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The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-08

to the store and I very soon had the title of Dr., that has always clung to me since.
 There will never be another winter like the winter of '99 in Nome. In the spring of 99 there wasn't a house in ..eme and in September city of D. 900 of us in all kinds of business. This, was the most exciting winter in the history of Nome When you woke in the morning you were likely to find a tent pitched in front of your door or your place of business staked out for a mining claim. Surprises of all kinds were continually awaiting you, We we're exiled for six months without hearing from the outside. We knew that there would be great rush in the spring, as so many had gone out who had washed out from five to ten thousand on the beach in few weeks that summer and we were all getting ready for the rush. Lumber went up to $500 per thousand and you could not get enough at that. I bought all the real estate that I could in the city. In the spring there was a great demand for lots to pitch tents in to do business and I used to get from ten to fifteen per day for some. I collected my rents every day for fear it would amount to too much for them.
 In two weeks time S0,000 landed on the beach. The streets were thronged night and day although we have no night during the summer as the sun shines all the time.
 Nothing poisonous grows in Alaska, Not a reptile or poisonous insect ex- cept mosquitoes and flies. Alaska has the most bracing and invigorating air in the world. Of course our winters are cold but it is a steady cold for five or six months and you get used to It and like it with the thermom- eter 40 below. Al Nome it is not as bad as five below in New York. Our summers al Nome are usually beauti- ful with the temperature from 40 to so above most of the time and we raise some of the finest and largest vegetables in the world.
 There could never he a greater misconception in regard to a geogra- phical fact. than the popular idea that Alaska is a snow covered waste. As q matter of fact one can travel from ! one end of the Youkon to the other, 2.500 miles in the summer and never see an ysnow. Alaska in very few years will surprise the world with her great resources and possibilities.
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shores. Thousands became discour- aged, sold out and went back alter months of work to get in. because they saw so many people they thought there was no chance for them.
 1t was very hot in Dawson City and there was a great deal of sickness, so we went up on the hill overlooking the city and built our cabin. The boys took a lay cn claim for the winter several miles out and l stayed home.
 Tom Shell and became partners ae Mir Myers was sent to Eagle by the government and the other ooys went away. The fall of 99, the flrst news of the strike in Nome reached us. Dr. Runugar came to me and said if we would go to Nome he would go with us: that we would open drug stcre. q ieHelry store. Aas Tom was a ieNcler. and he would practice medi- cine. We bought drug outfit and started for Nome the 18th of Septem- Der.
 Septenaher sS we landed at Nome. opened the Pioneer drug store and iewelrv store and Dr. Runugar com nenced practice I cornered all the drugs T could. It was thought perfect lv legitimate to corner anything: coal was s150 per ton and wood $40 per cord. and I was selling drugs that cost 40 cents per pound in Nome for SIS per pound.
 was putting up all prescriptions that came in. in 2 verv short time and if I didn't have what the prescription called for I put up the nearest thing tn it Every one supposed ! was q s1ll-fedeed druggist also a doctor. as Dr Ru~v~ar r-as making 50 calls a dav at Stn per call and when be was out took care of the ones who came
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NEW HAVEN TO NOME Lively Experience of 8 Native in the Wilds of
 Alaska.
PERIL L0US EXPLORATION
A Wonder City That Grew Thous- ands in Population Over
 Night.

Mir Alfred Henry punham, a for mer resident of New Haven and now g resident of Nome. Alaska, lectured last evening in the Sheffield Scientific course at the College Street hall. A large and enthusiastic audience fol- lowed him with increasing interest and applauded loudly his many views.
 MT Dunham said in part:
 The fail of 91 Mir Meyers of the |. $. Sienal service and my self con. oeivcd of the idea of taking a years vacation in the NlonGike. I went on to southern California and spent the winter He got a years vacation from the eaN.lhl ne Jn in February and met me at Seattle. Mir. Robinson ,f the stanford University an1 MT Ward Of Yale also joined Us We hired an Austrian wno was sailor to go with us which made five in our
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-08

Perhars you would feel better said tho hopeful and helpful person. If you world do something to Tighten the hearts of your fellow men
 That's just what I nave been do- ing, answered MT Sirius Barker My lat blew off and I had to chase # two blocks s"-Wa sllington Star
 The widow has promised to marr,- me
 sure she promised to?'
 of course I ann What do you n,ean7
 "l thought perhaps ycu couldn't tell promise from a threat Houston Post
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-01-23
PROHIBITIONIST
THE LEAGUES ATTACK
National Committees Representative
Replies to American Issues As
sault on Prohibition Party

lin recent number The National Pro
hibitionist commented upon an editorial
utterance of the american Issue in
which that paper, the official organ of
the Anti-Saloon league, severely criti-
cized the position of the Prohibition
party, exhorted the American public
to keep moral reforms out of politics"
and pronounced it fatal mistake to
identify the temperance reform with the
fortune of any one party" The article
which follows is a criticism of that edi-
torial from the pen of DR.. J. B. Gran
fill, member of the national committee
from the state of Texas, and employed
by the national committee as one of its
press representatives The article is sent
out in the news service of the national
chairman and may in sense be con-
sidered the official reply of the Prohl-
bition party to the Anti Saloon Leagues
criticism-Editorial Motel
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-01-23
January %, 1908.

platform a plank advocating what is
known as the County unit law" which
is nothing more nor less than losSl
option provision for dealing with fhe
liquor business. The result was that the
Democrats of Kentucky-thousands Of
thenl-voted the Republican ticket and
placed the Republicans in power. l do
not hesitate to say from a thorough
knowledge of the temper of the rank
and file of southern Democrats, among
whom I was born and have lived all my
life, that if the national Republican party
should place Prohibition plank in its
platform, and the Democrats should re-
adopt their age-old utterance in favor of
the liquor business, that number of the
states of the South would go Republi-
can.
But none of these things yet have
happened, and all references to possible
action on the part of the Republican,
or Democratic parties is purely specu-
lative What we do know is that there
is one national party in American poli-
tics-the national Prohibition party
which stands three hundred and sixty
five days of every year, (and this in
cludes election day., for the annihila-
ton of the liquor traffic in its every
phase. Undoubtedly the editor of the
american Issue had his eyes and ears
closed and was not in the enjoyment Of
any of his natural senses when he said:
'It is unwise to make a moral issue
depend upon the success of a purely
political organization, because that issue
goes down with the defeat of the party,
which stands for it."
The national Prohibition party has
been in the field of American politics
for almost forty years. 1t has steadilp-
announced its candidates and p1at9S
with the recurrence of every national
election, and in the states it has pursued
similar course in the state elections
Nationally it has not yet achieved what
politicians call success. Every time the
vote has been cast and counted it ha
been found that we have met what TIL
american Issue would call defeat but
it has never been true in the s1ightes
degree that the Prohibition isue ha
gone down with the defeat of the party
which has stood for it. On the con-
trary, the Prohibition party has been de-
feated at the polls AS national party,
we have not yet elected our men, but
as national party we are electing OUT
issue, and I do not hesitate to say that
the work of the Prohibition party, in
persistently calling attention to the IL
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-01-23
A HOT PREACHER

lost him. Can you guess the reason
why?
1t was more fun than circus to
lead him down to the trap. He thought
never heard anyone talk that way
before.
mo, l will not sign that" he de-
clared after reading the Pledge. 81
believe in only slice at a time"
What would be your slice?" | asked.
ooh, | would use local option, where
possible-raise the license to $1,000, have
Sunday closing enforced, stop prostitu-
ton, etc"
Then what?"
81 would keep ahead of the reform
and, as soon as these things were ac-
complished, | would segregate the sa
looms to business districts, and end the
sales in the residence districts"
Then what?"
Then, | suppose, would back up to
the whole loaf-just keep ahead of the
, existing conditions"
"You say you are in favor of local
option?"
Eyes"
/ $50 is Adolphus Busch, of Anheuser-
/ Busch Brewing Association. All the
!. papers in the land. announced that the
other day. He paid them to. The
Model License League of America is to
organize branch here on the sixteenth
and it is announced that they propose
to work for $1,000 license, no women,
] and no gambling, Sunday closing, law
| enforcement, restriction of number and
! location of saloons. Did you not read
! that?"
/: mo"
'Well, it's a fact, brother, and it's
! time for you to back up again. You
i will have to turn around and run to
/ catch up even with the liquor interests.
i The liquor men grant all you ask and
claim they will enforce it, if you will
/ please give them life. Let me help you
/ to get one jump ahead of the saloon
] 100 Pledges on cardboard rs cents,
postpaid.
/, 100 Pledges on bond paper in tab
lets, is cents.
|. These supplies can be ordered from
e. w. MASON, Supt, Royal Oak,
Mich, to whom all signed pledges
should be. returned. If you desire an
answer to your letter to Mr.. Mason,
inclose cents.
|, Certificates of Membership will be
furnished without cost.
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bition party to the Anti Saloon Leagues
criticism-Editorial Motel
From the logic of these utterances it
would appear that Abraham Lincoln
made "a fatal mistake" when he identi-
fed the moral reform concerning the
slavery question with the particular
political" Republican party. The fact
is that all of the vehement utterances
of northern philanthropists had harm
lessly dissolved in the crcumambient air
until they assumed a concrete form, and
the Republican national party became
the political expression of the moral re-
form that had hitherto been dissipated
in poetic eloquence and pathos. If there
had been no Republican party to seek
and to obtain the reins of our govern
ment through political party action, the
negroes of the South would still be in
slavery, and that issue would still chal-
1enge the soulful eloquence of poet,
priest and orator 1t thus appears that
the editor of the american Issue needs
to date himself up. He is certainly fifty
years behind the American procession
concerning the relation that must sub
sist between moral reforms and political
achievements.
This wise and sapient editor further
+1,ot 81 Of
sity have number of issues in its plat
form It is not at all necessary that a
political party have a number of issues
in its platform. If that be true, what is
to become of the Democratic and Re-
publican parties? If either of these par
ties has an issue in its platform, it would
take a combination telescope and mi
croscope to discover it to the natural
eye and then it would take the greatest
American surgeon with his most delicate
touch to enuc1eate it and give it local
habitation and name.
Another grievous error of this Anti
Saloon League organ is the statement
that eff Prohibition were identified ex-
clusively with the national Republican
party, then Prohibition would be fought
by the Democrats of the South, and
would go to the wall universally in that
section" I do not wish to even seem
to be unkind in my criticism of this edi-
tor, but I am bound to say that this last
quoted paragraph does not contain even
the semblance of truth We have fresh
illustration of the colossal fallacy of
every word that it contains. The first
Tuesday in November last, the state of
Kentucky was Democratic state, and
had been SO for years. The Republi-
cans in that state had placed in their
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-01-23

Conditions of Membership: Signature of Pledge attached The
Subscribers The Ma
PRoHIBIuoNIsT, Sgners Subscribers.
Everym will of Membership
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-01-23
Some Cases in Point

MIR. Levi Hoag OF B1nghamton,
N. Y, Mr.. R. L. Herrick, one of Our
most successful "Ask Club" members,
and the Superintendent were discussing
the ease with which men sign the
Voters Pledge.
Drifting into church canvassing, Mr.
Hoag said, Il do not believe you could
secure three men in my church to sign
that"
Sure, you could get 60 percent, any
way" said the Superintendent, "if you
would only ask"
Don't believe it," answered Mr..
Hoag
"Ill try" said Mr.. Herrick, "and get
you the three names, although | am 800
miles away"
Mr. Herrick avrote direct and secured
the three names in less than one week.
It's easier than rolling off log"
Recently Mr.. Herrick called at Willis,
Mich, and secured seven signers in
two hours, with former politics as fol-
lows:
Republican, 1.
Democrat, 3.
Socialist, 1.
Prohibition, 2.
"A local pastor accompanied Hlll anu,
as fast as man was landed and the
workers were outside the door, he would
exclaim: 81 never thought you could
get that man." well, that beats any
thing | ever heard of"
Six men were either business or pro-
fessional men into whose place Mr.
Herrick went to post bill One was
farmer and a customer at a store. Mr..
Herrick never saw the town before.
The pastor and Mr.. Herrick took
dinner at the hotel-no bar.
Il might get the proprietor to sign
said Mr. Herrick.
The pastor did not believe it.
"He is good fellow and never allows
drink around, but he is Democrat
and an-Irish Catholic" he said.
We'll try him."
He signed
That's great!'
The country is ripe for the Prohi-
bition party, and all you need to do is
to ask. Draw no lines on Irish Cath
Ole" or any other kind of Catholic
or Free Methodist
Ask! Ask!
TIC votes we want
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-01-23

men, The saloon men in action are
ahead of you in thinking"
Join with us now," | said as I again
handed him the pledge he had refused
to sign, "and you will be in a position
to help Stay this monster. Won't you
sign now?"
mo"
What was the matter with that
preacher?
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-01-23
PROHIBITION PARTY

Believing that the license system is the buwark of the
Liquor Traffic. hereby promise that will for
Political Party that fails declare openly legazng
q such traffic. and that order press this into
the question order for settlement will
the Prohibition Party Local. State and National
+: politics.
:: X r. d. or Street No..
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-07-24
Press Paragraphs

x Tomatoes, the first of the season, a
Dell Bros.
Will M. Peterson was up from Pen
dleton yesterday.
Household goods for sale cheap. In
quire at tie Press Office.
\ XAttorney Wilson made professional
visit TO Pendleton Wednesday.
Able Jones was up from Pendleton
Sunday visiting his parents here.
Y The thermometer registered IO4 in
the shade at Freewater, Monday.
Mrs. Green Estes and Mrs. G. H.
Sailing drove to Milton yesterday.
Cucumbers, cantelopes and string
beans, just received at Dell Bros.
Mr.. and Mrs. u. H. Preston were in
the city Saturday from Waitsburg.
Sherif T. d. Taylor was attending
to business in this vicinity yesterday.
Millard Kelly has returned from a
sheep shearing trip through Montana.
Mrs. Jane Watts is visiting at the
Brace home on Wild Horse creek this
week.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Ellis Pinkerton have
been visiting friends at Weston this
week.
Chas. Belts was confined to his
home a part of the week on account of
sickness. .,,.a.1ass,
Miss Carrie Sharp this week visited
at Eltopia. WASH, where she may
accept school.
j. NJ. Hayes was up from Pendleton
Sunday and visited his daughter, Mrs.
Frank Berlin near town.
Sidney Murphy came up from Port
land Wednesday and is visiting friends
in Weston and this city.
Mrs. Henry Koepke arrived home
this week from visit with friends at
AOp Au6o4Ccs 0uAAAOAu4ds
Byron Hawks and Tom Taggart
fished with considerable success in
Meacham creek, Sunday.
Mrs. Otis Whiteman will leave next
week for Elgin, Wallowa county,
where she will visit friends.
Mayor Plamondon has so far recov-
cred as to Ee able to be at his place of
business portion of the time.
Mrs. Porter Graham. pioneer Wes-
ton lady, fell from cherry tree Mon
day and was seriously injured.
Andy Erickson, section foreman on
the o. r. & N. at Blue Mountain sta
tion has recovered from diphtheria.
Mr.. Taylor, of Colfax, Wash, ar
rived in the city Sunday and is guest
of his daughter, Mrs. Fred Johnson.
Miss Hazel Wilson, who has been
visiting her sister Mrs. w. G. Russell,
has returned to her home at Waits
burg.
Henry Adams was up this week from
Columbia Canyon, and returned next
day. His health is considerably i'm
proved.
The Quakers and their show have
left for pastures new. They left lots
of medicine and bunch of punk jokes
behind.
AMiss Irma Weir, who visited friends
here and at Weston for several days,
left for her home at Washtucna, Wash,
Monday.
Mrs. Frank Coolidge is expected
home tomorrow from an extended visit
with friends at Hood River and Moro,
Sherman county.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. A. Pinkerton's fine
new home is nearing completion, and
will be ready for occupancy immedi-
ately after harvest.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Fischer, par ents
of Mrs. Will Miller, have recently sold
their property in Salem and removed
to Stockton. Calf.
Wanted-A driving team. Horses
from $50 to 1000 lbs. desired. Would
purchase single horse of same
weight. DR.. Heisley.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E. Owen came over
yesterday from the farm near Walla
Walla,. and are visiting their daugh-
ter, Mrs. Clyde WiIlaby.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-01-23

train gave a start, and the lad
was thrown to the rails and the
wheels crushed his chest, caus-
ing his death. There were also
some injuries to his head, but
it was crushing Of the chest
that caused his death.
The family, which consisted
of the father and mother, six
sons, including Roy, and three
daughters, resides at 1901
Eighth avenue and the remains
of the boy were taken there
shortly after the accident. No
arrangements have as yet been
made for the funeral.
The accident occurred near
the Rock Island roundhouse.
World Herald.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mann were
former residents of Missouri
Valley and lived in Willow
Park.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-01-23

An Exchange says: can Irish
man one day went into a barber
shop to get shaved. After he
was seated and the lather about
half applied, the barber was
called to an adjoining room,
where he was detained for some
tirae. The barber had in the
shop a pet monkey which was
continually initiating his mas
ter. AS soon as the barber left
the room the monkey grabbed
the brush and proceeded to fin
lsh lathering the Irishman's
face. After doing this he took
a razor from its case and strap
ped it and then turned to the
lrishman to shave him. 'Shtop
that said the latter. 'Ye can
tuck the fowl in me neck and
put the soap on me face, but
begorrah, your father y got to
shave me-"
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-01-23
Boy Killed by Train

Roy Mann, the IL year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Mann,
was crushed to death beneath a
Rock Island freight train about
10 o'clock yesterday morning,
following an attempt by him to
climb across the line of the
train.
The lad was alone at the
time of the accident and none
of the train crew saw it. DR..
Treynor, the coroner, was TN
able to find any eye witnesses
of the accident, but from all
that he could learn there was
no thought that the train crew
was to blame, and he will lold
no inquest over the remains.
It seems that the lad was at
tempting to cross the lire Of
cars, and as he was elm bing
between two freight cars, the
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-01-23

from raised by irrigation, as it
seldom rains here in the Sum-
mer season: This country is so
different from the east, the eli
mate is peculiar; while it is nice
and warm here in the valley,
we can see snow on the noun
tains, over sixty miles away,
and they don't look to be over
tenn miles distant. There has
been snow in sight, on the Blue
Mountains eversince the first of
October last.
| am told that there is three
saloons in this town, but have
not seen a drunk man here, nor
have l heard a man swear an
oath since l have been in the
west.
get The Missouri Valley
Times to read every week by
the kindness of Mrs. j. P. Mar
tin of your city.
AS ever your friend,
B. Branson.
January 18th 1908.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-01-23
DIED IN MITCHELL
j. II. Harker to be Buried in
Los Angeles.

T. Max Foster today received
word that j. H. Harker died
several days ago in Mitchell.
South Dakota.
Harker and his parents Mr..
and Mrs. j. H. Harker, are we'll
known in Sioux City. They
are related to the Blenkiron
family here. Some time ago
the Harker family sold their
property in Mitchell and went
to Los Angeles. A Short time
ago Harker returned u Mitchell
to settle the Geal and while in
the north contracted pneumonia
and died. His parents were
notified and went to Mitchell.
Today the body of their son
was brought to Sioux City by
Mr.. and Mrs. Harker. After
remaining here a few hours the
remains were taken on to Los
Angeles, where the interment
will be made. Sioux City
News, January 18.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-01-23
Communication.

Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho.
Friend Times: Il will try to
write you few lines, which if
you think proper, you can rut
in the Weekly Times, if not just
drop it into the waste basket.
| am stopping just now with
my daughter, Mrs. G. o. Kirk
endall, in this place. We have
had a very nice fall and winter
up to this time; no cold weatE er
to speak of, we have had a light
snow just before Christmas,
but it soon melted away, and
left no frost in tho ground. /
went out to the garden today
and picked a mess of lettuce, It
was green and tender as in the
spring, and grew in the garden
without any protection; and
Oscar was digging post holes on
yesterday and found fishworms
living near the top of the
ground. TIE weather here is
very mild with no disagreeable
wind, not enough to run a wind
mill to pump water.
The people here are sociable,
mostly from Iowa, Nebraska,
and the Dakotas, with very
few from the old countries.
The people here all seem to
be doing well, but don't seem to
have much to do; they have
plenty o,eat and to wear and
satisfied. The town is a very
nice, quiet place to live in, and
have all kind of churches except
Primitive Baptists and Adven-
tist.. This is a great fruit and
stock country, and all kinds of
small grain and sugar beets, al
falfa hay is the main crop. Al
falfa is cut three times each
year, the last two cuttings is