The Chitina Leader
CHITIXA, ALASKA.
Entorod as second-class matter, November 12. 1910, at the postoffice at
Chitina, Alaska, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
ONLY NEWSPAPER IN CHITINA
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Office: Hotel ChUina Building. Cordova Office: Daily Alaskan
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CHITIXA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1913,
GOOD CHANCE FOR ALASKA
The makeup of the house and senate comm dices on public
lands and on teritories gives warrant for a belief that there
will be practical unanimity in these committees in support of
the proposal for the luilding of government railroad lines in
Alaska, to connect the interior with the open harbors on the
coast and to afford transportation facilities for the gieat coal
fields which lie back from the coast. It is to be hoped that
this prediction is borne out by the facts.
Alaska is entitled to this at the hands of congress Had
Alaska been given the same opportunities anjoved by other
territories in their infancy the railroads under contemplation
would have been built long ago. The credit of this country
has been extended to the construction of railroads m the Phil
ippines; and encouragement has been given to ox cry sort
of enterprise in these d’stant islands. On i'ie contrary, eveyv
resource of Alaska las been deliberately l.Utica up and re
served: capital has been driven from investment, and a gen
oral federal pobey established which makes capital reluct
ant to inx'est there at all. ,
The very reasonable proabilities are tha: Alaska would he
better served by lailroads constructed by private en
teprise than by the federal government. Pnit under existing
conditions there is absolutely no chance whatever tor capital
to he further ends red in any such eonstruor'u, i. Having de
liberatcly prevented the development of Alaska sb<ng normal
lines, by federal action, taken through the executive branch of
the government, the very least that the govemmeo can do, in
cammon justice, is for congress to prox’ide means for the con
struction of railroads. Once built, the railroads will carry
the interest cost of ■onstruction. whether operated in govern
ment account or leased to private corporations, undo! govern
meut supervision.—Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
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WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS
It will take many years to overcome the wrong impression
that many people in the eastern and middle western states have
with reference to conditions and locations in Alaska. Bxit
gradually the enlightenment is coming, although very frequent
glaring errors are made. Recently the Chicago Examiner,
in referring to the Frost coal case then on trial had a first page
story that was a marvel for inaccuracies. It was an attempt
to show that Frost and other coal developers were being frozei
out by large corporations. In referring to the transportatioi
feature a single paragraph will give an idea of the general
truthfulness of the article. It follows:
“The Independents, located in the Matanuska fields, are
served by the Alaska Northern raidroad, which starts at Sew
ard, a small town on Resurrection bay, and runs north by the
way of Turnagain bay to the Matanuska coal fields. The
Guggenheim copper mines are located 100 miles inland. The
Guggenheim raidroads join the coal claims and the town of
Cordova and the copper mines inland ”
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ALASKA A COMING STATE
Many of the outside newspapers have been particularly com
plimentary because of the acts of the first Territorial Legis
lature. And incidentally the people of the Northland are
commended for their patriotism and sturdy independence.
The Seattle Sun the other day published the following com
mendatory editorial:
“Alaska is nothing if not progressive. The first bill passed
by the Alaska Legislature gave women the right to vote.
“Alaska’s Legislature has outlawed fake mining advertise
ments and other land advertisements which have heretofore
enabled unscrupulous speculators to prey upon ignorant and
innocent investors.
“Alaska lawmakers also have decided to drive lobbyists away
from Juneau, the capital of the territory.
“It took the states a good many years to learn some of the
things which seem perfectly plain to the people of Alaska.
“And yet there are statesmen in this country who hooted at
the idea >of giving Alaska a territorial form of government.
They did not believe the people of Alaska capable of govern
ing themselves. Mr. Taft wanted a federal commission, sit
ting at the national capital, to govern Alaska, and he tried to
get Congress to create such a commission in the face of a per
sistent demand from Alaskans for some scheme of self govern
ment. .
“The hardy Americans who have settled Alaska, and who are
playing their part in the development of the rich northern coun
try are just as intelligent and patriotic, as a rule, as are the dis
tinguished gentlemen who have opposed the granting of local
self-government to Alaska. The Alaska Legislature already
has answered the citizens who assailed the intelligence and
political efficiensv of Alaskans and has vindicated the oft
repeated claim made that Alaskans are capable of governing
themselves.
“Indeed, Alaska is doing much better than some of the states
have been able to do, and that means that Alaska is drifting
toward statehood. Alaska is a coming state of great prom
ises. ” .
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As a tariff revisionist th eColonel is maintaining a silence
that is positively elequent.
With a new alphabet and a new constitution China exhibits
a decided purpose to catch up with the rest of the world. j
A NEIGHBORLY ACT
. . From Cordova Daily Alaskan . .
It was a very graceful and kindly thought that prompted our
neighbors from Valdez who are now in the city, to arrange for
a dance Saturday night, to which the people of Cordova are
invited to attend as guests. There are a large number of
visitors from the Westward now in our midst. They have
undoubtedly found that the people of Cordova are mighty glad
to have them with us, and they have perhaps observed an ab
sence of any ill-will or evidence of objectionable partizan feel
ing. Many of them were led to believe that the people of
Cordova were entirely selfish and without thought or care for
the wellfare of any other resident of Alaska. And many from
this town may have labored under the impression that the peo
ple from Valdez in particular, and Seward in general, were
very narrow in their opinions and looked with jealous eye on
any seeming evidence of prosperity that might be apparent in
the Copper river country.
As a matter of fact when the people of any section of this
territory get together it does not take long for a general real
ization of the fact that we are all neighbors in distress, with
the same hopes and aspirations for the future, but enduring the
discouragements of a dismal present. There are occasional
reckless and ofttimes untruthful assertions, hurled by the res
idents of one town against the people of another. And occa
sionally there may be a thoughtless gloating over the misfor
tune that nature decrees certain localities must at times endure.
But these are individual cases and do not really represent the
sentiment existing n the various communities of Southwestern
Alaska. While the people of each town may feel a pardon
able pride in such advantages as may be possessed, and seek
to secure preferment in some legitimate way, there still remains
a neighghborly feeling that always crops to the surface “when
good fellows get together.”
As conditions improve and there is a general development of
Alaska, with a corresponding prosperity, it will be found that
the average Alaskan will take a broader view of life, and will
not be so entirely absorbed in his own narrow and ofttimes
selfish view point. We have been, for a year or two pastj
passing through the most trying and discouraging period of
a town’s existence. Clouds have ever hovered about and no
one could with any degree of assurance predict the early and
certain dawn of a bright future.. And hundreds, feeling
that “hope deferred maketh the heart sick,” have gathered
together what little was left of shattered fortune and sought
other climes. Other coast towns have had similar exper
iences, and groping in darkness and discouragement there
liax e been times when invectives were unnecessarily and pro
miscuously hurled at the respective towns. But it now looks
as though that day had happily passed and the thought pre
vails that “it is well for brethren to dwell together in har
mony.”
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FLOOD THEORIES
That genius who wants the Labrador current deflected and
asserts in support of the bill for that purpose in Congress that
this marine phenomenon produced the Ohio and Indiana floods,
is exceedingly persistent. His advocacy of his theory is even
more unique than Camille Flammarion’s logic of a subsidence
of the Great Lakes, which must have subsided so far as to
rise and M.er.iev the land. Both, howeve*. have that point
of resemblance to peace described in Holy Writ, which “pass
eth all unledstanding. ”
If ih<- Labrador current caused the floods in Ohio and Id
diana, why is not the latter a regular occurrence at least an
nually? The Labrador current and its antithesis, the Gulf
Stream, are s'e..ulast ocean flows. Their effects must be rea
sonably constant. Moreover, in voew of Mr. Hiker’s possi
bly scientic.c but certainly obscure explana io.i that there is
an ‘.Initial motive stratum of the atmosphere moving ever
southward and forming a great blanket above us,” would not
the deflection of thos damage-working flow simply shift tlie
floods to the < a si ward and subject Pennsylvania and New York
to a steady deluge which, if it did not exterminate the popula
tion. like Noah’s contemporaries, would at least parallel the
<A. irginian’s sary of the frog hunters and developed a web
footed race?
Mr. Riker had better leave the Labrador current alone. If
he Iools with it long enough to arouse its wrath it mav deter
mine to demonstrate Flamanarion’s theory and, by subsiding,
overflow Europe.
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A Tennessee reformer has introduced a bill in the Legis
lature making it unlawful for any “acknowledged, self-con
fessed and convicted liar or thief to publish own or control any
newspaper in that state. Must have some pretty bad men
down that way. In Alaska most of this undesirable element
engage iu-not law-but some other occupation.
The Legislators at Juneau are entitled to a long rest after a
strenuous session.
Free raw wool is predicted on the desire that the wolf shall
not have a monopoly of sheep’s clothing. Tt Is expected, per
hap- with undue optomism, that under that regime the all
wool suit of ihe ultimate eansumer will conUiu nearlv a full
proportion of Hie sheep. But it will not do to be too san
guine
Sir Edward Gray’s statement of the necessity for coercing
Montenegro creates in the mind the picture of six great Brob
dignagians taking the candy from the Lilliputian infant with
the plea that it is the only way they can keep thomselves from
fighting among themselves.
BOSTON, April 28— The Protest,
ant Episcopal Church in October.
1910< appoineted a commission to
tring about a •• vterence for the cun.
sideration of the question as to the
faith and order of the Christian
churchy in the hope tha such a con
ference will promote the cause of
Christian unity. That Commission
is inviting all christain communions
throughout the world which confess
our Lord Jesus Christ as God and
Savior to unite with the Episcopal
church in arranging for and conduct
ing such a conference. More than
twnty such co.operating commis
,ions have been appointed inelud
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mg all leading communions in the
United States and the Church of
England in England and Canada.
Ministers and lay men and women
in Alaska to the number of ten have
already been brought together, at
least to the extent of enrolment. The
list includes Episcopalians, Presby
terians, and Roman Catholics. The
executive committee of the Episco
pal Church, of which the Rev. W.
T. Manning, D. D. rector of Trin
ity church. New York, is chairman ,
has recently issued a circular letter
urging such local conferences
NOTICE OF HEARING OF FINAL
In the matter of the estate of C. W.
Babbage, deceased, A. G. Morey,
administrator.
Notice of Hearing of Final Account.
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,
ACCOUNT
In the United States Commissioner’s
Court. Ex.Officio Judge in Pro
bate, Chitina Precinct, Territory
of Alaska, Third Judicial Division,
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 26th
day of March, 1913.
A. G. MOREY,
Adminstrator of the estate of C. W.
Babbage, 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.
F'irst publication, April 8, 1913.
Last publication, July 8, 1913.
NOTICE OK FORFEITURE
TO FRED HERMANSON, SWAN
RINGWOOD, 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
lauor 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. Aud
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 OF FORFEITURE
To P. ERICKSON, WM. SMITH C.
Y. MALINQUIST, ADOLF NELSON,
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 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 ac co-ow'ners
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 OP FORFEITURE
To ANTONE CARLSON, Your 1
Heirs, Personal Representatives and I
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
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 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
folding 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 j
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.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To P. ERICKSON, ANTON CARL
SON SWAN RINGWOOD, 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, 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 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 AH or any Person or Persons
Claiming by. Through or Under you:
Your are hereby notified that the :
undersigned has expended the sum o'
five hundred dollars ($500.00) in
labor and improvements upon that
certain placer mining claim known as
the Homestake Association, Valdez
Cteek, a tributary of the Susitna,
In the Copper Center Mining and Re
cording District, Territory of Alaska 1
and the said amount was so expend- J
ed ana such labor performed for the <
purpose of holding said claim under J
the provisions of Section 2324 Re- !
vised Statutes of the United States j
and Act of Congress approved March j
2, 1907, and constitutes the annual J
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 wltu the
cost of this advertisement, your in
terest wlllbecome 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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TOKIO, April 21—Admiral Togo,
who won laurels in the war with Rus
sia. rfnd who was appointed Admiral
cftheJapanese fleet, has been re
tired on a special government order.
He la one of the great heros of his
country. ; i
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