YUKON VALLEY NEWS
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Sam J. Callahan Manager
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calendar
NOVEMBER
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12 3 4
5 0 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 20
Moon’.' Phases. First quarter, 3d: full
moon, 11th; last quarter, 19th: new moon,
26th.
DECEMBER
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 20
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Moon’s Phases. First quarter. 3d; full
moon, 11th: last quarter, 19ht; new moon,
25th. __
Wednesday. Xovkmher 8, RM)o.
Tanana has a newspaper, the Press,
lately established w ith .John Bathurst as
editor. Mr. Bathurst is also commit
tiii^T magistrate at Tanana, and he will
prove himself a man of extraordinary
capacity ii he performs both his magis -
teiial and editorial duties to the satisfac
tion of his neighborhood. Tanana is a
central point, with many sources to
draw on for news; and a readable paper
could he i-sued there. Tanana is likely
to soon he able to support a paper, too.
This paper has not been favored with a
copy of the Press so as to form an esti
mate of its chances for usefulness, but
will wish it '.Mod luck, at a venture, any
how. _
Till matter of the terminus of the
tlrand Trunk Pacific Itailwav recalls a
bit of twenty-year-old history in con
1, ection with Canada's lir-t ttun.-coriti
Heiital route The Canadian Pacific was
laraelv a governmental affair. at:d Port
M-.-stv v, a - establi bed by law a- the
western terminu- iMninioii and pn -
vitrei.il speculators, mostly government
and railway official who had Mt|iiiml
the Port Mr»»lv land (• r their influence
in having tlraf placed ntui>r*l as the ter
minus, unhsided (he same at a hig pn* **
and had the law amended a« to make
Vaneoiiver. hn flier dow n Burrard Inlet,
the l> rminiis. where, ,*( isstrsr, they had
quietly ae>pored the land in the mean
lime. \ few people were made rich and
a g*ssl many p-s. fho-e who raitghl
onto the rotten end of the string that
time are perhaps too poor or too wise to
he caught again; lmt the Grand Trunk
Pacific will have a younger generation
to practice upon.
Tuk telegraph line is down and it can
not he helped. The mail has not yet
arrived. Local conditions are very
quiet. Some time the telegraph line
will come up, the mail will come down,
and local conditions will brighten up a
hit. Don’t worry.
Speakkk Cannon of the House of Rep
resentatives, w ho is said to have visited
the Alaskan coast last summer, thinks
he has solved the governmental problem
for this great country. He thinks a so
cial congressional Alaska committee, 1
fashioned after the manner of the Dis
trict of Columbia committee, would he
about the slickest way of disposing of a
rough proposition.
Now that the “Great llewett Com
pany'' is gone, will some one please
answer a question ? Prof. Hewett and
his company performed at Skagwav, ;
Dawson and Fairbanks with the under
standing that they were raising money
to assist in finding the remains of the
professor’s sister—mentioned sometimes i
as Dr. White and sometimes as Dr.
Chambers—supposed to have perished !
in t lie Good paster country. The Hew
etts went out by Nome. Were they
frauds or was their story true?
Here in a telegraphic account of a
small part of the travels of President
lioosevt It’s daughter. It was dated at
Seoul, Korea: “Alice Roosevelt arrived
here today on her tour in the far east.
She was greeted with such honors as are
only customary in the case of crowned
heads. The streets, through which she
drove in a state carriage, were thronged
to the utmost limit. American flags
wt re everywhere to he seen. The impe
rial bodyguard formed her escort and
lined the streets through which she
passed. America and Americans are
very popular in Korea, which has al
ways remained faithful to the tradi
tional bond lietween the two countries,
ami never forgets that America once
undertook by treaty to defend Korean
autonomy."_
itigh Mountains.
Mount Tacoma is the highest mountain
in the I'nited States, ladng 14..V.0 feet.
Alaska has two that are nearly a mile
higher. Mount St. Klias and Mount Mc
Kinley, each over lO.tSS) feet.
M W. Sinclair was disappointed in
getting material out of which to con
struct a prosjiecting boiler to take into
the Ray River country, and will start
without one, prolwt.lv tomorrow. He
will go lirst to the hot springs, and will
slay in the country at least till New
Year's. ___________
Hr llndgtn has just completed a new
eta loan re f- T his r.» logical collection—
this time on the front side of the house,
where everytssiy can get a view of his
furred prls Two tine young lvlives and
two martens constitute the present
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G. A. KETTERER
GRIGGS SENTENCED
Midas Creek Swindler Gets Five
Years—The Case To Be
Appealed.
C. I!. Griggs was found guilty on a
•harge of obtaining money under false
pretenses by a Nome jury Sept. 20.
The jury was out but a short time,
rhe accused was given the maximum
<entence of five years. Motion for a new
rial was overruled and the case will be
aken to the circuit court of apj>eals.
Griggs is one of the principals in the
notorious “Midas creek” swindle.
Where Is Duncan?
Tlu> Nugget of Sept. 23 says there are
people in Nome who affect to believe
hat C’. K. (iriggs killeil his partner in
•rime, George \V. Duncan, last year,
while making their way out of the Koy
tkuk country to the States. The paper
ulils there is not a single fact upon
which to hang such statement; it is
msec! on a mere hypothesis.
Charles Seifert, one of the men swin
lloil by Duncan ami t iriggs, who is now
u Nome, got a permit front the mar
‘hal's office ami hail a talk with t iriggs. 1
lie elicited little information from him, !
However, ns hi' was disinclined to talk,
iriggs referred to the rumors which are
itiout to the effect that lhtncan met his
tenth at the hand of t iriggs. This he
lenied with much indignation and some
[ears. He also stated that Ihtncan's son
in Missouri had received a letter from
iiis father after parting w ith t iriggs.
“Isist winter," the Nugget says, “A.
I Cody, then a s|>ecial officer of the de
em fluent of justice, trailed Duncan as
J. MNDLKY GREEN,
Lawyer.
Office at the Courthouse.
OFFICE OF
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Bar Supplied with the Best
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Billiard and Pool Parlors
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JULIUS RAHMSTORF,
General Merchandise
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TIN, GRANITE AND CROCKERVWARE
far a* Provo, 1'tah, where Mr. (’odv is
sat is ties 1 that Duncan got mail under an
other name. At Proves all trace of Diin
can was lost. It is the opinion of some
of the men who knew Duncan that he
proliably made his way slown through
Utah ami on into Mexico, where he is
now nrohablv located."
_J. W. YOUNG..
DEALER IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Located In N. A. T. A T. Co.'s Building
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