A bill providing forty lashes, well
laid on, for wife beaters, is pending
in the Washington legislature. It
ought to pass, with an amendment
multiplying by two or three the pre
scribed number of lashes.
W. R. Heam, who is seiyinf bis
last term playing conrgessman,
appeared on the floor of the house the
other day and lingered long enough
to introduce a bill making bribery at
elections a felony. That would lie
all well enough, but it would be in
teresting to know exactly what
William would have done with those
who bribe and corrupt caucuses, to
say nothing of county and state con
tentions.
Delegate Waskey of Alaska has in
troduced an elaborate bill for the
amendment of the law pretaining to
the acquisition and holding of placer
calims and the building of wagon
roads and trails in Alaska. The bill
limits the amount of any placer claims
for one person or for more than one
association to 20 acres. It provides
that no location may be made for any
persons not present at the time of
staking a claim and does not recog
nize any power of attorney. It pro
vides that the locator must stake the
claim aud mark the date and the name
or number of the claim. Ninety days’
time is allowed to post on the claim
a copy of the location notice, which
must include the statement that sub
stantial discovery has been made,
with date, place, depth and other
details. A copy must then be filed
within 30 days with the recorder of
the district and sworn to. Severe
penalties are prescribed for perjury.
The recording fee is $5, of which $4
goes to a road fund.
John J. Boyce, the present incum
bent, has been nominated by the pres
ident to succeed himself in the office
of U. S. district attorney for the first
division of the district of Alaska. It
does not appear that there will be
much, if any, opposition to his con
fi rmation by the senate.
Senator Heyburn, of Idaho, took a
fall out of the Forestry bureau, the
other day, when, in the course of a
speech, he declared the “system of
forest reserves, as now operated, so
vicious" that he would welcome any
thing in the way of legislation that
would destroy it. The gentlemen
operating it, he said, “seem to treat
these forests as their own private
enterprise.” In all which the sena
tor will strike a responsivd chord in
the feelings of the people of all this
part of Alaska.
thoroughly tried
the Chester Thompson case, all
through the course of the trial in
court, and now mourns and refuses to
be comforted because the jury disa
greed with it. Some nwespapers, like
individuals, are never satisfied with
anything that suggests even a doubt
of their own infallibility.
According to the testimony of Mrs.
Thaw, Mr. Stanford White was black,
very black, in everything but his
name. If she tells the truth his
slayer, instead of being sent to the
electric chair, should be most heartily
commended for having rid the world
of a vile monster.
The little town of C’hena, in the
Fairbanks district, is entierly free
of debt and has $12,000 in its treasury.
Its revenues are derived solely from
the license and occupation taxes, and
are much more than are necessary to
the support of the municipality.
Every once in a while an Alaskan
‘‘gets it in the neck,” while sojourn
ing in the wickedest city in the whole
west—Seattle. This time it is a
Juneau man named Oleson, who got
it to the tune of $1,530 on a sure
thing horse race. If this thing
keeps on we will be inclined to join
the anti-territorialists and abandon
our belief in the intelligence of the
average Alaskan.
Now a demand is being formulated
for presentation to congress asking
for a cable extension from Seward
i to Unalaska, Kodiak and C'hignik, in
the interests of vessels plying in the
northwestern trade, and more partic
ularly of the salmon industry—to be
paid for out of the earnings of the
system.
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The wholesale destruction of Alaska ]
herring and the use of this valuable ]
food fish for the manufacture of ferti- i
lizer, has been brought to the atten- 1
tloa of CopfrMi, 1
PENCIL AND SCISSORS
What Our Neighbors Are Saying
and Doing.
Congress has passed the bill creating
new land offices at Nome and Fair
banks.
Reports from Dawson say that the
Rothschilds have sold out to the Gug
genheims. Holy Jerusalem!—Douglas
News.
Even the old conservative Sitka Al
askan intimates that Mi's. E. L. Barr,
who says Alaska children are neg
lected, is a liar.
Gambling is wide open in the towi
of Fairbanks. Games are again run
ning in the house formerly ownet
by Judge Wickersham.
The new town of Wickersham, ii
the American Forty-Mile, has a jai
and a U. S. Marshal. Archie Heath
formerly of Eagle, is the deputy. j
The navy proposes a hospital for Sit
ka. Something like that is needed.
The removal of the territorial capita
affected the town like an operatioi
for appendicitis.—Seward Gateway.
Editor Snyder of the Wrangell Senti
nel denies ’that he intends slopping
over into the daily field. Snyder is
right; a good weekly is better than a
poor daily, any time..—Douglas News.
Vault Creek in the Fairbanks dis
trict is again pushing to the front,
this time with a new strike on the
Victor group where pans are running
from $4 to $10.
For a week prior to the 7th inst.,
water, the Sentinel says, was sold for
one dollar a barrel in Wrangell.
Must have been badly wanted for
other than thirst quenching purposes.
Warned by the recent disastrous fire
in that place, the people of Haines
have organized and will equip a fire
department, so as to be prepared for
.another attack by the fiery element,
Should it come.
Mrs. W. R. Mills, wife of Sitka’s
leading merchant, died at her home
in that place on the 20th of January,
last. She was an old resident, but
spent much of her time in California
on account of her health.
The Wrangell Sentinel says that
Bruno Greif, the least obtrusive, but
one of the most enterprising citizens
of that place will construct a water
system of his own, to be supplied from
a reservoir, which he will build on
the heights back of the town.
A complaint has been filed in the U.
S. Commissioners’ Court at Fairbanks,
charging fraud and conspiracy against
ex-Mayor Barnette and his associates
in securing title and possession of the
Dome creek properties, alleged to be
worth more than a million dollars.
Wrangell people were much surprised
to learn of the marriage of Miss Lu
cinda McGee to Mr. Michael Wad
ding, which occurred at Loring one day
last week, Rev. Chapman of Ketchi
kan officiating. The bride is wel!
known in Wrangell where she has
spent most of her life. Her mam
friends here wish the happy coupk
A long, happy life,
A great deal of joy,
A nice litte home,
And a fat bouncing—turkey
for Thanksgiving dinner.—Sentinel.
Railroaing in the Nome section o1
Alaska is going to have a boom next
season. Construction engineers of the
Solomon railroad have contracted with
the steamship companies operating
to Nome for enough space on the
first steamers in the spring to ac
commodate 10,000 tons of rails, 250,00C
ties and 50,000 feet of bridge timbers.
Discovery of gold dejtosits on the sec
ond and third beach lines, and the
quartz in the hills, has so increased
the demand for freight transportation
in that section that the railroad has
had to make provisions for a much
larger business next year.
The Mining News disclaims any and
all responsibility for the following
Ketchikan occurrence thus related by
the Wrangell Sentinel,—though it has
a job open for that reporter if he can
be found:
“A cub reporter in Ketchikan the
other day was sent to investigate a
quarrel. This is what he wrote: "A
man killed a dog belonging to another
man. The son of the man whose dog
was killed proceeded to whip the man
who killed the dog of the man he was
the son of. The man who was the son
of the man whose dog was killed was
arrested on the complaint of the man
who was assaulted by the son of the
man whose dog the man who was as
saulted had killed."
There is some strange fascination
about this great Northland that mere
words cannot express. Although at
this season the hills are cold, bleak and
forbidding, in the valleys are warm
hearts that leave a deep impress on all
who have once felt the glow of the
friendships here formed. On a boat
bound for Seattle were two gentlemen
and a lady, leaving Alaska, perhaps
forever. They had left many warm
friends here on Douglas Island who
loved them well. On the same boat
was a man who played the violin !n a
'soft and plaintive plaint. At such
times our three friends would be so
overcome with the thought of all they
had left behind that they would min
gle bitter tears and weep great weeps
like those without hope. This is a
true story, made up of nothing but
facts, but we can never understand
why they didn’t either stay in Alaska
or kill that fiddler.—Douglas News.
Prince Rupert, which will be the
terminus of the Grand Trunk Pacific,
is experiencing a boom. Every Can
adian steamer coming north carries
great quantities of freight far the
place, lumber and other building sup
plies predominating. There are 300
people at work there clearing land
and building houses. The Canadian
Bank of Commerce has opened a
branch there an4 it ha* tl building
a
completed. It is the best house in the
town. The selection of Prince Rupert
to be the Grand Trunk terminus has
not completely discouraged the resi
dents and property owners of Port
Simpson. They are looking forward
to a time when their town will be the
terminus of Jim Hill’s Canadian rail
road system, a time which they say
is approacing. Prince Rupert is dis
tant from Ketchikan about 110 miles
in a southerly direction. _
ORDER
In the District Court for the Distric
of Alaska, Division No. 1, a
Juneau.
In the matter of the fixing of the
erms of Court for the year 1907.
Now on this day, this being the
time required by law, for the fixing
by order of the terms of this Court foi
and within Division No. 1 , for the
District of Alaska, for the year 1907
and it further appearing that publie
business and the business of this Court
repuires a continuance of the Term oi
this Court now in session known as
the November, 1906, Juneau Term,
and that the said term should lie con
tinued in lieu of adjournmen thereoi
and the calling of another Term at
a later date with Terms of Court at
other places intervening, now there
fore upon consideration,
It is hereby Ordered that the Terms
of Court within Division No. 1 of the
District of Alaska for the year 1907,
be held at the following places, as
hereinafer set forth, towitt:—
At Juneau, commencing on Mon
day, Nov. 25th, 1907;
At Skagway, commencing on Mon
day, June 3rd, 1907;
At Skagway, commencing on Mon
day Nov. 11th, 1907;
At Ketchikan."commencing on Mon
day, October 14th, 1907.
And it is Further Ordered that
the Clerk of this Court have notices
in accordance with this Order duly
published at least once in a newspaper
published in each of the said above
named cities.
Done in open Court this 2nd dav of
Januarv, 1907.
ROYAL A. GUNNISON,
District Judge.
District of Alaska,
Division No. 1, SS
I, C. C. Page, Clerk of the District
Court for the District of Alaska, Div
ision No. 1, do hereby certify that the
above is a true and correct copy of an
order made and entered of record in
this Court on the 2nd dav of Januarv,
1907.
Dated this 15th day of Januarv, 1907
C. C. PAGE, Clerk.
IN THE UNITED STATES COMMIS
SIONERS’ COURT, for the District
of Alaska, Division No. 1, Ketchi
kan Precinct, In Probate.
Int he matter of the estate of Johnny
Kitkoon, Deceased.
Notice to Creditors.
The undersigned, Mark Williams,
hereby gives notice that he has been
duly appointed administrator of the
estate of Johnny Kitkoon, deceased;
and all parties having claims against
the said estate are notified to present
the same with proper vouchers within
six (li) months from date of this not
ice, at the office of Chas. H. Cosgrove
in the town of Ketchikan Alaska.
MARK WILLIAMS.
Administrator.
Dated at Ketchikan, Alaska, this
9th day of January, A. D., 1907.
Job Printing
At this Office
Ready as Promised
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We solicit your patronage, you are entitled
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Water Front, Corner Front and Dock Streets
Ketchikan - . Alaska