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The independent steamer Martha Clow arrived Tuesday even
ing at 9 o’clock from her third trip this season to thelnnoko river,
carrying but two or three passengers.
One of the passengers was Clem Laborde, who came back to
get his boiler and mining outfit, which he intends to take to the
new Ididerod diggings on the next trip of the steamer.
The Clow on this trip took 15 of her passengers about 200
miles up the Ididerod river, landing them, it is estimated, 30 miles
from the mouth of Otter creek, on which creek the find was made.
The pay was found on Otter at a distance of ten miles from its
mouth. The scene of discovery can be reached overland in less
than eight miles.
Capt. Finger says he found the Ididerod a very good stream
to navigate, as he had a good stage of water, and experienced no
difficulty in pushing the Clow with the barge along, although he
found that river to be more crooked, if such is possible, than is the
Innoko.
The Clow, while ascending the Ididerod, met a number of per
sons in small boats headed either for the Yukon river or Diskaket
village for supplies.
The remainder of the Clow’s passengers were then taken up
the Innoko to the mouth of the Ditna river, where their outfits
were unloaded, and the job of polling a distance of 200 miles up
river commenced. «
The holes to bedrock on Otter creek, where pay was located,
are about 14 feet deep, and three feet of dirt carrying gold is
claimed. Pans amounting to from 4 to 9 cents are very common.
The last reports from the country nrou'hd Gaines creek are to
the effect that Yankee creek—where pay was found last winter—
is turning out good. Claim No. 2 a. is said to be very rich.
The Clow will return to Innoko from Fairbanks immediately,
as a cargo already awaits her at that port.
Tan an a, Alaska, 25th July, 1909.
To the Editor of the Tanana Leader:
Dear Sir—I have just seen your issue of a couple of weeks ago in which
you refer to the trial of Victor Eckengren. I gather that in reporting the case
you endeavored to be entirely fair, and only in one particular do I venture to
take exception to your account. You say that having made the charge against
him I went off down the river in my gasoline launch and left others to carry
out my crusade—or words to that effect, for I have not the paper before me.
I do not tike to lie under such imputation, and I ask of your courtesy the print
ing of the following explanation.
My complaint was laid before the district attorney in Fairbanks last March,
and I understood from him that the case would be tried at Fairbanks at the
present term of court. It was an entire surprise to me to find that the ease
had been tranferred to the court at Tanana. It was only when I was on my way
up to Eagle to meet the Bishop that I learned that the papers had been sent to
the court at Tanana with instructions to proceed. At that time it was impos
sible forme to change my plans for the following month. However important
the prosecution of such offenders might be, my chief duty was to meet the
Bishop at Eagle with the launch and accompany him on his very hurried visit
ation of the Yukon river missions. When I reached here with the Bishop on
the 3rd July, I found that tho case had been set for the 8th. The prisoner was
here and the witnesses were here, and the court naturally held that it was out
of the question to defer the trial until I could return from Anvik. And there
was no room for question in my mind that to take the Bishop to Anvik with
<he launch so that he might stop at that post and yet catch the revenue cutter
“Thesis” for his visitation of the Arctic coast, was paramount to all other con
siderati ons.
It is not my nature to sat my hand to any task, however disagreeable, and
then turn back. I regret exceedingly that circumstances seem to have laid me
open to any such misconstruction.
I should like your permission to say, further, that this case was not taken
up hurriedly, or at the instigation of any other parties whatever, but that I
moved in it after full examination and much consideration, and then only very
reluctantly. In the five years that I have been in this country, traveling con
tinually from mission to mission ar.d from camp to camp, winter and summer,
in discharge of my duties as archdeacon. I have only twice brought charge
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against anyone for selling or giving liquor to natives. In the other case, three
years ago. I secured a conviction. And I am as morally certain of the right
eousness of the charge in the case under present discussion us I am that I am
writing you this letter.
I know that the sentiment of a large proportion of the population of this
town, and of the other little river towns in the interior, is against the execu
tion of the law in this particular. I know that the talk about refusing to ac
cept Indian testimony is in many cases merely an excuse for refusing to accept
any testimony at all. Any reasonable man who has had experience with both
races will agree with me when I say that there are Indians whose evidence I
would accept as quickly as the evidence* of any white man, and that there are
white men whoso evidence 1 would question as quickly as I would the evidence
of any Indian. And l desire to go on record as declaring that whenever I am
morally certain that the law is being continually violated, and can procure
testimony that in my opinion should lead to conviction before an unprejudiced
jury ready and willing to enforce the law, I shall not hesitate to proceed
against the offender, whatever the probabilities of conviction or acquittal may
be. I take hope for the future from the wisdom at Washington (however much
it may differ from the wisdom at Tanana) that has recently enacted that the
giving or selling of liquor to natives shall be a felony, not subject to the local
courts, but reserved for the District courts alone.
I am not a detective or a policeman or a lawyer. Such tasks are most dis
tasteful to me. I have no more desire to make enemies than other men have, |
nor more liking for cold and averted looks. But when I see the natives of the I
Yukon progressively debauched and degraded by the illegal and criminal sale •
of liquor, when I know that this one thing is causing more wretchedness and
misery and immorality and disease amongst them than all other causes put to
gether, when I reflect that the missionary is about the only man who is stand
ing between them and their sure destruction and ultimate extinction at the
hands of white men without heart or conscience, content to trample the Indian
body and sou! in the mire so they may make a little easy money out of the
process, when I see this and know this, I am perfectly willing to incut* all the
odium, all the unpleasantness, that- comes from such a stand; all the sneers and
tho scorn of the whiskey-peddling element, and those who sympathize with
that element and shield it from the law, And, indeed, I think I hold my head
a little higher and have a little more respect for myself, because I have in
curred it.
, Believe me, faithfully yours,
HUDSON STUCK, Archdeacon of Alaska.
As a starter for the big celebration of Labor day at Fairbanks
on Monday, September 6, Messrs. Capewell & Phinn, proprietors
and managers of Marathon park in that city will “pull off” another
big Marathon race on Saturday evening, September 4, for which
event they will hang up cash prizes amounting to SlaOO.
The Tanana Leader wants to see this city represented in the
big event. The Leader believes there is some good talent in this-!
city, who could, with proper training, make the swiftest of the j
fleetfoots take notice without sitting up.
In order that our town may be represented The Leader will
furnish the best racer of this city
A ROUND-TRIP TICKET TO FAIRBANKS
AND FREE ENTRANCE TO RACE
The race is yet over five weeks away—plenty of time for racers
to condition themselves for the contest.
Howard M. Quinn, who is now training to represent Tanana in
the big Marathan race to take place at Fairbanks on September 4,
is a member of Company D, Twenty-second regiment, U. S. A.,
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now stationed at Fort Gibbon. Quinn is a recruit in the arm y
branch of the service, having enlisted on the 23d of last May, and
arrived at this post from Seattle a few weeks ago. On March 9,
this year, he was discharged from the American navy, after having
served four years, during which enlistment he saw service in the
Philippines, and visited se veral foreign countries. He has won
many short-distance races, and claims that he has on three occa
sions tied the world’s record for 100 yards, but has never been able
to beat it, He claims for himself the championship of the Philip
pine islands in 100-yard and quarter-mile dashes, which titles ha
won August 27, 1808, at Manila. On Labor day last year at Guam,
he ran a quarter-mile in 52 12 seconds. Quinn also raced success
fully at Kobe, Japan, and at Honolulu, in February last, on the
homeward voyage, he made 100 yards in 10 seconds. He claims to
have made the best time recorded at the A.-Y.-P. exposition in
100-yard and quarter-mile dashes.
Last Saturday evening, while training, he ran from the bar
racks flagstaff to the Mission and return, a distance of six miles,
in 45 minutes.
Patrick J. McKnight
Departs From Tanana
Patrick J. McKnight, widely
known as an outspoken champion
of the inherent rights and pre
rogatives of the common people,
en Thursday evening last packed
his “forty years’ gatherings” in
a small* boat and started down
the broad Yukon river.
Mr. McKnight didn’t know, so
he said, exactly where he would
“bring up;” maybe the Kuskok
wim would “ketch” him, or, if
things looked good, he would go
to the Ididerod and help develop
that vast district.
Patrick informed The Leader
that in the future when he pur
chased real estate he would be
careful not to buy a town street
—that’s what he got last summer
at Hot Springs._
Not a Good Road “Adv."
Mrs. McKenzie arrived from
Sullivan enroute for Fairbanks
where she is gone to get fitted
eye glasses. It took 7 mules and
the whole firm of Sipp and Dick
enson to freight the lady into
town.—Hot Springs Echo.
New Home for Postmaster
Charley Chanquist, owner of
the new postoffice building, is
now having a neat frame building
erected on the west side thereof,
which will be occupied as a resi
dence by the postmaster.
’Twas a Quiet Marriage
On Thursday evening, July 22,
at the residence of the bride, Mrs.
Isabelle Danelrey and A. B. Culp
were united in marriage by U. S.
Commissioner Phil Gallaher.
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