Yukon Valley News
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WEDNESDAY, niCC.
21, 1904.
Dispatches state that Pacific
coast senators are “holding up”
the recommendation for the con
iirmalion of Brady as governor,
Wickershatn as judge of the third
distiict, and Hoyt as district at
torney of the second district of
Alaska In the case of Hi yt the
only objection heard ot is that he is
not in harmony with the republican
pirtv. Governor Brady “is un
popular in Alaska.” “Wickersham
gave unjust decision in Alaska
1 opper case.” The truth, proba
l.lv, is that the appointees might
-tand in the way of future ‘‘hold
• ps.” If the class of opposition
t tat has been brought to bear in
:his part of this immense judicial
district can be taken as a fair satn
■ le of that developed in the whole
territory, never were appointees so
ranch to !»• congratulated on the
e letnie- they have made. In office
• r out of 1 fticc. Judge W11 kersham,
a-, official and as tnan. is secure in
1 reputation of marked contrast to
those of his detractors
Tiik ;.r >]>riet'>r of tlu* \ ukon
\".»lley New- reomtly receive I a
. 'Her from hi* brother, C M
i letter, a prominent manufacturer
i i Butler. I‘a The brother* have
n >t - -eu eadi other hi *-vent-en
\ „Mr*, an I from the tone of the
IVnnivIvaniin't letter if they ever
meet again our Mr fleeter will
have to meet him it leant half way
not that there i- anv rohl ie*«
eecept a dim ilk one lie tween
them, but the brother i* prejmlieci
again*! the bar North lie urge
S. K to wiii't up hi* affair* am
go * nithwaril.
Cuuiri vt va TtUi> ha* been pie
* *ihil by a ewe ami !♦** rah
than known in l amer year* on tin
V uhon.
The Travels of Horace Brown.
CANTO III.
BROWN GETS TO FORTYMILE.
j ’Twasjune. A Yukon dawn in June’s a pleasure,
j ^specially if you can float at leisure
; With a light breeze astern—a trifle cool,—
' Hoist but a blanket for a sail, and rule
. The course with touches of the rudder, while
You lie at ease and watch each wood clad isle
That dots the river here at every mile.
; You note the bubbles that the foam-flecked tide
Makes smile into the blue the while you glide
i With bellying sail and pass them. In your wake
I Are dancing little swirls that seem to shake
I With laughter at the sun. The very air
beguiles you to believe the world is fair,
; When suddenly a shower makes you swear.
■ Tis very wrong, but unexpected water,
I think, makes Adam's every son or daughter
j Call out a dam(u), or words of kindred meaning.
At any rate, brown did it. We all want weaning
! From losing temper at a th . g so small—
! It did n’t matter much, or not at all.
’Twas but a passing shower—a little squall.
j The sun came out and dried them in a trice;
; They all allowed the changeful life was nice;
And took to watching both tlie pebbly shores, |
i Commenting on the fishing camps and squaws, '
Till presently their larder claimed attention,
| For geese rose up in hundreds; not to mention
Rabbits and ducks. McLeod, with the intention j
Of furnishing a supper, got his rifle
And, lying in the bows,soon shot a trifle
Of huU-a-d zen ducks. At noon they dropped
Into a shady cove, and out they hopped;
U\uus cooked, brow u kept the blazing fire,
O'flrndy washed the plates so you’d admite, I
McLcod looked out for rabbit isomewhat h gher. 1
I links stood aloof: a captain should not mix
Ilia lofty self with dishes or with sticks.
He order* d all the things he saw were done,
And posed as if they had not been begun
d ne .ot -» 1 so. H ns ■» much th; same
May still be found all over—quick to blame
it accidents -hould hapj en dead to si ame.
i The meal being ready,soon it disappeared.
Starting again they found the wind had \ eeres i
So o st came oars, and, pulling shifts of two
lloui s at a streti h, they t ov» ed - that is, the crew
Did. The ciptain steered ami kept the time
A boss has always got a cinch —.'m
Meat tf i can worry out a rhyme.
Th is. in Ro->d time, they got to Forty mile.
A city boasting three saloons- all vile,
A church and several stores, an N A 1'
l pot w hich, bet vs ecu . «m aid me.
K .11- tbe whole show fin situate
At mouth ot Forrymile up which, on debate
T li «■ res«»lveil to try their Inck or fate
1; C IIKNKV
To m- Comtinci i
Thk editor of tilt- Yukon Valley Nows
acknowledges an invitation to the cele
bration at the Alaska building, world's
t.ur, of the thirty seventh anniversary
of the transfer of Alaska by Russia to
the L'nited State*. Tlie e lebration was
to held on "Tuesday afternoon. <*cto
ber eighteenth nineteen hundred and
four from one thirtv to four o'clock St.
I.ouis, f S A." The invitation bore the
St. l,ou.s postmark of Oct. 17 ai.d was
received I’ve 15. The editor, much to
his regret, hints 11 impossible to lie pres
ent. As ail repression of good will anil
reciproe.il gene rosin however, the editor
'hereby invites the I Metric! of Alaska
Commission and all their St. I.ouis
friends and .»ijuaintance to honor him
b, their nim|uni at Innnvr Saturday
Ivrrmlsr twenti fourth nineteen hun
dred and tour from high noon to mid
night Rampart, frigid Zone
According to the director nf the mint,
%ta»h4 produced Jt.M | 700 in gold last
war This'toes not include m of I hr
' gold pisliKol m the v tnadtan tvrritoev
.. X .-‘4* The K'ondlkr
amt other upper Yukon tributaries jm*.
lured during the same time about
ft i.iswio**!. the product ton on both
•nb % of the tine for Isr-t mil bn about
the wan as that for »•*»•! In l /nf V -*ha
(h -id it"-»'l the Canadian teti tott n
pnmtuvttun Shaguas .Clash to
Errors in print are an abomination to
those who make them as well as to those
who are confronted and confounded by
them in perusing the printer’s work. It
was predicted that the adoption of the
Mcrgenthaler machines by the more im
portant printing houses would lessen the
number of errors; but it did not—it
merely made a slight change in their
character. For instance, no machine
would have transformed the name
“Kaffetiburgh” into “Kakenburgh,” as
the movable types did for,this paper last
week. In a font of type the “double-f”
is cast in a single piece, and a “k” acci
dentally dropped in the “ff" box was
the offending bit of metal. Machines
are especially given to one class of errors:
a line of their work which exhibits no
impropriety in the beginning often ter
minates somewhat like this: mlkjihddto
In such cases the operator lias discovered
a mistake and finishes' his litie at ran
dom, leaving it for the proofreader to
mark, and has set a corrected line in its
stead; and it has either escaped the proof
reader or a wrong line has been removed
by the person attempting to make the
correction. Individual machines some
times develop eccentricities of their own.
One in the States once suddenly began
to leave out h’s where they should be
and put them in where they should not
be, and its antics were ascribed to the
ghost of some Englishman.—But that is
immaterial.
THIRD
A L,
Christmas Entertainment
OF TIIK
Arctic Brotherhood Lodge
AT THKIll HALL
Monday Evening, Dec. 20.11)04
Entertainment to commence
promptly at 9 o’clock.
Dancing alter the performance.
I ’UOC.KAM,
OVERTURE.
Mrs. Frank Smith
I >r. C. II. ('.ihbons
\V. Chilson
I.ouis Sevier
M. 1*. Flcisckman
1’iano accompaniment bv Mrs. J . \V.
Duncan.
Sons
Recitation
Song
Song
Violin Solo
• A (Jl 1 let I4 Mini IV .
CHARACTERS.
Mr. ftarnahy Bibh*
Mr. Benjamin Bibb*
Mr. iVlrr Parker
i trump}
Mr**. H.irnaby Hi 1*1
Mr*. Beniamin Hif»I»«»
Mns Selma Summer*
Snarl*
I >r. C. II. <
.\V. \V. Crockett
t* X Ketterer
t»en \V. Chilaon
Mrv Prank Srnilh
Min* l,i//ie XViehl
Mi^ K«itu- Wivht
Mr* \\ H. H.itlou
SYNOPSIS.
Thr HiliW* alt live in tin- Mtnr
h«war. it having l*een inherited from a
Mr, Stmt met*, .» forun>r employer.
Th« hihlKimli .ire krntbrro and the
* are titlar* They are the KiMnluun
of Mi« Selma Sum Wert*, who i* in Inve
with Peter Parker The |lihh*e»
Mt Parker and attempt t«» frighten h.rn
twav b> giving til the that Jfcrltit.t
will l»e d>*mhertte»l it <he matfifi with
• •of their rumrilt Hot the prmilrtirr »»t
the l*nrri. anted b% Harnahv. trntiitph'i
n the eml
Hamah* ami Mr* Benjamin are in the
hr)(uininK much I he their tarttev
ha’ve*. hot. tiring of othmiftutg to then
tyrant*, then rebel, torn the table* ami
Until* r<HN|«t an agreement ton treat* «*(
p**e
S*» *rlv »* the eriint <n the ttenfamtci
Htbbwe*. «mt t.rumpv the wrvaut *•# thr
NrnaHv RtKIwa M*th kat o**ntra* te«l
the d»**g9e**ht*ne*» «*f their master* hoi
thev too pnrtn ifmie in the |*nvral hat
WOM whoh prevails Itl the eml
C. H. GIBBONS, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon.
Office Hours: i to 3 p. ra. and when not other
wise engaged.
Office and Residence. Second avenue.
OKOKOK A. SALISBURY,
Attorney and Counsellor,
1 Phone Glen. Rampart, Alaska
LOUIS K. I’RATT,
Attorney at L,aw,
Fairbanks, Alaska
J. L1NDLKY GREKN,
Lawyer.
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: office at the Courthouse.
OFFICE OF
! Commissioner and Recorder
Rooms 1 and 2. Courthouse
THE
HEETER
TANANA, ALASKA
S. E. HEETER. ED FERGUSON,
PROPRIETOR MANAGER
FIRST-CLASS
Wines, liquors and Cigars
Loaves for (Hen Every
Five Days.
Freighting and Packing
To and From All
the Creeks.
Good Teams.
Good Service
Thk rejiort coning from Daw-on that
some of the public men of Yukon tern
tor; arc sleeping in the police barracks
to keep front being killed bv an incensed
jHipnla-e illustrates a difference in the
customs of jieople hi mining camps in the
past and at the present time. In the old
day* the persons interested would have
sought repose surrounded by their own
private arsenal and depended on their
marksmanship to save themselves fiom
becoming the chief attraction at a fu
neral. The present plan has much to
recommend it It has one lamentable
fault, however the men it makes secure
it doe* not makr deserving of sreuritv.
C vaunt Nstion i* the name of a big
\laskau Is-ar brought down from Seward
o« the Santa Ana bv J H I .,11,one ami
turned over to the board of park com
tnissnioers tor the VV,**|land I'ark Mu
seuai. says a Seattle |u[*r. the hear got
It* name hv wrecking a saloon at Seward
and lacnh-ntallv that same , s> apudr t*
the reason (or hi* captivity - Dongle*
Island News
IT ■tevvlop* that ike doing* «f Ja, g
Nelson * hot*, on the wav to Tatiana
were leva villus than reported n the la»l
>*•••• o# thi* paper l he an-mai was
•a*dv recaptured ami the *t«d ami it*
(oUlent* were uninjured Mr Nelson ,
trawl* here *impiv rraygriaint a htlle
far a joke * sake