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Northern Transfer Co.
C. P. PEDERSON, - - - Manager
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Phone your orders for Happy Valley coal to North
ern Transfer office. Prompt delivery to anv part of
town.
We Are on the
CORNER OF
Fourth and D
Clothing and Gent’s Furnishings
“NONE BUT THE BEST.”
THE WILCOX GRILL
Makes a specialty of 35c Breakfast, Lunch and Din
ner. Quick Service and Hot Meals.
Fourth Ave., at C st.
REILLY’S CAFE
THE HOUSE
OB' QUALITY
Still in the Lead
Everything in Season and the Best the
Market Affords
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
G. W. PALMER
KMK, ALASKA
Distribute General Merchandise, Hardware, Boots and
Shoes, Lumber, Shingles, Gasoline, Kerosene,
Paints and Oil, Pumps, Pipe and Fit
tings, Tents and Tarpaulins.
Sperry’s Flour, Sold Under Absolute Guarantee
From the Company.
Becleaned Oats, $55.00 per ton.
Hay, $35.00 per ton.
Red and Grey Rosin Building Paper, $1.00.
D. G. Berry Sugar, $8.25 per sack, 100s.
Carnation Milk. $4-25 case.
Red Clover Butter, $40.00 Bbl, 110 lbs.
The “Lucy” Does It
KNIK, ALASKA
City Drug Store
Cor. 5th and C
THE REXALL STORE
Dr. K. A. Kyvig, Prop.
We buy for cash— We pay no rent—
And give our customers the benefit in low prices.
Give us a trial and become convinced.
GREAT SPEECH IN
ALASKA'S BEHALF
In introducing his bill for a com
plete statehood form of government
| in Alaska, at the session of congress,
;Delegate Wickersham said, in part:
For 45 years under the government
of the United States Alaska was with
out a law-making body. During that
j period, though congress had the pow
er, it did little to encourage the im
! provement of government there.
; When the sixty-first congress conven
ed in special session on March 15,
11909, no, provision had yet been made
j for the creation of a territorial legis
lature for Alaska, and it became my
! duty to offer a bill to create such a
legislative assembly in the Territory
of Alaska, to confer legislative power
thereon, and for other purposes. The
bill was carefully copied from the
standard type used by congress in
creating all other territories, and had
nothing new or dangerous in it. But
there was instant opposition. It came
from those big interests which had al
ready pre-empted large holdings in
Alaskan transportation, coal copper,
fisheries, and other valuable undevel- i
joped resources, and who wished to cx
| ploit the territory without hindrance.
I So active and efficient was this oppo
j sition that it persuaded President
j Taft to denounce the plan adopted in
I all other American territories, propos
■ ed by my bill, and this he did in vig
' orous language in his messages to
' congress of December 7, 1909, Decem
ber 6, 1910, and February 2, 1912. As
i an offset to the plan of an elective
territorial legislature coming from
the body of the people, there was pre
pared, under Mr. Taft’s direction, in
accordance with the views stated in
his previous message, a bill providing
for the appointment by the president
of a legislative commission of nine
members, including the governor, one
i or more of whom might be officers of
the United States army, the commis
sion to report to and be under the
commission of insular affairs in the
war department and to have auto
cratic legislative and administrative
power in Alaska.
This bill was introduced in congress
by Senator Beveridge, and it is gen
erally known as the Beveridge bill.
The issue was squarely made by Pres
ident Taft in this bill and in his mes
sages. On the one side the delegate
from Alaska contended for the enact
ment of a law creating the elective
legislature, with the powers always
theretofore given to territorial legis
latures; on the other the president
and his administration, aided by the
big interest lobby, which knew what
it wanted, urged the acceptance of
the Beveridge bill, which placed all
power in the hands of a small body
of the appointees of the president.
The struggle between these two
contending forces was long-continued
and unpleasant. However, in time
the Beveridge bill failed in the senate,
and in the sixty-second congress the
elective legislature bill was favorably
reported, passed and on Aug. 24, 1912
signed by President Taft. The big in
terests engaged in exploiting Alaska
finally contented themselves with pro
curing the insertion of amendments in
the bill limiting the power of the
Alaska legislature over the fisheries,
schools, roads, and other important
matters of local concern, which had
always theretofore been controlled by
! a territorial legislature,
i The first group of limitations, with
I drawing from the control of the ljegis
| lature the game, fish and fur-bearing
I animals of Alaska was put into the
bill by amendments on the floor of
congress, over my protest, while the
second group, withdrawing power
from the legislature over taxes on
j business and trade, the roads, schools
and insane, was put in through the in
fluence of the Alaska Board of Road
commissioners to prevent the legislat
ure from reducing the amount of mon
ey in the Alaska fund or from con
trolling or limiting the board’s activ
ities in Alaska. The delegate from
Alaska protested against these limi
tations upon the legislative powers in
Alaska, but was defeated on the floor
of congress in both matters. These
limitations, and others in the bill as
it was passed, were not in the bill as
introduced.
Every one in Alaska hoped that
when the Wilson administration was
seated a wider range of government
would be conferred on the territory
by the proper extension of our legis
lative powers, until we would be giv
en “full territorial form of govern
ment.” Of course, the trouble over
the passage of the legislative bill un
der the Taft administration is water
over the wheel, but it seems to be
equally as difficult to get legislation
from the Wilson administration to
remedy the defects which time has
disclosed to exist in our organic law,
whether by the growth of new de
PILGER’S GENERAL STORE
THE BEST MERCHANDISE OBTAINABLE—WE SELL IT
The
RUBBER PACS
THAT PILGER SELLS ARE
WANTED—A flunky for Willow Creek. Will pay $80.00 per mo. to
right man. Apply at Pflger’s store.
a
mantis in the territory or occasioned
by the amendments forced in it on its
passage, as it was to get the original
•nactment.
1 The deficiencies in the organic act
creating the legislature have been
purposely exaggerated by those poli
ticians and newspapers in Alaska who
prefer to contend for better political
advantage rather than to assist in se
curing better government for the peo-'
pie. Their constant effort is to find a
way how not to do it, and then cry out
that the law is faulty. But there are
well-known defects and limitations in
all organic acts for territories, al
; ways were, and ahvay^ will be, and
that fact is well recognized by the
i people of Alaska. In the democratic
territorial platform for 1912, among
its resolutions that party declared
(“that the democratic party regards
| and has always regarded territorial i
i government as but a temporary make
j shift and a preparatory step to com
plete statehood.”
And yet until we can secure state
hood for Alaska every good citizen of
ithe territory must seek for the best
laws possible with which to maintain
and develop its government and re
sources. While I have not always
been patient with my opponents in
Alaska in seeking to tear down what 1
I have so laboriously attempted to build
up, I have not failed to note sugges
; tions for the betterment of our or
ganic laws. Even when I have doubt
ed the value of some of the sugges
tions I have given the benefit of the
doubt to the people of the territory
and sought to secure a wider range
of power for our legislature, even
though my judgment, it already exists
in statutes which are not heeded.
ATTENDANCE AT THE
EMPRESS BREAKS RECORDS
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Despite the inclement weather, the
Empress theatre has been breaking
all attendance records this week with
motion pictures selected from tthe
| best film producers in the business,
and, the coming week will find the
Empress provided with screen feat
ures that will prove most satisfying
to all who are seeking enjoyment
from the film world.
The inimitable Charlie Chaplin, in
“Shanghaied,” a two-part comedy will
be one of the features on the usual
entertaining Saturday program to
night. In addition there will be a
two-part drama entitled “Fairy Fern
Seed.” Then another comedy “Wooed
by a Wild Man,” completes the bill.
But, the interesting Pathe News will
be shown first. All combined, mo
tion picture fans have a rare treat in
store this evening.
Sunday and Monday, August 27 j
and 28, brings to the Empress a
Pathe Gold Rooster play in five parts
entitled “An Affair of Three Na
tions,” featuring Arnold Daly, as
Ashton Kirk, investigator. The
story is very interesting from begin
ning to end, and has to do with the
Japanese spy system in Washington, :
and an American surgeon, serving j
with the Russian army. Later the
surgeon disappears, but Ashton Kirk
(Arnold Daly) takes up the case, and,
after unravelling many mysteries and
having some extremely exciting ex
periences, manages to save the day,
and averting war.
If you want an automobile, night or
day, telephone the Reo Service. Num
ber 56-Y. 8-lltf
REMEMBER
The Two Girls still excel in those
famous Sunday Dinners. 8-25-2t
COMFORT AND ATTENTION
While you play Billiards or bowl a
game at Robarts’. Courtesy my mot
to. 8-25tf
Wood Undertaking Co..
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
LICENSED EMBALMERS
Anchorage Matanuska
Enjoy your Sundays bathing and
dancing at Lake Spenard. 8-12tf
Fine Job Printing at Times ottice.
Turkish baths $1-50. Tub baths
and furnished rooms. Lady attend
ant for ladies at Electric Bath House
K st. Bet. 4th and oth. Phone 26-Y.
Just received—A large consignment
of Victrolas and latest Records—at
the Northern Drug Co. 7-28-6t
Cotton felt mattresses, bed springy
and linoleum, at Crocker's.
Susitna and Talkeetna
Fast Power Boat
MARATHON
Sails Tuesday, August 29, for Talkeetna and Indian river
Office Fourth and C Special Reduced Rates.
FRANK MORTIMER, Agent
H. W. NAGLEY ‘
THREE BIG STORES
Susitna TALKEETNA McDougall
Complete Stocks General Merchandise.
OUTFITTING A SPECIALTY.
Lumber Yard
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Our Material Comes Direct From the 1
Forest to the Consumer.
No Middlemen’s Profits
MADE NEAR HOME
A LOCAL INDUSTRY
The damp weather reminds you of many little alterations
and improvements needed to put your dwelling into
shape for the later season.
Yard Next to R. R. Track in Old Town