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NOME, ALASKA, JAN. 27, 1916
The enormous wealth which has
been reaped by the United State* by
reason of that holocaust of blood and
misery across the sea, is again revealed
by tm* department of commerce report
shutting a total trade balance of one
.mu three fourths billions of dollars
sh a direct result of the past year of
strife and carnage. Considered in the
distinct, this is a magnificent show
ing and one that, under ordinary con
ditions, tte might point to with pride
an evidence of a most wonderful
growth and prosperity, but when it
Is considered that this monumental
sum has been drawn from anguish and
woes of Europe's millions, Is the price
■ if blood and misery and tears, it as
sumes a different aspect. To be sure
r is legitrnate gain, the direct result
■f conditions over which we had no
' ontrol and could not change even If
we would. We were Justified In tak
ing it, in every way, but that It Is a
sad and sorrowful fee, when viewed
from the humanitarian standpoint, can
not be gainsaid. Dollars they are, good
legitimate dollars, won in a fair mar
ket from things that we had to sell to
him who cared to buy, but how much
more pleasant it would be to think that
ihey bore not the ghastly, even though
unseen, imprint of death and blood ant)
represent the pain and misery of mil
lions of human beings; or to know
that for every one of them some un
fortunate paid the dreadful price of
annihilation.
No more lucid and vigorous exposi
tion of the attitude of Alaskans toward
the present system of government has
come to light than is contained in the
annual report of Governor Strong,
wherein ho says: “The people have
faith in the country, and are building
homes and establishing permanent
communities. They do not seek fav
ors, but they want a “square deal."
There is still too much bureaucratio
control and direction of the territory’s
i (fairs and resources. Alaskans do not
desire to see these resources exploit
ed for the benefit of the few, but they
want them made available for all who
will make legitimate use of them. The
official red tape which has been wound
about nearly everything pertaining to
the territory has been such as to
strangle the efforts of the individual
and subject him to injustice and
handicaps that havo boon both grlevl
ous and burdensome. All matters
bearing' a natural relation to Alaska
should be administered from within It
and not by government bureauB a
thousand miles distant.” This is ex
actly the view of the majority of these
who havo identified themselves with
the territory to the degree that they
may Justly bo termed Alaskans. What
is wanted in Alaska is not unbridled
license to merely plunder the territory
not yet to have control for the mere
sake of control. As the governor says,
tho people havo faith in the country
and are building homes and with the
raising of those homes they are also
developing a pride in this great, broad
land with its wonderful stores of
wealth and limitless resource*. It Is1
becoming "home" in reality. Instead
of the migratory populace of a few
years ago the country now has a solid
and permanent population that Is
ouiidlng up stable communities, wnleb
will become the great cities of the
. uture An attempt to harmonise
with the country id visible oa arary
side and a general spirit of Optimism
toward the future Is developing which
U based on a broader knowledge of
what the country holds for him who
will lend a willing hand to Its dsvelop
inent. It Is for this reason, and this
n une, that Alaskans are seeking free
i lorn from the restriction* of bureau*
creey and the rsatrant of inadequate
laws. They want control of their own
affairs, not alone because they feel
that It is their right, but also because
they recognize that ambition Is retard
ed and development hindered by the
restrictions Imposed by an alien gov
c.nment which possesses neither In
terest In or knowledge of the needs
and requirements of the territory and
Its people. Feeling that' this land Is
their home and that their future and
the future of their children is depend
ant on its full and unreatrleted devel
opments, they, very naturally, long for
I freedom from the restraints which
I prevent the realization of their hopes
and alms
ALASKA NOTES
The Alaska road commission has al
lowed money for the staking of the
nail trail from Tanana to KaJtag.
The price of fresh halibut reached
10 cents per pound on the Seattle
narket on November 17, the highest
point for several weeks.
The owners of the fox ranch on
Green island. Prince William sound,
iave sold one hundred pairs of blue
oxes to eastern breeders.
The Skagway Commercial club has
made formal application to be en
rolled as a member of the Chamber of
'ommeree for the United States.
Lighthouse Commissioner Putnam
,vlll ask congress to appropriate $600,
ooO for the maintenance and retpair ol
ne stations on the Alaskan coast.
Mrs. W H. Raymond, wife of the
orrner editor of the Fairbanks News,
died recently at Santa Crus, Calif
eavlng a husband and six small chil
dren.
The citizens of Brooks, the new
Tolovana town, at a recent meeting
decided to assess each business house
from $6 to 110 pot month to engage
x nlgln watchman.
Richard Mandley, of idlutrod. has
Tiled suit in the district court to re
over damages to the amount of 1H0,
00O from the Y ukon Gold Syndicate for
injuries received in 1911.
Squatters on the government town
site at Nenana have been given no
tice that if they make Improvements
on the lots that they will be subject
to removal without warning.
J. S. Roaburg, Tolovana express man
is making two trip* each week be
tween Olnes, the terminal of the Tan
ana Valley railroad and BrookH, the
metropolis of Tolovana camp.
Capt. Louis Lane Is reported to ha/e
Rated that he had nearly one million
lollars worth of furs in tho Arctic and
will bring them out when he goes north
with his new boat next year.
The steam schooner Bender Bros
has been frozen in on the Kuskokwlm
river. The captain and crew mushed
| from the steamer to Iditarod and will
probably come over the trail to the
coast.
The Seattle police are investigating
die death of George Ruecroft of Ju
neau. who was found dead in a Seattle
aotel, evidently having committed sui
cide He had been planning the erec
tion of an apartment house In Juneau.
The Tolovana stampede resulted In
'eavlng the Hot Springs camp short
of miners for the winter operations,
but a telegram to Fairbanks started
a number of men down the Tanana
river to secure work.
E. S. Bunch, the well known Alas
ka newspaper man, who married
Daphne Pollard, the clever little com
edienne who starred In the "Candy
Shop," has been engaged to manage
the “Red Rose" company which has
been Joined by Daphne.
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It has developed that Alfred Stor
holm, tho fisherman who was swept
from a fishing schooner and drowned
recently In southeastern Alaskan wa
ters, Is survived by a bride of three
weeks in Seattle. The body of the
fisherman was not recovered.
The fact that the merchants of
Brooks have subscribed $760 for the
removal of the log Jam In the Tolo
vana river indicate that times are not
very hard In tho new camp. During
tho first year In Fairbanks one would
have required a gas pipe to raise $7.60.
It is a far cry from Europe to In
terior Alaska and a Fairbanks busi
ness man can be pardoned for being
surprised when a German woman r*
csntly refuwd to apoopt BrTOgb mono*
i in change. She evidently believes
British money will be worthless after
the war.
Owing to the fact that there are at
least twelve other po^offlces In the
United Suites called Brooks, the post
ottice department has designated the
postofflce In the Tolovana camp as
Livlngood. The name will cause con
fusion as the town was known as
Brooks on official maps.
John Solen and Mrs. Martha Nelsuti
f Fairbanks, have been granted pen
sions of $12.60 per month under the
law passed by the last legislature.
Mrs. Nelson recently received a check
for $37.60 as her first quarterly allovv
mce. The check came from the secre
1 ary of the Pioneer's Home at Sitka.
Native children of Kodiak island and
.iclnlly take readily to ugriculture and
.omestlc science, says Kev. cl.A.Learn,
superintendent of the Kodiak Baptist
Jfphanage. The orphanage, which is
naintained by the Women's American
Japtist Home Missionary Society, has
n average enrollment of fifty to sixty
hildren, all them Indians and more
han willing to learn the white man's
vays. The girls are taught domestic
science at the orphanage and the boys
ere taught ugriculture and manual
.raining during their spare time when
tot at tlie regular school An interest
,ng feature of the work la the rapidity
vith which the girl graduates find hus
lamls, indicating that the demand for
housewives is strong and ever present.
NEW PAY FOUND
IN RUBY CAMP
Reliable news comes from Long city
that Alex Larson has located an Im
portant body of new pay on the upper
end of No. 2 above, Long creek, says
.he Alaska Citizen of Nov. 13.
More correctly speaking he has pick
id up the continuation of the pay
worked with such satisfactory results
jy Frank Johnson on the lower end of
No. 3 above last summer.
The pay Is on the left limit. Mr.
..arson finished a strip of ground there
he past season, and suspected that the
>aystreak was split However, he In
clined to the belief that the branch
jay swerved toward the hill, which wag
not the case. The course of Johnson's
pay induced him to try nearer the
present creek bed,and out of a crosscut
of eight holes there are seven In the
money.
Mr. Larson will now run a cross
cut lower down the creek In the hope
of again tapping the run of gold.
With the pay now defined on No. 2 ;
and 3 above, upper Long Is sure to give j
a good account of Itself next season.
Ward and company on the Novlka
ket association, bedrocked a shaft In
gravel that will run about $3.60 to the
foot this paBt week. The new pay
shaft is about 300 feet straight down
stream from the shaft from which they
hoisted last fall. The hole will be pre
pared as a working shaft, the boiler
house and boiler moved,and the ground
blocked out in readiness for spring, ac
cording to David Ward, now In town
enrouto to the outside for a winter's
vacation.
Midnight creek lu the latest addition
to the pay creeks of the district. Ac
cording to late arrivals from Long, B.
J. Bower struck good pay on Midnight
while doing assessment work. This
creek has been looked upon with favor
by many prospectors for several years,
but it was left for "Billy" Bower to un
cover good pay
WE CAN DO IT.
For first ci**» work and prompt do
I tvary phona Main 1S1 and ths People's
Steam Laundry will send and gat your
laundry.
W. J. WILLIAMSON, Prop.
fexogC tels
will relieve your indigestion. Many
people in this town have used them
and we have yet to hear of a case where
they have failed. We know the for
mula. Sold only by us—2oo a box.
Lomsn Bros. Mjarmaoy
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\ THE MAIL IS IN j
I We have received advloes of <1
advances on all classes of Hard* <I
ware outside. Tou can still take ‘
advantage here, however, of the '!
great reduction we have already '»
announced that will continue till 11
the time for stock taking. < [
DAftLINO A DKAN CO. < !
Old Lewie Hunter Rye and the Fa
mous Atherton Bourbon whiskye, Ola
tilled spring 1004-1905, bought In bond
and reduoed t* 90 per oent. by U. B.
government by the bottle or garften.
W. J. ROWE I
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JTMORIZED CAPITAL *126,000
PAID UP CAPITAL 5fc,CC0
A Qsnaral Banking Businas* Tran
Miners & Merchants
Bank of Alaska
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Capital - - $100,000
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r Is now at the usual winter rate 4*
16 buckets for $1.00 or 50c per. barrel by J
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NORTH POLE BAKERY
ANVIL BAKERY
BEGINNING MONDAY, JUNE 7TH, THE PRICE OF BREAP
WILL BE 10 CENTS PER ,OAF OR THREE LOAVES FOR BO
CENTS. THE SIZE OF LOAVES HAVE BEEN INCREASSO
WHICH IN8URES MORE AND BETTER BREAD FOR OUR
PATRONS.
CHAS. CAVEY, Prop.
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