone
DR. CM AS. D. CARTER
Cold Street, Flat City.
Appointments by Telephone.
HENRY RODEN,
Attorney at Lav/
Iditarod. Alaska
ichigan, 1331 Kentucky, 1891 Alaska, 1910
Qegrge Woodruff Albrecht,
COUNSELOR AND LAWYER
IDITAROD, ALASKA
The Pioneer Attorney ot this Camp
As Deputy Clerk, of the Distra t Court I am not
bam 'l fii m active practice.
E. M, STANTON,
Attorney at Law
Office in Wickersham &■ Roden Bidjj,
.Second Ave.
CHAS. E. TAYLOR,
Attorney at Law,
Notary Public, Conveyancing.
Front St., Iditarod
fu E. MALT BY,
Attorney at Law5j
Office in M. & M. Bank Building
NOTARY PUBLIC PHONL
P,!:hard J. Cock Joseph L. Reed
Gcvcrmental Fraclice Formerly U. S. Commissioner
Washington. D. C. Y:!dsz. Alaska
REED fit COOK
Admiralty, Patent and Mining
LAWYERS
615-619 LYON BLCG. SEATTLE, U. S. A.
FiiOKE fttAl.i 4170
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DtS. OTTER A. ViZE i
In the United States Land Office at Home, Alaska
In tho matter of the application of Joa
quin, Fowler and Twitchell for pat
ent for Trading Site.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
Notice is hereby given that in pursu
ance to the provisions of the act of Con
gress approved May 14, 1898 (30 Stat.
409) entitled “An act extending the
homestead laws and providing for right,
of way for railroads in the district of
Alaska, and for other purposes,” and
amendments thereto, Frank Joaquin,
whose postoflice address is Tacotna,
Alaska, G. A. Fowler, whose postoffica
address is Bethel, Alaska, and A. H.
Twitchell, whose postoffice address is
Bethel, Alaska, claiming twenty and
Mxtyone hundredths (20.01) acres of
land at Bethel, on the Kusltokwim
river, Alaska, have made application to
the United States for a patent for the
said land, as a TRADING SITE, and
said land is more fully described as to
the metes and bounds thereof by tho
official plat thereof and by the field
notes of the survey thereof now on file
in the office of the register of said land
office, which is U. S. Survey No. 1002,
as follows, to wit:
Beginning at corner No. 1, identical
with corner No. !, Moravian Mission
Reserve, Bethel, at ordinary high
water mark on Kuskokwim river, from
which point U. S. location monument at,
Bethel bears S. 725 12’ W.. 12.9.7
chains, and S.W. corner dwelling 24x35
feet, bears N. 23° 30’ E.. 4.On chain-:
witness corner set N. 21° 31' W., 1.21
chains, an iron pipe 3 inches in Uiain
ler projecting one foot above the
ground, marked on S.W. -ide. M-M
Cor.-l-W-E. and M-E’on side facing the
river, and on N. E. side S-1002-L'or-l
W-C. Pit 30x3(1x12 inches bears N.
21° 34’ W., 8 feet distant. Mound of
earth 4 feet base, 2 feet high, bears N.
24 0 34' W. of corner.
Thence N. 24° 34’ W lOchuins along
S.W. boundary, from true corner over
rolling land on line 1-2 of Moravian Mis
sion Reserve survey to corner No. 2, at
which point is set an iron pipe 3 incites
in diameter, 3 feet long, 2 feet in the
ground, marked on the east side, S-1002
Uor-2. Under this corner broken glass
is deposited to base of pipe as memo
rial. Pits are dug on lines approaching
and departing from corner and 5 feet
distant 18x18x12 inches.
Thence N. <>7 ° In’ E. ix.6l chains
along N.W. boundary to corner No. 3 at
which point is set an iron pipe 3 inches
in diameter. 3 feet long. 2 feet in th •
ground, marked on S.W. sale S.-1002
E'or-3. Under this corner broken glass
is deposited at base of pipe as a memo
rial. Pits are dug 18x18x12 inches on
lines approaching and departing from
corner and H feet instant.
l'hc-nce S. 24' 24' K. 11.07 chains
along N.K. boundary to corner N >. 1. al
ordinary h:gh-water mark on Kusko
kwim river. Witness corner set N.2l°
34' W.. .';s link'sdistant, which is an iron
pipe 2 inches in diameter. 2 feet long. 2
feet in the ground, marked on N.W.
side S-10'.>2-t 'oi-i-W-< '. and M-< on side
facing the river. Broken glass is de
posited at base of pipe as a memorial.
Thence following llie meandats of tin
Kuskokwim river at ordinary lrlgh
water mark, along sandy beach down
stream from true corner 1. N. " = 47'
W. 11.7<J chains: 2. S. IB : lit' W. S.24
chains to Corner No. 1. the place of be
ginning, containing 21.til acres.
The U. 8. location monument to
which this survey is tied is an iron pipu
.'•! inches in diameter 1 feet, long set 2
feet in the ground, marked on the
| north side I\ 8. ]„. M . Bethel M M.
and is situated in 11 center of the
! plaza at Bethel Mission.
Any and all persons claiming ad
■ versely the said land or any portion
tbet eof si' deserilted. survey t-d and
platted as above are hereby no! i'ied
that, unless lheir adverse claims are
duly filed according to law with the
register of the United Stales land office
at Nome, Alaska, they will be barred
by virtue of the provisions of-aid stat
ute. J. 8UNDUAVK. Register.
Front St., Iditarod
Ladies’ and Gonts’ Dress Shoes
and Hose
Gasoline. Carbide and 3\lectri'’ Plants.
Lightning Mop Moor Ch-anc; and other
Shorts. Agency for Gt ay .Motors.
REGINA
Largs Lobby. Reading Room
Single Rooms, SI.QQ
Bunks, 50c.
Special Rates by the Week
Drink Eastern Beer
Miner's Home Saloon
THE HOME OF THE “QUAKER MAID"
Foot of Willow St., Iditarod
NICELY FURNISHED ROOMS BY DAY OR WEEK
Warm, Clean Well Ventilated
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
Passage and
Bath Parlors
MEDICATED, MINERAL VAPOR, STEAM,
TUB. SALT AND FRESH WATER
Caribou St., Bet. Black and Willow Sts., on Waterfront
Electric and Faradic Massage Treatments by Expert Attendants
Lighted by Gas Seated by Steam