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ALASKA LOVE, AT FIRST
SIGHT
By James R. Little
I was just seventeen years of
age in June, 1896, when I left
Seattle Washington on the City
of Topeka and proceeded to Ju
neau.
And as I sailed to this land of
the Midnight Sun, through the
inland-island-dotted sea for the
first time in my young life I
watched the sunshine of gorge
ous clearness at midnight.
All around our ship, beautiful
mountains loomed far up among
the clouds where their apexes
were half-hidden, and on the
verdant shore-line could be seen
quaint Indian villages and fish
canneries. I remembei it well!
It was ten o’clock in the even
ing—before the sun set behind
the western hills in a blaze of
scarlet, yellow and purple, re -
flected by soft, butterfly clouds
and mountain tops in the east.
After that came the Alaskan
luminous moonlight making u
regal glory of the darkness and
flashing in opal gleams from the
sheltered sea. While I watched
the rippling lustre of water tre
mulous with starlight, and the
languid breath of the night air,
I was fain to ask if it was the
land of dreams! Could those oe
jthe faraway shores of Alaska?
jThe pathos and tenderness of
; the scene, the glow, the fire, and
throbbing loneliness were in
' aescribable. Even the few fleecy
clouds which sailed between us
and the planets seemed as if
they came to waft our hymns of
praise to heaven! And I thought
I “Is not such surpassing beauty
!of nature an ‘Image of the In
[finite One’?” It seemed to me a
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new world, a picture gallery, a
fairy play ground and music
room combined. There was a
beauty and stillness of this mag
ic hour that gave my young
heart infinite peace! And as I
stood on deck of *he steamer I
was bewitched at the miracle of
light and color. A land of
thought gorgeously alone in its
splendor of golden midnight sun,
and lovely shadows—greens,
biues and purples—my eyes were
captivated by the beauty and
variety while the imagination
was constantly stimulated to hs
utmost capacity. Here grandeur
and beauty prevails, the flora
and verdant loveliness captivates
me. The trees excell in size and
majesty. The mountains In
height, the rivers in volume and
length; while the glaciers are
without comparison in magni
tude and power. Here is simpli
city—v a s t n e s s, magnificence.
There, fertility, fragrance, loveli
ness. Admirable consistency and
order exist everywhere typifying
a great overruling Supreme In
telligence.
As a boy, then, long years ago,
I paused for a moment amid this
silent tranquility to sum up this
wonderful experience! And as I
gazed on the magic shore-line
where caccades came tumbling
down near Indian hamlets dot
ted by totem poles and glaciers
emptying themselves into the
sea and forming opaline ice
bergs, I thought of those dear
people and the beauty and still
ness that must give them in
finite peace in their home-land.
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HOPEFUL SIGNS OF
PROGRESS
Seward Gateway
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The attitude of the Southeast
ern Alaska press in going at the
root of the Territory’s lethargy
namely too much government
and too little efficiency, is a
hopeful sign that the Territory
as a whole is awakening and
that it is incubating a unity of
purpose capable of shaking olf
the obstacles now impeding pro
gress.
It will be recalled that for five
years The Gateway has been
hammering away at the root of
Alaskan troubles, but somehow
many of these who now see the
light have left us to fight alone.
With the press synchronizing
cn a given policy such as lifting
the blight of too tense conserva
tion and over-government by
theorists, a ray of hope breaks
that the voice of Alaska will be
heard in Washington.
Aside from its irritation, iron
bound conservation and govern
mental meddling in what should
be purely Alaskan affairs is at
i the bottom of a general shyness
I cf Alaskan investments. Once
■the tension is relaxed and capi
tal offered an opportunity t'j
enter Alaska unhampered by
political interference, there is
no denying that a great forward
movement will begin.
In its stand against the perni
cious system the Gateway has
rot stood alone with an im
pi.ictical idea. From every wad.
of business life in the continent
s’! United States has come con
demnation of governmental in
trusion into business and over
government. There is not a State
which has not felt the effects oi
this usurpation of prerogative:
of the individual and loud ha:
'been the protest. That this pro
(test will bear fruit from a ne^
l Congress is altogether probable
l Thus Alaska will be in good anc
[strong company if it can be uni
fied into a bold front prepares
, to wage a good battle for ih
rights.
| EDITOR’S NOTE—Don’t forge
The Alaskan and Alaska Fisher
I man—the Readers in this fight
And there’s the Seldovia Herah
also.
[I Laboratory tests have reveale;
\ that a yellow nugget found b,
Edgar Langevin and Georg
Tibodeau, Soulhbridge, Mass
\ chefs, in the crop of a turkey, i
* ten-karat gold.
GET AWAY DAY
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Juneau, Alaska,
August 25, 1932.
Editor, The Alaskan,
Petersburg, Alaska,
i Dear Sir:
| As every race track habitue’
I knows, it is highly dangerous to
make a bet on form during the
i last few days of racing at any
track. During the last four or
five days of racing it is custom
ary for the owners to get to
gether and frame the races so
that those who have not been
fortunate enough to win any
money, shall get at least one
plug across the line first thereby
gaining enough to provide trans
portation to the next race meet.
With next January fast ap
proaching and the end of the
Harding regime in sight, we arc
reminded of “get away day.”
Judge Harding has recently
dismissed court reporter New
man, one of the most efficient
men in his line who ever wielded
a fountain pen in Alaska, a man
with a wife and family depend
ent upon his efforts, to make
room for another member of the
Harding family imported from
the states, Harding’s sister in
law.
With another sister-in-1 a w
holding the job of chief clerk in
the District Attorney’s office, the
Harding family is pretty well
represented on the government
pay roll at Juneau.
A month or so ago, Senator
Brookhart of Iowa lost his job
largely on the ground that he
was using his office too largely
as a means of furnishing jobs to
the Brookhart family.
One Silas Reed of Oklahoma
was appointed District Judge in
the Third Division of Alaska
some twenty years ago. He lost
Ms judicial wig and ermine
largely upon the ground that he
was employing too many rela
tives in positions of trust and
profit.
But January is close at hand
and get away day is here.
A “SUBSCRIBER”
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WICKERSHAM LIBRARY OF
ALASKA MOST COMPLETE
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There is scarcely an old timer
in Alaska who has not at one
time or another voted to send
James Wickersham to Washing
|ton as the Territory’s only rcpre-'
sentative in congress.
His 12-year record as the Alas
kan delegate, almost all of them
spent at Washington during the
time when the world was torn
I by war, was capped in 1930 by
election to another two-year
term, which he is now serving.
Delegate Wickersham took of
fice succeeding Dan Sutherland,
March 4 last year, after spending
nearly 10 years in Juneau in the
practice of law.
Law and the delegateship have
teen Mr. Wickersham’s profes
sions. Alaskan history, ethnology
and anthropology have been his
hobbies.
The most gigantic historical
task ever attempted so far as
Alaska is concerned, recently was
completed by Mr. Wickersham—
a bibliography of 10,000 Alaskan
titles covering the years from
1724 to 1924. In it is listed prac
tically every newspaper article,
every magazine article, every
1 book, ever written about the
1 northland. This includes not
only American and English re
cords, but the early Russian,
German, French arid all others.
[ The book, of course, has brought
' only a slight financial return. It
1 must go down as an almost un
5 rewarded work of benefit for
Alaska.
Alaskan Library
At his home in Juneau Mr.
• Wickersham has the most com
I plete Alaskan library in exist
ence. There are valuable pam
phlets, original letters, books, all
1 gathered with painstaking care
j from myriad sources. Few of thr
3 things written about Alaska
, either sis a Territory or as a pos
s I session of Russia, have escapee
j inclusion In this vast library.
Mr. Wickersham first came to
Alaska in 1900 as federal judge
for the Fourth division. His law
—the law of organized justice
under strict American legislation
- -succeeded the miners’ meeting
of the early days.
“But I found no turmoil there,”
Judge Wickersham recalled not
long ago. “These miners’ meet
ings, I discovered, had been as
fair and discriminating as any
court of law can be.”
Tile court headquarters were
first at Eagle City, but, with the
discovery of gold on the' Fair
banks creeks, Fairbanks came
into importance and Judge Wick
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