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mercial Co.’s and the post gate. Finder
please leave at Mrs. Culp’s.
FIGHT NEWS
WAS BUM
While everybody was engrossed in the
local sports last Monday the news came
of the big fight at Reno.
“Too bad” was the substance of the
general comment, showing that the
favorite was a loser.
Such news as that is passed on by the
telegraph boys, but after the first few
rounds they became disgusted and quit
sending it by the round. The game
ended in the fifteenth, and the only con
solation Jeffries’s friends have is that he
was not knocked out but was counted
out while hanging over the rail in a dazed
condition. Johnson hit Jeffries as often
as he pleised, but Jeffries seldom got in
on him and when he did his blows were
ineffective.
Local .lovers of the game need not
greive because they could not go to see
the affair, for they evidently did not
miss a very great deal.
A. B. Danee.
A very enjoyable dance was given by
the A. B.’s at their hall last night. It
was an improintu affair of which scant
notice had been given, and the attend
ance was small. However those fortu
nate enough to attend had a pleasant
time.
WICKERSHAM
WAS ENDORSED
The Leader hai not received further
news from the insurgent Republican
convention held at Juneau June 30 than
that it endorsed Wickersham. That
cannot be called news at all, for it was
was well known the convention would
do nothing less.
The convention must have repre
sented a very respectable and consider
able portion of the Republican senti-i
ment of the territory, for the regulars
could not scare up enough adherents to
secure a delegation from Skagwav, and
at Nome and many places on the coast
the standpatters had been repudaited in
local meetings. The one thing notice
able in the campaign so far is that no
big interests have made up a campaign
fund for Wickersham. Else there would
at least be arrangements made for pub-,
licity of matters beneficial to his cam- j
paign. A good many newspapers are;
giving Wickersham hearty support, but
none of them bear the ear marks of sub
sidized organs. None of them, proba
bly, want anything more than the news
to print.
The candidates stand—Orr for the in
terests, O’Connor for the labor unions
and Wickersham for just and fair deal
ing with all the people.
Flocking to Iditarod.
There is no late mining news from the
Iditarod. A passenger who arrived from
that district on the Julia B. today con
firms the reports that there is already a
tremendous overplus of people there
and mora are constantly arriving by
way of St. Michael. The Saran, which
passed Tanana for Dawson July 4, dis
charged much goods and 200 passengers
for the Iditarod.
The belief is growing that tfie gov
ernment will have to take many desti
tute people out of the district before
navigation closes, but everybody sin
cerely hopes it will not be so bad as
that.
At all events no one should go to the J
Iditarod no\v unless he is well supplied
with money or grub.
John Reese, the Indian policeman at
the Mission, surrendered his badge the
first of this month. Governor Clark
notified him that there had been no ap- j
propgietion made out of which to pay
his salary and John promptly resigned, i
The cost of living is surely a-pestering '
Uficle Sam. '
Personal Mention.
Joe Anicicli departed on the Susie e»
route to Skagway to testify in the Cooke
court martial.
; S. J. Marsh, United States eommis
i sioner at Caro, has been in town a few
; days awaiting a boat for Fairbanks.
The llot Springs Echo says Mr. and
| Mrs. Frank Diver have come in from
i the outside and are living on Pioneer.
| Joe Shellenberger, the Fairbanks in
‘ ventor of a patent thawing point,
drifted into town a few days ago from
Dawson where he has been In the inter
est of his invention. He is awaiting a
boat for Fairbanks.
Frank M. Smith has moved his family
from Rampart to Hot Springs and will
freight between the latter place and
Eureka. He will also carry the mail,
which will be paid for by subscription.
Louis Larson and George Morris came
in from Morelock creek yesterday. They
had been on the creek since last summer.
Mr. Morris expects to take an early boat
to the outside.
Jack Spencer, from Sullivan creek,
is now in Tanana bound for the Iditarod.
Frank Gibbs, former engineer at Gib
bon post, who was outside last winter,
is now second engineer on the Jeff
Davis
Capt. Bergman, who was on his
Washington State ranch last winter, is
now skipper on the Jeff Davis. When
the Davis returns to St. Michael Capt.
Bergman will proceed to San Francisco
to give testimony in the Cooke court
martial.
A. B. Culp came in from Morelock
creek for the Fourth and is spending a
few days with his family.
Jim Carse, the well-know n trader of
i the Yukon flats, who has been spending
| a week with friends in Tanana, returned
to his post on the Sarah. If he can
dispose of a lot of wood he has in the
| upper country Mr. Carse intends to move
| to the lower liver and establish a wood
I yard.
Heine, the post baker, who bought
I his discharge and ended his connection
with tiie army last week, is at present
behind the counter at the Pioneer. After
the return of Joe Anicich from Skagway
Mr. Heine will go to Grant creek to
work on his mining claims.
Mrs. Dabney, who was with the Ken
tucky restaurant last summer, arrived
I from the outside a week ago and is
j stopping with Mrs. Tilley. She does not
i know how long she will remain in
| Tanana.
M. P. Fleischman is expected to come
1 down from Rampart very shortly on his
way to the lditarod.
Tom Aitken, the mining associate of
i Frank G. Manley who recently went into
I the lditarod with him, will return to the
i Hot Springs district as soon as arrange
| ments have been completed for com
mencing work on the ground over which
Mr. Manley acquired control on Flat
creek.
A1 Goslow and Dick Perkins are pas
' sengers from the Nowi river on the Julia
! B., which arrived this morning. They
| located some very good-looking hartl
: rock propositions and propose to return
j and do development work during the
1 winter.
! H. D. Fountain, of Hot Springs, is in
Tanana investigating the advisability of
establishing an electric light plant.
Sergeant Warren, who has for some
time been the sergeant in charge of
Company K signal corps, will be re
lieved shortly, and will have charge of
the wireless station upon the departure
of Sergeant Carpenter, who is now in
charge.
Jack Robinson, new deputy marshal
for Tanana, who came down from Fair
banks a week ago, was accompanied by
Mrs. Robinson and their neice Miss
Lucy Cowell. They are residing in the
Stoddard residence. Mr. Robinson is
not long from the upper Yukon country
where he has many friends among the
genuine Alaskans.
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The Leader is on sale at the Postoffice
i Lobby.
Steamer Movements.
ARRIVALS.
Dusty Diamond from Iditarod, July 1
at 7: 50 a. m.
Koyukuk from Fairbanks, July 3 at
2:25 a. m.
Sarah from St. Michael July 4 at 9:40
a. m.
Seattle No. 3 from Fairbanks, July 4
at 9:30 a. m.
Messenger from Rampart, July 4 at
8:05 a. m.
Martha C’low from Fairbanks, July 4
at 11: 15 p. m.
Jeff Davis from St. Michael, July 5
at 3 a. m.
General Jacobs from St. Michael. July
(» at 0:45 a. m
Julia 11. from St. Michael, July 7 at
7:25 a. m.
DEPARTURES.
Carrier for Eagle, June 30 at 0:45
p. m.
Dusty Diamond for Fairbanks, July 1
at 10:40 p. m.
Messenger for Rampart, July 2 at
7: 30 p. in.
Koyukuk for Fairbanks, July 4 at
4: 20 p. m.
Sarah for Dawson, July 4 at 8 p. m.
Gen. Jacobs up the Tanana, July 0
at 1 : 50 p. m.
Messenger for Holy Cross, July 0 at
4 p. m.
BULLETIN.
Jeff Davis, Julia B. and Seattle No. 3
at Gibbon.
Messenger, down, Louden, 7:30 this
morning.
Myers, up, Melozi, 10:45 yesterday
evening.
Light, up, Melozi, 11 yesterday eve
ning.
Jacobs, up, Hot Springs 3:30 this
morning.
Martha Clow, down, Koyukuk 5:30
this morning.
Martha Clow, Herman and Reliance
at Nulato 9 this morning.
Woman Acquitted
Of Larceny Charge
Last Monday Minnie Sanford was
tried in the local court on a charge of
the theft of $20 from Charles Oldenberg,
a member of the Fort Gibbon garrrison.
The evidence showed that he gave her a
$20 gold piece to keep while he left the
place to go after a bottle of beer. She
got tired waiting for his return and
locked the cabin and went out to see the
Fourth of July sports He returned
and found her place locked up and went
and laid the charge against her. She
returned the coin and was dismissed
with a caution to be careful in future.
Vautier’s Chicks
Prey to a Dog
! Early one morning last week, when
! very few people were stirring on the
; street, a (log entered George Vautier’s
poultry yard and killed seventeen of his
| young chickens. It was by the merest
chance that some one passed along and
stopped the havoc or the whole flock,
numbering thirty-seven, might have
: been destroyed.
A New Citizen.
Born, June 2i>, to Mr. and Mrs. George
J. Miller, a son. The Leader tenders
apologies to the young gentleman for not
noting his arrival last week, but places
| the responsibility on the stork whose
; visit was so quiet that the paper did not
, hear of it right away.