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NOME, ALASKA, AUGUST 24, 1915.
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The announcement that the General
Staff has prepared plans looking to a
vast increase in the military force*?
will doubtless eause some considerable
relief to those to whom the phrase “love
of country" is not merely sounding
words. While it is quite possible that
tlie chief executive may place his ban
upon the whole scheme, as at present .
luid out, the development is bound to
have some effective result and we may
thus confidently expect to see the coun
try, at no far distant date, provided
with a military equipment of at least
far greater efficiency than is possessed
at the present time. The deplorable
lack of troops and war munitions fitted
to meett he most triffling emergency,
while long a matter of common know
ledge, has been further disclosed by
the recent outbreaks along the border
and several significant developments in
connection with the late disturbances
in that quarter have revealed a most
pitiful and hitherto unguessed weak
ness. It is Incredible that a country of
the size and wealth of the United
States should be compelled at the first
sign of a threatened danger to cry that
there wore not sufficient available
troops to meet even such n trifling
emergency as appeared to be developing
in connection with the Mexican situa
tion and it is totally discreditable to
those whose duty it is to keep the
country in a condition of security, that
they have been so misguided or negli
gent that no more than twenty-five
thousand trained fighting men could be
made immediately available for the na
tional defense, in case of a sudden
necessity. In the light of what each
day is clearly disclosing we can see
that safety lies in strength alone and
preparation is the only safeguard
against national destruction. The les
sons of the European war are sufficient- i
ly clear that all may see and realize
that tlie nation that is weak cannot t
hope to survive, save through the suf- '
ferance of its mightier neighbors, and t
treaties, promises and prayers cannot i
save it when its existence is a bar to r
the progress or desire tor expansion
un the part of the more powerful states.
No nation on earth with anything near
the population of the United States but
lias a military force ten or twenty times
greater than that of this country. Size
and population considered, there is no
country, with the possible exception of
China, that is so pitifully weak, so
helplessly lielpless before the attack of
a powerful foe as these United States
The lamentable and most shameful
feature of the war situation is the fact
that we must rely upon foreign nations
for our ocean carriers. One might
think that a nation of 100.000.000 people,
with unlimited resources of wealth,
might provide themselves with ships to
carry their ocean trade, hut the fact is
we have no more than a hare showing
of ocean carriers. If there is any pur
pose, any energy and pride of perform
ance, even the ordinary Intelligence of
self-protection, left in the halls of con
gress. it should he exerted toward the
purpose of restoring the American flag
to the sea. A nation whose commercial
life depends upon the retention and
extension of its trade cannot afford to
depend upon commercial rivals for its
transportation, which in an emergency
may he withheld or crippled, as in the
present crisis. This Is the fault of the
existing situation and the cause of the
warning of the German government.
Our shipping laws are ineffective and
have resulted only in decreasing the
number of ships that carry our flag. It
is a deadly wrong against this nation
and its people that the shipping problem
has not been taken up by congress and
handled in an adequate and intelligent
way. We travel today only on the suf
ferance of foreign nations, and if It
please them that we. with our goods,
shall remain at home. why. at home w'e
i shall stay.—Ex.
The growing confidence that Amer
ica is not, after ail,'to Ijc dragged into
me war is having a good effect on a
national business that is constantly in
ci casing. About the only bar to an
enormous and sudden increase of trade
is tlie danger to shipping imposed
through Germany's submarine opera
tions. Notwithstanding this, however,
our Atlantic trade is doing fairly well,
aim on tne i'acinc. remote from war
operations, commerce is growing by
by leaps. Further, the investment of
Idle funds in local activities is en
oiirageU by the cessation of public ex
citement over war possibilities, it is
in encouraging word that the First
National bank of sjeattle send out to
its customers. Orders on hand and
untilled for American goods, supplies
.ind commodities are estimated to total
one and one-half billions of dollars, and
the tide of foreign demand is but just
beginning to be felt in many lines be
yond our capacity, which,is being grad
ually increased. All of this will en
courage domestic demands and
strengthen every avenue of domestic
trade. Agriculture is a large element
of prosperity through the largo prices
for grain commodities and the liberal
crops of 1!H4. For this reason the Cen
tral West is a particularly bright spot
in the business horizon. Prospects are
brightened also by the flattering pro
mises of :i larger crop than last year.
Continued attention to the business on
hand and a soft pedaling on war’s
alarums will improve present conditions
and place 11s in very much better than
normal enjoyment of trade.—Post-In
telligencer.
ALASKA
NOTES
With only a broken down two-stamp
nill operating the Independence mine
t Willow creek produced one hundred
ainces of gold recently in ten days.
’Ills does not, however, indicate the
alue of the ore which is said by re
ent arrivals to be exceedingly rich,
’he general opinion is that when the
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proper sotr of machinery has been in
stalled the output will astonish pooplt
who are not fully acquainted with tin
district. T. W. Hawkins, of Seward, is
the president of the independence coni
puny.
A new placer strike is reported ti
have been made on Hodzanu river
which enters the Yukon nearly oppo
site the mouth of Birch. The find wa:
made on Trout creek but the grounc
has not been sufficiently prospected tc
demonstrate the extent of the pay. Tilt
discoverers report taking three ounce:
of gold from the bottom of their first
hole.
C< >K1X)VA.-—The schooner Tyee
from Seattle, which was tied up to the
wharf here, keeled over recently when
left higli and dry by the outgoing tide
and did considerable damage to the
dock and also to the boat. The two
mainmasts of the boat were broken, the
pilot house wrecked and the guard rail
crushed and broken. Several small
launches at the dock at the time were
also smashed. The damage to the dock
is estimated at several thousand dol
lars.
A Mr. Drayton who recently startet
a campaign in Seward against the nev
dances has had a remarkable huntinf
experience with another man. who 1:
also a ehechako. Both of them left foi
Anchorage some time ago overland. A
the Johnston roadhouse at Mile Si;
they went hunting and a short dlstanci
from the house they espied a younf
bear climbing a tree. One of the men
either Drayton or his friend, decided ti
follow and soon the bear was forcei
to the very top with the hunter heneatl
him. At that elevation the tree wa:
very weak and the hunter decided t'
poke the bear down with a limb, whirl
he did, and the hear fell right Into hi.
arms. T,ike a man dancing the bunnv
hug he clambered down with the bea
closely pressed to his breast and whet
he reached the roadhouse the peoph
there removed the bear with great effori
and also extracted just twenty-twi
quills from the hunter's chest.
A contract for furnishing approx
imateJy 1,000,000 feet of lumber to bt
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used in tile construction of tlie govern
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awarded by the local purchasing office
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says tile Seattle Post-lntelllgencer of
June II). The contract price is $15,867,
7S, and delivery of the material must
he made within thirty-live days at
Ship creek. The greater part of the
lumber is for bridge work, tile remain
der being for the construction Of
ouildings.
The Anchorage Pioneer reports that
i census of the town of Knik, taken to
determine the opinion of the inhabi
tants with reference to the liquor ques
ion, showed the following result: Wets,
Kit; drys, including those who declined
to express an opinion. 39.
The appointment has been announced
of Prof. C. C. Georgeson as a member of
the board of directors of the territorial
Pioneers’ home at Sitka to succeed the
late George Kostrometlnoff.
Pursuant to an order of Court made
and entered on the 3rd of August, 1915,
notice is hereby given that n Special
Term of the District Court of the Dis
trict of Alaska, Second Division there
of, will be held in the Court House, in
1 the city of Nome, in the Division and
' District aforesaid, commencing on
Monday, the 27th day of September,
1 1915, at the hour of eleven o’clock In
' the forenoon, and continuing from day
to day thereafter according to the fur
ther orders of the Court.
Given under my hand and with the
seal of the Court affixed this 17th day
■ of Atigust, 1915.
• G. A. ADAMS,
1 Clerk of the District Court for the
1 District of Alaska, Second Division,
i Aug. 17. 24, 31, Sept. 7.
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