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Nome. Alaska, December 21, 1015.
About this great war, and its re
lation to human progress, we are so
olose to it that we cannot appraise
oin value if value it has, says a re
cent writer. Which is quite true.
The war itself as well as the na
tions engaged therein are but very
very small incidents in the story of
human kind, and in the history ot
life from a lower to a higher form.
VVe can endeavor of course to un
veil if possible the fundamental
causes of the war and blaming
them, blame also the war which is
merely the resultant effect. That is
the common error of every day ana
lysis. We lose perspective; we fail
to reason out the relation of things;
we usually end by deploring somt
vile effoct of a vile cause because
•both scorn objectionable. What part
this war is playing in human devel
opment it is impossible now fitly to
to appraise. That it is playing some
part and an important part cannot
be doubted. Social activities of so
extensive a form betoken great ann
impelling causes which lie deep
down in the current of vital cnerg.
that loads mankind onwards.
VVe may have trouble discerning
why mankind should move from a
'lower to a higher plane and we
may have trouble sometimes dis
corning that during present times
mankind actually is moving upward
and onward. But we have only to
glance back to former ages ann
former epochs to realize that soci.ty
—mankind—is constantly advanc
ing in progress intellectually, mo
rally and socially.
Those who praise past eras and
deplore present time decadence do
so because they take as the example
of the past the very highest forms
that present themselves for consid
eration, and contrast them with the
very lowest forms In the present.
Almost everyone who praises the
ancients has either cn eye upon the
beautiful literature or the splendid
•philosophy that adorned but a very
■few cf these peoples. The condi
tion of the masses is overlooked,
and the vile slavery which sup
ported this upper crust of applied
wisdom and exquisite literature i.i
completely ignored.
Most of th" critics of social move
ments in the present arc pessi
mistic when they . • . tioi
ary tendencies wha n are so . trong
that they appear to bo the rest
movement; it is the larger perspec
tive that enables people to realize
that on the whole the progressive
movement still continues, and when
the present joins the past it will
also mark a distinct advance upon
previous eras despite the many ex
traordinary reactions that delayed,
hampered and even threatened to
up-set the mass of progress.
Investigation shows conclusively
that existence moves forward al
ways, and wliat we know as evolu
tion is unquestionably an advance
from a lower to a higher form. We
cannot doubt the progress humanity
has made since the era of the cave
man. Now and then entire commu
nities may have shown reactions
and may have given examples of an
atavistic tendency to revert to the
degraded ancestral type. But the
reactions themselves wore part o’,
the stream of evolution which dis
played merely in that the side bae •
eddies of the stream's fullness.
This war, then, looked at in this
light is the culmination of a system
which has made war inevitable. It
is increasing the necessary experience
of mankind which is essentially a
creature of experiences, it is prov
ing the unfitness of a system which
othorwise would never have its fit
ness questioned and it is revealing
with intensity- the vital necessity ot
mankind regulating its social rela
tions upon some other standard
than the antagonizing standard ot
the dollar. It is proving that the
groundwork of human justice Is
mutuality of relationship; that the
fundamental basis of human inter
course must be founded upon equai
Hy and that the Golden Rule which
absolutely depends for its successful
realization on industrial and poli
tical equality must be held to with
an enduring faith.
We are about as far as ever ap
parently from the realization ct
that ideal as far as any can see, a3
human beings ever were. Exploita
tion as a system based upon indus
trial equality has its roots firmly
set in the social soil, upheld by edu
cators, professional moralists, pub
licists, statesmen and of course ail
those who by reason of it profit
and grow prominent. Those who
oppose it are in the outer darkness,
are subjected to social ostracism of
every kind; are regarded by the
rest as disturbers of the stability ot
things, agitators, undesirables and
what not. They are held up to
scorn as violators of conventions,
customs, laws and other accepted
human conveniences and institutions
and wholly to be condemned.
And yet withal, this war showing
plainly the inevitable direction
whither the system drives with an
impulse based upon the very econo
mic system so upheld, is occasioning
doubts in the minds of those who
have been the stoutest upholders
of capitalism as consonant alone
with the welfare of humanity and
the ultima thule of human develop
ment.
And there is no explanation to be
offered of the present cataclysmic
development of the capitalist system
unless we fall back upon some su
perstitious idea that men are in
ately base and that human nature
is inately wicked. Society dimly
and instictively realizes that its pre
sent social system is at fault and
men are overhauling their reckon
ings. Even good, holy men who be
{fore preached with confidence dis
| cuss from their pulpits “Is Christ
ianity a Failure?” as if they epito
mized Christianity who never sought
to establish a workable basis for the
foundation stone of its doctrines;
The necessity for industrial demo
cracy is today forcing itself upon
! all who begin to understand tlia*
no more does political democracy
assure peace than does a political
monarchy. Equality that is based
upon economic foundations, is being
realized where never before as the
vital principle of a rule which says
that men should do as they would
be dona by. It is being realized
that masters and servants, Kaisers
and subjects, rulers and ruled, are
placed in antagonistic positions
wherein the cult of the Golden Rule
is a theory merely and must remain
so, an ideal that can never < me
within the scope of life's realities.
Nothing has occurred that has so
forced upon the minds of men the
truth of their social status and their
industrial subjection leading direyi
ly to their militarist subjection as
ha3 this great war. That its full
force In this direction cannot be
gauged is approximately true. That
It is much stronger than is allowed
to be realized by those who con
trol the dissemination and punlica
tion of the day's thoughts is hardly
questionable for they are controlled
also by those who own the means
whereby such ideas are disseminat
ed.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Ed Tomason, M. T. Olson, John
Olson, C. L. V. Detrik and O. P.
Thompson, your administrators
successors or assigns:
You, and each of you are hereby
notified that the undersigned, co
owners have caused to be expended
In Labor and Improvements during
the years of 1912, 1913, 1914 as
the annual expenditure required by
law, the sum of four hundred
($400) dollars on the placer min
lng claim known os tbe Oro Granda
located on Basin Creek, a tributary
of Melsing Creek, in the Council
City Recording Precinct, District of
Alaska.
You and each of you are further
notified that if you do not within
ninety days from the date of the
final publicaton of this Notice of
Forfeiture, pay or cause to be paid
to the undersigned co-owners at
Council, Alaska, your interest in
and to said described expenditures
as co-owners, your interst in and
to said described property will be
come the property of the Under
signed under the provisions ol
Section 2324 of the Revised Sta
tutes of the United States of Am
erica.
JOHN RATHLER, A. S. CARTER
J. P. LARSEN.
Co-Owners.
Date of first publ., Oct. 26, 1915.
Date of last publ., Jan. 25, 1916.
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NOTICE OF APPLICATION.
NO. 0116.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, December 2, 1915.
Notice is hereby given that
Charles McIntosh, of Nome, Alaska,
; as successor in interest of E. L.
j West, who on the 30th day of
| July, 1907, filed in this office Coal
Land Declaratory Statement No. 4,
for the E. L. West Coal Claim, ha3
filed in this office his application Jo
purchase said land under the Act of
Congress, approved April 28th,
1904, amendatory to the Act of
June 6th, 1900, extending the coal
j land laws to the District of Alaska,
said coal claim being in the Noatak
Kobuk Recording Precinct, Alaska,
J and designated as U. S. Survey No.
14 53, and more particularly de
scribed in the field notes and plat
now on file in this office, as follows:
Beginning at Corner No. 1, iden
I tical with N. W. loc. cor. on face of
bluff on shore of tho Arctic Ocean:
said corner being impracticable to
maintain because of danger from ice
and snow in winter, a witness
corner is established 10.08 cha.
south from same on line 1-4,
whence U. S. L. M. No. 1 bears S.
15 deg. 32 min. W. 9.96 chs;
thence east, var. 22 deg. 45 min.
E. 40 chs. to Cor. No. 2, identical
with N. E. loc. cor., a fir post 4 in.
sq. 4 ft. long, irf earth and stone
mound, scribed E. L. W. Cor. 2,
on S. W. face; thonce South, Var.
22 deg. 30 min. E. 40 chs. to Cor.
No. 3, identical with S. E. loc. cor.
a fir post 4 in. sq. 4 ft. long, in
earth mound, scribed Cor. 3, E. L.
W. on N. W. face; thonco West, Var.
22 deg. 30 min. E. 40 chs. to Cor.
No. 4, identical with S. W. loc. cor.,
on line 1-2 Gertrude West Coal
Claim a sand stone 24x12x5 inches,
chiseled cross on top surfaco for
true point, and Cor. 4 E. L. W.,
on K. E. face, earth mound on N. ,
side of rame; thence North, Var j
22. deg.. 45. min.. E. 29.92 chs. i
Witness Cor. to Cor. No. 1, a sand- |
stone 28x12x4 inches, 14 inches in f
ground, cross chiseled on top for ]
true point and W. C. Cor. 1, E. L. t
W. on N. face, with rtone mound 30 *
inch bass, 18 inches high along (
side, 40 chs. to Cor. No. 1 and I
place of beginning; containing an [
area of 160 acres. > i
Any and all persons claiming ad- i
versely the land described, or de- i
siring to object for any reason for j
the entry thereof by applicant, j
should file their affidavits of pro- [
test in this office o.- or before six j
months after the expiration of the j
period of publication of this notice, i
G. A. ADAMS. '
Register U. S. Land Office. t
Date of first publ., Dec. 4, 1915. . (
Date of last publ., Feb 5, 1916. j
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NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOIt [
PATENT NO. 0284.
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In the United States Land Office at ?
Nome, Alaska, October 23, 1915. '
Notice is hereby given that Frank
Dolan, a citizen of the United ;
States, over the age of 21 years, j
whose post office address is Nome, C
Alaska, has made application be- i
fore the United States Land Office ;
at Nome, Alaska, for a United {
States Patent for the Kathleen j
Placer CJaim in the Cape Nome i
Mining District, Alaska, being Min- i
eral Survey No. 1157; said claim j
being more particularly described i
in the field notes and plat of the j
official survey thereof now on file j
In said Land Office at Nome, Alas- j
ka, as follows, to-wit: )
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, identi- I
cal with N. E. Cor. of location, j
with Cor. No. 2 Bur. No. 478, Bella |
Fraction Placer and with Cor. No. j
4 Sur. No. 418, No. 13 Dexter j
Creek Placer, being a fir post 4 I
ins. sq. 2 ft. above ground, in j
mound of earth, Bcribed 2 478 B |
F, 4 418; 1, 1157 K. for Cor. No. j
1 of this survey, whence U. S. Loc. |
Mon. No. 4 bears N. 7 8 deg. 66 min I
30 sec. E. 5467.50 ft. U. S. Geolog- j
ical Sur. Mon. on King Mt., bears
N. 26 deg. 29 min. E about 1.5
miles; thence S. 35 deg. 41 min.
W. (Var. 18 deg. 37 min. E.) |
653.00 ft. to Cor. No. 2, a fir post
3.5 ft. long 4 ins. sq. set 21 ins. in
ground scribed 2 1157 K, with
mound of earth 24 ins. base, 16
ins. high around same; thence S.
83 deg. 40 min. W. (Var. 19 deg.
00 min. E) 788.00 ft. to Cor. No.
3, a schist stone 24x12x3 ins. set
12 ins. in the ground, climeled 3
1157 K, with cross (x) cn top sur
face for true point, with mound
of earth 24 ins. base, 16 ins. high
north side of same; thence N.
0 deg. 33 min. W. (Var. 19 deg.
25 min. E) 558.30 ft. to Cor. No.
; 4, a schist rtone 24x12x6
ins. set 12 ins. in the
ground, chiseled 4 1157 K,
with cross (x) cut *.n tep fer true
point with mound of earth 24 ins.
base 16 ins. high, north side of
same; thence N. 87" deg 04 min.
E. (Var. 19 deg. 00 min. E) (
1171.00 ft. to Cor No. 1, plrce of
beginning, containing an area of
11.884 acres.
Said claim is situated on unsur
veyed ground on the divide between
Grass Gulch and Specimen Gulch,
about 5.75 miles N. 13 deg. E. from
the town of Nome, in the Cape
Nome Recording Precinct, Alaska.
Is in Latitude 64 deg. 34 min. 45
sec. North and Longitude 165 deg.
21 min. 00 sec. West.
U. S. L. M. No. 4 to which said
claim :3 tied is a limestone block,
about 4x6 ft. 6 ft. higL, chiseled
U. S. L. M. No.4 on top surface
with mound of stone cn same. Is
situated on the south or right bank
of Dexter Creek, about 140 ft. south
of same and about 1000 ft. Westerly
from mouth of Joe Gulch, in Lat.
64 deg. 35 min. N. and Long. 165
deg. 19 min. W. in Cape Nome Re
cording Precinct, Alaska.
The original location notice of
said claim is recorded in Vol. 168 i
Page 282, records of said district.
The adjoining claims are, on the
North Summit Bench Placer, un
surveyed, cn the Eos'-, South and
West, unsurveyed claims, claimants
unknown.
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely said mining ground or any
part th reof, are hereby required to
file their adverse cl lims, according
to law, in said United States Land
Office at Nome, Alaska, within the
time prescribed by law.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date cf first publ., Oct. 25, 1915.
Date of last publ., Dec. 26, 1915.
ORGANIZED LABOR.
CARPENTERS AND JOINERS.
Local'Union 1789, Carpenters and
olners of America, meets every Fri
day at A1 Orland’s shop Front St.
Carpenter’s Headquarters, Feder
al Labor Hall.
■at 8 p. m.
FEDERAL LABOR UNION.
No. 12631, American Federation
>f Labor, meets every Monday at
fs30 p. m. In the F. L. U. Hall.
A. DOOSE, Pres.
JENS OLSEN, Sec’y.-Treas.
WESTERN FEDERATION OF
MINERS.
Headquarters 606 Railroad Build
ng, Denver, Colorado.
7HAS.' MOYER, ERNEST MILLS,
j President. Sec.-Treas.
LOCAL 240. W. F. M.
The regular meeting of the Nome
Mine Workers’ Union, Local No.
240. of the W. F. of M., Is held
every Saturday evening at 8 p. m. at
Miner’s Hall. Office hours 1 p. m.
to 6 p. m., 7 p. m. to 8 p. m.
JOHN A. WILSON, President
ANDREW BECK, Sec.-Treas
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