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A FUTILE DENIAL
On February 20 last The Pioneer, discussing the mail service, re
ferred to the fact that “while it is possible to receive foreign news
papers and other literature from a great distance, it seems out ol the
question to expect newspapers and periodicals from Seattle and othei
Pacific coast cities. This statement was given wide publicity h}
Alaska newspapers, and evidently was taken up bv intci ested parties
jP Seattle, as it was intended it should, when the suggestion was made
that “the Seattle Chamber of Commerce endeavor to ascertain the
course of reasoning that justifies the delivery of London and New York
newspapers in Interior Alaska from six weeks to two months eaiher
than those from Seattle and Tacoma.
On Sunday last the following dispatch was received in Iditarod,
dated Washington, April 25:
Second Assistant Postmaster (lencral Stewart denies vigorously mail from Seattle
for Iditarod is delayed while la ndon and New York mails go through prompt i> "
In order to be taken as authoritative, it must be presumed that the
“vigorous denial of the second assistant postmaster general is the
result of an investigation. So far as known there has been no investi
gation here as to the truth of The Pioneer’s statements. Had there
been, no such denial would have been forthcoming. There is ample
proof available that no mistake was made in the matter.
Not in a spirit of carping criticism has this newspaper called atten
tion to the detects in the mail service, but with a view to betterment.
The government is providing a weekly service over an excellent route,
over which schedules have been maintained throughout the winter sea
son, and yet it is realized that the people have net been furnished the
best service which the route is capable of giving, and to which they are
entitled. When the defects in the system are made apparent, it ought
to be an easy matter for the postal authorities to apply the remedy.
The claim is made that the fullest advantage is not being taken of the
excellent facilities provided.
Now that the interest of the second assistant postmaster general has
been enlisted, it is fair to presume that he will cause an inquiry to be
set on foot into the needs of Interior Alaska, and this cannot but result
beneficially. _
A WORTHY ENTERPRISE
There has been introduced in the territorial legislature by Senator
Gaustad of the Fourth division a memorial to congress praying for the
establishment at Holy Cross of a wireless telegraph station as part of
the government’s Alaska system. To the people of this section of
Alaska this enterprise would be of incalculable value. There is no
doubt of the passage of the memorial and it is urged that residents of
this locality write to members of congress urging the necessity of the
suggested improvement. Every resident of this district can do his or
her part in securing this needed addition to the Alaska telegraph serv
ice in this manner. The memorial is as follows:
Whereas, The people of this territory arc entirely dependent for telegraphic communi
cation upon the system now in use in the territory under the supervision of the war de
partment ; and
Whereas. That section lying between the wireless nation at Nulato and the wireless
station at Kotlik, on the Bering sea coast, a distance of 600 miles, which is the most im
portant navigable section of the Yukon, is now without a wireless telegraphic station:
Therefore we. your memorialists, would suggest that a wireless telegraphic station be
established at or near the village of Holy Cross, which is at the confluence of the Innoko
and Yukon rivers, and is a very important commercial point by reason of the transfer
of large quantities of freight and a great number of passengers from the Yukon to the
Innoko and tributary streams, upon which are situated Iditarod and other important
towns.
The establishment of this station will facilitate transportation to all upper Yukon
point- and will be of great benefit to the traveling public, as well as to transportation
companies.
CARRYING A CHIP ON THE SHOULDER
A disposition has been manifested on the part of several Alaska
newspapers to resent the interest taken in Alaska affairs by the com
mercial bodies and newspapers of Seattle. This is somewhat difficult
to understand in view of past events. Aside from the commercial
aspect of Seattle’s relations with this territory, there is the natural one
of propinquity which has a tendency to inspire an interest in our
affairs, and which we have not hesitated in the past to take full ad
vantage of. The business men and citizens generally of Seattle have
worked intelligently and consistently for Alaska’s interests, and many
of their activities have been of an entirely disinterested nature. It is
only natural that they should display this interest in behalf of people
with whom their business and social relations are so close. Further
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more, to do Seattle justice, the interest displayed by its citizens has been
the means of accomplishing much for the benefit of the territory that
oherwise would have been unattainable.
The peevish attacks on Seattle and its business men by Alaska news
papers savor of an organized propaganda in behalf of other cities
which are striving for a portion of Seattle s Alaska trade, and for
Alaska’s good these attacks should be discouraged. Our people will
continue to do business with the merchant or city which provides the
best opportunity for profit, whether it be in Seattle or elsewhere. But
self-interest should teach us that it is not necessary to resort to unwar
ranted attacks upon a city and its people whose interests are so closely
idenified with ours, and from whose activities in behalf of Alaska much
good has resulted and must continue to result, by reason of its immense
influence in business and political affairs. These attacks resemble the
petty bickerings of neighboring provincial towns, which seem to be
pervaded with the idea that their interests are best served by belittling
their neighbor’s efforts at progress.
Alaska needs the friendship of Seattle, as well as other Pacific coast
communities, and acts which tend to alienate that friendship surely are
not dictated by the territory’s best interests.
THE CASE OF COMMISSIONER DILLON
The action of the territorial house of representatives in the case of
Commissioner Dillon of Fairbanks will not tend to enhance the respect
I which the people of the territory now hold for their legislative body.
The United States commissioners m Alaska, appointed by the federal
iudges of the respective divisions, are empowered to enforce the terri
torial as well as federal laws. They are not, however, responsible to
the legislature, but to the federal judge of their district. The terri
torial house of representatives, not having the impeaching power, has
tried Commissioner Dillon, found him guilty and pronounced sentence,
and this without giving him a chance to face his accusers or to be rep
resented by counsel, as would have been the case in impeachment pro
ceedings. Should Judge Bunnell decline to remove the commissioner,
as requested, the legislative body would be placed in a rather ridicu
lous position.
Without entering into a discussion of the merits of the controversy
! between the commissioner and Territorial Secretary Davidson over the
| recording of vital statistics and the collection of fees, it looks at this
; distance as though a great injustice has been done Mr. Dillon. His
| interpretation of the lav/ differed from that of Mr. Davidson, and an
| exchange of sharply-worded correspondence ensued. The lower house
| of the legislature has undertaken to decide this controversy in Mr.
Davidson’s favor. It looks as though the matter might well have been
! left for the district judge to decide.
The Thaw case is once more in the limelight. It now seems as
| hough the famous fight for the liberty of White’s slayer may be suc
i cessful. Having been tried on the conspiracy charge and found not
! guilty, it would seem that the state authorities have acknowledged his
sanity, and would have no legal grounds for returning him to the
asylum.
The jovial features of John Bunny, the moving picture artist whose
death was reported on the 27th, were known to millions of persons the
world over. Even Iditarod had the privilege of laughing with this
j clever and natural humorist, whose appearance on the screen in any
of his numerous roles was always the signal for an outburst of hilarity.
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| Closely following the statement that “it is hinted that the Germans
1 intend to fall back to Liege” comes the announcement that the kaiser
| is engaged in another strenuous attempt to reach the English channel.
‘ Which .goes to show, as has been more than suspected on previous oc
| casions, that war correspondents sometimes make a bad guess.
Just as it is announced that Villa has been defeated by Carranza
I comes the news that the Zapatas have reinforced the former with
i forty thousand men. Villa’s defeat and elimination would have been
\ the means of depriving a good many “revolutionists” of their means
j of livelihood.
| An astute politician once said that "it is better to even be caricatured
in the newspapers than to remain unnoticed.” Publicity is a great asset
i of the politician, just as it is to a business man, and there is little doubt
that Roosevelt is thoroughly enjoying himself this week as the center of
! interest, even if it be as the defendant in a libel suit.
The statement from Berlin that a British trawler had been captured
I off the Scottish coast and taken to a German port probably occasioned
as much astonishment to John Bull as the bombardment of the pleasure
| resorts some time ago by the German fleet.
—
If Italy would only determine her course in the present war it would
relieve our local strategists of a source of anxiety and allow them to
' plan the campaigns which are to bring victory to the armies which they
j respectively favor.
j The report from Paris that the Germans are using i 7-inch guns m the
Flanders campaign may mean a repetition of the operations against
| Antwerp and other strong positions of the allies.
While the river ice moved last Saturday a sufficient distance to decide
many wagers, there appears to be little more suggestion of a break-up
now than there was two weeks ago.
Reports from the East of heat prostrations cause loyal Alaskans to be
thankful that their lost is cast in a land where the iceman is not an im
portant personage in the month of April.
; REUNITED ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD
(Juneau Empire)
The amalgamation of the two branches of I
the Arctic Brotherhood is an event of more ;
than passing importance in Alaska. The
; Arctic Brotherhood has played a useful as i
well as pleasant part in this territory. It I
has been an aggressive and progressive ;
Alaska order. While it cherishes Alaska’s !
traditions, it is more representative of the j
activities of today and the plans and hopes 1
for tomorrow than anything else. And it is '
an organization that is firmly planted in all j
sections of Alaska. It extends from Ketchi j
kan around the coast to Nome, as well as up <
and down the Yukon river, recognizing no
boundary line or artificial division in the :
North.
It is too good an organization, and its '
field too important, to permit it to go to
pieces because of dissension, and fortunately,
its membership recognized the fact before it
was too late.
It is well that the troubles of the order j
were bridged over through a recognition of
the fact that its Northern character required ,
that it be kept in the North. Alaska has j
passed beyond ephemeral dangers. The |
country is a fact, and her people are an- j
chored to her soil. They must work out
their problems here. Their problems are not
the reminiscences of those who made a half
mad rush into the Klondike and then re
turned to the States. They are real, living
matters of the present and future. They
relate to questions of state, community and
home-building up here. The place for a
virile, active, Northern Arctic Brotherhood
is on the ground, amidst our pleasures and
our griefs, where we are living and shall re
main.
Juneau will take a good deal of pride in
the circumstance that the peace which sig
nifies the end of Arctic Brotherhood troubles
and which will mark the beginning of a new
epoch in the order’s career was made at this
place; and the accomplishment of the peace
adds enthusiasm to the hospitality with
which the community welcomes the repre
sentatives of the order from other sections
of Alaska.
If you are in need of anything in our
line, see us. Two stores—Flat and Iditarod.
Boas the Clothier.
McKINZIE BUTTERFIELD
GIVES H3S IMPRESSIONS
(Valdez Commoner)
This is the letter which the Hon. McKin
zie Butterfield, elected to the lower house
of the territorial legislature from Top Much
Gold creek, wrote to his partner, “Gum
hoot" Bill Chase:
“Juneau, Alaska, March 7, 1915
“Pardner Bill: 'Cording to my disvowal
when you dumped my official carcass out
of the sled at salt v/atter and headed the
dogs back over the trail. I take my pencil
this dark and rainy morning from the desk
which bears my name to tell you and the
boys on Too Much Gold creek about how
the legislature team is pulling.
“Well, Collins is at the gee-pole in our
room. He is speaker. Which means that
he is supposed to do the talking, but he
don’t do it. He lets anybuddy talk, which
is pretty good for a Wicker.sham son-of-a
gun.
“Dan Sutherland, the old scoundrel, is
mushin the sennet along. To see him in
the pulpit, Bill, you would never recognize
him for the man that staggered into our
camp on No Wood creek that day with no
outfit but a blood-stained club with which
he had been killing rabbets for too weeks.
He jest seems to fit any kind of a hole.
“Had some bad feelings getting organized.
Hardshell Democra’s wanted an office or;
too but the Wickershams didn’t even give j
them a piece of the core. ’Corse being j
fleeted on a non committcl ticket, I didn’t
worry.
“However that is. the hard-shells say on
the <i- t. that they .ioing to block legis- ;
lashun in the sennet. Three of them can
do it before that Nome man gets into camp.
But believe me, Gumboot Bill Chase, if
they try it the Hon. McKinzie Butterfield
of Too Much Gold creek is goin’ down in
history. Dan is a friend of mine. Didn't
we sware it over his bluddy rabbet club
on No Wood creek that day when the
wolves was howlin' on Ms unprotected
tracks and the halo of political glorry hao
encircled our respective brows?
“From the lop sided door of the cabin on
Too Much Gold I hear a voice say “Yes."
“Then I. McKinzie Butterfield, eschewing !
parliamenterry tictacs, do here and now j
declare that 1 shall overtake one of those 1
three traders some dark night when he is
going home and remove this obstacul to ;
legislashun to the hospital.
“I confess being a little previous in these 1
foremost remarks.
“Organizashun we’ve ben organizing for
a weak. Somebody get-’ appointed to do
something and before he dares to move a
man gets on each side of him and Steadies
him along. Then somebuddy else gets ap
pointed and they do the same thing. It is
called escorting them to the chair, and it
takes up a lot of time. After some more of
, these monkey.-hines a committee is ap
pointed tv) intervue a committee that was
appointed the day before to investigate an
other committee, and then we all adjourn
and ret;re to rest our overtaxed minds.
“I guess I desecrated the rules of the
houses and made a kind of fool of myself
the other day.
“I was named with some other fellers by
Collins to notify the sennet that the house .
v. redily for business. The committee
j poked around the mom for about an hour
! riting rest lutions. had the stennografer
I working like scared rabbets, returned the
| docyments to the stennografer and had her
j rite it all over again because she had made
I an le’ in place of ‘a’ in one word, and I got
| tired cf it and din n’t see any use of it any
i way. So I opened th ■ door and says pretty
loud, for I was mad at the committee mak
ing the stennografer work when they wasn’t
any use of it :
“ ‘Say. Dan.' I says, ‘the more numerous
1 branch of the Alaska do nothings, assem
! bled this day on the third floor of the
i Steingold building, has broken camp and is
i reddy for the trail. Have you got your
dogs harnessed yet?’
“Dan looked kind of funny, but he
! smiled. He's a sport, Dan is, and he knows
i me.
“I slammed the door shut and said:
“ ‘The higher order of things will have
their sleds lashed in a few minutes. I
move that we go ahead and break trail.’
“There was unnatural silence in the legis
lative hall for a minute and a quarter, dur
ing which they all looked at me as if I
| was Old Charlotte Jump-in-the-fire and had
I got hold of a bottel of red ink whisky,
i Then they began to whisper and smile— all
but one of the stennografers.
“Say. Bill, there is a person behind a
typewriter her?. She is if all the beauty of
the flowers was mixed together and the
sunlight cm the mountain peaks and the
j transparency of the iceburgs added to it—
“Well, I grabbed my hat and went down
' to the Louvre, where a nigger man beats a
I nesnno in the corner an 1 the smell of
; human nature is like green grass in the
spring.
“Hite a letter and tell me how far down
you and the Bisket Kid have got in the
new shaft on 4 below, also if Jake’s front
paw is well yet, and if you caught the
wolverine that has been robbing our trap
line.
“More to come. MeKINZIE.”
DRESSED CHICKEN IN FLANNEL
There is a chicken clucking around the
Atherton ranch, three and a half miles from
Marysville, all togged up in a nice flannel
dress, says the Tacoma Ledger. If it is
a bit cold, it isn'; manifesting it, although,
under the flannel garb, there are no feathers.
And this is a true story, too, as Miss Grace
Hopkins, a Chicago trained nurse, visiting
her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Atherton,
admitted yesterday.
The Athertons went over to Everett to
spend the day with Mrs. Atherton’s sister,
Mrs. Wallace, and laughingly told the Chi
cago girl to kill and cook a chicken, so as
to have it ready when they returned at
night. This was on Tuesday. Miss Hop
kins declared she’d do it. although she never
had handled a live chicken in her life,
much less killed one.
Left alone at the ranch, she boldly in
vaded the hen yard and captured a plump
chicklet. She was not afraid to do this
much, but when she stood before the chop
ping block, ax in one hand, chick in the
other, her courage failed.
She just couldnnt do it.
Then she thought of how her relatives,
returning from Everett, would laugh at her,
and she hit on a happy plan, calling into
play her knowledge gained as a nurse.
Finding the family chloroform bottle,
used for toothaches, etc., Miss Hopkins pro
ceeded to administer an anaesthetic to the
chicken, holding it with one hand and cover
ing its head with a chloroform-soaked cloth.
When nicely “dead,” the nurse proceeded
to the ,iob of plucking off the feathers—a
task she accomplished with credit, consider
ing she never had tried it before.
Then she repaired to the pantry to get
things preparatory to cleaning, and she was
occupied some time in finding them. Re
turning, she was dismayed to find the
chicken gone and, looking out of the open
door into the yard, was astonished to see
the bird, which absent-mindedly had forgot
ten it was dead, running wildly about, pre
sumably very sick at the stomach, after
the fashion of human beings coming to from
un anaesthetic.
Again the courage of the nurse failed
her. She just couldn’t kill that chicken
again. The other poultry ran panic-stricken
away from their odd-looking sister, and Miss
j Hopkins, again capturing it, kept it in the
warm kitchen until she had constructed a
Iress that would stay on it, enveloped about
its featherless body.
Charles Atherton says he never, never |
will part with that chicken while it. lives, i
and he never, never will be the means of its
death. It is the wonder of the com
ruunity.
WHY AMERICAN SYMPATHY
IS WITH BRITAIN AND ALLIES
(Open letter to Lord Northcliffe, publisher
of the London Times, by George Harvey,
in the North American for March.1
Why, then, are we for you and your
allies? For no other reason in the world
except that you are continuing the great
battle for government of. for and by the
people, which we began when at Lexington
we fired the shot that was heard around the
world- for the glorious cause which Frank
lin and Jefferson and Madison wrote for.
that Patrick Henry spoke for, that Wash- j
ington and Jackson fought for. that Line In i
died for, that McKinley suffered for. that
every American statesman worthy of the j
title now lives for.
To our minds, then, the real issue is not
mere militarism; it is the hideous ;
conception of which militarism is one < , the ,
many manifestations; it is despotism itself;
■ despotism which united our people origi
nally in armed resistance and which is no
less hateful to us now than it was then.
_
DOWN AND OUT
(Douglas Island New.
The old Alaska i inspector v.ho joined the
stampedes to every new strike, but some
how always located a blank, is stdl entitled
to consideration. Worn out by long trips
across frozen tundra, exhausted by exer
tion, and -irk from hunger and exposure,
he should not be allowed to die for the
want of the plain necessities of life.
The discovery of gpld in a new field
means prosperity and a chance for w. ; 1th
to many; and those who try and fail often
put forth greater exertion than their more
fortunate brothers. Old-time Alaskans espe
cially appreciate the services of these mpn
who fail, for some of those who try are the
ones who find the new bonanzas always.
And the kind hearts of the people of the
North, who understand, go out to the old
fellows who arc down and out. An out
come of this sympathy was the establish
ment -if the Sitka Pioneers’ Home, and
from all we cun learn rhi- institution is
serving a noble purpose.
However, some of the poor old boys away
up in the Interior are now in need, and
resent the sentence which would send them
to Sitka for life. They only wish to spend
their few remaining days amidst the scenes
of their greatest endeavor, where they can
look into faces that are familiar. A bill
recently introduced in the Alaska legisla
ture asks that they be allowed the sum of
S12.50 per month. Its passage would g’v
earnest to the oft-repeated claim of “Alaska
for Alaskans.” The lawmakers will do well
to eliminate the high-salaried officers and
look out frr the old boys who have but a
few years to live.
SUSITNA VALLEY MAY GET
AGRICULTURAL STATION
Professor Georgeson, who for many years
has been head of the agricultural depart
ment for Alaska, is on his way to the west
ward with a view to sending the superin
tendent of the Kodiak farm over into the
Matanuska and Susitna valleys to look over
the situation with the view of establishing
an experimental farm in one or the other
of these sections, “that is, if the railroad is
built out from Seward,” Mr. Georges n
qualifies. “We do r.ot intend to build off
the line of the railroad, not when we have
a whole empire to choose from."
Mr, Georgeson, himself hale and hearty
and strong as iron, reports things “boom
ing” in his line of work. There are now
four experimental farms in operation in
Alaska the Sitka farm, established in
1898; the one at Rampart, in 1900; Ko
riiak and Fairbanks farms, in 1907. Then
have been other agricultural stations estab
lished in years past, but they have beet
abandoned for more suitable locations.
Nothing intervening. Mr. Georgeson ex
pects to make his yearly visit to the Yukon
basin country this summer. He speak
highly of the farming possibilities of the
Tatiana valley, and hopes to see it th,
home of thousands of farmers.
DESERTED FROM POLICE
TO ENLIST IN THE WAR
The sympathies of the good people of
Whitehorse are unanimously favorable to
Constable Stangroom of the Northwest
mounted police, who reached that place a
few days ago in company with a companion
who had bought his discharge and was then
on his way to the battle front in Europe.
Stangroom also felt the call of patriotism
so strongly that he made an attempt to
desert from the Northwest mounted police,
but was caught at Carcross and .-iker. back
to Whitehorse, where he is doubtless at
present undergoing some kind of discipline,
although it is not reasonable to suppose it
will be of maximum severity.—Skagway
Alaskan, March 13.
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more durable for machinery repairing
than the ordinary soft lead. Pioneer
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Professions l
Ml ■ ilg’an, 18S1 Alaska, 1910
Kentucky, isoi
GiORGE Woodruff Albrecht
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Notice of Forfeiture
To Robert Mathson:
You are hereby notified that the under
-uine d has expended in labor and improve
ments the sum of one hundred dollars
'Slim for the vear of 1914 upon the
Gold Run Group placer mining claim, situ
ated on Little creek, a tributary of 'lanes
reek, in Innoko mining and recording dis
trict, district of Alaska. Notice of location
recorded in Vol. 10, Page 96, innoko Min
ing Records. , . ..
You are further notified that if at the
expiration of ninety (90, days after the
last publication oi this notice you fail or
refuse to contribute your proportion of
Mich expenditure, your interest in said
claim will become the property "f the un
dersigned. your co-owner, under Section
o;j24 of the Revised Statutes of the United
States.
ROBERT EVANS. Co-owner.
Date of first publication. April 17. 1915.
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