Please give some of the new banking
and currency laws.
The banking and currency law now
In force provides for a federal reserve
board at Washington, consisting of
seven members, to have control of the
reserve banking and currency system
and report annually to congress; eight
to twelve regional reserve banks locat
ed In as many cities at the geo
graphical centers of reserve districts;
all national banks In each reserve dis
trict must join the system; federal re
serve or treasury notes printed by the
government and placed in the regional
banks under heavy security. Any
member bank of the federal reserve
system, except in the cities of New
York. Chicago and St. Louis, may loan
money upon five year farm mortgages,
such mortgages not to exceed half the
Ta.'ne of the land pledged. Secretary
of State Bryan has said that by the
operation of the new taw "the finan
cin' center has been chanced from
New York to Washington.” which re
mark led the New \*ork World to re- ;
plj that the financial center remains. :
as always, in Wall street.
What was the attitude of the United
States when Europe intervened in
Meoco during the civil war?
The United States notified England, i
France and Spain that it would not
join them in an armed intervention in
Mexico.
Will you tell me what was the origi- ;
nal cause of the Boer war and the num- j
her of people killed on each side?
The first war was in 1SS0 and the
cause was that the British government
attempted to annex the Transvaal
agaiDst the will of the Boers, who won.
A treaty of peace ensued in 1SS1. The
second war was declared against Eng
land by Oom Paul Kroger in 1X19. The
Immediate cause was the attempt of
Great Britain to coerce the Transvaal
republic into granting the franchise to
"outsiders.” The Orange Free state
made common cause with the Boers,
but resistance was finally overcome in
3902. and the Boers acknowledged Ed
ward VII. as their lawful sovereign.
The Boer soldiers all told numbered ;
about 75,000. the British over 450.000. j
The British lost 22.C00 lives, the Boers
3.700. The British had 75.000 men in
valided by wounds or disease.
How did the phrase “dog days” orig
inate? ’ a
it bad Its origin In ignorance and
superstition. The ancient Romans call
ed the six or eight hottest weeks of
summer “cariiculares dies.” According
to their theory. the dog star, or Sirius,
rising writ the sun. added to its heat,
and the d-ig days bore the combined
heat or i:«- dog star and the sun. The
time ffa> from July 3 to Aug. 11
Some make the time to extend from
July 15 to to Aug. 20. and others from
July 24 to ahont Sept. 1. Sirius, the
dog star, was so calied because it was
the brightest star in the constellation
Canis Major, or the greater dog.
Has there ever before been anything
like the “Christmas ship” sent by
Americans to relieve want across the |
sea?
Food ships have been sent In the ,
past to relieve distress in Ireland. In- j
dia and China. One such contributed
by the public was referred to as the j
“grain ship.”
Did the United States have any pen- j
•ion law before the revolutionary war?
Strictly speaking there was no Unit
ed States till after the Revolutionary
■war and the adoption of the constitu
tion In 17S7. But the colonial congress
passed a pension law Aug. 20. 1776.
less than two months after the Decla
ration of Independence. This law
promised half pay for life or during
disability to every officer, soldier or
sailor losing a limb or becoming dis
abled in the service, in August. 17S0. i
while the war was still going on. con- |
gress adopted a resolution extending
the half pay provision to the widows
or orphan children of officers who had
died in the service. This was the first
pension law in favor of widows and
orphans. Near the close of the war,
in April. 1782. congress provided that
soldiers who were then sick or wound
ed or unfit for duty should be dis
charged and pensioned at the rate of
$5 per month. Many pensions were
granted under this law. and when the
money to pay them was not In the
treasury the pensioners were paid in
certificates payable to bearer and
drawing interest at 6 per cent till paid,
without any date being fixed or pro
vision made for their payment. Many
pf the revolutionary pensioners sold
their certificates as low as 1SH cents
on the dollar.
What are the origin and significance
of the three bills used to indicate a
pawnshop?
The Lombards were the first great
money lenders, and of them the bouse
of Medici at Florence. Italy, was the
first to engage in money lending as a
regular business. On the Medici coat
of arms were three gold bails, and
Inter Joan offices came generally to
adopt this sign to indicate their busi
ness.
Old Time Bayonets.
The bayonet of the Waterloo era was
nearly a foot longer than the present
Weapon.
The razor that glides so smoothly
over your face is at the Windsor
SHORT AND SHARP.
It's a poor article that can't get itself
imitated.
Any man can borrow trouble without
hank references or security.
Turkey never feels normal unless she
ii at war and being sliced up.
An explanation can often explain
without being very convincing.
Clothes don’t make the man. bat
they tell a whole tot about him.
The milk of human kindness can't be
made to go farther by adding water
to it. _
The bead, like the stomach. Is most
easily infected with poison when it is
empty
It is a common and always danger*
ous mistake to do your thinking with
your ears.
When some men fall to make a nit
they try to Us the responsibility on
the hammer.
If you want to be well Informed take
a paper. Even a paper of plus will
give you points.
Correspondents with the army are not
even |>ermitted to explain the war to
the war censors.
It takes a man a long time to learn
that he can do more for himself than
any one will do for him.
The exploits of th» submarine may
uad to the construction of a battle
ship that can dive as well as swim.
It Is said in Washington that 145.dh0
people have dodged the income tax.
What a prosperous country this is. aft
er all!
Hard times are reported In Jerusa
lem. owing to the absence of Ameri
can tourists. • People are seeing Amer
ica first.
Tales of Cities.
Kansas City has 130 miles of boule
vards
Rentals are probably higher in Rome
than In any other European city. There
is believed to be relief at baud. Duw
ever
Philadelphia boasts of two women
bootblacks, two iiorters. five elevator
tenders, five umbrella menders and
scissors grinders and four cemetery
keepers.
The famous old city of La Paz. Bo
livia. located in a valley more than
12.000 feet above the sea, is the high
est capital in the world, overtopping
Lhassa. the fa: famed capital of Tibet,
in Asia, by several hundred feet
Short Stories.
Alpine climbing has been stopped,
owing to the war
There are railroad postofflces in
the United States.
People of Caracas. Venezuela, are to
be educated in the use ot electrical
equipment Id their nousehold tasks,
cooking, ironing, etc.
The vibrations caused by the erplo
sion of a twelve inch gun are sufficient
to shatter windows at a distance or
about a quarter of a mile.
White Pass, once an animated mu
nicipality living off of the Alaskan gold
seekers, is uow reduced to a deserted
village consisting ot a few uninhabited
cabins.
Pert Personals.
Tbe Culebra cut has to slide some
to keep up with George Wash lug ton
Goetbals.—Hartford Times.
It looks as if Mr. Carnegie will never
realize bis two chief ambitions, peace
and poverty.—Washington Herald.
CbrLstabel Pankhurst says she Is
ready to go to war for England. And
just a few months ago she was trying
to go to war with England.—Detroit
Free Press.
Since Mme. Jeanne Gerville-Reacbe
has Informed an anxions public that It
should be breathed "Jer-Vill Kay-Ashe”
it no longer matters how Przemysl is
pronounced.—Washington Post.
Curious Cuilings.
In Algeria girls marry when they are
ten years of age
No provision is made tn tbe postal
laws of Spain for Issuing money orders
payable in foreign eoontrlea
Tbe Singhalese believe tbe monkey to
be entitled to sacred honors and that
any boose built on tbe boues or one
of these animals will be cursed.
Tbe natives of Western Australia,
according to a current writer, “after
gorging themselves on tbe flesh of tbe
kangaroo, throw tbe bones over their
shoulders to their gins—L e.. wives—
who pass them on to tbe children.**
Cost of Living.
Economists say that tbe eating of
flsb is a good way to reduce tbe cost
of living. It Is also a good way to
raise tbe price of fish.—Detroit News.
Tbe new banknotes will have pic
tures of the automobile and tbe aero
plane as a delicate tribute to tbe speed
qualities of money and tbe bigb cost
of living.—Washington Post.
Tbe bigb cost of living resembles tbe
crowded street car tn that there al
ways seems to be room for some more,
no matter how we may have thought
we bad reached tbe limit.—Pittsburgh
Dispatch.
There has been considerable dis
cussion and difference of opinion as
to the fees that U. S. Commissioners
should charge for certain filings
And this has prompted Attorney
General Gregory to issue a circulai
to the various officials in this ter
ritory in which he says:
‘‘Under date of January 5, 1915,
the comptroller of the treasury ren
dered two decisions upon requests
made by the department as to
whether United States Commission
ers in Alaska shall charge the fees
prescribed by territorial statute or
I those fixed by regulation of the de
partment, where the territorial fees
are different from those fixed by
regulation for the same service.
“In these decisions the comptrol
ler holds that where a federal
statute fixes a fee for a service to
be rendered by a United States Com
missioner in Alaska, such fee is ap
plicable to the exclusion of any dif
ferent and inconsistent fee which
the territorial legislature may have
prescribed for the. same service.”
In the interior country there has
been much agitation over the ways
and means of securing a road from
Fairbanks to the new mining camp
of Tolovana. John Zug, superintend
ent for the Alaska Road Commis
sion, has just made the trip into the
new camp. Upon his return to Fair
banks he stated that the results of
the development work which will be
done in the next month in the Tolo
vana district will decide as to the
advisability of the construction of a
hummer trail to the newest placer
camp in Alaska. In any event, ac
cording to Mr. Zug, the road will not
be constructed this summer as there
will be very little road commission
money available for such work.
Deputy United States M.neral
Surveyor Ge.orge Parks, of the
Alaskan field force attached to the
Fairbanks district, recently arrived
from a two weeks’ trip into the Tolo
vana country. During his trip ne
investigated conditions thoroughly
and paid some attention to the wrood
and timber supply, which demanded
immediate attention from the land
omce.
He found that the heavy supply of
saw timber lies on the Tolovana
river down as far as the mouth of
the south fork, but that there is
plenty of saw timber and wood on
the upper Tolovana and its tribu
taries to satisfy the needs of the
ramp this year at least. Also he
found that there was considerable
good timber and wood over on the,
Mike Hess side of the divide, easily
accsessible.
Down the Tolovana at the mouth
of the west fork, near the head of
river navigation apparently, another
town is being promoted to be known
as Coleman City.
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NOTICE OF MARSHAL'S SALE
i
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
THIRD DIVISION, DISTRICT OF
ALASKA, ss.
Public notice is hereby given that
by virtue of a writ of execution
dated April 30th, A. D.. 1915, issued
out of the District Court, for the
Third Division, Territory of Alaska,
on a judgment rendered in the U. S.
Commissioner's Court, Chitina Pre
cinct, Alaska, on the 21st day of
December, A. D., 1914, in favor of
S. O. Breedman, and against E. W.
Exum, I did on the 17th day of
May, A. D„ 1915, levy upon all of
the right, title and interest of the
defendant E. W. Exum, in and to
the following described real estate,
situated in the Chitina Recording
Precinct. 3rd Division, Territory of
Alaska, to wit:
Lots one, two and three in Block
twenty-two and lots one, two and
three in Block (Ei all situated in
the townsite of Chitina, Alaska, and
that I will accordingly offer all
of the right, title and interest
of the defendant in said real
estate for sale, at public vendue
to the. highest and best bidder, for
cash, on the 24th day of June. A. D.,
1915, at 2 o’clock P. M. at the front
door of the U. S. Commissioner’s
Office. Chitina. Alaska.
Dated Chitina, Alaska, this 18th
day of May, A. D., 1915.
F. R. BRENXEMAN,
U. S. Marshal, 3rd Division,
Territory of Alaska.
By IV. J. FEASTER. Deputy.
First publication. May IS, 1915.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To Ben C. Hannam, administrator of
the Estate of James Garrett, de
ceased and to his heirs and
assigns of said James Garrett.
You are hereby notified that I, the i
subscriber, Ringwald Blix, have ex
pended and paid for your share in
j labor and improvements upon the
' Jacobson Placer Mining Claim for
the year 1912, 1913 and 1914.
j Said Placer Mining Claim is situ
; ated on Slate Creek, Copper Center
| Recording Precinct, Alaska. The
i notice of location thereof is of
•record in Book 1, Page 120 of Min
| ing Locations in said recording office
at Copper Center Alaska. To which
I book and page reference is hereby
| made for a more particular descrip
| tion of said claim. Such expenditure
| was made for the purpose of holding
possessory right and title to said
claim under provisions of Section
2324 of the Revised Statutes of the
United States and the amendments
thereof providing for annual labor
upon mining claims. That is to say
I that an hundred dollars worth «f
! labor and improvements w-as made
| upon said placer claim and that I as
j co-owner have expended the amounts
which were for the interest of said
Garrett’s estate.
You are further notified that un
less you pay your proportion of such !
expenditure together with the cost of
this advertisement to the under
signed within ninety days from the
: last publication of this notice your
: interest in said claim will become
the property of tne undersigned co
owner under said Section 2324, Re
| vised Statutes of the United States.
RINGWALD BLIX.
First publication, March 9, 1915.
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