The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 9, 1914, Page 13

Shaggy Malamutes Wail at Approach of Their Doom Day When, a few weeks ago, President Wilson, amiling his quizzical, elongated smile, dipped first a gold, then a silver pen, into an inketand and affixed his signature to the bill providing for the construction of a government owned railway in Alaska, we may imagine an immense pack of wolfish, dark colored, bushy dogs, seated on their haunches, pointing their sharp noses skyward and howling a long, heartrending, shivery Jack Londonish sort of how!—a weird requiem betokening their passing from the picturesque pages of Alaska's history Well may the bushy malamutes wail their grief at the Arctic stars, for the days of their reign as chief factors in the transportation prob lem of the north country are numbered “SILVER FASCINATING, UNUSUAL SIGHT HORDE”’ IN ACTION IS Oe (3)|(9)] Ie) THE STAR—SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1914. The Alaska is going, fast|day after day of griMng struggle disappearing down th « road/ with the eleme over which the wild fer West Withe se native Alaska went; and just as t Deadwood | dogs th who stampeded t Dicks and the outlaw cowboys of| the north would have found thew & generation ago have become me selves sorely handicapned in the} Memories, so are the chief actors|days of the gold rush, for th fn Alaska’s hilarious stan work performed these reatles retreating before the in transporting thou march of civil n. And « tea could have these chief act the I way New Wagon Trails. Reapected, But Feared Those two ribbons of ste soon h the huskies have to start winding inland, will trace artners of t » wh their way through valleys | > Wrest weal Ala trated now only by wagon trails 8 no love twee This means that new trails for the jenced Alaskans ha horse will appear to the north Know th nt through silences that in the past nd regard | ne | have known only the crack of t et him for a whip and the sharp whine of sled t in the main there runners, gliding In the wake a © show of friendship, for t yelping dog team man does not exist who can When all this cor t the f what ¢ wh husky will be thrust the ba will in a flash poswess this cre ground, f the wilds Ready to Fight Pa pe rotestlr eterr Slant eyed, grinning, heavy coat. | friendship | and undying lov ed, a disreputable looking antmat, | rth i. mis STBRNG eyes, the alert and ready for a fight, treach- | US*Y may leap at your throat and erous, but a fiend for the harness,;‘*“F You to shreds the next mo the husky has played an port. | Ment } ant, though lowly part in the fev Grim Tragedies. | erish life of frontier Alas Because many men have forgot-| Grizzied old miners and home-| te? that the lolling, good natured Photo by Curtis & Miller sick tenderfeet by the thousands | faces, set between wide cheeks of] 4 gaimon catch in northern waters; besides being intensely profitable, fishing in Alaska is won- have anxiously awaited the distant | fur. belle cunning, treacherous | gerquily interesting sport. yelps that announced the approach | ™inds, grim tragedies ha been | ————_— be = saint muians = we sii RST TN BE RUAN ae of the government mail teams writ in the annals of the north-| Tons of tender messages from | !and | PASTE THIS IN | sisters, wives and sweethearts} Sad and gruesome are the tale Division No. 1—Judge Robert W. Jennings, Jun Attor have aped.ecross. the icelocked| drivers who, carelessly |] ney, John Rustgard, Juneau (resigned); U, 8. marshal, H. 1 kner, YOUR NEW HAT rivers and plains at the heels of | m« ahead of the dog teams, || Juneau | these steel-limbed animals. | have pped and fallen in some} Division No Judge J. R. Tucker, Jr, Nome; U. 8. attorney, F. |} Gatlatla Hauled Freight. Jlonely spot on the trail. And as| M. Saxton, Nome; U. 8. marshal, E, R. Jordan, Nome. | Did you know that ir enbe ced Wat. tales ot | Be? Noundered on the snow's slip: | Division No, 3-—Judge Fred M. Brown, Valdez; U. 8. attorney, ]) There are two senators and four | a ld “use Soeabhawe an surface the huskies, trans-|] George R. Walker, Valdes; U. 8. marshal, F. R. Brenneman, Valdes ngressmen elected to the new| engagements, gossip from leved a in a trice from faithful | Division No. 4—Judge Frederic E. Fuller, Fairbanks; U.'8, attor erritorial legl re of Alaska, | \) Gnas on the Gutside, and stories | Workers to wild beasts of prey, /[ ney, James J, Crossley, Fairbanks; U. 8, marshal, L. T. Erwin, Fatr- |] meets at the capital, (Ju-| GE @aaneial disasters, have been pedis = yi pine bajage these neau) every summer to enact laws| joy, hurled themselves h for the territory? borne to the frozen interior in! the biood of lust, on thelr victims, | t= ea peace Bs ess ace zara a And that greet undies by these half-wild| Attack when your enemy ts ¢ 1 bel hite s om. i Insh ,| These legislators were first elect malamutes, tugging like mad ¢ =the Sthaaed ele of tee ene 1 below the white «u fe wan in Alaska, doing | | ,7heae lenislator rat elec the hard snow, tireless through/anq not only men, but children snow Kes a good bed] work for the natives and snapping | 4 18 1912 after the passage of the | Fomping with thee’ pete enter |tor a heavy coated husky. Often |at his fellows, when the first white) home rule bill in Washington, D. C., dents tripping, Rood eg enaeh lthey awake in the morning to find| man fought bis way iniand. How ~ oo having been first intro. Raat is tho ew, themselves buried beneath several| long had he been there? duced and pushed through by his law inches of the cold covering that! It iw believed he is the result of| Alaska's delegate to congress, the Dog Eat Dog. has come down through the night.|a crossing between the Alaska| 4on. James Wickersham? But {t's fair enough, from the Faithful Workers. timber wolf and dogs from Siberia’s 7 standpoint of the husk for they} show no quarter among themselves, | | so why should man be favored? With them it is @ survival of the | best fighters, the vanquished dis | appearing into the everempty stomachs of the ringside spec- tators, They're a jangling, warring, dis- agreeable lot, these huskies, Bit } ter strife wages freely among the| members of a team from the time} ‘The harness works magic on bad dog tempers, for once in the traces the huskies become alert and eager, striving to please the driv- ers and anxious to be off on their day's trek over the trail, pulling with all their might on the load gliding along bebind them. But let the drivers keep their wits about them and stay on thelr feet’ ° What of the origin of the husky? ee | coast, brought acrose the straits by }the men of an age long gone. | Gradually he has n supplant jed by dogs of other breeds. Shaggy | mongrels from the “Outside largely taken bin place, Siberian wolfhounds ping him tn the annw sweepstakes. And now the rallrond tecoming and driving the horse into his do- | main. | It's a sad day outrun for the husky. have } while all-Alaska | combatants desist and slink away. Telephone Main 2896 A bed in the snow is their lot SEATTLE, WASH. for the night. A few swift revolu- “ ‘tong, some energetic burrowing, and in a few minutes the team has WHOLESALE LIQUOR MERCHANTS Oldest Established House in the State of Washington The government experiment sta require a minimum of winter fe Dredges of all Our fine gold types designed to meet operating conditions. saving devices are unequal Leading builders of Dredgee with buckets from 2 ou, ft. to 18 cu. ft. We build, Install and operate for period of 30 days. capacity. STOCK RAISING INC IN ALASKA; The cattle industry of the North is on the boom; hor the harness comes off until they , Wood at the mine “break out” their load and hit the} Were his ancestors wolves? Are about $15 4 ah ene. uaa” horak trail again. They snart harsh)! bis instincts wolf instincts? Some day Alaska will no doubt] for ore ranges from 60 cents to $1| snarls of hate as each is fed bis] In appearance there is little to! raise practically sll her potatoes.|a ton per dried fish when the y's work is distinguish between the husky and| fut ontil then she will buy the pani done. A quarrel arises when one|the wolf and many of his cha: good old Irish tub from the ANTI-WRATH sneaking animal siyly steals part | teristics are those of his wild| Queen City Seattle in 1913 sent patina of another dog’s fish and is caught | brother, yet there is some strain Alaska 91,446 bushels and recelved| Bacon—I gave my wife a rain oS Saw at jof the domesticated dog in his) in return $113,438 bow kiss when I left home this p in Snow. rae Bo - | . morning. : eth dale ‘ietey by erian Strain, Perhaps. The pork Seattle sent Alaska In| Egbert—What in the world is a 217 Washington St. ig yw Baad poo ay ete Me 3 *y ago |. Where this curious animal camo| 1913 cost $108,559. It weighted | rainbow kiss? change to yelps of pain as the | from seems to be a mooted ques-' 763,161 pounds, jing not too great a task to |of cattle will roam the hills jits fresh meat Milk REASES START DAIRIES ind cattle are in demand Thousands of acres of good | tlon, on Kodiak island, devotes its |Krazing land now lie idle, and it is \time to the study of stock, and Is Jattempting to pick breeds that will 4 look for- ward to the time when great herds and ~ | valleys, and supply Alaska with al cows are | found near all the towns, and thriv- Northern Wages What of the working man fn Alaska What about wages’? Here is what Fairbanks papers have to} say on the subject Good mivers working 8 hours| earn $5 daily with board and lodg- ing. Good tool sharpeners a $7 for 10 hours, with b much as ard. } Bac One that follows a storm Photo by ¢ is & Mille 8 new roads are built. ing dairies are scattered here and Sheep do well on Kodiak Raspberry islands. Horses are used throughout the 1| territory, both for draft and pack horses. The extension of roads will bring more of these animals, and C., {9 commissioner of education. W. T. of the HERE'S LIST.OF SCHOOL OFFICIALS Now how many of you can name|Alaska district. the officers and divisions of the H. O, Shaleben, M. D,, Seward, native schools in Alaska? Hands | Southwestern district. up. What! Nobody? Shocking.| A. N. Evans, Unalaklett, Western Listen closely | distric . P. P. Claxton, at Washington, D.| W. O, Shields, Nome, Northwest- Lopp, at Seattle, is super intendent of education for Alaska’s district. natives. Emil Krulish, Junean, past as- W. G. Beattie, Juneau, is super-|sistant surgeon of public health intendent Southeastern | service on special detall jern district. George E. | Boulter, Tanana, Upper Yukon DISTRIBUTION OF IM To Southeastern Alaska To Southern Alaska, Yakutat to Bering Sea, except St. Michael St. Michael and Yukon Valley PORTS (MERCHAN DISE) jmarket, although grown more ALASKA FISHING INDUSTRY - SOURCE OF GREAT WEALTH The absorbing stories of sudden The fishing industry of the North that has been bullt comparatively few years has brought ful salmon packing companies Although the production fluctuates with the run f year to year, the strides ahead have been eady and rapid, New salmon packing establishments and large additions to the fleets engaged in the ep sea and whaling industries are being made, and the zone in which the nets are out is spreading. The salmon industry now extends from ollowing the gene or of the flesh deprectates its com mercial value Halibut Fishing. Halibut fishing is carried on off the shores of the islands of South east Alaska, with headquarters at Ketchikan and Petersburg. The cod fish banks are scat tered along the north and south shores of the Alaska peninsula, with 14 curing stations on the Shuma gin and neighboring islands, These fishing. grounds are some of the most extensive in the world, and the catch i only limited by the demand Herring Schools. Herring abound in numbers be CABBAGE AND ‘SPUDS THRIVE UP IN TANANA Real Class Shown in Exhibits at Annual! Fair of North- ern Valley. STUFF GROWN EASILY Plows Are Busy as Snow Melts and 24 Hours of Daylight Brings Results. By WALTER GARFIELD FOX. To say that the farmers of in- terior Alaska, that is, what com- prises a vast expanse of territory known as the Tanana valley, raise crops as fine as any in the world is not exaggerating in the least. The Tanana valley is about miles long and 100 miles wide bi tween two mountains ranges, and, needless to say, is amply and fictently watered from the mou tain streams. As soon as the mow melts and before it has entirely disappeared which is generally about May 1 ranchers are busy with thelr plows and barrows, making ready the ground for their planting of po- tatoes, tufnips, rutabagas, beets cabbages and other garden truck Same as Statet I might way that all products raised in this wonderful valley, where everythi ows night day in the summ on account of 24 hours of daylight, are just the same products as are raised and matured in the temperate zone in America of the on ex beets, carrots, celery, rhubarb, which Tanana, hibit are potate rutabagas, sugar parsnips, kohlrabi radish onions, cabbage, cucum bers, peas and even tomatoes. Rival Eastern Marts. These samples on exhibit will compare as to size and quality with any vegetables of the eastern than 1,500 miles north of New York During the season of 1911 27 va rieties of potatoes were cultivated on the government rm 4 miles is the holds a metropolis, fair and 6, turnips, pts, from Fairbanks. Thr of these varieties were planted June 1, nine June 9, and the remainder June 10. They matured between Sep- tember 11 and with a yield a a rate varying from 7,260 to 18,876 pounds per acre on the experimen tal plats, The character of the potatoes depends much on the kind of soil and method of cultivation Some Cabbage! I have seen cabbage heads raised in the town of Fairbanks weighing from eight to 12 pounds each and measuring as much as 48 inches from tip to tip. I knew a gardener who sold 16 tons of cabbage from half an acre. As yet the farmers of the Tanana have not been successful in me turing grains, although each rancher raises more than enough oat hay to feed his own stock and market some besides. If there's one thing a seasoned old sourdough just dotes over, it's 4 firm, healthy-looking, well-cooked bean. They bought—up there tn Alaska—7,537 bushels of peas and beans from Seattle —storekeepers last year. And think of the ex pense, $23,111! It's a wonder they aren't all stuck up in Alaska, for last year they consumed gallons of $21 992,761 Its value was dealers sup molasses and syrup. $3: , and Seattle plied the bulk of it and | Every fall the town of Fairbanks | ines to fortune In Alaska are not all of the gold fields up and expanded to immense proportions IMMENGE TERRITORY Ketchikan Continental Distributing Co. Incorporated. WHOLESALE Liquor Dealers and Importers Distributors Sunny Brook Whiskey Old Barbee Bourbon Guckenheimer Rye Budweiser Beer Apollinaris Water 1016 FIRST AVENUE SOUTH SEATTLE, WASH. Teg CG eneral Freight | and j y | Passenger Office |f ihe hedania| PIER 4 orthland ort Steamship Company S. S. Northland Operating to all points in S. E. Alaska, in- cluding the only direct service to the west coast of Prince of Wales Island. Passenger steamer Al-Ki sails from | Seattle every twelve days. Steamer | Northland every fifteen days. Round trip sailings, including berth and meals, $38.00. This company is owned and con- trolled in Aleska and by Alaskans and able to give a very satisfactory and con- fident service to both shipper and con- signee, \Northland | Steamship Company PIER 4 Wn. sy | Seattle, ina wealth to a score of men and has resulted in the creation of powe: in Southeast Alaska, for a distance of 2,000 miles, ral course of the shore line, to Bristol Bay in Bering sea, and at this time an unknown die » but not less than 800 miles, both on the mainiand and larger islands. ad Big Investment }yond ception I found in Alaskan, The total investment in the | the at tert vi and grayling abound ~. | Alaska fivherios in 1913 was § those in the in * and streams and 047,205, and approxima 85 qualir n size a he territory an anglers cent of the investment was fn med Yarmouth ine ae salmon industry. It required 21 | land They Though whales e not strictly persons to care for the fish’ t market as foc fish in scientific sense, their vest during the year. The totaljand are the ¢ mode of life and similarity products in 1913 was | cod 4 halibut 16 | shape, as well as the apparatus re- and a total catch of|number of fish in some the | quired in their capture, bring them salmon was recorded chool ie beyond computation.|into the fish p commercially, — f Pacific Coast sa many of the shallow bays hun-| The gradually diminishing num- mon haa echoed around the wo reds of thousands are frequently | ber of the Arctic whales (produc: fe cans in which this fish is|left by the receding tide the|ing whalebone) has radically 1 ve gone to the four cor-| quantity bet #0 great in a re-|changed modern methods. It fw D arth cent case, wh fish were|now customary to have a home Five Species. caught in a freeze and | sb station from which small cles of salt are used hed ashor id mass, as| 7 ul steamers cruise, killing me T re the coho|to be a me to alth Four whale with explosive bombs, ailver, dog or chum, humpba uctories for rcial products | inflating them to Deepens sinking, pink, king or spring, red 0 veated k noo and other| and towing them to the réndering sockeye points west and south of Juneau.| works on shore. Three such sta. The king is « ully valuable | Angler's Paradise tions were operated in 1912, 4 because of its sine it grows to! While the forms of fish| which two are located on Baronoff” “9 four feet and weighs more than 30 furnish the of commercial |{sland and another on Akutan 4 pounds; so is the sockeye on ac-| ® authorities state | island, near Dutch Harbor in the count of the deep color of the 0 kinds of edi-| Aleutian islands. flesh, which many people tmagine | ——————— ——————$—$————— seinen .’ is essentia a good fish The silver salmon is the sm at jof the grouy 1 th salmon acquired its name from its great northern waters, where it is dried and used for dog feed. It i# really an ex jeellent food fish, but the pale co! ees raraes ewes Se Rr rae . crs