APOLOGETIC AND EXPLANATORY
The reason there are no more sensa
tional gold strikes recorded in The
Leader this week is because the office
force has been busy ironing the estab
lishment’s money.
This apologetic admission mukes fur
ther explanation necessary. The case
is this way:
In late papers received from the
Outside is an account of the discovery
by scientists of the agricultural depart
ment that paper money has become a
refuge for the most dangerous disease
germs known to the bacteriologist. On
a single $1 bill no less than 92,000,000
living micro-organisms were counted.
Among them were the bacteria of
small-pox, scarlet fever, typhoid fever,
tuberculosis and diphtheria. The ac
count stated that the dollar bills are
the worst from a sanitary point of
view—the larger the bill the fewer the
bacteria, being the rule. This asser
tion has been verified.
There is probably no place in the
world where i he aggregate capital con
tains 10 large a percentage of $1 bills as
Tanana. Recognizing the danger, an
investigation was at once begun, and
the result was startling and, from a
scientific view, curious.
Numerous $1 bills were taken from a
wallet containing several thousand
bills ranging in denomination up to
$100, and in appearance from the new
crisp notes just sent out by the war
department to the worn and flimsy
relics of the jackpots and associated
evils of the days before the reforma
tion. The $1 bills, in turn spread on
the imposing stone and scrutinized
through a microscope, were each found
to be inhabited by 90,000,000 microbes,
the stale of wear and tear making no
difference in the number of organisms.
As was stated, a scientist of the depart
ment of agriculture claimed to have
found 92,000,000 on a dollar bill: he
may have had a stronger glass. Be
tween the government data and our
own the public can make its own dis
criminations.
Next a number of $5 bills were ex
amined: each one was possessed by
18,000,000 germs. The $10’s had 9,000,
000, the $20’s 4,500,000, the $50’s 180,
000, and the $100’s 79,989. The remark
able fact is here presented that the
number of microbes living on a bill
was in exact adverse ratio to the face
value of the same—with the exception
of the case of the $100 bills, where
in every instance the number fell just
11 short of maintaining the proportion.
This departure from the prevailing
rule caused a large number of $100
bills to be examined, but uniformly the
LI shortage was there to puzzle the in
vestigator. It is much regretted that
there were no hills of greater denomi
nation on hand with which to pursue
the investigations further. The • re
sults arrived at differ so radically from
those announced by the government
scientists that they may be discredited
in some quarters. It is admitted that
the mathematical precision with which
they seemed to run to certain fixed
but remarkable ends is a high tax on
credulity. In their defense it can only
be said that facts are facts. It may
also be pointed out that it is likewise
rather unaccountable how there hap
pened to be. even," ninety-two million
microbes on a dollar bill examined be
fore Representative Wiley, while ar
guing before the house sub-committee
on banking and currency.
By careful calculation it was esti
mated that The Leader’s stock of
money on hand was harboring the
enormous number of 913,3S0.963,000,
000,000,000 and some odd micro-organ
isms. Technical knowledge was lack
ing by which to determine what pro
portion of them was harmful; but it
was easy to detect a wide range of
eruptive disorders, believed to run all
the way from small-pox to eczema.
How to get rid of them and still retain
the money was a vexing problem. In
an exchange had been seen an item
saying that the ordinary process of
ironing is sure death to microbes; so
it was resolved to act on the hint. The
experiment was entirely successful.
The andirons were got going and, al
though on account of the large number
of $1 bills the job was a tedious one, it
was finally finished and the- paper is
new happy in the knowledge that its
treasury is no longer a menace to the
public health. The renovated bills
have all been packed in screw-top po
tato cans, where it is believed they
will be safe from future infection.
THE MUSHING MAID
“Where are you going, my pretty
maid?”
“Iditarod, kind sir,” she said.
“May I go with you, tny pretty maid?"
“You’re only kidding, I fear,” she said.
“I’m on the level, my pretty maid.”
“Catch on to the handlebars, then,”
she said^;_
D.-. and Mrs. Charles D. Carter wrote
to friends from Diskaket, April 8, that
their journey to the Iditarod up to that
time had been ideal.
Did Not Dispense Soft Soap
As a gpest of honor at a University
of Chicago Settlement dinner recently
Joseph Fels, a millionaire soap manu
facturer, after confessing to being a
robber along with Carnegie, Rockefel- j
ler, Morgan and other captains of in- j
dustrv, offered to be one of twenty to
give $1,000,000 a year to educate the
world on the subject of single tax. H','
said: “I confess that I, too, have rol£
bed the public, am doing it still, but I
propose to spend the accursed money
in wiping out the system by which I
made it. I do not believe in charity.
Itis an agent of pauperization. I have
in mind no plan to aid institutions of
mercy. We have accumulated our
wealth under unjust laws, especially
under the tariff’s protection. I am not
responsible for these laws, but intend
te do what I can to change them.”
I
The Dog Came Back
Hootch, a fine dog purchased from
H. E. Simpson by C. I. Jordan, re
turned to his old home last Thursday
night. Mr. Jordan, with Hootch filling
an important position in his dogtearo
had departed for the Iditarod the Sun
day before. The dog came back wear
ing his harness and dragging a chain,
and was effusive in his greetings of old
friends, including the horses at the
barn where he had long dwelt in peace
and happiness.
When you hear a man sneering
at the local paper because it is not
as big, cheap and newsy as the city
papers, you can safely bet be does
not spend any of his wealth in as
sisting to make it better, and that
generally the paper has done more
for him than he has for it. The
man who cannot see the benefits
arising from a local newspaper is
just about as much value to a town
as a delinquent tax list — Kx.
The glazier is not necessarily a
tiresome man because he “gives
you a pane.’’
When they brake up a passenger
train, what becomes of the pieces?
GLEAN AND REFRESHING
BATHS
All Hours Wednesdays and Saturdays
—AT—
Williams' New Barber Shop
Front St., Tanana.
Opportunity is apt to dodge the
man who spends all his time wait*
fng for it.
ST. JAMES’ CHAPEL
First Sunday in each month, IToly
Communion 11 a. m. Other Sundays,
Evening Prayer, 7:30 p. in.
Winthrop Peabody,
Priest in Charge.
CAMP GIBBON NO. 25, Arctic Brother
hood, meets every Monday night
in A. II. Hall, corner Second st.
and Campbell ave. at 8:30 o'clock.
Visiting Arctics cordially invited to at
tend the meetings of the" Camp.
F. L. FULLTHORP, Arctic Chief.
Jas. P. Mulligan, Arctic Rec._
Estaffe of Charles J. Smith, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the under
signed, Oscar Lundin, administrator of
the estate of Charles J. Smith, de
ceased, to the creditors of, and all per
sons having claims against said de
ceased. to exhibit them, with the nec
essary vouchers, within six months
after the fit st publication of this notice,
at his office and residence on Third
avenue, in the town of Tanana, Fort
Gibbon precinct, territory of Alaska,
the same being the place for the trans
action of the business of the said estate,
in the said town of Tanana, Alaska.
OSCAR LUNDIN, Administrator.
First publication April 14, 1!»10.
Last publication May If), 1910.
Additional Entry
Under Section 2306 of the Revised
Statutes of the 'United States.
APPLICATION.
United Stales Land Office,
Fairbanks, Alaska. March 30, 1910.
Northern Commercial Company, a
corporation incorporated under the
laws of the State of New Jersey, as
signee of John R. Allen, William R.
Hess, Zachariah Johnston Jr., Joseph
B. Beaton and Morris P. Jolley, being
entitled to the benefits of Section 2306
of the Revised Statutes of the United
States, granting additional lands to sol
diers and sailors who served in the Re
bellion, does hereby apply to enter U.
S. Survey No. 739, situate on the north
side of the Yukon river, near the town
of Tanana, about one-half mile east of
Weare (Tanana) postoffice, Alaska,
more particularly described as follows,
to-wit:
Beginning at corner No. 1 on the
north bank of the Yukon river, whence
witness corner No. 1 a stone 20x12x7
inches, set Hush with the ground,
marked l,S-739,v bears north 40 links,
from which witness corner United
States location monument No. 739,
bears south 80 deg. 27 min. east 32 18
chains distant: thence north 74 deg. 53
min. west 10.69 chains to corner No. 2,
whence coiner No. 2 of survey No. 250
bears north 79 deg. 19 min. west 20
chains distant, arid witness corner No.
2 bears north 40 links; thence north
3-92 chains to corner No. 3 whence wit
ness corner No. 3 bears east 65 links;
thence east 10.35 chains to corner No. 4;
thence south 6.71 chains to corner No.
1, the place of beginning, containing
5.49 acres. Magnetic variation 28 deg.
30 min. east.—
as additional to their original home
steads, respectively:
John R. Allen, as additional to orig
inal homestead entry No. (5963, at
Booneville, Mo., dated October 21., 1809,
containing 38.19 acres.
Wm. R, Hess, as additional to original
homestead entry on the west one-half
of the southwest quarter of section 1, in
township 20 north, range 5 west, en
tered April 3, 1.872, per homestead No.
4028, and final proof No. 1157, at the j
Ironton. Mo.. United States land office.
Zachariah Johnston, Jr., as additional
to original homestead entry No. 43 at
North Platte. Nebraska, dated July 7,
1873, containing 139.90 acres.
Joseph B. Deaton, as additional to
original homestead entry No. 308, at
Ironton, Mo., dated June 16, 1800, con
taining 135.38 acres.
Morris P. Jolley, as additional to
original homestead No. 5412, at Junc
tion Citv, Kansas, dated February 10,
1870.
Notice is hereby given that any and
all persons claiming any portion of the
above-described land are required to
file a protest during the period of pub
lication or thirty days thereafter, in ac
cordance with law, with the Register
and Receiver of the U. S. land office at
Juneau. Alaska.
NORTHERN COMMERCIAL COM
PANY, by Geo. J. Miller,
Attorney-in-fact.
Notice of the above will he published
in the Tanana Leader, printed at Tan
ana. Alaska, which I hereby designate
as the newspaper published nearest the
land described in said application.
E. H. MACK,
Register U. S. Land Office, Fairbanks.
Dateof first publication, April 7,1910.
Date of last publication, June 2,1910.
Notice of Forfeiture
To T. J. Wilson, Roy It. Henderson,
Alfred Place, J. C. Junkin, Chris 8.
Hillstead, O. A. Laytnon and H.
Hull:
You and each of you are hereby no
tified that I have expended the sum of
one hundred (100) dollars in labor and
improvement, for each year, for the
year 1908 and the year 1909, upon the
following placer mining claim, to wit:
The First Chance Association Placer
claim, situated and being on Golden
creek, a tributary of Illinois creek, in
tho Fort Gibbon Mining and Recording
Precinct, Territory of Alaska.
Raid work and improvement was done
under the provisions of section 2.121 of
the Revised Statutes of the United
States, being tho amount required by
said section 2924 to hold said claim for
the years 1908 and 1909: also that proof
of tho annual assessment work was
tiled under chapter 2559, entitled “An
act to amend the laws governing labor
or improvements upon mining claims
in Alaska.” approved March 2, 1907;
and that if within ninety days after
the last publication of this notice you
fail or refuse to contribute your pro
portion of such expenditure, for said
years, as co-owner in said placer min
ing claim, your interest in said claim
will become the properly of the under
signed under said section 2324.
Dated at Tanana, Fort Gibbon Pre
cinct, Alaska, March 10, 1910.
S. F. Me DILL,.
Date of 1st publication, March 10, 1910.
Date of last publication, Juno 16, 1910.
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To Nome, St. Michael and lower
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The Leader is on sale at the Tatiana
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