The Chitina leader., 1915-01-26

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Might messages to be handled under
practically the same rules as those
pf eemmereial companies in the
statesasyiza To. be transmitted when
lines clear Of day business and de-
liyered. day after filing. There will
be no change in the press rate
S-a as@.Ei Cordoya. January %
ID. W.Rogse. who. came out from
Fairbanks in October. returned !. on
ths4steamar Alameda from a bust
nessltrip. which included. San Fran.
asezS land montana points. He will
dspaEt$far1 the interior metropolis
otUthes train tomorrow morning. Mr..
Rogge expects to resume mining
operations on a Cleary Creek lease.
C!asr+sissss is-@4 Gordova. January %
- ,A2msfe from Deputy Marshal An
ders.-aata Hot Springs states that
STEPHEN Foster, a well known young
trapper and Indian trader, has pro',-
ably been murdered in his cabin on
HAhe fsMinehumina. This lake lies
5tsst aeross the divide from the head
Of the Kantishna river and is one of
the sources of the Kuskokwim. 1t
is one of the most isolated spots in
Central Alaska, difficult of access.
- The news originally was brought
by interior Indians attending the
potlatch at Crossjacket and upon
learning it, Anders communicated
with the marshal's Office at Fair
banks. Rowing Deputy John {.
Wood was at once ordered to the
scent. by Chief Deputy Clark. IN
charge here, and he left this morn
ingassa,aog. team. Going down the
[anana he will pick up the two
Eatives who brought the word 20
grossjacket and take them Win MN
hp the Kantishna. Commissioner
Taylor at .Kantishna is empowered to
hold, inqpests and Fosters death will
gery likely be looked into at an in
d. est over which he will preside. TO
make the. return trip will probably
require several weeks. $
i Foster is we'll known in Fair
Marks and also we'll liked. He was
gut Hasa Summer and left sometime
in August, with a partner and outfit
to trade among the natives. They
pfanneH to- establish new trading
post on. the headwaters of the kus-
kokwim and later to establish fox
farm.
! No mention is made of Fosters
partner; in fact all further details
are absolutely lacking and probably
viii. be for some time unless Com
missioner Taylor learns tn facts
and sends them in by messenger.
Fairbanks News-Miner.
Treasured but yellow relic O
more than a generation ago, copy
of The Montreal Gazette, dated
April so. 1867, in the possession o.
Capt. E. j. Mcintyre. a guest at the
Hotels Savoy, contains an editorial
paragraph regarding Alaska and the
sale of that territory to the United
States in the year named which is
of intense interest.
Captain, Mcintyre is a veteran
m astep mariner of the north and has
operated for years in the farther
mast regions of the Bering Sea and
Recent measures pending
at Washington, affecting Alaska led
Captain. Mcintyre to bring forth
from his safe. deposit box the 1867
copy of sFhe Montreal Gazette con-
tanning the following editorial:
The Russians seem to be quite
elated 5ats the success of their nego-
tiations for the sale of Russian
America (Alaska) and, to use a
current term. evidently think that
the United States have got hard
bargain. The Yankee cuteness of
the latter, however, will yet stand
them in good stead.
at was generally supposed that
the bargain would have to be
settled in hard gold. equal to at
least eleven millions in greenbacks.
But in this, it appears we were all
Russian government
being satisfied to take the account
out-in monitors instead of gold.
I'VE do not know what these may
hes worth, apiece. but as they cannot
have cost more than one million
each, the Russians, if Congress as
sents, will be entitled to seven or
eight, They would undoubtedly be
adapted to the shallow waters of the
Baltic but the great difficulty will
be to- get them there In any event
both parties will be mutually salts
fed.
"The United States will have a
territory perfectly useless for prac-