TANANA LEADER
Issued every Thursday.
Sam J. Callahan.Publisher
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Advertising.—Rates on application. Right
reserved to reject any advertisement.
Thursday, May 26, 1910.
TO PATRONS OF THE LEADER
With this issue the ownership and
control of the Tanana Leader changes
from G. M. Arbuckle to Sam J. Calla
han. The paper will be printed on the
material formerly belonging to the Yu
kon Valley News. Mr. Callahan will
carry out contracts for advertisements
and subscription made under the old
management, and is authorized to col
lect and receipt for the same.
G. M. ARBUCKLE.
SAM J. CALLAHAN.
THE CLEARING OF THE CLOUDS
Alaska is to be congratulated on a
good many things that have and have
not happened lately. All in all the out
look for the territory as a whole was
never quite so bright as now. There
never was anything the matter with
any considerable part of it in the first
place except an anomalous condition of
politics that kept every kind of industry
unsettled and insecure and forced all
its production of capital to fiee for safety.
No country has produced more per cap
ita and retained less.
The Beveridge bill—instigated by a
discredited administration—was calcu
lated to prolong the condition and make
it more binding; but Alaska happened
to have a strong delegate in congress
and the attempt to pass the bill failed.
The hearings before the committees of
the senate and house have made Alaska
many staunch friends, and it is hopeful
that no such a bill will ever threaten
the territory again. Thanks are due to
Delegate Wickersham for the clearing of
the clouds, and Alaska is to be congrat
ulated that he is a candidate for re
election.
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BRIGHT SIDE OF THE STAMPEDE
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There is not one of us but who has
friends in the great stampede now in
progress. It is the most natural thing
in the world for those of us whose af
fairs forbid us to join the procession to
harbor a feeling of disappointment. But
with that the situation has its bright
side. First and foremost, the Iditarod
will have a tonic effect that was badly
needed; and in the next place there is
no apparent reason why we should not
all benefit by it.
Tanana, at least stands to gain by
the movement. Tlie only ones leaving
here are people whose business prospects
were not satisfactory as things were;
and Tanana has always profited more
or less from the river travel, which will
be the largest in several years, if not the
largest ever.
It is quite true that Tanana would
not be what it is if it were not for the
productive Tanana valley. Even so:
the Fairbanks district is not half dead;
indeed some of the best informed men
now coming from that region declare
they expect to see the Fairbanks coun
try start on the ascendant and not stop
until it has eclipsed its former glory.
The one obstacle that has to be over
come is the high cost of transporting
ore to the mill—for, they say, Fair
banks is changing into a quartz camp
at a rate even her own people fail to
realize.
Another thing: Tanana is not nearly
out of the running as the center of a
production of both coal and gold. In
this connection it is not amiss to sug
gest that those of us who are doing
little or nothing to advance develop
ment in this direction refrain from be
littling the efforts of others.
ACCORDING TO THE BOOK
The trial of Felix Boucher for killing
Gustafson on Willow creek in the Idit
arod resulted in acquittal, just as every
body expected it would. Whether the
killing was really justifiable or not the
evidence obtainable satisfied the offi
cials, the coroner’s jury and the resi
dents where it took place that it was so.
By what rule of logic it was expected
to make the matter appear in a different
light by a trial removed five hundred
miles from the scene of the tragedy is
hard to tell.
It seems that the district attorney
addressed a disciplinary letter to the
commissioner and ex officio coroner in
the Iditarod because the latter official
had discharged Boucher. It may be
that the commissioner-coroner had no
power or right to discharge him; and
yet, if he had no such rightful power it
is certain he was worse than a wart on
the government’s nose, for otherwise an
investigation by him would have noth
ing to determine and would be farcical
Not for the world would it be intimated
that the district attorney did not go
by the hook. For beyond him is the
attorney general of the United States,
who himself goes by the book and sees
that the district attorney goes by the
book ; and the district attorney at Fair
banks insists that the commissioner
recorder five hundred miles away also
go by the book. This is the system to
be kept intact, and the district attorney,
being in the middle, bears the maximum
strain. And so it is easy to see
how disastrous a flaw in the little end
of a very long string might be. If one
inch were to break off the tail the equi
librium would be disturbed and the
head might bump the ceiling.
Wherefore let us rather applaud the
district attorney in his laudable efforts
at keeping the line straight.
It is true that the course of justice
was long and exceedingly costly to the
government. It is also true that a
number of people were brought from
the Iditarod at great expense to them
selves and at a time when their pros
pects were blighted and their hopes
shattered. Even the deputy marshal
who piloted the unfortunate cadaver
over the the long stretches of frozen
trail and deposited it at the temple of
justice there to contribute its mite of
mute testimony is worthy of sympathy.
But these things were necessary and ac
cording to the book and should not be
allowed to disturb your .equanimity or
mine or to provoke silly comment.
George Washington.
George Washington sometimes drank
deep, but not to the point of drunken
ness. He was a regular investor in lot
tery tickets, and played cards for money.
He could swear with vigor and earnest
ness, and at times was known to get into
towering fits of anger. He was 6 feet 2
inches high, had large hands and feet,
and always raked in the pot when he
held the top hand.
Notice of Forfeiture
To T. J. Wilson, Roy R. Henderson,
Alfred Place, J. C. Junkin, Chris S. :
Hillstead, O. A. Lavmon and C. H.
Hull:
You and each of you are hereby no
tified that I have expended the sum of j
one hundred (100) dollars in labor and ;
improvement, for each year, for the j
year 1908 and the year 1909, upon the i
following placer mining claim, to wit:
The First Chance Association Placer,
claim, situated and being on Golden
creek, a tributary of Illinois creek, in
the Fort Gibbon Mining and Recording
Precinct, Territory of Alaska.
Said work and improvement was done
under the provisions of section 2324 of
the Revised Statutes of the United
States, being the amount required by
said section 2324 to hold said claim for
the years 1908 and 1909: also that proof
of the annual assessment work was
filed under chapter 2559, entitled “An
act to amend the laws governing labor
or improvements upon mining claims
in Alaska,” approved March 2, 1907;
and that if within ninety days after
the last publication of this notice you
fail or refuse to contribute your pro
portion of such expenditure, for said
years, as co-owner in said placer min
ing claim, your interest in said claim
will become the property of the under
signed under said section 2324.
Dated at Tanana, Fort Gibbon Pre
cinct, Alaska, March 10, 1910.
S. F. McDILL.
Date of 1st publication, March 10, 1910.
Date of last publication, June 16, 1910.
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CONTRACTS LET
FOR DRIED FISH
Proposals for supplying dried salmon
for use at various signal stations were
opened by the quartermaster at Fort
Gibbon last Friday. Tenders were nu
merous. Bids ranged from 7/2 to 10
cents a pound. Awards were made for
60,000 pounds, as follows: Pounds
Timothy Pitka, at 7J/j cents.12,000
Carl Swanson, at V/2 cents.12,000
Otto Anderson, at 8Vj cents. 5,000
Ed McCormick, at 8V£ cents. 7,10J
Lamont, at 8 cents. 6,000
Calhoun, at 8% cents.18,000
Fishermen assert that the contracts
have been let at an exceedingly low
figure.
Fishing on the Kuskokwim.
Tanana friends have heard that White
dog Smith and Frank Fox (the Turk)
have left the Innoko and crossed over
to the Kuskokwim, where they will fish
this summer. They had a lay on Little
creek, but it is not known how they
came out on it.
“What do you think of this old world,
anyway?”
“Bless God, I ain’t got time ter think !
Six chilluns, house rent an’ de grocery
bill takes up all my spare time!”—At
lanta Constitution.
St. James Mission
Holy Eucharist each Sunday at 11 a. m.
Each following .Sunday, Evening Prayer at
7:30 p. m. WINTHROP PEABODY,
i Priest in Charge.
Additional Entry
Under Section 2306 of the Revised
Statutes of the United States.
APPLICATION.
United States Land Office,
Fairbanks, Alaska, March 30, 1910.
Northern Commercial Company, a
corporation incorporated under the
laws of the State of New Jersey, as
signee of John R. Allen, William R.
Hess, Zaehariah Johnston Jr., Joseph
B. Deaton and Morris P. Jolley, being
entitled to the benefits of Section 2306
of the Revised Statutes of the United
States, granting additional lands to sol
diers and sailors who served in the Re
bellion, does hereby apply to enter U.
S. Survey No. 739, situate on the north
side of the Yukon river, near the town
of Tanana, about one-half mile east of
Weare (Tanana) postoffice, Alaska,
more particularly described as follows,
to-wit:
Beginning at corner No. I on the
north bank of the Yukon river, whence
witness corner No. 1 a stone 20x12x7
inches, set flush with the ground,
marked “S-739,” bears north 40 links,
from which witness corner United
States location monument No. 739,
bears south 80 deg. 27 min. east 32.18
chains distant; thence north 74 deg. 53
min. west 10.69 chains to corner No. 2,
whence corner No. 2 of survey No. 250
bears north 79 deg. 19 min. west 20
chains distant, and witness corner No.
2 bears north 40 links; thence north
3-92 chains to corner No. 3 whence wit
ness corner No. 3 bears east 65 links;
thence east 10.35 chains to corner No. 4;
thence south 6.71 chains to corner No.
1, the place of beginning, containing
5.49 acres. Magnetic variation 28 deg.
30 min. east.—
as additional to their original home
steads, respectively:
John R. Allen, as additional to orig
inal homestead entry No. 6963, at
Booneville. Mo., dated October 21,1869,
containing 38.10 acres.
Wm. R. Hess, as additional to original
homestead entry on the west one-half
of the southwest quarter of section 1, in
township 26 north, range 5 west, en
tered April 3, 1872, per homestead No.
4028, and final proof No. 1157, at the
Ironton, Mo., United States land office.
Zachariah Johnston, Jr., as additional
to original homestead entry No. 43 at
North Platte, Nebraska, dated July 7,
1873, containing 139.5)0 acres.
Joseph B. Deaton, as additional to
original homestead entry No. 368, at
Ironton, Mo., dated June 16, 1806, con
taining 135.38 acres.
’Morris P. Jolley, as additional to
original homestead No. 5412, at Junc
tion Citv, Kansas, dated February 10,
1870.
Notice is hereby given that any and
all persons claiming any portion of the
above-described land are required to
file a protest during the period of pub
lication or thirty days thereafter, in ac
cordance with law, with the Register
and Receiver of the U. S. land office at
Juneau, Alaska.
NORTHERN COMMERCIAL COM
PANY, by Geo. J. Miller,
Attorney-in-fact.
Notice of the above will be published
in the Tanana Leader, printed at Tan
ana, Alaska, which I hereby designate
as the newspaper published nearest the
land described in said application.
E. H. MACK,
Register IT. S. Land Office, Fairbanks.
Date of first publication, April 7, 1910.
Date of last publication, June 2, 15)10.
Notice to Creditors.
The estate of MARY E. COOPER,
deceased.
Notice is hereby given by J. C. Rolin
and J. Russell Walle, executors and ad
ministrators of the estate of Mary E.
Cooper, deceased, to the creditors of
and all persons having claims against
said deceased, to exhibit them, with the
necessary vouchers, within six months
after the first publication of this notice,
I to said executors and administrators at
their office at the Tanana Commercial
j Co.’s store, in the town of Tanana, Fort
I Gibbon precinct, Territory of Alaska,
| the same being the place for the trans
' action of the business of said estate.
Dated this 17th dav of May, 1910.
.7. RUSSELL WALLE,
J. C. DEHN,
Executors and Administrators.
Date of first publication May 19, 1910.
Date of last publication June 23, 1910.