Late Telegraph News
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28—Accord
ing to the report received here by the
proper authorities, the contributions
to the Republican National committee
aggregates $590,000. As the three
big parties have filed their statements
it is found that the aggregate is far
less than either of the old organiza
tions spent four years ago.
PARIS, Oct. 28—After much dis
cussion the division of Morocco has
finally been agreed upon by France
and Spain. For a time it was feared
that trouble would result over a set
tlement of the question, but it was
amicably adjusted.
CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio, Oct. 28—At
torney General Wickersham, in a
spirited address here on Saturday
night, had a new characterization for
the word Progressive, as applied to
the Bull Moosers. He said that "it
was conceived in ambition, born of
malice, and nourished in misrepre
sentation of the Taft policies.”
UTICA, Oct. 28—Vice President
Sherman is again critically ill. While
his physicians do not fear an immedi
ate crisis, they are dubious as to the
outcome. He has never fully recover
ed from his recent serious illness.
NEW YORK, Oct. 25—A dispatch
received here this morning from Mex
ico City definitely states that Majors
Cuesta, Surate and Skerf were ex
ecuted at sunrise. These -were some
of the prominent insurrectionists who
were recently captured, and it is be
lieved that the summary action taken
this morning will have a good effect
on others.
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 25—Instead
of having Gen. Felix Diaz shot, in ac
cordance with the court martial,
President Madero has ordered that
he be imprisoned. Diaz is a nephew
of the former President.
COLUMBUS, Oct. 25—Attorney
General Wickersham. in an address
here last night declared that ever
since the election of President Taft
prosperity has gradually increased
until today the country is in a flood
of wide-spread, ever-increasing pros
perity.
BEVERLY, Oct. 25—President
Taft has sent a letter to Governor
Eberhart, who is to make an address
before the farmers of the state.
The President declares that the Re
publican party is responsible for the
prevailing good markets.
NEW YORK, Oct. 24—Sir Thomas
Lipton, who arrived by the steamer
Carenia. said he proposed to discuss
with the New York Yacht Club offi
cials terms under which he might
challenge for the internationl yacht
ing trophy, which he has thrice vain
ly tried to lift.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24—Advices
received here state that the Dominian
rebels are advancing upon Puerto
Plata. In order to afford protection
to the Americans there the gunboat
Wheeling and auxiliary crusier
Prairie was dispatched at once.
LONDON, Oct. 25—At the ad
vanced age of 83 years Arthur Wel
lesley Peel, Viscount and statesman,
died at his home here, last night.
He was a member of Parliament irom
18C5 to 1895, and during that time
held many notable positions. In 1898
he was elected a trustee of the Brit
ish Museum, and for a time w'as
chairman of the National Portrait
Gallery.
NEW YORK, Oct. 25—Late last
night Justice Goff was summoned to
his court room with the information
that the jury in the Rosenthal case
was ready to return a verdict. A
big crowd of lawyers and spectators
soon assembled and after the jury
filed into the room the foreman re
ported a verdict of guilty. Police
Lieutenant Becker was charged with
the murder of gambler Herman
Rosenthal. The latter had paid tri
bute to the police graftera ana when
he weakened and “squealed” it was
charged that Becker planned to put
him out of the way.
SEATTLE, Oct. 25—The delay in
the arrival of the steamer Alameda
and the time required to unload her
cargo of salmon and ore has necessi
tated another change in the time for
her departure. Yesterday It was
thought that she could sail on Satur
day morning, but this has been found
impossible, and the time for her de
parture has been fixed at three o’clock
n Sunday afternoon. v
CONSTANTINOPLE. Oct .25—A
fierce battle was fought at Kilisseh,
and Turkish defeat is admitted.
PARIS, Oct. 25—A dispatch re
ceived here states that the Bulgarians
in taking Kilisseh captured Gen. Mur
tar and Prince Halem. They also
took captive 40,000 soldiers and one
hundred cannon.
HARRISBURG, Oct. 25—Govern
or Hiram Johnson, who is on a cam
paign tour, delivered a firey speech
here last night. He declared that
Woodrow Wilson, as Governor of
New Jersey, was the one man who
in the past twenty-four months might
have dissolved the Standard Oil Com
pany, and other insidious combina
tions. He declares the fact that he
failed to do this is an indication that
his present talk against curbing the
trusts is not made in sincerity and
with good intent.
HAVANA, Oct. 25—This morning
in this city a battle resulted between
the Conservatives and Liberals.
Hundreds of shots were fired result
ing in the death of several, and the
wounding of fifty. The feeling here
is intense and more bloodshed is
sure to follow.
OYSTER BAY, Oct. 25—Col.
Roosevelt is again almost a well man.
This morning he was walking in his
garden, and is again taking an active
part in directing Bull Moose affairs.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25—Before
retiring from office Postmaster Gen
eral Hitchcock has made a recom
mendation that will forever make
him a friend of many thousand post
masters throughout the country.
Reently 30,000 fourth-class post
maters were declared under the civil
service rule. This was possible by
Presidential order. Now Mr. Hitch
cock recommends tuat all postmas
ters, irrespective of class, be placed
under civil service. It is expected
that such a recommendation will be
made to the next Congress, as legis
lative enactment is necessary to. bring
about this change.
POLAND SPRINGS, Maine, Oct. 25
—President Taft in a speech here this
morning declared that school tea
chers and government employees
should be taken care of in old age.
BELLINGHAM, Oct. 25—The peo
ple of this town are very much ex
cited over the kidnapping that has
just occurred. The three year old
boy of Frank Wright, a wealthy can
neryman, has been taken by a party
of Japanese and carried out to sea.
It is believed that they did this from
motives of revenge, as they had some
trouble with Mr. Wright.
NEW YORK, Oct. 25—The treas
urer of the National Progressive
party has filed a statement with the
Clerk of the House of Representa
tives at Washington, which set forth
that the total contributions to that
party, up to date aggregate $304,
000.
PORTLAND, Oct. 25—In an ad
dress here last night Governor Mar
shall declared that unless the voters
assumed their heritage and took back
the control of national affairs, the
country would be thrown into a
revolution. He declared that if this
came about that the very foundation
of the goverment would be rocked
so badly that there would be danger
of its toppling over.
BEVERLY, Oct. 24—The Taft
home here has been closed for the
season. The President and some of
his family are now motoring in
Maine.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24—The de
partment of Commerce and Labor lias
just issued a table showing the trade
relations between the states and Al
aska for the fiscal year ending in
1912. Exclusive of the gold re
ceived the volume of trade lias ag
gregated about $45,000,000.
CHICAGO, Oct. 24—The federal
officials anounce that Jack Johnson
will close his cafe in this city on
November first. Events have shown
that it was the rendezvous for un
desirables and law breakers. City
council had intended to revoke liis
license.
ATLANTIC CITY, Oct. 24—In a
letter received by the President of
the American Hardware Association.
President Taft states that he is un
able to attend and deliver an address.
He states, however, that he is op
posed to unscientific tariff tinkering
NOME, Oct. 24—In court today
John Carl pleaded guilty to man
slaughter, for the killing of Harvey
Frye, at Hot Springs, in July last.
The two men were partners and in a
dispute over some matter a quarrel
resulted during which Carl killed
his former friend. Judge Murane
sentenced him to 30 years in the
penitentiary.
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 24—Charles
Kiser, engaged in the manufacturing
business at Albany, Indiana, testified
in court today in the trial of alleged
dynamiters. He stated that J. B.
McNemara and Artie McManigal pur
chased wagon loads of nitro glycer
ine, and hauled it to Munice, Indiana.
This was considered very damaging
testimony.
OYSTER BAY, Oct. 24—The at
tending physicians say that Col.
Roosevelt is distinctly better and
that his wound is healing rapidly.
They say that in a few days he will
be about again, and that he will un
doubtedly be able to make a speech
at Madison Square garden. New York,
on the night of October 30. Yester
day afternoon one of his callers was
Geo. W. Perkins, who was permitted
to see the invalid. They had an in
teresting and animated conversation.
NEW Y'ORK. Oct. 24—George
Lemon of Alaska, who dug up ?7,
000,000 in gold out of the Klondike,
was one of the Adriatic’s passengers
who made life interesting for every
one aboard during the run from
Southhampton. There was hardly a
member of the ship s company ex
cept the master and the officers who
did not get some of “Klondike
Charlie’s” gold. Everybody took
kindly to Mr. Lemon when the ben
evolent obsessions took hold of him
and there was even gentleness in the
tone of Captain Hayes’ message, sent
to him, in which the skipper said:
“Captain Hayes presents his com
pliments to Mr. Lemon and asks that
he kindly desist from sending cham
pagne and gold coins to. the stokers,
as it will facilitate getting to port
on time.”
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24—The pub
lic health department is taking meas
ures to stamp out infantile paralysis
among the Esquimaux of Alaska. It
is becoming prevalent in various sec
tions of the territory, and the feel
ing is that unless it is soon checked
it will become destructive. From fif
teen cases reported from Unalaska
and St. Michael there have already
been three deaths. The last Con
gress made an appropriation that will
permit of prompt and energetic meas
ures in the care of these cases.
MILAN, Oct. 24—Mount Strom
boli is in violent eruption. Its lava
has ruined villages and caused terri
ble distress to tne people.
JOLIET, 111., Oct. 24—In 16912,
or 15,000 years from now Illinois
people will be Eskimos, according to
Dr. Frederick A. Cook, explorer and
scientist, in an interview here today.
“Yes, sir; 15,000 years from now
they will be wearing furs and eating
blubber instead of bonbons in this
part of the country,” said Dr. Cook.
“Instead of traveling to his lady
love’s igloo in a 16912 touring car
or aeroplane the gay Lothario on i.iat
day will drive to her ice packed domi
cile in a sled drawn by dogs and will
i spend a two month’s long evening
before her fire of blubber oil, talking
of placing an ivory ring on her finger
when the sealskin and walrus hide
harvest is over.” said the doctor.
“Every 30,000 years the territory
between the Mason and Dixon line
and north Canada is covered with a
sheet of ice and the temperature
drops 30 below zero, where it remains
for a thousand years. We are now
between two such glacial periods.”
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23—Before
the Senate investigating committee
this afternoon Larz Whitecomb, a
partner of former Senator Beveridge,
testified that the Senator had return
ed $30,000 that had been contributed
by George W. Perkins, to the Roose
velt campaign fund in 1904.
SEATTLE, Oct. 24—The hearing
before the land office here to deter
mine the validity of the title of W. G.
Whorf to coal property at Port Gra
ham, was commenced this morning.
It was continued from an earlier
date awaiting the arrival of some of
the interested parties.
LACROSSE, Oct. 23—Senator La
Follette, in an address here yesterday
declared that he will not vote for
either Taft, Wilson or Roosevelt
He did not take the public into his
confidence sufficiently to tell for jusl
whom he would vote.
A TRUE FRIENDOF ALASKA
Conservation Faddists Arrest Pro
gress and Seek to Supplant Self
Government With Bureau
cracy
By GEORGE E. BALDWIN
By treaty session of 1867 the in
habitants of Alaska were guaranteed
all the rights of American citizens.
Nearly a generation ago the mining
laws of the United States were ex
tended to Alaska; over thirteen years
ago laws were passed by Congress
providing for an extension of the
homestead laws to the territory.
Eleven years ago the coal-land laws
of the United States were extended to
Alaska. For over thirty-five years
after Alaska came under the Stars
and Stripes not a whisper was heard
against the idea that Alaskans were
to receive the same just and generous
treatment from the general govern
ment as had been accorded pioneers
from the days of Daniel Boone.
Suddenly there arose a school of
political economists that found out
that everything done in the past had
been wrong; that our statesmen had
been fools or knaves, or both; that
our pioners had been vandals and
thieves. A campaign was started that
for venom and deliberate lying has
never been equaled in the history of
the country.
Alaska, being without a vote, was
made the target for all these theo
rizing cranks. Every scheme the
mind of a political faddist could con
ceive was proposed for Alaska.
The present inhabitants and their
rights were to be disregarded, the re
sources of Alaska managed as an es
tate. the government debt was to be
liquidated, superannuated employees
of the government pensioned, and a
mere trifle o.f seventy or eighty thou
sand dollars paid to every man, wo
man. and child in the United States,
all out of the resources of that un
fortunate territory.
A few of these fanatics actually be
lieved in the practicability of such
preposterous ideas,—ideas that make
the dreams of John Law' or Colonel
Mulberry Sellers seem tame and
paltry.
In my opinion it is a compliment to
call people with such ideas driveling
diots. But perhaps they were not all
so idiotic. Some ot them like Hamp
ton’s Magazine, were probably paving
the way for monstrous swindles, get
ting their dupes into the habit of
thinking in big figures, and when the
crash came their victims could con
sole themselves that their share of
Alaska loot would soon come along
and make their loss look like thirty
cents.
The real leaders o,f this movement,
while perfectly willing and anxious
that the people should be duped by
crazy communists, were playing for
what was to them a higher stake.
While advocating the rule of the peo
ple, initiative, referendum, recall,
etc., their goal was that all the land
and resources of the government
should be placed in the hands of
bureaucrats of their own selection in
Washington, whose authority would
very necessities of life upon the
whim or caprice of appointive officials
whose power no court is authorized to
curb, and this hideous system comes
to us labeled reform.
For six years, at the behest of these
doctrinaires, a portion of our laws
has been suspended. One of the re
sources of our territory, upon the de
velopment of which depends the pro
gress and prosperity of many indus
tries, is absolutely locked up.
When it comes to a proposition to
tie up the chorus of these theorists
rings true and clear; but when it
comes to suggest some reasonable,
sensible plan of unlocking, all the
parrots in the world could not make
a more discordant uproar.
Six years may not seem very long
to some unfortunate possessor of in
herited wealth riding a hobby for his
be far above state and territorial leg
islatures, and for practical purposes
above the power of Congress itself.
These bureaucrats were to exercise
despotic control, depriving the people
of their landed heritage and placing
on their necks the iron collar of serf
dom.
Human nature does not change,
and this system will Inevitably pro
duce, as it has produced in other
countries, a horde of tyrannical,
overbearing, dictatorial, corrupt bu
reaucrats, and a race of cringing,
fawning slaves, dependent for the
own glorification, but to those of us
less fortunate, who must make provi
sion for old age and those dependent
on us, it is a much more serious
matter.
When the high priest of conserva
tion, the prince of shadow dancers,
recently visited Alaska to gloat over
his handiwork of empty houses, de
serted villages, dying towns, arrested
development, bankrupt pioneers, and
the blasted hopes of sturdy, seit
reliant American citizens, it is a
striking comment on the law-abiding
character of our people that he came
back at all.
It is time to ask ourselves the
question: Has the policy pursued
by the government of the United
States in the development of our
Western territory been a mistake?
I. for one, emphatically deny that It
has. Within two generations a vast
wilderness has been subdued and
populated by the freest and most in
telligent people on the face of the
earth, among whom the things that
make life worth living are more wide
ly distributed than among any other
of the sons of men. There may have
been some incidental errors, but in
the main the policy has been sound,
statesmanlike, and honest. Besides
these errors the creation of vast for
est reserves was such an act of mon
umental folly that they pale into in
significance by comparison.
We have in this world examples of
people who carry into practice the
theories of the doctrinaire conserva
tionists.
In equatorial Africa live one hun
dred and sixty million graduate Ethio
pian conservationists. Their re
sources are the same as when im
perial Carthage was ground to dust
under the iron heel of the Roman Re
public. Their resources are as un
impaired as when Caesar rode at the
head of conquering legions. They
haven’t a schoolhouse, a church, or a
printing press. Their mountains
have not been denuded by pulp
plants. Thier trees have not been
ruthlessly slaughtered to be manu
factured into baby-grand pianos. A
tomtom made of the skin of a monkey
stretched over the ribs of a defunct
giraffe furnishes all the music neces
sary to soothe the savage breast.
The boa-constrictors still chase the
baboons through the bushes that the
smoke of smelters has not been al
lowed to kill.
These people live in one grand for
est reserve, the guardians of which
are not a horde of tax-eating officials,
but industrious denizens of the jun
gle, who are self-reliant enough to
pick up every morning a club and kill
a snake for breakfast.
Their contributions to civilization
and progress have been those twin
blessings, slavery and cannibalism.
But they are conserving their re
sources. *********
We as practical men know that the
mere possession of undeveloped re
sources does not make a nation rich
or its people prosperous, that only
those nations that use the resources
placed within their reach by a bene
ficent Providence progress and con
tribute to the well-being of humanity.
This lock-up, tie-up, bottle-up com
munistic policy has gone far enough.
This nation has been made great
and prosperous by the initiative and
enterprise of the individual.
The tremendous risk to health,
limb, life, and capital incidental to
the development of a country like
Alaska make it the least promising
field for communistic experiments.
We are all Americans; all one peo
ple. The laws under which the
states have progressed, judging them
by their fruits, are good laws and
wise laws. We emphatically protest
against Alaska’s being turned into an
experimental station for dreamers,
theorists, and faddists that live thou
sands of miles away.
Alaska demands the same right of
untrammeled development that has
been accorded other territory
of the Un'to’ 3’"atca pioneered by
Americans.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24—Recent
decisions by the Secretary of the
Interior include two that are of great
importance. The department re
affirms the rule in East Titanic Min
ing Co. (40 L. D. 271) and thus re
verses a rule of* departmental con
struction which had prevailed for
thirty years. One of these decisions
declare that the following elements
are necessary to constitute a valid
discovery upon a lode mining claim.
There must be a vein of quartz or
i
other rock in place. 2 The quartz or
other rock in place must carry gold j
or some other valuable mineral de- |
posit. 3. The two preceding ele-'
ments, when taken together, must be j
such as to warrant a prudent man in
the expenditure of his time and
SEBIAL WO. 01539.
Soldlsra' Additional Homestead.
United States Land Office.
Juneau. Alaska, July IT. 1912.
Notice is hereby given that the Natal
ia Company, a corporation, whose post- i
office address is Seattle, Washington, ns j
assignee of William H. Badgley. being ■
entitled to the lienehts of Sec. 2.106 of {
the Revised Statutes of the United j
States granting additional land to sol- ,
diers and sailors who served in the War:
of the Rebellion, has made application
to this office to make proof and entry |
of the lands embraced in U. S. Non-Min
eral Survey No. 211, situate along the1
Strelna River, about four and a half
miles northeast of the Kuskulana Riv
er, Alaska, and more particularly de- j
scribed as follows, viz:
Beg. at Cor. No. 1, cor, not set: wit.
cor. bears South 0.„8 chs. dist., a stone
in mound of earth marked S-211 W. c
from true Cor. No. 1, U. S. L. M. No. 211
bears N. 78 deg. OS min. W. 1.11 chs.:
thence from true Cor. No. 1 South 17.60 j
chs. intersect Copper River A- North
western Railway Company's right-of
way: 37.80 chs. to Cor. No. 2, a stone
in place market! S-211 Cor. 2: thence
West 17.00 chs. to Cor. No. 3, thence
North 26.76 chs. intersect Copper River
right-of-way; 37.80 chs. to Cor. No. 4, a
green stone set in ground marked 211
Cor. 4, from whence Iron Mountain
bears N. 2 deg. 07 min. E. 10 miles (list.:
thence East 17.00 chs. to Cor. No. 1,
place of beginning. Area 61.26 acres.
Mag. \’ar. at all corners 29 deg. 30 min.
East.
As additional to original homestead
entry of William H. Badgley at Ionta,
Michigan, No. 6364, dated Sept. 15, 187:1.
Any and all persons claiming adverse
ly any portion of tire above described
tract are required to file with the Regis
ter and Receiver of the U. S. Land Office
at Juneau, Alaska, their adverse claim
thereto, under oath, during the period of
publication, or within thirty days there
after, or they will be barred by provi
sions of the Statutes.
THE KATALLA COirPAXV.
By NEWARK L. BURTON,
Its Attorney in Fact.
It is hereby ordered that the forego
ing notice be published for tiie statu
tory period in the Chitina Leader, a
weekly newspaper printed at Chitina.
Alaska, the nearest newspaper to said
claim or survey.
C. B. WALKER,
Register.
First Publication Aug. 27, 1912.
Last Publication Oct. 29, 1912.
money in the effort to develop a val
uable mine.
The other declares that mineral
found In the surface rock alone, will
not amount to a discovery,.unless the
same contains ore in paying quanti
ties. Discovery cannot be claimed
simply because the surface Indica
tions, combined with geological In
ference, indicate that other and un
connected veins or lodes lie at a
greater depth.
0. Ml NELSON
U. S. Mineral Surveyor
CHITINA - - - ALASKA
Saddle Horses
I am prepared to handle
anything from Chiirna to
Kcnnecott at the best rales.
Jack Lawrence
CHITINA, ALASKA
KATAIiLA Only Aslis for Cne Member of the Lew
House. Out of Four to be Elected
We Ash that Only Justice be Done Her. VOTE For
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