HYDER WEEKLY MINER
Formerly The Hyder Alaska Miner
Published every Monday by the Hyder Miner Publishr
in* ov>., Hyder, Alaska.
Entered as second-classmatter at the postoffice at'
Hyder, Alaska, November 4,1919, under the Act of March
3. 1879.
Cl'AS. F. SANDFORD.T... ..I... Editor.
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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
The enterprising citizens ot
Wrangell recently raised the |
very substantial sum of $10,000
in order to secure the estab
li ,hment of a cold storage plant
in their town. Wrangell is a
small place and the report has
been circulated for some time
past that it is a “dead” town.
The above announcement
f-hows, however, that in spite of
it3 email population and alleg
ed “deadness,” the citizens are
very much alive to the welfare
of *he'r town and, what is even j
more important, that they are
w’lling to attest their faith by
tngg.r.g down in their pockets.
That is the spirit that makes
towns go ahead and no town
is “dead” as long as it possess
es a bunch of citizens who are
w iling to attest their faith in
it by digging up hard cash.
Petty gossip and scandal-mon-!
goring is doubtless a pleasing
div^rdon for small minds but
it brings no good to either the
on*1 who gives or who receives
it The confirmed gossip is a
marked creature in any com
munity and although he or she
may not know it they sooner or
1 ‘•ter incur the contempt of
tho-’e whose thoughts and aims
center about the worth-while
things of life.
The great seal of the Terri
tory is beautiful and truly em
tl'mafic of the great North
land with its background of
snow-capped mountains ovei
looking a beautiful land-locked
bay, reflecting the rays of the
rising sun, a reaper garnering
the grain on the hither-most
shore; a forest and hamlet in !
the middle distance and a mine
and ore-mill in the distance.
Feposing on the calm waters of
the sunlighted bay are a large
steamship and a sailing shih
wiJi spreading sails. Sur
rounding the central entablet-!
ure is a broad band bearing the '
figures of a salmon and a seal j
and the words: “The.Seal of i
the Territory of Alaska.” A
truly artistic and very beau
tiful conception and, as we
said before, very emblematic
of the Northland. There is only
one fault we have to find with
it. The design was drawn
quite a few years ago and in
a time when the big, open
hearted and open handed sour
doughs of the true pioneer
breed shared their bacon and
beans with the passing stranger
and left the cabin door un
locked and the can of gold-dust
under the bed while they toiled
in the creek below. There are
only a few of them left nowa
days for most of them have
joined the mighty caravan that
travels on the last, long trail
that leads to eternity. Their
memory remains, however, and
it is an heiritage of which the
land may well be proud. Per
haps it was one of those big,
open hearted and open handed
chaps who drew the beautiful
design for Alaska’s seal, for
there is something about the
latter that seems to tell of the
df<ys before HJie chJeechacko
invaded the land jn greedy
search for pelf. At any rate
it was drawn by someone who
possessed no realization of
the change that was to come
over the land with the advent
of the newer breed who fol
low the trails of the old pio
neer’s in an automobile in the
present day and year. Had he,
or she-whichever it was- been
able to look- forward through
the years they would surely
have realized that to be *ruly
typical of the country in the
years that were to follow the
seal should have been further
adorned with at least two ad
ditional designs; one depict
ing a man wielding a hammer
and the other a specimen of
he male bovine.
For the benefit of some whose
childish vaporings indicate
that they need kindly advice
and a dose of soothing^pyrup,
we will say that the editorial
“goat” is quite unruffled and
likely to remain so for we have
nothing but kindly tolerance
for peevish children.
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FLU EPIDEMIC IN
ANCHORAGE—MANY ILL
I
Influenza is reported rife in
; the Anchorage section. An
| chorage papers of early Jan
\ uary dates report that at least
a hundred persons were ill
and the medico’s on duty day
and night caring for the vic
tims. The epidemic is ascribed
to sudden changes in the
| weather.
PUBLIC DEBT SHOWS
ENORMOUS INCREASE
The Census Bureau has an
nounced that the public debt
of the United States at the
clone of 1923 aggregated $32,
78^,715,000, or over three
fourths of the amount it was in
1912.
SEAMEN’S HOME STARTED
AT KETCHIKAN
A Seamen’s Home has been
started at Ketchikan by Rev.
C. K. Malmin, pastor of the
Norwegian Lutheran Church. !
The Home will be operated by j
the church and the Norwegian |
Young People’s Society. The
St. Francis Hotel has been tak
en over for use as the home for
the present.
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