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WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1905.
FAIRBANKS IN DISTRESS.
Fairbanks, June 25.
Secretary of War Taft, Washington, I>. C.
Two hundred soldiers idle at Fort
Gibbon. Eight million of dust at the
creeks unprotected. Miners can’t use
public highway without being robbed.
Help us. Albert White,
Secretary Pioneers and Prospectors.
According to the Fairbanks News
the above is a copy of a telegram
which was to be sent w hen the wire
was repaired.
It is the best joke originating in
Alaska since Valdez threatened to
go over to Canada. It is unbeliev
able that the secretary of war or
any other high official will take it
seriously or give it further notice
than that of passing curiosity.
Might thousand Americans send
ing a help-me-Cassius-or-I-sink ap
peal to Washington because a lone
Swede calls “hands up!’’ Let the
war office send them a consignment
of ne-ru-na.
•'Eight million of dust at the
creeks unprotected”: good deal of
dust that, and to direct the world’s
attention to it in a sensational man
ner is logical advertising—and so
the extremely nervous manifesta
tions of the Fairbanks public may
be accounted for.
Hut there ts a more serious side
to the Fairbanks situation, when
rightly viewed, which is brought
into distinct imjttirtance by the
happenings in that district within
the past two months. The thou
sands of people there have no law
ful means within themselves tor
protection when emergencies arise.
In case of really great danger only
t wo courses arc open appeal to
Washington or orgauuc vigilance
committees Of the two the last is
the least objectionable. Whatever
the means necessary to accomplish
their purpose, it is best that com
munities rely on their own strength
to maintain order and decency
among themselves. This has been
the manner of action throughout
the settlement of the west, and
the present manhood of the country
is its justification. It is humiliating
and unmanly, demoralizing and de
grading to send six thousand miles
for help that a community ought to
furnish itself.
NOT ENCOURAGING.
The Skagway Alaskan has prob
ably had more to say than any
o.her paper favoring political rights
for Alaska. The paper’s princi
ples have been unexceptionable,
but it at last seems to realize that
it has accomplished little practical
good. If the Alaskan will forego
the assumption that eastern leaders
are misinformed regarding this ter
ritory it will get at the full truth of
the matter, which is very nearly
approached in the following recent
editorial:
The outlook for legislation that
would cause abatement of the rest
lessness that permeates the civic
life of Alaska is not good. There
is little in the interviews that are
being given out by senators and
repre; entatives in congress about
Alaskan legislation and the subject
matters considered at the confer
ences of national legislators that
have taken place down at Seattle
and elsewhere in the States to en
courage hope that there will be a
recognition of the right of the peo
ple to self government or popular
representation. In fact, speaker
Cannon, Senator Hemenway, Rep
resentative Tawney and other na
tional leaders seem opposed to the
idea that the people of this district
are entitled to representation at all.
They have intimated that it is now
pretty well represented by the lobby
and the Sea'tle delegation at the
national capital. The idea is fre
quently expressed by those who
shape national policies that if any
change is made it should he in the
appointment hy the president, the
governor or s< me other authority,
ot a commercial agent. None of
them is disposed to recognize the
right of a people to regulate their
own affairs as lieing applicable to
Alaska.
Instead of making use of their
hurried visits to this district to as
certain that there are Americans
here, whose numf>ers are thousands,
who desire toexern-e their natural
right to home rule, lawgivers come
in the attitude ot physicians visit
ing a sK'k patient, and each old
doctor prescribes a different physic.
When one of our citizens suggets
N. V. HENDRICKS
ESTABLISHED 1904
Alaska Commission Buying Agency
SEATTLE, WASH.
We Buy and Ship (or you. Only on Commission
Call on our Agent or write to us
SAVE MONEY!
If you have not already arranged for your winter’s outfit, it will
pay you to ascertain the very favorable terms upou which I will have it
shipped to you from Seattle. Only a small cash deposit necessary in
advance, the balance, including a reasonable commission, payable upon
the arrival of the goods.
Orders mailed by July 20th for shipment via St. Michael, and by
Aug. 1st for shipment via Dawson should arrive at Rampart before the
close of navigation.
G. A.
THE MIRROR
Wines,
Liquors,
Cigars.
JERRY FORD,
M. R. DOWNING,
to many of them that we desire to
be treated only as were those Amer
icans who crossed the Alleghanies
more than a century ago and who
made their way to the Pacific coast
a half century later, founding cotn
monwealts and making the Ameri
can nation great as they proceeded,
he is scolded for his pains.
“Koyukuk” is a name ofter
spoken nowadays. People from
Nome and St. Michael, Fairbanks
and Chena, the outside and Daw
son all have something to say about
the country, and many evidently
would not be surprised to hear that
something great has been uncovered
there.
Chena and Fairbanks arranged
to jointly celebrate the Fourth of
July, but the great flood which did
$150,000 damage to the latter town
just before the day caused the cele
bration to be abandoned. The
Americans up at Dawson had plan
ned a fine celebration of the day,
but incessant rain interfered with
the exercises. So far as known no
settlement in Alaska let the day go
by without appropriate ceremonies
Ketchikan probably exceeded all
other towns in Alaska its proud
observance of the day, for Admiral
('•ixatrH-h and his ships of the Pa
cific squadron joined in and made
the occasion lively.
GKORGK A. SALISBURY,
Attorney and Counsellor,
Rampart. Alaska
J. LINDLEY GREEK,
Lawyer.
Office at the Courthouse.
OFFICE OF
Commissioner and Recorder
Rooms i and 2, Courthouse
In the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division,
K. W. Griffin, )
Plaintiff,
VH.
Karl K. Tschf.pf.n, L. II. Titus, y SUMMONS.
G. W. Pf.nninoton, C. J. |
IIknkman and Wm. M. Davis, |
Defendants. J
The President of the United States to Karl F*.
Tschepen and L. H. Titus, defendants.
Greeting:
i mi nnu ini II ui juu arc ntrroy required IO
be iind appear in the District Court for the
Territory of Alaska. Third Division, in an action
brought against you by the plaintiff herein. to
answer the complaint on file within thirty days
after the publication of this summons.
Said action is brought to obtain a decree of the
court foi the foreclosure of a certain mortgage
described in the complaint, and executed by
Karl K. Tschepen and C. W. Pennington,on the
31st day of December, 1902, to secure the pay
ment of a certain account for goods, wares and
merchandise sold and delivered by plaintiff to
defendants, and that the premises conveyed by
said mortgage may be sold, and the proceeds be
applied to the payment of said indebtedness;
and in case such proceeds are no*, sufficient to
pay the same, that a deficiency judgment may
1 issue for the same, and also that snid defend
I ants, and all persons claiming hv. through or
' under them, or either of them, may b* barred
and foreclosed of all right, title, claim or lien or
equity of redemption and interest in and to said
mortgaged premises, and for other and further
relief, a* will more fully appear from the com
plaint on file herein
AMD you are hereby notified that if you fail to
appear and answer said complaint, as above re
quired. said plaintiff will apply to the court tor
the relief demanded in said complaint
With***, the Hon jame* Wickersham. judge
of said court, this 12th dny of July, in the year
of our t.ord one thousand nine hundred and
five, and of our independence the one hundred
and twenty ninth KDWARD J. ATI KR
Clerk Court
Date of Ar*t publication of this summons,
this i<>lh day of July. 1903.
Capt. Rokkk.kr. of the Dawson
News, was on the Cudahy home
ward found alter a trip to Fair
banks and Nome. Mrs. Koediger
accompanied him. The raotain
was enthusiastic in praise of the
great Alaskan placer camps, but
could not be tricked into classing
them with Dawson.