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Littered as second class matter March 1. 1911, at the post office at
fcoiue, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1ST3.
Nome, Alaska, April 21, 1 •:rj.
MEXICAN NEWS SERVICE.
While this gay nr.d giddy v< rln
sots a mighty fast pace hese days
for us to follow even with our
minds eye, there are two er three
things that occasion thinking even
among the ‘-hough*lc«s and attract
att .etlcn just because of the charac
teristic manner in which they stan 1
out.
Take the Mexican situation for
example. Hero a e those i'uit ‘d
bta.t s the political federation of a
free peoples, governing themselves
or ‘hiuking the do and technically
at any rate their say-so being the
supreme law of tlie land, simply be
cause vox populi Is supposed by
those who never heard the oilier to
bo identical with vex doi.
How many people are informed a»
to what has, been going on in Mex
ico since Pershing entered it to
chase Villa? What people on earth
served as are these United States
with such a discordant and discrep
ant reports of what ia happening
could pretend to have even an indis
tinct knowi-d” ■ of what is actually
happening.
Reports of the wildest type have
been persistently circulated. Villa
was well, Villa was wounded, Villa
was dead, Villa was sound and in
perfect health Carranza’s generals
were mutinying and with powerful
forces were for attacking Amer
icans -this garrison had been eon
trolled only with the greatest effort
— Mexicans were concentrating to
drive back Pershing—Carranza con
templated joining hands with every
other faction to crush tlie American
invasion—Carranza was at outs with
his generals and had fled to the
capital where only one was loyal—
(Jutierez had assured Carranza from
Chihuahua that they had the 3itua
tiou well under control and had de
feated Pablo Lopez whose d^ad body
v. is identified more than a month
ago in the streets of Columbus when
the raiding Mexicans had retired.
All these things and a lot more
have been literally thrown at the
people as correct intelligence, today
contradicting yesterday’s reports and
tomorrow’s both yesterday’s and to
day's.
UDviousiy ana moat cieariy tuat is
not done for nothing. The Mexican
situation is one that has man)
phases in which important policies
are involved, the chiefest of whict.
is intervention. It is the inter
ventionist interests which are at
some pains to compel the idea
throughout the U&lted States that
Carranza Is impossible, that his
generals are merely each the head
of a factional unit and that order
can be only brought about when the
American troops swoop down in
hordes to control and conquer and
administer the country.
The Mexican situation just now is
dark and mysterious beyond what
it has ever before been, not from
the suppression of all newB but from
the deliberate dissemination of news
that was and is entirely false—that
is so outrageously and deliberately
and. unashamedly false that those
responsible for the stories nave
neither hesitation nor reluctance to
invent tomorrow an additional can
ard which will controvert or couilici
with that of yesterday.
That surely is a striking situation.
The official reports are censored,
and there is no confidence mani
fested between the admnistratioi
au l the people. What a howling
roar went up when the war broke
out in Europe when a multitude of
American ciitics blamed tne curse ot
secret diplomacy and the blight ot
the censor? Vet is it any worse
that these peoples of this country
should be placed at the mercy of
all kinds of narrow interests wh.i
control the press services of the
land while the truth is allowed to
past; through in an attentuated and
Highly filtered dropping from the of
ficial bureaus
I The Mexican situation would he
far less serious if the game was
l>h yeti in the open—if the people
were actually taken into the confi
dence of the government if every
move was played open and above
hoatd without secrecy which means
distrust, and without the foolish pre
cautions which merely advantage
those who have a selfish and sordid
| motive in forcing the coittry into
war will Mexico and into annexing
it so that their profits may be long
in the land—-by cultivating the war
| lust among the people fed upon dis
torted facts and subjected to the
'suggestion of the false by the sup
pression of the true.
THIS Its SI.15IO! s:
Tiie affairs of the state are often
perplexing and too profound, for the
common people to comprehend, a
; great many wieghty problems that
do not arise in the commonplace
! existence of the average hornv
j handed sou of toil, come into the
life of tiie politician and and diplo
I mat to vex and annoy and try tli -
| patience of these worthies. An ex
ample cf trying things the diplomat
j must deal with is shown in the
following press account of Colonei
. E. M. House’s trip to Europe as the
personal repressntaive of President
Wilson:
“Colonel House w.-.s able to assure
Ambassador I3age tl-.at ho was not
here (in London) to (ix up any my
thical difficulties which were
supposed to have arisen among Am
bassador Penfield on account of ob
jection by Mr. Page to the purchase
of socks in London for the Berlin
and Vienna embassies, and also on
account of any refusal by him to
forward through London and Paris
gowns which Mrs. Gerard had
orderod."
We are sorry that there is so
little information here to enlighten
us concerning the diplomatic diffi
culties suggested by this brief refer
ence. Whatever the trouble may
be, we are assured that it is in
ternational in scope and that it puts
our diplomats up against a delicate
question of neutrality.
To buy socks in London to be
worn in Berlin is no light thing.
And it is questionable whether
gowns should be permitted to reach
Berlin via London and Paris. Gowns
may be contraband. Those uncannily
Ingenious Germans may be able to
put them to some hellish use. These
things call for a full and complete
explanation.
Our diplomats should not be too
hasty, however. We trust they will
go through the usual polite and
voluminous exchange of notes and
that the settlement of these burn
ing international questions will
follow the ordinary placid course
of diplomatic negotiations.—Er.
CONTRIBUTED.
QUO VADI8?
I.
Uneven reward for equal efforts—
The thoughtless crowning of vile
Success—
Friendship trampled and life's love
severed
Seeking a selfish happiness.
II,
A few pennies cast on the untended
altar
For parasite priests by proxy to
pray—
A few moments spent in doubt or in
falter
Then the crowd's maddened rush to
the pitiless fray.
III.
The panting of steam stills the gasp
of the Poor
Machinery’s clank drowns the groan
of the Toiler—
Much tramps on Less in the struggle
for More
And Mood turns fine wine for the
wealthy despoiler.
IV.
Want, the slave-trader, In the home
comes stealing
Chaining the heart and the brain
and hand
Ravaging Hope while it brands all
feeling
Of Love and Truth with its red-hot
brand.
V.
Or Death, the Great Thief, dark :
robed, soft treading,
Clutches pauper and prince alike a3 ,
his prey
Thrusts jewels aside—fine silk?
tears to shredding
And naked his victims unknowi
hides away,
VI.
Where bones of the victor and van ;
quished molder
Together neath sands of Time *■
trackless wave.
The thoughts of the Great and the
Vulgar smolder
To nothing alike in a common
grave.
VIT.
So kisses or curses for one or the
other
Chains or crowns for that one cr
this
Father 'gainst son or brother ‘gainst
brother
What ' matters all in a world is
amiss?
VIII.
The throb of the brain or the soul's
keen pang—
The tears, or heartaches are beyond
all tears—
Memories that bite with a poisoned
fang
Sullen despairing frets or fears—
IX.
If the Gods have decreed that sor
row is well—■*
And heaven delights in the woes
that kill,
Must we pa;s this life in a living
Hell
That One who has willed it prove
his Will?
X.
If they take an atom from out the
Ages
And call it divinity eterne—
If they tear a text from their legal
page
And call it the Law itself superne
XI.
Must we bow in infinite subjection
To the finite rules of finite men
Nor stand forth free of our own
election
To strive for the greatest and best'.'
And tnon
XII.
Must we turn to a future of Dust
and Ashes
Barren to eye and foul to breath
While their whirlwind Fury its vic
tin lashes
To the Sleepless Grave of Man's
living death?
XIII.
And those who led and those who
followed
In the ruck of the common herd
behind.
Commingle at least in Time's hand
hollowed.
Alike blind leaders and the blind—
XIV.
Act and reaction undlstinguahed
The good just as evil deeds undone—
The great, and the lesser light ex
tinguished
Nothing completed nor 'ictory
won— •
XV.
Our Hopes but the dreams of a
troubled dreamer—
Our Fears wild visions of unrest—
Our Loves the unredeemed Re
deemers
Of the Damned Thoughts surging
within our breast?
X. Y. Z.
The Lid is off, but you will not
be gambling if you take advantage
of that fact. Bring real monej
with you as chips dont’ go. From
now on till the time of stock taking
you can get two for one at Darling
Sc Deans. You can buy a picf.
for fifty cents—do you get it:
Bargains along all lines.—Adv.
MINERAL APPLICATION NO. 028:1
U. S. Land Office, Nome, Alaska,
April 18th, 191G.
Notice is hereby given that the
Flume Dredge Company, a corpora
tion organized under the laws of
the State of California, with its
principal place of business and post
office address, Mills Building, San
Francisco, California, has through
.las. M. Streetcn, its authorized
agent, whose post office address is
Nome, Alaska, made application for
a United States patent for No. 14
Above Discovery placer mining
claim, situated on Melsing Creek,
in the Council City Recording Di
strict, Territory of Alasna, and de
signated as Mineral Survey No.
1172, which said placer mining claim
is described according to the plat
and field notes now on file in the
U. S. Land Office at Nopte, Alaska,
with a magnetic variation of 21
deg. 38 min. E. as follows:
Beginning at Corner No. 1, a
spruce post 4 ft. long, 6 ins. dia
meter, in earth mound, scribed 1 1
Ab 1 1172 on N. face, whence U. S.
L. M. No. 3 172 bears S. 59 deg.
34 min. \V. 380.3 ft. Thence N. 33
deg. 35 min. W. 544.4 ft. to Cor.
No. 2; thence N. 56 deg. 27 min.
E. 1376.C ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence
S. 37 deg. 56 min. E. 526.4 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; thence S. 55 deg. 37
min. IV. 1397.6 ft. to Cor. No. 1,
place of beginning, containing an
area of 17.025 acres.
This claim is situated on Melsing
Creek about four' miles north of
Council City, Council City Re
cording Precinct, Alaska. Lo
cation monur.ont No. 3172 is
a schist stone 37x20x5 ins.
IS ins. in the ground, with mound
of earth 4 ft. high, 6 ft. base, situa
ted about 30 ft. above the bed ot
Melsing Creek, on the south side
thereof, in latitude 64 deg. 55 min.
N., longitude 163 deg. 39 min. W.
The location notice is recorded in
Vol. 10, page 132, of the records
Council City Recording District, Al
aska.
The adjoining claims are as fol
lows: On the northeast No. 15
Above Discovery on Melsing Creek;
on the southwest, No. 13 Above Dis
covery on Melsing Creok; claimants
unknown; on the northwest ana
southeast, claims unknown; all un
surveyed.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first pub!., April 20, 1916.
Date of last publ., June 21, 1916.
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