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WEDNKSIJAY, APRIL 5, I905.
Perhaps the war between Japan
and Russia is about over. If so, it
is devout!}' to he hoped that the
Russi in disturbances at home may
gather fresh impetus and know no j
ending until some form of constitu
tional government is assured and
the work is begun of righting the
wrongs that have tendered a great
people impotent before an inferior
foe. The war has done good to the
world by once more giving the lie
to the dogma that governments are
made strong by the exercise <>f
brute force against their people.
Postmaster Hartman, of Daw
son, recently returned to that j lace
from a trip outside. In expressing |
a belief in the permanency of the
Dawson mines he said to the tie .vs:
• Tit my younger days I wasa miner
in Colo:ado."in the old Caribou dis-!
triet in British Columbia, and els,e
where. After the trip I have just j
completed I have observed tint not
only are the old camps and old cen
ters largely continuing as producers,
but that many of them are centers
of great activity. In Cards u, for
instance, there are more whites to
da> than when I was there in ’6t.
In ’65 theie was qtti’e an exodus,
and many predicted that the place
would t>e utterly abandoned. The
camp never was abandoned, and
today with the aid of hydraulics is
a splendid producer. There is a
great deal ot good ground in the
camp, and by the use of water it is
being marie to yield profits to heavy
investors. The placer miner also
I* not extinct in the region. He i»
producing, and at times finds good
l>*y in localities in the district
where it was not believed years ago
that pay existed Strikes are now
being made in some instances on
ground we thought not worth pros
pecting in the early days.”
Until after the return of Kris
tian Falkenberg, chief of the
local Arctic Brotherhood camp, nc
idea can be formed as to what ac
tion that bod) will take regarding
a Rampart exhibit at the Lewis and
Clark exposition in Portland. Sc
far members of the order here have
seen no communication from the
grand camp bearing on the subject.
Mr. Falkenberg will return this
week, when it is expected the in
tentions of the order as a whole
will be made known. If it is de
cided to carry out the program out
lined in this pa]cr last week Ram
part is sure to be represented by an
exhibit as attractive as any that
will be seen at tire exposition.
It is instructive, amusing, disap
pointing, and not a li .tie disgusting
to note the changed attitude of the
press toward Gen. Stoessel s nee he
has returned home and mingled his
own disgrace with that of his coun
try. A few months rgo when he
sent word to his czar tl at Port Ar
tliui would he his ton b a gullible
world applauded and called him
hero. None stop] ed to consider
that the very words of his message
conveyed a halt concealed trepida
tit n; that a true hero would expect
his sovereign to take it as a matter
of course he would do his duty.
Later, when he suriendered in
spite of his v. in boast, he was ap
plauded more than evei — as if hu
manity to his men had dictated his
submission ar.d I.is determination
to live was a glorious sacrifice.
Now when his czar can find noth
ing hut blame, when his former
associates turn coldly from him and
uot a kindly look greets his return,
his every fault is held to the public
gaze and the world can find no
good in him. Stoessel lied when
he said 1’ort Arthur would be his
tomb. He probably hoped, at least,
at the time that it would turn out a
lie. He lied when he said he was
out of ammunition and food. Hut
Kuropatkin had lied by telling him
relief was near at hand when he
knew there would never be anv re
lief. Stoessel doubtless knew there
was no dependence to be put iti
Kuropatkin’s words He knew his
country's rottenness and he j artook
too much of it to be a hero. Bui
he did so much f«etter than . nv oi
his t>;other Russians that he shotih
fte spared part of the blame.
Thk gold output of Yukon Ter
ritory is decreasing yearly, and it
was lur below half that o
t*joo. If would I* hard to bebevr
that the tailing off is due to at
N. V. HENDRICKS ESTABLISHED 1904
| Alaska Commission Buying Agency
SEATTLE, WASH.
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'actual exhaustion of the territory’s
hidden treasure. Those people who
are prone to look toward the Cana
dian side tor precedents on which
to found Alaska regulations are in
vited to consider the facts. Alaska,
with all its drawbacks, is forging j
ahead. Yukon Territory, with its;
great prestige and vast possibilities, j
does not get the prospecting it de- i
serves, and is dropping behind. ;
These are facts, and they convey a j
lesson.
A letter advertised by the
postmaster recalls a pathetic death
which occurred at Fairbanks some
thing like half a year ago. The
letter was forwarded to this place
and was doubtless intended for
Jack W. Cassidy, who went to
Dav s n with the early rush. He;
followed the stampede to Fairbanks
last summer and died of spinal;
meningitis. He was an old Missis
sippi steamboatman, of generous
! nature and gentlemanly instincts
| and had a family and some property
1 in St. I.ouis. It is not known
! whether his family heard of his
j death or not, but possibly not, for
| Mr. Cassiday was delirious when
' his illness became known.
(iol<I r>ro<Iitction
of Yukon Territory
Canadian government returns
show the annual production of gold
in Yukon Territory as follows:
1S85 1896 . $ 1,538.400
1897 . 2,500,000
1898 .. . 10,000,000
1X99 . 16.000,000
These returns are conceded to l>e
too small. The royalty tax, while
it existed, was a constant incentive
for the concealment of the true fig
ures. It is claimed with apparent
truth that the actual total would tw
about $130,000,000.
C.en Fmutton is to assume com
mand of the department of Califor
nia. Some time ago he was com
mander of the department of the
Columbia
11900
11901
1902
1904. about
22.750.000
IX, 000.000
14.500.000
12.250.000
10,000,000
Total .
#107.063,400
C. H. GIBBONS, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon.
Office Hours: i to 3 p. m. and when not other
wise engaged.
Office and Residence. Second avenue.
GKORGJ2 A. SAL18RVKY,
Attorney and Counsellor,
Rampart. Alaska
J. LINDLKY GREEN,
Lawyer.
Office at the Courthouse.
OFFICE OF
Commissioner and Recorder
Rooms 1 and 2, Courthouse
THE
HEETER
TANANA, ALASKA
S. E. HEETER, ED FERGUSON,
PROPRIETOR MANAGER
FIRST-GLASS
Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Heeter’s Pack Train
Leaves for (ileii Every
Five Days.
Freighting and Packing
To and From All
the Creeks.
Good Teams. Good Service
Ri«n«r, Alaska. March ji. kjov
NOTH'TO C HKD)TON*.
In the matter c»t the Kstatr j
«>f [
I.AMs SVFNDSON Drceawt )
N'OTICK is hereby given to the creditors ol the
estate of the «anf !,*»» Hvend*on to file their
claim* with the under*ticned. with the proper
voucher* and affidavit* attached at my office in
the Northern Commercial Co • afore tn Hum
part in the territory of Alaska, within *1*
month* of the date of the first publication ul
thi* notice saul Hr*! publication being March
t. N WANS*
Administrator of said hstale
Fifty Iboosand dollars in hills
and $3,000 in gold was recently
stelen from the vaults of the Ger
man American hank in Cincinnati.
The detective* have been working
mi Ihe case without arriving at any
conclusion