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ADDED TRAFFIC AND BUSINESS.
With the opening of traffic this month over the
partly reconstructed section of the government railroad
from here to Kern Creek, all camps from Seward to Mile
80 will Ixicome tributary to Seward and will give Seward
merchants a hint of what it will mean for Seward when the
entire line is open and all country north of here a zone in
which to seek trade.
Immediate gain will result when important station
camps are to be established between Girdwood and Bird
Point, where several miles of heavy construction will be
encountered, all of which will mean camp outfits, increased
demand for supplies and men.
More important in the long 11111, however, will be the
increased mining development in the Moose pass district
when regular traffic is available for shipment of ores and
concentrates.
OUR NEIGHBOR.
Alaska has more interest in the revolution in Russia
than any other section of the United States. Russia is
our neighbor and is a country with which especially the
Second Division has had intimate dealings. Across the
sea a few days sail are gold mines, coal beds, and mineral
resources which so far have never been rightfully exploit
ed. Anadir has the finest harbor in the north and the
streams of Anadir are all auriferous. What has delayed
the settlement of that section of Siberia has been the red
tape of Czardom.
Likely as not that will all be removed, and in the
removal, we can safely assert that the next big stampede
will be to Siberia.
Siberia is a land of mvsterv but there have been Nome
ites who ventured there and who returned with gold dust
from its streams. Prohibitory mining laws and strict of
ficialdom have tended to exclude all foreigners from visit
ing Siberia but if the revolt burns up a quantity of red
tape, it will throw open an immense amount of frontier
land to the wander-lustful mushers of the north and there
will be a big exodus across the Bering Sea.
It will forward the development of the country on
both sides of the ocean unimaginably and permit another
chance to the many who have been watching the last fron
tier being seized by the plunderbund to their total ex
clusion.
It is not hard to realize, therefore, that the mo
mentous events which have transpired in Petrograd will
have an effect which will reverberate around the world;
especially for Nome have those stirring episodes in the
Russian Empire a great significance. It opens up new
fields for the prospector and an immense amount of free
land to the settler.
This may all take some time, but in a breathing spell,
conditions over the Bering Sea will be such that we may
expect no small exodus from Alaska or from the States
of former Alaskans to the Siberian land that some time
ago many of them cast covetous eyes enough upon.—Nome
Worker.
MARSHAL OF FRANCE.
In welcoming Marshal Joffre to the United States
many newspapers have stated that he is the first officer
of this rank in the French army ever to have been in the
United States. The Philadelphia Iryjuirer corrects this
• statement and calls attention to the fact that George
Washington, while commander-in-chief of the revolution
ary army, was formally created a marshal of France
by Louis XVI.
The conferring of this title upon Gen. Washington
was necessary as a matter of military etiquette, under the
circumstances of the time. The French king had sent
an army uder command of Rochambeau to co-operate
with the American troops in the field, the services of which
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—Hodge in Spokane Spokesman-Review.
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were the final factor in the success of the revolution and
the establishment of the independence of the United
States. Rochambeau held a higher rank in the French
army than the continental congress was prepared to con
fer upon Washington. Under the military law, when the
two armies were united the officer of the higher rank
naturally took supreme command.
It was, of course, the purpose that Washington should
remain in supreme command and Rochambeau.was loyally
anxious to serve under him. The king of France gave
congress had not given him scongress hadn’t given him so
that no question could remain of the supreme command.
Washington commanded the American troops by reason
of his commission from congress and he commanded the
French troops under his commission from the king of
France.
No commander was ever served more loyally than was
Washington by Rochambeau and the French troops under
him. These are facts which it is well to recall at this timer
when, after a lapse of 135 years, the United States and
France are once more in military alliance. American
troops will shortly be serving with equal loyalty under a
French commander, and with equal valor.—Seattle P. I.
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