THE BIG
STAMPEDE
Passing Steamboats Have
Many for Iditarod.
The Tanana took on board General
Manager Fairbanks and Auditor How
ard Turner of the Northern Commer
cial Compaany, who had come down
on the St. Michael from Dawson. Other
N. C. men who went on the Tanana
were Volney Richmond, manager at
Fairbanks, and Tom McGowan, attor
ney. A semi-official report had already
gone out that the government will con
centrate the court officials, including
the commissioner and deputy marshals,
at a common center, away from which
no saloons and places of vice will be
permitted to operate; and a great deal
of importance w as attached to the com
pany men because it was believed in
choosing their business headquarters
they would determine the location of
the federal officials and the restricted
lines of trade above alluded to, and con
sequently the metropolis for the region.
The idea was that whoever could get
“next” would get in on the town lots—
a proposition of great possibilities when
it is remembered that applications for
at least sixty liquor licenses had been
made. A gi'eat many people aboard
were suspected of having a life line out.
Bill McPhee, Bennet James, Frank
Berry, Romeo Hoyt, Frank Miller, Tom
Markeson, Jack Sale, E. D. Becker and
Henry Roden were some of the best
known men aboard from the Fairbanks
country. There were a good many wo
men on hand, among them Flossie
D’Atley, she of the innocent look who
is credited with being able and willing
to coax the chloride of gold from the
pores of a Keeley patient; Edith Neal,
who is known to the members of her
set as The Oregon Mare; and the matri
monial specialist The Sweet Pea Girl,
several professional “ladies’ secretaries”
were along. Former Commissioner
Bevington, Frank Stevens, Jim Frazier,
George Shirley and Billy Graham got
on at Hot Springs. Frank Cioli went
from Tanana.
The Delta, the Tana, the Dusty Dia
mond and the Evelyn all had capacity
loads of passengers and freight.
Capt. Wallce Langley, Purser Sond
heim and Mate Ralston came in from
the outside on the St. Michael and
joined their boat, the Tana, at Tanana.
Some of the Fairbanks passengers no
ticed on boats other taan the Tanana
were: Itoy Maddocks, Roy Nye, Fred
S. McFarline, Eddy Suter, E. W. Griffin ;
Carl Thiel, who was in in the winter
and is returning to open a book and
stationery store; Mrs. V. Myers, for
merly of Rampart, who has grubstaked
men in the Iditarod, as well as numer
ous other places; M. F. Spier, repre
senting the Standard Oil Company; Ed.
Kelly, former chief of police, and his
sister Bessie; former Court Bailiff Bar
ton, Dr. Spaulding, Mr. and Mrs. H. H.
McDonald; McGovern, who came out of
the Koyukuk last winter and will re
turn there after going to the Iditarod,
and some hundreds of others.
Williams and Van Korn.
Messrs. Bert Williams and W. A. Van
Horn, with their wives, got away with
their new boat and a scow Saturday
night at midnight. At the lower end of
town the little finger of Mr. Van Horn’s
left hand got caught in the sprocket
chain and was cut off as clean as if it
had been chopped with a cleaver. The
post surgeon dressed the wound and
the party proceeded. They were heard
of at Kaltag Tuesday, making good
time, with Van’s hand feeling pretty
good and Cy Noble along as an addition
to the party.
C. R. Peek’s Launch.
C. R. Peck, with his gasoline launch
and a scow loaded with merchandise,
started Saturday night at midnight.
The launch was formerly the Helen
Gould, and was purchased two or three
years ago from W. A. Reid, secretary of
the Army branch of the Y. M. C. A.
Mr. and Mrs. Kelly of Rampart.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kelly, of Ram
part, arrived at Tanana yesterday fore
noon. They are in a small boat carrving
a tow with a bis; load.
MAIL FROM
KOSEREFSKY
Twice-a-Month Service Is Arranged
for the Iditarod.
The Northern Commercial Company has
the contract for carrying: the mail to the
Iditarod this summer. The service is to he
twice a month and as much oftener as North
ern Navigation boats run, and is to be from
Koserefsky, at the mouth of the Innoko
river. There is no limit to the amount to be
carried.
It is possible that changes may be made
by the postoffice department during the
summer, but the foregoing statement in
cludes all the information now to be had.
When it becomes known where the main
town of the new district will be located a
better understanding of the situation can
be had by the department, as well as by the
people neurer by. It is understood that a
postoffice will be established at the new
town as quickly as developments will permit.
It has been said that the census enumera
tion showed a population in the Iditarod
region of nearly 2,000 last winter. That in
formation might be open to the department,
and yet it would be a difficult matter for it
to digest the fact that a city of perhaps be
tween 5,010 and 10,000 may be established and
equipped with the essential appurtenances
of civilized life within six or eight weeks
after the opening of Yukon river naviga
tion.
A mail will go up the Kuskokwim to Bethel
once a month, but it cannot be said with
authority whether the men on Kuskokwim
tributaries across from the Iditarod and the
Innoko will be served from Bethel or from
the Iditarod center.
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TWO OLD-TIMERS DEAD
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James B. Wingate and John Scrib
ner, Formerly of Rampart.
James B. Wingate, a pioneer resident of
Rampart, died recently in San Francisco, as
a result of a surgical operation for tubercu
losis of the bene, Mr. Wingate was first op
erated on at Fort Gibbon in 1906. He was
for a long time editor of the Alaska Forum
at Rampart. He went to San Francisco in
I 1606 and engaged in the drug business.
John Scribner, formerly of the mining
firm of Henderson <Sc Scribner at Rampart,
also died recently in California. Mr. Scrib
ner was moderately successful in his mining
operations, but went outside about four
years ago on account of failing health.
News of their death is contained in a letter
from Mrs. Charles Fehring, of Eureka, Hot
Springs district, to her mother, Mrs. A. A.
; Swanson, at Tanana.
The public school having closed, Rev. Win
throp Peabody is holding sessions each
| Wednesday at St. James chapel for the ben
| efit of his Sunday school class.
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! The Leader on sale at Postoffice Lobby.
Headquarters for the Traveling Public
Pioneer and Tower Houses
„Two First-class Resorts
In a few davs a dozen new and elegant Rooms
will be ready for patrons at the Tower House
Joe Anicieh, Prop.
Tanana, Alaska
GOOD BUSINESS IN ’ FUR
Fort Yukon Traders Had the Best
Season In Several Years.
T. A. Horton, of Horton & Moore, trailers
at Fort Yukon, who cume to Tanana on the
steamer St. Michael, reports that more furs
were brought into Fort Yukon the season
just closed than in any season the past four
years. His house secured about $12,000
worth. The advanced price for muskrats
made it worth while to trap them, and
about 10,000 pelts were brought in. The bal
ance of the catch consisted mainly of lynx,
marten and mink. Horton & Moore dis
posed of their collection to a buyer for a
San Francisco house.
From Beaver River.
M. L. Stevenson and Otto Bergman, who
trapped on the headwaters of Beaver river,
brought in a handsome collection of miscel
laneous furs last week. The catch was sold
to the Tanana Commercial Company for
$000. Among the lot were 3'JO muskrat skins,
which were lumped at $150. The trappers
were not posted on the prevailing high
prices of muskrat, or they would have
caught many more. They only skinned the
rats they cooked for dog feed.
From the Tozi.
W. C. Curtis and Henry Luttman, who
prospected on the Tozi and incidentally did
a little trapping last winter, brought in $300
worth of fur last week. It was principally
marten and mink. They disposed of it to
the Rodman-Alaska Trading Company.
LIQUOR-TO-INDIANS MEN
Three of Them to Spend Summer
at Government Expense.
Three men started up to Fail banks last
Friday night, there to await the action of
the next grand jury on charges of furnish
ing Indians with whisky.
One of them was Charles Kerr, who has
been in jail at Tanana since March 5. The
others were Charles Yost and Janies Syttz,
who came down from Eagle in company
with Deputy Marshal Donovan. Syttz could
not properly be suid to be in custody of the
deputy marshal: being out on bond, he had
designed to release his sureties so that he
would be transported at government ex
pense, but, the commissioner being absent
from Eagle, the necessary formalities could
not be gone through with, his plans mis
carried, and he and his bondsmen were still
responsible for his safe arrival at destina
tion.
As no grand jury is likely to be called this
summer, the men probably have a long term
in jail ahead of them.
NATIVE PARTLY CRAZY
Commissioner Gone and Man Held
On General Principles.
On the complaint of Rev. Winthrop Tea
body a native named Koyukuk Jimmy was
locked up last Saturday for maltreating his
wife. In the absence of the United States
commissioner he is being held in jail infor
mally.
Jimmy and his wife were living at Hooli
gan, a native camp a few miles from Tanana.
He beat the woman and ripped up her cloth
ing with a knife. He is afflicted with a
loathsome disease and is at least partially
demented.
Under the circumstances Special Deputy
Marshal Tom Howell \ery properly con
cludes it is his duty to hold him regardless
of the law' in the matter.
Go to Nussbaum’s Barbershop for first
class work.
FOR
Fresh Eggs
Fresh Oranges
Fresh Apples
Fresh Lemons
AT
TANANA COMMERCIAL CO.
QUARTZ BECOMING BASE
Free Milling Quality Not Holding
Out in Chandlar Ore.
It is said on pood authority that the free
milling' quality of the ore being treated in
test mill by Capt. Haines’s company in the
Chandler changed with a little depth and
the mill became useless so far as that partic
ular ore is concerned. The mill was put to
work on ore from another property, but it
seems to be believed that thut working will
also run into base ore soon.
S. J. Marsh is idle for want of supplies. He
would have a crew of men at work if he
could get supplies.
T. A. Horton, of Fort Yukon, was asked a
few days ago what effect, in his opinion, it
will have on the district if the general char
acter of the ore proves to be base. He re
plied that in such a contingency develop
ment will undoubtedly be retarded because
other methods will have to be provided for
treating the ore: but it will be no evidence
that the region will receive a lasting set
back. _
TWO NEW GOLD STRIKES
One On the Old Teslin Trail and One
On Kenai Peninsula.
About the first of May u report got out of
a placer strike in llritish Columbia which
may prove of considerable importance. A
discrepancy exists as to the exact location,
and there may really be two strikes. The
first reports had it that the strike was on
the headwaters of Taku river. Later re
ports, however, definitely locate the Mini at
a point on the Xahlin river, 25 miles below
the Nahlin telegraph station. The telegraph
stotion is 90 miles north of Telegraph Creek
on the Stikine river, and the feasible way to
go in would be to go to Telegraph Creek
ami thence over the old Ashcroft-Teslin
trail.
A report comes from Seward that placer
ground has been discovered on Kenai Pe
ninsula, causing excitement among mining
men, and a big stumpede is looked for.
Smiling Albert Was Lucky.
It is said “Smiling Albert” Linn, who left
Tanana for the Kuskokwim country a year
ago, got a lot of good-looking ground on
Fourth of July, Moore and other Kuskokwim
tributaries. Before the snow melted he
came over to the Iditarod side, but it is not
known whether or not he got onto anything
there.
Tom O’Leary grubstaked Albert und nat
urally feels very hopeful of the outcome.
And the Commissioner Absent.
Murtin Peterson, wife and child, bound for
the Iditarod from Fairbanks on a sidewheel
gasoline boat, were hung up at Tanana May
27 on account of an attachment for debt by
the Northern Commercial Company. The
case was set for hearing yesterday, June 1,
but on account of the absence of the com
missioner from Tanana the hearing of the
case has been postponed to a more auspici
ous occasion.