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CALENDAR
JANUARY
8 M T W T F S
12 3 4 5
6 7 8 0 10 11 12
13 14 15 10 17 18 10
20 21 22 23 24 25 20
27 28 20 30 31
Moon’s Phases.—
Last quarter, 7th;
new moon, 18th;
first quarter, 20th;
full moon, 29th.
FEBRUARY
8 M T W T F 8
1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 10
17 IS 10 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28
Moon's Phases.
Last quarter, 5th:
new moon, 12th;
first quaretr, 19th :
full moon, 27th.
Wednesday, .January Hi, 1 DOT.
On July 4, 1004, Judge Wiokersluun
delivered u self-government speech at
Fairbanks that would make good litera
ture in the mock campaign now being
carried on in advocacy of territorial
government for Alaska. In the speech
Judge Wickersham did what no other
office holder, or would-be office holder,
in Alaska has done: he gave facts from
the Congressional Record showing that
the law-making power at Washington
contemplated no different condition for
tlie “district” than the one then and
now imposed upon it; and foretold that
the time was near when Alaskans would
resent being held as mere dependents
by the United States. So far as we
know that was the lirst home-rule
speech delivered in the interior of Alas
ka, and it is refreshing to remember
that the real iasue in the case—the re
lation of the outlying territory to the
United States—was not evaded then as
it is in most of the later self-govern
ment talk._
Hare mention is made in the news
papers of the fact that the case of Capt.
Oberlin M. Carter, formerly in the corps
of army engineers, has been reopened in
the federal court at Chicago. There is
doubtless some benefit to the culprit
in contemplation. He has always had
some powerful influence at work in his
behalf. In charge of river and harbor
improvements around Savannah, tin.,
he embezzled a million dollars and
planned to rsca|ie to Morocco and live
happy ever after with a paramour who
abetted him in the crime, lie failed to
escape by a hair’s breadth; and for
years his case dragged along, ostensibly
that the secret service might locate and
return to the government the money
which Carter had planted in various
banks. Finally all but some fin,mm
was recovered, ami he was tried and
sentenced to a ridiculously short term
in the federal prison at Leavenworth,
Kas. What the reopening of the case
may bring alsmt is conjectural.
Tmkrk never was a man who achieved
anything worth while hut was spurred
to tin* goal by adversity. However, ad*
versity sometimes comes on a fellow
from so many sides at once and attacks
hint with such tremendous force that it
turns him into a corpse before he lias
time to hit a lick in self defense; and
in that case we should magnanimously
allow that the doctor has given him an
overdose of an excellent tonic.
Straws.
At Sewurc 1 the chamber of commerce
met and endorsed Waskev’s course in
urging self government, and at the same
time severely criticised Iloggatt for say
ing that only the saloon element and
demagogues favor such a measure.
The middle of December all classes of
Nome people, including labor organiza
tions, were arranging to hold a mass
meeting and endorse Waskey and home
rule, and incidentally to rebuke Hog
gatt.
Waskey and Cale are as one as far as
territorial government for Alaska is
concerned. If there is any difference
between them on any other question
affecting the interests of the territory it
has not materialized.
I'p to the present time each of them
has justified the confidence placed in
him by the voters.
Hurrah for Tom Hicks: He’s
All Right.
A story is told in a dispatch from
Bakersfield (presumably California) of
Tom Hicks, who was buried <50 feet un
der ground by a tunnel accident and
came out alive and cracking jokes after
lying their surrounded by dead and pu
trefying companions for seventeen days.
When the crash came Hicks was un
der the car making some repairs. His
fellow laborers were either killed out
right or died shortly after. Hicks de
tails the account of each one, for he
says it was vividly burned into his
memory.
After lying for some time under the
car, he tapped on the water pipe with
his wrench and was surprised to hear
an answering tap. The water was
drained from the pipe, and the rescuers
were able to carry on a conversation
with him.
A small pipe was passed through the
large one and milk was pumped into
Hicks, this being his sole food.
During the entire time the men were
at work, llicks was always cheerful, and
thousands of visitors went to the place
to hear him talk to the men on the
surface. It was not tadieved he could
he rescued alive.
"hen tin' workmen an id they would
reach him in thirty hour*, which wottlil
lie on Monday, Hick*, talking thro tilth
tin- pi[a*, (tot a liox of cigar* tliat lie
wotihl not la* rnlcaacd itehtre Tucaday.
lie won the cigars, for it waa a few
minute* after midnight that lie crawled
from under the car and atotal up. ,\t
lir-t lie waa a little weak, and staggered,
hut *«a>n lie seemed to !*• a* cheerful aa
though nothing hud occurred lie waa
cheered hy the little crowd that had
gathered, a* he stepped out of the
tunnel.
Chas. A. Traeger,
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and Furnishings.
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H. J. RODEN,
Attorney at Law,
Fairbanks, Alaska.
J. FINDLEY GREEN,
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Tilt- trial of flit* whalers for high
crime* an«l miwlcmcanor* on the north
ern wen* wan |*>*t |m hum I at their own
motion l>v the I'nitetl State* court at
Seattle.
At Spokane a jury aei|uitte<l Siilney
Sloane for munlering hi* father for
money, on the groom I that tlie youth
wa* inaane. The jmlge then «entenee<l
him to ttie iowane wur»l of the peniten
tiary on the groom I that he wa* un*afe
ta run at large.
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