NEWS
OFTHE
WORLD
.Tack Lester defeated Cyclone Thomp
son in Sydney last week.
The match between Jack Johnson
and Fireman Flynn will he held in
Las Vegas on July 4th.
Split-the-W ind, the Esquimo runner
defeated Ben Kline in the running roller
skating contest held in Tacoma.
In the recent election held in Nome,
Gilmore on the people’s ticket was [
elected, receiving 666 votes to 330 re
ceived byChilberg, socialist. There was
great enthusiasm.
I*our new creeks have commanded the 1
attention of prospectors in the Birch
creetc district this winter; they are Big,
Thomas, \\olf and Camp creeks which
have been practically untouched here
tofore.
The postoffice department has recoin- i
mended to congress that the rate on all!
newspapers and periodicals be increased l
from 1 cent to 2 cents a pound and in
creased by degrees later until they paid !
a late nearing the cost to the govern
ment of handling them. As soon as the
rate on second class matter is readjusted,
a 1 cent rate on letters wdl be asked for.
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Theodore Roosevelt was accorded a
monstrous reception upon his arrival at
Portland, Me., last week. The ex-presi
dent was given a most enthusiastic wel
come when his train pulled into Boston,
enroute to Portland.
That Woodrow Wilson is not a states
man, but only a schoolmaster, is the
opinion of Colonel Henry Watterson,
who refuses to suhport the Wilson boom
on the grounds that the times require a j
trained and tried statesman.
Increased appropriations for roads and
trails in Alaska are promised by the
democratic leaders in the lower house of
congress. The proposed government
railway from the coast to Tatiana is
receiving much favorable attention.
Mayor t lay nor has issued orders that
all policemen hereafter enrolled on the
on the city force will be required to be
wrestlers. After a fair trial all appli
cants who do not become reasonably
proficient in the science will be dis
qualified.
Governor Black, the newly appointed
chief executive of the Yukon territory
says the Yukon has too many Guggs.
He says the Guggenheims are draining
the country of gold and that ihe Klon
dike would be better off with more
miners and less capital.
It is reported from Ruby that the ex
tetension of the Nuamah pay has now
bee located 500 feet further down stream
on Flint creek by Isaacson & Smith.
Although the real red wash of the Nu
amah has not yet been reached the
gravel found carries for five feet from 1
to 5 cents to the pan. The lower two
feet carry about 5 cents straight. The
pay is some 50 feet nearer the creek than
the place where Shea & Lange found the
pay and the belief is general that a little
drifting up hill will result in running
into the main body of pay.
According to reports just received
from the Sixtymile country, very few
men now remain in that district, and
fewer still will remain after the water
runs. It is now generally believed that
there is no gold in the camp except the
little that was found on discovery.
Hr. Frederick A. Cook has again
entered suit against the New York
Times, charging that the paper has
libeled him by publishing false and de
famatory statements, for which he asks
$100,000 damages It is an aggressive
action taken by Dr. Cook in reply to
attacks made upon him following the
polar contraversv and his friends sav
that at this trial he will prove that lie
reached the pole.
NEWSPAPERS
OF FIFTY
YEARS AGO
The historians of the future will not
find the newspapers of today very .valu
able as permanent chronicles of the
times,” said Mr. Yillard, the editor of
the New York Evening Post at a dinner
pven by the Lotus club recently. “They
tend to much to give space to events of
anly a passing interest. They are not
nearly of so much value as chronicles of
permanent history as the newspapers of
half a century ago. The newspapers of
those days devoted their space princi
pally to noteworthy and serious events,
fliey contained little crime and no
scandal.
It was the elder Bennett who intro
duced the newspaper fashion of describ
ing the dresses which the prominent
women of the social world wore at public
functions. This aroused a great stir
and prominent citizens of the town
wanted to horsewhip him for doing it.
“The elder Bennett, it is true, alluded
j to the ladies only by their last initials.
But the citizens objected even to this on
the good old fashioned ground that a
lady should appear in print only three
| times during her lifetime—at her birth,
marriage and death. The modern ten
dency, on the contrary, is to horsewhip
the editor who fails to describe one’s
wife’s dress.
| “The papers of fifty years ago, too,
were much more accurate than those of
today. When Wendell Phillips spoke
| at a certain great Cooper Union meeting
in the fifties the Herald sent a band of
hired thugs to break up the meeting.
, Phillips spoke for two hours on aboli
tion amid a constant uproar. The paper
had to have all that was said taken down
j
| stenographicallv. Then the notes had
i to be transcribed and taken all the way
down town in a buss or street car. The
Herald copy had to be sent all the way
! down to the office on Pulton street.
There it had to he set into type by band,
yet the Herald next morning contained
the entire speech and all the interrup
j tions. It was*a masterly story of a note
! worthy happening. The modern tend
! enev is to snatch up some small portion
'of what a speaker says and then turn it
around so that when it appears in type
it means just the opposite.—American
Press. _
Eugene Swanson the mail contractor
for the Rampart division has sub let his
contract to Mr. laird of Rampart.
Mr. L. R. Hice, the government game
warden and fish commissioner for this
division, departed early Thursday morn
ing for the Kuskokwim.
All kinds of Second Hand Goods Bought
I and Sold. See Jack Cavenaugh.
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RUBBER - -
Shoes,
Slippers,
Overshirts
LEATHER SHOES - -
For Ladies, Gentlemen and Children.
Snow Glasses, Ladies’ Veils, Gloves
HATS — Stetson, All Colors, Shapes
and Sizes. Crusher Outing.
SHIRTS- Complete Line, Dry Goods,
Ribbons, hosiery.
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