TAIMANA LEADER
Published Every Thursday at Tanaka, Alaska,
Vol 1 BY GIBBON PUBLISHING CO. No. 21
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THE PROHIBiTION MOVEMENT
The great movement for the regulation or prohibition
of the liquor traffic which has gained such momentum in
the States—particularly the Southern States—during the
past few years shows no sign of “letting up.” Several of
the Northern States have partially adopted the “dry” sys
tem—that is, the question has been left to local option, and
in the majority of instances the temperance element carried
the elections. In Kansas, where prohibition has been en
forced for nearly thirty years, the recent legislature so
amended the anti-liquor law3 that it is unlawful for a per
son to own a private flash, and the drug stores are forbid
den to sell whisky to patrons on any pretext whatever.
Alaskans have recently felt the effects of the move
ment. Ten years ago there was not a saloon license in the
territory, but there were saloons galore. The first liquor
license law to be enforced here caused at least two-thirds of
the barrooms to retire from business. The new law, effec
tive this spring, contains so many provisions in regard to
population, postroads and resident officials that many old
established and decently-conducted resorts have been forced
to close their doors.
Big corporations seem to be taking a hand in the game,
as is evidenced by the rule in the mills of the Steel Trust
forbidding employes to leave their work to get a drink.
This regulation, affecting as it does many thousands of
workmen, is calculated to do more for practical prohibition
than any amount of persuasion. Many of the railroads also
enforce sobriety in employes. Under the new system of
discipline on the Burlington road drunkenness in an oper
ating employe is cause for dismissal without appeal. The
Northern Pacific prohibits the use of liquor by trainmen
either on or off duty. Employes of the New York Central,
the Pennsylvania and the New Haven who drink do so at
risk of discharge. The Chicago <fc Eastern Illinois forbids
trainmen to frequent saloons, and the Missouri, Kansas A
Texas has only recently rescinded an order making the cash
ing of an employe’s pay check by a saloon-keeper evidence
warranting dismissal.
The attitude of the corporations toward liquor has be
come an important factor in a practical prohibition move
ment the progress of which within five years has been one
of the notable reforms of the time. The appeal is no longer
to the self-respect, but to the pocket. The argument for
abstinence is advanced not as a theory, but as a condition
of employment. The extent to which corporations and
other large employers of labor have become instrumentali
ties of a general moral uplift is one of the remarkable de
velopments of modern business life. The order of the
Western Electric Company requiring employes to abstain
from gambling, drinking and immorality is not the only
example of this exercise by a corporation of censorship over
the conduct of employes.
ALASKA AS A PROBLEM SOLVER
The touch of penury is the antithesis of that touch
of sympathy which makes the whole world kin. And just
now, when the pinch of poverty and carking care encum
bers tens of thousands of homes in this great republic, we
may well cast around within our own horizon and see how
it fares with the people of Alaska. We may lay it down
as a postulate that the keen edge of adversity, so often
felt by cur less fortunate brethren elsewhere, is not found
in Alaska. But it is useless to moralize; so long as men
.continue to congregate and rot in the great cities, so long
will there be a problem of the unemployed—we care not
how many of the economic and sociological problems be
solved. The cities are overburdened, the country is neg
lected.
There is room today in Alaska even under existing
conditions, for a larger population—men and women who
are made of the right warp and woof. For the idle, the
vicious, there is no place; but for the strong and the in
dustrious and courageous, a wide field is offered for their
activities a field in which they can, if they will, become
more than hewers of wood and drawers of water; where
honest and patient effort and enlarged opportunities will
bring a more certain reward than can, in the very nature
of things, be found in the congested cities of men. To
these Alaska points the way. If they have some means
of their own, so much the better for them, but if they can
muster naught else save stout hearts and willing hands,
their efforts will not be unrewarded.—Katalla Herald.
Discovery Roadhouse
JIM DRUMMOND. PROP.
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Warm Horse and Dog Stables
NO BAR SULLIVAN CITY
I MONUMENT TO AMERICAN INDIAN
MAY RISE IN NEW YORK HARBOR
Eulogy of the character of the North American Indian
promoted the suggestion of a statue of an Indian or Indian
group in the upper harbor of New York, matching in size the
Liberty statue, in attitude of welcome, to typify the kindly re
ception extended to the first white comers from over the sea
by the tribes who then occupied the land.
Col. William P. Cody was the first to formulate this propo
sition. Gen. Nelson A. Miles iudorsed it. Gen. Leonard A.
Wood gave it his sanction, as did Gen. Horace Porter, Homer
Davenport, who grew up- among tjie Indians, and other speak
ers, and it became the keynote of a memorable occasion.
A dinner by Rodman Wanamaker to Col. Cody at Sherry’s
furnished the ground for this seed. Mr. Wanamaker has set
out to emphasize the place of the American Indian in history,
lie sent an expedition into the Northwest last year which ob
tained photographs and data that are to be preserved in the
Bureau of Ethnology in Washington, and which portray Indian
life and legend as would again be hardly possiole.
“I share in Col. Cody’s admiration for the Indian and in
his hope for such a monument as he suggests,” said Gen. Miles
“The Indians always kept treaties and we broke always them.
The early explorers kidnapped them, they were sold into sla
very in New England, they were hunted like dogs in Connecti
cut. Acts af atrocity marked white treatment of them wher
ever the whites went in every territorial extension. New York
harbor is the fitting place to display to the world the quality of
the welcome extended by the natives to .those who came here
to build for the Republic we all enjoy.”
RICHEST PEOPLE’ IN THE WORLD
1 HAVE THEIR] [PROPERTY DIVIDED
The end of tribal government for the Osage Indians of Oklahoma has
come, All their land has been allotted, and they have the largest fixed
dowry of any people in the world. Selling their reservation in Kansas,
they purchased a new reservation in Oklahoma from the Cherokees, and
were transferred in 1870. Less than half a century ago the Osages formed
the most populous and powerful tribe east of the Rocky mountains. Today
there are 2228 on the roll. The Osages as a tribe are very patrician; they
consider themselves the superior of other Indians, and today they are just
as proud as when they wefre lords of the plains country.
The Osage allotting commission has'completed its work, after a three
years’ session. Every man, woman and child of the Osages got 657 acres
of land—a section and 17 acres over. In regard to the final dissolution of
tribal relations, Cassius R. Peck, the attorney member of the commission,
says:
“There are eight men on the rolls of the Osage tribe who have two
wives each, as polygamy, an ancient custom in the tribe, has not been en
tirely eradicated. One of these eight got land for himself, two wives and
nine children—12 sections and n third—-just one-third of a township. The
lands are allotted. The deeds for the homesteads are now being issued.
The lands are not all allotted in bodies. Each Indian had a first, second
and third choice, and the selections are mostly scattered. Each Osage In
dian draws $345 a year, paid quarterly, from the government, from the 5
per cent, paid by Uncle Sam on the Osage trust fund. Then each one has
about this much more from the ‘grass fund’—rentals from pastures and
farm lands. They spend this money; living in idleness is to them luxury.
“The blanket is still worn by many of this tribe. They are a big,
handsome people—a race of giants; yet the hands of most of the men are
as soft as those of a society woman, for the Osage men don’t have to work,
and never does it for the fun of the thing. Many of the Osages do not talk
English. The younger ones are educated, talk good English, and dress ia
the modern fashions.
“The schools at Pawhuska, run by the federal government, are on a
beautiful plat of land, reserved for this purpose. There are about 150
young Indian pupils. I saw the boys out for military drill. They are ideal
soldiers, and take it straight, alert and graceful.
“I asked John Palmer, a Sioux, adopted in the Osage tribe 33 years
ago and one of the brightest among them, if he did not think the allot
ment and disbursement of the $15,000,000 trust fund, more than $6000 each
in cash for the Indians, would not be bad. He said:
‘No. It will make them. They are children yet, many of them.
You can make men and women only by experience and responsibility.
Idleness will ruin any people. Many will be robbed and some be poor, to
be sure; but they will learn to labor and to take care of themselves, and
this will make them true American citizens, useful alike to themselves
and to other people. I am for turning the Indian loose with his posses
sions, to root for himself, and I believe these conditions will develop him
into far stronger manhood.’ ”
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THE MONEYLESS LAND
’Twas a dream that I had of a moneyless land—
Nobody was hegging with tremulous hand,
Nobody was worrying over his bills,
Nobody was striving to fill up his tills,
Nobody was plotting for profit and gain,
Nobody was trading on hunger and pain,
But every one there had a moneyless lot—
Some said it was heaven, some said it was not.
When any one worked—as they all did, in fact—
Ho toiled for the pleasure he had in the act;
Some Labored with cheeriness all of the while,
Some grumbled and growled and were not seen to smile;
Each did what he could for his fellows each day,
But every one knew there was ao coin to pay,
The joy of achievement was all that he got—
Some said it was heaven, some said it was not.
No bargains on Monday brought people downtown,
No worrying debtors faced any one’s frown;
There wasn’t a cent in the whole of the land—
And some people thought the arrangement was grand,
While othars declared that no money to spend
Was simply a wearying, pleasureless end.
No dollar sign there, nor a decimal dot—
Some thought it was heaven, some thought it was not.
’Twas a dream that I had, and I wakened at last
And mused o’er the vision with brows overcast;
I can’t understand it—some people were glad
To do without money, and others were sad;
Some people were happy with nothing to lend,
Some people were sorry with nothing to spend.
I can’t give a name to that moneyless spot—
Some said it was heaven, some said it was not.
—Chicago Post.
THE LEADER DOES GOOD JOB PRINTING
Victor Acquitted
on One Charge
The trial ot Victor Eckengreen,
the woodchopper, for selling li
quor without a license,which was
commenced on Thursday, July 8,
was a long drawn-out affair. The
whole day was taken in securing
a jury, it requiring the examina
tion of about 40 citizens to obtain
twelve good men and true. When
the jury was finally completed,
court adjourned until 9 o’clock
Friday morning. At 4:30 p.m.
the testimony and the argument
being finished, the court instruct
ed the jury, who remained in the
courtroom to deliberate.
The complaint against Victor
was made by Ai’chdeacon Stuck,
and the offence was alleged to
have been committed during the
month of November, 1907. The
archdeacon made the complaint,
but that was the extent of his
activity in the proceedings: he
passed on down the river in his
gasoline launch leaving others to
finish his incomplete crusade.
At 10:40 p.m. the jury notified
the court that a verdict of ac
quittal had been agreed upon,
and the accused was discharged.
The second charge against
Eckengreen is for selling liquor
to natives. The defendant furn
ished bonds for $1000, for his
appearance last Monday, Charles
Chanquist and Jack Nelson as
bondsman, and was released.
Victor Victorious
in the Second Game
The trial of Victor Eckengreen,
charged by Archdeadon Stuck
with selling liquor to natives in
the vicinity of his woodcamp,
was called at 9 o’clock Monday.
An adjournment was taken until
2p.m., and the work of selecting
a jury required about two hours.
At 4:40, the testimony being
all in, the court instructed the
jurymen and placed them in
charge of the marshal.
At 5:50, the jury returned a
verdict of not guilty.
“Advertising is no good,” said
the man in old clothes. “It
never helped me none.” The
millionaire smiled. “That is be
cause you tried it, John, as the
Indian tried the feather bed.
An Indian took a feather,
placed it on a plank and slept on
it all night. In the morning he
growled: ‘Paleface say feathers
heap soft, paleface heap fool,
ugh!”’ _
Hair cutting, shaving, shampooing—
Matt Stewart’s barber shop.
Kansas People Dry
as Wooden Gods
Topeka, June 30.—The new
prohibition law went into effect
in Kansas today, so far as clubs
are concerned. The brand new
“lid,” manufactured by Attorney
General Fred S. Jackson for the
particular benefit of all mankind
who have the least desire in the
world for a taste or a smell of
intoxicants of any kind, in any
quantity, was clamped down by
orders of the attorney general
himself.
The man who owns his own
bottle may not drink out of it,
even if he goes to his club and
takes it from his individual
locker.
The new law is the most dras
tic prohibition measure in the
world. The Topeka and Elks’
clubs, the Eagles and all other
clubs in the city, big and little,
respectable and otherwise, cut
out the sale or drinking of intox
icants in or about the club quar
ters. The drought is general,
and it is dry as the sands of the
desert. _
Caged With Bears
John the Bearhunter, know as
John the Rustler while he was
building the town of Sullivan
last summer, was locked up ,in a
cage with three cub bears and
dragged through the streets of
Fairbanks in the recent pageant
on the Fourth. Many of John’s
acquaintances are unkind enough
to say that that was the closest
he ever came to a bear.
Special Sunday Dinner at the Ken
tucky restaurant from 0 to 8 p.m.—
Mrs. M. E. Cooper, proprietor.
CHA8. B. ALLEN,
Attorney at Law
Rampart, Aka.
Lejal Papers Carefully Drawn.
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Charley Chanquist Prop.
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You Will Find What You
Want at
Tanana Commercial Company’s.
We are there with the Goods
GO TO THE
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And Best Service. '
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Meals at all Hours.
ED LEE Proprietor.