TANANA LEADER
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Thursday, June 2, 1910.
FOR DELEGATE
JAMES WICKERSHAM
KNOCKING, KNOCKING; WHO IS
THERE?
They had a meeting of the Juneau Com
mercial Club a few evenings ago. It was
intended as a close harmony meeting and its
object was to muzzle some of the extempo
raneous backcapping that flows with such
fluent articulation from the scornful lips of
its citizenship. After singing that soothing
hymn entitled “Knocking, Knocking; Who
Is There?” the presiding officer grabbed the
gavel in both hands and called time with a
series of resounding knocks on the mahog
any. His speech went something like this:
“The town is too skookum on anvil chorus
and too cultus on melody. What we want
is a closer lelationship of the .musicians.
Through constant practice and working
overtime, this community has achieved a
reputation for off-hand, two-faced, double
crossed and reinforced backbiting that is
driving all the peace-loving citizens down to
Ketchikan. In this carnival of >liate, jeal
ousy and malice we have been aided and
abetted by the newspapers. O’Brien has
dragged out Russell’s liver and that gentle
man only has his gall left. Russell has
squirted the virus of contumely into
O’Brien’s system until he is undergoing
‘great mental anguish’ and should be grant
ed a divorce from the contest. It is my
opinion, fellow ciawhammers, that we should ■
all hold our breaths for sixty days. Or, if
finding that too irksome, speak of the other !
mallets in terms of endearment. No longer
address them as white-slave owners and in
cestuous fratricides. Let your conversation
be likened unto this: “Violet O’Brien and
Primrose Russell, the Damon and Pythias of
Alaska journalism, continue their unselfish
regard for the public weal.’ Why may we
not all become Violets and Primroses and be
carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease ?
thus making our golden belt a halo to crown
the common brow of peace.”
So it was decided to publish their munici
pal failings in pamphlet form. To confess
their sins. To get converted and invite the
unregenerate world to participate in the
wholesale baptism. But the committee of i
saints gave Primrose two cents’ worth of !
printing more than they did Violet —and
Hoyle broke loose w'orse than ever.
Knocking, Knocking; Who Is There? —
Ketchikan Miner.
At Juneau the Democratic convention ad
journed without making a nomination. Had
that been all the convention’s action might
be set down as strictly in accord with good
politics and good faith to the people of
Alaska, for the party would have nothing
to gain but defeat in putting out a candi
date under the conditions now' confronting
the territory. But when the matter of se
lecting a candidate is left to a committee,
instructed to wait and see what the Repub
licans are going to do, it is to display a bid
for jobbery that is simply pitiful in its
weakness. It was not necessary in the game
of politics to indorse Wickersham, as Dele
gate Cobb tried to have the convention do;
but it would have been both honorable and
diplomatic to adjourn and gracefully leave
the final result to the people, who will de
cide it for themselves anyway.
"Hon. A. Spring,” who said in Washington
that he is ex-mayor of Fairbanks, declared
in Seattle that in his opinion there will be
no laws of any consequence for Alaska i
passed at this session of congress, and that
the fault is to be uscribed to the fact that
the men running Alaska’s business are a lot
of cranks. The men whom Mr. Spring
says are cranks have not said what Mr.
Spring is. __________
Killing of seals on the Pribilof Islands
. will be prohibited after July 31. Tne gov
ernment is to turn loose 500 three-year-old
male seals in the vicinity and the revenue
cutters will take greater precautions than
ever to prevent poaching.
UNITED STATES INDIAN POLICY
The Taeoma (Wash.) Tribune is a large
and influential paper. It has not been
classed among the ultra-radical or “yellow”
journals. The following is quoted from It
with entire approval—except in the manner
of language employed: the Leader does not
believe in calling harsh names because, if
for no other reason, they detract from the
force of a good argument. Under the cap
tion “Last of the Seminoles” the Tribune
says: 5 '
“The sickish Boston high brow, after
being compelled to give up the Pacific
Coast Siwash as a J. Fenimore Cooper
Indian, has come out strong for the
Seminoles of the Everglades of Florida
and in referring to our history of the
noble red man as the ‘century of dis
honor,’ mawkishly pules about ‘leaving
this last of an interesting race to keep
their lands in peace.’
“The ‘dishonor’ in the treatment of the
American Indian by the white man has
been in the persistent attempt to ram
our own ideas, or rather the ideas of a
lot of cranks which we will not ourselves
tolerate, down the necks of the poor red
man, and make him a dependent pauper,
instead of allowing him free rein to de
velop the manhood that is in him, along
with the newcomers.
“The whole ‘Indian policy’ has been
criminally idiotic. The leading idea has
been to make places for a horde of Bos
ton weaklings who must be taken care
of at the public expense, and no other
field offered as fair a chance as to send
them as supervisors of the morals, man
ners and doings of the helpless Indians.
Helpless, because, unlike the most in
competent foreign immigrant, the In
dian had not only no political rights, but
not even the right to manage his own
affairs or even the doings of his own
household—in the end tending to degen
erate them into a race of diseased men
dicants.”
Wherever in the United States Indians
have been given the opportunity they have
become good citizens. Wherever the oppor
tunity was withheld their contact with the
whites resulted in demoralization in the
same way that it is now going on in Alaska.
The whites always were worse for the con
tact and the Indians in many instances all
died : their treatment being more deadly in
the end than the cruelty of the Spaniards in
Mexico and Peru.
It looks now as if the Indians along the !
Yukon may speedily become extinct. Their .
lives are colorless and they have nothing to I
live for and no future to look to but the un- !
certain problems that lie beyond the grave. |
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Immortality and Morality.
The immortality of the soul has be
come more harmful than useful to the
progress of humanity. For, supposing
immortality to be a fact, it seems hardly
worth while to establish equality and
justice in this world—that will be done
in the hereafter. Our object must be to
act as if there were no future life,
whether there is one or not. To tell
people that there is no future life is to
render them a service, foa that means to
inspire them to do something in this
life. To tell them that there is a life
hereafter is to lull them into sleep and
perhaps make them give up everything
to run after a will-o’-the-wisp.
I should like to abolish morals, which
have come to be something entirely neg
ative: “Do not steal,” etc. A man who
would be moral after that fashion would
be the most colorless, the saddest, the
least beautiful of beings. The most
moral man would be cold and lifeless.
The moral man is the noble man, who,
putting aside trifling and vulgar rules,
exhales beautiful thoughts through all
his pores. The most important thing is
that he elevate his thoughts and rise
above the pale horizon which bounds
the vulgar life—that he be noble and
beautiful in mind. The immortal is he
who sees only the end, who, though
faithful perhaps in the performance of
his lesser duties, has neither inspiration
nor love.—Ernest Kenan.
The Leader is on sale at the Postoffice
Lobby.
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BENJ. GREEN and J. A. FREDERICKSON, Props.
Notice of Forfeiture
To T- J. Wilson, Roy R. Henderson,
Alfred Place, J. C. Junkin, Chris S.
Hillstead, O. A. Laymon and C. H.
Hull:
You and each of you are hereby no
tified that I have expended the suin of
one hundred (100) dollars in labor and
improvement, for each year, for the
year 1908 and the year 1909, upon the
following placer mining claim, to wit:
The First Chance Association Placer
claim, situated and being on Golden
creek, a tributary of Illinois creek, in
the Fort Gibbon Mining and Recording
Precinct, Territory of Alaska.
Said work and improvement was done
under the provisions of section 2324 of
the Revised Statutes of the United
States, being the amount required by
said section 2324 to hold said claim for
the years 11)08 and 1909; also that proof
of the annual assessment work was
filed under chapter 2559, entitled “An
act to amend the laws governing labor
or improvements upon mining claims
in Alaska,” approved March 2, 1907;
and that if within ninety days after
the last publication of this notice you
fail or refuse to contribute your pro
portion of such expenditure,' for said
years, as co-owner in said placer min
ing claim, your interest in said claim
will become the property of the under
signed under said section 2324.
Dated at Tanana, Fort Gibbon Pre
cinct, Alaska, March 10,’ 1910.
S. F. McDILL.
Date of 1st publication, March 10, 1910.
Date of last publication, June 16, 1910.
Notice to Creditors.
The estate of MARY E. COOPER,
deceased.
Notice is hereby given by J. C. Dehn
and J. Russell Walle, executors and ad- \
ministrators of the estate of Mary E. I
Cooper, deceased, to the creditors of
and all persons having claims against
said deceased, to exhibit them, wdth the
necessary vouchers, within six months
after the first publication of this notice,
to said executors and administrators at
their office at the Tanana Commercial
Co.’s store, in the town of Tanana, Fort
Gibbon precinct, Territory of Alaska,
the same being the place for the trans
action of the business of said estate.
Dated this 17th dav of May, 1910.
J. RUSSELL WALLE,
J. C. DEHN,
Executors and Administrators.
Date of first publication May 19, 1910.
Date of last publication June 23. 1910.
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Shorty Was Pretty Mad.
Shorty E. B. Power arrived in Tanana last
Friday en route to the Iditarod. On leaving
Rampart he went into the N. G. for three
bottles of beer for use on the way down. In
the vicinity of Russian creek he thought he
would take a little refreshment, when he
discovered that instead of beer Ralf Donald*
son had wrapped him up three bottles of
whisky. Shorty don’t know whether it was
a deliberate affront or an honest mistuke.
Additional Entry
Under Section 2306 of the Revised
Statutes of the United States.
APPLICATION.
United States Land Office,
Fairbanks, Alaska, March 30, 1010.
Northern Commercial Company, a
corporation incorporated under the
laws of the State of New Jersey, as
signee of John li. Allen, William R.
Hess, Zachariah Johnston Jr., Joseph
B. Deaton anti Morris P. Jolley, bfing
entitled to the benefits of Section 2300
of the Revised Statutes of the United
States, granting additional lands to sol
diers and sailors who served in the Re
bellion, does hereby apply to enter U.
S. Survey No. 739, situate on the north
side of tlie Yukon river, near the town
of Tanana, about one-half mile east of
Weare (Tanana) postoffice, Alaska,
more particularly described as follows,
to-wit:
Beginning at corner No. 1 on the
north bank of the Yukon river, whence
witness corner No. 1 a stone 20x12x7
inches, set flush with the ground,
marked “S-739,” bears north 40 links,
from which witness corner United
States location monument No. 739,
beais south 80 deg. 27 min. east 32.18
chains distant; thence north 74 deg. 53
min. west 10.69 chains to corner No. 2,
whence corner No. 2 of Survey No. 250
bears north 79 deg. 19 min. west 20
chains distant, and witness corner No.
2 bears north 40 links; thence north
3.92 chains to corner No. 3 whence wit
ness corner No. 3 bears east 65 links;
thence east 10.35 chains to corner No. 4;
thence south 6.71 chains to corner No.
1, the place of beginning, containing
5.49 acres. Magnetic variation 28 deg.
30 min. east.—
as additional to their original home
steads, respectively:
John K. Allen, as additional to orig
inal homestead entry No. 6963, at
Booneville, Mo., dated October 21, 1869,
containing 38.10 acres.
Win. li. Hess, as additional to original
homestead entry on the west one-half
of the southwest quarter of section 1, in
township 26 north, range 5 west, en
terad April 3, 1872, per homestead No.
4028, and final proof No. 1157, at the
Iron ton, Mo., United States land office.
Zachariah Johnston, Jr., as additional
to original homestead entry No. 43 at
North Platte, Nebraska, dated July 7,
1873, containing 139.90 acres.
Joseph B. Deaton, as additional to
original homestead entry No. 368, at
Ironton, Mo., dated June 16, 1866, con
taining 135.38 acres.
Morris P. Jolley, as additional to
original homestead No. 5412, at Junc
tion City, Kansas, dated February 10,
1870.
Notice is hereby given that any and
all persons claiming any portion of the
above described land are required to
file a protest during the period of pub
lication or thirty days thereafter, in ac
cordance with law, with the Register
and Receiver of the U. S. land office at
Juneau, Alaska.
NORTHERN COMMERCIAL COM
PANY, by Geo. J. Miller,
Attorney-in-fact.
Notice of the above will be published
in the Tanana Leader, printed at Tan
ana, Alaska, which I hereby designate
as the newspaper published nearest the
land described in said application.
E. II. MACK,
Register U.S. Land Office, Fairbanks.
Date of first publication, April 7, 1910.
Date of last publication, June 2, 1910.
St. James Mission
Holy Eucharist each Sunday at 11 a. m.
Each following Sunday, Evening Prayer at
7:30 i>. m. WINTHROP PEABODY,
Priest in Charge.