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SATURDAY, MARCH 12, I904
After mapy years of tutile peti
tioning and the expenditure of
practically all her fortune, Mrs.
Florence Maybrick has been re
leased from an English prison. She
was not pardoned, but given a
special form of ticket-of-leave. The
case has* been repeatedly reviewed
by the English government, but
each time the trial was pronounced
regular and the verdict of the jury
beyond impeachment. In other
words, while believing firmly in
her guilt,' the English government,
as a courtesy to the American
people, will allow Mrs. Maybrick
to die in liberty.
D. A. McKenzie, former com
missioner at Coldfoot, had a lengthy
interview with the president re
cently. Mr. McKenzie laid great
stress on the necessity of immediate
legislation for adequate trails trom
the Yukon into the Ko3rukuk and
for ihe training of the Indians in
the care ot reindeer. As Mr. Mc
Kenzie has spent several years in
the true Alaska—the interior—his
opinions should carry weight
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Judge Wickersham says: “I
see no future for the Athabaskans, j
except extinction, and little better
fate for the Eskimo. There is a|
strength of virility in the Eskimo,
however, which the Yukon Indian
does rot possess, and if the Eskimo
could be turned into a <reindeerj
people, they would be an advan-j
tageous population in Alaska.”
Recent press dispatches chroni
cle the fact of the retirement from
active business of J. P. Morgan.
Mis son, it is stated, will take up
the work where his father left off.
Morgan, Sr., will make his future
home in England. It is most likely
that Rockefeller had as much to do
with the retirement of Morgan as
any other factor.
According to the Dawson News
of recent date, twenty tons of mis
cellaneous supplies were taken from
Dawson to relieve existing short
ages in Circle City stocks. This is
a fair sample of why it costs the
big companies so much to do busi
ness in Alaska, and, again, why
the consumer must pay such high
prices for his goods. In other
words, “Jones pays the freight.”
LOCAL. JOTTINGS
Phil Godly and Walter Foley left
Thursday to put in a wood camp
above Ft. Hamlin.
Private McNeely, signal corps,
stationed at this place since last fall,
has been attached to a construction
t- i , ’ * V i - T
party for work on the Tanana.
Private Robertson arrived Thurs
day from Ft. Gibbon to relieve Mc
Neely.
Geo. G. Belt and Harry Winde
returned from their Tanana trip
Wednesday last. Mr. Belt brings
word that the quartermaster at Ft.
Gibbon has wired Washington for
authority to ask for bids for fur
nishing 500,000 feet of sawlogs.
This is additional to the last con
tract let for 250,000 feet.
McQuestin & Stoel received noti
fication last Wednesday that their
bid of $25 per thousand for 250,000
feet of sawlogs had be$n accepted
They leave Monday morning with
teams'and equipment to begin get
ting out the logs. According to
their contract the logs are to be
delivered by July 15.
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