JtOBUK SCHOOL TEACHER
SAYS "NOTHING TO REPORT”
-(Editor’s Note: The following
monthly report was submitted by
Alexander Macintosh, teacher of the
Territorial school at Kiana, well with
in the Circle, 500 miles north of
Nome. The report accompanied the
regular statistical report on attend
ance and other matters, and was for
warded in compliance with the re
quest for a a statement regarding
school news and general community
activities, for- which purpose report
blanks are sent to each teacher at the
time that general report forms for
the year are forwarded from the
office. The report was dated oh Octo
ber 31, an<t reached the office January
11, thus bearing out the assertion that
Kiana-ha$'“a Half, a dozen mails- a
year.”—Editor Alaska School Bul
1 Jetin.)
My dear MtC Commissioner: l. Lest
i I bfehailod' to court, 1 return these
1, blanks you‘sent met, though there’s
nothing to report.
Three/white men live in Kiana; all
t the /-damsels dusky be—and the!
< mighty Robuk .river rolls and rumbles
on to the’-sea. The diggings, are lo
> cated some'-twenty miles away, and
when-the miners come to town they
stay about a.-day, So there’s nothing
in the social line, unless a native
> dance; for activities communal there
isn’t half chance.
At Christmas time the miners make
a point;'of coming clown, and we see
that there’s a Christmas for every kid
in town. The-native son’s not provi
‘ dent^home mission’s the word here;
and Santa comes when needs be, most
any time of year. We’ll stage a
■ Christmas evcnnng, another too, may
be; the-school must find the pro
gram-—ntme xty'VfcrtL.it,/you see. L’est
infliction or our ego on our friends
might seem absurd, ours is the old
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Pool. Hall
'..Cigars
Tobaccos
■; Gandies
■ Fruits *
Soft Drinks
A Plaee to Meet
Yourr Friends
Geo. Matchler
Proprietor
Fresh Fruits
Fresh Vegetables
- Plenty of Nuts \
Choiee Canned Goods Meats
Mukluks or Shoes for the Dancers
Greek motto, “Ouden agan,” is the
word.
The Kobuk was stampeded along in
ninety-eight, but they didn’t make the
diggings pay, I much regret to state.
Now they’re finding hundred-dollar
slugs which prosperous days may
mean, though to date there seems to
be excess of gravel in between.
There is something of propriety in
this “Kiana” name, and to the native
Eskimo be the credit or the blame.
Kiana means “I thank you;" they are'
grateful, it may be, to their heathen ;
gods for all the game and fishes from
the sea. So the town was named 1
Kiana to honor Kobuk’s belle, though
the lady’s genealogy is mighty hard
to tell. She can shoot and trap and j
mush the dogs and giggle goo with I
glee—while the mighty Kobuk river i
ripples and roils to the sea. Frozen !
fish she dips in seal oil with a dainti-!
ness most rare; licks her fingers clean |
from “ooksuk” or wipes them in her
hair. You can hear Kiana coming;
mission hymns the schoes swell; and
the Songs'of Harry Lauder seem to
serve her just as well.
I’ve a cabin on the river bank, a
cabin built of logs; a little cache set
up on poles beyond the reach of dogs;
and a million dollar view of stream
and mountain so sublime; which the
chief assures me, stood for years and
may stand for sometime. This is well
within the Circle, five hundred miles
north of Nome; a half dozen mails a,
year; we seldom hear from home; but
we’ll snare the festive rabbit with aj
wire or a string, and possess our souls >
in patience till the ice runs in the j
spring.
I may not fill these blanks each j
month; there really is no news; win
ter fish this year has failed us; there
is no one cooking booze; but the per
colator’s perking and we brew a pot
of tea, and—lest we should forget it—
Kobuk’s rolling to the sea.
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A young man has written a correct
dress department to ask what kind of j
hat o. bridegroom should wear or his i
honeymoon. ■ If the young man in
tends to wear it afterward also, any
hat three sizes too small at the time
oT the wedding win do.— Arkansas
[ Gazette.
i TABLE OF DISTANCES BE
TWEEN NENANA AND FLAT
! Miles
Nenana to-Tavern . 17
Tavern to Knight's . 24
Knight’s to'ly Roadhouse . 19
1 19 Roadhouse to Riffle'Pole Road
house . 8
i Riffle Pole Roadhouse to Diamond 11
; Diamond Roadhouse to Roosevelt.. 15
Roosevet to Lake Minchumina ... 25
Lake Minchumina to 'Lone, Star
Roadhouse 84
! Lone Star to Telida . 18
Telida to Tent Roadhouse . 10
I Tent Roadhouse to SloweFork ... 0
Slow Fork to East Fork . 22
j East Fork to Nicoli ...,. 10
i Nicoli to Big Raver . 21
Big River Roadhouse to McGrath 25
.McGrath to Tokotna . 18
From Nenana to Tokotna.281
Tokotna to Bill Goss’ Roadhouse. .. 12
Bill Goss’ Roadhouse to Ophir . 10
Ophir to Jerry’s Roadhouse . 28
1 Jerry’s1 to Schernieyer’s Roadhouse 27
Schermeyer’s to Iditarod . lf>
Iditarod to Flat . 8
From Nenana to Flat . 387
Lloyd George's Heady Tongue.
In one of Lloyd George’s early
campaigns someone threw a brick
through the window, and it fell .on the
platfor mat its feet. Picking it up,
he cried: “Behold the only argument
of our opponents.”
From the gallery a sullen fellow
kept calling out “Rats- Rats!” in one
of his meetings.. “Will someone
please take the Chinaman his din
ner?” was the witty and effective
reply.
Once when he was talking on home
rule he said: “I want home rule for
England, for Scotland, fo*- Wales, for
Ireland”— At that mint, some one
shouted, “Heme rule.foir- h 11.”
“That’s right,” he shot, hack; “every
man for his own country.”
In another gathering a menrshout
ed, “Oh. you’re not so-much, Your j
dad used to peddle vegetables with a
donkey and cart.”
“Yes.” said the orator, .“that, is true, i
My father was a very poor man. The j
cart has long ince disappeared, hut. I
see the donkey is still with us.”—
Christian Register.
Blood tests to identify desctanfcmts
of those who crossed the Atlantic on
the Mayflower or to expose fake sur
vivors of the Light Brigade wilt soon
be possible, if experiments of.Dr. E.
G. Manoitoff, Russian blood special- |
ist, are extended, this scientist claims.'
The legend “blood will tell" is liberal
ly true, Dr. Manitoff says. Though
his experiments have been limited t.oi
Europeans, lie asserts that try blood
analysis he can tell a Chinese.from a
Japanese, a German from a Pole. Out
of 1,862 Russians and Jews .whose an
cestry has been traced. Dr. Manoitoff
said that his tests enabled him to dis
tmguish between the two races with
88 per cent accuracy. Ait a clinic at
tended by fivt distinguished isaviints
who took samples of blood from 202
persons of .various, race* and nation
alities, Dr. Manoitoff, without seeing
the persons, distinguished, correctly
I the nationalities ami ri ce ..f 187, an
error of only 7Ja per Cent.— Ex
Our Non-lturnb Animals
An old gentleman said to some
girls who were, .talking very loud at
the opera:
“My dear young ladies, please ta’k
a little louder:-tit music mane- such
a noise Ivcan’l hear halt • you say.—
Our Dumb Animals.
Tofrotita i
Cigar Store
Tobaccos
ritV'A
Soft Drinks
Fred Dubois
Proprietor
CHARLIE’S
LAUNDRY
' McGrath, Alaska
A Bath in a Real
Bath Tub
Shoe Repairing
Sign Writing
Paper Hanging
Charles Rebhun
The Handy Man
Profiteers Indeed.
“Talk about food profiteers!”
growled the butcher, as he charged
up a two-pound rump steak at 60
cents a pound. “Why, I know people
whose profit has been from time im
memorial 6,000 per cent and more.
Yet you don’t jump on them. Why,
then, jump on me?
“Take .Junck’s liver pills, for in
stance. I know Otto Junck’s book
keeper, and the man tells me that this
Junck pill sells wholesale at exactly
6,000 per cent profit.
“Take mineral water—plain soda.
You can make and sell plain soda at
a profit of 40,000 per cent. And, mind
you, no kicks.
“Take false teeth. They used to
make false teeth out of ivory, and in
those days it was right to charge $ 100
a set for them. But now false teeth
are made of porcelain. They cost 10
cents apiece. Dentist’s profit, 76,000
per cent.
. "So I could go on. And you ask me
if my conscience isn’t sore about, this
00-ceni vumpsteak! Oh!”
None of the Gang.
“Have you a Charles Dickens in
your home?” asked the polite hook
tagenfc.
“No!” she snapped.
“Or a Robert Louis Stevenson?”
“No.”
“Or a ’Gene Field?"
‘•Noi we ain't, and, what’s more, we
don'* run a boarding-house here,
either. If you’re looking for them I
fellows, you might try the house
across the street.”-—Ex.
Ancnocage Igloo Pioneers uf Alaska
recently installed the fallowing offi
cers: M. W. Sinclair, past president; I
J. Lindley Grem, president; Charles
Fremont, rinst vice president; R. G.
Southwnrtt , second vice president; J.
W. Phillips,-chaplain; Henry Sogn,
historian; KobeTt Romig, secretary;
I. Bayle.s, treasurer; Henry Easterly,
sergeant-at-arms; Henry Sogn and
Jerry (lallaghan, trustees.
The present price of radium is,
roughly, about $2,000,000 per ounce.
There are about eight ounces in the
world, half of which came from the
Congo.
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With These Few Remarks.
Parson Johnson—De choir will n<w*
sing, “Pm Glad Salvation’s Free,*1
while Deacon Ketcham passes de hat.
De congregation will please ’member,
while salvation am free, we hab to
pay de choir foh singin’ about it. All
please contribute according’ to yo’
means and not yo’ meanness.—Boston
Transcript.
Deuble-Edged.
Gym Teacher (to girls)—Lots of
girls use dumbbells to get color in
their cheeks.
Bright One—And lots of girls use
color on their cheeks to get dumb
bells.—Kansas Sour Owl.
FOR RALE.
Large tank heater. Inquire at
Kusko Times.
PROFESSIONAL
Mrs. Jean McLean
Notary Public
Tokotna, Ala*ka
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Laundry
Front Street, Tokctaa
Mr*. Fred Dubois - Prop.
LADIES’ NOVELTIES STORE
McGrath
Ladies’ Wear.
Also All hinds of Sewing Done
At Shortest Nonce.
MISS K. MARSH - -
PROP.
JRough and Dressed Lum
ber of All Kinds
III0KO LUMBER CO.
A Dredging or hydraulicing
Proposition, Yankee Creek
■About 7 miles Ion*, extending from No. 1 below discovery to
the mouth of the creek.
Pay located all along for a distance of about three miles from
upper end, and pretty well prospected and Brass-cut.
Average depth of ground is from 7 to 30 feet. Top is all black
muckjthat can be scraped freely. No rock bigger than one’s fist.
(■round will go from 15 cent* to f 1 per square foot of bedrock.
Ditch on the ground, 3 miles long, together with water rights.
Ground is pretty well cleared. There is also a drain, 8 miles long!
Also a water right on Ready Bullion creek, from which water can
bo brought to Yankee creek with a ditch less than a mile long
(4,900 feet), with a pressure of 120 feet, being 1600 feet to the
work from tne ditch.
After doing away with muck there will be from 4 to 6 feet of
dirt to handle.
Only about $11,000 has been taken out.
Prospecting work during the past winter has resulted in finding
values that run up to fl per Square foot of bedrock.
I will either sell the ground or give a lease on it. If the prospect
is satisfactory to the buyer, a cash payment will be expected.
For further information, terms,
telegraph me.
etc., call on ground, or write or
ED NOLLETTE,
Tokotna, Alaalca.