The Chitina Leader
CHITINA, ALASKA.
Entered as second-class matter, November 12. 1910. at the postoffice at
Chitina. Alaska, under the Act of Congress of March 3. 18<9.
ONLY NEWSPAPER IN CHITINA
Published every Saturday by
WILL A. STEEL, Editor and Proprietor.
Office: Hotel Chitina Building. Cordova Office: Daily Alaskan
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CHITINA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1915
CHICAGO, April 6.—Thousands'
of unemployed men have been put
to work on Chicago’s mammoth
new Union Station, a $65,000,000
project, which will be completed
December 18, 1918, according to
plans. The new plant will house
the Pennsylvania Lines, the Chicago
Milwaukee & St. Paul, The Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy, and the Chi
cago & Alton. It does not mean a
consolidation of any of the railroad
terminals, simply the replacing the
structure at Adams and Canal
streets with a great plant.
The erection of the station em
braces several difficult engineering
feats, chief among which is the
straightening of the Chicago ri\er
for several blocks. The new sta
tion is going up to the south of the
present one, occupying the blocks
between Adams and Jackson streets
and Clinton and Canal streets, a
space two blocks east and west and
one block north and south. Besides
three freight terminals the plans
call for 26 tracks in the passenger
terminal, 20 more than the present
station has. The Northwestern Sta
tion here, regarded as one of the
most modern in the world, has only
16, the Pennsylvania in New York
has only 17. The Union Station in
Washington has 33, only 15 of
which, however, are in use.
The main building will be ten
stories and have three sub-base
ments. It will be an imposing look
ing structure with great massive
columns and will cost $6,000,000
exclusive of land, she.ds, power
plant, and interlocking costs.
COLORADO SPRINGS. April 6.—
An automobile tour to start in a
few days from the foot of Pike’s
Peak and extending as far e.ast as
Indianapolis, is being prepared for
by Colorado motor enthusiasts. It
will be a “Sociaibility tour.” About
3.000 miles will be traversed. The
eastern leg will be made, over the
Pike’s Peak “ocean to ocean” high
way in a straight line from the peak
through Eastern Colorado, northern
Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, and In
diana. T',rem Pikes Peak to Indian
apolis the trail is 1,200 miles. The.
return route has not been definitely
decided upon. Manitou and Colo
rado Springs Chambers of Com
merce are behind the tour.
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Judge Fred M. Brown has ap
pointed Mrs. Corinne Call as United
States commissioner for the Bristol
bay precinct with headquarters at
Dillingham. This is the. first
appointment of a woman commis
sioner in Alaska and the appoint
ment is expected to be followed by
many as women judges have made
good in the states and should make
capable officials in Alaska, and more
■especially to the westward, where
the native women and children are
in need of protection from the vice
loving fishermen, who induce them
to drink and start them upon lives
of vice and shame. Mrs. Call has
for many years taught school at
Chogiung and has done very efficient
-work in educating the natives. Be
sides teaching the young she has
worked many hours to entertain the,
women and men and to provide for!
them clean pleasures.—Valdez Pros- ]
pector.
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U. S. Marshal Bre.nneman ' as re
ceived the information that John
Duholm, a prospector, living in a
small cabin on Bear creek, three1
miles from Moose pass and 12 miles
from Mile 29 on the Alaska North
ern railroad, had committed suicide
by shooting himse.lf through the
heart (with a 30-40 rifle. Duholm
■first killed his faithful dog that had
lived with him for many years and
which the prospector was deter
mined should not be left to starve.
He killed the dog with a 22, shoot
ing it in the he.ad. Duholm had
been talking of suicide for many
weeks, but the prospectors with
■whom he had talked did not believe
he meant it and so they did not in
form the marshal at Se.ward.
FOR SALE—One 20x40 ft. scow
or interest in same; One 4 h. p.
Sterling; One 16-ft. dory.
D. M. LYNCH.
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A coi respondent from Washing
ton states that the new lighthouse
tender Cedar, soon to be laid down
for the Alaska service, is to be a
potential auxiliary cruiser, as well
as the largest vessel in the light
house service. As constructed, she
can be Converted readily into a
Ighting ship. On her forecastle
will be built into her structure a
large mount for a rapid-fire three
pounder rifle, while on her poop
will be a similar mount. It will be
possible also to mount machine guns
on various parts of her decks. If
needed for war purposes, all that
would be necessary would be to put
her guns and ammunition aboard
and turn her loose on the sea as part
of the navy.
As other craft are built for the
lighthouse, fisheries and coast and
geodetic survey survices, it Is ex
pected that they, too, will be built
with an eye to their ultimate mili
tary uses.
In other words, Uncle Sam, in his
civilian navies, is starting in to con
struct the ships of a real naval
reserve.
If the ideas of Franklin D. Roose
velt, assistant secretary of the navy,
are worked out, the officers and
crews of these vessels will become
part of a real naval reserve.
“The Cedar,” said Secretary Red
field, of the department of com
merce, “will be the last word in
lighthouse tender construction. Jn
every respect she will be thoroughly
up to date. The specifications for
her are now being printed, and soon
bids for her construction will be.
called.
“She is to be of 1,750 tons dis
placement, 200 feet 8 inches long,
and 36 feet beam; an oil burner,
with engines of 1,300-horse power.
He.r hull will be of steel, with
double bottom construction. She
will be so constructed that she may
carry cargo, as the need for a ser
vice cargo carrier is often felt in
AiasKa.
T*e Cedar is to bp. built out of an
appropriation of $250,000 made last
year.
The little tender Fern, which was
'aunehed at Seattle, February 6, is
destined fer inside work in Alaska,
while the. Cedar is to handle the
outside work.
The Rose, the contract for which
has been let to the Anderson Ship
building Company of Seattle, is
larger than the Fern, and is in
tended for inshore work on the
coasts of Washington and Oregon.
She is to be 119 feet long and of
390 tons displacement.
These three, tenders, the Cedar,
Fern and Rose, will furnish the
lighthouse service with much-needed
help on the North Pacific coast.
On July 1 next, there will be,
available $289,000 for ships for the
coast and geodetic survey, which
also is under the jurisdiction of
Secretary Redfield. Out of this the
survey will buy one ship and build
another.
The ancient coast survey ship En
deavor, on the Atlantic coast, is to
be sold and a vessel, as good as can
be founcj for the available money,
will be purchased. A number of
such, including yachts owned by
New York financiers who find yacht
ing too expensive a sport in these
war days, are available.
For 'the Pacific coast a model
ship for the survey will be built,
with a special view to using her in
Alaska. She will be of about 909
tons, and the expectation is that she
will be the bekt vessel in the coast
an'd geodetic survey fleet.
But, without waiting for her, the
survey and its chief. Secretary Red
field is preparing for extensive work
in Alaska this season. Although the
survey got only $200,000 of the
*9?".000 it asked for use on the
Pacific Coast this year. Secretary
Redfield says that enough is avail
able for two wire drag survey par
ties in Alaska this summer and that
the work of locating the pinnacle
rocks and recliarting the waterways
will be pressed.
You can keep your feet dry in
any weather by wearing the famous
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For sale by O’Neill & Slater Co.
THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS
The American people and the American press are indebted
to Editor Charles R. Miller of the New York Times for his
emphatic repudiation of the right of a Congressional com
mittee to censor the utterances of American newspapers. Sen
ator Walsh of Montana, as chairman of the Ship Lobby
Investigating Committee, should have confined himself, as
Mr. Miller told him,, to asking that witness what, if anything,
he knew of lobbying practices in connection with the defeated
ship purchase bill. When he went outside that phase and
undertook to criticise the editor of the Times for his judgment
of news and its display and for his editorial opinions. Chair
man Walsh exceeded his powers and discretion. Just the
same as a certan judge recently did in Alaska, when he crit
icised the attitude of lone newspaper in a controversy without
having read what the other had said.
To have the American press subject to the official probing
of Congressional committees regarding editorial opinions and
the news printed would be, as Mr. Miller said, a restriction of
the liberty of the press in this country that would reproduce
what is known as the “reptile press” in the capitals of Central
Europe, where the newspapers have to crawl to the foreign
office and obtain permission to print the news the government
allows to be published. We are a long way from that condi
tion in America, but it required this vigorous protest to check
Congressionalship censorship in its incipiency.
American newspapers “go to the jury,” as Mr. Miller
well said, “every morning and are judged at the breakfast
table, and the penalties within the power of that jury to
impose are much more terrible than any a Congressional com
mittee could inflict.” That is the jury which judges Congress
men and Senators as well as editors—the supreme court of
public icpinion. which, if we mistake not, has no intention of
tolerating usurpation of its powers or abrogation of its right
to a free press. x
Huerta promised when he left Mexico that he would
return if his country called him. TTp to date, however, none of
his countrymen have been heard inquiring for his address. If
will be interesting to learn tonight, whether there is a very
insistent call for Cordova’s representative citizen.
Now that the election is over it may be safe for sonm
friend to make a confidential communication without having
his friend use it against his friends in a political campaign.
RUBBER GOODS
For your out-of-door work you
need a pair of Red Sole Boots or
Paes. Our %tock is new and com
plete. O’Neill & Slater Company.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To F. M. Brown, John Lyons, Gust
Djarf, Charles Garwood, T. J
Donohue and Edmund Smith, your
heirs, administrators and assigns,
and to all it may concerp:
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); Charles Garwood’s
one-forty-eighth interest seventy-five
dollars, ’($75.00), lawful money of
the United States in labor and im
provements upon your above men
tioned interest in those mining
claims lying and being on I-Iiddon
Creek in the recording precinct oi
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. T. Donohue
and Edmund Smith’s one and six
tenths of one-forty-eighth interest in
the above mentioned claims also r.n
"our seven and one-half of one hun
dred per cent interest in the ”Dagny
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
provements upon your joint above
mentined interest in those mining
claims lying and being on Hidden
Creek in the recording precinct of
Chitina, Alaska. The location notices
of ali 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 arter 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 sail
■Jainis will become the property of
vour co-owners who have made the
required expenditure by the terms
of said action.
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 COURT, CHIT
INA PRECINCT, THIRD JUDI
CIAL DIVISION, TERRITORY OF
ALASKA.
! In the Matter of the Estate of Alex-!
endra Crichton, Deceased, Notice j
to Creditors.
Notice is hereby given by the I
undersigned administrator of the^
Estate of Alexend??. Crichton, de
ceased, to the creditors cf, and all
persons having claims against, the;
I said deceased, to exhibit v. ith the
I necessary vouchers, within six
| months after the first publication of J
| this notice, to the said adminis
trator, at his residence in Chitina.;
I Alaska, Chitina Precinct, Territory;
of Alaska, the same being the place!
for the transaction of the business
1 of said estate.
HENRY M. CHAMBERLAIN,
Administrato”.
Dated at Chitina, Alaska, January
28, 1915.
Date of first publication, Februaiy
2, 1915.
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NOTICE or FORFEITURE
To L. M. Price, his heirs, adminis
trator, assigns, successors or!
personal representatives, and to
Henry De.vo or his personal repre
sentative.
You are hereby notified that the
undersigned, your co-partners, have, j
expended in labor and improve- i
ments for the years 1913 and 1914 1
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 1
States commissioner in and for the i
Chitina mining district at Chitina,
Alaska.
The above amounts have been ex
pended in order to hold the. said
mining claims under the provisions
of the law concerning annual labor
upon miuing 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 your proportion of
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 i
james McConnell,
GUS F. JOHNSON.
First publication, Jan. 12, 1915.
Last publication, April 16, 1915.
Why Not Invest?
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With the building of the government railroad from
Chitina to Fairbanks, the future of the Town of Chitina
is assured.
Lots are still offered at attractive prices and there
are many desirable ones remaining.
A few months later lots in Chtiina will be held at
largely increased values. Why not invest NOW?
GEO. C. HAZELET,
Agent Chitina Townsite Company.
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