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Newspaper
Iditarod Pioneer
Location
Iditarod, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1917
Page
6
Yukon Territory raised 95031.94 for the Yukon Patriotic Fund through July 81 with per-dead Dependents aid exceeding ten dollars. Funds were distributed to Canadian Red Cross 12562.60 and other Canadian funds. The fund began in Dawson in 1914 to meet patriotic needs of Yukon residents and aid wartime relief.
A historical verse argues Uncle Sam’s just cause in war, insisting thrice armed with noble aims. It claims not seeking foreign spoils, but breaking a grim peace to end autocratic aggression and restore justice as the sages warned.
A Mark Twain tale recounts a man who, home drunk, explains to his wife that he mixed his drinks. The wife suggests he should ask for sarsa parilla once he has drunk all the whisky he wants, prompting the husband to admit he cannot say sarsaparilla.
Joe Riau, a longtime Dawsonite at Williams Creek copper mines, located a fox nest within 200 feet of his work. He captured the inmates and secured two fine black fox pups and four cross pups, sent to the Northern fox farm at Dawson.
A martial song urges Allied effort with a unifying chorus about mobilizing half a million workers. The refrain calls to can the Kaiser and sings of American unity from Dixieland to Oregon, celebrating the Yankee spirit.
Eleven people died when a bomb exploded at a Milwaukee police station last Saturday night. Police, detectives, and women were among the victims after the device, found in an Italian church, was taken to the station. The blast aimed at Pastor August Gillant, according to reports.
Former Grand Duchess Tatiana Nicolaevna Romanoff escapes exile in Siberia by a fabricated marriage to the son of a former czar chamberlain and travels toward a Pacific crossing under the escort of an English chaperone.
El Paso reports six hundred Carranzistas guarded by U S soldiers were moved to Juarez today after General Cordova's forces surrendered last week following the fall of Ojinaga to Pancho Villa.
At the Havana presidential palace President Menocal signed a decree transferring to the United States government four Germano steamships Batavia Oli vant Adelheid and Constantia seized as prizes of war. United States minister William E. Gonzales said the government pays nothing and Menocal would not permit sale or lease for commercial profit but to aid the war against Germany.
The grandson of Gen. Franz Sigel volunteers for U S service, urged by his mother who recalls Sigel's Civil War fight for Lincoln and liberty. The piece notes Sigel's immigrant German roots, 1848 revolution, and the family's decision to support duty in the current conflict.
A London Nation essay criticizes twenty years of Americanizing clouding of the press. It laments sensational stories over truth and the erosion of serious leading articles as Fleet Street shifted toward pleasing the public with stories rather than reports.
A Washington conference among Oregon and Washington spruce producers and U S agencies proposes supplying aircraft spruce for next year at 105 pounds per 1000 feet. The price would cut costs by about half for Allied and U S needs, pending government approval. The report also notes local prospecting by Harry Mehan and travel by Tom Hanlon to Ruby for mining work.
Robert Forbes, superintendent of Alaska canneries for the Pacific American Fisheries Company, died here yesterday of apoplexy. He was based in Bellingham, Washington, and his death was reported today.
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