TANANA LEADER
Sam. J Callahan.Publisher
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$5; one month, $1; single copies, 25 cents.
Advertising.—Rates on application. Right
reserved to reject any advertisement.
Thursday, August 25, 1910.
With this issue the publi
cation of the Leader is sus
pended indefinitely. It is not
likely to be resumed under
the present management.
The step was not decided
upon hastily, but is a result
of a well-thought-out conclu
sion that the publisher is un
able to make the paper a
benefit either to himself or
the town of Tanana.
Since it became known the
paper would go out of exist
ence the opinion has been
expressed that Tanana does
not need a newspaper. With
its dying breath the header
wants to combat that idea.
The very thing Tanana does
heed is a newpaper able and
willing to wait a year or two
for its own reward: a radical
newspaper, capable of dis
cerning and taking delight
in exposing the influences
that retard the growth of the
town and the development of
the surrounding country.
Such a newspaper would
be a benefit to Tanana and,
as a consequence, to a large
part of interior Alaska—for
Tanana is so situated that
town and a vast surrounding
country are interdependent
on the same progressive line
of action.
To the good friends who
have honored the Leader
with their patronage and ap
proval the publisher would
express his appreciation. He
hopes his term of idleness
will be short, and believes j
better things are near for
themselves and their adopted
country.
A PREDICTION
Before making its exit the
Leader would ask attention,
if not credit, in the role of a
prophet. At the outset, how
ever, it may as well be borne
in mind that the prophecy is
based upon the somewhat
uncertain assumption that
governmental and corporate
impedimenta will not inter
vene and nullify natural and
economic law.
Taking it, then, that events
will be allowed to move along
their natural course, we pre
dict that inside of five years
Tanana will be a prosperous
and progressive little city;
that it will be a benefit to
and be benefited by product
ive mining camps up and
down the Yukon river; that
the Gold Mountain district,
thirty-odd miles below, will
yield gold for a long term of
years; that Morelock and
other up-river creeks will be
worked, and that Tanana
will become headquarters for
the prospectors who will
explore the country north
ward even unto the Arctic
divide.
In this prophecy we would
be glad to include the early
dissolution of all the ele
ments of repression and de
pression that have so far
blocked the wheels of prog
ress; but prophecy is an un
certain business at best, and
it is just as well not to pur
sue the matter too far.
SHOVELING IN
ON MASON GREEK
Charley Coloumbe and a crew of four
men are shoveling in on Mason creek.
We have not heard how the ground is
running, but John Manook, who was on
Mason creek this summer, said last
Sunday that Mr. Coloumbe has a good
sized cut sluiced out that he believes
will run pretty well.
Go to Nussbaum’s Barbershop for first
class work.
GOLD FROM
LYNX GREEK
Between 5 and 6 ounces of
beautiful coarse gold was
brought up from Lynx creek,
Gold Mountain district, a few
days ago. It was sluiced out
of 200 small buckets of dirt,
at least half of which was
waste, taken from a shallow
hole put down by Sam Ac
sakotich. The ground was
wet and slumped so badly
that it was impossible to keep
the waste from mixing with
the pay gravel.
Acsakotich has devoted
nearly the whole summer to
an effort to construct a bed
rock drain. If the drain can
be made effective he will
have very good pay.
QUAIL GREEK IS
MAKINC GOOD NOW
A well-authenticated report comes
from Rampart that Quail creek is mak
ing good as a profitable producer of
gold.
Quail is a tributary of the Trouble
some. Desultory prospecting has been
going on there since 1898, but it was
only last year that the productive ca
pacity of the creek was proven by actual
results.
Near the mouth of the creek Olsen &
Cassidy, with a crew of four men, are
now shoveling in with satisfactory re
sults. Billy Nichols and partner have a
splash dam at work three miles higher
up and will have a big cut ready to
shovel in next season.
IMPORTANT DEAL
IN REAL ESTATE
Rather an important piece of property
changed hands last Tuesday. Russell
Walle purchased from Mrs. Ida Johnson
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St. James’ Mission
Holy Eucharist the first Sunday in each
month at 11 a. m. Each following Sunday,
Evening Prayer at 8 p. in. Every Wednes
day evening, Evening Prayer and Litany at
8 o’clock. WINTHROP PEABODY,
Priest in Charge.
Catholic Church
Every Sunday, mass and sermon at 10:30
a. m. At 7:30 p. m. special service for the
soldiers. Short instruction and benediction
of the Bl. Sacrament.
All are cordially invited.
H. FERRON, S.J., Paster.
Notice to Creditors.
The estate of Frank J. McGraw, deceased.
Notice is hereby f-iven by the undersigned
A. G. Frenzel, administrator of the estate of
Frank J. McGraw, deceased, to the creditors
of and all persons having claims against the
said deceased, to exhibit them with the nec
essary vouchers, within six months after the
first publication of this notice, to the under
signed administrator in the town of Tanana,
Territory of Alaska, the same being the
place for the transaction of the business of
the said estate.
ADOLF GUSTAV FRENZEL,
Administrator.
Date of first publication, Aug. 4,1910.
her lot, with buildings, at $1,400.
The ground fronts 80 feet and faces
both on First and Second streets. There
are three completed buildings on it and
two cabins partly up which Mr. Walle
will finish this fall.
Mrs. Johnson, in consequence, leaves
for the outside on the steamer Susie.