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THROl'GH THE KCKOKWIM
Alaska's wealth of natural re
sources lias loss since ceased to be
a debatable question. The territory
is known to possess nearly every
thing that is calculated to Invite en
terprise and to tempt cupidity. The
point of greatest concern to those
who would conserve Alaska's ua
tLial wealth, fays the Christian
Science .Monitor, has been how to
develop it for the common good
rather than for the benefit of the
ex^olter. This problem now is
largely in the handa of the United
States government and involves an
other of equal importance. Private
enterprise heretofore has pioneered
American settlement and develop
ment. Whether it h£-j performed its
task for the common interest or only!
to serve selfish end# Is a matter
astile from the fact that the task [
has been performed. The develop
ment of that part of the earth
Known as the United Stat66 of Am
*rl~a In the last hundred years has
teen marvelous. Thinking people
feel, however, that there have been
m'rtakes in the distribution of the
wealth of the United States proper
that should not be repeated in Al
aska. The most serious fault
found with people in the latter case
is i hat they haw apparently taken
a course that tends to lock up rath
er than to diffuse the wealth of the
'<>rr'-ory. So jeaious have they
beeu of the exploiter that, it is
told against them, they have kept
out of Alaska the honest toiler.
_V iUlUUlt? ^ivuiiu UOO _rtT3u ».«*rv*r"
by American statesmanship. The
federal government has been prac
tically put In charge of the entire
situation. It is surveying the coun
try, prospecting through its hills ar.d
valleys, laying out railroad routes,
discovering natural channels for the
flow of commerce. It is one thing
to know that Alaska is full of min
eral wealth, for instance; another
to be able to get the raw product
out and to markets in reasonable
timj and at reasonable rates. Three
gre.%t rivers empty from Alaska in
to Bering sea. One of these, and
the second in stee in the great pen
insula, Is the Kuskokwim, nine miles
wide at i's mouth, with a delta of
submerged flats extending for 100
miles out to sea. Just as the early
explorere were puuled tc find a
navigable channel in the delta of
the Mississippi, bo have an officer
and liis cor pa from the geodetic sur
vey at Washington long been puz
zled to find a navigable channel of
suitable width and depth through
thf immense accumulation of alluvi
um ai the mouth of the Kuskokwim
Bui they have fouud it, and this is
tantamount to saying that they have
iou.ia a great natural canal 100
miles in leugth that connects with a
river running 600 miles Inland,
which opens up to development, and
will some day open up to commerce,
a valley covering many thousands
©' square miles. In this valley, and j
along the river, It Is well known,
aro large areas cf mineral lands
wit'i promising prospects of mer
cury-learing cinnabar, gold-bearing
quartz, olacer grounds and coal
veins, all of which are made access
ible by the discovery of the Kuskok
v. ip channel.
I» seems worth while to repeat
once more that the United States
government is in control of the sit
uate n. Government ownership and
ocer&tion of railroads already has ,
been provided for Alaska. How is !
it going to be with the develop
ment ot the mines? Are they to
be sold to private individuals or '
companies or syndicates, or leased
or operated by the government for j
the benefit of Its people? In the
very nature of things, Alaska's
wealth cannot remain undeveloped, j
Apparently there is no public en-1
coar.?ement to be given the labor
ing man in Alaska except along cer- |
talu prescribed lines. Imagine the
feelings of those poor fallow* at
Wrangell the other night -when, af
ter having burgled a store and
carried off a three hundred pound
safe, they opened it and found it
contained nothing but a disabled
watch, a brass fingei ring and two
town warrants.
Andrew Carnegie says the world
is constantly becoming more like
heaven. It certainly is nice to be
fixed the way Mr. Carnegie Is.
The Chicago telephone girls have
decided to organize to fight mash
ers. Going to wear sensible clothes?
Possibly the reason we don't
hear so much now about the once
popular bichloride of mercury tab
let is that it has become dis
couraged by the war.
Turkey's advent In the war is not
as distressing as it would have been
had it possessed a brigade of dls
putive college professors to turn
loose on the innocent bystanders.
What Mexico needs is a few
private citizens.
It is pretty hard, these days, to
tell whether a Mexican government
is extant or extinct.
Washington city Is worrying
about the pocket pistol, but It
seems fairly well satisfied wit& the
pistol pocket.
Neither Chicago nor New York
is the greatest railroad terminal.
That place is wherever the inter
state commerce commission hangs
up its hat.
The new governor of Tennessee
is Ry& And probably he is Bour
bon also.
NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS
Real estate taxes for the year
1914 are now due and payable at
the office of town treasurer, U. S
corrt house, and If not paid on or
before February 27, 1915, the same
will become delinquent.
MARTIN CONWAY,
2-10-td. Town Treasurer.
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PRESENCE OF MIND.
It 8«v«d Gsneral d« Segur From the
Fury of th« Kalmucks.
Id Napoieou's campaign Id Russia
ooe of bis generals, Philippe de Segur,
bad a peculiar adventure with a band
of Kalmucks. The Kalmucks are wan
deriug tribes of southeastern Russia.
They are tierce warriors, and their
light cavalry forms an Important part
of Russian armies l>e Segur's pres
enee of mind saved Him from being
killed by them when the must desper
ate fighting could not nave dune so.
The French bad uttacked a bidy nt
Russians and put them to (light, when
Segur suddenly discovered that he and
a few French dragoons bad become
separated from the Kreneb nnny and
were being carried away with the re
treating party
lie and his men were surrounded by
a band of Kalmucks The situation
seemed so hopeless that the men gave
themselves up and disregarding his
orders, passively allowed themselves
to be struck down He Segur deter
mined to sell his life dearly and contin
ued to fight A Kalmu.k lance struck
him from his horse He jumped to bis
feet and. getting behind Ills horse, con
tinned the struggle it was a hopeless
contest, however, and In a few 1110
oients he would have been killed had
not a happy thought occurred to him
i'he Kalmuck leader, a line looking
Co-'sack remained .-aim while his men
were carried awn* wIMl the fury ot
battle rile e^prcsS'dll oil tl> haUKllt.1
eoniiteiwin-e t>Mll< .-IIe(l III II III' "corned
to niurdet a vanquished toe and from
tilJle to tlH'e he called "Mkrtle. niltale'"
IV Sesrwr irne-iseil that tht> was an
order to cease tiniitne.: lie xhoiiteii lie
|M»rioii«lf le the K imhi' Us ili.il <iiir
nuitidi d ii in v ti. i '•
Immediately I lit Mir. I led out •>»
then face* and Hi>-< |iau«.(i moti' i.
less with istolllfliieelil I lieli Mir*
once checked Segur « dfe was'savnti
by their chief
He learned afterward thai the « rd
meant "Do not strike :in:l that wlillt
the Impetuous Kalmucks tind not 1
ed the command of then blot the>
were puzzled and disturbed it nemtiej
this word of then native dialect from
the mouth of one whom they snppos d
to be an enemy
De Segur wus ke|>t a prisoner mill!
peace between France and Itussla wa>
arranged some months later - lis
change.
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Highland regiments that they m t
cover up Hieii u:rtan Uilts as they
made too good targets for the euetny.
The order proved \ cry unpopular and
canscd a great deal of dissatisfaction
among the soli! ers ••oticerned. When
Sir George Will:.- heard this bethought
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"I-et the.'> covet up only ihe front
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