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•tome, • Alasua, under the Act of March I, 1871.
"lo secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
nearly us possible, is a worthy object of any good government."—
Abraham Lincoln
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Nome, Alaska, Marcli 15, 1!>17.
WIIAT HIM. llAIM'KX.
Captalist economists who liave
>)een worrying themselves to death
to explain the high costs of living,
newspapers which have been trying
to shield the real facts as to ex
ploitation at the point of production
_all these and many more who
are wont to make use of their men
tal existence as an apology tor the
capitalist system will have their
labor reduced to a pleasure, tor in ^
the very near future it will he easy
to find a goat.
As the dispatches announce that
the railroad brotherhoods are about j
to strike and as they doubtless will]
■strike unless war breaks out or the
Adamson bill is declared constitu
tutional. two contingencies not al
together impossible in the near
future, however remote one or the
other may be now considered, so the
writers, speakers and expounders ol
< apitalism may blame everytihng on
til* striking workers.
They will resurrect that harmless
animal known as The Public and pi
tifully picture it as between the up
per and the nether millstones, a
favorite picture even among writers
who never saw millstones in opera
tion in their lives and the brother
hoods will get b tamed for every
thing: they will have the high cost
of living packed on their shoulders,
they will have whatever industrial
misery exists laid at their doors, a
reluctant parentage literally to be
»m>st»upon them, and the .ser'Hlgki:
,,f capitalism will breathe more free
ly that the brotherhoods are the
•goat.
ini: til it. tki '
Someone said that it takes a thief
it i at rli a thief, and apparently a
”0od many lawyers who enjoy prese
nting offiees have eonte to the con
clusion that any way it takes a cri
minal red handed and befouled to
secure* a conviction.
In San Francisco to convict the
Billings and Mooneys the prosecu
iion under Fickert, who was elected
!,v the Gas Company because he
was committed to the dismissal ot
the graft charges against the 1 nited
Railroads, depended for convicting
testimony upon the foulest and most
-abandoned criminals: incestuous
women and male sex perverts starr
ing as government witnesses.
Now in Seattle comes the case
-against Gill. Whether the mayor
is guilt> or not is quite immaterial,
but it is strange that it lias to be
brought home to the jury through
ihe medium of such a blackguard
as Billingsley who brazenly admits
that he has more crimes to his re
cord than all the official records
will show.
How ii is possible that tin course
uf the law in the administration ot
juati. can be respected under such
conditions is not to he readily under
stood and even if they succeed in
getting Gill and landing him behind
the bars, whether guilty or not. the
alliance between the prosecution
and avowed, brazen, flagrant crimi
nals will not make the courts of this
country lie the more respected.
And what is one to think ot the
-admission of Billnigsiey that he
gave a large sum of money to Dr.
Mathews "for vice reform and to re
call Mayor Gill". If such contri
butions are different front actual
bribes at least the reverend Mathews
will have some trouble proving it.
What Mathews may unctuously re
ceive this tainted money for a "good
purpose", because it is the purpose
of a Mathews, shows merely what a
rotten standard tihs bourgeois mo
rality attains. Rotten?—well,
some.
decreasing wages.
No one would bother anything
about high prices if the wages kept
even step, for then the purchasing
capacity would be easily main
tained.
But what has been accomplished
by the higher prices, due in the main
to the war demand and the immense
supply of gold at reduced cost ot
production, is that the wages art
cut.
If a man gets a dollar a day, he
has no intention of trying to swal
low that silver coin to live upon it.
Why he values the dollar is because
of the fact that he can exchange it
for the necessaries of life. The
more he can buy with it the higher
the standard of wages which he re
ceives and vice versa.
Roughly let us contrast the
change in prices from the official
lists prepared up to November ot
1916 and see what one could get
with a dollar in 1890 and in 1316:
Round steak in pounds in 1890 lor
a dollar S.l in 1916 4.2, I’ork
Chops in 1S90 9.3. lbs, 191 0 4.4.;
bacon 1S90 S.O lbs, in 1916 3.3;
Ham 1S90 6.6 lbs, 1916 3.3; lard
10.8 lbs. in 1890. in 1916 4.7 lbs.
Eggs in 1S90 4.S dozen for a dollar,
in 1916 2.3 doz. Butter 3.9 pounds
in 1890. 2.3 pounds In 1916. Milk
[quarts in 1S90 for a dollar 14.7 in
1916 10.1. Wheat Hour in 1890 for
ja dollar 1-8 barrel bags 1.41, in
1 1916 0.72. Corn meal 52.6 lbs. in
1890. in 1916 27.8 lbs. Potatoes in
1890 for a dollar 4.0 pecks in 1916
i 2.0 pecks. Sugar 14.51 lbs. a dollar
in 1 890, in 1916 11.6.
Those are prices for the United
; States, an average for five divisions
'(ping higher in some and lower in
others within a slight margin of
j variance.
It reveals the astonishing fact
that the dollar today as far as its
purchasing power in food stuffs is
concerned is worth from 40 to SO
.-cuts less, and in some instances it
even worth less.
So that when a person is paid a
dollar a day is actually getting less
than if In- was getting fifty cents in
ls9o. He cannot in many instances
live up to any sort of a well fed
standard and he lives on grub that
the workers of a past day would not
think of considering.
Much of the increase in price is
fictitiously due to the heavy and
cumbersome artificial costs of hand
ling the goods. It is notorious that
goods in large quantities are ae
jquired more cheaply than if bought
in job lots. While it is wrong foi
railroads to grant rebates to farg^
shippers, commercial interests liavi
never seen the injustice of pilit g ii
on to the little fellow while givinj
very much reduced rates to the l)ii
buyers. Yet if rebates are wrong
for steamship and railroad compa
nies why are they not wrong accord
! ing to the same plain of reasoning
i in buying and selling in the storts':
! However that is another questvoi
which will later on be considered.
But consider what Uncle Satr
pays to feed the units of his arm ■
The soldier's grub costs 27 cents t
day—today, right now, in this on
of high living costs. Fresh beef cost
11.41. beans 10.5 cents a pound
bacon two grades eighteen to twentj
or twenty-two. Flour $4.02 pel
hundred. Rice four and half cent:
a pound and so on.
j That is because he buys by tin
i “wholesale”. But why should no
the community also get their good!
by the wholesale and every persoi
get their fill?
As we see it, the element of pro
fit and the element of costly wast<
which has to be paid for in misdi
reeled labor, useless work, extrava
gant up-keep, and generally speak
ing inefficient systems of distribu
tion is what we are up against. Thh
cannot be properly remedied undei
capitalism of course, but by th«
workers organizing they can improvt
matters and they can prepare to gel
more and more and still more un
til flnaUy they get all of the pro
duct of their labor. Organizatioi
is the secret of the mystery to th<
workers. It will solve the problem
for them—that, and no other.
Now Is the time to Subscribe.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To G. R. Jackson, M. E. Jackson, R.
W. Jackson. W. C. Jackson, F. G.
Jackson and John Nelson, your
heirs, executors, assigns, succes
sors or personal representatives:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the undersigned has ex
pended in labor and improvements
the sum of one hundred dollars each
year for the years 1914, 1915, 1916
on Aksala Association Placer Min
ing claim situated on Cunningham
creek and recorded and more fullv
described in Yol. 190 on Page 316
in the Records of the Cape Nome
Mining and Recrding District, Se
cond Division. Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
laws concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount re
quired to hold said claim.
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.
JAMES FRAWLEY.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Feb. 1, 1917.
Date of last publ., May 3, 1917.
No. 0314.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOK A
P ATH XT.
In the United States Land Office at
N’om , A'aska, Feb/uary 20, 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
I whose residence and post office ad
i dress is Nome. Alaska has filed ap
j plication on behalf of himself and
j his co-beneficiaries under said trust
I 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 aim one
Half, situate on Dixon Creek and thc
Casadepaga River, the Mineral Sur
vey thereof being designated as N'o.
1 200. The description of said claims
as set forth in the Field Notes and
Plat of said Survey duly approved
I bv the Surveyor General o' the I
| said Territory, being os fol'jws*—
Magnetic variation from 2<> deg.
I 05 min. E. to 20 lie; 40 min i'J
Imporator Claim on Casatlepaga
Ri-er,
j Beginning at ( or. No. 1 ir. the
! Casatlepaga River and liable to de
struction by ice and Hood, whence
I l\ S. L. M. No. 1201 bears N i deg
:,i.5 K„ 3570.25 ’.t vvitm - corner,
ja limestone 24x8x6 ins. chiseled \V.
| c. 2 M B I, 1-1200 with mound oi
i earth 24 ins. base, IS ins. high on
j east side, hears N. 34 deg. OS min.
\\\, 2IS.10 ft. distant;
; 34 deg. OS rain. E. 380
i 2; thence S. 57 deg. 1
| 1223.40 ft. to Cor. 3;
! 4 3 deg. 14 min. \V. 350
I 4 in river and liable to
thence S.
ft. to Cor.
5 min. \V.
thence N.
ft. to Cor.
dest ruction
by ice and flood, whence witness
corner, a schist stone 24xS\0 ins.
chiseled W C No. 3 B M 4. 1-1200
with earth mound 2 4 ins. base, IS
ins. high on west side, bears N. 4 3
deg. 14 min. W. 209.50 ft. distant;
j thence N. 55 deg. 39 min. E. 1 278.40
u. to place of beginning. Area
j*9.409 A.
Mortimer liar Claim.
; Beginning at Cor. 1. a schist stone
126x14x5 ins. chiseled 1. M B-1200
land mound 24 ins. base IS ins. high
1 on south side, whence V. S. L«. M.
No. 1200 bears N. 22 deg. 42 min.
K. 3345.30 ft. distant; thence S. 34
deg. OS min. E. 3S4.6 ft. to Cor.
2. identical with Cor. 1, Imperator
previously described identical wit
ness corner previously described;
hears N. 34 deg. 08 min. W. 218.10
ft.; thence S. 55 deg. 39 min. W.
1 278.40 ft. to Cor. No. 3, identical
I with Cor. 4 Imperator previously de
' scribed and with identical witness
> corner previously described bearing
i.N. 43 deg. 14 min. W. 209.50 ft.:
thence N. 43 deg. 14 min. \V\ 346.70
ft. to Cor. 4: thence N. 54 deg. 15
j 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
min. E. 322.80 ft. to place of be
I ginning. Area 10.337 A.
Eureka (or Discovery) Claim,
j Beginning at Cor. 1. a greenstone
24x7x6 ins. chiseled 1. E. 2. L B
1200, witli mound 24 ins. base IS
ins. high on west side, whence I),
i's L M No. 1200 bears N. 42 deg.
17 min. E. 3009.40 ft.; thence S.
2 4 deg. 54 min. E. 1198.50 ft. to
Cor. 2, identical with Cor. 6 of M
B claim; thence S. 57 deg. 4 4 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.
1 kittle 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. 2936.55 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. £42.80 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. G23 ft. to place of begin- !
| ning. Area 4-.2S8 A. ]
No. One Dixon Creek.
Beginning at Cor. 1. identical j
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 S
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; i
thence S. 35 deg. 07 min. E. j
1303.20 ft. to place of beginning. I
Area 18.222 A.
.No. One and One Half, Dixon. |
Beginning at Cor. 1, a limestone j
24x12x3 ins. in ground 12 ins. chis- ?
eled 1. 1V2■ 1200 with mound 24 f
ins. base 16 ins. high on east side, j
whence U. S. L. M. No. 1200 bears 3
N. 77 deg. 57.5 min. W. 3064.57 3
ft; thence S. 11 deg. 45 min. E. 248.4 8
ft. to Cor. 2, identical with Cor. 4 9
No. One claim; thence S. 55 deg. |
06 W. 5S3.S0 ft. to Cor. 3, identical jj
with Cor. 3 No. One claim: thence 9
N. 21 deg. 08 min. W. 241.50 ft. to j g
Cor. 4; Ounce N. 55 deg. 40 min. I (
E. 624 ft. to place of beginning. I i
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 j
town of Council.
U. S. L. M. No. 1200 to which I
Survey is tied is a limestone bluff i
about 100 ft. in elevation above the j
Casadepaga River and about 400 ft. j
west of the left bank, a cross x
marking true point, whence i or. i j
Mortimer Bar claim bears S. 22 ■
deg. 42 min. W. 3345.30 ft.; a cross I
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
•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 all 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. Yol. 4, page 115;
Eureka (or Discovery) Yol. 2, page
106; Yol. 16. page 17, Yol. 4, page
119; Little Bloomfield Yol. 16, page
18; Yol. 4, page 117; No. One, Yol.
120. page 267; No. One and One
Half Yol. 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.
Notice is hereby given, that J. E. i
Bonnell, 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 j
post office address is Nome, Alaska, j
has made application before the j
United States Land Office at Nome, j
Alaska, for a United States Patent
for the “Cross Bench Fraction” j
Placer Claim, on the left limit of
Cooper Gulch in the Cape Nome Re
cording District, Alaska, Mineral j
Survey No. 119S, said claim being I
more particularly described in the j
field notes and plat of the official j
survey thereof now on file in said j
Land Office at Nome, Alaska, as j
follows;
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, identical J
with Cor. No. 2, Sur. No. 1189, i
Rainy Day Placer, Cor. No. 5, Sur. j
No. 1175, No. 1 Lake Creek Placer j
and Cor. No. 2 Sur. No. 69S, No. 2
Lake Creek Placer, a nr post, 4 ins.
sq. 2 ft. above ground, in earth
mound, scribed,1-1189 C F,, 2-1189
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. Yar.
19 deg. 10 min. E. 476.60 ft. to Cor.
No. 3; thence S. 2 deg. 01 min. E.
Yar. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 309.00 1't.
to Cor. No. 4; thence S. 4 4 deg. 4 5
min. W. Yar. 18 deg. 15 rain. E.
336.20 to Cor. No. 5; thence S. 45
deg. 17 min. E. Yar. 19 deg. 00
min. E. 916.00 ft. to place of begin
ning. Containing an area of 1.0.060
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 from
[Nome, in Lat. 64 deg. 32 min.
North, Long. 165 deg. 22 min’ West.
The original location Notice is re
corded in Yol. 105 Page 163, and
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 Lake
Creek, Sur. No. 698, claimant un
known. On the West, Survey No.
1193 and unsurveyed claims, namca
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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