Alaska Awaits Election Returns
FEW people have any idea that there is a section of the United States where the result of the presidential election will not be known until July, 1889, eight months after the official returns are published to the world. Such is the fact, however, says the Alaskan. The settlers of St. Michael's, the Sea Islands, and those domiciled along the banks of the Lower Yukon, will remain in uncertainty as to the outcome of the contest until after the midnight sun has come and gone during the midsummer of next year. Even the denizens of Kodiak and Ounalaska will have to wait patiently for the news until the end of March, there being no communication whatever between San Francisco and those settlements during the winter months. Verily, to bury one's self in these outlying portions of the national domain is exceedingly like living entirely out of the world.—Selected.