The daily morning Alaskan., 1901-11-07
OH MY! WHAT.
 A ROAST
Little Star At White Horse
 Gets fluffy
Comes to tho Support of Major Primrose Just As Easy and Bus. iness Like As It Conld-Attempts to Rub Skagway Papers

Gee whlz! but how the White Horse
 Star does come to the aid of Major Prim- rose. who was so recently arrested and
 fined here in skagway for being drunk | and disorderly.
 Here k what the TwinkIlng Star of
 White Horse says in It's issue of last Mon day:
 Many of our readers have heard of 1T they have not read-thc dirty unJour-
 nalistic references recently made in the Skagway papers 10 the conduct and bear ing of a certain officer Of the North
 west Mounted Police. who was SO un- fortunate as to be compelled 10 spend
 a night in that town waiting for a steam CT on his way out on a well deserved va cation. Not content with a combined effort. which was calculated to, and which
 may forever blast the usefulness of one
 of the most popular as we'll as one Of
 the most efficient members of the force.
 one of the calumnating gang returns to
 it's vomit in a still more recent Issue and again has fling at this same officer
 because of, as ''lt' says Canadian gov- ernment detectives are in town" Such references are. of course. beneath respec.
 table journalism. and are reprobated by
 the great majority of Americans fin Skag-
 way. They are. however. palatable to the tastes of some who find a harbor Of
 refuge there. We do not propose answer
 ing any one of the articles referred to.
 Such a course would be calculated to hetn int
 prominence which they may aspire to
 but will surely never attain. Our pur,
 pose is rather to compare the treatment received by Americans on the Canadian
 side of the line with that received by Canadians in Skagway, and then to ask fair-minded Americans if it Is not time to call halt. We know whereof we write. having had many years of frontier ex- perIence. but for the purposes of this article propose coninlng ourselves to the
 Yukon and the southerly terminus Of the White Pass X Yukon. yclept Skag
 way. Let it be understood that the Star NIs not owned and published exclusively by Canadians then we will not be accused Of writing partially
 "The Canadian public have not forgot ten the incident of patriotic American
 citizens hauling down. aye. Indignantly and insultingly hauling down the Union
 Jack from over tthc office Of the Cana
 dian customs agent a short time since in
 Skagway. In fairness we must say that Mir. Busby. the customs agent. could not
 hoist the British flag over his office as | a right, his not being consular position. but he did SO as an indication to the travelling public that his was the Cana dian customs office for the convenience of the public, and by them generally it was deemed a great convenience and ap- preciated But the element in Skagway couldn't resist such a golden opportunity , of being able 10 show to the great Amer ican people that in far away Alaska the sacred rights. the blood-bought rights of Americans should be maintained.
 ''In White Horse SO soon as a flag stan could be raised, even before tho town Site was located. the Stars and
 Stripes were floating to the breeZes. In
 Dawson City there were several. and the writer has been assured that if an attempt were made to offer an indignity to the Stars and Stripes by any person or persons within the Yukon. the fate which several of the Skagway scribes seem to dread. "the Yukon wood-pile. would be metcd out to them by the of- ficers of the N. w. NJ. P. who are in the country to administer the law as they find 1t. without fear favor or partiality. Ask any one of the hundreds of thou sands of respectable Americans who have visited the Yukon. if he, or his country ever suffered an indignity in his presence. and his answer will be that his life and property. his opinions and feelings are as respected and safe in the Yukon territory as in the most thickly parts of the States" and such satisfactory com ditIon of affairs Is due to the North West Mounted Police. ofiicored by such mon as the Major Primrose who. or whose friends, we suspect refused to pay the price.
 "An incident occurred recently In Daw- son In very extreme contrast with the journalistic enterprise exhibited in Skag-
 way with respect to Major Primrose. and | the writer vouches for the truth of 1t. [Continued on Page 4.