FORT GIBBON HAPPENINGS
One of the most delightful social
affairs of the season ivas the “at
home’’ given by Capt. and Mrs.
Haskell on New Year’s eve. The
early evening was given np to pro
gressive games, after which each
guest present was requested to fol
low up the end ot a string through
a most intricate maze leading finally
to a Christmas tree where mirth
provoking favors were found. Fol
lowing the serving of refreshments
at which the hostess was assisted
by Mrs. Grissenger and Mrs. Tif
fany, the New Year was ushered in
amid merry greetings and suitable
toasts.
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Instead of receiving the com
manding officer and his staff in a
formal call, as is the usual custom
in army posts on New Year’s day,
Capt. Kobbd himself acted the role
of host this year and issued cards
for an "at home’’ from 4 to 6. Mrs.
Grissenger and Mrs. Haskell as
sisted Capt. Kobbd and the mem
bers of his staff in receiving, and
many guests participated in the
New Year cheer and cordial hos
pitality thus dispensed.
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The popularity of the signal
corps was again attested to by the
successful hop given at their quar
ters on New Year’s eve. Without
question it was one of the most de
lighlful dances ever given in the
post, and the members ot this pop
ular organization were well re
warded for their painstaking effort
in making the occasion one long to
be remembered. The large squad
room was cleared and made a most
attractive little dancing hall, while
the other rooms serued for receiv
ing, refreshment and smoking
rooms. The Peerless orchestra
were never in better form, and
tireless in their tfforts to please.
Sgt. and Mrs. Carpenter assisted
Sgt. and Mrs. Warren in receiving,
and more genial hosts or charming
hostesses could not be desired. The
guests were reluctant to tear them
selves away.
The Social Club’s whist party
New Year's night was pronounced
a decided success. It was a stag
affair arranged for the men of the
post. There were nine tables and
about 50 players. The game was
a strenuous one and progression
rapid. As fast as one player
dropped out another filled in. Not
withstanding the large number of
players there was au entire absence
of confusion. Every move was
made at the blowing of a whistle,
and the play was as methodical as
a military drill Sgt. McMahon
was the winner of the first prize
with a score of 270 points. Several
new members are to be initiated at
the next meeting of the club. Sat
urday night, and moving pictnres
and illustrated songs will be made
a special feature.
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Three big government dogteams
iu charge of Sgt. Waite left yester
day morning with 500 pounds of
meat for the Rapids. In the party
were also Privates Fiser, Curlee
and Williams, of the signal corps,
and Private Irby, of D Co. The
latter will be stationed at the Rad
ids. Tbs signal corps men are to
make repairs on the telegraph span
above the Rapids, a distance of
1700 teet. Private Curlee, of the
signal corps is under orders to pro
ceed to Rampart, where he will be
stationed for a short while.
The Peerless orchestra was pres
ent Sunday evening at the Y.M.C.
A. song service and rendered sev
eral selections which were greatly
appreciated. Following the song
service next Sunday evening there
will be an illustiated lecture on the
“Life of Lincoln” by Secretary
Reid.
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Clark Peck, who has been the
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Reid in the
post for the past few weeks, where
be has made many warm friends,
left yesterday for Rampart to visit
his sister, Mrs. Gasser, and attend
to some matters of business.
Shooting Affray
at Fort Gibbon
Oscar Lind, private in Company
D, was shot last Sunday evening,
between 4 and 5 o’clock, by “Ikey”
Rosebaum. post engineer at Fart
Gibbon. Several shots were fired,
but only one took effect. It made
a glancing wound on the left side
of the bead.
The trouble arose at the civilian
me>s. Lind had been invited to
dinner there. At the conclusion ol
the meal Rosebaum said to Lind,
“Come out; I want to see you.’’
Lind followed Rosebaum outside
and the shooting followed. Lind
grappled with his assailant and
threw him down
Rosebaum went to the guard
house and told what he i ad done,
and was locked up. Lind is in the
hospital, but not dangerously hurt.
It is said that Rosebaum had
previously declared be would “get”
Lind.
A board of inquiry is investigat
ing the affair.
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FOUGHT AGAINST
DEPORTATION
A hand of 40 gypies who landed
in New York a few weeks ago from
Argentina on the steamship Verdi,
and whom the United States immi
gration commissioners ordered de
ported as "undesirables,” fought
like savages with the officers who
herded them into the Verdi to be
returned to Buenos Ayres.
Men and women bit, scratched
and fought the officers, while the
children, numbering a score oj
more, set up a dismal wail. There
were 20 men in the party, and each
of them had a young child in
charge. One man with an infant
in his arm used his free arm so ef
fectively that it took several officers
to beat him into submission, and
all the time the baby was in danger
of being struck and killed.
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Dr: Isadora -
Bourke Dead
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Dawson News. Nov. 26: Word
came in the last mail of the death
of a pioneei Dawson physician, Dr
Isadore McWilliam Bourke, M.A ,
M D.C.M. He died in Vancouver,
at his offices in the Courthouse
building on Robson street. The
deceased was 67 years of age. and
had been suffering from heart
trouble for some time. He was
born in Curriaghley, county Mayo,
Ireland, and came to this country a
number of years ago.
Dr. Bourke came to the Klondike
in the early days and practiced
medicine here for years. He also
conducted the Hotel Metropole,
later converted into what is now the
Occidental hotel. Three yearsago
his family left Dawson and settler
Outside, and he went out a year
later.
In 1896 the doctor engineered
the location of the Golden Sand
placer group on the West Dawsor
side of the Yukon, opposite this
city. He also was interested in
other mining ventures. Dr. and
Mrs. Bourke had with them in
Dawson their two daughters ami
several sous. One of the daughters
was married to Mr. Keith, associ
ated with the Armstrong conces
sion. She died a year or so ago in
Vancouver. Before coming to
Yukon Dr. Bourke was a member
of the British army medical corps
in India. One of his soi.s is a high
adviser of the king of Siam.
Ole Aakre, You’re Inquired For
QUATSXNO, B. C., Not. 14, 1909. ,
To the Postmaster: - ~
Dear Sir:—Would you kindly make
inquiries if there is any one in your
locality who knows of the whereabouts
of one Ole Aakre, who was cutting
wood on Tanana river some three years
ago. He came from North Dakota and
lived in Quatsino until about eight
years ago, when he went to Alaska.
He is being sought by relatives, and
any information will be grately re
ceived. Yours truly,
K J. A. Green.
The Leader is on sale at the Tanana
postoffice lobby.
Napoleon’s Estimate of Men
I know men and the age; I woulc
have hastened the advent of happines
on earth, if those with whom I had to
deal had not been villains. The; ac
cuse me of having despised and en
slaved them; their own groveling spirit
and thirst for gold and distinction
brought them to my feet. Could I take
one step without crushing them? I did
not need to spread snares in their path:
it sufficed to present to them the cup
of worldly riches and honors. Then,
like a swarm of hungry flies, they pre
cipitated themselves fiercely on theit
prey. The slaves needed a master, but
I had no need of slaves.
What shall we think of forty millions
of people who complain bitterly of the
oppression of a single individual!
Cupidity, envy, vanity, false glory
pursue them like furies through thi.*
stormy life; they talk incessantly ol
virtue, generosity and love, while, like
an incurable cancer, envy, interest and
ambition are gnawing the inner folds
of their hearts. They carefully con
ceal their wickedness and feign a vir
tue which they do not possess; they
reciprocally lavish flatteries on one an
other. Though no one of them believes
in the bonot of the rest, nevertheless,
through weakness, they play together,
the parts they have learned, for want
of courage to show themselves such as
they are.
The best among them are those who
are most condemned, because they do
not know how to feign, and the false
virtue of the rest gives more eclat to
their crimes.
Nothing is more revolting to me
than this mania for falsehood, to which
I have sometimes been myself obliged
to make sacrifices, that I might not
expose others.
Their private life is but a constant
series of boasting, a disconnected con
versation, the repetition of a part care
fully studied.
As I saw everywhere that ambition
and interest prevailed (taking from all
and giving to none), that all wished to
command and no one wished to obey, I
resolved to terminate this insensate
dispute, by taking from all what they
desired so eagerly and could not pos
sess; thus, the men who loudly de
manded liberty were compelled to
learn to know it, and appreciate it by
a blind obedience.
It was in this manner that by a vol
untary reciprocity each one recovered
his due.—From a manuscript in Napo
leon’s bandwriting, found in his desk
on the Island of Elba.
WORLD NEWS
In a mock election conducted by
Success magazine, covering every
state in the Union, a big majority
denounced the rule of Cannon and
Aldrich.
The Arctic vJub banqu«.tted Del
egate Wickersham in Seattle Dec
18 He was to leave in a few days
for Washington.
^ The stealings ot high grade ore
•from the mines in Cobalt, Canada,
are estimated at $t ,500,000 up to
he present time. This figure rep
esents the amount believed to
.lave been taken out by the miners
ind appropriated secretly, and also
the amounts retained by receivers
of companies while operating under
•lreir supervision.
Coal shottage compelled the ces
sation of operations in the mines of
the Amalgamated Copper Company
-it Butte. The famine is due to the
strike of the switchmen
Five employes of the American
Sugar Refining Company were
found guilty of conspiracy to de
fraud the governmenNhy cheating
in the weighing of sugar at the
locks in New York. The men
claim that they are the victims of
the higher-ups, of whom prac:ical!y
•ill share the guilt.
The city of Fairbanks is in debt
$36.548 according to the report of
Oily Clerk Charles E. Taylor, sub
mitted to the council at the meeting
held Dec. t7*
The Explorers’ Club of New
York has come to the definite con
clusion that Dr. Cook never reached
the ton of Mt. McKinley as he as
serted be did.
Southeastern Alaska is suffeiing
from a serious shortage of coal. To
make matters worse, the atmos
phere is unseasonably cold, and
he clamor for fuel is increasing.
The trouble is caused by slow de
liveries.
Jean Clemens, the youngest
laughter of Mark Twain, was found
dead in the bath in her apartments
in the family home at Redding,
Conn. Death was caused by an
epileptic attack, The whole family
is prostrated, and the grief of the
father Is pitiful.
King Alfonso of Spain is loth to
submit to an operation, deemed
necessary, for tuberculosis tumor of
the inner ear His condition is
critical _
GIBBON WIRELESS
HEADQUARTERS
Fairbanks News-Miner, Dec. 20:
Fort Gibbon is once more the head
quarters for this division of the
United S:ates government signal
corps and wireless stations Fair
banks, which was made the head
quarters of this division last Au
gust, drops into a subordinate posi
tion. The new arrangement went
into eftect yesterday
As Lteut George C. Lewis could
not be reached this afternoon it has
not been ascertained what reason
prompted the change back to the
old a.rangement. That the gov
ernment found that the signal corps
operations in the upper Yukon and
Tatiana dis rict could be be-t han
dled from Gibbon, is the be!i_f,
however.
Lieut Lewis has been hi charge
of this division of the signal corps
since September.
In the future the snow reports
issued daily by the signal corps
will not lie received here, but will
go to Gibbon instead.
CARD OF THANKS
| The many friends who tendered
their kind and sympathetic atten
tion during my recent severe illness
, following the shooting of Dec 16,
• will please one and ail accept my
sincere that ks.
Chari.es Chanquist.
! Tatiana, Jan 5, iyio
MASONS, ATTENTION
All members of the Masonic fra
ternity residing in the vicinity of
Tanana are urgently requested to
! leave their name and address at the
office of Phil Gallaher, Tanana.
PERFECT RACE BY
AMALGAMATION
Pursuing a theory of amalgama
tion for the production of a perfect
race. Dr. M A Schultz, of Long
Beach, Cal., has assembled orplian
babies of various uaticnalties and
colors to rear, and ultimately
through selection attempt . the
achievement of the ideal race. The
doctor has secured several Ameri
can babies, a few Mexican, Portu
guese, Japan and Indian infants,
and is negotiating with the author
ities in Australia and Fiji islands
for some healthy specimens from
those countries These babies he
will trait: mentally, morally and
physically, and then will try his
theory on itrermnrriage.
Special Sunday Dinner at the Ken
tucky restaurant from 3 to 7 p.ra.—
Mrs. M. E. Cooper, proprietor.
The Leader is on sale at the
postoffice lobby.
NOTICE
All persons knowing themselves to
be indebted to the estate of Charles J.
Smith are earnestly requested to come
forward and make settlement. Persons
who had open accounts with deceased
should come and have the same ad
justed. OSCAR LUNDIN,
Administrator.
Office at the Y ukon saloon building.
Tanana, Alaska. Dec. 29, 1909.
ABOUT THE MAILS
arrivals
From Outside, Valdez, Fairbanks,
and Rampart-Hot Springs, every Tues
day.
From Nome, St. Michael and lower
Yukon, every Friday.
From Dawson and Eagle, every other
week, Saturdays.
From Coldfoot, about the 12th of
each month.
DEPARTURES
To Outside, Valdez, Fairbanks and
Rampart-Hot Springs, every Saturday.
To Nome, St. Michael and lower
Yukon, every Wednesday.
To Coldfoot, the 15th of eacli month.
Registered Mail and Money Or
der BUSINESS will close every Friday
at noon and not open before departure
of Outside mail.
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