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Moonlight on the
Yukon River
By James R. Little
Often when I sit and dream of
the dimness of bygone years,
happy Yukon river days come
back to me from out of the past.
I never shall forget my journey
from St. Michaels, on the Yukon
Fiver to Dawson City. On the
Klondyke. I left St. Michaels, on
the steamer Sarah, in June 1900,
and the good ship proceeded up
the fascinating, magic-Yukon
River. How happy seemed the
natives and whites along the
shore-line when the steamer ap
proached their village landings.
A signal blast from the steamer's
v.histle sounded, creating a
series of echoes deep, sonorous
and startling. Smiling natives
and white people lined the riv
er’s bank. Even the malamuie
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and huskie dogs howled and
yelped a welcome to the ship’s
cook. These echoes from the
ship’s whistle were remarkable
for the number of times the
sound is repeated. One single
blast becomes multiplied to a
whole broadside. Tl^e report is
taken up again and again by
ocher localities, and thus is con
veyed for miles away, finally
sinking to a whisper, as it were,
among the silent, frowning foot
hills of giant elevations. Tne
most impressive scenes realized
by me, on this beautiful trip
were those of moonlight. How a
love of stars and the river grows
upon me, and life has so few
moments of perfect content
ment! What melody and magic
permeates the pure, placid at
mosphere, bounded by the sa
phire river and the azure sky.
How tender and beautiful is the
utter stillness of the hour! Such
scenes of gladness make the
heart almost afraid—afraid lest
there should be some keen sor
row lurking in ambush to awak
en us from pleasant dreams to
the stern, disenchanting experi
ences of real life. Gazing upon
the scene, the vastness of which
is bewildering, a sense of rever
ence creeps over us, reverence —
for that Almighty Hand Whose
power is here recorded in such
unequalled splendor. What
wonderful majesty and beauty
are hidden here from an uncon
scious “Outside” world. Rich
people go to Europe, but few
comparatively, participate in the
glory and loveliness of the Yu
kon. And yet, how superior in
attraction it is for those lovers
of summer travel.
Beyond the shore-line in the
valley level meads, sprinkled!
with lovely wild flowers, yellow,
purple, and white prevailed. TI13
delicate little phlox, modestly
clinging to the ground, was fra
grant above the rest. Occasional!
spots bordering the shadywoods
showed the exquisite enamel of
the blue violets which emitted
the familiar and welcome fra
grance.
Nature here was smiling with
winning tenderness. And as I
gazed on this bewitching scer.e
forming a grand primeaval soli
tude, I thought of those brave,
true Sourdoughs, who with un
flinching hearts, had trod the
dim, dim trails and pulled and
paddled the virgin streams
I many, many long years ago. And
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ill the fullness of my heart in
this solemn loneliness which
rests upon the Yukon, I gave
thanks that I was one of them,
and had often camped beneatn
the silvery moonlight along the
valley of the Yukon,
i And as the goodship threaded
;the intricate labyrinth of is
lands, sandbars, and channels,
guarded by miles upon miles of
| sentinel peaks which seemed for
hours to completely bar our
{way, and we passed out from
under the shadow of some
'frowning cliffs, just as the
golden sun burst forth, warm,
bright and resistless, while the
view expanded before us nearly
to the horizon, the mist, like
shrouded ghosts, stole silently
away. Vanishing behind the hills
and cliffs. Every drop of mois
ture, on ship and shore, glittered
like diamonds in the dazzling
rays of new-born day, changing
the verdant islands and hillsides
into a glory of color, and the
whole view to one of majestic
loveliness, through which v/e
glided all the magic way to Daw
son City 1600 miles.
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WRANGELL
Mrs. Homer Bradley returned
by gasboat from Petersburg.
Miss Margaret McCormack
'last week entered upon her new
duties in the office of the Mc
Cormack Dock Company.
W. T. Hale of the Wrangell
Packing Corporation, and Mrs.
Hale, arrived on the Aleutian to
spend the salmon canning sea
son in Wrangell.
Harry Ferguson has been se
lected by the health and police
committee of the town council
to succeed S. H. Grant who re
cently resigned as city marshal.
Following a discussion of in
digent relief a motion was pass
ed that the Town Council be
urged to buy a supply of king
salmon at the present low prices:
the fish to be frozen and held in
cold storage until needed for
distribution to indigent cases
next winter.
The Diamond K. Packing Co.
jcf Wrangell is installing a new
can forming line from the Con
tinental Can Co. J. E. O’Rourke
from the Seattle Service De
partment is doing the installa
tion and will operate the ma
chines this season.
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The Juneau Commercial As
sociation reported an increase
in membership of five-member
ship now totaling about thirty
five.
Superintendent R. S. Raven in
his report shows tha;. while the
total number of pupils increased
in the public schools, the costs
declined some $11 per pupil.
The American Legion has
started talking over the Fourth
of July program.
Five hundred reels of trap
webbing was shipped from Ket
chikan to the Kake cannery. No
orders for seine webbing—“pat
ronize home industry” is a lot of
hooey for business men to bunk
um labor with. More than 100
Kake seiners need work and they
will not be able to “patronize
home industry” having no earn
ings.
The Right Reverend Peter T.
Rowe of the Episcopal Church
conducted services in the St.
John’s Chapel, Wrangell on the
12th.
The Juneau City Band put on
a band concert recently which
was muchly appreciated by
many.
The officers for the Juneau
Fair Association named are J. F,
Mullen, president; J. F. Ander
son, vice president; W. S. Pullen,
secretary; William B. Kirk, trea
surer. Mr. Pullen was named
directing manager and Ralph B.
Martin was named manager of
this year’s fair, which will be
held September 14,15, 16 and 17.
Del Rosa was given a jolt ol
$500 fine and eight months in
jail for having too much beer in
'his possession and not giving it
away any too wisely.
King salmon brought 3 and 1
the fore part of the week. Not
enough to enable power trollers
to make operating expenses.
Eight planes spent the night
in Juneau recently and the air
port looked like the real thing.
Miss Dorothy Hearne, resident
cf Nenana, was in difficulties in
Portland recently. Joe Tenner,
theatrical producer was arrest
ed on a Mann Act charge in con
nection with this young woman
who declared he promised to se
cure her employment and then
treated her brutally and forced
her to live in certain designatea
places.
W. K. Keller, Commissioner of
Education, has completed a
swing around the territory in
the interest of his office.
Dick Kilburn was hurt recent
ly in Douglas when the steering
gear of his car broke. Before he
could stop his car it made short
connections with a telephone
post. Kilburn had to have sever
al stitches in his head.
George B. Grigsby, former
also-ran for Congress, left Ket
chikan recently on a business
trip to Seattle.
One of the greatest reindeer
roundup will be staged in the
Kobuck district this summer
with more than 100 Eskimo herd
ers doing their stuff. The Eskimo
and Lomen herds are to oe
separated.
Ketchikan has joined the
throng protesting influx of labor
to Alaska declaring that there is
already insufficient work to take
care of local labor. There is
plenty of work for thirty thou
sand more laborers—if the work
were properly distributed among
the men instead of divided up a
mong a few trap owners.
H. B. Washburn, Jr., and party
plan to make an ascent of M'.
Fairweather beginning shortly
after June 23rd.
Peddlers of socks, stocking
and other whatnots are not wel
come in Juneau—the City Coun
cil has taken care that these
itinerants shall not stop in the
fair capital. Fishermen are ask
ing the business men of Juneau
to make their application a little
more broad than just peddlers in
Juneau.
B. D. Stewart, supervising min
ing chemist of the Bureau of
Mines, recently returned from an
extended trip to Washington,
D. C.
John H. Biggs, owner of the
Gastineau Hotel is boiling out at
Sitka Hot Springs
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Ryder
employees of the Indian Bureau,
Sitka, left for the States re
cently.
The mink farm of Bodding &
Dyrdahl near Mendenhall Gla
cier, Juneau reports an increase
of 200 animals with everything
going nice and rosy. ,
In spite of the Red Cross
spending from five to eight hun
dred dollars per month for
needy folks in Ketchikan, that
city plans a real Fourth of July
celebration.
Governor Parks has with
drawn the remainder of the
funds allocated for prospectors’
aid until the next legislature
meets. “There is plenty of money
in the territorial treasury” says
one group of officials; “The ter
ritorial treasury v/ill be broke in
September,” says another. Some
body lied!
As a result of the colonization
plan of the Alaska railroad, un
der direction of M. D. Snodgrass
four new settlers came north
this spring. \
The Ketchikan City Council
requires radio owners to pay a
tax of $1 t oassist in locating
radio interference. Several have
refused to pay declaring the or
dinance is void.
Frank J. Kwapil, representa
tive of the U. S. Pacific Halibut
Fisheries was recently in Juneau
organizing the fleet in with the
Association now operating under
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undertaking before he returned
south.
Dr. J. B. Loftus, Territorial
Veterinarian, arrived in Wran
gell last week for an inspection
of the animal herds in that sec
tion.
President C. E. Bunnell of the
Alaska College and School of
Mines, was called back to his
duties in Fairbanks owing to
the death of Morton E. Stevens,
President of the Board of Trus
tees of the College. He plans to
meet with Governor George A.
Parks when the vacancy will be
filled.
Frank J. Hennessey, old-time
resident of Alaska, died recently
in Portland, Oregon.
Mrs. Elton Engstrom, wife of
the Juneau fish buyer, left for a
visit with relatives in the s.tates.
Jake Cropley has the work on
the docks at Haines now about
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Henry Pigg, son of Dr. Pigg of j
Juneau has been visiting in
Haines on business.
Naknek has sent word out that
jit wants no more fishermen in
that district as there is an over
supply of fishermen there. The
same is true of every other dis
trict still Washington seine boats
are coming north.
A load pf 12,000 box shooks
were delivered the Kake can
nery by the Jtmeau lumber Mills.
Jack Mayne of Sitka, oldtimer
of the north, was recently de
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A man, who complained of a
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