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Kntered as eecond-claaa matter Feb.
2d. 1907, at the Postofflce at Nome,
Alaska, under the Act of Congress of
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NOME, ALASKA, JULY 2, 1915.
While the resignation of Secretary
Bryan may have been a great deal of
a surprise to the public at large It was
apparently by no means unexpected at
the national cupito), for we read the
following pertinent question In the May
number of a Washington journal which
devotes considerable space to political
and social gossip: "Why does Bryan
still lemain in the cabinet.” “This
question has been asked here hundreds
of times during the past few days for
the country never before saw a grave
international question, such as the
Lusitania incident was. pass through
its Important stages without so much
as a consultation between the president
and his secretary of state.” Accord
ing to the comment attached it was,
even at that time, considered by the
friends of secretary that he was being
treated in a very shabby manner by
the executive, who might, they said, at
least have done Bryan the courtesy to
make a show of consulting him an mat
ters of such extreme importance as
were confronting the nation at that
time. It is further Intimated that Wil
son not only gave Bryan the cold
shoulder but also made no secret of th®
fact that he had done so. treatment, it
Is suggested which would have made
a more sensitive man resign from the
cabinet instanter. All of which leads
to the belief that long continued fric
tion between the executive and his
chief officer was the real reason of the
latter's resignation that so startled the
country a short while back. Which
again discloses just how badly the po
litical wise acres can fool themselves
once in a while, for it will be remem
bered that at the time of the Baltimore
convention it was freely predicted that
in t he political card shuffling, which led
to the throwing of the strength of the
Bryan support to Wilson, the real ob
ject was to place a political figure head
in the office of president while Bryan
himself would be the real president of
these United States. If the political
masters of the nation figured at that
time that they had picked a complais
ant too] in the political tyro Wilson,
time has disclosed that they made a
very wrong guess as subsequent events
have shown that rightly or otherwise.
Wilson Is not inclined to be a puppet
or subsorsive to handling in any form.
The resolutions adopted by the
western governors in conference in
May, referring to the lack of war ves
sels on this coast, will no douht serve
to procure the attention of the navy
department. Civic organizations, con
gressional representatives and private
citizens have voiced like protests in re
cent months without result, but the
united request of the western execu
tives can hardlv he ignored.
While the great population and the
centrailzat Ion of business interests on
the Atlantic coast, as well as the larg
er commerce, have called for a greater
degree of protection than the Pacific,
we have been far from receiving our
proper proportion of protection even
on that basis. Bremerton and other
western navy yards are amply equipped
»or attending to the necessities of a
much larger war fleet than we have
ever had here. Recently, at New York>
’"•resident Wilson reviewed a fleet of
fxfv-flve war vessels attached to ser
vice in the Atlantic, and this number
by no means included all of the ves
sels so stntioned. The Pacific coast
fleet could l'e almost counted on the
fingers.
Whether or not this country is
threatened by war, the political pres
sure for retaining the navy in Atlantic
waters has always been very great.
The business of supplying and repair
ing the ships of the navy involves an
annual expenditure running into many
millions of dollars, and the east finds
this a very lucrative trade, hard to
share.with the west coast, apart from
any consideration of protection.
In recent months a large portion of
the commerce of the Atlantic has been
shifted to the Pacific, and on the score
of protection to commerce we should
receive greater recognition. Also west
ern population and wealth have in
creased in late years at an enormous
rate. The governors emphasize all this
In their resolutions, and Just regard for
western rights should move the navy
department to favorable action.—Post
Intelllgeneer.
ALASKA’
NOTES
(From our Exchanges.)
News has been received at Ketchikan
that the shipment of goods sent from
there last winter for the relief of the
Belgians, has arrived safely at Rotter
dam, Holland.
C. H. Buschmann, manager of the
Northwestern Fisheries Co., suicided
recently at Seattle. Deceased was 36
years of age, and had been in ill health
for some time.
The Granite mine in the Valdez dis
trict will soon he a producer. A big
tunnel that taps the ore body at a depth
of 600 feet, will soon be completed and
then the new mill will start crushing
ore.
Thos. McGill, a sourdough of Alaska
of the vintage of forty years ago, died
recently at the Old Soldiers Home tit
Orting, Wahs. lie was an honorary
member of Valdez Igloo, of Alaska,
and resided at Valdez up until a year
ago.
Assays recently made of a quantity
of gold dust from the Tolovana coun
try reveal the fact that It has an assay
value higher than that of the gold from
most of the creeks adjacent to Fair
banks. The absolutely clean dust is
isald to go about $ 1 S.75 to nn ounce
It is claimed that the owners of tlie
Gold King mine in the Valdez district
have finally got into the money an
their quartz mine. Although the mine
contained rich rock, the formation was
broken up. Recently the big ledge was
struck and everyone concerned is sat
isfied that the mine will now be a win
ner.
Effective at once, the Copper River &
Northwestern railway will run three
trains a week each way, between Ohlti
na and Kennecott, instead of main
taining the usual summer schedule of
one train a week, says a Cordova paper.
At the present price of copper the
*monthly ore shipments from Kennecott
will have a value of over a million and
a half dollars.
The case of Mrs. Dortero vs. The
Home Power Co., in which the trial
Jury a year ago rendered a verdict in
favor of the former for $7,000. was to
day settled out of court by compro
mise, the defendant paying the plain
tiff $3,500 and also agreeing to pay the
costs of the suit, amounting to $500.
The accident, of which the damage suit
was the outcome, occurred November
20, 1912, and was caused by the charg
ing with electricity of the socket of
an electric light globe, from contact
with which Mrs. Dortero received
painful and disfiguring burns.—Skag
way Alaskan.
R. D. Henonen was fined $5 and costs
last week by the commissioner at Ju
neau for killing deer out of season. He
was arrested at Kelp Bay, near Peril
straits, by Game Warden Snelder. Hen
onen’s excuse was that he thought any
one away from town had a right to
kill deer for meat.
A reunion of the "development of
Alaska" touring party of 1913, con
ducted under the auspices of the Seat
tle Chamber of Commerce, will he held
in Seattle on Saturday, July 10. In
connection with the reunion it is pro
posed to form a "Midnight Sun Club"
to perpetuate the memory of a week
spent on the lower Yukon.
According to Thomas Riggs, jr.. of
the Alaska engineering commission, It
will take three years to complete the
government railroad in Alaska after
the present year Mr. Riggs has put
two crews at work surveying from
Fairbanks to the Nenana, He says
several routes will have to be examined
more in detail before it can be deter
mined which one will be utilized.
F. T. Keelar, known all over Alaska
as the "Money king" returned to ftkag
wa.v on the Humboldt Saturday. *Te
will visit again his old haunts after an
absence of 12 years. "Money king" al
most had a corner on the money mar
ket during the early days and amassed
a comfortable fortune. His home now
is in Santa Monica. Cal. He was a
member of the vigilance committee that
ended the career of “Soapy" Smith
and his gang during the Klondike
rush.
Among the shipments aboard the
steamship Mariposa on her hist trip
was a steam sawmill outfit, which will
be used in the construction of the first
plant of its kind at Ship Creek. Alaska
The shipment is being made by W. II
Malvern, a western Pennsylvania lum
berman, who will be manager of the
plant. The mill will have a capacity
of 20,000 feet a day, and will be equip
ped with the necessary machinery for
the manufacture of flooring, siding ami
other finished lumber. The project is
being financed by a number of Seattle
business men.
ALASKAN HAULS
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ALLIED NATIONS
The following, clipped from the Se
attle Times, gives some interesting in
formation concerning one of the well
known old timers of this section
Minus a couple of toes and a few
fingers which he lost in a desperate,
five-day battle with a blizzard on the
Noxapaga divide. Alaska, several t ears
ago, Billy Vint, world-wanderer and
adventurer, who is known in every
mining camp from Cape Horn to Point
Borrow and who has a faculty of bob
bing up at tho place where the excite
ment Is greatest, has been reported
from Lillie, France, where he has be
come a lieutenant in Ihc army of the
allies in charge of transportation ser
vice. Vint is with a regiment of Scots
in which Lord Fox Ramsay, also for
merly of Nome, is an othe r. Most of
the regiment rerontlv was wiped out
In an encounter with German forces,
but Vint and Ramsay were among the
survivors.
According to a letter received by .Toe
Vint a few days ago from Nome after '
making a journey of a couple of thou- ,
sand miles over the Ice by dog team. 1
ills brother. Billy, was in Bolivia,
South America, when war was declar
ed. He hustled to London.
Missing Toes No Bar.
Because of Vint’s practical knowl
edge In tile use of dynamite and other
explosives the recruiting officer
thought he could overlook the fact that
Vint was physically imperfect What
did a few fingers and a couple of toes
'mount to when the allies were sorely
in need of men who knew exactly how
to handle dynamite? So tho recruiting
officer enlisted Vint and ho was Sent to
(he front and placed in command of
i squad of automobile trucks used for
hauling ammunition. Vint was bring- «
ing up ammunition at tho time most !
of the members of his regiment wore ;
killed by the Germans. ■
Billy Vint was one of the greatest !
stampeders in the north. He left \
Alaska several years ago and went to '
Nevada. For the past three nr four !
years he prospected around in the land \
of the Tnoas in South America.
Maimed by Blizzard.
He was one of tin- first men to cross
Seward peninsula from Nome to the
retie slope, at the time Candle creek
was discovered. In the winter of jdoi '
he was returning with George Parpen- '
ter, a newspaper man. and Robert i
Hunter when the party wag overtaken
by a blizzard. For five days they bot
tled with the storm. Carpenter died
as a resutl of the injuries received and
Vint and Hunter were maimed for life.
Rex Bench the author of VJaska stor
ies. was crossing front Handle i reek,
at the time and fought out tlie tail end
of the same storm without injury.
Renter was carrying the mail,
and several years later the sled which
he abandoned was found by Sam
Magids, now a Candle creek merchant,
in the sled were a number of letters,
all in a good state of preservation and
a dollar watch which, after lying nut
In the snow and rain for six years, was
wound up. started to tick and kept good
time for several years. Magids keeps
the watch as a souvenir.
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accustomed to the Eskimo dress and
had adopted it, but many of them
thought it ridiculous for grownup men
to go about wearing fringe to their
clothes, so they cut it off. I had my
scruples about this, says the author,
as I had already learned that most
things in the Eskimo's clothing and
other arrangements had their distinct
meaning and purpose, so I kept my
fringe and put up with tlie ridicule. He
laughs best who laught last. One fine
day tlie anovaks, a sort of tunic reach
ing below I lie neck, made of deerskin,
from which the fringes had been cut
off, commenced to curl up, and If the
fringe had not been put on again
quickly they would soon have looked
like neckties.
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