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Oysters, Fish and Game in Season
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\ ED Y. LEE, Proprietor
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We Have a Full Line of
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THE TANAKA BESTADRANT
Best Meals in the Camp
Short Orders at All Hours
B ©f ..everything on the Market.
Service unexcelled in the North
Fresh and Delicious Bread, Pies and Pastries Always on Hand
GARDENS ARE LATE
AND BUGS ARE BAD
The season is backward and gardening
can scarcely be said to have commenced.
So far as the Leader has been informed
William Fortune is the only one who
has planted up to within a day or
two ago. His place at the upper
end of town is very favorably situated
and the ground is dry. He put in his
potatoes May 18.
Insects are destroying many plants in
the hotbeds. John A. Clinton is one
whose plants have suffered a great deal,
and the strange part of it is that he had
taken extraordinary precautions against
the ravages of the pests. He subjebted
the soil for liis hotbeds to a high degree
of heat for several hours, before filling
the boxes; but the insects appeared
nevertheless. It is a question whether
eggs withstood the high temperature, or
the insects have made incursions from
out of doors. The pests are red and
resemble small spiders.
MOVEMENT OF
THE STEAMERS
Schwatka, down, Hot Springs 7:45
this morning.
Healy, Tana and Weare at Chena.
Seattle No. 3, down, Chena 6:55 this
morning.
Dusty Diamond and Delta, down,
Chena 6 this morning.
Tanana, down, Chena about noon.
Minneapolis sails from Fairbanks to
night for Iditarod.
Evelyn left Fairbanks 10 last night.
Martha Clow, Samson and Caribou at
Fairbanks. _
A High Compliment.
Yesterday Joe Anicicli was. showing a
down-river traveler, an old acquaint
ance, the fine bar and handsome rooms
of the Tower House. “Yes, Joe,” said
the man, “it is a fine place—a very fine
place. In fact, it would be a credit to
the Iditarod itself.”
Go toNussbaum’s Barbershop for first
class work.
Post Notes
The U. S". A. transport General Ja
cobs is scheduled to sail up the Tanana
this afternoon.
Mrs. Clayton, wife of Hugh Clayton of
the signal corps, will arrive on the re
turn trip of the General J. W. Jacobs.
Commissary Sergeant J. H. Carson,
of the subsistent department, U. S. A., j
reported for duty on board the General
Jacobs---the 15th of this month, lie
in over the trail, barely arriving in time
to witness the breaking of the Yukon,
and of course he had a hard trip.
Mrs. Van E. lioddy, now at Hot
Springs, will be one of the passengers
who will return with the General Jacobs.
Lieut. Tliomlinson, the quartermaster
at the post, will leave on the Jacobs for
McCarty and other stations which he
will inspect, and will make the return
trip with the Jacobs.
First Lieutenant Chase, accompanied
by Sergeant Daniels of the hospital
corps, will leave on the Jacobs for a
tour of the telegraph stations, to render
medical attendance to men on the line.
Corporals Barns and Forest, of the
post, have been ordered to Tolovano
and Chena respectively to take charge
of the construction parties at those
places. They will probably not be able
to join their organizations until the lat
ter part of September. When the
Twenty - second Infantry leaves this
point there will be approximately twen
ty-eight enlisted men left here to carry
on the construction work and care for
the stations on the telegraph line. They
will later be relieved by the incoming
troops and will leave at once for the
outside en route to Fort Sam Houston,
Texas.
Brig. Gen. M. P. Maus, of the depart
ment of the Columbia, is expected to
arrive at this post some time this sum
| mer to make his annual inspection.
The new gymnasium, now under con
struction at the post, is progressing with
marked rapidity and in a short time will
be the finest building in this part of the
country. There will be a full gymna
sium outfit and stage.
The annual target practice is now at
hand and the men of the garrison are
all busy. They are now engaged in the
instruction practice, but will soon finish
that. When the instruction practice is
finished they will start on the regular
course. It is reported that the men are
doing fine work.
Brief Local Mention
I. W. Kelly and Matt Agenter were
added to the crew of the steamer Delta
last Saturday.
! The post sawmill is this week finish
ing the cut of timber on hand from last
year, amounting to about 150,000 feet.'
The planer will continue operation, but
the saw will be in idleness pending the
arrival of logs on the new contracts.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Rodman returned
last Friday from a ten-day outing in the
Tanana flats, whither they had gone to
enjoy the spring shooting. Unfortunate
ly Mrs. Rodman became ill and the sport
was nearly entirely neglected, although
game was very plentiful.
Mr. and Mrs. Woods will occupy the
nice residence on lower Front street to
be vacated by Mr. and Mrs. Williams on
their departure for the Iditarod.
Cy Noble, Joe Twan and Charley Har
per arrived at 2:30 this afternoon from
Hot Springs in a small boat. They are
going to Iditarod.
On the Stampede
Frank G. Manley, the magnate of Hot
Springs, accompanied by a party of
eleven men, reached Tanana Tuesday
afternoon and departed at midnight.
He has a launch and expects to return
soon. Mr. Manley looks for a profitable
season in his Hot Springs mining opera
tions and his ground in the Fairbanks
district ha« recently made a remarkable
showing. C. A. Duffy, the well-known
Hot Springs blacksmith, was with the
party.
Ed Grider and Mike Galvin, with a
horse in a scow, started at 2 o’clock yes
terday morning.
Rudolf Heine, formerly of Rampart,
came from Hot Springs and passed on
at midnight Tuesday.
Gordon C. Betties and M. W. Sinclair
started this forenoon. It is understood
they will go to the Kuskokwim.
Bill Roberts, William Wifds, Felix
Seppi and Jack O’Connors, who quit the
Fairbanks fire departmens because their
pay was reduced, passed at noon yester
day.
Final Dance by Miss Betties.
Miss Marguerite Betties has announced
a dance to be given Tuesday, May 31, at
A. B. Hall, commencing at 8:30 p. m.,
which will mark the close of the season
for the very successful series of lessons
given to her class in dancing. Refresh
ments will be served and an enjoyable
evening will be had.
Miss Bettles’s pupils have been well
pleased with her painstaking tutorship.
Court to Take Long Vacation.
Following the departure of Judge
Lyons for Juneau about July 1 there
will probably be a vacation of the dis
trict court until some time in Septem
ber, when Judge Overfield will be in the
harness, says the Fairbanks News-Mi
ner. Judge Overfield will doubtless
start for Fairbanks about July 1.
There are fourteen cases bound over
to the grand jury.
New Boat Completed.
The new light-draft towboat built for
the Iditarod waters by Williams and
Van Horn was launched last Saturday
night. The fittings are now all in and
the canopy up, and and as soon as some
slight changers are made in the wheel,
now under way, the boat will be in
readiness for her voyage.
It was built by Anderson and Nobbs
after a model furnished by Mr. Williams,
and its graceful lines are admired by
all who see them.
Business Change at Rampart.
Julius Ralimstorf has absorbed the
mercantile establishment of M. P.
Fleischman at ltampart and is now do
ing business in the N. A. T. & T. build
ing. Mr. Fleischman has also moved
the postoftice into that building.
Miners Scarce Now.
Parties from Hot Springs say miners
are in demand in that district at $6 per
day and board. The dirt is washing up
far better than expected.
C. R. Peck arrived from Rampart
with his launch and scow today and will
soon be off to Iditarod.
Jack Cavanaugh will open a cold
drinks and fruit stand, with barbershop
and pool tobies in connection, instead of
going to the Iditarod.
Ernest Nehoff, who was with the
Golden North Restaurant last year, is
just from the outside en route to the
i Iditarod.