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The daily Alaskan., 1908-11-02
STRUCK T ON
 THE KUSK0AUIM

After score of years of persist. ent prospecting, placer gold in pay, ing quantities has at last been struck on the Kuskokwim, and Nome is on the verge of stampede the like of which has not been seen since the earliest days of the camp, says a Nome dispatch
 The new strike was reported here few days ago by Duncan McDonel, one of the best known prospectors in the north, who has been working through the Kuskokwim country for more than two years past
 According to McDonell, the pay has been tapped on the Tultsak river, a tributary to the Kuskokwim, and the earliest days of Dawson are recalled by the richness of the new strike. Fifty and sixty dollars to the pan is being rocked out every day and the lucky ones whd are now in the dis trict are hardly stopping for sleep, so eager are they to take advantage of the few days that intervene before the ice ties up the water.
 That the news of the strike on the TuHsak will flood the Kuskokwim with prospectors as soon as the freeze.up comes is a foregone concIu. sion, for the reason that it lies with in comparatively easy reach of three established camps. Prospectors from Fairbanks can reach it over a good trail by way of Kantishna river and over a low divide through the Alaska coast range. which separates the Kuskokwim headquarters from those of the Kantishna The new camp of the Innoko has a good trail forty-fivc miles long across the divide to Nc Grath. a station on the Kuskokwim river about 500 miles up from it's mouth, and Nome is also close at hand.
 Mining men who know McDonell place great faith 'n his report for the reason that they consider his word his bond.
The daily Alaskan., 1908-11-02
ALASKAN RELICS
 OF STONE AGE

Stone implements used by some prehistoric people of this region have just been unearthed at the present Moosehide Indian village, a mile be- low Dawson. The find was made last week by Peter Thompson, a Moosehide Indian. while digging six feet beneath the surface, to make a cellar. Twenty stone pieces. most of them shaped into arrow or spear heads. were uncovered on a spot a few feet square. With them was found what undoubtedly was a stone hammer. The Indians are puzzled
 My great grand-papa maybe make 'em: maybe make 'em thousand years ago" says Isaac. Then his beady black eyes pop and twinkle with the feeling and emotion which he would like to throw into mtelligi- ble English but which he has not the power to command.-Dawson News.
The daily Alaskan., 1908-11-02
CORD0VA ON THE JURY

While District Attorney CroSsley i, Investigating the election frauds al Cordoya through the machinery Of thc grand jury |, might be well also for hlm to investigate the methods by which of the g men compo Ing the grand jury II of them come from Cor, dova, and of the ? men composing the petit jury, l4 of them cone from Cor, doga; and of the entire number but or, went from Kstalla, and he the "orig. insl Corson man" Of that place. Mel who were in Cordova on the day Of the election say that any remonstrsnce sgains, the methods SO openly employ. ed ;here was as openly laughed at. IL is up to Mir. CrOssIey to show them tha, 1t Is not a laughing matter.
The daily Alaskan., 1908-11-02
HERE'S TO THE ELECTION RE
 TURNS.

It is the eve of the battle of the ballots following the battle of words. Any last shots that may be fired to. day along the line in the word con test will probably have little effect. The lineup is complete and there is nothing to do but to register the re- suit Of the skirmish. The impossibil, ity of framing an opinion is not Jim tied to this distant wilderness. The indications are certainly with Taft by a large majority but the guesses still range from landslide either way Co a "close contest with either man likely Co win" The bettin" is srn three to one in favor of Taft in New York. The momentous Ques, tion is to be decided by nightfall to, morrow night
 The Alaskan is convinced that the election of Tafr means more to the district of Alaska than it does to any state of the bunch-and it means much to all of them.
 Mir. Taft as secretary of war has been the real power. the instrumen above all others. in furthering the work of the Alaska road commission It was Mir Taft whom Major Rich. ardsou relied upon to urge the neces, sIty Of the great work before con gress and in securing the appropria ton as one of the demands of the war department
 He has given evidence that he feels it to be up to him" to do for Alaska as much at least as he has done for the Philippines. He has done much for the Philippines, Among other things he secured for the Philippines aid from the govern. ment for the building of railroads He is in entire sympathy with such a project for Alaska. AS president he would be in much better position than before to bring this thing about And there is nothing to compare in importance for the development Of Alaska to this. Alaska IS governed by Washington. This is why the election of Mir. Taft is more import. ant to this district than it is to any one state Then heres to the cleo. ton returus-may they spell the name of Taft.
The daily Alaskan., 1908-11-02

Some bright, new spots have been found on the Koyukuk, and more people are now in that country than at any time since 1908, according to Commissioner Moran, of the Kobuk who has recently been there. One couple. Mir. and Mrs. Williams, two Of the pioneers of that camp, went outside recently with gold dust val ued at $l7OOO
The daily Alaskan., 1908-11-02
ONLY ALASKANS.


 There were only half a dozen pas, sengers came north on the Pennsyl. vaRia. The geese are now flying south. Early in the spring they will all take their flight north again. The Alaska elections should be held on national election day, then only Alas. kans could vote.-Cordova Alaskan.
 Exactly. But let's see. The work on the railroad shuts down on the 10th It would still be little early for only Alaskans" at Cordova, wouldn't 1t?
The daily Alaskan., 1908-11-02

The government wireless under con srruc,ion to Point Whiteshed, using a large tree for the present, is success fully sending and receiving messages and reports working with steamers passing up and down the coast and receives messages as far south as San Francisco ald as lar north as Nome. It is expected the station will be com p'eted by the middle of next month CoriOva Alaskan.
The daily Alaskan., 1908-11-02
Her Wish.

A Baltimore man tells of receiving a unique note acknowledging a wedding present sent by him on the occasion Of the marriage of his chum.
 Your lovely etching was received" ," wrote the bride, and gives us both pleasure. It is HOW in the parlor hang lnG above the piano. where we hope to see you very soon and as often as you find 1t agreeable, ,"-Harper's Weekly.
The daily Alaskan., 1908-11-02
COLD, NORTH WIND, SNOW
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The result oi the observation taken at Moore wharf at midnight, Nov, L 1908, Is sS follows Temperature time observac'n.2 20 above Max. temp. preceding 24hours 23 above Min (" (" .l9 above Mean 22 above
 Barometer 297O
 Strong north wind.
The daily Alaskan., 1908-11-02
After Vacation.

My gloves are all worn at the finger tips; The seams are all strained askew; I cannot number the tiny rips. And of buttons Two lost a few. But l draw them on with a glance of pride
 They have served me. oh, long and we'll And hand all unfrecNlcd is safe inBldo When ! peel or the tattered shell.
 Now York Times
The daily Alaskan., 1908-11-02
Proverbs.

Shear the sheep, but don't fay them Latin Proverb.
 Fly the pleasures which bite tomor. row.-German Proverb.
 Those that are quick to decide are Proverb.
 Do what you know and you will know what to do.-French Proverb,
The daily Alaskan., 1908-11-02
A Modern.
talla Herald

A Modern. "I met a Helen on tho street. An. Troy's was nc'er so fair and sweetl "T saw a Venus in the car A sun where Venus was a star 'I talked with Pallas yesterday. Those ancient Greeks-what loro had they!" Lucky dlscovercrw cried l. And passed you all these maryola by?" Aye, for the wife Co whom l camo Home puts their wit and charms to shamew
 Cleveland Leader.
The daily Alaskan., 1908-11-02
MEMORY.

n RY mind lets so thousand thinga. N Like dates Of wars and deaths lN Of kings And yet recalls the very hour
 Twas noon by wonder village
 tower, And on the last blue noon in May The wind camo bri5kly up this way Crisping the brook beside the road: Then. pausnE here, set down It's load Of pine scents and shook listlesSly Two petals from that wild rose tree.
 Thomas Bailey AldEich.
The daily Alaskan., 1908-11-02

Recent arrivals from the Kouga- rok state that a strike of considera. ble importance has been made by parties about five miles below Bain's roadhouse, on the Kougarok river. No gold was ever found in that sec tion before.
The daily Alaskan., 1908-11-02
INTERIOR WEATHER
Strong north wind.

Whitehorse. s below; HootaiuQua,22 below; Big Salmon, 24 below; Yukon Crossing, If below; Selkirk 9 below; Coffee Creek, 36 below; Stewart, 30 below; Oglvie, 30 below; Dawson, % below.
The daily Alaskan., 1908-11-02
Unconscious.

Your friend Woodby left some verses with me today that were very amusing" said the editor
 You don't say! I didn't think he was a humorous poet"
 "Neither does he."-Houston Post.
The daily Alaskan., 1908-11-02

ALL ALASKA IN A LINE OR TWO
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The giant new ditch of the Yukon Gold company will begin to pour the waters of Twelyemile river on the grayels of Loyett gulch, on the right limit of the famous old Bonanza creek, the first thing next spring
The daily Alaskan., 1908-11-02
What She Kent.

Summer maiden, ere We part Give oh, give me back my heartw Why. Of course" sho said, "sure thing. All care for is the ring"
 Los Angeles Times
The daily Alaskan., 1908-11-02

Passengers must be ct checked. Inspection is stopped
 l5O pounds of baggage VI cad 75 pounds with each half fare
Greene County herald., 1908-08-21
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AUTUMN FASHIONS FOR scHoOLDAYs

The time to prepare for the coming
school days is at hand. Every moth
er should be early in selecting suit
able and durable outfit, also the small
essentials that make forthe happiness
of the growing child.
An easily carried lunch basket or
box, strap or bag to hold books
and papers, box for pens and pen
ellis, otherwise easily lost, help the
daily studies and teach system and
order.
Many of the bags and boxes can be
easily made at home by the ingenious
parent, or bought for moderate prices
in the stores.
The school dress and coat should be
both smart and serviceable. The old
stand by. pepper-and- salt, in good
quality of cloth, with cap of the same,
for the boy, is durable for rough wear
and useful for all occasions. Dark blue
REFERS are the proper thing tor the
small bny or girl. With these either
widebrimmed sailor hat or "a cloth
tam-o shanrer may be worn.
Sensible shoes should always be
worn. Whether laced or buttoned,
the boots should have spring heels,
square toes and be longer than appar-
emily necessray-The September
New IDEA WOMAN's s MAGAZINE.
Greene County herald., 1908-08-21
NEGRO LODGES ABOMINABLE.

Vardaman S, The Issue.
l have always maintained that
one of the most dangerous things
in our midst is the negro secret
lodges. Most of the devilment
perpetrated by the negroes orig
mate in these lodges. While gov
ernor, l made it rule to pigeon
hole every application for a charter
of Incorporation of these seer It or
ders. Things are discussed in the
meeting which they would not un-
der any circumstances permit the
white people to know. A negro
was convicted during my admins
tration as governor for a murder
com mitted in one of these lodges,
and he wrote me a private letter,
in which he stated that if the white
people could know what took place
in these machination were formed,
which are not permit one to exist
in the state of Mississippi. The
question of social equality,
schemes and mechination were
formed, which are not promotive
of good feeling between the races,
but on the contrary, means dan
ger to the white people and de-
struction ultimately of the negroes.
Really they ought not to be per-
mitted. 1t would be wise policy
for the state to provide for a secret
service by which the governor
could ascertain just what takes
place in these orders, and where
they are Incorporated under the
law, to take the charter away from
them and instruct the police au-
thorities to prohibit such meetings.
If they are not forming schemes,
prejudiciaI to good order-the
shrewd, INSCRIPTIONS, educated
negro uses them to rob and plunder
the unsuspecting and uninformed
members of their own race.
Greene County herald., 1908-08-21
WOMEN ARE WINNING THEIR
FIGHT AGAINST RUM
Halt the Union has Joined in the
Prohibition Movement

With astonishing apidity the fight
against the sale of Intoxicating LIQUOR
-Is.sweepfng over the country, saws
the September DELINEAToR. In the
-oouth, State after State has enacted
lays absolutely closing all the saloons
tt;Iln Its borders. After January |.
1919, 14eEe will not be legal saloon
III Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi or
Ollah!9nd; North Carolina may also
u dry ny that Inc; half of South
CArollla. Il large part Of Florida, all
blG four cities in Tennessee. and
nearly alI of Kentucky are iu the
Same situation. Virginia, Maryland
@lil DeleWare are moving in the same
q, .'ec(lon, Ohio Is tending toward
state prohibition, Indlaua has taken
= 5ps -loiards it, and each new cleo
lion sees more townships in Illinois
5..ftettto the dry" column. In other
States tile Struggle is .noB yet success
iaI,- but already half the people and
two lhirds-of the territory of the Uni
TED States are embraced IN the now
i'apidlygrowing prohibition districts.
Greene County herald., 1908-08-21
Moman's Suffrage.
CONDUCTED BY
Mrs. Lily Wilkinson Thompson,
jackson Hiss
ICELAND WoNEN ARE A WAKE.

1t will be a surprise to most people
TO learn that "a majority of the adult
women of Iceland have petitioned the
ParliaIhent now in session to rive
thcm tic full ballot. They already
have the munic, ptl vote. There is no
previoGs'instL,ce in history where a
tnaJOurity either of the men or of the
"omen III ANY country have signed
petition fpr a1vthing:th9 frequent re-
mark that "Wlcncver the majority
OF women ask for suff rage they get it,
Is always 10 be understood as a polite
way of saying that the speaker does
pot want 10 give it to them. But in
Iceland, Il major ty of the women hf We
aL:tually asked for it,
The lce'anderS are an exceptionally
intelligent AID Jaw w-abiding people.
Crime among them is almost un-
Known. Their spirit of independence
Was well shown when the King of Den
mark lately made gorgeous process
soA through the island. The peas
ans looked on from their doors, but
YOU'D not leave their own ground
or come down 10 the roadside for q
Closer view.
l':icn the royal guest arrived at
J." I4ingco.d, the meeting piece of
- -'Jrliament, ard the ancient cen
- Of the islands political life, ne was
: by hundreds of lcelfn ndic chief.
,atns, some of them dated their ances-
Try back to Odin and the prehisto toric
"ngS OF Norway and Sweden. They
:" ere all oIf horseback, tting up as
straight as carved figures, and this
IS part of the speech to which the
King listened;-
This is the ancient sacred meeting
place Of our forefathers. So mighty
and noble it is that only God and fire
and no other power wrought such q
masterpiece. The floor of tie hall is
formed by streams of hardened lava
SnOw-cappeo mountain peaks form it's
columns; it's ceiling is the blue dome
of the sky. High it is and lofty, and
the air in it is wholesome. Here Ice
land mountain winds breathe on
every cheek, and here the Icelanders
have learned again and again to keep
their backs straight. Here the laws
were made and approved which made
our forefathers free and far-famed.
Here grew the life flowers of the
Icelandic people
tits no wonder that the women of
this dignitied and seif-respectmg race
are low asking for u voice in pubic
affairs.
Greene County herald., 1908-08-21
Do You Know These Men?

"As you go ransacking about in
politics, says Alfred Henry Lewis
in the July FARM AND FIREsIDE, ''you
will find a citizen whose commOnest
traits are a manner of spurious i'm.
portance, mien of bogus gravity.
This fellow infalliblv lives in the
city. His marks are white shirt
and trick of leaving town for the
summer. His conceited life IS spent
upon pedestal. When he talks
which Is most of the time-he is heed
fui to take to you, not with YOU
He never goes to war, and has
deal to say concerning the horrors of
war. He never speaks of the horrors
of peace, or those kennels STYLED ten
ement houses, where children, four
and six and eight and tin in a room,
swelter in summer, freeze in winter,
strive always. He lives by interests.
and dividends, and profits on money
loaned or invested, and would sooner
see the Stars and Stripes the dish.
clOut of the world than have those
profits threatened 1t is he who
coins the world 'Jingo" and talks of
the Safe and Sane There is vet
another who lives by stock rapine,
and whose hunting grounds are Wall
Street and the Stock Exchange. 1t
is such as be who are the weasels to
suck the yolks of other peoples hon
est opportunities. Also, they. like
that other, are prone to shout 'Jingo!
and raise tie crp of safe of Safe and
Sanep
1t is wisdom to observe these folk
and settle the color of their feather
1t is they who decry navy, as taste
one into foreign trouble, and thereby
arrange a fall in stocks. They are
strenuous to increase the army, to the
end that it beat our labor strikes as
Kansas farmers beat out prairie fires.
BY talking with these narrowists
you will learn that to >be-in their
eyes wholly Safe and Sane one
must be timid, slow. dull, deaf, blind
and weak, and hold firmly by the tenet
that peace with dishonor is preferable
to war however honorable. T" -
Greene County herald., 1908-08-21

By their request and volunteer
expense, we devote this little block
of space to directing the attention
of our readers to the new reading
to the ad of the National Bank of
Commerce of Hattiebsurg and an
article from them in this issue ex-
planning their recent consolidation
with the First National Bank of
that city, whereby the merged in
stitution operate now under one
business and name, viz: the First
National Bank of Commerce. This
bank by this means becomes very
strong indeed financially and is to
be congratulated on the strength
of its directorate personnel. In
that list are found a number
the names of the best financiers of
this section of the state.
Greene County herald., 1908-08-21
Other Editors Chatter
lg9Ss!S9!S y!
BUSINESS CONDITIONS AND CROPS.

Sou. Farm Gazette
1t is an economic as well as
physical law that the processes of
recuperation are always slower
than the processes OF destruction,
law that has been proving itself for
many months. The panic passes,
but the depression it caused lin
gers; the depres ion grows less
perceptible but the wonted vigor
and volume of business does not
return, though all agree that it is
in prospect. The feeling that
there will be good harvests of corn
and cotton through out the South.
give hope of improved business
| conditions in all lines of trade.
All these things can be seen in the
near future, but for the present
there are two or three elements OF
uncertainty which operate against
the fuller resumption of business
confidence. Of course, there is
the Presidential election these
Presidential campaigns seldom help
business except among the poll :
ticians. Then there is the uncer-
tainty of prices, especially of cot
ton. Already with the non-revi-
val of business activity and the
prospect of a good crop there is
talk of ten cents a minimum for
this season and cotton rarely sells
for more than the minimum fixed
by those who grow it. Another
unsatisfactory element of the bus
mess situation. which aff1icts far
mers as we'll as other classes, is
the threat and efforts oft he rail-
roads to make an increase in al
ready high freight rates. This
conflict between the railroads and
their patrons, reaching from the
collectors office at every freight
station to the Supreme Court of the
United States does not yet seem
near enough to its end to have any
good effect upon business conditions.
Greene County herald., 1908-08-21
What Will Restore BusineSS?>

Labor is q distinct interest, like
capital, is chiefly CO.. cerned with be-
ing proitably occupied. Work for
everybody at good wages, aud under
reasonable conditions, is what the
wage earning classes chiefly desire,-
IN so far as they have economic mo-
tive that dominates their action in
public atfsirs. For some mouths past,
following the monetary panic of last
autumn, there has been widespread
industrial depression, with the result
OF the stoppage of more than half of
the mills and factories of the country.
Workingmen of Republican procliv-
tiles are not likely to believe that the
full resumption of business activity
would be accelerated by the election
of Mr.. Bryan. Business men as a
class do not dislike uncertainty. They
would regard Taft S election as involv-
ing less uncertainty than Bryan S. If
the Republicans are kept in full pow
er, they will have to cal with three
large situations affecting business.
First, they will be expected to
amend the railway laws in order, on
the one hand, to give the railroads a
better chance to make agreements
and to earn profits, and, on the other,
to bring them ut certain points under
better regulation. Second, the Sher-
man Anti, Trust law must be modified
SO that it may not be a menace to
leUitimata bnSinaSS Third the tar
iff must be revised as quickly as pos
sible. These things being done, there
should for several years be no agita-
tion of changes in the tatutes that
would affect conditions in a funda-
mental way. The result would be a
period of well-justiied prosperity
From "The Progress of the world,
i'll the American Review of Reviews
for August.