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
WILL A. STEEL, Editor and Proprietor.
Office: Hotel Chitina Building. Cordova Office: Daily Alaskan
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CHITINA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1915.
TO OUR PATRONS
TYith this issue the Chitina Leader will be temporarily
suspended. Business reasons make it necessary that the
editor spend a couple of months in the states, and as he has
not succeeded in securing a satisfactory man to run his
newspaper interests inJlie Copper River region lie has decided
to lock up for the present. In view of the quiet summer times,
this can be done at a financial profit. With the coming of
renewed business activity in the early fall this paper will
expect to again greet its patrons.
AN INTERNATIONAL COURT
Throughout the country and evennncluding some of the
turbulent Alaskan towns there are expressions in newspapers
and otherwise indicating that former President Taft was about
rio-ht in declaring that the launching of a plan for an inter
national court of justice at this time is propitious. Men’s
minds are filled with the horror of war as never before. Before
last August many people flouted the idea of a world court.
Todav most people recognize the need of one. On every side
vou liear the opinion that this war should be the last.
But the abolition of war without an effective agency for
keeping it abolished would be as impracticable as to rely on the
lionesty and good will of individuals without the coercive and
corrective influences of the courts and peace officers. We
must have a stable code of international law just as we have a
code of municipal law. We must have means of interpieting it
and enforcing it. It will no longer do to assume that because
certain principles of international law have been tacitly
approved in times of peace that they will be respected as
binding in time of war. There must be an end to the practice
of belligerents making and applying their own rules under a
plea of necessity. The rights of neutrals must be established
bevond evasion.’ The present war has shown that.
The only way in which this can be accomplished is by the
organization of a world arbitral court for judgment on
justiciable issues. On issues not justiciable there should be a
commission on conciliation to which such controv ersies must
be referred before hostilities are resorted to. And international
law must be built by judgments, conferences and referendum*,
along the lines suggested by Mr. Taft.
This is not, Mr. Taft well said, rainbow chasing. It is
demanded by the situation of the present hour. The organiza
iion of a world court with clear definitions of international law
and means to enforce it by international pressure, might not
end a war. but neither has the organization of municipal courts
ended all lawbreaking. Who for that reason would argue that
state and national law and courts are impracticable or
visionary? Why, then, argue so in the larger need? National
cupidity and lawlessness is not more vicious than individual
cupidity and lawlessness. If one can be kept in order why not
the other?
AGAINST WAR PLAGUES
Dr. W. C. Rucker, director of quarantine in the public
health service, acknowledges that that branch of the federal
government is preparing plans to fight the war plagues now
ravaging certain sections of Europe when the expected rush
of immigration after the war may place bur ports in peril.
Cholera, typhus and smallpox are the three diseases considered
likely to menace us. At present, owing to the very small
immigration, practically none from the plague stricken regions,
we are spared that danger, but were the ships arriving daily
with thousands as in ordinary times it would tax our resources
to the utmost to maintain the strictest guard.
The possibility, intimated by Dr. Rucker, should hasten
action looking towards the concentration of the quarantine
guard under the national public health service. At New York
and Rostbn it is in the hands of the state authorities and,
while it has been fairly adequate, there has been a growing
belief that these great ports should be placed under federal
health control as most of the smaller ports have been. The
protection sought is national and should be performed by the
national government. The high standard of the public health
service and its success in combating the menace of imnorted
disease at San Francisco and New Orleans has established it
in public confidence.
Another battleship with a terror striking name has been
sunk—the Goliath. Perhaps had she been named the David
it mivht have been different.
Chicago’s merchant tailors figure that the perfect summer
man will cos^at least $148. In that case, many will fall short
of perfection, particularly in Alaska.
One transatlantic line announces that it will carry no
contraband. A solution so simple that it seems strange it was
not thought of before. ^
It is an assertion of a pseudo scientist that the original
molecules or electrons of which all things, worlds and men.
were made, were the result of the will of some mind. He does
not explain who made the electrons which made that mind, or
whether that wonderful mind activity is still operating? or in
•what way.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
A New York Progressive Club has thrown the Colonel’s
picture on a pile of rubbish and the New York editors who
have been heaping earth on his political grave are now
frantically scratching atray the dirt.
Paterson, N. J., has begun a movement to boom the
wearing of silk suits by men. Most men find it difficult enough
to buy silk for their wives.
Though it is more than a year until the meeting of the
Republican National Convention, the Presidential B’s are
busily buzzing, such as the Burtons and the * Borahs, for
instance. The C’s are also in evidence. Some of the old
fashioned Republicans see Cannon to the right of them. Cannon
to the left of them, and Cannon in front of them.
The report that Russia is drinking so much tea instead of
vodka that the price is to go up, is more likely to have been
started by tea importers than by the prohibitionists.
Senator Lawrence Y. Sherman of Illinois is being boomed
for the nomination on the ground that he looks like Lincoln.
What is needed is one who will act like Lincoln.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To 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-eiglithainterest 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 j
the Tjosevig group, consisting of the!
Tjosevig No. 1 to 15 inclusive, also:
Norway No. 2, Nebraska and Char-1
lotte; also on your’s T. J. Donohue,
and Edmund Smith’s one and six-1
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
a
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 Sth day of
June, 1915, you contribute your pro
portion cf 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.
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Why Not Invest?
With the building of the government railroad from
Chitina to Fairbanks, the future of the Town of Chitina
is assured.
Lots are still offered at attractive prices and there
are many desirable ones remaining.
A few months la^er lots in Chtiina will be held at
largely increased values. Why not invest NOW?
GEO. C. HAZELET,
Agent Chitina Townsite Company.
TIN SHOP
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Xo more need to carry
STOVES and TINWARE
over the long trail to the
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