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blaster or human destinies am I.
Fame, love and xonune on my foot
Cilies and iieuis I walk; 1 p ‘neirate
iAserus ami sea.' remote, and passing
by
no\ei and mart and palace, soon or
nice
1 Knojk unbidden once at every gate.
ii sleeping, wake; il ieasting, ruse bc
loie
1 turn away; it is tne hour or ia;e.
And those who follow me reach every
state
Mortals desire and conquer every foe
Save death; but those who doubt or
hesitate,
Condemned to failure, penury and woe
Seek me in vain and uselessly implore.
I answered not, and 1 return no more
—Leigh Hunt.
Many big game hunters and guides
appear to be utterly averse to any
change in the game laws as recom
mended by the Seward Game club re
cently. The guides believe that tool
ing with the game laws would let the
bars down for a lot of crank legisla
lion and that more harm than bene
fit would ensue. Seward last year
took in more then $10,000 from big
game hunters, and naturally the
guides are reluctant to have changes
ties to go down the Yukon instead of
into the Skilak lake district. So far j
as The Gateway is concerned it be
lieves that the guides are better fit
ted to speak on game conditions than
the average layman. Their living is
concerned in it, and any handicap plac
ed on them would wreck the big game
enterprise. Much objection has been
raised to the proposal to make a res
ervation strip on each side of the rail
way. A majority of the persons writ
ing to this paper, and their name is
legion, prefer to leave matters alone,
being satisfied with conditions.
With the interior telegraph line a
long the Richardson road abandoned,
it is also probable that the \\ illow
Creek section of the traii will be aban
doned, as travel ovei it last year
showed that there was not enough to
•pay to 1 cep the long stretch in repair.
With the tourists and stages routed to
Chitina it is evident that there would
be no use for the road other than its
scenic value, which is nil when com
pared to the scenery along the govern
ment railway. Road commission offi
cials state that the Willow Creek sec
tion is one of the most expensive por
tions of the road to keep up and that
the money could be put to better use
building feeders to the Alaska rail
road.
There is no question but that a law
will be passed at the next session of
the legislature making it unlawful for
an alien, other than a big game hunt
er with proper licenses, to have fire
arms in his possession. Many legis
lators favor restricting the possession
of firearms to legal residents, while
others believe that non-residents
should be compelled to take out a gun
license in order to check up on their
activities. Much complaint comes in
regarding cannery workers to the far
westward killing game out of season,
and as there is but one game warden
to patrol several thousand miles of
territory it is impossible for him to
keep watch over the wild life. W hicli
ever method is adopted it will stop
a vast army of hunters coming in on
the cannery boats at a time when the
game is out of season.
Reward is sitting tight and getting
the persimmons. The Chamber of
Commerce is investigating every en
terprise of merit that offers, and
working assiduously to induce compa
nies with piyrolls to come into the
field. One payroll overlooked this
winter is the wages paid 22 woodchop
clIlU l IR- * ui uiih
pel’s by a local iirin
and storing of 900 tons of 20-inoli ice
by the same firm.
BREAKING UP OF BIG ESTATES
IN SOUTH IS PREDICTED
AS RESULT DECISION
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 6.—Jap
anese farmers, forbidden by the Calif
ornia law to own or lease agrricul
tural lands or to work them on a
crop-sharing basis, are turning to
wards eastern and middlewestern cen
ters of population, local Japanese
say.
Califonia, in turn, is looking to
the east and middle west for thous
ands or white tarmers to purchase,
lease or work land forced away from
Japanese tillers. Throughout the
state ways of attracting farmers are
being discussed. The land offered
includes some of the richest soil in
the state.
The United States supreme court
in several recent decisions has up
held the California alien land law.
The latest decision upholds the pro
I vision forbidding aliens ineligible to
| citizenship from being employed on
crop-sharing contracts. This ruling
is said to have affected more than
30,000 Japanese, who until this fall
were employed on California lands
under crop-sharing contracts. Tens
of thousands of highly productive
acres were involved.
The immediate effect of the de
cision it was said at the Japanese
consulate and the Japanese Chamber
of Commerce here, was for repre
sentatives of the Japanese to be sent
into eastern states to survey the
agricultural situation. The survey
was reported to have indicated that
many Japanese could find profitable
employment as truck gardeners in
districts surrounding the larger cities.
It also was learned that in most of
these district Japanese could lease
or buy land without restriction.
For years California has been
waging a fight for a “white state.”
The political fight has ended, the
Japanese have given assurance that
they will make no further effort to
combat the law, but behind it all has
been left a vast and acute economic
LIBERTY THEATRE
VIOLA DANA
in a beautiful story
A Noise in Newboro
An Extra Good
LEATHER PUSHER
two reel comedy
The Widower’s Mite
And a One-reel Comedy
“THE NON-SKID KID”
problem of replacing Orientals on
California farms.
The big land owners of California
have been hit the hardest. The huge
estates have been the largestt em
ployers of Japanese under leas and
crop-sharing contracts. These estates
still can employ Japanese as farm
laborers for cash wages, but the
Japanese is declared to be not near
ly so efficient as a laborer as on a
crop-sharing basis. Furthermore, the
Japanese themselves much prefer a
proprietary interest in their under
takings, now forbidden in California,
but possible in other states.
In many quarters the breaking un
and sale of big estates is forecast.
If necessity, they must be sold or
leased in small parcels to farmers
who can till the acreage hr theiv
own resources. Often the larger
farms cannot afford to hire enough
day laborers.
In 1020 William p Stephens, then
governor of California, reported to
federal authorities at Washington
iliot Tnnonoeo nnono + o/l KO ACC ~ --I
nf “flip vpry best lands in California”
producing crops valued at $67,145.
790. At that time the land cultivated
by flip Japanese was 16 per cent of
all the irrigated farms in the state.
Many authorities say the percentage
has increased largely in the inter- i
veiling three years. The Japanese
controlled many of the state’s most
valuable agricultural products. Most i
of this production now must come1
from white persons employing their
own labor. Much of the produce
finds its way into eastern markets.
Japanese still own and will farm 74,
769 acres bought before the anti
alien land laws became effective. Cor-!
porations owned or controlled by
Japanese have an additional 31,000)
acres. Neither the individuals nor j
the corporations can add to the pres-;
ent holdings.
Hereafter Japanese in agricultrual
pursuits may work for money, but
may not be paid in produce.
Chambers of Commerce and other
organizations, including Californians
incorporated, a body devoted to fur- j
nishing authentic information about
the state’s resources, are trying to
soive me pruoiems invoiveu ciipi ^
among which is that of procuring an
influx of white farmers.
The Stockton Chamber of Com
merce lepoited recently that unless
white farmers could be obtained o
till 440 000 acres in the rich San
Joaquin Valley, until lately farmed by
Japanese these lands highly produc
tive in potatoes, onions and celery
must revert to barley cultivation.
In the Imperial Valley, at the
southern eud of the state, the su
preme court’s crop-sharing decision
took Japanese from 50,000 acres of;
cotton lands.
Similar situations exist in other j
fruit and vegetable districts.
Yet an investigating committee of i
the StockSm Rea'tois Association
reported. “There will be undoubted
ly a cur ailment of some few crops,
but othar crops will be pltnied io ,
take their place and so far as we
can learn no part of these mosi pro
ductive lands will lie idle The varie
ty of crops profitably grown on these
lands aas been largely extended in
recent years, and the day has passed
when they were by necessity fanned
almost exclusively by Orientals.’’
APPLICATION FOR PERMIT
Department of the Interior, United
States Land Office, Anchorage (for
merly Juneau), Alaska,
January 31, 1924.
Notice is Hereby Given that John
H. Costello for himself and as trus
tee for Edward W. Hoffman, Thomas
A. Costello, John H. Costello, Jr,,
William O. Brunskill, John Brunskill, ?
Wm. O. Stevens and Percival Bruns- I
kill, has applied for oil and gas pros- I
peering permits under section 22 of |
the act of February 25, 1920, (41 !
Stat., 437) for the following described
| lands:
Serial 04713
Rex Oil Claims Nos. 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10,
11, 12, described as an area commenc
ing at corner No. 1, of said Claim No.
1 from which the northeast corner
Sec. 1, T. 29 S., R. 41 W., S. M.. bears !
north 14 deg. 34 min. 44 sec. west,
15,162.28 ft. distant; thence from said !
corner No. 1, S. 41 deg. 00 min. W., |
7920 ft., thence S. 49 deg. 00 min. east, j
10,560 feet.; thence north 41 deg.
00 min. east, 2640 ft.; thence north
49 deg. 00 min. west, 5280 ft.; thence
north 41 deg. 00 min. east, 5280 ft.;
thence north 49 deg. 00 min. west,
5280 ft. to the place of beginning.
Containing 1280 acres situate in the
Kodiak Recording District, Alaska and
on Rex Creek, a tributary of Dry
Bay, on the Alaska Peninsula.
Serial 04855
Bear Creek Oil Claims Nos. 3. 4, 5,
6, 7, 8, 23 and 24, described as an
area commencing at a point of said
Claim No. 23 known as Comer No. 4
from which the northe&st corner
Sec. 36, T. 29 S„ R. 42 W., S. M.,
bears south 88 deg. 46 min. 59 sec.
W., 18,657.70 feet distant: thence from
said Corner No. 4 of Claim No. 23,
south 46 deg. 45 min. E., 5284 ft.;
thence south 49 deg. 00 min. E., 10,560
ft.; thence north 41 deg. 00 min. E.,
3960 ft; thence north 49 deg. 0C min.
W., 10,560 ft.; thence south 41 deg.
00 min. W., 1320 ft.; thence north 46
deg. 45 min. W., 5284 ft.; thence
south 41 deg. 00 min. W.. 2640 ft. to
the place of beginning, said area em
, bracing 1280 acres and being situa
ted in Kodiak Recording District,
Alaska, and on Bear Creek, a tribu
ary of Lake Becharof on the Alaska
Peninsula.
Serial 04856
Salmon Creek Oil Claims Nos. 4, 5,
6. 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, described as an
; i commencing at a corner known
as Corner No. 3 of said Claim No. 13
from which the southeast corner
Sec. 36, T. 29 S., R. 42 W., S. M.,
' ears north 71 deg. 9 mm. 45 sec.
W., 11,173.03 ft. distant; thence from
id Conor No. 3 south 37 deg. 15
min. E., 5393 ft.; thence south 49
deg. 00 min. E., 10,560 ft.; thense
north 41 deg. 00 min. E., 2640 ft.;
thence north 49 deg. 00 min. W., 5280
ft.; thence north 41 deg. 00 min. E.
1320 ft.; thence north 49 deg. 00 min.
W., 5280 ft.; thence north 37 deg. 15 !
min. W., 5393 ft.; thence south 41 |
deg. 00 min. W., 3960 ft. to the place
of beginning, said area embracing
"280 acres and being situated in Ko
diak Recording District, Alaska, and
on Salmon Creek, a tributary of Lake i
Becharof on the Alaska Peninsula.
Serial 04857
Bear Creek Oil Claims Nos. 9, 10,
11. 12, 13 16. 21 and 22 described as
an area commencing at a point known
is Corner No. 4 of the said Claim No.
21 from which the northeast corner
-ac. 56, 1. zy ft., K. 4Z w., ivi.,
bears north 84 deg. 80 min. 40 sec.
vest, 16 990.61 feet distant; thence
from said corner No. 4 south 46 deg.
45 min. E., 5284 ft.; thence soulh 41
deg. 00 min. W., 2640 ft.; thence
south 49 deg. 00 min. E., 5280 ft.;
thence north 41 deg. 00 min. E., 2640
ft.; thence'south 49 deg. 00 min. E.,
5280 1'V thence north 41 deg. 00 min.
E., 2640 ft.; thence north 49 deg. 00
min. W. 10 560 ft.; thence north 46
deg. 45 min. W., 5284 ft.; thence south
41 deg. 00 min. W.. 2640 ft., to the
place of beginning, said area embrac
ing 1280 acres and situated in the Ko
diak Recording District, Alaska, and
on Bear Creek, a tributary of Lake
Beeharof on the Alaska Peninsula.
Any and all persons having adverse
or conflicting claims to said land are
hereby notified that a full statement
under oath of such claim, should be
filed in this office showing a superior
right to a permit or lease under said
act, or valid existing adverse or con
flicting claim to the land, or the min
erals or oil therein und^r the public
land laws on or before March 12, 1924.
otherwise, such claims may be disre
garded in granting the permits or
leases applied for.
‘ FRANK A. BOYLE,
Register.
First publication Feb. 5. 1924
Last publication March 11, 1924
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