“None lor Me,"
Says E. Clyde
E. Clyde Stahl, who left Daw
son last fall and took a look at
Prince Rupert on his way Out
side, is quoted as follows by the
Dawson News regarding the ter
minal city of the Grand Trunk
Pacific road: “If the thousand
miles of coast line between Se
attle and Skagway had been
diligently searched a more un
prepossessing location for a city
could not have been selected.
Rocky bluffs, deep gullies and
granite walls predominate, and
if there is a lot in the entire
townsite that does not stand more
or leas on edge I failed to dis
cover it. A person buying a lot
for a thousand dollars will have
to spend ten thousand getting it
ready for occupancy, to say noth
ing ot the street, sewer and side
walk assessments of the future.
The hills cannot be sluiced down
as was the case at Seattle; being
solid rock, every inch will have
to be blasted. None for me,
thank you.”
In Hospital With Frozen Foot
Alfred Strandberg was brought
to the Fort Gibbon hospital last
Saturday by a party of travelers
from the Iditarod country suffering
from a badly-frozen loot. The ac
ci.lent happened between the In
noko and Yukon rivers on Decem
ber 21 while Strandberg was trav
eling on skees.
. Strandberg left Fairbanks last
August for the new diggings.
Are Prospering at Circle
From a letter received by the
last mail from up the Yukon The
Deader learns that Mr. and Mrs
Fred Urentlinger are now conduct
ing a restaurant at Circle City, and
are enjoying a prosperous business.
The Brentlingers were connected
with the Tanana restaurant in this'
city last summer, having came
from the Kovuknk last spring.
Speaking of Floods
Ad old soldier, whose cherished Dame
was that"of two of our Presidents, died
h»re in Washington recently, and his
tstssing reminds me of a story I once
heard him tell. Veteran of ’61 as he
was, he bad listened patiently to the
very long story a youthful veteran of
the Spanish war told. The account of
hardships left him unmoved.
“Just after the Johnstown flood, my
boy.” said he, “there was a man in the
next world who went about telling
everybody how that Johnstown affair
had sent him where he was.
“His listeners hung on his words—
all of them, that .s, except a quiet
looking little man who seemed so little
impressed that every time the Johns
town man got through he merely
looked bored and said, ‘Oh, shucks!’
“The Johnstown man got tired of it
after awhile. It got on his nerves to
have anybody act as if what happened
at Johnstown was of no importance.
No matter how he told his story, the
quiet-looking little man merely said,
‘Oh, shucks!’
At last the Johnstown man spoke
about it to a fellow who had been there
a long time.
“ ‘Say,’ said he, ‘who is that little
man who keeps sayiug “shucks?’ ”
“ ‘Who?’ said the man who had been
there a long time. ‘Do you mean the
fellow over there? Why, his name’s
Noah.1 ”—Washington Post.
Potency of the Water
Mr. Edison was once asked to send a
’phonographic cylinder to a fair. He
’ .sent this reply:
“You ask me to send you a pbono
' , graphic cylinder and to nay a few words
to the audience. I do not think the
audience would take any interest In
dry scientific subjects, but perhaps
they might be interested in a little
' story that a man sent me on a phono
graphic cylinder the other day from
Han Francisco. In the year 1873 a man
■from Massachusetts came to California
with a chronic liver complaint. He
searched all oyer the coast for a min
1 ’sral spring to cure the disease, and
~i Anally he found, down in the San
Joaquin valley, a spring the waters of
^rhlch almost instantly cured him. He
‘ therefore started a sanitarium, and
^ people all over the world came and
were quickly cured. Last year this
.man died, and as powerful had been
the action of the waters that they had
, po take his liver out and kill it with a
flub.—Woman’s Home Companion.
Special Sunday Dinner at the Ken
tucky restaurant from 3 to 7 p.m.—
ilr». M.-E. Cooper, proprietor.
THE TELEGRAPH LINE
In a few simple verse#
I’ll relate unto you
Concerning my troubles,
Although they are few,
Concerning these trials
And troubles of mine,
Since I had a job mushing
The Telegraph Line.
Away up in Alaska,
The land famed for gold,
Where the summers are short
ADd the winters are cold,
There’s a single wire running
From coast to coast,
And to keep this line working
Is the “wire chief’s” boast.
There’s mushers and squawmen
And soldiers in blue,
“Cheechacos.” prospector#,
And Indian bucks, too,
All coming to the office,
When the weather is fine,
To get a job mushing
The Telegraph Line.
You can get Ft. Gibbon
And St. Michael any hour,
And find the wire chiefs name#
Are Marshall and Bowers;
They are the whole day
And half the night time,
Trying to start you out mushing
The Telegraph Line.
It’s every Monday morning
They call up the whole row,
“Have your outfits ready
And be ready to go,
Harness up your dogteam
In a very short time,
For a wire is broken
On The Telegraph Line.”
Grumbling and growling,
You are ready to go,
The temperature stands
Just sixty below;
With vour blankets and robes
And a chunk of fat swine,
You go looking for trouble
On The Telegraph Line.
When your dogs travel'slow
And the trails are rough,
And darkness o’ertakes you,
You've had quite enough;
They you build a fire
Of birch and spruce pine,
Or freeze to death
On The Telegraph-Line.
You awake next morning
And your fire is black,
Cold chills are chasing
Themselves up your back,
Your coffee pot is frozen
And your bread is like ice,*
Then you think of home—
Which is cozy and nice.
But you get started,
Once more on the trail,
You can get there today
If your dogs do not fail;
Then you haven’t gone far
Until the trouble is found,
And you quickly fix it
And turn your team ’round—
Then you yell at your leader
To quicken his pace,
For the wind is freezing
Your hands and face;
You get back to the station
At night about nine,
And swear you’re done mushing
The Telegraph Line.
I’ve mushed on the line
For a year and a day,
I’m going to Ft. Gibbon
And draw my back pay;
Then back to Ohio,
That dear state of mine,
And spice a few tales
Of The Telegraph Line.
—S. C. H.
Fort Gibbon, Jan. 7, 1910.
ADVERTISED LETTER LIST
Tanana, Aka., Jan. 1, 1910.
Boquist, Chas
Boulton, J
Wall, W D
Bouchard, Fabin
Canney Walter D
Dunn, Harry
Donaldson, Rod'k
Helenius, Knute 3
Jones, Guy L
Johnson, S K
Kern, Geo
McKeon, J
Lord, J Wm
Mason, Minnie
Mayfield, Claude
McMillan, Angus
•O’Brien, J
Peterson, Ed B
Powers. J. W
Power, Edward
Rodgers, Jas
Strautiu, Martin
Warner, T Frank
When calling.for above say “Adver
tised list.”
G. H. Tiffany, Postmaster.
Bert Poe Now a Stage Driver
Bert ‘•Butch” Poe resigned his
position as guard at the local jail
last week and is now handling the
ribbons over the fiery cayuses of
the Tanana Hot Springs mail stage.
He started on his first trip last Sat
urday morning.
Takes Lay on Grant Creek
Ed Holden, who came to Tanana
last fall on bis way to the Iditarod,
has decided to remain in this vicin
ity indefinitely, and has, with
Charles Carr, taken a lay on No. 5
above, Grant creek, and left for the
scene of operations last Friday.
MAIL SUPERINTENDENT
ON INSPECTION TRIP
I
George J. Miller, superintendent
of the mail service, left on Satur
day’s stage on a trip of inspection
which will occupy at least three
weeks’ time. Mr. Miller goes to
Fairbanks, and mav, possibly con
tinue his journey up the Tanana
river as far as Washburn.
The stage leaving last Saturday
canied three passengers: U. S. De
puty Marshal Hanson, Fred Craig
and George J. Miller.
The Leader is delivered by carrier to
all parts of the city—$1 por month.
ST. JAMES’ CHAPEL
First Sunday in each month, Holy
Communion II a. m. Other Sundays,
Evening Prayer. 7:30 p. m.
Winthrop^Peabody,
Priest in Charge.
Stoddard Kay
THE
NORTHERN.
BEST WINES
LIQUORS AND
CIGARS.
Pool Tables In Connection.
Stoddard Kay
CHAS. B. ALLEN,
Attorney at Law
Rampakt, Aka.
Legal Papers Carefully Drawn.
H. L. HEDRICK,
GENERAL
BLACKSMITH
ANDIMACHINE SHOP
Horseshoeing Repairing
Near Cor. Campbell are. and 2nd St.
Rear of Yukon Saloon.
BILLIARDS
AND POOL
Elegant New Tables
Gibbon Bar
BEST or.WET.GOODS
NOTICE OF MARSHAL’S SALE
United States of America, District of
Alaska, Fourth Division.
Public notice is hereby given, that,
by virtue of a writ of fieri .facias (or
special execution), dated December 8th,
A.D. 1909, issued out of the District
Court of the United Slates, for the
Fourth Division, District of Alaska, on
a judgment rendered in said Court, on
the 14th day of October, A.D. 1909, in
favor of Peter Vachon, J. S. Sterling
and Andrew Vachon, and against W.
W. Nelson, I have, on this 13th day of
January, A.D. 1910, levied upon the
following described real estate in the
town of Tanana, and District of Alaska,
to-wit:
One (1) lot, sixty (60) by one hundred
and fifty (150) feet iu size, facing on
Front street.
Also building located thereon twenty
(20) by forty (40) feet in size known as
the “Nelson Restaurant."
Also a building eighteen (18) by
twenty-four (24) feet in size located on
said above lot.
And that I will, accordingly, offer
said real estate for sale, at public ven
due to the highest and best bidder, for
cash, on the 18th day of February, A.
D. 1910, at 2 o’clock p.m., at Tanana
in front of the Marshal's office.
Dated at Tanana, Alaska, January
13th, A.D. 1910.
H. K. LOVE,
U. S. Marshal, Fourth Division, Dis
trict of Alaska.
By JOHN J. DONOVAN,
Deputy.
McGinn & Sullivan, •
Plaintiff’s Attorneys.
Estate of George W. Powell,
DECEASED.
Notice is hereby given by the under
signed, A. B. Culp, administrator of the
estate of George W. Powell, deceased, to
the creditors of and all persons having
claims against said deceased to exhibit
them, with the necessary vouchers,
within six months after the first ]>ubli
cation of this notice, to said administra
tor at his residence in the town of Tan
ana, territory of Alaska, the same being
the place for the transaction of the
business of said estate in Fort Gibbon
precinct, Alaska.
A. B. CULP, Administrator.
Dated this 13th day of December, 1909.
Date of first publication, December
16,1906.
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 small
TH
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.
Send in your order at once for the “business
| promoters” and be prepared to do business when
winter travel starts in
_______________________________________________
THE LEADER
Tanana, Alaska
On One nf the Last Steamers We Received Our Yearly
Supply of Paper for
Commercial Job Printing
*GF MANY KINDS