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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.
Office: Hotel Chitina Building.
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LET US MINE
OUR OWN COAL
Chitina, Alaska, Saturday July 8 1911
A SUCCESSFUL CELEBRATION
That not oni1 word of complaint
from our guests, no drunkeness or
rowdiness, and all celebration ar
rangements being carried out to the
gratification and amusement of all
who attended Independence Day ex
ercises at Chitina, reflects great cred
it on our citizens aitd little town,
and the members of the various com
mittees who were untiring in theii
efforts to perfect arrangements for
a .successful celebration, now feel
amply repaid for their days of hard
work since hearing the many ex
pressions of pleasure and commenda
tion from our visitors.
In a great way our celebration dif
fered from Independence day exer
cises held in past years, and was a
radical departure from precedent, in
that there were no long and tire
some orations, blazing fireworks,
etc., which characterize the celebra
tions of a few years ago. The en
thusiastic young American and his
fire cracker are becoming memories
only and our old time citizens fear
that the original object of Independ
ence day is becoming somewhat of a
farce.
“A safe and sane Fourth” now
seems to be the cry, and it is un
questionably the better way. for the
long list of accidents and damages
statistice give us in past celebrations
where explosives and fire works were
the feature of the day, are indeed
appalling. Continual press comment
from year to year has been the chief
factor in suppressing the “fires of
patriotism” as it were, but has re
sulted in untold good in the saving
of millions of dollars worth of prop
erty each year, particularly in the
crowded cities if the United States.
Again, it may be that our people
are becoming too rich, and although
•we have no titles of our own the sons
and daughters of our wealthy peo
ple are selling themselves for the
title of “My Lord” and “My Lady.’’
Thousands of our Americans attend
ed the different celebrations on July
Fourth throughout Uncle Sam’s
States and territorial possessions list
ened to the reading of the declara
tion of Independence, heard able ora
tions on the constitution which de
clares our belief that “all men were
born free and equal”, yet hundreds
of our “free born and enlightened
citizens”, each year flock to foreign
countries to kiss the hands and bow
the knees to men and women tvho by
accident of birth are declared rulers
of their countries.
There is no ruler in all the mon
archial kingdoms who is the peer,
or equal of an ^American president.
To be elected president of the United
States a man must have done some
thing to show his worth, while in a
monarchial government, an idiot may
be proclaimed ruler of the people be
cause he is the son of his father.
Good Americans believe that any
man who has succeeded in working
his way to the pinnicle of fame is
entitled and should be treated with
all honors, but the pinnacle has not
yet been established in our opinion,
that justifies an American citizen in
bending the knee, or kissing the foot
and hand of aristocrats, or, in fact,
“kow towing” to anyone who has
reached the top.
Those of our people who go to
England and bend the knee to the
government whose yoke we threw off
and repudiated in 1776, are not good
Americans and we only look upon
them with ridicule and contempt.
May Independence day be ever ob
served by all loyal and patriotic
Americans.
Keep your eye on Chitina and
watch h r grow.
XOXSEXSE AX'EXT ALASKA. I
An irreparable injury is being done
Alaskans by that yellow talk of rev
olution and secession on the part
of Alaskans, owing to the attitude
of the administration regarding the
coal and other situations in this
far north country. It is safe to
say that no more loyal Americans
exist than those of Alaska, and it
is equally as safe to hazard the state
ment that In point of average intelli
gence with the communities on the
outside Alaska has no cause to be
ashamed. Barring the question of
dislojalty to the stars and stripes,
Alaskans by that yellow talk of rev
■vage war on a nation of ninety mil
lion people, whom we know could
bring us to subjection by simply
cutting off our source of supplies.
W. B. Vanderlip. a mining engineer
and a near relative of the president
of the National City Bank of New
York,—the Rockefeller depositary —
| who was recently along the line of
! the Copper River & Nprthwestern
railroad has been spreading broadcast
throughout the eastern press “that
within a year the flag of revolution
will be waving thoughout Alaska
! unless the administration allows the
country to be opened to development
by those who discovered it.” Yan
derlip makes the statement that there
are 53,000 men in Alaska, every one
| of whom is a trained athlete, inured
i to the hardships of the country, an !
| who have overcome hardships in the
! ice and snow before which the weak
: lings fell. Five thousand of these
men, he declared, could whip the en
; tire standing army of the Fnited
j States.
Mr. Vanderlip certainly need have
! no fear of the spectre of gaunt want.
He can always secure first page
space on any of the Hearst syndi
| cate papers. Perhaps his utterances
! obtained their yellow hue from the
I masses of copper he examined on
! the Guggenheim railroad. Such ut
| terauces as those of Vanderlip. fol
! lowing close upon the heels of the
I Cordova incident, has no doubt ob
'■ tained credence among many in the
i states and in the end will bode us
no good.
Governor Walter E. Clark, himself
an old newspaper man. forseeing the
injury which may befall Alaskans
from such wanton statements hast
ened to correct the wrong impression
which such utterances may convey,
in a long interview to the Associated
Press in which he said he did not
believe the situation would ever be
come serious enough to lead to blood
shed. He bases his opinion largely
on the fact that Alaska is peopled
by Americans, who notwithstanding
the injustices to which they have
been subjected, are patriotic to the
last degree and who would be the
first to take up a rifle in behalf of
the stars and stripes rather than
! against.
East summer, said tiovernor
Clark,” in making a trip through
the territory, I was brought to a rea
lization of the fact that our people
in the north were getting into desper
ate straits, and I also realized the
feeling of despair that was overcom
ing them. As I saw towns dwindle
in population and the certain cessa
tion of the construction work I knew
that these unfortunate conditions
would be more greatly accentuated,
and it was for this reason more than
any other that I went to Washington
to see if something could not be
lone to alleviate these conditions. But
I do not and cannot approve of dis
order as a means of manifesting dis
satisfaction.
“Every new country has to go
through a period of trevail and hard
ship, and Alaska has now passed this
period. We have watched Canada
go ahead while we have languished.
“Our period of hardship is pas
sing The obstacles remaining soon
will be overcome, and we are now
ready to enter upon a period of
prosperity. Because patent have been
or will be refused to some of the
claimants who did not fully obey the
law, it does not mean that all will
suffer. Some claims are now clear
listed, and while this will not solve
the difficulties entirely, it will re
lieve it. The visit of legislators to
Alaska, I am certain, will result in
favorable legislation for the north,
and that is what is most needed.—
Valdez Miner.
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A recent arrival in Chitina from
the interior, states that contrary to
former reports about the Kuskokwim
and Iditarod countries, all the creeks
in these districts including the In
noko and surrounding country are
working with prospects of good pay.
No stampedes or rich finds are recor
ded but all the camps in those placer
1 districts are in a healthy condition.
The winter dumps have already
cleaned up well, and by fall it has
been estimated that more pay will
be taken out by several hundred
thousand dollars than was first fig
ured on.
Bend your job trintiug to the Chit
Ina Leader.
ALASKANS DISHEARTENED
While watching the sports and ex
ercises of the day on the Fourth, at
Chitina, an old sourdough who has
been in Alaska for the past fourteen
years was heard to remark: “Fronf
an American and patriotic standpoint
Chitina is doing the proper thing to
1 day, but from the Alaskan's point of
view, there is but little encourage
ment for us in the whoop it up for
our government which has treated us
worse than any foreign country
would ever dream of doing. Five
; years ago when Alaska was first
i beginning to receive outside reeog
I nition of her wonderful resources.
I’d have given half my poke any time
j toward a celebration on Independ
j ence day. for we were nearly all good
! loyal Americans then and thought
that Alaska would be one of the most
favored of t'ncle Sam's territories
but as time goes on we find that our
government officials are not satis
fied with even half the poke, but
have been taking it all and have So
bottled up our resources that the
pokes are now entirely empty. With
the recent political decisions it's
about a two to one bet that we old
I timers who have hung on so long ex
pecting favorable legislation each |
year, will either have to go back to :
' the dog team and hunt new placer
fields, or give up in despair and pull !
out to some other country whose1
government gives some inducements'
| to the frontiersmen.”
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Sounds rather pessimistic, doesn't
it? Looking at it from his side of
the board, however, the old sour
dough has just cause for anything
but a patriotic feeling and there are
hundreds of Alaskans today who
really feel the same as he. We can
no more help feeling the resentment
against an unjust government, to
one of her richest territories, than
we can to feel proud of our fore
father's achievements in 177G, so
many Alaskans are not to be blamed
if they show a lack of enthusiasm or
patriotic spirit the past few years on
Independence day.
THE COAL SITUATION
The unmasking of the government’s ease in the Hunt
hearing now in progress in Seattle shows upon what flimsy
pretexts the Interior Department has held up many coal ap
plications in the Katalla and Matanuska coal fields. Xo doubt
hut there have been numerous attempts at fraud in both these
fields, but it does not seem that if the many investigations
made on the ground and elsewhere, by special agents of the
department, were made in good faith to expedite matters, the
government could have separated the chaff from the grain a
long time back. As it is, the Washington authorities are hold
ing up all entrymen, compelling each and all to undergo a sort
of hazing process in the hope that something will turn up re
bounding to the credit of the administration.
'Fhe government’s attitude reminds one of the story of
the impecunious cuss who w'6uld go from friend to acquaint
ance asking to have a dollar changed and then want it changed
back again. V hen asked the reason of his action he replied
that he hoped that sometime someone would make a mistake,
and then added as an aftermath, “You bet it won’t be me.”
That is the apparent attitude of the government. Alaskans arc
making the change.—Valdez Miner.
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UP TO CONGRESS
The president’s answer to the charge from members of
Congress that his administration is using the appointive power
to furnish political ends is conclusive at least in putting the
onus on congress. If the legislative branch is sincere in its
expressed anxiety to prevent the use of patronage for political
purposes all it has to do is to accept the president’s sugges
tion in past messages and place the offices under the civil ser
vice laws. That will place the plums beyond the reach of
either the administration or congress.
The fact that the president’s request for such action has
been ignored by congress justifies the belief that there is a
lot of hypocrisy in the charges made by senators and represen
tatives and that their vociferation is caused less by zeal for
civil service than annoyance that they cannot use the patronage
to pay their own political debts and build up their own politi
cal fortunes.
In view of Mr. Taft’s renewed declaration that he will be
glad if congress takes from him the duty of naming collectors
of internal revenue. United States marshals and postmasters of
the second and third classes and place them in the civil service
list congress must either accept his challenge or stand self
convicted of ere partisanship in protesting against an alleged
abuse that it has the power to stop and fails to use.
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Alaska becomes a factor in the oil market of this conti
nent. through the purchase just announced of 100,000 barrels
of oil from Katalla by the Rockefeller interests, to be refined
at the Standard’s refinery at Richmond, Cal. The event pre
sages a great struggle between the Shell-Royal Dutch com
panies, controlled by the Rothschilds and the American com
pany, as the foreign organization, owning the Sumatra and
Borneo fields, is planning to shut off the Standard from its
East Indian supply of gasoline, and to invade the United States
in competition with the local oil trust. The contest promises to
be the greatest battle of millions that has ever been waged.
Both sides need the Alaska oil, for it is far higher in gasoline
than the California product and considerably more so than
the Sumatra product.'
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Persons using the railroads a great deal in the Northwest
note material improvements in the accomodations of late. All
the lines are bringing their accomodations up to such a high
standard, in order to be able to give their patrons better ser
vice. The North Coast Limited, the Northern Pacific’s best
train, has been amplified with a number of notable additions.
Its observation car has two compartment smoking rooms,
barbershop, bathroom, library and recessed platform. After
noon tea is served daily in the lounging parlor.
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A Japanese bell boy in Boston goes home to be a college
professor. He will not be accused of lack of practical know
ledge of the world at any rate.
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Mr. Roosevelt declares: ‘‘I have no use for liars.” The
Ananias Club produced an impression that he had found con
siderable utility for them in his line of business.
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The streets of Chicoga are so-unsafe that the chief of police
recommends police escort for all unaccompanied women who
have to be sent out in the evening. Such is civilization in
Chicago.
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If that popular edition of the Congressional Record at $1
a year is not to be printed until the postmasters of the country
secure a billion subscribers to it it never will.
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Jj Chitina, Alaska.
A gold strike is reported to have
been hade on Indian creek, a trib
utary of the Koyukuk river, 300
miles up that stream. Pay has been
struc kin two places. A large area
is being prospected. Miners art
stampeding from Fairbanks.
Washington. July 5.—Humph
rey is working to get Secretary Mc
Veigh to postpone action on the gold
assay charges in Seattle in a year
and meantime he wilu try and securt
legislation to keep the gold dusi
from going to other ports.
Let us do your job work.
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-NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
In the District Court for the Dis
trict of Alaska, Third Division, Chit
ina Precinct, before M. R. Healy,
Commissioner.—In Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Char
les W. Babbage, deceased.
All persons having claims against
i the estate of Charles W. Babbage, de
ceased, are hereby required to present
them for settlement to the undersign
ed, the administrator of the said es
tate, at his office in Chitina, at the
Chitina Pharmacy, not later than six
months from date.
All persons owing money to the
said estate are required to pay the
same to the said administrator at his
office without delay.
Done at Chitina. Alaska, this 9th
day of June, A. D. 1911.
A. G. MOREY,
6-12-4 w Administrator.
Indianapolis, July J.—In a talk
here on reciprocity President Taft,
says it would prove an equalizer and
more steady prices; that the export
trade, he thought, would increase,
instead of diminishing.
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