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NKKDING MKX.
That men are needed now for the
United States navy is an official
statement. Men are also needed for
flie army although so lar no such
intimation has been made, lioth ot
which tacts to a labor paper are
significant.
The American sailor has been for
half a century a gradually vanish
ing quantity. While economists may ,
dispute over the reasons why the j
American ships became fewer than
those of other nationalities during
that time, there is no difficulty ex
plaining why the American left the
sea.
It was the blood ship and the
bucko and the infamous laws, the
crimp and the shanghaier that
cleared tin decks of the American
crew; then when laws became
somewhat improved, the resort upon
the part of the ship owners to Ori
ental crews did the rest—capital
knows no country.
For over quarter or a century,
sailors’ organizations have manfully
fought to establish living conditions
at sea that might lie tolerable for
the seamen. Kvery effort to achieve^
results was negatived l>v both par- j
t es alike. The interests of the ship
owners were against reforms, amt j
t vcn today the laws make a seaman j
still much a chattel slave when on,
-loop water.
The deep water American ships |
on the Pacific, that proudly floated,
the Stars and Stripes: such ships as
Minnesota, such ships as the fleet ot ,
the Pacific Mail, all of these were j
manned by Chinese crews. When
the Minnesota came over from New ,
■London and rounded the Straits of j
Magellan, her arrival was hailed in
•Seattle as an event worth celebrat- j
mg Here was an American ship,
it very leviathan of the deep, the
largest ship on the Pacific and one j
of the largest in the world. Amer
ican seamen brought her around the
Horn. American seamen docked her |
m Seattle and then, after an inspect- j
tion. she proceeded to British ( o
luinbia where she took on a crew
of six hundred orientals while the
American sailors were left to rot in
the dens of the Pacific Coast ports,
in be victimized by crimp and by
hoarding boss and to he chased by
every fleecing agency from pillar to
post.
Now when the country wants
sailors, there are none. But whose
fault? What has the country ever
done for the citizens who would go
down to the sea in ships? 'I he
•courts and the consuls, the police
: nd the attorneys have been as one
hack of the blood ship and the
bucko. On the bark Gatherer when
rounding the Horn the men com
plained of the infamy of their treat
ment and their food. Moldy worm
infested mush was served alone tor
breakfast without any sugar, bread
or coffee. They asked for molasses
and the cook was invited to take
the request of the sailors to the
captain. The mate compelled the
• ook who was a negro to strip and
laying him athwart the capstan on
the forecastle deck plastered his
body with molasses and with sheer:
brutal tyranny compelled every man j
at the point of the gun to lick it
oft. Those who refused were beaten
up and outrageously nftmhandled.
Men were slain on the ship, and Un
law could not he invoked. Up until
very few years ago every seaman the
world over shunned the American
deep water ship as they would the
broth of hell And to reform this
condition of things the law makers
and the courts handed down decrees
in admiralty that make the heart
sick to read them.
No wonder white men shunned
the sea until the hardy few along
the Pacific Coast by- organization
-compelled a change; forced from
unwilling masters decent treatment,
compelled rich and powerful and
arrogant shipping companies to yield
-and along the coast so reformed
conditions that seamen manned
ships and were able to do so. The
legislative fight is a matter of his
tory, but it comes too late to find
the seamen ready and willing and
eager to respond to the country's
call! They are not here.
In peace they stroll the water
fronts without a ship while orien
tals, because they work more cheap
ly, are manning the greater vessels.
While hundreds drop salt tears that
the Oriental flags oust the Stars and
Stripes off the Seas none seem to
mourn at all that the American
seaman has also been ousted from
the American ships, and become a
landsman.
So it is that, today when eighty
| thousand seamen are needed there
| are none. The seamen couldn’t
1 make a living in time of peace and
he lias turned landsman. Is the
country now to turn to the Oriental
whom tiie shipping companies have
I always found place for in its houi
j of need?
I Moreover, and furthermore how is
it that the country is short of men?
What has become of the thousands
i who paraded for preparedness?
i . .. ...
Has that been all a sham? Did the
hundred thousands who marched in
all the principal cities of the union,
do so simple for show and Intend
that the other fellow should so
do the fighting? Where are these
hundreds of thousands who have
been alleged to be boosting the work
of Security Languors? Are they
staying at home "secure" while they
pre suppose that the other fellows
will lake their chances? The United j
States Navy needs only eighty thou- \
sand men. There were millions
have been shouting war and prepar
ness. What is the matter with
them? Where are they hiding them
selves? Dont they know that Mili
tarist Opportunity now knocks at
their door?
Here have. been thousands of
newspaper writers throughout the
country boosting war. They want
ed the United States to light Mexico
and they wanted a fall out of Japan
and now it is Germany. Well Uncle j
Sam can use them, but they dont
stir. No fears; they rae sitting!
clpse to their chairs penning red j
hoi war articles, young men of mi- j
litary age for the workers to get a!
gun and go a-shooting or get shot. |
We say that the country does not I
want war: never has wanted it! The!
i mass of the people are opposed to it;
! organized labor is opposed to it;
the organized farmers are fighting!
it. Who wants it? Who but the j
powerful capitalists in Wall Street, j
They arc the men who sneered Wil- j
| son until his noble policy of neutral
ity shrivelled and withered before
their sardonic leers and outrageous
denunciations. Those men, who
were too rich to tight, too busy pro
fiteering to tight, too well salaried
to fight, too old to tight, have sneer*
ed until their faces assumed a
j Mephistophelean leer at the splen
I did principle of men “being too
proud to tight": that men could live
in this day and age and pity the
unfortunates who were driven into
the shambles to gratify the lust for
power or the lust for protits of the
ruling classes; that men should not
ignobly view both sides to a quarel
and in all justice avoid it as the de
mentia of covert or overt greed, or
the equally insensate lust to kili
and slay and conquer.
They are the ones who now dam
ourousl.v demand war who now pa
triotically wave their flags to arouse
the blood lust of the people. They
have denounced and attacked and
satirized and lampooned Bryan and
every public man who dare stand up
against war. They have hurled foul
abuse and treated him with ridicule
and odium. They have flooded the
country with the literature of their
doctrines and announced the nobility
of conquest and imperialism and
battle and destruction before the
people who never stirred to their
importunities, but who did rally to
the standard of one who went be
fore the country on his four years
record “that he kept the nation out
of war". Now they are not volun
teering—why? Why, indeed.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Herman Nelson your heirs, ex
ecutors, assigns or personal repre
sentatives:
You are hereby notified that 1
have expended in labor and Im
provements the sum of one hund
red dollars each year for the years
of 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915 and
1916 on the Plutus, a placer mining
claim situated on the left limit of Dry
creek and recorded and more fully
described in Yol. 190. Page 5 in
the records of the Cape Nome Min
ing ami Recording District. Second
Division, Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
law concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount re
quired to hold said claim.
And you are further notified that
if you fail to contribute your pro
portion of said expenditure within
ninety days after the last publica
tion of this notice, your interest In
said claim will become the property
of the undersigned, your co-owner,
under section 2324 Revised Statutes
of the United States.
archie McDonald.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Feb. 14. 1917.
Date of last publ.. May 16, 1917.
No. 0314.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR A
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
Nom., Alaska, February 26, 1917.
Notice is hereby given that John
F. Ames Trustee with residence and
post office address at Cleveland,
Ohio, through his authorized at
torney in fact V. V. Dickenson
whose residence and post office ad
dress is Nome. Alaska has filed ap
plication on behalf of himself and
liis co-beneficiaries under said trust
Mortimer P. Ames also with resi
dence and post office address at
Cleveland, Ohio, and Charles Wente
of Nome, Alaska, before the United
States Land office at Nome, Terri
tory of Alaska for a patent for
placer mining claims situate in the
Council City Recording District, in
the Second Division, in the Nome
Land District, in said Territory, said
claims comprising the following
placer locations:—Imperator, Mor
timer Bar, Eureka, Little Bloom
field. No. One and No. One and One
Half, situate on Dixon Creek and the
Oasadepaga Kiver, the Mineral Sur
vey thereof being designated as No.
1200. The description of said claims
as set forth in the Field Notes and
Plat of said Surrey duly approved
bv the Surveyor General oe the
said Territory, being t.s follows’ —
Magnetic variation from 20 deg.
05 min. E. to 20 deg 40 min. L
Imperator Claim oil Oasadepaga
River.
Beginning at t or. No. 1 in the
Oasadepaga River aod liable to de
struction by ice and Hood, whence
U. S. L. M. No. 12O’) bears N. J V dtg
:,i.5 E.t 3570.25 :t witness corner,
a limestone 24xSx6 ins. chiseled W.
C. 2 M B I, 1-1200 with mound oi
earth 24 ins. base, 18 ins. high on
east side, bears N. 34 deg. 08 min.
W., 218.10 ft. distant; thence S.
34 deg. 08 min. E. 380 ft. to Cor.
2; thence S. 57 deg. 15 min. W.
1223.40 ft. to 6or. 3; thence N.
43 deg. 14 min. W. 350 ft. to Cor.
4 in river and liable to destruction
by ice and flood, whence witness
corner, a schist stone 24x8x0 ins.
chiseled W C No. 3 B M 4, 1-1200
with earth mound 24 ins. base. 18
ins. high on west side, bears N. 43
deg. 14 min. W. 209.50 ft. distant;
thence N. 55 deg. 39 min. E. 127 8.40
| ft. to place of beginning. Area
10.409 A.
Mortimer Bar Claim,
i Beginning at Cor. 1, a schist stone
126x14x5 ins. chiseled 1, M B-1200
| and mound 24 ins. base 18 ins. high
! on south side, whence U. S. L. M.
j No. 1200 hears N. 22 deg. 42 min.
IE. 3345.30 ft. distant; thence S. 34
i deg. 08 min. E. 384.6 ft. to Cor.
I 2. identical with Cor. 1. Imperator
previously described identical wit
ness corner previously described
bears N. 34 deg. 08 min. W. 218.10
ft.; thence S. 55 deg. 39 min. \V.
1278.40 ft. to Cor. No. 3, identical
with Cor. 4 Imperator previously de
: scribed and with identical witness
corner previously described bearing
N. 43 deg. 14 min. W. 209.50 ft.;
thence N. 4 3 deg. 14 min. W. 34 6.70
ft. to Cor. 4; thence N. 54 deg. 15
rain. E. 342.70 ft. to Cor. No. 5;
| thence N. 57 deg. 44 min. E. 673.60
j ft. to Cor. 6; thence N. 45 deg. 17
j min. E. 322.80 ft. to place of be
| ginning. Area 10.337 A.
Eureka (or Discovery) Claim.
Beginning at Cor. 1. a greenstone
24x7x6 ins. chiseled 1, E. 2, L B
il200. with mound 24 ins. base 18
; ins. high on west side, whence 11.
5 L M No. 1200 bears N. 42 deg.
17 min. E. 3009.40 ft.; thence S.
24 deg. 54 min. E. 1198.50 ft. to
Cor. 2, identical with Cor. 6 of M
B claim; thence S. 57 deg. 44 min.
W. 673.60 ft. to Cor. 3, identical
with Cor. 5 of M B claim; thence
N. 23 deg. 29 min. W. 1209.20 ft.
to Cor. 4; thence N. 58 deg. 16 min.
E. 642.80 ft. to place of beginning.
Area 18.020 A.
Little Bloomfield Claim.
Beginning at Cor. 1, a fir post 3
ft. by 4 ins. square set 18
ins. in ground, scribed 1, L B, 1, No.
1-1200 with earth mound 24 Ins.
base 12 ins. high around same,
whence U. S. L. M. No. 1200 bears
N. 48 deg. 25 min. E. 2936.65 ft.
distant; thence S. 31 deg. 46 min.
. E. 326.60 ft. to Cor. 2, identical
with Cor. 1 Eureka claim previous
ly described; thence S. 68 deg. 16
min. W. 642.80 ft. to Cor. 3, iden
tical with Cor. 4 Eureka claim;
thence N. 26 deg. 66 min. W. 267 j
It. to Cor. 4; thence N. 52 deg. 42
min. E. 623 ft. to place of begin- !
niug. Area 4.288 A.
No. One Dixon Creek.
Beginning at Cor. 1, identical
with Cor. 1 Little Bloomfield previ
ously described; U. S. L. M. No.
1200 having identical bearings;
thence S. 62 deg. 42 min. W. 623 ft.
to Cor 2, identical with Cor. 4 L B
claim; thence N. 33 deg. 28 min. W.
1330 ft. to Cor 3; thence N. 55
deg. 06 miu. E. 583 ft. to Cor. 4;
thence S. 35 deg. 07 min.- E.
1303.20 ft. to place of beginning.
Area 18.222 A.
No. One and One Half, Dixon.
Beginning at Cor. 1, a limestone
24x12x3 ins. in ground 12 ins. chis
eled 1. 1 M>. 1200 with mound 24 i
ins. base 16 ins. high on east side. !
whence U. S. L. M. No. 1200 boars jj
N. 77 deg. 57.5 min. W. 3064.57 i i]
ft; thence S. 11 deg. 45 min. 16. 248.4 S
ft. to Cor. 2. identical with Cor. 4 j
No. One claim; thence S. 55 deg. ■
06 W. 583.80 ft. to Cor. 3, identical [
with Cor. 3 No. One claim: thence !
N. 21 deg. 08 min. W. 241.50 ft. to |
Cor. 4; thence N. 55 deg. 40 min. I
E. 624 ft. to place of beginning. 1
Area 3.215 A.
This claim embracing 6 contiguous
locations, area 64.4 91 a. is on un- •
surveyed ground and situate on
Dixon Creek and the Casadepaga
River about 20 miles west of the
town of Council.
U. S. L. M. No. 1200 to which
Survey is tied is a limestone blufT
about 100 ft. in elevation above the
Casadepaga River and about 4 00 ft.
west of the left bauk, a cross x
marking true point, whence Cor. 1 j
Mortimer Bar claim bears S. 22 j
deg. 42 min. W. 3345.30 ft.; a cross !
x cut on limestone bedrock chiseled
B R bears N. 51 deg. 40 min. E. 9.7
ft. distant; a mountain peak bears j
N. 76 deg. 34 min. W. about 2 miles I
distant. Said monument is about ]
1. 25 miles up Casadepaga River j
from mouth of Big Four Creek, and
in Lat. 64 deg. 54 min. N. Long.
164 deg. 11 min. 30 sec. W.
Adjoining claims on ail sides are
unsurveyed and claimants unknown.
The notices of location, original and
amended are of record in the said
Council City Recording District as
follows:—Imperator Yol. 23 page
81; Mortimer Bar. Vol. 4. page 115;
Eureka (or Discovery) Vol. 2, page
106; Vol. 16, page 17, Vol. 4, page
I 119; Little Bloomfield Vol. 16, page
18; Vol. 4, page 117; No. One, Vol.
20, page 267; No. One and One
Half Vol. 22, page 134.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., Feb. 27. 1917.
Date of last pub., April 28, 1917.
No. 0313.
NOTICK OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, February 23, 1917.
Notice is hereby given, that James
H. Bonin.11, a citizen of the United
States, over the age of twenty-one
years, whose post office address is
Tacoma, Washington, by F. It.
Cowden, his Attorney-in-fact whose
post office address is Nome, Alaska,
has made application before the
United States Land Office at Nome,
Alaska, for a United States Patent
for the "Cross Bench Fraction"
Placer Claim, on the left limit of
Cooper Gulch in the Cape Nome Re
cording District, Alaska, Mineral
Survey No. 1198, said claim being
more particularly described in the
field notes and plat of the official
survey thereof now on tile in said
Land Office at Nome, Alaska, as
follows;
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, identical
with Cor. No. 2, Sur. No. 1189,
Rainy Day Placer, Cor. No. 5, Sur.
No. 1175, No. 1 Lake Creek Placer
and Cor. No. 2 Sur. No. 698, No. 2
Lake Creek Placer, a nr post, 4 ins.
sq. 2 ft. above ground, in earth
mound, scribed,1-1189 C F„ 2-11S9
R D, 5-1175-1 L, 2-698, whence U.
S. L. M. No. 11, bears S. 11 deg.
08 min. E. 6227.80 ft. thence N.
O deg. 56 min. E. Yar. 19 deg. 15
min. E. 1013.00 to Cor. No. 2;
thence N. 67 deg. 53 min. W. Var.
19 deg. 10 min. E. 476.60 ft. to Cor.
No. 3; thence S. 2 deg. 01 min. E.
Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 309.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 4; thence S. 4 4 deg. 4 5
min. W. Var. 18 deg. 15 min. E.
336.20 to Cor. No. 5; thence S. 45
deg. 17 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 00
min. E. 916.00 ft. to place of begin
ning. Containing an area of 10.060
acres, and is situated on unsurveyed
ground in the Cape Nome Recording
District, Alaska.
U. S. L. M. No. 11, to which this
claim is tied, is a fir post, 6 ins.
sq. 5 ft. above ground, in stone
mound, 6 ft. base, 3 ft. high and
scribed U. S. L. M. No. 11. It is
situate about 70 ft. East of what
is known as the Bessie Road and
about 3.5 miles Northeasterly fiom
Nome, in Lat. 64 deg. 32 min.
North, Long. 165 deg. 22 min’ West.
The original location Notice is re
corded in Vol. 105 Page 163, and
Amended Location in Vol. 165 Page
346, records of said district.
There are no conflicting claims.
The adjoining claims are, on the
North, unsurveyed, name and claim
ant unknown, on the East, Sur. No.
1189, Rainy Day Placer, Carl Wick,
claimant. On the South No. 2 Lake
Creek, Sur. No. 698, claimant un
known. On the West, Survey No.
1193 and unsurveyed claims, names
and claimants unknown.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., Feb. 24, 1917.
Date of last publ., April 25, 1917.
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