The Chitina Leader
CHITINA, ALASKA.
Entered as second-class matter, November 12, 1910, at the postoffice at
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CHITINA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 17,1913.
CHANGING THE NAME
What is widely termed a new idea in municipal government
which has been adopted by several towns, is presented again
by the village of River Forest, 111. This town advertises for
a business manager to take charge of all its business except
its schools. lie is to have a salary about equal to that of
school superintendent, in the vicinity of $2,500, and the ideal
man for the place is described by the president of the village
board as “a wide-awake young fellow who will see that every
function of the village is performed and that the town gets
what it pays for in the way of contracts.’’
This is a new idea, in the sense that it is a departure from the
prevalent way of conducting municipal affairs; but it is old
as regards the theory for the existence of municipal executive
offices. For what does any municipal unit which has a chief
executive, whether he is called Mayor, Burgess or President
of the Board, pay him his salary? Is there any justification
for paying him the money raised by taxation unless it is to see
the functions of the municipality properly performed and that
it gets what it pays for in the way of contracts? If the mu
nicipal practice has not secured that result, it is evidently a
vice of local politics, which is not cured by giving the executive
office a new name.
Of course every town should have such an executive head to
manage its affairs on the same principle as a well-operated
factory. But the bothersome question is: If the municipal
politics will not secure a mayor or burgess who will do tnis
work and does it well, what chance is there that tljey will per
mit the choice of a business manager who will do any better?
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ALASKA RAILROADS AND CONGRESS
While it is by no means certain that Congress will pass the
Wickersham-Cliamberlain or any other railroad bill during the
present session of Congress, there is much encouragement in
the announcement that the Senate Committee on Territories
has agreed to submit within a few days a favorable report on
what appears to be the most acceptable of the pending meas
ures. Backed by a favorable report the bill in question has a
splendid chance of final passage, and the nation-wide clamor
for the development of Alaska may influence the national law
makers to take action before the end of the present session.
There is the possibility, however, that although Congress may
be fully convinced of the necessity for railroads in the North,
the members will be unable to agree upon a mode of proeed
ure. The opposition to government construction which devel
oped during the committee hearings may assume a more se
rious aspect when the question comes up for consideration be
fore the Senate; and while we have no doubt favorable action
will be taken ultimately, we are not sure that Congress is ready
at this time to undertake an enterprise wihich involves ques
tions of policy with which the national lawmakers are none
too familiar.
But it will be difficult to convince Alaskans that there re
mains a single excuse for further delay. We of the North be
lieve that already too much time has been wasted on questions
of less importance to the territory, and if the lawmakers are
not now prepared to deal intelligently with the railroad prob
lem it is their own fault and not Alaska’s. For several years
the members of Congress have devoted a considerable part of
their time each session to the study of conditions in the North;
scores of Alaskans have appeared before the various commit
tees; congressmen and cabinet members have made trips in
to the territory at government expense for the express pur
pose of ascertaining the needs of the country; and a large
corps of government experts have been at work for years gath
ering data for the enlightenment of congress and the general
public. With all this information at hand in the form of
printed records and reports- the members of congress surely
are aware of the fact that we need a railroad more than any
other one thing. And it should be equally plain to them that
our needs can best be served by a government-owned and gov
erndent-operated railroad. The existing roads have shown
plainly that they have no thought of extending their lines
into the interior without government aid, and, as former Sec
retary of the Interior Fisher remarked last year, if the govern
ment must assist existing lines, why not build the road and be
done with it? Such a course will necessitate a larger initial
outlay, but the benefits to be derived from a government-con
structed railroad will more than make up for the added cost to
the nation, and the government eventually will get its nmney
back with interest
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ALASKA, AN IMPERIAL DREAM
Edmund IL Wells, editor of the Seattle Star, who visited
Alaska in the early ’80’s as the head of a government survey
party, before most of the camps in Alaska were born, has a very
intelligent editorial in a recent issue of the Sun on Alaska.
Writing under “The Urge and Promise of Alaska,” he says:
Alaska, after a long, hard struggle, seems to be on the way
to statehood, on the way to justice so long denied to Alaska
and Alaskans.
The federal government will probobly build 733 miles of
railroad which will connect important producing centers with
one of the ports of Southern or Southeastern Alaska- and at
the same time link important rivers of the northern country.
It will mean an expenditure of about $40,000,000. Alaska now
has about 500 miles of privately owned railroads- With the
proposed government road Alaska would have about 1,200
miles of railroad, and this, added to the water transportation
routes, roads and trails, would give Alaska the start Alaskans
have been fighting for during many years.
Alaska cost us $7,200,000.
Alaska has already poured more than $500,000,000 of wealth
into the lap of the United States.
We paid $20,000,000 for the canal zone strip, and the canal
will cost us finally $400,000-000 without the fortifications we
are dound to establish and maintain at the canal approaches
We have spent many millions of dollars in the Philippines
Certainly the canal will be worth more than it will cost us,
and there is no reason to believe that we will not get our
money out of the Philippines.
But in the meantime what have we been doing for Alaska?
Nothing.
But the Alaskans have not been discouraged. They have con
tinued the liard struggle against the raw forces of nature.
They have continued their quest for new veins of wealth in
the north, always hoping that the time wnnild come when the
federal government would see its responsibilities in Alaska
and meet them fairly and efficiently.
The scales have fallen from the eyes of the statesmen hither
to blind to Alaska’s wealth and opportunities, and a new day
is breaking for Alaska, and it will be a great day for America
also, for in its possibilities of material wealth, in the divers
ity of climate and richness of soil, in the reaches of its navi
gable streams and the extent and possible maximum potential
ity of its water powers, in the ruggedness and beauty of its
mountains and in the glow and urge of its placid valleys,
Alaska is an imperial dream almost too good to be true.
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RAILROADS FOR ALASKA
Alaska has won so many friends in Congress through the pub
licity given its affairs and through the flagrant wrongs suf
fered by its citizens that hope may be entertained for the pas
sage of the bill introduced by Senator Chamberlain and Del
egate Wickersham for construction of railroads from the coast
to the interior, or of somie similar measure.
Having before it the report of the Alaska Railroad Comirtis
sion describing the best routes and estimating the cost and the
earnings of the roads, Congress is now equipped to decide what
can be best done. The subject does not justify prolonged
debate, like the tariff and the currency, which directly af
fect every interest. There will necessarily be many lulls in
the proceedings of the Senate and House on the two latter sub
jects and this time could be profitably consumed in passing the
Alaska railroad bill.
The bill contains a provision which would prevent the rail
road from becoming a permanent burden on the nation. This
is that half of the proceeds of the sale af public land in Alas
ka shall be applied to the redemption of the bonds issued to
secure funds for construction. If the railroad bill should be
followed at the next session by legislation opening Alaskan
public land to development, the revenue from this source
would quickly suffice to extinguish the debt, and the traffic on
the roads would, with good management, prove them a pay- j
ing investment.
Passage of the railroad bill would be an earnest of the gov
ernment’s interest in Alaska, and would encourage those who
have cast their fortunes in the far north not to abandon hope.
Pending legislation for the opening of farm land to settlement
and coal land to development, those long-suffering pioneers
i could be given employment in building the railroads. Western
i men in Congress may well unite their forces in support of this
| measure.—Portland Oregonian.
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According to the United States Bureau of Education, Ohio
Massachusetts and Kansas are the only states which provide ad
equately against fire horrors in the public schools. Still as
Ohio furnished the last example of a wholesale burning of that
sort, the reformation in that state must be set down as recent.
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Everything carries its compensations. If the jingoes should
succeed in getting us into a war with Japan, Uncle Sam would
at last be able to lose his Philippine Islands
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The statement that Col- Roosevelt is going to Arizona to
look for a lost tribe of Indians, indicates unnecessary trouble.
Wny should lie go so far to hunt a lost tribe of Indians when
Le need go no further than the states to hunt fc-v ;; lost tribe
of Progressive reformers 1
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A poll of 2,000 New York showed 39 per eent indifferent on
the vote- 32^ per cent opposed to suffrage and 28H per cent
for. And the bulk of the vote for was on the East side and
the poorer sections, and of the indifferent in comfortable homes.
But even 28^ per cent is a large suffragist proportion in New
York than many people would think likely.
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A news item informs the public that a paying teller with a
salary of $2,400, a wife, three children and an auton obile is
$18,000 short in his accounts. We should deem the report
quite possible.
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Secretary Daniels denies that the Oregon will bo used as a
target. This announcement on the fifteenth anniversary of
the famous race around the Ilcrn will meet public sentiment.
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A Chicago man is repontd to have lived a dm T ie life for
,-pvi'M vi.fi-s on $12 a week. It must have been a case ><t six of
one and halt a dozen of the other. ^
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More than 130,000 office seekers want government jobs put
on the free list says the New York Press. Oh, no! They
want them on the preferential list, with themjselves preferred.
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Cold storage, a Philadelphia orator explains, has kept butter
and eggs at reasonable prices the past winter. What does he
oonsider reasonable, anyhow?
The preponderance of women over men is larger in Mas
sachusetts than in any other state. And this does not count
the “old women” among the male jojulation of the Hub.
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It is reported that the Mexican government has granted a
concession to a syndicate to open a Mexican Monte Carlo. It
is not surprising that a governmient which kills presidents for
the crime of being constitutionally elected should authorize the
erection of a national gambling shop.
NOTICE OF HEARING OF FINAL
ACCOUNT
In the United States Commissioner’s
Court. Ex.Officio Judge in Pro
bate, Chitina l’reciuct, Territory
of Alaska, Third Judicial Division.
In the matter of the estate of C. W.
Babbage, deceased, A. G. Morey,
administrator.
Notice is hereby given that A. G.
Morey, administrator of the estate of
C. W. Babbage, deceased, has ren
dered, filed and presented for settle
ment his Final Account and report of
his administration of the said estate,
and that the 29th day of May, 1913,
at the hour of 2o’clock, p. m. of the
said day, at the office of Paul d'Heir
ry> ex-officio Judge in Probate, of the
Chitina Precinct, at Chitina, Alaska,
has been duly appointed by the said
court, as the time and place of settle
ment of said final account and report,
at which time and place any person
interested in said estate may appear
and file his objections and exceptions
to said final account and report.
Dated at Chitina, Alaska, this 20th
day of March, 1913.
A. U. MUKEY,
Adminstrator of the estate of C. W.
Rabbage, deceased.
Pate of first publication, Apr. 8, 1913
late of last publication May 27, 1913.
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NOTICE OK FORFEITURE
TO CHAS. CARLSON, Your Heirs,
Personal Representatives and As
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
the Valdez Creek Association, Valdez
Creek, 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 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
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,
first publication, April 8, 1913.
Last publication, July 8, 1913.
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NOTICE OK FORFEITURE
TO FRED HERMANSON, SWAN
RING WOOD, WM. HERTZBERG O.
PEARSON, A. J. NORDALE, 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 ($300.00) in
iabor and improvements upon certain
placer mining claim known as
Moloch Association, Valdez Creek,
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 1910, 1911, 1912. And
if witiu 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
section2324 Revised Statutes of the
United States.
J. E. CARLSON.
First publication, April 8. 1913.
Last publication, July 8, 1913.
NOTICE OK 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 ($300.00) in
labor and improvements upon certa n
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
sd and such labor performed for the
purpose of holding said claim under
the provisions of Section 2324 Re
vised Statutes of the United States
tnd Act of Congress approved March
2, 1907, and constitutes the annual
assessment work upon said claims
’or the years 1 910, 1911, 1912. And
if witin ninety days after the last
publication of this notice you fail to
pay the undersigned ac co-owners
vour proportion of the expense for
he years 1910, 1911, 1912, together
witth the cost of this advertisement,
vour interest will become the prop
erty of the undersigned under said
iection2324 Revised Statutes of the
Jnited States.
J. E. CARLSON,
rirst publication, April 8, 1913.
Last publication, July 8, 1913.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To ANTONE CARLSON, Your
Heirs, Personal Representatives and
\ssigns, and All or Any Person or
Persons Claiming by, Through or
Linder 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
Last Chance Association, adjoining
No. 1 and 2 Lucky Gulch Creek
Claims, a tributary of 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 folding 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
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.
First publication, April 8, 1918.
Last publication, July 8, 1913.
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NOTICE OK FORFEITURE
To C. P. MORGAN, Your Heirs,
Personal Representatives und As
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 Susitna. also
known as the Gaston Bench Claim,
In the Copper Center Mining and Re
coiding 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
witth the cost of this advertisement,
your interest will become the prop
erty of tlie undersigned under said
section2324 Revised Statutes of the
United States.
J. K. CARLSON.
First publication, April 8, 1913.
Last publication, July 8, 1913.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To P. ERICKSON, ANTON CARL
SON SWAN RLNGWOOD, CHAS.
COWEL, L. RUE, Your Heirs Per
sonal 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
five hundred dollars ($500.00) in
labor and improvements upon that
placer mining claim known as the
Roosevelt Association, Roosevelt
Creek, a 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, 19U7, 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 willbecome 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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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To GUST JOHNSON, A. NESBIT,
PONTIUS MAGNUSON, L. SCHIM
MELPFENNING L. RUE, J. PAT
TERSON, R. BLIX, Your Heirs, Per
sonal 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 sura of
five hundred dollars (1500.00) in
labor and improvements upon that
certain 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 witn the
=ost of this advertisement, your in
terest willbecoine the property of the
undersigned under said Section 2324
Revised otatutes of the United States.
J. E. CARLSON.
First publication, April 8, 1913.
Last publication, July 8, 1913.
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Edwin H. Gillman, manager of
the Chitina Cash store, has tendered
nis resignation and intends to short
ly leave for the states. John Nelson
i' ill succeed Mr. Gillman as manager
tnd Oscar Fish will go to Chaina ns
bookkeeper for the firm.
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