Yukon Valley News
Whole No. VOL. IV No. 1
XANANA, ALASKA, TUESDAY', JULY 6. UKV.t
New Series VOL. I No. 1
N.C.QFFICiALS
Several Big Company Men
Were in Town.
Several prominent officials of the
Northern Commercial Company have
been in Tanana within the past week.
Superintendent for Alaska W. H.
Fairbanks was met at Kampart and
brought down by the launch Messenger
a week ago. He left for Fairbanks
Sunday on the Tanana. He is expected
to return here in a week or ten days.
C. A. Muuro, from the Dawson office,
came with the superintendent and will
await his return to this place.
Archie McKillop, representing the
Crown distilleries, also came down and
left with Mr. Fairbanks.
Howard Turner and Charles Grimm,
auditors, came in from St. Michael Sun
day on the Louise and departed for the
same place on the Herman yesterday.
Leon Liebes, a director of the com
pany, left Sunday on the Louise, bound
for St. Michael, with the intention of
ultimately proceeding as far as Point
Barrow.
If any changes are contemplated at
the company’s Tanana post, they will
not be made public until after Mr. Fair
banks’s return; neither will business
announcement of any kind be made till
then. This was stated at the local office
vesterdav.
Brief Local Mention
The grand jurors are summoned to
appear at court July 12; trial jurors
the 26th.
Harry Stockman has been appointed
guard at the local jail, vice C. B. Wil
son, resigned.
Teresa, a native woman arrested by
John Reese, Judian policeman, for be
ing drunk at the mission will be before
Judge Gallaher’s court this afternoon.
W. B. Rodman, of the Rodman-Alaska
Trading Company, came down on the
Delta yesterday, direct from the outside,
where he has been the past several
months.
Notwithstanding the backward spring
George Yautier has vines in his potato
patch on which blooms are forming.
Truck in his several patches looks fine.
All gardens are coming on nicely now
and market gardeners complain that
the big supply has sent the price of veg
etables so low it does not pay to gather
them.
The Gibbon Bar handles the best brands of
bottled goods, including whiskies in hulf
pints, pints and quafts.
Slayer Out on Bail.
Fairbanks, July 5.—Robert Dunn, the
slayer of Carl Elbing at Dome last fall,
has been admitted to bail in $40,000,
FAIRBANKS MARATHON
Fairbanks, July 5.—In the Marathon race last night
Jerry Sullivan, of Nome, was first, winning a prize of
$1,500, with Arthur Hyde second, $500, and Justus
Hjortli third, $200. Time — 2 hours 50 minutes, 2
hours 55 minutes, and 2 hours 58 minutes. The
distance was 26 miles 385 yards. Nick Damara, the
former champion, quit after 25 miles. The fastest mile
was made in 5 minutes and 48 seconds. The weather
was splendid and there were 3,000 spectators.
CELEBRATION AT RAMPART
Rampart, July 5.—The Fourth of July
celebration at this place was as com
plete as any in recent years. The
steamer Campbell was here all day and
the people from the boat augmented
the otherwise big crowd. Interest in
the sports was maintained to the end.
Among the sporting events were:
Ball Game—Kalnings, 11; Siparys, 6.
Horse Race (quarter of a mile)—Mike
Engels’s Susie fii-d ; F. M. Smith’s Jim
second; time, 28'u'.
Pole Vault—Ben Mayo first, 0 feet 11
inches; George Wood, second.
Putting Shot (twents pounds)—Fred
Harper first, 27 feet 6 inches; A1 Wood
second.
Canoe Itace (natives) across river and
hack to starting point—Simon Pitka
first; Sixmile Henry second.
In a hundred-yard dash with A1 Wood
against Smith’s horse Jim, the horse i
won easily.
FATAL ACCIDENT
AT MOUSE POINT
Boy With a .22 Shoots and Kills
His Brother.
Mouse Point, July 5.—Two boys 7 and
9 years old, sons of a native woman
named .Susie, were today playing with a
.22 ritie supposed not to be loaded, when
the elder shot the younger between the
eyes, killing him instantly. Susie is
Olin’s wife.
Last of Fitt Logs Landed.
The transport Jeff Davis landed at the
post sawmill Saturday evening the last
of the logs contained in the big raft that
failed to make the landing at the Fitt
mill a short time ago. The logs num
ber between eighteen and nineteen
hundred and are one of the choicest lots
of saw timber ever received here.
The service of the Davis was all that
saved the raft from being wholly lost.
She landed it five miles below town.
The government allowed John Fitt, the
owner of the raft, $10 per thousand—
less than half the value when put down
at the mill.
Arno Reinhold, in the restaurant business
in Rampart in 1907, came in as pantryman on
the Louise and stopped off at Tanana.
FOR VIOLATING
IMMIGRANT LAW
Man and Woman Detained on In
structions From Fairbanks.
Ernest Bartezi anti a woman posing as
his wife were arrested Saturday and are
detained at the instance of the immigra
tion inspector at Fairbanks.
The couple were on a steamer bound
for St. Michael. It seems that at Fair
banks complaint was made accusing the
man*of importing the woman for im
j moral purposes.
Improvement on Front Street.
Among the numerous improvements that
: ure milling to the appearance of Tanana,
and especially of Front street, is the new
front extending across both the premises ’
occupied by the Kentucky Restaurant and
by the Gibbon Bar. The places now look
like they were contained in one handsome
structure. Byron Allen had charge of the
work for Mrs. Cooper on the restaurant
and “Chips” Anderson embellished the bar
building.
Still another improvement in that uuarter
is a new billiard and pool room being added
to the Gibbon Bar by Proprietor Jack Cav
anaugh. The room will be furnished with
fine new tables.
The process termed inductive reason
ing can hardly account for the peculiar
circumstance, pointed out by a Georgia
newspaper, that the cyclone area is con
forming pretty closely to the prohibition
boundaries. ’ 1
MAY LOSE OUT
Rumor That Vautier Will
Not Long Be Deputy.
For several days a rumor has been
circulated, and generally believed, that
George Yautier’s term as United States
deputy marshal at Tanana is virtually
ended. There must be some foundation
for the rumor, but the facts of the mat
ter are at present inaccessible.
Marshal Love has not yet returned
from outside, where he went with con
victs and insane patients. It may be
that until he does so Mr. Yautier’s case
will remain in abeyance. At any rate
he is doing business at the old stand to
day—and this is by no means the first
time the rumor bees have swarmed dur
ing his several years of official life.
However, Mr. Vautier is about the
last of the Perry appointees to be re
tained by Marshal Love; and this fact,
aside from local enmity, indicates that
the change will be made unanimous.
Week’s Boat News
ARRIVALS.
St. Miclial from St. Michael July 5.
Martha Clow from Innoko July 2.
Campbell from Kokrines July 3.
Herman from St. Michael July 3.
Louise from St. Michael July 4.
Tana from Fairbanks July 4.
Hamilton from St. Michael July 4.
Xanana from Fairbanks July 4.
Schwatka from Fairbanks July 5.
Delta from Dawson July 5.
DEPARTURES.
St. Michael for Fairbanks July 2.
Martha Clow for Fairbanks July 2.
Campbell for Dawson July 3.
Louise for St. Michael July 4.
Tana for St. Michael July 4.
Tanana for Fairbanks July 4.
Schwatka for Fairbanks July 5.
Delta for Innoko July 5.
Hamilton for Fairbanks July 5.
Herman for St. Michael July 5. .
REPORTED.
Jacobs, up, St. Michael July 5, 8 p. in.
Louise, down, Kaltag 7 p. m. July 5.
Kerr, up, Melozi 3: 30 a. m.
Delta, down, Louden 5:15 a. m.
Jeff Davis, down, Louden, 6: So a. m.
White Seal at Koyukuk.
Herman, down, Nulato 7 a. m.
Weare at Gibbon.
Tanana, up, Tolovana 4 a. in.
Hamilton, up, Hot Springs 9 a m.
Luella at Koyukuk; Martha Clow,
Little Delta, Florence S, at Fairbanks.
The Jacobs, sailing from St. Michael
last night, is the new transport for the
Fort Gibbon quartermaster’s depart
ment. She was built at St. Michael last
year and this is her maiden trip.
Chester Coleman, of Nome, passed a
successful gxaminacion for Annapolis.