NATIVE RIVER PILOT
THUMPED HIS WIFE
■Rather more drunkenness than j
1151131 among the Indians has been
Teported during the past ten days.
H. W. Strangman, missionary i:i:
charge of the Mission of Our Sa ■
vior. made complaint before the;
United States commissioner and a '
warrant was issued for the arrest of I
Alexander, a native pilot, on a
charge of whipping his wife in the
vicinity of the mission last Sunday
night. Alexander is in hiding, so
the warrant cannot he served.
Mr. Strangiuan also swore out a
warrant against James Stamates,
charging that he did sell, barter
and give spirituous liquor to Silas
and Teresa his wife, who are na
tives. Stamates is a soldier and.
was on a seven-day furlough at the
time he is alleged to have commit .
ted the offense. He was arrested
yesterday and placed in the federal
jail pending a hearing before the
commissioner next Saturday after
noon.
BARON VON 6UTTMAN
CUTTING BIG CHEESE
Valdez Prospector,Oct. 7: Cook
inlet territory round about Kenai
is the happy hunting ground
these days, made so by Baron
von Guttman, who recently char
tered the steamer Transit of 3000
tons, at Victoria, and came north
with a shipload of retainers to
thin out the wild beast population
on Kenai peninsula. On his ar
rival he enlisted the services of
the males of military age around
the town of Kenai to aid the
slaughter. He pays white men
$10 a day to act as guides, and
Siwashes §5 per day as packers.
Everybody can get a job, and
proceedings on the upper side of
Kenai peninsula resemble a mili
tary campaign.
This is no guerrilla warfare-!
The baron has organized the
5*: campaign like one of Teddy
y- Roosevelt's descents upon hap
less primeval live stock. He is
the real Bwana Tumbo of Alaska.
That name von Guttman wasn't
given him for nothing, and when
he gets through shooting entrails
out of big game he is liable to
carry away a record that will
make Teddy's trip to Africa
look like a rabbit chase, even if
Kermit is along to trim the
bunch.
Baron von Guttman is said to
be an Austrian, but as he has
mazuma to burn he is understood j
to have cleared up all the statu-!
tory and diplomatic pitfalls that!
threatened to stay his hand, and !
he is going through the Kenai;
peninsula like bass notes through
a tin horn. He has started a
reign of terror in the jungle.
The Leader is on sale at the Tanana
post office lobby.
See us for Cloth Posters.
I
MANY SUFFERING
WITH PELLAGRA:
Washington, Sept. 30.— ‘Pellagra'’ is likely to become in this
■country a public health problem of great proportions, according to I)r
C. H. Lavitider of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, who i
> has been investigating the disease in the Illinois State Hospital for the!
1j[ Insane.
,p>_ There are forty or fifty well defined cases of pellagra in the institu j
lotion. Dr. Lavinder says that the type of the disease found there dif-!
fers in some respects irorn the general type he is familiar with in the :
& South, but that it might be expected to vary in different localities.
“Inquiry was made as to how much corn or its products entered
into the general diet, and it was learned that corn is used sparingly,
perhaps on an average of not more than two or three limes a week,’'
■says the doctor. “The quality ot the meal and hominy which I saw
was to all appearances excellent. I am unable to assign any salisfac
tory local cause for the extent of the disease in the hospital. The su
perintendent told me that he now realizes that he has had cases ever
since the institution was opened eight years ago.”
FREIGHT CONTRACTS
LET THIS MORNING
Bids for hauling several tons of sup
plies from Fort Gibbon to Signal Corps
stations on the Tunana river were
opened this morning by the quarter
master, Lt. Thomlinson. Frank Smith
of Tanana. was awarded the tonnage
billed to Minto, and James Blodgett, of
Hot Springs, secured the contracts for
hauling the goods to Hot Springs and
Ckena. A list of the bids submitted
fol lows:
To Chena—Frank Smith, 20c; Chas.
Surridge, 12Jc: James Blodgett, 9J.
To Minto—Frank Smith, tie; Heeter
& Dehn. 10c; James Blodgett. 7Jc
To Hot Springs—Frank Smith, 4c;
Heeter & Dehn, 3|c: James Blodgett,
3c.
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SEALS LEAVING
THE PRIBILOFS
Seattle, Oet. 11.—A letter received
here today from Captain Brown de
clares that the seating industry on the
Pribilof islands in Bering sea is doom
ed. and that nothing but immediate
and absolute prohibition of killing will
preserve it. Even that measure is
likely to fail, says the captain, for the
seals, harried by incessant hunting in
the North, are betaking themselves tc
the similar climes of the Falkland
islands, off the southeast tip of Sauth
America. The younger generations
are flocking to these islands, and when
the older animals of the Pribilofs die
out or are killed, they will arrive no
more. _
The supreme court of Oregon
has decided that the 500-year
sentence imposed uponThorburn
Ross, president of the Title Guar
antee and Trust Company, which
failed a year ago in Portland, is
null and of no effect; but the five
year sentence is upheld.
Job Printing at The Leader office.
Tanana Restaurant
Under New Management
BEST MEALS IN THE CAMP
SHORT ORDERS AT ALL HOURS
hit of Eierytbiog to tki Market Service Uneieeflsd io ike lorti
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A. G. RAILROAD
IN NEW CONTROL
New York, Oct. 11.—An entirely new
syndicate will be in control of the
Alaska Centra! railway in Alaska be
fore the end of the year, according to
the financial journals of New York.
There will be a new set of officers, who
will be elected probably the middle o!
December.
The identity of the syndicate is still
kept a secret. According to rumol4.
the control of the road is already in
the hands of J. P. Morgan & Co., who
purchased it for the Rothschilds. Mr.
Perkins, junior partner of Morgan &
Co., made a trip to Alaska during the
summer on this business.
Sale Confirmed at Valdez
Valdez. Oct. 20.—The sale of the
Alaska Central railroad, which has
been anticipated here for the past sev
eral weeks, was confirmed today. Re
ceiver Laberee, who was appointed by
Judge Reid a year ago. today stated.
that he has organized a company in
Seattle to take over the road as soon
as he arrives in the Elliott Bay city.
He, with Mr. Jemraett. the trustee foi
the Canadian bondholders, is sailing
for Seattle tonight, and he says the
transfer will be made as soon as they
arrive there.
Mr. Laberee says that the road undei
its new management will be called the
Alaska Northern, and that work wil
be pushed with all possible speed a.
soon as reorganization is completed.
He refused to state the names of the
parties interested, but asserts they are'
men who are in position to put the
road through to completion withoui
loss of time.
Judge Overfield has just handed down
his decision in regard to the expense
of the receivership. He allows Re
ceiver Laberee $20,000, and Graves.
Kizer & Graves, the attorneys for the
bondholders. $25,000. He refused tc
tax the costs of the Goodwin receiver
ship to Ballaine, w ho in the first place
asked for the appointment of the re
ceiver, and he refused compensation to
all the attorneys for Ballaine with the
exception of Judge Wickersham, of
Fairbanks. The latter, who applied to
the court at Fairbanks for the appoint
ment of a receiver at the instance o
Ballaine's attorneys, he allowed $1000
Never Saw a Hog
Kansas City, Oct. 2.—Inquiry,
following a humorous incident,
shows that nearly 200 girls in va
rious Kansas City high schools
have never seen a live hog. It
was related that a high-school
girl recently went to the country
and seeing a pig asked what ani
mal it was. On being told it was
a hog she exclaimed: ‘'Why, it
has hair!” This led to an in
quiry on the subject and a can
vass of all the high school girls
in Kansas City showed that some
200 marriageable young women
of the second largest live stock
market city in the world had
never seen a live member of the
porcine.
Captain Raould Amundsen,who
achieved the -Northwest passage
with the sloop Gjoa, is preparing
for his long trip to the polar re
gions, during which he hopes to
drift across the north pole, or so
close to it that it will be an easy
matter to reach it. Polar bears
are being trained in Hamburg.
Germany, by him to draw his
sledges. These are about to be
shipped to Christiana, Norway.
Jim Jeffries and Jack Johnson,
the heavyweight pugilists, signed
articles of agreement in New|
York last Monday for their fight
for the championship of the
world, to take place iu March or
April next. Many fight promot
ers were represented at the meet
ing of the pugilists and offered
liberal purses for the contest, but
it is believed that Jimmy Cofforth
of San Francisco will get it. Each
principal deposited a forfeit of
$5000, and also a side bet of a
like amount was put up by each
man.
HAMSHAW BLAMES
THE WHITE PASS
Seattle, Oct. 15.—The greatest
drawback to the development of
the North is the White Pass road,
said Clarence H. Hamshaw, the
New York mining engineer, re
cently, on his way through Seat
tle from the North. Mr. Ham
shaw says th^t not until the,
monopoly is broken or regulated
will the North proceed with her
normal development.
Similar testimony is being pre
sented before the interstate com
merce commission in the Hum
boldt case. The Humboldt main
tains that if the other steamship
companies are given a through
rate from Seattle to Dawson, the
White Pass is compelled by th<
Elkins act to grant the same com
bi nation rates to the Humboldi
company.
RAISES POTATOES
NEAR BIO GLAZIER
Valdez Prospector Sept. 16.
J. E. Barrett, who arrived ir
town yesterday from the Kenni
cott, brought with him 25 pounds
of potatoes which he raised dur
Ihg the summer,* and which hf
will take out to the A.-Y.-P. ex
position to show the people thai
vegetables can be raised in p
'country where large glaciers ex
ist. Mr. Barrett says the pota
toes were grown within a quartet
of a mile of the Kennicott glacier,
-which is over 30 miles long and
10 miles wide. He also raised
sweet peas, asters, peas, rhubarb,
onions, carrots, beets, and a num
oer of other vegetables.
In New Home
Judge Gallalier lias moved the
commissioner’s office into his new
building, the first door east ot Join.
Clinton’s residence on Second
street. When the furnishings are
ill. in place the office will be very
cozy. The judge’s living quarters,
in the rear, will be much more
comfortable than the apartment
over the old office, which had be
come so frigid that Teddy, the lit
'li cocker spanier, left home and
cast himself on the mercy of the
community.
ir Ymi have something lying
11" I UU around in the way
” that you have no use for, a
Tanana Leader classified od. will
turn it . into money for you and
take it away. Try it.
ADVERTISED LETTER LIST
Tanana, Aka., Nov. 1, 1909.
Anderson. Bert 2
Bencher. N J
Bailey, Tom
Boudixen, Dr M E
Balienline. Jas E
Boni, Raymond
Christenson, Chas
Cullinane, J P
Canr.e.v, Mat
Crossley J
Elett, Frank
Edwards. Fred
Dawson, Miss Eula
Guehesnau, A
Fisher, Geo
Griffin, R V
Gibson, Jas
.lerold, Eugene
Jaddon, O L
1 irwin, Otho
ving, Roy
Gurstin, Peter 5
Lakotio, Tliga 2
Loumborski, F
Lagoric, L
Muckier, .Tim
MeKnely, Mr
McKinnon, Thos
Mesher, Eu
McLaughlin, Hugh
Martin, .Jno E
McCarthy. Mike
Neeson, j F
Olson, Sparr 2
Price. E W
Romanier, Otto
Sullenger, C'has 2
Senor, Andrew i
Skold, Andrew
Sather. Mrs. Lina '
Stanger, Nicolaus
Watelson. Sain
Williams, Lou
Westin, Miss Louise
G. H. Tiffany, Postmaster.
POPULAR COUPLE WEDS
AT HOT SPRINGS
Commissioner V. L. Bevington
it Hot Springs last week united
m marriage Mr. Ed Reynolds, a
.veil known miner and musician
>f that place, and Mrs. Helen
Sylvia Hayner, one of that town’s
nost popular and energetic
iadies. The Leader extends the
splendid couple its heartiest con
gratulations and best wishes.
EIGHT MONUMENTS
TO AGNOSTICISM
Kenosha, Wis., Oct. 2.—Lewis
Knapp, who erected eight in
scribed monuments in the Keno
sha city cemetery to hand down
his derision of the Christian
church, will fail of his purpose,
as the monuments, which have
stood for more than 30 years,
will be destroyed ia such a man
ner that not one of the 20,000
words of inscription will remain.
For years Knapp worked on
the composition of the agnostic
inscriptions, which made one of
the most remarkable arraign
ments of the Christian religion
known to history. Men have
come for thousands of miles to
read and copy them, and it is de
clared that when they were sent
to a foundry to be cast in metal,
which would withstand fire as
well as the weather, the work
men struck, fearing the wrath of
God. Surviving relatives of
Knapp signed an agreement that
the monuments be taken our,
broken into small pieces and the
debris either buried or thrown
into the lake.
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Stables for Horses and Dogs. Warm Bunkhouse where
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Joe Anlcich, Prop.
Tanana, Alaska
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