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RLOOD MONEY FROM HELLHOLE
ALASKA
Remember the death of “Tex”
Gii<? There was a reason. Blood
money—fattening of pocketbooks at
he expense of prisoners, even tho
one of them was tubercular. And
then the poor fellow starved to a
point where he had no vitality and
they shipped him home—Petersburg
to die. Not men enough to contri
bute a cent of their ‘starvation '
money to ease the last few days oi
Tr\ and he just lay down and died
less than a week after he returned
from being in the custody of the
Department of INJUSTICE.
They do not feed meat to the pris
oners at Skagway jail. They do
not feed the prisoners any butter;
nor do they givae a suffieehmrdl u
nor do they give a sufficiencyof
nor do they give enough bread to
the unfortunates in that citadel of
jusiice under the deparment of any
thing but justice; and such a thing
as sugar—luxuries which is too
good for violators of the law—“Let
the damned thnigs starve. They’.’e
no good and they haven’t any
friends. They’re better off dead ”
So they helped murder Tex Gill,
for FORTY CENTS A DAY.
“Tex” Gill was a sick man when
he was sent to Skagway and when
he arrived at the jail, he was pul
in a room with nine others and the
room was not sufficietnly large to
be sanitary. Bunks—sixteen of
them forming an “L” on one side of
tbe room, a long table in the center,
cook stove and cupboard and toil
et on the other, all in the one room
where ten men had to live from one
y nr down to the short termers.
During the winter months not a ray
uf sunlight in the building and too
miserably cold to tat use
outside. Fed on thirty cents a da/
and compelled to starve to death
in order that carpetbagger deputy
marshal Nefsky, of Idaho, might
benefit.
Prisoners are allowed 70 cents a
daj by the real department of just
ice for their keep. Nefsky thought
that too much so fed the prisoners
on 30 cents a day. They offered to
buy their own supplies if he would
allow them 50 cents a day and his
reply “I can feed you on two cents
a day if I want to.”
There were never less than ten
prisoners in that jail during the
past year. At a profit of 40 cents
per day per prisoner, the gumshoer
from Idaho made a profit of $4.00
a day or $124. a month. And let
“Tex” Gill starve to death for warn.
• .>f the ordinary foods.
The lowest kind of an animal
has consideration for the helpless
But that thing from Idaho that
manes a disgrace of the department
of justice, thought more of his pro
fit. than he did of human life.
Idaho, Go. Take hack thy spawn
and dog vomit; take back thy legal
ized murders; starvers of sick men
for forty cents a day. And did they
never come back, Alaskans would
shed many tears of joy.
A LIFTED EDITORIAL—
With OUR COMPLIMENTS TO
WRANGELL AND PETERSBURG
T or the last two or three years
there has been a small epidemic of
bond issues by Alaskan towns. Gen
era ly these bond issues have been
for the purpose of erecting new and
improved school buildings, than
wVch there is no more worthy pu'1
po°e for a bond issue and, of course,
issuing bonds is the accepted meth
od of raising funds for national,
state, county and municipal pur
poses. Because this is the accept
ed methods, few citizens stop to
figure what this methtod costs them.
One of the latest municipalities to
vote a bond issue is Seward. That
to^vn will borrow on its bonds the
sum of $50,000 to erect a new, an.l
undoubtedly needed, school build
ing. That the citizens voted almost
unanimously in favor of bonding the
town shows that they are alive to
the needs of the rising generation;
that the best is none too good foi
them. This is as it should be.
Seward will have this fall a fine
school building ready, paid for with
$50,000 of borrowed money, but
w^at wall Seward have to pay for
its $50,000 school building by the
time it has repaid the loan?
Assuming the bonds will bear in
terest at 6 per cent and are to be
retired :in 30 years—one-third every
ten years, the people of Seward wili
have paid during the first ten years
the principal sum $16,G66.66 and
interest at $3,000 per year for ten
years, or $30,000, a total of $46,
666 66, or $4,666.66 per year.
During the second ten-year period
the principal payment will be the
same, but the interest will be re
duced to $20,000., on a total for the
sec. nd ten-year period of $36,666.66
or $3,666.66 per year.
During the third ten-year peri
iod the principal account remains
the same, $16,666.66 and the inter
est is still further reduced to $26,
000. for the ten-year period, making
the total payment for the period
$26,666.66, or $2,666.66 per year
for the third ten-year period,.
Thus when it is fully paid for,
Seward will have a $50,000 school
building for which it has paid $120.
000, and the building will be 30
ye.V's old.
Dad Sew'ard, ten years ago, sens
ing the growth of population and
the necessity for improved school
quarters, put into a sinking fund
the $4,666.66 per year it wrill be re
quited to set aside for the purpose
during the next ten years, it could
tolay have built a $50,000 school
building, paid cashfor it, if the sink
ing fund had been put out ai inter
est, and had some money left to re
tain to the city treasury.
Anchorage wants to borrow $75.
000 for a similar purpose. At the
same rate of interest and the same
retirement periods, Anchorage will
have paid at the end of 30 years fo.
her $75,000 school house, $165,000.
li Alaskan communities have
faith in their permanency and
giowth, they must realize that im
proved educational facilities will be
required eventually, and the time
to prepare for them is NOW. Fore
sight means economy. Hindsight is
expensive.—Fairbanks Miner.
FVERYBODIES BUSINESS IS NO
BODIES BUSINESS
. it is quite noticeable in Alaska
towns that the boosters for the big
bond issues for schools and other
purposes are in the main not prop
erty holders or permanent settlers.
They are more interested in their
jobs and that interest fades awav
when they are divorced from the
pay roll. They return to the land
from whence they came unworried
and indifferent as to how bond is
cues they boosted for, will be met.
It has been pointed out in several in
stances that these bond boosters are
not even interested in owning an
ordinary shack but live in houses
upon which others pay taxes.
The next class which Is interested
in bond issues in Alaska—from the
dinkv bond issue to the largest—are
the banks. Just a little figuring on
what any municpality pays on its
bond issue and it is very evident
that interest is more in “interest. ’
Tn particular, Petersburg has a
heavy load to carry with its bond is~
■;ue of $120,000. It is meeting its
fi^st payment of principal—$5,000
and has paid out more than that
amount in interest alone.
Those interested in civic affairs
n whose hands lay the spending p:
?ower are prone to take the op
omistic view—there is lots where g
his came from—but do not seem g
o realize that the equalization is
not equal, fair nor just. We do not
reed to go over specific properties.
We do not need to mention any pro
perties—they are evident.
The law requires that property
shall be assessed according to its
full valuation. There are cases oi
ve»ord which pay on FORTY PER
CENT OF VALUATON.
Others pay one hundred per cent ,
on valuation. When we discuss- (
ed this recently we were told—Wei!
if you don’t like it, go some place f
else.” (
Yet with this condition and the c
muncipal exchequer short of funds t
most of the time—going from hand
to mouth—city work must be main- i
tained, new work and repairs taken
care of, and what not that all runs
into money.
Petersburg and any other town in. ]
Alaska will pay in the end and pay
dearly for “Hindsight.’ What say, (
about a little foresight.
BORROW HIM
J. E.Johnson, Ketchikan city as
sessor extraordinary, has been bor
rowed by Juneau to straighten out
its assescinent tangles. What his
method is, we don’t know but if it
has worked successfully enough to
satisfy the critical of the First City
and suit the fancy of the Capital of
\laska, it might not be amiss to sug
gest that Petersburg take a whir*,
at bis expertness and for once get a
man on the job who knows his oni
ons and is not related to half the
town nor tied up with any clique. ]
claque, tribe or clan and thereby will
be able to make a valuation of all ■
properties to the general good of the j
town.
From the general condition of the
treasury and the heavier demands,
upon it, there must be someone put
on the job who has the savvy and
gu option to back up that savvy.
LESE MAJESTY
b rom Ketchikan Sunday (’hronldc
LEI ’S CUT PRICE OF STUMl’ VGEf
* ,
In the Tongass National Forest?’
surrounding Ketchikan stumpage^
charges from one to two dollars j
p.-r thousand for logs. These logs«
are landed at. the sawmills at costs ■
approximating $10. per thousand
Thus it appears that the stumpage
charges amount to as much as 20
per cent of their gross incomes.
There are reports that the for
ce ry bureau, in order to induce
capital to come to Alaska to build
caper mills, is to contract with the.
companies to the effect that their
stumpage may not be more thap
lifty cents per thousand, or less.
In this the forestry bureau is cor
rect. They should offer all these in
ducements to the paper manufact
urers, but at the same time they
should lend encouragement to
the present loggers and lumber in
dustry. They likewise should give
all loggers this low stumpage rate
Argument will be put forth that
the paper manufacturers will be re
quired to log off everything in their
areas while the smaller logging out
fts of today are given the choice of
the best stands of timber. This ar
gument does not hold.. All men, all
corporations, all industry should be
treated on an equality basis.—(Ed.
Note: — (Har! Har! Hee! HeeM.
It will be maintained by some
that the forestry bureau even at its
present stumpage rates is not able
to pay its owm expenses. This may
all be true, but likewise is it a fact
that the navy, the biological survey,
the coast and geodetic survey, the
lighthouse service, and other de
partments are not self-supporting
They never were intended to be.
Th°y were intended as service arms
of our government, maintained aL
the general expense of the tax pay
ers, and so they should be.
The logging and lumber industry
of Alaska is always hard put. It is
a struggle to compete with tie
mills of the states, and if the stump
age rates should be cut it would
mean that some of the loggers and
mills which are now having difficul
ties in making: ends meet would be
•osperous With their prosperity {t
ould come more employment, big- ,
:r payrolls, improved condition.-, 1:
jnerally. Editor rote:-—T.ce same 1
rgjment is put forth by the sein- i
rs).
Opponents of reduced stumpage I
tiarges to all loggers may claim
lot logs are available to the mills
i Alaska at lower costs than on Pu- 1
et Sound and elsewhere. This will
e conceded, but there are so many
ther disadvantages in Alaska oper
tions that the loggers and the mills
eod a greater differential if the in
usiry is to prosper.
Commercial bodies of Southeasr
rn Aiaska, the, towns officials, ev
irybody should agitate for lowe*
tumpage rates in the Tongass Na
ional Forest.
VHERE “ME TOO” CHRONIGEE
GOT IT
.“I am heartily in favor of pulp
pills and paper mills in 'Alaska
^very legitimate industry should bn
leveloped in order that our popula
:ion might grow. We must hasten
:hc time when by force of our
;reat population alone, Alaska will
become a STATE, at which time we
wil". enjoy the fullest measure of
self-government.
What I Oppose
“I am opposed to discriminations
practiced by the Forestry Depart
ment. Our local loggers are charg
ed $1.50 per M. for stumpage, while
the same timber is offered to pulp
mill promotors for 60 cents for hem
lock and $1.00 for Sitka Spruce.
I am opposed to the practice of
the Forest Department which ac
tually started criminal action to
force a free-born American citizen
off logged-off land within the For
est Reserve. In another instance,
the Forestry Bureau threatened
criminal action of trespass.
‘‘I am opposed to the practice by
which the Forestry Department re
fuses to allow citizens of the United
States to homestead free public
land where the land is either devoid
of trees or has been logged off.
What I Favor
“I favor the abolishment of the
Forestry Department and their ex
trajudicial authority, their man-gov
ernment that knows neither law nor
justice.
Abolish Sturpage Tax
I favor the free grant to any log
ger or local sawmill of any and all
timber in Alaska as the market de
mands it.
“The present practice of taxiun
local loggers and sawmills the sum
of $1.50 and $2.00 per M di*ourag
es local development and places a
heavy tax on the pioneers of Alas
ka.
“The government does not neeil
3
he tax.”
“Lot the entire wealth of Alaska
e used free from taxation by th< ,
'ederal Government for the govern- |
nent of Alaska.
.“Abolish both the Forestry and
fishery bureaus.”
Signed) WILLIAM L. PAUL,
Republican Candidate for the Ter
ritorial House of Representatives.
Printed in May, ALASKA FISH
ERMAN.
RAHICA LISM
We fear that the Chronicle is be
coming radical —bolshevistic—it has
adopted along with the democratic
platform committee of the territory,
the platform long recommended by
the “unscrupulous leaders” of the
progressive Republicans of the Ter
ritory. Which platform has been
published in the ALASKA FISHER
MAN for many moons.
Look out, Mr. Chronicle— you
will bring down upon your head tie'
anathema of the Bureaus plus the
Big Bellied Trusts of the Territory
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. , “Sh! Sh!, Now Susie, don’t talk
so ’oud, sh! sh.”—Hans Wick.
‘There are only two Americans
in this town—myself and Hans
W’ck and I don’t give a damn who
knows it.”—U. S. Deputy Marshal
C. V. Brown, of Idaho.
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