PRESIDENT TAFT
INVITED PLENTY
If President Taft fails to make a visit to interior Alaska dur
ing the coming summer it will not be from a lack of cordial invita
tions to so do from the various cities, towns and settlements of
this country. Invitations have been pouring into the White House
from Alaska at a terrific rate of late.
On Monday night last the local camp of the Arctic Brother
hood directed the Arctic Recorder to wire an urgent invitation to
the Chief Executive, and the following is a copy of the message
forwarded:
Hot Springs, Alaska, April 29, 1909.
President Taft, Washington, D. C.:
Hot Springs Camp No. 24, Arctic Brotherhood, re
spectfully urges you to visit the interior of Alaska during
the coming summer, believing great benefits would accrue
to Alaska from such visit.
Bevington, Arctic Recorder.
At a largely attended public meeting held in Tanana recently
at the office of Commissioner Gallaher, at which the commissioner
presided, a committee of citizens consisting of Messrs. Joseph
Dehn, A. G. Vachon, Charles Chanquist, R. R. Stoddard and the
chairman of the meeting, was appointed to draft and forward an
invitation on behalf of the cilizens of Tanana, and the following
was transmitted:
Hon. W. H. Taft, President of the United States of Amer
ica:
Mr. President--On behalf of the citizens of the town
of Tanana or Fort Gibbon, Alaska, we extend you a cor
dial invitation to visit the Yukon valley this summer and
see the great undeveloped resources of Alaska, travel the
longest river and waterway in North America, view the
grandest mountains, and see the country producing the
most gold and possessing untold agricultural possibilities.
See us, know us, help us.
BOUNDARY LINES
RAMPART
In the matter of establishing a recording precinct with
recording headquarters at Rampart:
ORDER
It having been made to appear to the satisfaction of
the court by a petition of citizens and maps on file that
there should be a recording station at Rampart, Alaska, and
that such recording precinet can be taken from that pre
cinct known as the Hot Springs precinct and thereby ben
efit a great number of prospectors and miners, it is ordered
that the following, that is to say:
Beginning at the Rapid Telegraph Station, on the
Yukon river, thence in a southerly direction along the
boundary of the Fort (ribbon precinct to the top of the di
vide, thence easterly along the top of said divide to Rough
Top mountain, Eureka dome, Elephant mountain and Wol
verine mountain, thence in a southeasterly and easterly di
rection around the headwaters of the West fork of the Tolo
vana river, and along the top of the divide to the mouth of
the said West fork where it joins the Tolovana river, thence
north and northeasterly along the divide between the Tolo
vana and Hess rivers to the boundary line of the Circle pre
cinct, thence north along said Circle boundary line to the
Yukon river, thence westerly along the southern boundary
line of the Chandlar precinct to the Koyukuk precinct,
thence southerly along the east boundary line of said Koyu
kuk precinct to the Fort Gibbon precinct, thence southeast
erly to the Rapids Telegraph Station, the place of begin
ning.
That the above precinct shall be known as the Ram
part Recording Precinct and the commissioner and recorder
for said precinct shall have his official residence and record
ing station at Rampart, Alaska, that the boundaries here
inbefore mentioned shall be the boundaries of the Rampart
Recording Precinct. SILAS H. REID, Judge.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 5th day of April, 1909.
The tremendous potency and still more tremendous possibili
ties of the Slavonian element in European nationalities have been
recently brought sharply to the world’s notice by the revolt of
Ferdinand of Bulgaria, and the mutterings of Servia and of Monte*
Montenegro, behind all three of which stands the vast, empire of
Russia. The Slavs are beginning to feel their strength aed to as
sert themselves, declares W, T, Stead in the Contemporary Review
(London). Recent incidents iu the Balkan peninsula, the action of
Francis Joseph, and the support which he has received from Wil
liam II. of Germany, have profoundly stirred the racial sentiments
of the Slavs from the banks of the Volga to the* huts of Gettings.
The points made by Mr. Stead are, that the Slav is prolific and
rapidly increasing in population, and is united rather by a racial
than a territorial tie. Hence the Slavic race is really one of the
most formidable factors in European politics. The Germans, or
Teutons, as represented by such sovereigns as Francis Joseph and
William of Germany, do not seem to understand this. The Slavs
have been a subjugated race. They are now asserting themselves,
avers Mr. Stead. To quote his words:
“Of all the great races of Europe the Slavs have received the
fewest favors from the fates. Providence has been to them a cruel
stepmother. They have been cradled in adversity and reared in
the midst of misfortunes which might well have broken their spirit.
From century to century they have been the prey of conquerers,
European and Asiatic. When, as in Russia, they were able to as
sert their independence of Tartar and Turk, they could only do so
by submitting to an autocrat whose yoke was seldom easy and
whose burden was never light. But for this Cinderella of Europe
the light is rising in the darkness, and there are not lacking signs
that in the future the despised kitchen maid may yet be the belle
of the ball.”
The principal advantage which the Slavs have over other na
tions of Western Europe is their numerical superiority, with its
ever-increasing volume. Mr. Stead tells us:
The factQr that governs the ultimate issue of the clash of na
tional forces is not the statecraft of sovereigns, but the birthrate
of their peoples. If, dismissing all prejudices, political or religi
ous, we concentrate our attention on the birth-rate, we see at a
glance that the future belongs to the Slavs. In the West, the pop
ulation tends to a standstill. In France it is even beginning to
decrease. But the Slavonic peoples continue to increase and mul
tiply and replenish the earth. Consequently Slayonia grows ever
more and more, and its growth renders the existing system as use
less as black thread round the limbs of a giant,”
Mr. Stead is evidently inspired by his knowledge of political
conditions in this country in predicting the formation of a Slavic
confederacy which is to extend from Montenegro to the Ural moun
tains. The idea of one race being domidated by another race is a
monstrosity, as J. S. Mill long since pointed out. To quote further
from the article in The Contemporary:
“The day of cast-iron empires is fast drawing to a close. The
new century begins the era of decentralization and federation. In
one form or another the whole vast stretch of country from Peters
burg to Prague and from Prague to Adrianople will be covered by
a federation or federations of free self-governing states as peaceful
as the Swiss cantons, in whijh the Slavs, by the sheer force of
numbers, will of necessity be in the ascendant. Nor wilt it be sur
prising if the despairing effort of the German to stem the tide of
destiny in Posen should lead to the addition of the German Polish
lands to the federation of the future.”
The Slavs, however, like the Irish are too much inclined to in
ternal dissension and domestic treason to rise to a concerted strug
gle for independence and supremacy until they have passed
through a stern ordeal of political education. But the future is
theirs, announces this writer:
“The chief danger, almost the only serious danger, that
threatens to retard the inevitable triumph, is the fatal tendency to
anarchy that has ever been the bane of the Slavonian peoples. It
was this that ruined Poland. It may postpone indefinitely the
coming of the Slav into his kingdom. If we had the tongues of
men and of angels we would cry aloud in the ears'of the Slavonian
peoples: ‘In unity is your strength. United you can conquer all
your foes. Disunited you will remain the despised and impotent
thralis of your neighbors. Peace! Peace among yourselves!
Patience and Unity, by those watchwords you will conquer.’”—Lit
erary Digest.
GOME BACK TO TOWN
The two Ellingson boys—Tom and
Earl—who have been prospecting dur
ing the greater part of the winter on
Blowback and Gold Basin creeks, re
turned to town last Tuesday, having fin
ished their prospecting work for the
present. They will leturn to Gold
Basin next fall for further work, as
they have every reason to believe that
gold will be found there in paying
quantities.
Tom says he still has the winter’t
output of Blowback creek in his pos
session, and may exhibit at the A.Y.P.
show at Seattle.
HOWARD’S HOTEL
: Fred Howard has everything in read
iness at his hotel in Kemperville for
the people traveling through that town.
A number of attractive improvements
i have been lately added to the premises
and the public is assured of good treat
ment while sojourning at the Howard
house,“down where the Tanana flows.” j
ABOUT THE MAILS
Charley Surridge left Hot Springs
last Saturday afternoon for Gibbon ;
with the down-river mail on two j
double-enders, and returned on Tues-1
day afternoon with at 4 o’clock with j
four packhorses with the up river mail, j
Leonard Dodge started for Fairbanks i
on Tuesday night with the up-river j
mail. He is using packhorses.
“Sourdough Mike,” who has faith-1
fully and regularly carried the mail!
on the Hot Springs-Rampart emer-1
gency route during the past winter,
finished his contract on the last trip.
Fine dress shoes for the good old
summer time in Traeger’s big stock.
Jeremiah Ford, the editor-in-chief of
the Eureka creek roadhouse, was a vis
itor in the Springs last Wednesday'.
Mr. Ford has almost recovered from
recent illness.
Best line of shoes ever displayed in
Hot Springs is now' at Traoger’s.
SEEDS ARRIVED
On liis last trip of the season, “Sour
dough Mike,” the Rampart mail car
rier, delivered at this office two small
sacks containing a splendid assortment
of garden seeds from government ex
periment station at Rampart, through
the kindness of E. T. Townsend.
The news of the arrival of the con
signment about town soon brought a
large number of our neighbors to The
Post to make their selections, and by
Tuesday evening the supply greatly re
duced.
There yet remains many packages
of desirable vegetable seeds and an
endless variety of beautiful flower
seeds. Come and get them—they are
free. _
Traeger has just opened a big stock
of shoes for men, women and children. ^
Pure drugs and toilet articles at Dr.
Carter’s drug store, Sullivan City.
Statements neatly printed—The Post '
Headquarters
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HOT SPRINGS
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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
THE public is hereby notified that
those two certain notes bearing
date April 17, 1909: one for sura of $209
fulling due August 15, 1909, the other
for the sum of $375 falling due October
1, 1909, were procured from me by du
ress and under threats; that no consid
eration was given therefor: that the
notes are not legitimate, and anyone
purchasing same does so at his peril,
that I shall not pay same.
(Signed) JAMES DRUMMOND.
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