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Vol. 2.
TAN AX A, ALASKA SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1912
No. 15
On Wednesday at the convention in
Chicago the Roosevelt, forces under the
leadership of Governor Hadley of Mis
souri got control of the floor and
marched around the hall yelling “We
want Teddy! We want Teddy!” They
kept it up for 45 minutes.
_
Parker has been elected temporary
_ chairman of the Democratic convention
^ at Baltimore on next Tuesday. He has
accepted.
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Sherman, Texas, June 21.—Two men
and two women were killed here today
in a feud between the Sharp and Wal
dorf families.
Pasco, Wn, June 22.—Mrs. C. Chris
tenson was today arrested on the charge
of administering poison to her husband
who died here yesterday. Christenson
had but recently insured his life for
$30,000 in favor of his wife.
Baltimore, June 22.—Bryan today
wired the five presidential candidates
and requested them to join him in op
posing the election of Parker.
All live stock, birds and animals on
Kodiak island have been killed and the
crops there are utterly ruined, being
covered many feet with sand and ashes.
Many people in the town of Seward,
which is over 200 miles from Mount
Katmai suffered from inhaling the
ashes from the volcano, with which the
air was completely filled.
The slight rain which has been falling
has charged the waters of all the creeks
and rivers with sulphuric acid, so that
the water is deadly poison.
It is said that the Marsan trading post
at Red Mountain has been abandoned.
TAFT NOMINATED
Chicago, June 22, 7:45 p. m.—President Win. II. Taft was nominated Re
publican candidate for President.
GILMORE RUNNING STRONG
A telegram from the Cordovia Daily Alaskan states that Candidate Gil
more of Nome closes his campaign in the Third division tonight. He will then
leave for Ketchekan, Juneau, Douglas and Treadwell and thence Skagway and
Dawson. Reaching Dawson July G.
Indications are, says the Alaskan, that Gilmore will carry the Third
Division by a bigger vote than Orr did last campaign.
It is confidently expected by supporters of Gilmore that he will carry the
Second Division by 800 or 900 vote and that the main fight will be between
Wickersham and Gilmore. Harrais is believed to have a show on account of the
division of the vote between Wickersham and Gilmore.
NEWS FROM
THE KOYUKUK
Captain Thomas Haines of the
steamer Tetlin arrived here from the
upper Kovukuk and brings the follow
ing interesting information.
Word reached the Tetlin just before
she left the upper Kovukuk on her re
turn trip that Government Surveyor
Jackson who was taken up to Hammond
river from Fairbanks for the purpose
of surveying and establishing the title
to a supposedly rich fretion in the
Hoosier association, had finished his
work and had found no fraction. It was
also stated that the laymen had worked
the rich spot in the supposed fraction
completely out before the return of
Brown and McCord, the locators. The
laymen are reported to have taken out
$35,000 out of the drift from the one
shaft. The surveyor Jackson will re
turn to Fairbanks on the Reliance which
should reach here about July 1st.
Brown and McCord may be “peoned”
in the Kovukuk. Which is about the
worst fate that could overtake any man.
Captain Peterson, the rich Nome min
ing man who had an option on Jim
I Huntington’s and Happy Jack’s ground
■on Indian creek passed up the option
and went on up the Kovukuk to Wise
man. He states the Indian creek propo
sition would pav for the owners to work
' but that he could not pay anything for it.
Martin Harrais
Well Received
In Tanana
Martin Hariais, the democratic candi
date for delegate from Alaska, arrived
in Tanana on the steamer Schwatka on
Thursday, en route from Valdez to
Chena and Fairbanks.
On Friday evening Mr. Harris ad
dressed a large number of the voters of
Tanana, at a meeting held in Arctic
Brotherhood hall. He is an ernest con
scientious speaker and his words were
enthusiastically received by those
assembled in the hall.
Mr. Harrais said a few words about his
life. He told of arriving in Alaska
ia ’98, and told of a few incidents in
his life as a miner and prospector.
Mr. Harrais is an earnest advocate of
the initiative, referendum, and the
recall of all public servants. i
In the course of his address he
took up tlie Wickersham home rule bill,
and made some telling points against
it. He states that if the hill is
passed it will not benefit Alaskans as
there are altogether too many restric
tions in it.
Mr. Ilarrais departed for Chena and
Fairbanks at noon today on the steamer
Tetlin, He will return to this place in
about three weeks, on his way to the
lower river towns. On his next trip he
will travel in his own launch and will
address the people at all of the small
settlements as well as the large towns.
Mr. Ilarrais expects to be strongly
supported by the voters of Valdez, Cor
dova, Seward, Ketchekan, Petersburg,
Wrangle and Douglas as well as in tin
towns in the interior of the territory.
The following ladies left Tatiana for
the outside during the past few days:
Mrs. K. It. Stoddard and Mrs. Lieu
tenant Wertenbaker, on the steamer
Susie.
Mrs. and Miss Chrisman Mrs. Know
les, Mrs. Kingman and Mrs. M. S.
Greenwood on the government steamer
Jacobs.
Mrs. Patterson and Miss Sehroeder on
the steamer I)avis.
Andrew Vachon expects to return to
Tanana about the loth of July.
Carter and Marsh are on their way
back to their Chandlar quartz holdings.
Whenpu were engaged
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