Yukon Valley News
New Series
TAXANA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1910
Vol. I. No. 1
SHIPPING SEASON TO
END SOON
The close of navigation is
in sight.
According to the present
calculations the last boat for
St. Michael will leave Tanana
about Oct. 2. It will be con
nected with by the steamers
Tanana and Koyukuk from
Fairbanks.
The Reliance is to be de
spatched to Lake LeBarge at
a date not yet fixed.
Local transportation men
who are to go outside do not
yet know whether they will
go up or down. They are
Transportation Manager T. L.
I Murphy, Commodore James
Duffy, Assistant Port Stewart
Sig Hamm, and Chief Trans
portation Clerk W. D. Can
ney, all for San Francisco.
It is announced that Com
modore Duffy may be found
in person or by letter during
the winter at Billy & Har
ry’s, on East street, where he
has unfinished business.
It is reported that 325 passengers are
hooked to leave Fairbanks tomorrow,
mostly bound outside.
The St. Michael, up bound, which left
Tanana with many passengers, has for
five days been on a bar 35 miles above
Circle.
The Koyukuk, Tana and Teddy H.
are at Fairbanks.
The Monarch and Julia B. are at
Chenoa.
The Tana, down, was reported at
Chena at 4 o’clock yesterday evening.
The Dusty Diamond is on a bar three
miles above Nenana.
The General Jacobs, up bound, was
at Minto at 4 o’clock this morning.
The Sohwatka, up was at Tolovano at
8:10 o’clock this morning.
The Susie, up, was at Circle at 3 p. m.
Tuesday.
The Herman arrived at St. Michael 4
p. m. yesterday.
The Campbell left St. Michael the
18th.
The Sarah, down, passed Kaltag yes
terday, going to meet the St. Michael.
Minneapolis and White Seal down be
low Kaltag this morning.
Evelyn up at Minto at 23:30 this
morning.
The Jeff Davis up Kampart the 10th.
The Martha Clow, up, was at Nenana
at noon yesterday.
POSTMASTER’S
EXCUSE WAS GOOD
Postmaster G. H. Tiffany, who was
summoned to serve on the grand jury
shortly to convene at Fairbanks, has
been excused by Judge Overfield.
The valid reasons put to the judge by
Mr. Tiffany why be should not be re
quired to serve were the urgent require
ments of his office just at this season of
the year, when the change from the
summer to the winter mail service is
i impending. An important personal con
sideration not put to the judge is Mr.
Tiffany’s desire to welcome home his
wife, accompanied hv their two daugh
ters, the youngest of whom was born in
British Columbia and whom the father
j fas never seen.
GOVERNMENT TRAIL
CLEARED 50 MILES
The new government wagon road is
cleared for a distance of fifty miles
northward toward the Chandlar from
the town of Beaver. The grading will
he comparatively easy, and the country
through which the line passes is in
every way admirably suited to road
making. A survey party is working on
the proposed line between Beaver and
Fairbanks.
These facts are gained from C. H.
Blanchard, who arrived from Beaver on
the steamer Herman.
Mr. Blanchard is installing a trading
post at Beaver, and is in Tanana buying
goods. The development of the country
to the northward of Beaver will mean
another great opportunity for the ex
tension of Tanana’s trade.
After a fortnight spent at his old
home town of Kampart, Dr. H. L.
Hedger, the well-known dentist, came
down to Tanana the first of the week.
He will stay here about two weeks and
then go to Fairbanks for the winter.
MORE STEAMERS
KUSKOKWIM
It is learned from unoffi- i
cial sources that the North
| ern Navigation Company will
this fall fit up two steamers
at St. Michael to he sent to
the Kuskokwim river imme
diately upon the opening of
navigation next spring. In
deed, it is said one of the
steamers is undergoing the
requisite overhauling at this
very moment.
With the Lavelle Young,
which was sent to the Kus
kokwim this season, that will
make three N. N. boats to
ply on the river next year.
The new move on the part
of the Northern Navigation
Company is believed to be
on account of the new gold
strikes on the Kuskokwim.
WORK PROGRESSING
ON NEW A. B. HALL
Work is now under way on the new
A. B. hall. The structure will be com
pleted about the middle of October.
The hall is to be 30 by 60 feet, with a
12-foot arched ceiling, and will be
strictly up to date in every particular.
As is well known, Stoddard & Kay
donated the logs. A. G. Vachon do
nated the doors and windows.
Jack Mullen was awarded the contract
at $1,984.50. He is to furnish all the
material except that named above.
The site is an excellent one, on the
south side of Second street, directly
back of the Northerd, and was also do
nated by Stoddard & Kay.
New Post Gymnasium.
The new post exchange and gymna
sium, which has been udder construc
tion throughout the summer, will be
completed by the end of this week.
The gymnasium will probably be the
largest and best equipped concern of its
kind in all Alaska.
It will be provided with pool tables,
bowling alleys, shooting gallery and
other up-to-date accessories, and the
the floor space will be sufficient to ac
commodate all the dancing couples that
can be mustered in the garrison and in
Tanana combined.
FROM FAIRBANKS
BYTELECRAPH
Fairbanks, Sept. 22.—Paul
Menzol, a Fox butcher min
ing on fraction 4 and 5 Gold
stream, disappeared Sunday
night with a cleanup of $2,
400. Foul play was at first
feared, but today’s arrivals
over Valdez trail report see
ing him with a pack. There
is a movement among the
creditors of Menzel it Dourel
to arrest him on a civil pro
cess and bring him back for
trial.
Fairbanks Sept. 2'2.—Last Tuesday
Jack Curry and Mrs. Stella Brite were
married. Mrs. May Evans, aunt of the
bride, stole the bride’s little boy to pre
vent her departure with the bridegroom
on the Tana. She had opposed the
match. She was arrested today on a
charge of child stealing. Bail pending
a hearing was fixed at $3,000.
Oscar Goetz and Miss |Lena Lochke
were wedded last night.
Dave Courtemanche was arrested
Tuesday on a charge of stealing a can of
kerosene from the N. C. Co. The case
is set for Monday.
One hundred and four cases have
been cleared from the court docket in
the last two days. There is a general
cleanup of old matters not at issue and
night sessions are being held.
The Fairbanks Banking Company and
the Washington-Alaska Bank consoli
date Oct. 1 under the name Washington
Alaska, with quarters at the Fairbanks
Bank. Officers are evenly divided.
A new precinct has been established
for Flat Creek, Iditarod, with Charles
Taylor commissioner. Charles Erick,
head guard at the federal jail here, is
the new deputy and leaves today.
The new wireless station at Fairbanks
is complete and talking with Eagle
direct.
Concentrates of Crawford’s ore from
Bedrock creek go$1,000 to the ton.
Recent rains caused collapse of sixty
feet of flume and the Tanana Electric
Co. is out of business.
Iditarod steamers loaded with grub;
fear of shortage.
Quartz ballast of the Tanana Valley
railway track near Ridgetop goes $100
per ton.
Police busy rounding up macques,
prostitutes, opium smokers and va
grai ts and blue-ticketing them on the
last boats.
The Yukon Valley News
will print letterheads, bill
heads and cards.
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