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CHITINA, SATURDAY, May 27, Ml
LET US MINE
OUR OWN COAL
AN ALASKAN’S ODE TO ALASKA.
Alaska, that land of the midnight
sun,
The land of virgin gold.
Of nature’s forbidden treasure vault.
The land of wealth untold;
Where placid rivers peacefully glide
Through fertile valleys green,
Glistening beneath a midnight sun,
Near fortunes yet unseen;
Onward ever, far beyond
Where the restless billows roll,
Mingling at last in Arctic seas
To pay old Ocean's toll.
Where the bull moose roams the
woodland.
That monarch wierd and grand.
The undefeated warrior—
King of this wonderland,
Who calls from the lake at sunrise
To the cow in the marsh lands low,
And drinks his All at twilight.
Where the water lilies grow.
And makes his bed 'neath the birch’s
shade,
And rests with the sun’s last ray.
And stirs with the first streak of
dawn
To welcome another day.
That magic land of the polar seas,
Of the seal and the great Ice floe,
Where by night old Boreas brightens
the gloom.
Where by day the sun-dogs glow;
Where the lumbering walrus and po
lar bear
In mortal combat meet;
Where the Eskimo and his reindeer,
The glad spring sunshine greet;
Where the wild goose Journeys from
southern climes,
And ends its northern flight,
And broods its young by the Yukon’s
brink
Through the days which know no
night.
Alaska, so cursed by delegate,
Corrupt in Congress’ hall.
By Eastern coal baron bought with
gold.
And heeds his beck and call;
When wilt thou 'merge from the
darkness.
When wilt thou come to thine own?
Pleading, vainly pleading.
To parent with heart of stone;
Cursed by mad conservation,
Colossal national crime;
The ke/ to the storehouse is stolen,
Thy treasures are locked for all
time.
I love thee, my poor stricken home
land'.
My prayer is ever for thee;
God speed the day when justice be
i done,
And Alaska forever be free,
When the patient and curse-burdened
miner,
Of the hardy and bold pioneers,
May reap the reward which is right
fully his.
Yet denied nim these many long
years;
When American freedom shall tri
umph.
And peace with prosperity bring,
Then, not ’till then, shall I thank
God in prayer,
Alaska—my country—of thee, I’ll
sing.
My country ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Long may our land be bright
With freedoms’ holy light,
Protect us in Thy might,
Great God, our King.
—DR. B. F. WHITING.
THE TRAIL OF ’98.
In the days when Alaska was young
er than now, *
There’s no doubt that its men were
some wild,
And the things that they did and
the stories they told
Were not such as you’d tell to a
child;
And there’s scarcely a man who has
come to his prime.
And his place In the world has
been set,
Who has not a chapter or two in his
life
He would very much rather for
get.
So the way of the world when you
travel out West,
And to talk to a stranger as host,
Is to carefully leave out the past of
your guest,
Lest you open the door to his
ghost.
So why should we write of the orgies
that howled;
Cover pages with murder and lust,
Crude tales of a life that was morally
foul.
The abasement of all that was
just?
Better lock up the skeleton fast In
Its cell.
Ere it walk In the glare of the
light.
With fingers outstretched to the
things of the past
You had thought buried deep out
of sight.
If the body and brain have been
steeped to the full,
In the slush and the swill of the
mire,
’Till the bitterness oozes from Up and
from pen—
Is it something your friends
should admire?
Supposing you did sow wild oats in
the past.
But today may be more of a saint,
Would you wish that your children
should read all the tale,
To besmirch their young minds
with its taint?
Do you think it would add to your
comfort in life
If your children should ask you
some day
If you lived such a life in the wilds
of the north.
If you did all the things that they
say?
Let us bury our dead, let us bury
them deep—
Each corpse with its poisonous
breath—
So that no one may plough them out
of their sleep,
To breed pestilence, sickness and
death.
For the sake of all honor and virtue
and pride,
Who would wish to hark back to
the toils
Of a life that was brutal and prim
eval and grim
To be crushed in its pythonic
coils?
The world is not helped by such
stories of sin;
It is looking for smiles, not for
scowls;
It is looking for beauty, not depths
of despair;
The world has no use for its
ghouls!
—R. H. STRETCH.
Washington, D. C., May 25.—The
claim is Stoutly made by the Demo
cratic leaders in the House that the
free wool idea has been defeated and
that the Democratic caucus, when
it shall be called, will be found vot
ing for a “revenue duty” on wool.
Just what the amount of duty will
be, whether at and below five cents
a. pound, specific, according to the
grade of wool, or whether an adval
orem duty of the same equivalent
shall be decided upon, remains for
final adjustment. But it is claimed
that as a result of a letter received
by Speaker Champ Clark from Wil
liam J. Bryan, the Bryan adherents
in the House are urged to stand for a
duty on wool rather than the old
faith of the party in favor of free
wool.
As the Ways and Means Commit
tee now stands the retention by a
majority of a revenue of five cents
per pound is the plan favored by a
majority of the committee. Speaker
Clark and Chairman Underwood want
this rate of duty fixed and as soon
as they feel certain they have a ma
jority of their party with them a
caucus will be called.
Mr. Bryan says in his ’.etter that
he personally is in favor of free wool,
but that if it appears that placing
wool on the free list would cause too
great loss of revenue, he is in favor
of cutting the rate about 50 per cent.
He also expresses himself as believ
ing that a sliding scale of reduced
duties should be provided so that
within a few years wool would go
upon the free list, in the meantime
provision having been made for the
loss of revenue such action would en
toil.
Mr. Bryan is willing to have re
tained upon all raw materials a rev
enue duty, except iron ore, lumber
and coal. These things he thinks
should be placed upon the free list
at once and kept there. Mr. Bryan
authorizes Speaker Clark to make
known his views to the Bryan fol
lowers in Congress and use the let
ter for the purpose of strengthening
the speaker’s position.
The wool interests, however, have
no fear at this time, as it is sure that
no revision of the wool schedule will
be enacted by the present Congress
and if it should be, President Taft
would veto it. Senator Smoot of
Utah, a wool growing state recently
gave the wool raisers his assurance
that nothing would be done to injure
the industry, and as a member of
the Finance Committee of the Sen
ate he is in position to speak with
authority.
OTICE.
Having dissolved partnership with
Jesse Brown, now in business at the
Nevada restaurant, I hold myself re
spjonsible for no bills incurred by
him after April 19, 1911. The said
Jesse Brown will collect all moneys
due and pay all bills against the
former firm of Hirst & Brown, of the
Nevada restaurant.
(Signed) JOHN HIRST, ‘SENATOR.’
Eddie Davis, the popular paymas
ter, made a trip to the Kennecott
thiB week, making the boys all along
the line happy by issuing them their
monthly checks.
TELEGRAPHIC^ BRIEFS
Washington, May 25.—Attorney
General Wickersham will soon begin
the prosecution of the Standard Oil
Company officials. John D. Rockefel
ler has retired and is shielded by the
statut'e of limitation.
Katalla, May 24.—The survey boat
McArthur arrived in port this morn
ing, and as she steamed into the
harbor there was considerable ex
citement among our people, who j
thought the government was sending
a war vessel to prevent Alaskans
from mining their coal. It was soon
learned, however, that the boat was j
on an entirely different mission and;
is now surveying close to Bruner's j
old camp, near where the steamerj
Portland wras wrecked. She will re
main here a couple of days.
Washington, May 24.—The Senate
today adopted a resolution directing
Attorney General Wickersham to fur
nish that bo ydwdth the informa
tion as to whether the Standard Oil j
Company officials were being crimi- i
nally prosecuted. J
rsew lora, May zi.—jonn u.
Archibald, vice-president of the
Standard Oil Company, is the de
fendant in a $10,000 damage suit
for the killing of a child by his au
tomobile three years ago.
Seattle, May 23.—Attorney John
Y. Ostrander will return to Cordova
on June 16, and at that time will
ship north the necessary machinery
for the operation of the Fidalgo
Alaska Copper Company's property,
of which he and Attorney T. J. Don
ohue are the owners. It is the in
tention to ship ore this summer and
a wharf, ore bunkers and a tramway
will be constructed in the near fu
ture,
Seattle, May 23.—Secretary Call
breath, of the American Mining Con
gress, will sail on the steamer Ala
meda tomorrow for Cordova, Valdez
and Seward for the purpose of estab
lishing chapters. He is desirous of
having the Chamber of Commerce
call a meeting of citizens at Cor
dova upon the arrival of the Ala
meda there, in order that he may
fully explain the object of his trip
north.
Washington, May 23.—Senator La
follette today severely scored the res
olution to again investigate Lorimer.
Seattle, May 23.—The grand jury
this afternoon indicted Col. A. J.
Blethen, proprietor of The Times, and
his two sons, Clarence B. Blethen,
managing editor, and Joseph Bleth
en, business manager of the paper,
for criminal libel. The colonel is al
so charged with conspiracy and par
ticipating in graft. When this news
became public it created a sensation
and is the outgrowth of the recent
municipal recall election. The
friends of the Blethens claim that •
it is the work of political enemies. |
Seattle, May 23.—While congratu-j
lating itself over the payment of the
bonded indebtedness against the gen
eral fund of the state, it is well for
Washington to bear in mind the
sources from which the money came
with which to pay this debt and to
give credit where it is due. The re
port of Insurance Commissioner |
Schively, just off the press, shows the ■
insurance department receipts for the i
past eleven years, beginning with
the year 1900 and ending with the
year 1910, having amounted in the
aggregate to $1,458,502.80. The to
tal appropriations made by the leg
islature covering these same years
for the purpose of paying all salaries
and traveling and other expenses of
the department have amounted to the
total sum of $54,882, leaving a net
surplus to the state over all expenses
in the amount of $1,403,620.80. The
total remitted to the state treasurer
for the first four months of the pres
ent year amounts to $279,028.08.
The total receipts for 1910 amount
ed to $284,479.93.
Seattle, May 16.—Alaska is hav
ing not only the greatest travel in
years, but will see a number of dis
tinguished persons and special par
ties before the season is over. If
Congress adjourns in time. President
Taft will make the northern trip,
and the joint congressional commit
tee is scheduled to go north on a
revenue cutter, or government ves
sel of some sort, during the summer.
This committee is composed of Sen
ators Nelson, Smoot, Nixon, Simmons
and Bankhead, and Congressmen
Fitzgerald, Shirley, Robinson, Ham
ilton and Goods. Tacoma expects t<
send a delegation of business men
on a “Get acquainted” expedition
and the Seattle Chamber of Com
merce is planning to charter a special
vessel to convey a representative Do;l\
to the principal coast cities, includ
ing Juneau, Skagway, Sitka, and then
put to the westward, where a trip
will be made over the Copper River
t’ N< rthwestern Railway, fo the fa
mous Bonanza copper mine, and *
x isit raid to Katalla, where the oi1
fields are being developed, and by
that time will be shipping tank
steamers full of petroleum.
Seattle, May 16.—Although the
proposed Central SeRing Agency for
Northwest fruits will not undertake
to become an active force in th(
handling of any part of this year’s
crop, the movement will not be per
mitted to lapse. Because several oi
the leading districts did not endorst
it, an effort has been made to have
it appear that the promoters had lost
heart. It is pointed out that all at
tempts to establish co-operation
among the tillers of the soil result
ALASKA STEAHSHIP CO.
Fastest and must commodious ef" .» sailing between
Cordova and Seattle.
Sails from Seattle— Sails from Cordova—
May 16.NORTHWESTERN.May 24
May 24.ALAMEDA.June 1
•Tune 1.NORTHWESTERN.June 8
•Tune 8.ALAMEDA.June 16
This company reserves the right to change schedule or
steamers without notice.
Tickets on sale at up-town office Alaska Steamship Bldg.
Baggage or freight will not be received at dock later than one
hour before sailing time.
R. J. BARRY, THOMAS TALLENT,
_General Agent._Ticket Agent.
_ _
GEO. DOOLEY
General Commission Merchant
Agent: Ageui;
Armour’s Hot Drink Supplies Fire Extinguishers
Kahn Bros. “Monogram” Royal Typewriter Co.
“What We Haven't Got We Get”
New and Second’Hand Goods Bought and Sold
Buy Your Clothing at the Home
Store and Save the Freight
We Will Sell You Everything
AT CORDOVA PRICES
FINKELSTEIN & SAPIRO
COIIDOVA MEN’S OUTFITTERS
Chitina, Alaska.
only after long-time agitation. The
seed has now been sown and fruit
growers have been given something
to think about. H. W. Otis, of We
natchee, chairman of the executive
committee, having charge of the
movement, says a meeting will be
held in the near future to decide
what further steps shall be taken. A
campaign of education on systematic
distribution will be undertaken,
linough districts approved the pro
posal for uniting all fruit sections
to prove that it possesses real mer
it.
NOME CAT WINS PRIZE.
Portland papers show that at a
at show' held in the Rose City
vhere all kinds of felines are on ex
hibit, a Nome railed cat won fipst
>rize. The animal from the far
nor*t was the property of Mrs. K.
\.. Swantnn, the wife of a former
'ostmaster in Nome. The animal was
named “Jinks” and was quite, a well
known bit of fur around the post
effice there.
OR. ft. F. HEIMLICH
. . PHYSICIAN ana SURGEON
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