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0E0. S. MAYNARD,.Solo Owner and Publisher.
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SEATTLE SPIRIT OUTCROPPING IX NOME
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THE “SEATTLE SPIRIT" has become a byeword in Alaska, ami ,
is subject to various interpretations, mainly that it is the purpose to get i
all possible from this rich territory of Alaska. Nome in the last week
has had evidence conclusive that some local merchants have thoroughly
imbibed this spirit.
A representative of a Seattle wholesale house approached a c-er- i
tain local merchant and solicited a big order. This merchant is a p te.it
arrival in the Nome Held and has caused his competitors to sit up and ,
take notice; he has demonstrated that some exceedingly raw profiteering
has been the rule in certain lines of merchandising. The salesman was
given the cider, vMiich took him several days to write up, and promised to (
wire out for the goods. Later he came back to the merchant and stated ,
that in as much as he, the merchant, was selling goods cheaper than his;
competitors who carried the same lines of goods the order would have to
be cancelled. In other words the salesman ffter accepting th* order
refused to send it in unless the merchant would maintain high prices.
The salesman was told to go to Jerrico, that,the goods would he obtained
elsewhere, Autside the “Spirit City.”
No, there is no combination in restraint of trade between some of
our Nome merchants, they merely have the Seattle Spirit, get the money.
The Sherman Law was meant for someone else, that is. they think so.
Some time the people will wake up. Whenever competition is removed
the people suffer. Nomeitee can vouch for this.
WHAT HOME BREW DID TO AX EDITOR.
SOMEONE SENT the editor or a Missouri paper a few bottles of
home brew. The same day he received for publication a wedding an
nouncement and a notice of auction sale. The result was as follows:
“Wm. Smith and Miss Lucy Anderson were disposed of at public
auction at my farm one mile east of a beautiful cluster of roses on her
breast and two white calves, before a background of farm implements
too numerous to mention in the presence of about seventy guests including
two milch cows, six mules and one bobsled. Rev. Jackson tied th* nup
tial knot with about 2Q0 feet of hay rope and the bridal party left on one
good John Deed Clang plow for an extended trip with terms to suit pur
chasers. They will be at home to their friends with one good baby
carriage and a few chickens aftern ten months from date of sale to res
pectable parties and some chickens."—Exchange.
IF ALASKA SHOULD BE DIVIDED.
If Alaska is going to be cut in two the development of the Terri
tory seems to suggest that the proper line of division should be that
which separates the country naturally tributary to tin Alaska Railroad
on the one hand and-the. Copper River and Northwestern Railroad and
the .Coast end of the Richardson Highway on the other hand. Lines ef
trade and communication in Alaska lead toward the Outside. There is
more travel and traffic between Cordova and Prince William Sound and
Southeastern Alaska than between those places and the country that lies
west of then* With the Alaska Railway in operation that will apply,
further. The Copper River country will be in closer communication and
acquaintance with Southeastern Alaska, than with the Tanana and Yukon
Valleys, and the line of communication between that portion of the Yukon
Valley in the vicinity of Eagle and tl& Fortymile district lead up stream
and to Southeastern Alaska rather than to the Alaska Railway.
Therefore, if Alaska should be divided it should he along the lines
suggested. We could have East Alaska and West Alaska. East Alaska
could start with three or four counties—with County Seats at Ketchikan,
Juneau. Cordova and, perhaps Eagle. Later, as the country developed,
more counties could be created. %
If Alaska is to be divided such a division as that outlined here
would give each of the Territories sufficient^area and natural resources
for a State, and when a Territory is (Treated-it is with the idea of event
ually erecting it into a State. There is no State west of the Mississippi
River with as small an area as has Southeastern Alaska alone.—Empire.
DK. BAIN SEES HOPE.
While Dr. Foster H. Bain is not very enthusiastic over the shipping
qualities of the Matanuska coal, expressing the belief that the seams are
too broken to stand long shipment, we understand that looks with
favor on the mountain of coal that can easily be scooped up in the
Healy River district. After an examination of the Willow Crock dis
trict, where a number of small quartz, mills are already successfully
crushing out valuable gold, the Dr. ix of the opinion that this should de
velop into a camp of permanency. And for these encouraging observa
tions the people of Alaska will b« thankful. As time goes on and there
is greater development in the Willow Creek section thre will be reason for
the extension of the government railroad twenty or thirty miles, so that
supplies and machinery can more easily and cheaply be taken into that
section and ore brought out. The Healy river coal is now but three
miles from th*. railroad and it will only require $200,000 to build a spur
and the necessary bridge to make it more accessible. And these are only
some of the developments that i:i time will bring Alaska into her own —
Juneau Capital.
ALASKA SOl’KIMH'CiH RELATES
WHAT’S MATTER WITH ALASKA
A. M. Rarnrs declares that So Lons
n>* Alaska 's Wrapped in fled
Tap** tin* Territory Cnnnot Pro
By FRED LOCKLEY)
(In. Portland Journal i
“Did you ever happen to meet
John T. Barnes of Buttee, Mont ?"
nskid A. M. Barnes, an oldtime
Alaska sourdough. who for sixty
years has prospected all over the
west and north.
"He generally wore dark glasses,
' hecaucc he had sore eyes. Alonr
about 1886 h. put up a grubstake
| or niv partner, Dick Poplin, and
Dick came out of Alaska in„187S
•vith $97,000. After leaving Dirk
i 1 the Stickeen ! decided to play a
lone hand. I came down to British
Columbia. where I worked for i
while in the Silver King mine. From
British Columbia I went back to
j Montana. I struck Butte in the fall
of 18S5. I took up a couple of
I fractions Rear the Bluebird. One
! l called the Golden Note Fraction
land the other th. Alaskan Fraction.
! i ran across Steve Fleming, who
j was buying up the Bluebird and
other neighboring claims for an
| Eng;i:.h syndicate. I had grubstak
{ ed Steve in Colorado and also in
ihe Black Hills. I had furnished
j him drink money and tobacco money
j so now I thought h< re was hi*
chance to reciprocate and buy ’ :•
1 fractions. He didn't see it that way
I so I sold these two fractions for
i 81250, a mere tithe of their real
j value, for I was broke and need* d
I the money.
“There was a line hunch of men
in Butte in those days, 1 became
well acquainted with Lee Mantle,
who owned the Butte Intermountain
—and, by the way, your father was
[editor of the Butte Intermountain at j
I that time, and I met him. I also
met a teacher there. He lives here
jj, Portland now. Daniel IX Sea via |
i« another man I knew. He cei-,
trinlv could carry his liquor f with
the best of them. Most men that'
tried to keep up with him went un-|
dor the table before he was beginn-;
ing to feel the effects of it H. L.
there, and I knew Pat Largey, W.
\ Clark. Jesse R. Wharton and
a lot. of other old-timers, some of
whom still live in Butte. From
Butt- I wen to Phillip, burg, Mont.,
where I prospected for a couple of
“When the. word first came of the
discovery of gold on the V ukon I hit
the trail'for the North. 1 wont in
over the Dyea trail. The Northwest
mounted police don’t seem able to
take a joke. When a man is killed
up there the police can’t understand
that the thing has hapi>. ned in a
gentlemanly way over a difference
of opinion as to the value of a poker
hr net. They have the old fashioned
idea that the laws an made to be
enforced. T went in with a couple
o' other chaps on a claim. My two
partners got into a card game, with
the result that the man who, was
Hying to skin thorn logout While
the coroner was arranging to lm
parel a jury my two partm-rs were
hitting the righ spots fo ’ho bonn
’darv line. I didn’t • >< > • ■ the
killing, and had had nothin v to do
with If. but I didn’t like to quit my
partners in a pinch, so 1 started
with them and we went down the
river to Forty Milo in United States
“We prospected the Big and Little
Minook that summer and fall. I put
DOKS IT PAY TO WORRY
A ROUT APPENDICITIS?
Can appendicitis be guarded
against? Yea, by preventing intes
tinal infection. The intestinal an
tiseptic, Adler-i-ka, acta on ROTH
upper and lower bowel removing
ALL foul, decaying matter which
might start infection. EXCELL
ENT for gas on stomach or chronic
constipation. U removes matter
which you never thought was in
your system and which nothing else
can dislodge. One man reports it
ir unbelievable the awful impurities
Adler-i-ka brought out. Lomen
Brothers, Druggists. *
ADVERTISEMENT
ii the winter of 1898 in the Russian
mission. Thirty of Us at Circle City
chipped in to lmild a boat, the Chi
cago, to go down the Yukon to the
new strike at Nome. We reached
St. Michaels all right, and from
there we got to Nome, where the
old Chicago went on the beach and
her timbers still lie there. That
was in th« summer of 1890. I put
in that summer with a long tom in
the lxach diggings, making $20 to
$50 a day. Up near the native
graveyard some of the miners rock
ed out $200 to $1000 a day. There
was a very rich streak of ruby sand
on the beach there.
“In the spring of 1900 the big
rush from the States came in and
more than 50 ships rode in the off
ing and more than 35.000 tenderfeeti
landed on the b.aeh. I staked a
claim June 18 that year on the
Nome river. 18 miles above Nome
city. I secured four 30-acre claims
and sold them for $9500. The man
I sold them to wrote a letter to a
friend of his. who took them over
for $15,000. In other words the
man I sold them to made over $5000
from a 2-cent postage stamp, which
i- good interest on your money. The
reason I sold my claims in such a
hurry was that word had coni* to
me that my wife, who was at Golden,
I Colo., was sick. When I went out
side I had a little over $12,000 in
my jeans. I took my wife to Den
| ver. They took an X-ray of her
l and told me she had a cancer. Dur
| ing the next 12 month- I spent most
of that $12,000 with the doctors
j and the hospitals. We buri'ii her
j on the hillside above Golden. When
I I had paid every bill, including the
funeral expenses. T had just $120
l..ft from my $12,000. which was
just enough to take me hack to
"My wife and I had been married
in 1877. Her name was Lucy Nix
on and sh- came from Cherok■•••.
Iowa. To us four children were
born. Louis, the eldest lives ii:
Montana. Mary, our next child, mar
lied W. U. Searls. He is a con
ductor on the Vnion Pacific. Th**v
live at The Dalles. Hazel, who i~
now Mrs. Reynolds, lives at Tacoma
"T went back to Nome, where I
spent the next nine years. In lhlJ
I put in a year at Valdez. For th
last few years I have made my head
quarters at Anchorage.
"Alaska is sick. Tt is a wonder
ful country, but is benumbed by
bureaucratic, absent treatment rub
[f we could get rid of long-distance
administration Alaska would begin
to sit up and take notice. It is on<
of the most wonderful countries on
the face of the globe. It has unlim
ited supplies of gold. oil. timber
fish and game. It has unlimited
agricultural possibilities. We car
raise enough reindeer to feed th>
whole West. Our spruce forest
will supply pulp paper for unnniber
ed years to come but as long as a!
of these supplies are wrapped in red
tape, poor old Alaska will not b
able to make much progress,”
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