The Chitina Leader
CHITltfA, ALASKA.
Entered as second-class matter, November 12, 1910, at the postoffice at
Chitina, Alaska, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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of the Copper River district.
CHITINA, ALASKA- TUESDAY, JULY 15,1913.
ALASKA HEALTH LEGISLATION
Health conditions among Alaskan natives and residents
have been the subject of much-needed consideration of late. The
Journel has noted from time to time the results of special
surveys of the prevalance of disease in Alaska and has urged
that effective measures be adopted to combat preventable
disease in this territory. Such measures should embrace
provisions for sanitary oversight of all commtunities, for com
pulsory sequestration of contagious diseases, for a quarantine
system against the introduction of epidemic diseases from
without, for hospital care of selected cases, especially of
tuberculosis and trachoma, for p opular education in personal
and public hygiene and for the collection of vital statistics. An
Alaskan board or commissioner of health is needed with suffi
cient assistants and ample appropriations.
Realizing the need of such action, the governor of Alaska
took up the question of federal supervision of public health
measures with the federal authorities at Washington. It was
suggested by the secretary of the treasury on April 19 that the
Alaska territorial legislature should enact a proper health code
and make appropriation for its enforcement. The secretary
gave assurance of federal maintenance of maritime and border,
quarantine, and for federal provision for such measures as
might be necessary to prevent the spread of cholera, typhus,
yellow fever, small-pox and bubonic plague in the interior of
Alaska. The national government would also co-operate with
the territorial government in the control of other contagious
and infectious diseases.
In accordance with these suggestions, there has been passed
by the Alaskan territorial legislature a bill to provide for the
registration and restriction of communicable diseases in Alaska.
This law constitutes the governor ex-officio commissioner of
health and empowers him to designate a licensed physician in
each judicial district as assistant commissioner of health. The
conjmissioner is to have general supervision over the interests
of health and life in the territory. He is authorized to make all
necessary quarantine regulations, to provide for the disinfection
of infected premises, and the removal of dead bodies, rubbish,
garbage and other things inimical to health preservation. When
necessary he is to consult with federal officers on matters
pertaining to sanitition and hygiene.
The act will make each school district a health district with
its own board of health, to be composed of the president of the
school board and two citizens chosen by the school board of.
whom, whenever practicable, one shall be a licensed physician.
In native villages any representative of the United States
bureau of education shall have authority and powers granted
to local boards of health. An important section relates to the
definition of communicable diseases. Exposure or infection of
person or articles with the following diseases renders them
subject to the provisions of the act: plague, cholera, smallpox,
yellow fever, typhus, typhoid, leprosy, scarlatine, measles,
diptheria, infantile paralysis, cerebro-spinal meningitis, erysip
elas, whooping-cough, glanders and mumps. In addition al!
cases of pulmonary tuberculoss and trachoma, when the usual
precautions against spreading the disease to others are wilfully
neglected, and when other persons are liable to become infected
because of this negligence, are to be considered capable of
conveying contagious or infectious disease. The diseases here
enumerated are made subject to notification within twenty-four
hours of their discovery.
This law marks a long step of progress in the sanitary and
hygienic history of Alaska. The territory of Alaska is now
entering on a new era of substantial development which requires
fundamentally adequate provision for the contro 1 and
maintenance of the public health.—Journal of the American
Medical Association.
RAILROADS AND THE PEOPLE
The testimony of the head of the Union Pacific as to
attempts made to induce the hiring of a legal lobbyist to head
off “radical” action against the Harriman system gives the
public a picture behind the scenes. It so suggests a welcome
determination among men high in the financial and railroad
world not to rely upon underground irfethods in defense of
rights or interests. i »r rV’3v,*‘i'fi fr
Of course, we cannot tell from Mr. Lovett’s testimony that
Lauterbaeh’s services were not declined because the Harriman
system was already supplied with similar or better “protec
tion.” But such is not the indication, and it is fair to beleve
that the attitude implied by Mr. Lovett’s action in this case is
a part of the wise recent tendency of the railroads to rely upon
publicity, candor, and the justice and sensible self-interest of
the public to protect them from injurious legislation.
During the period when the railroad managers assumed
that the railroads is a private affair—“our own business, and
the public be damned”—the public developed, naturally, a
corresponding attitude of damn the railroads. But with the
application of sharp discipline wisdom has come to railroad
men, and they are realizing more clearly today that their
function is semi-public, not private. As this has dawned upon
the railroad men, and as they have shown mlore public spirit,
public opinion has begun to respond, as, indeed, it ought to
respond for its own advantage.
For the principle cuts both ways. The railroads cannot
prosper without the peopple. The people cannot prosper with
out the railroads. Thus the same policy is fair dealing and
efficient service on the one hand, and on the other protection
from! predatory politics and a wisely favoring policy in regula
tion and legislation, since an efficient system of transportation
is as vital to the economic health of the country as a sound
circulation is to that of the human body.
EXHORBITANT CABLE TOLL MAINTAINED
From some source or other several weeks ago came a
report that the tariff rates for commercial messages over the
United States cable and telegraph lines were to be reduced
fifty per cent, the revised schedule to take effect July 1. Like
many other “authentic” reports this proves to have had no
foundation in fact. The War Department has announced that
no reductions will be made, it being deemed inadvisable, for
revenue reasons, to lower the rates charged by the present
tariff. It is urged as a reason that the annual balance sheet
shows a deficit. This undoubtedly is true, but, it is submitted,
that if the substantial sums that are annually charged against
the government telegraph system in Alaska for the transpor
tation account and the maintenance of the cable repair ship
Burnside, were eliminated there would be a balance to Alaska’s
credit. It is neither just nor equitable that this expense account
should be saddled upon the earnings of the system, and used
as a pretext for maintaining existing rates.
As a matter of fact if the rates were reduced there would
be a notable increase in the volume of business over that now
annually handled. In this day of progress people demand quick
results. The old methods of doing business by mail is not
satisfactory in many instances, and given cheap telegraphic
communication the average buiness man will make use of it.
The people of Alaska, we believe, have few or no just
complaints to make as to the quality or efficiency of the sendee.
But they are fairly entitled to more reasonable rates.—Ex.
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FOOLISH EASTERN IDEA
Some foolish Eastern writers are again blocking things in
Alaska’s progress by saying that a railroad cannot be operated
in the winter. This is absurd. The Copper River routs had
accidents and various local troubles last winter, but it over
came them and was not tied up any longer than the Great
Northern which had snow troubles in the Cascades. The Salt
Lake Route was put out of business for seven months by a
washout, the Colorado Midland had a four months delay on
account of snow and it took the Central Pacific thirty years to
perfect its snow-sheds and track protection over the Sierras.
The editor of the Dispatch can testify that the Copper River
Route was operated in 1909-10 without trouble and with but
slight trouble in 1911. The last winter was severe with a long
delay, but it is confidently expected that the coming winter will
prove the falsity of all claims that a railroad cannot be operated
in winter in Alaska.—Juneau Dispatch.
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BREAKING THE DEMOCRATIC LINE
Democrats in Congress are showing the same spirit of
independence displayed by progressive republicans in the
earlier stages of the insurgency movement, and it is not at all
unlikely that the Jeffersonians soon will find themselves
divided as the republicans divided, into opposing camps.
' It will not be a bad result.
The American people will not lose anything on account of
these party breaches. Public business may be delayed on
account of too much factional haggling. But the final outcome
will not be unwholesome.
Oscar Underwood, in many respects the most successful
democratic leader in the house since the time of Crisp and
Carlisle, managed to hold his party associates together fairly
veil until he reached the tariff in the detail stages of the
neasure. It was then that local interests broke the line, and
Mr. Underwood has not been able to close the gaps. On the
contrary, the breaks have increased from day to day, and the
party lash is no longer of any effect. It is just as well, for there
is no reason why every measure before Congress should be
made a party measure. - ?
What vital party principle, for instance, is involved in the
democratic proposal to abolish the commerce court!
There is no party question involved in this proposition
unless it is to be found in a democratic desire to abolish the
court merely because the republicans established it.
If we do not need the court, or if the court is failing to do
what the framers of the law creating it expected it to do, then
the court ought to be abolished, and the chances are that all
patriotic and intelligent members of Congress, irrespective of
party affiliation, will take that view of it. Yet the democrats
have seen fit to caucus on this issue with a view of making it a
party question.
It is absurd and childish.
Mr. Undenvood does not seem to realize that we are not
living in the age of the mighty caucus. Men are too independent
now to be lashed into doing what they do not honestly believe
lo be the right thing, and Mr. Underwood’s failure to realize
this vital fact has lost him the power he once had over his party
associates in Congress. Still there is sonte good in this breaking
of the democratic line, for it means more independence of
thought and action, and more courage and more patriotism, and
less narrow and hurtful pai’tyisnx in Congress.
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BOTH SIDES SWATTED
The rate war that is about to be waged between the White
Pass & Yukon Railroad company and the Northern Navigation
Company will be viewed with much equanimity by Alaskans
and Yukoners, who will be the gainers. Neither concern is
entitled to sympathy. Both have charged “all the traffic would
bear,” and more, for many years. Both have paid heavy profits
to their stockholders, and if the miner, the prospector and
merchant’s load be lightened temporarily, the fighting rivals
will not suffer materially.
Neither Alaska nor the Yukon owe the belligerents’ any
thing—not even their goodwill. Both corporations have found
the North countries rich ground for exploitation and they have
never missed an opportunity to milk it to the last drop. Both
have exercised a complete—not to say grinding—monopoly,
and each has done much to retard the development of its
respective domain by the levying of unjust and inequitable
tribute upon a helpless people in order to enrich its foreign
owners.
And yet both probably actually believe they have been the
greatest developing factors of the North, and will perhaps tell
ot the sacrifices they have made, the expenses entailed in their
altruistic efforts to carry the white man’s burden, or perchance
they may even recount their heavy losses—but never one word
about the enormous profits wrung from the men who have made
this country what it is despite spoilation and spoliators.
Let the battle rage. No Northern tears will be shed for the
dying or dead.—Juneau Daily Empire.
SUMMONS.
In the Justice Court, Chitina Pre
cinct, Third Division, Territory of
Alaska.
Joseph Feaster, Plaintiff,
vs. \
Jack Lowery, Defendant.
Summons No. 114.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA, GREET
ING:
To the above named Defendant, Jack
Lowery:
You are hereby required to appear
in the Justice Court of Chltina Pre
cinct, Third Division, Territory of
Alaska, within thirty days of the
completion of the publication of this
summons, and answer the complaint
of the above named complainant,
Joseph Feaster, which alleges that
the defendant is indebted to the
plaintiff in the sum of Ninety-five
dollars for goods and merchandise
sold and money loaned and praying
for a jugment in that amount to
gether with interest thereon and ac
crued costs in this action, and that
unless you, the said defendant, so
appear and answer the complaint,
plaintiff will apply to the court for
the relief demanded in his said com
plaint.
Date of order for said publication
of Summons, June 24th, 1913.
Witness, Justice of said court Paul
d'Heirry, this 24th day of June, 1913.
First publication, July 1, 1913.
Last publication. August 12, 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 byt 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
the Valdez Creek Association, Valdez
Creek, tributary of the Susitna,
In the Copper Center Mining and Re
ording District, Territory of Alaska,
nd the said amount was so expend
d and such labor performed for the
urpose of holding said claim under
he provisions of Section 2324 Re
used Statutes of the United States
and Act of Congress approved March
, 1907, and constitutes the annual
ssessment work upon said claims
or the years 1910, 1911, 1912. And
f witin ninety days after the last
publication of this notice you fail to
ay the undersigned as co-owners
our proportion of the expense for
he years 1910, 1911, 1912, together
witth the cost of this advertisement,
our interest will become the prop
rty of the undersigned under said
ection2324 Revised Statutes of the
United States.
J. E. CARLSON,
i'irst publication, April 8, 1913.
Last publication, July 8, 1913.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
TO FRED HERMANSON, SWAN
1INGWOOD, WM. HERTZBERG O.
PEARSON, A. J. NORDALE, tfeur
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 ($300.80) In
labor and improvements upon certain
lacer mining claim known as
lolocli Association, Valdez Creek,
ributary of the Susitna,
In the Copper Center Mining and Re
cording District, Territory of Alaska,
nd the said amount was so expend
d and c.uch labor performed for the
purpose of holding said claim under
he provisions of Section 2324 Re
vised Statutes of the United States
tnd Act of Congress approved March
, 1907, and constitutes the annual
sscssment work upon said claims
or the years 1910, 1911, 1912. And
f 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
he years 1910, 1911, 1912, together
wi*«*h the cost of this advertisement,
our interest will become the prop
rty of the undersigned under said
section2324 Revised Statutes of the
United States.
J. E. CARLSON,
irst publication, April 8, 1913.
Last publication, July 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 ($308.00) in
labor and improvements upon certain
placer 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 fail to
pay the undersigned as co-owners
your proportion of the expense for
the years 1910, 1911, 1912, together
wltth the cost of thlB advertisement,
your interest will become the prop
erty of the undersigned under said
sectton2324 Revised Statutes of the
United States.
J. E. CARLSON.
First publication, April 8, 1913.
Last, publication, July 8, 1913.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To ANTONE CARLSON, 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 ot
three hundred dollars ($300.00) in
labor and improvements upon certain
placer mining claim known as
Last Chance Association, adjoining
No. 1 and 2 Lucky Gulch Creek
Claims, a tributary ot Roosevelt
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 wltin 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
8ectlon2324 Revised Statutes of the
United States.
J. E. CARLSON.
First publication, April 8, 1912.
Last publication, July 8, 1913.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To C. P. MORGAN, Your Heirs, I
Personal Representatives and As-1
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 Susltna, also
known as the Gaston Bench Claim,
In the Copper Center Mining and Re
folding District, Territory of Alaska,
and the B&id amount was so expend
ed and such labor performed for the
purpose of holding said claim under
he 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
or 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
he 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.
irst publication, April 8, 1913.
Last publication, July 8, 1913.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To P. ERICKSON, ANTON CARL
SON, SWAN RINQWOOD, CHAS.
OWEL, L. RUB, Your Heirs Per
omal Representatives and Assigns,
nd 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
abor and improvements upon that
lacer mining claim known as the
..ooaevelt Association, Roosevelt
Creek, a tributary of Valdez Creek,
n the Copper Center Mining and Re
•ording District, Territory of Alaska,
and the said amount was so expend
d and such labor performed for the
urpose of holding said claim under
he provisions of Section 2324 Ra
ised Statutes of the United States
and Act of Congress approved March
, 1907, and constitutes the annual
assessment work upon said claims
or the years 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911,
912. And if within ninety days
fter the last publication of this
notice you fail to pay the undersigned
s co-owners your proportion of the
i xpese for the years 1908, 1909,
1910,, 1911, 1912, together with the
; ost of this advertisement, your in
terest wlllbecome the property of the
undersigned under said Section 2324
Revised Statutes of the United states.
J. E. CARLSON,
irst publication, April 8, 1913.
Last publication, July 8, 1913.
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NOTICE OP FORFEITURE
To GUST JOHNSON, A. NESBIT,
ONTIUS MAGNUSON, L. SCHIM
MELPFENNING L. RUE, J. PAT
TERSON, R. BLlX, Your Heirs, Per
onal Representatives and Assigns,
and All or any Person or Persons
;lalming 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
ertain 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 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 willbeeome the property of the
undersigned under said Section 2324
Revised Statutes of the United States.
J. E. CARLSON.
First publication, April 8, 1913.
Last publication, July 8, 1913.
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the Chitlna Cash store, has tendered
his resignation and intends to short
ly leave for the states. Joho Nelson
s ill succeed Mr. Gillman as manager
M»d Oscar Fish will mo to Chinna as ;
bookkeeper for the firm.
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