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Nome, Alaska, February 1!», 1917.
THE NEW CENSORSHIP.
The freedom of the press is one
of the cardinal points in the consti
tutional liberties of the people. Con
gress is not empovered to make lavs
which will abridge that rreedom in
any way. Congress does it by giv
ing the Postal department summary
jurisdiction over that which may
pass through the mails and by a
little legal casuistry, easy enough
in case of necessity, the constitu
tional right is overcome.
Still when all is said and done,
that is done by the people's Govern
ment. Directly or indirectly if the
people stand for it. the people are
to blame.
Rut there is another kind of cen
sorship which is just now coming
to light and over which the dear
people have no control, good, bad or
indifferent.
Sometimes last year. The Masses,
quite a radical publication with an
inclination to highbrowdom and In
tellectuality and Art published some
thing that caused it to run foul oT
the powers that be; it publishes so
many things antagonistic to privi
lege that it is really hard to say
what particularly it was, and the
New York Sub-Way news stands
were ordered not to sell it. The
paper was removed and a very
large part of its circulation was de
stroyed.
When the strike against Standard
Oil was on in Bayonne, the New
York Call, which gave the side ot
the strikers story with pre-eminent
fairness, was suppressed in the
Standard Oil Bailiwick.
Pearson’s Magazine in its De
< ember issue has an interesting ar
tide by George Creel on Depart
ment Stores which exposes the me
thods of some very well known phil
anthropists. George is some mucl
raker and he stirs up quite a stink
by the facts which he makes public
But because he did, the magazine
which published his article is barred
from the New York sub-way stands.
It is all right of course. The sub
way stands are concessions from
powerful traction magnates who
have high and puissant privileges
from the People of the State of New
York, and among other high and
puissant privileges which the People
have so generously given, is the
right to suppress upon their terms of
enfranchisement the papers that are
objectionable to the privileged par
ties holding it.
To them the freedom of the press
is a negligible quantity.
France is a country at war. For
the strict censorship which prevails
in France or in other belligerent
nations there is a good deal of
very plausible excuse. At least
during belligerency, the nations
have, usually scrapped whatsoever
rights the people have had and
governed by an emergency method
which justified almost anything.
Now identical action to that taken
by the New York subway was taken
by the Metropolitan railways of
Paris: the subway system of that
festive burg.
But they didn't get away with it.
On the contrary they were ordered
by the Mayor through the Prefect
of Police that they could exercise no
such power as can be seen from
the following communication, pub
lished by the The Masses with a
chuckle, and taken from a French
paper dated October 14.
M. le Prefect,
I am informed by the newspapers
of an incredible measure taken at
the direction of the Metropolitan
(Sub-Way Company), in regard to
the newspaper, L’Evenement, the
sale of which has been forbidden on
all the newstands at its stations.
Such an arbitary act is a scandal,
and I do not doubt that if it has
been brought to your attention, you
would already have given orders ti
have it stopped. At least I assume
that no sanction was given to Sud
an act of prohibition against no mat
ter what lawful publication.
I have then the honor to Inform
you that I will bring up the subject
at the next session of the Municipal
Council, in order that the Council
may put an end at once and for all
to such attempts at censorship in
the news stands which were built
upon concessions from the City of
Paris.
Please accept, Monsieur le Pre
fect, the expression of my disting
uished consideration.
D’HERBECOUKT.
Vice-President du Conseil Municipal
Is it possible to avoid contrasting
the solicitude of the French officials
for the non-infringement of the
rights of the press in Paris, with
the indifference of American officials
whose talk about freedom and de
mocracy is so much louder and in
sistent?
HONK DRV RAWS.
There is a good strong wave of
prohibition sweeping over the coun
try. Bone dry laws have recently
passed Minnesota and Oklahoma le
gislatures. and Congress is even
now considering a resolution sub
mitting a constitutional amendment.
Doubtless a lot of that Is due to
the ardent, earnest and persevering
work of the prohibitionist advocates
But very likely much of it is due is
another factor which has little to
do with reform of any kind. Prices
of the staple products are rising
fast. They are rising so fast that
wages do not keep pace therewith
and hence some living expenses have
j to be cut down. Beer and intoxi
| eating liquor suggest themselves as
' such which can be subjected to the
pruning hook. And action follows.
It is not wholly in the way of re
j form or for human betterment. The
employers observe conditions and
J consider the fact that destitution on
I present time wages are everywhere.
| They easily presuade themselves
i that this is due to drinking and
I just as naturally they cut out drink
first.
That this dry movement will hurt
any one is not possible. Hut that it
will give us clearer vision of the facts
is almost certain. Those who blame
economic poverty upon booze and
when booze is eliminated still find
poverty linger will be up against
it.
Really when the capitalist up
lifter agitated against booze for his
own benefit, he helped the workers
to see clearly that the real evil in
modern society Is the system of pri
vate ownership that capitalism foists
upon us.
As long as the booze shops flour
ished, the capitalists and supporters
of capitalism could blame it on
booze. Every poor person could
have been prosperous to hear them
tell it if booze was left alone. But
we know’vthat poverty is the foster
child of the system. Some few have
because the many have not. Booze
is an evil and not the least of its
evil side was that it afforded every
kind of labor skinner a chance to
shift the blame from himself on to
it. That chance in an excess of zeal
to prove their already ostentatious
philanthropy is now being removed
by their own aid. and we have to
thank them for it. The bone dry
laws will remain still laws over poor
and destitute and hungry. But minds
undimmed by booze can realize the
wherefore much readily than could
the maudlin booze tighter who tells
with tears in his eyes that "there
ain’t nothin' wrong with the system.
Every man could a’ had money it
he left the booze alone”. That simp
ply is not so, and never can he so
where exploitation exists, and the
sooner bone dry laws abound to
prove it is not so the better for ab
of us.
PROMISES RELIEF.
NEW YORK, Feb. 16.—Relief is i
promised from the very strict cen
sorship which the Entente has been
Maintaining for the past two weeks
on ail military operations.
HINTS ON COMFORT.
To look well you must feel well.
Clothes help you to look well, if
they are made to order and fit well,
repaired well, cleaned well and well
pressed.. Therefore you will feel
well.
M. PA8COFF.
Ladies and Gent's Tailor does It all
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Cor. Lane’s Way and Front Street.
' NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Elnia McNaught and J. J.
Chambers, your heirs, executors,
Successors, assigns or personal re
presentatives:
You and each of you are herel y
notified that the undersign? 1
has expended in labor and improve
ments the sum of one hundred dol
lars for year 1916 on Rosevelt bench
located between Newton Gulch No.
2 and Fox Creek, recorded and more
fully described in the records of the
Cape Nome Mining and Recording
District in the Second Division, 'Aer
rltory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended in order to hold said claim?
under the provisions of the lav?
concerning annual labor upon min
ing claims.
And you and each of you are
further notified that if within
ninety days after the last publication
of this notice you fail to contribute
your proportion of said expenditure,
your interest in said claim will be
come the property of the under
signed your co-owner under section
2324 Revised Statutes of the United
States.
ESKIMO GOLD DREDGING CO.
Co-Owner.
Date of first pub., Feb. 19, 1917.
Date of last publ., May 21, 1917.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
.Nome, Alaska, January 25, 1917..
Notice is hereby given, that
Nicholas J. Butler, a citizen of the
United States, over the age of 21
years, whose post office address is
Nome, Alaska, has made application
before the U. S. Land Office at Nome
Alaska, for a United States Patent
for No. 5 on Specimen Gulch Placer
Claim in the Cape Nome Recording
District. Alaska, being Mineral
Survey No. 1191; said claim Being
more particularly described in the
field notes and plat of the official
survey thereof now on file in said
Land Office at Nome, Alaska, as fol
lows:
Beginning at Cor. 1, Identical with
Cor. 1 Kathleen Claim, Sur. No.
1157, Cor. 4. of No. 13 Dexter Creek
Sur. No. 418 and Cor. 2, Bella Frac
tion, Sur. 4 78; a fir post 4 ins. sq.
2 ft. above ground, in earth mound
scribed 1-1157 K, 4-418, 2-47S B. F.
and 1-1191 5 S. whence U. S. L. M.
j No. 4 bears N. 78 deg. 56 min. 5
E. 5467.5 ft. U. S. Geological
Monument on King Mt. bears N.
26 deg. 29 min. E. thence S. 87 deg.
04 min. W. Var. 18 deg. 35 min. E.
1171.00 ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N.
2 deg. 11 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 15
min. E. 357.60 ft. to Cor. No. 3;
thence N. 0 deg. 02 min. E. Var. 19
deg. 15 E. 332.80 ft. to Cor. No. ♦;
thence S. 89 deg. 12 min. E. Var. 19
deg. 15 min. E. 1071.00 ft. to Cor.
No. 5; thence S. 7 deg. 54 min. E.Var
19 deg. 05 min. E. 622.30 ft. to place
of beginning containing 16.767
acres. Said claim is situated upon
unsurveyed ground about 6 miles
N. N. E. from the town of Nome,
Alaska.
U. S. L. M. No. 4 is a limestone
block, about 4 ft.x6 ft.x6ft. high,
chiseled U. S. L. M. No. 4 on top
surface, with mound of earth on
same, situated on the south or right
bank of Dexter Creek about 140 ft.
south of same and 1000 ft. westerly
from mouth of Joe Gulch in Lat. 64
deg. 35 min. N. Long. 165 deg. 19
min. W. in Cape Nome Recording
District, Alaska.
The Location is recorded in Vol.
16 Page 61 of the records of said
district. The adjoining claims are
on the north, unknown; on the
south Kathleen, Sur. 1157, Frank
Dolan, claimant; on the East Bella
Fraction, Sur. 478, Pioneer Mining
Co. owner and on west No. 4 Spe
cimen Gulch unsurveyed, claimant
unknown.
There are no conflicting claims.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ, Jan. 'c.1, 1917.
Date of last publ., March 28, 1917.
No. 0308.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, December 16, 1916.
Notice is hereby given, that Isaac
L. Osgood, Estate (Heirs, Cora and
Elmer Osgood and Mrs. Mamie Os
good) By W. P. Bell and Seattle
National Bank, Trustees and Floyd
W. Osgood, By Fred. R. Cowden
their Attorney in Fact, whose Post
Office address is Nome, Alaska, and
on behalf of Co-Owner Ellis E.
Powell, has made application before
the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, for a United States
Patent for Discovery Claim and No.
1 Above Discovery on Lake Creek
in the Cape Nome Recording Dis
trict, Alaska, being Mineral Survey
No. 1175, said claims being more
particularly described in the field
notes and plat of the official survey
thereof now on file in said Land
Office at Nome, Alaska, as follows,
to-wit:
DISCOVERY CLAIM.
Beginning at Cor. 1 identical with
S. W. Loc. Cor. with Cor. 4 of No.
2 below on Saturday Creek, Sur.
695, a fir post 4 ins. sq. 2 ft. above
ground in earth mond scribed 1-747,
4-695, 1-1175, D. U. S. L. M. No.
11 bears S. 14 deg. 05 min. E.
4110.0 ft. thence N. 20 deg. 16 min.
W. Var. 19 deg. 00 min. E. 665.00
ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N. 9 deg.
57 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
209.40 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
69 deg. 4 5 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 3 deg. 28 min. E. Var.
19 deg. 15 min. E. 317.40 ft. to
Cor. No. 5; thence S. 64 deg. 43
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
386.80 ft. to Cor. No. 6; thence S.
45 deg. 53 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 26
min. E. 273.80 ft.; thence S. 13
deg. 25 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 05 min.
E. 400.80 ft. to place of begining,
containing 5.908 acres.
NO. ONE ABOVE DISCOVERY.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 identical
with loc. cor. on line 1-6 of Sur. No.
747 No. 1 Above Discovery on
Wonder Creek and with Cor. No. 2
Discovery claim this survey, previ
ously described, U. S. L. M. No. 11
bears S. 14 deg. 57 min. E. 4771.60
ft.; thence N. 20 deg. 16 min. W.
Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 960.50 ft
to Cor. No. 2; thence S. 4 8 deg. 26
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
225.20 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
31 deg. 20 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 00
min. E. 269.40 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 36 deg. 42 min. E Var. 19
deg. 10 min. E. 647.00 ft. to Cor No.
5; thence S. 31 deg. 00 min. E.
Var. 19 deg. 30 min. E. 1240.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 6; thence S. 69 deg. 45
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 7; thence S.
9 deg. 57 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 209.40 ft. to place of be
ginning, containing 16.G56 acres.
Said claims are situated on un
surveyed gtound on Lake Creek
about 4.5 miles north of the Town
of Nome, in the Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
U. S. Location Monument No. 11
to which said claims are tied, is a
fir post 6 ins. sq. 5 ft. above ground
in stone mound 3 ft. high 6 ft. base
scribed U. S. L. M. No. 11, is situat
ed about 2.75 miles Northeasterly
from mouth of Snake River and
about 70 ft. east of the Bessie road.
Is in Latitude 64 deg. 32 min. North
Longitude 165 deg. 22 min. West.
Original locations recorded in Vol.
99 Page 445 and 16 Page 116 and
Amended locations recorded in Vol.
165 Page 225 and Vol. 199 Page
85, Records of Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
The adjoining claims are: On the
North No. 2 Above on Lake Creek,
Survey No. 698 and Gold Bug Claim
Survey No. 434; on the East un
surveyed; on the South No. 1
Below on Saturday Creek Sur. No.
1117 and No. 2 Below on Saturday
Creek, Sur. No. 695; on the West,
No. 1 Above on Wonder Creek Sur.
No. 747. There are no conflicting
claims.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., Dec. 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., Feb. 21, 1917.
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