FROM MANY SOURCES
The jury in the case of Alma Boll, at Auburn, Cal., Nov. 24,
returned a verdict of not guilty. She was charged with ihe mur
der of Joe Armes, her lover, who ruined her and then refused to
marry her.
The new law building of the University of Colorado was dedi
cated at Boulder on Thanksgiving day. The building is the gift of
United States Senator Simon Guggenheim.
Mrs. William Chapman, a Widow with $20,000,000 in her own
right, was married in New York on Thanksgiving day to Philip
Van Valkenburgh, descendant of an old Dutch family. Mrs. Chap
man has long been pursued by a foreign nooleman, but preferred
the American brand.
James Freeman Curtis, of Boston, has been appointed assist
ant secretary of the treasury. Curtis is a famous golf player, and
once held the title of champion of the United States.
Federal Judge Wolverfon has tixed upon January 10. at Port
land, Ore., as the date and place for beginning the hearing of the
case against Binger Herman, former commissioner of the general
land office, on the charge of conspiring with others to obtain gov
ernment lands by fraudulent means.
The famous Ilomestake mines at Lead, S. D., have been closed
down. This move was taken by the operators in anticipation of a
strike threatened by the miners in case the company refused to
grant a closed shop. Twenty five hundred miners are affected.
The end of the controversy is not in sight, and, according to ap
pearances, the company is preparing for a long period of idleness.
On Thanksgiving morning at Anniston, Fia., Robert Ralston,
a negro, while in an intoxicated condition, attacked and assaulted
the wife of one of the farmers near town. When the outrage be
came known the neighbors hunted the negro, and when they found
him, riddled him with builets and burned the dead body.
The ten round bout between Monte Attell and Danny Webster
at Los Angeles, Nov. 23, ended in a draw. It was a fast and clever
exhibition of scientific boxing.
The report has been received at Washington that five miles of
the Panama canal at the west end are now open to navigation.
At the special election held in Chicago on Nov. 23 William
Moley, Republican, was elected to represent the Sixth Illinois dis
trict in congress to succeed William Lorimor, who was elected to
the United States senate. Moley is a supporter of Speaker Can
non.
A Cherry, 111., dispatch of Nov. 24 says: During the past 24
hours 169 bodies of miners have been recovered from the lowest
level of the St. Paul mine. Only 24 men remain unaccounted for.
The force of searchers has been greatly reduced since the hope of
finding more alive was abandoned. The-rescuers are working
today under great difficulties. They are compelled to go about in
water waist deep, and the bodies of the dead were found to lie in
so tangled a mass that the work of extricating them was tedious.
The shaft continues to slough, and this adds to the danger of the
occupation.
mcgovern arrives
FROM THE KOYUKUK
.T. R. McGovern, a well-known old
timer in the North, arrived in Tatiana
last Sunday from the Koyukuk, travel
ing by dog team and piloted by a na
tive.
Like every one familiar with the
northern camp, Mr. McGovern is op
timistic of tho country’s future. He
said a new and apparently important
strike of coarse gold has just been
made on Vermont creek, four miles
from Nolan. .It is believed this strike
will result in the development of much
better ground than was heretofore
known to exist on Vermont.
Four parties are sinking on the deep
ground on Wiseman. It will take some
time to reach bedrock there, the
ground being 250 to 300 feet deep.
The total number of men in the dis
trict this winter is estimated at 165.
Mr. McGovern says supplies are abun
dant and on some classes of goods prices
are not higher than those in Tanana.
Mr. McGovern is waiting to hear
from business associates to determine
his course in the immediate future, but
says he will certainly return to the
Koyukuk sooner or later.
Bert Williams is abroad in the land
with a steam-power sawmill demolish
ing'woodpiles.
HERROLD BUILDING
SECURED FOR JAIL
Having secured a four-year lease on
the Herrold building, formerly occu
pied by the Tanana postoffice, Deputy
Marshal J. J. Donovan has established
his office there and is fitting up the
lower story for a federal jail.
The building is centrally located,
large and in every way suited for the
deputy marshal’s purposes.
ABOUT THE MAILS
ARRIVALS
From Outside, Valdez. Fairbanks,
and Rampart-Hot Springs, every Tues
day.
From Nome, St. Michael and lower
Yukon, every Friday.
From Dawson and Eagle, every other
week, Saturdays.
From C'oldfoot, about the 12th of
each month.
DEPARTURES
To Outside, Valdez, Fairbanks and
Rampart-Hot Springs, every Saturday.
To Nome, St. Michael and lower
Yukon, every Wednesday.
To Coldfoot, the 15th of each month.
Registered Mail and Money Or
der Business will close every Friday
at noon and not open before departure
of Outside mail.
Tanana Restaurant |
Under New Management
BisT MEALS IN THE~ CAMP™ |
SHORT ORDERS AT ALL HOURS
Best of Everything on the Market Service Unexcelled in the North i;
Fresh and Delicious Bread, Pie3 and Pastries Always on Hand
HEADQUARTERS FOR TRAVELING PUBLIC!
Pioneer* Tower Houses
Two First-Class Resorts
Stables for Horses and Dogs. Warm Buukliouse where
you can dry your clothing and sox.
Joe Anlcich, Prop. Tanana, Aiaska
Peker Story
Realistic Pipe Dream Sets
Sporting Blood to Tingling
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A sensation that caused the sporting
blood of the average sourdough to
tingle developed in Xanana recently
It developed and spread and when h
reached the district attorney’s office in
Fairbanks it must have caused dismay
but that is only conjecture.
The allegation is that a poker gam ,
germinated and flourished not onl;
under the nose of the officials, bu
under the rooftree of the United State
deputy marshal himself, aided and
abetted by the United States commi'
sinner.
People from down the Yukon say i
is current gossip in Gold Mountak
district that in the later sittings tin
commissioner was barred because i
was his custom to uniformly break u
the game by winning all the beans.
Around town the deputy marshal wa
hinted at as the heaviest loser.
A select coterie of business men ar
reputed to have dropped in occasional!.'
to give tlie representatives of the fed
eral government, a genuine touch o
high life.
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On being upbraided by certain spur
ive aequainlarces for nut letting them
inio the game, both the cntnmissione
aud the deputy' marshal denied tha
there had been anything of the kind
going on. They said that an innocent
game of cribbage had probably given
rise to what was designated “the ab
surd talk.’’
The gossips had it that the stifles
game of the series took place at Georg<
Vautier’s residence on Thanksgiving
night, when an unidentified stranger
dropped in and almost raised the roof
off the building.
Deputy Marshal Donovan arrived
from Fairbanks that evening. He was
probably the unidentified stranger of
the story, for he was closeted with Mr.
Vautier up to a 'ate hour at night.
It is considered highly improbable tha;
he opened any jackpots or drew to an\
bobtail Bushes, however.
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Indeed, pending a special investiga
tion or an invitation to draw cards in
the indefinite hereafter, The Leader
prefers to believe that the poker sensa
tion was nothing more than an uncom
monly realistic pipe dream.
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Rejecting, therefore, the late gossip
as not according to fact, wo will go
back to the summer of 1908 and tell a
more authentic story of a little game
that went on in the Innoko in which
our present commissioner is said to
have been a principal. Of course Judge
(lallaher was not in office then, and it
is altogether probable that ho has re
pented of his wickedness, which did
not profit him much, any way.
At lunoko City the judge and two or
three boon companions got a little
pastime game going and one day an
Indian came along and wanted to sit in.
The judge said it was all right if the
Indian could produce. The Indian had
no money, but was a born financier; so
the upshot was a reorganization of the
game with the beans based on eight
cords of wood the Indian claimed to
have in the brush nearby, which it
was agreed should pass current at $8 a
cord. Three white men bought a quar
ter of a cord apiece and the game pro
ceeded. Pretty soon, when everybody
was in, the whites resorted to the tac
tics technically known as cross-lifting;
but tho red man failed to run and aftei
the showdown he sold six dollars’ worth
more wood.
The Indian buried all the money he
took in and played his cordwood to
such good advantage that he cornered
about all the cash in the game. After
several days’ play he was pretty fat
and didn’t seem to mind it much when
he lost his last cord of wood on tens-up
in a jackpot. With that play he went
permanently out of the game, very
much to the good in point of financial
standing.
Judge Gallaher soon cleaned up the
balance of the wood and the game pe
tered out for want of collateral. One
day the judge made a big smudge in
a discarded beanpot and went out into
the mosquito-infested swamp to view
his assets. There was but a scant cord
and a half in sight, and there never
had been any more. He asked eight
dollars for it, but finally sold for six.
And that is the end of the story.
LOOKING AFTER
SHORT WEIGHTS
JJJA special dispatch to the St. I.ouis
Globe-Democrat of September 23
from Washington says: A hearing
will be belt! before the Pure Pood
Board of the Department of Agri
culture September 30, the subject
to be weights and volumes. Man
ufacturers of food products, like
canned goods, preserves, spices,
extracts and foods and accessories
generally, will he welcome at the
hearing, which is to he open, and
for every one who desires to pre
sent any arguments or tacts. There
me many complaints about weight" j
and volume of goods sold to con.
"timers these days, hut the law does
not require that the label hear the
weight or amount of the package
I'iie consumer, the efore. finds him
■.elf buying a smaller or liglite
ackage at the same price that lit
formerly paid for I lie larger one
vhen the weight or qu unity was
narked plainly on the label of tin
•ackage This dwindling of tin
-ze and quantity of the pack ge.
tccomj anie l by :m increase i
•ice, has put m my a housewife oh
lie waipith It is not kuoni
vhether t tie consumer will he lep
•sented at the he iring or not. The
.1 muiactiirer. the uhi'esaler and
;e retailer likely will all he pu s
hill
AJ Bartlett a Promoter
• * Prom a letter received by the
last Outside mail it is learned
hat A1 Bartlett, well-known
hroughout the North, is at pres
■nt in Los Angeles busily en
gaged in promoting a $100,000
company for some Alaskan pro
ject. The writer fails to state
whether Al’s new concern is a
mining venture or a mammoth
manufactory for his “guaranteed
mosquito exterminator”—a Buit
• ettian lotion that costs 15 cents
i barrel to brew, and readily sells
for $1 per small bottle.
Mrs. Agusta Dabney, who was
during the past summer a popu
lar attache of the Kentucky res
taurant in this city, after attend
ing to urgent business matters in
Dawson, is now enjoying a visit
with friends in Seattle. Mrs.
Dabney will probably return iti
the spring.
Inquired For
Postmaster Tiffany, by the last
mail, received a letter from the
mother of Thomas Patrick, dated
at Bradley, Ivy., inquiring for
her. son.
Xli3 Leader is on sale at the post
ortiee lobby.
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LEADER JOB DEPT.
TWO MORE TOWNS
WILL INCORPORATE
Seward, Nov. 19.—There is a movement on foot to incorpoi"
ate this place. A committee has been appointed to ascertain what
is necessary ar.d to report at an early date.
The residents and property owners are not alarmed over the
report that Laberee, who is reported to be in control of the old
Alaska Central, will move the townsile. It would not be a good
business proposition and the people here feel certain that no offi
cial would attempt to urge a policy against the best interests of the
company.
Good reports continue to be received from the mining districts
and from present appearances there will be more than one good
producer before next summer.
Wrangell Sentinel: Our neighboring town, Petersburg, is do
Orous of incorporating, and as practically everybody in the place
is in favor of the move, there is every probability that the matter
i will go through. The notices for a hearing have been posted, and
i the expectations are that early in Decemberthe matter will be set
i tied. At this time the business men and concerns of the place are
paying between four and live thousand dollars per year to the gov
ernment in licenses, none of which is returned, except a thousand
or fifteen hundred which the government pays for the keep of the
school there. The result is that any public improvement has to be
paid for by public subscription, throwing the load on a very few.
This condition would be removed if incorporation is effected, and
the load more equally distributed.
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Tlio.se Coats are made of genuine Australian Calfskin Fur, are
splendidly made, warm, look good and will wear well; posi
tively the best values ever offered in Tatiana, Call and exam
ine them—they'll not last long at these low figures.
I Tanana Commercial Co.
THE HOUSE OF QUALITY
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