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CHITINA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1914.
NO RESPECTOR OF SENATORIAL CUSTOM
Senator Harry Lane, of Oregon, seems clearly of the
opinion that liis senatorial duties began when he took the oath
of office. He is there to serve by act and word, and liot by
timrous deference to senatorial custom.
There was illustration of all'this in the Senate upon tiie
occasion when the Alaska railroad bill was up for discussion.
John Sharp Williams, the political philosopher of the Senate,
opposed the Alaska railroad bill on the ground that it was
state socialism; and in the course of his argument was driven
to the admission that private enterprise should be left free
in such matters even though it should not do half so well as
the givernment might do.
By way of illuminating this contention Senator Williams
held that the.government, with all of its soil experts, all of its
boll-weevil experts and everything else could open up a
thousand acres of land next to the fourteen hundred owned
and cultivated by him, and make twice as much cotton as !'c
could make. At this point Senator Lane interjected a remark
to the effect that if the government could handle Senator
Williams’ fourteen hundred acres of land twice as well 'as he
could, it would pay the government to hire the senator to
get off the land and let the government do it. And later on,
pursuing the same line of thought he added: “Mr. President.
I should like to say that if the senator by his efforts in raising
cotton damages the average production per acre 50 per cent,
he is in the same class as the boll weevil, the codling moth
and the woolly aphis, and he ought to be sprayed and dipped
in sheep dip and hired to get out of business.” It is meet to
add that the vice president had to threaten to clear the
galleries.
One Month
Six Months
One Year .
ATTACKING SIMPLICTY AND DIRECTNESS
That feature of the income tax law which provides that
the tax shall be collected at the source is to be first subjected
to attack in the courts. It is the usual contention of “taking
their property without due process of law.” We often wonder
what would become of the legal fraternity were it not for that
contention—what an incomprehensible loss in business would
be theirs.
This feature of the law was borrowed from the experi
ence of Great Britain. It has worked in that country and
satisfactorily, because it is simple, direct in operation, and
saves great expense in administration of the law. There does
not appear to be any reason that the average man can under
stand why it should not work quite as effectively in this
country. Without doubt it will, unless the courts should
upset it. *
It is neither courteous nor good taste to predict or
suggest what the decision of the court ought to be or is likely
to be; but if, by legal reasoning, it should be adverse to this
provision of the law, the result would certainly be a curious
object lesson in American jurisprudence. It would be a case
where the law forbids the rational thing; where it would step
in and prevent public administration of a very important
nature in the manner that would be cheapest, most simple and
most direct, and where all these things have been approved in
the experience of a great and enlightened people.
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It is gratifying to note that the newspapers of Fairbanks
fully appreciate the excellent mail service the people of the
interior are receiving this winter. Every dispatch of mail
from the Cordova office has gone through on schedule time,
and some of the letters reached their destination in excep
tionally short time. The Fairbanks Times gays the “mail
service is greatly improved over other years; letters from
Xew York arrive in Fairbanks within 18 days from the time
they were posted; many letters from California and other
western states were brought to their destination within
sixteen days.”
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A true booster is one who boosts for the community in
which he lives, but in Alaska a true booster is one who boosts
for all Alaska. Our needs are practically all the same. Our
particular location will have something, to do with our
particularizing in boosting. To one interested in Alaska, he
should boost for his home community first, then if another
community should receive the coveted prize, his boosting
should not wane, for what benefits one community will
ultimately benefit the entire territory.
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Secretaries Lane, Garrison and Daniels, viewing the
Alaska exhibit of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, opined
that the territory has a great future. In the terse language
of the street: “It’s a cinch!”
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Since Colonel Goethals has decided to remain in Panama
as its governor, why not offer the* New York police commis
sionersliip to Colonel Roosevelt?
-o—o—o
Champ Clark’s statement that he might have been
president may be construed to mean that he intends to be.
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With coffee and candy as campaign currency in Chicago,
who says that the tone of politics is not improved?
SERIAL NO. 0X640
IX THE UNITED STATES LAND
OFFICE AT JUNEAU, ALASKA.
In the Jlatter of the Application or"
Frank J. Nolan for a Patent to the
Gravity, Glacier Bear, Cooper Kins.
Copper Prince and Liberty Lodes,
Mineral Survey No. 943, situated in
the Forty-Mile Mining District of
Alaska.
Notice of Application for Patent
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN:
1 That in accordance with the laws of
the United States, and especially in
pursuance of the Act of Congress
approved May 10, 1872, Frank J. Nolan,
a citizen of the United States, whose
Post Office address is No. 817 Alaska
Building, Seattle, Washington, will
make application for a patent to 1500
lienal feet along the lodes or veins
within tne Gravity Lode, the Glacier
Bear Lode, the Copper King Lode, the
Copper Prince Lode and the Liberty
Lode, with surface ground 300 feet or
less in width on each side of the cen
ter of said lodes or veins of quartz or
other rock in place, bearing gold, cop
per and other valuable mineral, all in
cluded in and accurately described upon
the Official Plat of Mineral Survey No.
943 now posted on the claim, and by
the Field Notes of such official survey
on file with the Register of the Land
Office at Juneau, Alaska.
United States Location Monument No.
7 to which this survey is tied is situ
ated in Latitude 61 deg. 40 min. N.,
Longitude 142 deg. 31 min. W. This
survey is located on the south side of
the Middle Fork of White River and
about 10 miles above its junction with
White River.
The- lode locations are contiguous,
and constitute a single tract of ground
described as beginning at Corner No. 1
of the Gravity Lode, which is the most
Northerly point thereof, from which
point United States Location Monument
No. 7 bears North 10 deg. 03 min. East
746.3 feet distant, and running thence
from said Corner No. 1 of the Gravity
Lode South 62 deg. 53 min. East 1500
feet to Corner No. 2 thereof: thence
South 25 deg. 55 min. West 147.9 feet
along the East line of the Gravity Lode
to the point of intersection with the
North line of the Copper King Lode,
which is Corner No. 1 thereof, and
from which point U. S. L. M. No. 7
bears North 36 deg. 18 min. West 1926
feet' distant: thence from said Corner
No. 1 of the Copper King Lode South 65
deg. 56 min. East 1500 feet to Corner
No. 2 thereof, which is identical with
corner No. 1 of the Copper Prince Lode,
from which point U. S. L. M. No. 7
bears North 49 deg. 13 min. 58 sec.
West 3313.88 feet distant: thence from
said Corner No. 1 of the Copper Prince
Lode South 73 deg. 03 min. East 1500
feet to Corner No. 2 thereof, which is
identical with Corner No. 1 of the
Liberty Lode, from which point U. S.
L. M. No. 7 bears North 56 deg. 35 min.
53 sec. West 4725.12 feet distant: thence
from said Corner No. 1 of the Liberty
Lode South 73 deg. 03 min. East 1500
feet to Corner No. 2, which is the
Northeast corner thereof; thence South
25 deg. 55 min. West 600 feet to corner
No. 3, which is the Southeast corn-.r
thereof: thence North 73 deg. 03 min.
West 1500 feet to Corner fto. 4 of the
Liberty Lode, which is identical with
Corner No. 3 of the Copper Prince Lo le
and on the same course 1500 feet
Corner No. 4 of the Copper Prince
Lode which is identical with Corntr
No. 3 of the Copper King Lode;
thence North 65 deg. 56 min. West 1500
feet to Corner No. 4 of the Copper King
Lode, which is a point on the Easterly
line of the Glacier Bear Lode; thence
from said Corner No. 4 of the Copper
King Lode South 25 deg. 55 min. West
along the Easterly line of the Glacier
Bear Lode 452.1 feet to Corner No. I!
thereof; thence from said Corner No. 3
of the Glacier Bear Lode North 62 deg.
53 min. West 1500 feet to Corner No.
4. which is the Southwest corner
thereof; thence North 23 deg. 55 min.
East 600 feet to Corner No. 1 of the
Glacier Bear Lode from which point
U. S. L. M. No. 7 bears North 17 deg.
06 min. 58 sec. East 1333.56 feet dis
tant, which Corner No. 1 of the Glacier
Bear Lode is identical with Corner No.
4 of the Gravity Lode, and running
thence North 25 deg. 55 min. East 610
feet to Corner No. 1 of the Gravity
Lode, the place of beginning first herein
described.
There are no adjoining lode or min
eral claims officially surveyed.
The variation at all corners is North
31 deg. 30 min. East.
The area of each location is as fol
lows:
Gravity Lode .20.657 Acres
Glacier Bear Lode.20.657 Acres
Copper King Lode .20.650 Acres
Copper Prince Lode .20.409 Acres
Liberty Lode .20.409 Acres
Total Acreage Mineral
Survey No. 943.102.782 Acres
This notice is issued from the United
States Land Office at Juneau, Alaska,
this 27th day of January, A. D. 1914,
for posting in said Land Office and for
publication for not less than sixty days
in the Chitina Leader, a newspaper of
general circulation, published nearest to
said claims, and hereby designated for
that purpose.
C. B. WALKER.
Register.
MAURICE D. LEEHEY,
Attorney for Claimant,
817 Alaska Building,
Seattle, Washington.
First publication February 17, 1914.
Last publication, April 21, 1914.
BEtZU NO. 01639.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
JUNEAU, ALASKA.
In the Matter of the Application of
Frank J. Nolan for a Patent to the
Washington, Red Fox, Black Dia
mond, Celtic, Colley, Blue Eyed
Nellie, Bear’s Nest and Bed Rock
Lodes, Mineral Survey No. 942, situ
ated in the Forty Mile Mining Dis
trict of Alaska.
Notice of Application for Patent.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN:
That in accordance with the laws of
the United states, and especially in
pursuance of the Act of Congress ap
proved May 10th, 1872, Frank J. Nolan,
a citizen of the United States, whose
post office address is No. 817 Alaska
Building, Seattle, Washington, will
make application for a patent to 1500
feet along the Washington Lode, 942
fiet along the Red Fox Lode, 1500 feet
along the Black Diamond Bode, 1075
feet along the Celtic Lode, 1500 feet
along the Colley Lode, 042 feet along
the Blue Eyed Nellie Lode, 1500 feet
along the Bear's Nest Lode and 1500
feet along the Bed Rock Lode, with
surface ground 300 feet or less in
width on each side of the center of
such lodes or veins of quartz or other
rock in place, bearing gold, copper and
other valuable mineral, and included in
said mining claim, which is accurately
described upon the Official Flat of Min
eral Survey No. 942 posted on the
claim, and by the Field Notes of such
official survey on file with the Register
of the Lana Office at Juneau, Alaska.
United States Location Monument No.
6 to which this survey is tied Is situ
ated in Latitude 61 deg. 41 min. 45 sec.
North, Longitude 142 deg. 10 min. West
whence the summit of Castle Mountain
bears North 80 deg. West, approxi
mately 7.5 miles. The Survey is situ
ated along the west side of Moraine
Creek and about 1*4 miles above the
junction of said creek with White
River, Alaska.
The lode locations are contiguous
and constitute a single tract of ground
described as beginning at Corner No.
1 of the Washington Lode, which is the
Northwest corner thereof, from which
point United States Location Monument
No. 6 bears North 63 deg. 38 min East
646 feet distant, and running thence
from said Corner No. 1 of the Wash
ington Lode South 79 deg. 48 min. East
along the North line of the Washington
Lode 942 feet to its intersection with
the West line of the Bed Rock Lode at
Corner No. 5 thereof; thence from said
Corner NO. 5 North 10 deg. 00 min. East
;dong the Westerly line of the Bed
Tfbck Lode 600 feet to Corner No. 1,
which is the Northwest corner thereof,
from which point U. S. L. M. No. 6
mears South 73 deg. 09 min. West 472.<
feet distant; thence from said Corner
No. 1 of the Bed Rock Lode South 79
deg. 33 min. East 1500 feet to Corner
No. 2 thereof; thence South 10 deg. 00
min. West 600 feet to Corner No. 3
thereof, which is identical with Cor
ner No. 2 of the Red Fox Lode, and
with Corner No. 1 of the Black Diamond
Lode, from which point U. S. L. M. No.
6 bears North 68 deg. 17 min. 30 sec.
West 1962.49 feet distant, and running
thence from said Corner No. 1 of the
Black Diamond Lode South 60 deg. 20
min. East 1500 feet to Corner No. 2
thereof, which is identical with Cor
nea- No. 1 of the Celtic Lode, from
which point U. S. L. M. No. 6 bears
North 64 deg. 50 min. 41 sec. West
3454.3 feet distant, and running thence
from said Corner No. 1 of the Celtic
Lode South 56 deg. 50 min. East 1075
feet to Corner No. 2, the Northeast cor
ner thereof; thence South 10 deg. ‘>0
min. West 560 feet to Corner No. 3, the
Southeast corner thereof; thence North
56 deg. 50 min. West 1075 feet to Cor
ner No. 4 of the Celtic Lode, which is
identical with Corner No. 3 of the
Black Diamond Lode and with Corner
No. 2 of the Bear's Nest Lode: thence
South 10 deg. 00 min. West 600 feet to
Corner No. 3 of the Bear's Nest Lode,
which is the Southeast corner thereof;
thence North 60 deg. 20 min. West 1500
feet to Corner No. 4 of the Bear's Nest
Lode, which is identical with Coimer
No. 3 of the Blue Eyed X lie Lode, and
from which point Corn r No. 1 of the
Bear's Nest Lode is id n'.i ■ 1 with Cor
ner No. 2 of the Blue i:ye<t niu Lode,
boars South 10 deg. on mm st b‘H>
feet distant, and front said Corner Xt.
1 of the Bear's Nest Bode and Corner
No. 2 of the Blue Eyed Nelli- Code U.
S. L. M. No. 6 hears North 53 deg. 2!)
min. West 2147.8 feet distant, and run
ning thence from said Corner No. 4 of
the Bear's Nest Lode which is identical
witli Corner No. 3 of the Blue Eyed
Nellie Lode North 79 deg. 24 min. West
942 feet to Corner No. 4 of the Blue
Eyed Nellie Lode, which is identical
with Corner No. 3 of the Colley Lode;
thence North 79 dee. 48 min. west 1500
feet to Corner No. 4 of the Colley Lode,
which is the Southwest corner thereof:
thence North 10 dee. 00 min. East 600
feet to Corner No. 1 of tiie Colley Lode,
which is identical with Corner No. 4
of the Washington Lode, and from
which point U. S. L. M. No. 6 hears
North 38 deg. 53 min. East 1077.8 feet
distant, and running thence from said
Corner No. 4 of the Washington Lode
North 10 deg. 00 min. East 560 feet to
Corner No. 1 thereof, the place of begin
ning first herein described.
There are no adjoining lode or min
eral claims officially surveyed.
The variation at all corners is North
31 deg. 30 min. East.
The area of each, locatio.n is as fol
lows:
Washington Lode .19.283 Acres
Red Fox Lode .12.109 Acres
Black Diamond Lode ....18.159 Acres
Celtic Lode .•.12.706 Acres
Colley Lode .20.661 Acres
Blue Eyed Nellie Lode. .. .12.974 Acres
Bear’s Nest Lode. 19.456 Acres
Bed Rock Lode .20.618 Acres
Total acreage Mineral
Survey No. 942..135.966 Acres
This notice is issued from the United
States Land Office at Juneau, Alaska,
tills 27th day of January, A. D. 1914,
for posting in said Land Office and for
publication for not less than sixty days
in the Chitina Leader, a newspaper of
general circulation, published nearest to
said claims, and hereby designated for
that purpose.
C. B. WALKER,
Register.
MAURICE D. LEEHEY,
Attorney for Claimant,
817 Alaska Building,
Seattle, Washington.
First publication February 17. 1914.
. Last publication, April 21, 1914,
SESXAX. VO. 01638.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE AT
JUNEAU, ALASKA.
In the Matter of the Application of
Frank J. Nolan for a Patent to the
Wolverine and Mamoth Lodes, Min
eral Survey No. 941, situated in the
Forty Mile Mining District of Alaska.
Notice of Application for Patent
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN:
That in accordance with the laws of
the United States, and especially in
pursuance of the Act of Congress ap
proved May 10, 1872, Frank J. Nolan,
a citizen of the United States, whose
Post Office address is No. 817 Alaska
Building, Seattle, Washington, will
make application for a patent to 588.5
feet along the Wolverine Lode, and
1,250 feet along the Mamoth Lode, with
surface ground 300 feet or less in width
on each side of the center of said lodes
or veins of quartz or other rock in
place, bearing sold, copper and other
valuable mineral, and included in said
mining claim, which is accurately de
scribed upon the Official Plan of Min
eral Survey No. mi posted on the
claim, and by the Field Notes of such
official survey on file with tne Register
of the Land Office at Juneau, Alaska.
United States Location Monument No.
6 to which this survey is tied is situ
ated In Latitude 61 deg. 41 min. 45 sec.
N., Longitude 142 deg. 10 min. \\\,
whence the summit of Castle Mountain
bears N. 80 deg. W., approximately 7.5
miles. This survey is situated between
the forks of Moraine Creek and about
2 Vi miles above the junction of said
creek with White Kiver, Alaska.
The lode locations are contiguous and
constitute a single tract of ground de
scribed as beginning at Corner No. 1,
of the Wolverine Lode, which is the
Northwest corner thereof, and from
which point United States Location
.Monument No. 6 bears North 87 deg.
i-30 min. West 6822.4 feet distant, and
running thence from said Corner No.
1 South 46 deg, 24 min. East 588.5 feet
to Corner No. 2 of the Wolverine Lode,
which is identical with Corner No. 1
of the Mamoth Lode, from which point
U. S. L. M. No. 6 bears NOrth 84 deg.
27 min. 08 sec. West 7276.17, feet dis
tant, and running thence from said
Corner No. 1 of the Mamoth Lode South
41 deg. 34 min. East 1250 feet to corner
No. 2 thereof, which is the Southwest
corner thereof; thence North 70 deg. 20
min. East 560 feet to Corner No. 3 of the
Mamoth Lode, which is the Southeast
corner thereof; thence North 41 deg. 34
min. West 1250 feet to Cornor No. 4 of
the Mamoth Lode, which is identical I
with Corner No. 3 of the Wolverine
Lode; thence North 46 deg. 24 min.
West 588.5 feet to Corner No. 4 of the
Wolverine Lode, which is the North
east corner thereof; thence South 70
deg. 29 min. West 560 feet to Corner
No. 1 of the Wolverine Lode, the place
of beginning first herein described.
There are no adjoining lode or min
eral claims officially surveyed.
The variation at all corners is North
32 deg. 00 min. East.
The area oi each location is as fol
lows;
Wolverine Lode . 6.130 Acres
Mamoth Lode .13.767 Acres
Total acreage Mineral
Survey No. 941..19.897 Acres
This notice .is issued from the
United States Land office at Juneau,
Alaska, this 27th day of January, A. ;_).
1914, for posting in said Land Office
and for publication for not less than
sixty days in the Chitina Leader, a
newspaper of general circulation, pub
lished nearest to said claims, and
hereby designated for that purpose.
C. B. WALKER,
Register.
MAURICE T>. LEEHEY,
Attorney for Claftnant
817 Alaska Building,
Seattle, Washington.
First publication February 17, 1914.
Last publication, April 21, 1914.
XOTICE FOIt PUBLICATION
Serial 01010
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
Juneau, Alaska, July 12, 1918.
Notice is hereby given that Oeha
Potter of Hougliton, Michigan, as
signee of Barnard Needham, Calvin
Deputron and Elijah T. Fudge,
beneficiaries under Section 2306
Revised Statutes of the United
States, granting additional lands to
soldiers and sailors who served in
the War of the Rebellion, has made
application to make entry of the
lands in U. S. Survey No. 595, situ
ated about fifteen miles above the
mouth of McCartny creek, a tribu
tary of the Kennicott river, in the
Chitina recording precinct, Juneau
Land District, Territory of Alaska,
and more particularly described in
the fields notes and plat of sajd sur
vey as follows:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, a green
stone 16x8x6 ins. set 11 in. in
ground, marked S. 595 Cor. 1 on
side facing claim, from which Cor.
L\ S. L. M. No. 595 bears S. 2 96
chs. dist., said U. S. L. M. is a stone
30x20x8 ins. 15 ins. in the ground
tnarked with a cross on top and U.
S. L. M. 595 on side. There are
no natural objects or permanent
monuments other than the one just
established available. Tnence from
■Cor. No. 1 S. 10 chs. to Cor. No. 2,
thence W. 5 chs. to Cor. No. 3
crossing McCarthy Creek at 0.50
chs., thence N. 10 chs. to Cor. No.
4, thence E. 5 chs io Cor. No. 1,
the place of beginning, crossing
McCarthy creek at 3.30 chs. con
taining five acres.
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely any portion of the above
described tracts are required to file
with the uegister and Receiver of
the U. S. Land Office at Juneau,
Alaska, tneir adverse claim thereto
under oath during the period of
publication and posting of this
notice, or within thirty days there
after, or they will be barred by the
provisions of the statute in such
case made and provided.
OCHA POTTER.
It is hereby ordered that the
foregoing notice be published for
the statutory period in the Chitina
Leader, a newspaper printed and
published at Chitina, Alaska.
C. B. WALKER,
Register.
First publication, Jan. 21, 1914.
Last publication. March 25, 1914.
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