Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-09-03
RICHMOND TIMES DISPATCH: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 1916

Is Il tall whit" tower beside the wind
min, and a drinking place AT the front.
Eagle. has u nrst-clasS saloon. but il
mas no public school | asked one OF
the women why tins was She replied:
ne only rcvcnu" the town has is thu,
Siooo license paid by the saloon. and
IL takes all Of that To keep IN the
town pump"
| CIRCLE ~ ANOTHER
HAiF-DESERTED VILLAGE
leaving Eagle our next stop was at
circle. another halr-dcscrtcd village
living on the memories of its past II
spra'iG up in 1892. when gold was dis
covered on Birch Creek, ncar-hy and
q htile later II had population OF
LOU" miners. Then the gold began to
play out. ana the most OF the men left
IN the stampede To tho Klondike IT
mas now many abandoned homes lna,io
VI logs. store or so and Il restaurant
inc population altogether is zoo or
"V"' l'nfing my stay ! called al the.
restaurant. and its owner. Fred Brent
iihscr, showed me a pair of Arctic.
ON h"fhS which he had dug from the
prehistoric ice thirty feet under the
rround These horns measure three
i'c' from up TO tip ana arc in good
preservation. asked him tho pricc
81 n
whol" country has the remains Of nre-
historic, animals locked up i'm vaults
OF perpetual ice. In the klondili. they
have dug up the bones of maStodonS
ahh other giant animals of the past:
ana nearly every, town has great,
ivory tusk or skeleton Of AN animal
mat lived in Alaska before the ice az"
began. They sell curios made of such
ivory III many of the stores. and if
one wants ,usli or tooth some nun
dred thousand years old. it is easy to
get il,
hrcn,linGcr. tho man who owns tho
Arctic OK horns. has two cub bears
each Of which lives in a ,cu-gallpu KEY.
BACK of the restaurant They ar" as
black as ink and as lively as llittons
~" has named them Teddy and Niger
Teddy is tho Fighter and he acts tho
part of tho hero in every battle with
Niger.
/, is wonderful how tame these
ALASKAN bears become when caught as
cubs and treated as pctS nnd some
IN every mining settlement. There arc
wv" here al Fort Yukon within a
stones throw of where tn. steamer
lands They watch for the stranger
ana VIII cat and drink ont OF his hand
i have amused myself fcediu., then,
pop out OF bottle. huv tn" pop 1T
20 cents II glass at Jim Haley's road
house. and tho bears Viii drink il ont
or the bottle while hold il in MY
hand or ! can xiv" tho bottle TO G:ruin
ana lie VIII sit down and drink it,
I have Experimental hero with talk
Ing photographs at midnight Mn
snapshots ar" fairly good, aud with a
gentle squeeze Of tho bulb get the
best of results Fort Yukon is lust
inside the Arctic circle" and at this
time Of the year il is light for twenty
four hours. II is tho most uorthcrlv
point on the Yukon River and tourists
VIII be brought ncr" over the White
Pass route in tho future To see tho
midnight sun. Eighty such came this
year and they had a magnificent view
of the great orb as ii hovcrcd over tho
horizon ana then rose again
Fort Yukon has been Of rrca, inn
portancc as mining center II is
better known as a fur-tradiuy statinn.
The Hudson Bay Company used to
come here 10 hay furs. and hoatloads
arc now brought down the Porcupine
River by tho indians ANA other fur
traders. 1t is here that the rorcupinc
flows into tho Yukon. u rises not far
from the lower Mackenzie and flows
for 500 miles through Canada and
Alaska to its mouth at TINS point II
is navigablc for n25 miles. or as far
as Rampant House. on the other side
OF tho international boundary ono Of
tour passengers is ban Cadzo the ,rad-
cr. who lives at that place
DAN ChDXO Is BIGGEST
TRiDER OF FAR NoI,yII
Every one in Alaska has heard Of
Dan cadzo. He is ono Of the biggest
traders of the far North. Cadzo is con
tent TO live almost all alone III the
wilds. His home is 200 miles from tn.
nearest white settlement It is about