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CALENDAR
OCTOBER
S M T \V T F H
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 IS 16 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31
Moon’s Phases. -
Full moon, 2<l;
last quarter, 10th;
new moon, 17th;
tirst quarter, 24th;
full moon, 31st.
NOVEMBER
8 M T W T F 8
1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 0 10
11 12 16 14 15 16 17
IS 10 20 21 22 26 24
25 26 27 28 20 60
Moon’s Phases.—
Last quarter, 9th;
new moon, 15th;
first quarter, 2-d;
full moon, 80th.
Wednesday, October 61, 1906.
The cost of collecting the
customs duties in Alaska for
the fiscal year ending June
30, last, was seven hundred
and twenty-two one-thous
andths of the total amount
collected. Under normal con
ditions a medium-grade pla
cer mine might be made to
yield a larger per cent, over
the cost of extracting the
gold from the ground than
the government receives over
the cost of collecting the
customs money, hook pleas
ant, you patriots, and don’t
forget there is a principle
involved.
A vkry large number of
persons with money in their
pockets went to the States
from Alaska this year. Some
of them will buy homes or
go into business ami return
no more; some will provide
more comforts for children
or needy relatives and come
back and buckle down to
work again. The sum total
of them will do more than
thev get credit for toward
helping along the good times
outside that people are talk
ing about.
Ik the I ’handlar tuni' out
spotted, be thankful for the
s|»ots.
Mil. I’llYW WU* pleased
|>\ Mr Hears!'* nomination
for governor of New \ «»rk.
The following from the
Tanana Citizen illustrates
the way protection doesn’t
protect Alaska prospectors:
“There are two men on the
Yukon opposite the mouth
of the Melozi who claim to
have a quartz ledge. Their j
dynamite has been held up
by the customs authorities at
St. Michael, and therefore
they will not be able to do
much this winter; hut they
claim to have a very fine
prospect.”
That was a large ground
sluicing contrivance the en
gineers constructed, without
designing to, on the Colorado
river. If they could make
the Tanana or the Forty
mile change its course, move
a like amount of dirt, and
return to its old channel
again, an area of riches
might he laid hare instead of
the ruinous waste that their
work entailed.
Thk November Cosmopol
itan will have an article ‘'I
Sleep Out of Doors’ by Mar
garet llrewster, who does that
very thing winter and sum
mer. She perhaps is not ac
quainted with Alaska winters
or the summer crop of mos
quitoes.
Tribute to
Rev. Father Ragaru
(From the Ska gw ay Alaskan)
The Bev. Father Louis Ragarti, S. J
broken in health as the result of nine
teen years spent among the Alaskan
Italians of tin* interior, passerl through
this »-ity this week on his way to Ju
neau. lie will relieve the Rev. Father
Brown there for a short time, when he
will reeeive nrlers that will take him
fr**itt Alaska
Father Ragnru \+ one of those r ha me
ters sueh as have iiiimIp the Jesuit priests
famous in the 'level*pntetit of the I nite«l
States. For nearly two «leea«le* he has
travele«| up an»l «h»wn the Alaskan inte
rn *r with this frit** ami that, using Ins
in Hue nee t»» softelt the Imrliitrous nature
• >f the native, to tie ten*! him from the
avariee of Ins pah* brother *n«l to im*
pres* upon white aial re«l lire ohligutM'it
• •I manknel !*• f‘ll«*w in ttie «te|>M *.f the
Chas.A.Traeger,
Hats, Clothing
and Furnishings.
Just Received:
New Ladies’ Goods,
Flannels, Blankets,
Gents’ Furnishings.
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o Everything New
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REOPENED BY
DAD FOSTER.
ACCOMMODATIONS for HORSES
til SLSJLSJLa. SUUULSULSJUiSLSiSJi
Holy Oik* of Israel. He lias made—as
made Ids predecessors on the prairies of
the Mississippi valley, the plains ol the
Hookies and the frontier wilderness ev
erywhere— the settlement of a pioneer
country and its winning for civilization
easier, lie Jhas given his life to his
work and is only more fortunate than
many other Jesuits have lieen in that a
superior in his order has discovered his
physical incapacity to continue the hat
tie against hardship in time for him to
s]>end a few of his declining years in
surroundings more pleasant.
Only once in the last ten years has
Father Kagaru made a trip to civiliza
tion. He was met at Skagway hv the
Rev. 1’. ('. Bougie, S. J., who came
town in France that gave him Birth and
in which he sjient his early days. They
had not met Before in twenty years.
Father Uagaru has lieen succeeded hv
the Rev. Father Jette. The latter is a
son of the lieutenant-governor of tjucliec.
BIG TOM MAHONEY
AN ISLAND DICTATOR
The crew «*f the *t»uii»*r WVare awl
un*l • ►*«rvr**>* *rv *liut m **n tin* i**l,»n*l at
the in*>iit)» nf the Tanaita.
They trie*l l» rr«iiw over to t lie main
I.iimI la it Saturday, hut emiMn't main*
it It if* »»«••! tliev <*ii;iui«t at t'hemuft l**r
t !*•• r* atm I lri|>, an*l that thrrvfun* their
|siy i1* tfotiitc **n Hi* T»*m Mah**ney,
formerly *»l lUtn|Mrt. a *Ik tat**r *>l the
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«
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second and fourth Fridays of each month at
8 o’clock i>. m.
W. W. CROCKETT,
JULIUS RAHMSTORF. Arctic Chief
Arctic Recorder.
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