The Chitina Leader
CHITINA, ALASKA.
Filtered as second-class matter, November 12, 1910, at the postoffice ai
Chitina, Alaska, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
ONLY NEWSPAPER IN CHITINA
Published every Saturday by
WILL A. STEEL, Editor and Proprietor.
Office: Hotel Chitina Building. Cordova Office: Daily Alaskan
Seattle Office: 651 Colman Building.
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CHITINA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1915.
AGAINST WAR PLAGUES
Dr. W. C. Rucker, director of quarantine in the public
health service, acknowledges that that branch of the federal
government is preparing plans to fight the war plagues now
ravaging certain sections of Europe when the expected rush
of immigration after the war may place our ports in peril.
Cholera, typhus and smallpox are the three diseases considered
likely to menace us. At present, owing to the very small
immigration, practically none from the plague stricken regions,
we are spared that danger, hut were the ships arriving daily
with thousands as in ordinary times it would tax our resources
to the utmost to maintain the strictest guard.
The possibility, intimated by Dr. Rucker, should hasten
action looking towards the concentration of the quarantine
guard under the national public health service. At New York
and Boston it is in the hands of the state authorities and,
while it has been fairly adequate, there has been a growing
belief that these great ports should be placed under federal
health control as most of the smaller ports have been. The
protection sought is national and should be performed by the
national government. The high standard of the public health
service and its success in combating the menace of imported
disease at San Francisco and New Orleans has established it
in public confidence.
CELEBRATE ALASKA ANNIVERSARY
Some of the Alaska newspapers take exception to the
suggestion from Seattle that the fiftieth anniversary of the
purchase by the United States of Alaska should be celebrated
in that city on June 20. We believe this to be a reasonable
and unfair attitude. Seattle seeks to deprive Alaskans of
nothing in the way of a commemoration of the event in the
north. In fact it is intimated that here is where the big
Washington city would be of a secondary character. But too
often Alaska objects to Seattle doing those things which the
people of this territory will not themselves do. And in the
present instance where is the commercial or other organization
in Alaska that is taking steps to celebrate the anniversary?
But it is not too late yet and if any one of the coast towns was
to arrange a big celebration it would likely result in drawing
people from other Alaska towns and the great outside. On
the subject the Post Intelligencer says:
The close relationship existing between Alaska and
Seattle, and the intimate interest of our people in every
thing that concerns the great northern territory, make
it peculiarly appropriate that this city should take the
initiative in the celebration of the semi-centennial of the
Alaska purchase negotiated through Secretary of State
William H. Seward in 1867.
It should be well understood, ho\ve\er, that such
. commemoration, whether in the form of an exposition or
otherwise, is not to interfere with any plans that
Alaskans may have for the celebration within that terri
tory. Rather should it he known that what Seattle may
do is to he supplementary and contributory to the
success of the home celebration. It is possible that
Seward or some other Alaska point may undertake an
adequate commemoration. If this is done it would he
Seattle’s duty to encourage its success by stimulating
interest in the occasion and travel to the north by
visitors who may come here.
Seattle for many years has devoted much time and
money to the cause of Alaska, and to all of her causes
this city has stood in the relation of a parent concerned
in the welfare of a child. The bonds are very close
between the people of the north and the people of this
city, not only because they are neighbors, hut because
so many Alaska citizens are former Seattleites; and
our close commercial and financial relations have
strengthened these bond.s
We are proud of the great nothern territory, its
people and its splendid resources, and in any plans for
celebrating the Seward purchase every Seattle citizen
will be glad to co-operate. What is done here will draw
the attention of the world to the occasion, and our hope
will be that it shall stimulate whatever celebration may
be held by the “home folks” in Alaska territory.
A New York woman says the vote would end women’s
unrest. It hasn’t worked that way with men.
That “movie marriage” on the battleship New York
suggests a protest that we did not raise our navy to he a film
factory.
Fortunately the shifting of the half million dollars worth
of copper ore on the steamer Seward occurred before the
vessel reached the open water of the North Pacific.
The war is costing Britain $150 a second. There is a very
general opinion that it is not worth it.
An Illinois court has ruled that the Republican party
has a right to prevent any other party posing as the “G. 0. P.”
on a ballot. However “grand” the new organization might
claim to be, it could not possibly claim to be “old.”
Senator Lawrence Y. Sherman of Illinois is being boomed
for the nomination on the ground that he looks like Lincoln.
What is needed is one who will act like Lincoln.
COURTESY IS DEMANDED
I
President Alexander of the Pacific-Alaska Steamship
Company, has adopted the slogan “courtesy,” and is impress
ing upon all the employees of his company the advisability
and necessity of treating the traveling public, and all doing
business with any agent, with politeness and consideration
Most of the employees of that company will require but little
coaching to give the public courteous treatment. They have
always done it. They are built that way and just can’t help
it. The grouches working for any corporation, usually require
more than a few kind words to induce them to be civil. They
are more of a detriment to a company than to the public. In
these days of strong competition the choice of doing business
usually lies with the public. No longer does a supercilious
clerk lord it oVer the man or woman who wishes to patronize
his company, but don’t have to. Where once it may have been
the exception in most of the railroad and steamship offices of
the United States to receive decent treatment it is now the
rule. The hisrher officials demand that their patrons receive the
same considerate treatment as they would in a store or hotel.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
—
To F. M. Brown, John Lyons, Gust
Djarf, Charles Garwood, T. J.
Donohue and Edmund Smith, your
heirs, administrators and assigns,
and to all it may concern:
You are hereby notified that we
have expended during the years 1913
and 1914 upon your F. M. Brown
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
the United States in labor and im
provements upon your above men
tioned interest in those mining
claims lying and being on Hidden
Creek in the recording precinct of
Chitina, Alaska, which are known as
the 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 dne 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 in 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
of record in the Mining Recording
Books in the office of the commis
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 days
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 1
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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Wiiy Not Invest?
With the building of the government railroad from
Chitina to Fairbanks, the future of the Town of Chitina
is assured.
Lots are still offered at attractive prices and there
are many desirable ones remaining.
A few months later lots in Chtiina will be held at
largely increased values. Why not invest NOW?
GEO. C. HAZELET,
Agent Chitina Townsite Company.
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