MINE O WNERS ARE
AGAINST INSPECTING
Washington, April 12.—Representatives of several Alaska
mining companies who are at present in this city are protesting
before the committee on territories against the Wickersham bill
providing for government or territorial mine inspectors, claiming
that they were not needed, and would form a source of graft to
which the mineowners would have to pay tribute.
has Genuine case
OF OLD-TIME SCURVY
Fairbanks, April 12.—James Conners is a patient at St. Jos
eph’s hospital with a well defined and advanced case of scurvy.
Connors has been living in a cabin in town, and has been ill for
some time. This is the only case of scurvy that the present hos
pital force has had to contend with, but it is the genuine article.
OLD YUKON OFFICER
DYING IN ARIZONA
Dawson News, March 14: Word
has been received here slating that
Frank Smith, formerly sergeant in
tire R. N. W. M. P. at Dawson is
dying in Arizona from consump
tion. Smith was irr charge of tilt
town station in Dawson for a long
time, and was one of the most effi
cient men ever in the force. He
and Billy Welch left here about the
same time, and when Welch organ
ized the Canadian Detective Bureau
Smith was giver, one of its impor
tant offices. He is said to have
contracted consumption in Toronto.
He was in fine health when lie left
here, and of most rugged physique.
Book on Northern Birds
All the known birds of Canada, New
foundland, Greenland and Alaska, to
gether with the principal facts in
regard to their distribution, migration
aud breeding habits, are enumerated;
systematically in a catalogue which
has just, been issued by the Canadian1
geological survey. It is the production ,
of Prof. John Macoun, naturalist of the
survey, and J. M. Macoun, assistant,
naturalist, and is a most exhaustive,
work of 701 pages. Facts on the range ;
and nesting habits of all kirds known !
to reside in, migrate to or visit the |
northern part of the continent have ;
been gathered, and the English as well ;
as tho scientific names are given.
A Dutch Joke
This story was cabled across the At
lantic:
At Heidelberg on Ash Wednesday a'
group of 25 students, each equipped
with a rod, was seen all in a row an
gling in the Neckar river. Now to
angle thus without a permit is "streng ■
verboten,” but not one of the 25 paid ‘
the slightest attention when a solitary i
policeman came along and commanded j
them to desist or show their papers.
The guardian of the peace secured re
inforcements in the expectation of hav
ing to arrest all the delinquents. When
the policemen delivered their third and
last summons to desist the 25 gravely j
and simultaneously raised their rods
and from each hook there dangled a
pickled herring, the famous German j
dietetic cure for “that tired feeling” ;
after a carousal.
FRANK STATEMENT
BY A CANDIDATE
The following explanation just before
the late Fairbanks city election must j
have bad the desired effect, for “Big
Dan" landed all right: '
To the Editor of the Times:
Referring to the statement made in j
the News-Miner of yesterday, I desire
to call tiie party a liar who is responsi
ble for making the statement that I
have never paid a cent's taxes to the!
city, and 1 will bet any man on the j
Business Man's ticket a bale of saimon
that in the past I have paid more taxes
in one year to the city of Fairbanks
than any candidate on that ticket.
I will admit that I owe taxes for last
year, and I will not pay them until I
am sure that some one won't put them j
in liis pocket and forget it. and not
make returns to the city.
Dak Callahan.
Up There, Too
Dawson News. March 4: Edward
Daily was found guilty in the police
court this morning of the charge of!
supplying liquor to an Indian, and was*
sentenced to six months in jail at hard
labor.
Lilly, a squaw, was sentenced to'
fourteen days in jail for having liquor!
in her possession.
Isaac, an Indian, was dismissed.
HE WAS ONLY A BOB-TAILED SOLDIER j
He was only a bob-tailed soldier
Who fell by his hand self slain
While in liquor's maudlin frenzy
Which poisoned his soul and brain j
i
His act of self destruction
Was not done with calm intent,
Eut when by desperation and despair i
He was tempted beyond his strength. j
He was only a bob-tailed soldier.
Yet some fond mother had nursed;
His counsel and early training
Were by evil powers reversed.
With Him who knoweth all things
His part I would rather share
Than those that dug the pitfalls
That engulfed him in despair.
There must be retribution
And wrath to the day of wrath
For those who, knowing, sets the lure
Upon the drunkard's path.
John- Kegoe.
Job Printing at The Leader office.
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•Lvhilo excavation in south
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utensils of ashaP®, bly as old as the Cibolas, t ia ht Father
used byaraceprobably^ ^^ ^ ,ure that brojR ^ Culia
•whose “Seven Far icio from the Span's i near
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Tucson, which P wt/ich lie fol
zona> cr\no deeper Erwin came across aiw • to light
After digging deeper investigation blOU£ intact.
lowed for twenty p^well preserved, one skeleton ^ ^ ^ to
hundreds of bon de to take up the . nn which were
■When an attetDP \reasures unearthed wasa a a ds and animals.
Sn curios figures ^ffn^ Tombstone, and will send
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Fresh and Delicious ——
KERR BOUND OVER
IN WHISKY CASE
Last Thursday afternoon, in the
hearing of Charles Kerr, after Justice
Gallaher had read the complaint he
asked the accused man what he had to
say.
“The complaint, there, your honor,
is not the same ene that was read to
me when I was arrested.”
The justice explained the difference
in'the nature of a warrant and a com
plaint, and the defendant continued:
“The complaint there, your honor,
charges me with giving or selling
some intoxicated liquor to Indians, and
says I sold one bottle of whisky to
Alexander. All I can say is, I don’t
remember anything about such trans
actions. I have been drinking a good
deal myself lately.”
“Call your first witness, Van,” said
the court.
Walter Nicolai, sworn, said Big
Luke, Johnny Glass and himself were
in the defendant’s cabin the previous
Thursday afternoon. He said he got
nothing to drink there except coffee.
On further questioning he said the
coffee tasted like whisky.
Johnny Glass was sworn as inter
preter and Little Luke took tlie sland.
He said he saw Johnny Glass. Walter
Nicolai. Big Luke and Alexander there.
He drank out of a cup he saw on the
table; it was whisky. Somebody told
him todrink: could not remember who.
Kerr was there drunk, walking around.
House was dark: couldn't see well.
Only took one drink and had not had
one since.
Big Luke, the next witness, said he
went into Kerr’s cabin alone. Kerr
said, “Hello, do you want a drink of
water?” He did not want any water,
but drank some coffee, and while
making a lire saw a little drop of whis
ky in a flask and drank it. Then Little
Luke came in. Hid not know where
the bottle came from the whisky the
other hoys drank came out of. Was
bringing in wood, making a lire; did 1
not watcli them. Did not see any other
bottle.
Johnny Glass testified that Kerr was!
a kind of a stranger to him. He went I
into Kerr’s cabin with Waiter Nicolai.
Found a cup of whisky on the table;
drank it. Saw no hottie. Staid there
about four hours. Waiter, Little Luke, I
Big Luke and Alexander were there. !
Only had one drink. Didn't see Alex- j
under or anybody else buy any whisky. !
Saw Alexander take two dollars out of:
his pocket, lie said the Indians have I
a custom of looking the other way :
while a friend is taking a drink. He!
went there after a mitten lorgotlen by :
his uncle Elia.
Alexander, sworn, said he was ar
rested Friday, April 1, for being drunk;!
hut he was not so drunk he didn't
linow what he was doing. He raised
no disturbance. Was in N. C. store:
Mr. Munro told him to gel out quiett
and he did so. Was in Kerr’s cabin
with Big Luke. Johnny Glass and Wal
ler Nteelai. Took a drink out of a cup
he saw on the table; nobody gave it to
him. Went in again in the evening
and paid Kerr -$2 tor a bottle of whisky.
Kerr was drunk; didn't see him drink;
never was in the cabin at other limes.
Don’t know who filled the cup. Kerr
was walking around. In answer to a
question from defendant Alexander
said he bought the bottle of whisky
from him sure. Witness said he look
two drinks out of the bottle that eve
ning and drank the balance next
morning.
Moses was called and asked what he
did with his money on returning from
Fairbanks some lime ago. Said he
just bought grub; no whisky. After
paying liis debts he had 314 left, and
spent it all for grub.
Leroy H. Davis, defendant’s witness,
said Kerr was over to the cabin occu.
pied by himself, Geise and Boyd Thurs
day and Friday. Didn’t remember evet
being in Kerr’s cabin. Never heard
any talk between Geise and Boyd re
garding testimony to be given in this
case.
Kerr was held in the sum of 31,000.
Alexander was lined 31 and costs, ag- [
gregating 314.50.
Kerr having retired in the custody of
the guard, Justice Gallaher lectured
the natives, there being several pres
ent as spectators. He told them in
giving testimony it was their duty to
tell the whole truth, and said that out
of all of them Alexander alone had
done so. [ A cynic might observe that
out of all of them Alexander alone
went to jail.] The justice said that
where so many of thorn drank whisky
out of a cup they were just simply
lyirg when they professed not to knew
how the whisky happened to be there,
and intimated that any of them caught
resorting to such tactics again will be
severely dealt with.
At Passaic, N. J., Feb. 26, John
Quigley nearly choked to death while
eating oysters in a restaurant, when
what he thought was a piece of oyster
shell lodged in his throat. The obsta-'
cle proyed to be a pearl and a jeweler
offered him 3150 for it.
Try Williams’ new barber shop for
an easy shave or a stylish haircut.
Louisiana Fur Catch Large j
The Louisiana trapping season which
classed March 1 resulted in a catch esti
L. j-'od at a value of $1,500,000. It is,
said some trappers made as high as ;
five or six thousand dollars.
Muskrat, mink, coon and otter eon-!
tributed to this the largest pro
duction of fur in the state’s history. !
Muskrat and mink led. It is predicted
that these animals will soon be exter
minated, for in three months last season
something like ten million pelts were
marketed. In the alluvial parishes of
Louisiana muskrats and minks have
Men regarded as pests, costing the
state millions of dollars annually by
burrowing as they do in the ground
and building living places in the levees
with tunnels to the rivers, frequently
causing crevices in tlie levees, result
ing in overflows.
Some of the trappers are equipped
with gasolene boats, with which they
cover long distances up and down the
rivers and bayous.
GOGTOR GAN MAKE
"LOYEY LOVE OOYEY”
Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 16.—Dr.
Robert Brasett, who liolds a physi
cian’s diploma from a college in
Rome, Italy, and wh j for years was
very popular as a physician, was
placed under arrest today charged
with a misdemeanor in the shape of
settling‘ love philters” to persons
of both sexes and weil up in Pitts
burg’s social scale.
The police assert that if the
names of Brasett’s patients in their
possession were mule public it
would create the sensation of tie
cades. According to testimony of
fered tod iv by victims of the physi
cian, Dr. Brasett promised that one
of his love potions administered to
man or woman woul ! make that
person love the one who furni-hcd
tjie potion. Among the doctor's
eff-cts were found proofs that wives
and husbands, each unknown to
the other, were patronizing tire
lave philter doctor
Death of a Crossjacket Child
Eliza, the -infant daughter of Luke
and Laura, Crossjacket natives, died
Friday and was buried .Monday. Rev.
Winlhrop Peabody conducted the ser
vices.
The Leader is on sale at the
postotiice lobby.
LATE NEWS BY TELEGRAPH
Lord Kitchener, the hero of Khartoum and the idol of tlie
British army, arrived at San Francisco on April 8 enroute homo
from India. A reception was tendered him by the British resi
dent , assisted by the civic authorities.
The great Trans Andean tunnel, a railway tunnel constructed
through the Andes mountains, was completed April 6 and the first
train run through it to signalize thecompletion of one of the great
est engineering feats ever carried to a successful conclusion.
After a trial at Manila extending over a week, the Japanese
arrested as spies while photographing the fortifications at Cavite
and Corregidor were released last week and ordered deported.
John L. Wilson, owner of the Seattle Post Intelligencer and
former representative from the state of Washington in both houses
of co! g -ess, has announced his candidacy for the United States
senate to succeed Senator Piles.
Philadelphia Jack O'Brien and A1 Kaufman have been matched
for a six-round bout to take place at Pittsburg on April 21. The
men have met before, on which occasion O'Brien had all the best
1 of the encounter.
General Booth, of the Salvation army, is seriously ill in Lou
don, and all his engagements have been canceled.
Colonel Roosevelt and Gifford Pinehot will hold a conference
at Geneva, Switzerland.
George Williams, the ‘‘Grand of Old Man of Oregon,” who
was a member of President Grant’s cabinet, died at Portland on
April 5 of heart failure.
Champion Jack Johnson announces that when he enters the
ring to fight Jim Jeffries ho will weigh l‘.)8 pounds.
Considerable talk has been occasioned at Port Townsend,
Wash., over the fact that Captain Peter Hains. who was convicted
of the killing of Publisher Annis, and who is now serving a term
of imprisonment in New York state, has been assigned to the Coast
artillery at Fort Worden, and is shown on the books there as draw
ing pay. _
JAKES EL! CLARK
Mrs. G. A. Eulderton, of nodding1,
C'al., is anxious to hear from her
brother. James Eli Clark, who is sup
posed lo be somewhere in Alaska. Ftis
sister lias not heard from him in three
| years.
Clark went from Curtis, Oklahoma,
to Alaska. Mrs. Eaiderton wrote a
letter to the postmaster at Fairbanks
Jan. 24. requesting that the same be
forwarded to the Koyukuk in case the
man was not found. From Coldfoot
the letter was sent back to The Leader.
At the time it was written the missing
man had a sister very ill.
A woman never exaggerates
when -peaking of Iter age.
Estate of Charles J. Smith, Deceased.
Nolice is hereby given by the under
signed, Oscar Liundin, administrator oi
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 thst publication of this notice,
at his office and residence on Third
avenue, in the town of Tanana, Fort
Gibbon precinct, territory of Alaska,
tlie same being the place for the trans
action of the business of the said estate,
in tlie said town of Tanana, Alaska.
CSCAR LUND1N, Administrator.
First publication April 11, 1910.
Last publication May lit, 1910.
CAMP GiBBON HO. 25, Arctic Brother
liood, meets every Monday night
in A. B. Hall, corner Second st.
and Campbell ave. at 8:30 o'clock.
Visiting Arctics cordially invited to at
tend tlte meetings of the Camp.
F. L. FCLLTHOKP, Arctic Chief.
Jas. P. Mulligan, Arctic Ree.
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