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CHITINA. ALASKA
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o. x. xxxxxtt, city editor
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CHITINA, SATURDAY, MAY 6, ’ll
LET US MINE
OUR OWN COAL
PROHIBITION WON'T STOP IT.
The unfortunate cutting scrape
which occurred on Chitina Heights
last week created no little comment
among the belter class of citizens,
and a few were heard to say that if
the town had been "dry" or we were
in a prohibition community, a wom
an's name would be above reproach
and an old man would not now be
awaiting trial for a murderous as
sault.
i ms argument appeals to us as me
biggest fool piece of logic the prohi
bitionists can offer, for it has been
demonstrated in every “dry” com
munity on earth that prohibition will
not prohibit the sale or making of
intoxicating beverages. Local option
or prohibition may check the open
sale of liquor in certain localities,
but there is not a “dry” town or pre
cinct any where under Uncle Sam's
flag, so far known, in which liquor
cannot be procurred—if you are on
to the ropes—and what makes it a
still worse condition, the liquor is us
ually of the worst possible kind,
many cases of death having been
recorded by the sale of such rotten
stuff from “blind pigs” and other
sources.
The greatest results arising from a
“dry” community is to double the
price of liquor to those who will have
it; to make bottle tipplers, who are
the worst kind of drunkards; to cre
ate a monopoly for those who will
take the risk of selling it, and to
deprive a municipality or the feder
al authorities of a legitimate income.
There are a few practical “prohis”
or “dry” advocates who claim that
the municipalities had better do
without the needed improvements
than to have them paid for with the
revenue from the liquor licenses.
That is about on a par with the
“tainted money” foolishness and is
not worth considering. Had it not
been for the revenue from the liquor
licenses every incorporated town in
Alaska would have but few public
improvements today.
Many towns in the states are now
suffering from the lack of this reven
ue. Streets in many of them are
unfit for travel, and their sidewalks
are in an awful condition. There is
still a worse side to this “dry stuff.”
We have seen young boys and even
girls get hold of this rotten blind pig
liquor and drink it away from home
with the worst possible results, and
staid, old, steady farmers become
howling drunk, who previous to the
“dry” condition were never known
to be intoxicated. Yet in the face
of this, you will find people in these
towns who are fully aware of the
rotten conditions, and in an argu
ment still persist that prohibition
is the only thing. All the people,
however, are not so mule-headed, and
at every recent local option election
we read of different towns which have
tried the “dry” stunt, going “wet”
by a large majority.
The best prohibition laws which
can be made are the laws that deal
with the liquor dealer, and not the
consumer. If the temperance people
want to see the elimination of drunk
enness they should get busy on the
regulation or sale of intoxicants.
There will ever be men who drink
to excess. The saloon keeper knows
when a man has enough. Put the
burden of the law on his shoulders.
Have printed regulations in every
bar, making it a heavy fine, a long
Jail sentence or revoke the license
of the saloon keeper if a drunken
man is found in his place, and it will
be but a short time ’till every ‘‘stew
bum’’ or habitual drunkard is either
"siwashed” or And he can only drink
in moderation. True, he might get
it by the bottle, but he’d have to
take the tall uncut to dispose of it,
for the saloon man would take good
care he did not show up around his
place. See to it that there are no
blinds, partitions, curtained alcoves
or dives of any kind, so men, women
and children can see into a saloon
the same as any store. Make such
laws and enforce them and the peo
ple will not be ashamed of their sa
loons. Regulate the sale of liquor,
work along the lines of education,
and prohibition will follow of its own
volition with injury to none in the
way of personal liberty.
The regulation of the army and
navy canteens bear out our theory.
Before the abolition of the canteen
there was always a sergeant or mas
ter-of-arms in charge of the intoxi
cants, and the men were sold the
best of liquors at a moderate price,
with a result that there was but lit
tle drunkenness, for the man who
was pig enough to want more than
he needed, either got a curt refusal
or sent to the guard house. Now,
the soldier and sailor will resort to
any means to get liquor. Army and
navy statistics go to prove there is a
far greater per centage of drunken
ness and desertion since the abolish
ment of the canteen than ever be
fore and many of our highest army
and navy officials have, and still are,
strongly recommending its reinstate
ment. But such a howl of protest
goes up from the W. C. T. U. cranks
and fool prohis, who can see nothing
but the “awful saloon,” that the can
teen and other sensible regulations
are hard to make the people believe
as the only thing which will over
come the greater per centage of
drunkenness.
Regulate the sale of liquor the
same as any other commodity, and
the business will eventually drift in
to the hands of men who will run
it in a legitimate and honorable way,
which will be obnoxious to no one.
Much crime and utter ruin is un
doubtedly due to the influence of li
quor. but prohibition will not stop it.
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The water question in Chitina is
causing considerable comment, and
even concern these days. Before the
seepage or surface water began flow
ing into the lake its waters were fit
for use, but now that the thaw is
on it is hardly fit to wash dishes in.
The water furnished by the “Chit
ina water works” is of the best, but
it is not always to be had, for now,
that the snow is gone, the water man
has his troubles. Two enterprising
Chitina Heights residents have at
tempted to dig a well near the banks
of the lake, but at a depth of six
r eight feet encountered frozen muck
or glacier formation and the prop
osition had to be abandoned. It is
now up to the townsite company, or
a corporation of some kind, to in
stall a w ater supply. There is plenty
of good pure water to be had, and it
can’t be piped to the different busi
ness and resident districts too soon.
On looking over our exchanges
last week, we noticed a marked copy
from an Arkansas paper, the Hot
Springs Bulletin, which reads as fol
lows:
“Sojourning ;n this city are two
young mine operators from far away
Alaska, George McTague and J. A.
Arnott, whose place of business is
Cordova that country. They a-rived
in Hot Springs about a week ago and
will remain for two or three months.
Both are young men and prominent
in the gold mine industry of Alaska,
having gone there during the first
‘gold rush,’ staked out their Claims,
worked them until they were able to
organize a company of their own, un
til now they are on a sound and re
liable financial footing. Messrs. Mc
Tague and Arnott are much pleased
with Hot Springs. Before coming to
this city tney passed considerable
time in Rocky Mountain resorts in
Colorado, but state that this city had
advantages possessed by none of the
otuers."
Now, do you suppose these two
young men “prominent in the gold
mining industry of Alaska,” can b<
eur old friends, Jimmy Arnott, the
t-sinman, and George or “Curly” Mc
Tague, known to nearly everyone
from the coast terminal to the Ken
necott? Congratulations are in or
der, then, aren’t they? And as sure
as there is a good railroad to the cop
per belt, the boys, on their return
to Chitina will receive their “con
gratulations’' all right, all right, and
in good-sized chunks, too. We can
almost hear the “congratulations” of
s.'me of tne gang, such as the two
Jack Reeds, old Pike, Frank Clarkin
Eddie Walsh, Jack Courtney, Henry
Lee, Kinney Holden and others, on
he ‘ sound and reliable financial foot
ing” George and Jimmy have recent
ly acquired. Just wait until their
return. Won’t it be rich? Do you
suppose Jimmy and George could
have been negotiating a particular
brand of a. S. (brandy and soda)
when they met that reporter on the
Bulletin? Perish the thought! Guess
we’ll have to wait and learn partic
ulars—but, say, isn’t it good?
LOCAL NEWS
Ed. Linderherg is to fire the steam
shovel at mile 182. With Ed. as fire
man, Handsome Jack Reed as en
gineer and Eddie Walsh as craneman,
the Katalla company has picked a
crew of most efficient men.
Thos. Blakeley, who left last week
to locate some tunnels on the Nicolai ,
copper properties, returned to Cor- j
dova on Wednesday, after waiting
here a couple of days for the train.
Kinney Holden, craneman on the ,
steam shovel at 158, expects his
mother out this coming week, who
will spend the summer with her son
at the steam shovel camp.
C. E. Davidson, who is interested
with the Tanana valley railroad,
holds the record for time to Fair
banks with a single horse and dou
ble-ender. He made the trip into
Fairbanks without relay in seven
days, beating the stage in by 24
hours. The horse was formerly own
ed by Frank Alba, or left in his care,
and afterward kept during the win
ter by John Gage. Mr. Davidson
writes that the horse was ready for
another trip after a night's rest.
Delegate Wickersham is preparing
a bill to introduce in Congress call
ing for an investigation of the mail
route from Cordova to Fairbanks.
Better be applying his efforts in re
lieving the residents of this territory
from going bankrupt. Schedule time
has been maintained on this route
all winter and a record trip made
with the mail from Chitina to Fair
banks in three days and fourteen
hours.
Times are so hard at Nome that a
man biting his last dollar discovered
it. was counterfeit, and foolishly gave
it away before it was passed. Now
everybody at Nome are biting their
spare dollars for fear they are coun
‘ terfeit.
A small amount of gold found
in an old cabin on Douglas island,
has caused the finger of suspicion
to be raised at every old-timer work
ing in the mills. Investigation dis
closes the gold to be placer mined,
presumably from the old beach dig
gings. as there were several small
robberies during the placer period.
The Alaska rights for the Brennan
monorail car of the gyroscope pat
tern, which were acquired a year ago
by John E. Ballaine, were recently
sold by Mr. Ballaine to John Rosene,
of Seattle. Mr. Rosene is having a
car built at Moran’s in Seattle, and
will give it a trial on a rail from
Haines to his Rainy Hollow mine, i
following the old Dalton trail.
The Juneau commercial club is :
sending out thousands of pamphlets
advertising the Juneau gold belt. The
steamship companies are co-operat- j
ing in the distribution having refus
ed to assist financially in the pur
chase of the pamphlets.
GLACIERS TO ATTRACT
ATTENTION THIS SUMMER
Another expedition for the study
of the Alaskan glaciers will be sent
out next summer by the National
Geographical Society, in charge of
Ralph S. Tarr, the well known Cor
nell geological authority. Prof. Tart
will be assisted by Prof. Ernest Mar
tin, of the University of Wisconsin,
who studied under Tarr at Cornell.
The executive committee of the soci
ety has voted $5,000 to finance the
expedition. ,
This will be the third expedition
sent out by the National Society, j
The Cornell expert also spent the :
years 1905 and 1906 in Alaska. The
work this year will be in the Inward
Passage with special reference to the
Muir and Taku glaciers.
Chicago, May'4.-—President Gomp
ers has failed to restore peace among j
the different factions of the build-1
ing trades unions, in which 40,000
men are affected.
NOTICE.
Having dissolved partnership with J
Jesse Brown, now in business at the j
Nevada restaurantt I hold myself re- j
spjonsible for no bills incurred by
him after April 19, 1911. The said
Jesse Brown will collect all moneys
due and pay all bills against the
former firm of Hirst & Brown, of the
Nevada restaurant.
(Signed) JOHN HIRST, SENATOR.’
DR. A. F. HEIMLICH
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MacCORMAC HOTEL, CORDOVA,
Telephone 29
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