BUTCHER RAZORED
BY ENRAGED BARBER
Fairbanks, Feb. 4 —The butcher was the fall guy. He befriended
the wife of the barber and took her in out of the cold, because she
feared that her husband would do her bodily harm. Just for that the
barber got angry and proceeded to carve the butcher.
As the result of the foregoing state of facts, Louis List man. of the
Pacific Cold Stoiage Company, is nursing a badly lacerated lwnd and
wrist, while John Simpson, the man who runs the barber shop on the
scow at the Garden island end of the biidge, is under arrest charged
with assault with intent to kill It happened last night, somewhere
about 12 o'clock, at Listmann’s cabin on Fourth avenue, near Noble.
Listmann had just returned from a meeting of the Harmonic society
and was building h s fire when Mrs. ’Simpson blew in from Mr Por
ter’s cabin nearly and begged to be allowed to stop a while, stating
that she feared her husband would kill her if he found her in that sec
tion of the city at that hour of night.
Listmann kindly consented that she should remain there, which
she did. absorbing the warmth of the place for about an hour, when
Louis began to get worried. He told her that he thought she should
go home, and he cautiously' approached the Porter cabin to see if Simp
son had put in an appearance. Evidently Simp bad.
He met Listman out in front and demanded his wife. Listmann
got rattled, and said she wosn’t there. Simpson said she was, and to
piove it he pulled out a razor that Listmann said was bigger than any
cleaver be had in the shop, and made a vicious slash, cutting Louie’s
wrist and hand. The blow was aimed at the facef but was shielded iff
by bis arm Still boiling with the wrath of the wronged husband as
lie thought himself, Simpson then got hold of his wife and administered
a thorough heating, after which be took her home
JIM BLODGETT
HAS HARD TRIP
Jim Blodgett, the Hot Springs
freighter, who has been on the way
from Minto with two heavy sled
Joads of m?ats for some time ar
rived in town last Sunday after
noon but he didn’t fetch any of the
cargo with him. The loads were
left on the road between Fish and
Long lakes—being utterly impossi
ble to haul the big bobsleds any
further through the fearfully drifted
snow.
Mr. Blodgett and his assistant
came to Tanana with one team and
on Monday started back with four
double-enders, to which he will
transfer the freight and make an
.other attempt to bring it here.
They were on the trail last week
during all the very severe weather,
and the faces ot the two men are
certainly sorrowful looking.
Mr. Blodgett finally got through
with his load last night.
RHODESIAN MONSTER
^Several Points Ahead of All
Other African Beasts
In his recent book, “Beasts and
Men,” Herr Carl Hagenbeck mentions
reports made to him of ai immense
and wholly unknown animal said to in
habit the interior of Rhodesia. He
quotes native stories of “a huge mon
ster, half elephant, half dragon,” dwell
ing in the depths of the great swamps,
and suggests that it may be some kind
of dinosaur seemingly akin to the
Brontesaurus.
Scientists in South Africa received
the news coldly. The zoologist of the
Rhodesia Museum treated the reports
with derision, declaring that nothing
of the alleged dinosaur could be gath
ered from natives. This was on Nov.
29 last.
Dec. 14 the dinosaur reasserted him
self in the columns of the Bulawayo
Chronicle. A correspondent of that
paper declares that he has investigated
the matter himself and has met two
natives who affirm in the most positive
manner that they have actually seen
the dinosaur. Neither of these natives
| knew the other and both were shown
separately a number of sketches, some
wholly imaginary and others construct
ed from illustrations of prehistoric
reptiles.
Both natives immediately picked the
same sketch as closely resembling the
monster they had seen. Each, how
ever, called the attention of the
, sketcher to the omission in his picture
, of what from their description would
appear to bo something in the nature
of propulsory flippers.
The creature is supposed to inhabit
a lake between the rivers Liungr and
! Kafoe. Judging from the description
given by the two natives to the Bula
1 wavo Chronicle’s correspondent, it
, would seem to possess the head and
tail of a crocodile, the horns of a
[ rhinoceros, the neck of a python and
! the body of a hippopotamus, with, of
course, the addition of propulsory ilip
| pers. Thus one specimen would in it
; self form a very fair mixed bag of big
game. _
COMETS BECOMING
SOMEWHAT NUNEROUS
From the papers received in last
I night’s mail it is learned that a
second comet has been seen ftom
; various parts of the earth. It ap
peared just south of Venus and is
! believed to be Winnecke’s. Win
j neoke’s comet was visible 12 years
I ago.
It is now up to our star gazers
to decide whether the comet seen
from Tatiana two weeks ago was
Halley’s or Winnecke’s. It is now
claimed that Halley’s is exhibiting
two tails. If that is true the one
I we saw is perhaps Winnecke’s.
! DANCING LESSONS
: BY MISS SETTLES
j Miss Marguerite Betties has organ
; ized a class which is given dancing
j lessons twice a week under her tutor
ship. The exercises take place Tue. -
: days and Fridays at A. B. hall, begin
ning at 7:30 p. m.
Tanana Restaurant
Under New Management
BEST MEALS IN THE CAMP
SHORT ORDERS AT ALL HOURS
Best of Everything on the Market Service Unexcelled in the North
Fresh and Deiicious Bread, Pies and Pastries Always on Hand
HEADQUARTERS FOR TRAVELING PUBLIC !
Pioneer >4ower Houses
Two First* Class Resorts
Stables for Horses and Dogs. Warm Bunkhouse where
you can dry your clothing and sox.
Joe Anlclch, Prop. Tanana, Alaska
DRAW POKER A
GAME OF SKILL
Utica, N. Y., Jan. 29.—As the
result of a ruling by City Magis
trate O’Connor that poker is a
game of skill and not a game of
chance, the police have been sud
denly checked in an effort to
close up so called gambling
houses in this city, and for an
other period at least the reform
wave will subside. Half a dozen
persons, proprietors and cap
persof alleged gambling resorts,
have been arrested in Utica dur
ing the past few days charged
with maintaining establishments
where faro, roulette, klondike
and similar games might be
played by the unwary. In their
raids the police gathered in a
truckload of paraphernalia, and
all this was displayed in court as
evidence.
When placed on trial the pris
oners insisted that the gambling
paraphernalia had not been used
in several years and that poker
was the only game played in
their houses. The witnesses on
whom the police relied to make
their cases failed at the psycho
logical moment and finally only
the charge of conducting poker
playing resorts remained against
the prisoners. On the ground
that the courts of California,
Montana and Texas have held
that poker is a game of skill and
not a game of chance, Judge
O’Connor discharged the defend
ants. _
BUTCHERS’ PROFITS
BIG, TEST SHOWS
Chicago. Feb. 2.—When the
venerable .Tamos Wilson, secre
tary of agriculture, in his recent
annual report, made the state
ment that the meat dealers of
Chicago — the retailers — were
making a gross profit of 42 per
cent on every carcass of beef
that they sold, laymen opened
their eyes in amazement. Prac
tical tests made by master butch
ers at St. Louis show that the de
partment of agriculture slightly
underestimated the gross profit,
according to John H. Schofield,
secretary of the Master Butchers
of America.
In St. Louis recently a number
of 500 pound beeves were cut by
a master butcher, one of the ex
perts in his line. Every cut was
carefully weighed; the percent
age of the different cuts was
closely figured. Then the prices
at which the different cuts were
sold in Chicago were furnished
by former Alderman Duddleston,
himself a master butcher. The
computations show that there
was a gross profit of exactly 47 >4
per cent to the retailer. Of
course, profits are materially cut
down when expenses are figured
in, but the most liberal figures
show, says Mr. Schofield, that
there is still a profit of 15 to 20
per cent net left for the x-etailer
The Germans are laying the
foundations for increased foreign
trade by more attention to the
teaching of languages in the pub
lic schools.
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day.
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Yukon, every Friday.
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each month.
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Rampart-Hot Springs, every Saturday.
To Nome, St. Michael and lower
Yukon, every Wednesday.
To Coldfoot, the 15th of each month.
Registered Mail and Money Or
der Business will close every Friday
at noon and not open 'before departure
of Outside mail.
The Leader is delivered by carrier to
all parts of the city $1 per month.
COWBOY TO ROPE
BIG GAME ALIVE
New York, Jan. 25.—“Buffalo”
Jones, whose other name is at
present unknown, is to go Col.
Roosevelt one better. “Buffalo”
Jones expects to invade British
East Africa and he announces
that he will “bring ’em alive.”
“Buffalo” Jones is to meet the
bongo and the sitatunga and the
whiffletit and the digdig; the sor
rowful gnu and the zebu, and he
says that barring a slight chok
ing he will do them no harm.
The Hon. B. Jones, of Okla
homa, Arizona, New Mexico, and
other large tracts of land lying
outdoors beyond the Missouri
does his hunting with a lariat
and says that any man who can
slip the noose over the head ot
the mountain lion will have no
trouble with anything which
wears hair and goes upon four
feet. “Buffalo’s” friends have
but one fear. It is in the excess
of'his zeal he may hook up to a
bull rhinoceros and spoil the
scenery.
The idea of roping a wild beast
is not new, but it will be new to
Aritish East Africa.
“Buffalo” Jones, who was once
the superintendent of Yellow
stone park, practiced on bears
and found them slow and lumber
ing and easy victims. He next
extended himself a bit and roped
a few elk. This was too easy.
His last and prize feat was the
lassoing of miu itain lions.
Buffalo Jones s 05 years of age,
looks 70, feels 40, and has the
courage of a 2 year old.
It was while he was chaperon
ing some New York hunters
through Arizona last summer,
showing them a few things which
could be done with a rope, that
the trip to Africa was suggested,
and Jo les, who had exhausted
this country so far as wild game
goes, fell in with the idea at once.
It is said that the men behind
Buffalo Jones in the novel enter
prise are Francis W. Bird, a
young attorney, the law partner
of Elihu Root, jr., and Arthur
Fowler, a wealthy young New I
Yorker, who has already made
one big game trip into Africa.
MINOR ITEMS
William O'Connor, a Fairbanks law
yer has been nominated by a meeting
at Chatanika as a labor candidate for
delegate from Alaska.
Upon arrival at Fairbanks Tom
Rockwell was released on $5,000 bail,
with B. A. Johnson, Charles L. Thomp
son, Charles II. Hill, J. H. Russell and
Robert Warren as sureties.
Attorney General Wickershatn has
directed Judge Lyons, of the district
court, to remain at Fairbanks till
June 30.
It cost the United States govern
ment about $759 to overhaul and take
back to Fairbanks Fred Craig, a wit
ness who some weeks ago hiked for
the Idilarod. What it cost Craig is
another story. William Rooney, the
defendant in the case in which the
witness was to testify, was fined $75.
United States Marshal Love has
gone to Washington City from Fair
banks in connection with the Alaska
coal-lands investigation.
HOTEL ARRIVALS
Xanana Hotel — Fred Shari. Fair
banks; Dave Moriarity, James Cona
chen, Iditarod; Michael Diggins, R. E.
Strong, Diskaket: ('has. Lovett. Yetna
Gentnu; George Miller, G. Norris,
Morelock; E. Batxar. Iditarod: Geo. F.
Hooper. Grant Creek; J. C. Shaffer,
Nulato; Jack Crowley, city.
Kentucky Restaurant—J. J. Brown,
Fairbanks; Thus. Kawan. F. Finn, .T. D.
Meenach, James McSweenev, Robert
Benson, E. F. Christie, E. M. McDon
ald, Iditarod; W. J. Bales, M. K. Stru
ble, M. J. Vibe, Seattle: J. II. Smith,
J. H. Blodgett, Hot Springs: Dr. Graf
ton Burke, Lot (native), Fort Yukon.
The Grand-Dan J. Martin, Yetna
Gentna: W. R. Sherwirn Win. Gardner,
John Schafer, Ernest Albreocht, Ed
McAdam, George Finn, Henry Robin
son, J. McAuley.
Ash Wednesday
Special Ash Wednesday services were
conducted yesterday evening at St.
James' chapel by Rev. Mr. Peabody.
Baths — luxurious —Wednesdays and
Saturdays—Williams' new barber shop
QUALITY OF GOAL
GETTING BETTER
Sufficient prospecting lias now been
accomplished on the coal deposit ten
miles east of Tanana to demonstrate
both its wide extent and excellent
quality. No analysis of the coal has
yet been made, but it is believed it
will be classified as semi-anthracite.
At a depth of 40 feet the coal is still
frozen, but contains a remarkably low
per cent, of moisture and exhibits no
tendency to disintegrate on being
thawed, dried or immersed in water.
Reing only a mile from the Yukon
river (on the north side), it is hard to
estimate the importance of this coal
deposit to the town of Tanana and in
terior Alaska in general.
A good grade of coal is being mined
on the Yukon a short way east of the
international boundary line, but such
workings us were heretofore under
taken along the liver in American
territory have been abandoned. The
most notanle of the abandoned mines
are above Rampart and below Kaltag.
At Fossil Bluff, forty miles below
Tanana, a number of years ago a coal
deposit caught fire and burnt for sev
eral months, but it has not been in
vestigated. With the coal-lands dis
pute once properly settled, with deposit
near Tanana as important as now seems
assured, prospecting for coal along the
Yukon will attract a good deal of
attention.
On Monday morning Mail Supt.
Miller received a telegram from
Tolov.itta stating that the mail from
Fairbanks had been unable to get
further than that station on Sunday
night, but expected to reach Hot
Springs by Monday evening.
To Whom It May Concern:
All persons are warned not to ties
pass upon the placer mining claim
known as the Monday Creek Associa
tion claim, situate on Monday creek, a
tributary of Grant creek, in the Gold
Mountain mining district, Alaska; or
upon t-he Yukon Valley Association
.claim, situate on Grant creek in said
i district. Persons disregarding this
: warning will he prosecuted.
SAM J. CALLAHAN.
| Agent for Co-owners.
CE3AS. B. ALLEN,
! Attorney at Law
Rampart, Aka.
Legal Papers Carefully Drawn.
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