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Iditarod pioneer., 1912-12-28
The NeW Placer LaW

The following the Congress ing the mining laws of Alaska bill rtory of Alaska, and for other purposes. Be it enacted etc. That association mining Alaska an hereafter located Alaska and until has been therefor not of labor shall including fractou thereof
 That shall hereafter mining in
  power attorney acknowledged
 
 
 or one association under attorney agent ny shall be authorized claims during placer mining except of
 Sec That person bal hereafter locate ced for himself than Provided That 
 Sec That placer mining claim hereafter located Alaska shall be patented which shall IS longer than three width. Sec That be located shall be null caed by qualified locator prior
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-12-28
BOTH SIDES REST
 AT INDIANAPOLIS

Indianapolis, December 20. - Both sides have rested in the dyna- mite case, and arguments began this morning.
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-12-28
PREPARE FOR DREDGIEG
 IN OLD INN0KO DIGGINGS

According to Sidney Schoeman, who arrived from Ophr Tuesday last the Kuskokwim dredging company preparing the ground Canes and Yankee which obtained by purchase They the ground with drill and and be in good shape go ahead in the spring.
 Taylor Olson taking out winter dump No. bench, Charley ndfos Rngwood prospect for quartz and Fred Spencer who Mackey gulch
 The property being opened by Lew Edwards Bill Warner and Van NOrsdae looking better all the time w. Vna has secured option the He left the side the Seward trail three weeks with.
 During Commissioner Vnas absence Ed Moe has charge his affairs
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-12-28
EFUL M EN

useful are doing some tasks both sane and good G A they're blowing they're hewng saving rcks of
 wood They make two blades of lettuce grow where before they do not bore fret with eternal Ah when l contemplate them, my eye with moisture swms Why don't you emulate them you tiresome Windy Jms? tired of speakng of verbal cataracs of who reekng with arguments and of politicians yellow wh oo the brazen horn must admire the fellow who camy plants his com The who and thunder the jaded and and the air asunder with that beats the band contribute nothn nothng to help the Wn and idle the frohngs, the whoopng and the dn The who puts collar his spawned bay and sweay dollar for tolng through the day enchanting than all the gifted boys who spend the anng and kicking noise. The useful hoeing, performing kindred deed they out where things growing pulling up the weeds; the weedsthey ampuate destroy them and mbs why don't you emulate them you cheap, old Windy Jims?-Walt Mason.
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-12-28
RUBY NIlI;; 1H s

Jack Connolly left for Eastern Can ada November 23, being called there in connection with the settlement of the estate of his father, who died recently.
 Capt. Sam T. K;ncaid, the old pros pector, reports the discovery of high grade silver-lead ore in the Kaiyuh range, 10 miles from the Yukon. Sam says he has mountain of it.
 John G. "Bish' Bechtol, who left Ruby for the Outside on one of the last boats, died in Los Angeles October 20. The immediate cause of death was neuralgia of the heart.
 "A persistent rumor" has been going the rounds that a strike has been made on Lucky creek, but the report lacks veriication.
 J. E. Bishop, who has been suffering from pneumonia, is now on his way to recovery.
 W. F. O'Connor reports the finding of good prospects on upper Trail, but nothing as yet that can be called pay.
 Charley HoAie visited Long creek recently.
 The machinery that was on the launch Comets barge when frozen in at Louden has been taken up to Ruby, and may hs hauled out to Long creek.
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-12-28
MISSING MEN
 INQUIRED AFTER

H. E. Strong, of Yale's Center, Kan. is asking for Edward Nelson Strong, 38 years old, 5 feet 9 inches ill height, weight about ISo to POO pounds. MT. Strong is of light complication, with blue-gray eyes. Any information regarding his whereabouts will be gladly received by bis aged parents at the above address.
 Mrs. Kathe Blakbourne, of Selah, Wash, would like to learn of the wherea bouts of Charles E. Werley, from Pennsylvania.
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-12-28
A. [. LIGHT WRITES
 FROM SPIRIT CITY

A. E. Light, the Democratic Demosthenes, writes from Seattle to the Iditarod Pioneer that all is we'll with him. He says he is recover ing his dignity and conservatism. At time of writing the Alaska bunch were enjoying themselves nightly. but beginning to scatter in all directions. MT. Light sends his kind regards to all Iditarod friends.
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-12-28
DEPUTY MARSHAL KELDAY
 BRINGS IN JOHN PAKEGGEE; };

Deputy Marshal John E. KeIday arrived the Kuskozwm Tuesday morning. bringing with him prisoner John Pakege charged with violation of F, chap. ? A. C. c.
 The complaint Louis Cnve Sometimes called Crncevc who shot by Pakege while working the oadhouse Marvel creek September 20 The Pakeges issued Abbecht taken into custody Mason Aniak district by the deputy marshall Taken Georgetown Pakege waived amnation and Commissioner Ed J. grand jury, fixing the bonds a $3 900.
 The party over from Georgetown in two days
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-12-28
YES !?

YES? Fresh cabbage, carrots and turnips.
 House of Quality. Location Notices at Pioneer office.
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-12-28
TAFT ACCEPTS
 PROFESSORSHIP

Washington, December 26.-It is officially announced that MT. Taft will accept the law professor ship at Yale upon the completion of his presidential term. The salary attached to the position is $, 900 a year.
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-12-28
PYROTECHNlCS ADVERTISE
 KENNEL CLUB MASQUERADE

Thanks the publcpted action of John Baird weiser ba there will be grand pyrotechnc display night tue which takes place B. Hall daod Dcenl arranged rockets candles and other fireworks great variety will be displayed advertising will reach everybody places, Summit oadhouse Anderson Fal City, the Koy residence Flat Shonlec covy. Then, night masquerade grand display in front of A. B. Hall Idtarod.
 Mir Baird had been giving considerable thought of advertising big masquerade, idea upon him Strolng asked the clerk they had fireworks following cooou sook place:
 Jack Got fireworks?
 You be we have
 Jack Send 'em with the bill
 Clerk Er-how much?
 Jack Why, the whole
 Clerk: But dollars worth
 Jack: That's all right. Send 'em all, charge me.
 And that's a He boug who stock
Iditarod pioneer., 1912-12-28

Captain Worth, N. c. agent at Dike- man, was visitor in Flat City the first of the week.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-05
PUBLIC INQUEST BEST

Coroner Phelan well to make the inquest into the wreck of the Boston Express public inquest There shadow of why such inquiry should be pr- vate
 This matter fully considered by this newspaper during the investigation of the of the Federal press Coroner Clifford B, Wilson who then held the of ce adopted policy of toward everybody but the railroad
 Officials of the railroad company virtually with the coroner and heard all the evidence,
 But the injured and their relatives, and the public which has the largest stake railroad wrecks cluded
 It shown that publicity would have brought great benefit to the inquiry by bringing forward evidence which the working in secret, unable to de- veop The law which governs the office does permit him to hear witnesses if the necessity arises The necessity will seldom arise It cannot arise at all in such matters the wreck of the Boston But the purpose of the law is that coroner nquests shall be public. Coroner Phean is doing what expected of him when he makes them public.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-05
GOVERNMENT
 BY COMMISSION
(By savoyardl

After voting in the senatorial pri- mary last Tuesday to keep Boss Jim Smith out of Dem nocratic politics, Gov ernor wilson addressed some hum dreds of college boys on the issues, and among other things he remarked the following about the trusts:
 -T don't want to. regulate trusts. I want to put them Son their mettIe. I body out of business except by do- fng business better than anybody else. [ don't want to squeeze the water out 3f their stocks I want to put the water in a tank on their backs and see If they can carry that water as against the men who are doing busi- ness without any water to carry. Then either they will break under the strain or get rid Of the water them selves. because they can't carry wa ter and do business against competi- tion.''
 There is the whole question, and it means that the special privileges now enjoyed by the trusts shall be taken from them and that they be required to compete with other concerns on absolute equality with them. Do that and there will be no more watered stocks issued by corporations. Do ---t and antiouated mills will give
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-05
Ultp a. M. Rpan OInn1pa1tt1.
 Easahltalrrn lRE1.

Of styles in Union Suits there is no end, but here IS the Sterling" for women, which is high necked, long s1eeved, and ankle length, with no buttons down the front. 1t fastens neatly on each shoulder, IS woven out of high grade of mercerized cotton yarn, has all gussets woven extra strong, and oth- er reinforced places where hard wear comes. The price is $3.oo.
 Other styles in the same make have low necks and elbow sleeves, or low necks and no sleeves, and are either knee or ankle length. These are of cotton not mercerized. Price $2.5o.
 Knit Underwear, main floor.
 For Street Glove, be- yo1d compare, take the "Reynier Chevrette." Never mind if it is $2.oo and you only meant to spend $I.5O, you will be glad you have it- It recommends itself, and once you are acquainted with it you will have no other. It comes only in tan and black, but the black is lined with tan, or has tan on the inner side so there is no discolor- ing.
 For regular hard wear, and a very stylish Glove withal. $2.oo a pair.
 A Fountain Pen with its owners name engraved on the side is a welcome gift Sometimes a pen, like an umbrella, changes. owners mysterious1y, or goes off and gets lost, and it is trifle easier to locate 1t when marked. These pens are non-1eakab1e, too. Prices be- gin at ST .25 and run upwards. to Says, according to the workmanship. A few days must be allowed for marking.
 Stationery Section.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-05

great to be challenged by others who seek to engage in business of the same lines, and his plan is to Iegalize them and appoint commission to regulate them and see that they be- have. Andy Carnegie says he can build mill at comparatively insignih- cant cost that will make steel tubing cheaper by $1o ton than the Steel Trust is making similar wares. But the trust, secure in it's monopoly, sticks to it's anticipated plants, and with perfect impunity it levies this enormous tax of $10 a ton upon the public, though it reaps no reward from it. That is waste. Under Roose- welt that abuse was inaugurated under Taft it continues.
 Under Wilson that trust, shorn of it's special privilege, will be forced to compete with rivals, and then the peo- pie will buy steel tubes and piping at least s10 ton less than they now
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-05

There is a sample of <'government by commission" as practiced py Roosevelt and Taft. There is not a doubt that the Steel Trust and the other predatory and piratical interests would be glad to be licensed by the government and regulated by a, commission like that which took all that was desirable out of the pure food law.
 We tried Roosevelt ninety months; we have tried Taft forty-three months. Neither afforded the slight est relief. Both aggravated and aug mented the abuses that both agree ex- isted and still exist. Are you going to appoint either of these to the task that he neglected and failed to do all these years?
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-05
BROTHERHOOD.

The great English writer, Carlyle, whose heart bled for suffering humanity, told of the poor Irish widow, who was denied help by the neighbors of her community. Those were other days than these, and typhus was a fear ful scourge. The poor wo- man contracted the maIady, and from her miserable cot it spread to the surrounding homes, even to the castle of the local lord.
 Thus, says Carlyle, did this woman prove that she was sister to her neighbors, and they brethren to her.
 The proof of brotherhood by catastrophe comes from time to time in the everyday happenings that appear in the news.
 Thursday, for instance, there was demonstration of this truth, when four near and dear relatives to An thUny N. Brady, the fnan- cier and traction magnate were killed in a railroad wreck.
 And more than once, in the last few months, has death by bad railroading reached into the family of this or that man in whom was placed intimate respon- sibility for the fact that there is bad railroading in this country.
 Back of railroad wrecks and railroad slayings is rail- road finance. The mad rush for dividends has re- placed the former careful management of transporta- tion lines.
 : Nobody plays the hog for the sake of killing somebody else, but men and women are killed, horribly killed, be- .ause other men are disciples of greed.
 Modern railroad managers are like reckless boys, who shoot a high power rife at random.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-05
On Second Thought
By Jay E. House


 If be is +he sort of man no other woman wants, his wife is pretty sure to be jealous of him.
 It is difficult to say whether tne crowned heads of Europe or the poor have the most children.
 If YOU have one it is well to re r,aI,F3ey. that a four-year-old boy is a humorist only in the sight Of his par ents.
 Nothing is so thoroughly unreliable, nor so often upset by fact, as gem eral belief"
 The Ohio man who threw blueberry pie a t a suffra gette had no ga1iantry' but any plan for getting rid Of blue berry pie will attract adnerenls'
 There is no place like home ana some of us are glad of 1t.
 4 man does not want the facts ln the case. He wants version Of the matter which agrees with his pre- conceived notions.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-05
STOLEN GOODS. Hndianannlia Neus1

The Roosevelt people in Kansas have decided not to insist on having under the emblem of the Republican party. They never had any right to this place on the ballot, for their e1ec- tors do not belong to the Repubulican the Republican candidate. Howev- CT, the claim, immoral and dishonest as it was, was made; ;a a1nhar And the @ es- ticle, defended the grab. We were told that men who had left the Re- publican party and joined another Republicans on Republican ballot From Roosevelt down there was, as far. as we observed, not a Bull Mooser who was shocked by the Immortality of the scheme.
 However it has been abandoned. Taft electors will go on the Repubu their votes for Taft This action was prompted by fear of defeat for the Roosevelt state ticket. The Progress sive leaders found that the Taft men had organized a league of forty thou sand voters, every one of whom was pledged to vote against every candi- date who refused to support President Taft-and the league was growing at the rate of a thousand members day. When Governor StubbS, who is g. candidate for the Senate, and the candidates on the state ticket-whO are Roosevelt men-found that they were face to face with certain defeat there was very prompt surrander. So the Roosevelt electors are to give place to Taft electors
 It is believed that the same result will follow in other states in which the Bull Moosers are trying to cap- ture the Republican organization The candidates of the Progressive party in South Dakota and California are fac ing similar conditions. and the chan ces are that they, too, will see. not perhaps the iE11n ora1ity, but the polit- ical folly of the programme which they have been following. It begins to look as though those who wish to vote for MT. Taft will have the oppor- tunity to do so in every state of the Union. But what a shock it must have been to the Rooseveltfsts to learn that there were actually forty more to hear from!
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-05
A DISTINGUISHED CONVERT.
 (Ha rtfnrd Times

When a man of Austin c. Dunhan's s long business experience and iE.tinaa4e knowledge of the tariff in it's re1a- ton to New England conditions aban- dons the party with which he has been affiliated f1fty-six years, because that party has broken its promises
 Governor Wilson and the entire Dem ocratic ticket, the importance of the announcement, cannot be questioned. MT. Durham, in talk with a Times reporter, gives very convincing argu- ments for his change of political faith, for this campaign at least. That there are many like him, who see the hollowness of Republican perform ance in comparison with that party's promises, is becoming more and more -aIzidAnt evaEE day. The Renuhncanz
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-05
REVIEWS
 FROM Our Exchanges
BECOME PRACTICAL
(Middletown Sun)

W
 If this country is not prosperous it will not he because nature hes failed to do her part. From all sections of the land come the tidings of enorm ous crops; of farmers too busy to heed politics: of the railways unable to move the crops to market; of no ne cessity for extra deposits being made in country banks. of so much money
 nose who have it hardly know how
 , invest; of gigantic projects which
 yi1l require all the labor the land can 1 millions;/ of an increase in exports Of manufactured articles and of gener-
 Such at least is the surface ;ndi- cation. There is, to be sure, dark side to the picture. In many things the American people are ren1iss, neg bills, the liquor and tobacco bills, the white slave traffic, the slums of such cities as Washington, Philadelphia and Chicago; the corrupt influences Of the liquor interests;" the lawlessness of thousands of men and women; the waste and extravaganza of one class of people while another has not enough to eat or wear; the concentra- ton of great wealth in tse hands of a few at the expense of the nany-all a. state of indifference and degeneracy which argues i'll for the future well fare and happiness as well as the toms of dfscontent are constantly nnanifesting themselves and there
 must be a reason for the complaint. The true physician will discover the cause and remove it. This must be done for all individuals; for all fani- lies and communities before there can be a cure of the troubles which af- f1ict the body polite. The work can begin in each unit of inhabitants, whether in a. country village or @ city block. No general legislation nor palaver in conventions will eliminate the trouble. If single unfit habfta- ton exists in a town or city; if a sim gle man or woman or child needs help and advice, see to it that something practical is done. This should be the rule if we are ever to become a self governing people. E1ecting the Donovant or the Hills of the Fourth district, or any other district will never mend matters. There are slums in Norwa1k and Bridgeport, a as we'll as in great towns. The it. tie town of Stratford is now making a heroic effort to abate some of the nuisances, and scandals which have for a long time afflicted that com munity. The example is worth inn itating in all other degenerate towns in this state. Self government by the people must begin at home. If a small community cannot prevent law breaking, close up unlicensed places, stop irtoxcation, collect taxes, make proper improvements, have public moneys honestly and efficiently ex- pended. how can it be expected that a Taft, or a Wilson or even Roosevelt can govern the whole United States as it should be governed?
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-05
How Wise Little City Benefits Itself and
 Its Citizens

little city, but a wise one is South Norwalk It owns it's water and it's own lighting plant Both conn modities furnished in this community under conditions which bring the city profit and another profit to the ct zens who consume water and light.
 The municipal activities of Bridgeport's intelligent neighbor not at an end. high price coal establish MUNICIPAL STEAM HEATING PLANT for the utilization of exhaust steam from the electric lighting plant.
 The project may be embarked in at reasonable cost Enough heat the business portion of the city and of the residential portion
 The effect of the enterprise will be to cut the price of heat in two, while making PROFIT FOR THE CITY and utilizing a waste
 Of Connecticut cities Bridgeport and New Haven being abandoned to the greed public services owned by private persons.
 Hartford, New London, Danbury, Norwich, Meriden, and New Britain and Waterbury their water works, and derive great benefits therefronl
 Norwich it's gas and electric light plants in addition to it's water.
 The profits to the city from municipal sale of such commodities gas, water and light and the benefits to citizens of reduced rates the sole indeed the largest benefits that derived from municipal ship.
 The private owners of public service monopolies are continually attempting to control the Their fingers in every municipal pie
 They support the lobby They the power behind the who corrupt legislatures and councils They contamnate the spring of at it's source furnishing the funds with which votes purchas ed.
 They unite themselves with every evil interest in the communities they They the power behind the white shaver and the dive They make good govern difficult if not impossible They the real of bad government in American cities.
 South Norwa1k is congratulated upon her public spirit. Every toward municipal ownership of mo- nopolies is the direction of financial polt cal freedom
 Bridgeport will follow South Norwalk s
 Not much longer the lobby and it's masters the public services keep the people of Bridgeport from de- stroyng private ownership in water gas and electric light plants.
 The Democratic party has declared for municipal ownership The whom the party will place power the next few weeks know that the party ness that traitors to the faith will not be tolerated. and that the mark of the BREED set upon the fore head of the who accepts office at Democratic hands and betrays the Democratic pledge. 6.a t .lsasaaa
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-05

who are turning to Wilson and Mar shall, represent no one calling or pro pro fession. They come from every Walk Walk of fife and are furnishing concluslve evidence of the disaster which awaits both the Republican and the the r9l1 null
 moose parties in Novemper. MT. MI Dun aoila paign i arguments that has been offer ed in Hartford.