STAMATES BOUND OVER
TO THE GRAND JURY
In tbe local court last Saturday
afternoon Justice Gallaher lield
James Stamates for appearance be
fore the grand jury on a charge of
furnishing liquor to natives. The
bond required is $2000, an amount
rrnderstood to be fixed, or at least
suggested by the district attorney
for all cases of this character.
Silas Williams, a well known na
tive river pilot who has had much
association with whites, and his
wife Teresa, of whom the same is
true, are alleged recipients of the
liquor. Titus, another native, was
at the Williams cabin, and is also
alleged to have partaken of the
whisky. They testified that Sta
mates visited their residence and
placed a bottle behind hitr near the
wood box, from which they drank '
without invitation, several times, j
and that Stamates also took a drink ■
of the contents of the same bottle, j
The evidence showed at Stamates |
had bought thirteen bottles of I
whisky within a period of about
two days. He claimed that eight
bottles of this had been accidentally
broken along the trail near the Mis
sion, and asked for a guard to be
sent with him so he could show the
wreckage. The justice said k was
immaterial, and a pile of b.oken
bottles would be of no value in the
case.
Stamates is a soldier, and it is
said he has been in the service sev
enteen years. Lieutenant Whit
field, off the witness stand, said t. at
in an active campaign he is a model
soldier, prompt, unafraid, cheerful
and uncomplaining under the se
ve.est hardships. In the dull rou
tine of camp life, however, he be
comes restive and occasionally de
\ velops symptoms of vagabondage.
i For short spurts, the salmon is
I the fastest swimmer of the fish tribe
—
' A sash is the engagement pres
I ent of the Japanese lover.
N'S PARTY
PASSED THROUGH
James Hagan (former chief of
police of Fairbanks), accompa
nied by Ed Herring, two other
men, three sleds and about 20
dogs, arrived in town last Satur
day afternoon, a month from
Fairbanks —having started for
the Iditarod per steamboat and
CHAS. B. ALLEYS,
Attorney at Law
Rampart, Aka.
Lc^al Papers Carefully Drawn.
Stoddard
K:i v
THE
n:o r t h e r n.
BEST WINES
LIQUORS AND
CIGARS.
Pool Tables In Connection.
Stoddard Kay
H. L. HEDRICK,
GENERAL
BLACKSMITH
AND MACHINE-SHOP
Horseshoeing Repairing
Near Cor. Campbell ave. and 2nd St.
Rear of Yukon Saloon.
BILLIARDS
AND POOL
Elegant New Tables
Gibbon Bar
BEST OF WET OOODS
got caught in the ice by the sud
den closing of navigation. The
party spent three weeks of their
enforced vacation at Hot Springs
awaiting the tightening up of the
Yukon, and are loud in their
praise of the hospitality extended
by the people of that little town,
who made their visit a round of
pleasure.
The party remained over Sun
day in this city, and on Monday
morning resumed their trek to
the promising fields afar.
KneS! Goes to New Diggings
Charley Knell, the well-known
Fairbanks miner and hotel man,
who was one of the passengers
on the Martha Clow when she
suddenly went into winter quar
ters a few miles below Chena,
came to town last Saturday en
route to the Iditarod per dog
team. Mr. Knell with several
other passengers stopped aboard
“the ship they loved” until the
ice was sufficiently strong for
travel.
SPEECH THAT CAUSED
CRANE TO TUMBLE
! The recall and final dismissal of
United States Minister to China C’has.
R. Crane has recently created more or
less commotion in United Slates politi
cal circles. When Mr. Crane had ar
rived at San Francisco on the way to
the post where his new duties were to
begin he was intercepted by a telegram
directing him to report at Washington,
and at the latter place he was informed
that his appointment had been recon
sidered and that his services would not
be required.
The news dispatches in Alaska pa
pers in mentioning the circumstance
merely said that Mr. Crane had talked
-too much to suit the administration.
He was an Illinois man, aad the follow
ing telegram which appeared in the
New York World of Sept. 17—which in
some unaccountable way slipped in in
the early-winter mail—may throw ad
ditional light on the subject:
“Chicago, Sept. 15.—‘More progress
has been made in China in the last five
years than 'in any century previous,
and it is this country’s duty to see that
the phenomenal advancement is con
tinued.’
“Chas. R. Crane, United States Min
ister to China, thus summed up the
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views of the country to which he is
accredited in an address to 150 business
men at a luncheon given by the Illinois
Manufacturers’ Association at the Con
gress Hotel.
“Mr. Crane also said: ‘Anything for
the welfare of China is for our welfare.
This is the thought we must keep in
mind in our relations with China. It.
will be my endeavor to keep the trade
door open. We must help her and
keep her from being imposed on and
lend her our assistance in her various
needed reforms.
“ ‘I saw President Taft the other day
and told him of the various luncheons
and receptions my friends were prepar
ing for me and asked him what I would
better do about it. He said “Accept
every one of them and when you get
there insist on speaking, and speak it
out redhot.”
“ ‘It was one of President Taft’s i
speeches at Shanghai that made me j
vote the Republican ticket the first
time. President Taft’s name is more
widely known and more widely respect- j
ed than the name of any foreignet in j
China.”
LADIES’ GUILD TO
AID NEW HOSPITAL
The ladies of the church met at
Mrs. Captain Haskell’s, at the post,
and organized the Ladies’ Guild of
St. James Chapel last Saturday af
ternoon. H. VV. Strongman, mis
sionary in charge at the Mission of
Our Savior, is president of the
guild. Regular meetings will be
held each Saturday afternoon in
future.
It is the intention of the guild to
hold a fair a short time before the '
Christmas holidays for the purpose
of raising funds to purchase neces
saries for the hospital for natives
which is now being constructed,
and is very nearly completed, at
the Mission ot Our Savior. While
the plans for the fair are not yet
fully determined, it is known that
tbete will be a refreshment booth
at which good tilings to eat will be
served, and that numerous speci
mens of the ladies’ handiwork will
be on exhibition.
Mrs. Haskell, Mrs. Burnyeat and
Mrs. Carpenter were appointed a
committee on sewing. The details
of the work will be rapidly system
atized, and i! is expected the ladies
will have a busy season from now
until after the fair is over.
i
Karriman and Other People’s i
Money
Every account of the suicide of John
W. Castles told how he had been ousted
from the Guaranty Trust by Mr. Har
riman. The stock which decided mat
ters against Mr. Castles was not owned
by Mr. Harriman but by the Mutual
Life Insurance Company; that is, by
the several hundred thousand policy
holders who in law own every penny of
the Mutual’s assets.
Mr. Castles had built up the Guar
anty Trust Company, lie increased its
deposits 300 per cent. Through confi
dence in him many depositors put their
tnoney in the trust company of which
he was the president. To control this
money was Mr. Harrimau’s object in
forcing out Mr. Castles, the same ob
ject which he, William Rockefeller
and Henry H. Rogers had when they
succeeded in electing Charles A. Pea
body president of the Mutual Life.
Rich as was Mr. Harriman his total
wealth was trifling in comparison with
the hundreds of millions of dollars of
other people’s money which he con
trolled. Through his influence in the
Mutual Life he had at his disposal of
its policyholders’ money more than
four times the highest estimate of his
individual estate. Through his con
trol of the Union Pacific he had that
much more. Through his relations
with the Standard Oil people of the
National City Bank ho had that much
more. Altogether he had about two
thousand million dollars of other peo
ple’s money to juggle with.
Only by his control of the property
of life insurance policyholders, railroad
stock and bond holders and bank de
positors was Mr. Harriman able to
carry on the evil financial practices
with which his name is linked.-—New
York World.
Colored Race Given Advice
Bishop Turner of the African M. E.
church, in a recent address at Chicago,
said: “You men and women of the
colored race do not realize your nu
merical power and you are too lazy to
figure it out. A popular estimate of
negroes in the United States is 10,
000,000. That is far from correct.
There are not fewer than 18,000,000
today in this country, and there are
4,600 colored babies born every day.
We are here and we should be a great
political factor or nothing. At pres
ent we are nothing, and as long as we
submit we shall have our liberties
gradually limited.”
There’ll Be
Mushers
Galore
On the trails this winter looking for good places to stop—
more than ever before known in the history of Interior
Alaska—and the roadhouse and hotel keepers who introduce
their places of business and their accommodations to the
man along the route is the fellow who’ll get the trade. The
Tanana Leader makes a specialty of printing large and suiftll
CLOTH
SIGNS
On Heavy Muslin, designed especially for out-of-door adver
tising—they will endure for years, and will [withstand the
rigors of the Northland elements,
THE LEADER
Tanana, Alaska
On One of the Last Steamers We Received Our Yearly
Supply of Paper for
Commercial Job Printing
OF MANY KINDS