Yukon Valley news., 1907-05-29

| t Fort Colville, near the present city of SpokI ne, and q portion of the time at Langley House, another Hudson Bay post, at the mouth of the Frazer river. He visited Nisqually, where the first white settlement of the Pacific coast was founded long before even one white settler had staked out farm on the sites of the present cities of Seattle, Port land or Tacoma.
 NcDon i'd received his education at a llool established at Fort Vancouver, the ifs. white school cn the Pacific coast. Here he studied with his Indian eompan,, ns, and lived the pioneer life of the wild. One of his early expo riences was the witnessing of a wreck of Il Jap anese v.ssel on the Oregon coast On 1 board were number of JapanI se chil- dren, and these were brought up with the other children If the settlement, and Mcdonald played with them a great deal and absorbed from them all they had to teach, and from them he proba blN got li- first taste of curiosity about the lands beyond the sea-
 After fiji ishing his education at Fort Garry, now Winnipeg, McDoraid visited Ill OLtalp, where he was articled as a bank clerk in the city of St Thomas. That, however, was too slow for his wild blood, and in 1916 he drifted to New York and shipI before the mast.
 The ship reached Japan, which was then closed land in which no foreigner was allowed to set foot. Mcdonald, re- membaring the stories of his shipwrecled schoolmates, begged the captain to put him ashore, where he would make it appear as II he were a castaWay, which Capt. Lawrence E. Edwards reluctantly did. The Japanese believing Mcdonald to te the only one of a ships crew left alive, while they imprisoned him, did not illtreat him. He was kept busy in prison teaching the English language to Japanese students, and several hours a day vas spent in this manner for many months.
 McDonalds pupils were thus the first Japanese to speak English, and when, some years after, Commodore Perry ar rived and opened Japan to the world, the pupils tf Mcdonald conducted the negotiations and translated the offers ard the speeches of the Americans to the JHpln,se government. Without this assistance the work Perry was able to accomplish would probably have gone for naught
 The years of McDonald's prime would furnish material for a hundred stories, tor he spent two score of years in foreign and llttle-knoWn countries, only return ing home i'll his Cld age To die at Fort Colville, near Spokane, where 90 large q pot on of his boy hood was spent
 While it is vet more than two years to the opening of the Alaska Yukon Pacific EXl o-ition, there are already many pro- pOSals for honoriug those Prominent in the history of that DO: ton of the world with Vhi h the exposition is to more C pecially deal he citizens of Seattle ave at the present time an organization engaged in the detail work of erecting q s.atue to William II. seward, the father of Alaska. The New York Society of S,attlc has plan to erect statue to John Jacob Astor the founder of Astoria, the first trading post on the American shoe of the Pacific Both these statues will have prominent places on the grounds of the exposition. The McDon- ali statue, Q stately work in honor uf the trst American tp penetrate the Orient aud teach the children the language oi the SaXo-Norman world, will probably stand in front ot the palace devoted to Jul@ne-e displays.