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ARRIVALS ON
THE KOYUKUK
The steamer Koyukuk got into port
yesterday morning, only fcur days from
Betties. She had good water in the
Koyukuk and lost no time. She de
parted for Iditarod this morning, and,
returning, will make another and final
trip up the Koyukuk.
Coming out on the Koyukuk were:
JOHN NUSSBAUM, of Tanana.
JAMES and Mrs. SELLERS, going
to spend a winter vacation in New York.
BILLY and Mrs. GLENN, who are
going outside to remain permanently,
Dr. and Mrs. BURKE, recently wed
(led at the Mission of St. John’s in the
Wilderness, bound for Fort Yukon.
TOM HILL, Nolan creek miner, out
side for the winter.
HARRY CLARK, an old-timer on a
visit to his former home in England.
Passengers on the Kovukuk said Cap
Johnson and Billy James are already
preparing for winter work on Nolan
reek. They will run a full crew.
Mizzoo to Go Out.
Clarence Atkinson, known to his
friends here and in the Rampart-Hot
Springs district as “Mizzoo,” will go
outside this fall and expects to return
to the north next year as a member of
the international boundary survey. He
is at present one of the crew of
the Koyukuk, and will be with the
steamer on her present trip to the Idit
arod and later up the Koyukuk river
and return.
Mr. and Mrs. Bathurst to Go Out.
Mr. and Mrs. John Bathurst have
disposed of their residence with the in
tention of going outside. They will
probably depart on the next trip of the
Susie. They will go to Seattle, and it is
probable Mrs. Bathurst will remain
there while Mr. Bathurst retucns over
the trail some time during the winter.
Go to Nussbaum’s Barbershop for first
class work.
STATEMENT
To the Tanana Leader:
As considerable interest has been dis
played in the affairs of the estate of the
late C. W. Myers perhaps you would so
far favor me as to publish a short state
ment of my dealings in regard thereto.
I may say that the statement has been
duly sworn to, and that any deviation
from the truth contained therein will
subject the affiant to the penalties pro
vided.
For my services during a period of six
months during which I was acting agent
prior to turning over matters to Mr. J.
S. Ellegood, as administrator, I deemed
$100 a reasonable charge.
RECEIPTS.
Six months rent of mess cabin.$60 00
Two months ren£ cabin near church_ 20 00
One evening's rent of saloon building
fomocial. 5 00
Sale of 1 blanket to U. S. Marshal . 8 00
Sale of stove to Bango, reindeer herder, 8 00
Total. $101 00
PAYMENTS MADE.
Three telegrams to S. Gundaker.$20 50
Repair of sidewalk . 3 00
Total .$23 50
The last two articles mentioned in
the receipts were sold in order to save
their value to the estate for which affi
ant was acting under power of attorney.
I am entirely careless of any opinion
in the matter and do not care to publish
further justification.
John Bathurst.
Tanana Lady Author of Song.
The following, contained in a clipping
from the Ainerican-Reveille, a Belling
ham (Wash.) newspaper dated June 19,
has excited considerable local interest.
The Leader very much regrets that it is
unable to secure and print the song
mentioned. Here is the clipping:
Mrs. Ella Jessup Vautier, of 1414 H
street, is the author of the song “Votes
for Women,” which appeared June 1.
The American-Reveille last Sunday gave
Elya Croom, of Texas, credit for the
words. Miss Croom, who has been en
gaged in teaching music, is the composer
of the air, which was created at the in
stance of Mrs. Emma Smith De Voe,
leader in the women’s suffrage move
ment.
Upon her recent visit here Mrs. Smith
asked Mrs. Vautier to do something for
women’s suffrage. Upon going home
Mrs. Vautier wrote the words, and Miss j
Croom, who was at the Vautier home, ‘
set the verses to music.
Some years ago Mrs. Vautier wrote an ,
ode on the death of President McKinley, \
which drew forth a letter of appreciation
from the chief executive’s widow. Mrs.
Vautier is a sister of Patrick Jessup, of
the police department.
She is a descendent of the French no
bility. Her father, who is a retired and
wealthy merchant of Newport, Quebec,
and who for a number of years was
mayor of his home city, is the grandson
of a distinguished line of noblemen.
George Vautier, husband of the tal
ented song writer, is a wealthy Alaskan
miner who is in the far north and who
will be joined by his wife soon after the
opening of school in the fall. Mrs.
Vautier is waiting the arrival from col
lege of a son, who will be here about
July. She will spend the summer in
this city with her children.
MASON GREEK CABIN
ROBBED BY A BEAR
John Manook, the well-known native
prospector, was put out of business by
the depredations of a bear on his prem
ises at Mason creek a short time ago.
Manook was working a piece of ground
belonging to Charley Coloumbe. He
had groundsluiced down a strip and had
it all ready to shovel in. He calculated
on cleaning-up about $400.
He had occasion to go down to the
river after.fish. Before starting he took
the precaution to nail down the window
shutter and make the cabin as secure as
possible.
When he returned he found a bear
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had torn the shutter off, -gone through
the window and created direst havoc.
A sack of sugar was torn up and de
stroyed. Two sacks of flour were ripped
open and the flour scattered, the walls
looking like the bear had amused himself
by throwing, handfuls of flour against
them and then marking them by draw
ing his claws over the besprinkled sur
face. A sack of beans' had been scat
tered like sewn grain. The bacon was
all gone. Even the two bearskins used
for a bed had been carried away.
Mandok was in Tanana last Sunday.
He said with his grubstake gone he
could not continue work; so he is cut
ting wood at Harry Kalland’s to get a
little grub for the winter.
Manook has bean robbed by bear be>
fore. Two years ago, we remember, on
leavyig his camp on Illinois creek, he
tied his grubsacks to the windlass rope
and let them down in an 18-foot pros
pect hole. In two or three days he re
turned and found a bear had pulled up
the rope and destroyed all the grub.
Cap. Cunningham
Is Also Involved
Seattle, Aug. 12.—Because Capt. Cun
ningham, formerly stationed at Fort
Gibbon, Alaska, sailed on the Princess
May, which went to the bottom with the
captain’s uniform,he will have to appear
before a court martial and answer the
charges against him.
He disobeyed orders in the first place
by sailing on the May. His second of
fense consists in his delay in arriving at
the Cooke court martial, a delay caused
by the sinking of the May near Skagway.
His third offense consists in having lost
his uniform, which went down on the
May.
At the court martial of Col. Cooke to
day Sergeant Major Hamer, who was
stationed with Col. Cooke, said that the
colonel had a habit of believing every
story brought to him by the sourdoughs
of great strikes they had made, and was
always willing to advance them money
for grubstakes. The line of the prose
cution today seemed to be an attack on
the colonel’s sanitty. The case against
him has been in progress all week and
the end is in sight. Further hearings
will take place in Alaska.
Among the late mining strikes re
ported is one almost due south of the
mouth of the Koyukuk river, about
fifty miles from the Yukon.
Between fifty and sixty people have
stampeded into the new region within
the past fifteen days.
Parties arriving on the Koyukuk yes
terday could give no particulars of the
find, no one having come out.
V. O. Green came down from Ram
part on the Susie yesterday and is on
his way to Fairbanks today. He will
return and finish crosscutting Triple
creek, which may take till Christmas.