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CHITINA, ALASKA.
Cordova Office: Daily Alaskan
Published every Saturday by
WILL A. STEEL HAUT O. STEEL
Editor*, Manager* and Proprietor*
O. E. BEHEETT, City Editor
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will be found reasonable for the ser
vice given.
CHITINA, OCTOBER 8, 1910.
LET US MINE
OUR OWN COAL
SOMETHING DOING AT CHITINA.
Those who say there will be noth
ing doing in Chitina this winter, evi
dently did not know of the many im
provements the Katalla company now
have under way here in town. The
foundation and excavation for the
big water tank is already completed.
The new depot at the foot of Sec
ond street is under way, and work
men have started on the foundations
for the coal bunkers and round
house on the banks of the lake. The
track around the lake has been fin
ished for some time, and the yard
engines are busy hauling the mater
ial for the- construction of the dif
ferent buildings. Some one is sure
to start on a big hotel soon and—
well, we’ll be kept busy here this
winter all right.
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ENVIES OUR TRANSPORTATION.
John Hawkinson, the old time
Fairbanks miner who is interested in
the Bonnifield property about 60
miles from Chitina, left Wednesday
morning for Fairbanks, over the new
government trail.
Mr. Hawkinson spent several days
In Chitina and at the end of con
struction, visiting with a number of
Heney officials with whom he is
well acquainted, having worked with
them on the White Pass road. He
is enthusiastic over the future pros
pects of Chitina and this mineral
belt and remarked that the new gov
ernment trail was of great interest
to the Fairbanksans and people all
over the Tanana valley.
“Transportation is what we are
waiting for,” said Mr. Hawkinson.
“Occasionally we hear someone say
that Fairbanks and the Tanana val
ley are dead, the placer having paid
out, but don’t let anyone fool you
with such a yarn. True, the rich
pay is not found like it used to be,
but it is only a matter of waiting for
transportation and good roads, so
heavy machinery can be installed,
when nearly all the creeks in the
Tanana will be strewn with dredges
and powerful hydraulic plants. And
the placer is not all. Our quartz
properties are becoming more prom
ising with each year’s development.
As soon as your railroad reaches us
as we all hope to see in the near fu
ture, there will be as much activity
in quartz mining as there has been
in placer in years past.”
Mr. Hawkinson stated that he saw
some fine looking surface showings
of gold quartz while wandering over
the hills close to Chitina, and realiz
ed that nearly every mountain in
this vicinity was heavy mineralized.
He says that he expects to hear of
great things from this section by
next fall, and really envies us our
railroad.
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- THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
A year ago it would have been
hard to credit a prediction that a
public man from America would per
vade Europe and Great Britain advis
ing, criticising, reproving, prevent
ing peace generally, playing the self
chosen role of lecturer to the mod
ern nations, and that people every
where would hang upon his words
and—except in Egypt, where any
expression of opinion was bound to
antagonize one side or the other—ac
cept as a master of morals in old,
old lands this aggressive, physically
inexhaustible dominie from the
young country across the seas.
The American mind aspires admir
ably if it is representatively voiced
by such a noisily insistent, un
blenching rampant apostle of good
living in all things.
The above is purely typical of what
some papers are saying.
As for myself I ascribe the queer
world-wave of enthusiasm for the ex
president with the numerous teeth,
not to any particular worthiness on
his part, but to his unique gift of
self advertisement. In addition to
being naturally the greatest politic
al showman of the day, he has struck
an Invaluable pose or posture—that
of the Earth's muscular Christian,
the biggest thing in the sportsman
saint (?) line that has yet mater
ialized. What cause for example
have British people to acclaim
Roosevelt? He has done them few
good, and many bad turns. Take the
Alaskan boundary trouble. He
pledged himself to select “three inde
pendent" jurists of repute to handle
the matter. He promptly appointed
Elihu Root and Lodge, and both of
them publicly stated their determi
nation never tc let a foot of the dis
puted territory go to England. They
kept their wcrds and the United
Kingdom went down badly.
As a player of what a certain pa
per calls “the self chosen role of
lecturer to the modern nations,”
Roosevelt is out of place. A first
concern of one who wants to star
in a role of that sort, should avoid
condoning fraudulently.
Roosevelt was president for eight
years. In all that time he made no
effort to get the states which have
repudiated their liabilities to pay
back one cent to their unhappy for
eign creditors.
What has Roosevelt done to cur
tail the power of the trusts except
hurl a volume of windy abuse in
their direction? True, he caused one
of the most scandalous of them to
be fined.
• The significant fact remains that
the U. S. conservatives (who are
trust people) are all for Roosevelt
today, while the progressive people
oppose him and his nominee, Taft,
most bitterly. Despite the alleged
purity of his family life, Roosevelt
doesn’t appeal to one as a desirable
social mentor. He is vulgarly quar
relsome. At the end ot his last pres
idential term he was at open war
with both the Senate and the House
of Representatives, and in addition
he had embittered personal feuds
with individual members of both
houses. His frequent rows with Till
man—as violent and undignified a
fighter as himself—were as discred
itable as a row between drunken
men. It is hard to find a prominent
man in the states who hasn’t at one
time or another been called a liar by
Roosevelt. Ambassadors, public ser
vants, law officers and politicians
have all had to swallow this epithet,
thrown at them by the chief citizen
of the republic. Latterly it became
a national joke and newspapers got
to interviewing politicians whose on
ly claim to prominence was that they
hadn't been publicly accused of ly
ing by the president.
That Roosevelt doesn’t, so far as
is known, get drunk, beat his wife,
keep a separate establishment or
cheat at cards, is all to his credit.
But it seems to me that the wonder
fulness of it is a bit overdone. There
are others who are equally blame
less and wno lack the many offen
sive qualities of Theodore
Some time ago when I was last in
God’s country; I was at a picture
show. Roosevelt and a general ride
to a review. The general is worth
recording pictorially because of his
riding. His easy, free seat in the
saddle, and the square, easy droop
of his shoulders look like the Aus
tralian style. He is a contrast from
Roosevelt, who cannot escape from
the truth of the pictures. Roosevelt
is spoken of as a great rider. He is
magazine-portrayed taking alarming
fences and rushing over all manner
of country. My faith in Roosevelt
as a great rider was firm until I saw
those pictures. He and the general
are not in haste—merely “mooch
ing” round. Possibly his extra
weight is playing up, but he has no
ease or grace as he moves on his
uneasy steed. I am going again, if
ever I can raise the dime and can
get down to the place where those
pictures are running, just to see that
soldier’s square shoulders swinging
through the review.
I hereby move that, as a moral ex
ample in high places he be shifted
down a peg or two. For my part
I wouldn’t protest if I saw him push
ed right down between Annanias and
“Barnum” Powell. That being, in
my view, the position where he right
ly belongs.
RICHARD GALL AMD.
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Everyone who visits Chitina in
quires about a hotel. They all say
we must have one, and wre realize
it, too. Will some party or parties
get busy? It’s a money maker and
the best investment in Chitina at the
present time.
Tom O’Rourke, one ot the pioneer
boys in Chitina, in fact one of the
first here to carry mail from Tiekel
along the girht of way, is again get
ting “itchy feet” and expects soon
load up with magazines and papers
for distribution among the camps at
the front as far up as the Bonanza
mines. Tom can’t remain idle for
long at a time and always likes to
be at the front.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Post, of Cor
dova, were visitors in Chitina this
week.
LOCAL NEWS
Mr. aud Mrs. Dan Reeder, who
.'eft last week for a visit to Cordova,
returned on Monday evening’s train
and -expect to spend the winter in
Chitina, having furnished a cozy and
comfortable cabin on Chitina
Heights.
Chas. Woebbeking, who has been
employed on the steam shovels at
Tiekel and 118 since last June, left
Chitina on Monday for Cordova, from
where he expects to sail for the out
side to his old home in Chicago.
Jack Riley, who has been with the
Heney commissary at the front for
the past year, and at 167 all sum
mer, was in town this week hust
ling men and equipment for oper
ating six double-enders at the front
this winter. Superintendent Murch
ison has a weather eye out for the
winter, which is rapidly approach
ing, and is getting his best men, to
take charge of the teams and freight
ing outfits and have them in readi
ness when the ice and snow come.
When you go to Cordova and want
a nicely furnished room, you can get
satisfaction at White’s. There are
baths in connection and the rooms
are all modern, well lighted, venti
lated and steam heated, with prices
as low as 50 cents. Remember this.
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Johnny Reed and Kenneth Hold
en, two of our popular railroad boys,
who have been on the steam shovel
lately at Mile 118, arrived in Chit
ina Monday, after moving the steam
shovel to Mile 125, where they dis
mantled her for the winter. They
left for Cordova on Tuesday morn
ing’s train.
Thos. Fitch, head commissary
man for M. J. Heney, under Archie
Shiels, arrived on Thursday even
ing's train after a visit in Cordova.
A canvass will be made next wreek
for your subscription to the Lead
er. You can have it delivered to
you in town or receive it at the post
office.
Superintendent Van Cleve, wife and
children were visitors in Chitina the
first of the week.
Paymaster Lester, for the Heney
forces, was up from his headquar
ters at Tiekel the first of the week,
and went out among the forces at
the front for the purpose of distrib
uting “panga” among the workmen.
Hugh McCaughey, a barber, who
has been working on the line, at the
different camps for M. J. Heney, is
presiding over the chair in Kimber
lin’s barber shop.
Joe Westbrook, Jim Kennedy, T.
E. Williams and a Frenchman, whose
name we did not learn, were seen
last week stampeding for the quartz
district near Mile 109.
Dr. Whiting made a trip down the
line on Monday.
Fay Scott, formerly in the employ
of Jos. Diggs in Cordova, has secur
ed a supply of fruits and sign paint
er’s muslin and is employing his few
moments of idle time in making cloth
signs for our business men. His
work shows experience in this line
before, so if you need a sign call on
RED CROSS DRUG CO.
MRS. C. M. KING
Drugs, Stationery, Fruit
Tobaccos, etc.
Mile 133
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him at the Chitina laundry.
Kimberlin, the barber, now has
the glass front in his place of busi
ness and when the necessary work
on his shop and store are done, he
will build cabins on the rear of his
lot, and erect another store building
on his lot for rent.
E. H. Gillman, with the Alaska
Transfer Co., of Cordova, who made
a trip to the Bonanza mine last
week, returned to Chitina Sunday
evening and left on the Monday
morning local for Cordova.
Superintendent McClellan, of the
Bonanza mine, arrived in town last
Sunday evening, and took the train
for Cordova the following morning,
with the expectation of arriving on
Tuesday’s l<-eal from a short busi
ness trip '.o the coast.
C. M. Burkhart, brother of Henry
Burknart, one of the owners of the
Burkhart flats, in Cordova, accom
panied by his son Carl and C. W.
Vickery, a brother-in-law, all from
Oakland, Cal., arrived in Chitina last
week and expect to remain here for
the winter.
Pete Sherman, manager of the
Northern Meat Market, Chitina
branch, doesn’t work 18 hours a
day now, and once in awhile can find
time to smoke a cigar and pat him
self on the back for getting in shape
to handle his rapidly growing meat
trade.
C. C. Hull and Jack Sapiro, of the
Chitina Trading Co., have been about
two of the busiest boys this far north
since they came to Chitina, and they
are to be congratulated on the neat
appearance of their place of business.
Mrs. Hull and Mrs. Sapiro are with
them, having joined them last week,
and may in a great measure account
for the worried looks having disap
peared from the faces of the two
gentlemen, and order brought out of
the chaos of ten days ago.
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CHITINA BRANCH
Wholesale and Retail Butchers
HOTELS, RESTAURANTS, MINING CAMPS, STATION CAMPS,
AND ROAD HOUSES SUPP PLIED AT CORDOVA PRICES
PETER SHEARMAN, Manager.
Gibson & Gage carry everything in
the line of staples and groceries at
their new store on Chitina Heights.
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Chitina Restaurant
CHOP HOUSE AND LUNCH COUNTER
SCHAEFER BROS. Proprietors
The Big Six Bit Meal
Located in Chitina Bar
ALASKA STEAHSHIP CO.
Sails From Seattle Sails From Cordova
Sept. 24.ALAMEDA...Oct. 1
Oct. 1.NORTHWESTERN.Oct. 8
Oct. 8.ALAMEDA'...Oct. 15
Northwestern will be substituted by some other boat
next trip.
The company reserves the right to change their schedule without notiee.
R. J. BARRY, Agent.