Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-08-13

Washing Washington was not only
ton, French held In the highest esteem
Marshal. by the French people
during his lifetime and In
the intervening years. but there Is a
good authority for the belief that he
held n commission In the French army
as an officer of the highest rank--that
of marshal, In forthcoming history
OF Frederick county. Maryland, the evil
dence In support of this is given. This
evidence is In the form of a letter from
Mr.. O., w. Park Custls to Col. Anthony
Kimme. OF Frederick county. In a
conversation between several gentlemen
In Frederick i'm 1857 one OF the party
said that he had porcelain mug with
a picture upon IL OF Washington and
under II the inscription. George Wash
ington, Esq, Gencral-in- Chief OF the
United states Army and Marshal of
France Colonel Kimmel said he would
write To his friend, Mr.. @. w. Z. Custis
the then surviving member Of the
Washington household, and ask him II
IL were true that Washington was an
officer in the French army, Mr. Gus
It's promptly responded that IL was
true and gave the proofs. II became
necessary to give Washington this COM
mission In order to confer upon him au-
thority over the Count de Rochambeau,
who was an old lieutenant general and
marshal or the king in person. When
the French troops were to be sent TO
America the difficulty about the COM
mand arose. and II was settled this
way upon the suggestion Of Colonel
I.aurens, the special ambassador 10
France Mr.. Custis gave proofs or the
facts This matter does not seem To
have been mentioned in any OF the
standard lives of Washington. But Mr..
Gusts evidence is strong. and the fact
that Virginia Is presenting 10 France
n statue of high French official Is
most interesting Baltimore sun
Land The Gulf Of Alaska ana
TO Loot, Bering Sea are lined with
Alaska. lonesome shores Though
the fur hunter and the
fisherman for whom we bought the
wilderness came at intervals to sur
prise the bighorn and the sea, the vast
slumber OF the ages was not disturbed
until IL summers ago when George
Carmack and his Indian companions.
"Tagish Charley" and "Shookum jim
on Bonanza Creek found big pay on
their trail When this news OF wonder
ful wealth spread round the world, tins
rospectors--courageou reckless pio.
tneers-hurried into the Yukon ana
then down the broad river valley INTO
Alaska. Here was buud rot only
gold but vast deposits OF coal ana
copper, iron and tin, great fore sts, ana,
what astonished even more, a great
country OF very real agricultural pos
abilities. For fourteen years the poor
miner with pick and pan, ana great
corporations with well-organized m
dustrial equipments. have been looting
the territory, leaving little behind 10
show for the vast wealth they carry
away. Against this confiscatlon there
nf
thousands who during these years have
come to call Alaska home. They court
the invasion OF enterprise and capital
on every portal they inscribe turing
WELCOME" But they plead for that
industrial invasion that builds school
houses. churches, court houses ran
roads cItIes-Empire. With proven
facts they support their claim that the
last lone land" has every right to
take It's place among the common
,yeaIths OF the Western world. Find
ing II profitable to perpetuate Wild
erness, the Hudson's Bay company
persistenly blocked settlement IN
Western Canada for nearly century
But Il could not always hold out against
the crowding need Of the world, and
the impossible country has clear
Is demonstrated its possibility. In
much the same way the fur trading
companies which for many years Writ
ually owned Alaska, and held mon
opoly on the fur trade, kept out set
tiers end competition. Press agents
were employed to write down" Alas
ka, bclittle the resources. eNaggerate
the severity OF It's climate. and dis
courage Investment and immigration.
For these holding companies and pei
agic sealers In a devastating slaugh-
ter have literally killed seals by the
millions. And in the interior the trap
pers and hunters found the same
wealth of hides and furs that had so
enriched the Hudson's Bay company
over the Dominion line. Apart from
its fur wealth. the greatest fishing
waters I'm the world are probably those
Of the Alaskan seas and her tidal
streams.-Casey Moran in Golfers for
August s.