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HIS WINTER PILGRIMAGE
The Alaska peoplo are solemnly in
formed by Governor Hoggatt's Juneau
organ that he has once again gone to
the national capital to spend the
winter, and while there he will do
what he can to "obtain needed legis
lation for Alaska,'' mentioning in
this connection a change in the tim
ber laws, and vouchsafing the Chris
tian consolation that his course as a
legislator would "in no manner be
affected by his personal likes or dis
likes. '' Now this is real nice and
sugary of Governor Hoggatt, and it
is an exceedingly silly and bombastic
statement, but much like his public
utterances, but the plain people of
Alaska would "ike to know who com
missioned Governor Hoggatt to go to
Washington and bccome either legis
lator or lobbyist? And what is his
will it be for the sole benefit of tlie
corporations for whom, it is alleged,
lie is a special lobbyist in Washing
ton?
I Katalla Herald]
It is a fact that the duties of the
governor of Alaska art- not onerous,
and it is a convenient exeuse to par
ade Alaska legislation as the reason
for the governor's presence in Wash
ington each winter. And while ho is
basking in the fierce, white light that
heats upon the near-thrones of the
national capital, the burden of the
gubernatorial oflh-e falls upon Sur
veyor (Jeneral Distin, an amiable,
kindly old gentleman, upon whom the
honor rests so heavily that, so The
Herald is informed, he can not give
the time necessary to tho satisfactory
discharge of the duties of the oflice
to which he was appointed, and the
business and mining interests of the
territory suffer as a result of this sur
plussage of dignity and honor.
As a matter of mere, but not im
pertinent curiosity, we would like to
know who made (lovernor Hoggatt
Alaska's representative iu congress?
Whom does he represent, the presi
dent, the people, or special interests?
As a representative of Alaskans in
the national capital Governor Hog
gatt should have no standing, lie had
been repudiated before the election
of August II last; that event served
to give notice ho plain that a way
faring man, a member of congress,
the president himself, should not err
in the conclusion that Governor llog
gatt has been rebuked and repudiated
by the people of Alaska.
When Governor Hoggatt returned
last spring from his long lobby In
Washington lie deliberately insulted
ninety-five per eent of (he bod a fide
citizens of this territory, in an inter
view that be gave to a Seattle news
paper, and wherein he arrogantly set
himself up as the virtual dictator of
Alaska and the overlord for powerful
corporate interests. And in the same
interview his quarter-deck cockiness
bourgeoned forth in the statement he
"was going to Alaska to take off his
coat and work for the election of
John W.Corson as delegate," Me
came; and he worked, and the peo
ple spat out Corson and utterly repu
diated lloggatt and all his works.
Mid the governor seems to have
girded up his loins afresh; be has re
sumed his coat, and will again lobby
in Wnshinitton. President Itoosovelt
should do to him even as be did unto
former governor Brady, once upon a
time- tell him to go homo and stay
there.
In connection with the work of the
slgnnl corps in the interior there are
always a number of sloigh dogs, and
each year those dogs which are old
and worn out are ofllelally condemned
and new ones sent to the stations.
A woman writing from Coldfoot,
Koyukuk, says the country is all right
but the men are lazy. What the
Koyukuk needs, says she, Is men who
will work,
About 1,200,000 gallons of blood Is
pumj>ed through the adult. human
heart each year.
THE SUFFRAGETTE
A careful canvass has demonstrated
that in this country one woman in
five thousand would vote if matters
political were so ordered. Hence the
"Suffragette." She reminds us of
those stirring lines of tho late Sena
tor Ingalls in discussing a temperance
plank incorporated in a Republican
platform: "Prohibition, a doctrine
advocated by long-haired men and
short-haired women—the unsexed of
both sexes—tbo itinerant capons and
epicenes of society,"
The woman who wants to vote is
almost invariably a fomale who has
failed to attach to herself a man; a
woman who, having no political voice
through a husband or son, desires to
get even with the unappreeiative
world and raise —11 generally, it
seems to us that these short-haired
saviors of their country and those
vapid ninnys who follow in their
lurid wake, would be better employed
in expending their strenuosity on the
main chance wherein their mutual
energies might even yet produce
legitimate voters who are entitled to
wear pants.
Go West, (lirls—tio West!—Ex.
Two surgeons, Drs. Carroll and
Keen have been telling the Ameri
can Philosophical Society the results
! of some startling experiments in sur
gery. The experiinents are based on
the t necess of certaiu trials on cats
and dogs. They declared it to be
possible to graft the organs of the
dead on to the living. For example,
if a dead man's kidneys are healthy,
they can be removed to a place of
cold storage not exceeding sixty days
and can then be substituted for the
diseased kidneys of a living man.
This experii. cut has been tried on
cats and dogs, and the doctors say it
is easier in t ho case of human organs
because they are larger. The knee
joint of a dead man has also been
substituted for the injured joint of
one who was living.—Kx.
If this country ever loses its
boasted liberty, it will be through
the judiciary. In the State Capital
of Minnesota are inscribed the words
of John Ireland, Archbishop of St.
I'aul: "Kmpires place their reliance
upon sword and cannon; republics
puts their trust in the citizen's res
pect for law. If the law be not
sacred a free government will not
endure."—Kx.
j The mining edition of the Valdez
Prospector was sent out undoy date of
January 15. It is a handsomely pre
pared edition of twelve pages with
seven columns to the page. The qual
ity of tin- paper is exceptionally good
and numerous cuts adorn each page.
Valdez is naturally and rightfully
most prominent in this special
edition, hut mining news from all
parts of the territory is given in its
columns.—Seward Gateway.
The answer to the question : "Arc
we a beef eating nation?"' is given in
the fact that Swift «Sc Co. sold $250,
000,000 worth of hoof in a year; Ar
mour. $270,000,000, and others $250,
000,000, bringingt he total to $770,000,
000 for beef alone.—Ex.
If a Fourth judicial division is
created by congress it is said that
President Roosevelt has promised to
make George A. Shea United States
marshal. Shea is now in training for
the position, United States Marshal
Ixjvo having made him chief deputy
at Fairbanks. For the judgeship, C.
I). Murano, of Nome, has his hat in
hand, because ho was the defeated
republican candidate for delegate in
1900. lie is of the Iloggatt persuasion,
as is also bowls l\ Shackloford, of
Juneau, who would also like the job,
it is said. Porter J. Cos ton, of Nome,
is also said to bo a candidate, and if
the plum is given an Alaskan—which
is doubtful—no bettor selection could
bo made, an he Ih a man of fine legal
training, with a well poised judicial
mind, and he has kept himself free
from all "entangling alliances."—Ex.
"The United States navy possesses
In the scout cruiser Salem the fastest
warship In the world," says t he Helon
tlfle American. "In the reeont gov
ernment standardization trial ovor
the measured course off Kockland,
Me., this handsome vessel was drlvon
at. a maximum speed of 20.88 knots
and at an average speed of five mns
over the mile course of 211,98 knots."
"AID ALASKA" WILL
ASSAIL CONGRESS
Seattle, Jan. 28—Business ami pro
fessional men of Seattle, their wives
and their children are organized in
behalf of -Alaska's need for roads.
What is better the relatives «<f all
these persons are to he called upon
to join forces, and the indications are
that ere long every United States
senator and every United States rep
resentative will be overwhelmed with
literature bearing upon the needs of
Alaska, her resources, her possibili
ties and her reasons for having her
needs granted.
The Seattle chamber of eonimeree
yesterday passed a resolution urging'
congress to appropriate $1,0(10,000 for
the purpose of constructing roads in
Alaska, and partieular'.y direetinp; at
tention to the advantages to be gained
by a trunk road running from Yaldez
to Nome by the way ot Fairbanks.
Mayor Miller has designated Satur
day as Alaska day and every mer
chant in town is preparing to send
broadcast throughout the United
States literature and maps showing
the area of Alaska and emphasizing
its necessities in the way of roads.
The project has met with the hearti
est promises of support and the indi
cations are that the people of the east
will have an awakening such as they
never had before when it comes to
being instructed with regard to the
vast empire of wealth at the north
most extremity ol the continent. To
the effect that the plea of Alaska for
congressional assistance may be heed
ed, every person receiving the lit
erature prewired for distribution will
be asked to use all possible influence
with the senators and the represen
tatives from the stale where the re
cipient lives.
The idea to be carried into ellect
next Saturday emanated from the ter
lilc brain of Dan S. Kain <>l Yaldez,
who, since coming outside last fall,
has been an ardent worker in behalf
of Alaska. Prominent businessmen
of Seattle, and of Portland, other
Alaskans and the semi-civic organiza
tions of each city have joined forces
with Mr. Kain that his desires may
be realized.
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KUSKOKWIM PRODUCES
APPROXIMATELY H.000
Tlio Kuskokwim placer diggings
thi* last season produced between
$3,000 and §1,000, taken out !>y four
or five men, according to Sandy Sul
livan, who arrived yesterday from
tin1 Tuluksak river. Mr. Sullivan
who has read some of the accounts
in the Nome paper of this same sec
tion characterizes them as "hot air"
although he says there is plenty of
roo n in that region for a camp. To
date the pay has heen found in three
places; on Bonanza creek, on Tiny
gulch and the Tuluksak river about
three miles below Hear creek. This
last strike was made just before the
freezeup. All those strikes are shal
low. On Hear creek, however, it is
believed that the ground will be
deep. No one has been to bedrock
as yet. This creek was staked almost
entirely for Fairbanks people.
The country rock of the region is
composed of porphyry, slate, granite,
and limestone. The porphyry is very
much decomposed.
On Bonanza there are two feet of
pay dirt containing large quantities
of hi ack sand. On Tiny gulch there
is no black sand, Assays made of
Tiny gold vary from to *10.10
per ounce.
The Tuluksak river comes into the
Kuskokwim about six miles above
Hetties. In tho lower reaches it is
affected by the tide for a short dis
tance above its mouth. On account,
of the sluggish current a poling boat
with '2,000 pounds can he easily tak
en up to tho diggings a distance of
ninety miles from the mouth.
Prom Holy ('ross Mission It is only
three days by dog team to Hear creek
and during the summer the trip can
be easily .made by boat through the
Holy Cross portage,
Supplies are short, in the camp,
flour being the only com modify for
sale.
There are at present about forty
' men on the Tuluksak and others are
going in from time to time.
Mr. Hullivau will not return until
after the breakup.—1Tanana Tribune.
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-BIG ALECK" IVTDONALD
IS DEAD AND LAID AWAY
Dawson, Jan. II—A look McDonald,
tin- big man known from Dawson to
London as (lie "Klondike King," who
dropped dead at Ids workings on
Clear creek in this district, was buried
here today with all possible honors.
Although the thermometer marked
60 below zero, the remains were ac
companied to the urave by a proces
sion several blocks in length .
(iovernor Henderson, as well as all
the government oilicials, high and
low paid their last respects to "Hi^
Aleck" by their attendance at the
tuneral and accompaning the body to
the cemetery. All the notable sour
doughs ol years' standing were in
line, and many of them acted as pall
bearers. The funeral was attended
by the members of the Order of Pio
neers, the Arctic Brotherhood and
the Fraternal Order of Katies.—Fair
banks News.
Tlio sfampeders who started for
Katallathc other morning have all
returned. They got only as far aw
camp seven out on Copper river.
Here they came in contact with a
wind going down the river at the
rate of sixty-three miles an hour.
They waited for a day to hcc if the
wind would not subside but when
they left there it was still "mushing''
toward Katalln. They claim that
while this gale was blowing on the
river that a quarter of a mile thi
way from the bridge, there was
scarcely any wind. The strongest
wind registered out there this winter
was eighty miles per hour. The ther
mometer has stood about the same as
here in town but the terrific wind
makes the cold much more penetrat
ing. At Abercrombio tho thermome
ter has been to six below zero but the
wind is not high,—Cordova Alaskan.
Tenderly she laid the silent, white
form beside those that had gone be
fore. She made no outcry, she did
not weep. Such a moment was too
precious to be spent in idle tears.
Hut soon there came a time when it
seemed nature must give way. Hho ]
lifted her voice and cried long and
loud. Her cry was taken up by
others and echoed and re-echoed over
the grounds. Then suddenly all was
still. What was the use of it all?
Hho would lay another tomorrow.
Hemeiuber the poultry show date,
January 1,2, Maud 4. Come, bring
tho birds and the folks.—Oskaloosa
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Wanhington, Jan. 29—Afmlhtant
Heeretary Newberry whh t 1iIm morn
ing agreeably nurpriacd by the report
made by the committee appointed a
month ago to investigate certain
phaweH of the navy. The reportnrgen
the adoption (»f HiiggfmtlonH made
Homo time ngo by Mr. Newberry, and
at that time the miggontlonn were
made they were deeJared to be revo
lutionary. President Roosevelt thin
morning appointed a eommittee to
make another Investigation of the
needs of the navy.
In tho Alaska-Yukon Magazine for «
January appears a pioturo of tlio
homo In Pox City of VV. Ij. Auhorfc
and wife. Tho article accompanying
tiio picture citoa tho experience of
Mr. Auhort aH evidence that in AIoh
ka a'fortune may be made in a day.
lie in the owner of Noh. lf» and 10 left
limit, ftecond tier on OoldHtream, and
Ih reputed wealthy while four years
ago he wan In Fairbanks a Htranger
with only $!Mi. Ah Myrtle Eaton Mr«.
Auhort l« well known In Vaide7.,
where hIic recently visited her brother,
John Baton.