CA PT# GOODE* S HUNTERS VERY SUCCESSFUL:
The hunting party that went from the Poet last week
to Freshwater Bay in pursuit of the agile deer of that local*
ity had the best luck vof any party of recent years# It must
have been that the animiles ,after eluding the bullets of
Capt«Wright’s and Capt*Reeves outfits,took pity on the de
pleted larder cf the Post, and decided to be nice to Capt*
..Go.q demand hi s hunt suer • Anyway, -nine of the creatures f ell
t .beneath the deadly gun3 of the Goode party.# Capt.Goode, Lt«
Maertens,and Gus Klar.ey accounted for four of the victims,
Capt*Henry made another put-out, unassisted, Sgts*Andruskie
wicz ,Mook, and Jordan modestly admit that between the three
of them they got one move,and Pvt«Cahill and unnamed hunts
men bagged ths rest of the nine,
Fout they brought hack bo the Post,-the other five
they tell us they aba#tfo or.ly wish that they hadn*t been
. j c so hungry# As we raid in the beginning,-this bag represents
• • the best score made on the deer by any party in recent years,
• and goes to show thab ^apt^G^krotfs how to stalk the wary
game, and has developed some real shots in Vris work' on the
Target Range* But the resu?.ts that we here on the Post saw
as the outcome of the expedition remind us of the old 3ible
baseball joke,-’’Where are the nine?”
% BIT OF INTERESTING BISTOTOt:
• ^ - Two distinctively Alaskan holidays are observed
^ in the Territory,which are unfamiliar,perhaps,to new residents*
They are -Alaska Day, October 18th, and Oeward Day, March 30th#
They take their significance from the process by which Alaska
V became United States territory*As earky as 1854 Russia had ap
proached the 17.S.with an oifsr to sell Alaska,The disastrous
results of the Crimean War,and the fear that England would
secure possession of Russian America,as Alaska was then called,
impelled this ofier*Tho* the States refused the offer at the time
it was given enough consideration to make it a political issue
during succeeding years*Such highly interesting and enlightened
terms an MThe Zero Islands’®, ’’Polaria", Walrusia", "and Icebergia”
were applied to this section of the world by the papers and
politicians of the 'period*
The value of Alaska was appreciated by some, how
ever, and in 1867 a syndicate of fur traders consulted Wm<H,Seward,
then Secretary of State,regarding international complications
Which might ensue should U*S,purchase Russian America, Finally,
after much negotiation,a treaty ceding the Territory to U*S*was
signed by Seward and a representative of the Russian government
on March 30th,T867,The Senate confirmed the Treaty on April 10th,
but the formal t ransger was not made until October 18th og that*
same year,This took place at S^tkajthe Russian Capitol,in the preso
enee of Army and Navy representatives of both nations. The phy
sical transfer was marked by the lowering of the Russian flag
and the raising of the Stars and Stripes, (Alaska School Bulletin)
•EM ABOUT IT:
We understand that the residents of the village of Por
cupine were aroused at an early hour last Monday morning by the
sound of sweet and melodious strains. On investigation,after
much excitement,the cause was found. It was only CaptslEdwarde
and Halsey,of the U.$«Army,rendering their duet*r"we’re afraid
to go home in the Dark.**
ASIC
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