NEWSY LETTER FROM
KOYUKUK COUNTRY
Special Correspondence.
Nolan, Koyukuk, Alaska, Oct. 30, 1909.
Nolan creek is looking better than it has in the history of the
Koyukuk. A 32-ounce nugget was picked up this week by Sam
Olsen on No. 4 below. Pay has been found on discovery in the
deep channel, and in fact on all the claims where the deep channel
is found. It will be found in the near future that there is a contin
uous paystreak, provided the deep channel is reached.
A 10-pound boy was born to the wife of Prank C. Whalley Oct.
7. Mother and child doing nicely.
An 8 pound boy arrived at the home of James Sellers, the
N. C. agent at Wright’s, Oct. 16. Jimmy is giving more* for gold
dust than ever has been paid in the Koyukuk.
Pat Judge, of Coldfoot, the man of the Shamrock fame, is vis
iting the creeks this week.
Dr. Brooks and wife and Mrs. Shoop were in Coldfoot Oct. 26
to receive the mail.
Judge P. E. Howard, of Coldfoot, was a visitor to Wright's
this week.
Harry Clark, Bob Buchan and Ed Morson are visiting the
creeks this week.
Johnson & James reached bedrock on 3 below on Oct. 15, and
have found good pay.
There are six or seven operators working on Nolan who will
reach bedrock in ten or fifteen days and all have confidence of
reaching the paystreak.
Captain Donovan, the United States deputy marshal for this
district, is expected about Nov. 15. We will all be glad to see his
smiling face again. * * *
ART ASSOCIATION BUYS TOZIER COLLECTION
Seattle, Oct. 20.—The Washing
ton State Art Association has
purchased the Captain Tozier col
lection of Alaska curios for the sum
of $40,000.
This collection is considered one
of the finest on the Pacific coast. Il
CHA3. B. ALLEN,
Attorney at Law
Rampart, Aka.
Le^al Papers Carefully Drawn.
Stoddard Kay
THE
NORTHERN.
BEST WINES
LIQUORS AND
CIGARS.
Pool Tables In Connection.
Stoddard Kay
H. L. HEDRICK,
GENERAL
BLACKSMITH
AND MACHINE-SHOP
Horseshoeing ' Repairing
Near Cor. Campbell ave. and 2nd St.
Rear of Yukon Saloon.
BILLIARDS
AND POOL
Elegant New Tables
Gibbon Bar
BEST or WET GOODS
| contains baskets of rare workman*
j strip, canoes, totem poles, stone,
i wood and bone implements, copper
j ponnded into weapons and orna
iment:;, and many other rare speci
mens from the tribes of the North.
For years the collection has been
given to the city of Tacoma for its
keep, and was placed on the top
floor of the city hall, where it
proved an attraction for tourists
and other visitors. It was the gen
eral opinion that the collection
should not be allowed to go out of
the state, which was the motive
governing the purchase by the
State Art Association.
Bruner Now Stage Agent
i Adolph Bruner, late cashier of the
First National Bank of Fairbanks, is
now the agent of the Ed. S. Orr stage
company in that city, and is certainly a
good man for such a position, as he is
as familiar with the freighting and
staging business as any man in the
| North. For a long time he was con
! nected with Mr. Orr's stage outfit in
| Dawson. _
Koyukuk Census Taker
J. M. Ousby arrived from Fair
I banks last Saturday enroute to the
I Koyukuk country, where he goes
i to act in the capacity of census
enumerator tor that district. He
left here Wednesday morning with
Bob Buchan, the mail carrier.
W. E. Leske, editor-in chief of
; the Fish Lake roadhouse, on the
j Tatiana-Fairbanks trail, spent a
! couple of days in town this week
stocking up his wayside inn. He
; is assisted this winter by Billy Dia
[mond, of this city. Mr. Leske re
| turned home on Tuesday.
The actor folks are having hard
i sledding, at Fairbanks. To add to
' it all the leading woman of the
I Frawley company stuck her inquis
! itive finger into the hole of a cigar
clipper, and it was the clipper’s
, busy day.—Douglas Island News.
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WRITER LETTER
TO OLD TEACHER
(From the Douglas Island News.)
There are many people who believe
that the money spent by the United
States government in the attempt to
educate the native races of Alaska is
practically wasted; that the natives
would bo better off if left to them
selves and their own way of living.
Mr. John Kilbuck, who has charge
of the school for natives on Douglas
Island, was for many years in the far
North and taught the government
schools at both Point Barrow and
Wainwright. He recently received a
letter from one of his former pupils at
Wainwright, an Eskimo lad about 14
years of age. This lad has had the
advantage of less than three terms of
school, and yet his handwriting, spell- ;
ing, capitalization and punctuation will
compare favoiably with that of the
average white boy who has had much
superior advantages.
The only peculiarity about this letter
is the composition, which shows that
the writer still thinks in his native
language; yet it is not difficult to get
his meaning. An extract from the let
ter may preve interesting:
Wainwright, Alaska,
July, 2, 1909.
My Dear Teacher:—I got your letter
at Icy Cape when I was whaling down
there. I’m lazy now because I’ve been
shot by Nehkaktoah at Icy Cape. The
old squaws [squaw ducks] flew toward
us and he took a shotgun waiting for
them, while I slept. When the old
squaws flew far, he sat down in the aft
of the canoe and I was sleeping in the
middle of a canoe, and his shotgun
shot and shot me under my socket
joint. I waked up very fast and the
blood runs fast. I couldn’t breathe for
it hurts me much. He took me on my
hand and pray or yelled to God. In
his prayer, he said “God, I made sin
for shooting Frank, make me happy.”
When he shot me he took his knife
and threw it away from him. When I
saw the tears of him, running down his
cheeks. I said, “Don’t be sorry, but
; try to remember God.” Four fingers
or five can be in the hole, where the
shots are, but now one finger can go
in. Some shots are inside the hole.
Mr. Sinclair used to wash it every day,
but now he don’t. Everybody down at
Icy Cape were sorry. I would like the
picture of yourself. I will tell you
about my parents. My mother almost
cry when she heard me that I am shot,
and Maggie and Fannie. James went
down to Icy Cape in one night, and
came in a day to Wainwright. When
Mabel heard me she cried in a few
minutes. When 1 arrived to Wain
wright Levi was exhausted and then
Mabel came with the tears on her
cheeks, she said, “Brother, I will not
sing Nehkaktoah’s songs.” J. E. Sin
clair wrote to Dr. Marsh what he had
does with my wound. Dr. Marsh an
swered him that he is doing well. I
am writing myself. I understood the
words, how easy they are to talk with
the white men.
I’ll tell you who have daughters and
sons. Mary Ann has a daughter with
out having a husband and Steven’s wife
has a daughter, also Akatok. My
mother has a son, named Taft, Agrik
kaurak amt Bessie has a daughter and
Akadigek’s wife has a daughter. I
hope you help Adam not to be sad for
me. Please give or send me small
Testament so I can carry it if I go
somewhere. I want to teach the people.
My Testament is too big for me to
carry. I want the Testament with
pictures in. When Dr. Marsh was
here his house burned up. It began
to burn by the lamp. Please write me
if you can. Good-bye teacher.
Your friend.
Frank Seelamew.
Sam Chase, an old resident of Ram
part, died in that camp week before
last. The nature of his sickness was
not learned. AHen Jordan, the Ram
part mail carrier who arrived Wednes
day evening of last week, could give
no further particulars than that he
died and was buried the week previous.
It has recently been discovered
that the leaves of the fern plant,
which grows almost anywhere,, is
an excellent preservative for pack
ing articles of food, fruit and even
meat. It is said that oti the Isle of
Man fresh herrings are packed in
ferns and arrive on the market in
as fresh a condition as when they
were shipped. A number of exper
iments have demonstrated that po
tatoes packed in ferns keep many
months longer than those packed in
straw. In fact potatoes packed in
fernleaves are as fresh in the spring
time as when they were first dug in
the fall. —Eternal Progress.
The pedigree of some Arab
horses may be traced back for 2000
years.
Special Sunday Dinner at the Ken
tucky restaurant from 6 to 8 p.m.—
Mrs. M. E. Cooper, proprietor.
There’ll Be
Mushers
Galore
On the trails this winter looking for good places to stop—
more than ever before known in the history of Interior
Alaska—and the roadhouse and hotel keepers who introduce
their places of business and their accommodations to the
man along the route is the fellow who'll get the trade. The
Tanana Leader makes a specialty of printing large and small
CLOTH
SIGNS
On Heavy Muslin, designed especially for out-of-door adver
tising—they will endure for years, and will 'withstand the
rigors of the Northland elements.
Send in your order at once for the “business
promoters” and be prepared to do business when
winter travel starts in
THE LEADER
Tanana, Alaska
On One nf the Last Steamers We Received Our Yearly
Supply uf Paper for
Commercial Job Printing
OF MANY KINDS
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