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'TAN AN A, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1010
Vol. II
No, 2:1
STEAMER
LAFRANGE
Went Up Porcupine
to Rampart
House.
From the Dawson News,. Aug. 30.
The steamer Lafrance, which is billed
to sail tonight, will go under charter
with a full cargo of general merchandise
for Cadzow, the Rampart House trader.
The steamer will sail down the Yukon
to Fort Yukon, thence direct up the
Porcupine to Rampart House. She will
have 30 tons of freight, all for the one
point.
Mr. Cadzow established his post at
Rampart House several years ago. In
previous years his shipments from Fort
Yukon to destination were conveyed in
a mammoth bateau, built at Dawson
and floated down the Yukon. From
Fort Yukon the craft was towed by In
dians.
The business has grown to such an
extent that Cadzow finds it necessary
to cut out the slower process and to
make his shipment direct from this
point by steamer. He arrived early in
the season with a large consignment of
raw furs, which he took to Victoria,
whence he forwarded them to London.
This is one of the first times a steamer
has attempted a trip so far up the Por
cupine. The Reliance was up a long
distance this spring, but flood water was
then running.
The water in the Porcupine at this
period is at the medium stage and the
test will be most interesting. Cadzow
is confident the boat will have no diffi
culty in making Rampart House.
The launch Frontiersman, which re
cently took the party up the Porcupine
to meet Hon. Frank Oliver, went to La
Pierre House, 250 miles above Rampart
House, and reached the farthest point
by many miles ever touched by a power
craft of any kind.
A number of prospectors who are on
the head waters of the Porcupine have
their outfits going on the Lafrance in
care of Cadzow. Among the prospectors |
is one party at the head of Old Crow
river, which finds its source on the
Arctic divide, 90 miles north of Rampart;
House. The gold indications are on the !
WIGKERSHAM LEADS
BY 724 VOTES
RETURNS ARE INCOMPLETE, BUT
WICKERSHAM’S LEAD CANNOT
BE OVERCOME
The following message was received at 4:40 this after
noon. We take it that the Iditarod, the Innoko, the Kus
kokwim, the Koyukuk, the Susliitna, and other minor out
lying points are to be heard from—possibly aggregating
nearly two thousand votes:
Fairbanks, Aug. 11.
First division, Juneau—Wickersham 740, On* 335,
O’Connor 5.
Second division, Nome—Wickersham 706, On* 496,
O’Connor 365.
Third division, Valdez—Wickersham 478, Orr 970,
O’Connor, 140.
Fourth division, Fairbanks—Wickersham 1,107, Orr
506, O’Connor 630. TANAKA STAR.
Huskie Cache, a tributary of the Old
Crow, and his men took a boiler and
supplies to the place over the snow last
spring. Cadzow says the indications
are tine.
]The Lafranee returned to the Yukon
last Tuesday morning and reported a
successful trip. She landed the goods
at Rampart House and had no trouble.]
Victoria, B. C., July 18.—That war
between America and Japan is the
theme of a special article in the Osaka
Mainiehi received today by the Empress
of China. The Japanese writer says:
“It is now being anticipated in diplo
matic circles in general that in future
when the relations between Japan and
America become more strained—which
will certainly result from a continued
collision of interests—which minister
will have to accomplish the painful duty
of informing the other country’s govern
ment that the result of such collision
will be outbreak of war ?
“It will be pitiful, iudeed, if even on
that occasion Japanese adhere to diplo
matic compliments and state that no
collision will take place. Why do Japa
nese not boldly and openly say that there
will be a collision ? If they think that
Americans will believe Japanese asser
tions that a collision will necver take
place they will only deceive themselves—
certainly not the Americans.”
The writer contributes a very lengthy
article, in which he credits American
sympathy with Japau during the war
with Russia as a desire to curry favor
with the Jewish element of America,
and after detailing American naval pro
gress he urges rapid development of the
Japanese navy._,
Go to Nussbaum’s Barbershop for first
class work.
OFFICIALS
OF NOTE
Were Here and Went
to a Bigger
Town.
A party of distinguished men left Tan
ana for Fairbanks on the steamer Tana
na at 10 o’clock yesterday morning.
Attorney General Wickersliam and the
Secretary of Commerce and Labor had
arrived from the outside via Dawson on
the Sarah just before 8 o’clock. Major
Richardson, of the Alaska road commis
sion, had got in from the Iditarod the
day before, and governor Clark had come
down from from Fairbanks to meet the
others. Governor Clark and Major
Kichrdson had good opportunity, and
availed themselves of it, to become ac
quainted and talk with the people; but
this is only partially true of the two
members of President Taft’s cabinet.
Major Richardson, of course, was already
largely acquainted.
It is a pity there could not have been
a representative body of citizenr whose
duty it was to meet, welcome, and en
tertain every one of them. There are
things that might have been said to them
of mutual benefit to themselves and to
the people of the territory. Of course,
much conversation was had with them,
but it was between individuals rather
tnan officials seeking to learn of the
country, on the one hand, and authorized
representatives of the people anxious
to fairly reperesent the actual conditions
on the other.
Under the circumstances, the most
that can be done now is to wish them n
pleasant time while they remain in the
interior of Alaka.
The Leader is on sale at the Postoifice
Lobby.
Operated On
At the Hospital
S. G. Cain, the old resident of the
Yukon river in the vicinity of the Rap
ids, has been in the post hospital several
days. He was successfully operated on
this afternoon for hernia. At 4 o’clock
he was doing well and out of all danger.