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,1/A’. COURTNEY'S CASE.
Instances do not occur wherein
newspapers are justified in printing:
what are known to he falsehoods
defamatory of public or private in
dividuals. Truth itself, when told
to the injury of one and the good
of none, is wrong.
Viewing the inaher thus, we
wish to say a tew words regarding!
R. C. Courtney, who was last week
grossly wronged by innuendo and
by direct misstatement in the Alas
ka Forum. Mr. Courtney is now
on his way outside, in a region,
probably, where Rampart papers do
not circulate. Until recently he
was United States commissioner at
Circle, and he it was who issued
the warrant for the arrest of Miss
Beaumont, who pleaded guilty to
u charge of criminal libel and was
fined—not 5jf>5, as stated, but an
insignificant sum, the costs in the
case limning the amount up to
nearly $.165. As commissioner Mr.'
Courtney refused to issue a warrant.
till the complaining witness gave'
lioinl for the costs; and it is only
lair to state that it was his official
duty to issue the warrant when the
bond had been made. Mr. Court
aey resigned the commissioner ship,
to the regret of the people of his
precinct, to go outside lor medical
treatment. For the sinu- reason
he resigned ami was not removed
front a business position In had
tilled acceptably lor lour years. He
left Circle with no blemish on his
reputation, and a (urge numlier of
friends are ready to vouch for him
wherever he may go.
Mr. Courtney may possibly in
tend to establish himself in some
place where he is not so well
known as here on the Yukon. If
so, how would the people of his
new home be ab'c to detect the
falsehoods in the paper that tra
duces him? For the time being, at
least, proper redress for the injury
done him is impossible: how con
temptible, then, the spirit that
would strike, from a safe distance,
an unmerited blow that can not be
parried!
THE WORLD'S SUPPLY OP
GOLD.
The world’s output of gold last
year was somewhere rear $350,
000,000, and this year’s output is
expected to surpass that sum. But
a decline is predicted by some in a
very few years. A writer in the
Kansas City Journal says: “The
discovery of new mines is not keep
ing pace with the exhaustion of
those now being woiked; so under
existing conditions, if continued,
the outj lit must reach its zenith
within a very few years and then
gradually decline. However, in the
past this precious and necessary
metal has always been sufficient to
meet the demand, and probably it
will still do so. New fields have i
invariably been brought in in time
to ie] lace the old and exhausted
ones. Twenty years ago the Rand
was not discovered. Eleven years
ago there was no Cripple Creek, 1
Kalgoorlieor Klondike. Gold, for
tunately, is the most widely distrib
uted of metals. There still must
remain 111111(110(1- and thousands of
undiscovered mines somewhere on
the globe; but whether these will
be unearthed within the next live
years, or in time to counterbalance
the approaching deficiency, will, of
course, lie a subject of lively inter
est until all doubts and fears are
removed.”
From a more or less superficial
consideration of tlie matter, it is
hard to conceive an early decline in
the world's j;ol<l supply. The va
liditv of a statement hy the writer
quoted above that “prospects for
increasing supplies from most ot tin
old fields are not good” is n<»t ap
parent. Kv idence is not forthcom
ing that the Kami, the Transvaal
and the Rhodesian fields will speed-'
ily decline, or that Australia and
New Zealand will not continue well
up to their present figures North
America surely promise* a small
increase, which miy jump to an,
niwmmis mt hefitre the lai>se of
five years. Hritish Columbia and
the Canadian north west, as well as
N, V. HENDRICKS
ESTABLISHED 1904
Alaska Commission Buying Agency
SEATTLE, WASH.
We Buy and Ship for you, Only on Commission
Coll on our Agent or write to us
Alaska, are fields of immense pos- I
sibility. This year they will con
tribute a fourteenth or a thirteenth I
of the world’s gold. One thing!
seems assured, placer gold is des
tined to become a more and more !
important factor in the world’s sup
ply. With the end of the present
war, who can predict the future of
the alluvial fields of Siberia ? Who
can compute the treasure that will
be extracted by the great dredging
machines which are just now be
ginning to wash the river sands of
western North America. The re
gions nearer the poles of the earth
will be prospected pretty soon
It seems more probable that the
golden age is about to dawn than
that the world will go hungry for!
gold.
But, when all is said, what mat
ters it whether the supply is large
or small? As with individuals,
communities, and races, so with
the world at large: the benefit of
gold is more in the seeking than j
the possessing—more ideal than
actual, more stimulating than nour
ishing. If all the gold in the world
should instantly diminish by half
the world could scarcely be called
much poorer: doubled, it would
not be materially enriched. But its
wide diffusion over the earth has
caused men to conquer the wilder
ness and convert the waste places
into regions of plenty: to make the
desert bloom and to transform the I
arctic desolation into scenes of in
dustry and life.
May man continue his quest for
gold until the whole earth is
brought under his dominion.
liicrcJiwcd Krstimtite
of 11 ic ( '.old Output
'Pile estimate (dared upon llie
gold output of Alaska and Yukon
Territory for 1905 has l>een in
creased by K. A. Wituj, of the Se
attle assay office, to $22,000,000, if
not more.
It is said that Miss Alice Roose
velt is engaged to marrv Congress
man lamirwotth, of Ohio.
t tvrr *ixt\ thousand people vis
ited the g mu nils on the o|rmug
il«tp of the l.ewis and Clark expofti
tkm.
ABOUT ALASKA.
Henry M. Hoyt, district attorney at
Nome, wants to supplant Alfred S. Moore
as federal judge, so it is said.
The American Institute of Mining En
gineers will make an excursion to Alaska
and the Canadian interior in July'.
Agricultural implements to the value
°f *596 and 5424 were shipped to Alaska
in January and March, respectively.
Gevernor Brady, as superintendent of
schools in Alaska under the provisions of
the Nelson bill, will require all teachers
to stand an examination before a govern
ment board.
From the effects of drinking bay rum
as a substitute for whisky two soldiers
died at Fort Liscum and others had close
calls. The company barber was induced
to supply the stuff.
Bishop Rowe, who has taken a vaca
tion at the east during the past winter,
will in future direct the work of his
church from Sitka, where he intends
building a residence.
Lieut. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee, chief of
Staff, will leave Washington about the
first of July for an extended trip through
Alaska. He will be accompanied by Mrs.
Chaffee and possibly by Quarter Master
General Humphrey.
It has been recommended that the
Canadian minister of finance buy the
entire Canadian Yukon gold output with
gold certificates. Should this be done it
would probably divert Canadian gold
shipments from Seattle to Ottawa, where
a mint is being built.
“Alaska and the Klondike,” from the
pen of James S. McLain, editor of the
Minneapolis Journal, is a new book the
result of a trip by Mr. McLean with the
senatorial committee which visited Alas
ka two years ago. It is receiving flatter
ing press notices.
(iKOItliK A. SAI.ISKII1V,
Attorney and Counsellor,
Rampart, Alaska
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