Yukon Valley News
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Sam J. Callahan.Manager
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CALENDAR
OCTOBER
8 M T W T P S
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14.15 16 17 18 10 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 .“>1
Moon’s Phases.—
Full moon, 2d:
last quarter, 10th;
new moon, 17th;
♦h*st quarter, 24th;
full moon, 3lst.
NOVEMBER
8 M T W T F 8
1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 1) 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 10 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 20 30
Moon’s Phases.—
Last quarter, 9th;
new moon, 15th;
first quarter, 22d;
full moon, 30th.
Wednesday, Octobkr 17, 11*00.
One of tlu> hardest things
for a small mining-camp pa
per to avoid, at times, is
harsh criticism of private in
dividuals. In a population
made up of men from many
states and countries and of
all sorts of callings, there are
bound to be a few whose
general behavior appears to
the paper to be contrary to
all the rules governing good
citizenship. Tht^- may by
pernicious meddling and by
continually prating of imag
inary wrongs, seriously inter
rupt the good will between
neighbors that means so
much for the happiness and
prosperity of all. As a gen
eral rule, however, the paper
fails to mend the matter by
giving the disturbers the re
buke they so richly deserve.
In the first place the editor
wields a weapon that the
other individual does not
possess, and it naturally
creates some sympathy for
the one who is unprepared
for self defense. Then the
editor is hut human himself,
and can not hope to always
take the correct view: preju
dice and selfish ends may
sometimes, at least, lead him
to he unjust. All things con
sidered. the private individ
ual ought to he immune from
newspaper attacks, except,
jierhaps. on very rare occa
sion*.
The hardships imposed on
the interior Alaskan miners
by the customs regulations
are real. The statement of
them made by 0. W. Puring
ton, of the Geological Survey
(reprinted on another page),
is as conservative as the truth
will allow. Besides the hurt
done to the camps already
opened up and in a measure
able to withstand the artifi
cial barrier to profitable de
velopment, the prospector’s
work of searching for new
fields is made hard.
Just at the time it com
menced to look like Alaska
coal might be utilized for
consumption by the Nome
people, an executive order
withdrew from location all
the coal lands at Cape Lis
burne and other points ac
cessible to the big Bering Sea
mining region. Prospectors
of the interior could extract
a usefal hint from this. A
good coal mine handy to the
Yukon would soon become
valuable; but after it be
comes certain the coal exists
it may be too late for a pros
pector to secure any of it.
“ Eqiai, Rights to All; Spe
cial Privileges to None,” is
the title of a campaign hook
recently issued by the Demo
cratic National Committee.
That, the hook claims, is the
doctrine of the Democratic
party. The wrongs of the
protective tariff are summar
ized, and the literature is
being distributed for effect
in the congressional tight.
If we can bring ourselves to
believe that the democrats
are in earnest in their pro
f* '-ion of faith, let’s all go
right down on our marrow
bone- and pray for their suc
cess.
Im Hand of tiod fashion
ed the Yukon river on such
a generous plan that two
inan-tumlc governments and
Chas. A. Traeger,
Hats, Clothing
and Furnishings.
Just Received:
New Ladies’ Goods,
Flannels, Blankets,
Gents’ Furnishings.
F. M. SMITH
(Successor to
Smith & McHugh)
Freighter
and Packer
Rampart, Alaska
^TnmnrwBimnrinr^
£ FRANK STEVENS’S
GLEN ROADHOUSE
REOPENED BY
DAD FOSTER.
ACCOMMODATIONS for HORSES
ta. ajmJULA JULsum. -flJULfl_2_2_fi.
several government-made
corporations derive consider
able benefit from it.
If a man be industrious,
generous and truthful, there
is not room in him for faults
enough to make him very
bad. _
In all 452 people perished
as a result of the earthquake
at San Francisco April 18.
That is the statement of the
city health department. Con
trasted with the tremendous
destruction of property the
lo.'S of life seems remarkably
small, but it is extremely im
probable that the number of
bodies unaccounted for would
bring the total up to any
where near what was for a
long while thought to be the
case, t *f the victims 2*‘>t>
were killed by falling walls.
177 |»eris|ie<| by tire. 7 were
shot and 2 died from pto
maine poisoning due to eat
ing “emergency" canned
goods of jMtor quality; 12**
were whites, |s Chinese and
4 J«|*tlUese, •
J. LINDLEY GREEN,
Lawyer.
Office at the Courthouse.
OFFICE OF
Commissioner and Recorder.
Rooms 1 ami 2, Courthouse
A. B. NOTICE.
Regular meetings of the Arctic Hrother
hood Lodge are held at their hall on the
second and fourth Fridays of each month at
S o’clock p. m.
C. A. DAVIDSON,
JULIUS RAHMSTORF, Arctic Chief.
Arctic Recorder.
Modern Dentistry
In all its Branches
CHARLES D. CARTER, D. D. S.,
Prices reasonable. Work guaranteed.
OFFICE—Just above the new postoffice.
The Florence Hotel
Bar Supplied with the Best
of Liquors and Cigars
Billiard and Pool Parlors
Unexcelled
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