VERY PLEASING
ENTERTAINMENT
A highly enjoyable vaudeville entertainment was given at Post
Hall last Saturday night, under the auspices of W. A. Reid, secre
tary of the international committee of the Army branch of the
Young Men’s Christian Association. The proceeds of the enter
tainment will be applied on the purchase of a new piano to replace
the one lost by Hospital Steward Amos S. Kinzer in the recent
fire. Seventy-five dollars is the net proceeds.
The following programme was most creditably rendered:
1. Instrumental selection, “Christmas Polka,” by Sergeant Kinzer.
2. Stereoptecon Views—Different Alaskan military posts—Winter anil summer
scenes.
.‘1. Songs by Jim Dougherty (formerly chef on the Jeff Davis), Swiss Yodel.
4. Moving pictures.
5. Illustrated song, “The Klonlike Vale.'' by Mr. Rvil.
0. Impersonation of Harry Lauder—Two songs, “When I Get Dack Again to
Bonny Scotland” and “Wearing Kilts,” by Neil Anraes.
7. Illustrated song, “Starlight,” by Guy Wintersteia.
8. Acrobatics, by Howard M. Quinn.
The evening’s diversion ended with a dance which was very
generally participated in.
Mr. Reid delivered an illustrated lecture, “In His Steps,”
.Sunday night. Mrs. Captain Haskell sang “Where Is My Wan
dering Boy Tonight?” and “Holy City.”
» Monday night Mr. and Mrs. Reid entertained the soldier boys
at a smoker, when a good time was had and songs and recitations
were listened to.
Mr. Reid has berthed his launch, the Helen Gould, and will
remain here all winter. He will organize a Bible class at the post
and it is said he and Mrs. Reid will give a series of their interest
ing entertainments, which would doubtless please civilians no less
than the people at the post, for whose benefit they are more
especially intended.
ALONG THE LINE OF
LEAST RESISTANCE
A man named William Dunkle, a-well known character around
Tanana, was an unwilling voyager down the Yukon with the first
run of the season’s ice. He was given a boat by Grant creek
miners, provided with a supply of good, wholesome advice, and told
to proceed along the lines of least resistance until he found conge
nial surroundings amid which to begin life anew. Dunkle had,
like the squirrels, been accumulating a cache for the loiig, cold,
sub-Arctic winter, and had disregarded the vested rights of divers
individuals, under the law in such cases made and provided; hence
the decree commanding him to vacate the vicinity and thereafter
to remain absent, distant, and away.
A suspended sentence of 25 days in jail at Tanana has been
hanging over Dunkle since last summer.
STR. TANA ABANDONED
TRIP TO WHITERORSE
The steamer Tana left last Tuesday morning for Fish creek,
on the Tanana river, to go into winter quarters. The heavy flow
of ice during the past ten days, with no sign of temporary cessa
tion, caused Captain Langley to abandon all hope of making White
horse this fall, as has been his custom.
Dave and Jack Mutchler left on the Tana with a team of horses
and sled, and will go to Fairbanks from the boat’s winter berth,
taking with them the remains of James Murray, the miner drowned
about a month ago in the Iditarod river.
Lynn Smith also went on'the boat, and will continue to the
Outside via Fairbanks.
Down-River Roadhouses
Fox & Carney have the line new
roadhouse completed at Grant creek
and will occupy it this week.
Tommy Cook, who conducted the
roadhouse at Grant creek the winter
of 1907-’08, will keep a house at the
Old Station, midway between Xanana
and Grant creek.
A feminine writer in an Eastern
paper has a column article headed
‘‘What a Girl Might Tell a Man.”
Well, if the girl lived in this country
she might tell him these cool morn
ings to get up and light the fire. No
body would take exceptions to that,
unless the man did.
JOHN W. DUNCAN
GONE OUTSIDE
John \V. Duncan, the well-known
Rampart representative of the North
I ern Commercial Company, took passage
; for the Outside on the company’s last
! up-Yukon boat, the St. Michael, which
departed from Tanuna Oct. 1. Mr.
Duncan will join his family at Berke
ley, Cal., where they have resided for
several years. He has earned the va
cation by a long term of close applica
tion to business.
Sunny Ralph Donaldson will have
charge during Mr. Duncan’s absence.
COME AND SET YOUR TOBACCO CUT AT THE
Tanana Commercial Co.
We
Sell the
Following
Pedro
Peerless
Union Lender
Lucky Strike
6olden Septre
Edgeworth
Dfiie Queen
English Curve Cut
Right Witch
Yale Mixture
Bull Durham
Dill’s Best
Capstan
Seal oi North Carolina
Star Big Stump
Spearhead
Horseshoe
Piper Heidsic
(I max
Hiawatha
Copeehagen Snuff
THE PIONEER BAR.
THE OLD RELIABLE.
FINEST WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS. GIVE
US A TRIAL. A SQUARE DEAL TO ALL.
Pool and Billiard Tables in Connection.
JOEANICICH, PROP
Elected Delegates
At the regular meeting of
Camp Gibbon No. 25. A. B., last
Monday night Messrs. John Elle
good, Frank Smith and C. A.
Munro were elected delegates to
the annual grand camp meeting
to be held in Seattle next month.
WATER WORKS IN
NEED OF FUEL
Well! Well !
, o o o
The town-well house has been
finished, a brand new stove has
been placed in it, and wood
enough has been borrowed from
neighbors to keep the place com
fortably warm. Nearly a dozen
large barrels have been put in
the house and filled with water,
to.be used in cases of emergency.
Everybody in town is proud of
the new winter water system, and
all admit that it is a great con
venience to the public—it beats
the hole-in-the-ice proposition to
a merry fare-ye-well.
But to maintain it, and keep it
from freezing; to always have,
during the cold weather, a good
ly supply of fuel at hand—there’s
the rub ! Our town with its well
finds itself in the same position
as did Fairbanks a short time
ago with its beautiful public li
brary—it had the house, books,
and all necessary equipment ex
cept the heat. They had to de
vise ways and means to raise the
necessary funds, and they did so;
so will Tanana for its water
works, or the good work already
done will come to naught, and
The well will freeze,
The pump will rust,
The floor’ll get icy,
Anti the bar'ls go bust 1
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Well, town well! what do you
know about that?
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Followin'? is a statement fur
nished by Frank Smith, the road
commissioner, who had the build
ing of the house in charge:
Northern Saloon, paid .$1(5 00
J. S. Eilegood, paid 3 00
A. H. Culp, paid. 2 00
George Carl, paid. 15 00
Fred Date, paid. 2 00
Joseph Anicich, paid. 10 00
C. J. Smith, paid . 5 00
H. L. Hedrick, paid. 2 00
Northern Commercial Co., paid 10 00
Ed Y. Lee, paid. 2 50
George Vautier, paid. 5 00
G. H. Tiffany, paid. 2 50
A. R. Randles, paid. 2 00
Robert Herrold, paid . 2 00
J. C. Nelson, paid. 5 00
Sara Lee, paid. 1 00
Ed Woods, paid. 15 00
A. Black, paid. 15 00
Father Ferron, paid. 2 00
T. F. Murphy, paid . 2 00
H. E. Simpson, paid. 2 00
W. A. Van Horn, paid .. 2 00
H. Gilmore, paid. 1 00
Matie Gilmore, paid . 1 00
W. B. Rodman, paid...... 15 00
F. VV. Hall, paid. 2 50
John A. Clinton, paid. 2 00
Frank Cioli, paid . 2 00
John Bathurst, paid.,. 2 00
O. J. Thorlsen, paid. 2 00
J. C. Dehn, paid . 2 50
J. Cavanaugh, paid. 5 00
W. Burnyeat, paid . 2 50
Arthur E. Barney, paid . 2 00
Mrs. M. E. Cooper, paid . 5 00
3. E. Nussbaum, paid. 2 00
A. G. Vachon, paid.10 00
Y. E. Wing, paid. 5 00
W. H. Simpson, paid. 2 00
Theo Diederick, paid. 5 00
Matt Agenter, paid. 2 50
George Bailey, paid. 2 00
Total.3196 00
EXPENDITURES
Well house, complete.$175 00
Cleaning well and filling barrels 10 00
Stove and pipe. 11 50
Total.
$196 50
The Leader would suggest that
Camp Gibbon No. 25, A. B., give
an entertainment of some kind
to raise a fuel fund for the town
water works. That social organ
ization, wherever instituted, is
always expected to take the initi
ative and keep the lead in all
local affairs of a social nature,
and it being the only organiza
tion in the town, the lodge could
carry such a proposition to a suc
cessful conclusion.
Special Sunday Dinner at the Ken
tucky restaurant from 6 to 8 p.ra.—
Mrs. M. E. Cooper, proprietor.
NEW MAP PRESENTED
TO TANANA SCHOOL
Tuesday afternoon Miss Edna Marcy,
Tanana’s accomplished schoolmistress,
was tendered a glad surprise by a visit
from a self-appointed committee of
townsmen. The committee included
Judge Phil Gallaher and Deputy Mar
shal George Vautier, representing the
department of justice: G. H. Tiffany, of
the postoffice department, and Sam
Callahan, of The Leader. Miss Marcy
very graciously welcomed the gentle
men and permitted them to witness the
recitation of lessons by the younger
classes. Reading and blackboard ex
ercises were had, and half a dozen
little tots sang the “Chickadee Song"
and “Asleep in the Frost” in a charm
ingly sweet, childish manner, accom
panied by well-acted gestures which
bespoke careful training.
The time having come when a too
long-delayed explanation to the teacher
was "imperative, Judge Gallaher, as
spokesman, arose, and, holding aloft in
his hand a ten-foot tubular scroll, said:
“Miss Marcy, I have here one of the
latest, largest, completest and alto
gether most reliable maps of the
United States, compiled under govern
ment supervision and designed for
the use and benefit of these aud suc
cessive representatives of the rising
generation, which, on behalf of our
distinguished delegate to congress,
Hon. James Wickersham, it becomes
my duty in the exercise of a pleasant
prerogative to pass, through you its
present preceptress and reeoginized
authority, to the keeping and custody
of the Tanana public school. In con
elusion, I would say that in an earlier
period of my career I taught school
myself, and I want you to feel sure of
my hearty sympathy and moral sup
port—and I am sure these gentlemen
here present and all other worthy per
sons will voice my sentiments. It is
not a fitting time now to discuss the
relative merits of the vigorous physical
system under which I imbued with high
ideals the youth under my charge and
the gentler persuasive influences it is
so easy to be seen that you have given
preference. I will only say that who
ever, under any circumstances, under
takes to mould into an orderly mass
the intellectual vagaries of a heteroge
neous collection of unripe minds, with
an indeterminate amount of hereditary
predilection running counter to all ac
cepted rules of logic, will have no
sinecure.”
Miss Marcy returned thanks in brief
appropriate words. The gentlemen of
the committee hung the new map on
the cozy schoolhouse wall, and propri
ety suggested that the meeting ad
journ. Before retiring to their re-1
spective quarters tho committee in an i
informal vote decided that Tanana’s
schoolmarra is strictly all right.
DUNNAGE STOLEN
FROM A BOAT
When Jimmy Gailaher and Andy
Whittington returned to Grant creek
from Tanana ten days ago, taking down
an outfit in a small boat, they found
upon arrival that a dunnage bag con
taining a pistol, fur caps, milts and
other articles was missing. The bag
was evidently stolen while the boat lay
unguarded on the Tanana water front.
—
A Bis Revenue Cutter
Dr. diaries F. Aked of New
| York recently gave the young
women of liis congregation ad
vice about matrimonial extrava
gance. Compared with the Eng
lish girl, the American girl is a
great spendthrift. Shortly after
the return of the fleet two naval
officers were talking about their
wives. Naturally, they used nau
tical terms.
“What a dear little craft your
wife is!” said the first.
“ ‘Dear and little,” did you
say? She is dear, all right, but
there is nothing little about her.
Why, she is the biggest revenue
cutter I have ever seen.”—Ex.
A good Arabian horse will cunterover
a desert 24 hours in summer and 4S
hours in winter without drinking.
H. L. HEDRICK,
GENERAL
AND MACHINE SHOP
Horseshoeing Repairing
Near Cor. Campbell ave. and 2nd St.
Rear of Yukon Saloon.
EUROPE TALKS
ONLY OF FLYING
The effect of the week of aero
plane races at Rheiins has been
seen in the reports of a new7 faith
in the coming conquest of the
air as a practical means of trans
portation, or at least as a new
field of study in the science of
war. America and France had
outshone all other nations in the
aviation tests. Alter Farman had
won the grand prize of Cham
pagne oy flying 118 miles in 3
hours 11 minutes and 20 seconds,
Curtiss had upheld American
prestige by winning the interna
tional trophy and world's cham
pionship in September. He flew
in his machine 12 2 5 miles in 15
minutes and 3-5 seconds. This
brings the cup to the Aero Club
of America and requires that
next year’s contests be held in
America. Curtiss won $5000 cash
prize. On the same day M. Ble
riot made a new7 speed record of
G 1-5 miles in 7 minutes 47 4 5
seconds. Even the Americans
present were forced to admit that
the Wright type of aeroplane had
been completely eclipsed by the
French monoplanes and the fac
tories for the construction of the
latter are running overtime to
fill numerous orders, reminding
the public of the early stages of
the automobile industry. The
Wrights, in defense of their ma
chine, say that inexperienced
men were in charge of those seen
at Rhein.s.
The Leaner is delivered by carrier to
all purls of the city—$1 per month.
Tanana Restaurant
Under New Management
BEST MEALS in! THE CAMP
SHORT ORDERS AT ALL HOURS
Bast of E«rjth!ag sn Lis Marks! Service Unexssiled in the fierih
Fresh and Delicious Bread, Piss and Pastries Always on Hand
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