FAIRBANKS NEWSPAPERS
OPPOSED TO WICKERSHAM
Fairbanks has four newspapers. Two of them, the Times and the News
Miner, are dailies with modern appliances; the Alaska Citizen is a sheet lately
started and is sparring for an opening, with limited mechanical accessories; and
the other, the Miners’ Union Bulletin, the organ of organized labor, is hiring its
printing done.
The last named has its own particular field to itself and is consistently sup
porting the miners’ union candidate for delegate. While the miners have a can
didate of their own in the field it cannot do otherwise, and it is worthy of remark
that it goes about its work consistently and intelligently. The two dailies, of
course, stand for what is sometimes erroneously called the business interests.
When the matter was made public in Washington some months ago that Delegate
Wicker sham, while out of office, had offered to become attorney for the Guggen
heims, they declared then and there that the Guggenheim taint offended them
beyond reconciliation and they have been the delegate’s avowed enemy ever since,
and, with strange inconsistency, have advocated such measures and men as the
Guggenheims want advocated. Their later utterances leave no question as to the
real interest they have in desiring Wickersham’s defeat.
The Citizen is also anti-Wickersham: God help the man, there is not a jour
nalistic highbinder in the whole district to do him reverence. By digging up the
old-fashioned “parallel” and laying it down plainly, as is done below, the charac
ter of the Citizen’s opposition is shown. The two extracts were taken from
different columns of the same page of the Citizen. The cabal the paper scorches
with its fervent heat is the same old gang it says the delegate discredits himself
by altercating with:
If Janies Wickersliam could but real
ize it, it does not add to his importance,
nor to the esteem in which he is held,
to be always quarreling with or vio
lently denouncing those from whom he
differs.
The discreditable altercations with
Hoggatt, Richardson and others, which
characterized the debate on Alaskan
affairs at Washington, accentuated the
delegate’s difficulties, and made a very
unfavorable impression on all who
heard him.
Not content with this, Wickersliam
conies forward with wholesale charges
against the governor, various attorneys
ot Juneau and Seattle, several syndi
cates, and marshals, deputy marshals,
juries, witnesses and other people too
numerous to mention. He even in
cludes Judge Lyons in his attack, which
will not help him much in this district.
Hoggatt and Shackleford are working
overtime again, and with the aid of the
Taft administration they are raising a
good deal of hell that is likely from ap
pearances to scorch them badly before
it cools off. If it is true that the gods
first make mad those they would de
stroy they certainly have got Hoggatt
and Shackleford going.
More than DO per cent, of the resi
dents of Alaska are opposed to the
Hoggatt cabal. They have no votes in
national affairs but many of them have
friends in congress and they will get
busier than ever with those friends.
Long before Taft and Hoggatt and
Shackleford get through with their
damphool stunt of canning Boyce and
Sutherland without a hearing they will
i wish they had gone sailing in an air
[ ship instead.
The Citizen, in saying Wickersham “even includes Judge Lyons in his at
tack,” tells a half truth calculated to conceal the facts. The words tortured into
an attack on Judge Lyons were: “Carson and Lyons were the attorneys for the
Alaska Syndicate in the defense of Hasey,” and were used by Judge Wickersham
when he laid charges against Faulkner and ltustgard for their conspiracy to oust
Boyce and Sutherland, whose “canning” the Citizen so heartily condems.
Witnesses Absent,
Prisoner Goes Free
Last week a Mrs. Hill, who formerly
resided in the Fairbanks district, ar
rived in Tanana in a small boat and
made complaint against Antone Edle
man, with whom she left Dawson in a
small boat, for assaultfng and beating
her on the trip down. Mrs. Hill exhib
ited marks of rough treatment as evi
dence of her wrongs. Special Deputy
Tom Howell went up to Rampart, where
Edleman had stopped off, and learning
that he had gone over to Hot Springs,
followed and arrested him.
When Edleman’s case came up in the
local court Monday forenoon Mrs. Hill
and her witnesses had proceeded down
river and the man was discharged.
It was also alleged that he had robbed
two companions of $40 in a Skagway
lodging house, and that he had formerly
stabbed a policeman in Pennsylvania.
He admitted he had stabbed the police
man, but said he was tried and ac
quitted for it on the grounds of self de
fense.
The supply of fish in the local market
has been almost nil up to the present
time. This is an unusual condition,- for
in' former seasons there has been no
limit to the number of whitefish that
could be taken from the time the ice
cleared. _
The Leader on sale at Postoffice Lobby.
Natives Gathering
to Summer at Tanana
Tanana’s native population has re
cently been augmented by large delega
tions from the upper portions of each
river.
Sunday people from l)all river, Six
mile, Hamlin, Rampart and intermedi
ate points along the Yukon arrived and
were heralded by a fusilade; and Mon
day residents of Minto, Crossjacket and
other Tanana river points «.ame and
were welcomed in like manner.
The Yukon river below Fort Yukon is
now practically deserted by natives and
the same is in a measure true of the
lower reaches of the Tanana.
The visitors are camping in the vicin
ity of the Mission, and may remain the
greater part of the summer.
The tariff to the Pacific coast is a gold
brick. When the fuss was on last year
coast fruit growers were induced to raise
a big purse to lobby through a duty of a
cent and a half a pound on certain
fruits. As soon as it was done the rail
roads raised the freight rate by just that
figure, and the fruit growers were in the
state of the farmer who drove his hogs
to town and sold them for the same
price he was offered on the ranch. He
said anyway he had the company of the
hogs on the trip in.—Valdez Prospector.
Headquarters for the Traveling Public
Pioneer and Tower Houses
Two First-class Resorts
In a few days a dozen new and elegant Rooms
will be ready for patrons at the Tower House
Joe Anicich, Prop. Tanana, Alaska
THE TANANA RESTADRANT
Best Meals in the Camp
Short Orders at All Hours
Best of everything on the Market. Service unexcelled in the North
Fresh and Delieious Bread, Pies and Pastries Always on Hand
POST DIAMOND
ATTRACTIONS
Last Sunday the first of a series of
five games between Companies C and
D looked like a walkaway for C from
the third inning, when they piled up
seven runs making a total of 9 to 5, to
the eighth, when D pulled themselves
selves together and tied the score with
a run of four. The score by innings
follows:
1 2 3456789 10
Company C. 1 17001003 0—13
Company D.2 0 .3 0 0 1 0 4 3 1—14
Summary—Company C: Runs: McCam
mon in the ninth; Shultz in the first, third
and ninth; Cranford in the third and sixth;
Pemberton in the third; Kain in the third;
Kernodle in second and third; Pohanka in
the third; Yergin in the third and ninth.
Errors: McCammon, Pemberton, Kain, Ker
nodle, Bohanka and Yergin, 1 each; Cran
ford 3. Hits: Cranford 4; McCammon, Pem
berton, Haskell and Pohanka 3 each; Shultz
and Kain 2 each; Kernodle 1. Fans: Yergin
2, and McCammon, Shultz, Cranford, Kain,
Kernodle, Pohanka, 1 each. Company D—
Runs: Hollins in the third; Morkowski, m
first, third and eighth; Lamb in first, ninth
and tenth: Waite in ninth; Grissinger in
eighth and ninth; Whitfield in sixth und
eighth; Worsham in the eighth; Bain in the
third. Errors: Ewans 4; Grissinger and
Whitfield, 1 each; Worsham S. Hits: Mor
kowski and Waite, 3 each; Hollins, Ewans
and Worsham, 2 each; Lamb, Grissinger and
Whitfield, 1 each. Fans: Hollins and Gris
singer, 2 each; Ewans, Whitfield and Wor
sham, 1 each. . . ,
Batteries —Kain and Shultz; Bain and
( Lamb.
The games will continue each Sunday
to the end of the series July 3. The
winning team will receive a $20 cash
prize offered by the canteen.
Mission Kids Beat Town Kids.
The native boys of the Mission de
feated the white* boys of Tanana in a
hot game of baseball on the post dia
mond Tuesday afternoon. Teacher B.B.
Mozie headed half a hundred children
from the Mission, who marched down
and vociferously cheered their aboriginal
colleagues on to victory. The Mission
took the in the second inning and put
the Tananas from bad to worse clear to
the end of the unequal contest. Score:
Missions 26, Tananas 6. Batteries—Mis
sions, James and Charlie Pitka; Tan
anas, Tom and Frank Cuff. Umpire,
Benjamin Green.
The awful drubbing the Tanana boys
got was in a great measure due to the
presence in their opponents’ ranks of
the Rampart contingent, now visiting
here. The Rampart boys took part in
clearing the fine park in the old camp,
and during the summer season** used it
for almost daily practice, so that for
youngsters they got to be verv good
players indeed.
NELLANY WRITES
FROM IDITAROD
G. H. Tiffany received the only letter
for Tanana through the mail arriving on
steamer Tanana last Monday night. It
was from Joseph F. Nellany, who left
Hot Springs and went in on the last of
the snow, arriving at his destination
April 2G. The letter was dated Boulder
and Otter Creek, May 25>. As Mr. Nel
lany’s friends here and at Hot Springs
know, he is desirous of getting the ap
pointment of postmaster in the new
camp. However, he is at present in the
commission business and appears to be
doing well.
The following extracts from the letter
will prove interesting:
There are so many townsites that it
keeps one guessing as to where the per
manent place will be. However, I think
that it will finally dwindle down to one
permanent place on the creek, and one
main supply point on the lower river.
I can say at this time that the camp is
overdone, and, if it is anything like out
siders are led to believe it is, it is yet to
be proven.
There are some rich claims here, but
until there are more paying creeks
found, there are plenty—ves, more than
plenty of people here to look after what
is already in sight.
This spring’s cleanup on Otter creek
and its tributaries will probably reach
$150,000. There will be very little work
done here this summer, and not for one
year at least can one expect to see much
doing.
The Flat creek claim owners, almost
to a man, have let their ground be tied
up on intending sales, and according to
the large prices paid, it would not be at
all surprising if some of them got their
ground back.
According to what the present locators
say and to what a large number of pros
pectors have told me, together with a
few deductions of my own, the camp
looks a winner, but it will take a year
or so to prove it.
At present writing the business is cen
tered on and about discovery Otter
creek, but it is a miserable liole of a
place to build a town, so when the busi
ness men get in from the outside dis
tricts and look the country over, it is my
opinion—and that opinion is shared by
many hundreds of others—that Boulder,
which lies on a high bank and opposite
No. 2 below, Otter creek, will be the
permanent town. The Boulder town
site is an admirable location for a town ;
the place is laid out with many num
bered streets, and bids fair to become
the metropolis.