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Iditarod pioneer., 1916-06-03

because of many rumors tending to create misunderstanding and contention hereafter, l feel impelled in fairness to my friends and to those who have long been my polt- c&l opponents to make this public state ment in advance of any action on your part
 q have not and will not enter into any combination or agreement with or agalnst any person or faction in or out of the Re publican organization for the control Of patronage, in whole or in part, or at all or for the control of my actions in any way whatever as the representative of all the people of Alaska, or for any other pur- pose. l will not be bound by any pledge made for me without it is clearly stated in the platform or resolutions adopted by the convention. It seems to me there can be no successful unity of action or reorgan- ization of the Republican party in Alaska without entire frankness with the men and women who do the voting, and because of that 1 address this communication to you in this public manner l can better do without the nomination or the election to congress than be placed ill the attitude of having betrayed either my associates or the people whom 1 have represented with such freedom and confidence for eight years and whom l must continue to represent with freedom and confidence or not at al
 Tn the event of my elactlcn 1 pledge myself to harmony and fair dealing toward friends and past opponents alike, to the support of the bill which 1 have already in troduced granting more extended powers to the territorial government to the sup port of the statehood bill, to the creation of better transportation conditions and the control a.u rtauction of burdcnsome freight rates, aIla 1anaialIy to the upbuildng of the industries natural to cur territory and to the development yf its great natural re sources free from monopoly and unjust re straint If you nominate me upon this understanding there will be but little chance for contention and disagreement hereafter. Respectfully,
 JAMES WICkERSHAM."
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-06-03
WICKERSHANI'S LETTER
 TO REPUBLICAN DELEGATES

The following is Delegate Wickersham's m's letter to the recent Republican territorial convention at Seward. It is of interest as showing that the delegate did not propose giving up any of his independence in case of nomination by the Republican conven- tion"
 'To the Delegates to the Republican Terri
 torial Convention, Seward, Alaska
 Gentlemen: The people of Alaska seem to have concluded that there ought to be an effective organization of the Republican as well as the Democratic party in the territory, and many of my most active friends and supporters have joined in the movement and are among your number In view of their announced intention to present my name to your convention and
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-06-03
"A PLEA FOR THE HELPLESS"

The Nome-Seward Chamber of Commerce has sent ou under date of March 29, circular calling attention to attescd statements of former inmates of the Mornngsde Sanatorum of Portland, Ore, where under existing contract with the department of the interior, the insane patients from Alaska arc consigned" These statements are four in number, and are given in ful and describe Tn horrible detail alleged conditions at the institution The statements are by C. OBrien, sent to the institution fromNome; A. Ncolis, also from Nome, and from E. J. Litz and Frank Fox. The Nome organization says:
 These who from your midst explore and de through the of the climate harhp incident to pioneer life in Arctic country, entitled to receive the best treat that modern medical science we'll the most humane and yet according to ee statements they return the sick and incapable there be exploited for nan ca gain tortured and treated as criminals.
 The documnet closes with the adno1ton to kindly use your influence where it will have the most weight Tn assisting to this end.
 The communication IS an altogether unusual one The statements of four men prevlous y adjudged n- sane are given publicity and apparently in measure vouched for as the truth, and the assertion made that they return to the states sick and incapable there to be exploited for financial gam tortured and treated as criminals" If the statements be true,
 
 Nome business organization makes no assertion as 10 having attempted to verify the statements before publication. In the absence of such veriacahon it appears unwise to take action The further stale ment is made that the Contract having been broken it IS the sentiment of the committee that other pro vision should be made for their care. h other words, on the statements of four former inmates of an institution for the insane, without hearing from the contractors who are charged with breaking their contract, the people are asked to demand tIle reyo- cation of that instrument. SureI Iy un-Amer!can procedure.
 Probably there was never an institution for the care of insane persons which was conducted accord- ing to the wishes of its inmates and 1t IS probable that there never will te There hoye been numerous complaints against the Morn;ngs:da institution and some of them have been investigated and reported upon. The governor of AIas%a has recommended that an institution be built in the territory for the care of these unfo1tunates, instead of having them cared for by contract It IS questionable whether the latter course is advisable But one thing IS cer- tain the charges made call for Investigation, and should they prove true the contract should be abro- gated. But spirit of fairness would suggest that charges of such serious nature should be verified before action IS taken.
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-06-03

Fresh Olympia and Eastern Oysters, S1 50 per can. Iditarod Meat Go.
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-06-03

Charles F. Sulzer nominated for delegate congress by the Democratic territorial able and popular the estimation his felIow-czns of the First district, but he practically unknown the territory large His stand of the disbursement of the forest fund stamps him fighter of rank but 1t doubtful if will gain for of division though right his side He brother of Governor William Suzer of New NCrk
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-06-03

money therefor, and there IS no reason why, with the liberal time allowance, there should be any delay in its delivery.
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-06-03

Speaking Of the charge that the local papers dare print the facs regard the large mining companies participation the Republican primaries at Juneau the Empire this the situation that does interest the Empire in least that should appeal any Alaskan who looking office and whose only politics good government and progressive development Pretty side stepping
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-06-03

Government officials have issued warning the public against paper and because of the shortage caused by the Interruption by the Some of the junk aboriouy hauled the trail and dumped into this city mail during the past week might have been utilized waste paper if left a tidewater.
Der taÌˆgliche Demokrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 186?-1918, 1916-02-03
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-06
Remington Expert Discovered The
 Trouble In Time
Popular Worker at Arms Company Has Distressing
 Experience

Very few people seem to realize the many dangers that beset their paths every day. in the year. They do not know that there are invisible enemies in the shape of millions of disease germs entering the human body every minute. with every breath we take, with every drop we drink, with every morsel of food we eat. If our vitality and natural forces are impaired some one of these germs is bound to find a weak spot favorable to it's growth tackled by some malignant malady or virulent disease.
 Emmanuel Levesque, of POP Main street, who has spent years in study ing and developing the Cartridge in dustry while connected with the big Remington company, recently had a new experience. This is the way he describes it:
 Since 1911 my stomach has been so bad could not eat anything. Lost my appetite completely and was way under weight and all run down. I was extremely nervous, especially at night and could not sleep. When I got up in the morning and I was all tired out and couldn't enjoy my breakfast. am thankful for your Wilderb treat ment The very first bottle seemed to take hold of me in way that was sur prising. It has fixed me up fine and is the only medicine have been able to find that was any good although I
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-06

have tried lot of so-called tonics and laxatives. lam now gaining weight steadily, have a good healthy appe- tite and sleep like a top.''
 T. s. Jackson. noted health expert and aide of Dr. Pierce of Favorite Prescription fame, who originated Wilderbs (full extract) is still here personally explaining how this new ''Super-Tonic" quickly reaches the root of most diseases. Hindles Main and State street store is headquarters and he can be found until o'clock at night and will take the blood pressure of those interested. In the course of one of his daily public lectures he said:
 .'It is very encouraging to me to meet so many intelligent home people as have here in Bridgeport. Almost all of them seem to be interested in the work am doing here and particu- larly the scientific side of it, my blood pressure tests eliciting wide spread in terest. Few people. however, realize the importance of this feature in de- termining the condition of the vital organs of the body and the strength of the heart, blood and arteries. ] want all who have not yet taken ad- vantage of this educating test to come in the store any time and find out themselves just what their general condition Is and to what extent pre- mature old age has advanced in their system."-Adv.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-06

uettes lay the last votive offerings placed in the shrine by worshippers of the Mer1otic age. We penetrated to the foundation deposits under the back wall of the temple and found the small tablets of Itlanersa completing the history of temple. Itlanersa had foolishly built his temple right under the overhanging cliff, but much to our advantage. Almost immediately the cliff had fallen and crushed the tenn pie. His successor, Senka-amon-se- ken, piously rebuilt the broken walls and set his name beside that of It. lanersa- Again the cliff dropped a huge flake on the back part of the temple; again another king, nearly four centuries later, restored the sane tuary. But in his day the writing of h1eroglyphics was nearly a lost art and his name can only be surrnised.
 "Only at the very end could work be begun on the great temple. A few rooms at the back were cleared and the foundations of five successive tenn pies were laid bare. But the great temple still awaits excavation and an area perhaps twenty times that all ready eXcavated.. In a few days the expedition will return to the Sudan and resume work where it was cut short by the hot weather"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-06
tbrown into this p1ace. The names of

thrown into this place. The names o1 four kings were found-the Biblica | Tirhaka, Amon-anal, his son Espalta and a later king named Senka-amon- seken. Only the statue of Espalta was complete. It seemed therefore, thai there must be another dump in which the fragments of these statues had been thrown, but in so vast an area the chance of finding the other dump with out excavating the whole seemed toe small for consideration.
 ''This find forces us to plan some other way of attacking the excavation of the great temple and turned to the area next to the mountain, 1n thinking to clear up the rubbish strewn ground and pile the refuse be- side the back part of the temple. In the course of this work we came on the foundation walls of two smaller tenn pies and while clearing these, with nc thought of anything but archaeology cal results, we suddenly came on the other ancient dump, over 100 meters from the first dump where we had found the statues. Here was the head of the Tirhaka statue, the crown and basis of the Amon-anal statue the body belonging to the head of the Senka ka-amon-seken statue and the bod ies of two statues of Tanut-amon, suc- cessor of Tirhaka. It was the most astonishing freak of chance in my whole experience as an excavator. AS a result we had ten statues of kings ,of. Ethiopia of the time of Tirhaka and later, all broken but five of them heads in royal Egyptian workmanship practically complete with portrait I believe that there are good chances of our finding the remaining parts o1 the other statues.
 "To shorten the story, the rest of the season was spent in clearing the ground south of the great temple ir preparation for the excavation of the great temple itself. Here we uncov- cred four small temples each on the site of older temples and one of them of considerable interest. This was a temple built by a king of Ethiopia, named Itlanersa, about 500 B. C., and had been preserved from the efforts of previous excavators by a mass of huge blocks which had fallen upon 1t from the cliff. When with infinite la bor these blocks of sandstone had been broken up and carried out, there lay the inner chambers with their contents just as they stood when the cliff fell about 100 B. c. In the next to the last room stood a great altar of black granite carved with offering scenes and inscriptions in hieroglyphics show ing that the altar had been dedicated by Itlanersa to Anon of Napata. In the small Holy -Holies, were there Meriotic statues of the god and cu- riously enough by some ancient mis- take a statuette of Amenophis III, a great king of Egypt in the Eigh- teenth Dynasty. About these stat
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-06

The strike of longsh bremen on Puget Sound, which had been in effect since last June, has been settled.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-06

White enamel, very strong and substantial-An unusual value in good iron beds.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-12-21
WEST OF THE RIVER

Sioux Falls Journal: The bust.
ness interests of Sioux Falls
do not appreciate the great value and
benefit the west of the river country is
going to be to this city in The near fu-
ture," says John 7. Cogan, in talking
to The Journal a few days ago. 'Ev-
cry farmer and every stock raiser in
that vast and rich country is anxiously
looking to the opening Of the stock
yards here, and to the establishing of a
market place for their products. Thou
sands of dollars was subscribed and
paid for by the stock growers of Lyman
and Stanley counties to assist in build
ing the great stock yards at this place,
with the assurance and hope that they
could ship their stock to this market
and buy feeders and range cattle here.
But to make this possible it will be
necessary to have some regulation in
regard to freight rates. At present
Sioux Falls is on basis with Omaha,
which is nearly two hundred miles far
ther, and they are compelled to pay
the same amount for shipment of
stock or goods to or from Sioux Falls
that they pay to or from Omaha. A
piece of rank injustice. The rapid de-
velopment of the country and the abso-
lutely sure fact of the settlement and
cultivation of thousands Of farms, the
building of good towns, will all be to
the advantage of Sioux Falls if proper
trade regulations can be secured. In
time the jobbing and wholesale inter-
ests here will have to look to and de-
pend largely on the trade from that
portion of the state, and now is the
proper time to begin to cultivate good
feeling among those people and to take
advantage of the increase as the country
and business develops.
"Aside from the stock interests
which means much wealth to the peo-
pie there, they are making a great
success of general farming. TEis is
especially true with reference to rais-
ing winter wheat. Many farmers dur
ing the past two years have obtained
from 35 to 40 bushels of good wheat
per acre, and this year sold it for 81. so
per bushel. 1t seems to be the natural
home for alfalfa and it is claimed that
one man received 1924 per acre from
hay and seed from fifteen acre field
of alfalfa. John Kleven of Capa, went
over piece of ground several times
with disc. on which he sowed alfalfa
and it paid him s32 per acre for hay
and seed. This on ground that had
never been ploWed. I talked with 1
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-12-21
THE RED CROSS NURSES

Out where the line of battle cleaves
The horizon of woe
Sightless warriors clutch the leaves
The Red Cross Nurses 60.
In where the cots of agony
Mark Deaths unmeasured tide
Bear up the battles harvestry-
The Red Cross Nurses glide,
Look! where the hell of steel has torn
It's way through slumbering earth
The orphaned urchins kneel, forlorn
And wonder at their birth;
Until, above them, calm and wise,
With smile and guiding hand,
God looking through their gentle eyes
The Red Cross Nurses stand.
Thomas L. Mason.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-12-21
THE BEST IN LIVESTOCK

The American breeder of livestock
has reached the stage when he can
paddle his own canoe. That is to
say, he is independent of the old
sources that for years supplied us
with pure-bred animals for the i'm.
provement of our herds, flocks and
studs. For two years now these
sources have been closed to the new
world, and they are likely to remain
closed for years after the war is
closed.
At one time such a statement
would have spread gloom among
our livestock men. But not now
Pure-bred cattle, hogs, horses and
sheep are scattered all over the land.
We are 80 we'll supplied and so we'll
known in this direction that South
America is looking toward the United
States as q source from which she
may get pure-bred animals.
All this was demonstrated at the
International Livestock exposition
in Chicago last week. Northwest
farmers displayed an unusual inter-
est in the livestock show, both as ex-
hibitors and prospective buyers. It
is the wise farmer who early in his
career replaces his scrub animals
with the pure bred. The rural cred
tAae4Wtll halp him 70 do thia.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-12-21
CHRISTMAS

Dakota Democrat: An over the
Christian world fathers and mothers
and children are wondering sadly
whether they shall ever again be
able to utter with confident and
happy heart the Christmas greeting
Merry Christmas Those words will
be heard in many an American home
this year, but even there they will be
spoken, among the thinking elders
of the family with sense that only
for the very young can Christmas
now be merry, In England, the land
from which our Christmas greeting
came, those words will very likely
not be heard at all. In France the
phrase, "Joyeux Noel, " it is uttered,
will be conventional greeting, with
outspirit. AS for Belgium and Po-
land and Serbia and Rumania, is it
conceivable that any of the miserable
people of those countries, where all
alike are wretched, should not think
of Christmas as the bitterest, most
tragic day in all the year?
In our own country perhaps the
most hopeful and heartening sign is
the fact that for so few persons can
Christmas be merry. Were we so
sunk in selfishness, so content in our
prosperity. so happy in our immunity,
as to observe Christmas with thank.
full and merry heart, there would
indeed be no health in us. The meas
ure of our Christianity this year is to
receive its supreme test. Is our self
denial growing more rigorous with
the increasing destitution of the
world? Out Of our resources are we
giving more to the afflicted and
spending less upon ourselves than
ever before?
Each one of us must make his own
answer. Christmas this year should
be the day when a man communes
with his conscience
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-12-21
BULL MoosERY REDIvIvUs

Washington Star, 16: A meeting
was held in New York yesterday with
this announced object in view; 1.-THE
reincarnation of the progressive par
ty, with new sense of independence
based upon the new liberal spirit" ;"
Translated, this means the perpetu-
alton of bull moosery, with the pur-
pose of putting a presidential ticket
in the field in 1920.
The attendance was small, but let
ters and kilograms conveying APPROX
al from supporters in thirty-six
states were read, Hence the claim
that the meeting was national in i'm
portance. The most distinguished
person present was Matthew Hale of
Massachusetts, prominent in the bull
moosery of 1912. and since. Others
were men of only state. wide note.
A national conference is to be held at
ST. Louis around Washington 8
birthday"
asThis statement was made at yester-
days meeting: "Only those known to
be loyal and true progressives, and
who refused to go over to the repub-
licans or democrats, will have a voice
in organizing the new party"
Thus Theodore Roosevelt, George
w. Perkins and William Allen White
are barred. All went over to the re-
publicans in the support of Hughes.
Gov johnson of California may be
barred, though that is debatable.
While as a republican progressive
candidate for the United States SEN
ate he received majority of several
hundred thousand, Mr.. Hughes lost
the state. Just where that leaves
Mr.. johnson as party man is a
question.
Thus Victor Murdock and Col. John
M. Parker are barred. They went
over to the democrats in the support
of Wilson. Moreover, both are under
discussion for recognition by the
president in the way of office 1t is
suggested that one or the other, or
both. may be remembered in the new
distribution of favors. Mr.. Wilson
has written Col. Parker in terms of
warm appreciation of his services in
the recent campaign.
| What, then, will or can bull moos-
cry be without the great antlers?
J Counting out those who gave the
| party consequence in 1912, and whose
course TINS year made the party q
negligible quantity, would seem to
stamp the present movement as of
small, if any, consequence. A great
drama cannot be impressively staged
without great performers; and Mr..
| Hale and his friends cannot substl-
tute for the stars who have left the
company.
Still the st. Louis performance will
not be without interest. If it accom-
pllshes nothing else it should give us
all an idea of just what ia meant by a
new sense of independence" and a
| "new liberal spirit" Can they be
kin to ''tfe new freedom?" Are
these bull moosers poaching on the
| Wilson preserves?
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-12-21

farmer who had just marketed 81 800
worth of alfalfa seed. Every man in
Sioux Falls ought to be booster for
the country west Of US in this state.
Its development means more for Sioux
Falls than can possibly be told in print
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-12-21
JAPAN AFTER ISLANDS

The Hague, Dec. 13.'' If Japan
gets Java and Sumatra from Holland
as at present, the 100000 emigrants
in the United States can be recalled,
so America will also be satisfied,
says the Japanese ex-minister and
publicist. Ydsaburo Takekoshi. in
his latest article.
The article is demand that Japan
take advantage Of the present favor
able junctuEe y annex the Nethaa
Hands Eaok lndaaa. ! sI.is.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-12-21
...GREETINGS...

M Jay Christmas bring you, Here in World of
~ Changes, those Joys that grow old fash
fashioned the clasp of friendly hands, the thrill of
reunited ties, the echo of Chidrens laughter and may
pathway of the coming year.