FRONTIERSMAN HAS
HARD EXPERIENCE
The case of Michael McMurray,
at present a patient in the general
hospital at Whitehorse, YT., where
he is being treated for decaying fin
gers, the result of freezing, is al
most without parallel in the annals
of Canadian frontier history, says
the Victoria Colonist. Up to four
weeks ago McMurray was located
in the heart of a vast and, but by
himself, unexplored territory, 150
miles northeast of Teslin post and
near the headwaters of the Dease
river. He had been there five years,
making an occasional trip to the
post of Taylor & Drury at Teslin
for supplies, it being his habit to
carry out on his back enough grub
to last him two years as he de
pended principally upon his rifle
for food. His last trip to the post
was early last spring when he again
betook himself to the wilds for an
exile of two years. But on the way
out last spring he had the misfor
tune to badly freeze the two big
fingers on his right hand, which
misfortune accounts lor his pres
once in the hospital. As a result
of the treezing the two injured fin
fiers began to decay, sometime dur
ing the summer and in order to re
move the dead bone McMurray tied
a strong string around the bone,
fastening the other end to a tree,
and with a determined jerk piilled
the bones of both fingers off at the
first joint. While the injured digits
did not heal, McMurray went ahead
with his work of prospecting and
mining, and when winter set in to
hunting and trapping.
Three weeks ago he was one day
several miles from his cabin skin
ning a number of wolves lie had
shot, and when he returned in the
evening it was to find his cabin in
a heap of ashes, it having been en
tirely consumed by fire during his
absence. Everything he possessed
on earth except the few clothes lit
wore at the time were gone. All
the grub he had left was a piece of
frozen moose meat hanging in a
tree nearby, but he had not even a
match with which to light a fire to
cook it. With a chunk of the fro
zen meat be started for Taylor &
Drury’s post 150 miles away. As
his moccasins soon wore out he was
forced to use his drawers to tie op
his feet and that left nothing to
cover his legs save a pair of over
alls. However, he pushed bravely
on, traveling day and night, with
out sleep, and with nothing to eai
save the frozen moose meat. At
the end of six days he reached the
trading post more dead than alive
—only his indomitable grit and
Irish pluck having enabled him to
withstand the rigors of the trip. At
the post he was cared for a few
days and then sent on to White
horse via. Atlin. He at once en
tered the hospital where Dr. Cade
found it necessary to remove more
bones from each of the injured fin
gers before there could be any pro
cess of healing. Asked if he had
no neighbors in the country where
he was loeated, McMurray replied
that he had. but that they were lo
cated 200 miles south of where he
was. McMurray will return to his
isolated retreat as soon as he gets
out of the hospital, he having lo
cated no fewer than six promising
quartz ledges, five of which carry
free gold, and ahe sixth copper and
other materials. He has also lo
cated placer gold, and from a shaft
took $4 after one fire only a few
days before losing’his cabin. He
had the gold in a bottle in the
cabin, and it, of course, was lost in
the fire.
McMurray has been in the Yukon
since 1889 and during that time
has p.ospected nearly the entire
length of the great waterway, hav
ing spent several years around Cir
cle City and a long time in the
Stewart country. For the past five
years he has been northwest of Tes
lin and about 40 miles from the
British Columbia line.
Alaska deserves more attention
from congress than it has yet re
ceived. A territory that could
give every American four acres is
a likely piece of real estate.—Globe
Democrat.
KICKING AGAIN
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San Juan, Porto Rico, Feb. i —
Native Porto Ricans are awakening
to the fact that since the resent
transfer of its affairs to the war de
partment the island is again largely
under military control. While di
verting the attention of Porto Ri
cans by means of dinners, recep
tions, musicales and other fttnc
tions, Gov. Colton (as he did in
Santo Domingo) is quittly and
swiftly gathering into a grasp of
steel the reins of government.
A strict press censorship has
been established by Gov. Colton.
He has ordered that departments
■of the insular government shall
give no information to the papers.
News is sent to him by department
chiefs, and he gives out only such
uews as he sees fit.
Another of the new governor’s
orders is that no government em
ploye shall communicate with any
■official or firm in the United States
except through him. Cablegrams,
otders for supplies, checks for pur
chases and correspondence of any
sort must be scrutinized personally
iby the governor before sent out.
The visit of Secretary of War
Dickinson and Gen. Edwards,
chief of the insular bureau, will, it
is prophesied, still further strength
en Colton’s position.
Leading Unionist politicians do
not deny that the visits of ex-Gov.
Post mean that is seekiug the
■Unionist nomination next summer
for resident commissioner from
Porto Rico to Washington. The
place is now held by Julio Larii
naga of San Juan, who is serving
his second term. A majority of the
Unionists are said to favor the elec
tion of Mr. Post as being a highly
politic move, and also as a reward
for many favors shown by him to
the Unionist party. Others feel
that a Porto Rican should always
hold the office.
The Army Canteen
The army canteen should be re
stored, according to Major J. G. Kelley,
of New York. “It is a strange thing
that congress should abolish the can
. teen on the advice and clamor of a lot
of well-intentioned but misguided wo
men, and should absolutely disregard
the wishes and opinions of practical
army men, who have had years of ex
perience in handling men. The prohi
bition movement, no doubt, has pro
duced some good results, but it has
also made things worse in many ways.
I “So much has been said about the
I soldier boys now visiting vile drinking
; places away from their posts, the many
desertions as a direct result thereof,
and the difficulty of the army authori
ties to secure recruits, that it seems
like reiterating facts which are well
| known. Army officers are greatly cha
grined over the course the national
' lawmakers are taking in the matter
■ and feel their views should receive
first if not exclusive consideration.
“Another bad feature of the prohibi
tion movement is the way and manner
[ in which all kinds of intoxicating
; drinks are now sold in the Southern
| prohibition states. Where theer were
| well-regulated drinking places, paying
' government and local licenses, there
are now speak easies and blind tigers
j which propagate secrecy in the drink
ing habit and espionage, two of the
worst habits any person could acquire.”
! —Washington press dispatch.
1 Miss Marguerite Betties has organ
ized a class which is given dancing
lessons twice a week under her tutor
ship. The exercises take place Tues
days and Fridays at A. B. hall, begin
I ning at 7:30 p. m.
GLEAN AND REFRESHING
BATHS
All Hours Wednesdays and Saturdays
—AT—
Williams' New Barber Shop
Front St., Tanana.
GENERAL WEAVER
A DIVINE HEALER
Dss Moines, la., Feb'. I.—Gen
James B. Weaver, once presidential
candidate of the Greenbackers, and
twice of the Populists, lias turned
divine bealer. lie is now in hi*
771I1 year.
The general consented to bead a
movement lor a national convention
of divine healers to meet here next
spring, and be announced that be
proposed to devote the remainder
of his days to the cause. He as
serted that bis own health li3S been
restored through prayer, and that
he only regrets his eyes were not
opened sooner to the faith. He has
been giving a series of lectures on
the subject at a local church.
General Weaver was born in
Dayton, O. When the civil war
broke out he enlisted as a private
and rose to be breveted brigadier
general for gallantry on the field.
His political career began in 1S78
when he was elected to congress on
the Greenback ticket, and two
years later he was made the party
candidate for President, receiving
307,306 votes.
I11 1884 he was again elected to
congiess by a coalition of Democrats
and Greenbackers, but was de
feated in 18S8 by the colored min
e;s who had settled in his district.
On leaving congress he devoted
his attention to journalism, work
ing with ex-Congressman E. H.
Gillette, the editor of the Iowa
Tribune, a weekly organ of the
Farmers’ Alliance.
Then in 1892 he became the Pop
ulist candidate for President. Gen
Weaver ran again in 1896, butfou:
years later campaigned through
the Middle West for Bryan.
Painted House With Opium
Silas Morgan, living on Whid
by island, Washington, found
several dozen cans containing a
substance resembling paint, and
believing a case of red paint had
washed ashore, painted his house
with the material. On taking a
sample to town he was told that
the sticky substance was pure
opium, and each can was worth
about $300. As he had used or
spilled nearly 30 cans of the
opium he had wasted more than
$9,000.—Greenville News.
Job Printing at The Leader office.
ST. JABflES’ CHAPEL
First Sunday in each month, Holy
Communion II a. m. Other Sundays,
Evening Prayer. 7:30 p. m.
Winthrop Peabody,
Priest in Charge.
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 fleri facias (or
special execution), dated December 8th,
•A.D. 1909, issued out of the District
Court of the United States, 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 in 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 (181 by
twenty-four (24) feet in size located on
said afiove 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.
The above sale has been postponed
to March 4,1910, by order of the United
States marshal.
1 here'll Be
Mashers
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
Cl&TH
SIC MS
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 j
winter travel starts in j
Tartana, Alaska
On One of tbs Last Steamers We Received Our Yearly
Supply of Paper for
Commercial Job Printing
OF MANY KINDS