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Fakotna, Alaska, -February 28, 1931.
EINSTEIN SETTLES ALL THINGS
iJetroit Free Press.)
‘relight'to be comforting and set
Jipg learn that Herr Albert Ein
stein has forged a mathematical key
“to the innermost secrets of nature,’’
end has presented the freedom of the
uivverse to a company of physicists
and mathematicians in Pasadena by
laying it before them. Now shall we
see the arrival of the day upon which,
without exhibiting undue megalo
mania, a savant may echo the words
of, Henry Faust’s servant, Wagner,
“Already I know much, but would
knjow everything.” Or shall we?
In the midst of a- first impulse to
ward high elation we are checked by
coming upon this entence in the re
pO|rt of1 Herr Einstein’s ne wcontribu
tiqn: “The equation for the theory
of, relativity contained ten unknown
quantities, four of which had to be
assumed. This greater puzzle con
tains sixteen unknown quantities,
with four to be- assumed.”
In the little, finite intellectual’world
where most of us live, move and have
oqr being, fears, doubts and difficul
ties, even one unknown' quantity is
likely to- work havoc with accuracy
aqd correct conclusion. And think of
four all at. once, chasing one another
arpund the brain pan, playing tiddle
derwinks, perhaps, or miniature golf.
It’s disquieting. It leads to a feel
ing of doubt; or rather it leads to a
feeling of conviction that whatever
Herr Einstein may discover about the
inmost secrets of the universe, how
ever far he may penetrate the life
garment of Deity, none of us will be
“hie to follow him. The secret will
remain a secret between his God and
hipi- And that won’t do us any good
Because even if he announces under*
standable conclusions hereafter no
body will be able to check back.on his
premises to be sure that he. hasn’t,
humanlike, made a little mistake
somewhere, misplaced perhaps the
“aleph” that makes the distinction
between what is true and what is
error.
DEATH OF PIONEER RECALLS
EARLY-DAY EVENTS IN BOTH
JUNEAU AND THE KLONDIKE
1 An outstanding figure in the de
velopment of Alaska and the Yukon
passed to the eternal camping ground
recently in the person of Newman
Andrew Fuller, former Juneau resi
dent. Mr. Fuller was one of the
Founders of Juneau and the great
mining industries of that district,
and likewise one of the most conspic
uous and influential figures in the
opening of the great Klondike plarer
fields, says the Juneau Empire.
He was a native of Michigan, and
passed away in his home state at his
home in Detroit, November 21, in his
82d year.
Mr. Fuller was one of the grub
iiakers of Joe Juneau and R. T.
Harris, wfio staked the first placer
and quartz claims in what is now the
Juneau district, in 1880. Juneau was
named after one of the grubstaked
prospectors, and the name Harris is
synonymous with the thriving mod
ern town in the minds of all present
day Juneauites. Harris street is
named after him, Mr. Fuller, whep
a young man, came.west to San Fran
cisco, later was purser on coast
steamers, and afterward opened a
trading post at Sitka, Alaska. It was
while there that Jhe 'urnished the
supplies for Juneau and Harris after
the original finding of gold placers
and quartz there. Some of the claims
claims now being worked at Juneau
by the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining
Company bear the name of Mr, Ful
ler. After disposing, of some of his
earlied holdings to John Treadwell,
who was instrumental-in the found
ing of the Alaska Treadwell Gold
Mining Company, Mr. Fuller, having
acquired a large stake, returned to
Michigan and embarked in the furni
ture business. Meeting with reverses
there, he returned to the North,
was among the first to go to the
Klondike over the . old Dyea trail, in
the stampede days.. In Dawson he
started in with a pick and shovel, but
it was not lor.;; until his organizing
ability asserted itself again, and as
purchasing agent for the North
American Trading and Transporta
tion Company, then represented, in
the Klondike by Captain John J.
Healy, Fuller bought from various
original holders many of the richest
placer claims in the district for tiie
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big company of which the Cudahye
of TCfiicago >were the chief stockhold
ers. .
Some of the claims Fuller bought
turned out enormous producers JuSd
were a . testimony to his good judg
ment. For his services he was award
ed something over a uarter of a mil
iars and the company reaped in time
a far greater reward. With his new
stake Fuller branched out and became
a partner of Captain Norwood, well
ki.own pioneer mining operator of
the district. They more than doubled
Fuller’s fortune, and he then acquired
and turned over numerous other
groups of claims in the Klondike, and
eventually acquired the entire Daw
son Cty Utilities, including the te.e
phone, power and light plants, and
the Northern Light coal mines and
railway. In this later enterprise he
was associated with Dr. Andrew S.
Grant, and it was reported that when
Mr. Fuller sold all' his interests and
retired fro mthe Yukon he was worth
a round million dollars. He returned
to Detroit and from that.point oper
ated extensively in mine? in New
Mexico and elsewhere until the time
o fhis death, and was very active and
energetic until the last, bqing not
only able to cany n Jus business all
through his careei, bat up to the last
few weeks was able u) dr.ve his mo
tor car about with the ability of a far.
younger man. Heart trouble finally
c.osed his notable record.
Mr. Fuller, when first in Juneau,
was judge of a miners’ meeting
which, when called upon to punish
three Indian perpetrators of the first
murder of a white in that district,
resulted in the prompt conviction and
hanging of the three offenders. No
civil law then obtained in the dis
trict, and it was necessary, for the,
miners to act in their own protection.
In those days Captain Carroll was
commander of the noted pioneer
Alaskan steamer Queen, and w'as the
man who brought the first news of
the executions to the States. The gov
ernment afterward investigated and
approved the action of the miners’
meeting. An ... interesting historical
chronicle of th .eeyent was written in
a volume by a young English, tourist
who happened to. .be. on the ship that
voyage.
Fuller, while, in Jqneau, befriended
-an energetic young man and former
sheri and Indian fighter from Mon
tana by adyancin to him a sum of
cash to open a fur trading business
at Dyea, That, young man was John
J. Healy, who made good and event
ua.ly advanced to the head of the big
Cudahy interests in the Klondike. He
returned the early favor of Fuller by
making him the., purchasing agent of
the company’s mining -interests in the
Klondike, thus, laying the -foundation
for the second, fortune that Fuller
reaped in the golden North.
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