The Chitina: Reader
CHITINA, ALASKA.
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Chitina, Alaska, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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CHIT1NA. ALASKA, TUESDAY, MRCH 23, 1915.
HAD AN EYE ON CORDOVA
The Fairbanks Citizen will earn the undying hatred of
Cordova’s special interest bosses by making a “personal
attack” on certain candidates, in the following editorial
which it recently published:
“Every person who announces himself as a candidate for
the council should be requested to outline a definite platform
that he intends to enforce if elected, and to go before the
l^eople pledged to some policy. In that way the public can be
expected to profit. It is not enough that a candidate is a good
fellow, that he is honest in his business dealings and has a
good reputation generally. Even the best of such men are
sometimes induced by the pressure of friends and private
interests to be silent on matters that are vital to the people.”
DARE TO CRITICIZE A COURT OFFICIAL
"Will wonders ever cease. Here the members of the House
of Representatives at Juneau, by unanimous voice, ask for
the removal of United States commissioner. He failed to
perform his duties in connection with the proper registration
of vital statistics and in exacting the fee prescribed, so it is
thought that he is not the proper kind of official to serve the
people. That’s certainly going some, and especially after a
distinguished judge of the Third division publicly repri
manded an individual for making sworn charges against the
United States Commissioner at Cordova. But then he was only
charged with personally running and presiding over a slot
machine in his store; with being convicted of a personal
assault; of putting the government to thousands of dollars of
expense by hearing all the petty municipal cases in his court
and sending drunks and disorderlies to the fedreal jail for
from two to three months; of dismissing a criminal complaint
after the defendant blows back the money secured, including
ihe $150 vouched for by the commissioner; and many other
trivial acts. The legislators are certainly taking big chances,
but then possibly Judge Bunnell is not that kind of a judge.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
The coming summer is going to be a busy one among the
many interior mines that are being developed. And then the
men to be employed at the great Bonanza and Jumbo mines
will allow of the greatest shipment of copper ore in the history
of Alaska.
Tlie search in New York for a “conspiracy” to put up
the price of wheat has not been particularly successful. If
the investigators will inquire in France, Belgium. Poland,
etc., they will doubtless find the active reasons, and if they
can send the allied fleet up to Constantinople they will
probably furnish a very good sample of a conspiracy to put
the price back again.
Senator Tom McGann, of Nome, is somewhat of a goer.
Put forth by the working people of his town he walked away
with the election on February 27. Then on the following
Tuesday morning he hitched up his dog team and started on
a run for Juneau. He covered the interior distance from
coast to coast in 19 days, arriving at Cordova on Sunday. This
*s a record breaker. He is delayed here until the steamer
starts southward on Thursday morning and will arrive at
the territorial capital on Friday evening, March 27, and that’s
certainly going some. But he hopes to even show greater
:-peed in legislative halls in securing legislation beneficial to
the laboring men of Alaska.
WASHINGTON, March 23.—It is understood that the
President will send a note to Great Britain and France in a
few days that will urge our objections against the blockade
declared on the ground that it is based on no precedent in
history or law. The formal proclamation signed by King
George and issued from Buckingham palace makes it plain
that it is England’s purpose to prevent commodities of any
kind from reaching or leaving Germany during the war. While
the London foreign office describes the movement as an
effective blockade f-”- reaching significance, it widely
xliffers from the effective blockades of history only in that the
property seized will not be confiscated outright, but sold, the
proceeds eventually going to the owners. In the last clause
of the proclamation is the proposal most interesting to
neutrals. This is a flat agreement to lift the “blockade” in
case any nation will certify that the ships flying its flag shall
not carry goods to Germany or originating therein or belong
ing to the subjects of the German empire.
It is notable that the order declares no intention to
capture ships proceeding to and from the countries of Ger
many’s allies, Austria and Turkey, the reason being, no doubt,
-that the measure is avowedly a reprisal against the German
submarine warfare. However, a cordon of ships will be
maintained to shut off the commerce of German ports and
regulate trade in the war zone, although ships voyaging east
ward across the Atlantic will, it is expected, be seized before
they reach the North Sea. When a neutral vessel is held up,
in all cases, except where there is a false declaration of
destination, 9r other attempt at subterfuge, the cargo only will
be seized. 1 ^
A VIEW FROM AFAR
The many comments on a recent publication :hat appeared for a few!
months in Seattle remind one very vividly of a similar existence at the
-present time in Cordova. The Seattle Daily Sun lias become obliterated.
The Cordova Daily Times hopes to maintain an existence until after the
April election.
The following excerpts from an article by A. R. Fenwick, formerly
managing editor of the Post-Intelligencer, applies with equal force to
Cordova:
“The Sun, it has been said, was conceived in spite and born
in animosity. Whether that is true it courted the ill-will of the
powerful Times.
“It adopted a ‘holier than tliou’ policy that wasn’t necessary
and wasn’t popular.
“It has also lieen charged that the promoters of The Sun
openly asserted that one mission of the publication was to put
The Times out of business. If that lie true then there are men
in Seattle who should be in a sanitarium rather than filling the
ranks of leading citizens.
“Putting an established newspaper out of business is a game
for game millionaires, not for the pikers.
“Mr. Hearst, with the l»est that newspaper brains can produce
and in using fair, open and honorable methods, never put a rival
out of business in the seven cities he has invaded.”
The Seattle Daily Times sahl:
The Seattle Sun was the outgrowth of a malicious under
taking on the part of certain people to punish The Times and its
Editor for refusing to join in a hunt for scapegoats in connection
with the Gill administration of 1010-11.
From the date of that refusal down to the beginning of 1014
the organized effort to destroy The Times and disgrace its
Editor was almost fierce in its methods.
AA'hen the gang w bich endeavored to put the Editor of The
Times in AA'alla AA'alla, and this publication into disgrace, found
itself absolutely defeated everywhere, they made up their minds
to destroy The Times in another way.
They organized a scheme which resulted In the production
of The Sun—and from the time they started it, down to the time
its failure was foreseen, there was scarcely an issue which did
not contain some defamatory assertion touching The Times, or
its Editor.
In the meantime the methods adopted to accomplish the
ruin, instead of being of a standard class of morality, were as
devilish and contemptible as ever emanated from the brain of an
arch fiend!
That story of Russia being about to introduce compulsory
education in the empire may be true, but it would be accented
more quickly if there were some reliable information about
liow successfully Aodka is being suppressed and some of the
reforms advertised since the beginning of the war.
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NOTICE OK FORFEITURE
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To F. M. Brown, John Lyons, Gust
Djarf, Charles Garwood, T. ,T.
Donohue and Edmund Smith, your
heirs, administrators and assigns,
and to all it may concern:
You are hereby notified that we
have expended during the years 1913
and 1914 upon your F. M. Brown
and John Lyons joint one-tenth in
terest, three hundred and sixty dol
lars ($360.00); Gust Djarf’s one
forty-eighth interest, seventy-five dol
lars ($75.00); Charle.s Garwood’s
one-forty-eighth interest seventy-five1
dollars, ($75.00), lawful money of
the United States in labor and im
provements upon your above" men
tioned interest in these mining
claims lying and being on Hidden
Creek in the recording precinct of
Chitina, Alaska, which are known as
the Tjosevig group, consisting of the
Tjosevig No. 1 to 15 inclusive, also
Norway No. 2, Nebraska and Char
lotte; also on your’s T. .1. Donohue,
and Edmund Smith’s one and six
tenths of one-forty-eighth interest in
the above mentioned claims also on
your seven and one-half of one hun
dred per cent interest in the “Dagnv
Marie’* and Carbonate Hill Claims,
being in all one hundred and fifty
dollars ($150.00) lawful .money of
the United States in labor and im-1
provements upon your joint above
mentined interest in those mining
uaims lying and being on Hidden
Creek in the recording precinct of
Chitina, Alaska. The location notices
of* all above mentioned claims being
of record in the Mining Recording
Books in the office of the commis
sioner and recorder at Valdez-and at
Chitina, Alaska, in order to hold
said claims under the provisions of
Section 2324 of the Revised Statutes
of the United States, concerning an
nual labor on mining claims, being
the amount required to hold said
lode claims for the period ending
December 31st, 1914.
And unless within ninety days
after the completion of the publica
tion of this notice towit: within
ninety days after the 8th day of
June, 1915, you contribute your pro
portion of such expenditure incurred
in performing said annual labor and
improvements, which is the above
mentioned sum. your interest in said
'Maims will, become the property of
your co-owners who have made the
required expenditure by the terms
of said section.
Dated at Chitina, Alaska, this
22nd day of February 1915.
CHRISTIAN TJOSEVIG,
ELI TJOSEVIG.
First publication, March 2, 1915.
Last publication, June 8, 1915.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
IN THE PROBATE COFRT, CHIT
INA PRECINCT. THIRD JUDI
CIAL DIVISION, TERRITORY OF;
ALASKA.
in the Matter of the Estate of Alex- j
endra Crichton, Deceased, Notice!
to Creditors.
Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned administrator of the
Estate of Alexendra Crichton, de
ceased, to the creditors of, and all
persons having claims against, the
said deceased, to exhibit *ith the
necessary vouchers, within six
months after the first publication of
this notice, to the said adminis
trator, at his residence in Chitina.
Alaska. Chitina Precinct, Territory
of Alaska, the same being the place
for the transaction of the business
of said estate.
HENRY M. CHAMBERLAIN,
Administrator.
Dated at Chitina, Alaska, January
28, 1915.
Date of first publication, February
2, 1915.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
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To L. M. Price, his heirs, adminis
trator, assigns, successors or
personal representatives, and to
Henry Dejo cr his personal repre
sentative.
You are hereby notified that the
undersigned, your co-partners, have,
expended in labor and improve
ments for the, years 1913 and 1914
the sum of twenty-four hundred
(2,400) dollars, or the sum of one
hundred dollars on each one of the
following named mining claims for
the years 1913-1914: The May
flower; Pacer; Slocum; Rosy No. 1;
Rosy No. 2; Fairview; Lucky
Strike; Esperanza; Webbfoot;
Yenkee; Hercules; Samson; all sit
uated in the Chitina mining and
recording district, Territory of
Alaska and which have been duly
recorded in the office of the United
States commissioner in and for the
Chitina mining district at Chitina,
Alaska.
The above amounts have been ex
pended in order to hold the, said
mining claims under file provisions
of the law concerning annual labor
upon mining claims, being the
amount required to hold said above
named mining claims.
And you are further notified that,
if within ninety (90) days after the
last publication of this notice you
fail to contribute ycur proportion jl
said expenditures which is one-sixth
(1-6) respectively, of the whole,'
your interests in said mining claims'
will become the property of the
undersigned.
Your co-owners >
james McConnell,
GUS F. JOHNSON.
First publication, Jan. 12, 1915.
Last publication, April 16, 1915.
Why Not Invest?
With the building of the government railroad from
Chitina to Fairbanks, the future of the Town of Chitina
is assured.
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Lots are still offered at attractive prices and there
are many desirable ones remaining.
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A few months later lots in Chtiinn will be held at
largely increased values. Why not invest -VOW.’
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GEG..C. HAZELET,
Agent Chitina Townsite Company.
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