GLAD TIDINGS FROM
Capt. John J. Donovan, United States deputy marshal of the
Koyukuk district, who arrived at Tanana last Monday night eleven
days from Wiseman, had many interesting things to say of the
northern camp.
First in importance is the fact that there is an abundance ol
supplies to be had at a considerable reduction from former high
prices. Commercial establishments are now centered at Wiseman,
only eight miles from the Nolan creek diggings, thus eliminating
the long and costly winter haul from Betties necessary in former
seasons. Store are maintained by the Northern Commercial
Company, by Plummer and by “Alabatn.” There are also
two saloons, and the N. C. has applied for a liquor license. There
is plenty of fresh beef at from 55 to 05 cents; flour is $20 per hun
dred, potatoes and onions 22 cents, and bacon and ham about 40
cents per pound. It was reported, Captain Donovan said, that a
further reduction of 25 per cent, on these prices is liable to be
conceded, which would bring the cost of living in the Koyukuk to
a figure lower than heretofore entering into present-day calcula
tions. Another favorable feature is the increased amount of mi
ners’ supplies in the country.
Of all the drawbacks to be contended with, the lack of ade
quate mail facilities, especially in the summertime, is now the
worst. A letter directed to Captain Donovan from Fairbanks was
412 days in reaching its destination.
With considerably less than 100 men engaged in productive
work, the gold output for the season just closed exceeded $000,000.
The recent discovery of rich pay on the left-limit benches of Nolan
-creek added materially to the total cleanup. Upward of $100,000
was taken out after the departure of the last boat. “Happy Jac k”
Felix and Harry Owens, the latter formerly a resident of Tanana,
were among the lucky ones on the Nolan benches. Nellie Cash
man, a woman well known in mining circles since the early days of
the Klondike, is a successful Nolan operator.
Prospecting in deep ground will receive a great deal of atten
tion this winter. The most important of this work will be devoted
to crosscutting Wiseman creek below the mouth of Nolan. The
ground there is exceeding 250 feet deep: but it is considered al
most certain that pay of great richness will be found.
Captain Donovan said there is very little court .business com.
ing before the Koyukuk commissioner; that the community is a
model one in the observance of law.and order.
SAM HEETER COMING
AF
S. E. Heeter and six men, on a raft over 300 feet long and 40
feet wide, has been on the river between Rampart and Tanana
since last Sunday, and the condition of the river causes some fear
that he may not reach his destination at this place. However, he
was seen tied up near Scheiffelin creek, 22 miles up the Yukon,
Tuesday morning, and it is probable he is waiting for the ice to
clear away somewhat, so that he will be more certain of making a
landing upon arrival at Tanana.
Yesterday morning J. C. Dehn placed 400 feet of rope in read
iness near the Mission, and I. W. Kelly, the sawyer at the Fitt
mill, is on the lookout to assist in landing the raft should it appear.
It is believed a safe landing could be effected here.
The raft is a valuable one. Besides a large quantity of logs
and hay brought from the flats, at Rampart Mr. Heeter loaded on
over 50,000 feet of lumber, his household effects, wagons, sleds,
farm implements, horses, and, perhaps, his saw mill and accesso
ries. There are also two motor boats aboard.
W TH MAMMOTH
MAIL LAUNCHES
CAUGHT NAPPING
While the crew was attempting to
land the mail launch Messenger at her
winter quarters below the Mission last
Tuesday, a slight break in her machin
ery occurred and she drifted past town
And was linally landed at Bull island, ;
■where it is understood she will be
berthed. She was manned by Slim
Hedrick, Tom Howell and Count A. G. j
Frenzel.
The sudden advent of winter caused |
the Carrier to be laid up for the season j
at Nulato. She was manned by Johnny
Racine and Dan Averill, who will
probably have to mush back to head
quarters.
A. i.’s Notice
Business of importance will
come before Camp Gibbon No. 25,
A. B., at the next regular meet
ing, Monday evening, Oct. 10,
and all members are urgently re
quested to attend.
Phil Gallaher, A. C.
The Leader is on sale at the post
otiice lobby.
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And Plenty of Them.
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Pool and Billiard Tables in Connection.
JOE ANICICH, PROP
PUBLIC WELL IN
WINTER QUARTERS
The well in front of the com
missioner’s office is now snugly
nestling in its winter quarters.
Jack Mullen, who built the well
house, did himself credit in cre
ating so handsome a structure in
such short time. About all that
remains to be done is to install a
stove. Following is a list of sub
scribers to the enterprise:
Northern Saloon, paid .$15 00
J. S. EUegood, paid. 3 00
A. B. Culp, paid . 2 00
George Carl . 15 00
Fred Date, paid. 2 00
Joseph Anicich, paid. 10 00
C. .T. Smith, paid . 5 00
FI. L. Hedrick, paid. 2 00
Northern Commercial Co., paid. 10 00
Ed Y. Lee, paid. 2 50
George Vautier, paid . 5 00
G. H. Tiffany, paid . 2 50
A. R. Randles, paid... 2 00
Robert Herrold. 2 00
J. C. Nelson, paid . 5 00
Sain Lee, paid . 1 00
Ed Woods, paid. 15 00
A. Black, paid. 15 00
Father Ferron, paid. 2 00
T. F. Murphy, paid. 2 00
H. E. Simpson, paid. 2 00
W. A. Van Horn, paid . 2 00
il. Gilmore, paid. 1 00
Matie Gilmore, paid . 1 00
W. B. Rodman, paid . 15 00
F. W. Hall, paid . 2 50
John A. Clinton, paid. 2 00
Frank Cioli, paid . 2 O0
John Bathurst, paid . 2 00
O. J. Thorlsen, paid. 2 00
J. C. Dshn, paid . 2 50
J. Cavanaugh. 5 00
W. Burnyeat, paid . 2 50
Arthur E. Baraev, paid. 2 00
Mrs. M. E. Cooper, paid . 5 00
J. E. Nussbaum, paid. 2 00
A. G. Vaciion, paid. 10 00
Y. E. Wing, paid. 5 00
W. H. Simpson, paid. 2 00
Theo Diederick, paid. 5 00
GAME FROM KOYUKUX
VIA OVERLAND ROUTE
Capt. Donovan, U. S. deputy
marshal of the Koyukuk district,
George and Jack Mutchler, ac
compacted by two natives,arrived
in this city on Monday night,
seven days from Arctic City via
the overland route.
Captain Donovan is called to
Fairbanks as a witness before the
di tric-t court. He was consider
ably “tuckered” when he reached
here, and when seen by The
Leader man he was figuring how
he was going to finish the jour
ney to Fairbanks.
The Mutchler boys, who have
been freighting along the Koyu
kuk river all summer, brought
only two head of horses with
them, having sold the greater
part of their outfit prior to their
departure from that district.
They will go to Fairbanks and
George may, later on, go to the
Idifarod.
Has a New Job
Bert Poe, tvho has been con
nected with the Pacific Cold Stor
age Co. during the past summer,
is now acting as jailor at the
local skookum house, taking the
place of Harry Stockman, who
resigned to accept a job in the
winter mail service.
CALLED BERNARD SHAW
THE GREATEST SISSY
Alexander Harvey, associate editor
of Current Literature, recently deliv
ered a lecture before the George Ber
nard Shaw fellowship in New Yoik
City and astounded its members by
making an audacious attack on Shaw,
whom he described as a “sissy,’’ pre
ferring vegetables to meat and being
deficient in intellectual vigor.
“George Bernard Shaw is the great
est ‘sissy’ of our day and generation,”
said Mr. Harvey, in part. “Arthur
Twining Hadley, president of Yale
University, is also in that class, os well
as most of the men who make up the
faculties of our colleges, and t> per
cent, of the men they graduate.
“There seems to be nowadays a hor
ror of anything virile; therefore it is
impossible to be a ‘sissy’ and escape
success. Shaw has attacked marriage
on the principle that nothing which is,
is good, and the small coin of his in
tellect rings true to the half-baked,
half-educated mind. Young women
dote on his grotesquely immoral
screams. ’ ’—Selected.
PETTY THIEVERY
' OCCURRING OFTEN
i*'
Several depredations by sneak
thieves have been reported re
cently. Mrs. Cooper, of the
Kentucky restaurant, last Satur
day stored her cache with the
usual amount of choice cuts of
meat to be served during Sun
day. Sunday morning a number
of the juiciest morsels were gone.
Tuesday morning two persons
were seen in the act of breaking
into the enclosure where Ed Y.
Lee, of the Golden North res
taurant. keeps his meats hang
ing; but in this instance the ma
rauders were frightened away
without accomplishing their pur
pose. In the language of the
Hot Springs Echo, “there are
others. ”
The identity of some of the
petty larcenyists is pretty well
established, and it is believed
they are playing for a winter’s
lodging in the federal jail. A
course of baths in the Yukon at
this season of the year might
prove beneficial in these particu
lar cases of kleptomania.
THIEVES SECURED
SUMMER'S OUTPUT
Valdez Prospector, Sept. 9:
Telegrams were received yester
day at the office of the United
States marshal and by James
Lathrop, announcing a robbery
at Valdez creek, the thieves se
curing about $8000 in gold dust
and several hundred dollars in
currency and coin. The mes
sages announcing the robbery,
which are dated Gulkana, Sept.
5, and are from Dan Kain, man
ager of the Oregon-Susitna Min
ing Company, stating that the
company lost its entire cleanup
for the season—about 40 pounds
of gold dust, and that several
others were victims, losing sev
eral hundred dollars worth of
currency and coin.
It Was Very Strange
Last Tuesday, while Jack Pinkham
was preparing to launch a boat in
which to carry a small outfit to More
lock creek, he had occasion to cross
over the top of the barge of the
steamer Tana. While standing on the
outer edge a heavy cake of ice struck
the barge and the jar sent Jack into
active competition with the ice floe in
five feet of water. As he scrambled to
shore a bystander asked him if the
water was cold. He answered, in effect,
that, on the contrary, it was exceed
ingly hot. The questioner must have
thought it very strange.
Will Winter in Iditarod
The owners and operators of the
steamer Tana recently purchased
the little steamer Pup, and have
been operating her on the Innoko
and Iditarod ii\ers. Capt. Jaik
Oreen, one of the Tana owners,
will remain in the new camp this
winter for the purpose of mining
and stampeding, and in order to be
on hand in the springtime to take
advantage of the early high water,
Rich Americans Touched.
During her excitement over Bleriot’s
wonderful flight at the aviation con
tests at Rheims, Mrs. George Gould, of
New York, hurried from her box to
congratulate the aeroplanist, leaving
her handbag on the seat unguarded. A
fesv moments later she returned to And
the bag gone. It contained money and
jewelry valued at $6,000, including one
ring, set with diamonds, given Mrs.
Gould by her husband during their re
cent stay in Paris. This ring alone
was worth $4,000. Mrs. Gould reported
her loss to the police, who believed
that a society woman sitting in an ad
joining box took the jewels. An Amer
ican, whose name was withheld by the
police, also reported that he had been
robbed of $5,000 by a woman.
Native Drowns
A young native named Timothy,
employe! on the steamer Julia 13., is
reported to have been drowned by
falling from that vessel into the
Tatiana river near Cliena when
stricken with an epileptic fit, from
which he had long suffered. The
body has not yet been recovered.
Rumor of Now Strike
The Tana brought, the bare an
nouncement of a reported new
strike in the Iditarod country.
The scene of the find is on First
Chance creek, 30 miles above
Clow landing.
60L0 MOUNTAIN DISTRICT
S. R. Hudson departed for Kalland’s
on the steamer Herman last Monday
morning with a three-ton outfit to be
used in’his work on the Little Melozi
side of the divide. He will build a
cabin at Kalland’s, so as to have a
stopping place when he comes to the
river, his residence and barn having
burned in the summer of '08. Allen
Chisholm accompanied Mr. Hudson and
will remain with him this winter.
Jimmy Gallaher returned to his work
on discovery, Grant creek, last Sunday,
after a few days in town. He has built
a handsome pceled-pole cabin on dis
covery.
J. S. Langford and Mike’Laboski,
who will be associated together this
winter, last week took down a fine out
fit and will be engaged principally on
the Little Melozi side.
William Bauers came up from’Grant
creek Sunday evening, where he has
just finished^bedrocking a hole for
George Vautier on No. 1 below. Mr.
Bauers’s next work will be building a
cabin for himself on Lynx creek.
Frank Fox and Billy Carney, of the
Grant Creek roadhouse, propose to
keep a fish trap in operation all winter,
so as to have their table at all times
supplied with fresh fish.
Bob Herold has leased tho lower 500
feet of No. 3 above, Grant creek, to
John Hansen and Paul Schafer, who
left Tanana last week splendidly out
fitted to prospect the eround. They
have an 8-h.p. boiler. If their winter
prospecting discloses values that jus
tify it, the lessees will put in a first
class plant and work in an up-to-date
manner next summer. Mr. Hansen re
cently arrived from the Dawson coun
try, where he held good property on
Sulphur and Gold Run.
Sam Fox, Red Allen and Jimmy
Farley arrived in town from Grant
creek Monday night.
After spending a week or ten days in
town, Charley Coloumbe, accompanied
by his brother Pete, left with a win
ter’s supplies in a small boat yesterday
morning, bound for Mason creek. This
will be Charley’s third winter in the
district. There are no more competent
prospectors in Alaska than the Co
loumbe brothers, and it speaks well
for the district that they have great
confidence in its future.
The Tanana Commercial Com
pany and the Grand hotel have
lately been distributing among
their patrons beautiful art calen
dars for 1910.
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