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Douglas Island news., 1906-09-05

The steamer Caswell, operating on the Susitna, was not so seriously dam aged in her contact with the boulders on the beach as was first supposed. She has been repaired and has resumed her accustomed route.
 Fox City is one of the newest towns in the Tanana valley to become impor- tant. It is on the Tanana Mines rail- way at Fox gulch on Goldstream creek. Good pay has been discovered at Fox sulch and 30 houses are in course of erection there.
 M. J. Heney, who proposes to build a line of railroad from Prince William Sound to Fairbanks, is so thoroughly convinced that he has gobbled onto the only decent place from which to start such project that he is ready to de- fend it with dynamite bombs.
 Fred Wright, member of the Alas ka geodetic survey party says his report this year will contain many important things. He says that it will show that there are great stretches in Southeast ern Alaska of black magnetic sands that carry big values in gold and plat mum.
 Prices have been announced for the 1906 sockeye salmon pack by German & O., brokers and packers, of Seattle, and by H. Bell Irving Company, the latter giving out the price schedule in New York. An advance of from to 15 cents over the price of last year is made.
 So bitter is the feeling on Ester creek against alleged jumpers that there is talk of forming a protective association, says a Fairbanks paper. In other words, to or ganize, and then warn people who have no right whatever, with view to pre- venting litigation.
 There is hardly married man lex cept editors) who does not carry in his pocket the picture of an attractive wo- man, who is not his wife. We violate no confidence when we say her name is Miss Williams of Philadelphia, and that her picture ornaments the silver dollar, which we all use and love so well.-Ex.
 The miners of Alaska knocked poli- tics higher than Kilroy's kite when they took the election of delegate into their own hands and wiped out both the old political parties in the contest. It is evident that the miners of Alaska are for men-and not for politicians. AS long as they stick to that doctrine so long will they be successful Seattle Times.
 Major Richardson was very much surprised at the audacity of the demo- crats in convention assembled ID Juneau that they should at tempt to criticise the Road Commis- sion. From Nome be wired to J. w Young, committeeman at Rampant, as follows: "I think the people of your section ought to know that the Juneau democrats platform condemned the Alaska Road Commission for being "expensive, dilatory and wholly inefh- cient" because the commission is try ing to give needed aid to the interior instead of wasting money in Southeast Alaska, where but few roads are needed"
Douglas Island news., 1906-09-05

The Rampant Forum was tenderly consigned to the newspaper graveyard with the issue of August 4th. The ed itor, James B. Wingate, will devote his time and talents to the prosaic occupa- ton of mining.
 George Church arrived on the Elk celsior, euroute to the Kuskokwin via Bristol Bay. The snows of seVenty-six winters have whitened the head of this hardy, brave old prospector, but he is still vigorous and strong, and is not daunted at the thought of facing the trials that beset the pioneer in new country. He has passed thirty-f7e years of his life in Alaska and is not stranger to hardship or danger. He has made and spent two fortunes, and goes forth to again acquire competence.- Seward Gateway.
 What wrong impressions may be created by the following, published in the Seward Gateway, when read in Boston: A wireless message from the top of Mount Mckinley announces that the hordes of Indians who were SUD- posed to be advancing from the north pole to make an assault on the Alaska Central Railway headquarters building have begun to retreat in great disorder since the hurried completion of the barricade in the rear of the building. The message further announces that the barricade may now be torn down without farther risk of massacre.
 Years ago the waters of Southwest ern Alaska fairly teemed with the valu- sble fur animal known as the sea otter. This habitat of the sea is fast passing away, and it's fur is now among the most costly in the market. It is soft and black, while long hairs tipped with white add to it's great beauty. The length of full-sized skin is about six feet, while it's breadth is nearly four feet. The sea otter is solitary and al- most exclusively marine in it's habits. It comes up on solitary rocks or islets to bring forth it's young, but soon re- turns to it's home in the deep, feeding on the flnny denizens thereof.
 The treasury department at Was h ington has received brief report of a visit made by the officers of the reve- nue cutter Perry to the new peak which recently sprang up on Fire is- land, one of the Bogoslov group of the Aleutian islands, about sixty miles west of Unalaska. The southern end of Fire island consists of two long spits from half to three-eighths of a mile in length and about fifteen feet above high water. On the western spit the new volcanic peak has sprung up rising abruptly from the water to helghGh of about 700 feet and in shape resem- bling monster bee hive with base 900 feet in diameter. From numerous crevices columns of steam and sulphur ous smoke continuously rise and form cloud which is visible for more than thirty miles. Although the surface of the new peak was warm and soft in places the officers succeeded in reach ing the summit. In recognition of the fact that the officers of the revenue cutter Perry were the first persons to visit the new peak they named it "Per. ry Peak"
Douglas Island news., 1906-09-05

Prof. H. w. Elliott, of Lakewood, Ohio, friend and confidential adviser of the late John Hay, says the raid of Japanese poachers on the American seal islands in Alaskan waters, the re- suit of which was the killing of at least five of the little brown men and the capture of dozen more,was backed by an American company at the head of which were Senator Elkins, of West Virginia, and D. o. Mills, the New York capitalist and father-in-law of Whitelaw Reid, American ambassador to England. The name of H. H. D. Pierce, former assistant secretary of state, is also connected with the com paDy.
 F. H. Sylvester, superintendent of construction on the portage road from the head of Cholmondely sound to Hetta inlet, was in the city Tuesday, returning to his work again Wednes day morning. The work on the port age is progressing rapidly and will be completed, MT. Sylvester thinks, in about six weeks. The distance across the portage is three and one-half miles A greater part of the way the material for construction is gravel but some of the way it is boggy and tundra lorna tion and in these places corduroy has to be used, but this is only about 500 feet of the distance. Twenty-three men are employed on the work. The portage road will be great saving in the distance to be travelled by those going to Sulzer, Coppermount and other west coast points.-Ketchikan Journal.
 The Seattle Times makes point in connection with the recent election in Alaska that is worth sticking pin in. That is the fact that the people of the district have shown by their votes that they are we'll enough organized to be entitled to territorial form of govern ment. It has been claimed that the great area of this district precludes the people of it's different sections from getting sufficiently in touch with each other to make self-government practic- able. But that argument cannot be advanced any more with anything like reasonableness. The fact that, though the campaign was very short and each of the three divisions had candidates for delegate for the long term, Thomas Gale, of Fairbanks, carried all the first, second and third divisions, indicates that the people of the district are suf- fciently united in thought, sentiment and the means of communication to be able to make up their minds on wha they want and how to get it. They have shown by their union on the issues and candidates that the great distances arc not hindrance to cooperation. The people have also shown an interest in their welfare that entities them to the management of their own affairs, and they have proved their capacity to manage them. They have refused to be dictated to by politicians. They have refused to be handled by those who sought to play ducks and drakes with their franchises. They have talk en charge of their own affairs as far as congress has permitted them to do it and given an earnest of what they
 would do with 8 territorial govern
 ment.
Douglas Island news., 1906-09-05

The Rampant Forum was tenderly consigned to the newspaper graveyard with the issue of August 4th. The ed itor, James B. Wingate, will devote his time and talents to the prosaic occupa- tion of mining.
Douglas Island news., 1906-09-05

The steamer Caswell, operating on the Susitna, was not so seriously dam aged in her contact with the boulders on the beach as was first supposed. She has been repaired and has resumed her accustomed route.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-24

skin, were for the most part received
as what Johnson called a contribu-
ton to the gayety of .pations; but there
was one occasion when the critics
had a moment of trepidation. "If
had the nerve" he is reported as say
ing, I'D send that band of real In
dams down into Newspaper Row to do
little real damage among the funny
newspaper men,"
Well, there had been first night in
neighboring theatre, and after the
performance party of them gathered
on the subway platform in Times
Square, awaiting the train to take them
down to Newspaper Row. Suddenly.
with a rustic of wampum, a swish of
feathers, and occasional grunts and
cultural EXPLANATIONS. Mr.. Brady's
band of real Siox trooped into the
station. 1t was spectacle of truly
barbaric awe. The Indians swung up
to where the palefaced critics were
standing-among them the very man
who had aroused the particular ire of
Mr.. Brady and his company by re-
ferring to them as cigar Indians.
For one brief moment there was a
rising of hair on scalp-locks. Then
the train rumbled in, and critics and
redskins parted to board separate cars.
The Sioux were IN their NAV honoa
after the evenings performance.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-24
BUILDING SkYWARD.

One thing has been forcibly taught
by the recent earthquake at San Fran
cisco. that has heretofore been only
an unheeded warning There can be
no question but that the buildings
which suffered most were those which
reached into the heavens. SO to speak
The same has been true in other dis
asters caused by the action of the
elements. 1t is too simple to need
discussion to prove that as the build
ing is extended upword the power to
resist storm and other disasters such
as that which shook San Francisco
from it's foundations. is diminished.
The enormous centralzing of bust
ness in the few large cities has SO
increased the value Of real estate that
even to the very wealthy the purchas-
ing of a small plat of land becomes
very serious proposition. 1t is this
abnormal increase in the value of city
real estate which has been responsible
for the use of the air for building
space rather than the land.
1t may be possible that the develop
ment of rapid transit between the dis
tant parts of the cities will to some ex-
tent make impossible to spread the
business property over a large space
than has been done in the past This
policy would relieve the over-crowding
and the necessity of making the build
ings in which thousands of people
spend the greater portions of their
lives like the biblical tower of Babe.
Another thing that will come of a
reformation along these lines will be
the building up of greter number of
small cities, and a consequent more
equal distribution of the wealth OF
the country.
One of the dangers of the present
social conditions in this country is the
centralizing of the wealth in a few
localities. 1t is urged that the small
places cannot offer sufficient facilities
for the investment Of capital in large
commercial and manufacturing enter
prises. The proposition is without
reason. A man can do as much labor
in specified time in Grand Forks as
he can in New York. He can live just
as cheaply in the former as he can in
the latter If he lives in the same style.
Why then can not this or any other
small city scompete in the manu-
factories with the large cities?
The development of large number
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-24
sky.Hieb Finance.

Thomas LOwery, who owns railroads
and street-car lines and banks and
sawmills and newspapers out in Min
nesota, needed two million dollars
once to finance one of his develop
ment plans. He made arrangements to
borrow it of a New York bank.
He left Minneapolis one night, shut
himself in stateroom and rode to
New York, working out some of his
details and not paying attention to
anything that was happening. When
he reached the metropolis he went to
the bank and was shown into the presi-
dents Office. He found that financier
reading a newspaper. What does all
this mean, Lowery?" asked the banker.
What does what mean?" inquired
Lowery, who hadn't"seen a paper for
two days.
why, two banks failed in Minnea-
polls yesterday and it is said that
others are in had shape. It looks as
If we couldn't let you have that money.
What does it mean?"
Lowery was n flabbergasted. He
thought very rapidly. He must have
that money. tits just this way" he
said, taking turn around the room
reminds me of a story about a fellow
who wanted to take out life-insur-
ance policy. He made his application
and the doctor was examining him.
What did your father die Off the
doctor asked.
Typhoid fever
And your mother?'
"I don't know
"'But you must know. We have to
have that fact. What was the disease?'
81 don't know. doc.' he said finally,
after much thought; i don't know.
doc, it was nothing serious"
Lowery got his money.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-24

stroyed the conditions of nature be-
cause the land would have yielded
him no reward had he done so, there
would be much to admire from an
artistic point in the scenery OF the
state.
In fact it is doubtful if the eye of
man ever dwelt upon more beauti-
full scene than a golden sea of billow-
ing grain. This is partially the handi-
work Of man. it is true, but man does
not plant the fields for the beauty
they may have. This comes as a col
lateral result. The average boy and
girl on the farm do not have the
aesthetic faculty cultivated by the
farm work as rule. They cannot
see the beauty in the monotonous
landscape without a single waving
tree. They long for the scenes where
the grand harmonies of nature are to
be found and where the mind is graft
fed with that which is sublime. And
Yet who has not drank sweeter
draughts of poetic beauty from the
flower bordered pool, with its frame
of emerald green. than can be found
in snow-capped mountains or barren
ledge?
These things are not appreciated
because We have been taught to see
beauty only in the rugged and irregu-
lar. We are taught that there can be
no beauty in the landscape planned
by the hand of a giant, stretching
away as far as the eye can see, and
with the boundaries lost where earth
and sky are Joined.
With such scene dotted with groves
there would be nothing more delight
fully beautiful.
This must be the ultimate result of
the proper observance of Arbor day
in North Dakota. In means far more
to this state than it does to those
which have all the beauty of forest
and trees. The work may not reach
the development in the lives OF the
present generation when the face of
nature will be SO changed that it will
be attractive because OF the variety.
But those who live after us will do
honor to those whose thoughtful
policy prepared for their enjoyment
the beauties of nature in forest and
grove.
The trees that are planted by the
boys and girls of the state this year
will stand as monuments to their
memory when marble shafts would
have crumbled into sand.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-24
Two Points of View.

Two groups of people were seated in
the waiting room of railroad station,
says Lippincotts magazine. One con-
sisted of Il young man and two young
ladies dressed in the height of fash
ion, the other man and his wife not
SO fashionably attired.
They had been there only few min
utes when a girl came in whose COM
plexion was as nearly perfect as any
thing in this world ever is. While she
was buying her ticket the young man
remarked to the ladies with him:
Isn't Miss Cransford beauty? Her
complexion is as perfect as a rose
At the same time the other man
clutched his wife's arm and whispered:
Lord. Nan. hasn't that girl got pur-
ty hide?"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-24
A Good Reason.

In rural Maine, when one has an es-
pecially hard or disagreeable task to
perform. one calls in the neighbors."
At such times the work performed is
done without money and without price,
except that the host must provide
abundant refreshments, both nourish-
ing and intoxicating. At such times
the winter supply Of firewood is cut,
the timber felled and piled, the frames
OF buildings raised. Often the host
has trouble to find the intoxicant,
Maine being drouthy state.
This was Clancy's dilemma when he
entered the city agency at Bangor.
Straight in front of him sign hung:
Liquor Sold for Use in Sickness or
for Mechanical Purposes Only"
II want two gallons of old rum" he
announced.
The agent pointed warily to the sign.
Il saw that" said Clancy. i've
been reading it."
Are you sick?"
NO"
Got prescription
mo"
What do you want it for?" queried
the agent.
Got to have it." replied Clancy,
cheerfully, "for mechanical purposes.
I'm going to raise barn"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-24

compel the loveres to RENOUNCE each
other. F. Hopkins Smith is not
very good at fixing an excuse for a
pair of lovers he is taking through
the pages of Schibner's magazine. His
hero is distinguished and handsome
physician: His heroine belongs to the
finest family in town, and possesses
a refined beauty which improves with
age. Twenty years have elapsed since
the story began and Mr.. Smith has not
given his readers the slightest hope
that the two lovers will ever stand be-
fore preacher taking each other for
better or worse. He is little old
fashioned, however, and seems to be-
lieve in the marriage relation, but he
wants to be in style, and feels he must
not allow his hero and heroine to
marry. He has the beautiful sister OF
the heroine have an unfortunate love
affair in which she becomes the moth
er of a son. The beautiful sister was
only sixteen when the event happened
and her lover dies before he has given
her his name. The heroine shoulder
ed the little boy and raised him: He
calls her Mother" The heroine
tells the neighbors that she adopted
him in Paris. The neighbors think it
is Funny" because the boy looks so
much like the family of the heroine.
The distinguished physician TRUSTS
the heroine; his face lights up every
time. he sees her, and he helps her
raise the boy. The heroine's sister
lives in Paris; marries, has a daught-
er; her husband dies, and she is
about to marry again. but the heroine
and the doctor. who are madly in love
with each other, cannot marry. In
the last number of Scribner the hero
inc was forty-six and the hero q few
years older. They still look deeply
into each others eyes, and want to
belong to each other, and the readers
of the story wonder why on earth Mr.
F. Hopkinson Smith will not allow
the two to marry,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-24
TOSSED ON HIS OWN PITCHFORK.

For years Senator Tillman has kent
himself in public life by accusing
other people of wrong doing, but not
until Senator Hopkins of Illinois got
after him recently did the public have
full knowledge OF his methods. 1t has
been Tillman's custom to get I'D in
the senate almost every day and have
read some letter or newspaper clip
ping rejecting upon someone, and then
to indulge in diatribe about dishon-
esty. In this way he has made at
lacks upon several presidents and
cabinet officers, many senator's and
not few judges of our courts. The
passing throng has greatly enjoyed
Tillmans outbursts, and by some he
has been regarded as great states
man. Taking advantage of the appar-
ent approval OF his course he has de-
livered lectures in various parts of the
country indulsing in the most sensa-
tional TRADES against men and mea-
sures at so much per. In this way he
has gained both notoriety and wealth.
Last week Senator Hopkins called
him down in the most approved fash
ion. He took the mask off the buster
ing South Carolinian and exposed him
to the gaping galleries. Hopkins
showed that Tillman was not only
dishonest and insncere in his method
of treatment of public men and public
questions, but proved conclusively
that he had long championed the VIC
lation of law in his own state as re-
spects the conduct of elections and
had boldly advocated and approved
the burning of negroes at the stake.
There are others of the Tillman
stripe, not so bold perhaps but equal
ly dangerous to the supremacy of re-
publican institutions, who find profit
in feeding the maudin appetite for
sensation. These muck rake men pre-
fer to tear down rather than to build
up. Their concern for decency is nil;
their desire for self-aggrandizement is
everything.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-24
ADJUSTMENTS
Around the Town.

Around the Town" is Murray and
Mack's bread winner this season. 1t
is a brand new vehicle but strictly in
line with their former successes. They
made plunge into comet opera last
season, but have decided this Year to
stick to the line of work that has
made them both famous and rich, so
in creating their vehicle for this COM
ing season they commissioned Mr.. Ed
gar Selden, who is the author of
many successful farce comedies, to fit
them with a vehicle in line with their
former successes, and to say that Mr..
Selden has achieved their purpose is
drawing it mildly. He has. undoubt-
eddy, given them the best vehicle, as
to comedy situations, they have ever
had The piece is intensely funny and
has fairly good plot. upon which
hinges most of the comedy situations,
but as Murray and Mack have in past
years always carried big chorus, this
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-24

OF small cities would give the advant-
ages of their markets to a far greater
portion of the producing world, and
would prevent the centralizing of the
commercial interests in a few con-
Germ in the large cities, hereby driv-
ing their smaller dealers out of bust
ness and into competition with the pro-
ducing class.
If the fearful disaster the tumbled
San Francisco into ruins shall cause
the building of smaller cities and more
of them SO that SO much ruin can not
come from one single cause, there
will have been some good in the cal
amity.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-24
Convincing Logic.

Il was in German barber shop the
other day." remarked travelling man,
when nervous and excited fellow
dropped in to be barbered He was
very nervous; indeed, suspected that
he wanted to catch the train. At any
rate, he was so nervous that he
couldn't keep his seat.
He began pacing up and down the
floor. waiting his turn, and as this did
not seem to calm his nerves he
stepped outside and began pacing up
and down the sidewalk. He came
back in moment and discovered,
much to his horror, that someone had
got in ahead of him and had taken the
first vacant chair.
1.-The nervous man stalked up to the
head barber blusteringly and said: If
man comes in und goes oud has he
vent?'
"The head barber looked at him
searchingly and replied with dignity
and emphasis:
He vas, but he amt
Whatever that meant. it ended the
dispute quite effectively"