Douglas Island news., 1907-05-01
HARDY RECOGNITION
Statue to be Erected at Alaska'YukOn' Pacific Exposition, to Memory
 of Ranald Mcdonald
History of First American to Teach the English Language in Japan. His Mother was
 Full Flooded Chinook.
By c. Il. E. ASQUITH

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 Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition which will be held at Seattle in 1909 it IS not likely that any will attract more at tention and excite more interest than that which will be dedicated to the first American to cross the Pacific ocean and teach the language of the newer peoples, Ranald Mcdonald,
 The identity of the man who first turned his back to the rising sun and setting his face westward left his peo- ple behind forever is lost in the mists that hide the horizon of history. The man who spanued the last gap, and brought the Saxon Norman civillza- tion to the shores of Japan, Ranald Mcdonald, deserves an imperishable place among the list of those who are the forerunners of Empire. The statue in his honor will be the first recog- milton of it's kind given to this man who did so much for the world.
 Thousands upon thousands of years ago the tide of humanity set upon its westward flow, Babylon, Assyria, Egypt, Greece, Rome, arose, fourished and fell; and on the ruins of the dark ages arose modern Europe. For long time the westward tide had dashed in vain against the barrier of the Atlantic, The crusades that originated in west ern Europe and in Britian were merely backwashes of this interrupted flow. But finally Christopher Colum bus navigated the Great Unknown, and once again the race of man trickled westward. 1t took three hundred wears for the tide to roll across Amer ica to the Pacific shores, and few more years for it to spring across the Pacific and complete the circle, It has taken several thousand years, and the lives of a half dozen mighty races and empires but in the end men con- ouered, and the man of the fartheet west trod the Oriental shore of the Pacific where was once the cradle of the race.
 Eva Emery Dye, Oregon author whose book, Mcdonald of Oregon" deals with the life of this splendid pioneer, is the originator of the sug- gestion that monument should be erected at the Alaska Yukon Pacific Fair. which is to be held from June lst to October 18th, 1909, to the memory of Mcdonald. The suggestion was wei comed as it was felt no place would be more appropriate for monument to Mcdonald than the University of Washington campus, on which the ex- position is to be held, seeing the reason for the exposition is, in addition to the exploitation of Alaska and Yukon, the extending of the worlds knowledge of the history, growth, resources, com merce and tendencies of all the coun' tries whose shores are washed by the waters of the Pacific,
 The blood of two races of kings ran in McDonald's veins for his grand fathers father The Mcdonald was a decendent of the old Scottish king, oi the days when Scotland looked tc Holyrood instead of Westminister His mother was Raven the Beautiful whose father Cumcumly, was hereditary chief of the Chinook.
 McDonald's history reads like pure romance. Archibald Mcdonald, hi father, was a Hudson Bay Compan! factor in the palmy days of that com pany when it's operations stretched from the great inland sea that gives i it's name to the California border, auC from the Aleutian islands to woods o Maine. The father himself was notable pioneer, and led this smal company of whitemen up the Red rive to it's source, and across the Canadia prairies to the sites of the presen cities of Prince Albert and Edmonton He finally reached the Puget Scum country where his son was born, at tn head of the Columbia river, and wher the father spent most of his remainin life.
 The boy frequently accompanied hi father on his wild journeys throug Oregon, British Columbia and Vancor yer Island. He lived portion of hi youth at Fort Colville, near the pret ent city of Spokane, and portion the time at Langley House anothe Hudson Bay post at the mouth of th Frazer river. He visited Nisquall
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