THE CHITINA LEADER
CHITINA, ALASKA
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CHITINA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 19lT^
TALK OF DIVIDING JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
A movement has been started at Seward to have the Third
Judicial division divided and the permanent headquarters of
the federal court established' there. The Alaska Post says:
“With Seward as the terminal of the government railroad
and' the logical transfer point to western Alaska, as well as the
gateway to Anchorage, Matanuska and other towns which will
soon be sprinkled across the Susitna valley, this becomes the
logical place for another district court.
“To ask the people of Anchorage, Knik and Matanuska to
go clear to Valdez to adjust their legal questions is as much to
be deplored as to ask the people of Chitina and McCarthy to
come here.”
In case there is a division of the district and Seward or
Anchorage is selected as the westward headquarters the busi
ness of Cordova, the Copper River valley and Katalla would be
of sufficient importance to demand the removal of the court for
the present district lying east of Seward to Cordova.
A POLITICAL BOUQUET.
Politicians believe they see some significance in a bouquet
which former Vice President Fairbanks tosses at former Presi
dent Roosevelt, his 1904 running mate, in an article in “Pros
perity,” a monthly magazine. Mr. Fairbanks says Roosevelt
“carried forward loyally and successfully the policy of Mc
Kinley,” and adds:
We reached a higher level than ever before under
William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt and William
Howard Taft. These statesmen comprehended the
the nationl needs, enforced the laws and set high
standards in public service. They were i nthe best
sense constructive.
The former vice president also says:
The people have recorded their judgment against
the republican party only three times since the first
election of Mr. Lincoln. Twice they subsequently re
gretted it, and if there is any veracity in the signs of
the times, they will surely, if they do not already, re
gret their third departure from the well-tested policies
and administration of the republican party.
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PRINTERS’ INK AS A MEDICINE.
“Printers’ ink is saving more lives than any other single
agency employed by modern health workers,” said Edward A.
Moree, assistant secretary of the New York State Charitties
Aid association, in an address at Rochester the other day.
Right for him!
Printers’ ink is the essential liquid of democracy. Kings
hate it. All the manipulators of privilege dread it. It is pois
on to the tyrant of the old' world and the boss of the new.
It is the sine qua non of liberty. Liberty to human souls is
what light is to human bodies.
Where there is no liberty there is darkness. Where there
is darkness there is disease.
It is printers’ ink that has seared the food fakers. Only at
a good round of printers’ ink will the vile, carrion flock of
unclean birds that fallen on human credulity and ignorance take
flight, they that sell plater of paris for bread, carpenters’ glue
for candy and Ood knows what vilness for fish, flesh and fowl.
Printers’ inks has prevented' more tuberculosis than all the
doctors have cured. It has spread right ideas of sanitation,
upset old mildewed superstitions, opened windows, lured peo
ple out doors, flooded fearsome brains with truth and depairing
hearts with hope.
It has built hospitals and supports them.
It has prevented' epidemics, driven huch-mouth authorities
to activity in remedial measures of cleansing. Cholrea and
small pox were conquered by it; malaria and yellow fever flee
before it.
It is all well enough to give an ondividual Epsom salts or
calomel, hut what the public needs for what ails it is plenty of
printers’ ink.
There is some value in the medical profession, but also a
deal of hocus pocus, as there is in everything that becomes pro
fessionalized. The best part of the science of medicine is that
part which can be told in plain language so that the common
man can understand. Every newspaper ought to have its
health department.
What people need'to know is the truth about health, about
drugs and about simple living. The more truth they know less
drugs they will take, the less useless and harmful food they will
eat, and the less they will run after religious curealls and crazy
fads.
The newspaper is the healh of the state.
“You may cure individuals of their ills in the privacy of
the sickroom,” says Moree, “but to cure the public of its ills
you must get into the newspapers.”
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Dr. Bauer who has returned to Oregon from a two years’
pastorate at Nome attempts to solve the question “Why is a
mining camp.” After deploring conditions, as he found them
in the north, he says: “There is a kind of lonesome feeling for
the pastor of the little church as he faces the Ahazes and Jeza
bles, and there are no juniper trees to resort to. ”
The sympathy of the newspapers fraternity throughout
the United States is extended to Secretary of Navy Daniels in
the lfiss of his nwspaper plant, in South Carolina, which was
destroyed by fire last night.
Dr. Brooks confirms the probability of the existence of
large deposts of oil in Alaska but he also suggests that the gov
ernment has withdrawn all oil lands from registry. Alaska is
getting to be like a jewler’s show window. Some day some
sperate citizen may just naturally “bust” in the front and
u himself.—Douglas News.
The business outlook for the winter is better than it has
been for several years.
The small boy was very much in evidence Saturday night
and through his pranks the merchants arid people generally
were reminded that Hollowe’en was being celebrated.
Too much care cannot be exercised by skaters, as the lake
is not frozen over solidly and a few cases of breaking through
the ice have been reported.
The first of the new equipment for the Copper River &
Northwestern railway has arrived. It is a snow plow and as
soon as the additional engines and freight cars ordered are
delivered the two tran a day schedule will go into effect.
This increased service is necessary to handle the big shipment
of copper ore from the interior.
And so Alaska is to go dry. Our authority for this state
ment is none other William Jennings Bryan who in a recent
speech expressed the belief that congress at its next session
will abolish liquor in this territory. If our memory serves us
right the people of Alaska are to vote on Representative Snow’s
prohibition act a year hence.
It now develops that the hat full of printing material the
erstwhile John Frame purchased is not to be used in launching
one of his “great” papers at Valdez. Instead the irrepressible
Bob Hunter took this “complete plant” to Anchorage where
ne will attempt to stir up trouble with a small weekly sheet.
In commenting on the starting of a new paper at Anchor
age a westward exchange says that “an agitation is about to
be started that will do the country no good',” and adds “there
ought to be a law to license newspapers like dogs. It would
save the decent ones. ’ ’
There is no “closed season” for the shipment of copper
ore for the shipment of copper ore from Cordova, and in order
to handle the constantly increasing tonnage on the C. R. & N.
W. railway additional equipment and more trains are necessary.
E. H. Southern has deserted Shakespeare for a modem
comedy role. Othello’s occupation’s gone and Hamlet, Shy
lock, Lear and Macbeth are no more attractive to actors than
rolls of stage money, which indeed is about all they yield.
The Republicans made substantial gains in the state elec
tions held yesterday, and if this is any indication of “how the
wind is blowing” considerable interest will center in the
national conventions of the two big parties next June.
An effort is now being made by the Democrats of this divi
sion to secure the removal of District Attorney Spence, if all
reports are true. Various charges have been filed, not least
among which is one of incompetencv.
Seward does not propose to lose its Assistant District
Attorney without a protest, and a lengthy cablegram has been
sent to Washington protesting against the removal of Judge
Whittelsey to Valdez.
If a southern congressman is given the plum of the chair
manship of the house appropriations committee northern con
gressmen may be expected to prune the administration’s esti
mates.
More than one-half of the 1,721,000,000 persons on earth
are at war, a woman peace agitator at San Francisco reminded
us. The refutes the adage that it takes two to make a qurrel.
The freaks of nature are best illustrated in our climatic
conditions. Yesterday we had snow, rain and wind in gobs
and today the sky is clear and the sun shone this afternoon.
But little consideration seems to have been shown the
ladies in the state elections held yesterday, as they made no
headway in their effort to secure the right of franchise.
The fact that the “Texas revolutionists” made a specialty
of stealing shoes from the victims they held up indicates that
they realize they have a hard road ahead of them.
There is a strong sentiment throughout the territory in
favor of both the Democrats and Republicans holding their
conventions early next year.
From a reliable source we are informed that there promises
to be some big operations in gold quartz mining, near Cordova,
! in the near future.
The British now seem to want let George do it.
The Seward Gateway is a paper that refuses to be caught
with the goods on it, even if guilty. It gets real peeved over
the publication in the Times of a news item sent us by cable,
denies any knowledge of its orgin and threatens an investigation
to prove the absurdity of such information having emanated
from its office. When a verbatim copy of the cable received* is
published, the Gateway blows up, admits having sent the mes
sage but charges “that the whole thing was a mistake in punct
uation” and says it has “nothing to retract or apologize for.”
Seems to us a case of trying to “put it across” without want
ing to let anyone see the cards up its sleeves, and if the Seward
ites are willing to stand for this coarse work, suppose we’ll have
to. The Times regrets, however, that its friends on the Gate
way find it necessary to play the game that way. We have no
interest in their local factional strive, neither are we willing to
be a party to the washing of their dirty linen and so far as we
are concerned the incident is closed one.
Valdez is in the throes of a bitter controversey over the
action of the city council in extending its limits so as to take
in and regulate the operations of the dock company. The
fight is assuming an acute stage and the other night the munici
pal officials, including the mayor, clerk and attorney, hired a
hall and explained their position to the voters. The end is not
yet in sight.
The repair ship Promethues pulled up its anchor and sailed
from the local harbor this morning, after an extended' stay in
our waters. The officers and crew of this big vessel made
many friends in Cordova, who regret their departure from here,
but hope to see them return next summer and erect the new
wireless navy station at Mile 13.
Commenting on the policy of the government towards the
coal claimants, the Alaska and Northwest Mining Journal com
ments as follows: The last of the cases of the United States
vs. the Prospector will be heard in Seattle this month when the
last of the coal land cases will come before Andrew Christensen,
chief of the field division of Alaska. While to the casual ob
server it might appear from the evidence that Uncle Sam was
not getting himself much by these trials, the fact that he
almost invariably decides in his own favor helps wonderfully
to remove the feeling of chargrin that he must experience when
no evidence of fraud can be found on the part of the prospector.
As a result of these trials Uncle Same is richer by a great many
dollars. " ■
There is a great demand for antimony at the present time,
and Alaska just to show what it can do to supply the demands
of the outside world in the way of raw material for manufac
tures, announces five discoveries of antimony in the past month,
nearly all located at wide distances, viz: Nizina, Slioups Bay,
Port Wells, Fairbanks, Whithorse.—Ex.
The Marconi Wireless Telegraph company has installed
an all night service at Juneau and there is some talk of erecting
ohe of their plants along this coast in order that a continous
service may be maintained throughout the territory.
HISTORY PLACER
DIGGINGS IT
cm
In a government report the Gelogi
cal Survey publishes the following in
formation In reference to the Chisana
camp:
After the discovery of gold in the
Klondike and the stampede to that
field In 1897 and 1898, a number of
prospectors worked southward into
the Chisana-White River district and
in 1902 a reported discovery of placer
gold in the basin of Beaver Creea
brought on a small gold rush to the
White River Basin, but no workable
placer gravels were then found and
most of the gold seekers soon left. A
few who stayed were led to search
for copper deposits, because Indian
reports of rich ocurranees of native
copper in the White Rive valley had
long been known. Any number of
copper-bearing lodes were found, and
the development of these and pros
pecting for others have continued to
occupy the attention of a few men
ever since. The region, however, is
difficult of access and up to the spring
of 1913 had been visited by compara
tively few white men.
The discovery of placer gold in
1913 and the widely circulated re
ports of the richness of the district
led to a great influx of gold seekers
and created a demand for more re
cent information about the district
than was available. Accordingly two
parties of the United States Geological
Survey were organized to map the
country both topographically and geo
logically.
Facts now known wdth regard to the
geology and mineral resources of the
Chisana-White River district as a re
sult of these investigations as well as
information from all other available
sources have been compiled and have
been published by the Geological Sur
vey in Bulletin 622-F, by Stephen R.
Capps.
Placer gold was first mined in the
district in 1913, when between $30,000
and $40,000 was recovered. Last year
over 20 claims contributed to the pro
duction, and gold to the value of more
than $250,000 was mined. With the
exception of the discovery of a few
new copper lodes, the value of which
has not yet been demonstrated, and a
moderate amount of development work
on the ground already held, copper
mining is practically in the same con
dition that it was in 1908, when a re
port on the district by F. H. Moffit and
Adolph Knopf was published as Geo
logical Survey Bulletin 417. A forma
tion containing some lignite, usually
in thin layers and more rarely In beds
of greater thickness, occurs at a few
places in the region.
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RECEIVER IS APPOINTED
E. F. Randolph, manager of the
Seldovia Salmon company, has been
appointed receiver or that concern by
Judge Brown. The immediate cause
of the motion for the appointment of a
receiver, apparently, was the filing of
a suit for $10,000 by the firm of Goon
Dip & Company for the supply of
labor. The total amount of the in
debtedness to the Chinese firm was
over $15,000 of which $4,000 was paid.
The suit was filed through Lyons and
Ritchie. E. F. Randolph, manager of
the Salmon company, in an affidavit
states that the company is indebted in
the sum of $70,000 and that a forced
sale would not bring more than $50,
000 and Mr. Randolph says mis
management caused a loss of $100,000(
He took over the management in 1914,
he states, and made a profit that year.
Mr. Randolph also states in his affi
davit that arrangements have been
made through the large stockholders
to meet the Indebtedness in a given
time and to re-organize the company
on a paying basis, and they want to be
assured of protection. All the stock
except three shares is owned by Ben
Moyses and the estate of Julius
Redelsheimer.
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COMPENSATION PAID UNDER
TERRITORIAL ACT
The first benefits to be paid out to
an employe by the Treadwell company
pnder the new Territorial workmen’s
compensation act was received by
Norman Coryell, who broke a bone in
his hand while oiling at the Mexican
hoist on August 30. Coryell was laid
off from work for 33 shifts and under
the new act received $31.50.
The widow of Lugi Battello, who
was killed in the Mexican mine will
receive $3,000 for herself and $600 for
one child under l4 years of age. .
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REMOVE ASST. ATTORNEY
SEWARD TO VALDEZ
Protests will be made by the Sew
ard Commercial Club and individual
residents of Seward against the re
moval of Deputy District Attorney
Whlttelsey from Seward to Valdez,
thereby leaving the terminal city
without an official from the district
attorney’s office.
This change is scheduled to take ef
fect after the coming term of court,
it having been decided by District At
torney Spence to put Judge Munley
at Anchorage permanently. This
would leave Spence at Valdez and
Whittelsey here, but Spence wants
another man in the home office and
proposes to leave Seward without a
deputy.
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TRYING LIQUOR CASES
AT ANCHORAGE NOW
ANCHORAGE, OCt. 31—U. S. Com
missioner David has instructions
from the court at Seward to try all
cases of bootlegging at Anchorage in
stead of forcing men under bond to go
to the Seward term of court. District
Attorney Spence will be here to prose
cute the cases.
Preparations for the trial of the
bootlegging have been rushed and the
first case is now being heard before
commissioner David.
The engineering commission has an.
nounced that the electric light system
cannot be installed until next season.
The temperature was four degrees
below zero early this morning.
In spite of continued cold weather
there is no ice near the dock and
•barges fire still able to discharge
cargoes without trouble.
The steel gang is working at Mile 2
on the main line, six and one-half
miles from the Anchorage dock.
Two churches are in course of con
struction at present, one Presbyterian
and the other Catholic.
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EXPLAINS LAWS
OF ALASKA TO
Before an interested audience of
women at Seward, Judge F. M. Brown
talked for an hour on the laws of Al
aska. The address was given es
pecially for the recently organized
Woman’s club there and the subject
was one in which the club members
are deeply interested, “The Relation
of the Territorial Laws of Alaska to
Womn and Children Living in the
Territory.”
In his address the judge brought
out in a clear, concise way many
points not familiar to a majority of
the women. He urged the study of
the general laws of Alaska and espe
cially those concerning women upon
the club and commended the organi
zation upon the spirit which they had
shown in regard to the same. He
suggested that they Interest the other
women’s club on the subject.
After the talk Judge Brown answer
ed many questions in regard to points
which were not clearly understood.
Among other questions discussed was
the one that the law only gives the
widow of a man leaving no will only
the right to the income from one
third of his property during her life
time, with no right to sell the prop
erty. The other two-thirds reverts to
his family in case there are no chil
dren. “Every woman in Alaska should
see to it that her husband makes a
will,” said Judge Brown.
The compulsory school law, divorce
law, the rights of both husband and
wife to hold property which cannot
be subject to the debt of the other, the
homestead exemption law and many
other laws which are of special Inter
est to the women citizens of the terri
tory were discussed.
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POSTMASTER NAMED FOR
NEW GOLD PLACER CAMP
Thomas Patterson, a former resi
dent of Fairbanks and now a merchant
in the Tolovana camp, has been ap
pointed postmaster at Brooks, the new
town in the placer camp.
COPPER STOCKS
FEATURE OF
NEW YORK. Nov. 5—The stock
market opening this morning amid
scenes of unusal activity the trading
largely centering around the leading
metal shares. The copper stocks fea
tured the market and some of them
attained record prices.
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GRAND JURY WANTS
DEPUTY AROUND KENAI
Following is a recommendation
made by the grand jury recently at
Valdez:
"Owing to the enormous expense in
curred in the efforts to prevent and
punish the frequent violations of law
at Kenai and other points of difficul
ty to be reached on Cook Inlet, we
earnestly recommend the appointment
of a United States Commissioner at
Kenai. on Cook Inlet, and that a sal
ary of not less than one hundred and
i (twenty-five ($125.00) dollars per
month be paid him; and further that
a United States Deputy Marshal be
stationed at said place, the duties of
both of said officials to extend over
the Cook Inlet region.”
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PTARMIGAN AND DOMESTIC
CHICKENS CROSSED
George Prosser has succeeded in
crossing domestic chickens with ptar
migan and is displaying several pecu
liar looking birds which he avers are
ptarmigan chickens. The bird posses
ses some of the features of th«f ptar
migan, but resembles their domestic
forbears in coloring and general ap
pearance.—Nome Nugget.
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WHITEHORSE MURDERER
SENTENCED TO DEATH
Information from Whitehorse is that
Alexander Gagoff, plead guilty to mur
der and has been sentenced to pay the
death peanlty on March 10.
The condemned man shot and killed
Pat Kinslow, George Lane, T. Bosko
vich and Henry Cook September 30th.
The defendant, upon being asked to
plead, said: “I am guilty. I said two
or three times that I was guilty, and
say so again.”
The jury was dismissed. The court,
however, took the evidence in the
case, and then adjudged the accused
guilty, and the death sentence was
imposed.
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NUMBER OF SMALL GAS
BOATS CHANGE OWNERS
In the customs office of Juneau last
week was filed bills of sales for the
following boats: Cache Creek
Dredging company to Knik Susitna
Transportation, one scow, known as
Cache Creek Dredging Company No.
1, consideration $2,5000. S. B. Coch
ran and J. E. Currier, of Cordova, to
W. H. Chase as agent for Cordova
Mining & Dredging Company. 1 gas
boat, nine ton burden, consideration
$700. George S. Walker, of Nome,
to Hans M. Hansen, of Nome, 1 gas
boat, known as ‘‘Rupert,” 8 tons bur
den, consideration $800.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In Commissioner’s Court for Chitina
Precinct, Territory of Alaska, In
Probate.
In the Matter of the Estate of Nels
Oscar Sail, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that E. E.
Ritchie has been duly appointed and
has duly qualified as administrator of
of the estate of Nels Oscar Sail, de
ceased, in a proceeding in the above
named court. All persons having
claims against said estate are required
to present them, with proper vouchers
1 within six months from the date of
j this notice, to said administrator at
the office of the commssioner of Chiti
na precnct, in the town of Chitina,
Alaska.
Dated, Chitina, Alaska, October 15,
1915.
E. E. RITCHIE,
Administrator of the Estate ojr
Nels Oscar Sail, Deceased.
First Publication, Oct. 19, 1915.
Last publication Nov. 16 1915.
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