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Entered a* seeond-claaa matter Feb.
26, 1*07, at the pcrtotfice at Nome,
Alaska, under tho Aet of Congress of
March ’ 1878.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1916
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1 he remarks oi the postmaster
general relative to tiie mail bids
to ne opened on the 12th inst.
suggest mat we are practically
assured of the much discussed
and loudly anticipated,aerial mail
service. Douotless evervtmng
Iooks very favoiable just now
and we, as well as Mr Burleson,
may allow our hopes to expand
witn the thougnt that the
Meet winged messengers of the
si<ies will soon be dropping our
billet doux from the gieat out
side at short and regular inter
vals, regardless of steamboats,
dog teams and other ancient sys
tems of conveyance. Prospects
are very good and we are very
likely to be listening for the sput
ter of the incoming mail carrier
before many weeks have winged
thir way into the past. But, all
the same we should be a bit care
ful about hitching our hope wa
gon to a star yet awhile for fear
tnat some unforeseen obstacle
may develop to upset all our cal
cinations, and leave us just
where we have been since fortune,
or whatever it was, lured us to
these goiuen but exceedingly iso
lated snores.
Ihe air lanes of the north are
practically unexplored and no
one really knows whether the
contemplated service will realize
the iiopes of its promulgators or
not. As Mr. Burleson intimates
in the midst of his optimism the
establishment of an aerial mail
route in Alaska is largely in the
nature of an experiment and one
that will attract the attention of
the world becauesi Y)f the vast
magnitude of the plan under
which it will operate.
Air routes are still a novelty
even in more favored climes than
Alaska. Such as have been es
tablished have worked but all are
/•till in the experimental stage.
Further they are short and con
ducted in situations most favora
ble to success hence they cannot
be looked upon as offering abso
lute assurance with respect to Al
'aska where condition^ are just
about as different as can be im
agined. Here the distances to be
covered are such as to make the
even longest of few experiment
al aeroplane mail routes so far
established infinitely small by
comparison. In addition there
are weather conditions of the
most rigorous severity to add fur
ther uncertainties to other haz
ardous conditions It is a fair
surmise that aeroplanes will be
able to operate during the sum
mer but as to the winter no one
can guess the prospects.
IT SERVED THEM RIGHT
Ketchikan Progressive.
Every fall, the most prosperous
Alaskans follow the birds and go
south. There they enpoy luxuries
while we “old stiffs” who are not
favored with this world’s goods
have to remain at home and stand
for consequences of our faulty
judgment or misfortune. Be that
as ft may, we know th^t we can
not anord to spend the money
\v hli others it is different. '1 ney
make it easy and consequently
tney spend it in ease. And, in a
way, you cannot blame them
much either. This good fortune,
however, seems to have played a
trick on them thi9 winter, as
every one returning has a tale
oi hardship to teilpwhich is either
that they have gone through ter
rific storms, floods or something
l o all of which we say, it served
them right. The hardship they
report as having endured on this
winter’s visit south, however, is
merely a drop in the bucket com
pared with what they will have
to endure in the hereafter. And.
it will serve them right.
WHAT’S THE REASON.
To show that Alaska is a won
derful country, now comes a
Portland, Ore., paper and in com
menting on the country says: Of
course, all this wonderful devel
opment this vastly increased
trade in our northern territory
means nothing to Portland. We
have no ships, no cotnmerce, no
food, no clothing that Alaska
wants,” etc. This commentator,
however, is mistaken. Portland
has all that Alaska wants. The
trouble is that the Portlanders
have not got the get up and get
it that Seattle has- The Port
landers are asleep—or have been
—just like some of us here.—lix
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ALASKA NOTES
I'h fisheries of Alaska are said
to be worth $400,000,000.
A commission as notary public
lias been issued L- S. Wickersham
of Gulkana, Alaska.
Among the educational items
it might be said that in Ketchikan
there is a shooting schOof.
The editor of the Ketchikan
paper complains bitterly because
-iteamships coming to that port
at night blow their whistle and
wake everybody up.
The Alaska engineering com
mission has let another contract
{for 500 telephone poles. The
timbers will be cut on the home
steads adjoining the right of
way."
The Juneau press has become
unduly alarmed over the report
of a strange air craft that chased
the steamer Georgia for twenty
miles along the back side of
Douglas island but did not catch
her.
Chickenpox has made its ap
pearance among the children of
Ketchikan and several of them
have been prohibited from at
tending the public school until
they receive a clean bill of health
from the city authorities.
Four men were arrested in Ju
neau for gambling recently and
after court when their cases were
called they disappeard.
In the list of properties adver
tised in the Ketchikan Progres
sive Miner for delinquent taxes
are a number of mining claims
some of them owing for three or
four years
The Fairbanks city council has
added an adding machine to the
assets of the municipality The
city is out of debt with money to
spare: for the purchase of new
equipment.
Working below the mouth of
Myrtle creek, Vance Harris put a
hole down 250 feet and then did
not reach bedrock. As it took
him seven minutes to windlass
his bucket to the surface, Mr.
Harris decided to quit the hole,
_^^«h^^gi^ss^w^^too^low
He expects to make arrange
ments to have a drill complete
the work of putting the hole
down to bedrock. — Fairbanks
Times.
Judge Bunnell accepted the
resignation of United States
Commissioner J. P. Norris at
Ester city. He was drown on
the grand jury and resigned from
tlie commissionership in order to
serve as the foreman of that body.
The Border Line Transporta
tion company, operating in south
eastern Alaska has filed articles
of incorporation with Territorial
Secretary Charles Davidson. The
company is a Washington cor
poration and has a capitalization
of $200,000.
It is reported in Anchorage that
D;ck Dawson has purchased the
Barnes quartz property on Crow
creek and that he will bring in a
prospecting mill and install it this
summer. He already owns large
interest in the creek
^ Eli; Burklich, a longshoreman
at Cordova, was severly injured
by a sack of copper glance ore
from the Kenecott mine falling
on him while loading ore on a
steamer. The injured man is in
the hospital and it is believetTThat
he will fully recover.
C- H. Hull, who had beenl ad
judged insane and was a patient
at the detention hospital at Fair
banks, died last week- He had
ben ill for a long time and was
adjudged insane in order that the
care which was due him could
be extended by the authorities.
The Whitehorse Star reports
that never since a stage line was
established in Yukon have the
trails been in as bad condition
as at present. The drivers report
that ithe ,snow is between four
and six feet deep and that break
ing road is very hard on drivers
and horses- The snowfall this
year is about three times as deep
as that of ordinary winters.
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! great reduction wa have already ' >1
announced that wlU continue till ' |
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CRNTO. THR SIZE OF LOAVEO HAVR SEEN INCREASED
WHICH INOURRO MORR AND DRTTRR DREAD FOR OUR
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