The Chitina Leader
CHITIXA, ALASKA.
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CHITINA, ALASKA- TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1913.
ALASKA ENTERING ON NEW ERA
Alaska lias a future of great promise and its thousands of
patient and patriotic residents loot to the administration of
President Wilson for relief from the restrictions which have
teen placed upon the country and absolutely prevented its
development. The unlimited resources of coal, copper* gold
quartz and other valuable minerals lie dormant for want of
' transportation and a “square deal” interpretation of exist
’ ing laws. Through departmental rulings the pioneer pros
pectors have been deprived of the opportunity to open up the
coai and oil claims located by them, and only the richer placer
' ’ diggiugs can be mined on account of the excessive cost of
fuel and lack of transportation facilities.
After having spent the best years of their lives in tins north
ern country-, blazing trails and enduring the necessary- hard
ships, most of the old-timers have become impoverished wait
ing fawn-able legislation- We have patiently borne the great
est ailliction ever placed upon brav* and sturdy Americans,
who are ever ready to spend their time, money and energy in
the development of a new empire. But there is reason to be
lieve that we are about to enter upon a new era, which will af
ford relief from this bondage.
Accord the people of Alaska the same treatment given the
men and women who migrated w-est in the early- days and
through their efforts transformed a mighty wilderness into
prosperous towns and states, and t: e resuit would he a
densely- populated territory, the wealth of the nation increased
by the output from the mines, many thousands of people given
employment and residents of Uncle Sam’s undeveloped hold
ing made happy- and prosperous.
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DEAR OLD GIFF WAS ALSO THERE
Gifford Pincliot, the father of conservation as applied lo
cally, appeared before the Senate Committee on Territories
to argue for the opening of the coal lands of Alaska which he
has been instrumental in keeping closed since they were first
discovered. He argued that they must only be opened and
worked by the government—with occasional limited leases to
government favorites.
We received a letter from dear old Giff in yesterday’s mail.
He sent us a pamphlet printed and paid for by some blind fol
lowers of his, and repreducing an article Giff was able to have
Pearson’s Magazine publish last January. Giffff says to us
says he: “If conservation hampers development, the coun
try ought to know it.” That is just like dear, old Giff—he’s
such a joker!
Hampers development, you elongated- egotistical ass! Why
darn your hide, conservation and development are direct oppo
sites, and cannot be intelligently spoken of at the same time.
In the conservation you have been able to blanket us with,
every ounce of conservation has destroyed a mountain of de
velopment. Your conservation came to Alaska and found de
velopment started up the hill of progress at a dog trot—and
stopped it dead, that instant. There has been absolutely no
development since, wherever your blighting hand of conserva
tion was laid. Along with Judas and other betrayers known
to history your name stands out in Alaska as leader of them all.
and if you get what Alaskans would like to see handed you
there would never be another moment’s peace or comfort for
' you on earth or hereafter.
lou came Here and lound a vast territory which held a na
tion’s promise and which was just starting to bloom under the
guiding hand of hard-working, god-fearing men, and you tied
it up so that no resident could touch its resources—paralyzed
a vast region while professing to be desirous of helping it and
its people- Known from one end of the country to the other
as a destioyer and a traitor to your kiud, you have the nerve
to insinuate jour treacherous carcass into the senate committee
roome where men are working honestly to endeavor to bring
relief lo the country you have near ruined, und with your hypo
critical, lying longue endeavor to make those honest mm be
lieve that a judas like you is going to help them in their honest
work. You oui»lit to be shot.’
“The country ought to know it,” you say; the country
DOES know it in spots, and in time ALL the country' will
know it, and you will be exposed for the dangerous false
alarm that you are. And, that ONE section of the country
at least id ivnow it, this copy of this paper recognizing the
receipt of j our kind favor will be sent by registered mail to
your New \ork address, that YOU at least may know how
you stand in this neck of the woods—damn you—Fairbanks
News-Miner.
GREAT LOSS °PROM SEALS
The Ana cortes American lias its own ideas as to the value,
or, rather, the worthlessness of the seal fisheries. It says’:
“Uncle Sam has discovered that several thousand dollars
worth of seals have been killed in Alaska without his con
sent. To citizens of Anacortes the loss will cause little regret,
and probablj’ we will be able to worry along in spite of the
loss of several million dollars worth of pelts. The protection
of fur seals probably does not make a very' strong appeal to
the citizens of Anacortes, anyway'- as the fur-bearing animal,
as well as his light clad brother of warmer climates probably
kills more salmon in the course of a year than the sum total of
the season’s pack- Salmon is a staple article of food of all
classes, while seal skins are a luxury for a few.
“The maratime nations of northern Europe, where thefishing
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industry is of great importance, formerly protected the fur
seal, but the animal reduced the fish suppb to such au ex
tent that the protection was removed- Since then the num
ber of fur seals has been reduced and tiie fish catch is becom
ing larger every year.
“Thus Anaeortes does not “view with alarm’’ any reduc
tion of the seal herds of the North and should the time come
when the fish supply begins to fall off Anaeortes may join in
a big protest against the protection of the salmon's most
deadly enemy. ’ ’
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THE ALASKA SITUATION
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East, vest, north and south the papers of the United States
are awakening to the possibility of opening coal fields in
Alaska that will make the United States the world power in
fuel for a fighting navy.
Referring to the new policy of Secretary Lane, the Portland
Oregonian says:
“Secretary of the Interior Lane’s declaration in favor of
government construction and operation of railroads in Alas
ka will bring cheer to the thousands in that territory who
have been waiting for the government to lift the embargo put
upon it by Pincliotism. It is important as an admission of
administration policy, for Mr. Lane would not have made it
without the approval of President Wilson. It renders irre
fragable the case in favor of the policy described, for it adds
the Wilson administration’s seal of approval to that of Sec
retary Fisher and the Alaska Railroad Commission. The
Democratic party and the Progressive Republicans as well as
those Republicans who adhered to President Taft are of
one mind on this general policy.
“lliere is now a bill before the Senate introduced by Senator
Chamberlain, authorizing the issue of bonds and tiie execu
tion of the plans outlined by the commission. With such
unanimity of sentiment, there should be no difficulty in bring
ing about speedy action. The bill can be passed in the in
tervals of action on the tariff, if the administration will but
give the word.
“Mr. Lanes statement is encouraging to those interested
in the development of Alaska—and they include the whole
Pacific coast for another reason. He shows a true con
ception of the possibilities of the great territory, ‘as a land not
only of mines and fisheries, but of towns, farm's, mills and fac
tories- supporting millions of people of the hardiest and most
wholesome of the race. ’ That is the Alaska of the future as it
is conceived by every man who has seen it. It can excell
Norway in population just in proportion as its area is greater
and its resources richer and more varied. It is the last
treasure-house of American wealth, only waiting for Amer
ican brains and energy to open it.”
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More than $200,000-000 has been contributed in virgin gold
by Alaska to the wealth of the nation.
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I he trade c one Alaskan with me s-utcs for a single year
is worth more than tiiat of 394 Filipinos.
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Mr. Y\ ilson may be on the verge of discovering that there
are Senators more accustomed to giving ordej-s than to obeying
them.
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That aviator who promises ft fly from Halifax to Ireland
n time for t late dinner would be better advised to take a
sandy; ieh or two with him.
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The Senate committee at Washington has reported in favor
of equal suffrage, but that is about as far as it will get.
Polls of the House and Senate hold out no hope of its get
ting through.
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Alaska is buying domestic coal from British Columbia for
from $15 to $30 per ton, while its back yard contains a supply
of fuel sufficient for the entire Pacific coast, which it is not
allowed to use.
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Alaska s population has shown no increase during the past
ten years due to the treatment accorded the territory by the
government. - In 1900 we had G3,o92 people, and m 1910 oj.\
64,356- a gam of 764 in a decade, or 76.4 persons per year.
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Alaska is rich in every natural resource, but these resources
ire worthless because they can neither be mined or transported
Fuel is neeota to develop the mines, but in the ground it Is
woithless. Railroads are an abso'ute necessity in the openin,
ap of a new empire and also make u possible to ilmabit and euf
tivate a great agrieultura1 section.
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Alaska’s greatest needs are better transportation facilities
and cheap fuel. Given these the territory will rapidly devel
op, the wealth of the nation increase by the output from the
mines and a large army of loyal and patriotic citizens allowed
to snare in the benefits to be derived from the opening up of
Uncle Sam’s last frontier.
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The immediate building of a railroad from the coast of
Southeastern Alaska to the Tanana valley, with a branch to
the Bering river coal fields, will afford relief to the territory,
by tapping and opening up one of the richest mineral belts in
the woild.
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<o-xf,'aU!'C City ethics Prescribe bathing suits reaching to a
little above the knee.” The term is about as elastic as “about
as big as a piece of chalk.” But it implies that Atlantic
City is not going to be excessively prudish.
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Parisian clubmen are insisting that duels should be con
ducted in private. This we take to be a covert method of
destroying the dueling practice by taking away the opportu
nity to make a show of it.
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Those Kansas women who have put up Victor Murdock for
the Progressive Presidential nominee in 1916 are in great dan
ger of hearing from the vicinity of Oyster bay that they are
reactionaries in disguise.
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Jsorwav and Sweden have a combined population of 7,869,
<>«. At lAaska s present rate of progress it will take over
one hundred thousand years to equal Scandanacia’s figures.
But with the aid of federal legislation this territory will rap-'
idly develop and its populttion increase in leaps and bounds.
NOTICE OF HEARING OF FINAL
ACCOUNT
[n the United States Commissioner's
Court. Ex.Officio Judge in Pro
bate, Chitina Precinct, Territory
of Alaska, Third Judicial Division, i
In the matter of the estate of C. W.
Babbage, deceased, A. G. Morey,
administrator.
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,
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. \V.
Rabbage, deceased.
Date of first publication, Apr. 8, 1913
late of last publication Afay 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.
First publication, April 8, 1913.
Last publication, July 8, 1913.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
TO FRED HERMANSON, SWAN
R1NGWOOD, WM. HERTZBERG O.
PEARSON, A. J. NORDALE, tfour
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
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 lhbor 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.
First publication, April 8, 1913.
Last publication, July 8, 1913.
NOTICE OP 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 i
if witiu ninety days after the last
publication of this notice you fail to
pay the undersigned ac 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 ANTONE CARLSON, Your
Heirs, Personal Representatives anil
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
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
wltth 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, 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 All or any Person or Persons
Claiming by, Through or Under you:
Your are hereby notified that the I
undersigned has expended the sum o'
five hundred dollars ($500.00) in
labor and improvements upon that
certain placer mining claim known as
the Home8take Association, Valdez
Creek, a 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 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 otatutes of the United States.
J. E. CARLSON.
First publication, April 8, 1913.
Last publication, July 8, 1913.
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It is persistently rumored that
Charles H. Cosgrove, a Democratic J
attorney at Ketchikan, will file 3
charges against United States Attor- 3
ney Rustgard of Juneau, whose term j
of office does not expire for two t
years. I
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