Tanana Leader
Yol. II
TANAKA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1910
No. 23
LEG BROKEN
IN BALL GAME
Fairbanks Wireless Man Had Bad
Mishap Last Sunday.
Fairbanks, June 8.—Thomas C.
Gower, engineer of the wireless station
here, broke his left leg last Sunday dur
ing a ball game between the Californias
of Fairbanks and a team of soldiers, the
latter being composed partly of the de
tachment recently coming up from Fort
Gibbon. Gower was jumping for a high
ball when a runner struck him. The
crowd raised $146 for the injured man.
The soldier’s pitcher, Fred Church,
went bad in the sixth inning and al
lowed the Californias to make ten runs.
Score: Californias 15, soldiers 5.
CASEY MORAN TO
WRITE FOR COLLIER’S
Fairbanks, June 8.—B. H. (Casey)
Moran, the former Dawson and Fair
banks newspaperman, has been engaged
by Collier’s Weekly to write a series of
articles on the causes of political dis
turbances in Alaska and treating on the
resources of the territory.
FIRST WHITEHORSE
BOATS ON THE WAY
WTliitehorse, Y. T., June 8.—The first
boats after the opening of Lake Le Barge
are leaving this city today loaded with
stampeders.
Twenty-seven tons of mail for interior
points is being forwarded.
Steamships sailing from Seattle last
week carried 1,100 tons of freight and
250,000 feet of lumber for the Iditarod.
Another Arrastre Being Built.
Fairbanks, June 8 —Billy McDon
ough, who holds an option on the Cen
ter Star lead, on Skoogev gulch, is build
ing an arrastre for milling the ore.
Deputy Donovan May Remain.
Deputy Marshal Donovan returned
from Fairbanks on the Seattle No. 3 and
is doing business at the old stand. Cap
tain Donovan will probably remain at
Tanana until the arrival of Masshal
Lsve from the outsids, and possibly may
stay permanently. It has been several
times stated in Fairbanks papers that
he will be sent to the Iditarod, but Mar
shal Love may order otherwise. It may
be here said, however, that a Fairbanks
official on his way outside a few days
ago said Tanana wrould not be much
longer without a regular deputy.
The Teddy H. arrived from Fairbanks
at noon today and will leave for Idit
arod a«t 8 o’clock tomorrow morning.
li/IT. M’KINLEY
CLIMBED AGAIN
Photographed the Flag Planted at
the Former Ascent.
Fairbanks, June 8.—Bill Taylor, Clias.
McGonigle and Pete Anderson have re
turned from a second climb of Mount
McKinley. They were instructed by
Tom Lloyd, the head of the party who
first accomplished the feat, to go as far
as possible and photograph the flag
planted on the summit on the former
occasion. They contineud to the sum
mit of the south peak and photographed
the flag on the summit of the north
peak. _
SOMEBODY’S
BAD BLUNDER
About fifty Iditarod stampeders from
Dawson were landed in Tanana from
the steamer Schvvatka early Monday
morning. They had through tickets to
the new’ diggings, but the Schwatka
proceeded up the Tanana river and left
her human freight disconsolate. The
N. N. officials could give them no hope
of an early boat to take them to their
destination, and complaints of the
stranded argonauts turned the atmos
phere blue and tinged the spring breezes
with a smell of sulphur.
There was a bad blunder. The local
company officials freely acknowledge
that; but they were powerless to apply
a remedy. The officials having author
ity in such cases are all in the Iditarod,
and messages down river in quest of
hurry-up communication met with no
response.
Yesterday the company offered to re
deem all tickets as the only wray out,
and a good many of the disappointed
ones accepted the proposition, and are
drifting away in whatever manner that
offers.
LABORERS CRUELLY
IMPOSED UPON
Cordova, Alaska, June 8.—Twro hun
dred Montenegrins, who were recently
sent here by fake Seattle employment
concerns and w’ho have been living off
the charity of their countrymen ever
since, were arrested as cagrants June 4,
but on the motion or ihe district attor
ney the cases against them w’ere dis
missed. The arrest had been planned
so that the federal authorities would
care for them. The city council held a
special session and decided to telegraph
the attorney general of the United States
the plight of the men, who are in a
helpless condition. A gunboat has been
asked for to take them back to Seattle.
The Leader is on sale at the Postofhce
Lobby.
COOKE CASE
BEGINS JUNE 15
Court Martial to Try Former Fort
Gibbon Commander.
Washington, June 8.—The trial by
court martial of Lieutenant-Colonel
George F. Cooke, formerly commanding
officer at Fort Gibbon, in connection
with the defalcation of Private William
Lane, who disappeared with over $10,
000, is to commence in this city June 15.
The trial wras originally ordered to take
place at Vancouver Barracks June 1,-but
the order was countermanded and the
sitting transferred to the capital.
ADVERSE REPORT
HO. 1 COMES OUT
A correspondent of the Fairbanks
Times sent his paper a message dated
Iditarod City June 1, via Kaltag, June
4, saying:
“A summary of the creeks shows that
seven miles of pay have been uncovered.
None of it is extraordinary. The camp
is a good one ffor a population of about
1,000. Those who are here are advising
their friends elswhere not to come uow.
The river is falling rapidly. Later
steamers will not be able to make these
upper towns. Many of those who came
on the stampede are ready to turn
back.”
Preacher Coming a Hard Way.
Dawson, June 8.—Rev. Frank Oliver,
the veteran Canadian preacher, is on the
way to Dawson by way of Fort Macken
zie and the Porcupine river.
White Seal Libeled.
Fairbanks, June 8.—A. D. Smith,
former engineer of the White Seal, is
libeling that boat for $745, claimed as
balance due for wages ander contract.
WHERE THE NEW
CITY WILL BE BUILT
The steamer Tanana landed her pas
sengers, including the Northern Com
mercial Company officials and others
concerned in locating the site for the
metropolis of the Iditarod, at a point on
the Iditarod river eight miles by land
from discovery, Otter creek. The river
cuts a high, dry ridge there, the ridge
continues in a straight line to Otter
creek, and there the city will undoubt
edly be. It is probable the name will
be Iditarod City.
This information is not official, but it
is the best to be had and is substantially
correct.
Go toNussbaum’s Barbershop for first
class work.
MINNEAPOLIS
NOT YET OFF
Iditaroders May Whistle for Their
Cherished Freight.
The steamboat bulletin this morning
announces the steamer Minneapolis still
on a bar near Hot Springs. She left
Fairbanks for Iditarod some ten days
ago and was to have been among the
first to arrive in the new district. She
has much freight, including perishables,
and on at least a portion of it half the
charges had been paid in advance. The
consignees who went on ahead of their
shipments stand to lose heavily by the
failure of the Minneapolis to get
through. Whether she will get off at
all or not is said to be questionable.
OLD GOLD ROBBERY
CASE IS RECALLED
Fairbanks, June 8.—The claim of Jack
Hayes and P. R. McGuire against the
Alaska-Pacific Express Company for $5,
000 as reward for the capture of Bobbie
Miller in connection with the Tanana
gold robbery in 1906 has been settled
for $500, and the case dismissed.
CORDOVAN CHOICE
FOR CANDIDATE
Cordova, Alaska, June 8.—Judge John
Goodell has been named as Cordova’s
choice for Republican candidate for del
egate.
The New Goldstream Paystreak.
Fairbanks, June 8.—Whitman & Mur
ray, of Engineer, and Walter King and
Tom McLain, of Dome, are moving
large plants to the third-tier paystreak,
8 and 9 Goldstream.
Yucatan in Dry Dock.
Victoria, B. C., June 8.—The wrecked
steamship Yucatan is at the Esquimalt
dry dock. _
Geologists for Iditarod.
Whitehorse, Y. T., June 8.—A party
of the United States geological survey
is leaving here today for the Iditarod
and Kuskokwim rivers.
Leaving for Old Man Today.
Joe Shaw and Bob Buchan, with a
packhorse, are leaving for the Old Man
country today. After reaching the Old
Man Mr. Buchan will continue on to
Wiseman. He carries along private
mail for Koyukuk parties. Mr. Shaw,
with the horse, will go to the locality
where St. Peter and Mike Kenally are
established, and will prospect in that
region the balance of the season.