Show BADGERED ALASKA A A. storm unprecedented in fury h has s swept the combination of seaport and mining camp in Alaska called Nome The town was bu built t on golden olden sands and a few days ago go its inha inhabitants were sure sure that while wIlile there were finer cities inthe in inthe the world not one had a foundation so rich But the storm play played d ha havoc oc with it The sand spit I the treasures of which were counted in millions has lias disappeared W Where ere was Mr Pinchot Why did he not when in office place that sand spit in a government govern govern- govern goern- m ment n nt reservation Was Vas it not loaded with treasures treas- treas ures ures' which h were not the property of of those explorers ex- ex x- x s p UP up there at the end of of the world but of the whole people of the United States Why was was Mr Pinchot so thoughtless The winds from Bering sea and the mighty surges of the sea that came rolling in would certainly have havel l respected his edict and grown still had but a reservation been stretched over the spot It was the the only thing in Alaska in sight that he did not fasten fasten d down wn t rn Tn the pursuit of duty by the light of the aurora borealis abo about t all that the people e up there had to make a living out of he sequestered How did that sand spit evade him Our fellow citizens there ther are having a tough experience The coal measures are at their I doors ors b but t they are forced force l to send to a foreign country for fuel To check the use of aggregated ted capital in prosecuting a great enterprise which would h have ve e given ive tho thousands Bands of f the them employment t the e gov- gov government govI government I stretched out its hand and took the bread they might have earned from them I v No reckoning was made of the hardships and hei he ism which were necessary in souls to take them there the coast is unlighted the sunken Cn rocks are are not buoyed the tax gatherer and the government agent are in full fun evidence the seals are not guarded and thousands of the I Iolder older ones are taken annually by for foreign ign poachers poach poach- ers era and the younger young r ones left to st starve and now to the rest on the coast is added the hurricane hurri burn ca cane e and the devastating seas that break bieak over and arid around them Yet Humboldt believed that the matrix of the gold of the continent would be found there and w while hiIe the people neglected by the government were making good g od an agent of the government given altogether unrighteous authority went there to tie U up their mines their water power their timber timber everything everything but the air Is it not a queer history and queer situation |