Yukon Valley news., 1907-05-29
BY c. H. E. ASQUITH.

Although there Will pc many hls lOflcal characters hon, rel by the elecien of statues to their nemory at the Alaska Iukon-Pacific Exposition which will be held at Seattle in 1909, it is not like'y that any will attract more attention ld 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 pee pies, Rarald Mcdonald
 The identity of the man who first turned his back to the rising sun and setting his face We tyard left his people behind f,r.ver is lost in the mists that hide the horizons of history. The man who spanred the last gap and brought the Saxo- Norman c,vlllzation to Japan, Ra9ald Mcdonald, deserves an imper- istiabie luce among the list of those who are the forelunnere of empire. The s.atue in his hoi or will be the ii st rec ognition of its kind given to this man who did 50 much for the world
 Thou apds upon thousands of years ago the tide of humanity set out upon it's westward flow: Babylon, Assyria, Egypt, Greece. Rome arose, hourished and fell and on the rains of the dark ages arose modern Europe. For a long time the western tide had dashed in vain against the barrier of the Atlantic. The cruSldes that originated in western Europe and in Britain were mer lv back washes of this interrupted flow. But finally Christopher Columbus navigated the Great Unknown, and once again the race of man trickled westward. 1t took three hundred years for the tide to roli a,ross America to the Pacific shores, and few more years for it to spring across the Pacific and complete the cir,l. It has taken several thousand years, and the lives of lalf dozen mighty r.ces and empires, but in the end men conquered and the men of the fdIt thest west trod the Oriental shore of tke Pacific where was O zee the cradle O. the race.
 Eva Emery Dye, whose book Me Donald of Oregon deals with the life of this splendid pioneer, is the originator oi the suggestion that q monument should be erected at the Aluska-G Gukon Pacific fair to the memory of Mcdonald The suggestion was welcomed, as 1t was felt no place would he more app iopriate for monument to Mcdonald than the Cniv rsity of Washington campus. on which the exposition is to be held, seeing the reaso on for the exposition is, in addi- ton to the exploitation of Alaska and Yukon, the extending of the world's Knowledge of the history, growth, sources, commerce and tender cie~ Gf all the countries whose shores are washed bv the waters of the Pacific
 The blood of two races of kings ran in McDonald's veins, for his grandfather's father The Mcdonald was d, s, lar of the old Scottish kings, oi the days when scotland looked to llolyrOod il stead of to Wesmjn.ter. His mother was Raven the Beau iful, W h se trr was hereditary chief of the Chinook.
 McIonald's history reads like pure romance A chihald Me. nlld, his father, was Hud,On's Bay Company factor when the operations oi that com panv stretched from the great inland sea that gives it it's name to the Cahfor- mia border and from the Aleutian islands to the woods of Maine. The father himself Was Ioa |. lidns CT and le1 this small ctu psny ol Wiite men up the Red River tO US source and across the Canadian Irai ies Q the sites of the present cities of | rince Albert and Edmonton. He finally reached the Pu- get sound country, where hi- son was born, at the head ot the Columbia river, and where the fttler -Fent meet Of his remaining life.
 The boy frequently geeua pti ie ! his father on his wild inuln.y- thr ugh Oregon. British Coluu.tia aud Vancouver