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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1919
HATS OFF TO THE TIN CAN
A simple trade announcement to
the effect that the United States is
now producing three-fourths of the
world’s tin plate marked our arrival
at the point of predominance over one
of humanity’s most necessary indus
tries. Yet it caused very little ex
citement when it was made. No
huzzas rent the welkin. So far as
is known not a hat was thrown into
the air.
The tin can, past his period of use
fulness, is not a lovely thing to look
upon. He is a frequenter of ash cans
and dump heaps. Yet he marks the
trail of modern American progress.
As the whitened bones of the bison
glisten in the prairie sun to mark
the hazardous course that empire took
across the plains in the ’40s, so do
the mounds of battered and rusty tin
cans mark the course of armies and j
explorors. Through the Sahara and
along the Great Wall informal heaps
of him glitter a mute record of trade
victories. It means that enlighten
ment has come to our heathen brother
in the form of a well-known brand of
coal oil, or that an effort has been
made to reach the inner recesses of
his soul with an old and reliable make
of pork and beans.
A WARNING FOR UNMARRIED
TRAVELERS
Argentina has become particular,
about the people it admits within its i
borders. Ever since 1916 it has had
extended regulations for persons who
enter the country, but it has not set
about enforcing them until September
2. 1919.
Before starting for Argentina every j
person, of high or low degree, must
arm himself with three documents j
and get the Argentine consul’s signa
ture upon each of them. The first is
the usual passport. The second is
a certificate that during the last five
years he has not received a judicial
sentence for a penal crime. The third
is a certificate that he is in physical
and mental health.
There are some other provisions in
the Argentine regulations which in j
Spanish may differ in effect from the
English translation. However this j
may be, a bachelor or old maid who
1b over GO years of age would seem
to be excluded, willy nilly, and a
woman who travels with a child less j
than 10 years of age is set down hope- j
lessly as a beggar, regardless of the
dimensions of her pocket hook.
LO, THE RICH INDIAN
About the funniest joke on the j
white man’s avarice that ever hap
pened is the wealth of the present
day American Indian tribes. No orife
ever intended that they should be
wealthy. Far from it" They were
dispossessed of their rich lands in
Iowa and Illinois and other states and
sent out to what was then believed
to be a God-forsaken desert, where
no white man would ever, or could
ever live. No white American want
ing it, that was the proper place for
the red American.
As a result of this high-minded and
far-seeing policy, the Indians are to
day, as to a number of tribes, the
richest people on earth. The little
old Oklahoma desert, that was so
nearly worthless that the white men
were all agreed the red bother might
have it, has blossomed out into
wealth. Upstairs it grows cotton and
corn, and from the basement come
coal and. fat, black oil.
The Indians altogether own land
covering as large an area as the
states of Virginia and Kentucky, with
all New England thrown in. The sur
face value of these lands is placed
at $600,000,000. Adding in the coal,
oil, timber, herds and other property,
we have a set of aborigines worth col
lectively $900,000,000. There being
but 304,950 of them, this makes it
Rich Lo in place of Poor Lo.
Of the Cherokees, each buck, squaw
and papoose owns 110 acres of land.
Each Osage Indian was allotted 657
acres of land, and the average annual
income from oil and gas royalties is
$690.89. The per capita wealth
among these Indians in $9,579.85,
making them the wealthiest people
in the world, rt is to be remembered
that these allotments and royalties
go to children and women as well as
to heads of families. This gives
some of the Osage families a yearly
income of $12,000. Ugh—but that
would buy a lot of blankets, even in
these days.
Then, as another illustration, there
are the Indians in the Papago coun
try, in Arizona. There are about ten
thousand of them. The white folks
wished off on them what was regarded
as the toughest real estate in Amer
ica. All it grew was sagebrush and
cactus. The Indians lived there on
government rations and sunshine and
nobody envied them and everybody
was happy. Then some trouble-maker
discovered that the country was un
derlain by a great artesian reservoir
such as the French have used in mak
ing the Sahara blossom, and now the
Indians are on the way to become
rich irrigated land owners and pro
ducers. Shucks, but it’s hard to beat
fool luck by foresight. Who would
have thought that those lands would
product ten cents’ worth of crops in
a century.
And what makes the situation more
provoking, the Indian is refusing to
die off. After it was discovered that
some of the Indians, by phenomenal
luck, had drawn worth-while lands, it
was thought that nobody need worry
much, because the Indians were going
to the Happy Hunting Grounds any
way at a rate which would insure the
reversion of the property to its right
ful owners within a few years. But
now it turns out that the Indians are
playing a mean game. Where the
census only enumerated 254,300 in
1860, the 1910 figures accounted for
304,950. This is a gain of one-sixth
The Indian has managed to survive
from the stone age into the dry age,
and it now looks as if. having become
habituated to lemon extract, felt ids,
Indian agents, smallpox, squaw imi,
tuberculosis, book agents and other
products of civilization, the Indian
would henceforth multiply in a man
ner heretofore unknown since Fer
nando De Soto and other missionar
ies of Christianity began his extermi
nation.
Everything good to eat at the Cor
dova Grill. 29-tf
We ship by boat or rail fresh
cooked crabs or crab cocktails. Order
from Dave Phillips, P. O. Box 217.
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NOTICE OF SALE
In the Probate Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division, Valdez
Precinct, at Valdez. In the matter
of the Estate of Robert D. Gray,
deceased.
Notice is hereby given that in pur
suance of an order of the above-en
titled court, made on the 22d day of
October, 1919, in the matter of the
Estate of Robert D. Gray, deceased,
the undersigned, executor of said
estate, will sell at pubic auction to the
highest bidder for cash, and subject to
confirmation by said court, at the of
fice of the United States commissioner
in Cordova, Alaska, all the right, title
and interest and estate of the said
Robert D. Gray, at the time of his
death, in and to all those certain lots
and parcels of land, with the buildings
thereon, situated in the town of Ka
talla, Alaska, and described as fol
lows, to wit:
Lots 3 and 4 and six feet of lot
5. in block 23, of the Townsite of
Katalla, Alaska;
The buildings on said lots, de- I *“
scribed as follows: One frame
building 20 feet by 40 feet, one |
and one-half stories;
One frame building 12 feet by I
46 feet, one story;
One frame building. 22 feet by
28 feet, one story, shed roof;
One frame building 24 feet by
68 feet, two stories. All said build
ings being connected together;
Wharf 16 feet by 40 feet, with
an approach 300 feet by 10 feet,
on lots 4 and 5 above, with 600
feet of 15-pound steel rails;
And certain personal property, con
sisting of hotel furniture and fixtures,
now situated and located in the build
ings above described, and certain
wharf appliances and fixtures now sit- -
uated and located in and about the
wharf above described, and used in
connection therewith.
That all of the foregoing real and
personal property will be sold jointly
and in one lot at the place above men
tioned at 2 o'clock p. m. of the 22d day
of December, 1919. For further in
formation apply to the undersigned or
Edward F. Medley, attorney for said
oafeto
JAMES SMITH,
Executor of the Estate of Robert D.
Gray, deceased.
First publication, Oct. 29, 1919.
Last publication, Nov. 26, 1919.
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