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nearly as possible, Is a worthy object of any good government.”—
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Nome, Alaska, March 7, 1917.
AS TO TAXES.
When the city council refused to
accept the tender of decreased taxes
from Messrs Goggin and Polet they
could verj well do nothing else. It
was a case where the Council could
not without extreme stultification
accept the offer. It may be of course
that in proportion to the other mer
chants both of these are taxed ex
cessively i we do not know about
that, and in any event it is quite
immaterial. The point is that the
spectacle of merchants themselves
deciding what their taxes should be
and putting it up to the council to
accept that or take nothing, is not
very edifying either to the council,
to the merchants. or to the com
munity.
The plain facts are that the • ity
has an elected assessor. His ap
praisements are checked ant
checked with liberality by the Btav.l
of Equalization. That Board sits
expressly for the purpose of equaliz
ing the tax burdens in this com
inunity in proportion to the finan
cial ability and the property carried
of those who are so assessed.
It is very clear that if Mr. Polet
or Mr. Goggin feels that lie it not
properly and fairly in re'rtion to the
rest of the communit1’- assessed,
and that in proportion tc ihe assess
ments oi other merchants their pro
pertv is valued too highly, it is be
coming upon their part to scow who
evading taxation and who is as
—.a d t< c low in proportion to their
allotment.-.
That is tHeir business a.id being
ihcir business brother merchants
■ annot take it amiss.
If, on tlie- other hand, t nor pro
perty is assessed above its valua
tion. they have had the ric,ht to
make an affidavit to that effect be
fore the city council and the Hoard
of Equalization is bound to take
notice of sudi a declaration .un
reduce the taxation within the pro
per bounds.
Now no such thing tv as done
There was a general process ot pro
test; there were complaints but no
details of discrimination, and failing
that, what else could the Hoard of
Equalization do and what else can
the city council after th“ Hoard has
adjourned, do but stand n?t a .Hi in
sist upon the payment in lull of the
assessed taxes which none of them
has shown to be unfair.
We all know to what pretty straits
we would he led were the city coun
cil to leave the matter of their taxes
up to the good will and voluntary
contributions of the citizens. They
would not get enough to pay for
stamps to answer communica
tions and very little more. They
would not get enough to pay the
salary of a dog catcher, and it
would he Impossible to run the city
at all.
Merchants know very well that
the costs of the city outside the
schools are maintained for their bene
fit. The fire protection and the po
lice. the streets and the lighting are
all mainly for the benefit of those
engaged in mercantile pursuits and
it is only fitting that they pay with
out demur.
We have said that it is possible
that Polot and Goggin may be as
sessed unduly highly in proportion
to their fellows merchants. If so,
then they should make It \heir bus
iness to so inform the assessor, the
Board of Equalization and the
Council when such Information is
likely to be of use in making up the
different appraisements. Then when
each pays his fuil share, and we be
lieve few are paying now upon
their proper personal property val
ues, the entire rate would be re
duced and the burden of taxation
would be lighter all around than at
present. It was a very common
sense action upon the part of the
council to turn down the offer made
them with reference to the taxes of
these two leading merchants. The
action will commend itself to the
community, and it will serve. In s
I measure, to give notice that tax
I evasions under any circumstances
will not be allowed to be customary
in the City Council of the Town of
Nome.
All these tenders by responsible
business men can be traced back to
exceedingly bad precedents estab
lished under former administra
tions. It is not too late to reverse
these evil precidents and the deter
minations of the eouncilmen to re
fuse any rebates after the Board of
Equalization had sat will meet with
the approval of every one. It is
right and just that this should be
so, and it puts it up to every mer
chant to see that the other fellow
j pays as murh in proportion to his
1 property as he does in future.
A HAD PHECKDKNT.
—
Xo one will charge the Industrial
Worker with being partial to either!
Sulzer or to Wickersliam. In all
candor it is a matter of supreme
\ indifference to this paper as to who
shall represent the territory. We be
i lieve as between Wickersliam and
I Sulzer there is so little to choose
that it is not worth while stopping
to make a choice.
For that reason our comment
upon the action of the canvassing
i board in Juneau is wholly unbiassed
as to the personal merits of either
one or the other.
Nevertheless we think that Gover
nor Strong and Treasurer Davidson
in turning down the legal advice of
the Attorney General that the Aus
tralian ballot was mandatory and
admitting to the count votes not
legally cast therefore, have estab
lished a bad and a dangerous pre
cedent.
While they may have been ani
mated with the desire to see that
no legal voter lest his vote, in (lie
lace cm me eiecuun p«»»cu uj
tlie legislature, it ill becomes these
high officials who constitute the
canvassing board to deliberately
flout the law as passed and pass the
buck to the District Court. As
everyone knows, voting in delegate
elections especially in the past has
been greatly abused. And the chief
source of abuse was caused by the
absence of the Australian ballot,
j The workers and especially the social
I ists were very emphatic on this head
■ and with very good reason when
I they saw the flagrant abuses which
! cropped into the voting by the use
of the colored ballot.
It was in response to this general
outcry that the Australian ballot
j was made obligatory by law', and
! the failure of the officials to see
that this law was in force at all
precincts is not to be excused by
declaring that the voters themselves
| were not to blame.
How in the name of good common
sense are the laws of the territory
I to be received and followed if the
j Governor sets the high example in
.a matter of this kind in deliberately
j flouting them?
If the governor tacitly thinks it
| wise to overlook a harmless breach
of the election law, how can he con
sistently undertake not to over
look a deliberate and harmful abuse
of the same law’
, If official neglect in this instance
is whitewashed, how can corpora
tion corruption doing the same thing
be properly checked?
This is not a question whether
VVickershum or Sulzer is elected; it
is a question whether the voters are
to receive protection in the use of
the Australian ballot or not. It is
obvious that Governor Strong and
Treasurer Davidson have gone on
record in saying that any old ballot
may be cast and will get counted.
A more vicious decision could hard
ly be conceived.
CITY BATH HOUSE
has the largest
and only 6 feet
Bath Tubs la None.
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 Vol. 190, Page 5 in
the records of the Cape Nome Min
ing and 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.
Anything In the lice or Job work
•t the Industrial Worker Office.
Satisfaction assured.
No. 0314.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR A
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
N'om.., 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 co behalf of himself and i
his 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 j
Casadepaga River, 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 i
bv the Surveyor General o' the
said Territory, being t.s foi’jws- —
t Magnetic variation from 2<> deg.
| 05 min. E. to 20 uag 40 min L
Imperator Claim on Casadepaga
K-'- ei.
Beginning at ( or. No. 1 in the J
| Casadepaga River a id liable tr de- j
; struction by ice and Hood, whence
U. S. L. M. No. 12ud bears '1. if cleg
:,i.5 E., 3570.25 witness corner,
[a limestone 24x8x6 ins. chiseled W.
C. 2 M B 1. 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 Cor. 3; thence N.
43 deg. 14 min. W. 350 1't. to Cor.
4 in river and liable to destruction
by ice and flood, whence witness
corner, a schist stone 24x8x6 ins.
I chiseled W C No. 3 B M 4. 1-1200
with earth mound 24 ins. base, 18
ins. high on west side, hears N. 43
| deg. 14 min. W. 209.50 ft. distant;
I thence N. 55 deg. 39 min. E. 1278.40
| ft. to place of beginning. Area
i 10.409 A.
Beginning at Cor. 1, a schist stone
26x14x5 ins. chiseled 1. M B-1200
and mound 24 ins. base 18 ins. high
on south side, whence U. S. L. M.
No. 1200 bears N. 22 deg. 42 min.
E. 3345.30 ft. distant; thence S. 34
deg. 08 min. E. 384.6 ft. to Cor.
! 2, identical with Cor. 1, lmperatoi
■ previously described ‘identical wit
I ness corner previously described
i bears N. 34 deg. 08 min. W. 218.10
ft.; thence S. 55 deg. 39 min. VV.
1278.40 ft. to Cor. No. 3, identical
) with Cor. 4 Imperator previously de
i scribed and with identical witness
i corner previously described bearing
] N. 43 deg'. 14 min. W. 209.50 ft.;
! thence N. 43 deg. 14 min. W. 346.70
I ft. to Cor. 4; thence N. 54 deg. 15
min. E. 342.70 ft. to Cor. No. 5;
! thence N. 57 deg. 44 min. E. 673.60
! ft. to Cor. 6; thence N. 45 deg. 17
1 min. E. 322.80 ft. to place of be
j ginning. Area 10.337 A.
Eureka (or Discovery) Claim.
Beginning at Cor. 1. a greenstone
■24x7x6 ins. chiseled 1, E. 2, L B
1200, with mound 24 ins. base 18
ins. high on west side, whence U.
S 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.
! VV. 673.60 ft. to Cor. 3, identical
with Cor. 5 of M B claim; thence
N. 23 deg. 2? 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.
l.ittle 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. 58 deg. 16
min. W. 642.80 ft. to Cor. 3. iden
tical with Cor. 4 Eureka claim;
thence N. 26 deg. 56 min. W. 267
ft. to Cor. 4; thence N. 52 deg. 42
min. E. 623 ft. to place of begin
ning. 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. 52 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 min. 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%. 1200 with mound 24
ins. base 16 ins. high on east side,
whence U. S. L. M. No. 1200 boars
N. 77 deg. 57.5 min. W. 3064.57
ft; thence S. 11 deg. 45 min. E. 248.4 j
ft. to Cor. 2, identical with Cor. 4 |
No. One claim; thence S. 55 deg. |
06 W. 583.80 ft. to Cor. 3, identical I
with Cor. 3 No. One claim: thence I
N. 21 deg. 08 min. W. 241.50 ft. to j
Cor. 4; thonce N. 55 deg. 40 min.!
E. 624 ft. to place* of beginning.!
Area 3.215 A. '
This claim embracing 6 contiguous
locations, area 64.491 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 bluff i
about 100 ft. in elevation above the
Casadepaga River and about 400 ft.
west of the left bank, a cross x
marking true point, whence Cor. 1
Mortimer Bar claim bears S. 22
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
N. 76 deg. 34 min. W. about 2 miles
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. I
164 deg. 11 min. 30 sec. W.
Adjoining claims on all sides are j
unsurveyed and claimants unknown.
Tito nntiVpt; of lnratinn nriemml anil
i
amended are of record in the said j
Council City Recording District as;
follows:—Imperator Vol. 23 page
81; Mortimer Bar. Vol. 4, page 115;
Eureka (or Discovery) Vol. 2. page
106; Vol. 16. page 17. Vol. 4, page
119; Little Bloomfield Vol. 16, page
IS; 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 2S, 1917.
No. 0313.
NOTICE OK APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, February 23, 1917.
I -
Notice is hereby given, that J. E. |
Bonnell, a citizen of the United!
States, over the age of twenty-one
years, whose post office address is |
Tacoma. Washington, by F. It. j
Cowden. his Attorney-in-fact whose |
post office address is Nome, Alaska, ]
has made application before the j
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. 119S. 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, a3
follows;
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, identical
with Cor. No. 2, Sur. No. 1189,
I
Rainy. Day Placer, Cor. No. 5, bur.
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 Ft, 2-3189
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. 44 deg. 45
min. W. Yar. 18 deg. 15 min. E.
336.20 to Cor. No. 5; thence S. 45 j
deg. 17 min. E. Yar. 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 j
District, Alaska.
U. S. L. M. No. 11, to which this j
claim is tied, is a fir post, 6 ins. [
sq. 5 ft. above ground, in stone j
mound, 6 ft. base, 3 ft. high and i
scribed U. S. L. M. No. 11. It Is j
situate about 70 ft. East of what [
is known as the Bessie Road and E
about 3.5 miles Northeasterly fiom i
Nome, in Lat. 64 deg. 32 min. j
North, Long. 165 deg. 22 min' West. J
The original location Notice is re- C
corded in Yol. 105 Page 163, and j
Amended Location in Yol. 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 I,ake
Creek, Sur. No. 698, claimant un
known. On the West, Survey No.
1193 and unsurveyed claims, name*
and claimants unknown.
Q. A. ADAMS!
Register.
Date of first publ., Feb. 24, 1917.
Date of last publ., April 26, 1917.
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ous reductions in Hardware—aa
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