Yukon Valley News
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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 19, I904.
“Alaska” is a word generally
looked for in vain in reading of the j
wonders of the world’s fair. Is it
possible that the territory could
furnish no attractions worthy of
mention? Is there no distineuish
j
ing feature between a Kobuk In
dian jag and a Missouri high
lonesome? If we should ship them
a Yukon cold-snap it would doubt
less be broken in transit. The
Opinion as expressed in the
coast papers seems to point to the
belief that congress will allow
Alaska one lelegate, and possibly
three. Read between the lines it
may truthfully t>c said that opinion
also points to the t>eiief that the
delegate or delegates will be ap
pointed. The proposition for the
lederal government to appoint dele
gates to represent the |*ople of the
territory at the tederal capital
seems so Yukon terri.oryish and
so foreign to American ideas and
ideals that it is almost a pity the
subject was ever broached at all
Surety the appointed officials al
ready in the tetri'ory can supply
Washington with such information
as Washington wants; and the
people had as well wait till they
arc permitted to semi some one t»
the capital responsible to them
•elves and obligated to carry out
tbetr wishes.
aurora borealis refuses to be seg
gregated from its native atmos
phere. Visitors to the fair who
have failed to be amused by any
thing Alaskan should pay us a
winter time visit and they will find
wonders that no world’s fair can
boast of. In cold, still weather a
man may be heard to cuss his dog
i:i an ordinary tone of voice a mile
and a half away, and a native gen
tleman’s wile to tell him to go to
hell all the way from the village,
which is a mile and a quarter.
Such phenomena can no more be
transported to a world's fair than
can Jamieson’s hole-in-the-ground,
which went down 225 feet in hard
frost and got colder all the way,
thus causing local scientists to re
verse the old theory that the center
of the earth is a molten mass and
conclude that it is a glacier instead,
only the outer shell being thawed
Kv tVif* cun’s rave
Thk activity displayed by the
officials of the Grand Trunk Pacific
railway, Canada’s second great
transcontinental line, gives the im
pression that the road will be re
ally and speedily built through to
the coast. The moment the road’s
construction is assured, Canada—as
Canada is now known—is doomed
to extinction. Americans—lovers
of republicanism, the offspring to a
large extent of the men who have
subdued the great American west—
will dominate the immense new
territory laid open to settlement, as
they are already dominating the
environs of the Canadian Pacific
railway; and a new order of things
will ensue. Old, sleepy, conserva
tive Canada will be transformed—
under political conditions decided
by a new people—into one of the
most active and progressive paits
of the world. Northern British
Columbia, unless all signs fail, will
be Alaska's only rival in affording
opportunity to the prospector: and
unless some of the numerous plans
for opening up the latter are car
ried out it will not be surprising
to see it outstripped in the great
advancement which the northern
part of the continent seems des
tined soon to make.
One of the great political par
ties of the United States lias in
serted the federal constitution in its
campaign text book this year. That
is commendable; for there are many
had voting American citizens who
nevtr saw that bulwark of liberty.
But perhaps thi other great party,
by the time :go8 rolls around, will
find it necessary to advance a step
in the educational-campaign busi
ness and print a digest of supreme
court decisions bearing on the con
struction of the document. Then,
by 1912, the negro liberty party
can add a dream book to forecast
the political complexion of the
court. And so the great educa
tional-campaign work may go on
in its mission of enlightenment.
Rabbits arc so plentiful here
about this fall that it is suspected the
great rush to the Fairbanks dis
trict has frightened the bunnies
from the Tanana over to this side
ot the divide. On the occasion of
the paper's birthday the Fairbanks
News man said he had had to eat
rabbit in the early history of the
camp: and maybe they tiggered
that the statement might f>e taken
as a hunch by too many rher
ebakkne*._
Nk* York theatrical letter
This season the fashion in color
for tights rails for blue lor the
maidens o| the i horns, green lot
the tomeilM't, red tor the villain
striper! tor the jester, and white K>r
the premier danseuse In "The
Moyal Chef." now on at the lam
theater, the legs of the front tow
girls are encased in robin egg blue
j while the other young women are
packed into soft silken lace tights
! that are certainly dreams. Red or
pink tights are no longer the vogue
1 for the ravishing beauties of the
comic opera and musical comedy,
but baby blue and robin-egg blue
are the proper coverings for the
pretty curves of the young women.
The following taken from the
advertising columns of a St. Louis
paper is suggestive of one of the
many evidences of the world’s ad
vancement that old-time Alaskans
are encountering at the great
world’s fair:
WIRELESS ANNOUNCEMENT.
American Deforest Wireless Telegraph
Co. is now ready to receive aerograms
St. Louis to Chicago and Springfield, 111.
Day and night rates same as Western
Union and Postal. Immediate service.
Aerograms received from the public at
any of the DeForest Wireless stations on
the world's fair grounds or at office, 520
Olive street, city. Apply for special
rates for special service. No delays, no
wire troubles.
Two thousand crates of potatoes arc
on the way from San Francisco to Alas
ka. Some day the potato raisers of this
state may be able to save a part of that
freight bill to the people of Alaska.— :
Seattle Times, Sept. 16.
Some day there will be no freight
bill on potatoes to Alaska, Mr.
Times. Alaska will raise all the
potatoes she wants, and will at
least hope to furnish you Washing
tonians with seed.
J. B. Wingate’s Alaska Forum
reappeared last Saturday, with
everything new, press included—
except its policy; “that is un
changed,’’ it says. The paper pre
I sents a better appearance than it
! did under old conditions.
i The first $25,000 in gold souv
enir dollars for the Lewis and Clark
; Exposition has l»eeii received by
the First National Bank of Port
land, Ore., from the government
mint at Philadelphia. The coins
are a trifle smaller than a dime.
Each coin is inscribed on one side
with the legend "Lewis and Clark
Exposition,” while on the other
appears the words, "United States
—one lollar.” The installment
just received is the first issue of the
$250,000 gold coin appropriation
allowed by the government in ac
cordance with the terms of the
Lewis and Clark appropriation bill.
Each coin will t>e sold for $2, and
to the purchaser of five an addi
tional one will l>e presented. The
exposition management is conti
dent of a large sale of the unusual
souvenirs.
Commander K K. Pejrv, the
Arctic explorer, has announced that
a contract has heen signed for a
new Arctic ship, whirl) he is to use
in another attempt to reach the
north pole, and he expect* to start
north again neat summer
GKORGK A. SALISBURY,
Attorney and Counsellor,
Rampart, Alaska
LOUIS K. PRATT,
Attorney at Law,
Fairbanks, Alaska
J. LINOLKY GREEK,
Lawyer.
Office at the Courthouse.
OFFICE OF
Commissioner and Recorder
Rooms i and 2, Courthouse
THE
HEETER
TANANA, ALASKA
S. E. HEETER, ED FERGUSON,
PROPRIETOR MANAGER
FIRST-CLASS
Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Heeter’s PackTrain
Leaves for Glen Every
Five Days.
Freighting and Packing
To and From All
the Creeks.
Good Teams.
Good Service
D. M. MCQUESTEN
All sorts of living creatures are
!>eing driven to bit and bridle these
days. For the delectation of chil
dren an animal show now in the
* I’nited States has several tortoises,
each of which halls around at one
time seven children standing on its
great back. One of this same show's
queer teams consists of a sand-hill
crane and a donkey, and, everv
•hing considered, the two animals
get over the ground tairlv well to
gether. “If the craze for queer
teams keeps up." said a showman,
“it won't be long tar fore >nuie ge
nius will have trained a camel and
a mouse to pull in tandem.”
Ki tiur James S. Hogg of Texas
say* the cotton boll aeril is the
toughest bug he ever saw. It car
ries around all the accoutrements of
a lull rtedged buiglar. A t oll wee
vil ho* a saw. a pair o! pinchers, an
awl and a gimlet; anti Ur. Hogg
doubts il the authorities ever hint
anrthing that can put it out at
business
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Rl'SH ORDERS