HOT SPRINGS POST
Published Every Saturday at Hot Springs, Alaska,
Vol 2 BY CEO. Mi ARBUCKLE No. 13
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ILLEGAL TRUSTS CAN’T COLLECT
A decision rendered by the United States Supreme
Court in the case of the Continental Wallpaper Company
against Louis Voight Sons Company of Ohio is to the ef
fect that if one owes money to a corporation operating con
trary to the Sherman anti-trust law the trust can not collect
the bill. The suit was brought by the wallpaper people to
collect a bill of some $56,000, and this was resisted on the
ground that the paper company was a trust. It was also
claimed that Voight & Sons had been compelled to sign an
agreement on the threat that if they did not no paper would
be sold to them by any factory. It was also asserted
that the trust charged 50 per cent, more than would have
been the cost if there had been competition. Justice Har
lan, in delivering the decision of the court, pointed out
that if the trusts can not control retail prices they are shorn
of their power to control the market, and that with the dis
appearance of this dictatorship the modern trust would
have to go. It was shown that the wallpaper company was
composed of over thirty factories and mills, principally
in Eastern states, and that they maintained their control of
retail prices by requiring customers to sign an agreement
in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. The court rea
soned that to force the collection of debts based on an ille
gal agreement and practice would 'aid in executing those
illegal agreements. This important decision was reached
by * divided court, four justices dissenting, namely, White,
Holmes, Brewer and Peck ham. They held that 4l* lawful
purchase is not made unlawful merely by being the fulfill
ment of an unlawful contract.” It is expected that the ef
fect of this decision will be to compel a large number of
trusts either to abandon trade agreements or to sell for cash
DELEGATE WICKERSHAfifi
Says the Juneau Transcript of February 20:
The tremendous crowd which turned out on Tuesday
evening to hear Judge Wickersham went home convinced
that our delegate-elect has but one thought, and that is to
serve the best interests of Alaska. Every word of his speech
rang true and straight to the point, and the applause that
greeted his expressions of opinion as to the needs of Alaska
in the way of legislation may be taken as an indication that
the people of this district, at least, are in accord with his
views.
Judge Wickersham stands in a most peculiarly enviable
position. He was the nominee of no party, the candidate
of no faction. He was not elected by Republicans; he was
not elected by Democrats. He defeated the nominees of
both the regular party conventions, and is, pre-eminently,
the delegate of the people of Alaska regardless of party
affiliations. Himself a Republican, he polled more Demo
cratic votes than did the Democratic nominee. Fought bit
terly by the Republican organization and officials, he polled
more Republican votes than did the regular Republican
nominee. He is under no pledges to any party or faction.
His sole obligations are to the people of the district as a
whole. These obligations the Transcript believes he will
fulfill, and rise to the full measure of his great opportuni
ties. Success and God-speed to you, James Wickersham.
You have deserved well of the people, and may you deserve
still better in the coming years.
The Paris Matin printed on January 81 a photograph
of Count Zeppelin in his aeroplane, the picture having been
transmitted over a telephone wire from Berlin by the Korn
process in ten minutes.
Discouiaged as a result of many years fruitless search for the
yellow metal in the placer fields of all the Western states, George
Martin, an aged miner, committed suicide at Canyon City, Ore.,
about March 16tli in a most spectacular manner. After leaving a
letter which stated that he was tired of life, Martin entered a tun
nel that he had excavated, and set off a dynamite charge. He was
buried beneath tons of rock slide.
JACK O’HARA JACK HUNNEWELL
The Northern
SULLIVAN CITY
. Again at the Old Stand in Our Brand-New Building.
We Garry Only the Best Wines, Liqnors Sips
PRESIDENT LEDGER’S
Rampart, March 15.
Editor Hot Springs Post:
It is to bo hoped that the min
ers of the Fairbanks district will
i
lay aside their differences and
form an association of miners for
the protection of their common
interest.
The transportation rights are
vital to the welfare of the miners
and prospectors, and they should
unite throughout Alaska in an
effort to abolish existing and dis
courage projected combinations
in restraint of trade.
The Rampart Miners’ Associa
tion has given this matter their
undivided, earnest attention; we
have not notified past Delegates
Was key and Cale of conditions.
Mr. Cale has written us that the
Townsend bill (now pending' is
but a step in the right direction,
although he favors it. We do
not know the provisions of said
bill, but do object to its text as it
would seem to confirm the N. A.
T. and N. C. Companies in their
present holdings, which practi
cally takes in the entire sheltered
waterfront of St. Michael island,
the key to the traffic of Yukon
river points.
In answer to a letter sent him
last December by this association,
Delegate Wickersham says (in
part):
“I note what you say in regard
to tho transportion blockade at
St. Michael, Alaska, and I shall
take the earliest opportunity to
examine the Townsend bill you
refer to, and to-look into the en
I tire matter so that transportation
may be as free as the water that
flows in the Yukon. Transporta
tion rights, of course, are the con- j
trollng element In the up-bullding
of this Interior country. ”
If the miners and prospectors
of Alaska unite and urge the
abolishment of the staking evils
and all combinations in restraint
of trade, I believe we could ac
complish necessary reforms, and
to that end every member of the
Rampart Miners’ Association will
devote their best efforts in the
future, as in the past five years.
Very truly yours,
Geo. W. Ledger, Pres.
John Armstrong Chanter, formerly the husband of Amelia
Rives, and whose escapades of six or seven years ago created so
much notoriety, shot and killed his servant, a man named Gillard,
on the night of the lGth, while the latter was crazy drunk and
threatening to kill Mrs. Chanler. According to the story told by
eye-witnesses to the occurrence, Gillard was so drunk that he was
acting as if insane. Horan after Mrs. Chanler and shouted that
he was going to kill her. She ran toward her husband, and, as
Gillard approached close to him, Chanler fired and killed Gillard
with the first shot from his pistol. The tragedy occurred at the
old Chanler home near Charlottesville, Va. Chanler became in
sane at the time he was the husband of Amelie Rives, the famous
authoress, and was confined in the asylum at Bloomingdale, N. Y.
, He escaped from the institution, and later turned up in the state
of Virginia. The New York authorities tried to get him back, but
the Virginia officials refused to give him up„ and be later was de
clared sane in the Old Dominion state. He is immensely wealthy
1 and comes from an old Virginia family.
Governor Cosgrove, of Washington, is rapidly recovering his
1 health at Paso Robles, and has lately been gaining weight at the
i rate of a pound a day. He will not return to Olympia until the
i middle of May.
The announcemeut is made that the British admiralty will lose
no time in still further increasing the fighting efficiency of Eng
land’s already redoubtable navy. The keels of two more of the
famous Dreadnaughts will be laid in July, to be followed in No
vember by the laying down of still two others. Apprehension on
th,s part of England of Germany’s constantly increasing naval arm
ament is supposed to be the reason for these latest additions to the
i British navy.
The Pennsylvania legislature has elected George T. Oliver to
L succeed Secretary of State Philander C. Knox as United States
, senator. Mr. Oliver is the proprietor of the Pittsburg Gazette,
ancl has been for years an ardent Republican worker.
Immediate revision of the tariff is urged by President Taft in
' his special message to congress that was read before both houses
* last week. He also demands that measures betaken at once to les
sen the treasury deficiency, and advocates provision being made
that will insure greater revenues, The President calls attention
1 to the fact that the manufacturing industries of the country have
i undergone great change during the period that the present tariff
i has been in vogue, ond that there has been no change in any par
ticular made in the tariff. Mr. Taft states that he is certain that
■ with a readjustment ot the tariff there will be a corresponding itn
* provement in business conditions.
Contracts have been signed by the navy department and the
i Moran Company of Seattle, for the construction of two submarine
- boats. The boats will be of the Octopus type, and will be built
5 under the supervision of an agent of the patentees, The sub.ma
- tunes will stationed on the Pacific coast.
Jack Johnson, the champion heavyweight pugilist, has post
poned his trip to Texas, says a late Chicago dispatch, and now an
nounces that he intends to go to New York with the idea of holding
a conference with Jim Jeffries. It is expected that a match will be
the result of the champion’s visit to New York, as several of the
big promoters of the country are already in Gotham trying to make
terms with Jeffries. Recently, in Chicago, Johnson met Frank
Gotch, the champion wrestler, on the streets, and the crowd that
gathered w’hen the two champions met was so great that the
streets were blocked
Home Again
Dr. G. D. Carter returned from a two
months trip to the Koyukuk country,
where be has been practicing his pro
fession among the miners of that dis
trict. He is again at his drug store on
Sullivan creek, where he also has his
dental oftief?'.
Mrs. A. Chisholm and son, Arthur
Moore, old residents of Hot Springs,
who have been sipending the winter on
the outside, returned last Sunday, and
are now at home in their South Front
street cottage. They journeyed from
Valdez in their own conveyance.
Dave Curry, formerly employed on
Thanksgiving creek, who has been vis3
iting in Fairbanks for the past two
months, returned on Saturday last.
fii
•We have just
received samples
for nade-to-order
Suits
Ranging In price
from
$45
FIT AND
QUALITY
GUAR’NIEED
Order now and
get your Suits in
on the first boat
O. A. TRAEGER
HOT SPRINGS
DR. C. D. CARTER,
Dentist
Crown, Bridge and Plate Work. Painless Extraction
SULLIVAN CITY
Office at Carter’s Drug Store
CHAS. B. ALLEN,
Attorney at Law
Rampart, Aka.
Legal Papers Carefully Drawn.
ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD — Camp
Hot Springs No. 24 meets every Mon
day evening at 8 o’clock in hall over
Traeger’s store. Visiting brother*
always welcome.
B. A. Meyers, C, A. Davidson,
Recorder. Arctic Chief.
MAIL SCHEDULE
Arrives from Fairbanks Saturday p. m.
Arrives from Rampart, Sunday p. m.
Arrives from Tanana Sunday p. m.
Departs for Fairbanks Monday p. m.
Departs for Rampart, Monday a. m.
Departs for Tanana ; Monday a. m.
JAS. BLODGET,
Freighting
AND
General Teaming
Prices Reasonable,
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Leave Orders at Morrison’s
That gladdens
the eye of the
trail-weary pil
grim on his ar
rival in Fair
banks is that of
the
FRACTION
Sideboard—whet 9 only the best and
nost recuperative Liquors are dis
pensed by skilled mixologists.
OWS SPITZ, PROP! ~ MIBBmAS, AU.
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