IDAHO REPEALS
PRESENTSTATE
PRIMARY LAW
BOISE, Idaho, March 27.—Idaho’s
fifteenth legislative session at which
the Republicans had an overwhelming
majority, repealed the state primary
law as it. applies to state and con
gressional nominations and returned
to the convention plan fot the nomi
nation of party candidates. This
change was made an a consequence of
the usurpation of the Democratic
party machinery proceeding last glim
mer's primary by the Nonpartisan
league*
The state adopted a commission
form of state government, creating
nine departments in place of the forty
eight now operative, and vesting full
responsibility in the governor, who
will choose his own cabinet of nine
ipen, each of whom will receive $3,600
a year.
A constitutional amendment will be
submitted in 1920 providing for an in
crease in the supreme court member
ship frerm three to five members.
Whether the supreme court may have
jurisdiction over decisions of the pub
lic utilities commission will also be
decided as a constitutional amend
amendment. The legislature is au
thorized to prescribe the scope and
conditions of appeals perfected.
A state constabulary system with
extensive police powers was estab
lished and an appropriation of $50,000
was made for that purpose.
Extensive road improvement was
authorized and $1,800,000 to be raised
by a special road tax levy, was made
available for the construction work.
The erection of wings to the central
capitol unit was authorized and a
4906,000 bond issue approved for
financing the construction.
Appropriations for all purposes
total approximately $8,000,000, which
includes 150,000 for the erection of an
administration building at the Lewis
ton State Normal school, replacing
the one destroyed a year ago by fire. ,
A bill creating a soldier’s settle
ment board and carrying an appropria
tion of $100,000 passed the Idaho
legislature. The board is empowered
to aid returning soldiers in finding
homee and expects to co-operate with
the federal government.
Soldier labor is planned to be ex
tensively used on the construction of
east and west wings to the central
capitol building, for which a $900,000
bond issue has been authorized.
A bill providing for a $1,000 tax
exemption for discharged men who
had seen Mexican border service or
were in the army t during the German
I struggle, was killed and an emergency
employment bill for soldiers, provid
ing for employment by the county
commission for sixty days, failed of
passage because it was believed to be
unconstitutional.
Governor Davis w’ired a resolution
to Idaho congressional representa
tives favoring the abolition of federal
employment agencies, and federal
financial assistance for a state employ
meat bureau
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MOST MOVE SLOWLY IN
AMALGAMATING GERMANS
BERLIN, Feb. 12 (by mail).—Warn
ing against a hasty solution of the Ger
man-Austrian problem has been
soimded by Edward Bernstein, one of
the few independent Socialists hold
ing a ministerial post in the present
government. He believes, he says
in a cecent public statement, that a
premature settlement made by forcing
a union of Germans in Austria with
the German republic would jeopardize
Germany’s position with the peace con
ference, inasmuch as the amalgama
tion of the German races before' peace
was concluded definitely would throw
suspicion on German politics.
Once the league of nations is estab
lished, Mr. Bernstein asserts, the Ger
man-Austrian issue can be solved with
out incurring the risks now Involved,
and which threaten to Influence the
international situation unfavorably.
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CITIZENSHIP CLASSES
IN HAWAnAN SCHOOLS
HONOLULU, Feb. 2 (by mail).—At
the behest of W. M. Ragsdale, natural?
izatlon examiner, a bill has. been in
troduced into the territorial legisla
ture providing for an appropriation of
$1M00 to establish and maintain
classes in eitisenshlp in the public
schools of Hawaii.
FAIRYTALE OF
HARDSHIPS IS
BRANDED LIE
A short time ago we published an
Associated Press dispatch from, (he
Past which told of preparations being
made by the Salvation Army to invade
the Anchorage division for the for
the purpose of improving conditions
among the'soldiers doing guard duty
in that part of Alaska. At that time it
was not clear why such action was
deemed necessary, but advices com
ing from Boston and other Eastern
cities recently haye solved the mys
tery. The attention of sympathetic
Easterners was directed toward Alas
ka by the letter of an imaginative
young sdfclier, in which he had in
formed the home folks at Boston that
the soldier boys of Alaska had been
subjected to great neglect—particu
larly the boys assigned to guard duty
in Anchorage division.
The letter was accepted at its face
value, and promptly referred to the
Boston Herald. The Herald printed
the letter and called upon its readers
to remedy the un-American condition
described therein; other papers took
up the cry, without investigating the
case, and letters and clippings now
coming to Alaska indicate that the
neglected soldier story has received
very wide circulation, not an editor
apparently having been sufficiently
well enough acquainted with Alaska
to know that conditions such as those
described by the Anchorage guard do
not obtain in any part of the North
land where soldiers are stationed.
Lieutenant Charles B. Knight, offi
cer commanding the Anchorage de
tachment, has written a letter to the
Boston paper, making a dignified,
courteous refutation of the mislead
ing statements contained in the letter
in question, and setting forth the con
ditions as they really exist, conclud
ing with the request that the Herald
give as much publicity to his letter as
was given to the letter of the irrespon
sible soldier responsible for the
threatened Salvation Army invasion
"of Alhska.
The Boston article, which was re
printed by many other Eastern news
. papers, Is, as follows:
“In these triumphant hours, when
all America is showering well-de
served plaudits upon our victorious
hpys in France, I would like to call
the attention of your readers to a
little band of American soldiers who
are doing their bit in our country,
under circumstances requiring as
much courage and endurance, and as
fine a brand of patriotism and self
sacrifice as that which inspired our
heroes at the front. These boys en
listed before the first draft was called,
hoping thereby to be given the prece
dence in going to France to fight the
Hun. To their bitter disappointment
they were ordered, instead, to Alaska
to guard the government property at
the great Matanuska coal fields near
Anchorage—one- of the most desolate,
God-forsaken regions in the world. In
this land of horror it is night for half
the year and the temperature is 60
degrees bqlow zero.
Fierce blizzards sweep down from
the mountains and bury the land be
neath twenty feet of snow and ice
and raging tides in Cook inlet the
nearest harbor-prevent the entry
of any ship after winter sets in, thus
cutting them off utterly from the out
side world, except when a dog team
struggles to them overland with the
mail. In summer the conditions are
almost worse, for then the land Is
converted into a swamp in which
breed countless millions of the most
virulent mosquitos. But perhaps the
hardest thing of all for them, to bear
is that they are forgotten and ignored
by the people back home in the States.
Neither the Y. M. C. A. nor the K. of
C. have given them ‘hut’ or ‘canteen,’
the Red Cross has sent them no sweat
ers* and socks to keep them warm, no
nurse to minister to them in sickness.
The library association has sent no
books, nor has any other organization
done anything to ameliorate their
lives. Recently the influenza has at
tacked them, and, having no hospital,
they have to care for their sick them
selves, in their own barracks—it is
difficult how any of them can escape
infection under these circumstances.
But with all this hardship to endure,
are they downhearted? No. They
have set theii; jaws in grim determi
nation to do their soldiers’ duty where
they have been ordered to stay; and
there is something very fine and splen
did in the undaunted courage with
which they have accepted their al
most intolerable lot.”
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT OF
ACCOUNT
In the United States Commissioner’s
Court, Cordova Precinct, Territory
of Alaska (In Probate).
In the Matter of the Estate of Gun
nard Johnson, Deceasfed.
Notice is hereby given that V. G.
Vance, administrator of the estate of
Gunnard Johnson, deceased, has ren
dered and presented for settlement to,
and filed in the probate court of said
Cordova precinct, his final account as
such administrator, and that Tuesday,
the 15th day of April, 1919, at 10
o'clock a. m„ at the court room of our
said probate court at Cordova, Alaska,
has been duly appointed by the pro
bate court for the settlement of the
final account, at which time and place
any person ■ interested in said estate
may appear and file his exceptions in
writing to the said final account and
contest, the same.
Witness the Hon.
(Seal) A. J. ADAMS,
Judge of the said Probate'Court, and
the seal of said Court affixed, this
NOTICE OF GENERAL MUNICIPAL
ELECTION
Notice is hereby given that on Tues
day, April 1st, 1919, a general munici
pal election will be held in the town
of Cordova, Alaska, in the second story
of the town hall, on Second street, in
said town.
Polls will open at S o’clock a. m.
Polls will close at 7 o’clock p. m.
The qualifications of electors for
councilman, mayor, town clerk and
town treasurer are as follows:
He or she'shall be a citizen of the
United States, or one who has de
clared his or her intention to become
a citizen of the United States, 21 years
of age or over, who has resided con
tinuously one year next preceding the
election in the territory of Alaska and
six months continuously next preced
ing the election in the town of Cor
dova, Alaska, and who has registered
in accordance with the requirements
of Ordinance No. 17, of the town of
Cordova, Alaska, entitled ‘‘An ordi
nance for the registration of the legal
electors in the town of Cordova,
Alaska.”
The qualifications of voters for
members of the school board for Cor
dova school district shall be as fol
lows :
All adults,1 males or females, who
are citizens of the United States, or
who have declared their intention to
become such, and who are residents
of the Cordova school district.
The offices to be filled at said elec
tion are:
A Mayor—To serve one year.
Six Councilman—Three to serve one
year, three to serve two years.
A Town Treasurer—To serve one
year.
A Town Clerk—To serve one year.
A Director for the Cordova School
District—To serve three years.
NATHANAEL GREENE,
Town Clerk.
NOTICE OF MONITION.
In the District Court of the United
States, Territory of Alaska. In Ad
miralty.
Nels Andersen, libelant, vs. the ship
Myrtle H.
Public notice is heby given that on
the 7th day of March, 1919, a monition
issued out of the clerk’s office of the
District Court of the United Slates,
Third division, Territory of Alaska, in
a cause civil and maritime wherein
Nels Andersen is libelant .".gainst the
ship Myrtle H., her boats, tackle, ap
parel and furniture, for the sum of
seventeen hundred and thirty-one and
90-100 dollars, by virtue of which I
have taken the same into custody.
The said monition is returnable on the
7th day of April, A. D., 1919, when, if
that be a day of jurisdiction, or if not,
then on the next day of jurisdiction, a
hearing will be had of the cause.
• All persons interested in said Myrtle
H., her boats, tackle, apparel and fur
niture, are required then to interpose
their claim, if any they have, other
wise the same will be pronounced
against for debt and costs as prayed
for in the libel.
Dated March 7th, 1919.
F. R. BRENNEMAN,
United States Marshal, Third
division, Territory of Alaska.
By' WM. L. FURSMAN,
Deputy.
NOTICE
The registration book of the town
of Cordova will be open at my office,
in the corner store, Mlchelson & Cur
rier building. First street, Cordova,
every day from 12 o’clock noon until
8 p. m.
The registration book will he closed
at 4 o'clock p. m. Saturday, March
29, 1919.
C. H. LAMPREY, Registrar.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To L. T. Gray, heir and devisee of
Robert D. Gray, deceased, to all other
heirs of the said Robert D. Gray, de
ceased, to James Smith, executor of
the last will and testament of the
said Robert D. Gray, deceased, to all
persons claiming liens upon or against
the interest of said estate, of said ad
ministrator, or of said heirs, in the
mining claims hereinafter described,,
and to all whom it may in any manner
concern:
Yo and each of you are hereby noti
fied that I have expended during the
year 1918 one hundred dollars (|100)
in labor and Improvements upon and
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Residence and poatoffice address, I
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Last publication, May 8, 1919.
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