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TANANA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1910.
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WILL TAKE GUSTAFSON’S
REMAINS TO FAIRBANKS
Fairbanks, March 16.—An order
was served by Judge Lyons on the
marshal, on March 8, for the pro
duction of the body of Oscar Gus
tafson, who was killed in the Idita
rod by Felix Boucher. The mar
shal is instructed to have the body
exhumed ard brought to Fairbanks
at the earliest possible opportunity. I
Felix Boucher was examined by
the commissioner at Otter in regard
to the killing of Gustafson, and
discharged. The grand jury here
took up the matter and an indict
ment charging murder in the sec
ond degree was returned against
Boucher. He is now at liberty on
bail in the sum of $20,000
Chief Deputy Marshal Charles
instructed Deputy Marshal Hansen,
who was on his way to Fairbanks
with Franklin Moses, to proceed
from Tanana to the Iditarod and go
back for the body of Gustafson.
Hot Springs District Brevities
Kemperville, March 3.—(Correspond
ence. ) — American Bench has closed
down and the plant is being moved to
the ground which Mrs. Cleveland
bought of McGibbony. Very rich so
far as prospected at the head of Cache
creek. Arthur Anderson has taken
charge of the Tofty postoffice. Leir
and Verhonic are in today moving
Calderhead’s building—or the lumber,
rather—from Olsonopolis to Sullivan.
Our friend J. H. Saul has given up the
idea of going to the Old Country.
The Nelson property, occupied by
the Tanana Restaurant, is to be sold
under execution tomorrow.
Job Printing at The Leader office.
“HI”
GILL SEATTLE’S MAYOR
Seattle, March 15.—The Republicans made a clean sweep of the
elections here last Tuesday, electing Hiram C. Gill mayor with a 4,coo
majority, and 12 out of the 14 councilmen. The election passed off
very quietly, the vote being very light up to about 5 o'clock. The
total vote cast was 35.500.
Mayor-elect Gill is at present president of the council. In the
primaries he had for an opponent A. V. Buillon, formerly commissioner
of public utilities. Gill secured the^ nomination by more than 2,ooo. ;
In the Democratic primaries William Hickman Moore, who was mayor
two years ago; O. T. Erickson, a manufacturer, and Charles T. Miller, j
a labor organizer, competed. Moore easily obtained the nomination, i
and his friends were up to a late hour confident that he would be elected.
Nation-Wide Sympathetic Strike
Newcastle, Pa., March 16.— The State Federation of Labor held a
special session today for the advancement of a proposition for the union
men throughout the country walking out in sympathy with the Phila
delphia strikers. The question was put to a vote and it was almost
unanimously adopted so far as Pennsylvania unions are concerned. An
effort will be made to have the American Federation of Labor take up
the matter to the end that a general strike be called at the earliest op
portunity if the Rapid Transit Company remains obdurate.
Philadelphia, March 9.--Fifteen hundred men walked out of the
Baldwin locomotive works this afternoon and the plant was closed
down. The rioting still continues and there is 110 sign in sight of a
betterment of the conditions. Throughout last night there was much
disorder, hut this, the strikers aver, was occasioned by t estiike brfcak
ers, who shot up the town in the belief that the noting would be
charged against the strikers and discredit them.
All over the city last night rioting was indulged in and shooting
was going on from early in the evening until a late hour in the morn
ing. Many have been taken to the hospitals more or less seriously
wounded. The strikers insist that it was the strike-breakers who shot
up the town in an attempt to create feeling against the strikers. There
is little change in the situation this morning, but there is to be a big
meeting of the business men at which it is hoped some scheme for com
pelling arbitration can be evolved.
A car loaded with dynamite was missed from the yards yesterday
and there appears to be little doubt that it has fallen into the hands of
the strikers.
TELE6RAPHIG BREVITIES
Cordelia Botkin, sentened at San
Francisco for the murder of Mrs.
John Dunning;, of Delaware, to Im
prisonment ior life in 1898, died at
the San Quinien penitentiary on
March 8. Mrs. Botkin sent to Mrs.
Dunning, said to be her rival, a
box of poisoned chocolates.
The remains of the late U. S
Senator Thomas C. Platt were laid
to rest at Oswego N.Y., on March
9 in the presence of a vast con
course of friends. It is not known
what is the extent of his estate left
by the late politician, but it is be
lieved to be very large.
Jacob Schaefer, for many years
the champion billiard player of the
world, died in Denver on March 9
He had been in poor health for sev
eral years.
At Los Angeles on the night of
the 8th 26 persons were seriously
injured when a theater car on the
electric line was struck by a Salt
Lake t.ain on Aliso sireet. Many
of those in the electric car were so
badly hurt that they will die as a
result of their injuries. The acci
dent occurred through a misunder
standing of signals.
The championship fight in July
between Jeffries and Johnson will
take place at the Emeryville race
track. This was finally decided by
Tex Rickard and Jack Gleason on
March 9 after a long consultation.
J. Pierpout Morgan has recently
purchased the controling inteiest
in the E M. K. Automobile Com
pany of Detroit. The consideration
is said to have been six million dol
lars. It is the largest concern in
that city
William Mitchell, the founder of
the Chicago & Alton, and one of
t(ie oldest railroad men in America,
died in Chicago on March 9 from
an attack of heart failure. Mr.
Mitchell attained his y2d birthday
on that date and was preparing to
celebrate it when he was stricken
by his fatal illness.
NOTICE
The Tanana Chamber ot Commerce
will hold its regular semi-monthly
meeting at A. B. hall tomorrow (Fri
day) evening at 8 o'clock sharp, and all
members are urgently requested to bo
present and participate.
MAY ESTABLISH NEW
ELECTRIC-' LIGHT PLANT
Jack J. Price and Mr. Fountain,
of Hot Springs, who visited Tan
ana last week on a short business
trip, started homeward on .Satur
day morning.
Mr. Price, who is in charge nt
the big Manley farm as well as the
hotel, says the snow is beginning
to get thin in the neighborhood of
the hot springs, and that the work
of preparation for the coming sea
son’s crops will shortly begin. The
crops of last year on that famous
farm were the largest and the qual
ity the best of any year since the
ground has been under cultivation.
Mr. Fountain’s errand to this
city was for the purpose of sizing
up the place for establishing an
electric light plant. He inter
viewed nearly all the business peo
ple, and it is understood that he re
ceived assurances of support from
most of them. Several business
men who successfully experimented
during the past winter new systems
of lighting by gasoline and alcohol
apparatus are loth to displace them
for electricity, however anxious
they may he to encourage such an
enterprise in the town. In in
stances of this kind, Mr. Fountain
was assured that his electric lights
would be installed in residences
and other buildings not equipped
with the new-fangled lamps.
Mr. Fountain expects to again
visit this city within a month.
The Leader is delivered by carrier to
all parts of the city—$1 per month.
“THE DAY WE CELEBRATE”
By John Kehoe
OST all men become interested in a manifestation of
human love and gratitude. Wherever a great personage
rises in the world, and by unselfish sacrifice labors for
a common good, he touches the mysterious chord that
unites the human race. We have some examples of
this in our own history.
George Washington by successfully gaining American inde
pendence and establishing free government gained for himself the
distinction of being "‘first in war, first in peace, and first in the
hearts of his countrymen.” His fame and influence was not con
fined to the land for which he labored and fought. His career be
come an example and inspiration for the lovers of Freedom in
every land. Abraham Lincoln and William Ewart Gladstone, the
great commoners of our generation, by defending and enlarging |
human rights—the far-reaching effect of whose labors are not fully
developed—have entitled themselves to an increasing degree of
human esteem.
And St. Patrick—to whose memory is dedicated the honor or
the day we celebrate—after a lapse of 1500 years is yet the center
of an ever-increasing circle of good influence, and has the promise
of continuing till the end of time and merging into the endless
cicles of eternity, for the just man is to be in everlasting remem
brance. The magnitude and results of the labors of St. Patrick
seem superhuman. That one man, armed only with the staff of a
shepherd, commissioned with a message of peace and good will to
men, could subject a most warlike people with whom conviction is
a ruling passion, is unexampled. The celebration of such a tri
umph is an honor to all who bear the Christian name, and speaks
volumes on the tractability of the Irish race when approached
from the standpoint of truth and justice.
Today in all the great cities of the world, in the valleys of the
mountains, wherever the exiles of Erin or their descendents reside,
people of all nationalities unite in commemorating this great event.
In the United States the 17th of March is assuming the propor
tions of a national holiday. Courts and legislatures have ad
journed that all might participate in a flow of soul with the friendly
sons of St. Patrick.
Had the predecessors of those who now govern Ireland fol
DENTISTR Y
Dr. Charles D. Carter, the well
known Dentist, will make his perma
nent headquarters in the Wickersham
building, Front street, Tanana,where
- he will be prepared to perform all
classes of Dentfrl work.
Dr. Carter expects to have every
thing in readiness for the reception
of patrons by the 20th inst.
lowed the example of St. Patrick there would be no Irish question
to disturb the British parliament. But, unfortunately for all con
cerned, the robber Norman barons that came first to Ireland in the
12th century come to establish and share the possession of a throne,
with a lustful and profligate king, in opposition to her people, and
no good came to Ireland from a government that was impure and
immoral in its source. Without detail mention, in the course of
400 years, by alternate force and intrigue, they succeeded in dis
placing all native authority and reduced the people to the condition
of landless serfs. The passage of the Catholic emancipation bill
by Daniel O’Connell sixty years ago made possible the regeneration
of Irish national life. There are some who assume that the ques
THE RETREAT ON THE RAPIDAN
The storm of battle fiercely roared south of the Rapidan,
Close by across that swollen stream a single bridge does span;
Here couriers swiftly riding brought tidings of the fray
That against the Union arms had went the fortunes of the day.
Living streams in battle rout towards the bridge converge,
Fast Lee's victorious legions these broken regiments urge;
Fresh succors were rushed forward, this emergency to meet,
To guard the passage of the bridge and cover the retreat.
Here the troops of French and Meagher immortal fame deserved.
For the rescue of the Union arms and the prestige they preserved.
With the Stars and Stripes to the rescue flew a flag of Gold and Green,
O’er a valiant band of exiles from a nation that has been,
Their flag not to battle strange in every clime bad flown,
And led the fight to victory in all battles but their own.
Above the death cry of despair and confusion of the rout
In tones of bold defiance rose their vengeful battle shout;
Thtee thousand brawny warriors they—sons of the O's and Mac’s—
Clutching their guns with tenacity that death could scarce relax.
They stem that torrent of defeat with a quick, firm martial stride,
Their eyes like daggers from their sheaths flash forth with martial pride,
And forming rearward of the rout their battle line is seen
Between pursuer and pursued their bayonets intervene.
The last rays of the setting sun illumed their flag of green,
And our stars of hope lit brilliant in their bayonets’ glittering sheen;
Those men so humorous, often gay, but now fierce determined set,
To them defeat would never come but in the guise of death.
Their manly forms for battle bared divested to the waist,
With bayonets fixed and shotted guns all for the onset braced,
With desperate strength these Southerners fought as lions robbed of prey,
They dashed on that devoted band to sweep them from their way.
With teeth clenched and blood on fire our Irish met the shock.
And against the rush of Southern steel stood firm as Cashal rock;
In a reactionary wave the Southern ranks recoiled,
Again they charge acd are again by skill and courage foiled.
And from the charge and counter-charge Lee’s battalions reel,
And deeper grew the crimson hue on victorious Erin's steel;
Here prodigies of might were done, deeds of undying glory,
Surpassing all embellished told in Greek or Roman story,
Till over that carnival of death the sombre pall of night
Closed o’er that most eventful day and the horrors of the fight.
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Shall a people brave and generous who in every land have died
For human rights and freedom in their own land be denied ?
Justice unto all men is a universal due,
And Ireland in her present need presents her claim to you;
She calls to You for rescue, assist her with Your mite
In her brave unequal struggle to gain a Nation right. —John Keuoe.
tion of Irish home rule involves a religious problem, but the lead
ing spirits of Irish liberty in the past—Flood, Curran, Grattan and
| Emmett—were all non Catholics, as are many of their leaders
today.
From America has come most of the funds that ruistain the
Irish national movement by defraying the living expenses of mem
bers of parliament at Westminster, for which the law makes no
provisions, with the result in times past that none but landlords or
men of property could be members of parliament. But by means of
the Irish Parliamentary fund, supplied by the Irish and their
friends throughout the world, the Irish parliamentary party
has been sustained and have succeeded in passing the tenant
right bill, the land purchase act, and other partial measures
of redress. The land-purchase act, for which the Irish is expected
to become suddenly loyal, is the splendid opportunity to buy back,
after 300 years of spoliation and bloodshed, their natural heritage,
taken by fraud and force from their ancestors. This wipes out the
blight of landlordism that has been the curse of Ireland. I have
learned from my father and other eyewitnesses whose ancestral
home was demolished to make room for cattle; that while waiting
for the emigrant ship in Dublin in 1847, that British ships were being
loaded there with beef and grain for the English market, that was
taken by force from the Irish peasantry, and that coming from
America ports with cargoes of food, the free offering of the Amer
icans, was taken possession of by government authority, doled out
to the starving people in exchange for labor on the highways or
left to rot in damp warehouses while the people starved by thou
sands. This was what embittered that generation against the gov
ernment and made sacred to the Irish the Stars and Stripes, and
accounts for much of the fiery enthusiasm displayed by the Irish
in defense of the flag during the Civil War, as shown in “The Re
! treat on the Iiapidan.”
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