Tanana Leader
Vol. II
TAN AN A, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1910
No. 22
MIGHT INVALIDATE ELECTION
Juneau, Alaska, June 1.—Leader, Tanana, Alaska:
Have commissioner give sixtv davs’ election notice.
E. Valentine, Mavor.
Juneau, Alaska, June 1.—The Republican mass meet
ing in session here last night requested all Alaska newspa
pers to warn United States commissioners to get out their
sixty-day notice of election for delegate, as required by law.
Daily Dispatch.
Juneau, Alaska, June 2.—Newspapers are warned to
have commissioners give the legal sixty-days’ notice of
voting precincts, it being feared that neglection would in
valididate the delegate election. Daily Dispatch.
ABSENCE OF OFFICIALS
CAUSE OF COMPLAINT
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Commissioner Phil Gallaher left for
Fairbanks on the army transport Gen.
Jacobs a week ago this afternoon. He j
is expected to return when that vessel j
returns, whenever that may be.
Deputy Marshal John J. Donovan, I
after an absence of something like two \
months, returned last Friday on the St.
Michael and within a few hours de
parted for Fairbanks. Dispatches tell
us he will go to the Iditarod and Tanana
will be served by a special deputy.
A good deal of indignation has been !
expressed at the way things have been
ordered by the district officials. Tanana
at all times should at least have a de
puty marshal and commissioner, and
this is especially true at the present
time when great numbers of people are
coming down each river on account of
the Iditarod stampede. In the eaae of
the commissioner there is no one to take
his place, and the legality of the power
exercised by Mr. Howell, acting deputy
marshal, has been questioned. It may
be that he was properlv constituted a ;
deputy marshal by the commissioner
before that official left, but if such is the
fact it is not generally known.
It will be surprising if the district offi
cials do not receive a spirited protest
from the people of Tanana.
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Post People Play Ball
Last Monday being Decoration day,
the men of the post, including some of
the officers, organized two ball teams
and met on the post diamond. Capt.
Kobbe was named as the umpire.
The game was exciting and was wit
nessed by a large crowd. All the men
did good w7ork, considering the short
time they had for practice. The score
was 14 to 6 in favor of Company D, who
were supported by Capt. Grissinger and
Lieut. Whitfield, while Capt. Haskell
and Lieut. McCainmon played with j
Company C.
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Fresh Veal at Golden North cafe next |
Sunday.
The Commissioner Was Gone.
Last Friday evening John Riley learned
that a man had been seen to swipe his boat
from the bank of the river opposite Tanatia.
When appealed to Special Deputy Tom How*
ell procured a gasoline launch and over
hauled the culprit a short way below town. I
He was brought back; but, the commis
sioner being absent, he was permitted to
go on condition that he leave town immedi
ately. Mr. Riley has had boats stolen every I
season for several years. 1
BOAT MOVEMENTS
TO NOON TODAY
ARRIVALS
Tana, from winter quarters at Fisli
creek, May 15, 4 p.m.
Delta, from Birches, May 21, 5 p.m.
Robert Kerr, from Dawson, May 26,
4:40 p.m.
Scliwatka, from Fairbanks, May 26, !
8:45 p.m.
St. Michael, from Dawson, May 27,
8:05 a.m *
Delta, from Fairbanks, May 27, 11:35 :
a.m.
Seattle No. 3, from Fairbanks, May j
27, 11:50 a.m.
Tanana, from Fairbanks, May 27, 9:15
p m.
Tana, from Fairbanks, May 28,1:15
a.m.
Dbsty Diamond, from Fairbanks, Mav '
28,12:30 p.m.
Evelyn,, from Fairbanks, May 29, 4:50
p.m.
Launch Carrier, from Kaltag, with
mail from St. Michael, June 1, 4 a.m.
Monarch, from Chena, June 1,9:35
p.m.
John S. Healy, from Chena, June 9:50
p.m.
Martha Clow, from Fairbanks, June
2, 4 a.m.
Launch Messenger, from Fairbanks,
June 2, 8:40 a.m.
DEPARTURES
Tana, for Fairbanks, May 15, 5:55
p.m.
Launch Messenger, for Fairbanks, j
May 15, p. m.
Delta, for Fairbanks, May 21, 7:40 I
p.m.
Gen. Jacobs, for McCarthy, May 25, :
7:25 p.m.
Schwatka, for Dawson, May 27, 12:30
a.m. .
Delta, for Iditarod, May 27, 3:20 p.m., j
one barge.
Seattle No. 3, for Fairbanks, May 27,
10:20 a.m.
Tanana, for Iditarod, May 28, 12:40
a.m., two barges.
Tana, for Iditarod, May 28, 3:40 a.m., j
three barges.
St. Michael, for Iditarod, May 28, 4:45
a.in., two barges.
Robert Kerr, for Fairbanks, May 28,
7:00 a. m.
Dusty Diamond, for Iditarod, May 28, i
2:30 p.m., one barge.
Red Wing, for Iditarod (Williams & j
Van Horn), May 39, 2:30 p.m., one1
barge.
Evelyn, for Iditarod, May 29, 8:05
p.m., one barge.
Martba Clow, for Iditarod, June 2,
9:30 a. in., two barges.
John J. Healy, for St. Michael, June
2, 11 a.m.
Monarch, for St. Michael, June 2, 11
a.m., with steamer Portus B. Weare in
tow.
REPUB. CONVENTION JUNE 30
Juneau, Alaska, June 1.—National Committeeman
Shackleford neglecting to issue a call for a Republican ter
ritorial convention, a mass meeting of Republicans held
here last night decided to take matters in its own hands
and called a convention to meet at Juneau June 30. Fiftv
delegates are entitled to seats from each judicial division.
Each division is requested to make its own apportionment.
Juneau, Alaska, June 2.—Advices to Mayor Valentine
from all territorial divisions indicate that the call for the
Republican convention June 30 meets with popular favor.
Division leaders are conferring regarding fair apportion
ment on a basis of 50 delegates from each division. Dele
gate Wickersham wired today asking friends to send prox
ies to Mayor Valentine. The first division expects to have
fifty delegates in the flesh attending the convention.
CHANDLAR INDIAN
SUSPECTED MURDERER
Fairbanks, June 2.—District Attorney
Crossley has instructed United States
Commissioner S. J. Marsh at Caro, on
the Chandlar, to swear in special depu
ties for the arrest of Robert John, an In
dian suspected of murdering J. D.
Clark and Joseph Geraghty, if the evi
dence is sufficient to justify such a step.
Clark and Geraghty started for the East
Fork of Chandlar in January, 1909, and
they have not been heard from since.
Several persons reported Robert John
made threats to kill Geraghty because
the latter swore out a warrant for his
arrest for cache robbery in 1907.
One More Oklahoma Man.
Fairbanks, June 2.—C. C. Page has
been appointed by Judge Peter D. Cver
field clerk of the district court to suc
ceed E. H. Mack. Mr. Page was form
erly deputy clork at Valdez. He is now
at Juneau en route to Fairbanks.
DONOVAN TO GO
TO THE IDITAROD
Fairbanks, June 2.—Deputy Marshal
John J. Donovan will go to the Iditarod
and be in charge there pending the ar
rival of C. L. Yawter, appointed to suc
ceed Deputy Marshal Hanover. There
will be a special deputy at Tanana.
Succeeds Henry Roden
Fairbanks, June 2.—Judge W. H.
Adams has been appointed referee in
bankruptcy to succeed Henry Roden,
who has gone to the Iditarod.
Fairbanks, June 2.—The case of
Rooney et al. vs. Barnette et al. was de
cided last Friday in favor of the defend
ants. It was the last of the famous
Dome group cases and has been on trial
since May 10.
Seattle, June 2.—J. H. Hughes,
former traffic manager, will in future
have entire supervision of the N. A. T.
& T. Co. at Seattle.
TODAY’S BULLETIN
Seattle No. 3 and Kerr at Chena.
Jacobs at McCarthy.
No boats reported up from Kaltag.
Fresh Veal at Golden North cafe next
Sunday.
SOCIAL CIRCLES
GOT A SHOCK
A large party gathered at A. B. Hall Tues
day night to attend a farewell dance given
by Miss Marguerite Betties to murk the
close of a series of dancing lessons given by
her for some months past. Tickets were
sold to the affair and Miss Betties and her
friends were mortified by the attendance of
some persons who are considered not alto*
gether in proper pluce in such an assem
blage.
The party broke up early and the denoue
ment has given Tanana a real live sensation.
Of course the primary mistake was made
in putting the tickets on public sale; but the
like is done in other places without serious
consequences, and the mistake may be said
to be fairly excusable.
It is regretted that the affair could not be
passed over without so much publicity, but
it will probably be of future benefit, for the
line will have to be drawn somewhere some
time in Tanana, und the line of social cleuv
age in a place like this is a rather hard
thing to define._
Fairbanks, June 2.—The Town of
Fairbanks vs. Independent Meat Mar
ket is the title of a case filed in the dis
trict court to test the validity of taxa
tion of stocks of goods stored outside the
city limits and sold in town.
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i Fairbanks, June 2.—The injunction
was dissolved last Friday in the case of
Frank G. Manley vs. John Durand. The
case involved the Durand fraction on 4
| below Cleary, and was of four or five
years’ standing. The ground will now
I be worked.
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| Nome, Alaska, June 2.—George Wal
I ker, of Oklahoma, has been appointed to
succeed District Attorney George
Grigsby at Nome.
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Seattle, June 2.—A party of Pennsyl
vanians have subscribed a fund of $50,
000 to force the resignation of Governor
Clark of Alaska.
[That’s a puzzler. What in the devil
did they do that for.]
Abe Stein, who has been in Germany
the past winter visiting the home of his
boyhood for the first time in thirty
years, has been in Tanana about a week
waiting for a ship to bear him back to
business activity in Fairbanks.
Note these changes in the services at St.
James chapel: Evening prayer and litany
each Wednesday at 8 p.m. Sundays, evening
prayer at 7 p.m.
Go to Nussbaum’s Barbershop for first
class work.