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(9.
ONLY NEWSPAPER IN CHITINA
Published every Saturday by
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Office: Hotel Chitina Building. Cordova Office: Daily Alaskan
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CHITINA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1915.
THE PRELIMINARY ATTACKS
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The Republican publicity bureau in Washington is
beginning to send out campaign literature, that is destined to
have an effect on the next Presidential election. It is coming
to Alaska and no doubt every hamlet in the United States will
receive it. The tenor of the preliminary attacks is to the effect
that the present administration is “wavering and wobbling.”
And to this Judge Frazier, A1 White, Louis Shackleford,
Charley Heron and lots of other patriots in the north will
enthusiastically subscribe. In a general way the bureau would
have us believe that “history will probably write vacillation
as the chief characteristic of the W ilson administration. W bile
the American people have pictured Wilson in their minds as
a man of personal force and grim determination, the indis
putable record shows a wavering and wobbling policy never
before displayed by a Chief Executive of the United States.”
AN ERA OP ACCOMPLISHMENT
The coming of government agents these days to Alaska is
welcomed. Now they are here for action. Just the difference
between a progressive and reactionary administration. Before
we received kind words and stagnation. Now it is accom
plishment. Men have arrived at Katalla to survey the Bering
coal lands. Soon surveyors will be engaged in making the
permanent surveys of a line from Mile 38 to these coal fields.
And later we may expect to see long trains of cars hauling
into Cordova the coal of the neighboring section, and from
here shipped to various ports and supplied to government
battleships and cruisers. When a representative of the govern
ment comes north these days it is usually to start something,
and not to throw a spoke in the wheel of development, as was
the practice heretofore.
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PEACE IN THE ORIENT
The crisis between Japan and China has passed, or at least
postponed indefinitely. Japan has withdrawn for the time
her demands most vitally affecting the political independence
of the Chinese government and China, answering the ulti
matum from Tokio before this modification was known in
Peking, has conceded more than Japan finally asked.
Thus, once more, the Japanese diplomats have justified
their reputation for shrewdness. They seen! to have known
tliat they could push China just so far and have proved them
selves past masters in the Oriental art of bargaining, in which
the fundamental rule is to ask for more than you expect to get.
As to the outside world, it is probable that the Japanese had
also calculated to a hair how far they could go without
incurring a feud with their ally Britain, and her allies, bearing
in mind, as the London Times suggested, that the European
war will not last forever. It might have been all very well
to take advantage of Europe’s difficulties, but the Japanese
statesmen are too shrewd to overlook the possibility of
European revenge when its hands are freed. Nippon itself has
been forced to swallow bitter pills when unable to resist, but
when it became able it evened th score.
The outcome of the negotiations with China will no doubt
be to increase greatly Japanese power on the mainland, but
not to make China another Korea, as was feared. Japan aims
to be a protector of China from European dismemberment, no
doubt from a selfish motive, but for the moment does not feel
equal to doing more, whatever her ambition may be.
AT THE BAR OF CIVILIZATION’S JUDGMENT
The last mail brings a pamphlet of 48 pages entitled,
“Russia’s Gift to the World;” a pamphlet of 62 pages from
Paris entitled, “Who Wanted War;” another of 40 pages on
“German Atrocities,” and a long article of half a dozen pages
from Sir Gilbert Parker of London entitled, “The Scrap of
Paper. ’ ’
These are being widely circulated and must have cost
many thousands of dollars. It is the publicity feature of this
modern war; in fact it is one of the most modern symptoms of
the war.
And it shows a commendable anxiety on the part of the
warring nations to attract the lenient judgment of mankind.
It is a plea to civilization to be relieved of the odium of the
bloody thing they are carrying on. It is the one favorable
manifestation of the struggle—this desire to escape the
condemnation that righteously weighs upon the unspeakable
crime of the world’s greatest tragedy.
Two trains per week will run between Cordova and
Chitina during the summer, but in order to bring the ore from
the Bonanza and Jumbo mines to Chitina, three trains will run
between that town and Kennecott.
Col. Roosevelt again soars in public estimation. He
fought the political boss and on Saturday won a noteworthy
victory. And now the entire country will regard him as a
probable candidate for the Republican nomination for
President.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
A lot of fellows in Alaska who expect office or favor under
the present Democratic administration will find themselves in
an embarrassing position when it comes to taking decisive
sides when the political contests are on next year. There are
many opportunists who would like to fall on the winning side.
One grave and reverend essayist deplores a lack of leader
ship in Legislatures and municipal bodies. What’s the use
when there is really a surplus of absolute rulers on the
outside ?
A Chicago man has written a little book entitled “Great
Men and How They Are Produced.” Curious that the name of
no Alaska great man appears.
Reports continue to percolate through from various
sources that Col. B. F. Millard, of Valdez, would be willing to
represent Alaska at the national capital. With the experience
of two terms as Senator at Juneau many consider that he is
qualified to go a step higher. In politics he is a Republican.
But it is stated that Delegate Wickersham is also of that
political leaning. And there’s the rub. For if the Delegate
wants that nomination it will require somewhat of a fight to
get it away from him.
In Southeastern Alaska both sides of the liquor question
are conducting their campaigns through the advertising
columns of the newspapers. That is the modem and progres
sive method, that has superceded the reactionary methods of
vote buying and intimidation.
The Fairbanks Citizen says: “It is rumored on the streets
that Delegate Wickersham is in his old home town this summer
for the purpose of fixing up his political fences in view of
securing the nomination of the Republican party at the next
delegate election.”
Our old friend “Doc” Cook promises to climb Mount
Everest. If he does he had better take facilities along for
bringing back his records. He was a little shy on them after
scaling the dizzy heights of Mount McKinley in Alaska.
The outlook for the gold output in the Tanana Valley for
this year is not half bad. With three million in placer gold
and half a million in quartz, the estimated clean-up will be
gratifying to the people who still pin their faith to Fairbanks,
which is the center of all that interior country.
Delegate Wickersham believes in keeping up with the
procession. So the other day he packed his bag and started
off on a mush to the new placer fields of the Tolovana.
Some of the vaudeville stunts that are pulled off in
Cordova are soon to have competition. But it is to be by a
real combination of artists who make all their living in enter
taining the people. We fear that they will set an example that
admission to some of the present free official shows,
admissio nto some of the present free official shows.
The Seward Gateway is not inclined to be critical, but
cannot occasionally refrain from calling attention to some of
the piccadillies of the new Town Council. In a recent article
the subject is dismissed in disgust in the following words:
“Even if the council majority has to bring hvpocrisy—but,
then, let it go at that—too much space has been wasted now.
And, besides, there are so many big men and things just now
claiming attention.” Guess that’s about the way treat
“peanut politicians,” ouce the public realizes such an affliction
has been wished, or bought, on them. Municipal elections
come once a year.
The slogan for the Cordova peace makers seems to be
“boycott, persecute, prosecute,” all who do not fall into the
harmony line marshalled by the “representative citizens.” But
the general public only smiles at the desperate straits of the
self-constituted bosses, for they have fully realized that the
people are the real factors who must be consulted.
Discovery by the Bureau of Corporations that the dissolu
tion of the tobacco trust has not benefited the public a particle
is chiefly interesting as implying that there was an idea some
where that it would.
In all this admirable clean-up industry it is said to be a
curious psychological fact that it is a tendency of one house
holder to peer particularly over the fence into the neighbor’s
back yard.
Cordova is devoid of workmen out of jobs and now
neighboring towns are called upon to furnish the necessary
men to keep the interior copper mines running.
Col. Roosevelt proclaimed William Barnes a corrupt
political boss. He proved it and made Barnes pay $50,000 or
more to impress the fact on the entire country.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
ro 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
have expended during the years 1913
and 1914 upon your F. M. Brown
and John Lyons joint one-tenth in
terest, three hundred and sixty dol
lars ($360.00); Gust Djarf's one
forty-eighth interest, seventy-five dol
lars ($75.00); Charles Garwood’s
one-forty-eighth interest seventy-five
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 15 inclusive, also
Norway No. 2, Nebraska and Char
lotte; also on your’s T. J. Donohue
and Edmund Smith’s one and six
tenths of one-forty-eighth interest in
the above mentioned claims also on
your 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 days
after the completion of the publica
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
improvements, which is the above
mentioned sum, your interest in said
claims will become the property of
your co-owners who have made the
required expenditure by the terms
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 1, 1915.
Why Not Invest?
With the building of the government railroad from
Chitina to Fairbanks, the future of the Town of Chitina
is assured.
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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?
GEO. C. HAZELET,
Agent Chitina Townsite Company.
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