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The story of the s- nr li for the
m - - 1 tirad Freeding :.. the
Kougarok is or. that has many
;. nes been vi itten by the bra e men
of Alaska whose ireat st chain to
recognition is the fact that it i- done
■without boasting. am wltim it any
effort to maki it appear abot ■ the
ordinary routine of these rn> n's
lives.
Yet it is remarkable :r. many
ways, and shows that the chief in
tuitive among su< h men is not the
searcli after the dollar, h it the de
sire to make lighter Imaiy hearts,
and to bring aid and succour where
aii f.nti succour are needed.
Th- v.ork conducted by the sc,nil
party which practically includes
tl:c entire population of the Kougu
rok is one that required earnestness
of purpose, self sacrifice patience,
daring and fearlessness Only these
great attributes could have dared
the storm swept hills and creeks
with the temperature at fifty below
zero and the wind blowing shrewdly
in their faces. Only these attributes
could havi enabled them to c. ccr
fuliv leave their cabins in the stern .
and exhaust their resources on the
trail hoping against hope to find the
missing man.
Alaskans like to think that these
men did what other Alaskans would
do. did the occasion call forth simi
lar effort, and indeed it is this wond
erful knowledge that men will act
as the heart and human instinct for
mutual aid will inspire them to act
regardless of the consequences to
themselves, if so it be that succour
through their efforts can be forth
coming, that stimulates everyone.
It is almost impossible to realize
the actual rescue work that has been
done even if done in vain by these
men of the Kougarok. ( reek after
< r<ek, draw after draw, divide after
divide, searched and crossed in their
tireless quest for traces of the miss
ing man. and all done under weather
conditions of more than Arctic
severity, regardless of all of it. With
scanty rations in the benumbing cold
they themselves dared no end of
risk it. that fruitless sear h not for1
the sake of any r.-w n- or of any ]
other return than th..t they would
be suci • ssful in their quest and dis- '
cover something of him whom they
searched for. thus setting at r st all
doubts as to his safety or as to his
final sleep.
Th is is wortli considering. It is !
, r’l; ;ie re r cognition that any j
of us may la inclined to extend it. •
It sin ws tii ,t human nature, un- ;
nllcjcd by the savage civilization |
lit .nnpe’s all to worship at the;
shrine of the dollar, is still alive]
with tie older and nobler Instinct!
uni :;:! aid.. it shows thut our I
i.. 1 r civilization has merely p. r- ]
rod not suppressed ihose instincts]
in I that it requires but the occasion
to call them forth.
Time and time again we are told
that if tlie dollar incentive is re
moved that all progress will cease
and our civilization totter' Time
and time again they tell us that if
the incentive to accumulate wealth
through the exploitation of our fel
lows is denied us. we would relapse
into barbarism: that men need such
an incentive to dare and to do.
Such an argument is advanced in
spite of every thrillingly glorious
experience in the human race to the
contrary. It is when this calumni
ated human nature has been allowed
to follow its primal instincts and to
extend to those who need it, mutual
aid and help and succour, the finest
acts have been done and the greatest
achievements effected.
On the other hand it is the dollar
incentive which has perverted or
deadened every decent impulse; it
has filled human hearts with fear
and checked the instincts that
would rise superior to each occasion.
It has made men grovel before the
altars of the' money god smothering
their affections, th '.r loves, th ir
generous emotions, their instincts to
.■ympatheti ally share sorrow anti
to divide disappointment that a
brother's portion might be the less
bitter and the load less heavy.
The salvation of the human race
depends now as it always has done
upon the instincts which our civiliza
tion under a capitalist economy has
done its very host to suppress or
where it could not suppress to per
vert.
And despite the discipline of the
years of struggle and hardship and
hopes deferred which maketh sick
the heart, these Kougarok miners
for another that the burden may be;
lighter and that the load of grief!
might press less heavily on the
stricked heart, dare everything.
Nor is this instance which occa
: sions these remarks to be passed off
with a cheap cynicism at its rarity
under the sun. On the contrary if
the real story of Alaska's develop
ment ever were written, and the
same attention paid by the historian
to the wonderful mines of human
nobility that from time to time were
opened up in the course of that de
velopment. as is paid to the discov
ery of the placer or quartz camps of
the country, the truth would stand
revealed that such cases are not
mere isolated instances but repeated
facts that stand accompanying the
| story of the territory, a golden page
in every chapter of the records.
Whatever may be done or said
| about the North, this country at
! least brings out a community of
feeling that allows he development
of man’s finer instinct for mutual
aid, the mainspring of his evolution
from a lower to a higher grade Of
life. And one of the reasons why
men who leave Alaska love Alaska,
is because while surrounded by
many friends and having every
thing that the heart might desire,
their memory takes them back to
the camps of the other days when i
helping hands tendered aid when aid
was needed, and men gave and
asked not of the giving.
These facts are of vital import
ance to all of us. When the poss
ibility of human progress is afforded
in imagination a wider field we are
met with the irrelevant sneer that i
you cannot change human nature.
They scoff derisively that society is '
relentlessly committed to the savag
ery “of the devil take the hind
most"; <hat only the fittest survive,
and that oup has to do his neightbor
or his neighbor will certainly do
him. They preach that human na
ture is innately vile and ignoble and
that only by constant chastening or
disci] inc- and purpose can the souls
• f mr‘U be persuaded to aspire tc !
higher things.
All of which is wrong, and drivel
pure and simple. Society has taken
human nature and under exploita
tive economies of one sort or an
other. • ndeavored to drive cut every ,
vitalizing instinct therein and to
have us alt animals with one instinct
that of the pursuit of wealth and
gain and profits and power at the
expense of our fellows. And this
capitalist economy has trained its
victims to have only one cast of soul
as a foxhound has only one de
veloped sense. its scent for its
quarry, and that: the instinct to
get the dollar, get it anyhow, but
get it
Now all that is not only false but
viciously false. And although they
have subjected humanity to their
disciplines of evil through the cen
turies, human nature as instanced
every now and then, and not too
seldom either, rises to deeds of
heroism which are not regarded by
the men who do them as heroic, but
as the supremely natural order of
things such they expect that others
would do for them were they in need
of similar assistance.
And that's what these men who
toiled through hills and creeks and
over the snow covered tundra with
the biting wind surging round them
in their search for Conrad Freeding
(felt. It was to them the commonest
sort of service and all in the day’s
work. They asked for no pay and
they wanted none. It was cheerful
service cheerfully given, and would
be extended by any one of them to
mv other just as cheerfully.
That has been the result of their
living in the natural life of the
Kougarok. There closer to nature
they allowed all their nobler in
stincts to naturally open up and
blossom and ripen in the fruitage
of acts that men must admire if
they are men.
For over two weeks of the hardest
winter in years these men of the
Kougarok with every instinct of self
suppressed, tirelessly pursued their
search over miles and miles of the
most barren, shelterless and bleak
est territory in Alaska. For two
weeks of such cold on the trackless
hills they searched in the forlorn
hope that they yet might find him
living or finding him in his last
sle j> give Conrad Freeding decent
burial. There was no hope of re
ward; there was much risk of pain;
there was the certainty of great
bodily discomfort, for it was a work
for the physically strong alone, at
some loss and the neglect of their
claims and their cabins, they stead
ily pursued their work only to give
it up when the quest was without
hope. I* was brave work indeed,
well done.
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Clothes help you to look well, if
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Cor. Lane’s Way and Front Street.
CITY BATH HOUSE
has the largest
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Bath Tubs in Nome.
No. 0308.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska. December 1G, 1916.
Notice is hereby given, thht Isaac
L. Osgood, Estate (Heirs, Cora and
Elmer Osgood and Mrs. Mamie Os
good) By W. P. Bell and Seattle
National Bank. Trustees and Floyd
W. Osgood, By Fred. R. Cowden
their Attorney in Fact, whose Post
Office address is Nome, Alaska, and
on behalf of Co-Owner Ellis E.
Powell, lias made application before
the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, for a United States
Patent for Discovery Claim and No.
1 Above Discovery on Lake Creek
in the Cape Nome Recording Dis
trict, Alaska, being Mineral Survey
No. 1175, said claims being more
particularly described in the field
notes and plat of the official survey
thereof now on file in said Land
Office at Nome, Alaska, as follows,
to-wit:
DISCOVERY CLAIM.
Beginning at Cor. 1 identical with
' S. Vi.' Loc. Cor. with Cor. 4 of No.
! 2 below on Saturday Creek, Sur.
! 695, a fir post 4 ins. sq. 2 ft. above
ground in earth mond scribed 1-747,
4-695, 1-1175, D. TT. S. L. M. No.
| 11 bears S. 14 deg. 05 min. E.
4110.0 ft. thence N. 20 deg. 16 min.
IV. Var. 19 deg. 00 min. E. 665.00
ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N. 9 deg.
57 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. |
209.40 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
69 deg. 45 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 3 deg. 28 min. E. Var.
19 deg. 15 min. E. 317.40 ft. to
Cor. No. 5; thence S. 64 deg. 43
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
386.80 ft. to Cor. No. 6; thence S.
45 deg. 53 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 25
min. E. 273.80 ft.; thence S. 13
deg. 25 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 05 min.
E. 400.80 ft. to place of beginiug,
containing 5.908 acres.
NO. ONE ABOVE DISCOVERY.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 identical !
j with loc. cor. on line 1-6 of Sur. No. I
j 747 No. 1 Above Discovery on
■ Wonder Creek and with Cor. No. 2
Discovery claim this survey, previ
ously described, TJ. S. L. M. No. 11
bears S. 14 deg. 57 min. E. 4771.60
ft.; thence N. 20 deg. 16 min. W. !
Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 960.50 ft
to Cor. No. 2; thence S. 4S deg. 26 :
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
225.20 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
31 deg. 20 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 00
min. E. 269.40 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 36 deg. 42 min. E Var. 19
deg. 10 min. E. 647.00 ft. to Cor No.
5; thence S. 31 deg. 00 min. E.
Var. 19 deg. 30 min. E. 1240.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 6; thence S. 69 deg. 45
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 7; thence S.
9 deg. 57 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 209.40 ft. to place of be
ginning, containing 16.656 acres.
Said claims are situated on un
surveyed ground on Lake Creek
about 4.5 miles north of the Town
of Nome, in the Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
U. S. Location Monument No. 11
to which said claims are tied, is a
I fir post 6 ins. sq. 5 ft. above ground
in stone mound 3 ft. high 6 ft. base
scribed U. S. L. M. No. 11, is situat
ed about 2.75 miles Northeasterly
from mouth of Snake River and
about 70 ft. east of the Bessie road.
Is in Latitude 64 deg. 32 min. North
Longitude 165 deg. 22 min. West.
Original locations recorded in Vol.
""S? Page 445 and-!!) Page”llG”and
Amended locations recorded in Vol.
165 Page 225 and Vol. 199 Page
85, Records of Cape. Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
The adjoining claims are: On the
North No. 2 Above on Lake Creek,
Survey No. 69S and Gold Bug Claim
Survey No. 434; on the East un
surveyed; on the South No. 1
Below on Saturday Creek Sur. No.
1117 and No. 2 Below on Saturday
Creek, Sur. No. 695; on the West. ,
No. 1 Above on Wonder Creek Sur.
No. 747. There are no conflicting
claims.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., Dec. 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., Feb. 21, 1917.
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