The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-09-13
SECTION TWO.

interest. Years afterward. when the
famous TreadWeu mine was opened up.
several hundred Chinese laborers were
imported Their presence was objected
10 by both whites and Indians. and at
big Indignation meeting it was de-
cided to round up an the Cinnamon i'm
the camp, load them on a boat and
ship them out. The old-tinlers did not
forget the service China Joe had rem
dered them when their -four gave out,
SO when the posse got to Joe's place a
determined crowd of prOspectors was
ahead Of them. who said Joe shouldn't
be run out Their word was law and ha
was allowed TO remain. Joe is one Chi
naman who never had a rock thrown
through the windows of his house The
Ulischief-lOying kids of juneau never
MODEST him with their pranks. II they
bothered him, and ii became known at
nome. their fathers would spank them
so soUndly that they would never want
90 80 near him agatn-and If their par
ents failed TO chastise them. some Of
. the old guard among the miners would
take il up. China Joe is king OF the
roost IN Juneau.
Every body has credit. And most
everybody VIII pay some time. one
can't very well run away. The imDOs-
sible distances can be well understood
rom the treatment Of the prisoners in
the federal jail at Sitka. When there
are no ships in port the inmates Of the
Jail are let out to haul water and chop
wood. No guards are necessary be-
cause they would surely starve if they
ran away. It is altogether too far from
civilization for man TO think of max
ing his way without provisions or
means of transportation. Several have
tried it and were glad TO come back.
But the situation is not without it's
agreeable features for the prisoners. for
although 10 is against the rules. the
nshermen among them sometimes man
age TO watch over pole and line near
where they are working. and IT is even
said that the ball players do not allow
themselves to get out Of practice.
The one thing. above all others,
which is characteristic OF the north is
the native dog. The horse. the auto
mobile. ships. trains. nothing can turn
its fact to the wind with the assurance
% that child of the Arctic. the mala-
moot. When ice Chokes the rivers and
snow blocks the Wav o. the trains he
is put in harness and goes where none
can follow. Half brother to the wolf.
no living thing knows better the way OF
the wind. or how to survive its rigOrs.
He turns his keen nOstrlls TO the wind
and scents with Unfailing instinct the
approach of the storm while il is vet
afar; he knows how to break through
the ice for water when he is thirsty.
as well as the trick of making his bed
in the snow. Although he has been
made the slave of man, the wolf IN him
does not wear out with work. and hes
has the cunning and endurance to take
his food alive as it runs. His night
song is the northern wanderers sere-
made. When the campfire is lit and
long tongues Of fame begin playing
with the dark, he sits upon his
launches. points his muZzie 10 the
stars. and lifts his voice in the howl
that has always been the cry of the
breed. Over the still waste the call
rides far on the wind. The echoes take
it up and ii runs along-a message to
nature from one Of her lowIy children,
the meaning Of which none but the low
ly understand. The north wouldn't be
the north if it were not for the dogs,
and dogs wouldn't be dogs unless they
hOWled at the night.