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Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-03-10

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Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-03-10
U. s. Wants spitzbergen

A short while ago the United States
senate passed bill annexing the
islands Of Spitzbergen. The action of
the house in the matter has not been
learned. The islands Of .Spitzbergen
are rocky, snow-clad group about 400
miles north of the North Cape OF Nor
way, and have been used as base by
Peary in his North Pole expeditions.
No country has ever made a formal
attempt to annex them, but by custom
they have always been considered
part OF Greenland They are not hab-
table during winter. and tho few peo-
pie who ever attempted to live there
starved out. It has long been known
that the archipelago Of Spitzbergen il
rich in phosphates and guano aud more
recently it has given evidence of con-
tanning coal. ~-. "-.e ~ So
Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-03-10
TANANA CAPITALISTS
BUY IDITkROD GROUND

DR.. M. E. Bondixen, r. S. v. S., ar
rived from Iditsrod and way points,
and, after a stay OF two days in Tanana,
departed for Fairbanks last Monday.
1t Is the Doctors intention to meet
some pressing business engagements in
Fairbanks and switch back to the
Koyukuk country before the walking
gets bad. A
The doctor is not iavorably impressed
with the Iditarod as a place for perma-
nent residence. While in Tanana he
sold to David Kay and George NJ. Ar
buckle, at sacrifice. 3 and 4 above,
Flat creek, Iditarod, the creek that is
causing 50 much excitement at the
present time. Joe Anicich owns 6
above, the doctor having acted for him
in its location.
Dr. Bondixen owns much other prop
erty on the creek. and was disposed to
unload it all; but after dickering with
all the prominent Tanana capitalists
he could sell only 3 and I. -
Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-03-10
Notice of Forfeiture


To T. J. Wilson, Roy r. Henderson,
Alfred Place, ]. c. Junkin, Chris 8.
Hillstead, o. A. Laymon and G. H.
Hull:
You and each of you are hereby no.
tilted that have expended the sum, Of
one hundred 400 dollars in labor aid
improvement, for each year, for the
year 1908 and the year 1909, upon the
following placer mining claim. to wit:
The First Chance Association Placer
claim, situated and being on Golden
creek, a tributary of Illinois creek, in
the Fort Gibbon Mining and Recording
Precinct, Territory Of Alaska.
Said work and was done
under the provisions of section 1924 Of
the Revised Statutes OF the United
States, being the amount required by
said section 1924 to hold said claim for
the years 1908 and 1909; also that proof
Of the annual assessment work WAS
filed under chapter 1850, entitled San
act TO amend the laws governing labor
or improvements upon mining claims
in Alaska" approved March 2, 1907;
and that if within ninety days after
the last publication Of this notice you
fail or refuse. TO contribute. your pro.
portion of such expenditure. for said
years. as co-owner in said placer min
ing claim, your interest in said claim
will become the property OF the UNDER
signed under said section 1924.
Dated at Tanana, Fort Gibbon Pre-
cinct, Alaska, March 10. 1910.
~. S. F. MCDILL.
Date of LIST publication, March 10. 1910.
Date OF I'd publication, June l6, 1910.
Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-03-10
DEVELOPMENT |. OF.
THE WIRELESS

Wireless telephony is discussed by
R. A. Fessendenz in the annual report
Of the Smithsonian Institution just is.
sued, says the Washington Star. The
subject is largely bound up lin the
development of the wireless. telegraph,
and Mr.. Fessenden calls. attention to
the fact that, while Marconi was the
practical developer of wireless teleg-
raphy and, to the popular mind, will
always be ranked as the discoverer of
this means of transmission, the system
was known to scientists many years
before, and the first instruments pat
en,ed by Marconi were practically du-
plicates of those used by Prof. Oliver
Lodge. 49,.
1t was known that wireless signals
had been transmitted by Prof. Joseph
Henry in 1910, ana at later date
Helmholtl, Elihu Thompson and others
did much to develop the art. In the
Fortn;ghtly Review of February, 1892,
Sir William Crookes showed the whole
field that might be covered by wireless
telegraphy, but pointed out several
practical obstacles that had to- be over
come.
Sir Oliver Lodge, in 1894, delivered
a remarkable lecture before the Royal
Institute, in which he described in de-
tail several of the accessories that were
used in the early development of the
wireless telegraph, and on June 2, 1886,
Marconi filed patents for instruments
practically identical with some that
had previously been in use. In the
summer of the same year Marconi went
to England and performed some e.;psri-
ments for the British postotfice at
Salisbury Plain, reaching range of
two miles in Transmission.
The wireless telephone was devel-
oped accidentally, Prof. Fessenden
says, in November, 1899. He was at
Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-03-10
WafferS0n'S Pen
Dipped In Causfic

Colonel Henry Watterson, the dis
tinguished editor of tho Louisville
Courier-Journal. published an editorial
Jan. g. that is exciting widespread COM
ment because of the severity of his
language and his authoritative position
as spokesman for the conservative
South.
On request the editorial is here re-
printed, just as it is being reproduced
throughout-the country.
Under the caption "Honest Men to
the Front" Colonel Watterson says:
For the first time in the history of
the country a President OF the United
States has openly proclaimed himself
the friend Of thieves and the enemy of
honest men.
That, and that alone, is the issue
precipitated by the executive order of
Friday removing Clifford Pinchot from
Office. 'By your conduct" says Mr.
Taft in effect, "you have destroyed
your. usefulness as helpful subordinate
Of those who hold the Republican party
as the government and are bound to
protect those who, by their corrupt
organization and campaign contribu-
tions, have, brought the Republican
party to power and are relied on to
maintain it in power" In other words,
the public lands and franchises belong
to the Saints, and We are the Saints.
Many Republican Presidents have by
indirection through tho protective pol
icy proclaimed themselves, the friends
Of robbery under the forms of law; Mr..
Taft becomes the first to depart from
the process of licensed robbery. and 70
announce that the debts of his party
are4,in future to be paid out of the
peoples domain. 1t is not worth while
for any body to beat about the bush, or
TO deal in anything but plain English.
The: truth will not down. That the
President is, personally, an honest:
well-intentioned man need not be de-
MED, or doubted. The world is full of
men who can see no wrong where their
own interests are at stake; who are
blind to right when their passions are
Awakened; who will do for party what
they would refuse to God. The candi-
date OF straw upon a platform of impos-
ture, indicted to office, sees his house
Of cards about tumble ON him and his
cabinet, because of an act of an upright
but imprudent servant, and, in panic
otangerand fear, thinks to avert the
threa, ened catastrophe by driving the
upright, servant out.
ut will not suffice. All men now
kaow. il they did not know before, that
The deca pitation Of CLAWS was meant
tpekill a dangerous witness; but, in the
decapitation: Of, Clifford Pinchot, and
his associates, Price and Shaw, the ad-
Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-03-10

that time carrying on some expert
ments with a Werndt interrupted in
his wireless telegraph work, and it SO
happened that the peculiar wailing
sound of the interrupted was repro
duced perfectly in the receiver of the
telephone he was using as a receiver.
This suggested to him that if sufh-
GENTLY high frequency current was
used the wireless waves could be adapt.
ed to telephoning. The development
of the wireless telephone went on from
that time with steadiness, if not
rapidity.
Prof. Fessenden says his experiments
in wireless telephony have been car
ried on as far as from Boston to Wash
ington and he has found that the sound
of the voice is even clearer by wireless
than it is on wire system. The wire
less was not interrupted by weather as
were the long-distance wire lines, and
he gives some interesting speculations
as to the possibility of substituting
long-distance wireless telephone for
the long-distance wire.ess lines now in
use. He says the cost of installation
and maintenance both will be decidedly
cheaper and there will be less cost for
deterioration. Further, when trouble
occurs it will be Immediately in the
sending or receiving stations and not
located out somewhere along a long
line. Prof. Fessenden says there are
some objections to the practical install
lation Of long-distance wireless systems
and that he does not think the wireless
telephone will ever take the place of
short lines for communication in cities.
He qualities this, however, by saying
that when the telephone was first sug-
gested there were a good many bust
ness men who said it was impracticable
and favored a house-to-house printing
telegraph system on the ground that
they would not be willing to have
business transactions of which there
was no written record.
Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-03-10
HOTEL ARRIVALS

Tanana Hoiel-Cap,.: Green, steam er
Pup; Harry Kalland and family, Kali
lands Landing; "A: Miller, L. Wintner,
John Camell, VIM. Mitchell, Charles
Madenbarl, George Locklain, Girls Mel
ia, Markin Dupich, George Callendich,
A. E. Peters, Jack Thompson, Iditarod.
The two last named left for the Koy-
ukuk." - E..
Kentucky Restaurant-Ira NJ: Rank,
Jack Young, Nome; J. A. Cameron,
George F. Bemis, Fairbanks; Joe Gil
crease, Jack Charles, J. G. Lemoine,
Iditarod; Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Cullen,
Grant creek; Jack Millson, Lynx creek;
Or. Charles D. Carter, Sullivan.
Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-03-10
PETTY ROBBERS
OPERATING HERE

Returning to his cabin midway be-
tween Tanana and the Mission, recent
ly, after day or two's absence, E. B.
Clarke found that the door had been
broken open, the place ransacked and
quantity of provisions stolen. To
add TO Mr.. Clarke's loss, the potatoes
and other vegetables with which his
cellar was stored were all frozen on
account OF the door being left open.
I. w. Kelly's cache, little further
down the road, was broken into and d
lot of dog salmon stolen. =
Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-03-10

|of the legislature Marcel, ?. The
Democrats accorded generous ap.
plause to the suggestions Of the
senator. but the Republicans main
tanned digni6ed silence Governor
Hughes is an earnest advocate OF
the bill
A bill was introduced in congress
on March which, if it becomes a
law. would make ffugitive> from
justice of all persons indicted by the
grand jury tor breach Of the anti
trust laws The bill appears TO lie
specifically aimed at the officials Of
tie packing trust, recently indicted
by the grand jury Of New Jersey,
many of whom at the present time
are abroad.
Fighting Dick Hyland and Matty
Baldwin have signed articles for a
10 round fight to take place at Kan.
sas City next Monday.
On March 2, in New York,
legal separation was granted by the
court in TIE case of Homer Daven
port, the celebrated cartoonist, and
his wife. Mrs. Davenport was
awarded the custody of the chill
dren.
James Patten, the wheat kias.
sailed from New York for Europe
March 2. Before starting, he said
he was leaving with no apprehen
sion of anything extraordinary hap
psning during his absence. There
is no chance of anyone getting a
corner this year on wheat, he said,
as the bulk of the holdings are iii
saf e hands and the present price is
almost prohibilive of much specula-
lion for future delivery.
Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-03-10

ministration has committed harikari
upon its self. Henceforth the ground
about thasWhite House and around the
throne of the car of the congress will
be sown with dragons teeth.
And from now onward, let there be
no politics in this country except the
rescue of the government from organ
ICED pillage, which, not content with
raising up favored classes and distrib-
uting mammoth fortunes through the
tariff, reaches forth its corrupt and
impious hand to steal from the people
the public lands and franchises that yet
remain open to bona fide settlers and
honest but poor men.
We read of the days Of Robert Wal
pole with mute amazement. We stand
aghast before the rapacity Of Henry
Fox. 1t seems uncomfortable that there
could have been government of rot
ten boroughs exchanging titles and
estates for votes. Yet the system in
England in the eighteenth century was
infantile by comparison with the sys-
tenn in the United States during the
latter part Of the nineteenth century
and thus much of the twentieth. The
spoliation of Walpole and his body of
mercenaries was child's play by COM
parison with the scheme of spoliation
contrived by Cannon, Aldrich n Co., of
which the President of the United
States now makes himself the legal
advocate, the hacker and defendant.
Nothing ever Witnessed in the world
before compares with it in immensely
and audacity.
Poor old, dignifed, fat-witted james
Buchanan, who, standing by the ex-
tremists Of democracy, let the country
drift into war, seems the only parallel
to the .good-natured indifferentialist
now occupying the chief magistracy,
who thinks with smile to slick over
the treason, stratagems and spoils in
which u thick-skulled, thoroughly ma
CuluC-IuNuC dutuluISlIdllOLl Is cuH utuuS
the country.
There are enough upright men yet
in congress to forbid. The Presidents
pal in the lower house will not be al
lowed 10 pack committee of subserv-
lent, stand-pat Republicans and rascally
democrats, prearranged and prejudged
to whitewash the guilty and convict
the innocent. Even Aldrich may find
Jordan hard road to travel in the
senate. We shall have an investigate.
He who dallies becomes bastard: he
that doubts is sure to be damned. The
black flag raised by the President
floats at the masthead of the admins
tration; let the Stars and Stripes float
at the masthead of congress-! mo
quarter" be the word, until the truth.
the whole truth and nothing but the
truth comes blazing from the crucible
to put blister upon the forehead of
corruption in vindication of true men.
and all for the glory Of God and the
Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-03-10
LATE news BY TELEGRAPH

Only two members Of the house
committee on interstate commerce
voted for the creation Of an inter.
state commerce court for the trial OF
all cases Of infractions of the inter.
state commerce law. The bill was
framed at the suggestion of PreSi-
dent Taft embodied in his annual
message to congress.
The bill to raise the battleship
Maine, which was introduced last
March just at the beginning of the
tariff session, passed the house on
March 2. Three bills for the same
purpose were introduced at tina,
time but there has i,een consider
able opposition To the scheme, and
it is believed by many members it
will reopen the old controversy as
to the manner i'll which the vessel
was sunk.
President Obalda, o; the republic
of Panama, died i'll the city of Pan
anna February IS. His death came
as a great shock, as it was totally
unexpected. even by his physicians.
Heart failure was the cause. Presi
dent Obalda was elected to the
presidency in july, 1908.
~, 1t was with general rejoicing that
the many friends Of Senator Ben
Tillman heard OH March that the
old warhorse from South Carolina
would surely recover from the seri-
Gus Illness. with which he was
stricken seve.al weeks ago His
physicians now state that lie will
throw off entirely the effects Of the
paraly,ic stroke which affected his
left side, and that he will again he
able to take up his work at the
capital:
y At Chicago on March Judge
Landis sentenced William Broad
well, an oleomargariue manufac
turer, to six years in the peniten-
tiers and to pay fine of $4,000
for no, marking his goods as pre-
scribed by law.
Tony Leyden. who confessed to
have tried to set OH fire the: town of
Nina, New was OIL March I tarred
and, feathered by the citizens and
turned loose OH the. desert to shift
for himself.
President Kruger, of the Phila-
delphia Rapid Transit Company,
states tina, his company will no,
arbitrate the dispute with their EN-.
pioyes. He. insists that the men
have been too arbitrary i'll making
their demands. 49,
Charles Hamilton, the famous
aeronaut who made such an envi.
able record at the aviation contest:
heid recently at Los Angeles, will
be III Seattle March IL aud will
give All exhibition, of aviation last
ing for three days. He will attempt
to fly over Mount Rainier, and says
that lie is confident that he can &C
complish the feat.
Ortis Hamilton, formerly adm
tant general of Washington state.
arrived at the Walla Walla peniten
tiary February % to commence
serving the Iossyear sentence re-
Gently imposed upon him for en-.
bezzling the states money
"A letter has been received in Al
bany. N. Y, from Senator Root ad.
vocating the adoption of the income
tax law and pointing out many of
the benefits to be derived from it.
The letter was read to both houses
Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-03-10

Captain Green, lately arrived from
the Iditarod, has gone to Fish creek to
put the steamer Tana in condition for
the breakup. l.
Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-03-10

The Leader is on sale at the Tanans
postoffice lobby.
Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-03-10

WEEKS WEATHER

Observations taken at Fort Gibbon
At 7 p. m. daily. M. U. Grissinger
observer.
Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-03-10

honor of the republic! Amsn!--Taco.
ma Tribune.
Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-03-10
Home for Friendiess

Cordova Alaskan: The will of
the late Harry Curtis Elliott.
who was killed on December 80
by . snowslide while showing
mining experts the Hubbard, FL
lott copper properties in the in.
terror, has just been filed for
probate. 1t provides for a 81,
900, 900 home for friendless chill.
dren to be maintained in Chicago.
Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-03-10

Baths -luxurious Wednesdays and
Saturdays-Williams' now barber shop
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-12-16
GREAT AID TO PENMANsHIP
That Makes Bad Writing Al
most an Impossbility.

There is no further excuse for bad
penmanship.' A New Jersey man has
invented an apparatus which makes
really bad writing an impossibility.
The first principle taught by writing
instructors is to hold the pen or pen
I'll firmly in the proper position and
write with a movement of the fore
arm, keeping hand, wrist and fingers
still. When this knack is acquired
The battle for legible chirography Is
won. The device here shown virtu-
ally forces this movement. A wire
support runs, down along the inside
Of the forearm to point at the low
er end of the thumb. A coil passes
around the wrist. Another branch Of
the support extends to the base of
the thumb and three rings hold the
pencil h the most approved position
along the outside of the hand at the
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-12-16
BOY COULD NOT HARM MICE
Man Learns Why Little Pest Contin
ued so Plentiful After Servant
Had Trapped Many.

A gentleman who lived in India had
such a lot of mice running about his
house that he told his native boy
servant to buy six traps to catch the
mice.
The boy did as he was told, and
next morning he gleefully showed to
his master mouse in each trap.
The traps were set again, and an,
other six mice we're caught. The mas
ter told the boy to go on setting the
traps and catching the mice, but after
several weeks had gone by and the
mice were just as plentiful as ever in
the house, he called the boy to him
and asked, How many mice have you
caught?"
more than fifty" said the boy.
"What do you do with them?" then
asked the master.
"Islet them out again!" said the boy
"Why, you should have killed
them!" said the master, laughingly.
mo, l never kill anything" said the
native boy very solemnly.
He had been taught never to kill
any creature whatever, so no wonder
the mice got no fewer!
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-12-16

Tailored ShirtWaists Are Easily Made
Over for House Wear in
Morning.

Did you know that you could make
over your old tailored shirtwaists for
house wear in the morning? Cut out
the neck at the collarband and the
sleeves at the cuffs. Supply instead
plain percale low collars and turnG
back cuffs of some contrasting colort
Cut off also the skirt sections which
are usually torn by pinning and sup,
ply belt of the percale. This belt
will fasten over the skirt; thus, all
you will need to complete your toilet
when dressing hurriedly in the morn
ing will be pin to hold your collar
closed
Another made-over is the apron
which was originally a lingerie blouse.
Use the front, cutting bib of one
sleeve and tie-ends of the other. The
back will make the belt and face the
lower edge. With little ribbon-run
beading and a lace ruff1e, here is an
apron you will not be ashamed to
pour tea or do embroidery in.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-12-16
MAKE CANDY AT HOME
SOME SIMPLE RECIPES FOR
WHOLESOME SWEETS.
How to Make Delicious Chocolate
CarameIs, Peanut Nougat, Cocoanut
Creams, Sweet Popcorn, Oid-Fash-
Toned MoIasses Candy.

Chocolate carameIs.-Two table
spoonfuls of butter, one-half cup of
milk, one-half cup of sugar, one cup
lof molasses, four squares of chocolate,
one cup of walnut meats broken in
fine pieces.
Put butter in porcelain saucepan
and when melted add milk, sugar and
molasses. When these are at the boil
ing point add chocolate, finely grated,
and cook until brittle when tried in
cold water. Stir often to prevent mix
ture from sticking to pan. Remove
from the fire, beat four times, and
then put in the nuts and two tea
spoonfuls of vanilla and turn into
buttered pan. When cold cut In
squares and wrap each in parafhn
paper.
Peanut Nougat.-One pound of SUI
gar and one quart of shelled peanuts.
Chop the nuts fine, and sprinkle them
with a little table salt. Put the sugar
in a smooth granite saucepan, and
when it is on the fire stir constantly
until melted to a syrup, taking care
to keep the sugar from hardening on
the sides of the pan. Add the nuts,
stirring them well through the sugar,
and pour at once into a warm, but
tered tin and mark the squares. The
sugar must be taken from the fire
the moment it is melted or this candy
will not be a success.
Cocoanut Creams.-Two cups OF
sugar, two-thirds cup of milk, two tea
spoonfuls of butter, One-half cup OF
shredded cocoanut, one-half teaspoon
full of vanilla. Put butter in a gran
lite saucepan; when melted add sugar
and milk Heat to boiling point and
stir until sugar is dissolved and then
boil gently twelve minutes; remove
from fire, add cocoanut and vanilla
and beat until creamy and mixture
begins to sugar slightly around edges
of saucepan. Pour them into but
tered pan, cool slightly and mark off
in diamonds.
PraIines.-One and seven-eighths
cups of powdered sugar, one cup OF
maple syrup, one-half cup of cream,
two cups of hickory nuts or pecan
meats, cut in pieces. Boil first three
things until, when tried in cold wa
ter, a soft ball forms. Remove at
once from fire and beat until creamy;
add nuts and drop from tip Of spoon
in small blobs on buttered paper.
Old Fashioned Molasses Candy
Two cups of Porto Rico molasses,
two-thirds cup of sugar, three table
spoonfuls of butter, one tablespoonful
of cider vinegar. An iron or copper
kettle with round bottom is best for
making this. Put butter in, place