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ORDER AND NOTICE
Of Election to Be Held on Tuesdaj
June 3. 1919,
for
DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
^ In the Office of the United State
Commissioner at Xenana, Alaskt
Fourth Judicial Division.
Xow, on this day. pursuant t
an Act of the Legislature of Alas
ka. approved April 26th. 1939, prc
viding for' the holding of a specie
election in the Territory of Mask
for the election of a Delegate t
k Congress to fill a vacancy cause
hy the death of Hon. Charles Sulze:
It is hereby ordered that for th
purposes of the election to be he!
on June 3rd. 1919. all of the Tet
ritory in the Recording Distric
"known as XEXAXA Recording Di;
trict. outside of incorporated town
is hereby divided into voting pre
c.ncts, in each of which a pollin
place is hereby specified.
Said voting precincts are de
scribed and bounded as follows:
The XEXAXA YOTIXG PRECIXC1
embracing all that portion of th
Xenana Recording Precinct Ivin
N'ORTH of an east and west lin
drawn through Mile 389 on th
Government Railway.
Polling Place: FIRE HALL i
town of Xenana.
The 35 MILE YOTIXG PRECIXCI
^ embracing all that portion of th
X'enana Recording Precinct Ivin
SOUTH of an east and west lin
drawn through Mile 389 on th
Government Railway.
Polling Place: ALASKAX EXG1
XEERIXG COMMISSION SEC
TIOX HOUSE, at 35 Mile.
Xotice is hereby given that a
election will be held on Tuesdaj
* June 3, 1919, for the election o
A DELEGATE TO THE HOUS1
OF REPRESEXTATIYES FR05
THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA.
The said election will be held i
the voting precincts above-name
and at the polling places therei
specified. The said polling place
will be open between the hours of
, eight o'clock A. M. and seven
o’clock P. M. of said day.
Dated at Nenana, Alaska, May 18.
11919.
r. s. McDonald,
3! U. S. Coramissione” for the Nenana
Recording District, Fourth Divi
sion, Territorv of Alaska.
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Genuine Buhach at Fowler &
Morris.
CHRISTIANIA. — A concession
for constructing a railway 2,009
, miles long has been granted “in
1 principle” by the Bolshevik govern
- J ment of Russia to a financial group
headed by Eduard Hannevig, a Nor
• wegian, says a Norwegian lawyer
- M. Puntervold, who recently re
r turned from Russia.
? i The proposed railway is to ex
? tend from the Obi river, in the
Tobolsk government, via Kotlass to
* Petrograd, Murmansk, and Arch
angel. It is said to include the
, right of utilizing 33,000 square
; miles of forest land through which
1 the railway is to be constructed,
j mining rights along the railway,
2 and the opening of banks at the
railway stations and towns near the
- line.
According to M. Puntervold, the
terms granted are far more favor
i able to capitalists than might have
, been expected from the most con
f servative government ^in Norway
1 The newspaper Ti Dens-Tegn, com
! I menting upon the concession, says:
“It is a proof that Lenine’s gov
i ernment is finding it necessary to
1 create a new capitalism to encour
t age the economic life of Northern
s, Russia.”
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OBSERVER TELLS OF KOREAN
HOPE OF HOME RULE
SHAXGHAI.—Light is shed on i
the Korean insurrection, its origin
and development, in the report of
conditions in the “Hermit Kingdom”
written by an American observer ■
and forwarded to the American min
ister at Pekin, a copy of which was
seen by a correspondent of The
Associated Press.
The American, in his story, which
covers the first two weeks of the
outbreak—from March 1 to March
15—and which he prepared for
transmission to the state depart
ment at Washington, gives what are
purported to be the inside facts as
to the causes of the revolution.
He reiterated the rumors regarding
the death of the aged former Em
peror Yi, that many of the Koreans
believed he was a suicide in the
hope of averting the marriage of
his son. Prince Kon, to the Japanese
princess Hashimoto. Yi died, sup
posedly of apoplexy, on January 22.
one week before the time set for
the wedding.
“Disaffected Koreans in America,
Hawaii, Manchuria. China and
Japan have kept up a constant agi
tation against Japanese rule in
Korea ever since their occupation
! of the peninsula,” the observer re
ports. “When the revolution broke
out simultaneously in many parts
of Korea, however, it took the gov
ernment almost completely by sur
prise.
“About February 15, some of
these Korean agitators had come,
secretly to their native land and1
organized committees to begin a
movement for establishing the na
tion's independence. Their work
■was quiet and effective. Their
plan was to begin a ‘passive revolu
tion’ in which no property was to
be damaged or destroyed and no
persons, not even Japanese, to be
harmed. If the Koreans were beat
en, or imprisoned, they were to
take their punishment without com
plaint even suffering death rather
than bring reproach on the Korean
cause.”
After submitting that up to the
time of his departure from Korea i
the people had religiously observed
the covenant of passive resistance,
the American observer goes on to
say that what really precipitated
1 the movement for liberty was a re
i port that the peace conference in
Paris was to adjourn permanently
on March 28, and that unless the
Koreans presented their grievances
and claims for self-determination
before that date, that Koreans for
ever after would be compelled to
hold their peace and remain under
l the yoke of the “oppressor.”
President Wilson’s “fourteen
points," he said, were well known
to all educated Koreans and the
self-determination for small nations
feature made a strong appeal to
them. At the same time, it was
reported that the peace conference
had sent a special delegate to the
' Far East to investigate and report
Ion Korean national affairs. The
Koreans, therefore, bestirred them
! selves to show the envoy how bit
terly they resented the Japanese
“’domination." Although never offi
j dally - credited as such an envoy,
jjohn Jay Abbott, representing lare?
i American financial interests, about
this time was reported on the wav
i to investigate conditions in China
and the Koreans immediately hit
upon the hypothesis that Abbott was
the representative of the Paris con
ference.
“Foreigners whose residence has
been in the East but outside Japan
proper," continued the report, “are
generally well acquainted with Jap
anese dealings with other nations.
The same methods of intrigue, de- j
ception, brow-beating and force
have been followed in China, For
mosa. Manchuria, Korea and re-j
| eently in Siberia. The people who
have been so unfortunate as to
cross their path have invariably;
suffered.** “Meanwhile/* says the:
report, “the Japanese show them-;
selves adepts at ‘pulling the wool* j
over the eyes of sightseers. For-j
eigners who live in Korea, and else-;
where in the Orient, are discredited
if they refuse to approve this miser
able business of deception. ^ e
condemn it but without avail/*
“Japan’s occupation of Korea, ac-1
cording to the state department’s
informant, has not been without its
advantages. The government has
1 built fine public buildings, school
i houses and roads, introduced im
jprovements in agriculture, reforest
• ed waste lands and done scores of
other things to benefit the country.
On the other hand, Japanese rule
in Korea the past ten years, it is
charged. has been characterized by
ruthless and intolerable severity
"and the Tokio government shows
no disposition to correct it."
“Korea has not been held and
administered for the benefit of the
Koreans, but for the benefit of the
conquerors." the report alleges.
“Koreans are in bondage so hard
and unendurable that insurrection
must break out frequently in the
future. The amalgamation and
assimilation process is at an end.
Bitterness between the two peoples
is daily growing more pronounced.
The passive revolution, if continued
long, must develop into forceful re
sistance."
Among the allegations of mal
administration made against the
Japanese by the Koreans, according
lo the American's report, are denial
to the Koreans of the right of
petition or appeal, denial of the
right of the Koreans to speak their
own language in the schools, rac?
discrimination in favor of the Jap
anese. both socially and in business
and public affairs, seizure of Ko
rean crown lands, the dispossession
of native tenants and their sale or
lease to Japanese: the virtual pro
hibition of issuance of passports to
Koreans desiring to travel and the
absolute lack of means by which
the Koreans may obtain redress of
grievances.
“The country is ruled by the
most autocratic military govern
ment in the world,” the report
states. ‘There is no appeal from
its decisions or laws to the parlia
ment in Tokio or to the emperor.
The governor general cf Korea is
as obsolute as was the czar in his
palmiest days. This militarism for
bids and prohibits every expression
of freedom. Its motive power is
brute force. People ar; ruthlessly
shot down and killed and for the
most trivial offenses, are imprisoned
for long terms.
"The Koreans are a homeogoneous
people, possessing a sing!? spoken
language, a literature and authentic
history extending back thousands of
years. Notwithstanding this the
Japmse have proscribed the finest
Korean literary works, forbidden
Korean speech in the schools and
tried to destroy Korean histories
dealing with past difficulties be
tween Japan and Korea. Mean
while they are endeavoring to make
young Koreans speak only Japanese
and in other ways to assimilate
the nation.'
From another source, a diary
written by a Korean in Pyeng Yang,
who relates certain incidents which
occurred during the first five days
of the revolution, it is alleged that
on the day after the proclamation
of independence was read, he and
nineteen other prominent Koreans
had been called into the prefect's '
office and requested to sign a
paper stating that the declaration 1
was preapred by ‘a low class of j
people and did not at all represent
the sentiments of the real Koreans."
The disclaimer, they were told,
had been drafted in Seoul where
it bad been widely signed by prom
inent Koreans and would be sent
to the peaec conference. All sort
of pressure was brought to bear
upon the twenty Koreans in Pyeng
Yang to disavow the revolution, but,
the diary states, “every one of
them refused to do so.”
Genuine Buhach at Fowler Ik
Morris.
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DR. MYERS LEAVING
FOR TANANA TODAY
Dr. R. R. Myers, accompanied by
Harry Young, leave' Nenana todar
on the Kerns boat, for Tanana.
Dr. Myers expects to remain at
the army town for a short time,
and will then probably go up the
riv«r as far as Circle for a snell.
On his return journey to Nenana.
he probablv will make short ston=
at Hot Springs and Tolovana if
business warrants such a move.
Mrs. Myers will leave for Fair-,
banks on the steamer Washburn on
Saturday and wifi reside there until
the return of her husband to Ne
nana.
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| NOTICE OF CHAN6E OF RECORDING PRECINCTS I
According to a recently issued Court Order by =
| Judge Chas. E. Bunnell, the Nenana Mining and Re- S
5 cording District has been enlarged to take in the Bon- §
| nifield and Totatlanika Districts. §
Miners and Prospectors of these districts will be 5
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