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DECLARATION
OF SOCIAL WAR
Causes an Appeal for Aid in End
ing Hostilities.
Tanana, Alaska, June 1, 1910.
•Editor Tanana Leader:
Sir:—Of late there has arisen among
the citizens of this town a host of con
flicting opinions concerning the bound
aries of our various strata of society as
represeuted in Tanana. History repeats
itself. War has been declared, and we
are about to witness the struggle be
tween the plebeian and patrician forces
for social recognition. It is a lamenta
ble fact, but nevertheless true, and we,
being a member of The Hague peace
tribunal and therefore opposed to all
violent measures, venture to advise
peace, at any price. We fully under
stand tne magnitude and delicacy oi
the situation, and, unable to cope with
it alone, beg for your assistance to undo
that gordian knot, and to lead a straight
way out of this labyrinth of conflicting
opinions and different views.
TJie “Almanach de Gotha” and
“Hoyle’s Handbook,” “to be or not to
be,” are sources of valuable informa
tion, and a consultation of these author
ities will greatly lighten the herculean
task. You, Mr. Editor, being a man of
great wisdom and vast experience, are
eminently fitted to help the good cause
along. What is really needed is a com
plete reorganization, with an exact and
sharply defined boundary for each
stratum and substratum of our social
conglomeration, as well as a thorough
classification embacing rank and prece
dence. This rupture has come about
through the ignorance of the plebeians,
goaded fnto action by their daring
leader, one “W. Tell,” who even in liis
insolence refused to doff his hat and
bow before the acknowledged aristoc
racy, and openly defied their ancient
and noble rights and prerogatives.
Such unholy desires and aspirations
must be nipped in the bud, and it be
hooves us, whose ancestors landed with
“Sailbad the Sinner” on Plymouth
Hock, to act in defense of our divine
rights. Seeing the urgency of the occa
sion, we would be ever grateful to you
if you could suggest a way out of this
dilemma, and, the pen being mightier
than the sword, we rest confident in
your ability to handle this subject in a
masterful way.
Wishing you success with all my
heart, I remain, as ever, a staunch sup
porter of the four hundred,
NESTOR.
Ketchikan Opinion
of the Dismissed
Coast Officials
Dan Sutherland and John J. Boyce,
former marshal and district attorney,
went through Ketchikan Wednesday on
their way to Washington. They were
going down there to ask for an investi
gation of the charges which caused the
President to arbitrarily remove them.
They carried evidence with them of the
corruption which exists among the per
sons who secretly caused their dismissal.
But they carried something better than
that. They carried something which
shows that there are men wh<3 hold
their honor above price, who would
rather play fair than hold a job, who
will not desert their benefactors in time
of need. Such a man is Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Barnhill, who signed an
affidavit supporting his friend and bene
factor John J. Boyce and denounced the
gang of corruptionists who are trying to
down him. That affidavit is on its way
to Washington. Barnhill may suffer
the loss of his job for doing it, but he’ll
keep his self-respect, and he’ll gain a
thousand friends where his silence
would have lost him those he already
had. Sutherland’s deputies, except the
one who succeeded him, walked up like
men of honor and denounced the meth
ods used against him. Such men have
no fear of losing their positions. Men
of proven honor can always find employ
ment. Their moral courage is sufficient
to assure them a respectable livelihood
and, together with the great majority of
mankind, they have nothing but con
tempt for a degenerate who would lend
himself to political jobbery for the sake
of hanging on to an appointment a little
longer. Sutherland and Boyce will be
vindicated, that much is certain.—
Ketchikan Miner, May 6.
Northern News Notes
The Corwin is again the first boat
from Seattle to land at Nome. She got
in May 31.
The mail service between Hot Springs
and Rampart has been discontinued for
the summer.
All places along the Yukon from Tan
ana to Kaltag are reported practically
deserted on account of the Iditarod
stampede.
Carl White was prevented from sail
ing from Fairbanks for the Iditarod . on
the Eyelyn by arrest charged with cut
ting and removing mining timbers from
public land. The timbers were valued
at $91.50.
Sam Bonnifield, the former Fairbanks
banker, was recently found wandering
about the streets of Seattle, again in a
demented condition. He was formerly
in a sanitarium, but had been dis
charged as cured and was living with
his brother in Seattle.
Marshal Love has appointed Corne
lius W. Vawter to succeed Charles B.
Hanover, who resigned a short time
ago, as deputy marshal in the Iditarod.
Deputy Vawter will be the head of the
force in the Iditarod district. He was
marshal at Nome in the boom days and
: later a deputy at Valdez. He was at
| Seattle when chosen for the Iditarod
| and will come in on an early boat.
I The forest fires in the gegion of Fair*
| banks last week destroyed about 3,000
: eords of wood for Sutter & Co. near the
j head of Isabelle creek; J F. Heilscher
• lost his farmhouse, barn and cabin and
1,100 cords of wood; some Russians who
had pooled their wood interests lost be
tween 1.500 and 2,000 cords, besides
their shacks and belongings; L. T. Ir
| win lost about 250 cords, and the scat
j tering losses amount to about 500 cords,
j The destruction may cause a rise in the
’ price of next winter’s tuel supply at
! Fairbanks.
|
People who arrived on the steamer St.
| Michael last Thursday said when they
were in Whitehorse that town was full
of material for the big electric plant to
be installed at Coal Creek, Yukon terri
tory, and more wras arriving by the train
load. There are many very heavy pieces
among the machinery. The plant will
be erected at the coal mines a few miles
below Fortymile and is intended to sup
ply light and power for Fortymile, Klon
dike, and other places in that quarter of
Yukon territory.
The first law suit from the new Idita
rod camp has been filed in the district
court at Fairbanks, the case being the
Ora Mining Company vs. A. V. Thorns,
Fred W. Carter and A. B. Ferguson.
The suit is for a half interest in the op
tion on the Bonanza association of Flat
creek, which the plaintiffs claim under a
grub-stake agreement with Thorns.
The Ora Mining Company, consisting
of Charles Carroll, Fred* Parker, A.
Lkievicz, A. V. Thorns and Roy V. Nye,
claim that they grub-staked Thorns for
the Iditarod and on the return of the
latter the Ora company was formed and
the interests acquired by Thorns were
turned over to the company except the
option on the half interest of the Bo
nanza which A. V. Thorns has agreed to
sell to Carter and Ferguson. The plaint
iffs allege that as a consideration for
this agreement the defendant had agreed
with Carter and Ferguson that he was
to have a lay on the lower 784 feet of the
ground. The plaintiff company asks
that Carter and Ferguson be declared
trustees for the company to hold the op
tion. Title to the ground and an ac
counting is asked.
Snow for Kuskokwim.
C. K. Snow, formerly connected with
the N. C. mail service and census enu
merator in the Iditarod-Innoko-Kuskok
wim region last winter, has left Nulato
for the Iditarod. His ultimate destina
tion is the Kuskokwim side of the di
vide, which section is said to look good
to him.
ICE AT NULATO
MOVEDMAY 25
No Word Has Come Out From
Below Kaltag.
There has been no news received here
from below Kaltag sinee the river op
ened at Tanana. The ice, which was
jammed there, did not start from Tan
ana until May 25, and the heavy run of
ice from the Koyukuk helped to pile the
banks full all along below Koyukuk
City.
There is a probability that much ice
piled into Shagaluk slough. It may be
it is little more than open for the pas
sage of stampeders at the present time.
Of cource it would have been possible to
go into the Innoko by way of Koferesky
several days ago.
There have been rumors around town
of several bad accidents, some of them
fatal, but had such occurred below Kal
tag there would be no way of hearing of
them. Above Kaltag a man fell over
board and was rescued, and a launch
with eleven men was caught in a jam
and had to be hauled onto land. Sev
eral small boats also had close calls and
minor mishaps between Nulatoand Kal
tag.
The mail launch Carrier, which win
tered at Nulato, is the only up-river
craft to arrive. She got in early yester
day morning with Dan Averill, Henry
Robison and Harry Stockman aboard.
From Nulato she went to Kaltag for the
mail that had arrived over the portage.
The ice was piled so high at Kaltag that
she could not land, and it was with dif
ficulty that the mail was put aboard
from a small boat. The Carrier behaved
splendidly, making the trip from Kaltag
in 36 hours running time.
GOOD PROSPECT
ON TRIPLE GREEK
V. O. Green and John Weil, who
have been prospecting for some time on
Triple creek, which enters the Yukon
river from the north a few miles above
The Rapids, came down in a small boat
yesterday afternoon. They showed a
nice prospect in coarse gold, and declare
they will determine whether or not the
creek carries pay before they get
through. They struck water, and will
take the first steamer to Rampart, from
which place they will return with men
enough to keep the pump constantly
running till they get through with the
wet shaft.
Sometime ago it was said in this paper
that Mr. Green was to prospect on a
galena ledge known to exist near The
Rapids. This was an edror. He is
looking for placer, and does not know
the exact location of the ledge.
COLONEL GLAYPOOL
OUT FOR CONGRESS
Col. Charles E. Claypool, the Fair
banks attorney who is now residing at
Olympia, AVash., has decided to again
enter the race for the congressional seat
now occupied by Judge McCredie, who
was elected last year to succeed the late
Francis AV. Cushman.