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H. G. STEEL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
O IKIXIVA. ALASKA. SATURDAY, MARCH 24, l!M7.
THE GOVERNOR S MESSAGE.
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Tin* following paragraph taken from Governor Strong’s
message to the legislature, should be, and probably is, endorsed
by every citizen of Alaska.
“The members of the legislature of Alaska can render no
greater service to the territory than by holding the new laws to
actual necessities. Many states and territories have been and
are so overburdened with law that it becomes a national handi
cap.”
The governor covers the situation thoroughly in a few
words. For some unknown reason, it has been proved that
give people the power to make luws and'they, or their represen
tatives, appear to think it mandatory on them to enact legisla
tion on every subject under the sun. Laws are daily placed on
the statute books that are not now, and never will be, beneficial
to anyone unless it is to aid lawyers in the struggle to live.
Alaska is handicapped enough in other ways without plac
ing a lot of freak laws in her code, tin* majority of which will
never be needed, and probably not enforced after their passage.
The governor knows full well the disadvantage* of having ill
timed legislation to contend with, and has done no more than
his duty in his request to the legislature not to pass such meas
ures as the people have asked' for, and forget the rest of them
The legislature will do well to comply with the suggestion.
It is to be regretted that the message did not include a spe
cific recommendation for an appropriation for the Alaska Ag
ricultural College and School of Mines. The national govern
ment has made as much provision as it can, and it is now up to
the territorial government to keep the call rolling. The need
for such an institution is urgent, and every year its establish
ment is postponed adds that much more to the handicap under
which the youth of the territory are now striving to gain such
knowledge as will give them equal footing and opportunity with
those in the states.
There is not much doubt that a bill will be introduced' in
the legislature to provide funds to establish an institution, and
it is so to be hoped that it will pass without opposition, and that
every citizen of the territory will put himself behind the school
in order to make it the force for good that otherwise it will not
be. The legislature has the power to enact such legislation, and
the territory has or can get the money to provide for all schools
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THE CAPITAL OF ALASKA.
The Ketchikan Progressive-Miner savs tlmt if is “jn«f »
fool notion” to think of changing the capital from Juneau. It
consoles itself with the illogical statement that the location has
been decided many years ago, but overlooks the fact that this
is a progressive age and the growing importance of other towns
may result in a move of the territorial headquarters.
At the present time there is no section of Alaska forging
ahead as rapidly as the Third division, both in population and
its volume of business. If this condition continues there is no
good reason why the capital should remain tucked away in one
little corner of this great nortldand. That our friends in south
eastern Alaska see ‘‘the handwriting on tin* wall” is evidenced
from the following editorial in the Ketichikan paper in answer
to tin* statement recently made in the Daily Tims that a resolu
tion is to be introduced in the legislature asking for a referen
dum of the whole territory on the question as to where the capi
tal should be situated':
‘‘In the event any of the western burgs want a capital the
best thing they can do is to get together and divorce the First
division; then they can each have a capitol if they so wish, we
shall interject no objections. But just so long as they hang on
our spokes, we shall be the hub around which they shall have
to travel. Meanwhile they may as well be good as to annoy us
with such fool notions.”
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The Associated Press service, which the Daily Times re
ceives, is certainly “coming through” with all the latest and
important developments in the war situation, and as a result
this paper is furnishing its readers with the most accurate news
obtainable. All good things come high, but the best is none too
good for our subscribers. •
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The attorney general of England says that the grand jury,
though once regarded as one of the bulwarks of the constitution,
is now considered to have outlived its usefulness. Is England
at last beginning to wriggle beneath the legal red tape that has
encased her like the bands of a mummy for centuries?
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People starving while Chicago grain elevators are loaded
to the roofs with 30,000,000 bushels of grain and 7,000,000 bush
els waiting in cars on sidings! An exaggerated modern instance
of the Mouse tower on the Rhine.
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Harry Lauder, having accumulated a fortune of about
$750,000, is going to retire from vaudeville, whieh will remind
many Americans that the funniest thing about Lauder is why
so large a part of the world laughs at him.
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News of Great Britain’s newest stringent blockade rules,
by which every neutral ship going to a country that has access
to enemy countries shall be seized, does not contribute to the
sum total of enthusiasm for war.
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The Monroe doctrine is torn up, says a German editor. No;
it is not a scrap of.paper, nor a pile of scraps, as the editor
would have it appear, but a living principle in the hearts of
100,01)0,000 Americans.
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Americans have a contract to construct a complete subway
system in Petrograd. Now somebody will rise to say we are
undermining Russia.
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Germany continues to pile straws on the camel’s back—the
camel being President Wilson.
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The problem of “reducing” is not a pressing one in Ger
many, at any rate.
In the district court for the terri- i
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
Notice of ter mof court at Cordova.
Alaska.
The president of the United States
of America, to the residents of the
Third division of the Territory of
Alaska, and to nil whom it may con
cern, greeting:
You and each and all of you, will
please take notice that by nn order
of the court, duly made and entered,
a term of the district court for the
territory of Alaska, Third division,
has been called and will be held in
Cordova, Alnskn. beginning on the
2nd day of April, 1917, nnd continue
as long thereafter os the public wel
fare may require.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 23rd
day of February, 191«.
(District KURD M. BROWN,
Court Seal) District Judge.
Attest: Arthur Dang, Clerk.
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WM. A. HESSE
Mining Engineer,
U. S. Mineral Surveyor,
U. S. Deputy Surveyor.
SOX 13. CORDOVA, ALASKA
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PHYSICIAN anu SURGEON
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O. Box 186. Alaska.
Hours: 9 a. m. to 6 p. m.
Evenings by Appointment.
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