Seward daily gateway., 1926-10-04

ton at his own expense frankly to for ward his own interests or those of his community he gets a cordial recep- tion, if nothing more. It matters not if Jack himself has a few fur farms in the fire, if he warns up fur irons for all Alaska. Anyway Jack, single handed, has given us a law that puts fur farming on the public domain of Alaska on firm basis of legal right. And if Congress had given him day more, reindeer rights to moss, grass, brush, etc., would have been estab- lished.
 Jack is strong for the reindeer in- dustry but wants to see it shifted from the Seward peninsula over to- ward the Alaska railway, so that there
 will be more business for the railway
 and more railway for the business, but some assurance of grazing rights is necessary first; and besides Jack | is determined that the reindeer shall not be allowed to ruin the moss
 ranges of the north the way unre-
 stricted cattle have spoiled the grass
 ranges of the South.
 What Jack thinks about Repre- senta- tive Frees idea of abandoning the AL
 aska railway would make printed lines more shocking than polite; and
 indeed the same is true of most of
 Frees squirrelan philosophy of Alas
 ka, which Jack puts in the same cate
 gory with Webster's famous speech
 about the worthlessness of the Pacific
 Northwest.
 ! And still we have not informed our readers greatly concerning this Jack
 McCord. He was first discovered in
 Iowa about forty years ago; and at a
 later period was found trying to bet bachelors degree by working his way when he fell in with the late Sen
 ator Cummins, then governor of Iowa
 who said to him, "Son, you ought to be up and doing, not just spending spare time in college studies" At the moment this advice was rendered Jack was trying, as scholastic side line, to show an old farmer named pay. Somehow Harbach got an idea that Jack was a young capitalist, and when the latter announced his intend ed up-and-doing departure for all points west and north of Iowa, the old farmer was curious to know what Jack was planning to do with his money. Jack explained that he had purchased ranch (entirely mythicaD in North Dkaota; whereupon Harbach offered him his finest cattle for the stocking of the ranch.
 That put it up to Jack to have a
 ranch to make good with, and he was |school-teaching and selling land in the
 f1ickertail state for that objective
 when he fell for the lure of Sunny Southern Alberta" At Winnipeg he
 was refused job and transportation as railway construction worker in the
 promised land because of his then slight figure. Nothing daunted Jack boarded the navy's train, appointed himself straw boss Of the gang, col Ilected all the tickets and handed them to the train conductor who didn't in-
 quire for Jacks own ticket. Arrived lat Kicking Horse Pass or whereabouts Jack appointed himself school-teach- CT, the government later confirming him in office. Not having habita- tion he billeted himself on a grabbed old prospector, who growled and re- monstrated but couldn't get rid of his guest, until the wanderlust again drove him to the trail.
 The trail came to Seattle and a steamer about to depart for Katella, Alaska, lacking most of the laborers who had signed up. The captain eagerly accepted Jack, but required a blanket roll. Not having roll or money Jack was non-plussed. With the ship due to sail in fifteen minutes he rush.