AN APPEAL
FOR AID
(Communicated)
[Editor’s Note.— In one particular
the writer seems to be under a wrong
impression: Indians seldom or never go
into the saloons.]
The readers of the Tanana Leader
may remember seeing a paragraph in
the paper last autumn in which men
tion was made of the physical condition
of the Indians at Tanana and of the
work for their betterment which it
was hoped might be done by those
connected with the mission and by the
gorernment physician to the Indians.
A meeting of the natives was called at
the mission and the plan was discussed.
The Indians agreed to get the logs and
put up a cabin to be used exclusively
for the sick; the mission agreed to be
responsible for supplying the lumber,
doors and windows necessary to com
plete the interior; friends promised
everything necessary for the furnish
ing of the hospital room. The Indians
faithfully did their part. The cabin
was uuui in connection witn tne one
occupied by Miss Langdon, who in de
fault of a nurse would do what she
could to care for those brought to the
room. It was hoped that by removing
those ill enough to be confined to their
beds, from their cabins to the hospital
room, not only might suffering be re
lieved, but the danger of the patients
developing tuberculosis in their enfee
bled condition might be lessened. It
has been said repeatedly that the na
tive suffering from an ailment of which
he is cured will often during the period
of sickness develop an acute form of
tuberculosis to which he shortly suc
cumbs.
It is impossible for those who do not
go daily among them to appreciate the
physical condition of the natives here
at Tanana. The members of the mis
sion staff have studied to minister to
the people, faithfully doing all in their
power to check and relieve disease and
sickness; a government physician, Dr.
Rosin, has been stationed at this point;
iu his absence Dr. Gressinger, of Fort
Gibbon, has been most kind in doing
all he could to relieve the need; but
the best efforts under present circum
stances hive fallen far short of worthy
results. During the months just past
there has been constant sickness and
there have been many, very many
deaths.
It is also impossible fo.« those who
never give the subject a thought to
appreciate how serious a menace to the
healthfulness of Tanana is the present
state of being of these near neighbors,
and to realize the citizens’ own respon
sibility in this regard. The Indians go
to town, into the stores, the saloons
and some of the cabins; some of the
soldiers and white men of a certain
class frequent more or less intimately
the cabins of the Indians and returning
to town mingle with their fellows.
Tubercular infection can surely in
these ways be carried and spread.
The power of the natives to resist
disease is being constantly undermined
by the use of intoxicants. In spite of
earnest effort to prevent it, the sale
and giving of liquor to the Indians is
carried on in Tanana to an extent
which is a disgrace to the town. Is
not every voting citizen who is n^t
doing something definitely to prevent
the evil responsible, in a greater or
less degree, for its existences
This brief statement concerning the
Indians is intended as an appeal to the
people of Tanana to help the natives
living among them: an appeal to the
older civilization to help the younger,
which is struggling to its feet; to the
stronger to help the weaker; an appeal,
too, to the higher motive, that one
day we may hear the answer: “In as
much as ye have done it unto ene of
the least of these my brethren, ye have
done it unto me.”
Funds are needed for beginning other
practical efforts to better the physical
condition of the Indians and for carry
ing on the hospital work among them.
A special offering for this purpose will
be made at St. James Church on Sun
day evening, May 8. Those most inter
ested in this work will be most grateful
for any help which may be given.
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Mission of Our Savior,
Tanana, Alaska.
Capt. Jack Greeu has a small
crew of men at work about the
steamer Taua’s barge that wiutered
on the waterfront of this town.
The vessel is being freed from the
ice, and at the proper moment,
when the water is high, it will be
towed within the shelter of the
convenient dfaw.
PROPOSALS FOR
SUPPLYING WOOD
Bids for supplying the Fort Gibbon
military post with 3,000 cords of wood
were opened Tuesday. The lowest bid
ders were:
N. C. Co..1,600 cords at $9.70
A. G. Vachon.1,000 cords at 9.00
J. Russell Walle 200 cords at 8.95
George Vautier. 200 cords at 9.45
Others submitting proposals were:
John Kehoe. 200 cords at $9.75
Joseph Anicich. 200 cords at 10.30
John Bathurst. 250 cords at 10.25
T. F. Murphy . 500 cords at 9.75
W. B. Rodman.1,500 cords at 9.94
Wiiliam Burnyeat... 200 cords at 10.25
H. E. Simpson . 200 cords at 9.75
HOLDINGS OF THE
GUGGENHEIMS
(From the Denver Post)
We have had all sorts of reports as
to the control of the Guggenheims in
mines, smelters, etc. But according to
an affidavit in an injunction suit tiled a
few days ago, sworn to by the head of
the family and three of his brothers,
the Guggenheims really own very little
of the property supposed to be abso
lutely dominated by them. For in
stance, the affidavit shows that they
own 45,011 shares, or less than 24 per
cent., of the Guggenheim Exploration
Company. The latter owns 379,416
shares of the 2,000,000 shares of Ne
vada Consolidated Copper, or less than
20 per cent, of the stock. In addition',
Daniel owns 52,067 shares, Murry 58,
558, Solomon R. 46,500 and Isaac 2,400,
making the total personal holdings of
the family 199,125 shares, or slightly
less than 10 per cent. Indirect hold
ings bring the total up to 275,125, or
less than 14 per cent.
Daniel denies the charge that a ma
jority of the capital stock of the Nevada
Consolidated is owned by the American
Smelters Securities Company, which in
turn is controlled by the American
Smelting and Refining Company, and
the latter by the Guggenheims. Fi
nally, this remarkable statement ap
pears in the affidavit: “The American
Smelting and Refining Company is not
owned, nor was ever owned by him and
his brothers, and that the company
was never interested in the Nevada
company.”
There you havo it, under oath from
the head of the trust, that it don’t own
very much of anything in the enor
mous aggregations which it is popu
larly supposed to possess and control
from a to izzard. Assuming the affida
vit to be true, it presents a novel situ
ation. It has so many ramifications,
however, outsiders are unable to follow
them. But one thing seems to be cer
tain, the Guggenheim influence perme
ates and controls every one of the
organizations mentioned, even though
the family may not own a majority of
the stock.
The interests operated by the Gug
genheims show almost phenomenal
organization and direction. This has
been apparent for years. Its solidarity
has never been seriously undermined
or shaken. In the most depressing
times it has earned and paid dividends.
It is dealing now with prodigious com
petitors, which will be much stronger
a year from now, when the lines being
laid are finished. But it is not at all
probable that the conditions which now
obtain in Colorado will be materially
changed, since neither the United
States nor the International has any
thought of coming here.
The Guggenheim Exploration Com
pany is a sort of free lance, a powerful
auxiliary to the bther divisions, yet
apparently wholly independent. Daniel
Guggenheim is president of It and also
intimately identified with all the other
corelated projects. He states in an
official way that the net earnings of
the Exploation company are equal to
14.7 per cent, per annum. Again, “We
continue to carry American Smelters
Securities Company’s stock, of which
we own $11,249,000 par vaiue, upon our
books at a nominal valuation of $1.”
The surplus earnings of the American
Smelters Securities Company for the
six months ended Nov. 30, 1909, were
equal to a rate of 7 per cent, annually
on the common stock of the Securities
company, and it is expected that their
future earnings will be larger. Again,
during the year the holdings of the
Cumberland-Ely Copper Company stock
and Nevada Northern Railway Com
pany bonds we"e converted into Ne
vada Consolidated Copper Company
stock, which is on a dividend-paying
basis. _
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CANNED MUSIC
INAPPROPRIATE
Tacoma, April 14—The faculty
of the University of Puget Sound is
trying today to single out the stu
dents who Wednesday night re
moved a phonograph, a four-min
ute record and an alarm clock from
the girl’s dormitory ot the school
and secreted them behind the pipe
organ in the varsity chapel
As a result of this escapade and
a little inventive maneuvering the
clock and the music box were so
connected that in the midst of
prayer service yesterday morning
the garbled strains of “In the
Shade of the Old Apple Tree’’ pro
ceeded mechanically and automatic
ally, seemingly from nowhere, and
put an untimely end to the meeting.
Women’s Poker Club
An exclusive poker club for women
is the latest innovation among the
temples of chance in San Francisco.
The club has been established at the
Langham Hotel, in Eddy street, and is
inviolate to male votaries of the great
national game. The club is the most
feminine of institutions, in fact, and its
existence is supposed to be a closely
guarded feminine secret.
Mrs. Helen de Lyons is president,
and a stern-visaged woman acts the
part of lookout. Games begin at 2
o’clock in the afternoon and continue
as long into the night as the players
care to remain. Unlike most poker
clubs, there are no all-night sittings,
the hour of 10 p. m. being considered
dreadfully late for play.
The club is conducted in room 203 of
the hotel, which is provided with regu
lation poker tables and is furnished in
light, feminine tones. Five women
were playing when inquiries were made
of Mrs. de Lyons about the club.
“We run perfectly respectable games
for perfectly respectable ladies,” ex
plained Mrs. de Lyons, “but we don't
wish to invite any notoriety. We wish
the club to remain very exclusive.”
The club, it appears, refuses to per
mit any woman to sit iu the games
unless she furnishes references. These
references are looked up by Mrs. de
Lyons.—Ex.
WHITE PASS ROAD
BUILDING SPUR
A Whitehorse dispatch to the
Skagway Alaskan of March 29
says:
Yesterday morning two six-horse
teams started out Irom Whitehorse
with wagons loaded with supplies
for the new construction camp on
the Pueblo mine ore spur. The
i supplies consisted of dynamite, tool
and other material to be used in the
grading and in the construction ol
the camp The grading camp will
be located near the Grafter mine,
and will be known as Grafter camp.
The construction of this spur and
the opening cf the Pueblo mine
means a good sized payroll for
Whitehorse this summer, and it is
believed here that the town is com
ing to one of the most prosperous
seasons site has known for years.
Two thiids of a man’s troubles
wear petticoats.
CINNABAR MINE
TO BE WORKED
The bg cinnabar property on the
Kuskokwim river is to be opened,
according to reports which reach
Seward. Paul Denhart and asso
ciates of Nome have obtained con
trol ot the mine and will expend
$250,000 in the installation of min
ing machinery to mine the product.
This cinnabar mine is one of the
best known properties in Alaska.
During the Russian occupation it
was discovered by Lucien Lnkeen,
who founded Fort Kolmakoff, on
the Kuskokwim. Dull's history of
Alaska refers to the mine. Duncan
McDonald, a printer who was the
United States commissioner for the
Kuskokwim distiict, relocated the
property lor himself, Major J. F. A.
Strong, then running the Nome
Nugget, and others.
Tire property is a veritable moun
tain of ore. located about1 600 miles
up the Kuskokwim river. Permeat
ing this ore body are rich stringers
of cinnabar which have thrown out
their values so that the whole con
tains what is considered workable
ores.—Seward Gateway.
Many a man has kicked himselt
out of a good job.
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