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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST, 18, 1920
REPUBLICAN TICKET
For President—
WARREN G. HARDING.
For Vice President—
CALVIN COOLIDGE.
For Delegate to Congress—
DAN SUTHERLAND.
For Attorney General—
JOHN RUSTGARD
For Senator—
E. E. CHAMBERLAIN.
For Representatives—
A. E. LATHROP
JOS. H. MURRAY
R. E. ELSNER
ARTHUR FRAME
For Road Commissiotier—
GUST JOHNSON
WOMEN WIN RIGHT TO VCfTE
The ratification today of the suf
frage amendment to the constitu
tion ends a struggle which began in
this country before the colonies de
clared their independence. It will
eventually enfranchise 25,000,000 wom
en in this country.
Woman suffrage first raised its
voice in America in ' Maryland in
1647 when Mistress Margaret Brent,
heir of Lord Calvert’ demanded a
place in the legislatuise of the colony
as a property holder of wide extent.
And in the days of the Revolution
Abigail Adams wrote her husband
John Adams at the continental con
gress which was framing the laws of
the infant nation that, “if, in the new
laws, particular care and attention are
not paid to the ladies, we are deter
mined to foment a rebellion and will
not hold ourselves bound to obey the
laws in which we have no voice.”
Organized work for woman suffrage
began in the United States with the
Woman’s Rights convention at Sena
ca Falls, N. Y., in 1848, and which was
called by Lucretia Mott and Eliza
beth Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
early leaders of Massachusetts and
New York, in response to*an indigna
tion aroused by the refusal to permit
women to take part in the anti-slav
ery convention of 1840. From the date
of that convention the suffrage
movement in the United States began
the fight that lasted seventy years
and ended with victory. Another con
vention followed in 1852 at Syracuse,
N. Y., at which delegates from Cana
da were present and it was there that
Susan B. Anthony assumed the lead
ership of the cause tn whirh do.
voted her life.
In 1869 the National Woman Suf
frage Association, with Miss Anthony
and Mrs. Stanton at its head was
formed in New York and in the same
year the American Woman Suffrage
Association was organized in Cleve
land with Lucy Stone and Julia Ward
Howe as its leaders. At first differ
ing widely in policy, the National As
sociation working to put a suffrage
amendment through the federal con
gress and its sister organization bend
ing its efforts to convert the country
state by state, the two associations
later united under the name of the
National Woman Suffrage Association
and the Association’s drive for the
vote was led in turn by Mrs. Stanton,
7 Miss "jjAnthony, Dr. '> Anna Howard
Shaw and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt,
the latter of whom is now president.
The nineteenth amendment, which
bears her name, was drafted by Miss
Anthony in 1875 and was first intro
duced in congress in 1878 by Senator
A. A. Sargent of California; and it
is in the same language that the new
priniciple of the national law reads:
“Article -, Section 1. The right
of the citizens of the United States to
vote shall not b# denied or abridged
by the United States or by any state
on account of sex.
“Section 2. Congress shall have
power, by appropriate legislation, to
enforce the provisions of this arti
cle.”
The amendment holds the record of
being before the country longer than
any other successful amendment to the
constitution. It was introduced as
the 16th amendment and has been suc
cessively the 17th, 18th and 19th
and has been before every session of
congress since its initial appearance.
During the first 35 years after its
introduction into congress the amend
ment made pra'ctically no progress and
until seven years ago it had not been
debated on the floor for 30 years. But
the campaign for the movement was
slowly bi^t steadily gaining ground in
the states.
ivieanwnne miss Antnony made a
test of the right of women to cast
the ballot by going to the polls and
voting. She was arrested and con
victed and, though she refused to pay
her fine, was never jailed. She be
came, however, the forerunner of the
“militants” who adopted the forceful
tactics of latter days of the campaign.
State after state gradually enfran
chised women citizens. Beginning
with Wyoming in 1869 by 1919 six
teen states had given women the right
to vote, and fourteen states had pres
idential suffrage previous to ratifi
cation of the amendment.
Militancy in the fight for suffrage
in America made its appearance with
the formation of the National Wom
an’s party in 1913, On the eve of
President Wilson’s inauguration, 8,000 j
women led by Alice Paul, now the
chairman of the party, attempted to
march from the capitol to the white
house. They were harassed by a hos
tile crowd which overan an unsympa
thetic police and the capital of the
United States had its first experience
with suffrage riots.
Continuing their demonstrations
over a period of seven years members
of the women’s party picketed the
white house with banners in their
hands and served terms in jail for
the disturbances of the peace which
grew out of their parades and block
ade of the executive mansion. During
the last few months before the adop
tion of the amendment the militants
redoubled their exertions. Several
demonstrations were held on the steps
of the capitol and on New Year’s Day,
1919, watch fires were lighted in front
of -the white house in which every
speech made by President Wilson in
Europe on Democracy and self-govern
ment was burned. The acts, however,
were disavowed by the National As
sociation.
The steamship Elihu Thompson, on
the Alaska run for years, has been
sold to a steamship company for ser
vice in Peru. For the past two years
the vessel has been owned by the
North Pacific Sea Products Company
and engaged in work in Alaskan
waters with headquarters at Akutan.
A new fire truck received at Fair
banks a short time ago was found to
have been damaged in transit. It had
the appearance of having been
dropped in a sling. The city council
at first was not going to accept it,
but finally decided to have it repaired,
as none of the breaks were serious.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
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To Clarence Henry Golden, his
heirs, assigns, administrator and to
all whom it may concern.
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the undersigned co-own
er of Clarence Henry Golden in the
Alsac, Amazon, Francisco, Pelly, Mc
Kenzie, Columbia and Yukon claims,
situate on the left bank of Chokosna
river, about eight miles from the Cop
per River Railway at Mile 158, and
found in the records of the Valdez
Mining and Recording • district at
Valdez, Alaska, has expended in labor
and improvements upon said claims
the sum of $1400 during the years
1913 and 1914, and that Clarence
Henry Golden being the owner of a
one-third interest in the above named
claims, and having failed to do or per
form any labor, or expend any money
for the same, there is now due and
owing from you, your heirs or assigns,
)ne-third of $1400, as your proportion
of the amount nec.essary to be ex
pended for the years 1913-1914, to
hold possessory right and title to
the said claims under the provision of
seccion 2324 of the revised statutes
of the United States and the amend
ments thereto.
And if within ninety days after
this* notice by publication is com
pleted you fail or refuse to con
tribute your proportion of such
expense as before stated, your inter
est in the aforementioned claims will
become the property of the subscrib
er hereto, and under the section of
the law above mentioned which gov
erns assessment work on lode mining
claims.
TOM KINNEY.
First publication Aug. 4, 1920.
Last publication Nov. 3, 1920.
GOV. RIGGS
FAVORCHANGE
GAME LAWS
In his second annual report to the
secretary of agriculture, Governor
Riggs concludes with the following
recommendations for changes in the
Alaska game laws:
“When it comes to the matter of
making recommendations, I become
discouraged. Almost every governor
since there have been governors and
game laws in Alaska has recommend
ed that the laws be revised, but un
thinking opposition, formed without
proper investigation, has blocked
progressive legislation.
“My first recommendation is to
turn the control of all game and fur- i
bearing animals, with the exception
of fur seals, to the territory. Un-i
doubtedly this is the wisest course
and game will then be much better
protected; but if it is thought that
the people of Alaska have not the
same degree of intelligence as is pos
sessed by other people 4,000 miles
away, whose intimate knowledge of
the territory is derived from viewing
a picture postcard of a polar bear
perched on an iceberg, then let some
such law as the following be enacted:
“Section 1. The control of all game
animal, birds and land fur-bearing ani
mals in Alaska is hereby vested in a
¥
game commission for the territory of
Alaska, to consist of the governor, j
the secretary, who shall both serve;
without pay, and four commissioners,]
to be appointed by the secretary of
agriculture, one from each of the four
judicial divisions of the territory, who
shall receive an annual salary of $500
and actual or per diem traveling ex
penses when on official business.
Such commissioners may be federal
officials, if the secretary of agricul
ture so elects, and may receive such
additional salary for the extra service
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“Section 2. The commission here-1
by created shall issue such regula-!
tions for the protection and use of I
game animals, game birds and land
fur-bearing animals as may seem best,
which shall have the effect of law.
There shall be a quorum of the com-i
mission to transact business, and any
proposed regulations must receive
the vote of the majority of the com
mission before becoming effective;
provided, that existing game laws
shall be effective until 60 days after
their repeal by the commission.
“Section 3. All officials of the
United States in Alaska are instruct
ed to assist in the execution of all
the regulations of such game com
mission.
“Section 4. All receipts from per
mits, licenses, etc., sale of confiscated
animals or parts thereof, and from
fines imposed by the courts, shall be
covered into a game fund hereby
created and shall be immediately
available for expenditure by the com
mission without further appropria
tion.
“Section 5. To carry out the pur
pose of this act, there is hereby ap
propriated the sum of $100,000 to be
expended under the direction of the
game commission.
“The commission form of game
regulation seems to work out very
well in British Columbia, even
though that province, too, is nearly
as far from the Atlantic as is Alaska.
“By placing game control in the
hands of a commission, special regula
tions can be enacted as need arises;
the territory can be distributed with
each disrict described by men familiar
with its geographical features; co
operative regulations with the author
ities of British Columbia and the
Yukon territory can be entered into
without treaty negotiations; and,
with a liberal initial appropriation,
supplemented by receipts from other
sources, a systematic warden service
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will replace the present inadequate
patrol, which at best is not much
more than a threat to the violators of
the law.”
GUATEMALA TO
HAVE SAY IN
ITS ELECTION
GUATEMALA CITY, Aug. 18 (by
Associated Press).—President Carlos
Herrera has ,issued a circular letter
addressed to all civil and military of
ficials throughout Guatemala notify
ing them that they shall not in any
way use their authority to interfere
with the coming elections further than
to see that “order is maintained, that
the rights of voters are fully protect
ed and that they are not molested in
any way.”
Hitherto elections in Guatemala, as
in some other Latin-American repub
-v
lies, have been farcical. The Jefe
Politicos of the departments and their
subordinate officials commanding the
various districts or municipalities,
when an election was announced, sim
ply registered the names of a desired
number of voters as voting for the
designated candidate and then turned
them in as the electoral results.
During the 22 years Estrada Ca
brera was in power there was only one
presidential candidate and that was
himself. On assuming the office as
nresident. interino at the death of
Reina Barrios, he was required by
the constitution to convene elections
for the presidential period of six years
within eighty days, said elections to
be held within six months after his
assuming power. Cabrera complied
with the constitution in that he called
the elections but he did not allow any
other candidate in the field.
Herera, having been designated as I
vice president by the congress, as
required by law, suceeded Caberra as
president interino and in compliance
with the law designated himself the
last week in August for the presiden
tial election. Besides himself, there
are two candidates in the field, Jose
Leon Castillo, who was obliged to flee
the country upon being nominated as
a candidate in opposition to Cabrera
22 years ago and General Francisco
Francisco Fuentes.
In his circular letter to the authori
ties throughout the country President
Herrera calls attention to his frequent
declaration that it is his purpose, so
long as he remains at the head of the
government, “to adhere strictly to the
principles of true democracy,” and
that he will not nullify or permit the
nullification of the electoral rights of
any voter.
The permanent snow fields of Alas
ka only cluster around the crest! of the
highest mountain ranges, as they do in
the Swiss Alps, and are less than one
per cent of Alaska’s total area.
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