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RE-ElECTION CF WSCKERSHAM
The re-election of James Wickers ham as delegate in congress from
Alaska, as indicated bv the ntum.' so far received, should be cause lor
congratulation and pride to ev. re ideal of the territory. Thai this
indorsement of the amiiiv and aceomphshrB€nts of our spokesman at
the capital was net i rough; about i y means of partisan i >achmcr;, but
in spite of it, is also worthy of note, the attempt to make a partisan
issue in order to discredit the delegate in the eyes of the voters failed
of its purpose. The people v/iil resent the actions of those who, white
posing as “patriotic" Alaskans, endeavored through partisan methods
to defeat the man through whom the interests of the territory have
been so remarkably advanced.
The returns so far 1 eceived Ir an the Fourth district show that wane
a considerably smaller vote was polled than that ol two years ago, Mr.
Wickersk.vm's majority was greater than that gi\en him at the las!
election. It that rat o should obtain in the other three districts, it will
prove to be one of the most splendid indorsements ever given to a
candidate tor public office in Alaska.
The Pioneer takes occasion to congratulate the people of the terri
tory on tire fact that they have again entrusted their interests to the
hands of a man of such wide experience and marked ability, and looks
forward to the completion of the many projects for Alaska s better
ment which have been so consistently and ably pressed by Delegate
Wickersham. __
THE SILENCES
An up'il’tcr of the poor and unfortunate, one able to put into prac
tice the kindly dictates of her heart, once discovered in Chicago s slums
a woman who had apparently seen better days. Inquiring about ha
previous history, she found that she had lived in Southern Ohio in her
youth, away back in the fastnesses of the lulls. Offering to send her
home again, the good Samaritan met with an unexpected rc-buft
When pressed for the reason her would-be protege gave it. “iou see,’
she explained, “there am t no society there!
And there wasn’t. Neither has there ever been, nor will there ever
be—for those to whom the white lights, the city sounds and smells, the
lure of the moves, the me.-, of the asphalt, the meaningless syncopa
tions of the latest “rag” are as the breath of iife to the nostriis. Nor
is it a place for those who havc become adepts >n small ted:., who lore
the palm rooms, and io who mthe canards, with then touch of frayed
Bohemianicm, lead to the evoking of a satisfied sigh and the settled
conviction that tins is life, indeed.
For such the silences are a reproach too great to be w.'disiood
They bring to them a sense of hopeless superficiality. I he desire to
escape where thought is not only not driven hard, but where it may
be avoided altogether, becomes more imperative than io the country
born and bred is the longing to return home again and breathe once
more the balm of a benignant atmosphere, swift to heal the wound,
of all too conscious contact with a heedless humanity. Which is put
ting it pretty strong, at that.
How blessed to be alone amidst such surroundings! There is noth
ing to be on guard against. It is a phase of creation in which man is
the overlord. Such conflicts as may be in progress bring a quiet amuse
ment to his breast and increase the sense of his own superiority. The
shrill cry of the locust, about to shed his burnished armor, is heard in
the old orchard. The alert grasshopper leaps many times his length,
only to fall victim to the pursuing hen. From the top rail of the mean
dering fence a young rooster, panoplied in green and gold, crows de
fiance to the world. Guinea “keets” clutter across the road, uttering
their querulous notes. A timid rabbit scurries to the nearest grass
clump, then sits upright to look around at the four quarters, each
possibly sheltering a deadly enemy. And a hoptoad makes Ins clumsy
way through the dust of summer.
These are the placid silences, the kind in which Emerson found the
hidden places not altogether lonely, among which Thoreau spent his
life growing rich in thought and feeling, the scenes from which Words
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THE BEST OF EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME
worth drew the sentiments that have strengthened the faith and souls of
men. Here Bryant walked and meditated ,and found that—
To him who in lln* hm* of nature holds
Commuiii n wdh her visible forms,
She speaks a varied language.
It is as necessary for man to get back to this solitude as it is for him
to lose his life in any higher form, if he would find it aga.n. I he reti
censes which the lonely places breed are his salvation. I he swiftness
to the idle word characterizes the mob. Many thoughts come from the
inbreathing of enfolding nature. Where the mind is full the tongue is
slow of speech, even as old Dean Swift said, that the church that is most
crowded is slowest in releasing the worshipers. Those who can ape
all the passions are the most passionless. The worst that can be said of
the facile actor is that his is acting, and not being. But to the country
bred, the one indigenous to his surroundings, the world is a stage, and
he the sole audhence. Air, sky and the green grass and a heart kept
young through the passing 3'ears! Imagine this combination broken in
upon by an exposition of the “Lula Fada” or the soul-destroying chorus
of an alleged negro melody composed in the wilds of Broadway!
No; there is no society in the silent places. The Chicago lady of
the slums was altogether correct in her estimate.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
WAR AND SANTA CLAUS
One of the big German industries that will suffer greatly from the
effects of the war, imposing conditions which preclude the shipment
of its products abroad, is the toy industry. The world’s foyland is
Germany, and Santa Claus’ capital and headquarters is not at the north
pole, but at Sonneburg (Sun Mountain), a town :n the Duchy of Mein
ingen, on the edge of the Thuringian forest. Almost the entire popu
lation of the city of 1 5,000 inhabitants is in the employ of Santa Claus.
Every house is a workshop for Santa. Germany exported toys to the
value of $25,000,000 last year.
Santa Claus is more generous to his little friends m the United States
than to the children of any European country. Last year he shipped
707 carloads of toys from Sonneberg and Nuremberg to New York,
Philadelphia, Boston, Galveston and San Francisco, from which cities
I he distributed them to American boys and girls ail over the country,
j America is Germany’s best toy customer. It took last year conside.
I ably more than one-third of the total output of Santa’s workshops for
! the entire world. America’s toy bill for 1913 approximated
| $8,000,000.
The toy industry of Germany has very little competition. In it are
employed thousands of men, women, boys and girls, the centers or
the industry are the quaint old towns of Sonneberg and Nuremberg.
Nuremberg is Santa’s workshop for railroad trains, tin soldiers, aero
planes, airships, guns, cannon, swords, drums and countless other toys
that on Christmas gladden the hearts of countless kiddies. Sonneberg,
however, is the aristocratic capita! of Toybncl. It is the doll shop of
I I he world, where dolls of every shade, clime and .country are made,
i Sonneberg also is the Par’s of Doll Land, for Sonneberg sets fashions
| and styles in dolls and all things pertaining to dolls as arbitrarily as
| Paris sets the styles for the world of fashion. Thousands of deft little
| fingers work in the millinery and dressmaking shops of Doll Land, de
| ,nmv and making the latest in hats and gov,'ns .and all that goes with
the outfits of Doiidom’s elite. The tendency of mamma toward ex
1 trcv.agance in dress is having Us effect m Doil Land. Dollies now
adaj’s must be more beautiful than ever. Wealthy little misses de
i mand of Santa that he !:•■■>'g them doilies with as many dresses as a
Newport or Washington society belle. Many of these elaborate outfits
i -neseni an out lav or moncv would :-:eep several poo; children
| r. comfortable cic’.hing ah w;r.!er.
The utilitarian, practical and commercial instincts of the American
buyers are fully recognized Ivy Santa L laus, and he caters to them,
j The American boys care little tor guns, swords and cannon, as com
bated with the European lads. Santa Claus therefore ships carloads
of railroad trains, engines, electric motors, steam cranes, electric cars,
too! boxer, etc., to the United States. But the doll remains empress
and queer, of the entire world of little girls and ioyland. It varies m
price from 2 cents to $25 and even more, and in color from the little
kinkv-wooled pickaninny for Africa and the Southern states, and the
almond-eyed, bald pated and sandaled doll for the Japanese and Chi
nese. to the blue-eved, tow-headed doll for Norway, hweden, Russia
and Germany, but always the same —a doll.
The ladies of tire Iditarod district, by their presence at the polls last
Tuesday, evidently desire to emphasize the fact that if there is a defect
in the equal suffrage law it is somebody’s business to apply the remedy.
In the meantime they will vote as though no question had arisen.
If the male voters of this section of Alaska had taken as much in
terest in the election of last Tuesday as the ladies did there would not
only have been a much larger vote, but possibly some important
changes in the election returns.
HEAD OF CHURCH SAW
ALASKA HISTORY MADE
(B*-'h bit in Seattb lYsMtiielligcncrr)
I.;.. ’ urnmer there was in Seattle a real
pioneer of Alaska, beside whom all “sour
bough>" and old-timers of the gold trails.
11 id vent is rs of ihs sealing, fleet
•wen the Indian fighters, are youngsters. He
a man who has spent a long lifetime in
Alaska, who as a boy of 13 saw the Stars
and Stripes raised at Sitka, the Russian
capital, and who took an active part in
most of the historical events since that
time. lie is Rev. Sergius George Kostro
metinoff, and he was on his way to New
York.
Rev. Mr. KostrometinofT is rector of St.
Michael cathedral, the pioneer church of
Alaska. He has been warden of that church
since 188(5, but was only ordained a priest
two years ago, when Archbishop Platon,
head of the Russian church in America,
sent for him to come to New A ork nd
recognized his many years of faithful serv
ice in an honorary position.
This Alaska pioneer has none of the
marks of the trail pioneer of fiction. He
outdates them all and he resembles them
not at all.
Mr. Kostrometinoff is the son of Russian
parents, and became a citizen of the United
States by the American occupation of
Alaska. He is broad, stout, white-haired
and quiet. Ilis eyes of bluish gray have
the bland friendliness of a child’s. There is
a great deal of quiet dignity about his black
clad figure, his white hair and thin beard,
his unhurried speech. Though he has
spoken English nearly all of his life and
acted for years as a government inter
preter fer the Indian tribes, there is still a
trace of Russian accent about his words.
Unruffled by the noises of the street and
the hotel lobby, speaking slowly and evenly,
in the manner of simple friendliness and
without prejudice, he told of the early days :
i f Alaska, a story of governmental neglect
which amounted to criminal carelessness.
\ participant in those scenes of danger, he
might be pardoned a certain amount of
passion, a resentment against the govern
meat which purchased the great territory
ami 1 ft its adopted citizens to shift for
themselves again*t >avag§e tribes. But he
showed none, and its lack made the tide
doubly impressive.
lie toid the story with the confidence of
I
May be raised 20 per cent on
account of the war, according
to Outside newspapers. But m
Iditarod the prices will remain
as before.
We have the largest assort
ment in the North to choose
from.
i
IDITAROD
Leading Jeweler of the North
a man who saw history made and who
played a part in its making.
“I was a hoy of 13 when the Russian
flag was lowered and the Stars and Stripes
raised on Castle hill at Sitka," he said.
“That was October 13, 1867.
“The soldiers sent to Sitka remained ten
years. Then they were ordered away, and
we had no protection again i the Indian
tribes. The Indians were tighter.-- do not
forget that and they were a real menace i
to Sitka.
“There had been a stockade built from
the town as far back as th ■ lake. When
the soldiers left the Indians believed that
the l nited States had lost interest in the
territory and the withdrawal of the troops
meant Alaska’s abandonment. The first
thing they did was to destroy the stockade.
“We sent letters and petitions to Wash
ington asking for protection, but no atten
tion was paid to our pleas. When the Rus
sians owned Alaska they made huge rev
enues from the fur trading and discouraged
all immigration because they feared it would
interfere with their profits. The United
States had let the sealing privilege to tl:f’ '
Alaska Commercial Company. These men
had their agents at Washington, anti tin
'k»- htw'lv they, too, did not wish to be
interfered with.
.'•o our 1 iters and petitions came to
naught. It was a very slow process even
to get word to Washington, for since we
had no telegraph, all communications went
by the mail boat, the steamer California
(afterward the Eureka), which came up
from Portland once a month.
“After the soldiers had gone and left us
defenseless we organized ourselves into
three militia companies. At about this
time a schooner from San Francisco came
to Sitka and hired seven Indians to make
up the crew. The captain said they were
going after sea utter, but they ready in
tern ed to visit St. Paul island for seal.
“This schooner get into Bering sea and
encountered a storm. Bering sea is a dan
gerous place, as you know, and the storms
are sudden and fearful. The schooner was
wrecked and all but one of the Indians
lost.
i‘;is Inman eventually was tak-n to Mm
Franc i.-co, from whence he was sent to Port
I:::ul and returned on the California to
Sitka.
“When the Indians heard the story of the
wreck they came in a body to C hinel M.
I>. B: ! . cr Hector of custom- at Sitka, and
he only oflieiai of the United States gov
< rnmi :it in Alaska, and demanded pay for
their dead.
‘These Indians had the stern creed of
I an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
If some white man caused the death of one
of them they were* going to have satisfac
tion from the white men. They weren’t
very particular which white men they
cho-w t'> make do the paying.
“I interpreted for the interview. Colonel
Ball -aw the' the situation was dangerous
and he t-Id ihe Indian- !:• . rid hare to
take up the question of payment with the
government. He wrote the company which
j had sint the schooner to see if there was
: :iy lock pay coming to the men. There
was none.
‘‘A the same time we petitioned the
United States government to send us a
war.- hip. a our si nation was rate,
i No a:''-mi' ii va.- paid to our petition.
“At la- we had to admit to the In liuns
that we were not g eng to pay them.
"1 • one of i1 -e on guard t’n nigh
the In ii: ns plamv I th.-ir attack. We could
hear them (on.mg in the arly in.’ruing,
i singii r as the Indians do when they are
| . in ut to light. These Indians had made
j rhem. e‘va s hootch and when they wtr«*
i drunk they were den n -.
“There were two < 1of torse Indian-.
I the K.. sa-tcc and the i\. 1. v. :.-ii . ans. The
K:.k-v. :.n 1; ns wr r e f: • . ■ : • o ■ , J .
: two cimet just !»•J.;: ■ the attack, and
I a great argunn at began.
“The Kak-vran-iaii' i . do '• out that if
ll: ■ b ak sa-tres hr wad Sitka :»d !ud ! all
d’u whites, as thc\ im -m'ed doing, in cm r «
of time the United State.- world -md a war
vessel and the s. imprs wo (d-d kill all In
dian-. without regard to their guilt in the
mas.-acre. Finally the argument got hot
and ■ ne of the mci stuck his nife int
(me (•: the other clan and they fought
among themselves. So Sitka w: ■< saved.
“After that we got tired of a king the
l mod States for aid. so we .*»-v. v . rd to
the British government, which ha 1 a r.av.d
s.atii-11 at K.-»;uimalt, and asked for a war
ship to protect us. The British sent li
the man-of-war Osprey at once and the
Indians left.
“Finally Washington was arm- The
news that the British had sent a warship
to protect us caused considerable alarm,
and thi man-of-war Alaska was sent to us.
The Alaska relieved the Osprey.
“But the captain of the Alaska had
just been married and didn’t like coming to
Sitka and leaving his bride at home. So
after a couple of days in the harbor he
decided to go awav and leave us to our
fate.
more was a sau r in one oi rne gig*
with whom some of us became acquainted.
Wo handed him a telegram t<> Washington.
All the ships touched at Nanaimo for c. al.
and there was a telegraph line there. So
the Alaska took our telegram wiwn ii
sailed, though the captain did not know it.
To the great astonishment of the young
bridegroom, he had not been twenty-four
hours in Nanaimo before he received per
emptory orders to return to his post. He
never did learn how the news leaked out.
“Until 1898, when the gunboat Wheeling
was withdrawn from Sitka for service
against Spain, we had a gunboat to protect
us from the Indians.”
"We hear much of the government’s
neglect of Alaska these days This com
plaint is bringing results in a greater oili
cial interest in that territory than has ever
before been shown. But compared to this
the cause for complaint of Sitka in the
days when this white-haired priest was a
young man and had life and happiness at
stake would seem sufficient to embitter a
man permanently against the distent offi
cials who paid no heed to a call for help
from American citizens in peril.
That Mr. KostronietinoiT recalls those
days of anxiety without passion nor even
criticism strengthens my belief in his accu
racy 4* an historian. His is the quiet, ap- ,
praising observation which records facts !
with the splendid tolerance of the ideal re- I
porter.
"Alaska is a splendid country,” he ob- i
served. "1 have traveled to it all. It will
have a wonderful future in mining, agricul
ture and grazing. Its great need today i .
railroads and wagon roads. The govern- j
ment railroad will be the means of doing
much good.”
Mr. KostronietinoiT ha* been enjoying Se
attle with Nicolas Bogoiavlensky, the new j
Russian consul to Seattle and Nome, and !
Rev. M. G. Andreades of Seattle.
Archbishop. Platon, head of the Greek]
church in America, has been transferred to j
Ki.-hinef. and Bishop Alexander, bishop of i
Alaska, who is temporarily in charge of j
American church work, has sent for Mr. i
H. E. REVELLE T. W BOYD
Sowarti-liliiaroti Mai Service
HAIL AMD PASSENGERS
WEEKLY SCHEDULE BETWEEN SEWARD AND INTERIOR
‘ ALASKA
W ci.,„ PASSENGER TARIFF HO. I
45 $ 25 Old Knik ,\j p,„nt < r ii:t< <,n ra».
50 30 S 5 Knik O-mid.
55 35 10 $ 5 Susitna pajd in adv;mn
75 | 55 30 ; 25 $ 20 Mountain Climbers
91 71 46 41 36 $ 16 * Anderson’s
107 87 62 57 52 32 $ 16 French Jot -
154 125 109 ioT 99 79 63 S 35 Takotna
177 107 1 12 137 132 112 96 70 $ 35 Idifar d
Freight and Express Will Be Accepted for Delivery Between
Icl’tarod and Takotna er French Joe’s. For Rates
See Carriers
All Mail Carriers on this route carry an extra sled anti team for Passengers. B;ggage !
and Express
NOTE. Our regular Express business will not be inaugurated until the mail service
is satisfactorily established
GOLD DUST SHIPMENTS From Iditarod to Seward, ?9 per *1000 in 1 •- 1
than $10,000; over $10,000. *7.50
mmwwbmwhbbmmmwwi1 *lct-MBacnaa:TaraBSBacwKMSiJxsacaa B—anEOB—
Kostronietinoff for a consult ation. la'!
Anclreades of Seattle, who is dean of the
Alaska district, is in charge of the churcti
in that territory for the present.
Si. Michael cathedral, with which Mr.
Kostrometinofi has been connected for - >
many years, is the pioneer Russian church
and mission of Alaska. It was h’.nlt in
1818 by Bishop Innocent Veniamienoff. The
church is one of the most interesting mu
seums of history in the territory.
“We have many interesting things in
the church,” said Mr. Kostrometinofi.
“Among them is a Madonna for which a
New A ork capitalist offered us $25,000.
But of course we could not sell it.”
IRISH COMFORT
Mike, who was out of a job, sat under
a tree and smoked his pipe, as he watched
l.iirry U'Toole wielding a pick under the
1 i d,- of an Augu.-t sum Jerry was using
i il.e pick on a railroad cut, and the wj.rh
I, , t.f his fetr:.vui wa- ,-uch ihut he
...i.no few opportunities to interrupt the
aseli-s rise «.nd fall of his implement.
Mike watched and smoked, thinking with
j .like of the industry of the Irish race.
I • id ly mother! ' Jerry exclaimed, taking
d\ ant age of a momentary lapse in the
, rciaiai's attention. "This is the hardest
•i I ever tackled.1'
“G'wan!" said Mike, h-isurelv Id wing
ut a whiff of smoke. “Sure and it’s ail
easy job."
■ 1 .asy !" shouted Terry. “It's hard and
hot! Bik.iU. tli- thermometer's 113 in
i ihe shade!”
Mike let another wluff of smoke curl from
1 i i -omkiiie lips.
“What's that to you'.'” he asked care
“You don't have to w r: in tht
j ha ie. do you ” Popular Magazine.
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