Yukon Valley News
No. 27.
Yol. I.
RAM HART, ALASKA, FEBRUARY 8, 1905.
WORKING FOR ALASKA
DELEGATE.
Alaska Club and Arctic Brother
hood Make Systematic
Endeavor.
Correspondence
Seattle. Dec. 40, 1904.
The Alaska Club has been acting
co jointly with the Aortic Brother
hood in endeavoring to secure lor
Alaska a delegate in Congress. The
club passed a resolution similar to
the one adopted at the late session
in Seattle of the Arctic Brother
hood. Copies of these two resolu
tions were then sent to about a
thousand business men in Seattle
with a request that letters be writ
ten to members of congress other
than those from the State of Wash
ington, asking as a personal favor
that a delegate be given Alaska.
Hon. K. A. Ballinger, mayor of
Seattle, has been especially active,
and has received favorable replies
from the following members! f con
gress:
tiniest 1- Acheson 1). S. Alexander
John H. Bankhead Roswell 1'. Bishop
Frank B. Brandegce Theodore Burton
lames H. Davidson Blackburn B. bove
Michael K. Driscoll ner
John F. I.accy Geo. P. Lawrence
John Lind Jos. E. Rainsdell
Geo. W. Southwick Alfred B. Kittridge
Alfred J. Hopkins Shelby M. Culluni
p. J. McCutnlier Henry G. Hanshrough
The replies were all very friendly
to the proposed measure. The fol
lowing reply Irom Hon. 1. h.
Burton, of Ohio, chairman of the
committee on rivers and harbors, is
a sample of the entire list:
• Washington, I>. C., l>ec. 14,
1904 Dear Sir: Your letter of the
Hth, enclosing circular letters of the
Alaska Club and the Arctic Brother
hood, urging legislation on lie half
ol Alaska, at hand I shall lie
glad to vote lor any bill which pro
vide* for a delegate, and al.-o. if 1
can see ui) way clear to do so, for
any other legislation required lot
the development ol Alaska
It is tielicvcd that in this manner
every metulier of cougicss from
every state in the union has re
ceived person d appeals U"tu tormer
irtends ami acquaintances who now
live in Seattle amt alt ol whom are
interested tu Alaska » development
It 1 as been noticed that several
Alaska papers have stated that Col.
\V. T. Perkins, of Notre, was
hacked by tire Alaska Club in his
candidacy for the appointment as
governor of Alaska. This teport
is misleading. The Perkins Club
was formed by the colonel’s friends
in the rooms of the Alaska Club,
but the Alaska Club, as a club, took
no part in the meeting for the very
simple reason, as stated at the
meeting by the colonel himself, that
under its by-laws the club could
not endorse any man for any office
whatsoever. The club can only
endorse measures, not men, and it
will endorse measures only when
all the people of Alaska get together
and decide on that measure as their
joint wishes.
Among the Alaskans who will be
in Washington City this winter, or
who are already there, may be
mentioned the following: H. 'I'.
Millard, of Valdez; K. S. Ryan, of
Nome; John Ii. Ballaitie, of the
Alaska Central railway, of Seward
and Seattle.
Frank J. Cleary, of Fairbanks,
after whom the famous Cleary creek
was named, spent seveial weeks in
this city, this being the first time
in four years lie has been outside.
He left for the intei i* r yia Valdez,
and expected to get his Christmas
dinner with Judge \\ ickersbam.
K. C. Hawkins, the man who
built the White l’ass and Yukon
route, has sold out his Klondike
Alines railway venture to London
capitalists, and the first fourteen
miles of that road will be built from
Dawson in the spring. J. J. Chute,
accompanied by I). AC. Weeks, has
gone north and will remain in Law
son this winter getting out the
specifications tor the material and
I supplies that will be assembled in
i the spring as soon as the river
ojietis Mr. Weeks was for a long
time K. C\ Hawkins’ private secre
tary, and was in the north during
the building of the White l’ass
road . . . •
The name of the new judge lor
the hirst division is still printer!
"(ianmson” by some papers and
"('■■mum" by some. The Shag
way Alaskan says is correct
Cy Noble arrived v*sterda\ front
bis second trip to Fairbanks. He
savs be found the mushing prettv
cold.
The A. B's assembled in regular
meeting last night.
I). M. McQuesten wired his safe
arrival at Fairbanks.
Dr. Gibbons came in yesterday
from Thanksgiving. Robert Wright
is progressing favorably.
Walter Sundborg departed on
another trip to Fairbanks this
morning. Whisky and butter con
stituted the chief articles of trans
port.
Charley Stadelman and Smith
from McCormack's are said to be
in pursuit of a moose which crossed
to this side of the Yukon a short
way below here Monday night.
The annual meeting of the grand
lodge of the Yukon Order of Pio
neers was held at Dawson Jan. 6,
at which steps were taken to give
the order a new impetus Fair
banks has been granted a charter.
In his report, the secretary of the
treasury includes among the items
contained in iiis estimates of the
expenditures for 1905 the following
for Alaska: For reindeer, $25,000;
for salmon hatcheries, $50,000; for
supplies for Alaskan natives. $19,
500.
Insane Man Taken
From Fourth of July
Dawson News, Jan. 6: Jim Mc
Connell. a miner on Fourth of July
creek, below Eagle, was taken to
Eagle a lew days ago. stiffeiing
from insanity.
The man was under the halluci
nation that he is the King of Scot
land. He would |>lace Some object
—such as a can or pan on his head
and declare that he was the king ot
the Scots.
A civilian took McConnell to
Eagle, and he was there turned
over to the American authorities.
Not in tl»e I 'll 11 Its,
lint in the l*«»ll
An Irish soldier was passing a
barrack square with a pail in which
he was going to get sonic water.
A sergeant passing at the time Ho
used that l*at had a very disreputa
ble looking pair of trousers on, ami
stopt>c«i the man and asked
' Where are you going F*
"To get some water."
'What' In those trousers *"
‘ No, sergeant, iuthepuil ' ■ K*.
STRONG OPPOSITION TO
RAILROAD AID.
The Principle of Subsidizing
Corporate Institutions Not
Regarding the proposition to
grant congressional aid to Alaska
railroad enterprises, the Seattle
Times correspondent at Washing
ton a short time ago said:
The proposition to subsidize
Alaska railroads, for which bills
have been introduced in congress,
will meet with vigorous opposition
in both branches. Even the mem
bers of the Washington delegation,
u ho are nearest to the territory
entrusted with legislation for its
benefit in a way, are not enthusias
tic on the subject.
Representative Cushman stated
his position in rather an equivocal
way. Without declaring himself
as for or against subsidies, he said
if there ever was a proposition to
grant a subsidy which was merito
rious it was that of the Alaskan
roads.
Mr. Jones said: "I am not an
advocate of subsidies as a general
thing, bn* do not care to say at this
time whether or not I w ill support
the Alaskan railroad subsidy bill,”
Mr. Humphrey said he had not
considered the question at all.
New Placer Kind
In \Vti»!iinj£ton
Seattle, Dec. 10.-- Placer gold in
large quantities ba-> been discovered
at Slate neek, near Barron, in
Okai i gan county. A couple of
weeks ago nuggets worth $8,000
were tak.mi out where Mill creek
and Slate creek converge, and it is
thought in the district that there is
sufficient of the precious metal to
had for the digging, and that there
will tie a rush to it in the spring.
At the present tunc, owing to the
heavy snows, it is impossible to get
into the country
The newts of the tind was brought
to this city b/ James Cameron, who
has only recently conic out it«>m
Slate creek, after having worked in
the mines lor several months.