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TANANA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1910.
Two Bits Per Copy
MAIL CARRIER’S
- CACHE LOOTED
On.his last trip to Rampart upon
arrival at Schieffelin creek Mail
Carrier Allen Jordan found that his
cabin had been entered and his
stock of provisions and dog feed
looted. The value of the stuff
taken amounts to about $50. There,
was ubt enough provision left for
his supper.
The lock on the cabin had been
broken. So far as Mr. Jordan was
able "to learn there had been no
mushers down from Rampart and
he is inctined to believe the marau
ders went up from the vicinity ol
Tanatia and did the job, but he has
no clue to the identity of the guilty
parties. . ._
COMET WAS SURELY SEEN
LAST THURSDAY NIGHT
This time there is no mistake about
it—the comet was actually and undeni*
ably seen last Thursday night. ' It ap
peared in a southwesterly direction at
nightfall, and was there in plain view
for several hours. Its tail extended
upward and southward, and was ample
length and graceful of curvature.
Mushers on the trail also saw it—so
it was no misleading phenomenon of
merely local scope.
Each night since it has been looked
for in vain—the fog has kept it hidden.
Some of the local astronomers declare
it is in the wrong direction for Halley’s
comet. But it is a comet, just the
same, and if it is not Halley's whose
is it V - -_
LADIES’DANCE
WAS DIG AFFAIR
The dance last Saturday night at
A. B. hall, givenbya committee of
ladies under the leadership of Mrs.
Herbert Simpson, for the benefit of
the public well fund, was a splen
did success socially aiuf financially.
The hall was crowded-with danc
ers, the Peerless orchestra per
formed excellently, and the refresh
ments provided were generously'
served and much enjoyed by the
guests. During the evening, be
tween dances, a number of songs
and recitations were given, Miss
Marquerite Betties, especially, did
remarkably well in several num
bers. ?
ALASKA A CLOSE SECOND
IN PRODUCTION OF GOLD
The gold mines of the United States
produced $94,560,000 worth of the pre
cious thetals during 1908, according to
the geological survey and the bureau
of mines, which co-operate in prepar
ing at) analyses ot the reports from
private' refineries and federal mints
and assay offices.
The’! total product was 4,574,340
ounces,' a net increase' irt value of $4,
124,300,. Colorado leads, with a pro
ductive value .of $22,871,000; Alaska
was second, with $19,858,800, and Cali
fornia was third, with $19,329,700.
Porto Rico was the smallest pro
ducer, with a total of $600.
The Phillippines show an increase of
$219,800 to a total of $284,500.
MANLEY SUES DOONES
FOR $500,000 DAMAGES
San Angelo, Texas, Jan. 1.—Frank
O. Manley,' who was arrested at Hot
Springs, Alaska, on a charge of per
jury alleged to have been committed
over seventeen years ago, was tried in
the district court here yesterday, the
jury returning a verdict of not guilty.
Immediately upon his acquittal Manley
commeuced suit against the Boone
brothers, of Fairbanks, who caused his
arrest, asking damages in the sum of
$500,000 for what he terms persecution.
HTry Williams’ new barber shop for
*n easy shave or a stylish hairout.
GLALDYS IS
UNHAPPY
San Francisco, Jan 9.--That all is not happy in the wedded life of
the daughter of Archdeacon Emery, who was Miss Helen Gladys Emery
until she became Mrs. Gunjiro Aoki by ait alliance,with a Japanese
houseboy, is the story that has come to the ears of her former friends
in this city. It is said no separation has as yet taken place between the
young mother and her Japanese husband, but the life she chose when
she went to live among the Japanese colony, near Seattle, has proved
beyond her powers of endurance. t ~ * '
Some daj s ago Archdeacon Emery received a letter from Seattle
that caused him to leave at once to see his daughter, and it is believed
that steps will shortly be taken to affect a separation, and that Mrs,
Aoki will return to her father's home with her hahy. The stoiy as it
comes from the North is that Aoki has proved faithless to his vows
that he made to love, honor and cherish the giil who became h s wedded
wife. He has become shiftless and lazy, it is charged, and spends
days at a time in the hannts of hi < Japanese associates in the city, leav
ing his wife until he is out of funds, when he returns to demand money
from her. For the protection of herself and her child she has been
compelled to refuse him, anil it is said that her unwillingness to give
him all the monev which has been sent has been the cause of quarrels.
Witnesses Unwilling to Hit Trail
Charles Chanqr.ist,%Mrs . Smith, R. J. Stark, Walter Johnson, Ar
thur D. Field and Bert Johnson are among the witnesses summoned
from Tatiana to testify before the grand jury which meets in Fairbanks
next Monday. Chanquist left with his own dogteam for Fairbanks
last Saturday. Waite* Johnson also left last week. Mrs. Smith will
goon Saturday’s stage, and Mr. Stark when the weather permits.
Considerable complaint is heard from men who are summoned to
Fairbanks because no provision is made for the payment of their trav
eling expenses. Considering the state of weather that has prevailed it
is asking a good deal of a man to require him to hit the trail without
the necessary funds to pay roadhouse hills, and some who have no
money in sight intimate that they will not wander away from the
warm fireside unless the backbone of winter is broken in the mean
time:
All the witnesses are supposed to he wanted in the cases against
Arthur E. Barney and Tom Rockwell, except Mr. Held and Best John
son, who are probably wanted in the case against the natives suspected
ot robbing the mail cache near hort Hamlin
Squirrel Creek Strike Leeks Good
Xater reports of the strike on Squirrel river, mentioned in this
paper last week, indicate that the find is genuine and of considerable
importance.
The location of the new camp is about ioo miles from Candle, in
what is called the Kotzebue Sound region. The best pay found is on
creeks tributary to Squirrel river, a stream that flows into the Kolnik
According to the reports pay has been discovered on 17 contiguous
claims, and much of it is immensely rich. In all cases pay was shuck
on benches, as the channels of the creeks are'“thawed ground’’ and
cannot be prospected without equipment which cannot be had this win
ler. Values in these 17 claims are reported to run from 10 cents to $1
a pan, and all are “shallow diggings.’’
, What the prospectors regard as one of the most encouraging feat
■’res of the new strike is that pay is found not only on Cleary creek, the
scene of the original discovery, but it also has been uncovered on Bald
win, Jack and Bear, thiee others in the same vicinity, running in val
ues almost as high as that of 17 rich Cleary creek properties.
Candle creek miners got first news of the strike and. stampeded the
district. There are now about 100 men in the new camp, building
cabins and preparing to remain and do extensive prospecting.
Montreal, Jan. io.—-Unless a liberal ministry is returned to power I
in England, thus abolishing forever the power of tlie house of lords,'
Canada is ceitain to become an independent republic. In such an
event, Sir Wilfrid Laurier will be the first president of the new nation.
“We are sick and tired of being governed from London,’’ is the
universal cry in Canada, coupled with the exclamation: “We won’t en
dure being longer bossed by these yello.v-legged Englishmen.”
“If we have no voice in making war or peace,” says the Montreal
Herald, “how can we with safely abandon the right to follow what
course we please.”
The conservative Ottawa Citizen, in a ringing editorial, declares:
“Should the day come when the country that was the cradle of liberty
proves recreant to its traditions, then Canada will disown that country
and change its flag instantly.” •
When the imperial council of defense sent out from Loudon recom
mendations that included the construction, manning and operation of a
Canadian war navy protests arose trom all parts of the Dominion. The
actual government measure presented by Sir Wilfrid to the house of
commons caused another outburst, which ..indicate' clearly that many
Canadians look forward to ultimate independence.
The defense council suggested that Canada build one dreadnought,
three cruisers, six destroyers and three submarines, beginning with the I
I dreadnought. The Laurier bill calls for three cruisers and four destroy
'ers, which cos*. $3,c 00,000 to build and $1,500,000 a year to maintain.
Sir Wilfrid .-.tated on the floor ol the house that the Cauadiau fleet
would not be under orders fiom London and would not even participate
in naval warfare as a British ally, unless specifically ordered to do so by
the Canadian parliament.
The frantic efforts of the British aristocracy to placate the dis
gruntled people of Canada have proved futile. They sent over Lord
Northclifle, Beresford and others to rouse the “patriotism” of the Cana
dians and succeeded, with a vengeance, but the patriotism now preva
lent is not the brand desired.
Crowds lis.ened to the orations of these envoys in silence. Their
pleadings evoked grunts of disapproval and sneers that bode ill to Bri
tian's hopes. The Canadian people generally realize they cannot much
longer meet the ine.easing cost of living, due largely to the tariff upon
American products upon which thiee fourths of the people subsist.
Above all, however, Canada cannot tolerate being milked dry as Eng
land intends to support forthcoming wars of defense and conquest.
The people are hearing much now of the famous Monroe doctrine,
| and the assurance is general that if Canada declared its independence
• and secured recognition from the United States’ the Monroe doctrine
! would be a sovereign safeguard from the wrath of the mother country.
“THE COCKNEY ” ENJOYS A LITTLE DIVERSION
Acting on instructions from Marshal H. K. Love at Fairbanks,
A H. Van Horne look charge as chief guard at the Tanana federal jail
last Saturday night, relieving Jimmy Gallaher, who was left in charge
on the recent departure of Deputy Marshal Murphy for the Koyukuk.
Oil that evening Mr. Gallaher was in attendance at a dance, and it
so happened that “Cockney" Wood, a trusty, the only inmate of the
jail at present, went over to the row, and hv drinking and carousing.
deported himself in an unseemly manner for one who has not finished
atonement for past transgressions. Wherefore local gossips concluded
that ”phe Cockney’s” indiscretion had caused the change of administra
tion. As a matter of fact, ‘‘the Cockney’s” hilarity and Marshal Love’s
order were practically simultaneous and at once, and it may be that
only Van Horne’s priority of service prompted Marshal I,ove to put
him back on his old job.
FREDERIC REMINGTON DIES VER Y SUDDENL Y
New York, Dec. 26.—Frederic Remington, the artist, died at
his country home at Ridgefield, Conn., at 9 o’clock this morning.
He had been ill only since Thursday night, when he was seized
with pains which led to an operation for appendicitis Friday morn
ing. Mrs. Remington was with him when he died. They had no
children. The body will be taken to Canton, N. H., for burial.
In his earlier years as an illustrator and painter Remington
used to say that when be died he wanted some one to carve on his
tombstone “He knew the horse.” Probably he long ago formed
other views as to a suitable synopsis of his career, yet it is as a
painter of horses that most people know and first think of him.
Remington was known as an illustrator, a writer, a painter
and a sculptor. He had been a clerk, a cowboy and a football
player- He was born in Canton, N. Y., October 4, 1801. His
father had been a distinguished civil war veteran and editor of the
Ogdensburg (N- Y.) Journal., Young Remington took a lively in
terest in athletics while at Yale, later becoming a cowboy and
ranchman. He was an artist from childhood, and his experiences
in the West awakened to him possibilities in that direction. Leav
ing the ranch, he walked into the office of a New York magazine
and asked to be allowed to make some sketches of Indians. Since
then his time has been given to illustrating subjects connected with
the West—the Indians, the cowooys, the plains, soidiers, the
miners, the hunters, the Mexicans—making them actual characters.
SEND US YOUR JOB PRINTING,
AND HAVE IT PRINTED RIGHT
OH, SHUCKS!
OH, SHUCKS!
Did you think it was cold?
Did you conclude that there was “loo
much snow’’ along about Christinas
and New Year?
Fergit it.
Place yourself, in imagination, along
side of the people of New York city
while you read these headlines which
appeared in the World of Dec. 27:
WORST SNOWSTORM IN
TWENTY YEARS LEVIES
HEAVY TOLL OF DAMAGE
Causes Death of 13 Persons and Injuries
to Many; Cripples Telephone and
Telegraph Lines, Stops Surface Cars
in Brooklyn, Staten Island, Bronx
and Westchester, and Delays Greatly
All Incoming Trains on Pennsylva
nia and New York Central Roads
STEAMER DRIVES ASHORE, CREW
OF TWENTY-SEVEN RESCUED
Gale Blows at Rate of Fifty-eight Miles
an Hour—Ten Inches of Sonw Falls
and, Blown into Drifts, Makes Some
Thoroughfares Impassable—Commis
sioner Edwards Tackles Street Clean
ing Job With 4,700 Men and Hopes
to Complete it Wednesday — More
Snow Expected Tonight or Tomorrow
DEATHS FROM COLD AND FROM
ACCIDENTS CAUSED BY STORM
GOOD PAY REPORTED
ON INDIAN GULCH
A. M. Sprunger has received a note
from Bill C'heeseman, stating that good
pay has been found at the mouth of
Indian gulch, a tributary of Grant
creek.
Indian gulch comes into Grant creek
on the right limit, about two miles
from the Yukon. On the gulch proper,
prospectors, working with .wood tires,
have been unable to reach bedrock.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
ON THE FUEL FUND
The committee having in charge the
dance given last Saturday night for
the benefit of the public-well fuel fund
reports as follows:
Received from tickets $93 00
Paid out for bakery goods. 2 00
Cash on hand. ...$91 00
Frank M. Smith was awarded con
tract to supply four cords of wood at
88.50 a cord. Mrs. H. E. Simpson,
Mrs. Ed. Woods,
_.Committee
Job Printing at The Leader office.
Enjoy the Best
It’s like the good old sum
mertime all the year ’round
within the hospitable doors
Of
Alaska’s Premier Inn
—THE—
MANLEY
HOTEL
Hot Springs
- J- J- PRICE, PROP.
ELECTRIC LIGHTS. STEAM HEAT
Meals,
Baths,
Beds
TIIC TAR] F « sxppi:ej it hi ui
I IlE IADLC ,gg, with Frisk tin
tables from tin Firm lud Hothouses of tin
famous Manley Hot Springs; wo maheficture
oor ova diary products, oud there's always
pleoty of Freak Milk for gouts. .
THE BATHS f'g JftSK
mammoth tanks of ewer-trash hot water.
Warm stables for horses and dogs
—plenty room, no crowding, and
good feed.