The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 2, 1914, Page 11

This is Seward, on Resurrection bay, one of the most beautiful places in Alaska SEWARD, Alaska, May 2.—Now} that the government has decided | 4 most likely clare that the "ihas the it has been picked by Unprejudiced government officials ) eastern end of Kenai peninsula and) government's field tests best climate in Alaska . |for one terminal is here at Seward, |. “ 4 to build railroads in Alaska the big] OY Resurrection bay. This port has |C™paring favorably with northern question from all who are interest-| already been mentioned as the most ; States ed in the northern empire is likely place for the proposed navy Directly north of here are the “Where will the roads be built?” ‘coaling station. It Is on the south-!Matanuska coal fields which the THE STAR—SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1914, many government men as the best spot for the proposed navy show to) peninsula. beer boosted by wt coal in the terrt But the use of points) interested parties jon the inlet for a ratlroad terminal | for the terminal, is a narrow gorge contain the ,| like ford surrounded by glacier most Valuable agricultural |!® Mlecournged on account of Ie) covered mountains lands in Alaska He between the coal | [oes | Another move which makes the fields and the sea, around Cooks| Portage bay on the northwest cor-|location of the terminal of one of Inlet to the west and on Kenai|ner of the peninsula, which has! the eward government roads at Seward Citizens Are Out Gunning for That Government Railway Terminal; Say Harbor On Resurrection Bay Offers Great Advantages Over Other Places «dante coaling station and for the terminus of the government line to the Matanuska coal fields and lower Yukon be of likely is the withdrawal of the Gug genheime from the controversy | Right on top of the government's | | | government roads comes Morgan decision to build the the announcement by high Guggenheim men ths this is that controversies with the | | their business all over the country, Orders no effort will! out of all disputes. made to Influence the locating — the road. Their explanation for — injured have greatly have been issued to keep I wanted the gold, and I sought it; I scrabbled and mucked live a slave. Was it famine or scurvy—I fought it; I hurled my youth into a grave. I wanted the gold, and I got it— Came out with a fortune last fall— Yet somehow life's not what I thought it, And somehow the gold isn’t all. + * 7 * » » No! There’s the land. (Have you seen it?) It’s the cussedest land that I know, From the big, dizzy mountains that screen it To the deathlike valleys below. Some say was tired when He made it; Some say it’s a fine land to shun; Maybe; but there's some as would trade it For no land on earth—and I'm one. “ee © * You come to get rich (damned good reason) ; You feel like an exile at first; You hate it like hell for a season, And then you are worse than the worst. It grips you like some kind of sinning; It twists you from foe to a friend; It seems it’s been since the beginning; It seems it will be to the end. * * * > * I've stood in some might-mouthed hollow That’s plumb full of hush to the brim; I’ve watched the big, husky sun wallow In crimson and gold, and grow dim, Till the moon set the pearly peaks gleaming, And the stars tumbled out, neck and crop; And I’ve thought that I surely was dreaming, With the peace ° the world piled on top. ** The The The The The summer—no sweeter was ever; sunshiny woods all athri! grayling aleap in the river, bighorn asleep on the hill. strong life that never knows harnes: The wilds where the carjbou call; The freshness, the freedom, the fairness— © God! how I'm stuck on it all. _/** *# * The winter! the brightness that blinds you, The white land locked tight as a drum, The cold fear that follows and finds you, The silence that bludgeons you dumb. The snows that are older than history, The woods where the weird shadows slant; The stillness, the moonlight, the mystery, T’'ve bade ’em good-bye—but I can’t. * * * * * There’s a land where the mountains are nameless, And the rivers all run, God knows where; There are lives that are erring and aimless, And deaths that just hang by a hair; There are hardships that nobody reckons; There are valleys unpeopled and still; There’s a land—oh, it beckons and beckons, And I want to go back—and Ps will. s * They're making my money diminish; I'm sick of the taste of champagne. Thank God! when I'm to a finish I'll pike to the Yukon again. T'll fight—and you bet it’s no sham-fight; It’s hell!—but I’ve been there before; And it’s better than this by a damsite— So me for the Yukon once more. Oe: Mie There’s gold, and it’s haunting and haunting; It’s luring me on as of old; Yet it isn’t the gold that I’m wanting So much as just finding the gold. It’s the great, big, broad land ‘way up yonder, It’s the forest where silence has lease; It’s the beauty that thrills me with wonder, It’s the stillness that fills me with peace. Copyright by Edward Stern & Co,, Inc. RATTLESNAKE BITES FAIRBANKS STUDENT FAIRBANKS, May 2.—Friends of Percy Blanchfield, a Fairbanks boy, | who “went outside” after gradua-| tion from the high school here last June, regretted to hear that he had| been bitten by a rattlesnake at Oasis, Cal. He was working on his father’s ranch, The latest word here was that the injuries would not prove fatal LONG COAST LINE The Alaska coast line | 26,000 miles long. land-rocked, EDUCATION Stylew boy at college? Myles—I should say so! got him tn a poker od skinned bim alive! On the south coast there are numerous deep ice-free harbors You say they hazed your WILSON FAVORS | NOMI GOES WILD WHEN DOG RACERS CROSS | FINISH LINE IN ALL-ALASKA SWEEPSTAKES| OPEN DOOR FOR. ENTIRE ALASKA | Government Should Control Development of the Country c____==} RAILWAY'S FIRST STEP |Resources Should Be Used and Not Destroyed or Wasted. President Woodrow Wilson. whose interest in Alaska has al ‘ready resulted {n favorable legis , lation for the northern country, hi the following to say in his mensa |to congrem December 2, 1918 | “A duty faces wa with regard to | Alaska which seems to me very | pressing and very imperative; per haps I should say a double duty, for [it concerns both the political and the material development of the |territory. The people of Alaska [should be given the full territorial form of government, and Alaska, Storehouse, should be = un- | Railway Key. “One key to it } railways. These the government land the ports and | should itself control in the interest | the service and development of the country and {ts people. “But the construction of railways jis only the first step; is only thrusting In the key to the store house and throwing back the lock and opening the door. How the tempting resources of the country are to be exploited ts another mat- ter, to which I shal! take the lib. erty of from time to time calling your attention, for it Is a policy which must be worked out by well- considered stages, not upon theory, but upon lines of practical exped- lency. Use Resources. “It is part of our general prob lem of conservation. We have a freer hand In working out the prob- lem in Alaska than fn the States jof the Union; and yet the principle land object are the same. wherever jwe touch it. We must 1 the | resources of the country, not lock | them up. | “There need be no conflict or | Jealousy a8 between state and fed eral authorities, for there can be }no essential difference of purpose | between them. The resources in | question must be used, t stroyed or wasted; used, but not | monopolized upon any narrow idea jot individual rights as against the abiding interests of communities. by conferen and which will release these resources and yet not ard or dissipate them, I for one have no doubt; and it can be done on lines of regula: tion which need be no less ac ceptable to the people and govern ment of the nation at large, whose heritage these resources are. must bend our counsels to this end agreement easy.” ART AT HOME “Little boy, can you point me out the house where De Limm | the great landscape artist, live: “You'm—that's him down there whitewashing his fence,” Let us Th ba the yet may the upto court rejoice while we haven't got to taking ull umpire’s decisions United States supreme ie a system of} | should itself build and administer, | terminals it} jot all who wish to use them for! it not de- | | “Thata polley can be worked out} onceasion | We} A common purpose ought to make | HE greatest sporting event inthe fever of the excitement grips} T" North ts the AllbAlaska [them They b yme restless ated stakes annual dog eager for the trail, When the m race trom Nome to Candie and re-|ment of the race is at hand there = turn, a distance of 412 miles, Like ts a sight not to be matched (fo the coming of the States |your Alaskan, at least) any othe -—=—— fleet to Seattle or pbration in the world Lean, strong of this town gave a the railway d intelligent, the dogs of bill had passed——when the streets different teama form a j sing wha Pg were thronged and pandemonium picture aw they strain on the har reigned—ia the finish of thin fas ness waiting for the signal from the starter The race is against time, but the teams usually follow each other over the starting line in rapid sue clnating dog derby at Nome Furclad citizens, jammed along | the course, cheer lustily as the half dead dogs limp over the last quar mile, with their driver in the Cession, Sixteen to 18 dogs strung lead, perhaps exhausted, helping Out Ahead of a sled that weighs them on to the ned only som pounds, but in ar It tw then the grizsied old sour strong as steel, trot briskly ov dyughs become hysterical with the mall trail and presently disapy sport. Tears start Again the gun pops, aud anothe group speeds away, with the driver bobbing and bouncing In his seat. peti of th own the cheeks of some as they jeall endearing names to thelr fa vorites in the harness. Others yell, Nome Gets Excited | shake their fists and curse in| The last cheers finally die away) strange, picturesque phrases. The/and Nome tries to go about her| delirium of excitement would be ; regular business, but makes a sorry | hard to duplicate any other pince | failure of it, for her thoughts are on the globe. pose the snow fields with ¢ sliding racers | ico. agstemlares ae Eighty miles or more are cov-| Sometimes they see one OF tWOl ered before the first halt ts called | or three of the dogs lying for a rest, a few hurried bites and sled, either dead or dying, an encouraging pat and kindly word mates struggle In the bard content Every dog that starts on the long course acrosa the snow must com in at the finish, whether In the har ness or a atill carcass, One dog missing from the team disqualifies the driver and compels him to for- felt the $10 entrance fee. Joy awaits the survivors, how- ever. Rough but kindly hands ca {ress them and care for them after they totter across the finish line and, perhaps, drop in their tracks. They are fondled, fed and watched with all the concern women have in babies. As they revive they are eo annals of the races. rie | its to ar in | before the race begins. retain one print and the driver car os the other, At Candle the submits the photos to ins} ir who compare them with the dogs. The when the race is done, The race is held early in April, when winter is beginning to relax Fourth of July or Christmas. for miles, and on its outcome fortunes are staked. John wolfhounds, Johnson wh The - joi comparison is made again. grip. It has become an be observed as religiously as tl attraction that dra Johnson Wins Jobnson, with 18 Sib won the race this 81 hours and 3 minutes, It , in 1911, was b suffering from helples: blindness, far behind the wins f | Was Johnson, again, who In 1910 “4 be 9 been broken. ere are the winners and_ tte since 1910: 1910—Johnson | 1911 }1912— Scotty” Allan ...+.! 1913—Fay Delzene 1914—Johnson .. Allan's team finished this year's race and Fred | racers came in third. | tablished a record of 74 hours minutes, a record that has” eotty” Allan . SE | PLENTY OF LAI IN THE NORTH COU Timber in the humid coast area of Alaska is d Dogs and drivers fight like demons to stay | in the running. Photograph Cogs Rigid precautions are taken | | against substituting fresh dogs en | | route. Kach dog is photographed @ and of large economic value. the central plateau it is and small, needs if it can be There are 100,000 square mi that may be classed as ti land. but ample for taken down to the Indian camps and given the best food the North-| land has to offer. Carefully Trained Preparations for the dog race be- gin months ahead. Expert trainers take the animals in charge at the Nome kennels and minister to their every whim, No prize entry of the turf ever receives better treatment than is given these dogs of the Alaska classic. They are carefully exercised and rubbed. Cholee quar ters of beef are ground up and fed to them in nicely balanced portions As the day of the start draws near — —_—4 ? DID You EVER THINK OF THIS FACT BEFORE? Seattle is 400 miles nearer Eastport, Me. the eastern- most point of the United States, than to Attu, the extreme west || to ern point of Alaska. The merid- | |#!l around—then away they go || ian of longitude passing | | 4eain | through Attu also passes || It's a hard struggle at best, but | through ‘New: Sealand. |when a blizzard swoops down and @| Wipes out the tratl, and winds out Seattle | to the marrow and choke the lungs, Branch Michigan man has just married a| and when the team goes astray, and woman whom he rescued from aj|frost nips the dogs’ feet—then {t 1304 mad boll fifty years ago. 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