1'anana Leader
Vol. II TANANA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18. 1910 No. 24
IDITAROD WIGKERSHAM 453 OUT OF 766
The vote in the Iditarod Stood: Wickersham 453,
Orr 115, O’Connor 198.
These returns came out on the steamer Tana and are
reliable. They make Wickersham’s plurality over Orr, so
far as the returns have been received by the Leader, 1,062.
With the Koyukuk and other minor precincts yet to hear
from, it is probable that this will be increased to a lead of
from thirteen to fourteen hundred for Wickersham.
The wires are down between Tanana and Fairbanks,
and a query to the Fairbanks Daily Star for the returns as
far as they have been received in that city could not be
answered. But with the figures at hand we are well satisfied.
WORK TO COMMENCE IN GOLD MTN. DISTRICT
A recent issue of the Fairbanks News-Miner gives as
surance of important development work in Gold Mountain
district.
Dr. Horstmann, the mining engineer who has been
making an expert examination of ground in the district
this summer, has been in Fairbanks for a fortnight, and
from the News-Miner it is learned he has decided to put a
drill on the ground and prospect the coming winter with a
view to the installation of a hydraulic plant next year.
The ground to receive immediate attention lies on Grant
and Mason creeks.
Gold Mountain district has been the scene of consider
able prospecting since 1907. The prospectors were poorly
equipped, the ground in many places is wet, and the
sum of practical work accomplished is small. It has been
demonstrated, however, that there are very extensive .gold
deposits rich enough to be made pay even by crude meth
ods were the ground dry and free from glaciation. The
water supply is ample and never failing, and hydraulics
ought to be successful there.
HOG-IT-ALL
NEWSPAPERS
A few weeks ago when the
Daily Star entered the news
paper field at Fairbanks the
other daily papers of that
city forwarded to the Seattle
agency whose business it is
to furnish Alaska papers
with a telegraphic news re
port a protest against the
agency serving the Star. The
reason for the protest was
that the Star was supporting
Wickersham. The agency
very properly continued to
sell its wares to all papers
willing to pay for them.
Now we have it on good
authority that the Times has
announced the establishment
of a new service that will
supply only administration
papers. This means, in ef
fect, that newspapers obeying
the orders of the administra
tion will have their telegrams
franked to them.
The Fairbanks Times, the
Fairbanks News-Miner, the
Nome Nugget, the Cordova
Alaskan and the Juneau Rec
ord are administration pa
pers. The old agency is still
doing business.
Go to Nussbaum’a Barbershop for first
class work.
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Major Strong in the Iditarod.
People arriving from tire Iditarod on
the steamer Tana at noon today said
Major J. F. A. Strong was prepar
ing to commence the publication of a
paper in Iditarod City at the time the
steamer sailed.
Major Strong^ paper and Arbuckle’s
Iditarod Pioneer will probably be the
only publications in the camp this win
ter. G. S. Garwood, of Fairbanks, had
arrived and attached himself to the
Pioneer.
Jack Cavanaugh buys and sells Second
hand Goods of all kinds.
Jim Lavin is in Tanana en route to
his home at Hot Springs from the Idit
arod. He has been a long time on the
way, having waited a fortnight for a
boat at Holy Cross and then stopped
over here for treatment for lumbago.
The Better Way.
“Malamute Joe” Carroll last Tuesday
night completed a term in jail to which
he had been sentenced for carrying
concealed weapons.
A case w’as pending against him for
threatening to make a widow out of an
old tillicum of his, but the local author
ities agreed not to press this charge on
condition that he would migrate. He
agreed to the terms, embarked in a
small boat and said he will see salt
water before the freezeup.
That was the better way to dispose of
him, and the Leader is glad to testify its
approval of the authorities’ action in
letting him hike for the clainbeds.
New A. B. Hall Probable.
At the meeting of Camp Gibbon No.
25, A. B., last Tuesday night, a proposi
tion from Messrs. Stoddard & Kay for
the donation of a lot and a set of house
logs on Second street was submitted.
It is believed that this generous offer
will be accepted and a new hall will be
built. The proposed site is directly
back of the Northern.
See Jack Cavanaugh for well water and
light express. Scavenger work a specialty.
William Leske has been appointed
guard at the federal jail, to succeed
Tom Howell, recently promoted to the
position of deputy marshal for the
Koyukuk.__
Whosoever the collar fits let him
wear it.
OLE, HE WON’T
MINDIT MUCH
It is the talk around town, but the
Leader cannot vouch for the truth of it,
that Ole Thorsen’s engagement as guard
at the federal jail is at an end. Not
withstanding the gossip, Ole did the
night trick at the federal skookum house
last night.
The funny part of it is the grounds of
complaint against him. It is said he is
objected to solely because he does not
know enough to wear the proper style
of jewelry on state occasions. Thus he
had the poor taste to appear in public
without the regulation button when the
governor and the cabinet officers were
in town.
Ole has a good strong back and need
not be down hearted. He will pull
through the winter all right. Now if
they will just reinstate, the “chip off
the old block” the representatives of
the administration in Tanana may be
properly called “ornamental as well as
useful.” _
Pres Ireland came down on the
Tanana on the way to his home at Ram*
part from a visit to Fairbanks. He ex
pects to prospect on Squaw creek next
winter.