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Tanana leader., 1909-12-16
Ray Will Soon Issue Good Deeds

Fairbanks Dec 15Wh $515 advanced the purpose by Alderman Dan Drsco Henry Kay Fairbanks made the final in the district Wednesday for the paent of the 406 of land comprising the received the receivers na receipt the also certificate of entry.
 In other words the last before the issuance of general land office at Washington has been taken by trustee The $55 eventually the Mr. Ray did take around subscription list just this me and contemplating getting money of the banks on his personal note.
Tanana leader., 1909-12-16
GARDEN AND FLOWER
 SEEDS FOR DISTRIBUTION

The Leader has been notified that Delegate Wickersham has at his dis posal liberal quota of flower and vegetable seeds for distribution to the people of Alaska. A liberal supply will be mailed immediately upon re- quests for the same being received at Washington.
Tanana leader., 1909-12-16

The town is good bought only transactions must be made through military channels they the and which in parance called red tape" Mr. Ray will be busy long issuing deeds The plat made last fall by Robe likely will be file shortly and the issuance deeds will follow receipt of the patent.
 The natural procedure had been possible would have been apply to the city council for the needed for the MT. Ray discussing the with Alderman Drcol told that the city had funds with which relieve the sua Being told Mr. Rays intentions Mr. volunteered to advance the money
Tanana leader., 1909-12-16

At about o'clock this morning Charles J. Smith was called to the door of his residence and shot death
 few moments later Charles Chan luist, answering knock at the door of the Grand hote shot times and may die.
 Arthur G. Barney is in jail and s believed to be the perpetrator of the bloody crimes
 The assassin went to Smiths door and called him out side Immediately afterward Mrs. Smith heard the shoot ing and ran to the door screaming. man outside, the murderer ordered her to keep que adding that he would kill her if she made any further nose The left and Smith found lying dead the ground. He had shot twice in the head and death proba ous C. A. Brown who lives the premises running out and finding Smith dead to inform the deputy marshal
 After killing Smith, it appears the murderer hurried the hotel where Chanqust had just closed the door for the night The shooting of Chanquist like that of Smith, deliberate and codbloode for the the opened in response to the murderers knock the shooting occurred five shots being fred Three took effect, one in the arm and two in the head.
 Mr. Chanquist conveyed to the post hospital and Deputy Marshal Donovan went to Barneys room at the Tanana hotel where Barney found in bed asleep eignng sleep The deputy seized him firmly and Barney said, ''Helor Cap, what do you want!'
 Captain Donovan took Barney before Mr. Chanquist the hospital and the latter identified him his assaant He knew Barney and said he noticed he had backeye the time of the shooting
 MOTIVES
 Some weeks ago Barney party to negotiations for puTcuase OI the 1ukOn saloon rom SmCn. Barney could not raise his part of the money and the deal fell through. He has been sore' at Smith since. Only yesterday he went into the saloon and abused Smith, apply ing vile epthets to him and continuing the tongue flashing for long time
 If he had any grudge against Chanquist it was not generally known He had been drinking and quarresome fer several days, and in mxup with Tom Oeary yester day Barney was given blackeye-whch Chanquist at the hospital declared he noticed at the time Barney shot him.
 CoRoNER's JURY
 coroners jury was summoned and met at Commis. soner Gallahers office at II o'clock today The jury composed of George Vauter Theodore Detrich James Mullgan Joseph C. Dehn H. L. Hedrick and Andrew G. Vachon.
 Judge Gallaher in nstructing the jury, said it it's duty to get all the evidence obanabe tending identify the murderer of Charles J. Smith, and said they may ad ourn from time to time and from day to day until plete investigation of the crime made He also suggested that after going to the Smith residence viewing the m Re. AnnIiCa.fi
Tanana leader., 1909-12-16
WORK OF AN ASSASSIN

mains and taking the evidence of Mrs. Smith the jury ad journ till 10 o'clock tomorrow, and then meet at A. hall
 When the jury arrived at the Smith residence w. A. Srangman was stenographer and took down the evidence of Mrs. Smith. She said that when knocked the door husband opened and the first shot fired at Smith then grapled with his assaant and the second shot fired out of doors She could give but vague description of the murderer but she could recognize his voice. Barney will be taken before her later.
 With the taking of Mrs. Smiths evidence the jury ad journed to meet at A. B. Hall tomorrow at 10 o'clock
 CLOSED
 At the suggestion of Deputy Marshal Donovan the saloons all closed today The propriey of this step recognized by every
 The crimes shockingly atrocious that-while there is danger of such thng-every doubtless feels that summary justice would be too good for the red named assassin who has thus stricken down two of his h low without and without warning.
 Charles J. Smith leaves widow and four small chill dren the youngest less than two months od He old timer carried the mail in the early days and widely known and had many friends He of the com parativey few in this country who possessed home stead upon which he had lived for five years. It this land that he met his untmely death.
 Charles Chanquist is of the saunchest and best known business of Panama. Scarcely who has spent few days in the town but esteems him.
 NATURE OF THE WOUNDS.
 Tue shot that killed Smith passed through the base of the brain Had been inch further back would made but slight scalp wound post mortem e1amna tion of the remains will be held this afternoon.
 The shot which passed through Chanquists forearm broke bones The most dangerous shot entered back his right passed through it. and ranging downward lodged in his neck where it remains Another wound the left believed not to have entered the brain.
 At o'clock this afternoon Chanqust was resting easy and it is believed he will recover.
 
 Barney is known all the North as the 'Muckuck Kid" He went to Dawson in '97 and later in the saloon business at Nome He came here from Sulva creek last spring and worked waiter the Golden North and Kentucky restaurants. While work he was most attentive to his duties and of pleasing disposition.
 Arrangements for the Funeral
 The funeral of Charles J. Smith will probably be held Sunday will be under the auspices of the Arctic Bro therhood and is in charge of committee composed of C. A. Munro. J. Russell Walle and Fletcher Fulthorpe.
Tanana leader., 1909-12-16
MONDAYS
 ELECTION
Vote Cast Dec. l3

Vote Cast Dec. I3
 Clerk-Arthur J. Campbell, 60: J. Russell Walle, 5: Frank Smith, 3: John C. Clinton, l.
 Treasurer-Ckarles Chanquist, 65: George J. Miller, 2; C. A. Munro, l.; James P. Mulligan. l.
 Director-Joseph Anicich, 54: Frank C. Smith, 3: George J. Miller. }: John C. Clinton, ?: 4. H. Williams, |: Fl. L. Hedrick, |: George A. Carl, |; James F. Mulligan, l: c. A. Munro, l.
 Total number of votes. 70.
 Those who thought that a sec ond election for Panama school board would finally settle the matter were doomed to disap- pointment. Just what the next move will be cannot now be told, but the trouble which was acute immediately after the election of October 30 may now be said to have become chronic and the doc tor who can cure it is yet to be called in.
 To get an intelligent status of the case as it now stands, it is necessary to briefly recall the stages of it's development.
 An election was called for Oct. ober 30 for the selection of suc- cessors to members of the old board. which was composed of A. G. Vachon (clerk'. Charles Chanquist (treasurer) and G. H. Tiffany (director). At that cleo, tion J. Russell Walle was elected clerk, George J. Miller treasurer, and Frank c. Smith director. Numerous persons declared the election one sided because printed ballots were placed at the polling place bearing the names of the persons who received almost the total of the light vote cast, and illegal because insufficient notice had been given.
 Notice was given calling for an. other election November 20, to follow a public meeting called for November IS. At the meet ing it developed that Messrs. Walle, Miller and Smith had qualified; so the meeting ad- journed without accomplishing vital result. and the election went by default. Subsequently Messrs. Walle, Miller and Smith resigned and an election was called for Monday, December 13. This time it appears that numer- ous voters who had voted on Oct ober 30 remained away, and printed ballots bearing the names of Messrs. Campbell, Chanquist and Anicich were at the polls. Now the other schism declares the election unfair and illegal, and allege that it cannot stand.
 MIR. WALES VIEWS
 Asked last night if he would state his views regarding the matter, J. Russell Walle unhesi- tatingly said he considered the election of December 13 farce and of no effect whatever. He said the judges of election were not sworn in, but acted solely upon their own responsibility and their own initiative; that no re- turns have been made to the proper persons to receive them; that aliens were allowed to vote without question in certain in- stances, and in others intending voters were told that there was but one ticket, and if they wanted to vote they should vote the printed slip.
 Mr. Walle is in possession of the books and papers of the board and emphatically declares he will not turn them over to the clerk or any member of the board claiming to be elected last Mon.
Tanana leader., 1909-12-16
Arrangements for the Funeral

The funeral of Charles J. Smith will probably be held Sunday It will be under the auspices of the Arctic Bro therhood and is in charge of committee composed of C.
Tanana leader., 1909-12-16
WEEKS WEATHER

Observations taken at Fort Gibbon at p. m. daily. M. U. Grissinger. observer.
The Western news., 1909-08-25
EXPLANATION Called For,

Alfred (whose sporting opportu-
mites have been limited by parental
decree)-Papa, what does it mean
by base on balls?
Papa (who is reading an account
of the latest heavyweight fght)-
Alfred, you could better employ
yourself with your Sunday school
lesson. I'm too busy now to ex-
plain.
Alfred (still thirsting for knowl-
edgeeDid it mean the same as
base on balls when you telephoned
last night that as mamma was away
you were going out on bat?
Mamma (who is always listening)
Benjamin Ridgely, you will take
time right now to make two expla-
nations, with the most important
one coming to me.-Exchange.
The Western news., 1909-08-25
Not Arquino.

The person who feels like saying
"Let us keep silence, that | may
have the talk all to myself" would
fain reduce conversation to an en-
tirelv one sided affair.
The London News says that the
late Charles Keene, the artist of
Punch, used to describe with great
delight the method of certain man
whom he called a "pothouse Rus
kim"
This person was sitting with q
friend in an inn parlor and was
haranguing the other man on mat
ters in general. Finally the friend
ventured mildly to interpose an OBJ
lection. The speaker drew himself
up with much dignity.
"T amt a-arguing with you," said
he; "1'm a-telling you"
The Western news., 1909-08-25
Flower Trade of the SciIlv Isles.

The Scillv isles, five in all, lie
out in the Atlantic forty miles off
the Cornish coast. The develop
ment Of their flower trade has
changed them from poverty strick-
en- spots into islands of the blessed
Not many years ago the inhabitants
eked out precarious and scantv
living by potato culture, but one
day a man of wise forethought
named Trevelick came to the con-
clusion that flowers would bring a
richer harvest. He could see them
growing riotously in the little gar
dens, and he collected a few bulbs
here and a few there until he had
enough to start business with, and
the first consignment he sent to
Covent gardens brought prices that
are now spoken of with something
like reverence. With the passing
of the years flower culture has set
tied into a well organized trade,
providing occupation for everybody
who wants to work on the Islands,
From Tarring England Letter
to New Orleans Times-Democrat.
The Western news., 1909-08-25
A Grease Spot Suit,

A man whose wife found much
fault with him-probably with jus
tlce-on account of his untidiness,
went to a tailor to order a suit of
clothes.
"What kind of goods do you
want % asked the tailor.
"All wool and exactly of this
color" replied the customer, pre-
senting sample
''1t is hard to tell just what color
this is" reioined the other, inspect
ing it. ''Where did you get it?"
''l cut it from my last suit"
'lt doesn't seem to have any fig
ure."
"No. This is where some grease
got on it. | cut out the entire spot.
| want something grease spot
won't show on. See?"
After a lengthy explanation the
tailor succeeded in convincing him
that there was no cloth of that kind
in the market.-London Mail.
The Western news., 1909-08-25
,,,v XuEouyucrapic rue.

John Bright once described the
variety of stage fright with which
he was familiar with a telling and
quotable point. He was discussing
public speaking with George Daw-
son, an eminent Englishman of his
day, when, according to a paragraph
in the late David Christie Murray's
"Recollections," he said:
"Tell, me, friend George-you
have, suppose, as large an expert
ence in public speaking as any man
in England-have you any acquaint-
ance with the old nervous tremor?"
"No," Dawson replied, cor if I
have it is mere momentary qualm,
which is gone before / can realize
it."
"Now, for my part" said the
great tribune, 81 have had practice
enough, but I have never risen to
address an audience, large or small,
without experiencing shaking at
the knees and sense of scientific
vacuum behind the waistcoat."
The Western news., 1909-08-25
Old and Blind and Stupid.

No one could say a sharp or bit
ter thing with more absolute cool
ness than Lord Westbury. After
retiring from the Office of lord
chancellor he took very active part
in the house of lords sitting as
court of appeal, where his colleagues
were Lord Chelmsford and Lord Co.
lonsay. Lord St. Leonards, who
was senior to them all, never at
tended. One day Lord Westbury
chanced to meet him and said to
him, 'My dear St. Leonards, why
don't you come down and give us
your valuable assistance in the house
Of lords ?"
"Ah," said Lord St. Leonards, ri
should be of no use! I am old and
blind and stupid"
"My dear lord" said Westbury,
"that does not signify in the least.
I am old, Chelmsford is blind, and
Colonsay is stupid; yet we make the
very best court of appeal which has
ever sat in that assembly."-Lon-
don Mail.
The Western news., 1909-08-25
A Matter of Addition.

Precision was one Of Mr.. Will
liams chief qualities. He loved to
be exact, even to the point of noting
in his account book the smallest cX-
pendjtures-a cent for "A newspaper,
another for a pencil. Early in Jan
uary he came out of his library to
where his wife was sewing.
"My dear Jane" he began, Il am
going to make a criticism that may
distress YOU, because YOU will prob
ably think it is foolish. | assure
you that it is not. I have been read
ing through the almanac for this
year, and there is one obvious er-
ror.
"What is p" said Mrs. Williams,
looking up from her work.
Last year they said that the
work was seventv-two million years
old, and this year they say the same
thing
But began his wife.
''They should be exact protested
the man. Il can't for the life of ne
see why they shouldn't say seventy
two million and one. If ones true,
then the other is. Why, oh, why,
can't these people be precise?"-
Youths Companion.
The Western news., 1909-08-25
Specially Selected.

A mild faced individual entered
the postoffice.
"Do you keep stamps?" he asked.
"We do, sir" answered the polite
clerk, somewhat surprised.
"What sorts do you keep" pur-
sued the customer.
"All the values that are issued,
SIR" replied the official, ''from a
halfpenny upward"
Gould see some penny ones ?"
Promptly the office clerk pro-
duced a twenty shillings' worth
sheet of penny perforateds and
spread it out upon the counter.
"There you are, sir" he said. eff
you want penny stamps there are
few"
The mild faced individual looked
them over and then pointed to the
center stamp in the sheet.
81 think" he said, producing
penny, 'I'll take that one, pleasew
London Scraps.
The Western news., 1909-08-25
THE SLY FOX.
Dead In the Dairy, but Lively When
He Got utside.

He Got Outside.
Several years ago at an old fash
ioned farmhouse called little Hall,
in Boxted, small village lying be-
tween Sudbury and Bury st. Ed
munds, Suffolk, England, there
lived a farmer and his wife who
thought much of their COWS and
dairy, but they were rather pestered
with foxes, as the squire of Boxted
Hall, an ancient mansion, being lord
of the manor, did not allow them
to be molested, as they were re-
served for sporting, and so it hap
pened that the farmers wife on
going into her dairy one morning
was Mortified to see a fox Of an
enormous size lying dead, as she
supposed, on the floor. The dairies
at that time were large and airy,
with large lattice windows and
floors paved with clinker bricks,
which were often scrubbed down
with a birch broom and much wa
ter. A brick was left out of the
wall level with the floor for a sink
hole, where all the refuse was wash
ed out. The fox in his nightly
prowls around the house appears
to have scented the cream through
the windows or sink hole and, as he
would like to taste it, squeezed
himself through the hole into the
dairy and made his way to the
cream pot, and as it was so very
nice he ate it all up. He swelled
himself up to such a size that he
could by no means get back
through the hole again, and, hearing
footsteps coming, he lay down on
the floor and feigned to be dead.
The lady, suspecting what he had
been doing, looked into her cream
pot, and, finding it all gone, she
was so eXasperated that she took
him up in rage, thinking he was
dead, and with an ugly word threw
him out into the back yard; but, to
her great CONSERVATION and dismav,
as soon as roynard found he was
at large and once more free to use
his LEGS he bounded off at full
speed, leaving the lady to grieve
over the escape of the audacious
and crafty thief.
The Western news., 1909-08-25
Predisposition to Disease.

Children are seldom born diseased.
They may be born with a tendency
to disease because one or both par
ents are suffering from it. AS we
know, certain conditions favor the
development Of certain diseases.
Place a child in conditions that have
produced disease in the parents, and
the tendency will be to produce the
same disease in the child. SO we
sometimes find whole families de
Of consumption or diphtheria or
something else, not because the dis
ease was inherited or ''caught," but
because the same conditions produce
the same result in all the cases.
Nautilus.
The Western news., 1909-08-25

Ane smaai BOY was ready TO start
on long promised weeks visit to
his grandfathcr's in the country.
There was an eXasperating delay in
the appearance of the carriage to
take them to the station. The
Young man worked Of his impa-
tience in various ANNOYING wavs for
half an hour. Then suddenly he
was seen to kneel beside chair in
the corner and bury his face in his
hands. After few minutes his
mother said:
"Well, Kenneth, what are you do
ing?"
"Just getting my prayers said up
for while I'm going to be out at
grandpa's. There's nothing to do
here, and | spect to be pretty busy
while I'm there"
The Western news., 1909-08-25
IN THE DRYDCcK.
When a Vessel Needs a Ei. Of Washing
and Fixing.


Within the basin steamer is
docking. The hydraulic gates are
shut; the pumping engines clang; an
exhaust pipe on tie engine house
puffs out clouds of steam. Men rush
about, waving signals, lowering props
against the ship. There come sharp
orders from the master of the dock,
who stands with folded arms at the
edge of the basin. The crew are
still on board. They line the rails,
chattering and gesticulating; thrust
curious heads through rows of ports.
The water sinks rapidly. The
steamer settles on the blocks, and
soon her battered bottom comes to
view. She is an old boat, Scared
by seas. The great plates beneath
her water line are scanned with rust;
the paint has vanished; the iron is
eaten into burrows by years of seeth-
ing water; barnacles sprout about
her keels, clustering thickly on one
another, here and there heaping into
chains Of hills, spurs of which run
off in all directions and disappear
into the shadows beneath her hull ;
growths Of seaweed cling upon her
sides, oo" moisture, combed into
dark gree traceries. At length the
dock is cMotv. Its wooden, steplike
walls are dripping and covered with
slippery moss. Little rivulets trickle
down and run out beneath the ship
into broad, dark, Shiny pools. Wa
ter splashes through leaks in the
gates: the air smells dank and
marshy ard rccks Of river mud.
Men scramble down into the basin
and attack the steamer. Clad in
oilskins, they duck in and out be-
meath the hull, cleaning, scraping,
pointing, hosing down the sides. Be
meath the stern they gather in a
knot about the screw. One blade i
missing; the others are twisted and
bIunted anl caked with rust. The
blows Of slcGge hammer ring out
loudly: the men shout at one an
other as they strive to loosen the
propeller from the shaft. One of
the oWnc" Of the boat-a tall man
III long raincoat that flaps about
III, unklc>-wutches them aMX,0uSly
lis patent leather shoes are feckcd
with mud.
The foreman hurrics about, Civ
ing directions. ooh, this ships AL
RIGHT" he says in answer to your
question. "She only wants a bit Of
washing and Il screw. She fouled
buoy down river going on week
AGO and left a blade there in the
chain SOS to remember their meet
ing. But she needed new screw
bad The old one was all but done
for. as it was, bv the ice last win
ter. r."-Thornton Oakley in Harper's
Magazine.
The Western news., 1909-08-25
His Lame Excuse,


"Gregory,' said Mrs. Squallop, 81
have Just received a letter from
Aunt Abigail. She says that as we
don't seem to want her to come to
visit us this year she will postpone
it indefinitely. What does she mean
by that? ! told YOU to write and
tell her to come at her own conven-
fence. Was that what you wrote to
her."
"Er-substantially,' answered Mr.
Sauallop. 81 couldn't remember how
that word convenience is spelled,
and so made it risk '"-Chicago
Tribune.
The Western news., 1909-08-25
A Grand Memory,

A highland girl who had been in
service in Dundee and had gone to
place farther south called upon
her old mistress on her way north
to visit her friends.
She was invited to take dinner
with the family, and her master
asked a blessing on the meal as
usual, when the girl said:
"My master, We maun haze a
gran memory. That's the grace
We said when l was here sax years
syne." London Telegraph.
The Western news., 1909-08-25
Not Quite Certain.

''How many children have you?"
said the tourist affably.
81 dunno exactly" answered the
tired looking woman.
"You don't know"
"Not for certain. Willie's gone
fshin', Tommv's breakin' in a colt,
Georgie's borrowed his fathers
shotgun to go huntin' an Esmeral-
da Ann is thinkin' of elopin'. l
never know how many I've got till
supper time comes, SOS 1 can count
'em. m."-Washington Star.
The Western news., 1909-08-25
Flogging the Bridegroom.

The singular custom of the bride
groom being flogged by the rela-
tions of the bride on the marriage
day still obtains among at least
three peoples of the world-in the
extreme northeast of Siberia, in
Borneo and among some of the
Arab tribes of the Nubian desert.
In all three cases the idea seems to
be that the bridegroom in order to
prove himself "a man" must be
able to undergo a considerable
amount of physical suffering with
out flinching.