WHAT THEY THINK OF US
OUSTING OLD JOHN BARLEYCORN
A bunch of the boys were hooping it
up in the Malumuie saloon:
The Kill that handles the music box
I
was playing a jagtime tune:
Hack of the bar in a solo game, sal
dangerous Dan McGrew;
And watching his luck was his light
o’ love, the lady that’s known
as l,ou.
-From "The Shooting of Dan .Mc
Grew,” by Robert W. Service.
Alaska voted dry! Alaska, the place
where, according to popular belief,
ably seconded by the "movies,” all men
had hair on their chests and gulped
their "hootch" neat paying for it
with a tisful of gold dust Alaska,
where, business consisted of finding
new Klondikes and pleasure meant
squandering their wealth in a night:
of all places Alaska turned against*
Demon Rum, sicking the malemutes
onto John Httrleycorn and chasing him
off the lot! Shades of Soapy Smith
and Nwlftwater Hill! exclaims a writer
in the Kansas City Star.
Why don't you remember this? If
you don't you have road something
like it:
"It was a quiet night in the Tivoli.
At the bar, which ranged along one
side of the large chinked log room,
leaned half a dozen men, two of whom
were discussing the relative merits of
spruce tea and lime juice as remedies
for scurvy.
'Come up, you all, and drink. Come
up, you unburied dead, an’ name your
poison. Come up, everybody. This Is
my night and I’m going to ride it.
To-morrow I'm 30 and then I'll be an
old man. Surge along, you all, surge
| along and name it. This is my night,
I and it ain't a night that comes fro
quent. Surge up, you Siwashes and
salmon eaters. I'm the mangy old he
wolf. Listen to me howi."
Fortunes have been made selling
that line of talk to magazine editors.
All of us who love action stories—and
most all of us do—have believed for
years that such as that was Alaska.
And after we have been carefully
educated to believe in that, Alaska
pins on a white ribbon, takes the
pledge and restocks all the Tivoli and
Nuggest and Klondike bars with grape
juice and chocolate ice cream sodas!
We know this will be a shock to
many believers in the wild w?*t It
must have been a shock to them when
tic famous Rarbary Coast of San
Francisco reformed and when Seattle
converted the joints on Washington
and King streets, whore Skooku' Jim
and Swiftwater Bill and many another
newtnade milionare gloried and drank
deep,into pool parlors and soft drink
saloons.
lint some thoughtful observers who
have jiaid a little attention to Alaska
saw the change coming years ago. ;
Kven tiefore they held a worlds fair
at Seattle, in 1909 to celebrate the dis I
covery of gold on the Klondike ten ,
years tiefore, the frontier days of
Alaska were coming to an end.
Hut still we couldn't quito believe
the old days—the red days, the roar
ing days- were gone until we saw that
white ribbon pinned to his lapel.
And just a few days ago we be
lieved with the poet:
There’s never a law of (lod or man
Huns north of 53.
Funny, isn't it.
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WASHINGTON, "The Grayfish.
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cently Issued by the bureau of fish
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commerce. The pamphlet describes
the methods of catching and cook
ing the grayfish, which went by the
name of "dogfish” until, after a great
deal of wrangling the board permitted
the fisheries bureau to change the
name.
The fisherie s claimed "doglish" was
a misnomer, inasmuch as several in
ferior varieties exist under the same
name. The graytish is a pirate and
a marauder, it not only slays and
eats, other food fishes, but cuts lo
pieces with its teeth tile fisherman's
gear, leaving him helpless and exas
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(treat schools of graytish annually
descend upon the Atlantic coast from
Maine to Florida, causing heavy finan
cial loss to the fisheries industry. Since
it was not jiossible to rid American
waters of tills water-breathing verte
brate which by its voracious habits
gained the name “dogfish" the govern
ment determined to remove the evil
b> eating it. Cooking tests were
made and it was found the fish with
tiie uualluring name when properly
prepared was a toothsome delicacy.
A propaganda was started to educate
the public to buy and eat the nuis
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NOTES
From Our Exchanges
Coal from the llluff 1’oint mine is
selling in Seldovia at $4 per ton.
The entire population joined to
gether iii one big Christinas celebra
tion at Knik.
Selilovlan mimrods are reported to
have bagged a /lumber of sheep end
moose recently.
Sam Dunibolton and partners,
working on No. IS, Coldstream, reach
ed bedrock on Christmas day and ran
into good pay.
Seward has been suffering from a
shortage of coal, which was relieved
a few days ago on the arrival of the
steamer Juneau.
l'ritz. Willard, a resident of Haines,
was taken into custody at that place
on the charge of breaking a measles
quarantine and was fined $25 and
costs.
A horse to pull the fire apparatus
to the scenes of conflagration, has
been added to the tire fighting equip
ment at Steward during the winter
months.
A. W. Clare a well known business
man of Juneau, was taken suddenly
and seriously ill in Seattle recently
and is confined to one of tho hospi
tals there.
The Kodiak Fisheries Company has
let a contract in Seattle for the con
struction of a cannery tender. The
new boat is to cost approximately
$20,000
The Juneau Empire states that the
merchants of that city are facing a
a year of better business conditions
than have ever been known in that
place.
Han Brice, an operator on Bear
creek, in the Koskokwim, arrived in
Anchorage with a team of nine husky
dogs and $30,000 in gold dust taken
off his property during the past sea
son.
C. It. Clark, a roadhouse keeper and
rancher at Yukon Crossing, Is on his
way to the outside for tho first time
in twenty years. He formerly ran a
roadhouse on the Valdez-I'airbanks *
trail.
M
The salt water lire mains at Ju- ~
neau will deliver water to the hy- t
drants under 110 lbs. pressure. The J
reservoir on the hill, which Will con- J
tain 150,000 gallons is practically <
lilted. {
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■i
K. K. li ving, who was shot by Wul- ^
ter Stoker recently on the government
railroad, and who has been confined E
to the Seward Hospital, has so far §j
recovered as to be able to walk K
around. n>
It is reported that the winter mail ^
service to the Shushanna tias (men •
discontinued, there being but thirty
people in that district The people of
the camp an- making a strong protest
aginst this action of the postal oil- ^
tliorities. J
Tin- largest wedding ever held a* ,
I (rooks look place recently when Mrs. j
Homs Mathcson became the bride of «
Vincent II. l'ierce, a well-known ,
Livingston operator. Several hundred j
people attended the ceremony. ij
Bruno t'hilinski, a 15-yeni old but. <
who is said to have run away from ,
his home in Seattle, is charming 'lie '
residents of Juneau with his master- <
ly playing upon the violin. He was ,
i taken off the steamer Dolphin by tlie ^
Juneau polico on a telegraphic re- -3
quest of his parents. ,
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Three special detective from Se
attle, connected with the federal in
vestigation of the illegal liquor traf
I lie in that city, arrived in Juneau re
cently to prohe certain conditions
there relating to bootlegging in Sc.
at tie.
McGrath and Betsch,working the
Elmer Edwards ground at Marshall,
arc employing about thirty men and
are said to have taken out about $00
000. The ground runs about 14.50 per
foot.
Gold bullion valued at$53G,000 ar- *
lived in Seward recently from the
Iditarod, having came overland via 1
Wells-Eargo express. At a cose of
$100 a special train was made up at
Seward and sent out to meet the ship
ment.
New laiu egg* at Proaser'a Harness
Shop, $1JX) per dozen. Phone Black 5.
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