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Yukon Valley News
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TAX AX A, ALASKA THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1011
Vol. I. No. 28
Worthy Soldier To Be Buried With
Full Military Honors.
Quartermaster Sergeant Alvin L. She
luine, Company A, 16tli Infantry, died
in the post hospital at 2:35 p. in., Tues
day, March 28, 1911, of general tubercu
losis, after an illness of about two
months.
Sergeant Shehane was born February
19, 1882, in Butler county, Missouri, and
entered the army in 1904. He served 3
years, 0 months and 29 days in Company
L, 6th infantry, part of which was served
in the Philippine Islands, and 3 years, 3
months and 9 days in Company A, 10th
Infantry. He was appointed corporal
in Company A, 16th Infantry, March 18,
1908, and sergeant May 15, 1908. lie
served as first sergeant from June 1,
1908, until Nov. 1, 1908, when he went
on furlough. Upon his return from
furlough, Dec. 21, 1908, he was again
appointed first sergeant and served con
tinuously in that capacity until Jan. 31,
1911, witen he was appointed quarter
master and mess sergeant. All of his
discharges from the army bear the char
acter of “Excellent.” He was a sharp
shooter ayd a model soldier in every
respect. He was very popular with his
comrades, as evidenced by the fact that
he was chosen president of the Fort
Gibbon Social Club, an organization
composed of the enlisted men and civil
ian employes of the post. His example
was one worthy of emulation, and his
soldierly qualities and kind disposition
won for him Hie esteem of all who came
in contact with him.
He was married in June, 1910, sit
Little, Rock, Ark., to Miss Susie Black,
of Poplar Bluff, Mo., a former school
mate, and who is now living at Broad
ripple, Ind.
He will he buried from the post hos
pital at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning,
Father Ferron officiating, and will he
interred at the post cemetery with full
military honors.
Last Saturday S. E. Heeler came down
from his logging camp in the Yukon
iiats, where lie had been since the be
ginning of the new year. lie has about
1:00,000 feet of logs ready to be rafted
down to Tanana.
Mr. lleeter is preparing to move his
saw mill down from Rampart and set it
up at Tanana. The coming summer the
logs will be converted into lumber.
Didn’t Pay Board
Chicago, March 30.— Mr. and Mrs.
Achilles Pentarakis, arrested in Kansas
City, have confessed having murdered
one of their Greek hoarders in this city
for jumping a week’s grub bill.
Furnished by Sirs. E. F. Warren, official U.
S. weather observer, wireless station.
The Temperature.
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Home Dynamited.
Seattle, March 29.—The home of Ras
j nius Christensen, a mining superinteml
■ ent of BlacK Diamond, this state, was
blown to pieces by dynamite, supposedly
; by discharged employees. The family
was asleep in an outhouse in the yard
and escaped.
Vice-President of Mexico to Leave;
Diaz May Resign.
Mexico City, March 81).—The new cabinet
was sworn in in the presence of President
Diaz and Mexican ambassadors. Ambassador
to Washington Delabarra lias been named
minister of foreign affairs. It is the first
I time during his long administration that
Diaz lias looked upon a cabinet pledged to
reform. The inauguration was impressive'
notwithstanding a report that the president
will resign. The report is denied, but there
is some basis for speculation, even if it is not
a fact.
Ramon Corral, tbe vice president, is sick
and will sail for Europe April 12. His resig
nation would make a special election
necessary.
San Antonio, March 30. -Upon his arrival
from New York, Tuesday, Francisco Madero,
father of the insurrecto leader, announced J
that negotiations were in progress which
would result in peace inside of ten days.
Death in Bathtub.
New Y oi . March 28.—Edward Lord, an in
timate friend of Andrew Carnegie, Pierpont
Morgan and other noted men, was scalded to
death in a bathtub at the Republican club.
New York, March 30.—Last Saturday 143
factory girls, women and men, perished in a i
tire which destroyed the American Book
Co.’s building at Green street and Washing
ton place. The fire was the most appalling
in the history of Manhattan Island.
Nearly all the victims were employees of
the Triangle Shirt Waist Co. They were
trapped on the upper floors of the 10-story
structure. Many were burned and others
leaped to their death on the pavements. <
For Indian Creek.
Frank G. Manley came in yesterday
afternoon at the head of a party of four,
headed for Indian creek, Red Mountain
district. With him is Dunbar. They
were intending to make the eight-mile
cabin tonight, but may tarry in Tanana
till tomorrow.
Contradictory opinions of tbe Indian
creek country are now very notable, but
the notice being taken of the region by
practical and responsible men is a pretty
good guarantee that its worth will be ef
ficiently tested before the summer passes.
Deputy Returns,
Deputy Jack Robinson arrived last I
night from a long jaunt into the country
bordering on the headwaters of Nowi
river, bringing Evan, a native who is j
wanted to give testimony in the liquor I
case against Pete Johnson.
It is said the case will come up before j
the district court the last week in April. I
A safe investment—jewelry purchased |
of <Seo. Bemis.
This Will Hold Nat.
New \ork, March 30.—An interlocu
tory decree of divorce lias been signed in
i l’avor of Edna Goodrich Goodwin from
Nat Goodwin. She is given permission
to marry again, but the privilege is de
nied to Nat during her lifetime. There
is no alimony.
N. Y. CAPITOL
|6,000,0Cs0 Damages—Many Price
less Documents Destroyed.
Albany, X. Y., March 29.—The state
eapitol, erected at a cost of $20,000,000,
is afire and threatened \\ith destruction.
The library has been burning since 8 a.
m., and is destroyed. The fire is sup
posed to have originated in defective
wiring.
Latkr.—After a seven-hour battle the
eapitol is standing partly in ruins. The
loss is $0,000,000, not including precious
and irreplaceable documents, some of
which date back to 1770. The Demo
cratic legislative caucus adjourned only
an hour before the tire started.
Political.
i ’ aiiP, March 28.—J. W. Pol . former
governor of Missouri, says lie thin s Roose
velt and the progressives will control the
next Republican convention.
Lincoln, March 28.—A big banquet given
Bryan on the occasion of his birthday was
the means of launching his boom for the
presidential nomination in 1912. Many Dem
ocrats of national repute were present.
Seattle, March 30. — In a masterful
speech Delegate Wickereham through
the Commercial club appeals to the busi
ness men here to aid Alaska in the fight
for better governmant.
Setback for Suffragettes.
Harrisburg, Pa.. March 30.—The ju
diciary committee side tracked the
woman’s suffrage measure to the com
mittee on elections by a vote of 19 to 13.
Said To Be Penned.
A good many people will remember
one Bondixon, a boss doctor that ranged
from the Iditarod to Eagle for a year or
two ending with last summer/ Well,
they say he is now at McNeil’s Island
doing penance for signing somebody
else’s name to a paper that was not ex
actly a prescription for a boss or a dog.
The story is unconfirmed, and may be
untrue.
People On the Move.
“Spud” Murphy, who has been a witness in
the district court, arrived from Fairbanks
yesterday and is leaving for Nowikaket this
afternoon.
Cy Noble blew back from the Springs yes
terday and will head for Nolan, Koyukrk,
tomorrow.
Perry Gibson, Will Bowker and Charley
Munson, from Cordova, passed through for
the Koyukuk.
Jim Huntington and Jerry Donovan will
get away for Indian creek tomorrow.
Capt. Grant, of Gold Mountain, is visiting
the city.
Otto Ronander and three others came in
from Old Man. Mr. Ronander will remain
in Tanaua awhile.
54 TO i8 FOR
| INCORPORATION
No Lar^e Crowd to Witness Count
o? Li^ht Vote.
It was not a very large gathering of
ladies and gentlemen who assembled at
A. B Hall Tuesday evening to witness
the count of the straw vote taken at the
instance of the X ukon Valley News on
the question of the incorporation of the
town of Tanana.
The vote itself was about half what it
probably would have been had it been
decisive and binding in law. It stood
•14 for and 18 against incorporation—a
total of 72. Following is the polling list:
W. J. Kain
George Carl
Jack Cavanaugh
H. L. Hedrick
George Boulter
G. T. Thomas
J. M. Gal la her
| George Vautier
|John Kehoe
1 W. C. Dt Bum.
i A. G. Vachon
i William Gardner
J. E. Xussbaum
H. Doty
Orie Shade. ,
C. E. Whalley
S. Barnes
Edwin B. Porter
A1 Nobbs
G. H. Tiffany
Charles Chaniiuist
H. Anderson
J. P. Farley
S. B. Handley
S. It. Randles
John Teeland
Eduard 0. Pieper
A. O. Adams
J. A. Marion
T. A.Shaw
H. E. Simpson
J. Anicich
John H. Robinson
Phil Gullaher
W. H. Davis
Bill Corning
George C. Wilson
Edw. Woods
A. V. Heacock
George F. Betnis
O. T. Thoresen
E. II. Gilmore
Heine
T. F. Murphy
George B. Patterson
E. Sullivan
John Wolf
George Bailey
G. Thornhlade
William Woerner
John S. y ••. *«. “11.
H. Lawless
J. W. Clark
Benjamin Green
Oscar Lundin
W. A. Litnu
E. M. Webster
Lee Hagen
C. H. Shade
W. S. Rockwell
H. H. Robson
C A. Munro .
M. T. Hughes
Otto Anderson
M. Barry
M. 1). McCambridge
J. Iitissell Walle
Peter Hansen
John Samler
W. E. Lesi.e
Ed Y. Lee
Sain J. Callahan
FAIRBANKS ALSO
HAS S0H00L MIXUP
—
i •Our good friends of Fairbanks, in the
| not distant past, jollied exuberantly
about the school troubles of Tanana
! town. It was so entertaining, you know,
; to cogitate on the mental unrest Tana
: naites evolved out of a matter so in
| significant.
I All this makes us smile, now that
; Fairbanks is in the throes of a school
disturbance of her own. It started over
i the question of whether the noon recess
| should be an hour or an hour and a half.
The last issue of that family journal, the
hair banks \\ eekly Times, devoted three
columns and a half to the subject and
feeling evidently runs high. Go to it,
Fairbanks, Tanana knows how it feels.
Returning Koyukukers.
Returning to the Koyukuk after a
winter spent outside, J. B. Strode and
Jack Nelson were in Tanana Monday
and Tuesday. Mr. Strode put in his
winter vacation in California, where he
took a flier at pocket mining, which did
not turn out very good. Mr. Nelson di
vided his time between California and
I Washington.