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CHITINA, ALASKA.
Entered as second class matter, November 12, 1910, at the postoffice
at Chitina, Alaska, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
Published every Saturday by
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CHITINA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1911.
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FISHER’S STAND A WINNING ONE.
Sfeeretary Fisher has assumed the correct attilude in re
gard to the development of Alaska and the western section of
the United States. He has placed tire rabid conservation ele
ment in the country on the defensive—and has given the con
servative- forces an opportunity to rally to his support and
counsel. *
TIis definition of “conservation” in his address before the
National Conservation Congress at Kansas City must have
carried const cm lion to Abat win.; which classes development
as robbery of the public and progress as akin to treason.
Nevertheless, unless thfe signs of the times all fail, his
statement will meet with no inconsiderable measure of ap
plause ill sections that recently were accounted hotbeds of
Pinch otism
“My idea of proper conservation,” he declared, “is a wise
development of all the natural resources in the public interest
in the broadest sense of the words, and which recognizes the
lights of all.”
Mr. Fisher has attacked that excrescence on conservation
known as Pincliotism—which, by sheer pertinacity and adver
tising, has become identified in the public mind as the real
article—in its tenderest spot.
As the Times declared months ago—“Pincliotism is power
ful on the attack but weak on the defense.” It can assail, hut
it cannot explain. Fisher has forced it either to declare itself
against “wise development” or to admit that its policy has
been founded on a rotten doctrine from its inception.
The pendulum of change is swinging in the east. Even the
most unlettered are commencing to recognize that Alaska is
no gold mine, whence all the people of all the country are to
draw immense dividends.
Secretary Fisher’s visit lias called attention to the fast
that the resources, though vast, will be valuable only as im
proved. In fact, to the little man, the greatest asset of Alaska
is its land—the large and fertile areas that unquestionably
will be opened to settlement in the near future.
With Alaska boasting a population of 500,000 people—
and the figure by no means is impossible—every man in the
United States will draw dividends by the territory.
It will not be a cash donation from the government, but it
will be in ood times, better pay and steady work for employes
of the manufacturing interests of the United States because
of a new and tremendous market that will be opened up.—
Seattle Times.
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SEEING ALASKA CHANGES OPINIONS.
The conservation propaganda carried on by Pincbot and
the rest led the east to believe there was enough natural wealth
in the west and Alaska to make everybody rich and happy.
Likely enough, some eastern folk thought they could eventual
ly stop work and live off the endless riches of forests and mines.
While conservation was presented as a very unselfish policy
and in its name sundry attacks were made on business in
terests, the strength of its appeal depended a good deal upon
selfish instincts. Citizens of the east with no intention what
ever of coming west or going to Alaska to undergo the hard
ships of pioneers, got a notion that the mines and the forests
would be managed in such a way as to benefit them without
their turning a hand over. They would let others do the pion
eering and developing while they remained at home and in
some way received a share of the profits.
Recent visits of public officials and private citizens have
changed the eastern conception somewhat. At any rate, it has
changed the ideas of the many visitors. Secretary Fisher, of
the interior department, found the Bering river coal fields less
valuable than it had been supposed because there was so much
faulting and crushing of the veins. He found Controller bay
rot the good harbor it had been presented. Other conceptions
he had formed in Chicago or at Washington city were much
modified by his seeing the country, the natural resources of
which have caused such a national controversy. Pincbot, too,
admits a change in views since he went to Alaska a few weeks
ago. We don’t know in what direction is the change, but it is
roteworthv that he will admit any change whatever of his
conservation views.
Alaska is not what it has been widely described. It is
rich in resources, but one can’t pick up wealth at every turn
It takes labor, capital and close application, as a rule, to get
wealth out of any new country. The east is learning that it is
not going to receive car loads of gold shipped from an abund
ance in Alaska to be distributed among the people who never
saw a mine.
The east is learning too, that it is neither just nor good
public policy to lock agricultural lands up in a national forest
reserve. William B. Fisher, president of the New England
Forestry League, has been in Washington and Oregon for sev
eral days and he frankly confesses a change of mind. He is
quoted:
“Millions of acres of land, splendidly adapted for agri
cultural purposes, are today tied up in northern forest reser
ves. They should be taken out of such reserves and immediate
ly thrown open for settlement. Conservation means the right
use of natural resources. It is not right use to tie up farming
laud to grow tinioer on. rive.years on intelligent farming is
worth, to the general public, 50 years of tree growing. Forest
areas should embrace, as far as possible, only lands upon which
forest trees can be grown to better advantage than agricultural
products.”
It is his opinion that the west is being exploited for the
benefit of the east—an opinion widely held in the west. The
more easterners we can induce to visit the west the sooner will
we find a change in sentiment oh the conservation question.—
Tacoma Ledger.
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A PROPER REBUKE.
There may be those who are unable to distinguish between
the tour of a president for the purpose of explaining his
political administration and reporting on the condition of
national affairs, as Mr. Taft puts it, and the old-time “swing
ing around the circle” for political effect. It is manifestly
impossible to discuss the government of the country without
reference to political issues, but there is to be said for Mr.
Taft in his present tour he has striven to keep the discussion
up to a high national plane as far removed from merely
political stump-speaking as possible.
It is the more unfortunate, therefore, that so many of his
stopping places local factionists dr partisans should fail to
rise to his level and should seek to take advantage of his
presence to boost themselves or their factions into public
notice. On more than one occasion Mr. Taft has had occasion
to rebuke ill-timed oratory of this sort, but never more effect
ively, perhaps, than at Salt Lake City the other day, when a
perfervid orator, after making a bitterly partisan spqeeh, in
troduced him as “William Howard Taft of Ohio.” “I am
here,” replied the President in his opening sentence, “as the
President of the United States.”
That we think will be agreed has been his dignified posi
tion throughout the tour- It has been necessary at times for
him to combat the arguments or course of his opponents, but
he has done so incidentally and has not magnified it into an
attack for partisan purposes to the obscuring of the govern
mental issue under discussion.
President Taft will designate Thursday, November 30.
as Thanksgiving Day this year. It has always been the custom
to fix the last Thursday in the month. This year there has
been some doubt because November happened to include five
instead of four Thursday’s.
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The shipping companies, especially those which operate
little lines like some of those to Alaska, are wont to obtain
steamers on the Atlantic coast, many of them being nothing
but old vessels which have been shoved onto obscure runs, or
condemned by the government and afterwards sufficiently re
paired to pass muster. Many of these vessels actually have
been sunk, raised, overhauled, and—painted. -Then with their
new suits of glittering colors and a wireless apparatus on
board, they are introduced to the slow Pacific merchant marine
as “commodius and fast.” It really is a burlesque half the
time with such purchases- Alaska people know this to be a
fact. They have seen them go down time after time, have
seen them laid to in mid-ocean with engines or boilers out of
order, have traveled on them when they were not quite confi
dent that they would make port.
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“Eight days to the states” is the slogan of the sprightly
Fairbanks Times. The Times is going to do the time stunt
over an automobile boulevard to Chitina. The idea is a good
one. And a railroad should come next.__
ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY
Fast and Commodious steamers sailing between Cordova and
Seattle via “THE INSIDE ROUTE,” stopping at KETCHIKAN.
Sails from Seattle— Sails from Cordova—
Oct. 8.ALAMEDA.Oct. 17
Oct. 16.ADMIRAL SAMPSON.;Oct. 24.
Oct. 24.ALAMEDA.Nov. 1
Nov. 1.NORTHWESTERN.Nov. 8
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steam
ers without notice.
Tickets on sale at up-town office Alaska Steamship Bldg.
Baggage or freight will not be received at dock later than one
hour before sailing time.
R. J. BARRY, THOMAS TALLENT,
General Agent. Ticket Agent.
ALASKA COAST CO.
“The Inside Route”
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To Juneau anil Puget Sound Ports anil Southwestern Alaska.
Steamer Sampson leaves Seattle Oct. 10..
Steamer Bertha leaves Saettle Oct. 20.
Steamers connecting at Seattle with the Alasha-Facinc Steam,
ship Company’s steamers sailing from Seattle Monday and Thurs
day of each week for California points. Through service. Low
rates.
Right reserved to change steamers and sailing dates without
notice. ALASKA TRANSFER CO., Local Agents
B. F. WATSON, General Agent.
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* PHILADELPHIA 3 *
* NEW YORK GIANTS I *
Philadelphia, Oct, 16.—There is
great joy throughout the city this
afternoon and all because the Ath
letics walloped the Xew York fronts
in the second game for the World’}
championship. The fans were out in
force and the ball park never con"
tained a larger or more enthusiasth
crowd, all of whom proved past mas
ters in the art of rooting.
It was one of the finest exhibi
tions of the national sport that has
yet been pulled off and the Athletics
won by the close score of 3 to 1.
Like the first game it was a pitcher’s
battle, Plank and Marquard dividing
honors. The Athletics played an er
rorless game, w hile the Giants missed
three chances.
The run getting started in the
first inning, when the Athletics tal
lied one. In the second inning the
Giants tied the score and thus it re
mained until the sixth. With a man
on base Baker wielded the willow for
a long drive over the fence, bringing
in two runs and causing the wildest
kind of pandemonium to break loose
among the supporters of the home
team. Neither side scored again and
the Athletics thus captured the game
and won the pAludits of every resi
dent of the city, many of whom had
wagered heavily on the result.
The score by innings follows:
Athletics.100002000—3
Giants. 010000000—1
BaLvries-Philadelphia, Plank
md Thomas; New York, Marquard;
and Meyers. *
Hits—Philadelphia, 4; New York.
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Errors — Philadelphia, 0; Xew
t ork, 3.
FORFEITURE NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given Charles Gar
wood that his interest in the Tjose
vig rgoup of mines, will cease at the
expiration of the publication of this
notice, unless he pays $50 as his
share of the assessment work foi
1904. $50 for 1905. $50 for 1906
and $50 for 1909.
CHRISTIAN TJOSEVIG.
Dated this 14th day of Aug., 1911.
NOTICE.
All persons indebted to the Cbit
ina Grill prior to this date are here
by notified that said bills are due
me personally.
JOE JANEY,
Chitina, Sept. 25, 1911.
A MATTER OF PUNCTUATION
Secretary Fisher was confronted in
Alaska by banners and badges bear
ing the legend:
“Let US mine our own coal.”
Fine, but needing to be punctuat
ed as follows:
“Let U. S. Mine our own coal.”
We’ve got the men, we’ve got the
ships, we’ve got the money, we’ve
got the coal and the consumers.
So trot out your pick and shovel,
Uncle Sam> and get busy.—Eastern
Exchange.
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DEVELOPING:
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3A Prints or postcards ...7 cents
Other work in proportion.
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Chitina, Alaska.
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able. * In Tibbs’ Building.
Chitina, Alaska.
DR. CHAS. THOM
Physician and Surgeon
Now permanently located at Chitina,
Alaska.
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Chitina, Alaska.
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PUBLIC LAND AND MINING
CASES.
If you are interested in any contest
or any matter before the Interior De
partment, write to Clark & Wright,
registered land lawyers, 902 F Street
N. W. (opposite Gen’l Land Office),
Washington, D. C. Free information
about contests and wh-re to obtain
scrip, locatable upon public lands,
without residence or cultivation.
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