SWEDE HIGHLANDER
TICKLES SCOTTY ALLAN
J. J. Underwood in Seattle Times.
Alexander A. Allan, better
known as “Scotty,” the frost
scarred hero of many a hard
fought battle on the northern
trails, could see nothing unusual
about a trip to France, whither
he journeyed with 440 malamute
dogs which are now being used
by the French Alpine chasseurs,
until one day, Kenneth Marr,
another northern musher, who
went along to help with the dogs,
said:
“Say, Scotty, come with me, I
want to show you something.”
“Well, sir, you could ‘a knocked
me dead with a feather,’ ” said
Allan, describng the experience,
"right there in the front rank ot
a regiment of kilted Highlanders,
stood that great big Swede who
used to work for the telephone
company at Nome. Him a Scotch
man! Why he could scarcely
speak United States the last time
I saw him up north.”
Like almost every Alaskan Al
lan couldn’t remember the
Swede’s name. People in Alaska
have a habit of calling a man by
one of his characteristics, such as
“Long Shorty” or “Sawed-off
Smith," or Mike or Joe, or Gus,
and letting it go at that.
Northerners at Front.
There’s a lot of the Nome fel
lows scattered around the differ
ent fighting fronts. There’s Fox
Ramsey, who one time cleaned
up the Nome gang for about $200,
000 on the All-Alaska Sweep
stakes and Bill Vint, who was
badly frozen on the Noxapago
divide, and Father Bernard, the
Catholic priest, and a lot of others*
but Allan couldn’t find any of
them.
“They won’t tell you much
about what’s doing or where peo
ple are,” Allan confided. He has
a brother “somewhere in Fance.”
but he couldn’t pick up his trail
He did, however, meet anothei
brother at Edmonton on the way
over. This brother won the Vic
toria Cross in South Africa, and
want« to enlist again, but he does
not think they’ll take him.
“He was shot up a bit,” said Al
lan, “but he doesn’t look' much
different. His face is changed
some wlcic the cullets hit, hu
that’s about all. Otherwise you1
couldn’t tell the difference.”
Marr stayed in Europe driving
an ambulance. Allan didn’t know
how to drive an automobile, so
his services were not considered.
He remained in Havre ten or
twelve days, teaching the French
men how to drive the dogs and
make the tow lines for them. He’
took sleds from this country when!
the dogs left for. the front.
Has Trouble Getting Back.
It was w'hen he started for home
that trouble began. “It’s easy
enough to get into France but
it’s difficult to get out again. On
the advice of Kenneth Marr, who
had picked up the lingo, Allan
went to see the American consul.
“Well, we fussed and fussed,”
said Allan, “getting pictures taken
and identification papers, and per
mission from this one and that
one, for three or four days. If I’d
followed my own hunch I’d have
been all right My idea was to
go straight to the prefect of po
lice, and that’s what we had to do
my way, but thought Kenneth
knew all about it. He jabbered
a good deal with the Frenchmen.”
Allan does not hold some of the
officials over there in very high
egard. Neither the Frenchmen
nor the American consul knew
what to do in a case of Allan’s
kind. He met A. W. Schneider,
•mother Nomeite, who is now run
ning a big packing establishment
•nd furnishing meat, to the sol
diers at the front, btu he didn’t
seem to know any more about
what should be done under the
[circumstances than did Allan him
[ self.
Dogs May Understand French.
The northern musher doesn’t
I think the Frenchmen will have
any trouble with the dogs because
of receiving commands in a dif
ferent language than that of which
they have been accustomed.
“Instinct teaches the dogs what
you want ’em to do,” explained
Allan, "and the language doesn’t
cut much figure. You can drive
dogs without swearing at ’em.”
Allan has been driving dogs for
more than twenty years and prob
ably knows more about the char
acteristics of dogs than any other
man living. He received a letter
from Vilhjalmur Steffansson, the
Canadian exp*orer, a few months
ago, telling him that the dogs
which he furnished for the expe
dition had given wonderful ser
vice in the Arctic regions. Allas'
leaves for Berkeley, Cal., to spend
the winter with his family, regret
ting that he can’t get back to
Nome in time to compete in the
races there next spring.
The Family Paper la the Nome
Daily Nugget.
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ALASKA NOTES
If congress makes the neces
sary appropriation for the con
tinuation of work on the govern
ment railroad about 1,500 idle
men who are wintering at An
chorage, will be ptu to work im
mediately- The railroad engi
neering commission has let it be
known that there will be enough
work for the men now at Anchor
age, if congress ratifies the esti
mates submitted to the appropria
tions committee by Secretary
Lane of the interior department.
A demented man whose name
is unknown is now roaming the
lulls around Mile Twelve road
house out from Anchorage and is
-aid to be in a very serious con
dition. He has apparently got it
into his head that he was the man
responsible for the capture of
bootleggers and is laboring un
der the hallucination that they are
after his scalp. Word about the
man has only just reached the
city and an attempt to take him
will probably be made at once.—
Gateway
Our esteemed contemporary, the
Seward Gateway, says that g
Mr. Bruner of that town proposes'
to look into the matter of the
growing of sugar beets in the
Matanuska valley. For the in-j
formation of Mr. Bruner the
Pioneer will say that sugar beets
will grow like wild mustard in a
Washington farm in this rich val-;
ley. A test that proves it h^s been'
made The qualitative test has
[given good results. The quanti
tative test will do likewise.—Cook
! Inlet Pioneer.
Word has just been received j
by Duncan Michie, well known
Dawson and Fairbanks mining,
man, who is spending the winter'
here, that his brother, William,
was killed recently at the Dar
danelles. William was with the
Western Australian contingent,
at Gallipoli but one of them has
just been order to England, andt
probably will be transferred to
the western front. Murdock
i Michie, well known Klondike
miner, now engaged on Allgold
creek, near Dawson, is another
brother.—Dawson News.
Twentv cords of wood, belong
ing to Tom O’Day, went adrift
in the bay night before last.
Whether it will be a total loss
has not been learned yet. Mr.
O’Day started from his camp at
Fourth of July with twenty cords
of wood in tow, in a “cord raft’’
for this side of the bay. With
difficulty he managed to anchor
ti e* raft about a half mi*e off
shore near the lagoon, but morn
ing found that it had disappeared.
It is thought that the anchor rope
gave way, due to the heavy strain
Mr. O’Day has hopes that the raf:
was washed ashore at the head
of the bay, whence he went this
morning to search for it. If th *
raft broke up the whole twenty
cords will be a complete loss. -
Seward.
The Cook Inlet Pioneer says
the public schools there are now
organized and that four teachers
are employed with a good attend
ance of pupils.
In organizing the schools at the
new town an unusual condition
presented itself, as the pupils were
found to have come from widely
different parts of the American
continent, where different svstem
of teaching had prevailed.
Attending the Anchorage pub
lic schools are former pupils of
schools in Panama, in the canal
zone, British Columbia, Washing
ton, D. C., North Dakota, Okla
homa, Oregon, Wshington and
Alaska.
Washington state contributes a
larger number of pupils than any
other state in the union—four
teen.
Alaska contributes the largest
number of pupils, there being in
attendance pupils from Cordova,
Valdez, Seward. Latotiche ami
Nome
J. L. Herron arrived in the
city early in the week from the
lower Kuskokwim, and left on the
return trip on Thursday last,
says the Iditarod Pioneer of Jan.
ist. While here Mr. Herron who
has recently been appointed U.
S. commissioner, with headquar
ters at Reindeer city, in the Can
yon creek district, made arrange
ments for qualifying for his posi
tion.
A new recording precinct has
been created which is included in
the"- Third division. For some
titnfc past there has ben a contro
versy as to where the boundary
line between the Third and
Fourth divisions ran, the miners
of the Canyon creek district
maintaining that that creek was
in the Third division, whi'e other
contended that it was in the qth
division. The result was that
there was some confusion with
regard to the recording of claims.
It is believed that the judge of
the Third division has put the
matter at rest by deciding that
the territory is in the Third divi
sion and the result is the creation
of the new recoiding precinct.
The new arrangement will be a
great convenience to the miner
in the promising Canyon creek
district and adjacent territory.
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NIGHT AND DAT THH NUOGBT IS PUTTING POBTH ITS B8ST BFTORTS TOWARDS THE UP
BUILDING OP NOME AND THE DEVELOPMBNT Or TMB RESOUROBS OP SEWARD PENINSULA
Concerted Efforts Will Get Results
WE INVITE THE MINER, PROSPECTOR AND ALL OTHBRS TO INFORM THB NUOOET CONCERN
INQ THEIR EFFORTS AND UNDERTAKINGS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE HIDDEN WEALTH OF
THIS SECTION.
LET THE WORLD KNOW WHAT TOU ARB DOINO 80 THAT OTHBRS MAT BE ABLE TO SHARE IN
TOUR KNOWLEDGE IT WILL ALSO STIMULATE OTHBRS TO 8HBK AND OPEN NEW FIELDS FOR
DAILT NUGGET EXPLOITATION.
yi.00 per month EVERT HOUSEHOLDER; EVERY CABIN OWNER IN THB CITY SHOULD ALSO SEE THE WISDOM
OF HA VINO THE HOME TOWN PAPER DELIVERED AT THEIR DOOR DAILY AND THEREBY ASSIST THE
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:::: Concerted Action Will Not Only Help The Country,
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