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Wednesday, Drck.mbkr l.'L 1!H)5.
THE POLAR ENTHUSIASTS.
Exploration of unknown lands has
always l»een tin* most fascinating under
taking that can |H>ssihly enlist the ener
gies ot man. Moreover the achieve
ments of successful explorers have
heen of greater ami more enduring
g«*»*l than those of any others which
shajn'd human destiny. Another thing,
which may not In* generally accepted as
true, is that great explorers mjuire
• lUalities of a higher order than those
essential to any other men of renown.
Measured by a ju«*t standard t'olumhiis
was the greatest man of all time. Ihit
whether a man |H>ssess remarkahle tal
ents or not, when the passion for ex
ploration »‘iiter^ hi** «»onl it abides there
wIdle life endures.
So it will U* with ail conditions of
men whose minds are n«»w turning to
}»otar research. Rich men U’lniiii* en
thused and contribute their money ami
brave men contribute th»ir lives, ami
liefore long tin world will learn what i
left to U- learned ul»*tt thi« region
where It* retof«»re it has heen, in tin
l ingiiag** of IVary, **int|«»**ihle to
pr*‘plies v or fr*rou*i what is lrr«*n«l flu*
hort*»»i> of actual vision
rhe |»r***Hlrnt *»l tin* K‘»y»*l tM-o^r.iph
i* al n* ^n in l.» t»d«*e lm- •aid I lull the
north |s'ls* is “only a point m the p*lar
Vlw *r*«n«‘»*»v of which has U-rw
tii-tdc known hv Nansen IN ary d«*s
lt»*t seetn to a*« epi this v »ew as a settled
fact; and if it is so that is not enough:
the world will demand to know it all.
If it is true, however, that the jwile is
only a point in the ocean it may he im
possible to approach it by either ship or
sled; and then the navigators of the air
will enlarge their experiments, with the
pole as their ultimate aim.
All honor to the polar enthusiasts,
great and simple. It is a low grade of
wisdom that can sneer at brave men
who risk their lives in searching out the
hidden parts of the earth and then ap
plaud, for instance, the participants in
the siege of Port Arthur.
Tub Cmcx.v Timks of Nov. 7 announces
tlmt Henry Koden lias again assumed
its editorship. The paper says: “Hav
ing succeeded in ‘landing' a man with
more provisions than experience in the
paiier business, we take the baby by the
band and again present her to the
(icople of the district. Three months
more and if- she can not earn her own
living we will have some rich miner
adopt her, the same as the [Fairbanks]
News had to do.” Meanwhile it is noted
that the Times is mildly disapproving of
former Kditor Hutmachcr, the Fair
banks News, Dr. Barnette, Judge Wick
ersham, and numerous other persons
and things which suggest that those
fateful “three months more” will not
pass w ithout at least an earnest effort to
furnish an effectual emollient to the in
experienced man who parted with the
“provisions.”
Jtmt now, it would seem that tin*
greatest boon Alaska ran Iio]h* for from
the present session of congress is to hi*
let alone. Information does not reach
this section quickly and there may lie
some token of approaching g«n»d which
can not he jsuveived at so great a dis
tance; but we know no cause to believe
it. Alaska may have an inning some
day, and if she does the fewer mistakes
to he rectified tin* better.
(’llkn\ |H*ople—and a go«nl many oth
ers, douhtl ss,—honestly believe that
their town should have Income the
business center of the Tanana valley,
home to think alnmt it, though, why
didn’t they make it such? Where na
ture had d*'in* as milch as they claim it
had f**r th ii locality, there must have
I>een remissness on their part or they
would now have no cause for complaint.
Ai,ask \ has probably had as few mur
ders in the jnist eight years as any part
of America containing the same ntiml’er
•I |>eo|4c. U't it 1m* |io|«h| there will
!m* still fewer as time goe* on. Mean
time if those |M*ople who now and then
cry out for a Philippine constabulary
1m coine t*M. tiu»or*ais p»ay let them well
«alety elsewhere.
Tmk I test thing the faille \laska
• n\enti*%n did was to ap|M>»nt acorn*
mil tee »*» arrange for another c**nven
tlo»i. The lies* thing the pe>'|4e cun do
is t«* h--h to it that thev are properly
represented when the nett convention
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G. A. KETTERER
• Wiikn a resolution endorsing Judge
Wickersham was tabled by a meeting of
Fairbanks miners it was no indication
of tlie feeling toward him j»ro or eon.
At a Rampart miners’ meeting a resolu
tion to take action regarding the com
missiotiership was tabled, and gave no
indication of the general feeling toward
Judge Green one way or the other. In
each instance the miners ascociations
simply declined to enter into political
w rangles. To intimate that the tabling
of the Wickersham resolution proved a
hostile feeling toward Wickersham would
carry with it the conclusion that the
Ilampart association endorsed Green.
They just simply avoided politics in
each case.
Reindeer Herd
Wandered Away
Yukon Press (Tan ana), Dec. 2: From
a letter from Frank Decker at Kettles
the information has heen received hy
Rev. .1. I., l’revost, sn]*-rintendent of the
government reindeer herd, that three
hundred of the deer wandered off and
after some considerable searching
two hundred and liftv were found and
returned to the herd. Hopes are enter
tainVd that the remaining fifty may Is
foond. The latpp sent with Decker re
l»>rts the country la-tween here and the
Koyukuk to Is- a splendid posturaiie for
the-leer. The trip to Kettles was made
in twelve days over an unl-roken trail
heavy with drifts. The return will sis>n
Is- started, ami the deer will Is- held at
a |«>int most suitable (or successful win
tering. _
tiermany will spend $1(10,0111),IklO on
her navy in the next eleven years.
J. LINDLKY GREEN,
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