The Alaska citizen., 1911-03-06
DR. YOUNG TALKS
 OF ALASKA
ASSURES NEW WORKERS LLOYD PARTY CLIMBED MOUNT
 M'KlNlEY.

NEW YORK. Feb. 3. Dr. S. Hall Young. who for the past 33 years has been establishing churches in Alaska wherever gold strikes in new regions set prospcCtOrs a-trek- king. is in town arranging for four new recruits in the missionary field in Alaska and leCturing on his ex- periences. He said yesterday that neither he nor any one else of the i5,00o male inhabitants of the ter ritory had the slightest doubt that the Fairbanks expedition led by Tom Lloyd had reached the top of Mount Mckinley last April. The expedition which, besides Lloyd, consisted of three other men - Charles McGon- igle, William R. Taylor and a dog sledges, was financed by Will jam McPhee, an old miner and saloon keeper of Fairbanks. and August Petersen of Fairbanks.
 Bill McPhee is one of my best and oldest friends" said Dr Young. "even though his business isn't quite the same as mine Any one would take Bill McPhee's word for any thing, and he has perfect faith that the Lloyd party reached the summit and so has everybody else in Alas ka
 As for Dr. Cook, who discovered the ton of the continent no one in Alaska believed him. Why, the men in the launch which took him mp the Chulitna river say that he was only gone from the launch two weeks. So none of us believed him when he said he'd discovered the north pole.
 T have seen Mount Mckinley from three sides and believe that the ap- preach from the Fairbanks siue is the most feasible way of reaching the top. because it is gradual. where as the south or Chulitna river ap- proach, which Dr. Cook took, is pre- cipitous. Nobody in Alaska believes that the summit can be reached i'll summer. The Fairbanks expedition left in December with two dog teams which, l believe they took all the way. They went along leisurely up the Cantwell river. camping here and there. and fol- lowing the northern ridge above the glacier In March they arrived at the base, and in the latter part of this month, when the sun had hardened the snow crust and there was no fresh snow or any danger of avalanches, they made the dash to the summit.
 We have only their say and their diary to prove that they reach ed the top. but nobody in Alaska, nor any one who knows them doubts that they got there All the men were thoroughly acquainted with the region, having prospected around there"
 Dr. Young said he didn't believe the story that the flag on Mount Mckinley, which is 2O.5OO feet high and makes Mount Rosa 15,217 feeD and the Mattahorn 14.7S0 feeD seem mere foothills. could be seen from Fairbanks.
 The doctor went to Alaska in 1875, and four years later establish ed the first Protestant church in Alaska at Wrangle. He has been twice down the full length of the Yukon river in an open boat, and in 1897, during the rush to Klondike, he established church at Dawson, going from there to Eagle. Rampant and Nome in 1899. From there he went successively to Teller, Coun- cil and Fairbanks, where he estab- lished church in 1904. In 1908 he went to Cordova.
 q think" said he, that the popu- lation of Alaska, 45OOO men, is equal to any other body in the world in intelligence, and none of us can understand the reluctance of the United States to allow us to elect our own officers, and make our own laws. We are only allowed to elect a delegate to congress. Our present delegate James Wicker sham, was for seven years Judge in Fairbanks, and the best Judge Alaska ever had. He was elected over the Labor and the regular Re- publican candidate on home rule platform"
 Dr. Young will return to Alaska next summer to take the first good vacation he has had for years hunt ing polar bear and walrus in Boring sea. His son-in-law, Captain Klein schmidt is now on an expedition getting polar birds.
 
 Carter Still Leading.
 HELENA, Feb. 2s. - Five bal