Iditarod pioneer., 1917-01-13

backward asserting claims and probably rightly Bu along comes the Douglas Island News and attributes the reendo dy the misleading literature circulated by the Whoesal Liquor Dealers Association The Nome Industrial Worker how ever the field and claims the laurels of victory for tn Miners Union An there arel' Dooley would say Fo part take the position of neutrality that lmed by certain regard the great world war wh "idn care who licked the Germans" We are perfectly ln that all claimants how insignificant the part the played in the campaign shall be awarded the honos and the can find satisfaction therein, well and good the Nom newspapers bid for recognition:
 "As everyone knows the election Alaska dry by overwhelming majority. How many know the history of that dry movement how it started in Nome and lated strength all the territory that the result could longer be in doubt?
 W very long ago Nome that person who opposed the liquor interests could officially get where the hen got the But that condition is entirely changed
 "It worth considering. The dry movement started among who cared nothing much for the principle of prohibition itself but in order to rid the town of the saloon evil
 In the winter of 1914 the Union WAS on strike for the eight hour day During that time bunch of scabs from saloon beat union man. and to add insult to injury, the police arrested the union having been for by the saloon for that purpose That matter duly reported and there and then suggested that in retaliation the best thing would be to put the town the dry list.
 Some members of the Miners Union nowhst andlng the odum that attached the work pursued that with and intelligence that strength grew lngy.
 "Ihere were large number of prohibtionss in Nome, small relatively the of the population, be sre and these had been abe voice agitation that would excite anything but desion But with union lined the proposition assumed another aspect and the agitation took Weght n numbers and authority that led to al victory The drys lost in the first round But 1t victory conceng defeat for the ultimate defeat of the saloons assured.
 "1he most interesting phase of the dry movement Is the fact that given life by labor union labor It after had been given life by labor that other factors joined in and drove the Where before had been morl bund theory with the unonsts working with purpose and for that end became endowed with all the vigor of life and became certainty. The dry element in this town however would have dared the deron and attacks and dern of the saloon element had not been for the fact that unwarrsnted and unjusfabe attack upon union miners had led the Miners Union taking the matter up and, tending backing those whose spirit willing but whose body was weak, made 1t feasible question:
 has apparent all newspaper readers for tim that there something wrong with the en2natn Mexico the border That many of the stories of nurde and rage by Mexcars pure fiction las been than pecte and given impression being circulated fo their political Washington dispatch to il cate that the reports that from supposed official source also under suspicion Secret service agents of the state dea stated have reported the Mexican situation dlrecI contrary to the accounts sent to the war department by GeT Bell department agents say that Villa personally di conduct the recent raid on Chihuahua City Secretary Lensn declares that his have informed ln that the raiders d ne obtain and ammunition in that raid and that there "cT defecons from the Carranzta ranks to the Villa forces l conflicts between the reports emanatlns from army men ali service agents very annoying the state it par1ment also the of transformation n the press pun porting to be semi 0tfclal
 From my observation and conversation with army ocers an others the Mexcn border convinced oi the trou there originated this O the boundary sMd Rev. jCh Pcucher captain and au4n of the Fourth Nebraska, Wll returned home recently fuough Captan PourEtr Is pa tor of Trinity Methodist church of Omaha and prominent church well guard circles Continuing he said "lh trouble mostly and the of the Mexico labores end land the Amer2%n sc This land formerly Mexican territory, and the Mexcan6 who have bee forced of the land which they had lived from time lnneulc rial resent the they It is claimed that Mexca aborrs treated little better than slaves and that when the revct they shot down without com1uncton
 The Seward Gateway gives currency that Mrs Ehe Fory Troy bride the editor of the Juneau Empire be come the first lady of the territory Which by wsy of the that Governor Strong tired of h job and is attempting to wish cno the newspaper man
 The following appeared advertisement in of tn Nome papers during the campaign lhe fellow that takes bottle muhng companion the trail woul pick rattlesnake for bedelow the Gezcrt We print gratis
 quite gather from jery dispatches just wha that Tom Lawson trying to do in that leak investigation But one thing certain gives the nooreyloyng Thomas chance to be in the meight which and drink him
 The Womens Roosevelt Hughes Club of Seattle has pledge work for the nomination of Governor Hiram John son of California for the presidential nomination in 1920
 The upper house of congress has passed the bill making tn capital city dy Alaska read the writing on the wall
 No wonder have visited by Arctic weather conditions Fairbanks firm because the thermometer register degrees above November l tempted fate by advern garden seeds and Christmas cards for sale
 There way force Hetty Greens estate to L,o on