WHAT’S DOING
IN THE INNOKO
Among the passengers on the j
steamer Martha Clow from In-1
noko river points last Friday
morning were George Butler,
who has a saloon at Ophir City,
“Monsieur” Valleau, the proud'
discoverer of Yankee creek, and
Jack Pakege, the pioneer road
house keeper of that country.
The following commonplace
information regarding people in
the Innoko was gleaned:
Ben Tonsing, on upper discov- j
ery Ophir creek, has a good-sized I
winter dump, and were putting
up boxes to washup; he is whip
sawing his lumber, consequently
building is progressing slowly.
Sam Sanderson and Dan Nich
olson, on Goldrun group, Little
creek, have let a lay to Jones,
Meyers and partners, who are
busy working it.
Grant Courtnay has a lay on
No. 4 below discovery, Ophir,
Arthur (Red) Hughes’ ground.
He is in a spot of good pay, and
will take out a good grubstake.
Oscar Olson and Carlson have
a lay on “Old Man” Sauers’ Little
creek ground, and are taking out
good pay.
Eight polling boats went from
Ophir City to the reported strike
on Hididerado creek. Conflict- |
ing stories of this strike make it!
impossible to form a correct idea '
of its worth. |
Mrs. J. H. McLean, formerly of |
Chena, is conducting a restaurant |
in Ophir City; Mrs. Felix Bra- j
zeau, late of Cleary City, has a ,
restaurant on Little creek, and !
Felix Brazeau is in the wood j
business; he is still the possessor
of the $100-dog—the one that had
a bald-headed tail last summer.
Harry Madison, the father of
Madison creek; Aaron Long
necker, the sawmill man, Fred
Vogelsang and Koska, a black
smith, now form the population
of the once promising city of In
n'oko, at the mouth of the Ditna
river.
John Morrow, formerly in the
saloon business at Diskaket, is
taking in 250 tons of merchan
dise. He is using his own boat,
the Ben Hur, to haul it up from
the Yukon river.
A. E. Bain and George Al
bright are jn partnership in the
saloon business at Diskaket, and
Mrs. Albright is conducting a
restaurant.
“Cow” Miller, who went in
this spi-ing with horses and cat
tle, sold his outfit to Jack Dever
eaux, “Dutch Henry” and “Ore
gon Kid.”
“Bill” Davis Takes
Unto Himself a Wife
At St. James mission chapel
on last Sunday evening, Ilev.
Peabody officiating, Mr. William
H. Davis, of this city, was united
in marriage to Mrs. Abbie Wei
and, of Bloomfield, Cal. The
ceremony was attended by only
the contracting parties and Mr.
and Mrs. Bert Williams, of this
city.
Mrs. Davis is a late arrival in
the North, having landed here
last week from her California
home, and has been a guest at
the Williams home.
Mr. Davis is probably one of
the most widely known men of
the district, and ranks well
among the sourest of the sour
doughs. He has been in Alaska
over 12 years, and has followed
mining and prospecting to his
heart’s content. Mr. Davis has
been a resident of Tanana town
since 1901, and for a number of
years has been “corral boss” at
the Fort Gibbon.
Mr. and Mrs. Davis are pre
paring a neat residence near the
sceno of his employment.
Can’t Recommend
Russeii as Educator.
Valdez, June 29.—A long list
of charges lias just been made
public against Frank A. Russell,
in charge of the bureau of educa
tion for the government at Cop
per Center, and who recently
passed through Cordova on his
way to Seattle. Ho was charged
before Commissioner Blix at Cop
per Center with the seduction of
native school girls, whom he was
teaching, with lying, with de
frauding natives, with embezzle
ment, with conspiracy to defraud
the government, with attempting
to defraud various persons, and
with inhumanity to the natives.
He left Copper Center May 20,
stating that he was going down
the river a short distance to a
wood camp, and would return.
It seems that he worked his way
through to Cordova, and left
there some two weeks ago.
The Bureau of Education at
Washington has been notified of
the charges, Since his depar-j
ture a lot of things have come
out, as the natives were afraid to
give evidence before.
Dan Cavanaugh
Won'ihe Dollar
Atlantic City, N. J.,.Tune 16.—Daniel
Cavanaugh, a middle-aged Philadel
phian, bet that lie could drink nine big
whiskeys in an hour. He won the dol
lar, but went crazy and died tonight.
The wager was made in a downtown
saloon while Cavanaugh was boasting
of his “capacity.” He said he could
“walk away” with the nine drinks
without Ming' drunk. Within a few
THE ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD
At the dedication of the Arctic Brotherhood building at the
A.-Y.-P. exposition, Dr. I. H. Moore, chairman of the gatliev
ing, said:
The dedication of this beautiful edifice marks an epoch in the history *
of Alaska. I feel a just pride in standing before the men who made possi
ble the Arctic Brotherhood.
Alaska, we would have the whole world know, is not a land of ice
bergs, desperadoes and saloons. Its scenery and natural wealth are unsur
passed anywhere in the world. Its pioneers were real men. They were
all drawn to Alaska for a common purpose. They shared the privations of
the trail. They knew hardship and suffering in its worst forms. It was
conditions liko these out of which the Brotherhood sprang.
The Brotherhood is supposed to have been organized on February 2(1,
189$, but its inception really was on board the steamship City of Seattle,
when she was bound for the North, in the early fall of 1897. She had
some COO passengers aboard. All had left home and loved ones to answer
the call of the promised golden wealth in the new country.
Some of the boys got together and formed a “Kangaroo" club. They
went here and there among the passengers selecting, generally, fat, jolly
looking fellows, separated them from $5 each and initiated them into the
club formed merely to make them forget their loneliness and homesick
ness.
There were no bonding companies on board the ship and there was no
safe in which the treasurer could deposit the money. So they spent it in
having a good timo.
After landing at Skagway, then a tent town, some of the boys found
that the memory of the good times they had had still clung. So they had
a hasty ritual prepared and called a meeting. Many more were initiated,
and the same fee charged. Once more the money was spent for a good
time.
Some of the men at that second meeting very soon realized that Alaska
afforded an excellent opportunity for the development of a fraternal order,
such as ours now is. One of these men was Godfrey Chealander, the man
who originated the idea of this beautiful exposition.
Our story is a banner in itself. We had all Americans for members at
first, but soon we began to take in Canadians. We all were for having
the American flag in the banner, but then, because of the Canadian mem
bers, we thought it only fair to have the Union Jack in also. Both flags
are combined in the banner.
At that time there was considerable friction over the boundary line.
This dispute suggested the motto on our banner, “No boundary line here.”
We want the boys from Alaska who attend the University of Washing
ton to use this building as a rest and recreation building. For such pur
pose it was erected, and will bo turned over to the university at the close
of the exposition. The boys will, of course, share the building with all
the students at the university. We simply want it to remind them of
home, and that is why there will be permanent exhibits from Alaska left
here.
seconds after he swallowed the last
one, however, he fell uncodscious on
the floor, and when lie reached the hos
pital he was insane.
For a good shave or first-class hair
cut call at Matt Stewart's barber shop.
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