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COME LET US TALK ABOUT THE
PENDING ELECTION A BIT,
EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE NOT
A THING TO DO WITH IT SAVE
TO LOOK ON AND BE HOPEFUL
OR AFRAID. AS THE CASE MAY
BE.
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.2.25
.9.00
This <i?y of nest week will have been
chosen a ucw proaideut of the United
States. It migbt be as well to stop and
thick about that a moment? mere
lookers-on though we be.
The fat anil faint echocs of the
battle that reach u? indicate a titanic
struggle. And to some of us the situ
ation offers strange anomalies. Tbjt
there should be a struggle between
those two Is the primary anomaly? tliat
any contest between them before the
people should be a struggle.
On the one hand we have a man who
has lived a busy I fe of accompllghratrn';
who has been doing things and saying
little abaut it. doing things demanding
the higheu executive force, as well ?s,
equally, diplomacy. He is the
natural heir of the present order,
chosen to be such from among many
wiiliog applicants and by years of care
ful sorting. That the present order
has the dedaite approval of a vas'
majority of the p:oplc, thjt its found
er would have little or no opposition
had he chosen to continue at its head,
nearly all will adm.t.
Oo the other hand a man who
aspires to the direction of this
great business who has nothing to
offer as a guarantee of fituess but
an ability to p omise. His career?
and he is not a voung man any longer
? is marked by everything said and
absolutely not a thing done. He is
loved for his eloouonce- and the
thought that he*p &ks what he really
believed. Most men b.? ieve that hi
believes what he says he believes.
And this is as much as any man claims
(or him Those early beliefs of his
which ha went lefore the people and
taught them to believe, as something
whereby thty were to be saved, he has
himself forsaken? and left his follow
ers to scramble for shore as best they
they cao--and they are still at sea.
Scratch a real Bryantte to day an.l you
will find a believer in free silver ? but
Bryan no longer believes in that. Ht
could, wi h his eloquence, teach them
his unbelief, bu'. h-. has been silent.
Of tils presen; beliefs, in expound
Icg which be is employing that
remarkable gift of eloquence, there
is a strong geaenl declaration that
the trusts must be "gone after," that
ancient atd vacuou* promise of the
democracy. This trust business has
become and is nod was the moving |
principle of the campaign. No uiab
in the history of this? or any other? j
country went after the trusts and i
special privilege, wont after them to
GET THEN', as Theodore Roosevelt
went after them. Mr. Taft is the
le/a*.ee of that campaign, as capable
for accomplishing tesults and as cer
tain to raa-e headway as is and was
Theodore Roosevelt. What more ii
there to be said ?
The America! people love action
better than words. It is for bis action
and the absolute confidence in his
honesty that the people love Roosevelt.
The people thrill when they think o'
the Panama canal, for instance. Any
body who has glanced at the history of
that enterprise knows that the Panama
canal is Theodore Roosevelt. Now
thick, at this splendid stage of the
game, of turning that enterprise over
to an orator. Would there be any hes
itation about placing it in the strong
hands of William H. T*ft ?
Compared to the immense undertak
ing of the government against special
privilege wnich Mr. Roosevelt has
just gotten fairly under way that
of the Panama canal is a bit of ama
teur engineering. What chance has
a shifty, changing, dreaming orator?
however sincere ? against those deep
scheming, effective "captains of in
dustry ? "
In the distressful d?yt of 1S96, the
phenomenon of Mr. Bryan was \ nder
standable. But even ihi-n he was
defeated. It was ajjain found that he
was not to be fully trusted in 1900.
If, educated as we now are to Roose- 1
veltian efficiency in the Whitehouse,
the people should, at his third try
with this record of uncertainty before
them, prefer this mere apostle of hard
times to the legatee of the present
order, then one of the very strango
things of ail historv will hare taken
place.
"In an impartial review" it is said
the Chicago Tribune declares that
?'Ohio will go for Bryan in a land
slide" or "either side will win by a
close plurality." Even at this dis
tance we would have guessed as
rnucli.
WHEN IT COMES.
now would I like to die. to die?
Without u cry.
In a herd foujtht tight where blows are
dealt
And I ho death strok< * less than n Kill's
kiss felt ?
So would I die.
^JO would 1 like to die, but where"
O On Qm open plain, in the open air.
Where the red Mood soaks through the
thirsty grass
And Iho wild things tread my crave as
they pass?
There would I die.
U'HKN would I like to die? At night.
A moonless night.
The still white star-shine overhead
And underneath the still white dead
There would I die.
? D. Mackellar
SOUTH-EASTERN ALASKAN SURVEY
With the publication of a report on
the Ketchikan and Wrangell mining
districts ? Bulletin :l 4 T . announced by
the I'nited States Geological Survey
as ready for distribution ? a prelum n
ary statement of the mineral resour
ces of the three most important min
ing districts of southeastern Alaska
has been issued, that on the Ju
neau district having been sent out in
1906.
Because of its important mining in
terests. southeastern Alaska was one
of the first fields in the territory to
be investigated by the Geological Sur
vey. but up to 1902 the work in this
region had not advanced beyond the
cursory examination of some of the
more important districts. In 1902 a
topographic survey of a small area
near Juneau was completed, and was
followed during 1903 by the geologic
mapping of the same area and the
extension of a geologic reconnaiss
ance over a considerable adjacent
region. The report Just issued em
bodies the results of the extension
of these studies southward to the
southern boundary of the territory.
The main object of the preliminary
publication is to meet the needs of
miners and prospectors, and the re
port includes only so much of the
general geology as is necessary
to the understanding of the occur
ence of the commercially valuable
mineral deposits. A more complete
exposition of the geology will be pre
sented when the field has been more
exhaustively studied, and a final an
alysis of the various problems con
nected with the genesis and occur
ence of the ores must also await de
tailed surveys. Such geologic sur
veys must be preceded by topogra
phic mapping and hence can be car
ried on only very slowly.
Location of the Districts.
The report covers a land area esti
mated at 14,500 square miles, and in
cludes the portion of the mainland
extending from Portland Canal on the
south to a line running due east from
Cape Fanshaw to the International
boundary, and those islands of the
The wind she blows somewhat b\
lay and night but by day the skv is
clear i.n<l the ground frozen. Phe
snow that fell some days asro to signify
a change from the pleasantries of 'ail
iod summer, did not stay, but lifts been
followpfl by good skating ou lako
Dewey and the right kind of weather
to enjoy iu
The result of tho observation takob
Moore wharf at midnight, Oct. 27
1908, is as follows:
Tempers', ure timeobsorvat'n.23 abov ?
Max.temp.precedlng 24 hours. .11 above
Mln " " " " .21 al)ove
Mean " " " " .20 above
Rarometer 3U.70
Clear and north wind.
INTERIOR WEATHER
Whitehorse, 11 below : llootaliDqua, 12
below; Big Salmon, 22 below: Selkirk,
19 below; Yukon Crossing, 27 below;
Coffee Creek, 22 btlow: Stewart, 2<i
Ogilvie, 25 below: Dawson, 27 below.
Ice is running thick ut all points
with river still closed at Stewart and
Dawson.
Alexander Archipelago south of Fred
crick Sound and Sumner strait. The
Ketchikan district to the south is
separated from the Wrangell district
to the north by a line through Sum
ner strait, around the north end of
Prince of Wales island, down Clar
ence strait as far as Ernest Sound,
up Ernest Sound, along Brad field
canal eastward, and across the moun
tain range to the international boun
dary.
The field work in the Ketchiknn
district was begun by A. H. Brooks
iu 1901. and a preliminary report was
Issued the following year. The pres
ent report is the work of K. E. |
Wright and C. W. Wright, who were!
engaged in field investigations of flu
region during I OO.'i and 190C.
Maps Accompanying the Report, j
Three maps accompany the report
of Messrs. Wright and Wright. Onr
of these, a general map on a scale
of about 10 miles to the inch, in
eludes both the Ketchikan and Wran
gell districts, and is compiled from
charts of the United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey, supplemented by
sketch maps made by the authors of
the report. On this map the geo
logy is represented, and also the lo
cation of the mines and prospects
On the other two maps, which art
contoured sheets of the mainland por
tion of the province, the geology is
plotted in greater detail. Sketch
maps introduced through the text to
show the position of mining proper
ties were furnished, for the moat
part, by the mine owners themselves
Through the results obtained by
the rapid reconnaissance work over
the large area covered by this re
port do not present the refinements
of detailed work, it is believed that
their presentation will give a fairly
correct impression as to the distribu
tion, character, and relative import
ance of the ore bodies and ore-hear
ing formations in this section of Al
aska.
NOTICE.
On and after November 1 we will
close our market at fi o'clock P. M.
until further notice.
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The new placer camps in the Alsek and ICluane Mining Districts are reached otilv via White Horse
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Regular stages, carrying mail, express and passengers, leave Whito Horio for Dawson and
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