?. II OY IMHVlflOF ALASKA. Htndft, mi4 t The great Si wash tribe of Indians of the gre it Northwest coast of America, who paint ?d carve every object of their be long' -3? who paint and literally carve ?he:r< wn bodies, were wearing bracelets if twi-ted cedar bark, bracelets of wood, tvnr, hom, be.irs' claws, birds' beaks, vaN' eeth, shells and copper when the white nan found them. They had pond* eruu> wristlets hammered from nuggets of puic ( pper and inlaid with abalone shell, .ind otheis of twisted copper wires. They in^ lv on bracelets as soon as the traders hr .-light them that metal, and they learn ed to oxidize copper by heat until it re >lrJ Iron. When the miner Invaded the f r traders' realm the indians be?:.in t? receive actual monev, to sell in steid barter their furs. They have never emed to value or covet gold In its reTati. tosilver^md they hoard the white , metal ke Hindoos. One Tlinkit woman | amaxr . in official by bringing out 9,000 and o>! i silver dollars to be counted. They hnd t. metal doiiar a more convenient artivfc- ? handle and store than the blan ket 0 eaver skin, which were the former units value and the current coins. Half the si er coins that go into Alaska are convr d into bracelets, and the native , artisa - used to carry out some of their clever -t Ideas 111 this soft easily worked me'al 1 h irst silver bracelets were broad ! band- tched with the totems of their j owue >. their rude heraldry- ordered bv as | sever id arbitrary rules as in any Eur ope ti 'lege of such arts. One tinds the st-an y conventionalized raven, eagle, bear, >lf and whale of the great clans mo^t umirably drawn and arranged on su- :i ad, barbaric old wristlets. One of th< two animals approach in profile from iier end, the bears combining in one e grated full face, with the storied skils. - ceremonial nuts, piled up in a crowi <>r column of glory. On another t <; o mimal seems to be split in half below the head and and stretehed around t;.e ci:r\ ed surface. It took a whole dollar t< n ... such bracelets as the-^, and by custc::: ')>e silversmith was p.iid twice the value >; the coins used in this work. ?ii ick;:i:x :ni\?ux uick. Representatives of a mir.er.s m.?ss meet in.; h >ve gone to Seattle to urge the im nedi.it e construction of a wagon road from G -.-non to Teslin lake, and say that un it > It is done tne Stickeen route will be abandoned. The river fleet has already be;a tied up. the men going in via Skag u;iv. The Stickeen trail is In fairly Rood w ditian.but impracticable for the trans portation of good. .u other words the summer trail Is good t' talk about but untit to use ? and it mat te's little if one talks good or ill about it ? It .vouid admit any Impeachment. , H kut'i Ihr flatter With Mkawuuy. The government will commit a great 6- :nder :f it decides to spend fQ 5,000 out or ihe $100/300 appropriation for public baildincs in Alaska, at Sitka. It will be that much money thrown away. In many instances public buildings become too sm ill for purposes for which they were original Iv in ten J? J, and they have to be enlarged : r sold to ni ike wav for better ones. When th:s happens it is often possible to sell the t^uiiJingto i vantage. If these new build ings were v.uated in that part of Alaska which is cowing they Mould have an ascertained . due, but the growing capaci- ] lyl >?( Si .us limited. There are undoubt edly good mines in that district, but they are .14 yet ideveioped. Around Juneau the coun ry is rich, and enormous enter pnses are being conducted. Where the volume o" iness is, there litigation will originate, .1:1 J the convenience of the people and exigency >f the public service demands that the ourt house should be built here also other public buildings for the proper and conve: tn: transaction 6f the business yf the terr torj .?Alaska Miner. For fcv.. ? Thoroughly equipped nt- aurai t d >lng a tine but?ine?A on j?r< ininent sti est. Inquire at this office. 1 ? CoKi I., mouadf at -lie Lit' ? star. Broadway between Mood and V. Clnney. * >a^er