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EDITORIAL
STRIKES. BIT XO STAMPEDE
Stampedes are mysterious things
and come without regard to the val
ue jX the discover)'- Some of the
wildest lit'le stampiedes iu Alaska
have been »o creeks where there wa
about one tolor to the square foot
of bedrock.
There now exists in the Iditarod,
Lower Yukon and Lower Kuskokwif
all the elements for a stampede and
ye' taere is no stampede.
The strike at Tolstoi is extensive
aud the pay has been lined up on
'he creeks. It is going to be a reg
ular camp. Additional discoveries
would make it a regular bonanza.
Down at Marshall City pay has
been lined up on a creek running In
to the Lower Yukon and more gold
was taken out last season than dur
ing the t'irst year at Fairbanks
There was a little stampede over
that way from Nome last winter,
bu* '* was nothing more than the
tuir.e migration of gold miners to a
jiew tamp.
Pay has aiso been lined up on
Sprue creek, a tributary to Bear oa
the Lower Kuskokwim.
Tho latter discoveries show that
there is a gold bearing belt extend
ing south from the Seward peninsula
toward the Bristol bay country
thn.ugh a country where the trails
of men are few and far apart.
P"i' events in Alaska sh'ow that
th» ikh. pay iu new districts is
found as the result of stampedes.
Men rush iu and find the creek
where pay was discovered located,
and then rush to other creeks and
i>ut down not one hole, but hun
dreds. A stampede to the Lower
Yukon Would have unlimited possi
bilities, but there is no stampede.
Where are the old timers of the
"Camps of Chaos?"
Can it be that the boys of '98
who have been in on every camp
worth whilo no longer get the "itch
ing ieeling" when they see new pa
pay o* a strange run, or has Fath
er Time worked his will and faint
tho limbs of those whose spirit is
still strong?
An explanation which is more
plausible is that recent stampedes
to Shushanna and east o£ the Mat
anuska divide were unwarranted
and worked up, and the old timer
is wary. With age comes a certain
keenoess of perception and a desire
fo stand back and let the younger
generation rush hither and yon, but
the younger generation isn't show
ing much enthusiasm on rushes,
hence the olacer camps on the Low
er Yukon are dawdling along some
what after the pattern of a quartz
mining district
Bu* who can tell what a day
may bring forth?—SewajxJ Post.
I'ASSING OF \X IvMI'l 1UC
UlTJLDKll
All Alaska keenly feels and
mourns the death, ot our townsman,
Vr. Samuel Blum, who passed to
his eternal rest at Seattle recently.
The news of his untimely end come
as a personal bereavement tg all
who knew him well.
So true was he to every trust, so
<yustaut was he in, his friendshios,
s< considerate was he of others,
fine a gentleman; bo controlled
was he by his sense of duty; so
backed was h© by courage that no
danger could pall .
Withall he was modest and unas
suming; a man among men; moving
.noiselessly among the people an
giving outwardly no sign of the
Indomitable soul within, or the higH
purposes that guided ftad controlled
hig lite work.
Mr. Blum ww a# capable. a« lie
wa* brave and true. Hig brain w.us
a perfect cube and absolutely: bal
anced. Pertiaps bis* two most
luarked traits wore h,is industry una
uis absolute integrity, coupled as
they wore with a most masterly iu
t£ilec\
His death jjs a greater loss than
'lie public at large can realize; bis
purpose was to accomplish much tor
those hs loved and py hif5 Industry
and farsightedness he attained au
enviable posi'ion in the commercial
upbuilding of Alaska. It is Piti
able *hat he should be called Just
u the onoday of hujsi life, when all
uis faculties were at tneir best,
and whgn he reached a fruition
crowned b£ honorably achievement
°nd the peace that comas for duties
bravely fulfilled.
Mr. Blum was a devoted family
man, and to> his grief-stricken wife
and children the deepest, sympathy
is extended in their hour of bereave
msnt. Very; sorrowfully will all his
old neighbors pay him their fare
wells, and thjs generation of them
rill teach their children to look
up o a his grave as a shrine. — Cor
dova Tjanes.
AN ABS11U> STORY
liOINU THE ROUNDS
One of the San Francisco news
oapers says:
Scotry. Allen:, thrice winner of
'he Alaska sweepstakes with Mrs.
Q .E. l>ar ling's team. of dogs, lias
established a new record for speedy
travel in tlie frozen north, i>y mak
ing the trip from Nome to Valdez
and back in a littls more than 10
days in an aero sled.
Allen took Mrs. Darling's dogs to
Euroue to be used by the entente al
l'es. On his way back ha bought
an. engine and propeller, which
he got fa Nome, he Installed on a
sled. After several trial trips he
announced that he could take the
mail fr^m Nome to Valdez—1,100
miles—in six days.
Ncme laughed, ScOtty started,
however, Nov. 1, and was in Val
dez 72 hours later. He was back
Nov. 11. His machine was de
scribed as a combination hydroplan
airplane and sled .
WILL LOCATE IN JUNEAU
James G. Gaffney, for many years
a leading merchant of Nome, but
more recently associated with Low
ry and Pike, the Seattle insurance
firm, says the Juneau Dispatch, will
open offices in Juneau within the
uear future and' become a resident
of this city .
Mr. Gaffney and E. G. Ford, the
latter a fire insurance adjuster,
wer§ in Juneau last night on the
way to Valdez, where they "»'H1 ad
just fire losses resulting from the
recent fires there. They carried in- ]
surance on the property of Samuel
Blum and others who suffered from
th? fire.
Their companies have also sus
tained two fire losses at Seward re
cently, and they will go there to ad
jus those before returning to Ju
neau.
Air. Gaffney expects to remain in
Juneau for a week on his return
from the westward. Then he will go
to Seattle and come back to Juneau
with Mrs. Gaffney to become a per
manent resident of this place.
Mr. Gaffney will have charge of
the Alaska business of his company,
and regards Juneau as the natural
headquarters from which, to work.
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STORM OF REVOLT
ON SPEAKERSHIP
Gardner's Refusal to Support
Mann Is Serious.
MOST REPUBLICANS LICE HIM
But the Minority Leader Has Also Made
Quite a Few Enemies—His Indorse
ment of the President's Position on
8everal Occasions Has Lost Him
Supporters.
By ARTHUR W. DUNN.
Washington, Jan. 4.—[Special.]—It
may be u tempest in a teapot, but It
had real seriousness In congress—this
revolt of Congressman Gardner against
Jim Mann and his announcement that
Mann could not have his support for
speaker. It is not yet definitely known
whether the Republicans can control
the next house—probably they can
not—but in case they do have the votes
when the final couut is made It Is more
than doubtful about the election of
Mann as speaker. There are quite a
number of ltepublicans who will not
vote for him; there are others who
would not vote for him unless there
had been an agreement to coutlnue the
curtailment of the power of speaker
as exercised during the terms Champ
Clark has been speaker.
Has an Imperious Will.
Jim Mann is almost master of tha
house by reason of his knowledge of
everything technical, matters large and
small, and the indefatigable and care
ful study he gives to every question.
But even when his party was in the
majority he made many euemles by
his objections and turning down men
who wanted to get bills through. As
minority leader he has been an im
perious master. lie has made his par
ty associates bow to his will.
But there is another fact that has
caused Republicans to question wheth
er they should support him for speak
er. That is his indorsement of the
president's position on one or two mat
ters and the tributes he has paid to
Democrats who h:ive retired from con
gress.
"It's not good politics," remarked a
western Republican. "Those things
are copied in the Democratic press of
the country and are thrown up to us at
every turn during the campaign."
Dor.iocratic Responsibility,
A number of Republicans of promi
nence in the house, particularly those
who will not get any prominence or
chairmanships, think it would bo un
fortunate for their party to take con
trol of the next house.
'The big deficit of $300,000,000 must
be met by additional taxation or the
issue of bonds," one of them remark
ed. "Let the Democrats, who created'
this condition, take the responsibility
of meeting it."
It Is Their Deal.
It has always boon the fact that of
ficeholders In Washington ride. In the
old days they had hyrsos and carriages.
In these days they have automobiles.
Although the law provides that such
vehicles sliali be used only for official
business, they are used for pleasure
and social purposes by the officials,
their families and their friends. Every
year there Is a row In congress about
it and the practice is condemned, but it
is never stopi'.ed. The fellows in office
think It is their deal, and they make
the best of It.
A Warrior Bold.
There is no party, faction, person,
friend or foe, with whom Senator Reed
of Missouri will not disagree and dis
pute with if be takes a notion. He
will tight anything and everybody, vo
cally and verbally, as Senator Ashurst
says; consequently he appears to be
in a wordy row much of the time. The
Missouri senator has a manner which
indicates that he is more vicious than
he really means to be. Now that he
has been re-elected he is more inclined
to scrap than ever before. We will
hear much from Reed during the next
six years.
Kel^esen's Job.
Congressman lielgesen of North Da
kota is the self appointed congressional
geographer of the arctic regions. In
several broadsides published In the
Congressional Record he has demolish
ed the claim of Peary as having reach
ed the north pole. In a reeeut issue
of the same publication he blows Dr.
Cook out of water, or, rather, out of
the polar discovery. Plainly he says
that neither Cook nor Peary reached
the pole and attempts to prove it by
the facts and data both have submit
ted. Helgeson's presentation shows
that he has made a careful study of
the whole situation.
Tammany's Control.
Congressman Rennet of New York,
coming to tiie rescue of his cliy in a
debate In the house, remarked that
Xew York more frequently than other
wise has an anti-Tammany comptrol
ler and added:
"As a matter of fact, the city of New
York has ceased to be a Democratic
Gibraltar, and we are just as apt to
elect an anti-Tammany ticket in the
coming campaign as a Tammany
ticket."
That is not according to the belief
expressed about election time, when It
was understood that straight tickets
would be in the field in the next mu
nicipal campaign, which would mean a
Tammany victory, it was said.
fraternal orders
Arctic Iii-otJicrluxwl. —
Camp Ekagw&v No. 1,
A. B. moeta every sec
ond and louuth! Tues
day evening at 8:30 p.
m. snarp. Visiting brotheirs cordial
ly wt-'ocoi®. W. L. Steveoison, Arc
tio Chief. W. E. Burford, Arctic
Hect rder.
Fraternal Oiilxr
Eaglets—
Skagway Aerie!
No. 25, Frater
nal Oilier of
Eagles meets the) first and third
Wednesday night of each month at
tneli hail on Fifth Avemue. Visit
ing brutlitons cotrtli/Uly invitcjd to
attend. It. E. Hudson, W. P.,
J. M. Greisbacli, Secretary.
P. & A. M.
White Pass Lodge
F. & A. M. No. 113
meets 2d and 4th
Fri. EVgs, of each
montc. Visltioj brothers are wel
come.
Elmer L. Wheeler, W. M.
Address all communications to
the Secretary.
B. P. O. ELKS
Skagway Lodge
No. 431, B. P. O.
E. meets every
Thursday niglit
' at 8:00 o'clock.
Visiting brothers
coruiauy welcome.
HENRY FRIEDENTHAL, E. R.
F. J. VAWDEWALL, Secretary
Pioneer of Alaska Igloo, No. 12,
meet* in A. B. Hall first Monday in
every month at 8:80 p. m.
Visiting Brothers cordially wel
come.
W. L. STEVENSON, Pres.
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f~f"" In Territory of~Alflt<ka~
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