INNOKO’S WINTER
MAIL SERVICE
The postoffice department is advertising for proposals for carry
ing mail from Nulato via Innoko to Ophir, 170 miles, and back
once a month, from Nov. 1, 1909, to June 30, 1910, by a schedule
not to exceed 10 days’ running time each way, carrying any class
of mail the department may elect, the total weight not to exceed
200 pounds each trip each way. The proposals will be received at
the office of Win. McManus, chief clerk railway mail service, Nome,
Alaska, until Oct. 1, 1909.
If the department could at once be made familiar with the condi
tions in the Innoko valley the plans for the winter mail service
might be changed in several important particulars. In the first
place, with the number of people who will be in the valley during
the winter, a monthly service with a 200-pound limitation will be
bai-ely adequate for the letter mail to and from the region. It is
by no means uncertain that the Iditarod district alone will contain
more people than the creeks having their central point at Ophir,
which is evidently the principal point under consideration in the
present plans.
Innoko City, once boasting more than a hundred inhabitants, via
which it is specified the mail must go, at last accounts contained
but four people, and may be cut out by winter travel entirely.
The point of divergence of travel over the winter trail to Ophir,
at the older diggings, and to Otter Creek, Iditarod, will be an im
portant point from a mail standpoint, and the route ought cer
tainly to touch there. It may be that Diskaket will be the place.
It seems utterly illogical to designate Nulato as the Yukon ter
minus of the route. The winter travel last season left the Yukon
at Dave Lewis’s, midway between Melozi and Louden, approxi
mately 90 miles from Nulato. The trail is blazed and known on
this route, and it will be kept open by general travel. Therefore
the Yukon terminus should be at Lewis’s. If it is deemed essen
tial that an established postoffice mark the starting point of the
route, then Kokrine’s, about sixty miles above Lewis’s, would be
the logical place.
FUNSTON TO BE FARMER
Leavenworth, Aug. 31.—Biig.-Gen. Frederick W. Funston, who
has been spending two mouths with his family in California, has bought
a farm in that state which he intends to make his permanent home
when he retires from the army. The farm is at Haywards, Alameda
county, near the home of his wife’s relatives. He will spend his fur
loughs there.
WRI6HT SAILS AWAY
Accompanied by his sister, Or
ville Wright sailed from New York
for Germany August io there to
conduct flight trials in his aeroplane
for Emperor William. In an inter
view Wright said that his machine
could carry enough fuel to keep it
aloft for 25 houis, but he did not
assert that he could fly in it a dis
tance of 1000 miles, the theoretical
maximum distance which the
power would allow. He thought
that aeroplanes would be used in
carrying mails before many years.
Fox Ramsey, of the Nome Ken
nel Club, has gone to Sibeiia where
he is to procure from the Eskimos
and Cossacks 25 or 30 of the famous
Siberian wolfdogs, which he ex
pects to train and enter in a team
to compete for the $1000 price in
the third annual all-Alaska sweep
stakes race next year.
Job Printing—Leader office.
IS STILL UNDER
DOCTOR’S CARE
Readers of this paper will re
member the account printed some
time ago of the terrible experi
ence of Jack Kares, a former
resident of Tanana. Last March
Kares with two companions was
overtaken by a storm on the
coast between Valdez and Sew
ard and their boat was swamped.
Wet to the skin and exposed to
the wind, with a temperature of
8 below, his two companions died
and Karse reached an old Indian
shack frozen almost to utter
helplessness. He kindled a fire
and for four days his only sus
tenance was some pieces of dried
fish skin found in the shack. He
was rescued by natives and taken
to a hospital on La Touche
island.
In a letter to his friend A. G.
Frenzel, of Tanana, Kares says
he is now at Susitna, still under
the care of a doctor. The letter
is dated July 24 and the doctor
believed the injured man would
be able to be around within six
weeks. Several of his toes were
amputated, but it is believed he
will come out of the fearful mis
adventure not incapacitated for
active work.
Kares says he will be on the
Yukon by next spring. When
Mr. Frenzel first heard of the
man’s misfortune he collected a
considerable sum of money for
his relief. This Kares will de
vote to the payment of his hos
pital bill._
New Development Company
Haines Pioneer Press, August 20:
Articles of incorporation have been
filed incorporating the Arctic De
velopment Company tor the pur
pose of constructing and maintain
ing telephone and telegraph lines
and power and lighting plants in
and about Haiues. The incorpora
tois are W. S. Brown, R. M. Odell,
H. O. Banta, J. \V. Martin, George
Vogel, T. R. Sewell and James
Seymore. The company is capital
ized at $5,000: the shares are $1
apiece, W. S. Brown is president
of the company; J W. Martin,vice
president; George Vogel, treasurer,
and R. M. Odell, secretary.
CROSS-COUNTRY FLIGHT
Starting from Mineola, L,. I., in
his Curtiss aeroplane, Red Bug, C.
F. Willard sailed away over the
surrounding country at an eleva
tion of about rso feet, passing over
three towns, railways, highways,
hills and streams, and back to his
starting point—a distance of 12
miles, in 19 minutes. The feat
was better in some respects, than
that of Orville Wright recently at
Fort Myer.
Special Sunday Dinner at the Ken
tucky restaurant from 6 to 8 p.ra.—
Mrs. M. E. Cooper, proprietor.
Job Printing at The Leader office.
GO TO THE
Golden North Cafe
While in Tanana for Good Meals
and Best Service.
MEALS AT ALL HOURS BEST GOODS ON MARKET
ED Y. LEE, PROP.
GO TO THE
YUKON SALOON
For Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Fool Tables, Bunks
C. J. Smith, Prop. Horse Stables and Dog Kennels
CENSUS
WORK
NEXT MONTH
There is an old saw which says, ‘‘Go away from home to get the
news.” It is certainly pat relative to the information below, which
has not been noticed in the nearby papers. It is a special telegram
copied from the New York World:
“Seattle, Wash., Aug. 7.—Taking the 1910 census for Alaska
will begin in October this year, according to W. H. McKenzie, spe
cial commissioner for Alaska, who will proceed directly to Fair
banks, Alaska, to appoint supervisors and enumerators.
“The enumerators will draw $15 per day, including the extra
expenses, such as hiring boats to visit habitable islands, and dog
teams and sledges. They will be exposed to many hardships, espe
cially those who operate in the northern part of the country. As
the government desires an exact census of the natives of the north,
educated Eskimo will be engaged to collect the information. Es
kimo will also be employed as interpreters.
“To find all the isolated cabins and settlements not yet named is
difficult and cannot be undertaken except by experienced men. It
is believed the population of Alaska has increased many fold in ten
years, and that the result found will be used as a direct argument
for better laws and government, if not statehood.”
HOW SIOUX INDIANS
PLAY AT POLITICS
The Indian as a practical poli
tician is a phenomenon that has
sent some of the wise ones in
South Dakota up into the air,
and they have not got clear back
to earth yet. Few know the In
dians who have renounced their
tribal illations, abandoned their
reservations and taken land in
severalty have the same rights
and privileges as any other
American citizens. They know
it in South Dakota now. Tripp
county was recently organized
from a part of the Sioux reserva
tion opened to settlement. The
politicians, Democratic and Re
publican. were laying their plans
for the election, paying no at
tention to the Indian vote.
At the last possible moment,
and to the surprise of every one,
Sioux Indians filed notice of their
candidacy for every office in the
county save two. The politicians
woke up and promptly made
large bids for the Indian votes.
Dances, barbecues and all kinds
of celebrations were gotten up,
and the red men numbered
friends by the score where be
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LETTER HEADS, BILL HEADS, ENVELOPES, ETC., ETC.
! fore they had bare acquaintances.
They said nothing, refused to
promise their votes to any can
didate, conducted no mass meet
ings and had no speeches; but
when election day came around
the solid Sioux vote went to their
own tribesmen and to the two*
white men indorsed by the In
dians for offices which they had.
no tribesmen competent to fillr
and the Indians won hands down
The whites, aghast, took steps
to secure an injunction against
the organization of the county,
alleging irregularities; but the
wily Indians were familiar with
that game also. The votes were
canvassed in the county from
which Tripp was detached, at
the county seat, 75 miles away.
An Indian representative was on
the ground, in an automobile, if
you please, and the instant the
votes were canvassed he carried
the returns as fast as his ma
chine could go to the new county
seat. There the Indian officials
were sworn in and the Indian
county commissioners proceeded
to effect the organization; se
lected a county seat, appointed a
committee to prepare for the
construction of schoolhou.es, a
courthouse and other public
buildings, and issued a call for a
special election to vote bonds for
these purposes. The whites were
outfought and outmaneuvered in
a perfectly executed gum-shoe
campaign, and the Sioux Indians
are in South Dakota politics to
stay. They say flatly that they
propose to take a decided hand
in all elections in counties carved
out of former Indian reserve
tions, where Indians are largely
represented, and have a voice in
the running of things. No one
disputes that they will.—P.-I.
Haircutting, shaving, shampooing—
Matt Stewart’s barber shop. _
Stoddard Kay
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CHAS. B. ALLEN,
Attorney at Law
Rampart, Aka.
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