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COUPOVA, AliASKA, THl'KSDAY, XOVKMBKK 8, 1!)17
1»WHY IS A KNOCKER
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Nobody loves a knocker. A man
frequently will hold an interested au
dience while he regales them with a
dissertation on the shortcomings of a
.man, city or an institution, but after
he has finished telling all the poor
points of the subject in hand, he
knows and feels that he has lost
something, which is his self respect.
No matter how fully his auditors
may agree with him, nor how glad
they may feel to hear the tales he is
telling them, they unconciously form
distrust of the man who is seeking to
harm others.
They know that if at any time they
happen to be placed in an unfovorable
position where this man can learn
something to their disadvantage the
telling of which would do them harm,
he would be only too willing to re
peat it.
A knocker usually is a man who
talks too much. His mind is so
twisted that he cannot think of agree
able or helpful things to say, so he
usually has to depend upon harmful
and unpleasant topics of conversation
with which to regale his hearers.
There are two kinds of knockers.
The man who deliberately knocks in
order to do harm to his competitors
and the man who lets his tongue run
away and talks merely to be heard.
Among the residents of this town
we have many knockers. Some of
them are engaged in business and do
ing w'ell. Others are working for
wages. Both owe their livelihood to
residents of this city, and it is upon
the continued prosperity of the com
munity that they depend for their fu
ture prospects. It is difficult to class
these individuals. Apparently their
best interests lie here, yet they see
nothing good in the city The os
•rsessments are too high; rhe coal is
no good: the price o' living is to high;
business will be bad this year, etc.
But in the meantime this city contin
ues to grow' steadily and with great
er permanency than ever before.
The coal is good; the assessments
are within reason; the price of liv
ing correspond with the wages paid:
and calm reasoning for five minutes
will convince any fair man that the
outlook for this city is brighter than
it has ever been before,
zar was shot through the body. Ano
, There is, how'ever, nothing to fear
from the activities of the knocker,
be he from the outside or one of the
residents of this city, but it does give
a person the pee-wees to have a man
make his living here and at the same
time do all in his power to harm his
own town.
BACKING THE SOLDIER
Agents of the Kaiser who still may
he in America have a gloomy report
to make their boss in Berlin
The tremendous success of the se
cond Liberty Loan is the most direct
slap in the face that could have been
dealt them. The United States now
stands squarely behind the men al
ready sent to France and purposes to
equip the others who go in a manner
to make their work effective.
Americans have demonstrated by
the over-subscription of a five billion
dollar call for funds that they are real
Allies of England and France and Italy
and Russia. As such they do not in
tend that anything required shall bf
lacking to win the war. Food supplier
and ships, men, munitions—all thing*
—are to be given to the end thal
Prussianism may the more quickly br
destroyed and peace be the more
quickly secured.
Just how great has been the offerinj
for the second Liberty Loan cannoi
yet be learned. That it is well ovei
$5,0(10,000.000 mark is indicated by the
number of subscribers which it is es
timated that they stand at 10,000,00(
In the aggregate number of sub
scribers for the bonds is found an
other manifestation of the support the
army is to receive. For every man ii
the army ten others stand back o
him financially—to pay his way ane
for the ammunition and guns he hai
tee. use against the Germans.
When this fact is fully realized, the
contempt In which America’s entr;
into the war has been held will dir
appear. A determined people ove
1,000,000,000 strong with arailabl
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fighting material of 10,000,000, backed j
by financial resources greater than
those possesed by any other nation,
is a subject for serious consideration, f
Germany willingly admits so much.
What she saw was the possibility of a
division of opinion—the chance that
German influence might succeed in
preventing concerted action—and con
sequent failure to support the Presi
dent.
The floating of the Liberty Bonds
has settled that point. The United
States is solidly behind the million of
men she is getting ready for the first
line trenches in Europe and the other
million already prepared. There is no
cessation in the work of whipping the
kaiser. Money for our Allies and mon
ey for everything that can make their
work and our work effective has al
ready been supplied. And, when
w'hat has now been given is used,
more will be forthcoming.
Through her over-subscription to I
the second Liberty Loan Ameriea has
served final notice on Germany that
she must “can” the kaiser or take the
consequences.
It is with gratification that the fi
gures for the Territory of Alaska are
reviewed. They are high above the
mark set.
SEWARD’S PROPHETIC WORDS
In his notable address at the Arc
tic Club’s celebration of the semi
centennial of the transfer of Alaska
from Russia to the United States,
Professor Edmond S. Meany of the
University of Washington, In his very
touching peroration brought out the
death of William H. Seward, when he
was asked by the attending physician
what he considered the great achiev
ment of his life, and the great states
man feebly replied: “The purchase
of Alaska, but it will take another
generation for the people to find it
out.” How prophetic the words and
how trdthfully is the statement that
thousands of people are still some
what hazy about Alaska geography
and conditions. Officials of the gov
ernment are still blindly groping in
the maze of impractical bureaucracy
in the effort to develop its resources.
Private enterprise in the face of everv
known handicap has made it possible
for the estimated value of commerce
of the territory for the calender 1917
to reach a figure just twenty times
the price paid by the United States
'for Alaska fifty years ago. How
many times the purchase price the
annual commerce will figure when
practical, business like methods are
adopted for the industrial develop
I ment of the territory, no man can es
timate. This generation is slowly
finding out the true value of Alaska’s
wealth but, sad to relate, it will prob
ably take another decade before Ihe
blight of bureaucratic rule and mis
management will be removed from the
splendid territory and Its citizens will
be enabled to fully develop the won
derful natural resources with which
the country is so generously endowed,
thereby making Alaska, not the step
child of Uncle Sam, but a favored
member of the household of the big
republic.
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U. S. SELLS ALASKA SPRUCE
A block of spruce timber contain
ing 6.790,000 feet, board measure,
of spruce and 50,000 feet of hem
lock lying along the north shore of
Hecta island on the Tongass na
tional forest in Alaska, will be sold
for not less than $2.25 a thousand
feet for spruce, and 50 cents per
thousand for hemlock, according to
an announcement from District For
ester George H. Cecil, at Portland.
The spruce is said to be unusually
good quality for the region and will
cut out a fairly large percentage
of lumber suitable for airplane con
struction. The tract embraces about
! 334 acres.
There are a number of sawmills
’ in Alaska cutting airplane spruce
1 from stumpage purchased from the
i government. Only a small percent
age of the lumber for aircraft con
, struction cut in Alaska is suitable on
. account of the specially high-grade
. lumber that Is required.
Although there are more than
) 24,000,000 acres of government land
Included In the Tongass and Chug
ach national forests In Alaska, the
receipts from the sale and the use of
lorests resources Is considerably in
excess of the cost of administration.
Because of the unusual demand for
airplane material the spruce lumber
of Alaska is attracting more and more
attention.
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A gold quartz ledge, showing con
siderable free gold, is said to have
been located by Tom Blanket, near
the head of Wilson creek. In the Mar
shall City district, which it is be
lieved will proove a valuable mine.
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Employes of the Alaska Engineering
Commission at Anchorage, have now
formed a company to work a group
of claims in the Willow creek district
Rnd already five of the claims have
been secured and developmente work
will be started at once.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
TERRITORY OF ALASKA, THIRD |
DIVISION. „ ^ J
No. C-131.
Lily Dockings, Plaintiff, vs. James
Dockings, Defendant.
SUMMONS.
The President of the United States of
America, Greeting:
To James Dockings, the above named
defendant.
You are hereby required to appear
in the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division, within
thirty days after the completion of the
publication of this summons, to-wit,
within thirty days after the 25th day
of November, 1917, and answer the
complaint of Lily Dockings, the above
named plaintiff, in the above entitled
cause, which cause is an action for
divorce in of the cases prescribed
by law wherein the plaintiff prays for
a decree dissolving the bonds of mar
riage between herself and you and for
such other and further relief as to
the court may seem right and proper
in the premises. And you are hereby
notified that if you fail to appear and
answer said complaint as herein re
quired, the said plaintiff will take
judgment against you for want there
of, and will apply to the court for the
relief demanded in her complaint, as
hereinbefore set out.
The order for the publication of this j
summons was duly made and entered j
on the 19th day of October, 1917.
Witness the Honorable Fred M.
Browm, Judge of said court, and the
seal thereof, this 19th day of October,
in the year of our Lord the one thou
sand nine hundred and seventeenth
and of our independence the one hun
dred and forty-second.
(District Court Seal)
ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk District Court, Third Division,
Territory of Alaska.
By C. H. Wilcox, Deputy.
.Oct. 20, 22, 29, Nov. 4, 11, 18, 25.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
TERRITORY OF ALASKA, THIRD
No. C-130.
Mabel E. Sprague, Plaintiff, vs. Her
bert A. Sprague, Defendant.
SUMMONS.
*The President of the United States of
America, Greeting:
To Herbert A Sprague, the above
named defendant.
You are hereby required to appear
in the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division, within
thirty days after the completion of the
publication of this summons, to-wit,
within thirty days after the 22nd day
of October, 1917, and answer the com
plaint of Mabel K. Sprague, the above
[named plaintiff, in the above entitled
cause, which cause is an action for
divorce in one of the cases prescribed
j by law wherein the plaintiff prays for
a decree dissolving the bonds of mar
I riage between herself and you and for
'such other and further relief as to the
court may seem right and proper in the
premises. And you are hereby noti
fied that if you fail to appear and an
swer said complaint as herein re
quired, the said plaintiff will take
judgment against you for want there
of, and will apply to the court for the
relief demanded in her complaint, as
hereinbefore set out.
The jnder for the publication of this
I summons was duly made and entered
on the 6th day of September, 1917.
Witness the Honorable Fred M.
Brown, judge of said court, and the
seal thereof this 6th day of Septem
ber, in the year of our Lord the one
thousand nine hundred and seven
teenth and of our Independence the
one hundred and forty-first,
i (Seal of the District Court.
| Territory of Alaska,
i Third Division.)
ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk District Court, Third Division.
Territory of Alaska,
By C. H. Wilcox, Deputy.
First Publication, Sept. 11, 1917.
Last publication, Oct. 22, 1917.
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Newest Georgette Crepe Waists at
Mrs. Kate Rolfe's.
$1,000,000.00
And More In Resources Is Now Possessed
by the Bank of Alaska System
A Young Institution to be sure but conservative handling of !
Funds and Considerate Treatment of Patrons is !
producing what it’s organizers intended,
“An Institution of Strength
and Character.”
Bank of Alaska
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Looking ahead to November 15th, 1942, can seethe thrifty
citizens, children who now possess Liberty Bonds, arranging
redemption of their Bonds and receiving the accumulated j
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