LATE NEWS BY TELEGRAPH
(July two members of the house
committee on interstate commerce
voted for the creation of an inter
state commerce court for the trial ot
all cases ot infractions of the inter
state commerce law. The bill was
framed at the suggestion of Fresi
•dent Taft embodied in his annual
:uiessage to congress.
The bill to raise the battleship
Maine, which was introduced last
March just at the beginning of the
tariff session, passed the house on
March 2. Three bills for the same
purpose were introduced at that
time but there has been consider
abie opposition to the scheme, and
it is believed by many members it
will reopen the old controversy as
to the manner in which the vessel
was sunk.
President Obalda, oi'tlie republic
of Panama, died in the city of Pan
ama Februaiy 25. His death came
as a great shock, as it was totally
unexpected, even by his physicians,
ffeart failure was the cause. Presi
dent Obalda was elected to the
presidency injuly, 1908.
. It Was with general rejoicing that
the many friends of Senator Ben
Tillman heard on March 2 that the
old warhor^e from South Carolina
would surely recover from the scri
ous illness, with which he was
stricken scve.al weeks ago His
physicians now state that lie will
throw off entirely the effects of the
paralytic stroke which affected his
left side, and that he will again be
able .to take up his work at the
capital.,
At Chicago on March 2 Judge
Landis sentenced William Broad
\yell, , an oleomargariue matnifac
turer, to six years in the peuiteu
tiery and to pay a fine of $15,000
for not marking his goods as pre
scribed by law.
Tony Leyden, who confessed to
have tried to set on fire t!lie town of
Mina, Nev , was 011 March 1 tarred
and feathered by the citizens and
turned loose 011 the desert to shift
for himself.
President Kruger, of the Phila
delphia Rapid Transit Company,
states that his company will not
arbitrate the disputewith their em
ployes He insists that the men
have been too arbitrary in making
their demands.
. Charles Hamilton, the famous
aeronaut who made such an envi
able record at the aviation contests
held recently at Los Angeles, will
be • in Seattle March 12 and will
give an exhibition of aviation last
ing for three days. He will attempt
to fly over Mount Rainier, and says
that he is confident that he can ac
complish the feat.
. Ortis Hamilton, formerly adju
taut general of Washington state,
arrived at the Walla Walla peniten
tiary Febtuary 28 to commence
serving the Nvyear sentence re
cently imposed upon him for tm
bezzling thfc State’s money.
’A letter has been received in AI
bany, N. Y., from Senator Root ad
vocating the adoption of the income
tax law and pointing out many of
the benefits to be derived from it.
The letter was read to both houses
of the legislature March 2. The
Democrats accorded generous ap
plause to the suggestions of the
senator, but the Republicans main
tained a dignified silence Governor
Hughes is an earnest advocate of
the bill.
A bill was introduced in congress
on March 2 which, if it becomes a
law, would make fugitives from
justice of all persons indicted by tilt
grand jury lor breach of the anti
trust laws The bi 1 appears to be
specifically aimed at the officials of
the packing trust, recently indicted
by the grand jury of New Jersey,
many of whom at the present time
a;e abroad.
Fighting Dick Hyland and Matty
Baldwin have signed articles for a
to round fight to take place at Kan
sas City next Monday.
On March 2, in New York, a
legal separation was granted by the
court in iLe case of Homer Daven
port, the celebrated cartoonist, and
his wife. Mis. Davenport was
awarded the custody of the chil
dren.
James Patten, the wheat kiag.
sailed from New York for Europe
March 2. Before starting, he said
he was leaving with no apprehen
sion of anything extraordinary hap
pening during his absence. There
is tro chance pf anyone getting a
corner this year on wheat, he said,
as the bulk of the holdings are in
safe hands and the present price is
almost prohibitive of much specula
tion for future delivery.
DEVELOPMENT OF
THE WIRELESS
. ■ i" .
Wireless telephony is discussed by
R. A. Fessenden in the annual report
of the Smithsonian Institution just is
sued, says the Washington Star. The
subject is largelybound, up. ..in the
development of the wireless telegraph,
and Mr.) Fessenden calls attention to
the fact that, while Marconi was the
practical developer of wireless teleg
raphy and, to the popular tuind, will
always be ranked as the discoverer of
this means of transmission, the system
was known to scientists many years
before, and the first instruments pat
ented by Marconi were practically du
plicates of those used by Prof. Oliver
Ledge.
It was known that wireless signals
had been transmitted by Prof. Joseph
Henry in 1810, and at a later date
Helraholtl, Elihu Thompson and others
did much to develop the art. In the
Fortnightly Review of February, 1892,
Sir William Crookes snowed the whole
field tnat might be covered by wireless
telegraphy, but pointed out several
practical obstacles that had to' be over
come.
Sir Oliver Lodge, in 1894, delivered
a remarkable lecture before the Royal
Institute, in which he described in de
tail several of the accessories that were
used in the early development of the
Wireless telegraph, and on June 2,1890,
Marconi filed patents for instruments
practically identical with some that
had previously been in use. In the
summer of the same year Marconi went
to England and performed some experi
ments for the British postolfice at
Salisbury Plain, reaching a range of
two miles in transmission.
The wireless telephone was devel
oped accidentally, Prof. Fessenden
says, in November, 1899. He was at
Tanana Restaurant
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Jog Anlcich, Prop. Tanana, Alaska
that time carrying on some experi
ments with a Werndt interrupter in
his wireless telegraph work, and it so!
happened that the peculiar wailing
sound of the interrupter was repro
duced perfectly in the receiver of the
telephone he was using as a receiver.
This suggested to him that if a suffi
ciently high frequency current was
used the wireless waves could be adapt
ed to telephoning. The development
of the wireless telephone went on from
that time with steadiness, if not
rapidity.
Prof. Fessenden says his experiments
in wireless telephony have been car
ried on as far as from Boston to Wash
ington and he has found that the sound
of the voice is even clearer by wireless
than it is on a wire system. The wire
less was not interrupted by weather it*
were the long-distance wire lines, and
he gives some interesting speculations
as to the possibility of substituting
long-distance wireless telephone for
the long-distance wiro.ess lines now in
use. He says the cost of installation
and maintenance both will be decidedly
cheaper and there .will be less cost for
deterioration. Further, when trouble
occurs it will be immediately in the
sending or receiving stations and not
located out somewhere along a long
line. Prof. Fessenden says there are
some objections to the practical instal
lation of long-distance wireless systems
and that he does not think the wireless
telephone will ever take the place of
short lines for communication in cities.
He qualifies this, however, by saying
that when the telephone was first sug
gested there were a good many busi
ness men who said it was impracticable
and favored a house-to-house printing
telegraph system on the ground that
they would not be willing to have
business transactions of which there
was no written record.
PETTY ROBBERS
OPERATING HERE
Returning to his cabin midway be
tween Tanana end the Mission, recent
ly, after a day or two’s absence, E. B.
Clarke found that the door had been
broken open, the place ransacked and
a quantity of provisions stolen. To
add to Mr. Clarke’s loss, the potatoes
and other vegetables with which' his
cellar was stored were all frozen on
account of the door being left open.
I. W. Kelly’s cache, a little further
down the road, was broken into and a
lot of dog salmon stolen.
HOTEL ARRIVALS
Tanana Hotel—Capt.' Green, stoSn er
Pup; Harry Kalland and family, Kal
lantTs Landing; At Miller, L. Wintner,
John Camel), Win. Mitchell; Charles
Madenbarl, George Locklari, Cris Nel
ta, Markin Dupieh, George C’allendicli,
A. E. Peters, Jack Thompson, Iditarod.
The two last named left for the Koy
ukuk.
Kentucky Restaurant—Ira M. Rank,
Jack Young, Nome; J. A. Cameron,
George F. Bemis, Fairbanks; Joe Gil
crease, Jack Charles, J. C. Lemoine,
Iditarod; Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Cullen,
Grant creek; Jack Millson, Lynx creek;
Dr. Charles D. Carter, Sullivan.
WEEK'S WEATHER
Observations taken at Fort Gibbon
at 7 p. m. daily. M. U. Grissinger
observer.
Max. Min.
Thursday, March 3, clear —3.3 —38.0
Friday, March 4, clear —2.5 —29.3
Saturday, March 5, cloudy —1.6 —13 2
Sunday, March 6, clear —3,2 —15.0
Monday* March 7, clear —4.5 —15.0
Tuesday, March 8, clear 4.0 —16.6
Wednesday, March 9, clear —1.0 —11 2
U. S. Wants Spitzbergen
A short while ago the United States
senate passed a bill annexing the
islands of Spitzbergen. The action of
the house in the matter has not been
learned. The islands of Spitzbergen
are a rocky, snow-clad group about 400 j
miles north of the North Cape of Nor-'
way, and have been used as a base by
Peary in his North Pole expeditions.
No country has ever made a formal
attempt to annex them, but by custom
they have always been considered a
part of Greenland* . They are not hab
itable during winter and the few peo
ple who ever attempted to live there
starved out. It has long been known
that the archipelago of Spitzbergen is
rich in phosphates and guano and more
recently it has given evidence of con
taining coal.__
Home for Friendless
Cordova Alaskan: The will of
the late Harry Cnrtis Elliott,
who was killed on December 30
by a snowsiide while showing
mining experts the Hubbard-El
liott copper properties in the in
terior, has just been-filed for
probate. It provides for a $2,
000,000 home for friendless chil
dren to be maintained in Chicago.
Baths —luxurious—Wednesdays and
Saturdays—Williams’ new barber shop
See us for Cloth Posters.
Watt arson’s Pen
Dipped In Caustic
Colonel Henry Watterson, the dis
tinguished editor of the Louisville
Courier-Journal, published an editorial
Jan. 9 that is exciting widespread com
ment because of the severity of his
language and his authoritative position
as. spokesman for the conservative
South.
On request the editorial is here re
printed, just- as it is being reproduced
throughout the country.
Under the caption ‘‘Honest Men to
the Front”'Colonel Watterson says:
For the first lime in the history of
the country a President of the United
States has openly proclaimed himself
the friend of thieves and the enemy of
honest men.
That, and that alone, 19 the issue
precipitated by the executive order of
Friday removing Gifford Pinchot from
office. “By your conduct,” says Mr.
Taft in effect, “you have destroyed
your usefulness as a helpful subordinate
of those who hold theJlepublican party
as the goyernment and are bound to
protect those who, by their corrupt
organization and campaign contribu
tions, have brought the Republican
party to power and are relied on to
maintain it in power.” In other words,
the public lands and franchises belong
to the Saints, and we are the Saints. .
Many Republican Presidents have by
indirection through the protective pol
icy proclaimed themselves the friends
of robbery under the forms of law; Mr.
Taft' becomes the first to depart from
the.process of licensed robbery, and to
announce that the debts of his party
are~vin future to be paid out of the
people’s domain. It is not worth while
for anybody to beat about the bush, or
to deal in anything but plain English.
Th’e truth will not down. That the
President is, personally, an honest,
well-intentioned man need not be de
nied, or doubted. The world is full of
men who can see no wrong where their
own interests are at stake; who are
biftid to right when their passions are
aif&kened; who will do for party what
they would refuse to God. The candi
date of straw upon a platform of impos
ture, inducted to office, sees his house
of cards about tumble on him and his
cabinet, because of an act of an upright
biit imprudent servant, and, in a panic
olL-anggr and fear, thinks to avert the
threatened catastrophe by driving the
upright servant out.
,i,It will not suffice. All men now
IfPOiy, jf they did not know before, that
ibe decapitation of Glavis was meant
Ipdcifl a dangerous witness; but, in the
decapitation of Gifford Pinchot, and
his, associates, Price and Shaw, the ad
ministration lias committed harikari J
upon its self. Henceforth the ground
about lhi';White House and around the
throne of the czar of the congress will
be town with dragon’s teeth.
And from now onward, let there be
no politics in this country except the
rescue of the government from organ
ized pillage, which, not content with
raising up favored classes and distrib
uting mammoth fortunes through the
tariff, reaches forth its corrupt and
impious hand to steal from the people
the public lands and franchises that yet
remain open to bona tide settlers and
honest but poor men.
We read of the days of Robert Wal
pole with mute amazement. We stand
aghast before the rapacity of Henry
Fox. It seems inconceivable that there
could have been a government of rot
ten boroughs exchanging titles and
estates for votes. Yet the system in
England in the eighteenth century was
infantile by comparison with the sys
tem in the United States during the
latter part of the nineteenth century
and thus much of the twentieth. The
spoliation of Walpole and his body of
mercenaries was child's play by com
parison with the scheme of spoliation
contrived by Cannon, Aldrich & Co., of
which the President, of the United
States now makes himself the legal
advocate, the backer and defendant.
Nothing ever witnessed in the world
before compares with it in immensity
and audacity.
Poor old, dignified, fat-witted James
Buchanan, wiio, standing by the ex
tremists of democracy, let the country
d^ift into war, seems the only parallel
to the good-natured indifferentialist
now occupying the chief magistracy,
who thinks with a smile to slick over
the treason, stratagems and spoils in
which a thick-skulled, thoroughly ma
| chine-made administration is engulfing
the country.
There are enough upright men yet
in congress to forbid. The President's
pal in the lower house will not be al
lowed to pack a committee of subserv
ient, stand-pat Republicans and rascally
democrats, prearranged and prejudged
to whitewash the guilty and convict
the innocent. Even Aldrich may find
Jordan a hard road to travel in the
senate. We shall have an investigate.
| He who dallies becomes a dastard; he
that doubts is sure to be damned. The
black flag raised by the President
floats at the masthead of the adminis
tration; let the Stars and Stripes float
at the masthead of congress'. "No
quarter" be the word, until the truth,
the whole truth and nothing but the
truth comes blazing.from the crucible
to put a blister upon the forehead of
corruption in vindication of true men,
and all for the glory of God and the
honor of the republic! Amen!—Taco^'
tua Tribune.
TANAKA CAPITALISTS
BUY IDITAROD 6R0UND
Dr. M. E. Bondixen, R. S. V. S., ar
rived from Iditarod and way points,
and, after a stay of two days in Tanana,
departed for Fairbanks last Monday.
It is the doctor's intention to meet
some pressing business engagements in
Fairbanks and switch back to the
Kovukuk country before the walking
gets bad.
The doctor is not iavorably impressed
with the Iditarod as a place for perma
nent residence. While in Tanana he
sold to David Kay and George M. Ar
buckle, at a sacrifice. 3 and 4 above,
Flat creek, Iditarod, the creek that is
causing so much excitement uf the
present time. Joe Anicich owns «
above, the doctor having acted for him
in its location. - ••
Dr. Bondixen owns much other prop
erty on the creek, and was disposed to
unload it all; but after dickering with
all the prominent Tanana capitalista
he could sell only 3 and 4.
Captain Green, lately arrived from
the Iditarod, has gone to Fish creek to
put the steamer Tana in condition for
the breakup. "
The Leader is on sale at the Tanana
pnstoffice lobby.
Notice of Forfeiture
To T. J. Wilson, Roy R. Henderson,
Alfred Place, J. C. Junkin, Chris S.
Hillstead, O. A. Layrnou and C. H.
Hull:
You and each of you are hereby nor
tided that I have expended the sum.6f
one hundred (100) dollars in labor altd
improvement, for each year, for the
year 1908 and the year 1909, upon the
following placer mining claim, to wit:
The First Chance Association Placer
claim, situated and being on Golden
creek, a tributary of Illinois creek, in
the Fort Gibbon Mining and Recording
Precinct, Territory'of Alaska..
Said work and improvemeh'tV'as done
under the provisions of section 2324 of
the Revised Statutes of the United
States, being the amount required by
said section 2324 to hold said claim fdr
tlie years 1908 and 1909; also that proof
of the annual assessment work wa»
died under chapter 2559, entitled “Ah
act to amend the laws governing labor
or improvements upon mining claim*
in Alaska,” approved March 2, 1907;
and that if within ninety days after
the last publication of this notice you
fail or refuse, to contribute, your pro*
portion of such expenditure, for said
years, as co-owner in said placer min
ing claim, your interest in said claim
will become the properly of the under
signed under said section 2324.
Dated at Tanana, Fort Gibbon Pre
cinct, Alaska, March 10, 1910.
S. F. McDlLL,
Date of 1st publication, March 10, 1910.
Date of 2d publication, June 16, 1910.
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