TANAIMA LEADER
Vol I
Published Every Thursday at Tan-ana, Alaska,
BY GIBBON PUBLISHING CO.
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COL. CLAYPOOL’5 CANDIDACY
Col. C. Ethelbert Claypool, of Fairbanks, of Tacoma,
of Ckena, of Olympia, of Nenana, of Pnyallap, of other
and divers places, (equally “at home” in each and all of
them), is hurrying to the state of Washington to enter the
contest for the congressional seat made vacant by the death
of Hon. Frank W. Cushman. The Colonel stumped that
state last fall from Muckleshoot to Skamokawa and from
Mukilteo to Turn water for the grand old party, and as a
“one-night stander” he was certainly a “head-liner” in the
“pippin” class. He had been in Alaska for a number of
years, had prospered, and his campaigning trip on that oc
casion was as refreshing to the eloquent Colonel as a sum
mer vacation. He had a goodly supply of compressed
“hot air,” a!nd knew exactly how to “ladle” out his favorite
“soothing syrup” to the dear people. He was received by
liis party managers on that occasion with open arms be
cause he had something to give—even if it was only Alaska
made “air.” This trip he goes out wanting something—
and wanting that something most yearnfully, too. The
report of his reception at this time by party managers is
eagerly awaited.
The Leader would be greatly pleased to hear of Clay
pool’s election to the American congress, but is inclined to
believe that he will, on his arrival, find many other patri
ots working on the job—men who haven’t claimed resi
dence outside the state.
MYSTERY QF THE FREIGHT RATE
Freight rates are about as mysterious and vague to the
average individual as life on the planet of Mars, and yet
the freight rate vitally concerns every American citizen in
his daily life. Charles Edward Russell, in Hampton’s mag
azine for May, reveals the important part played by freight
rates in retarding, as well as developing the growth of the
Northwest, through the agency of the Hill railroads, espe
cially the Great Northern. As to the relation between the
Hill roads and the city of Spokane, Wash.,a typical case of
alleged discrimination, Mr. Russell submits that Spokane is
340 mile? east of Seattle, the haul from Chicago to Seattle
is about 2240 miles; the haul from Chicago to Spokane is
only 1000 miles. The lines by which freight is hauled from
Chicago to Seattle pass through Spokane and go 340 miles
farther to reach Seattle. Is that clear? Good ! To a trav
eler passing from Chicago to Seattle, Spokane is relatively
like Syracuse to one passing from New York to Buffalo.
Let us say you are a dry goods merchant in Spokane
and you have shipped to you from Chicago a carload of cal
ico and other fabrics in your line. On that carload the
freight rate that you will pay is not the normal freight rate
from Chicago to Spokane, 1900 miles, but the normal
freight rate from Chicago to Seattle, 2240 miles, plus (ap
proximately) the normal freight rate back again from Seat
tle to Spokane, 340 miles. Thus if the rate from Chicago
to Seattle is $1 a hundredweight and the local rate on the
same commodity from Seattle to Spokane is 35 cents, the
rate from Chicago to Spokane, 340 miles nearer Chicago
and on the same line, is usually about 81.35 a hundred
weight.
“I know full well that if you have never looked into
the subject of railroad rates in America you will think that
I am in this either mad or imagining a vain thing,” says
Mr. Russell. ‘‘Yet I am but reciting the certainties of the
tariff sheets. All the railroads actually do charge to the
Spokane country what they charge to the Pacific coast plus
the rate back from the Pacific coast to the Spokane country.
They do it now, and they have been doing it for many
years, and they probably will keep on doing it; and so long
as they do it the Inland empire will stick where it is. This
is the way we develop the Northwest.”
The city of Milwaukee, the metropolis of the great state
of Wisconsin, has practically become a suburb of Chicago.
At the present time there are 45 fast passenger trains ply
ing on two railroads between the two cities, and they carry
between 1000 and 1500 passengers every day. This service,
which is probably the most remarkable of that between any
two large cities in the world, is maintained by the North
western and the St. Paul roads. The Northwestern has
a total of 23 trains between Chicago and Milwaukee, and
the St. Paul has a total of 22 trains. This is practically
two trains every hour of the day, and between the two roads
they are now carrying a total of approximately 40,000 peo
ple daily.
Discovery Roadhouse
JIM DRUMMOND, PROP.
Good, Clean, Comfortable Beds.
Warm Horse and Dog Stables
NO BAR SULLIVAN CITY
WONT. ENCOURAGE
MUSHROOM TOWNS
The bubble for a railroad town along the railroad has
been punctured before it could get fairly started. Of
course, eventually there will be interior towns, but the
prospects are slight for auy of them springing up in a
night, as it were, for there are too many difficuties in
the way.
Chief Deputy Marshal Shea, who has been looking
over the ground, has decided that Abercrombie iapils, or
what is called Steamboat Landing, will be the best place
for stationing a deputy marshal, in case ofie fcrneeded, or
assigned to the post by Marshal Love.
But even in the event that a marshal is stationed there,
it will not be an easy matter to secure licenses, from present
signs. Marshal Love has just telegraphed an order that
all applications for liquor licenses will be sent to him, in
stead of to the clerk of the court, as heretofore. In other
words he will pass upon them. As most people know, it
takes some time for a letter to reach Fairbanks, then it
must be passed upon by the judge and returned, which
will require another considerable period. In case of any
protests, it will be difficult to get the license at all.
Another great barrier to a mushroom town is the ob
jection of the railroad, which will not allow any liquor sold
in its right of way. It is interested in railroad building
more than anything else and does not want anything to
intervene which is likely to interfere with the work.
“Of course,” said F. C. Hawkins, the chief engineer,
“we would like to see a hundred towns with a population
of 100,000 each, since the railroad is being built for busi
ness and tonnage, but it should be borne in mind that the
railroad in a few days will be extended to Tasnuna, and
will again be extended from there, so that the people would
have to keep their buildings moving lively to keep up with
the work. In fact, to invest money for such a fleeting
possibility would not seem a good investment. We have
no desire to mislead anyone about the true conditions.”
Moreover, Marshal Love lias probably been “wised” to
the situation and will want pretty strong backing to peti
tions before he will approve them for districts where the
least objection may be raised.—Cordova North Star. »
CAN ESSUE PATENTS
TO SHINING GLASSES
It is not generally known that the land office at Fairbanks is
authorized to issue patents to mining claims without first sending
to Juneau for survey numbers. In all of the other offices through
out the territory, with the single exception of Nome, the issuance
of a patent is attended by this delay.
The advantages of the local office are so little known probably
because of the fact that no one has yet applied for a patent to
mining property, though the office has been established almost a
year. At Nome the miners were the best customers of the office
from the very moment it was opened, while here the only busi
ness of consequence that is done is the issuance of timber permits.
Considering the number of claims that are involved in litiga
tion throughout the Tanana district, it is the more strange that no
patents have been applied for, since the patenting of a mining
claim makes it immune from the jumper and trespasser.
The obtaining of a patent is a simple matter- Upon the loca
tion of a claim and the doing of work to the amount of $500, appli
cation may be made for the patent, and if, -within 30 days, there is
no protest filed, the patent is issued, upon the payment of a sum of
of between $450 and $500, which covers all the costs.
Once patented there need be no fear of jumpers and the
necessity of doing assessment work ceases.—Fairbanks Times.
The government lighthouse
board is planning acetyline gas
burners for signal lights along
the inside passage from Seattle
to Skagway.
Seward peninsula promises to
loosen up $5,000,000 in gold this
summer.
The Haines Pioneer Press
contends that the town has now
enough white residents to incor
porate under the Alaska law.
The Mt. Andrew mine on
Prince of Wales island shipped
2,400 tons of copper ore to the
Tacoma smelter during May.
THE JOY MAKER
A man came smiling down the street
And every one that he would meet
Unconsciously and happily gave echo to his smile;
And softly as he walked along
He hummed a strain of some old song—
A melody that showed the mood which held him all the while.
With hat uptilted as to brim
He saw the world look back at him,
He understood the world was good because his heart was glad,
And so he hummed the lively strain
Of that old rollicking refrain
That held as much of merriment as ever music had.
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And folks along the crowded way
Shared in his smile and song that day,
And singing, too. and smiling, too, they went about their toil;
Of where he went or whence he came
None knew; perhaps none knew his name—
But he was one who thought the day was far too good to spoil.
The old bookkeeper and the clerk,
The husky teamster at his work,
The banker and the merchant and the other folks about
Went humming something soft and low
And smiling in the sunny glow
That made a mock of shadows that were dancingtn and out.
Ho, bless the man that had the smile
And hummed his jolly song the while!
He did not know, he did not care, about the joy he made,
But like a ripple in a lake
His song set happiness awake,
His smile smoothed out the wrinkles where the hand of care was laid.
—Chicago Post.
FASHION ITEMS
A good potato sack will mako
A very stylish gown,
The narrower the better, so
You don’t by chance sit down.
Tho corset now must bo of steel,
All riveted before
You get It in the antique shops,
The kind Crusaders wore.
The scuttle used to carry coal
Now makes the swellest hat,
WJien trimmed with rubber auto tires
Put on quite plain and flat.
No puffs are large enough to suit
Tho coilfure of the spring,
So feather pillows pinned behind
Are now the proper thing.
— New York Press.
Auction Sale
An auction sale of condemned public
animals was held at the quartermas
ter's stable, Fort Gibbon, last Monday
morning at which three head of stock
was disposed of.
Lynn Smith for $35 secured a large
brunette mule with dreamy eyes, and
14 summers old.
Arthur Campbell paid $00 for a 10
year-old gray horse.
Joe Dehn bought a bay horse, 8 years
old, for $22.50.
Ozone Scholarship
Gov. Stubbs has established an ozone
scholarship at the State University
at Lawrence, Kan., amounting to $10,
000 a year, and provides that the stu
dent is to devote his entire time to the
investigation of ozone, and find practi
cal uses for it. Thisis a comparatively
unexplored field in chemistry and offers
a splendid opportunity for original re
search, according to the governor’s
views. _
The Two Alternatives
“We (jet some sad cases, said tlie at
tendant at the lunatic asylum to the
visitor, and ope tied the door to the first
cell.
Inside was a man sitting- on a stool
and gazing vacantly at the wall.
“Sad story,” said the attendant; “lie
was in love with a girl, but she mar
ried another man and he lost his rea
son from grief.”
They stole out softly, closing the
door behind them, and proceeded to the
next Inmate. Ihis cell was thickly
padded, and the man within was stark,
staring mad.
“Who is this?” inquired the visitor.
“This,” repeated the attendant,“this
is the oLlier man.”—-Illustrated Bits.
Martin Monasrnith, a prospec
tor, while engaged in beach min
ing at Anchor Point, on Cook
inlet, became partially paralyzed.
No one being near to render as
sistance, the unfortunate man
was compelled to crawl on his
hands and knees a distance of
six miles to Homer, the nearest
settlement.
Henry Shattuck, of Juneau,
will be clerk of the district court
of the First division under Judge
Lyons. _
A New York syndicate has
purchased the Dawson water
works and electric plant for
$500,000._
For a good shave or first-class hair
cut call at Matt Stewart’s barber shop.
Job Printing at The Leader office.
WiH Winter
in This City
Dawson, July 10.—A distinguished
party dropped down the Yukon from
Whitehorse yesterday afternoon on the
United States Army Y. M. C. A. barge,
Helen Gould. The barge is virtually a
a houseboat, and will tie up for a visit
at all the army posts along the Yukon.
Those aboard arc W. A. Reid and
wife, Captain Haskell, wife and child.
Miss Reynolds and Miss Davidson. Mr.
Reid is secretary of the Y. M. C. A.
branches in Alaska. Captain Haskell
is on his way to take his post at Fort
Gibbon. Miss Reynolds 's the daughter
of Colonel Reynolds, commanding the
22nd regiment at Fort Seward. Miss
Davidson is the daughter of the
adjutant.
All except the Haskell family will
take the launch Helen Gould, which is
now being prepared at Gibbon, and
will go up the Tanana river to Fair
banks. From Fairbanks they will go
to St. Michael.
Secretary Reid and wife will return
from St. Michael to Fort Gibbon, where
they will spend the winter.
YOU CAN GET
A Vanguard, 1’. S. Bartlett, Riverside,
or any Waltham Watch from Lynn
Smith at the price established by the
factory. Nugget Jewelry and Watch
work done, and satisfaction guaranteed.
Complete stock of Spectacles: eyes ex
amined free. Give him a call at post
office.
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Outfitted in Tanana
Two Circle miners—Ves Edwards and
Jdo McDonald—spent a couple of days
■in the city this week, and while here
they outfitted for a long trip in the Tn
nolco country.
Hair cutting, shaving, shampooing—
Matt Stewart’s barber shop.
Stanley House
HOT SPRINGS’ NEWEST HOTEL
First-Class festaarant Frank B. Stanley. Prop.
CHAS. e. ALLEN,
Attorney at Law
Rampart. Aica.
Legal Papers Carefully Drawn.
Stoddard
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THE
N ORTH E R N.
BEST WINES
LIGUORS AND
CIGARS.
Pool Tables lit Connection.
Stoddard Kay
NEW HAND
LAUNDRY
Mrs. A. A. Swanson, Late of Rampart
Starched Work a Specially
Second Ave., Rear of Yukon Saloon
Remember
The Grand Hotel
WHILE STOPPING IN TANANA
UP-TO-DATE ROOMS AND BUNKS, ALSO GOOD DOG HOUSES.
FINE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS,
Pool And Billiard Tables In Connection.
Charley Chanquist Prop.
When, you fail at every other Store
You Will Find What You
Want at
Tanana Commercial Company’s.
We are there with the Goods
GO TO THE
Golden North Restaurant.
While In Xanana For Good Meals
And Best Service.
BEST GOODS ON THE MARKET
Meals at all Hours.
ED LEE Proprietor.