ATHLETIC MEET
DATES HAVE
BEEN SET
LINCOLN. Nell.. Jan 28. I >r K. .1
Stewart, athletic director of the Uni
versity of Nebraska, has announced
tentative schedules for football, bas
ketball and track meets. The sched
ules have been presented to Chancel
lor Samuel Avery and the university
regents, who are expected to approve
them Football dates for the 19111 sea
son follow
Oct. 11 Iowa University at Iowa
City
Oct IS Notre Dame at Lincoln.
Nov. 8 Missouri at Columbia.
Nov. Ui Kansas at Lincoln.
Nov. 27 Syracuse at Lincoln.
Negotiations are under way for
games with Minnesota at Minneapo
lis, Oklahoma at Oklahoma City, or
Lincoln. Iowa State College at Ames
or Lincoln, and Northwestern at Kv
anston.
Sixteen basketball games will be
played with Missouri Valley confer
once members.
Dates for dual track meets have not
yet been arranged The iiuskers will
compete in the Kansas City A. C. in
door meet at Kansas City, February
22; the Drake relay races at Des
Moines. April 17; the Missouri Valley
Conference meet at Ames, May 21, and
the Western Conference meet at Chi
cago, June 7.
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Private lessons in dancing. Apply
at American Uikery. tl
FORMER CORDOVA MAN
AT FRENCH HOSPITAL
Dr. Maleolmn B. Smith, who was
formerly surKeon for the Copper Itlver
Northwestern railway, wllh head
ipiarlers at Cordova, and attached to
base hospital No. 95. was recently or
tiered to France for duty with the base
hospital, and he arrived there No
! vemher 14.
This medical unit was ordered so
that a similar unit could be relieved
and returned to the States.
Hast; hospital No. 95 was at I’alo
Alta. Cal., anil prior to leaving for
France was sent for a short time to
Camp I'pton. New York.
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at city dock. Harmon Machinery
Company.
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| PERSONAL AND LOCAL
NOTES OF INTEREST
The freighter Cord.vva is due in
port tomorrow morning
Mrs .1 F. H. Appleby, of Naked
Islands, and Miss Amanda Lllegren,
of Story island, are in town from
their fox ranches.
John Barracks, of the Samson
Hardware company, Fairbanks, ar
rived in town on yesterday's train,
en route to the states.
Tlte dance of the Northland club
lias been changed to Friday night and
Mesdames (leo. \ Harmon, K, B.
Harwood and \V B, Fursman will be
the hostesses.
(I. \\ Bennington, newly elected
member of the legislature, from the
Fourth division, has left Nomina on
his way to Juneau, to be present at
the opening session.
A number of employes at the Ken
necott and Batouche mines have been
temporarily laid off as the war is over
thus curtailing the demand and qus
I Ing a drop in the price of copper.
The local lire department made a
personal inspection of the different
buildings about town this afternoon
and will recommend that tire escapes
be erected in the rear of the Alaskan
Hotel and Kagle Hall.
John Nelson, manager of the Chit
ina Cash Store, arrived in town yes
terday afternoon to join his wife who
has just left the Cordova fleneral
Hospital, where she successfully
underwent a minor operation.
K. It. Beoples. of Fairbanks, who
recently sold his general merchandise
store to the Northern Commercial
, company, is here oil bis way to the
states lb- i accompanied by Then.
Johnson, and they will return to the
interior next spring to close up their
business.
Among those to depart from Fair
hanks to the Outside recently was
Carlton I) Boss, the young man who
! unfortunately sustained seven* in
juries by coming in contact wth a
wagon tongue while riding a motor
, cycle at high speed,
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Frank l\ Manton, tin* Fairbanks
stampeder who was one of the first
to take in Good News hay. has re
ported, says the (MG/- lie is at Fort
Angeles. Wash., having gone there
from the coast after finding tin* strike
was not what it was reported to be.
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M. H Hunt, who has been em
ployed by the T *v T. department of
the engineering commission at An
i-borage on construction work, recently
shot himself through the lungs with a
dj caliber revolver in an attempt to
commit suicide. He was umnd lying
on the sidewalk. conscious! and when
asked why he attempted the rash act
I replied. Because I'm a coward " He
h.»s a < bailee for recovery.
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William Oakley, probably known to
every man. woman and child in th«
territory as 'Stone Age Bill." is in
Fort Angeles, Wash., hibernating for
the winter. Bill has taken in every
stampede since B. C.. which means
Cassiar, B. C.
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Hugh McCrorle und Jimmy Collins,
who are doing some prospecting on
O'Connor creek, came to Fairbanks
recently for supplies. They state they
have good prospects, and will stay
with their claims until they see what
they have.
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Max Minort. formerly of the Tolo
vauu. has acquired the interests of
joe Goddard on Emma creek, a tribu
tury of Alder creek. The transaction
involved the transfer of three claims.
Emma creek during the early days
produced considerable gold. It is now
believed to be a feeder for the rich
pay uncovered on the Gold Channel
claim on Cripple creek, which Is but
a short distance from the mouth of
Emma Mr Minort sank a shaft on
these claims last spring, and at the
present time is preparing to work
this winter.
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Robert Clark, a former well-known
resident of the Southern Yukon, died
in Vancouver. B. C.. recently, lie was
41 years of age, and was born in Col
ltngwood, Ont , where his parents re
side He came to the Yukon in 1X99
and located at Lower Laborge, where
he opened a roadhouse and fishing sta
tion. He left for the Outside in 190X
and has ben residing at Haney, on
the Fraser river.
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French lesson*, private and claa*.
for children and adult*. Ida Dowald
er, experienced teacher Adam* build
ing. C street S*-5*
NATIVES OF THIS TERRITORY
ARE ENTITLED TO FRANCHISE
< t'oiitinm-rl from Pag.- Two i
signed the treaty with the I'nited
•Stall s for tie purchase of Alaska
almiii the protection of the people
and their rights, and the treaty doe.
make that provision, and it is a tint
unitization law. It is a law which
naturalizes even one of those resi :
j dents of Afogicik and Seldovia who
J are named in the evidence in the j
j record as witnesses and voters. They |
have no need to lie naturalized by
any other laws of the I'nited State-, j
because they are naturalized by the
treaty of 1867, in tho third section,
which reads as follows:
"Article III The inhabitants of tile
| reded territory, according to their
i choice, reserving their natural tillegi
I ante, may return to Russia within
i three years, hut if they should prefer
to remain in the ceded territory they,
I with the exception of the uncivilized
| native tribes, shall lie admitted to all
J the rights, advantages and immuni
i ties of citizens of the I'nited States,
and shall be m iinuined and protected
in the free enjoyment of their lib- i
erty. property and religion. The un '
civilized tribes will be subject to such
laws and regulations as the United 1
States may from time to time adopt
in regard to the aboriginal tribes of j
that country."
Courts Have Upheld Rights
You will notice that this provision
not only protects them in their prop
erty rights and their religion, but it
makes citizens of the United States
out of all those who shall remain in
Alaska after three years. The pro
vision used here to naturalize are
the words which naturalized the in
habitants of the Florldas in the treaty
by which we acquired the Florida cos
I sion from Spain in 1818. and they are
almost the identical words, the sub |
stantial words, of the treaty by which
we obtained the Louisiana Purchase at ;
an earlier date. Those words have
| been before the courts on many oeca j
sions, and the United States supreme
court and the lesser courts have held
that those words naturalize the in
habitants of the ceded territory. So
that when these Russian half breeds
remained in Alaska territory for three
years after 1867 they became by vir- |
tue of that provision of the treaty,
ipso facto, citizens of the United
States, with a right to cast their bal
lot without any naturalization law be
ing passed by the congress Con
gress approved that treaty, and some
of these questions were raised at the
time the treaty was approved In eon
gress by Senator Oullom. from Illi
nois, who was then a representative
from that state. The treaty was ap
proved with the distinct understand
ing that it had that effect It has so
been held by he courts from that day
to this, and every one of these na
tlves that my friend called Indiana —
and the evidence Is perfectly dear
that they are half breed Russian*, all
down the line, all belonging to the
Russian Greek church are American
i iti/.i'iis, .aid ji js unt iicrc^.-ar, u.a:
tin.. should I • ■. i»1 or write to ije *t,
tilled In cast ,i legal v oi. ■ We half
tin literal y qualification ill Alaska It
you ;ire 21 years of age. anil have
lived in the territory one year, and tn
tile |ireeinet thirty days, you are eu
titled to vote id Alaska, it you are a
i itizen ot the 1 lilted Slates, as tli—.
people are. * • *
Admits Erudition
I was district judge in Alaska for
eight year and during that period
it became my duty at one tine to ret:
sider this matter and to write a e ry
elaborate and very learned opinion
upon the status of these people i
am sure it was elaborate and I .tin
willing to admit it was leaned
(Laughter and applause i In that
opinion, delivered. I think, in 1'jii2 or
l'.nhi. which will lie found in Second
Alaskan Reports, page '.’ml. 1 had oc
casion to go over the entire status
and history of these people, and 1 held
tie y were ail American citizens and
had all the rights of such citizens So
when this contest came up 1 could not
go hack on my former decision in the
case and stultify myself by declaring
tiic people in thesij precincts were not
citizens of the United Stales and were
not authorized to vote for Mr. Sulzer
and whose votes ought to be thrown
out I could not do that, because if
1 did somebody would refer to this de
cision. and 1 would he barred by it:
and for that reason 1 could not do It
My judgment then was and my judg
ment now is that they were all citi
zens of the United States and had
the right to vote for Mr. Sulzer or
for tnr. You will find the opinion men
tinned in the case of In re Minook.
Second Alaska, page 200.
When we purchased Alaska, in 1867.
we found a local system of govern
melit there. We found this system
of government in the territory at that
time and it had existed there since
1700 In 1700 the czar granted tin
tirst great charter to the Russian
American Company in Russian Atuer
lea. now Alaska He granted a sub
sequent charter in 1841. and in 1867
when we took over the territory, the
laws under those charters were in
force there. • • •
Now. I have gone thus far into the
matter because so much stress has
been laid upon the character of the
voters of Seltlovia and Afognak by the
gentleman on the other side. He has
called them "Indians," and has never
once been fair with you jurors by
mentioning that they were Russiau
half breeds, Russian Creoles, and are
specifically made dtizeus by the laws.
Ilrst of Russia, and then of the United
States
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II. H. Sexton has purchased Robert
Uottschalk'a Interest in the Alaskan
hotel, and all persons huving bills
tgalnst the hotel should present them
at once to Mr. Sexton, who has as
turned these accounts J if
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TONIGHT AT 8 SHARP
HEATING STOVES
To eliminate the necessity of carrying over heaters
until next season, and also to make room for new goods,
the following prices will prevail (until stock is exhausted)
on Agate, Garnet and the 12E size Cole’s Hot Blast:
Prices that will Interest You
Regular Special
Four only 11-in. ‘‘Garnet’.... $15.00 $11.50
Four only 13-in. ‘‘Garnet’’. . 17.00 13.50
Two only 14-in. ‘‘Agate ... 26.50 21.50
Two only 16-in. "Agate . . ... 30.00 24.50
Three only 1 2E ‘‘Cole’s Hot Blast 27.50 24.75
These are good, serviceable coal heaters of attractive design and
ornamentation. Large swing iront feed doors with screw register
draft. Ample range of sizes for any room. One joint of pipe, with
damper, and the setting up free with each stove.
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