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EDITORIAL PAGE
HK WAS AFUAll) TO
l.KAVK THJ5 1IKATKX TRAILS
Kmerson Hough, author, of Chi
cago, spoilt a part of last summer
in the interior of Alaska ami the
Yukou 011 a "big game'' hunt. He
had very poor success for the
reason that lie failed during his
travels to leave the beaten paths for
a distance of over five miles. On
his return to the outside recently he
unburdened himself to the St. Paul
papers, of a big grouch which he
had evidently had bottled up for
some time for just such an occa
sion. Doubtless the lurid tales of
blood thirsty savages and ferocious
boasts lurking in the iuterior wilds,
which Mr. Hough had heard and be
believed before he left his home city
had a deterrent effect on his en
thusiasm in the hunting field.
Hear what he says:
"You've hoard of the terrible
blood thirsty Indians of Alaska who
snoot you if they happen to be feel
ing a little out of sorts. Why, iuuu
alive, of all the poor iusignificaut
< reatures on this earth, they are
the least to be feared. In the first
place, you see very little of them.
There will be days on the trail when
you won't run across one. And
those you do see, instead of carry-!
iug a knife and pistol, have a pray
er book and a hymnal.
"As for big game, I did not see a
boar or a moose all the time 1 was
in Alaska oa the trail. And you
have heard of the "flocks of geese
and ducks that make the heavens
black".* Let nte say that I could
go to hotter hunting grounds, ten
hours out of St. Paul, than in all
Alaska. The wild fowl soon will be
a thing of the past in Alaska. Where
there were one hundred birds a few
years back, there isn't one now.
American hunters have killed them
all off. Big game country? All
bosh!"
Mr. Hough says that he did not
see a blood thirsty Indian nor a
bear nor a moose during all the tin.s
he was on the trail. Great Heavens!
did he expect to find the game
ready to hand and waiting to be
slaughtered? By his utterances he
has proven himself worthy to be
enrolled with the early day checha
coes, who went into the Klondike
with the firm conviction that the
only effort they would have to put
forth to obtain untold wealth would
be to stoop and pick up the golden
nuggeU from the surface of the
ground.
That Fort. Davis,, three miles eas
of Nome, will soon be abandoned by
the government is the informatio
conveyed in an official notification
received recently by the comman
der of the fort. All appropriations
for the keeping up of the fort
have been stopped except an amount
that will be merely sufficient to
maintain it in a barely habitable
manner. The decision to abandon
the fort is part of the plan to re
move the military altogether from
Alaska which has been under consid
eration for some time but which
has only come to a definite stage re
cently, as shown by the official no
tification received by the commande
at Fort Davis. The intention of the
government is to replace the mili
tary with a body of constabulary
something similar to the Northwest
mounted police of Canada.
A lawsuit over the ownership of
a bull has beeu in the Oklahoma
courts for eight years and has cost
the litigants more than $10,000,
with the case still unsettled. A bull
in the courts is about as expensive
as a bull in a china shop.
Our Policy:- "To supply you with the latest artistic aud scien
tific products." 1
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When in Haines. A clean place t
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W. O. Watson, Proprietor.
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RAW FURS i
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Percey's Fur House:
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Whitehorse
Kluane Stage
Line
The Royal Mail Stage
leaves Whitehoree the
fourth of every month
for Kluane and way
points and also on the
seventeenth of every
month for Champaigne
Passengers and Freight sol
icited, Rates Reasonable
and the Service First Class.
H. CHAMBERS, Prop.
OFFICE
Regina Hotel :: Whitehorse, Y.T
Sample Rooms.
Commercial & Fam
ily trade solicited
Take East Lake
Depot to Fourth,
between Union & Pike.
RATES
Single Rooms #1 up
Roomswltli batli?! 50
Two persons J2.50 up
C. S. STAFFORD.
Manager.
car from Union
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Hotel
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to Golden North Hotel, does your
washing without shrinking the
clothes. Family work given care
ful attention. tf.
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| CAM SMITH:
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£ Mr. Smith has all kinds of
£ power boats from four horse
> power to fifteen which he
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£ able rates.
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£ daily from" White
£ horse to the Atlas
£ mine.
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Juneau-Sitka Route
Leaves Juneau for Hoonah, Gyp
sum, UVoakee, Kllllsnoo and Sit
ka Sept. 1, 7, 13, 19, 25.
Juneau-Skagway Route
Leaves Juneau for Pearl Harbor,
Eagle River, Yankee Cove, Comet,
Sentinel Light Station, Eldred
Rock Light Station, Haines and
Skagway S3pt. 5, 11, 17, 23, 29.
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STEAMERS FOR
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Victoria, Vancouver, Anacortes, Bellingham
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Phone 50 2i.td & Broadway, Skagway, Alaska
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EVERY THURSDAY 8 P. M.
Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
Nov. 6
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October 5th
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For further information regarding fares, train sen-ice, reservations, etc.,
cal on or address
C. T. Lyons, Agent
Alaska Steamship Co., Skagway, Alaska
City Ticket Offices, Chicago, Milwaukee Sc St. Paul Railway
443 Hastings St. West, Vancouver, U. C.
Second Ave. and Cherry St., Seattle
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