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NOME. ALASKA. APRIL 17, 1915.
A POPULAR MISCONCEPTION.
When hearing of an automobile ac
cident, in which some person or per
sons are killed or maimed, the average
person is more or less impressed with
the idea that the auto with its enor
mous speed capacites is about the most
deadly of our modern conveniences and
is engaged in decimating the nice at a
most alarming rate. This estimate is
further confirmed hy the almost uni
\< rsiil cry for legislation against speed
ing. voiced in the public prints and
usually adorned with a list of fatalities
of such extent that one wonders how
on earth anyone has been spared from
death beneath the rushing wheels of
this seeming modern Juuggernaut. Yet
the facts are that the mortality sta
tistics for 1913 issued hy the Census
Bureau of the Department of Com
merce demonstrate conclusively that
in spite of the rapidity with which the
automobile lias {nine into general use
and the careless or inexperienced hand
ling to which it is frequently subject
ed it is hardly more deadly than the
horse, which we are accustomed to
look upon as one of the most unmen -
acing factors in human affairs. While
it is admitted that this statement may
seen erroneous when compared with
the long lists of auto fatalities so fre
quently seen in Die daily papers, it is
nevertheless liorne out by the facts.
According to the mortality list issued
in February of the present year the
total number of deaths, quoting from
the report, ‘‘resulting from automobile
accidents and injuries w’as 2,4 S8, while
the number due to inquries and acci
dents from other vehicles (principally
horse drawn) was 2,381, and the num
ber caused by animals (principally
horses) w'as 040, while the correspond -
ligures for 1912, were 1,708, 2,221 and
043. The total deaths from horses and
horse drawn vehicles for 1913 are thus
2,921 as against 2.488 due to the auto
mobile.
However, it is pointed nut that “A
few fatalities caused by motor cycles
and bicycles tire included in those 'ue
to ‘other vehicles.’ and a small number
chargable to animals other than horses
are comprised in those deaths caused
by animals, hut, after making due al
lowance for these factors, there still
remains a considerable margin of safety
in favor of the automobile.”
While the list states that the ex
traneous fatalities in both cases are
••few" and for which due allowances
are made, a comparison of I lie figures
will demonstrate that the margin of
allowance over and above that mention
ed is almost equal to fifteen per cent of
the whole. While it is conceeded that
jamall ns Is the death rate due to the
auto, it Is non the less alarmingly large.
but at the same time, it is rather jar
ring to our conceptions to lenrn that
old Dobbin is as great, if not a greater
menace to safety than the gas ear
whose wanton career of destruction
has been generally viewed as heing ex
celled onl.\ by the railroads.
ANGLO AMERICAN FRICTION.
The last few weeks have brought to |
the surface of publicity a number of J
sharp points of friction betw'een Oreat j
Britain and the t’ntted States. This
is inevitable What ma> and should
be avoided, however, is the exaggera
tion of those differences and the growth
of real tension and ill feeling between
nations which have been In peace and
friendly intercourse for a century. That
dangerous tension might develop is vir
tually unthinkable. Rut our desire is
not limtod to a mere avoidance of dan
gerous complication it is to maintain
the friendliest relations with all the
world and especially with those nations
which are now going through Hie most
terrible of ordeals Exceptional con
sideration of (he tremendous pressure
of circumstances upon all the bellig
erents is due them, and the I’nited
Slates has no wish to take unfair ad
' outage of their necessities to force
from them hurtful concessions.
j
It is a fair consideration, on the other;
hand, that our own interests involved
in tlie abnormal conditions produced
bv a war between our principal cus
tomers are of very great moment and
at bottom thev are incompatible with
those of either one combatant or the
other Our legitimate interest is to
trade as freely as we ran wherever we
can The interest of the belligerents
is to limit our commerce so as to injure
] the enemy A sensible recognition of
[these natural points of view a recogni
tion which should not lie con lined to
j officials, but should he .shared by the
j public, will operate to cheek ill feeling
(and prevent misunderstanding There
(are influences of violent partisanship
which are dir ected not toward simplify
; ing our international problems hut tn
i
ward advantaging one belligerent or
I another These influences should lie
counteracted bv a sensible restraint, a
refusal to jump at conclusions, and an
avoidance of jingo supersensitiveness,
while insisting upon a self-respecting
protection not only of our rights hut of
l"iir commercial interests
As we do not wish to take unfair ad
v outage, neither are we willing to suf
ter more than Is reasonably necessary
for a catastrophe for which we arc in
| no sense responsible We, therefore,
.welcome every stop toward prompt ad
justment of differences and the per
fecting of methods of prompt adjust
jnient The latest step in this direction
lias been taken by the British hoard of
trade in appointing a committee to ad
vise it on the export of rubber. This
is of great interest to us. as vve obtain
perhaps !<0 per cent of our high grade
rubber, that is used in tires, mechanical
goods, drug sundries, etc., from British
East India Rubber is now a war com
tnoditv of great importance and lias
been declared contraband hy the allies,
so that drastic measures lie within the
sphere of war necessity. As England
commands both the seas and the prin
cipal source of our plantation rubber
supply the terms of export she is will
ing to make are virtually conclusive.
These terms will be directed to prev ent
ing her rubber from getting into the
hands of her enemy, and a form of
guaranty is being worked out which
shall pledge American purchasers not
I
to resell to the latter or manufacture
goods to be used by them.
The terms of the guaranty In detail
i seem extreme and an undue invasion of
jour legitimate commercial activity, hut
as rubber is contraband and Knglund
has command of the sea, the practical
effect of an agreed basis of guaranty
is to relieve the unavoidable situation
I rather than complicate it. Of course,
j it is for England's advantage at this
| time to add our manufacturing re
i sources to her own as well as retain
| our market for her surplus rubber. If
1 would also benefit her to make her
'terms as little irksome as is compati
ble with her necessities.—Chicago
; Tribune.
ALASKA NOTES
(From c-tir Exchanges.)
A big brown bear on Kodiak island
succeeded in killing forty-one of the'
flock of sheep kept at the experiment
station by the department of agricul
ture, says the Valdez Miner. The
flock numbered forty-two when the
boar caught up with them, and be suc
ceeded in killing forty-one and the
other little fellow had his ears chewed
but managed to escape. The depart
ment of agriculture will endeavor to
have tlie protection extended by thej
law to the brown bear withdrawn by I
congressional action, and possibly the I
offering of a bounty for skins, so that |
the natives will go and kill all the!
hear on the island, width continually
destroyes the flocks of the government
Just why ttie destructive tirown hear
(should tie protected is not known but!
ill has been, and efforts ar« now to be!
I made by the people to the westward]
to induce the administration to with
draw the protection to the brown boar
and allow them to lie slaughtered 1
Flack bear can be killed at any time, I
as they are classed as fur hearing j
animals. The brown bear is considered !
a game animal, and must tie guarded
from extermination by the hunters.
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If. Fa rev Morgan, son of J. P Mor
gan of New York, returned with H.irrv
i * *
Kars tens from the foot of McKinley
recently, where they have been on a j
hunting trip with some other new
Yorkers, says the Fairbanks Citizen.
Mr Morgan who is the son of one of
America's richest men, said that he en
joyed the trip immensely, and that lie
will recommend others to try a summer
in the interior of Alaska. The young
men took a large number of moving
pictures of wild animals, and will ex
hibit them to their friends when they
ret urn home.
Suffering from the effects of severe
burns sustuinod when a lamp exploded
at Ills roadhouse on the Valdez trail.
H. T. Woodcock hits been brought to
town and placed in the St. Joseph’s
hospital, says the Fairbanks Times of
January is. Woodcock, who was alone
in the roadhouse at the time of the ac
cident, was handling a lamp when it
(exploded, throwing oil and flames over
him. lie succeeded in extinguishing
tiie flames, but not until lie. had re
ceived severe burns. With no one to
assist him, tho old-timer dressed his
wounds the best he could, hut was un
able to seek aid. The following day
two men reached the roadhouse, and
upon discovering the man suffering
great pain, they brought him to Fair
banks.
old Fat her Duncan has recently vis
t ited Juneau to air his thou hies to the
■a. ..1 ...J—
j officials and people of the capital city.
As an mitmcrat among a semi-savage
people he has grown arrogant, and:
! seeks to protect his wealth and hang
onto his gains to the hitter end. in spite
of the needs of hts "children." as he
| calls them, says the Douglas Island
j News. Father Duncan has done a great
! work among the Indians a marvelous
work hat with it all he has found tine
to pile up a neat little fortune of Ids
own. and when profane hands are laid
on his possessions hi talks bloodshed
Ho lias been granted favors and sun
cessions li\ the United States, al
though an alien, and American pros
pectors who have located claims on
I Annette island before he ever saw it
have been driven off and robbed of
j their rights Father Duncan lias done j
what every other missionary in thej
north would he glad to do. He has sot j
| up a kingdom of his own with himself j
upon the throne. He has ruled his I
people with an iron hand, and he has
been aide to do it because they were
ignorant savages. Now 4hat they have
learned that they are ttie fards of a
nation where tho people are free, they
rebel against the rule of old man Dun
can He lias a religion which lie admits
is of no particular brand, hut. as most |
modern apostles, he lias fashioned it to 1
fit tiis own peculiar needs And as old
age comes on and he realizes that he
can no longer reign, tie is looking for
a young man to take his place, lie is
a grand old man. hut his ideas of goi
ernment do not tit well in Unde Sam's
domain, and tie needs fixing
U F. Stagger, a deep see. diver, wlin
was in Skagway far several days Iasi
fall, tins made application to the t’niteil
States government for a permit to salve
gold from the Russian gunboat Neva,
which struck a rock off Cape Kdge
, combe and went to the bottom more
|thnn sixty years ago Stagger's appli
| cation was reffered to Major .T. R. Cav
I ana ugh. Railed States engineer in
Seattle Last summer while Stagger
was at Sitka, engaged in salving the
fishing schooner Montana, which
• aught fire and was beached on Raranof
! island, he was informed of the wrecked
Russian gunboat Neva by Rev Father ,
Rcorge Kostrometlnoff, the resident
Russo-Oreek priest at Sitka, who dur
ing the early summer visited Cape j
Rdgecombe. and while in that vicinity
In a small boat sighted the sunken craft
resting on the bottom at depth of he- j
tween ten and twelve fathoms. Ac- !
'cording to the statement made, hv i
| '
Father Kostrometinoff. more than sixty!
years ago, when Alaska was under
Russian rule, the Russian gunboat Neva
> was sent to Sitka with nearly a quarter
j "f a milloin dollars In gold to pay
j Russian Officers, soldiers and bluejac
kets stationed at that place. When she
was nearing the entrance to the harbor
a dense fog settled down and tlio Neva
lost her course, striking a reef off Cape
Rdgecombe. So rapidly did the ves
sel go down that the crew hareiy 'mid
time to escape in the small boats, and
after several days succeeded in reach
/Ug Sitka. Unsuccessful efforts were
made to recover the gold, but in those
days facilities for such work were lim
ited, and further efforts were aban
doned. The gold was carried on the
main deck of the vessel in a great iron
chest, which was the usual way of
transporting bullion in war vessels in
those days—Skagway Alaskan.
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FIFTH COUNT. APRIL 17th, 1915.
Ruby Martin.69,595
Rowena Kewis.52,556
Katie Bonttard.40,195
Mrs. Perry Moore.36,385
Mrs. .Johanna Ilansen.27,215 )
Mrs. ,T. r. Jones.20,030
Miss Helen Allan.17,466
Mrs. Mary Smith.17,375
Miss Mary Fox.16,805
Miss Carry Stipek.10,055
Mrs. O’Brien.8,565
Norman Rawel.6,695
Klondy Nelson.5,715
Katie CJinnivan.5,115
Mrs. Oscar Carlson.4.926
Mrs Bartlett.4,600
Mrs R. R. Holden.2,370
Mrs. Goss.2,080
Inez Miller.1,565
Mrs Ketterer.1,295
Mrs Nelson.1,025 '
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