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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1905.
The Nome Gold Digger of Feb
1 is authority for the statement that
Alexander McKenzie had entered
his protest against the confirma
tion of Wickershatn. Perhaps the
Digger refers to the Alexander Mc
Kenzie who was at one tine in
close relationship with Judge N< yes
at Nome That Alexander Mc
Kenzie served a year in jail at San
Francisco for refusing to turn in to
court the ptoceeds of a rich placer
mine of which he had been ap
pointed receiver at Nome. When
that Alexander McKenzie's sale
was finally opened it was found to
contain #300,000 more goiddust
than his books showed the mine
to have yielded. It may lie possible
that is the same Alexander Me
Kenzie who now disapproves of;
Wicket sham.
A petition for the app>oiiitu.en
<>t Frank Richards is I'nited Stales’
consul at Vnkohoma bus lictn in
ilorsed by Vnited States Senators
Foster and Ankeny, ot the State ot
Washington. Richards was re
cently dismissed from < ftice as
I'nited States marshal «>t the Sec
ond Alaska district, in so summary
a manner that llie president did not
even wait to consider the m ilter ot
liis successor , It is n.»t strange
that ex-Marshal Richnd- and his
u\o senatorial buckets front W ash
ington should l>e opposed to Judge
Wickersham when it is rememlw'ed
the judge imposed a heavy penalty
on the marshal for contempt of
court and jury I.sing three or four
years agio_
VVisiim in Alaska, when they
ate good, are vtl* good indeed, but
whew lley ai* l*«d they are noted
PORTENT OF CANADA'S
NEW RAILROAD.
Elsewhere in this paper is printed
an outline of the contract between
the Canadian government and the
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway com
pany, whereby the government is
to aid in constructing a second line
of road from ccean to ocean through
the vast unsettled portions of Can
ada to some point bn the coast of
northern British Columbia. It is
not the means employed, so much
as the object aimed at, that makes
this great undertaking of so much
interest to people in the north; but
the manner of aid itself has much
to recommend it. It neither in
cludes grants of land r.or a money
subsidy.
Just what influence the roid,
when comple ed, will have upon
Canada is an interesting theme fur
speculation. It is doubtless in
tended to, and assuredly will, at
tract many people from other conn
tr es, most of whom may be from
the United States. If dissatisfac
tion follows, then what ?
1 e >ple from the United States
not alone will take with them a
prejudice against swearing alle
gience to a foreign king. It would
be distasteful to most men from
any land whatever. If the truth
were known many of the best Can
adians themselves liatbor a feeling
of contempt tor 'lie few Americans
who have taken the step in Yukon
Territory.
With Canada free and alone,
self-reliant and conscious of her
own worth, no manner of nan
could attach himself to her citizen
ship without feeling that be had
advanced, a little at least, in the
scale of progressive manhood.
One tiling is evident, Canada
is no longer a dead line to progress.
Great changes are near, and if they
bring great tr ubles also. Canada
need blame only lier>clf.
Mexico, with a i itizenship based
on a most unpromising stock, is
prosperous, ptogiessii e, well gov
enter! and bap] y. It is needless to
speculate on what might have l»cen.
hut there arc few who doubt that
Mexico would now be a part ol the
United States it Maximilian had
liven permitted to establish bis
sovereignty over the land when he
tiled to do so forty years ago.
Most Americans would rather see
Canada remain Canada; but it may
as well la* acknowledged that it
will have to Ik- a different Canada
from that < I the |aat.
Tm* mail i»m* f* have lufen »•»
rrii'ilar a-. rlnckwork thi* wmJvf:
hut the mall has t*r«» t Hilled tip
in »i» llnKwaml niln «*l ini
amt a lifU* ■»» uiWixt
with !h* »cb«f«lnl»
ESTABLISHED 1904
N. V. HENDRICKS
Alaska Commission Baying Agency
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the lack of outside news in this
paper more than we do. The reduc
tion in telegraph tolls had a string
to it prohibiting two papers in
nearby towns from receiving the
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duced rate from the starting point,
which is prohibitive to publications
with several times more income
than this sheet enjoys.
THOUGHTS
BY THK WAY
No.
Passing down Second avenue and
near Dr. Gibbons's mansion. I saw
a young man and a maiden en
gaged in earnest conversation, and,
being always on the watch for
either the sublime or the ridiculous,
I, after paying considerable atten
tion to their attitudes, decided they
were love-making and naturally are
looking forward to the inevitable.
There w as subject again for thought,
jand, seeing a lady on the threshold
of her dt micile, I advanced and
! said:
"Mv dear madam,—you are ot
an age to know,—can you inform
me when your sex cease to love and
I and admire man?"
Her answer was (as I expected it
would have been):
‘‘Ask some one older than I.”
The dainty verse of Steadman
immediately came to my mind:
“All,’* the v*ise ohl lips reply,
Youth may pass, anil strength nia\ die,
Hut o! love 1 can t foretoken.
,\>k some older sage than I."
I then journeyed on, and just
hack off Miss Park's school I saw a
group of children playing. I step
ped tip to the fairest and brightest
little girl, and asked if she was old
enough to love.
“Oh, yes," she said; "I have
loved Torn all mv liie.'
The poet Steadman again came
to tn> rebel, and sang in my eats
Itir rosy bp* reply,
"I can’t tell yon if I try.
’ ll* mi long I can't renu-inlirr
\*k some younger lam than i."
Now, how can I iptesttoti lh»n
Quixote's sanity * or is it not |»»s
slide sometimes to mi-take a wind
mill tor a lieautiltillv adorned le
male' IMM
C. H. GIBBONS, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon.
Office Hours: i to 3 p. m. and when not other
wise engaged.
Office and Residence. Second avenue.
GKORGK A. SALISBURY,
Attorney and Counsellor,
Rampart. Alaska
J. UNItLKY GREKN,
Lawyer.
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THE
HEETER
TANANA, ALASKA
S. E. HEETER, ED FERGUSON,
PROPRIETOR MANAGER
FIKKT-C'LAKS
Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Limes tor (ilen Even
Five Days.
Freighting and Packing
'I'o find From All
tl»e Creeks.
Good Teams. Good Service
Thk remark is often beard that
placer mining ramps are generally
of short life A good many claim
that a detline is certain and rapid
after the first seven years. \Ve
doubt if the histor\ of placer
mining sustains this view Cariboo,
in British Columbia, has lieeti a
steady and splendid producer for
halt i century Placer mines near
Santa l'f, N M.. are known to
have l>een worked spasmodical!'
lor mote than 350 >ears, and In
nnstern methods are thought to be
capable of greater production at
less cost than than has l>ecu sc com
plished in all that tunc Method
change and In mins subside, hut
mining in mo-t placer districts con
tinnes longer than the Itielime ot
any man