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(3,
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CHITINA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1915.
SENATOR JONES MAY VISIT US
It has been generally admitted that among the most
devoted and industrious triends that Alaska has had in the
United States Senate the leaders have been Senator Wesley L.
Jones, of Washington, Senator George E. Chamberlain, of
Oregon, and Senator Key Pittman, of Nevada. Others have
also rendered valuable service but the trio mentioned have
been on the job day and night and each one has included this
northern domain as his particular constituency. A recent
letter to the Fairbanks Commercial Club from Falcon Joslin,
indicates that there is a strong possibility that Senator Jones
may be induced to visit Alaska this summer. This other
constant and hard working friend of Alaska, Mr. Joslin, and
who is one of the best boosters for the Copper River country,
writes as follows:
I talked with Senator Jones today and he is very
anxious to visit Alaska and Fairbanks this summer if
he can possibly spare the time. I suggested that he
could leave Seattle about the 15th of August, and In
going over the trail in an automobile and returning the
same way, make the trip in about 30 days. He is
greatly interested, and I think with a little urging, by
way of invitation from Fairbanks, he will make the trip.
No one has been a better friend to Alaska Ilian Senator
Jones, and it will be of the greatest value to the terri
tory if he can be induced to go to Fairbanks and thus
qualify himself to speak with knowledge and authority
on Alaskan matters in the Senate.
I know that Judge Wickersham has the highest
regard for Senator Jones, and he will, no doubt,
co-operate in every way to bring him to Fairbanks. I
understand Judge Wickersham will reach Fairbanks
before the breakup. When he does, I hope the Commer
cial Club will confer with him and frame an invitation
to Senator Jones and make provision for the visit. I’m
sure Judge Wickersham will agree that no one can be
of more service to Alaska than Senator Jones. If T am
in Fairbanks at the time of his visit, and I hope to be, I
would certainly be glad to serve in any way I could to
help the club entertain Senator Jones and to place him
in possession of facts.
The suggestion of Mr. Joslin will likely be followed by the
interior metropolis. But that should not be enough. Every
other Commercial Club both in the interior and on the south
eastern and southwestern coasts should unite in a cordial
invitation to Senator Jones to visit this great territory for
which he has already done so much. And it would also be a
graceful compliment for the political clubs of the territory to
unite in the effort to induce the gentlemen to make the
contemplated visit. Although a Republican, Senator Jones
knows no politics in his dealings with and for Alaska.
Prompt action should be taken before Senator Jones
makes other plans for the summer. Mr. Joslin’s suggestion
contemplates the trip via Cordova, then over the railroad to
Chitina and via automobile to Fairbanks, likely returning to
Valdez. And it would be very proper for Cordova to take
immediate action in the way of the Chamber of Commerce, the
Republican Club, the Democratic Club and even .the Town
Council extending cordial invitations, or a joint one, to the
distinguished senator to visit Alaska and particularly this
section next summer. If he were to come and see for himself
the great possibilities of this land of promise Senator Jones
would undoubtedly be a greater friend than ever of the
territory.
NEW REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION
Albert White, of Valdez, a member of the Republican
Territorial League of Alaska, is sending out letters with
clippings from Eastern newspapers telling of the formation of
the Republican Publicity Association, with former U. S.
Senator Jonathan Bourne, Jr., at its head. This powerful
organization was recently established in Washington, and the
entire eleventh floor of the tallest office building in the city
secured for a term of five years for the offices of the association.
It i3 announced that the association will take no part in any
campaign for the nomination or election of any individual to
any office. The association will “merely gather and
disseminate information which will demonstrate superiority
of Republican principles and accomplishments and expose
the defects and failures of Democratic policies and
administration.”
The Legislature failed to pass the universal 8-hour law.
And that will be pleasing to many who feared that the law
contemplated that every man should work 8 hours. And that
sure would be pretty hard on a lot of people in Alaska.
England’s regrets at sinking the Dresden in Chilean
waters, though expressed as international law requires, are
tempered by the reflection that the pesky thing is safe under
the waves, anyhow.
An official investigation has proved that the Japanese
have no base in Mexican waters. The Japanese are not so
foolish as our sensationalists.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
The recent strike of rich dirt on Dry Gulch, in the Chisana,
gives encouragement that the camp may yet turn out to have
good pay that is distributed over various streams. If this
latest discovery does not turn out to be a pocket the chances
are that a mine will be developed that may prove richer than
anything yet discovered in the Chisana.
All the former predictions of an early opening of naviga
tion in the interior have gone by default. The thaw and warm
spell that set in has been crowded out by a cold wave that
has. stopped sluicing and again congealed the waters of the
various streams. A wire from Fairbanks today states that
navigation may be even a little later than usual.
Jonathan Bourne, Jr., of Oregon, the father of the parcels
post, is some organized, and now that lie lias determined to
educate the voters of the country to the advisability of
returning the Republican party to power there is a strong
probability that the result will spell Success. As president of
the Republican Publicity Association, voluntarily giving money
and service to the cause, the voters of the nation will he kept
informed of tiie reasons why they should vote in 1916 for
Republicanism and Prosperity.”
Whatever may be said of the results achieved by ' the
members of the present Territorial Legislature it cannot be
questioned but that they have labored conscientiously and
diligently to enact beneficial legislation for the people of
Alaska.
That recent decision of Judge Bunnell’s at Fairbanks
will rather have a tendency to remove some of the assumed
power of F. S. deputy marshals. The judge upholds the act
of the territorial legislature providing that any citizen may
serve a summons in a civil case. Heretofore, under the federal
law. a summons could not be served by anybody except a duly
qualified officer.
Chairman William C. Hdes, of the Alaska Engineering
Commission, is not expected to arrive at Seattle from Wash
ington until May 10. By that time the plans of the adminis
tration as regards government building of railroads in Alaska
should be fully formulated and ready for the public. What
Cordova is particularly interested in is to know that a branch
line road will be built to the Bering River coal fields.
The Chicago Tribune, ex-Progressive hears that the
Colonel will aid the G. O. P. if the candidate is the right man.
Has there ever been any doubt of that or of his idea of the
right man ?
Sir Edward Grey’s assurances that Britain still stands for
the open door in China are modified by the fact that Britaiu
also is too busy elsewhere to worry Japan at present.
Air. Bryan’s praise of the President is interpreted as a
renomination straw. But surely no one expected Air. Bryan to
do anything else?
When one considers all the trouble that many of the
Legislatures make for the people in the various states, even
after all these years of practice and the enacting of unioue
laws, it must be considered that the Legislature of Alaska
hasn’t done half bad.
Nearly all the big operators of the placer rumps in the
Nizina country are already on the ground or on their way to
it. It is expected that sluicing will soon commence and
possibly half a million dollars in gold will be washed out from
the various creeks in that district this season.
The laborer who goes to Alaska without a reasonable
knowledge of where he can obtain work is jeopardizing both
his luck and his bread ticket.—Ex.
That little exchange of compliments between Italians and
Austrians was too like a Alexico-Yankee border affair to make
x beginning of an international war.
Almost anybody can now start a bank in the small towns
of Alaska. If a community has a population of 500 and not
more than 1,000 it will only be necessary to have a capital of
$15,000. A bill recently signed by the governor makes that
concession to small towns. Otherwise a capital of $25,000 is
required in towns with more than 1.000 population.
Senator Sulzer sought to have the Legislature memorialize
Congress to grant Alaska four delegates to Congress, one from
°ach judicial division. The Senate, however, voted to indefi
nitely postpone the measure. With four delegates and the
usual number of advisers from Alaska pulling in opposite
directions it might be impossible to secure any favorable
consideration from that august body*
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 concern:
You are hereby notified that we
lave expended during the years 1913 j
and 1914 upon your F. M. Brown!
md John Lyons joint one-tenth in
erest, three hundred and sixty dol
lars ($360.00); Gust Djarf’s one
torty-eigbth interest, seventy-five dol
lars ($75.00); Charles Garwood’s
one-forty-eighth interest seventy-tive
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 Hidden
Creek in the recording precinct of
Chitina, Alaska, which are known as
the Tjosevig group, consisting of the
Tjosevig No. 1 to lo inclusive, also
Norway No. 2, Nebraska and Char
lotte; also on your’s T. J. Donohue
and Edmond Smith’s one and six
tenths of one-forty-eighth interest in
the above mentioned claims also on
vour 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 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 day?
after the completion of the publicd
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
improve.ments, which is the above
mentioned sum, your interest in said
claims will become the property cjf
your co-owners who have made the
required expenditure by the terras
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.
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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 ?
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GEO. C. HAZELET,
Agent Chitina Townsite Company.
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