TANANA LEADER
Published Every Thursday at Tanana, Alaska.
VsI. t SAM J. CALLAHAN. EDITOR No. 6
0*o. M. Arbuckle. Manager
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SOMEBODY’S MEAT SOMEBODY’S POISON
An advertisement recently appearing in the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat is good enough to be printed free here. It
filled a half length of four columns in the Globe-Democral
and reads as follows:
If the Rood people of St. Louis, whether they are investors
or not, have any doubt of the paying possibilities of river trans
portatian, little old Alaska can furnish them the proofs.
Think of it!
Away up yonder in the Far Northwest, on the waters of the
Yukon river, the Alaska Trading and Navigation Company has
actually commenced what we’re getting ready to start to commence
to begin to undertake to get ready to do.
Globe-Democrat readers and all persons in and around the
City of St. Louis are hereby notified that they may obtain at once
a free copy of the “Alaska Book,’’ with maps, illustrations, facts,
figures and a wealth of . information never before published, de
scribing the possibilities of the Alaska country- the wonderful
trade along the Yukon river and the unheard-of dividends and
profits earned up in that section and by investments in clean
handled, clean-cut business up there.
Think of stores and supplies and groceries—hardware, cloth
ing, blankets, everything, and one great company (the one that
is offering you the free book about Alaska), with 300 per cent, and
400 per cent, profits on merchandise alone, besides its chain of
stores and its fine, new boats—the kind St. Louis ought to have
And here is another great and important news item, namely,
that St. Louis has secured representation in allotment of its share
of the waterways opportunity on the Yukon river.
The Alaska Trading and Navigation Company, with offices in
the Wright building, is in charge of Captain Fred O. Barker, for
merly with the United States treasury department in the Klondike
engaged in the making of the official charts and surveys for the
United States government.
Captain Barker gives it for his absolute opinion that his own
company alone, the Alaska Navigation Company, will pay 50 per
cent, dividends on its stock now selling at pat— and this is believed
true for the simple reason that trade conditions there yield the
heaviest profits in the known world and must continue so for many
years because the company will control the trading stations, be
sides operating the finest boat line in America and owned by the
big men of that section.
When you write for the “Alaska Book” ask Captain Barker
for his lists of the banking interests and great newspapers of the
Nuriliwesi, such as ilie TrJOune, Uie News, etc., iliac are behind
the great Yukon enterprise.
Captain Barker is so well known along tlio Yukon
river that it will not do to go any stronger than to liken his
advertisement to a leaf from a text-book on modern piracy.
If his representations are true people in this country stand
to be skinned, their hides tanned, and their bones made
into jumping-jacks for the amusement of Outside operators.
If his representations are false Captain Barker knows what
he is—and his dupes will but figure as the skinned instea'd
of the skinners.
The advertisement is chiefly of interest here as showing
what Outside people will do to us if they can.
Soliloquy of aMalamute: “Another winter like this
and I am likely to be back playing horse on the Tanana
stage line. It’s hard to keep a good dog down.”
Readings of the goosebone denote that the backbone of
■winter has been perceptibly bent, but not actually broken.
WOMEN WINTER CAMPERS ANO THEIR CLOTHES
In the matter of out door winter dress men and women in
Alaska find the parka indispensable. The parka is nothing more
or less than the hunting shirt of their great grandpartents of the
United States, with a fur-trimmed hood added for the protection of
the neck, ears and face. Pioneers like Boone and Crockett wore
the hunting shirt, usually made of dressed buckskin, but the gar
ment for the ordinary xun of humanity of the early days was made
of homespun cotton.
It will be somewhat amusing to Alaska people to read the fol
lowing from the Duluth (Minn.) News Tribune regarding the out
door dress for women in that state. If they would substitute muck
lucks for the high boots and parkas for the greatcoats mentioned
the women of the Minnesota woods would enhance their enjoyment
X>i winter life out of doors. The News-Tribune says:
“Every winter more and more women are going north to camp
in the pine woods and to hunt moose and deer during the snowy
season.
“This is not so much of a hand icap as it sounds. In the first
-place the cold, although in same cases 30 degrees below zero, is a
dry cold and therefore exhilarating and not depressing; secondly,
moose and deer are far easier to track and overtake when the
snow is on the ground, as they cannot move so fast. Then, too,
.camping in a log cabin is a much snugger arrangement than in a.
tent, and there are far worse things than eating hearty camp cook
ing done over a roaring fire when the snow is so cold it sings under
your feet and appetites are of the keenest.
“Women will not mind the cold any more than men if they
dress properly for it, and right here let it be said that skirts are
entirely out of place. They are no protection against cold wind or
dampness. The proper costume is one of blanketing or chamois or
,even waterproof wool tweed, but made with loose knickerbockers,
and knee or hip boots. These should be lined with fur or felt, and
a woolen union suit and stockings should be worn. A great-coat
lined with squirrel or opossum or a muskrat fur coat is also good
for very cold days, but the best thing is to wear a chamois or fur
lining to the half-fitted jacket or the suit, as a long fur coat is a
clumsy thing when hunting.
“The woman camper should take plenty of cold cream, but no
other adjuncts to beauty except a pair of old gloves to wear at
night over her vaseline rubbed hands. She will find a man’s fur
cap with ear flaps the most comfortable fo r w?ar, and she should
rememoer that she is going into the norm woods for health and
solid man’s sport and should dress accordingly and take things as
they come cheerfully and like a good fellow.”
HEALTHFUL EMPLOYMENTS
Breweries and tanneries and printing ink factories confer ex
emption from tuberculosis, and employes in turpentine factories
never have rheumatism, says Harper’s Weekly. Copper mining
excludes the possibility of typhoid among the workers.
Shepherds enjoy remarkable health. The odd odor of sheep
appears to exercise some influence tending to the prevention o!
disease, Sheep are especially good for whooping cough, so that
in a sheep country when a child is taken down with that malady ii
is the custom for the mother to pbt it among the sheep to play.
The next day, it is said, the child will be well.
Men and women working in lavender, whether gathering oi
distilling it, are said never to suffer from neuralgia or nervous
headache. Lavender, moreover, is as good as a sea voyage for
giving tone to the system. Persons suffering from nervous break
down frequently give their services gratis to lavender plants ii
order that they may build up their vitality:
Salt miners may wear summer clothes in blizzard weather
without fear of catching cold, for colds are unknown among the.-e
workers.
THE SOftS OF SOftG
BY JOHN KKIIOIi
Tlie Poet that would round out
liis fame had better £0 away and
die; then towns and states will him
claim and ail to do him honor vie.
They will then weave laurels for
his head a.id repeat what he has
^^lisSiiKwrote or s:im- iwas .so x 11 graeious
Homer’s case, the epic author of the race; and the long line of lesser
lights—the long and s..ort of rhythmic flights—in every clime the
sons of song have suffered cold, neglect and wrong. But though
the world may them abuse, j >y is attendant of the Must; in evolv
ing some melodious strain, the Muse inebriates their brain; forgive,
forbear if they sometime pour forth a flood of rippling rhyme, the
bright effusion of tire soul, that for a moment gains control, from
love to war, from grave to gay, each 'humor mood their souls por
tray. Their giief, their joys are all intense—from intuition and
keener sense—in “Annabel ’ and “The Raven” Poe touched ex
treme depths of love and woe; but to a point my topic turns to that
misguided genius, Burns—he lived at most ’mid scenes absurd; as a
menial vile, despised and poor, but in sympathy with every cause
that had a claim on mercy’s iaws; the tipped flower, the homeless
mouse, his kindly feelings did arouse; he spoke the language of
the soul, by malice oft misunderstood, and thus offense he often
gave the “priggish and the unco good;” hypocrisy lie could not
hear, as expressed in “Holy Willy’s P.ayer;” his searching words
gave deep offense to those that had more pride than sense; the in
jured proud fierce on him sat, but “a man’s a man for a’ that;” an
honest man be him e’er so poor, is king of men for a’ that. He
wrote for millions yet unborn, these truths—“that man was made
to mourn,” “man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands
mourn.” Where are the proud ones of his day? in oblivion they
have passed away; but the one ignored, by them despised, for lion
est worth is highly prized.
UNCLE ALLAN CHISHOLM
AND SAM McDILL'S TOE
Uncle Allan Chisholm, who went to
dig gold in the Gold Mountain district
just at the freezeup last fall, writes
The Leader as follows from Kalland’s
Liinding:
"I neglected to leave you some cab
bages and I also neglected to bring
any with me. They are all in the
garden in sacks. You will find one
full sack, which is mine; also one sack
not so full, which is Sam McDill’s. I
would be very pleased if you would get
the full sack and use it. If there is a
chance to send McDill’s to Grant creek
I believe he would be pleased; it might
help his frozen toe.”
Dear Uncle Allan:—The snow is so
deep in the garden we have been una
ble to locate the paystreak. Will start
another shaft after we get the paper
out. Tell McDill to try slapjacks for
his toe.”
The French war office has re
cently acquired an automobile
which is capable of being in
stantly changed from a land to a
water machine. It has a speed
of 40 kilometers on land and 12
kilometers while in the water. It
will carry four persons, and is
actuated by a 14-horse pow’er
motor. _ I
By the old method of salvage
the rents and breaks in the hull
of the vessel were closed and the
water pumped out. By the lat
est system the ship is rid of
water by pumping air into the
holds, which floats the vessel. !
The fjteater part of Holland i;
eight feet below the level of th
sea.
Stoddard Kay
THE
NORTHERN.
BEST WINES
LIQUORS AND
CIGARS.
Pool Tables In Connection.
Stoddard Kay
H. L. HEDRICK,
GENERAL
AND MACHINE SHOP
Horseshoeing Repairing
Near Cor. Campbell ave. and 2nd St.
Rear of Yukon Saloon.
BILLIARDS
AND POOL
Elegant New Tables
Gibbon Bar
BEST Of WET OOODS
GOLDEN NORTH CAFE
Carrying the Best Supplies on the Market
OYSTERS, FISH AND GAME
IN SEASON
Centrally Located. In Connection with Grand Hotel.
ED Y. LEE, PROP.
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STAGE LINE
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CAMP GIBBON NO. 25, Arctic Brother
hood, meets every Monday night
in A. B. Hall, corner Second st.
and Campbell ave. at 8:30 o’clock.
Visiting Arctics cordially invited to at
tend the meetings of the Camp.
Pun, Gali.aher, Arctic Chief.
J. Russell Walle, Arctic Rec.
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