ALASKA FORUM
(OFFICIAL PAPER)
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THE FORUM PUBLISHING CO.
J*. B. Wiiigate Editor and Manager.
VOLUME 5- No. 19
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, I903.
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Tuesday will decide whether
the responsible, property-owning
resident and business man is going
to get something handed to him.
The spectacle presented by
Nome s city council dishonoring
their own paper is balanced nicely
by the chaotic mess of Skagway’s
municipal affairs. At the latter
place the federal officials were com
pelled to step in to maintain the
law, the city fathers preferring to
levy tribute on prostitution.
LOCAL. JOTTINGS
J. W. Duncan, Marshal Dreibelbis, Mrs.
Duncan and Miss Ketchifcon arrived last
Tuesday, Mrs Carruthere and Son, Mrs,
Stoel and Miss McDonald the day follow
ing. All the ladies stood the hardships
of the trip down from Victor’s remarka
bly well and no one was frostbitten. Dr.
Hudgin, Pete Kolnihg and eight other
passengers are due here in a few daj^s.
Jack Isom, one of the arrivals, reports
the Sarah raised and now in Dawson.
The Susie was also badly damaged on
Twenty'mile bar above Circle; but is pre
sumed to have got relief and proceeded
on to Dawson. Freight is scattered
along all through the Flats between Ft.
Yukon and Circle. A large number of
people bound for Chenoa stayed at Circle
an 1 will freight in their outfits from that
point.
A. B. Lewellyn: It is a mistake
to do two things at one time. Let
us first find out if we incorporate,
then it is time enough for nomina
tions. I must deeliue-the nomina
tion of councilman.
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OUR FIRST POLITIC All MEETING i
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Brady insisted that he was an
honest man. Did any one claim to
the contrary?
The Rampart ^<mossbacks,, are
; not so slow after all. They do t leir
own thinking, as the late 4‘mass’’ i
meeting demonstrated.
The funny story told was out of,
place, but it seemed to strike most
, of those present as containing at
' least a germ of truth, and in conse
quence was applauded to the echo.
Hoist with their own petard.
This most aptly fi s the incorpora- :
tion meeting. The politician finally
grasped the fact that the anti-incor
porationists were in the majority,
and became somewhat dazed.
Lynn Smith raised something of J
a “shindy” when he nominated j
John Minook as a councilman. The
| chairman was clearly out of order
! in trying to smother anything he
personally was opposed to.
At the meeting it was told us
that the town would be just the
same after incorporation as it is at
present. Since the meeting the
town is simply going to the devil.
The latter is probably the least of
the two evils.
The local telegraph office received a
message from ,£agle a few days ago stat
ing that nineteen sacks of mail had been
lost eight miles below Forty-mile, Nov. 2.
Presbyterian Church.—Services at
the Reading Room at 7:30 p.m. Sab
bath-school at 11 a. m. All are invited
to attend
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A meeting is called to arrange for the
organization of a literary society. All
who are interested will please come to
the Reading Room on Monday evening.
Nov. 9, at 8 o’clock.
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E. H. House: I am against in
corporation. While I would serve
if the town was incorporated, let
us first decide whether we want to
incorporate or not. I must decline
the nomination of councilman at
this time.
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