INTERESTING TYPES
ENCOUNTERED IN NORTHLAND
EFFECT OF FAR NORTH OX HARDY ADYENTUREKM WHO HAYF
SPENT MOST OF THEIR LIVES IN THE LAND OF
THE MIDNIGHT HUN.
(By Fred Lockley in Portland Journal.)
"1 doubt if you will find anywhere else as many interesting pioneer
types as in Alaska." said Charles E. Steelsmith, manager of the Dalles
Columbia Transportation Company. "When Jack McQuestinn sold his
trading post at Forty-Mile to the Alaska Commercial Company he made
it a part of th*- contract that the Alaska Commercial Company should take
care of three or four of the oldtimers as long as they lived. Among them
were Sam Patch, Billy Williams and Jim Bender. Charlie Hall, the
Alaska Commercial agent, obeyed the spirit as well as the letter of this
obligation• and saw that these old-timers lacked for nothing. When I
was up there in 1SCharlie Hall gave a Christmas party. He invited
all the old Sourdoughs up in that district to come to the Christmas festiv
ities. He sent to Dawson for a turkey. The old Sourdoughs began
gathering in the forenoon. The dinner was to be in the evening. So
bountiful was the hospitality of the Alaska Commercial Company’s agent
and so excellent and so potent were the liquid refreshments that of the 12
who had come to eat the Christmas turkey, only two survived until the
turkey appeared—the other 10 were under the table or elsewhere, in
peaceful slumber.
"Sam Patch had stampeded to the Fraser mines in 1862. From
there he had gone i-jto the Caribou country. Later, when the Cassiar
country had opened up, he had gone there, and from there, in 1897, he
had gone to the Klondike. He had never gone outside, so he knew
very little of the chances that had occurred since 1S62. Ho was a tnan of
very intense convictions. ne nad taken up a claim at the boundary and
when the line was surveyed and it was found that it passed directly through
his place (the survey showing it went through his potato field) he went
out and pulled up all the potatoes on the Canadian side He said, ‘I
never did have no use for them English, and I don't intend to eat potatoes
raised in English soil.’ Everyone who knew about old Sam made it a
point of stopping at his place to eat dinner with him. and of course, bring
ing along some dainty to be served with the dinner. We always took
him tea and tobacco and more substantial provender, usually a caribou
ham or something of that sort.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
"My brother stopped there over night in going to Circle City. I
happened to drop in a few uiriIits later. With a fork in one hand and a
knife in the other, Kticking straight up in the air, Sam leaned his handH on
the table, bent over toward me and said. ‘Charley, that brother of youra
is the dumbdest liar in Alaska, fie set right where you’re settin* anc
told me a man coul<^ be in Seattio and talk to a man in San Francisco.
He oughta know I’m too smart to believe that big a lie.’
“One evening they gave a party at Forty-Mile, to which Sam wat
invited. Someone had sent in a gramophone. One of the records was
a humorous dialogue. My brother pat this record on, started the gramo
phone. and took Sam out to hear it. As the voice came from the gramo
phone Sam backed as far away as he could and Anally bolted. When
my brother tried to get him to go back, he said, “I don't want no truck
with such contraptions. It ain't natural nor reasonable for a damned
box to be able to talk like that.'
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
“Billy Williams' cabin was a half mile away from that of Sam
Patch. Each day one or the other went to see how the other 8ourdough
was getting along. Billy Williams’ partner had been buried on the point
just across the river from Sam Patch's place. One morning they found
Billy had gone over the divide and joined his partnef, so they buried him
near the grave that he had tended. I happened to strike Sam Patch’s a
little later. I said, 'Well, Sam, how do you feel?’ ' He said, “Tollable
low. I was pretty sick last night. I sure thought you fellows would
have to bo packin’ me down on the point to be with Billy.' Not long after
that Spin’s niece in California, who was well-to-do, sent money for him
to come and live with her. It seemed rather strange to think that after
more than 50 years of work in Alaska, Sam was able to put all his earthly
1 possessions into a red bandana; that was his only baggage. After more
| than half a century of living up North, Sam couldn’t stand city life and he
died two weeks after he reached San Francisco. It was a clear case of
dying of homesickness.
“Old man Babbit was also an oldtime Sourdough, who had come up
into the Forty Mile country from Casslar. The spell of tho Yukon
certainly had him. When he got old and crippled up with rheumatism,
they sent him to California to see if it would help him. As the ship
entered the Golden Gate the old man shook his head, looked regretfully
northward, stepped to the side of the rail, stepped over and was drowned.
“ ‘Daddy’ Webber, who lived 45 miles above Circle City, on the Yu
kon. at the mouth of Wilbur creek, was another interesting old-timer. I
made it a point to stop with him on my frequent trips up and down the
river. When I went outside. In the summer of 1900, I said to him.
‘Daddy, when I come back next fall, what do you want me In bring you?'
He looked at me reflectively, scratched his head, and finally said: “Well,
son. if you can fetch me some nice old woman to cook for me, I sure win
make it right with you I’m gettln' mighty tired of my own cookin’."
“Daddy” Webber finally was sent down to Morningside, near Mount
Tabor, here in Portland, and became a patient of Dr. H. W. Coe.
JUSTICES DIFFER ON LAWS
FOR DIVORCE RESTRICTION
DIVERGENT VIEWS HELD BV TWO MODERN SOLOMONS OP NEW
YORK BENCH CONCERNING BIG PROBLEM OP AGE.
New York. March 9—Diametrically opposite views aa to the heat
way or remedying or solving the "problem of the age"—marriage—are
held by two modern Solomons of the New York bench.
Judge Alfred J. Tally, of the Court of General Sessions, holds that
more stringent marriage laws will result In fewer dlTOrces. Senior Justice
Leopold Prince, of the Eighth District Municipal Court, in answer to Judge
Tally, hold that stricter marriage laws would result lu a deluge of divorces,
and that easier divorce laws would result in a far happier condition of
life and living.
"Did taxation without fermentation make for a prohibition that
prohibited?” asked JuBtice Prince.
••MAKE MAN JUMP OVER.”
“Barriers of any kind only wan^ to make man Jump over them.”
he explained. “Make marriage laws stricter and you will have a similar
effect to that produced by prohibition. Everyone knows that there
have been more hip-bottles and more drinking, even among young people,
than ever before.
“People want to be free to do as they choose. Legislative restrainl
imposed upon them that deprives them of their righta makes them want
all the more to do a thing they are told that they cannot.
“Before a man and a womfn are married both wear their besl
clothes as it were. Both are on their best behavior. Neither shows
bis or hers real self to the other. They cannot foresee what the other
may turn out to be like after married life. And just as they themselve*
cannot foresee, neither can any law. For that reason, therefore, I can
not see how strictly marriage laws would accomplish anything.
" ‘Loire laugh* at locksmiths.' and it certainly will laugh at law*,
if a couple have made op their minds to he married they will accomplish
their marriage somehow.
“There have always been runaway marriages, and there always
will be. Often they tarn out to be happier marriages than those where
the two hare kept company for years before marrying.
“What I advocate, then, la not stricter marriage laws hat easier
divorce laws. In the beginning of civitiation, in the days of Moses, a
man could divorce his wife on the grounds of incompatibility. In those
days, of coarse, a woman was a mere chattel. Today, when woman is
the equal of man, the law of Moses should work both ways. Either a
man or woman should be allowed to divorce the other on the grounds ol
incompatibility.
“Divorce Laws Good.” • • '
“I am convinced that the divorce laws of Nevada are good laws.
There, after sis months’ residence, a divorce can be obtained on the
grounds of desertion or non-support or incompatibility.
“Unfortunately, the divorce laws in Reno benefit the rich and nol
the poor. The poor suiter here Just as they suffer with prohibition.
The rich man has his cellar stocked, but the poor man cannot buy ever
a couple of glasses of beer a week.
“The rich can go to Reno and stay at an expensive hotel tor sit
months, but no poor person can afford to go there to obtain a divorce.
“I am In favor of a uniform divorce law that will bring aboui
divorce on the simple grounds of incompatibility, if for no other reasoi
! than for the sake of the children. How can any children grow up ti
live useful, happy lives when their parents are continually fighting a
• home?”
NOME ALASKA, AS IT LOOKED 22 YEARS AOO THIS SPRING
I Avoid Mistakes
No Need For N«e Feoplo To
1'iprrinrii with Swh Co«?i*dM
Evidence at Hand
I There are many well-advertised
| kidney remedies on the market today•
but none so well-recommended in
this locality as Doan’s Kidney Pills.
Read the following.
Mrs. E. C. Slddons. 108-17th St..
Oregon City, Ore., »aya: “I am glad
to recommend Doan’s Kidney Pills
tot I know they can’t be beat for
kidney complaint. My kidneys were
weak and if I overworked or took
cold it settled on my kidneys and I
had severe backaches. I could
hardly do my work and my kidneys
didn’t act right. I used Doan's and
they were just what I needed. They
soon rid mo of the backaches and
other signs of kidney complaint.”
Price «0c, at all denlero. Don't
simply nak for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Kllney Pills—the same that
Mrs. Slddons had. Poster-Mllhurn
Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. T.
The Nome Nugget delivered by car
rier or mailed. Per Month $1.00
NOTICE OP PINAL HEARING
IN THE UNITED STATES COM
MISSIONER'S COURT FOR THE
PRECINCT OF CAPE NOME, 2nd
JUDICIAL DIVI8ION, TERRI
TORY OF ALASKA
IN PROBATE
In the matter of the Estate of
SAM HYDE, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the!
undersigned Executors of the last,
will and testament of Sam Hj%e.<
deceased, having filed their final j
acconnt heroin according to law,
further notice is given that the goal
hearing of said account and objec
! tions thereto will be had at the
office of Hon C. W Thornton, U. 8.
Commissioner and Judge of Probate
in Nome. Alaska, on Saturday, June
3, 1923, at 2 o’clock p. m. of said
day.
Dated this 28th day of April, 1922
JAMES HAUGHEY
E. H. HUDDY
Executors of the last will and testa
ment of Sam Hyde, deceased.
Publish April 29, May 6. 13, 20,1922
N9HGB OF FORFEITURE
To C. B. Foncannon, your heirs, le
gal representatives end assigns:
Tan are hereby given notice, that
the undersigned has expended fn
labor and Improvement* during the
yeare 1916 and 1920 the sum of
9199.99 in labor and improvements
on and for the benefit of the MAY
Association placer mining claim, in
the Cape Nome Mining and Record
ing District, Alaska, (notice of lo
cation of which |s recorded In i
Book 194 nt pages 34 and 136 and
Book 199 at page 476, ef the records
of mid recording district), in the
performance of the annual labor re
tailed by section £314 Revised Sta
tutes of the United States, in order
to hold said stain.
And yen are hereby rat aired to
ooatrfhnte year proportionate share
of sneh expenditure, as so-owaer, to
the uadersignod wtthia nlaaty days
after leal publication ef this notice
or yeer Interest in said claim will he
forfeited and he some the property ef
the aedefoigaod year ooewaer an
provided ie sold seetioa of the Revil
ed Statutes.
' A. Z. WATSON.
Co-Owner.
By Jas. M. S tree ten, his agent.
Publish March 26. April 1.8.16,29,
29. May 6, 13, 20. 27 June 3,10.17*.
federated church services
Sunday Scboot.11 A. M.
Pleaching Service. » P. M.
Ton arc cordially Invited to attend
these Services.
The Church with a Welcome.
RICHARD DECKER. Pastor.
NOTIC* OF APPLICATION
WSPAIW.
M. 8. Mo. UK. M. A. Mo. Wl
IN THU llinm 8TATMB LAUD
OFFICE AT NOMM. ALASKA.
Mmrr 14. till.
NOTICK 18 HHRMBT OITKN. OX
Harry 8. Newman, vkaao Poet Ot»
addraaa la the City of Now Turk,
State of Now Tork, through kla au
thorlaed agent. James J. Keenan,
whoaa Poet Offlce addraaa la Noata,
Alaska, kaa made application kotora
the Halted SUtes Load Oflea at
Noma. Alaska, for a Halted Btatpa
patent for the placer mining claim
known and described an No. S abOYO
Discovery on Pelnk Creek, whlok
creek empties Into Berln( Sea; said
claim being located about two mlleo
East of Nome, in the Cape Nome Min
ing and Recording District In the
Territory of Alaska, and designated
by the United SUtes Surveyor Oea
eral of said territory as Mineral Sur
vey No. 1817; the exterior boundar
ies of said claim, according to tka
plat and Held notea of said’ satrap
now on file In said Land 0®ee, with
a variation of 18 deg. B4 min. M. to
18 deg. OS min. E. being aa follows:
Beginning at Corner No. 1,
which Is Identical with Comer
No. 2, Survey No. SOi, Frac
tion adjoining NO. S above Pla
cer; a dr post 4 In. square, 2 ft.
above ground, la earth mound
aorioea 2 ona r ua * **»■ »
Ah; wknn U. S. L. M. Mo. 44*
tan S. 8T dor. •» »*»•
EM#.40 ft. thence N. 74 dec.
48 min W. (Vor. 1# deg. «R
am. ■.) 5M ft. to corner Ne.2;
thence N. 7 dag. •* ala. B.
(Variation 18 deg. 8# ala. B.>
1148.* ft. to comer Me. 3;
thence 3. 78 deg. #8 ate. B.
(Vnr. 18 dag. *8 aria. E.>
788.1# ft. to cornet Mo. 4;
thence S. 14 deg. Mato. W.
(Var. 1# dag. #8 ala. B.1
11##.4 ft. to comer No. 8 and
place of hftd«h*«d: renaming
The adjoining afeiaa ana on the
N. Bor. Me. #•'#. Aratto Ben Plaeaf;
on the B. Bar. Mo. ••« Vrnetftn
Joining BO. • Ahore Ptoear; an IB
8. NO. 4 Ahore Ptocnnagp Mag.
nnaareapad; on too W. Mn. 4 Bench
placer, nnanrraped.
U.S.li.M. No. 44# to a Nr pact
# fnehea agnnre. • ft. ahem ground
In north a a and, and to nitrated pa
a hill a bent % alia N. of the month
of Nose Hirer, Latitude #4 dag
min. N.. Longttnda 148 deg. VT.
JOHN BUNDBACK.
Regtotor.
Publieh—March 4. II. li, 81; Agrtl
1. «. It, 32, 2», 1*22.
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