Comic Opera
Next Summer
A letter was received per last
mail postmarked La Grande,
Ore., Nov. 23. It was to The
Leader, and was from Mr. Sidney
Cox. who will be remembered by
our citizens as the splendid com
edian with the Taylor Stock Co.,
which played at Post hall several
nights fall while enroute from
Fairbanks to the Outside. Mr.
Cox and the Mullally sisters were
—at the time of writing—taking
a ‘‘lay off” and preparing '‘to
form a musical comedy company
playing musical comedies, comic
operas and vaudeville. It is my
intention to break the company
in this winter and have them up
in from six to eight pieces before
we enter the land of great prom
ise—Alaska. We will have a
company of 15 people, eight
chorus ladies, and they will all
have to be singers and give the
people of Alaska strictly come
dies and comic opera with good
music. We all have the Alaska
microbe (not the iceworm) but
the desire and longing to be back
again. We do nothing but shout
praises for Alaska at the least
opportunity, and why shouldn’t
we? The company will be called
‘Sidney Cox and Mullally Sisters
Comedy Company.’ We may take
in Valdez and Cordova on our
way in. . . T. Daniel Frawley
has a stock company in Winni
peg, but has only one memento
A LITTLE INCIDENT
Many years ago, in the early days of Dodge City, Kansas, when
society was in a crude state, and when the wheels of justice moved with
a good deal of deliberation, there dwelt a justice of the peace and ex
officio coroner named McIntosh
This advance agent of square-toed justice didn't know much about
law, but lie had made the subject ot fees a life study. He was there
iore called "McIntosh on Fees.’’
McIntosh was generally wrapped in the dignity of his important
official position and fully impressed with the,magnitude and majesty of
the law. Sometimes, however, mercy tempered justice to that extent
that McIntosh would remit the flue with the understanding that the
fees were to be paid.
He never remitted the fees.
The fines were never excessive, but the fees were generally pretty
stout. He almost always mentioned the fact that in each case there
had been a good deal of "folio writin’,’’ and therefore the costs would
l>e pretty heavy. What "folio writin’ ’’ consists of we are not able to
state, but McIntosh on Fees was the man who knew how to dish up
this sort of trimmings.
One day McIntosh on Fees presided over a case wherein there was
a jury, and after deliberating on the case for a day ttie jury rendered a
verdict against the defendant, who hadn’t a cent on earth.
Then the majesty of the law raised up on its hind legs and made
itself felt. McIntosh on Fees discharged the jury, and, with a few pre
liminary remarks, vetoed the verdict and reversed the effect of the en
tire proceedings by rendering a judgment against the plaintiff, thus se
curing the costs.
The plaintiff appealed the case, but was killed one morning before
breakfast prior to the session of the circuit court which was to dispose
of the case.
McIntosh on Fees didn’t know the difference between a quo war
ranto and the erysipelas, but he had more dignity than the chief justice
of the supreme court of the United States.
Once, however, his dignity was seiiously ruffled. He didn’t know
what to say. It was about the clo^e of his official career.
. An old snoozer, whom we will call Spangler, because that was not
hi* name, lived with his partner out on a hay ranch, about nine miles
from Dodge City. We will'call him Spangler partly because he is still
alive, and he is said to be a bad man with a double barrel shotgun.
.It is not our intention to be personal where a “man is-concerned
who is trying to live a different life, and who is at all reckless with fire
arms. Of course a man’s official record is the property of the public;
still it has' never been our policy to attack the official acts of a man who
would, in an unguarded moment, be careless of human life.
Well, Spangler and his partner had in their employ a negro named
Emancipation Higgins. One evening Emancipation Higgins, who was
the cook, in wiping the dishes, forgot himself and polished the majolica
butter plate on his overalls. This so irritated Spangler’s partner that
lie‘took a Smith and Wesson revolver of the old pattern and shot a hole
into the intellect of Emancipation Higgins, through which his immor
tal soul leaked out and winged its way to a brighter land.
• Although both Spangler and his partner regretted the unfortunate
direction that affairs have taken, they decided that it would he better,
considering the highly exciied'state of affairs in Kansas, to keep thf
matter from the public. So they buried Emancipation in a very un
oAentatious manner at one corner of the corral. The exercises were
very brief, and, no doubt, nothing would have been said of the afiair
had it not been that Spangler and his-partner had a misunderstanding
after a while, tyid the former got the ’woist of it. While lie was get
ting the swelling out of his eye and recovering from the desolating ef
fects of his encounter, Spangler resolved that he would atone for his
past life in a measure by going to the authorities and confessing that his
partner was a murderer.
V-As soon as he had made this resolve his heart.seemed lighter and
his conscience more clear than it had been for years. He determined
to'make a full and free confession relative to his partner, no matter how
roiich the effort might cost him.
' - About half past n one summer evening McIntosh on Fees was
wakened and called to his door by Spangler, who told him that he had
a confession to make, He told McIntosh that his partner was the most
bloodthirsty unhung cut throat in Kansas; and asked the acting coroner
to'iavestigate the lecent murder of Emancipation Higgins.
V “’To save time,” said Spangler, "I have exhumed the remains and
brought them with me; or enough of them, at least, to hold an inquest
°nk ‘
f He then took a gannysaek from his saddle, where it had been tied,
asijipideliberftfefy untying it extracted from its sombre depths the. head
of Emancipation Higgins.
V It was something that McIntosh on Fees was not prepared for.
->*Tht negro was not a handsome man even in life and when fixed up
iujiis gocxtclotbe^, but now- in the chaste'ned mbouligbt, with a large
aportnre in the side of his head, there.-was something- about the gory
frdgtneuts of the late lamented that seemed' to cast a gloom over the
wltpje face of nature.
f‘All the~restj>f.the night McIntosh on Fees lay awake. Whenever
heNjrould try t£> go to sleep, the hollow sightless .eyes of Emancipation
Higgins would-seem to look down into his face, as if inquiring dumbly
thejTfesult of the inquest.
: -The next morning McIntosh on Fees resigned his office, and with
fhe archives turned: over to his successor in office there was a gunny
aaclc containing th£ material for a phrenological post mortem examina
tion. BiH Nye.
of the company he had in Alaska
—Mr. Conway. Mr. Frawley
went direct to New York city and
engaged his people^”
SIGNAL CORPS BOYS
GAVE FINE DANCE
The members of the signal corps
at Fort Gibbon proved themselves
excellent hosts last Fiiday night
while a large party of friends en
joyed a happy evening of feasting
and dancing. The committee on
arrangements, of which W. J. Rain
was chaiiman, were untiring in
their efforts to make everybody
enjoy themselves, and from the ex
pressions of delight made by the
guests, they were most successful,
and the party will long he remem
bered as one of the social successes
of Fort Gibbon.
The Peerless orchestra, composed
of members of the signal corps, fur
nished splendid music for the danc
ing, and the spread was certainly
elaborate and well served.
Will Lobby for Railroad
Ex Senator George Turner, Col.
! Morrison and O. G. Raberee, ot
Spokane, directors of the newly or
ganized Alaska Northern railroad,
are now in Washington and will
remain indefinitely in the interest
of their project to take over and
complete the Alaska Central under
! the new name. I/iberee reiterates
his claim that he controls the
A.la-ka Central and says lie may
ask congress to grant him aid both
for the construction of the road and
for development sf the properties of
the Matanuska.
The Leader is delivered by carrier to
all parts of the city — $1 ppr month.
ST. JAIMES’ CHAPEL
First Sunday in each month. Holy
.Communion 11 a. m. Other Sundays.
Evening Prayer. 7:30 p. in.
Winthrop Peabody,
Priest in Charge.
Stodciard Kay
THE
NORTHERN.
BEST WINES
LIQUORS AND
CIGARS.
Pool Tables In Connection.
Stoddard Kay
CHAS. B. ALLEN,
Attorney at Law
Rampakt, Aka.
Legal Papers Carefully Drawn.
H. L. HEDRICK,
GENERAL
AND'MACHINE.SHOP
Horseshoeing Repairing
Near Cor. Campbell ave. and 2nd St.
Rear of Yukon Saloon.
BILLIARDS
AND POOL
Elegant New. Tables
Gibbon Bar
BEST OF WET OOODS
Estate of 6eorge W. Powell,
. .. DECEASED..
Notice is hereby given by the under
signed, A. B. Culp, administrator of the
estate of George W. Powell, deceased, tp,
the creditors of and all persons having
claims against said deceased to exhibit
them, -with the necessary vouchers,
within six months after the first publi
cation of this notice, to said administra
tor at his residence in the town of Tati
ana, territory of Alaska, the same being
the place for the transaction of the
business of said estate in Fort Gibbon
precinct, Alaska.
A. B. CULP, Administrator.
Dated this 13th day of December, 1909.
Date of first publication, December
16,1909.
There'll Be
Mushers
Galore
On the trails'this winter looking for good places to stop—
more than ever[[before known in the history of Interior
Alaska—and the roadhouse and hotel keepers who introduce
their places of business and their accommodations to the
man along the route is the fellow who'll get the trade. The
Tanana Leader makes a specialty of {minting large and small
CLOTH
SIGNS
On Heavy Muslin, designed especially for out-of-door adver
tising—they will endure for years, and will [withstand the
rigors of the Northland elements.
THE LEADER
Tanana, Alaska
On One of the Last Steamars We Received Our Yearly
Supply ot Paper tor
Commercial Job Printing
OF MANY KINDS