The Chitina Leader
CHITINA, ALASKA.
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CHITINA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 8,1913.
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A COAST OBJECT LESSON r
Two steamers plying in Alaska waters have been wrecked
within the past two weeks and in both cases the alleged cause
of the disasters have been attributed to the same cause—
uncharted rocks upon which the vessels impinged themselves.
Fortunately no lives were lost in either of the wrecks, but this
was a mere matter of luck, because under less propitious
conditions there might have been a heavy toll of life. These
ever-recurring wrecks not only accentuate the necessity of
more lighthouses and other aids to navigation, but they would
seem to point to the need of a revision of the marine charts by
making new surveys.
The Alaska coast is notorious for its insufficiency of light
houses and navigation aids, and although there has been an
increase in their number from year to year there is still a
lamentable lack of these necessary adjuncts to safeguard
navigation of the coast waters.
The coast line of Alaska’s southern neighbor, British
Columbia, is dotted with lights, and the traveler needs but to
contrast the condition there with the scarcity of lights along
our own coast and liis conclusions will be to our own discredit.
Alaska needs more lighthouses and lights and she needs them
now, and not next year or seven years hence.—Exchange.
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THE YANKEE
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Time was when somewhat of opprobium attached to the
word Yankee.
It was not all due to the prejudices which grew out of the
war and the carpet bag era in the southern states. The world’s
history had something to do with it. Americans did not like
the etymology of the word Yankee. There was something
clinging to the word which either suggested horse stealing, or
a subtle shrewdness in horse trading which amounted to theft.
But Yankee has come out of it all with a clean bill.
Men are no longer offended when they are called Yankees.
There is too much good in the Yankee record, too many great
achievements in peace and in war, for any good American now
to shrink from the European habit of speaking of all Americans
as Yankees. On the contrary it is rather a mark of distinction
to be referred to as a Yankee. It suggests more than shrewdness
in hoi’se trading. It suggests about all the good that the
American people and government stand for among the great
peoples and governments of the earth.
Probably Europe is responsible for this change in the
attitude of all Americans toward the word.
But it doesn’t really matter who is responsible for it; the
change has occurred, and everybody will now agree that the
Yankee at any stage of the game is all right.
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ALASKA RAILROADS AND U. S. SENATORS
It was to be expected that opposition would be developed
in the United States Senate to the passage of the Alaska
railroad bill. There are many people in this country who are
opposed to government ownership and operation of railroads,
besides members of congress. These are entitled to their
opinions, which are doubtless honest and sincere. In fact many
Alaskans, and warm friends of Alaska, are not wedded to the
paternal principles involved in government-owned enterprises
including railroads. But government-owned railroads and
steamship lines are not new things in the United States. The
government owns and operates the Panama railroad which
connects the cities of Colon and Panama on the isthmus. The
government also owns and operates the Panama Steamship
Company with a line of steamers between New York and Colon.
And these enterprises are successfully managed too, and
without noise or friction. And soon this same government of
ours will be operating the Panama Canal, owned by the people,
and it need not be doubted that it too will be operated along
successful lines.
Why then, this opposition to government-owned and
government-operated railroads in Alaska? It is not an
experiment, for it lias been tried as we have pointed out, and
with success. The conditions found in Alaska are such as
should command specific ti’eatment. The plans followed in
the settlement of the AVest cannot now be applied to Alaska.
\Tast land grants were bestowed upon transcontinental
l'ailroads, without money and without price. That species of
paternalism? would not be tolerated now, and yet it cannot be
expected that raili’oads will be constincted in Alaska by private
individuals, or corporations, under existing conditions, without
substantial aid in the form of subsidies or government
guarantees of bonds for their construction. Years ago the
federal government was not at all slow in guaranteeing bonds
for tho building of railroads in the Philippines, and that was
an experiment that proved successful. But in Alaska with one
of its greatest natural resources tied up hard and fast, do
senators of the United States think that men with money are
going to tumble over each other in order to invest it in the
building of Alaska l’ailroads? That, indeed, would be an absurd
deduction.
' If, then, the railroads necessary for the development of
Alaska cannot be provided except by the government itself—
that government itself having placed barriers in the way of
individual effort—it is only a reasonable proposition that the
government should step in and furnish the means of trans:
portation that the necessities of the territory demand. Senators
and others may well lay aside their preconceived or inherited
ideas concerning this question, so far as it appertains to Alaska.
Alaska, among the possessions of the United States, stands in
a class by itself, and, therefore, demands special consideration
by congress, if it is to develop and prosper to the degree to
which its magnificent resources entitle it. Members of Congress
may well change their point of view at a time when the growth
of a.great section of a great country is at stake.—Juneau
Empire.
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PLEASURES THAT ARE VAIN
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Too many men and women rely upon excesses for such
pleasures as they get out of life. These men and women find
no pleasure in having merely enough of anything. They want
more than they need.
They want more money than they can spend, and they
want to spend more money than they need to spend.
They build big houses to live in when small ones would
do as well.
They cram furniture into their homes until all the lines
of beauty are marred, stifle their windows with heavy, costly
draperies, scatter expensive mats and rugs over the floors and
otherwise crowd the rooms and hallways with useless orna-'
ments
They pile on their tables enough food for families twice
as large as their own. They buy and wear too many clothes.
If they drink, they drink too much, and they go to the same
extreme in the matter of smoking.
All the pleasure they get they get out of what they ought
not to have.
What we ought not to have does not rightly belong to us.
In morals we have no right to more money, more house,
more furniture, more food and clothes, more of anything, than
we need, as long as there are men and women in the world who
have less of these things than they need.
One person’s excess is another person’s deficiency, for
one has more and the other less than he needs.
Thus we begin to see the hideous truth and mockery of
these pleasures which spring from excesses. The men and
women who get pleasures out of having more money than they
need are happy at the expense of men and women who have
less money than they need. The fate or luck which fills one
man’s pockets with gold, has left another in the rags and ashes
of want and despair. The man who is happy because he has in
the larder more food than he needs may not realize it, but he is
laughing at the beggar’s misfortune.
The pleasures we get out of excesses are not genuine. They
are vain and empty, for we can be rationally and genuinely
happy only when we know that life’s blessings are shared
equally by all men and women who are capable of sharing in
the good inheritances of the earth.
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SIMPLE, BUT NOT SIMON
That excellent man who feeds the heathen grape juice and
who with his chiding “tut tut” rebukes and calms the angry
outbreaks of quarrelsome men is to bear testimony to the
sincerity of his simplicity by toting his lunch to the state
department—or possibly a little boy, barefoot, and with the
great responsibility of his errand revealed in and behind the
bright smile of his happy little face, will come running into
the office with a basket.
Then will the excellent man who feeds the heathen grape
juice turn away from the Hon. Spring-Rice or Viscount Chinda
or from whoever sits ambassadorily with him, and genially
: bounce the little fellow on his knee and dismiss him with a
penny. Then with a frankness of healthy appetitie and joyous
curiosity will the excellent man take off the cover and peer into
the well stocked depths, chuckling as he finds a piece of pie
and beaming as he hands his guest a doughnut.
These be the golden days of hoe cake and a bottle of milk.
Authority like a healthy farm hand walks through the palaces
of the great and Columbia is a bouncing, rosy cheeked milk
maid.
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CURRENCY LEGISLATION
It was inevitable that however chastened by ancient
defeat and uplifted by tardy victory the democratic party may
be, some champions of its traditional practice of doing the
wrong thing at the wring time would appear. For this honor
Representative Henry of Texas offers himself and with some
others of the same persuasion is said to contemplate opposition
to currency legislation.
The measure of the statesmanship to be expected from
this opposition may be taken by Mr. Henry’s charge that “Wall
Street” is responsible for the pressure for currency legislation
and for its form.
Three or four years ago that charge would have been
excusable. It is not now. The proposed legislation is the
outgrowth of nearly five years of discussion among the bankers
and the business men of the country. If Mr. Henry is really
so ingenuous as to think a Wall Street project could stand the
scrutiny, the criticism, the active debate which the national
reserve association plan has undergone his opinion should carry
little weight in congress.
The most hopeful factor in the situation is the evidence
that men who favored the Aldrich plan and those who opposed
it, business men and bankers and economists of all sections,
are getting together behind the administration measure. It
is buncombe to talk as if the practical men from California to
Maine who favor national reserve association legislation are
going to be blinded and led by the nose by Wall Street bankers
or cannot be relied upon to defend themselves and the
country from evil machinations.
Currency legislation should be worked out on a plane
higher than party politics and out of reach of barrel thumpers
and economic quacks, however well intentioned. It is a job
for banking experts, for economists, and for thinking business
men. As it is formulating now the proposed legislation seems
likely to deserve the earnest support of all parties in congress
and all should join in shutting off unnecessary obstruction and
half baked debate.
The time is ripe for sound currency legislation. Banking
opinion, business opinion never has been so well informed or so
harmonious as to essentials as now. If we cannot get it now
the democratic party will have given a proof of persistent
incompetence in this field and fighting hope to its opponents.
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A new “cure” for whooping cough is announced. Should
it do all that is claimed for it by the discoverer it will spoil
many a schoolboy’s vacation.
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Landslides in the Culebra cut, however, are believed to
have no political significance.
SUMMONS.
In the Justice Court, Chitina Pre
cinct, Third Division, Territory of
Alaska.
Joseph Feaster, Plaintiff,
vs. • , «
Jack Lowery, Defendant.
Summons No. 114.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA, GREET
ING:
To the above named Defendant. Jack
Lowery:
You are hereby required to appear
In the Justice Court of Chitina Pre
cinct, Third Division, Territory of
Alaska, within thirty days of the
completion of the publication of this
summons, and answer the complaint
of the above named complainant,
Joseph Feaster, which alleges that
the defendant is indebted to the
plaintiff in the sum of Ninety-fiva
dollars for goods and merchandise
sold and money loaned and praying
for a jugment in that amount to
gether with interest thereon and ac
crued costs in this action, and that
unless you, the said defendant, so
appear and answer the complaint,
plaintiff will apply to the court for
the relief demanded in his said com
plaint.
Date of order for said publication
of Summons, June 24th, 1913.
Witness. Justice of said coart Paul
d'Heirry, this 24th day of June, 1913.
First publication, July 1, 1913.
Last publication, August 12, 1913.
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NOTICE OF 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 Susltna,
In the Copper Center Mining and Re
ording District, Territory of Alaska,
nd the said amount was so expend
d and such labor performed for the
urpose of holding said claim under
lie provisions of Section 2324 Re
used Statutes of the United States
and Act of Congress approved March
, 1907, and constitutes the annual
ssessment work upon said claims
or the years 1910, 1911, 1912. And
f witin ninety days after the last
publication of this notice you fail to
ay the undersigned as co-owners
•our proportion of the expense for
he years 1910, 1911, 1912, together
witth the cost of this advertisement,
our interest will become the prop
rty of the undersigned under said
eetion2324 Revised Statutes of the
United States.
J. E. CARLSON,
i’irst publication, April 8, 1913.
Last publication, July 8, 1913.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
TO FRED HERMANSON, SWAN
UNGWOOD, WM. HERTZBERG O.
PEARSON, A. J. NORDALE, if*ur
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 ($308.00) in
labor and improvements upon certain
lacer mining claim known as
loloch Association, Valdez Creek,
ributary 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
rnd Act of Congress approved March
, 1907, and constitutes the annual
ssessment work upon said claims
or the years 1910, 1911, 1912. And
f 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
he years 1910, 1911, 1912, together
wi*«a'i 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,
irst publication, April 8, 1913.
Last publication, July 8, 1913.
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NOTICE OF 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
ed and such labor performed for the
purpose of bolding 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 aa 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.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To ANTONE CARLSON, Your j
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 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
Bd 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 lust
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 OF FORFEITURE
To C. P. MORGAN, 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
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
co’ding 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
he 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 OP FORFEITURE
To P. ERICKSON, ANTON CARL
SON, SWAN RINGWOOD, CHAS.
OWEL, L. RUE, Your Heirs Per
rnal Representatives and Assigns,
nd 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
abor and improvements upon that
placer mining claim known as the
..oosevelt Association, Roosevelt
Creek, a tributary of Valdez Creek,
n the Copper Center Mining and Re
cording District, Territory of Alaska,
and the said amount was so expend
d and such labor performed for the
urpose of holding said claim under
he provisions of Section 2324 Re
lsed Statutes of the United States
and Act of Congress approved March
2, 1907, and constitutes the annual
assessment work upon said claims
or 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.
irst publication, April 8, 1913.
Last publication, July 8, 1913.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To GUST JOHNSON, A. NESBIT,
ONTIUS MAGNUSON, L. SCHIM
MELPFENNING L. RUE, J. PAT
TERSON, R. BLlX, Your Heirs, Per
sonal Representatives and Assigns,
and All or any Person or Persons
;lalming 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
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 6aid 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
expeBe 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.
FtrBt publication, April 8, 1913.
Last publication, July 8, 1913.
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Edwin H. Glllman, manager of
the Chitlna Cash store, has tendered
his resignation and intends to short
ly leave for the states. Jo’io Nc-lson
will succeed Mr. Glllman as manager
and Oscar Fish will go to Chiuna as
bookkeeper for the firm.
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