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The regulations which require that
every piece of freight, and every pack
age of express sent out of the territory
should go through the customs house
and have a manifest to show for it, is
made for the purpose of securing sta
tistics relating to the trade between
the United States and her “insular po
sessions, ’ ’—and whether the United
States is a territory or not, she is au
unquestionably: an “insular posses
sion.’’ Every year the United States
customs office announces the amount
of merchandise shipped into the terri
tory, and the amount shipped out.
.Simply for the purpose of securing this
information, therefore, every ship
ment requires a manifest.
In the larger ports, where there are
customs brokers, the manifests are
made out by the brokers, w'ho are pri
vate persons acting as shippers agents.
Every manifest made out by a cus
toms broker is signed by a deputy col
lector but there is no charge for the
signature in the later case. me cus
toms broker, however, charges twenty
five cents for his trouble. In ports
where there aro no customs brokers,
the regulations require that some one
in the customs house should keep the
blanks at his own expense, and should
receive the ten cents. Jack Pugh is
the official who has charge of the
blanks at the port of Juneau.
While the average individual in Al
aska may not comply very cheerfully
with the regulation which requires him
to take so much trouble in order that
the government may have statistics on
‘‘sendings out and gettings in,” he
may well find source for congratula
tion in the fact that with a govern
ment official performing the service of
making out manifests, he is only out
ten cents per, whereas, if there was a
cu»t- ni broke.* in the town, he won d
be out two-bits. Besides, e /erybody
realizes that Jack Pugh is an extra
ordinarily good fellow, and that helps.
Alleging a long list of unusual cruel
ties, Mrs. Annie Koski, of Treadwell,
has brought suit against her husband
for divorce in the Juneau district
court.
John and Annie have, according to
the petition, tried married life togeth
er for quite a number of years, and
the fault that maiagrer has been with
them a failure is due she insists to the
intolerable brutality of John.
Since her marriage, Mrs. Koski says
she has always earned her own living.
She has saved money too, but this, stm
says, John has taken away from I’O*.
In 1908, she had $400 saved up, and
she alleges tin* her husband took it
from Lei in a orurai way. ne scruciv
her. she says, lime and time again; he
beat her, he tore her hair, he kicked
her frequently, and often locked her
out of the house on cold winter nights.
Also, he had a unique and original way
of taking the food from her plate at
meal times and rubbing it over her
face.
Mrs. Koski says that her health has
broken down under the cruelties she
accuses her husband of inflicting upon
her, and that she is now practically an
invalid. She says Koski earns -lOO a
month at the Treadwell mine, she asks
for $40 of it. She also asks for $100
temporary alimony. Koski denies all
her statements.
“We believe, said the vaiaez
grand jury last, month/ ‘ that the can
neries should be required to pay a lic
ense fee of cen cents per case, as these
industries are exhausting one of the
most valuable resources of the terri
tory without expending any money
whatever in the territory.
“The revenue thus derived could be
used in improving highways, construe
ting public buildings, and paying the
expenses of the government. We be
lieve this is only fair, for the reason
that the salmon industry in A1 ask a,
while taking out several milli m dol
lars per annum, gives nothing in re
turn.
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in at the opening of the season, in ves
sels owned by the companies, and at
the close of the season are shipped
out along with the product of their
labor.
“The companies bring in commis
saries for the substance of such em
ployes w'hile at work, as well as supply
ing them with clothing and other ar
ticles of necessity or luxury. They are
no possible benefit to the territory and
the above mentioned sum, ten cents,
is less proportionately, wre firmly be
lieve, than the license for other busi
nesses engaged in by the actual resi
dents of the territory.”
THE GOLDEN POTLATCH
It is a remarkable fact that during
the twelve years the United States
assav office has been established in
this city 55 per cent of all the gold
dust and bar gold purchased by it has
been paid in coin. Only 45 per cent
has been paid for in drafts on New
York or on government depositaries
elsewhere. The sellers have in' all
cases the option of taking coin iOr
drafts. As will be seen the majority
have taken gold coin, rays the; Seattle
Post-Intelligencer. ^
The amount of gold, xyostly fro rt Al
srka, which has been purchase^ by the ’
assav office since it was established, ii
tb s city.has keei in' excess of oie huu
d vd millions o‘ dollars. Theref
er (ss of fifty live milho is uf dyl.urs
h:.». been paid out in this city for jhe*
j/ola purchased. ^ ' j • '
The signifiSsiiit’e of these figures ii^s-.
iu- the fact that, if ft were intended,
that .the procl eds of .trie, stile of; gold
were to go els-where, the sellers would
take drafts instead of com. Wherf tfhej
have taken coin it is be’itfse- it is* in
tended to us i the money locally m
otl er words during the past twelve
years fifty-five million dollars of the
gold taken oilt of Alaska has gone' di
rectly into circulation in the city of
Seattle. It has gdne in part toward
paying the bills for the goods which
Seattle annually sells to Alaskanfs, and
in part for perihanerit investments
here by those who have realized for
tunes in. the npj,t]y<. Tlmse^ Investments
are represented by some ot the*, hand
somest and most expensive blocks in
this city, and by other investments in
almost every direction.
It is noted that within the past six
weeks alone the assay office has paid
out for Alaska gold minted gold coin
to the value of nearly $2,000,000 all
of which is in the banks or in circula
tion in this city. Alaska gold has fur
nished a great part of the gold upon
which this city has expanded in the
past decade.
; WHAT ONE MAN DID
What is considered perhaps the most
remarkable achievement in the mining
Industry in*'Alaska for- one" person to
perform, unpidad .by capital, is that re
cently accomplished by Nate White, a
^ pioneer mining man of Lynx creek,
Kenai peninsula. " Pfae'tfcSlly without
" funds, hut *'eqhippe'd " fWi%ht; practical
knowledge, and ; great '^industry, about
two years :ago -White .started, oh a tun
aiel yvhkh has beep, .driven through 700
feet of solid rock. This tunnel is six
feet in height and ’fiv£ ‘feek'in widtL.
Tt’is1'used/t'o'"cohvet' wfetfcr anl giavel
from Lynx creek to the'.bed .of an an
cient lake which forms an ideal dump
ing ground. The,, , civil engineering
work necessary 'to , get. the required
grade was done by White. Tne tun
nel was started at a point pn the bank
of the former lake. It was driven
with a gradual incline until the bed of
.Lynx creek was tapped. At this point
the gravel is about thirty feet in depth.
and in order to work the top'ground,
an uprise was made. Three foot sluice
boxes, equipped with riffles, were plac
ed in the bottom of the tunnel. The
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