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Leslies’ Weekly of June 22 con
tains a full page article from the pen
of Charles T. Conover on Alaska,
setting forth an extraordinary record
of ten years of oppression and neglect
from which the following excerpts
are taken:
“In the past ten years congress has
legislated five times on the subject
of Alaska coal lands, yet the acts
have been so defective, either in sub
stance or in their administration, i
that not an acre of coal land has
yet been patented. Alaska is an Arc
tic country and needs fuel as a des
ert needs water. These are millions
of acres of coal lands there, and they
have to send to a foreign country for
their fuel. Railroad construction is
practically at a standstill and smelt
ers and works necessary for the de
velopment of the great deposits of
precious minerals and metals cannot
be secured, because they cannot be
operated with coal at from fifteen to
seventeen dollars a ton. The devel
opment of Alaska would give an im
petus to business in every portion of
the United States.
"In the west and in Alaska some
thing like 200,000,000 acres of land
are withheld from distribution to the
people. Mr. Pinchot and his follow
ers did not like the law of 1904.
The,y did not ask congress to amend
or repeal it. They ignored congress
and the law, and in 1906 President
Roosevelt suspended it. The order
not only suspended it as to the fu
ture, but purported to suspend the
entries already made under it. The
people of Alaska were helpless. No
court had jurisdiction for a suit by
a citizen against the government,
and, if it had. no citizen with a claim
of 160 acres could afford to bring it.
This order tied up Alaska. The
Alaska Central Railroad, under con
struction to the Matanuska coal
fields was bankrupted and its con
struction stopped. The Copper River
Railroad, which had started to the
Bering River fields, was stopped.
Towns which had sprung up lan
RYAN IS CHARGED WITH
BEING ‘SECRET AGENT”
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Washington. July K.—Representative Cox, Democratic member from j
Indiana, today introduced a resolution in the House requiring President
Taft to furnish Congress with all information and what, if any, represen
tations were made him by Richard S. Ryan, of KataUa, “Secret agent of
the Guggenheim syndicate,” through former Secretary Ballinger or
Charles P. Taft, regarding control of the lands at Controller bay.
Surf, Cal., July S.—The steamer
Santa Rosa, which went on the rocks
at point Conception has broken in
two and she will likely be a total
loss. Four of the crew were drown
ed and twenty of the passengers are
missing, although they are probably
safe.
Santa Barbara, July 8.—Passen
gers on the wrecked Santa Rosa as
sert that Capt. Raria refused to put
them ashore until forced to do so.
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Washington, July 8.—The Depart
ment of Commerce annonuces that
the ship Explorer will begin a sur
vey of the entrance to Kuskokwim
river in Alaska early next month.
GATES’ RECOVERY
Paris, July 8.—Seven operations
have been performed upon John W.
Gates, suffering from catarrhal af
fection of the throat, which render
his recovery doubtful.
NEWWTOR
SEATTLE
Seattle, July 8.—It has been def
initely decided that William Ran
dolph Hearst’s new morning paper,
the Seattle Examiner, will be laun
ched not later than March 1.
Washington, July 5.—The Inter
state Commerce Commission today
rendered a decision on freight clas
sification affecting barbed wire. It
decided that the freight rate on this
clasB of commodity must be reduced
40 cents per hundred.
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Washington, July 8.—The state
departfnent has been advised that
Castro, the exiled President of Ven
ezuela, has outwitted the vigilance
of the nations of the world and
landed in his native country.
Willemstad, Curacao, Jul y8.—The
Venezuela government has positive
news that Castro has affected a land
ing on the west coast and has a
following of many thousands.
WRECKED
Wheeling W. Va., July 8.—A vio
lent storm breaks suddenly on the
Ohio river, drowning two people and
wrecking five boats.
[theTIes of
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Los Angeles, July 8.—Ethel Bar
rymore will file a suit for divorce
on Monday against her husband Rus
sell Griswold Colt.
KING VISITING
Dublin, July 8.—King George and
Queen Mary have arrived here and
will spend five days in Ireland.
Seattle, July 4.—Professor Park
er and party will leave on the
steamer sailing this evening to climb
Mt. McKinley. The members of the
party will make Seward the start
ing place and follow their old route.
New \ork, July 5.—The wife of
Richard Legallienc has secured a di
vorce. Her grounds were that he
was possessed cf a poetic tempera
ment, which demanded frequent
changes for women’s affections. (
guished or were deserted. Projected
smelters and works vanished into
thin air. Many applicants in Alaska
had surveyed their claims and done
development work upon them. They
have paid over $323,000 to the gov
ernment as purchase price. Every
expedient has been resorted to by
the government to avoid issuing pat
ents.
"The misrepresentations regarding
Alaska are criminal. The field di
vision recently valued certain Alaska
lands at $50,000,000. Thereupon
throughout the country was publish
ed the statement that these lands
were worth $300,000,000. As a
matter of fact, these particular lands
were lignite deposits on Cook’s In
let that could not be shipped in com
petition and whose only value would
be in use locally in the development
of Alaska. The field division of the
land office claims to be working
overtime to dispose of these claims,
but recently an attorney for one of
the Alaska claimants sought to make
an argument before W. J. Howard,
chief of the mineral division, and
was frankly told, ‘ There is no use
in it. We are doing nothing in these
matters. In all probability I will be
out of here or dead before these
cases are decided.”
“The census figures for Alaska,
just made public, strikingly illus
trate the dismal failure made by the
federal government in the manage
ment of Alaska. While the cities
in the Pacific Coast states have in
creased from one hundred to two
hundred per cent, in the past decade
practically every city in Alaska has
decreased and the territory as a
whole has barely held its own, hav
ing been saved front depopulation by
new placer discoveries, which do not
count for permanent development.
Under just laws Alaska would quad
ruple its population in ten years, as
has been done in the Canadian North
west in the past ten years, solely by
the influx of the best sort of Amer
ican settlers.
“Alaskans believe that they are
being made cat’s-paws of for the coal
barons of the east and Pacific coast.
They simply ask justice.”
Mining Companies and
Mineral Claim Owners
Publication of Final Proof Notices
Preparations are now making ]>y manv com
panies tor the securing of patents to copper and j
gold claims in that rich mining section known
as the Chitina-Kotsina-Xizina district. Publi
cation of final proof must be made in accord
ance with the requirements of the law- which
are contained in the following excerpts of in
structions issued by the General Land Office at
Washington:
A notice of intended final proof must be published
in a newspaper of established character and of general
circulation in the vicinity of the land affected thereby,
such paper having a fixed and well known place of pub
lication.
Xo newspaper shall be deemed a qualified medium
of notice unless it shall have Ix-en continuously publish- j
ed during an unbroken period of six months immediate
ly preceding the publication of the notice, nor unless it
shall have applied for and In-en granted the privilege of
transportation in and by the United States mails at the
rate provided by law for second-class matter, a privilege
available to all newspapers having a legitimate list of
subscribers and a known place of publication.
The notice must in ali cases be published in the news
paper which may be issued at a place nearest to the lands
which the notice affects. By the word “nearest” as liei-e
used it is not intended that geographical proximity shall
be measured on an air line drawn between the land and
the place of publication, but by the length of the shortest
and principally traveled thoroughfare between such
places, being the highway ordinarily used and employed i
for travel by vehicles of any kind. j
The law invests registers with discretion in the se
lection of newspajiers to lie the media of notice in such 1
cases as are here referred to.
Persons seeking to establish their right to a legal title
to any public lands are not authorized to interfere with
the discretion of the register in the choice of a news
paper in which to publish notice of their claims; nor
will any designation of a newspaper made by a register,
in the reasonable exercise of that discretion, be disturbed
on the ground that the claimant recommended another
newspaper. i
: l I,on the receipt of the papers, if no reason appears
for rejecting the application, the register will, at the ex- i
pense of the claimant (who must furnish the'agreement ]
j °t the publisher to hold applicant for patent alone respon- |
sible for charges of publication), publish a notice of such i
| application for the period of sixty days in a newspaper
published nearest to the claim, and will post a copy of
such notice in his office for the same period.
The law imposes upon registers the duty of procuring
the publication of proper final-proof notices and charges
the claimant with no ooligation in that behalf, except
that he shall bear and pay the cost of such publication.
The Chitina Leader
fills the above requirements, and will publish j
the necessary notices at less than 50 cents per
line, the price allowed by law to weekly news
papers, for the entire publication during sixty
days. So that there may be no delay, publish
ers’ agreement should be secured by writing to
WILL A. STEEL, HARRY G. STEEL,
Publishers of !
The Chitina Leader, Mina, Alaska I
Cordova Daily Alaskan, Cordova
Or to the SEATTLE OFFICE, 551 Colman
Building,
I. J. ST. CLAIR T. W. CLOXINGER,
Proprietors
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The Northern Pacific will not at
tempt at this time to convert its
locomotives into oil burners, because
of its extensive coal mine holdings
west of the Cascades and its annual
pay roll in these mines of $2,000,
000 a year. Should the road burn
oil hundreds of men would be thrown
out of employment.
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