The Chitina Leader
'• CHITINA, ALASKA.
Entered as second-class matter, November 12 1910 at the postoffice at
Chitina, Alaska, under tlie Act of Congress of March 3, 18,9.
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CHITINA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1915.
" PERKINS’ NEW PARTY”
It is interesting to learn that Mr. George W. Perkins
continues in his apparent determination to rescue this nation
from its peril by abolishing the anti-trust act. To accomplish
his purpose, he must organize a new political party. The
Beoublican party passed the Sherman law, and the Democratic
party is enforcing and supplementing it. Even the Progressi\e
party did not demand its repeal, and President Roose\elt,
with «ome exceptions in favor of his “good trusts, ’ was the
tirst President to successfully enforce it against others. If
the Sherman law represents our great national sin against
business, as Mr. Perkins claims, then he cannot start his new
par+y a dav too soon. There is no doubt that such a party
would be abundantly supplied with campaign funds. The
trusts, though they claim to be oppressed and downtrodden
would rally to its support with contributions that woudl make
Mark Hanna’s days seem infantile. But it would be short on
votes. The people of the country have their minds made up
on this point. If business wants peace, it should conduct its
operations in accordance with the letter and the spirit of the
law. And the same idea should prevail in the smaller affairs of
life and in the large cities and small towns. The special privi
lege class is being gradually weeded out everywhere, and in
time it will even disappear in Cordova.
SEWARD NEEDS THE HELP
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Anxiety continues at Seward over tlie probability or
possibility of the government starting in this summer to
rebuild the Alaska Northern railroad from tidewater to Mile
72, the end of present construction. Men engaged in mining
development back of Seward are particularly anxious that a
start be soon made. And on this subject the Gateway says:
Let it be repeated that it is devoutly wished the
engineering commission will start work on the Alaska
Northern this summer. This would not be desired so
much for the temporary blessing of a passing payroll
as for the development of the mines and homesteads on
Kenai peninsula. .When winter comes and the waters
r around Anchorage receive their annual ice flows the
Alaska Northern in running order would be very
convenient, and not only for the people but for the
railroad construction operations. At least it looks that
way and if the United States and its government only
knew how anxious the people of this part of the terri
tory are to see Ivenai peninsula opened up they would go
out of their way to help us.
A CRITICAL SITUATION
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The reply received from Germany today is evasive and
unsatisfactory. There is no apology for the act and no
intimation that their submarine policy is to be changed. As
a result the people throughout the United States are bitterly
disappointed. From many quarters come the demand that
the President take summary action. But most people will
hold their opinions in reserve.
And at this critical hour in America there is but one duty
and one attitude for all Americans, to stand by the President
and neither by word nor deed embarrass him. The obligations
of neutrality, strong before, are immeasurably intensified at
this moment. This is no time for jingo hysteria or for
jangling controversy. It is a time for sober thought, not for
wild words. The President has spoken for us. He has
seemingly said all that needed to be said in the waj^it should
be said.
Possibly at no time since the European war commenced
h is the feeling been so tense throughout the United States a'
it is today. And there is likely a general feeling nf resentment
at the attitude of Germany in its parley to the note of the
President. What may now follow remains an unanswered
question that time alone will tell.
It was an essential part of the duty Americans owe to
humanity of which the President has so often spoken, that
our goevrnment should express its horror and destestation of
the massacre on the Lusitania.
That the European belligerents have thrown international
law and the common rights of mankind into the scrap heap
has not destroyed and could not destroy the principles of
international right and justice and the sancity of human life.
That we should demand reparation was inevitable and
incidental. But there are things for which money can not
atone and which no necessity can justify. In a world leapimr
insanely from one excess of desperation to another, it is the
imperative duty of right-thinking men to cry halt. This the
President did in unmistakable terms.
The answer coming today from Germany may require
another expression, and if so it will undoubtedly be forth
coming. In the meantime the President is wrapped in sober
thought. As he voiced the sentiment of the American people
in his original note it is fair to assume that in the present
emergency he will again act wisely. In this critical hour let
all Alaskans take him as our exemplar in patience and
patriotism, self-poised and clear-headed, as becomes
Americans.
TRAIL AND BRIDGE LONG NEEDED
Again an appeal comes from the Nizina country for the
building of a trail over or around Sourdough hill, leading from
McCarthy to the Nizina river, and for a bridge across this
treacherous stream. During the past ten years extensive
mining operations have been pursued in what is known as the
Nizina mining section. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have
been expended in prospecting and developing the country. But
all cries for assistance from the Alasna Road Commission have
been without beneficial response, although the necessities have
been impressed upon the members of the commission.
For sveral years the promise was forthcoming that soon
a bridge would be built. And this promise was finally
fulfilled two or three years ago. Over $20,000’ was expended
in placing a fine bridge across the Nizina river. But alas,
before it was in use, the swollen waters of the spring carried
the structure away, as it had not been placed at the proper
place. In the meantime more men, more horses and more
supplies have been carried to destruction by the shifting and
rapid waters that flow over a quicksand bottom. And at times
the muck of Sourdough hill has been so deep that it has been
almost a physical impossibility for man or beast to make
progress through it.
And beyond there is a great stretch of mining country,
with valuable deposits of placer gold, gold quartz and rich
copper ore. And prospectors have been and are still anxious
to penetrate to the regions of the Chisana, the "White river, the
Cliittistone, Dan Creek, Young Creek, Chittitu Creek, Boulder
Creek, May Creek and other streams where may be found
valuable mineral. The present facilities for reaching these
sections are dangerous and costly.
It means much to Cordova, to Chitina, to McCarthy and to
every operator, prospector or laborer who is occupied in that
great and rich country beyond to see that more accessible and
safer means of traffic are provided. The benefits from the labor
performed in that country are diffused and divided among the
towns named. If for no other than selfish reasons the commer
cial organizations of the towns named should unite in a
campaign of action that would certainly bring material and
beneficial results.
In matters of this kind the Cordova Chamber of Commerce
likes to think that it takes the initiative. Here is an oppor
tunity, not simply to pass a resolution, but to nut their shoulder
to the wheel and try to induce the Road Commission or the
Territorial road overseer for this division to expend some
monev where it is so badly needed and would be the means of
affording relief to a large number of men. Vnd Chitine and
McCarthy would undoubtedly co-operate and lond valuable an1
in the endeavor to secure at least a better trail for this season
and the building of a bridge next winter.
A CHANGED OPINION
Carter Harrison of Chicago is in the “ex” class and he
signalized his retirement from the mayoralty by a notable
change of position on the segregation of vice. He formerly
favored that policy; but in his'farewell message to the ' hicago
people, he discards it altogether. He makes the com ssion.
not alone that “segregation does not segregate,” but that the
breaking up of the segregated districts in Chicago has not
spread the evil into the residence districts. Therefore, Hand
son favors the policy of repression. He proposes to combat
the evil in every quarter of the city, and striving “to rob it of
its false glitter and lustre, to show it in its hideous mien
repressed by the sternest of police measures, existing only by
dint of secrecy and stealth, forbidden by the laws of God and
man.” For an official who has been long committed to the
segregation plan, and was widely credited with being a
supporter of the “wide open town,” this change of opinion i
sigificant. Whether it is due to the fact that Harrison no
longer needs the political support of the vicious classes makes
no difference in its significance.
A Pennsylvania man sued for divorce on the plea that hi
wife had been “hexed,” or influenced, by witchcraft to leav
him. Of course, it never occurred to him that she might jus!
have tired of him.
Judge Davis of Portland, Oregon, advocates the whipping
post, and a cynical expatriate from that city retorts that ju~i
fo live in Portland is punishment enough for almost any
oflfense. Which, of course, is a libel on the rose city.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To F. M. Brown, John Lyons, Gust
Djarf, Charles Garwood, T. .1.
Donohue and Edmund Smith, your
heirs, administrators and assigns,
and to all it may concern:
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You are hereby notified that we j
have expended during the years 1913 i
and 1914 upon your F. M. Brownj
and John Lyons joint one-tenth in
terest, three hundred and sixty dol
lars ($360.00); Gust Djarf’s one
forty-eighth interest, seventy-five dol
lars ($75.00); Charles Garwood'S
one-forty-eighth, interest seventy-five
dollars, ($75.00), lawful money of
’he United States in labor and im
provements upon your above men
tioned interest in these mining
claims lying and being on Hidden
Creek in the recording precinct of
Chitina, Alaska, which are known as
’he Tjosevig group, consisting of the
Tjosevig No. 1 to 15 inclusive, also
Norway No. 2, Nebraska and Char
lotte; also on your’s T. J. Donohue,
and Edmund Smith’s one and six
tenths of one-forty-eighth interest in
the above mentioned claims also on
your seven and one-half of one hun
dred per cent interest in the “Dagny
Marie” and Carbonate Hill claims,
being in all one hundred and fifty
dollars ($150.00) lawful money of
the United States iu labor and im
provements upon your joint above
mentined interest in those mining
claims lying and being on Hidden
Creek in the recording precinct of
Chitina, Alaska. The location notices
of all above mentioned claims being
cf re.cord in the Mining Recording
Hooks in the office of the com mis
sioner and recorder at Valdez and at
Chitina, Alaska, in order to hold
said claims under the provisions of
Section 2324 of the Revised Statutes
of the United States, concerning an
nual labor on mining claims, being
the amount required to hold said
lode claims for the period ending
December 31st, 1914.
And unless within ninety day?
after the completion of the publica
tion of this notice towit: within
ninety days after the 8th day of
June, 1915, you contribute your pro
portion of such expenditure incurred
in performing said annual labor and
improvements, which is the above
mentioned sum, your interest in sai l
claims will become the property of
your co-owners who have made the
required expenditure by the terms
of said section..
Dated at Chitina, Alaska, this
22nd day of February 1915.
CHRISTIAN TJOSEVIG,
ELI TJOSEVIG.
First publication, March 2, 1915.
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