OKORttK GOHHA.W ACTIVE j
IX FUH HKAL IX«jrillY (
George Goshaw. widely known old |
tinu*r of the Northland concerned
In the fur industry, and who has
bewi at the Hotel Me Alp in, in Now
York City, for a year or mare will
b«» a witness before the fur seuJ in
uiry. noon to bn held by a committe e
of the senate. The inquiry is the
outgrowth of the Wheeler resolu
tion which rails for a probe into Uio
government contract whereby the
Fenke Fur Company of St. I^ouis
virtually has a monopoly on fur seal
islands in Alanka. In a letter, Mr.
Goshaw tells of other sourdoughs
who are now In the metropolis, as
Carl Lenten and Col. Oglesby are
band at work m the metropolis of
Mew York state. Frank HaJpin is
a1 so then*; Jim Gaffney is now n
Fifth Avenue’ merchant prince; Geo.
Williams is steamboating in that
country. Chartes Mllot is in Now
York now. from Chicago. Captain
Lathrop. the movie magnate, has
reached Now York and is now ar
ranging for a long run of the Alaska
filmed picture "Cheechakoq” in a
Broadway theatre. Dr. Lewis is
chief guide for the Alaska movie
colony. Ceil. Steese was the chief
talker in showing railroad pictures
to the members of the Brooklyn Ea
gle Alaska party. Col. Blanchard of
the Interior Department is giving
a series of interesting talks on the
President Harding Alaska Tour,
Spec! ad motion picture, a future I
that is c«-ma n to advertise Alaska |
in the eyca of tiu* tourists.
Ed. Fleming ts with a New York
.»(/(•(*! structural firm. Chaxley Guod
all, formerly of Nome and now the !
lumber king of the Copper River j
section, has just returned from a ‘
visit to Norway and is now in Wash- j
ington enroute to the West ;iad i
North. Oscar lim'd man ot‘ Cordova j
and Chitna is arranging for the sal*'
|rif hi« silver holdings on the Kotsina.
! Ex-governor Thom.tR Riggs is ac
tive in mi-ning enterprises. General
Richardson is still inter t»ted rn
d'-wdopmeni of Alaska and will ever
be a good friend of the NorrMand
Dick Ryan spends a good deni of
time in tbw crt.y commuting to
Washington and Berkeley Springs—
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KEY PITMANN htCALLS
SHOOTING WHITE HORSE RAPIDS
(By K**> IMtunaa)
(I*. S. Senator from Nevada and .
a former Vomeite.)
July 17. 1 897. is a date, that will j
fo rover stick in my memory. As i
well as if it warn yesterday. I re
call th« excitenveot with which we
i:. Skagit County, Wauhington, re
ceived the nww of the arrival of the
treasure ship Portland at Seattle.
Anything that spoiled gold in tiho.se
days was prone to excite all of us J
abnormally, and when th** Seattle j
Times in its reports of the new K1on i
dike field and of the “pokes” famt j
down by the Portland’s ptassong<Ts, [
talked of gold fcn terms of tone in
stead of ounces and dollars—well.,
I we simpdy went crazy.
You see, times were hard with us .
!jU Skagit County. A young lawyer,
just out of college Ln Tennessee, t j
had gone to Puget Sound in 1890 to j
prow up with the country. My |
foitlh Mi the region was untouched.
Mount Vernon attracted my atten
tion as a lively and progressive lit
tle town. There I hung out my
shingle—about the cheapest, thing
that colud he hung out in that
shingle country—and began to sink
my roots into the soi.l Hut present
ly hard times came and the roots
began to wither. The panic of 1893
hit us hard. I. along with others
who had fruith in the country, hung
on and scraped along somehow.
Poverty was galling, but it had some
comipemsalioin-s. Being broke isn’t
so bad whom everybody else in your
community is also broke. There
were, no class linos in Mount Vernon
in those days; everybody was on th**
same level of poverty, but somehow
wc managed to have a preitity go.si
up our bolts to the lust holes on or
• Then I'jinip the Portland with her
loud of cold a.nrl the mnvs that .st*t
us all afire. My faith in the Pliant
Sound countfry’s future was .not
weakened, hut 1 felt that in this new
Klondike lay the opportunity of a
lifetime.
Jlist as fast as I could T sold off
my attenuated law library, convert
led iivt.o wish everything that was
convertible. and headed for Seattle.
I considered myself fortunate In trot
ting passage on one or tin* first
steamers for Skagwny. loaded with
mow of an outfit than, perhaps 1
should have, taken, but still .Ticking
in many things that should have
been included. It was a journey of
wild excitement on a ship so over
crowded that comfort was impossi
ble, but who thought of comfort.
We wi re dumped down on the
b**ach at Ska gw ay to join those
other thousands who had preceded
us. Then came those strenuous
| weeks of packing our stuff a little
! at a time over the mountainous and
rnant-kill inir Skyirway trail. Y>^. T
went through it all and packed my
little load of 100 pounds a trip, al
though 1 had never before attempted
anytilwing so strenuous. t thought
it was going to kill me at first, hut
it only seemed to do hie good and to .
iipprove my physique.
At the lower end of Lake Linde- !
man and the upper end of Lake Hen j
nett, which are close together, we
built onr boats. To do ill’s we went
Into the woods, wbipsfcwed planks j
out of logs and packed the planks :
to the water's edge. The whipsaw-1
ing of the logs was accomplished in i
this way: A frame was erectel i
about seven feet abov * the ground j
On this frame the log was rolled.
One man would stand on the fra mo f
above the log, while :is partnei
would take hold of the lower d j
of the saw under the frame. Tie*
saw was thus lifted up and pulled j
down un-td'l the planks were sawed J
off. The man underneath was sup-j
P"S<x:. to direct- the saw and at the J
same time dodge the sawdust. I
remember distinctly Ynat I was un
derneath.
Some of these boats were frail
craft to brave the wave* of four nig
lakes and the numerous rapids of
the ri’etr. We sailed down through
lakes Bennett, Tagish. Marsh and
Lcharge into the Yukon. Each of
those lakes is about thirty miles.long
by ten miles wide. Connecting
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Lake Mvch wH.h Lake Leba-rge ore .
fifty nvilLes <rt river. In this river
you <-aveount*jr the most dangerous
water. Hot© you find the Miles* j
Canyon-ard the Whitehorse Rapids. |
The canyon fct about 100 feet wide;
and a inil<* long. The walls are v*ir- J
ticai and rise to a height of nearly j
ICO feet. The river, which is 250 j
through like a mill race. Below the
on r yon. are the celebrated Whit hors
Rjupidfl. which Terminate in a littl"
waU&rfadl. I shall never forget our
pttriefnc© with the canyon and
I was traveling with one compan
ion. Jim Lusha a. Ho was a good
boatman and ww had a good boot.
We started down Fiftymil© River in
■the evening and ran until dark look
ing for A good camping place. Id
the morning we were astonished to
fled that we were only half a male
• hove the cam yon, and that by acci
dent ouly we had escaped going thru
;r in the night. A great many boats
w<re landed in the eddy above it.
We tied up to the bank and went
'down to investigate, We found that
[while all wore going through thfl
I <v. nyon none w©ro> ruivning the ra-,
Lids. The boats were being pulled
out on the left bank just above the
rap!ds a.nd portaged for a distance
• of a mile t<> a point below the rapids.
! When we got back to the boat my
; partner said: “Well, kid, wha.t do
I you think of the rapids"" Whe*' I
jtokl him I had had enough of pack
ing awl wits in for running them.
!i. was delighted.
We jumped in and shoved off. Jim
jtook >t)he 12-foot oars and stood up
•and rowed the boat, facing the bow.
! grabbed the steering oar and we
■swung into the canyon.
rxrtjpit that the walls of the canyon
were flying by and that we were
trssinc violently. When we emercr
e.l from the canyon the wa-ten* was
sv i6t btl/t smooth until the White
horse Rapids wore reached, half a
mile below. .Tim stood the bitr oarf
HOMK I'Al'KIl IN ItHYMK
r]j(. chief (1 iIT«*thiicm* between the
co an Cry paper and til*- city paper is
i:i size- The coimirv .paper being in
ihe main a ioral paper, does not meed
tit** space that the city daily requires
Hut today the country papers make
use of many of the same typographi
cal devices and pictures that the city
ps.pt.-r uses. This word is needed to
introduce a tine little prom by an un
known writer, who speaks of the
older type of country weekly which
too often was poorly printed and
•TN’ilt fill..,I Wl:ti cats sail pictures]
n.ir the latest news dispatches;
A’ il the paper's often dampened and ,
the print is sometimes blurred.
There is only one edition, and the ;
of a missing le/tter, or at times ;• I
misspelled ward.
No cablegram or special in.vwhere ;
the eye engages; •
The make-up is perhaps a trifle crude
and primitive.
Hut an atmosphere of home life tills
and permeates the pages, ^
Of the little country paper, printed 1
where you used to live.
How the heart grows soft and tender
while its columns you're persuing.
Every item is familiar, every name j
you know full well.
And a flood of recollection passes |
over yo i while you're musing
Da the pas*, amt w -r . s el out y.) ? ;
an imaginative spell.
You can see the old I (.ate villa0, • |
otice again in fancy, seeming j
r<. be clasping hand of neighbor, and
of friend anid relative;
And their faces rise before you as
you’re idly, fondly dream Hag
[>’er the little country .paper printed
where you used to live.
—Courtesy New York College of
Agriculture.
HELPING HIM ALONG
"Lady, could yer >imme a quar
:er to Re* where me family is?
"Certainly, my poor man, here's
i quarter. Where is your family?"
“At de movies.’"
KDWARD J. FOX, the Watch and
'lock repairer, has returned to Nome
iad will devote his entire time to
kYatch repairing; etc. Leave work
it Holts.
ur in the air. resting peaoeifuDy as
w- drifted toward t-he rapids. Just
before we reached them, men ran
frantically along the bank toward
us, shouting "The Whitehorse Ra
pids are below you' Throw us a
J;m placed his hold to his ear
and said: "Can't hear you. Wh se
r ?" Th- ; thought he was crazy
and continued to ah>ut. "The ra
pids* The Whitehorse rapids?"
He swung around :n' end i~.to trie
.••ipids. J’ra droppal hi* <*ats into
ti • water and began . > work dearer
*U»iy. The ajway was thici- that
* could not see to ste*- -. and hnd to
re’\ upon Jim for direotior.B. A3
the bow swung on * way or the
other, he would direct me by shout
ing: "To th*? ri^ht! To the. left!
Hard to the left. Steady a* you
are! Hard to the right! Hold her!
Hold her steady!"
And the boat plunged over toe
falls at the end of the rapids in a
wall of mist. The boat settled and
trembled for an instant, then shot
out into smooth water.
That was my entry into the land
( i great spaces and bonanzas. The
rest of the story isn't important.
Tlwre isn’t anything very piotures
que about the job I got in the Klon
dike of cutfling cordwood, when I
found my dreams of practicing law
in the new camp dissipated because
i- developed that Klondike was in
I British territory and. an American
I jaw license didn't go there. And the
story of tiow I driftod down to the
[ ivw camp of Nome and helped or
grinize the first “consent govern
Invent" of that bo<»ming municipality
j has been told perhaps too often.
I The whole tale, however, goes bach
to the. fateful day of July 17. 1^97
1 wish I could again meet the sour
doughs of the first rush. To then
my salutations! Reprinted fron
the Felwuarv issue of The Path
HOY STOWAWAY IS S.WKD
IPTKIt I I HOI KS IN SK
Portland. Ale.— Drifting 1 I hour
leased ;n a 1if<> preserver and un
• nscious whin picked up, a Dutcl
d whose name is »;..1 recalled, w:i
scued by Captain Gleason of th«
x masted schooner Wyoming 01
■r Iasi trip to Norfolk. he reportet
Mate Howard Williams located :
one night and was impressei
ship h.»ve to and the tendc.i
to pick up the object. Win.
first mate, going out therein
and ha tiling t-,e lad over the side
R* cam. to when restoratives wort
appiliod on the ship and said he had
jumped off a Dutch freighter when
he sighted land at entrance to
First he secured the lift preservci
and his duffel bag was tied around
his -neck He was a stowaway and
Captain Gleason pur him ashore at
Norfolk for the port officials to care
lkILFKI<l\(j CAT SOIT\l)|.Y
WHH’PKI) I1Y ALLIGATOR
Lawrence. Kao.—“The bully of
Kentucky itrout,” was Tom, a Un
•• ear-olid. 1S-pourod. snow-white cat.
belonging to George Melvin. .1 Law
•once lawyer. Tom was not partic
ilarly mean, but his size and vor
tcious appetit. always assured him
Napoleon hail his Waterloo. Tom
tis water tub
Last winter, mi New Orleans. MeJ
in nequiire.l a young alligator. “ Al
t'. ” Ally's home was in the old
amily wash tub.
Ally liked raw meat. So did Tom.
Vs a result, when meat was placed
>n the rocks in. the tub. whereon
MIy basked. t)he reptile would get
tbout one bite and Tom the res* .
I'nni would even hop into the waiter
The other day Ally’s supper was
■laced in the tub and Tom jumped
in for his snare. The alligator leap
ed across the tub and damped his
b>ns jaws on comethlng white and
Tom got out of th** tub. all right ;
also got "off” piilfnrlag Ally's fare.
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ARK MS<TSSKI» IIV M
< Fr<*rn Cordova Oullv rimes
Danger of inbreeding 01 using
«.*-kan r**Jnd»*'-:- herds m d< terioi
run.* d no fear aioonv herd o*n»
-..ys William T I. *j; > mipe-.ii.t
u- *t of Alakar schor- :n-. Ilcii j
.Mr. Lopp points to a li •?cl <•( >t
bou known to hav- remained pi
ticaily in. one section for many ye*
and which is ootn&dercd one of •
b*»t in Alaska, insofar an phyai
types are com earned. These a aim
rang*-, west of the Kuskokwim a
have been the subject of study
the Biological Survey.
"The reindeer like the earl bn
ext»r<‘<*' the chob-o selection
mating ;o*e more or less composed
groups." says Superintendent Lo;
‘•Those groups exchange males, a
at no Line do the mem bens of t
same* family mate.
Origin of Colon.
•'Th*' color of the-. reindeer wht
ii dcviait'e#* from the solid grey,
Tuot the result of in breed to#, as
supposed, but is a trick of the
borians. who many generations a>
in;reduced color into the herd, her
you often encounter the pure wh
nnid the “pinto" reindeer.
"The reindeer is one of the me
prolific of domesticated animals
eonlttovued Superintendent Lopp.
fawn of May will itself fawn the f
lowing year, Instead of, Jike ma
jnnimafis of the herbivorous spec'i
; await maturity of three years. F
|this reason a man owning a he
‘may count upon a rapid increas
These young mothe-s make up a bo
1 equally the losses from natui
‘ «•;;uses among the older aiaimals”
Must Have llis Moss.
i As yet the reindf *-r has not be
taught. the value of oats and oth
1grains and forages as a fat-prodi
I f>r says Superintendent Lo«i
Those in captivity have been taut;
■ mix :i little rolled oats with th«
mvoss. but demand the moss as
roughage and prefer it to oth
feeds. Mr. Lopp thinks it may
possible, by starting with very you
j f;i«*t he knows of several instant
where orphaned fawns have learn
to eat everything on man’s table 1
iiie-at. An experiment was tri
with a matured animal by starvi
!i; of moss and tempting it with ro
•and then went on strike.
The Biological Survey-would w<
i-,,me experiments in domeaticati
.;l:e reindeer and getting it to ada
! itself to other foods than nu^s.
is believed it would produce a b. .*
draft animal. A reindeer is good f
about five days, if he is fat an
■ strong at the start. After that pe
iod the fat.along his back disappea
and he wilts. It is necessary to n
low him to snack often, and tl
effort of pawing for moss, couplf
.with pulling n sfted wears him down
If be can be taught to eat horse fee
h" will make a splendid draft an
(nth .m.TKP vr \i.r\it
i\ \ ritowoKD cm i:< i
M;ni <»ives Knipliutic "Vo" to Ini
port a n I truest ion and Walks
Our ot* Building
y*.ars John Zielinski and Miss Just*
phine Tkai z have been keeping com
• “.I to be married. Recently Misg
jTkaoz, taavin.tr purchas <1 an. elabor
ate trousseau and bought the bridal J
j bellfiuet-. happily joined her fiance J
'ip a taxicab ride to the Sacred11
.Heart church. Both seemed radiant-* 1
The young woman paid the cab |
fare. Toy ther they prasemited •
j themselves in frn-nt of the altar.
■ The clergyman opened his pravor
j book. The marriage ceremony was)
begun. The Rev. Alevander Kowal
I ezky asked the prospective bride
i “Do you take Josephine for your
To which Joseph firmly and dis
tinctly shouted:
A large congregation, including the
young woman’s th retofore beaming
relatives, was aghast. The clergy
man wasn't sure that he had 'heard ;
aright. He put the question again.
Again came the “No!”
Joseph turned to the spectators
“I know what I am saying. I
hereby inform all of you people that
I don’t want to manry this woman. (
and I’m not going to!”
The bride-to-be fainted. The cler
gyman closed the prayer book. Jos
eph strode firmly down the aisle and
!rn.o the ep:n. Amid deep silence
the awed congregation sat’ for a '
while, and then filtered out of the
church.