Yukon Valley News
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S. E. URETER.Proprietor
Sam J. Callahan.Manager
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EXCHANGES IN THE STATES
Are requested to pay second-class postage
front Nov. I to June i.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 21, I904.
About twenty-five people will
winter on the Troublesome and its
tributaries. With the large number
of men in easy reach, the location
of really rich pay might swell the
number to almost as many hun
dreds. Prospects warrant great ex
pectations for that part of the dis
trict.
Business in Dawson the present
summer has been good and a lead
ing feature has been the export
trade to Alaska. If the policy of
the United States in discouraging
down-river shipments of American
goods in Canadian bottoms was in
tended to protect American inter
ests it has doubly failed; for it has
built up Canadian commerce and
kept out American products.
Navigation is dangerously near
its close and it is practically certain
that the amount of provisions in
the interior of Alaska is far be'.ow
the requirements of the people. It
is possible that Rampart may find
the situation worse this winter than
it was last. Fairbanks district can
scarcely be supplied, though there
may be some improvene.t there
since last reports. Of course there
is no datiger of actual starvation,
but a good many people may have
to seek refuge on the Canadian side
of the boundary at great personal
inconvenience and business loss.
Just now, there is scarcely room to
doubt that mining interests will
suffer. _
Thk Fairbanks News intimated
that the Chena Herald man's (lietion
was not in good working order.
Whereupon the Herald fired this
at its meddling neighbor's vitals
"The Herald does not propose to
treat articles in amphibological dic
tion. It is not the purpose of the
Herald to couch in language in
such manner as to mislead and be
fuddle the rentier with an exposi
tion of literary gymnastics in the
shape of analetic.il syntax ami obae
lelc words The Herald will write
plain for plain people. We will
leave diction, grammatical con
%t nu t too* and phraseology' to the
•cheater, boomers amt Mews, that
will he amphihuhigKal enough for
them to wiggle out of the slough
town and gather around them
zanys enough to prevent them en
tering a jeremiade state.” Exactly.
The truth of the Herald’s remarks
; can not be denied. Yet it is equally
certain that the News diagnosed
the Herald man’s case right. If
the trouble is of long standing a
cure is doubtful. Treatment: Avoid
■ stimulants, cultivate cheerful soci
I ety, keep regular hours. If not
i relieved consult a specialist.
| THE MINING-CAMP NEWS
PAPER.
A really good editorial writer
must possess unusual qualifications.
| Unlike other men who aspire to do
; their work well, he can not choose
I some special branch of knowledge
I and master it by patient effort:
! everything is within his sphere, and
! in no instance can his work be illy
done and escape the consequence of
its faultiness. Given learning, hon
esty ot purpose, power of forcetul
expression, the faculty of deductive
reasoning, and instinctive ability
to distinguish between light and
wrong, he must still be able to
discriminate and must have a keen
sense of utility. If he sees abuse
it may be better to pass it over than
drag it in the open to contaminate
but not abate. He must know how
to choose his opportunity, to gauge
his own powers, and to adjust his
own interests and ideas to those ot
bis readers. Primarily, he must
understand that if he falls short of
success his failure is due to himself
alone—in bis calling merit and suc
cess are synonymous. Be his read
ers few or many, wise or otherwise,
they will not fail—as a mass—to
estimate him correctly. But two
things can limit his achievement —
narrowness of field and unworthi
ness to fill it.
Conducting the news columns of
a paper are different. Reasonable
intelligence and patient industry
are the principal requirements.
The end sought is to give facts as
they occur, with the least possible
bias, selected solely with a view to
the information and entertainment
of readers.
I’eoj le wilt not demand a high
ntkih. of editorial excellence in a
small publication in a mining camp;
and wuh news columns clean, di
versified ai d entertaining a paper
may in nowise 1* said to be • fail
ore, though its editorial columns
fall somewhat below mediocrity.
Kamimht is a good camp to stay
with It has the mines and it has
the Yukon There is not a ramp
in the north where a greater per
cent, of the people are making
money, e greater per cent of wage
eu nets geftug the:; pay Of I
greater per cent a# laymen satisfied
with result*
WHY?
Now that one of the great com
mercial companies has absolutely
and finally withdrawn from the
Rampart trade the question, very
naturally, is Why?
It is not because there is insuffi
cient business here—the demand
for goods exceeds the supply.
Nor because of a lack of money
in the camp—the mines produce
regularly and well.
It can not be because prices have
gone below the profit line—the
company itself was one of the prin
cipal factors in fixing the rate on
merchandise, albeit the rate was
little complained of.
Surely it can not be that it is
lack of means on the part of the
company—else it should not have
existed at all.
Then why the devil is it that the
N. A. T. & T. Co. has quit? Evi
dently, because it is unprofitable
to remain.
But why is it unprofitable, with
demand for goods exceeding the
supply, with money to pay for the
goods, with prices practically of
the company’s own making, and
with means to do business in an
advantageous and economic man
ner ?
It is but logical to conclude that
in some particular, wise business
methods have been departed from.
It may be the people have formed
a belief that the company is antag
onistic to their interests; it may be
that the directing force is too far
removed from the seat of opera
tions—whatever or wherever the
difficulty, reduced to its obvious
sequence it is but failure to fulfill
the requirements necessary for suc
cess.
From Wall street comes a seem
ingly well-founded report that the
vast Rockefeller interests will be
aggressively for Parker and Davis
That was expected. But with all
their vast influence, it is doubtful if
the Rockefeller interests can ad
vance the political fortunes of the
democratic nominees. They have
gigantic wealth, and they have
powerful connections in every etatc
in the Union, but the Rockefellers
are not yet the United States of
America. Spokane Spokesman-Re
view.
The final proof required by the
government in the Home townsite
patent case has been made and for
warder! to Juneau. The Nome
Sinook company has riled a protest
against the entry on the ground
(hat the laud is mineral in charac
ter. The land department bu de
cided that such a proteat will not
he entertained, aa whatever rights
the mineral claimants have can be
aaeerted. notwithstanding the town
site patent, by following the rules
laid bias therefor jun Dispatch
LOUIS K. PRATT,
Attorney- at Law,
Fairbanks, Alaska
J. LINIU.EY GKKKN,
Lawyer.
Office at the Courthouse.
OFFICE OF
Commissioner and Recorder
Rooms i and 2, Courthouse
The Boston Store
Our Mr. P. KAFFENBURGH is
now in the States selecting the
season’s stock.
It will be complete, as it has
always been.
I. KAFFENBURGH & CO.
Heeter’s Pack Train
Leaves for Glen Every
Five Days.
Freighting and Packing
To and From All
the Creeks.
Good Teams. Good Service
In the Probate Court for Rampart Precinct.
Third Division, District of Alaska.
In the matter of the estate of James M. An
drews. deceased.
NOTICK is hereby given that I, George A
Carl, was on the 26th day of August, 1904.
appointed Administrator of the estate of James
M. Andrews, deceased, and all creditors of said
estate arc hereby notified to file their claims
with me. properly sworn to. at my place of
business a*. Tnnana, Alaska, within six months
after the first publication of this notice.
First publication August 31st, 1904.
GKO. A. CARL.
Administrator.
THE
HEETER
TANANA, ALASKA
S. C. HEETER, CD FERGUSON.
PROPRIETOR MANAGER
riHAT-CI.AM*
Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Mark Twain’s Andienet**.
It was on the train somewhere
l>etween New York an«l the west
Mark Twain was traveling between
towns on a lecture tour, and a
friend had been drawing the hu
til"rist out on the subject of his
caperiem.es
' What sort of audience," he
asked, "do you like best? Who
in your opinion make the most re
sponsive end sympathetic listen
ere *'*
"College men," replied Mark,
after a moment'* thought "col
lege men amt convict*."