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CHITINA, ALASKA.
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CHITINA, ALASKA, APRIL 8, 1913.
SITE FOR FEDERAL BUILDING
All persons who own land sites in Cordova, available for the
location of the hundred thousand dollar public building that is
to be erected here, are invited to make an offer for the sale of
needed land, or to formally tender a donation. Proposals will
be opened in the office of the Supendsing Architect, at Wash
ington, on May 17, for a suitable site. It is understood that
the Town Site Company will formally agree to donate the tract
of ground partly facing on Second street, below the Windsor
hotel, and running back to Third street. This has always been
resen’ed for a federal building. Citizens who own other suit
able lots will likely combine their tracts and make a tender to
the government. In all probabilty there will be po unseemh
scramble to sell a site.
All recognize that the important thihg is to get the build
ing under construction so soon as possible, and that the question
of location should be left to the wisdom of the government
officials whose duty it may be to decide the matter. In some
towns years have been allowed to drag along before a publk
building was commenced because of the protests upon the par.
of bickering citizens as to the proper location. The govern
ment always has so many buildings to construct that where
jealously and dissention exist over sites, advantage is taken ol
that fact to defer construction. In Cordova there is a disposi
tion at present to simply make the tenders and to permit the
officials at Washington to at once decide on location, so that nc
delay will result.
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SECRETARY LANE
Tliere are strong indications that Alaska and the public
land states will receive the fair treatment so urgently needed
at the hands of Franklin K. Lane, new secretary of the interior.
The one important thing is that Secretary Lape acquires his
knowledge at first hand. He is a Pacific coast man. While
the greater part of his life since manhood has been spent ir
California or in the public service, with frequent visits to lm
home, lie was for some years a resident of this state and ir
the newspaper business, a pursuit which necessarily gave him
a fair insight into conditions here.
The largest trouble which has been encountered in getting
exact justice for Alaska and, indeed, for the public land states
has been in the radical misconceptions acquired through deper
dence for knowledge of the facts upon the “literature” pu
out by the paid press bureaus, exploiting the fads of politica
conservationists. Such publications will not influence Secre
tarv Lane, because he knows the truth.
He has breadth of view, demonstrated in his capacity ai
commissioner of interstate commerce. He will probably, sooi
or late, become the target of attack by political conservation
ists, but there is coming a better recognition of the animus ol
such tactics, and they will not have the weight that was once
given them in high quarters.—Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
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INVITE SECRETARY DANIELS
Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, lias given assur
ante that he will visit Puget Sound this year. It is expected
that he will come west late in the summer. Why not make
the effort to have him extend his journey into Alaska. If the
Commercial bodies and city councils would unite in an invita
tion to the Secretary he might be induced to come to Southwest
em and Southeastern Alaska. As there is every indication
that the navy on the Pacific coast will soon be using Alaska coal
it might not be amiss for Secretary Daniels to get into closei
touch with the Bering river and Matanuska coal fields. The
better acquainted the various members of the present adminis
tration become with Alaska and her needs the more speedy and
certain will we receive beneficial results.
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DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW
The Valdez Miner has figured it out “after careful study,
that the government should build a railroad from Valdez to
Fairbanks. ” The Cordova Daily Alaskan has likewise figured
a line from Cordova. The Gateway figures one from Seward,
the Pioneer Press figures its from Haines; but a government
owned line from Skagway via the White river and Yukon, with
a proper system of feeders, such as we have in our mind’s eye,
would solve the transportation question in Alaska forever.—
Skagway Alaskan.
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Col. Richardson proposes to establish the fact that we have
automobile roads in Alaska. He lias just purchased a motor
truck for use of the Road Commission to take supplies out over
the government trail.
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Alaskans are still looking forward to more rapid railroad
development in the northern country. Give Alaska railroads
and a reasonable amount of local self-government, and Alaska
will get along all right.—Ex.
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“Even Cincinnatti is indicting the boss whom once it fol
lowed. Most of the bosses are now either in retirement or on
their way to the penitentiary,” says the Philadelphia Ledger.
Our contemporary seems to overlook those who have averted
that rude fate by turning Progressive and running great re
form campaigns.
LAXITY OF ENFORCEMENT
The Post-Intelligencer takes exception to a remark credited
to Judge Landis, and comments on the subject as follows:
In the report of the remarks made by Judge Landis, before
whom are being tried the Alaska coal land cases, the dispatches
state that the judge severely scored the “laxity of the Western
courts in enforcing the land laws.” It is extremely doubtful
whether Judge Landis made the slightest allusion to “Western
courts” in his remarks were misinterpreted by the reporters is
due to the hazy ideas which people generally, outside of the
public land states, have about the land laws and their mis
apprehension, the publications issued by the political conserva
tionists have been responsible.
The state courts have not and never have had anything to
do with the administration of the public lands, or with offenses
committed against the land laws. The whole administration of
the public lands has always been in the hands of the federal
authorities. What frauds have been committed in the matter
of public lands have been through the laxity of federal officials,
not state officials; men appointed from Washington City, not
chosen by the people of the public land states and responsible to
them. The beneficiaries of those frauds have been, in many in
stances, nonresidents of the states in which the lands were situ
ated, men with “pulls,” or big corporations, towards which the
land department minor officials, the permanent bureaucrats,
have always been notoriously friendly, especially where their
interests conflicted with those of the actual settlers.
Offenses charged in connection with the public lands are
always tried in the federal, not in the state courts. All of the
rauds, errors, improvident grants, building up of great holding®
and the like, without exception, are chargeable to federal ad
ministration, or maladministration. And they constitute,
illogically, the one argument whch political conservationists
put forward for a continuance of federal control and adminis
tration.
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HOW ABOUT MAN’S RIGHT?
In a divorce recently tiled in Chicago the plaintiff charged
her husband with “cruelty” because he refused to help her in
the kitchen. As a Chicago contemporary observes, times have
changed, since a wife used to chase her husband out of the
kitchen to “attend to his own business” and leave her to attend
to hers. But that was long ago, when there was real work to
be done in the kitchen and when the housewife was immersed in
the mysteries of “putting up” and baking and a lot of other
arts that are old-fashioned and out of date now, arts that no
husband could meddle with but to botch, and in which his
presence was both distracting and cumbersome.
What was the work in the kitchen that this husband cruelly
refused to help in? Washing the dishes, probably, or sweeping
the floor, or watching that something did not boil over and
ness up the stove—all kitchen jobs that come easily with man’s
capacity for kitchen work. Most women will sympathize with
the fair plaintiff who had to put up with a man as lazy as that!
If the refusal to attend to little things like that isn’t cruelty,
,vhat is? And even men will have little sympathy for the de
fendant . He ought to have been thankful that he had a wife
who stayed long enough in the kitchen to need his help in these
days of gadding and hiking.
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A CHANGED ATTITUDE
It is noticeable that the attitude of the medical profession
toward Dr. Friedmann of Berlin and his tuberculosis serum has
nateriallv changed since his visit to Canada and his adminis
tration of this serum to sufferers both there and in New York.
There is still a contingent that adheres to the professional ten
dency to antagonize new ideas and methods. But new em
inent members of the profession watch his administration of
the serum with interest and some have expressed high hopes
of its success.
The tendency of the profession to suspect the value of new
remedies has at times been almost universal. It is natural,
too, considering the vast quanitity of remedies and panaceas
that have been widely heralded and proved to be humbugs.
The mental attitude that every new thing must be fully tested
before acceptance is correct, but earned to the length of con
sidering every new thing a humbug without testing it is a
grave error. This disposition has been modified by the suc
cess of anti-toxin and the typhoid inoculation, not to speak of
their predecessors. With such examples in mind, the intelli
gence of the profession is compelled to recognize that all new
methods and treatments must be given a fair trial.
The Friedmann tests have not been carried far enough to be
fully conclusive. But the cases in which they have accom
lished at least tempoorary cures, and the almost invariable im
provement from the inoculations that have been administered,
make it a fair deduction that it is well worth while to continue
the tests long enough and in such number as to make the final
result decisive. The majority of the doctors are now taking
that view. It was unfortunate that they at first adopted the
attitude of hostility, which was not unprecedented nor entirely
without foundation.
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Cordova, of course, has its railroad and great copper mines.
So stupendous in extent are these copper mines that there is
nothing extravagant in expecting that many thousands of men
will be employed there some day,—Exchange.
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New York’s spring cleaning will cost $’J8,000. It will be
dirt cheap at that.
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The Alaska Steamship Co. has most assuredly heeded the
request of citizens of Southwestern Alaska in giving this section
a six.day schedule. It will have stimulating effect upon traf
fic and business generally. The usual freighters will also be
operated.
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The report comes that Democratic National Committeeman
Cheney has endorsed John Y. Ostrander for a Judgeship in
one of the Alaska divisions. It seems to be generally accepted
that the appointment will deservedly fall to Judge Ostrander.
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Alaska’s first legislative act was to grant the suffrage to
women in the hiope that they may be induced to redress the
balance of the sexes in that lonely land —Ex.
NOTICE OK HEARING OK FINAL
ACCOUNT
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In the United States Commissioner's :
Court. lCx.Officio Judge in Pro
bate, Chitina Precinct, Territory
of Alaska, Third Judicial Division.
In the matter of the estate of C. W.
Babbage, deceased, A. G. Morey,
administrator.
Notice of Hearing of Kinal Account.
Notice is hereby given that A. G.
Morey, administrator of the estate of
C. W. Babbage, deceased, has ren
dered, filed and presented for settle
ment his Final Account and report of
his administration of the said estate,
and that the 29th day of May, 1913,
at the hour of 2o’clock, p. m. of the
said day, at the office of Paul d'Heir
rv ex-officio Judge in Probate, of the
Chitina Precinct, at Chitina, Alaska,
has been duly appointed by the said
court, as the time and place of settle
ment of said final account and report,
at which time and place any person
interested in said estate may appear
and file his objections and exceptions
to said final account and report.
Dated at Chitina, Alaska, this 26th
day of March, 1913.
A. G. MOREY,
Adminstrator of the estate of C. \V.
Babhage, deceased.
Date of first publication, Apr. 8, 1913
Date of last publication May 27, 1913.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
TO CHAS. CARLSON, Your Heirs.
Personal Representatives and As
signs, and All or Any Person or Per
sons Claiming by, Through or under
you:
Your are hereby notified that the
undersigned has expended the sum of
three hundred dollars ($300,001 in
labor and improvements upon certain
placer mining claim known as
the Valdez Creek Association, Valdez
Creek, tributary of the Susitna,
In the Copper Center Mining and Re
cording District, Territory of Alaska,
and the said amount was so expend
ed and such labor performed for the
purpose of holding said claim under
the provisions of Section 2324 Re
vised Statutes of the United States
and Act of Congress approved March
2, 1 907, and constitutes the annual
assessment work upon said claims
for the years 1910, 1911, 1912. And
if witin ninety days after the last
publication of this notice you fail to
pay the undersigned as co-owners
vour proportion of the expense for
the years 1910, 1911, 1912, together
witth the cost of this advertisement,
your interest will become the prop
erty of the undersigned under said
section2324 Revised Statutes of the
United States.
J. E. CARLSON.
First publication, April S, 1913.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
TO FRED HERMANSON, SWAN
RING WOOD, WM. HERTZBERG O.
PEARSON, A. J. NORDALE, Your
Heirs Personal Representatives and
Assigns, and All or Any Person or
Persons’ Claiming by, Through or
Under you:
Your are hereby notified that the
undersigned has expended the sum of
three hundred dollars ($300.00) in
lanor and improvements upon certain
placer mining claim known as
Moloch Association, Valdez Creek,
tributary of the Susitna,
In the Copper Center Mining and Re
cording District, Territory of Alaska,
and the said amount was so expend
ed and such labor performed for the
purpose of holding said claim under
the provisions of Section 2324 Re
vised Statutes of the United States
and Act of Congress approved March
2, 1907, and constitutes the annual
assessment work upon said claims
for the years 1910, 1911, 1912. And
if witin ninety days after the last
publication of this notice you fail to
pay the undersigned as co-owners
your proportion of the expense for
the years 1910, 1911, 1912, together
witth the cost of this advertisement,
your interest will become the prop
erty of the undersigned under said
section2324 Revised Statutes of the
United States.
J. E. CARLSON.
First publication, April 8, 1913.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To P. ERICKSON, WM. SMITH C.
Y. MALINQUIST, ADOLF NELS6N,
A. KENNEDY, GUS BOSTROM, Your
Heirs, Personal Representatives and
Assigns, and All or Any Person or
Persons Claiming by, Through or
Under you:
Your are hereby notified that the
undersigned has expended the sum of
three hundred dollars ($300.00) in
labor and improvements upon certa n
nlacer mining claim known as
the Yellow Bowl Association, Left
Limit Last Chance Creek, tributary
of Valdez Creek,
In the Copper Center Mining and Re
cording District, Territory of Alaska
and the said amount was so expend
ed and such labor performed for the
purpose of holding said claim under
the provisions of Section 2324 Re
vised Statutes of the United States
and Act of Congress approved March
2, 1907, and constitutes the annual
assessment work upon said claims
for the years 1910, 1911, 1912. And
if witin ninety days after the last
publication of this notice you fall to
pay the undersigned ac co-ow-ners
your proportion of the expense for
the years 1910, 1911, 1912, together
witth the cost of this advertisement,
your interest will become the prop
erty of the undersigned under said
section2324 Revised Statutes of the
United States.
J. E. CARLSON.'
First publication, April 8, 1913.
.NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To ANTONE CARLSON, Your j
leirs, Personal Representatives and '
Vssigns, and All or Any Person or
Arsons Claiming by. Through or
'nder you:
Your are hereby notified that the
ludersigned has expended the sum of
hree hundred dollars (3300.00) in
nbor and improvements upon certain
ilacer mining claim known sb
L.ast Chance Association, adjoining
Mo. 1 and 2 Lucky Gulch Creek
Claims, a tributary of Roosevelt
iireek.
In the Copper Center Mining and Re
:ording District, Territory of Alaska,
ind the said amount was so expend
ed and such labor performed for the
purpose of holding said claim under
the provisions of Section 2324 Re
vised Statutes of the United States
ind Act of Congress approved March
2, 1907, and constitutes the annual
issessment work upon said claims
for the years 1910, 1911, 1912. And
if witin ninety days after the last
publication of this notice you fail to
pay the undersigned as co-owners
your proportion of the expense for
the years 1910, 1911, 1912, together
witth the cost of this advertisement,
your interest will become the prop
erty of the undersigned under Bald
section2324 Revised Statutes of the
United States.
J. E. CARLSO.M.
First publication, April 8, 1913.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To C. P. MORGAN. Your Heirs,
Personal Representatives and As
signs, and All or Any Person or Per
sons Claiming by. Through or Under
you:
Your are hereby notified that the
undersigned has expended the sum of
three hundred dollars ($300.00) in
labor and Improvements upon certain
placer mining claim known as
No. 7, Bench, Left Limit, Valdez
Creek, a tributary of the Susitna, also
known as the Gaston Bench Claim,
In the Copper Center Mining and Re
ading District, Territory of Alasaa
and the said amount was so expend
ed and such labor performed for the
purpose of holding said claim under
the provisions of Section 2324 Re
vised Statutes of the United States
and Act of Congress approved March
2, 1907, and constitutes the annual
assessment work upon said claims
for the years 1910, 1911, 1912. And
if witin ninety days after the last
publication of this notice you fail to
pay the undersigned as co-owners
your proportion of the expense for
the years 1910, 1911, 1912, together
witth the cost of this advertisement,
your interest will become the prop
erty of the undersigned under said |
section2324 Revised Statutes of the
United States.
.r. E. CARLSON.
First publication, April 8, 1913.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To P. ERICKSON, ANTON CARL
SON, SWAN RINGWOOD, CHAS.
COWEL, L. RUE, Your Heirs Per
sonal Representatives and Assigns,
and All or Any Person or Persons
Claiming by, Through or Under you:
Your are hereby notified that the
undersigned has expended the sum of
five hundred dollars ($500.00) in
labor and improvements upon that
placer mining claim known as the
Roosevelt Association, Roosevelt
Creek, a tributary of Valdez Creek,
In the Copper Center Mining and Re
cording District, Territory of Alaska,
and the said amount was so expend
ed and such labor performed for the
purpose of holding said claim under
the provisions of Section 2324 Re
vised Statutes of the United States
and Act of Congress approved March
2, 1907, and constitutes the annual
assessment work upon said claims
for the years 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911,
1912. And if within ninety days
after the last publication of this
notice you fail to pay the undersigned
as co-owners your proportion of the
expese for the years 1908, 1909,
1910,, 1911, 1912, together with the
cost of this advertisement, your in
terest willbecome the property of the
undersigned under said Section 2324
Revised Statutes of the United dates.
J. E. CARLSON.
First publication, April 8, 1913.
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•NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To GUST JOHNSON, A. NESBIT,
PONTIUS MAGNUSON, L. SCHIM
MELPFENNING L. RUE, J. PAT
TERSON, R. BLiX. Your Heirs, Per
sonal Representatives and Assigns,
and All or any Person or Persons
Claiming by, Through or Under you:
Your are hereby notified that the
undersigned has expended the sum of
five hundred dollars 0500.00) In
labor and improvements upon that
certain placer mining claim known as
the Homestake Association, Valdez
Creek, a tributary of the Susitna,
In the Copper Center Mining and Re
cording District, Territory of Alaska,
and the said amount was so expend
ed ar.a 6uch labor performed for the
purpose of holding said claim under
the provisions of Section 2324 Re
vised Statutes of the United States
and Act of Congress approved March
2, 1907, and constitutes the annual
assessment work upon said claims
for the years 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911,
1912. And if within ninety days
after the last publication of this
notice you fail to pay the undersigned
as co-owners your proportion of the
expese for the years 1908, 1909,
1910,, 1911, 1912, together witn the
cost of this advertisement, your in
terest willbecome the property of the
undersigned under said Section 2324
Revised statutes of the United States.
J. E. CARLSON.
First publication, April 8, 1913.
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