NO WAR TAX
IMPOSED UPON
TRAIL TRAVEL
After a two years’ fight to get the
war tax on transportation over the
trail set aside, Manager Tom Gibson,
of the Gibson auto line, has received
work that he has succeeded in his
undertaking, and that there will be no
more war tax paid by passengers going
over the Chitina trail by auto.
The law states that 8 per cent of
the rate charged the passengers by
the stage line shall be added as a
war tax, but the law also says that tax
shall be levied on any form of me
chanical power on a regular estab
lished line when in competition with
carriers by rail or water. Mr. Gibson
held that such competition did not
exist when his stage line carried pas
sengers to and from Chitina, and has
been carrying on a correspondence
with the national revenue department
ever since the law was put in force)
to try to have it repealed so far as it
applied to trail auto transportation.
The following letter received from the
department by Mr. Gibson shows how
he finally was successful:
“Relative to the application of the
tax imposed by section 500 of the rev
enue act of 1918, the amounts paid for
transportation services rendered by
the Gibson auto line in carrying pas
sengers by automobile stage lines be
tween Fairbanks and Chitina, Alaska,
a distance of about 300 miles.
“The tax imposed by section 500,
subdivision (c), of the revenue act of
1918, on motor transportation, is on
the amount paid for transportation by
motor power on a regularly established
line when in competition with carriers
by rail or water.
“Under the facts presented, it ap
pears that the only rail and water
transportation furnished between Fair
banks and Chitina are two indirect
and roundabout routes of a total dis
tance of over 5,000 miles over the one,
consuming from thirty to forty days;
and a total distance of over 2,000 miles
over the other, consuming from twen
ty thirty days, while the distance over
the auto stage line is 300 miles and
the time consumed in making the trip
is about two days.
“In view of the facts furnished, com
petition is not deemed to exist in con
j templation of the law and regulations,
on account of the great difference in
the distance which is traveled over the
rail and water routes and the auto
I stage line, and in the time consumed
i in making the trip.
I “It is, therefore, held that the trans
portation services rendered by the op
erators of the auto stage lines in ques
tion, in transporting persons between
Fairbanks and Chitina, under the facts
stated, are not subject to the tax im
posed by section 500 of the revenue
act of 1918.”
LATE ALASKA NEWS
The Alaskan road commission has
started the summer’s work on the '
Fairbanks end of the Richardson high
way, with sixteen men left for the
Seven Mile camp on the Valdez trail.
It is reported from Nenana that
Janies Cody, of Ruby, has been ap
pointed manager of the Northern Com
mercial Company store at Nenana, tak
ing the place of Larry O’Keefe, who
died during the flu epidemic.
Eight hundred tons of high grade
silver-bearing ore is the winter’s work
of Ed Bartlett, so far as hauling it
from the mine to the water is con
cerned. Being through till next win
ter, Ed has come home to stay, and
says the ore is getting richer there
the further they go.—Fairbanks News
Miner.
Like many of the old-tibe North
erners who have spent the best years
of their lives under the shadow of the
Arctic circle, E. J. Stier, former resi
dent of Nenana and nearly every other
camp north of 53, is longing to get
back to Alaska. Ed left Nenana last
summer to return to his old home
town in California, but conditions
there are not as he expected to find
them, and now he is eager to get away
again. :•
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Abraham Lincoln’s “Lost Speech” on Washington |
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is the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birthday of Washing- :•
1 ton. We are met to celebrate this day. Washington is the mightiest name •:
on earth—long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty, still mightiest in
moral reformation. On that name a •:
eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To
add brightness to the sun or glory to
the name of Washington is alike im
possible. Let none attempt it. In
solemn awe pronounce the name, and
in its naked, deathless splendor leave
it shining on.”
Abraham Lincoln said these words
in Springfield, 111., in 1842. The As
sociated Press sent it out recently as
a “lost speech” by Lincoln, just dis
coveieu in a me ox uie iauiigaixiuu
Journal. Many newspapers ran it on the first page. Representative Smith
of Idaho had it read in the house, and not one of the 435 members had any
thing to say.
A few days later Smith of Idaho goyunanimous consent to make an ex
planation and said in part:
“Mr. Lucien Alexander of Philadelphia who discovered it, says this: Hay
and Nicolay, and also Ida Tarbell, missed it, and so have all of Lincoln’s
biographers, so far as I can discover. Indeed, I believe this is the only
encomium extant by Lincoln upon the father of his country; and so, its im
portance from a purely historical and sentimental standpoint cannot be over
estimated. This really wonderful quotation will be sure to link their names
together in a most unusual and beautiful way from now on every February 22.
“On inquiry I find, that not only this portion of Mr. Lincoln’s address was
printed in the Nicolay and Hay history, but the entire address delivered on
that particular occasion. It has also appeared in other histories of Lincoln
and in certain magazines. I therefore ask unanimous consent, in the interest
of historical accuracy, that this portion of the Record of that day be excluded
from the permanent Record.”
But the “Lost Speech” sta.ys in.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Jn the United States Commissioner’s
Court for the Territory of Alaska,
Third Division, Cordova Precinct.—
In the matter of the Estate of W. E.
Townsend, deceased.
Public notice is hereby given that
on the 29th day of April, 1920, the un
dersigned, A. J. Adams, was duly ap
pointed and now is the lawful admin
istrator of the estate of the above
named W. E. Townsend, deceased; and
that all persons having claims against
said estate are required to present
them within six months from the date
of this notice to said administrator,
at his office in the said Cordova pre
cinct, Third judicial division, territory
of Alaska, that office being the place
for transacting the business of said
estate.
This notice is dated and the date of
its first publication is May 11, 1920.
A. J. ADAMS,
Administrator of the Estate of W. E.
Townsend, Deceased.
First publication, May 11, 1920.
Last publication, June 15, 1920.
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