GOLDEN NORTH CAFE
Carrying the Best Supplies on the Market
Oysters, Fish and Game in Season
Centrally Located. In Connection with Grand Hotel
ED Y. LEE, Proprietor
THE PLACE TO STOP
GOLDEN NORTH HOTEL
Fine Rooms for Transient Guests
ED Y. LEE, PROPRIETOR
Best Cane Sugar, 9 lbs. $1.00
“ “ “ 50 lbs. 5.00
Old Potatoes..12 lbs. 1.00
“ “ . sack 5.00
New “ .8 lbs. 1.00
“ “ .... 100 lbs. 10.00
Eggs (Petalumas), doz. .50
“ case 13.50
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ALL NEW GOODS.
Tanana Commercial Co.
Hot Springs District.
S. R. Dickson, locally known as Scotty ;
Gaylor, came in from Hot Springs last
Tuesday and gave the Leader the follow
ing news items:
An influx of laborers has come from
Fairbanks, and they are idle on account
shortage of water.
Johnson and Alexander are getting
$2 to the foot on discovery, Eureka,
ground formerly owned by Jerome Chute
and associates.
Frank M. Smith has bought one of
Jim Blodgett’s teams, and is doing well
in freighting between Eureka and Hot
Springs. He hauled all the machinery
from Thanksgiving, most of which was
taken by Manley and Aitken to the
Iditarod to be installed on Flat creek.
‘Jimmie Climie and associates cleaned
up $8,000 on No. 8 Little Manook, Ram
part district.
Abe Collins and George Cowan are go
ing to Nulato to engage in business. Abe
will run a pool table and George-will
open a watchmaker’s shop.
Gill Edgar on the Abe Lincoln asso
ciation is in fairly good pay.
Jack McKenzie is in good pay below
Jean Sullivan on Cache.
Jean Sullivan is cleaning up $1,600 a
week, clear, on Cache.
Howe and Cleveland are in good mon
ey above Jean Sullivan on Cache. They
get pans as high as $48.
Prospectors on Boulder Creek, which
empties into Fish lake, are getting good
prospects.
Joe Eglar, on Tofty, is in good pay and
is running day and night shifts.
THE PROSPECTOR.
Always he’s trampling barriers down,
Tho’ sometimes a-slaking his thirst in
in town.
For the hills are a’ealling, calling,
He can’t resist their calling;
Thro’ wind and snow,
Comes the call to go:
Tho’ it’s sixty below and falling.
Ever the lure of the wild is there,
And the far-off strike is the strike that
is fair;
Pack the sled and get a-mushing;
Half of his time he’s a-mushing;
Or a-breaking his tack,
With a man-killing pack,
For he’s bound to be first in the
rushing.
When melting snows make brawling
stream,
And imps that twist the seeker’s
dream;
’Tis then that he thinks of pan
ning;
He mus’n’t forget'his panning:
For the rim may show,
That the streak below
Holds pay for his years of plan
ning.
Where nature in her primal mood,
Flung o’er the aeons, solitude;
The vandal starts a-sinking;
He’s a regular mole for sinking;
And ever his pick,
Strikes click, click, click;
While the stars down his shaft
are winking.
When joyous sounds of spring are
heard
With lusty song of stream and bird;
He loves to get at the sluicing;
O it’e joy to be a-sluicing:
When the cleanup’s done,
And the homestake won;
In the world he goes a-cruieing.
_ J. B.
See Jack Cavanaugh for well water and
light express. Scavenger work a specialty.
Former Assistant District Attorney
Cecil H. Clegg was in Tanana the first
of the week bound outside. Mr. Clegg
recently resigned his office because of a
ruling by the department of justice for
bidding prosecuting attorneys to engage
in private law practice. He will return
to Alaska in the fall.
See Jack Cavanaugh for light express de
livery of all kinds.
Local and Personal
Charley Colouinbe is in town from
the Iditarod, and don’t think well of j
that region. Parties interested might j
learn something by talking with him.
A. P. Gilmour, of the Fairbanks Times
editorial staff, was in town from Satur- !
day to Monday awaiting a boat for the j
Iditarod.
There was a white frost this morning 1
At 3 o’clock the board walks were cov
ered with it. It is hoped it did no seri- j
ous damage to the gardens.
The new well in front of the N. C. j
Co.’s premises is 40 feet deep and con
tains 10 feet of water. It is not intended !
for public use, but is to supply the com
pany’s post, the mail force and the
steamboats with water, and will be
equipped and maintained also as a pro
tection against tire. It will be housed
and equipped with a hand pump and a
large boiler. Steam hose will facilitate
the taking of water to till the barrels or
wash the boilers of steamboats. Hose
will also be in readiness in case a fire
should start in the store or warehouses.
The X. C. office force have received a
large, handsome safe for the protection ’
of the company’s books and valuables, j
of which they are duly proud.
V. 0. Green returned from Fairbanks j
a few days ago with equipment for con- j
trolling the water, and proceeded to the !
scene of his prospecting on Triple creek, j
He believes that within three weeks he
will determine whether there is pay on !
the grounn or not.
Late letters received by Hot Springs ;
friends of Frank Stevens sav he and j
Jimmy Lawrence have staked some!
promising quartz claims at the head oi'
Flat creek, lditarod. Frank pronounced
Flat creek good.
Henry Papin returned from the Idita
rod on the Herman. He said he did
not see any chance to get in on located 1
ground, and the mushing was so bad he
did not feel like going prospecting.
The opening of the Golden North
Hotel (formerly the Kentucky Res
taurant) last Sunday was taken advan
tage of by many who wanted a good j
dinner. They got the good dinner all
right and were unstinting in words of
admiration for the large, handsomely
appointed dining room.
Douglas Rodman of silver City, N. M.,
is visiting his brother, W. B. Rodman,
of the Rodman Alaska Trading Com- ;
pany. !
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hyde came down on j
the Scliwatka from a visit to Fairbanks !
and are returning to Nulato, where Mr. j
Hyde is local manager for the Northern j
Commercial Company.
Go toXussbaum’s Barbershop for first- j
! class work.
Glen R. Metsker, special agent of the
general land office, paidTanana a visit a
few days ago. While here he approved
the applications of J. C. Dehn for 2,000
cords of standing timber, and of A. G.
Vachon for 1,400 cords.
This practically disposes of all the
standing firewood in hauling reach of
Tanana.
It gives a one-side view' of the United
States conservation policy as it applies
in Alaska. Of course there is another
side, as there is two sides to all policies
and questions. But the fact remains
that inconvenience is likely to result to
a number of residents of this vicinity—
then, too, it costs the United States ap
proximately $10 for ever dollar of wood
tax collected in interior Alaska.
Steamer Movements
ARRIVALS.
Julia B. from St. Michael. July 7, 7:25 a. in.
Monarch from St. Michael. July 8, 4 a. in.
J.P. Light from St. Michael, July 8, 9:35
a. m.
Schwatka from Fairbanks, July 8, 11:50
a. m.
Gen. Jacobs from Fairbanks, July 9, 8:25
p. m.
John J. Healy from Fairbanks, July 10, 4:30
a. m.
Herman from St. Michael, July 10, 8:30 a.m.
St. Michuel from Dawson, July 10, 3:30 p m.
Robert Kerr from St. Michael, July 10, 7:15
p. m.
Messenger from Kaltag, July 11. 6:10 a. m.
Minneapolis from Iditarod, July 11, 12:45
p. m.
Susie from St. Michael. July 12,10:50 p. m.
Schwatka from Fairbanks, July 19, 8:25
p. m.
Koyukuk from Fairbanks, July 14, 2:30
a. m.
Sarah from Daw son, July 14, 8:45 a. m.
DEPARTURES.
Julia B. for Fairbanks, July 8, 3:35 p. m.
Healy for Fairbanks, July 10.
Light for St. Michael, July 10, noon.
Schwatka for Fairbanks, July 10, 7:30 p. m.
Robert Kerr for Fairbanks, July 10, 9:10
p. m.
Herman for St. Michael, July 11,1:10 a. m.
St. Michael for Dawson, July 11, 1:45 a. in.
General Jacobs for St. Michael, July 11,
12:10 p. in.
Jeff Davis for St. Michael, July 11, 12:10
p. in.
Minneapolis for Fairbanks, July 12, 9 p. m.
Susie for Dawsou, July 13, 10:35 p. m.
Koyukuk for Hetties, July 14, 3:30 u. m.
Schwatka for Fairbanks, July 14,12:15 p.m.
Sarah for St. Michael, July 14, 8;25 p. m.
Where the Laugh Will Come In.
The statement in the Leader lust week that
Yachon Brothers had bought Riley’s road
house and would open and stock a trading
post there with five tons of nice fresh goods
cost A. G. Yachon a little good-natured kid
ding. The Leuder fell fifty tons below’ the
mark: it intended to say FIFTY-FIVE tons.
The goods will be forwarded to Tolovauo
ubout August 20. Then the only luugh that
w ill he coming w ill he by the numerous per
sons w ho will find it convenient and agreea
ble to trade with the Tolovano Trading
Company.
IS JOSLIN RUNNING TOO?
Falcon Joslin, the Tanana Valley
Railroad man, arrived at Tanana from
the outside on the steamer St. Michael
last Sunday, lie was met here by
friends with whom he proceeded to
Fairbanks.
It is said Mr. Joslin has been notified
by a committee of five that he is the
choice of the Alaska Democracy for del
egate to congress. It is also said he
has accepted the nomination. Paren
thetically we will venture to suggest
that that is a mighty funny way to nom
inate a candidate, especially a Demo
cratic candidate.
Mr. Joslin is justly recognized as an
intelligent and energetic man Yet he
possesses a railroad of which it has
been remarked that it is operated at a
loss to himself and his patrons. There
was a time when his road could have
been constructed from the Yukon nver
a distance not to exceed 120 miles to
Chena and could have earned a profit
while benefiting the people of the Tan
ana valley. We do not know why Mr.
Joslin did not do this; but we can con
ceive that a fear of being squeezed by
larger capital might have deterred a
prudent man.
Mr. Joslin knows. We sincerely wish
him and his railroad well, and hope not
to begrudge him the votes he receives
for delegate.
H. Hickey and Frank McGraw left in
a small boat for the Iditarod last Mon
day night. They are well outfitted.