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MISGUIDED RETRENCHMENT.
Congressional refus;il of the proposal to assist the Alas]- herring
industry by means «.f a small appropriation is probably no more than was
to be exported in view of the overwhelming desire of the present congress to
curtail public expenditures but, at the same time, it is apparent that the
rejection of the Singly Civil Hill provision granting the trifling sum of
twenty five thousand dollars for the improvement of this new industry is an
example of misguided retrenchment.
The Alaska herring industry is still in the infantile stages of develop
ment and the expenditure of a few thousand dollars toward its improvement
would have an immediate and widely beneficial effect and ultimately yield
a vast return to the nation.
According to well informed authorities, no finer herring to be found
anywhere in the world than are obtained in Alaska waters. Not even the
famed herring of the' Norwegian coast can excell in size and fatness those
found along the Alaska shores from Point Barrow to the fartherest southern
extremes of the Alexander Archipelago. it is further said that nowhere can
this delectable variety of food fish be found in greater quantities.
Vast shoals of this variety of marine denizens swarm along the Alaska
shores during a large part, of the year, each shoal comprising incredible
numbers of fish. Some of the talcs told by Alaska fishermen regarding their
numbers are almost beyond belief.
Especially along the Bering Sea coats, the fish are easily caught and
neither extensive apparatus or large expenditures of money are required to
reduce them to a marketable quantity. All who are acquainted with the
herring business are agreed that the Alaska herring represent an almost un
bounded source of wealth to the nation.
It happens, however, that the best methods of preparation and pack
ing are little known to the fishermen of this part of the world. The methods
at present employed by a majority of the fishermen are cumbersome and un
satisfactory. Until a year or two ago the so called Scotch method was
practically unknown. The dissemination <>f knowledge and information by the,
government through the few experts sent to the territory within the past two
\onrs has already resulted in vast benefit to the industry by enabling the
local fishermen to increase their product and at the same time produce an j
improved quality of packed fish.
A little more effort to improve the industry along the same lines will
result in still greater benefits in the future. I'p to the present time the
government has devoted little attention to the herring fisheries of this section
of the territory, despite the fact, that the fish found in local waters are of
larger size and more abundant than along any other section of the Alaska
coast. By sending a few experts here to study the local situation and teach
the fishermen the most improved processes of catching and handling, the
government Mould he doing something that Mould not only be of inestimable
benefit to the territory and its people but would also be doing something that
Mould in a very short time yield a vast return to the nation for the small
expenditure of public funds required.
WAR PROHIBITION.
Institution of war prohibition will probably have the effect of entirely
offsetting the present efforts of the wet exponents to secure a recall of the
constitutional amendment by teaching the benefits of a boozeless regime to
the peoples of those states which have not ratified the amendment provision.
Few thinning persons will fail to appreciate the benefits accruing to
the people of the states aligning themselves under the prohibition banner at
earlier periods. According to the best inofrmation obtainable, the population
of practically every one of the dry states is fully satisfied with the results of
their prohibition experience and would not countenance ft return tj)' the in
hibitive conditions prevailing during the days when the saloon was an im
portant factor in their communal life. The resultant saving of money and
health alone is so apparent in most of the dry states that the people have be
come well convinced that the dry system is one that makes for prosperity and
added years.
Taking the whole prohibition question into consideration, there is
hardly a single logical argument for the retention of hooze. About the best
the wet exponents can do in the line of argument is to point to an alleged in
crease of insanity in the far fa-pod state of Kansas and declaim loudly regard
ing the supposed “usurpation of our liberties” represented in the enforced
abolition of booze. The fact that the liquor supporters have nothing good to
say for their own cause is alone .sufficient to convince a person with average
horse sense that there can he little good in the booze ■ traffic. The very
paucity of logical and reasonable arguments in favor of intoxicants is in
itself the most potent counter argument that liquor is a superflous commodity
and can bo dispensed without the slightest loss to race.
The institution of war prohibition will undoubtedly have the effect
of convincing those who have not tried it that the dry system is the best
to follow and thereby destroy the bust lingering hope of the liquor interests
that the saloon may again flourish and spread its besotting and poverty breed
ing Influence in America.
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(By (leu iff o Mutthow Adams.
Never In the history of the world has the idea of preparation asserted
Itself as it !r. doing now. Men who have been living comparatively qulat and
he studied, and plodded and worked.
retired lives, have, leaped into prominence and leadership. But that has al
ways been the way. in this world of ours where work and thinking have had
La Place, the astronomer, was still at work when death caught up with
him, at seventy-eight years of age. But this is what ho died saying: “What
we know, is nothing: what w« don't know Is immense!”.
Sometime YOU are goinb to be wanted. And what you learn to-day
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will need at some glad and thrilling future day. when the world may be looking
ground to see where a man may be picked that can do the Job.
Most of the failures scattered about towns, are there because they
never impressed themselves with the fact that sometime they might be sorely
The simple, humdrum work of you unnoticed day, right now, is going
to he remembered jtist a little Inter on.
For—sometime, as sure as there lives a world, you are going to be
It won’t pay to push trines aside. It won’t pay to neglect a single
detail. Men must be sound. Just like ships or engines. For. they are always
needed, wanted—demanded—to haul the loads that feed Kvents and Time,
So. go to your job, today—and every day—and don’t forget that
SOMETIME YOU ARE 001X0 TO BE WANTED.
HOW THE REINDEER INDUSTRY STARTED
On December 9. 1S97. :i resolution was introduced in Congress looking
to tlie relief of the people in the Alaskan gold fllelds who were reported to
be in a starving condition and in need of government aid. On December 18,
1897, the bill authorized the Secretary of War to purchase and import drivers
and caretakers, not citizens of the, I'nited States Into the country. In pur
suance of this set and by an arrangemnt with the department of the Interior,
Dr. Sheldon Jackson, an agent of that department, was instructed to proceed
to Norway and Sweden to purchase 500 reindeers with sled, harness and drivers,
and bring the same to the I'nited States as soon ns possible. Lieut. IX V.
Devore 1' S A., accompanied Dr. Jackson as disbursing .agent of the expe
The expedition landed in New York on the steamship Manitoban,
February .’7. 189s. with US immigrants, 538 head of reindeer, 418 sleds, 411
sets of harness and a large quantity of reindeer moss for forage. After due
advertisement a contract was let to the I’ennsylvania HaIIroad company to
transport the expedition to Seattle. Wash., for $10,418.75. The reindeer train
arrived at Seattle on March 7. 1898, without accident or loss, th* animals be
ing in excellent condition, the run across the continent having been made on
passenger train schedule.
On March 10, 1898, the Secretary of the Interior transmitted to the
Secretary of Wm\ a communication in which he stated that he had directed
Dr. Sheldon Jackson to proceed at once to Dyea to confer with Capt. Kay,
in charge of the relief expedition, in regard to the best method of driving
337 head of reindeer to lie sent by way of Lynn canal, across the Dalton trail
to Circle City. Dr. Jackson was also instructed to go to Circle City and se
cure a suitable pasture for the animals until the following May, when in ac
cordance with an understanding with the Secretary of War they were to be
turned over to Dr. Jackson as the agent of the Department of the Interior.
It was understood on the part of the Secretary of the Interior that the War
Department was to ho in charge of the transportation of the animals until
they were delivered to Dr. Jackson in May. Fifty of the 337 head were to he
turned over the department's representative until the middle of April. 1898.
The last named number of animals were intended for use by the U. S. Geolog
ical Survey on its trip over the Dalton trail to a point near Circle City In
Alaska. By an understanding with the War Department subsistence was to be
furnished by that department for the reindeer • attendants for at leas one
year. It was further understood that the traveling expenses and subsistence
of Dr. Jackson while engaged in this duty were to be paid out of the relief
fund. Dr. Jackson was subsequently detailed for the duties above-named,
with definite instructions as to the duties he was to perform.
In the meantime Dieut. (now General) Richardson, later head of the
Road Commission, was detailed to investigate conditions along the Yukon,
and reported that while there was a shortage of provisions, there were no
cases of actual want. He commandeered the stores of the A. II. C. Co., and
the X. <’. Co., ryul furnished the*destitute mlneres provisions, taking notes
from them for the amount, which were sent In to the department for future
Subsequently the Secretary of the Interior reached the conclusion that
it would be better after the eexpedition reached Haines that that 337 head of
deer 1.h* turned over to Dr. Jackson at once, who would be responsible for their
safe delivery at Circle. On March 16, 1898, the Assistant Secretary of War,
G. D. Meiklejohn, informed the Secretary of the Interior that he had no auth
ority from the War Department to pay the Raveling expenses and subsistence
of Dr. Jackson from the fund heretofore named after the animals should have
been delivered at Pyramid Harbor or Haines’ Mission, as his connection with
the War Department would then cease and he would become the agent of the
Department of the Interior. The Assistant Secretary of War, however, stated
taat Jackson would be authorized, should he so desire, to purchase army sub
sistence under the conditions usually granted agents of any other department
in cases where the purchase of army subsistence was desirable.
In the mean time, the goldseekers were appealing for relief and many
fawelss acts were being perpetrated on account of a scarcity of food. After
a voluminous correspondence between the Secretary of War and the Secretary
of the Interior as to which department should provide subsistence for Mr.
Jackson, the affair was satisfactorily terminated. A large number of the
J deer died from eating alfalfa hay, the supply of reindeer moss having long
since oecomc exhausted. A number of others died during shipment to Alaska.
The reindeer were shipped north on the steamship Seminole, and were taken
overland to Circle by Dr. Jackson.
Upon the conclusion of the relief the deer were turned c
natives, and immense herds have been raised from them. They i
chnrge of the Bureau of Education.
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