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NOME, ALASKA MAY ,5 1917.
ALASKANS MOST NOMADIC OF
TRIBES.
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Just a few weeks ago when the
prohibition bill was up in the lower
house of congress, an Alaskan named
McKenzie told the hours committee
that the people of this territory can
boast of a higher average of intelli
gence than the people of the states
and to prove his argument he told
of the traveling of Alaskans and
compared them in this respect with
people in Virginia who had never seen
Washington, D. C.
MccKenzie is right. If wandering
about can make a man intelligent
there are several thousands of Al
askans who ought to be able to give j
Solomon a hard fight for the heavy- j
weight championship of the world. If
you can ever find a man who has
been a resident of this territory for
any number of years and wjio has
not traveled some thousands of miles
for every year's residence you will
have discovered a man who* must be
suffering from locomotor ataxia.
The towns of the territory are pop
ulated entirely by people who have
been in other towns. If you takb any
one town and analyze its residents
you will find a most interesting mix
up.
While we hear a lot of the great
"foreign” population of Anchorage
you will find that ninety per cent of
the property holders are men from
other Alaskan towns, and from all
Alaskan towns. Seward, Valdez, Cor
dova and the other coast cities are
very strongly represented but you will
also find there Koyukulcers, Kobukors,
lditaroders. Rampart era anld all the
rest of them easily holding their own,
any everyone of them has traveled
about as many thousands of miles as
there are years to his age.
This knocking around certain does
add to a man’s lntellgence as a rule
even If the addition It brings to his
bank account is written In letters of
red. What Is a thousand miles in a
country where many have tied a few
logs together and floated that distance
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Dr. A. F. Heimlich
OVER HILL’S DRUG STORE.
Hours 2 to 5 and 7 to 8 p. m.
Phone Main 7
with the tide? And what a number
have, after all, floated with th® tide
since those dear old days when the
first human tide swetp into the Alas
ka wilderenss like a fabled host of
Argonauts of old. Sometimes, Indeed,
the population looks Tike the flotsam
and jetsam on the ebb and flow from
camp to camp as the rumors of strikes
take the place of the moon, make
those tides eternal and solve the
problem of perpetual motion.—Juneau
Dispatch.
ASKS HONOR FOR ALASKA,
The appropriateness of naming one.
of the new battleships Alaska, after
the country's last great frontier, Is to
be used upon the navy department by
the Alaska bureau of the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce. This action
was decided upon at a meeting of the
members of the bureau, held recently
in the Arctic Club. A resolution de
claring that Alaska is a land of rich
j end unlimited resources and that its
great coal fields contain the only coal
on the Pacific coast suitable for naval
purposes, was adopted by the mem
bers of the bureau and ordered sen4
to Secretary of the Navy DuileSs. -
Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
A CRAZY CREW.
Any doubts Germans living in .Am
erica may have had concerning the
sad plight of their fatherland under
the HohenzolFrns, von Tirpitz, H«dl
weg and the despicable Zimmerman, j
that did not fade with the publish
^ ing of the latters' German-Mexican -
Japanese plot, must be entirely eras
ed by knowledge that these hellions
contemplated a war by which half a
republic peopled by white men. many j
of them Germany’s own best blood
was to have been turned over to
hrown skinned brigands and orientals.
It is bad enough that in their ex
tremity the allies have called upon
the dark peoples of the earth for
troops and that the Teutons have
formed an alliance with the Turks, j
but the invasion of Belgium, the on -
gulfing of Serbia and Houmania were
as nothing compared to the proposed
fate of the United States.
So far ns known this is the first
instance in which the partition of nny
of the first-class nations has been
considered as an outcome of the pres
ent conflict.
But America, the land of the free,
the land to which hundreds, yes thou
sands of the very subjects of the
kaiser are yearning to go, this land
was to have been whittled up Into
Japanese and Mexican provinces.
Possibly further information will
show that Florida was to be present- j
ed to the Turks and the rest of the
country to become ‘‘Xew Prurfia" ns I
set forth In a fanciful cartoon printed
In Life just a year ago In February.
Hah. the beastly war-mad crew nre
crazy with the smell of blood, blood
of their victims, not of their enemies,
for all the dead that have died on both
sides in this horrible war are victims
of their lust for power.
They have brought disaster and
despair upon the nations, but they
shall pass and a blot upon the book
of life and brighter fires in hell will
he the only sign by which future gen
erations may knew that they have
lived.—Ex.
ABOLISHING POVERTY.
At least one country In the United
States has found the end of the lane
on its public charity expeditures.
Mainly in this country, no matter
what stage of prosperity the nation
enjoys, we have news of constantly
increasing expenditures of public
money for the relief of the poor, and
in many counties poor farms nre
maintained as permanent shelters for
the poor, the aged and the decrepit.
To what extent this aid should finally
go has not been apparent.
Montgomery county, Missouri, re
cently took account of stock and
found that It had but three aged or
demented persons who are incapable
of earning a living. Having no poor,
or class of citizens without means
of livelihood, among a population of ]
13,000 people, it had no need of a
poor farm and sold the farm at pub
lic auction. The proceeds $8,300, are
to be expended in building county 1
roads. I
Montgomery county ascribes ils I
ideal condition to the fact that it has
not now, nor has had for many
years, a saloon or blind pig within
its borders. Its citizens have lived
so long in arid conditions that they
have been weaned from intoxicating
liquor and from1 any desire for it. A
blind pig could not thrive in Mont
gomery county because there is n}
demand for its stock in trade.
Kansas, as one of the oldest pro
hibition states, possesses some inter- ,
est for states Just enterng into a j
season of bone-dryness. Of the 10G
counties in the state, eight-five
linve no paupers, nor Is money In any
substantial sum expended for poor
relief.
It would he inaccurate to say that
intoxicating iquor Is responsible for
all poverty. There are many human
beings who would be poor whatever
the circumstances of life around them.
Hut, indeniably, the abolition of
liquor has made for better conditions
of human life and Increased the
earning and saving capacity of the,
average citizen.
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COMPARATIVE
TEMPERATURES
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Following are the lowest recorder
temperatures for this year and last
on the days leaignated. The minus
sign before a number moans below
xero.
U. S Weather Bureau.
1916 1917
Mny 1 .. 23 22 '
May 2 .:.. 28 30
May 3 . 23 22
May 4 . 16 6
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