T
FORT GIBBON
COMEDY COMPANY
Pleasing Entertainments for
the People of Tanana
This Winter.
Under the leadership of Lieut.
H. W. Bathiunv, the Fort Gibbon
Comedy company has furnished
the people of Tanana a series of
■J' high-class entertainments this win
ter. -The efforts of the company
have been so well received that
it has decided to visit Rampart and
Fairbanks next simmer.
Lieutenant .Lt.iiany is credited
with unusual ability in costuming
his company and perfecting the
details of the performances. The
pleasure of the entertainments has
been heightened by a pretty scenic
drop curtain, painted by Artist
Ryan, of Company I.
The following program was ren- j
dered on the evening of Jan. 17:
PART I.
The American Minstrels. Scene:
San Juan, Porto Pico.
1. Opening Choru-s, Medley—By Com- :
pauy.
2. "I'm Wearing My Heart Away for
You”—Koran.
"Rip Van Winkle”—Sergt. Johnson.
|. Recitation—Sells.
5. Parody—Shanley.
6. “My Indian Maiden"—Sanders.
7. "I’ve a I.onging in My Heart for You,
I.ouise”—Brown.
S. Closing Chorus. "Blue Bell"—By Com
pany.
Bones—Randolph and Newport. In
terlocutor—I.ieut. Bathianv. Tamlos—
Sanders an l Shanley.
PART II.
1. "Isaacs"—Monologue by Tarcli.
2. "Scenes in a Dime Museum”—Sketch
The Port Gibbon Comedy Four,” in- J
tioducing "Meet Me at the Fountain." 1
4. Sanders and Shanley in their funny
burlesque, "Schniilt and Casey at Co
ney Is and "
PART III.
Ti e performance closing with “A Chi
nese Laundry. ” Scene, Sing Sing's
Laundry, Mott Street. Charactirs:
Si ig Sing—Sergt. Johnson.
Sing Too—Randolph.
Mr. Ringer, a gambler—Koran
Casey, of the Force—Shanley.
Maloney, who knows his mark—Sells.
C< mpaiiy I furnished phonograph
selections dining intermissions.
Lewis, of Company I, was pi
anist.
Next show, "A Country Circus.”
liave Argylr, one of the big
gamblers ot Seattle for main years,
was acquitted by a jury on l*c 15
o 1 a charge under the felony gam
Ming law. It was the first trial
under thrs law in Seattle
senator Stewart has introduced a
bill providing for the foil' wing
annual salaries, to be tllicu**
\lanb t President, |l«x>
,.«i; •iHtMt, represent .Uv« s and
delegates in congress $ 10.000
The Message
Touching Alaska
Concluded from Pag* Z.
work. Those who have come under the
influence of civilization, even for a limit
ed period, have proved their capability
of becoming self-supporting, self-respect
ing citizens, and ask only for the just en
forcemeat of the law and intelligent in
struction aud supervision. Others, living
iu more r mote regions, primitive, simple
hunters and fisher folk, who know only
the life of the woods and the waters, are
daily being confronted with twentieth
century civilization with all of its com
plexities. 1 heir country is being overrun
by strangers, the game slaughtered and
driven away, the streams depleted of
fish, and hitherto unknown and fatal
diseases brought to them, all of which
combine to produce a state of abject pov
erty and want which must result in their
extinction. Action in their interest is
demanded by every consideration of jus
tice and humanity.
The needs of these people are:
The aliolition of the present fee system,
w hereby the native is degraded, imposed
upon and taught the injustice of law.
The establishment of hospitals at cen
tral points, so that contagious diseases
that are brought to them continually by
incoming whites may be lcc.d zed and
not allowed to become epidemic, to
spread death and destruction over gr at
areas.
The development of the educational
system in the form of practical training
in such industries as will assure the
Indians self-support under the changed
conditions in which they will have to
live.
The duties of the office of the governor
should 1 e extended to inclv.de the super
vision of It d an affairs, with necessary
assi tants iu different districts. Heshou'd
Ite provided with the means and tin
power to prot ct and advise the i ative |
people, to furnish medical tnatment in j
time of epidemics, an I to er t ml materiall
relief in periods of famine and extreme
destitution.
The Alaskan natives should be given
the right to acquire, hold and dispose of
property uj on the same cot ditions as
given other inhabitants, and the privi
lege of citizenship should le given to
such as may he able to meet certain defi
nite requirements.
Presbyterian (’hureli.
Services at the courthouse Sun
day evenings at 7..to.
M. K. Koonce, Missionary
St. Andrew's Mission.
Sunday Ser\ ices.
Morning prayer and sermon at 11
Evening prayer and sermon 7
Friday Ser\ ice.
Litany at 4 p. n>.
Mail from down river arrived last
Friday, with Nome and Fairbanks
papers of I>ec 21 Mail from up
river, on Saturday, brought the
Skagwav Alaskan oi iHre l«> ami
the Dmrsoii News of I*ec 24.
WALTERrSUNDBORG,
Freighterand Packer
Goods Delivered
To All Creeks
Personal attention to all consign
ments insures good service.
DRY WOOD DELIVERED.
Leave orders at Miners Store.
LONG JOURNEY
BY YUKON POLICE
From the Dawson News, Dec. 20.
Stephen Bonnet Plume and Peter
Shylow, the Mackenzie river In
dians who are to guide the police
party from Dawson to Fort Mc
Pherson, at the mouth of the Mac
kenzie river, are at the barracks
preparing for their long journey.
The party is expected to get away
the last of this week or early next
week. The party will cross the
Rocky Mountains after going up
the Twelvemile river for a long
distance. The Indians know the
course well, and will be able to
take the party where the unbroken
trail will be easiest to travel.
The police will carry nothing in
the way of freight. Instructions to
the men at ti e fort is virtually all
they will take aside from what is
actually needed for the warmth and
nourishment of the men and for
food for the dogs.
The Indians are of the branch of
the Mackenzies which have long
made their home at the head of the
Blackstone river, on the eastern j
slope of the Rockies, to the north j
west of Dawson. The tril>e for
merly lived nearer the mouth of
the Mackenzie. It comprises only
about twenty men, Aomen and
I
children. 1
No. tL Little Minook.
W. \V. Crockett visited I.ittle
Minook last Sunday. He reports
that Louis Seyler ar.d Dave Hush
ing now have out between 3,000
and 4,000 buckets of good <lirt on
No. 9. Mr. Crockett went into the
hole and with a candlestick gouged
out more than $9 in coarse gold in
a few minutes
There was an incipient tire in
the Yukon Valley News office on
Saturday, the second one this win
ter By the help of good ueighlxirs
the lire was extinguished without
damage.
TKAM'.KK A, FAI.KKNBRRC.,
MerchfintH. W'jitcli inn kern
Mnnulfictiiriiik£ Jewelers
MINERS STORE ’
(In the Postoffice Building)
General Merchandise
Outfitting
RECEPTION RESTAURANT
OPEN ALL NIGHT
Short Orders a Specialty
Lodging House in Connection
Fresh Beef, Fresh Eggs, Fish and
Game of all kinds.
Quick sendee. Give us a trial
8. K. HKKTKK. Proprietor
John the Bear Hunter
Is ready to do any kind of
chore work. I'r,,n,pt
Volcanoes of the Moon.
The question as to whether the
volcanoes of the moon are alive or
dead has taken on a special interest
since Prof. W. H. Pickering, a
brother of E. C. Pickering, director
of the Harvard observatory, has
noted certain changes in one of the
great craters of the moon, which
would seem to indicate that occa
sionally there is slight volcanic
action in these enormous openings.
The particular crater which has
shown such curious changes is the
great crater of Plato, which can be
seen iu the northern limb of the
moon, evfn by the naked eve. But
of course the changes can only be
seen when the crater is viewed
through such telescojies as Prot.
Pickering is using at I.owe observ
atory, near Los Angeles, Cal.
(General Greeley, chief signal
officer of the United States army,
in his annual rejxnt says the Nome
wireless station has daily and unin
terruptedly transmitted the entire
telegraphic business of tile penin
sula. 5,000 words living exchanged
iu one afternoon lietvteen Safetv
Harbor and St. Michael
Dr. (*>ibbons tame in on Monday
Irom .tUcmhiKt on Robert Wright
on Thottkxgiving creek The doc
tor report* the pulient'* condition
•*n favorable at (mild mtomhlv he
ex | cr ied
The weather foe a week h.t«
ranged front H f t Iwlow rero.
A hrt*k wind bar mute the cold
decnledK iltMftmlili