The Republican journal., 1901-08-08


Drawn and brains, we are glad to say.
But it needs more men who are willing
to work; and it needs fewer men who
mine around the streets in summer and
the hot stove of comfortable saloon
in winter.
Nome celebrated the Fourth of July
in the usual manner, but the News
says that the morning broke cold and
dreary and overcoats were necessary to
keep one warm" This was the order of
the procession:
Chief Marshal Stanley and Aides
Nome Brass Band
G. A. R. Veterans
Spanish War Veterans
Yukon Order of Pioneers
Nome Public School Children
Fire Engine
Nome Volunteer Fire Department, including
Hose Companies Nos. and and the
Hook and Ladder Company
Floats representing various business houses
Citizens on foot.
The News says, editorially:
The Fourth of July has passed. Three
times has the day been ''celebrated'' in
Nome. First when the camp was very
young and new and but handful of
miners and adventuresome spirits had
found their way to the shore of Behring
Sea. Many changes have been witness
ed since July 4, 1899, and it is reason
able to suppose that many more will
have come before another two years
have passed away. Two years ago
Nome was but a feeble hamlet with few
wooden buildings, but great many
tents. The paying creeks were not
many, but there was wealth, then I'M
earned, in the ruby sands of the sea
beach, discovered few weeks after
the first influx of miners. The beach
diggings and the Juror which their dis
covery created have about passed, but
many new gold-bearing creeks have
been added to Anvil and Snow aud
Dexter. A wide range of territory has
been at least partially prospected, a
goodly portion of which promises to
add to the name and fame of North
western Alaska as gold producing sec
ton.
In the meantime Nome, the crude
mining camp, has thrown off it's swad-
ding clothes and is rapidly assuming
the size and Importance of goodly
city: The newcomers can scarcely fail
to observe its well paved streets, once
rivulets of mud, its generally neat and
tidy appearance; its many business
houses and the evidences Of push and
enterprise apparent on all sides.
The latest issue of the News, July
10th, has good deal of mining news,
which is generally of favorable ma
ture. For example:
Dawson mail advices bring the intel
igence that number of the older
creeks of the Forty Mile district, which
since the discovery of gold in the Klon-
dixie have been more or less neglected,
are being diligently worked with most
satisfactory results. The indefatigable
miner is being richly rewarded in a
number of instances.
From Capt. j. P. Showers we have a
recent copy of the Havana Post, Sun
day edition. 1t is a 7-column, SPACE
paper about the size of the Boston
Globe, and is published every morning
except Monday at $40 year; single
copies cents. The first page is devot-
ed to telegraphic and other news, with
display heads in American style. An
article on 'sCuba's School System" oc-
cupies all Of the second and half of
the Sd page, and there are portraits of
Lieutenant Mathew E. Hanna, Com
missioner of Schools and Edwardo
zero Buduen, Superintendent of
Schools. This is the Introductory
paragraph:
1t is with great but pardonable pride
that we write this article on the system
of public school that has been estab-
lished in this island during it's occupa-
ton by our Army. 1t is with a double
pride that we look at the work that has
been accomplished. As Americans, we
are proud of system which is based
on the School Law of a State of the
Union and which has been established
mainly because of American energy
and labor, and because of the great i'm
pulse given it by the Government of the
Island, vested today in an American
Officer. As men that come from
land of freedom and as men that know
that freedom cannot exist where ig-
norance reigns, we cannot but be proud
of the noble effort that is being made
toward making the children of the Is
land OF Cuba-many of whom, perhaps,
are the offspring of men who h..ve
died for their Country's iberty-citi-
zens who will be aware of their rights,
and who will be alive to their duties to-
wards their country and towards So
ciety.
There are two columns of editorials
on the 18th page. The '1eader'' is cap
toned Radicals and Conservatives
and discusses the rival candidates for
the presidency of Cuba. 1t concludes
with these words:
The two men now discussed for the
presidency are doubtless good men, and
not men who would want to start their
terms as president with no political
stock on hand but lot of enmity to
the United States. The radicals are
looking for landing place.
And here is an item on the political
situation in this country:
It looks considerably as if those who
are at the job of recognizing the
democratic party in the States, are about
to stir up pretty lively and numerous
lot of kickers. The Bryan men evil
IDENTIFY allowed John R. Mclean and his
followers to slip up on them in Ohio.
cn1nnon nf nrofossiono1 cord. ~,