Vol. II
TAXAXA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 14 15)10
No. 28
ORR CLUB
Fairbainks, July 18.—The campaign
is beginning to warm up. An Orr club
was formed last Saturday, with Louis
Rhodes president.
[The Fairbanks Citizen, an anti
Wickersham paper, says the lirst meet
ing of the Orr committee in that city, at
which an Orr club was formed, was a
distinct frost. With a blare of trumpets
and a beating of drums, the best the com
mittee could do was to secure the enroll
ment of seventy-nine names for dub
membership.
Tanana could form a Witkersham club
with a larger membership than that, and
Tanana ought to do it.
RUNAWAY CAR
CAUSES HAVOC
A flat car this
Fairbanks, July 13.—
afternoon ran off the end of the track
in front of the depot, crashed through
the walls of the Miners’ Home Hotel
and into a saloon, wrecking the orches
trion, pool tables, moving picture ma
chine and other furniture. A broken
link responsible. Nobody hurt.
NEW COURT SESSION
MIDDLE OF AUGUST
Fairbanks, July 13.—District court
adjourned yesterday afternoon. During
the year of court the marshal and clerk
disbursed $265,000 of government funds.
Judge Lyons left yesterday. A new
term of court Inis been called for
August 15.
Go toNussbaum’s Barbershop for first
class work.
In Behalf of Bob Dunn.
Fairbanks, July 13 —Friends of Bob
Dunn, who was convicted here last
summer and is serving a 14-year term
at McNeil’s Island for killing Carl El
bing, are selling, tickets to swell a fund
to carry his case to a higher court.
Wants to Hold Office Himself.
Fairbanks, July 13.—C. E. Taylor,
former city clerk, advocates a commis
sioner on the creeks of the Iditarod. He
wants the job for himself.
JAMES WICKERSHAM
n
From a recent photograph by Harris <6 Ewing, Washington, D. C.
Judge Wickersham arrived from the outside by way of Dawson on the stean er Sar: h
at 9 o’clock this morning and left for Dawson on the Schwutka at noon. Mrs. Wickersham
accompanied him. His principal opponent for deleg .te to congress, Ed S. Orr, came and
went on the same boats with him. There was no public demonstration, but each of the
candidates was warmly greeted by numerous friends and political adherents.
Soldiers Depart
for the Outside
The transports Jacobs and Jeff Davis
left last Monday for St. Michael with
four officers—Captain Kobbe, Captain
Haskell, First Lieutenant Whitfield and
Second Lieutenant McCaminon; 117
infantrymen of Companies C and D,
Twenty-second infantry; 24 signal corps
men; four hospital corps men; Quarter
master Sergeant Cuffe and wife; Master
Signal Electrician Carpenter and wife,
of the wireless station; Sergeant Roddy
and wife, from Chenoa, and Sergeant
Marshall, formerly chief operator at the
local telegsapli office.
Sergeant Warren relieved Master Sig
nal Electrician Carpenter at the wire
less station.
First Lieutenant Tatum of the signal
corps arrived Sunday on the St. Michael
and will relieve Captain Cunningham as
officer in charge of the second and third
sections of the Alarkan military tele
graph lines.
The Sarah today had aboard the de
parting soldiers from Fort Egbert.
Holdup Case
on Eureka Creek
i
i Four Greeks were arrested and held
I in $3,000 bail each to appear before the
grand jury on a charge of engaging in a
holdup on Eureka.
Joe Williams, a layman on Eureka
creek, made a cleanup July 3. The
Greeks, his.employees, cleaned up $104
the next night.
Williams alleges they held him up
and took the money at the point of a
gun. He was in debt to the men in
amounts ranging from $300 to $500 each.
; The foregoing facts were given the
i Leader by Scotty Dickson. The Hot
! Springs Echo of July 9,-with apparent
! good reason, places the blame for the
! affair on Williams. The workmen dis
covered Williams, according to the
| Echo, robbing his own sluiceboxes in
osder to defraud the owner of the
ground. Williams told the men to say
nothing and they could have the next
cleanup. They took the cleanups, but
refused to shield Williams, hence the
complaints.
Alex Nicol, part jut of .Ini; Fitzji.it rick,
who mysteriously disappeared in the
Hosiana country last September, was
on the Sarah today bound for Fairbanks,
lie is just from his old eamji on the
; Mud I'ork of the Ilosiana, to which
■ place he returned this summer in com
pany with Harry Yanert and Hymn
McGuire to institute a further search for
the missing man. The search was un
successful. The mystery of Fitzjiairick’s
dis ippearance may never be solved.
Mr. Nieol said Messrs. Yanert and
McGuire went with him to the Ilosian
na region without recompense, and that
they are entitled to the thanks of the
public for their trouble and disinter
ested labor.
RULING ON
COAL LANDS
< I'iicc
Fairbanks, July 1:5.—The land
here has been advised of a departmental
ruling of March, 100S, providing for
placing on record claims located p:ior
to withdrawal of coal lands from entry,
so that locators can be notified when
land is again opened that the ruling
does not apply to Alaska.
CHARLES KELLISON
IDiTAROD SUICIDE
Fairbanks, July 13.— The United
| States marshal has been advised of the
1 suicide of Charles Kellisen at discovery,
|
j Otter creek, Iditarod, early in June. He
shot himself in the left breast with a
! .30-40 winchester. Sickness and de
| spondeney were the cause.
Juck Cuvanutitrh buys and sells Second
hand Goods of all kinds.
Corpse Found in the River.
Fairbanks, July 13.—The Sehwatka
this morning picked up the body of an
unknown man afloat eight miles below
Chena. The body was left tied to the
bank until the ccroner can arrive.
Fairbanks, July 13.—A contract has
been awarded Bob Englebreclit for bulk
heading 500 feet of the water front be
low Pioneer dock, at $3,247.
Dawson, July 13.—Jacob Sehiff and
party of eastern capitalists turned back
from this place.