The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1911-01-14
INTERIOR JOURNALISM.
The newspaper is nothing new.

the editor (God rest his soul, like
wise the deviD used to do his own
printing by scratching pictures on
slabs of sandstone and incidentally
go around and collect subscriptions
with q stone club.
Now Kipling mentions the fact
"that writing for living is worse
than serving in a shop" and, sad to
relate, the boys of Gray's Copper
Mountain mining district have follen
from the ways of grace, since the
watchful eye of E. T. Gray has been
away.
For character study the face Cd
of the editor of the Chitina Leader
was wonder. as on the night of
the 18th inst. he received a strange
epistle through the mail. After
scanning it for few minutes his
mind wondered back to his younger
days when he was an admirer of the
plays of the Bard of the Avon" and
he was heard to mutter to himself,
What, no! Another Richmond in
the field" The epistle was nothing
more or less than a new paper. pub
lished at Copper Mountain, the well
known mining camp of E. F. Gray.
The Copper Mountain Truth it is
called. and, strange for newspaper,
it has a motto: Don't pick from
him who is shy"
The following items may be of in
terest to the many friends and cred
itors of the boys up there. The first
thing of note in the paper was head
ed: Paint as Grease"
''An amusing incident occurred in
No. one tunnel yesterday King o.
car II. creased the car with paint
and the mucker on the opposite shift
had troubles of his own making the
car move"
1t was noted in the paper that a
new worlds record was established
by a gentleman named AL. Jackson.
who drilled complete round of holes
and only used one piece of steel.
Now, Mr.. Jackson, we have heard
of man carrying two buckets OF
water across the Rocky mountains
and never splitting a drop, but as for
drilling a whole round of holes ano
only dulling one piece of steel; that's
too hard to swallow.
They have some specie OF animal
common to camps, namely, a Bull
Cook He seems to be differen,
kind to what is founc IN most camps
and he is undoubtedly too clean, as
he boys protest against him sweeping
out their shoes. Also some of them
seem to be in need of medical AID,
as a gentleman of French decent,
namely, Louie Spitzenberger, is go
ing to Cordova to be operated on.
What his complaint is is not stated,
but no doubt it is a common one.
All modern improvements are
there in that busy mining center.
Telephone wires being installed from
tunnel No. l and from the power
mouse. Muckers are forbidden to use
the same.
The high cost of living has even
touched that remote part of the
world and gentleman has Just clos
ed deal there for all the oranges i'll
the camp. paying the price of one
buck each. This orange king goes
Oy the name of H. c. Prick.
"A dark and bloody deed was
did up there. Some william prowi
ing around with hammer and ten
penny in his hip pocket, spied the
engineers tobacco (three parts of
plug of Westover) taking its after
Moons ciesta on a bench. Creeping
up on the unarmed tobacco from the
rear he drove the ten penny through
ITS heart, or tin tag, and into the
neavy oaken bench. When the tai
low pot attempted to remove his
plug the air was turned blue, anu
che boys hereafter think OF installing
rods for future safety.
When Rome was cornered they hau
to send for Cincinnatus, whom they
found blowing in his field. In these
days Cincinnatus would be called
rancher, and they also have q mem
Der of that profession up there, who