LIST FRONTIER
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Alaska, where, according
to itex Beach and Jack Bon- !
j don, they took their whis
! hey straight, pins on a
| white ribbon.
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A Bunch of boys were whopping it up
in the Malamute saloon.
The kid that handles the music box
was hitting a jag time tune;
Back of the bar in a solo game, sat
Dangerous Dan McGrew,
^ And watching his luck was his light-o’
love, the lady that's known as Bue.
— (From “The Shotting of Dan Mc
Grew,” by Robert W. Service.)
The ballots had all ben counted and
the dry states were holding a recep
tion to welcome the addition to their
society. Prim Miss Maine headed the
receiving line, which included a bril
liant representation of southern aris
tocracy, such fine old families as the
Carolinas, Alabama, Georgia, Virginia
and Tennessee, as well as a generous
sprinkling of Western and Middle
Western names, states lacking in the
time-hallowed traditions, but welcome
- to the cause, nevertheless.
Booking somewhat self-conscious in
their newly acquired virtue, prosper
ous Michigan, rangy Montana, the cat
tlemen, and the well known wheat
ranchers, Messrs. South Dakota and
Nebraska were passing down the line
shaking hands and expressing pleas
ure in their redeemed state.
Of course this was a reception some
what different from the rather exclu
sive affairs of former years. There
was probably a feeling among the
elder states that “society isn't what
it used to be, with all these strange
newly rich persons from the west be
ing recognized,” but it was a very
successful and happy occasion.
Then, at a late hour, the door open i
ed to admit a stranger. A sudden
hush came over the room. There was
an uneasy restraint at the intrusion.
“Dear me, sister,” gasped handsome
Miss South Carolina to her sister. Miss
North, "who is that person?”
“I’m sure it must be some mis
take," chimed in sweet Miss Virginia,
“it can’t be any of our people."
So the stranger stood hesitatingly
by the door a moment, obviously em
barrassed in the company of so many
beautiful ladles and prosperous gentle
men.
He was a handsome young stranger,
for all that his tawny beard was frozen
stiff to his parka hood, and pools of
melting snow collected about his muk
luks. His skin was bronzed and
toughened by many a broiling sun and
biting frost, but his eyes were clear
blue with a merry twinkle that was
infectious. He was tall and lithe and
trail hardened and in his innocence
of polite society, he had brought his
dogs to the reception, a band of half
wild, wolfish creatures.
As he stood waiting recognition he
glanced with a sort of sheepish pride
at the new white ribbon badge pinned
to the lapel of his flaming mackinaw.
And thus he hesitated.
Found One Friendly Face.
It remained for young Washington,
himself a newcomer in this fast grow
ing society, to recognize the stranger.
"Well, by the eternal,” quoth Wash
j ington — “it Is—no, it can't be—yes,
sir, Alaska! Klohowya, tillicum!”
“Why, you dog-gonned old salmon
eater,” roared the stranger, delighted
to find a friendly face in a strange
land. “Put her there!”
Then the young western state intro
duced the lusty young northern terri
tory to the rest of the assembly, and
the world learned that the last fron
tier is gone, that the rip-roaring, devil
may care Alaska, beloved of all fiction
writers, is as dead as the Tar Flat and
Roaring Camp familiar to the last
generation of readers.
Alaska voted dry! Alaska, the place
where, according to popular belief,
ably seconded by the “movies," all
men had hair on their chest and
gulped their “hootch" neat, paying for
it with fistfuls of dust; Alaska, where
business consisted of finding new
Klondikes and where pleasure meant
squandering their wealth in a night;
of all places Alaska turned against
the Demon Rum, sicking the mala
mutes onto old John Barleycorn and
chasing him off the lot. Shades of
Soapy Smith and Swiftwater Bill! !
Why, don't you remember this? If
you don't you have read something like
iL
"It was a quiet night at the Tivoli.
At the bar, which ranged along one
side of the large chinked log room,
leaned a half dozen men, two of whom
were discussing the relative merits of j
spruce tea and lime juice as remedies
for scurvy. • * • ‘Come up, you '
all, and drink. Come up, you unburied
dead, an' name your poison. Come up,
everybody- This is my night, and
I’m going to ride it. Tomorrow I'm 30
and then I’ll be an old man. • * • ,
Surge along, you Siwashes and salmon
eaters. * * * I'm the mangy old
he-wolf. Listen to me howl.”
I nere was Money In It.
Fortunes have been made selling
that line of talk to magazine editors.
All of us love action stories, and most
all of us do, have believed for years,
that such as that was Alaska,
And after we all had been carefully
educated to believe in that, Alaska
pins on a white ribbon, takes the
pledge and restocks all the Tlvolis
and Nuggets and Klondike bars with
grape juice and chocolate ice cream
sodas.
We know that this will be a shock
to many believers in the Wild West.
It must have been a shock to them
when the famous Barbary Coast of San
Francisco reformed, and when Seattle
converted the old joints on Washing
ton and King streets, where Skookum
Jim and Swlftwater and many another
new made millionaire gloried and
drank deep, into pool parlors and soft
drink saloons.
But some thoughtful observers who
have paid a little attention to Alaska
saw the change coming years ago.
Kven before they held a world's fair
at Seattle in 1909, to celebrate the
discovery of gold on the Klondike ten
years before, the frontier days of
Alaska were coming to an end. Big
business had discovered Alaska, Rail
roads were being built, and more have
followed. Huge gold dredges began
to work the Nome sands. Vast for
tunes in copper were discovered, but
copper is not mined with a si ilce box
that a man can knock together on
the spot, and the development of these
new riches brought armies of laboring
men and costly machinery. Powerful
companies took over the great fish
eries.
Towns and cities grew up and or
ganized chambers of common ,
the Tanana valley got Into friendly
'Ivalry with the southeastern section
over the size of the rutabagas and
cabbages that could be produced from
the fields. Why, federal school teach
ers, say, even out on the lonely IMo
rnedes and on the snowy deserts above
the Arctic Circle, the traveler will
find the simple Eskimos and Indians
cranking up their Vlctrola on a win
ter’s night.
In Juneau, Skagway, Cordova,
Fairbanks, Circle or Nome they are
reading the same world news today
that we read in Kansas City.
Yep, some years ago Alaska shed
his mackinaw and mukluks for a busi
ness sack coat and the latest model
shoes. In place of the chamois poke,
out of which he used to shake gold
dust, ho bought a dime savings bank.
He will no longer greet you in that
quaint dialect beloved of the Rex
Reach-Jack London school, but he’s
very apt to bore you to death with
statistics on temperatures and rain
fall, and the possibilities of four
crops of alfalfa off Tanana valley land.
His pockets are filled with booster
literature instead of nuggets.
But still we couldn't quite believe
the old days — the red days, the roar
ing days — were gone until we saw
hat white ribbon pinned to his lapel.
And just a few years ago we be
ieved with the poet:
There's never a law of God or Man
Runs north of 53.
Funny, Isn’t it?—Kansas City Star.
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will always make a welcome and lasting remembrance. For
young as well as old folks it will mean a start in the direction
that will ultimately do the most good. Most everybody is
B anxious to save after they once have a start, and Christmas af
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get a start.
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I CORDOVA, .... ALASKA
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THE WOMAN WHO RECEIVES
her- guests under the soft light of elec
tricity looks her best and knowing
this feels at her best. N'o other light
Is so adaptable to artistic arrangement
or more convenient adjustment. If
your home is not equipped for and
with electricity let us show you why
you should have it so at once.
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EFFECTIVE MAY 1, 1916.
| Three Trains Weekly Between Cordova and Chitina.
| Four Trains Weekly Between Chitina and Kennecott. if
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days and Saturdays.
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| Thursdays and Saturdays.
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