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Seattle, Washington, Sept, 12 ’29
Editor The Alaskan
Petersburg, Alaska
Dear Sir:
In that dimness of by-gone
days, those pioneer days of ’97,
when I climbed old Chilkoot
Pass, I never shall forget that:
glorious Lake Bennet, on whose
shore we pioneers (Sourdoughs)
camped. Flowers, strange flow
ers, yellow and purple, lit the
green slopes with vivid flame.
Those days were joyous to me.,
and my young heart was full of
hope, love and faith! I was on
ly 18 years of age then, but glad
ness of the wild trail filled my
heart to overflowing for my fel
lowman! It was a glorious
May day when we pioneers
reached Lake Bennet and camp
ed there. On our way towards
the golden Yukon and Klondyke
rivers, Hope lead our way! On
each dawning day, the flaring
camp fires arose beside our
tents and grub pile, and how
sweet was the odor of bacon and
coffee that filled the morning
air. It seemed to me the per
fection of life, the desireable
form of living. The evening
grew rapidly longer, and twi
light till half past ten. We went
to bed while the sky was red
with sunlight, and when we
arose at 4 o’clock, the day seem
ed far advanced. It was all tre
mendously interesting to me,
Each new day on the trail was
a wonder and a delight. Then on
to the Yukon River we went out
fit after outfit, small boats, big
boats, scows and even rough
looking rafts, piled high with
flower, bacon and beans. In fact,
anything that would float cross
ed the sparkling Lake Bennett
towards the golden city of Daw
son. And as I sit here in my
room number 1025 in the New
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[Washington Hotel, Seattle, and
! write this little story of by-gone
1 days, I can hear the rush of the
I White Horse Rapids and the j
| voice of the Yukon river and
I the night winds of the pine
! trees. There was a kind of he
1 roism in discovering the wilds
| of the Yukon. My sweetest mem
i ory of those happy days was old
j Lake Bennett, its beauty as it
J sparkled In the sun and wound
laway through the purple hills,
| and its far vistas seemed to me
! to promise a saner, sweeter way
! to fortune. We old pioneers love
!the soft blue haze of the Alaska
land Yukon hills. We love to ad
I vance into its mystery. It was a
world of dreams apart from the
| other world, a world of peaks
| half hid, of valleys, of streams,
|of lakes. This world of mid
j night sun! And the winds rush
ing through the cleft in the
mountains, dear, sweet Lake
j Bennett! The most beautiful
I sight of my life, placid as glass,
j reflecting all the glories of the
j dawn.
i That winter of 97-98 in Daw
son City was long and cold, but
;the moon and stars made the
i nights brilliant and the sun, ev
;en in midwinter, looked down
I upon us pioneers with cheery
lace for a few hours of each
day, and the unstained snow, so
deep and feathery everywhere,
added to the charm of the land
scape. It was all white and
bronze-green, this Yukon arth,
and the skies at morning and
evening were gorgeous with col
or.
Truly this Yukon was a beau
tiful world. And I had not been
so anxious to mine; each day
.would of been a joyous march of
hours. The winter passed quick
• ly—much more quickly than I
had anticipated. Our cabin on
Eldorado Creek was seldom lone
ly. The only thing that made
the days seem long was the
prospector’s ambition to be at
the sluice boxes again. He want
ed to be washing gold. At last
the sun began to grow bolder
Each day he stayed a little long
er in the sky, and set a little
more reluctantly each night
► The snow began to melt on the
warm slopes under the edge of
the trees. The Creek in the mid
dle of the day began to roar,
cutting the new channel deep
under the crusted drifts of snow,
and at last spring came sailing
in on the moist south wind and
there was water—water and
work to do everywhere. Eager
miners to get at the pay streak
again. They drew on their
long rubber boots and sprang to
their shovels. They toiled to
their limit from dawn till night.
Yes, dear reader, those ’97-’98
days were joyous days to me, for
was I not young with faith, and
hope? Was I not. at the journ
eys end, of the golden trail? I
had packed, I had mushed, I had
toiled and I had reached the
golden Klondyke. The end of
the gold-mad trail.
Sincerely yours,
JAMES R. LITTLE
SENATOR NORRIS CASTI
GATES POWER TRUST
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Speaking at the unveiling of a
statue to Lincoln at Freeport,
ILL., on August 27, Senator Nor
ris of Nebraska again found op
portunity to denounce the “pow
er trust,” basing his accusa
tions on the Federal Trade
Commission’s investigation of
utility companies. Calling the
alleged trust the “greatest mon
opoly ever put together by hu
man ingenuity,” the Senator ac
cused it among other things, of
having “invadecf the public
schools,” “contaminated the col-J
leges,” “controlled the legisla
tures,” “attempted to buy seats
in the United States Senate,”
“approached the minister in his
pulpit,” “browbeaten, purchas
ed and contaminated the pub
lic press,” “controlled secret, ec
onomic, political and religious
societies” and “spent millions
of money” to further its plans.
All these things were done, the
orator said, “by underhand, dis
honorable and unpatriotic
methods.”
Asserting that the trust has
iis its ultimate aim “complete
ownership and distribution of
electric power,” Senator Norris
went on to declare:
“If this necessity of human
life is to be owned and controll
ed by monopoly, then the people
will ultimately become the eco
nomic slaves of the owners of
this modern necessity. In the
main it is developed from our
natural resources.
“This great necessity of our
existence, a part of the very sin
ews of our life and our civiliza- I
tion, must be taken to the fac
tories and to the homes of our
people without being loaded
down with monopolistic costs
and profits. It is rapidly becom
ing a part of our civilization and
the will of an all-wise Creator
in giving this blessing to man
kind must not be perverted and
used by private monopoly for
private monopoly for private
gain—for the subjugation and
overburdening of the people.”
FOSHAP TOWER DEDICATED
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Was dedicated at Minneapol
is the Foshay Tower. An elab
orate program covering August
30 and 31 and September 1, was
carried out. Representatives
of the national Congress were
present taking an active part in
the dedicatory exercise, along
with men prominently connect
ed with monopolistic ownership
of public utilities.
The Tower is in the shape of
Washington’s Monument at the
national capital, rising to a
height of 447 feet above ground
level—32 stories.
This from the profits of such
public utilities as they can get
hold of and control. Such util
ities are purchased with one end
in view—profit at the expense of
the gouged public. They are not
in the markets for utilities
which cannot be made a profit
able proposition.
BUT THE PUBLIC PAYS
It looks like a real fight by
Standard and other big oil com
panies against the British Shell
invading these United States.
Standard Oil cut prices yester
day for the second time in two
weeks. Shell says, “I call you,”
and also cuts prices. Interest
ing war and a better kind, with
dollars instead of men.—Arthur
Brisbane in Seattle Times.
Very true that such a war is
probably cheaper in its toll of
human life. But for every cut
these companies make today
the public pays back with inter
est tomorrow. Dividends and
plenty of it is the song of the
oil plutacrats.
What Benefit Science
In the past few years, science
has gotten more gasoline out of
a gallon of crude product than
before discovery of new meth
ods. Was that profit from great
and cheaper production passed
along to the public? Coal oil
is not cheaper than thirty years
ago and gasoline not any cheap
er than twenty years ago? What
benefit science if it is perverted
only to the financial gain of
the few?
ORIGIN OF FLY DISCOVERED
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A recent northern exchange
says: “In an effort to study and
effect a cure, if possible, Dr.
Dove of Washington, D. C., is
in the Interior regions—down
river—according to recent arriv
als in the city, carrying on in
vestigations with respect to the
warble fly whch caused a great
financial loss last year to own
ers of reindeer herds.”
Now comes an old Alaskan
who declares that the warble
fly is an insect that parasitically
lives on buric rats. “Destroy the
last named varmint and you will
rid reindeer, other animals and
Alaskans of a real pest.”
A NEW ANGLE TO BOOZE PRB
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A new problem was injected
in the liquor question when Mrs.
Albert Hebert of Holyoke, Mass.,
filed suit against a reputed
bootlegger for $25,000 charging
that he sold liquor to her hus
band which caused his death.
The suit is the first of its kind
instituted in Massachusetts, de
clares that the widow suffered
losses during the last eighteen
months of her husband’s life
because he was incapacitated
from work during that period
and finally died from the effects
of liquor which the defendant
is charged with having distri
buted.
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