El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-07-01

, go from Juneau and other parts OF our
territory to play the Canadians. and
last year Dawson sent a team to Fair
banks. seven hundred miles away. 10
comDeie for the international cham
piOnship north Of latitude 90 White
Horse. Canada. belongs 10 a baseball
league which also include Skagway-
Juneau and Douglas Island. This league
imports players from Seattle FaucOu-
yer and other coast towns, and il has
its annual games for supremacy
Among the most enthusiastic OF the
ball players are the Indians. Some of
the tribes have their own mines. which
come lonE distances TO compete with
the whites. last July a ball team
came from the Pelly river, several hun
dred niles away. 10 Dawson to play
the team there The Indians were cop
per cOiored. long-haired. lusty braves.
and they ran like deers, playing in moe
casina
Tennis Popular Games.
Tennis is another game which Is COM
mon throughout the northwest Every
raentS- The Dawson Lawn TeQnis club
has a membership Of 80. and Il owns
two fine courts which were built at
cost o. $4,000. The courts are usually
flOored with boards. and this is
especially so along the coast where
the moist air makes the ground unfit
for games There are tennis courts and
baseball fields at many OF the mining
camps. and at Dominion Creek in the
KlOndike mining district, the people
celebrate Empire day. Dominion day
and the Fourth Of July with Caledonian
games, races and ball matches The
Yukon territory has so many Ameri-
cans that It commentaries the Fourth
OF July as well as the Canadian holt
days The people Of the two countries
are very friendly. and in business and
play they 20 hand in hand
Is Little Known Land.
In this connection, I am surprised at
the ignorance which prevails through
out tho United States as TO this part Of
the world Many Of our people evil
IDENTIFY think that the klOndike belongs
to Alaska and that Dawson is one of
its cities This ignorance even extends
10 some of the government officials At
Washington Not long ago one of the
high officers OF our postoffice depart
ment sent a letter OF ccnsure TO the
oSr7r-aster at Dawson. because he had
not been submitting his reports to the
department ~ Washington. He told
him Lhar he must report regularly. and
that l. Re did not Teceive a letter from
him within a few DAYS he would close
up the office The postmaster replied
that Dawson was the capital and chief
city Of Yukon territory. and that its
reports went only to the government
at Ottawa. The incident occasioned
greac Laughter in this part OF the world
and Lhe Dawson agent thought so much
Of it that he had the letter framed and
hung up in the postOffice
some Official Ignorance.
Similar ignorance prevails as TO
Alaska One OF the clerks Of our treas
ury department once wrote TO an Of
fetal at Sitka, when that town was the
capital, that the treasury had very few
blanks OF a certain kind that Sitka had
asked for, but that the Alaska official
might easily run across to Nome AMI
get some. as Nome had double supply.
Now Nome is as far from Sit5a as New
al il nHnHa rHnH 60
way there IS BY sea. and the voyage is
as long as from New York 10 Liverpool
and the steamers go once a month
Our people cannot appreciate the dis
tances in Alaska. BY the ordinary
summer route, II is from 1900 70 1000
miles from juneau 20 Fairbanks I
Neverthel ess. a merchant Of the latter
town told me he had Just received a
letter from a Boston firm, saying that
they had drawn upon HIM through
banking establishment at Juneau
Along the same line Of ignorance was
a letter received at juneau from a
Philadelphia merchant in response 10
an order for certain goods 70 be sent
c. q. D. The letter stated that the
Philadelphia firm could not send goods /
c. o. D to foreign countries
Among other instances of this kind {
are those which relate 20 the climate of !
Alaska. which is different in different :
sections Of the country one OF the
chief merchants OF CordOva told me how
he once ordered some wooden goods 1
from a Minnesota mill through an agent !
in Seattle The goods should have ar I
rived within 30 days Upon their failure Z
TO come the agent wrote the Minnesota
firm and received the reply that the or
der had not been filled as navigation
was already closed and there was no ]
use I'm making any shipment TO Alaska !
at that time Of the year. The truth is ]
that COrdOva is right on the Pacific 7
ocean. and the ships call there every /
week the year round
Mistakes Of Tourists Are Many.
Most Of the summer tourists who /