NEWS ITEMS OF MARSHALL
That the Marshall diggings, on the
lower Yukon, are the scene of much
activity, and that there is promise of
a camp of some stability, is the report
brought from that place by Fred Har
rison, who says that there are now
about four hundred men there. Re
cent clean-ups have been of a most
s; tjsfactory character, and show that
although the ground is somewhat ex- j
pensive to work, it nets more than
$:> to the foot. McGrath and partners,
recently made another clean-up. and it
is said that they have now taken out
$44,000 this season, and expect to take
out us much more before the freeze
up.
Gay <V; McKinzie. with whom J. E.
Riley of this district is interested, ex
pected to make a clean-up within a
few days, but an accident on their
scraping plant may delay them con-J
siderably. It i> said that the ground
which they are working in is extreme
ly difficult to handle, being composed
of a sticky clay, interspersed with un
even rocks of large size.
While there have been no repot ts of
new strikes, there is a belief that
other creeks will be opened up. Some 1
work is being done on Klephant creek,'
which, although of lower grade than
Willow, may yet prove to be a pro
ducer.
Joe Mills and Hank Crimm. both
well known in Iditarod, are said to
have some promising property in the
neighborhood of Anvik, which, how
ever, they refuse to discuss. They
were in Marshall recently.
Lumber is said to be in great de
mand, $123 a thousand having been
paid for it. There is as yet no at
tempt at building a town on the creek.
Supplies are being hauled from the
slough, three or four miles from
Willow creek, over execrable roads.—
Iditarod Pioneer.
COMMCMTY SERVICE
Sunday school at 11 o’clock, new
time; evening worship 7:20 to 8:20.
Sermon topic: “The Insanity of
leadership.” The new building has
been plastered and will now be com
fortable. You will profit by these
periods of Bible study and worship.
HARRY C. MUNRO. Pastor.
Oyster Cocktails at “The Branch.”
Have a look at our “PatlcK Duluth”
Mackinaw coats, the biggest line ever
shown in town.
.Brown Hawkins, “Quality First.
Carpenters white overalls. Painters
and paper hangers overalls and jump
ers.
BROWN & HAWKINS, “Quality
First.”
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EMPRESSTHEATRE
Sunday. Oct. 22. ™°*hows
NEW TIME
PATHE NEWS No. 47
MAY IRWIN IN
“Mrs. Black is Back”
America's foremost comedienne in one of America’s funniest
comedies. A story of humorous deception ami
comic complications, in 4 parts
Starts NKW T1MK
Mrs. Maude D. Cattle
Has arrived with a full line of
LADIES’ READY-]0-WEAR GOODS
AND FURNISHINGS. These goods are directi front New
York* Will la* shown at the Overland Hotel. It will he
remembered that we were then* last spring with a line ot
goods, and have a more complete line now.
the BROADWAY CAFE
THE PLACE OF GOOD EATS
FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
Everything in season and service the very best
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THE ALASKA SCHOOL SERVICE
(By'Isabel Ambler Gilman)
“In what language do you do your
thinking?” asked a visitor at the
public school at Petersburg, Alaska,
as a class in history and civics closed
their books for recitation.
The fair-haired, blue-eyed children
of the northern cannery town smiled,
and the class leader answered: “Why,
sir, we all speak Norwegian at home,
—our mothers don’t understand Eng
lish,-—and we translate our work into
our own language when we think r?
out by ourselves.”
Reader, did you ever purchase a
trifle at a foreign store, and compute
its relative value in United States leg
al tender before handing over you:
foreign cash? When you ponder prob
lems relating to France, Germany,
Mexico, or other countries, whose
language you have mastered, do you
ponder in the foreign tongue, or do
your thoughts unconsciously flow
through the natural channels of your
birth-language?
The lisher-folk of Scandinavian
Kurope, whose children are being
Americanized at the coast settlements
in Alaska, besides being possessed of
a birth-language rich in expansion
and expression, had crossed the ocean
and seen something of America before
reaching their new northern home.
They brought with them inherited
memories of civilizations much older
than our own and, in many cases,
they had some scholastic education
upon which to build the structure of
their Americanism.
Not so with the aboriginal tribes of
Alaska.
Forty-nine years ago, when we took
the inhabitants of “Seward’s Ice-box”
into our care, and promised the rights
and immunities of citizenship to all
of Russian blood, the natives of Alas
ka were savages. Not the savages of
history, who welcomed white settlers
with tomahawk ami scalping knife.
The food and climate of the far north
western peninsula are not conducive to
bloody warfare. The aborigines of
Alaska were a quiet, gentle, non
1 resistive people, gald of brotherhood
with every passing stranger, for
strangers were few and far between
and came not to rob them of their
homes and haunts.
When the Russian priests taught
them the (Ircek religion, they accept
ed it because it added interest to the
otherwise nothingness of their dull
cold lives. When the white trappers
wanted furs, there were plenty of wild
animals whose natural increase should
j suffice for all purposes. And when
other white men went crazy after the
yellow mineral, hidden among the
sands of their frozen creeks and riv
ers, it was nothing to the Indian and
Eskimo. But when the white con
querors took their young women for
mates, settled down among them, and
a new race of beings—the Alaskan
halfbrecds—began to take the place of
their own offspring, the aborigines of
Alaska waked.
“SUITABLE UEWAKD for infor
mation that- will put men in touch
with F. Handley Wells, formerly of
; Nelson, B. C., a musician and music
I teacher, might possibly be known as
Morrison.” W. J. FRANCE, 150
Lamb Ave., Toronto, Canada.
The second hand store owned by S.
Stalinsky, has moved from Broadway
to 5th, next to the Fairbanks hotel,
opposite A. 1>. hall.
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Bags, Brushes, Russian and American Oils, Kodaks, Thermos Bot
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Stationery, Pyralin Ivory Ware, Blank Books, Waterman Pens
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'TELLS STORY OF WRECK
OF THE INDEPENDENT
JUNEAU.—The crew of the wreck
ed steamer Independent were aboard
the Mariposa this afternoon bound for
Seattle. The boat struck on a charted
reef on the coast of Middleton island
at 1:60 o’clock on the morning of
October Gth and is a total loss, having
sunk in twenty fathoms of water. The
members of the crew escaped in the
dories but lost all of their personal
effects with the exception of the
clothing they wore. The ship’s paf.
; ers were saved by the captain.
At the time of the wreck, according
to the story told by Captain Miller,
the Independent was steering a course j
to clear the island by about 15 milts,,
but a southeaster was blowing and a
strong current was setting towards
the island which set the boat on the
reef in the darkness. She struck
three times before she finally settled
for the last time.
At the time the Independent struck
first it was dark, but the crew did not
abandon her until 8 o’clock in tin*
morning. The last time she struck
the rudder was carried away and she
was entirely helpless. The wind was
blowing so hard that the regular dory
crews could not handle the boats ami
they were being driven on the lee side
of the island where the shore was
absolutely straight up and down. The
crews were doubled up in the dorys
and they were able to row away from
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the rocks and round the island.
The survivors were entirely without
food of any kind, but were supplied by
Mr. I beck, who keeps a fox ranch on
the island and were taken to Cordova
by him in his gas boat. The Inde
pendent was owned by the National
Independent Fish Company, of Seat
tle.—Empire.
MKTHODIST ( HI KCTI
J. J. Patton, Pastor
The usual services will be held dur
ing the day. A cordial invitation is
extended to all. 1L a. m. sermon and
worship. Text, Psalms 84.2. Sunday j
school to meet 12:15 p. m. A short
time will be given to drill for “Rally
Day” service. Let the children come.
It will lit them for life’s duties. The
young people will meet at 0:30. Mr.
Daniel liiener will lead the service.
All young people are urged to be
present. Theme for 7:30 p. m.
preaching service: “The Serpent in
the Hedge.” As preliminary ancidote,
the pastor will narrate the story ol a
man whose appetite was so abnormal
that he consumed an acre of ground.
Mid week prayer and Bible study
Wednesday evening in the* parsonage
at 8. The Ladies Aid will meet in
the parsonage Thursday afternoon at
2:30.
Job printing of every description at
•’he Gateway.
Noodle Cafe. Phone Main 111.
Tray service 25c extra, receives
prompt attention. 8-1—tf
Hansen’s Famous Lineman’s special
guantlets ami short gloves.
Brown & Hawkins. “Quality First.”
Oyster Cocktails ut "The Branch.”
We have the finest line of stoves
and ranges in Alaska.
jROWN & HAWKINS, “Quality
First.”
Rest cigars and refreshments at
! Terminal Bar. See ad. 11-1-tf
Cupid s Darts
often take the form of a ho\ of our
chocolates, bon bons kisses or other
candies. They reach the heart ol any
girl with a sweet tooth and what girl
is without one? Stop in on your next
calling night and get a good big box.
i The bigger the box the sweeter the
impression.
TOBACCO, CIGARS AND
CONFECTIONERY
HETTELS The Kodak Store.
Broadway. Seward
WE PAY FOUR PER CENT ON SAVINGS
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT
Territorial Deposilon
Depositor) for City Funds
CORRESI’ON DENTS:
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First National Hank, Seattle
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Resources $550,000
ESTABLISHED 1905
EDISON WEEK
OCTOBER 16-21
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