SOLDIER GIVES IMPRESSIONS
OF HIS TRIP TO ALASKA
Jn a recent mail from Fort Gibbon,
a letter was received front a soldier
who arrived there last summer, hav
ing made thp trip hy way of St. Mich
ael. His description of the nip will lie
especially interesting to those who
lutve ever traveled on the lower river.
The letter in part is as follows;
“Ahem the trip from Seuttle to Fort
Gibuoii, let us say that the first log, i. e.,
Seattle to St. Michael, was a long, ted
ious exemplification of how NOT to
run a steamboat. The Victoria, on
Which we took passage, was named
after the late lamented Gueen of Kng
tuud, having been built in the same
years in which she was born; also hav
ing been a dead one about the same
length of time. For her navigators 1
can suy they are wonders. They could
spy a trough of the sea twenty miles
away, and so manipulate tlie ship that
by the time It would strike us we would
be broadside, thus necessitating a
header to port or starboaid, according
to which side one happened to lie on
when she struck. Several passenger*
made spiral glides across her, to tin
amusement of those of us who happen
ltd to he anchored firmly to something
substantial, but to the disuUvautugc oi
tho performers. The wonder of it al
was that more were not injured. Finally
after ten days we steamed slowly into
Nome harbor. Did we unload.' We did
not. We pul m the rest of that day
and t tie night following in cruising
around tiering Sea for tear we might
drug uur anchors up the side of *Ut
McKinley. The next day was the saitu
also the next night. Hut after a vv hilt
our Irish captain decided to go ushon
himself. So they pul oil' the passengers
and other impedimenta and we sailed
after years and years of waiting, for .SI
Michael. From a distance of ten miles
al Sea, St. Michael is a beautiful little
haven. The buildings are painted while
and it seems that from every gable u
flag is flying. 1 said from ten miles al
sea. After one lias disembarked at the
long tailor-made dock, and wound ids
devious way up through the homespun
buildings to tlie crest of I lie hilt, one is
prone to change his mind. The sainted
Mike must have been a whale of a pre
varicator, for about all there is ai lit.
Michael is wind—wind and dogs. There
were times during our fiv.e days' stay
at Mike's when we couldn't hear the
wind on account of the dogs, also times
when we couldn’t hear the dogs on ac
count of the wind; hut never when one
or both was not with us. At St. Michael
1 discovered my first peculiarity of the
native dog. I discovered that the finer
house you build for them the more time
t’ fty spend on the roof, howling, since
I have been here, where T have been
thrown moro or less with the dogs, as
it were, 1 have found many tricks of
which .lack London is entirely ignorant.
I have seen several dogs hitched up
and started out on short jaunts about
the town, either for exercise «»r the
more utilitarian purposes ».f drawing
water or wood, and I have heroine
rtrmlv convinced that, after many years
of patient endeavor, the dog-musher
of Alaska has arrived at u point where
one word from him will make the na
tive dog do just as he d d pleases; tin
dog I mean. In passing, 1 will say that
these dogs are the first and only ani
mals that 1 have ever seen which can
climb an iron telegraph pole successful
ly. So, after l have been married am
have children, and my children have
children, 1 can take them on my knee
and tell them that in Alaska 1 have
seen dogs that have the simian monkey'
out-monkeyed. Then, as a mode of
transportation! Of course, we all know
there is no other mode in this country
after winter sets in, unless you walk;
and I have studied this part of the dog
problem exhaustively and have become
firmly convinced that 1 prefer to take
my trips entirely dogh-ss. if 1 start on
a trip without dogs. I must walk; if
with dogs. I must run, with occasional
stops to disentangle them front the un
derbrush; also yti occasional side trip
of ten or fifteen miles through the
brush after a rabbit that the leader has
spied.
bluin dogs Wc will pass Iu Lin auut
dough. • L that 1 am taking up these
U i Udell l subjecls according tu lalik,
but rather accoiding lu numbuis. i h<
sourdough, especially lie that is purli
cuiar indigenous lu Gibbon, 1 luui to
be a snetit aliU reserved specimen, lie
Will seldom speak unless y > * u happen to
litre! him in Lite immediate vicinity ol
a saloon. 11c will then remark ol tite
lateness ol the winter, freely give you
ms opinion of the Kaiser. Villa, < ar
rail/.a, cl al, but ud ihe mam Inaten
path he is a calm, in m.» t min i days
m Alaska i investigated and invested
in the sourdough lu the extent ol about
ten dollars before 1 discovered that
thole was not eiiougii static to run
his conversational works when loo far
from a brass rail.
“You who have never made the trip
up the mighty Yukon mi the .Jeff Mavis
know' nothing *.f what true sport is.
The wilds of African jungles can not
commence to furnish a spurt s<» thril
ling as night stalking on tin Yukon.
Why . wo neaked tp n w .i l nn I fero
cious wood piles larger than any ele
phant extant. \ certain tin-ill that is
hard to explain comes over one is the
Davis glides around a bind at about
two in the morning and quietly creeps
up on the slumbering pile of four foot
wood. These wood piles, however,
serve to dispel the illusion that Vhisku
is noted for gold, it is not gold at all
Unit keeps this country open. It's
wood. There is more wood in Alaska
than in tile rest of the world combined,
nr there was before the Davis arrived
at Gibbon on September 21st last Sh>*
depleted (he supph t'vatt Use hou
sand cords that I van positively assert
to, for I lugged that amount aboard
mv self Aside from straggling wood
idles, we had nothing to do on the trip
save sleep and eat. and I cannot speak
too highly of the cuisine of the Davts."
Exchange.
WEATHER REPORT
Nome. Alaska. March IT. 1915.
Temperature—Max. 13 above, Min 9
below.
Barometer—28 44 Inches
Weather—Clear.
Wind—North. 11> miles per hour
1 ’i ei ipitation- None
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BOOKS.
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hereby notified that the Poll Books for
the registration of voters for the Muni
cipal Election to be held April 6th, 1916.
will close Saturday, March 27th, 1915.
PHILIP CORRIGAN,
City Clerk.
bated. March 17, 1915.
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