The daily Alaskan., 1908-09-14
WHAT IS GOING ON IN SEAGWAY

WHAT IS GOING ON IN SEAGWAY
 A CODY of the Duly AiasEau pub- lished at skagway. bearing date of Sat. urday, August l5, throws some interest IIng light on the conditions of life in the far north Territory, The local item most prominently displayed on the front page reports the completion Of the largest Hume in the world and the intention to start the water through it on Sunday, August 10. This big Hume was built to supply the Porcupine mine: it is (, ,2sO feet long, 3S feet wide and feet deep. It containg 100000 cubic feet of lumber and cost S2OO,OOO. This, with some miscellaneous facts about the Porcupine mines, Is told in 600 words under couble column head lire in letters an inch high.
 Of almost equal importance is an in- terview between Sitka citizen and a bear. Itis told as follows;
 "sIrKA. August l5.-Captam ED THORNTON. with thc launch Waubash arrived here toe day from Rodman. bringing in w. G. Hoy TON, who was out prospecting In that section and met with bear. The encounter will a" into history as one Of the greatest bear lights of this section. HoYToN was very badly used up. He has no less than fifty wounds aud one cyc was torn away. He was i'm the woods alone for a wccl, after the encounter before being found, He Is In the hospital here aud it Is believed will get we'll"
 The postpOnement of ball game is announced thus:
 "On account of the impoSSlbility Of assem- bling the players here and the absence of the chief boosters for Fort Seward at this time the ball game to have been played here to- morrow has been postponed until Sunday oi next week.
 On the editorial page we get a glimpse of Territorial politics, They have jus, had an election for delegate to Goa. gross, and there is a good deal of bitter ness over it. Returns are slow in com ing in, but they are pleasing to tho Alaskm as appears in this pungent paragraph;
 "Thc more returns we get the bigger grows the vote for WrCKERsHNW and the wider Che breach between him and CoRsON. CoUsoN | has now dropped back among thc also rans.. CmLnERG, the unknown miner from Nome Is now the other candidate
 By way Of explaining what happened the Alaskar also prints the following, which 1t credits to the WhitehorSe Star:
 The result of the Alaska Congressional | election and WICKERSuAM's majority of up- ward Of GOO votes Is gratifying Co all who |have known JIM WICEERsHAM for twenty years. as has the editor ot the Star. WICKER SHAM is e good fellow and We congratulate | Ihim. CoRsON Is a good fellow and we extend to him our distinguished commIscration. | "WICKERsHAM's election was not due Co his | almighty popularity. CORSOS's defeat was not due Co his unpOpularlty. He was not un- p5puIar. Ills defeat was due Co the fact that Inc was the candidate ot Governor lIoGGArr and undoubtedly HoGGATr lS the most un' popuIar man in Alaska, He Is a misbt ot Che ranRcst kind and CoRsoN's defeat and WICK ERsHAM's election constitute a direct slap lh the face ot HoGGATr from the frccoon voters oi Alaska
 The editorial page also contains the news of the Yukon River Ice; and the church news, Under the latter heading the services Of Roman Catholic and a Presbyterian church are announced, The fleet news isa follows:
 Upstream Casca arrived at i:2o 2. M.ycs' tcrday.
 downstream Bonanza King passed lower I.cbargc at3 A.. M.; Casca left WhitchorSc a IaA. M. and passed lower Lcnargc at A. M.
 Next sailing Dawson. sunday
 The third page Is decorated with a pictorial heading "In Society,"" The picture shows lady reading, presum l ably the AlaSkOn. There is long ac count Of a "5OO party complimentary tc | Mrs. J. w. GARvIN," which was giver by Mrs. GEORGE ROSENBERG or
 Thursday afternoon. It is interesting to note that "the pretty home Of Mr' I lRosENBURG was tasteiully decorated il yellow and purple, the color schem being carried out with Skagway flow CTS " Another item tells of dime, given by Mir. and Mrs, E. J. SHAW il honor of some out of town guests. Th' house and table were decorated wtti red and white sweet peas. Then ther
 is week end excursion of a score o gentlemen and ladies to Bennett, lt T
 not so very unlike life near at hand even 10 the flowers,