Yukon Valley News
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CALENDAR
OCTOBER
a M T W T F 8 |
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13 I
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31
Moon’s Phases.
Full moon, 2d;
lust quarter, 10th;
new moon, 17th;
first quarter, 24th;
full moon. 31st.
NOVEMBER
8 M T W T F S
1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30
Moon*8 Phases.—
Last quarter, 9th;
new moon, 15th;
first quarter, 22d;
full moon, 30th.
Wednesday, October 10, 1000.
If the governments of the
United States and Canada
would agree to remove the
tariff restrictions the people
on each side of the boundary
line would he benefited and
nobody would be wronged.
This is especially true of the
unpeopled territory of the
two countries wherein the
buying privilege is often
more beneficial than the sell
ing privilege. Who can es
timate the cost in money and
loss of time that the people
of the Tanana have been sub
jected to in the past three
years bv the customs house
at Eagle which made them
pay double for necessary ma
terial, and often deprived
them of it for a whole sea
son? Who can point out
the gainers from the im
mense loss? Should Ameri
can territory north of the
Yukon river justify the faith
being placed in it by many
of the hardiest and most ex
perienced prospectors and
explorers in the entire north,
will the barriers of govern
ment be harder'to surmount
than the obstacles of nature
to overcome? 1 >o the people
of the Tinted States know
that an American prosjiector
entering Alaska from llritish
territory is taxed on his
dog? 'Hie pro-jieetor- them
selves seldom complain. It
mav l*e that the ones who
have reached the confines of
their country and are peering
across the very borderland of
the world have forgotten how
j to grumble. Perhaps they
do not stop to consider that
human rights antedate inhu
man law : that in the conflict
with nature man’s brother’s
hand should not be raised
against him.
No one man can know
everything. The very wisest
is ignorant about the things
he is unacquainted with and
perhaps a little puffed up at
the knowledge he knows he
knows Thus when an out
side paper thought the word
“niggerhead” used in con
nection with the Tanana gold
robbery meant a suburb of
Fort Gibbon it was very
amusing to Alaska publica
tions that knew better. But
in the same issues in which
the Alaska papers ridiculed
the outsider they printed an
account of a railroad wreck
in Oklahoma in which the
“Cinnamon” river played a
conspicuous part. 8ince be
fore the oldest of us were
born white men have fought
Injuns, herded cattle and
“presticated” on the banks
of the Cimarron, and west
erners all ought to know it.
Kick Against
Colonel Glassford
In tin' first part of last month it was
stateil in Alaska newspapers tiiat Col.
lilassforil. who has r ha rite of tin- Alaska
table ami telegraph nervier, was to lie
investigateil on eharges imnle hy John
K. I'.allaine, one of tin- owners of the
Sewanl townsite ami the Sewanl t iatt
way news|si|sr, who a Ileitis I that Col.
lilassforil hail hren guilty of suppress,
mg message*, iliserimination, favoritism
ami a iiumlsr of other offensea in eon
ms tion witli his rwIIioIm of eomlneting
thi' rahle ami telegraph business.
Tlirw I'httfru, viiy naturally, bring
to luimt allegation* formerly lualr hy
the >itha Cablegram, a very bright little
I viper whtrh has situ*- 'In*I tiol.l was
foil ml on Chieagoff islaml, not far from
Ghas. A. Traeger,
Hats, Clothing
and Furnishings.
| Just Received:
New Ladies’ Goods,
| Flannels, Blankets,
| Gents’ Furnishings.
SMITH
Successor to
Smith & McHugh)
Freighter
and Packer
Rampart, Alaska
prwwimnnnrowrrTOTnrinr;
FRANK STEVENS’S
GLEN ROADHOUSE
REOPENED BY
DAD FOSTER.
ACCOMMODATIONS for HORSES o
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Sitka, in quantities that le<l the editor
of the Cablegram to believe that the
strike would prove to be a very impor
tant one. The editor, as correspondent
for an outside paper, prepared an op
timistic account of the discovery, which
Col. Glassford refused to deliver to the
paper it was intended for, alleging, off
hand, that the story was false and
would not l>e transmitted by his depart
ment. Newspapers in Alaska will not
believe the Sitka editor was wilfully
false, or that Col. Glassford was in a |
better position than he to determine the ;
merits of the story.
If Col. Glassford has the power to ex- j
ereise a censorship over the messages
submitted to his department, it is to la*
hoped the power will not Ik* applied
with tis> much rigor or without a lietter
reason than in the case referred to.
However, the following from the
Skagwav Alaskan of Sept. 14 will show
that Col. Glassford will lie upheld in
the later instance wherein he has of
fended a patron of the news service:.
“bate advices from Seattle are to the
effect that Col. Glassford, of the signal
corps, who has charge of the Alaskan
cables and land wires, will Is- exoner
ated of the charges that have ls-en filed
against him, and that there will Is- no
court martial as was asked for. John
K. Ilallaine, of the Seward Gateway,
charged Col Glassford with having held
up messages he had filed (or his |st|s-r
for publication, and with having lied
about it when chargtsl with his actions.
Col. Chanils-rlain was sent from Wash
ington to investigate the charges and
re|>>rt upon them. The new*|ia|*-r* of
Alaska were consulted by wire as to
their press serviee and many |s-oplc
were called in and eross >-lammed It
is undcrstissl the result of these investi
gations satisfied Col t'hamlwrlain that
Col Glassford was blameless
J. LINDLEY GREEN,
Lawyer.
Ofllre at the Courthouse.
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second and fourth Fridays of each mouth at
8 o’clock p. m.
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