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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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FLORIDA STRICKEN
With the arrival of the equinoctial storms the entire
coast of Florida has been laid to waste by the most disas
trous of hurricanes which has ever visited that section of
the country. And from the Middle West other news dis
patches tell of the toll of lives taken and unestimatable
damage created by wind, rain, hail and lightning.
Not since the San Francisco earthquake in 1906 when
five hundred lives were lost and a property loss of $400,
000,000, or on September 8, 1900, when 6,000 people lost
their lives in the Galveston tornado has there been such
a catastrophe as has visited Florida.
The number of dtead has been estimated from one
hundred to fifteen hundred. It has been impossible to es
timate the property loss thus far. It will probably run
much more than $100,000,000, for during the last few
years which saw Florida delevop at a tremendous rate,
untold millions of dollars of buildings were constructed
and business, on a general scale, grew at a marvelous
pace.
In the brief span of a few hours and without warning
a vast area of one of America’s most beautiful and pros
perous states was laid to ruin by the elements. The suf
fering which will follow in the wake of the stricken state
will not be temporary but will be felt for years but that
Florida, like San Francisco, will rise again to heights sur
passing former days, is an assured fact. Faith in their
state by the citizens will not lax for a calamity such as has
smote fair Florida may fall anywhere at any time.
IS THERE NO END?
Alaska again is blazoned forth to the nation and to
the world at large as the pest-hole of creation. Lower
than the Heathen Chinese were its people some few weeks
ago, and now—conditions are grown even worse, intoler
ably so.
The cry comes from reputable Republicans of the
Territory, whose names must be withheld by their spokes
man, one Basil M. Manley, director of the New York
Peoples’ Legislative service. New York is a long way
off, and its legislative service means little to Alaska. We
know nothing of Mr. Manley, and are willing to wager
that few others outside his immediate environs have
heard of him. Undoubtedly he feels envious of Clarence
True.
Why in the name of politics must Alaska be tarred,
feathered and dragged in the mud of the pig sty? Each
time the .performance is public. At a time the mud splash
es in the committee chambers of the National Congress,
again in the gore sheets of a national newspaper, purvey
or of the salacious for the edification of the morbid, and
now through press announcement; A- telegram to the
President of the United States, recalling a matter with
which he is thoroughly conversant and which in his own
mind he undoubtedly has disposed of, is employed as the
thin thread w7ith which to tie this most recent, vicious
stab.
We have always had a certain admiration for the
Heathen Chinee. He has his own code of ethics. No
matter what his internal difficulty he has never cried to
the outsider, cheated or defrauded his fellow being in
order to gain a selfish end.—Fairbanks News Miner.
MORE EVOLUTION
The International Congress of Plant Sciences in ses
/ sion at Cornell was allegedly amazed by the statement
that bacteria may change so radically as apparently to
become a different species. But the theory on evolution
should do away with amazement. Man often turns into a
worm after he is married. Then why should not a worm
turn into a man or plant bacteria'eventually into gardners
like Adam or Burbank?
Money talks, but reports from .France say the franc
has almost lost its voice.
The death of Patrick Conway who
died at the Maynard-Columbus hospi
tal in Seattle last month was a shock
to his numerous friends, and .records
the fact that another one of Nome’s
old pioneer have gone over the last
divide.
• * *
A. N. Garrod who has been employ
ed by the Hammon Co. at Nome for
the past year, leaves on the next boat
for Dime creek, to start the Dime
crek dredge in which he is interest
ed. As the dredge was working in
very good ground at the close down
last fall, the chances for a large pro
duction this season seems very fav
i orable.
* * *
William Neville, one of the oldest
sourdoughs of Dawson, was brought
to St. Mary’s hospital recently by
Lawrence McGrath, of the Gold Bot
tom hotel. The pioneer became ser
iously ill and no time was lost in
bringing him to Dawson, where he
is now receiving the most careful at
tention of the medical authorities.
After this work is finished Mr.
Andrews lea es for Quartz creek west
of Nome to superintend the marking
of another herd of reindeer.
* * *
Dune McLean is prospecting and
mining for placer tin about three and
a half miles from Tin city.
• • •
H. G. Christensen has a crew of 12
natives forking on Buck creek, Nome
district. He is working by sluice box
method has plenty of water and will
undoubtedly have a big shipment of
tin this fall.
* * *
Private First Class Cornet of the
Seventh infantry stationed at Chilkoot
barracks, Alaska, recflfntly returned
from a fishing trip with a hundred '
pounds of “chicken” halibut includ
ing a sixty pound catch, said to be
the largest of the year.
* * *
One of the outstanding attractions
in Dawson these days is a three
months old caribou which was caught
in the Yukon river by Clarence Craig
and Lyman Williams.
MORE I HUE I
(Continued from Page Three.)
sociated Press is watching all lists
and will send at once any Alaskans
found dead. This applies to all dis
asters henceforth.
JACKSONVILLE, East coast Flor
ida)—The total life loss is estimated
at more than a thousand.
Waves Overwhelm Moorehaven
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. (#)—'The j
weather bureau said the storm center j
was just south of Pensacola at 8 |
o’clock this morning and would move j
north over Alabama and* the extreme
Eastern portion of Mississippi but
with a rapidly diminishing intensity.
MIAMI, Sept. 20. (JP)—'The death
estimates omitted one hundred report
ed killed at Fort Lauderdale and 75 at
Moorehaven. Huge waves from Lake
Cheechobee overwhelmed Moore- j
haven.
CHICAGO, 111., Sept. 20. (^P)—Storms j
which brought the floods of Central i
and West Ohio to Nebraska, struck j
Northwestern Iowa where rain, hail, j
wind and lightning took two lives i
and inundated 30,000 acres. Farms j
were destroyed, and communications ;
silenced. The damage is estimated at j
§2,000,000. C. M. Fleischmann, a re- i
tired business man, was drowned j
when he fell into a flooded gutter. !
The front of Hawarden city and half j
a freight train was wrecked and six j
miles of railroad washed out. Jj
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