MUTUAL DISQUIET
A cablegram to the Nome Nugget
from Washington dated August 2 says:
James Wickersham, delegate to con
gress from the territory of Alaska, this
morning stated that “I am completely
disgusted with congressmen and officials
here in Washington. I will pack my
grip and go back to my people in Alas
ka, who will stand by me and believe
what I say.”
In a lengthy interview given broad
cast to the press of the United States,
Judge James Wickersham has notified
the citizens that he has played his
trump card, but the attorney-general
held the joker, and his went for naught.
Perhaps the most disgusted man in
the city is James Wickersham, who ex
pected to have the attorney-general im
peached for protecting criminals in
Alaska, and preventing the courts from
punishing several of the Guggenheim
agents who he claims were guilty of
perjury.
That if James Wickersham had
made good in the last session he sprung
on the people through congress he
would have been one of the great polit
ical lights here in Washington, is the
opinion of the press, but for a man to
prefer eharges of such a serious nature
with nothing but a photographic proof
of what might have been, is considered
the capping of his career here at the
capital.
EMMONS IN KLUCKWAN.
The Haines Pioneen Press says:
Captain G. T. Emmons, retired U. S.
Navy, arrived in Haines early in the
week and left for Kluckwan, there to
gather material for a book which he is
writing relative to the Alaska native.
The Captain will most likely spend a
week or ten days in the native village
getting his data and taking photo
graphs. This is not the captain’s ini
tial trip into the field of literature of
Alaska affairs, his former narations
concerning the native blanket and the
native basket have been extensively
read anc> favorably commented upon.
The present endeavor will be along the
line of the Alaska natives’ worship of
their totems.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Wachter, a Kodiak rancher, com
plains that the brown bear are killing
his hogs. The person of the brown
bear, however, is sacred, and Wacht
er does not kill one of them. The pres
ent governor of Alaska did his best
last year to have the law so changed
that the killing of brown bear should
be lawful, but Congressman Hum
phrey and other sportsmen interfered.
The Nome Nugget has not much
that is kind to say of the Iditarod.
“All the returning stampeders,’’ it
remarks in a recent issue, “report
prospects with nothing developed.” A
returning miner recently reported there
that there was little or no work to be
found.
Col. John W. Ivey, a former collec
tor of customs for Alaska, in a talk
recently made at Seward, predicted
that at the next regular session of
congress, a bill would be passed pro
viding for the development of Alas
ka ’s coal areas. Ivey intends to lo
cate at Seward.
Evergreen trees are to be planted on
the winter trails at Nome this fall, for
the purpose of marking them. Hereto
foie it has been the custom to drive
stakes every fall.
There is considerable activity in
Southeastern Alaska. Skagway, Jun
eau and Douglas each have a nine.—
Fairbanks Times They certainly have
and have had since four years before
Fairbanks was struck.—Skagway Ala
skan.
White Pass railroad has announced
the intention of the railroad company
to build a fine tourist hotel at Atlin.
The company owns an eighty acre tract
of land in the Skagway valey, which,
Mr. Dickinson says, is to be immediate
ly converted by the company into a
farm.
There is a promising asbestus pros
pect near Chitina. The Chitina Lead
er says that the asbestus can be scaled
from the rock in sheets of varying
size.
Casey Moran, who, says the Chitina
Leader, with his face and Irish blarney
could take a drink out of a graven im
age, has turned up in Porcupine, Ont.,
where he has established the Porcupine
Press.
ENCOURAGING PROSPECTORS
In order to encourage prospectors
along the line of tho Copper River
and Northwestern, the railroad com
pany has made a ruling that ore in
ten ton lots can be sent to Tacoma
without advance payment of freight,
the freight to be taken out of the sell
ing price of the ore.
The idea of the company is to en
courage small shipments by pack
trains. This will enable operators to
ship their high grade ore and secure
therefrom money with which to carry
on further development work. The en
couragement of packtrain delivery is
but a preliminary step to building spur
tracks to each section as soon as there
is enough ore in sight to warrant the
expense.
“Realizing that many properties in
the interior are still in the prospec
tive stage,” said Mr. Barry, “Mr.
Young and other railway officials have
for some time been figuring out the
best plan to encourage the shipment of
ore, so that the operators could realize
immediate returns for carrying devel
opment work. There are a number of
properties adjacent to the railroad
which have small quantities of ore on
the dumps worth so much money in
case it can be gotten to the market.
Some of these operators are not finan
cially able to pay advance freight
charges, and others are desirous of se
curing money to continue development
work without letting the property pass
out of their hands. Since what the
railroad is after is tonnage, the rail
road officials therefore consider every
movement which will encourage the op
erators will prove a benefit in the long
run.
KENAI POSSIBILITIES
As a dredging proposition, the Keani
river presents potential possibilities.
In fact, so great are the values, in cer
tain places at least, that an ounce to
the day, per man, may be mined out by
the ordinary sluice box methods. When
operated upon an extensive scale,
handling hundreds of yard of pay dirt
daily, it can readily be understood
that the big stream will yield millions
in gold dust.—Seward Gateway.
AN ELECTRIC NURSE
The genii of electricity will guard
the comfort and health of the ten
months-old son of Capt. Louis L. Lane
of the power schooner “Polar Bear”
which recently sailed from Seattle for
an exploration voyage in the far north
says the Popular Mechanics. The “Po
lar Bear” will visit the Bogoslof vol
canoes, Mount Shishadlin, the great
Miles and Muir glaciers, the seal rook
eries of the Pribilof islands and even
far Siberia. Mrs. Lane and the baby
are accompanying Capt. Lane on the
expedition. Plans were made in the
building of the “Polar Bear” to care
for the infant. Electrical heating de
vices will warm the baby’s crib. Ano
ther electrical device will warm the
milk bottle. In order that the baby
may have fresh milk, two goats were
taken along. While the stout bow of
the “Polar Bear” crushes through the
arctic ice floes, baby Lane will lie snug
and warm within, with the electrical
genii keeping benevolent watch.
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