The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-09-06
THE PASSING THRosG.

Hon. Lyman J. Knapp. ex-governor OF
Alaska, accom- PANIED By his wife. came
down on the Queen, which arrived Mon
day, and il stopping with his brother. '.
j. Knapp, Of l0z3 Chestnut street. NO,
am no. going East. F" said he 10 reporter
for the Posr-IsrELLIGEscER last night: at
least not just yet. In fact. / think Isshan
make Seattle my home in future. although
have not yet positively decided 70 DO 50.
No. have not prepared an annual report
this year. The law only requires that the
annual reports shall be made in October,
and my successor, Gov. Shakeley. will have
tina, 10 do. On turning over the office to
him Igaye him such information IS be de-
sired and which / Was able 70 furnish.
However, If / we're 20 have made another
report II would have been q hopeful one IN
some respects. especially so far as the ma
teriag development of Alaska is concerned.
Ny views on pubic questions concerning
that country. its laws and people have not
changed. should, though. have further
elaborated the views expressed last year
in regard to the suppression of the liquor
traffic and some other questions. / should
have had q great deal more 10 say
about AIaska's mineral resources and the
70
one up there. Many new quartz mines
have been discovered and are being
worked, the pIacers on the Yukon are
being more extensively developed and new
ones az the head of Cooks inlet discov-
cred. several new mills have been erected
and all the old ones which have been idle
for a number of years are working, the
stores and houses in juneau and Sitka
Il l. -
pied. everybody is at work, and everything
seems prosperous. There are also extern
sive coal fields up there which will be
worked some day. still think that some
initial steps should be taken toward edu-
eating the natives OF Alaska in the prin-
ciples of home government by making
few local officers elective. The territory
should have a delegate in congress. and a
commission should be appointed to revise
the laws now in force in that country"
7. 8. Novel; and Willis E. NOVEL;. of
Boston. and William III. Keller. of New
York, are at the Rainier. They came in
from juneau and Berner's Bay, Alaska. at
which places the NOVEL; Gold Mining
Company. with which they are connected,
have mines and mills.
DIR. z. w. Young. who has just returned
from the recent national encampment of
the Sons of Veterans ut Cincinnati, was
appointed chaplain-in-chief. with the rank
of brigadier general, on the staff of the
commander-in-chief, Joseph B. Maccabe,
of Boston.
Among those who arrived from Alaska
Monday on the Queen were Mrs. o. T.
Porter. wife of the United States marshal
of the territory, who is going to visit
friends and relatives in Ohio, and Mrs. A.
X. Delaney. wife of the ex-collector of
customs.
Among the tourists stopping at the
Rainier are Miss NJ. B. Ely, of New York;
Miss E. Butler. of Syracuse, N. Y; Robert
A. Mclean and David Mclean, of Lon
don: Harry w. Choate. of Boston; Mrs.
w. A. Clark and Miss Clark, of New York
Robert Dickson, John Marshall. jr., l..
Diamant. NJ. Israel and ID. M. McVean are
party of San. Francisco business men
stopping at the Rainier.