| Show THE ALASKAN GOLD FIELDS S Strong Efforts Made for Perma Permanent Permanent nent Government PRESENT Iu WS INADEQUATE and ud ho lake Their l Jonil II in La Land d or of orIno Ino lole Iole Washington Jan rhee there must be quie quite an and lot of at people up In JUdging from the character of men who are here urging legislation ton to meet mael the needs of that rapidly developIng territory And nd the they know knots ni alt about this countr country too lOO moat of th theta m being mies miles apart I heard theta talking to the territorial ot of Congress sometimes discussing features ot of south southeastern eater eastern Alaska down In Inthe the region of JuneaU and theft telling about the tho needs ot of the town towns and mining camps campson on the tho Yukon river and the coast of the frozen ocean These Alaska men had well defined Ideas ot of what whal they wanted told the committees what they neede needed In the way of at courts and and why svere needed They pointed out the I ItS ties tS ther their nc new country had to undergo because of inadequate land laws las and made suggestions In uch n a way I as to carr carry convIction to the mInds of the theme themen me men who heard them What Whal seemed most striking Wi ivas the fact that these thelo representatives whether ot of mild southeastern Alaska or the colder mid regions where the norther northern are aro located d h have e gone ther to make homes and are seeking laws Ins for per permanent permanent manent government The Tho general Idea has always been that thal men go to Alaska to remain for tor a shor short time until they can make n a stake and then they In intend tend to back to the States Hut But thene theBe vigorous bright and brainy mel were 1 as interested Interest d In Alaska Alaka whIch was 18 hoe home to them I as any resident of a State could be In his native or adopted land landA A TEM POLE POL The delegations hi h from the Pacific Cost coast States have been devoting time to a certain totem polo pole No Now a totem whether a pole Iole or orson son ionic other relic J is of tor more importance to the Indians than ele This particular totem that ha has disturbed the tho peace of the Pacific coast delegations was picked up In by a part ot of excursionists and brought back and andset set Ut up In the tho city or of Seattle Wash These excursIonists found It In 1 a do dc Tese Indian vl village 1 and with the usual Ide Idea of II sightseers tok took It Il with them a as a memento Now the tho logo WI vas desere deserted but temporarily The Tho In Indiana diana were or oft on a hunting expedition ad and when they returned and found that their sacred totem lole had been taken tway away the they were ere very much so were time the people veople or of Alakl Alaska Te The tt It may be but still um hold of the mater matter and In f avery ver excursionists In th party pan These are federal Indictments antI and the strong nr arm of aC Sam reaches e cv The may be compelled to vIsit Alaska laska as 01 prisoners to answer the charges ell In the indict ments In that unpleasant mont In an appeal wa was taken to the Pa COt coast Senators and representatives have hao besieged the ile de of justice trying to have hao the indictments quashed But DUl the depart ment here can only refer reter the mater matter back to the district alore attorney of Alaska No o OM cnn let et knows knowl what hol the result wi will willbe le be but bUl senators and from Crom the Pacific coat coast are convinced that none ot of the these excursionist ivill wi teniL again monkey wih with I an t le UNDER TIE TIlE W They are gIng going to have t a tal trial ot of the holland submarine boat In the tho roto oto mao mac riser Te The naval committee of Congress ha hits been invited to attend It There IS Bore some 1 as to heth hether or er any 0 of the wi will be willing to go Inside ot of the boat boat when the test tell Is ro made Al All kinds or of lug sup Ae are bein made 1 as tt to the pas ot of the boat diving Into and ps be cOlln fut fast In the mud III at the bottom of tho river I It Is said to lo he so 80 dam dnn that Insurance companies can caneel eel cel on men who ho go o Into I It be berau rau muss of the nature of the lie undertaking These may le be stories told to frighten rome come of our brave brae con consten sten but the they are told Ir Ices s One ne of the Incident Incidents related or of ora ofa a former trip wa was In regard to a visitor vho 11 did not knol know much about navigation Te The weight ot of every epry everyman man who goe goes on board the new craft Is Ech Each man Is placed on a tool OCt which cannot be movel moved and the weights a ar o C equally distributed abut about the bO boat t t This division lon must be exact or the boat would not nol sink Ink even en h I One heavyweIght forgetting or not understanding his became Interested In the machinery In the stern stem ot of the boat boal and moved over ocr to have I a look wih with the resul result that thal the lie bow of the bOlt boat went up and the whole holo craft soon lon shot to the sun sur tae taco had the man gone one forward In Instead instead stead of backward the submarine trip might have been much deeper than In lende tended s rAJ OFFIC OFFICE SEEKERS Senator Mont Money ot of Mississippi reedy ed cd two tO cards tue tho other ether day and upon goIng Into the tho marble rom room found two small boys hOYI of S nd and I P years ars old who to to be pages In the Senate Their names indicated anti they bd the Iho confidence characteristic of their rac race When told that they were to too Imul small they insisted stout stoutly I that they were ere equal to ni all cles cies TeY They could not nol bo be appointed I however I I II |
