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...interesting survival of the Alaskan gold rush of 1848 is the fact that no one in the North ever asks you where you are from. This is a result of the influx of a number of questionable characters during the gold strike, men whom it would have been dangerous to question. Nearly all of the trappers in Arctic Canada and in Alaska for that matter, are gold miners who entered the territory 28 years age and have not been able to leave it. Most of them make from $3,000 to $1,000 a year selling furs to the Hudson...
...internation dispute over the Boxer Rebellion; he (not President Roosevelt as is popularly thought) had the biggest role in the settlement of the Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902; he reorganized the Army, creating a general staff and chief of staff; he smoothed out the Alaskan boundary dispute with Great Britain...
...shrinkage of these glaciers is probably due to the fact that not a sufficient amount of snow falls on the neve or reservoirs in the higher regions to counteract the constant melting at lower altitudes. This indicates that some sort of a climatic change is taking place in the Alaskan district which if it continues will perhaps eventually have far-reaching effects...
...Indian tries to sell his frozen baby as dogfood. ... A pickerel attacks a gull. ... A starving fisher outwits a porcupine. . . . An old man enters a shed to feed 18 unchained lynxes. . . . An Indian lad fills his dead father's post piloting the steamboat down a snaggle-bouldered Alaskan river...
Last week too Jesse L. Lasky's original barn studio in Hollywood, Calif., was torn down. It gave him -a onetime San Francisco newspaperman, Alaskan goldhunter, Hawaiian bandsman-his great opportunity towards wealth 12 years...