WHEN ALASKA CHANGED HANDS
FROM RUSSIAN TO AMERICAN
CONTROL AND HOW IT WAS DONE
COMPARATIVE
TEMPERATURES
Following ura the lowest regarded
iemi>eruturo8 for this your and last
on the days designated. The minus
sign before a number means below
zero.
U. S. Weather Bureau
1915. 1916
Dec. 1. —11 —20
Dec. 2. —12 —30
Dec. 3. —14 —32
Deo. 4. —II —12
Dec. 6. —16 —30
Dec. 6. —14 —28
Dec. 7. —14 —26
Dec. 8. —16 -21
Dec. 9. —18 —4
Dec. 10. —11 2
Dec. 11. —12 6
Dec. 12. —16 ?2
Dec. 13. — 5 26
Dec. 14. —2 12
Dec. 15 . —5 C
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Y . 1 WILLIAMSON. Prop
Calling cards printed at Nugget office
The resources, industries, flora and
fauna, the Eskimo and every Inter
esting feature of Seward peninsula
detailed In the 1915 edition of the
Nugget Mining and Dredging Maga
zine. A few copies left. Price, fifty
enls.
The 18th of October, 1867, was a
cold, wet fall day, as cheerless and
melancholly as cold, wet days can be
on the coast of Southeastern Alaska.
At last the dawn broke through the
bank of fog and drizzle that enveloped
the historic old Russian town of
Sitka where the power of the Czar,
with Its absolute authority, had held
away over tho Russian colonies of
America for so many years. The
town was already astir, and contrary
to the customary steady grind and
methodical ploddings in the daily
routine of its Russian settlers, there
was a suppressed excitement. That
Indescribable something that so often
Is the prelude to great human events
seemed to permeate the very atmo
sphere. At sunup, or the time when
the sun should have appeared but
didn’t, a bugle sounded, a cannon
boomed with startling abruptness
through the white shroud that en
veloped the old stockade and Russian
barracks, and the imperial eagle of
Russia floated out once more through
the mist and drizzle on a flagstaff
near the old Barunoff Castle.
The Russians looked upon their be
loved flag with a heavy heart that
morning, for never again would the
emblem of the Great White Czar he
raised over Baranoff Ca3tle and the
great land of Russian-America; ovor
the land It had proudly held sway
for 126 years, and over the seas that
lapped its golden beaches much long
er.
Twenty eight years after our ril
grlm Fathers landed on the bleak
New England coast, this Imperial
Eagle became the ruling emblem of
Behring sea when, In 1648, the ad
venturous Russians sailed sou’h
through Behring strait and Behring
sea to Kamchatka without sighting
either the Diomede Islands or the
coast of Alaska. This discovery was
left for Vitus Behring nearly a hun
dred years later, In 1741.
The bugla sounded at high noon,
and the Russian soldiers, In their
fittest uniforms, came from the bar
racks with stulid tread to the ensile
grounds near the old flagstaff, where
they were soon Joined by the "bovs
In blue,” looking spick and span In
their fine uniforms, as only our boys 1
can. A thrill of Joy for some, of sad
ness for others, passed through the
waiting crowd. Formalities wero ex
changed by Prince Mak3uof,represent
ing the Czar of all the Russias, and
General Rousseau, representing the I
United States of America. Salutes.
were fired and the Imperial Eagle of
Russia was slowly lowered from Its -
exalted position, and, with this, Rus
sian-America was laid to rest In the
haunted tomb of the dead past.
Hardly had the Russian flag reached
the arms out stretched to receive it
when there were other salutes, drums
beat, bugles sounded, musketry rat
tled. In the harbor tho revenue cut
ters took the cue, more drum^, more
In the home or in the camp, there
ie ne commodity to extensively used
os meat, thsrsfors it is upon that |
oemmodity that you should look to
for economical buying. Following ere
• few of our prioee:
Beef by tne eiae.$.19
Round st*ok. 26
8irloin steak. *0
Po» Roast. ,22
8tew.20
* Mutton by oaroass . 15
Mutton chops, snouldsr . 26
Mutton chops, loin and rib. 35
Mutton legs.to
Pork loin chops. 30
Fresh Reindeer from ths Lomen
herd, drea'ed in o skillful and sail' !
tary manner.
8weet Briar Butter 40o par pound
by ths ca»e.
PACIFIC COLO 8TORAGE CO.
r hens White 17.
NOTICE.
A few copies or thu 1915 edition
of tho Nugget Minging and Dredging
lfogaslne on sals at ths Nugget of
fice. Tho moat oomprehenslve work
on Seward peninsula published In re
float years Fifty oents per copy.
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ten. tho
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bugles, and amid the cheering of sol-1
diets and citizens, the Stars and |
Stripes mounted to the high position ,
which it now occupies on this North
land. And as the dry bunting was
unfurled on that old Russian flagstaff
and floated out in the heavy utmo- 1
sphere on that 18th day of October,
18G7, our Alaska was born on the
ruins of old Russian-Ameiica, and
thing- hegan to progress.
Within a very few minutes, new
stores were openid with American ,
g< ods and trading for furs became i
kern, where lcs3 than a half hour he- I
fore they were forbidden to offer their |
wares on foreign soil. New buildings
were started on vacant lots, real es- j
tate became the craze and before sun
down everything was staked in town
lots far beyond the Rus3ian limits of
the town. Alaska's first town boom ■
v.'ixs on. Within a few days un elec- i
tion was held to elect city officers.
There were about 100 Qualified voters
and about as many candidates. So
the first election showed signs of the
true Alaskan spirit. Within a week j
there were two tenpin alleys, one
restaurant and two saloons. The 1
“Alaska Bull" that still roves at will,
fat and saucy, over our Northland, 1
and whose omnipresence 13 the amaze
ment of all cheechacos, was turn !
;ioose. Many of the adventuresome
spirits of the “Days of '49” came from
California and the worse element fol
lowed closely on their heels.
The Ruas.an company was glvon
two years to settle its business and
everything was gathered at Sitka.
There wus a civilian payroll of ubout
$10,000 per month at Sitka during the
winter of '67-68, most of which went
“over the green cloth.” This, with
the soldiers and marines stationed
the re made the old town very lively.
The Russian settlers, from the high
est to the lowest, at first throw open
tl.rir doors to the strangers with true
Russian hospitality; but they soon
found their mistake. Pillage and as
sault were nightly occurrences, and
soon the doors were locked and re
mained so till bugle call in the morn
ing.
For nearly two years the town was
in the midst of this effervescent life,
but when the Russian Company left
and there was no more big payroll,
Sitka took its place again as a quiet
little settlement almost as suddenly
as it had sprung into life. The bloom
was over. But Alaska had received
the baptism of the American pioneer,
and wo of today are only living out
the logical sequence of what started
at Sitka just 49 years ago. <
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Pigs and
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