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Wednesday, January 10, 1906.
OPTIMISTIC.
Events, actual and prospective, are
crowding upon each other so fast on
this northern end of North America
that one will have to hustle to keep
posted on what is going on. That the
world's greatest development is to take
place in the north in the years soon to
come seems to Is- reasonably certain.
In Alaska alone progress is so fast that
while we pause to wonder at some new
chronicle in the territory’s rapidly form
ing history, other chapters are added
la-fore we can face around and and see
what the jieople at other places are up
to. Nome, and all there is in that sec
tion of Alaska, has been built in half a
dozen years; Fairhanks and its sur
roundings in three. Just as we realize
that a railroad is actually and vigorously
under way from Seward to this |s»rt of
the Yukon we get an inkling that the
former commissioner at ('ohlhsit has
interested capital and that a railroad
from t'ardova Hay to Eagle is likely to
Is* more tlian a huge joke. So it goes.
One of these days when sum* unfortun
ate miner gets blown to kingdom come
by an explosion in the bottom of his
sliaft a hole will t»- •trilled which may
furnish natural gas for furl; new K<«k
elellerswdl come upon tlie scene and
exploit the issintry's oil; and w* people
in Alaska—tlnsr of us who*!** not due -
will li«»!
«Ksr in the t ana-ban north things are
happening also. No sooner has the ar
rangements for their second transconti
nental road been completed than they
are talking of a third—further north,
further north. A railroad is projected
from Winnipeg to Hudson’s Bay: a rail
road which may sometime carry nearly
half the wheat of the entire world. Jim
Hill is said to 1h‘ interested in a scheme
to put n road through to Dawson. A
trail, finally to la-come a wagon road, is
proposed to connect Kdmonton and
Dawson. Mr. Laurier extends a wel
come to the world, including Russian
Jews, to his northern land of promise.
To show tliat the Dominion lias an eye
to business, it is said that a custom
house is under contemplation on the
Porcupine-Kobuk divide.
Alas, the custom house! It is the one
supreme obstacle that the ingenuity of
man may never surmount. In the years
soon to come, when our southern broth
ers and sisters pack their trunks for the
regulation summer jaunt to the resorts
clustered around the north pole, let
them not forget to spread new, crisp
notes just lieneath the lids.
TRUTH WILL BE WELCOMED.
At first thought the office of district
judge for sin out-of-the-way territory
like Alaska would seem to be an insig
nificant affair for the United States
senate to squabble over for two sessions
of congress and of too small concern to
create antagonism between that more or
less august laxly and the president.
Come to look at it more seriously, how- \
ever, the very remoteness of the field of
the judge’s duty is the strongest reason
why no mistake should la* permitted to
go uncorrected.
There has been wrong done some-1
where in connection with the judgeship
of this district. Either the judge has
Ireen wofully unworthy or a number of
[s*rsons have been disgustingly and
criminally false.
Now it seems we are in a fair way to1
get the truth. Ia*t us have it, every
word of it. Ia*t nothing lie jwssed over, j
no matter what big man or little man's ;
interests may suffer. Ia*t all the evi
dence l>e made public, and then accept !
tin* facts, whatever they may l>e, and
cease complaining.
Carrier Is Well Known.
Arthur Campliell, the mail carrier
seriously burned recently in the fire
that destroyed the mail cabin at Mouse
Point, is one of the best known carriers
on the American Yukon. In the winter
of ltmU-lUOl he ran into Circle from
above, and is said to hold the record for
the longest day’s run on the entire river,
having covered a full eighty miles on
one * evasion while lien liowning was
contractor._
Mr IHN Was Off Duty.
Mr K P llill feeling that an injustice
was done him in presuming that lie anti
flu* other gourd at the jail were dis
placed on account «»l Mspiel's recent
escape, this |w|s*r takes pleasure in
printing the deputy marshal’s statement
that Mr. llill was off dnly al the lime
the is-currence
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ALASKA-YUKON
EXPOSITION SCHEME
To Include All Northwest Canada,
Alaska and Nearby Parts
of Asia.
Seattle, Nov. 11.—The directors of the
Alaska-Yukon exjiosition decided yes
terday to make the fair a general north
western event, to include not only
Alaska and British Yukon, but the Pa
cific states, all the Northwest Territory
and British Columbia, and that part of
Asia adjacent to Alaska. The original
purely Alaska idea was dropped.
The change of programme was adopted
in order to enlarge the scope of the ex
|Hisition and to avoid jealousies which
might arise from holding the fair in
Seattle, and the inclusion of only the
Klondike out of the whole British North
west.
A telegram was received from the
American consular agent at Dawson,
conveying greetings from the Yukon
commissioners and expressing regret at
their inability to arrive in time to |mr
ticipate in the organization.
George Dreibelbis Outside.
Fairbanks Sunday Times, Dec. 17:
Deputy Marshal tleorge Iheibelbis, ac
companied by 8. P. Raymond, left for
the outside Friday morning with a dog
team, having John Ihinn, the insane
man, in charge. Ihinn will lie taken to
Crystal Springs, Oregon, near Portland,
where the federal asylum is located. Mr.
Iheilielhis will return in about six weeks
. J. LINDLEY GREEN
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