Yukon Valley News
New Series
TANANA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26. 1910
Vol. I. No. 10
6 PAGES—News of the World a Week Earlier Than Any Fairbanks Paper—6 PAGES
IS FARTHEST
NORTH OF ANY
Yukon Valley News Nearer Pole
Than 60,000 Other Papers.
The Yukon Valley News is the most
northerly newspaper published in the
world.
Published in the very shadow of the
Arctic circle, it stands unique in the an
nals of newspaperdom. Tanana is 65
degrees north latitude; the Arctic circle
is 68.
Three papers 'are published on the
mighty Yukon—over 2,000 miles long.
Whitehorse, Dawson and Tanana each
have papers. Tanana is further north
than either of the other two. Fairbanks
is further south than Tanana, as is Nome
where two papers are published.
Eugene Allen, now of Cordova, and
Geo. C. Wilson, now of the News, pub
lished a newspaper at Teller, 80 miles
north of Nome, during its boom days.
Teller is further north than Tanana, but
there is no paper there now.
If there is a paper published on the
lava plains of Iceland, where people live
in driftwood houses, it is fuither south
than Tanana, for the most northerly
point of Iceland is only 66 degrees.
In Norway, Hammerfest is further
north than Tanana; but if a paper is
published there the News has to be
shown. Sweden, with only five cities
having over 30,000 people, certainly has
no paper published near the circle, while
dreary plains of northern press-censured
Russia are not productive of printers and
scribes. Siberia is out of the question,
so once more you come round to Alaska.
There are 60,000 papers published in
the world. Of these over 30,000 are
printed in English. The United States
and Canada alone contain 26,300 of these.
Great Britain has 8,000, with many of
them published in the vernacular of the
colonies. Germany has 8,000; France,
4,300; Japan, 2,000; and all the rest of
Asia 1,000.
Russia has only 800, while little Greece
has 600. Italy has 1,500; Switzerland
450; Spain, 850; Holland, 300; Belgium
300; Australia 1,000, and all the rest of
the world 1,000.
The first newspaper was published
in Rome 1462 B. C. The first printed
paper, however, was the Pekin Gazette,
started in 1340, A. D., and it is still
running.
Bob Herrold Siwashed.
Robert Herrold, known as “Hot-air
Bob,” has been interdicted, the order
being posted in every saloon by Deputy
Marshal Robinson. Herrold is suspect
ed of selling liquor to Indians. The
move shifts the burden on him to prove
his innocence.
Others will be added to the list when
necessary.
The Temperature.
Furnished by Mrs. E. F. Warren, official U.
S. weather observer, wireless station.
1910 1909
Max.
Nov. 18. 18
19 . 16
20 . 22
21 . 17
22 ...,. 7
23 . 3
24 . 10
Min. Max. Min. !
0 10 —14
10 16 —10
5 10 -20 1
-1 -12 -
—11 —14 —
16 -30 —
0 —20 —
About the Mail.
Hot Springs. Rampart, Fairbanks ami out
side departs Saturday A. M. Closes Friday.
Down river departs Wednesday.
Rampart, Hot Springs, Fairbanks and out
side mail due next Tuesday.
Down-river mail due Friday this week.
Cordova sailings for Seattle;
Northwestern—Nov. 24.
THREE MAILS WEEK
FROM THE OUTSIDE
From Dec. 4 to April 1, Tanana Will Re
ceive 2,000 Pounds Every Seven Days.
—Hunnewell & Stockman Get Contract.
From December 4 to April 1 next, Tanana will have three mails a week—
2,000 pounds every seven days. Stages will arrive every other day except Sunday.
The N. C. contract calls for two mails'.a week of 800 pounds eaeh, from De
cember 4 to*April 1. The weekly down river mail from Tanana to Nome did
not carry its capacity, so 400 pounds extra was advertised for.
Jack Hunnewell was the lowest bidder—$2,431 for the 17 weeks, or $143 a
trip. He took Harry Stockman in on the contract. Stockman will bring the
mail from Fairbanks to Tolovana, and Hunnewell with fresh dogs will rush it
down to Tanana.
Both Stockman and Hunnewell are veteran mail carriers. They know how
to manage, and will give an excellent service.
They will also carry express and passengers, calling their stage the Mala
mute Express. No mail will be taken up river, so they are in a position to
make good time. Their stage leaves Fairbanks immediately after the arrival
of the mid-week Cordova stage.
LIVELY DOINGS
AT HOT SPRINGS.
W. It. Merriesfield was found guilty
of vagrancy by the jury before Judge
Olson Hot Springs, last week, and fined
$200 and costs, and given 25 days. The
jail sentence was remitted on his prom
ise to take to the woods.
George Trout was fined $500 and given
six months in jail on the charge of as
sault and battery. He sneaked up be
hind Geo. Wright and struck him on
the head as the latter was entering the
Kelly & Anderson stables at Tofty.
G. A. Prescott was bound over to the
grand jury on a charge of burglary. He
is accused of breaking into a cabin.
Portland Wrecked.
Seattle, Nov. 24.—The str. Portland
went on the rocks near Katalla. The
passengers were picked up by the Ala
meda.
Alaska Discussed.
San Antonio, Tex., Nov. 24.—Over
1,500 notables are attending the trans
Mississippi commercial congress here.
The development of Alaska is one sub
ject under discussion.
DEMOCRATS TO
RULEJHE HOUSE.
Washington, Nov. 24.—The next house
will have 227 democrats, 163 republicans
and one socialist, from Wisconsin—the
first in congress. The next senate will
have 52 republicans and 40 democrats.
Beveridge was beaten by Kern in Ind
iana. Alaskans have hope of securing
home-rule through the democrats.
Squaw Dance Prohibited.
A “squaw dance” which was to have
been pulled off Wednesday night was
nipped in the bud by the deputy mar
shal, who did not object because natives
were to attend but on account of the na
ture of the dance. Invitations had been
issued.
Grub is Cheaper.
Washington, Nov. 24.—The price of
all food stuff has dropped from 10 to 20
per cent.
Pacific Congress.
San Fraucisco, Nov. 24.—The Pacific
congress, permanently organized here,
demands that the battleship fleet be in
creased to the standing of the army on
the coast.
LEO TOLSTOI
PASSES AWAY
Great Benefactor of the Russian
Peasantry is No More.
Special to the Newt.
St. Petersburg, Nov. 24.—Count Leo
Tolstoi, aged 82, Russian novelist, relig
ious teacher and social reformer, one of
the greatest men Russia ever produced,
is dead. The Holy Synod refused to
raise the excommution ban placed on
him in 1901.
In Tolstoi’s death the Russian j>eas
antry lost their greatest benefactor and
friend. Thousands attended his funeral
held at Tula.
Tolstoi was born in 1828. His first
work was his “Autobiography of Child
hood.” In 1857 he retired into his sim
ple life, and in 1865 wrote his “Peace
and War,” a history of Napoleon’s inva
sion of Russia.
His later works were “What People
Live By,” The Kingdom of God Is With
in,” “Master and Servant,” “The Res
urrection,” and other Works.
Tolstoi’s belief was similar, in part, to
that of the Unitarians. He believed the
Sermon on the Mount is the supreme
law of Christian life, and laid stress on
“resist ye evil.” His system has much
in common with the anarchistic commu
nism of Kropothir.
He denied the Trinity and the deity
of Christ, disbelieved every kind of sac
ramentalism and the orthodox concep
tion of a future life.
PAPER REDUCED.
The Fairbanks paper which has the
largest foreign circulation in the Hot
Springs, Rampart and Tanana districts
has cut down the size of its weekly. It
thus leaves out news it formerly con
tained. The step backward was evi
dently taken in order to cut down
expenses. *
The Yukon Valley News, on the other
hand, has enlarged, and will do so again
just as soon as conditions justify.
The Rampart and Hot Springs resi
dents read the complete election returns
two weeks ago in the News. They will
receive the same news in the Fairbanks
papers—which reach the Springs next
week—three weeks later.
The people read about the Tolovana
horror and the fatal alcohol spree of
three sourdoughs at Tanana, in the
News of last week. They will read it
in the Fairbanks papers next week—two
weeks later.
The News is up to date—that’s it’s
way, that is all.
On Governor lode, Fairbanks creek,
ore running $100 to ton is uncovered at
depth of 30 feet.
Bemis is working overtime on ordeJs.