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Show ALASKANS CELEBRATE. Picturesque Parade Feature of Railroad Rail-road Celebration. Seattle.-Passage of the Alaska railroad bill by congress was celej brated on Saturday and at many points in Alaska Saturday night. 1 was the occasion also of the vernal equinox, which means for Alaska the approach of the long days of sunshine and the unlocking of the frozen rivers riv-ers In Seattle a long parade, the most picturesque ever seen here, moved through the principal streets. The tone of the banners carried was one of the jubilation over the approaching ap-proaching development of the rich territory in the north. Pack horses, dog teams and men with gold rockers, rock-ers, shoulder packs, fur hoods, picks and shovels were in Hue. Some of the men had crossed Ohilkoot pass in the Klondike dayB and had stampeded stamped-ed to the gold camp discovered. |