Yukon Valley News
(Successor to Tanana Leader)
ALBERT G. STAMM.Publisher
Subscription.—One year, $10; six months
$5; one month, $1; single copies, 25 cents.
Advertising.—Rates on application. Right
reserved to reject any advertisement.
Application for entry as second-class mat
ter at the postoffice at Tanana, Alaska,
pending.
CHRISTMAS DAY
Christmas, with its joys and sorrows,
its hopes and regrets, is again at hand.
Joyful are the young and light hearted,
their enthusiasm infecting even the
aged and the sick. In sorrow are those
with whom fate has dealt unkindly the
past year, tearing from them their dear
ones or darkening their lives with sick
ness and misfortune.
Hopeful are the strong and successful,
pausing merely in their struggle for
further achievement to join in the fes
tivities and drink the spirit of the season.
Filled with regrets are they who have
let another year slip by with nothing
more accomplished, with the goal still
beyond their grasp.
Christmas this year is of more than
usual significance to Tanana. It marks
another milepost on the trail to prosper
ity, besides the forging of another link
in that bond of sympathy and brotherly
love taught by the Savior.
The celebration at the A. B. hall
Christmas eve will stand as a blazed rock
commemorating the obliteration of the
strife and differences which have re
tarded the progress of the town in the
past. With all gathered together—the
young and the old, rich and poor, suc
cessful and unsuccessful—it will be an
event pregnant with results.
Christmas is the time when men’s
thoughts are lifted from the common
place of self; when they rise to heights
of pity for those who toil and do not
reap,—tears for the imprisoned and des
pised,—love for the generous dead, and
in the heart the rapture of a high resolve.
“When they rise from ambition, with
its lust of pelf and place and power,
longing to put from their breasts dis
tinction’s worthless badge.
“When keener thoughts of men arise,
and eyes see beyond the smilng mask of
craft. Flattered no more by the obse
quious cringe of gain and greed. Know
ing the uselessness of hoarded gold, of
honor bought from those who charge the
usury of self-respect; of power that only
bends a coward’s knees, and forces from
his lips of fear the lies of praise.
“Knowing at last the unstudied ges
ture of esteem, the sincere eyes made
rich witL honest thought, and holding
high above all other things—high as
Hope’s great throbbing star above the
dead—the love of wife and child and
friend.”
When you once get acquainted with
a pessimist, you find he is nothing but
an optimist turned sour.
COL. BLETHEN ANGRY AT NEWS.
Colonel Blethen, owner of the Seattle
Times, has personally written a letter to
the News calling us down for not send
ing him the paper. He requests that
we immediately do so and send him the
bill as he wants to pay for the Yukon
Valley News.
His first letter did not reach us, which
accounts for our apparent neglect of the
distinguished publisher’s request.
The colonel evidently desires to keep
posted on Tanana, which, as every body j
knows, is the coming metropolis of the
interior. He realizes its importance as
a distributing center, and knows that
the Times’ readers will be interested in
news from here.
Jack Himnewell
Harry Stockman
The
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Freight.
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Passengers.
TABLE OF DISTANCES
FROM
Black’s Hotel, Tanana
OX LOWER YUKON RIVER
Old Station.
Gold Mountain Trading Post.
Kal land’s. .
Birches.
Portage Roadhouse.
Carlines.
Mouse Point Trading Post.
Kokrines.
Jessies... .
Melozi Portage.
Melozi.
Lewis Trading Post.
Stockman’s..
Louden.
Bishop Mountain.
Koyukuk.
Nulato.
From Nulato—
Kaiyuh.
Lake Shore Roadhouse.
Summit Cabin.
All Right Roadhouse.
Diskaket..
Sim Solomon.
Cutoff Roadhouse.
Dikeman.
Iditarod City.
By Lewis’ Trail—
No. 1 Roadhouse, Lewis Trail.
No. 2 Roadhouse, Lewis Trail.
No. 3 Roadhouse, Lewis Trail.
Glazier Tent.
Tent and Roadhouse.
Village..
Diskaket.
ON TANANA RIVER
Long Lake.
Fish Lake.
Sullivan City.
Hot Springs ..
Lavins.
Tolovana.
Minto.
Goldstream. .
Ohio..
Fairbanks.
MILES
... IS
... 30
. . 30
. 53
... 64
... 71
... 85
... 92
... 107
... 119
... 130
...138
... 145
... 160
. . 186
... 198
216
25
45
50
85
105
142
172
196
220
19
36
53
65
85
97
105
14
26
37
54
60
74
94
114
131
100
DISTANCES FROM
NORDALE HflTFI Fairbanks
TO CORDOVA
Byler’s.
Salchaket (Munson’s)
Little Delta.
Sullivan’s.
Gordon’s.
Donnelly’s.
Rapids Roadhouse...
Millers.
Casey’s Cache.
Yost’s.
Paxton’s.
Meier’s.
Our Home.
Sourdough.
Gulkana.
Dry Creek.
Tazlina;.
Copper Center..
Willow Creek.
Chitina..
Cordova.
. 18
40
. 60
. 83
. 99
.115
127
140
142
.152
.172 I
.188 j
196 j
.207
.232 !
242 |
.250
.258
267
.306
440
Cholly—May I have the next dance?
Widow—Yes: but dance slow, as I
only recently went into mourning.
“I presume,” said the lodger Lily, at
the end of the fight, ‘‘that you will let
me take my belongings with me.”
‘‘I’m sorry,’’ said the landlady, “your
other collar isn’t home from the laundry
yet.” _
“Father,” said little Tommy one day,
“what is an equinox?”
Father—“Why, er, it’s—ahem! For
goodness sake, Tommy, don’t you know
anything about mythology at all? An
equinox was a fabled animal—half horse
half cow. It’s name is derived from the
words ‘equine’ and ‘ox.’ It does seem
as if these public schools don’t teach
children anything nowadays.”
Catholic Church
Every Sunday, mass and sermon at 10:30
a. m. At 7:30 i>. m. special service for the
soldiers. Short instruction and benediction
of the Bl. Sacrament.
Ail are cordially invited.
H. FERRON, S. J., Pastor.
St. James’ Mission
Sunday school 3:30 p. m. Evening' service
7:30 p. in. until further notice.
DR. LOOMIS,
Lay Reuder in Charge.
Arctic Brotherhood
Camp Gibbon, No. 25, meets every
Monday evening at 8:30, at the new A.
B. ball, Tanana. Visiting member cor
dially invited to attend.
GEORGE BEMIS,
L)R. M’GINNIS, Arctic Chief.
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Notice of Forfeiture.
To Volney Richmond and Charles Gri mm
and to all persons claiming by, through or
under him:
You and each of you are hereby notified
that the undersigned has expended not less
than one hundred dollars in labor and im
provements during each of the years 1908
and 1909 upon placer mining claims known
and recorded us No. One Above Discovery,
No. One Below Discovery, Discovery, and
Adjoining Fraction, locally known as the
Gold Bench Group, situate on the South
Fork of the Koyukuk river, in the Koyukuk
Mining District, Alasku; that such expendi
tures were made for the purpose of holding
said claims under the provisions of Section
2324 of the Revised Statutes of the United
States, and s'ich labor und improvements
constituted the annual assessment work
upon said claims for each of said years.
You ami each of you are further notified
that if within ninety days after the date of
the last publication „f this notice you fail
and refuse to contribute your proportion of
said expenditures as co-owners, und pay the
costs of this advertisement, your interest in
said claims will become the property of the
undersigned, under said Section 2324.
CARL FRANK.
Date of first publication Sept. 22,1910.
Date of last publication Dec. 22, 1910.
Notice of Forfeiture
To H. F. Berry, and to all persons claiming
by, through or under them:
You and each of you are hereby notified
that the undersigned has expended not less
than one hundred dollars in labor und im
provements during each of the years 1909 and
1910, on the placer mining association claims
known and recorded as the Hoosier associa
tion claim, the Murtin association claim, the
Happy association claim, the Arizona asso
ciation claim, and No. 9 below discovery, all
on Grant creek. Gold Mountain district.
Fort Gibbon recording district, Alaska:
also the Snowbird association cluim,
which adjoins the Ohio associa
tion; and the Hamburger association
claim which adjoins the Shumrock associa
tion; all of which are situated on Lynx
creek, Gold Mountain district. Fort Gibbon
recording district, Alaska. That such ex
penditures. were made for the purpose of
holding said association claims under the
provisions of Section 2324 of the revised stat
utes of the United States, and such labor and
improvements constituted the annual assess
ment work upon said association claims for
each of said years.
You and each of you are further notified
that if within ninety days after the date of
the last iMihlication of this notice you fail
and refuse to contribute your proportion
of suid expenditures as co-owners, and pay
the costs of this advertisement, your interest
in said association claims will become the
proi>erty of the undersigned under said sec
tion 2324.
A. M. ^PRUNGER.
Date of first publication, Nov. 24. 1910.
Date of last publication, Feb. 24, 1911.
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