tion, masters of foreign vessels will
tell you that the aids to navigation
on the Coast of Alaska are scarcer
than on the coast of any civilized
country on earth.
Why is this? Alaska, which cost
the government $7,200,000 and has
paid $0,000,000 royalties on furs alone,
or as Senator Piles justly says our
billion dollar possession, has the best
people on earth today, picked from
the whole United States—an intelli
gent, industrious law abiding peoplo.
The vessels in the carrying trade are
as large and costly as on the eastern
coast and are mostly Amervican ships ;
then why are we not entitled to the
same attention as our brethren on the
Atlantic Coast. On the Eastern Coast
you are never out of >ight of a first
order light, but very few in Alaska
at the present day ever saw a first
order light and one would attract as
much attention here as a 50 cent shell
marked $2.50 does from an Eastern
tourist,. Outside of Spire Island
Reef where the Str. Fortalnd was
wrecked a year ago there is a small,
black second class can buoy, which is
visible in clear weather without a
microscope, and this reef is right in
the track of all steamers coming to
this part of Alaska. The outer end
of this reef is bare at low water, and
should have a beacon erected there
on which would be visible at least
half a mile.
Then a much needed aid—so much
needed in fact that one wonders why
it has been overlooked so long—is a
buoy to mark the southern extremity
of the reef extending in a southerly
direction from Chascoal Point, in
Tongass Narrows, An eight day
lantern on Channel Island would
cause a smile of satisfaction to over
spread our features, as it would serve
as a guide in the most dangerous
part of the Narrows. It is easy to
mistake False Channel Island for the
real Channel Island, and that mistake
would mean a valuable ship and cargo
gone in short order,
Pond Reef, also in Tongass
Narrows, lies 'S% miles N. W. x W. y2
VV. from Channel Island, and 11 mile
from the northern shore of Reyjl
lagigedo Island,uncovers gt. half tide,
and is unmarked by buoy or beacon,
although but little north of the track
of all steamers coming to Ketchikan
fiqn the westward. A light on Ship
Island, though not badly needed,
would be a valuable aid as it is the
point of departure for a 33 Utile run
up Clarence Straits to Lincoln Rock
light. Oil Lcmesurier Point, the
south point at the entrance to Ernest
Sound, about one mile N. N. W. %
W., lies McHenry Ledge with a depth
of 12 feet over it at low tide. A buoy
is a necessity there as ships go by
it to Santa Anna cannery and tc
Bradfleld Canal where logging is car
ried on cpiito extensively, A very
dangerous reef, a portion of which
shows at low water, lies 134 miles
S. E. x E. from the largest of the
Wedge Islands in Clarence Strait.
This reef is a serious danger foi
vessels bound for Port Johnson,
Dolomi, Niblack or Baldwin, from the
northward, to quote from the Coast
Pilot, and it has been for the past
eighteen years to my certain knowl
edge; but it is yet unmarked by buoy
or beacon. Cordova Bay extends 18
miles in a N. W. % N. direction
from a line between Cape Muzon and
Pt. Marsh in Dixon's Entrance, and
although there are no settlements on
its shores a ship must plough through
its waters to reach the shores of Iletta
Inlet where are located three val
uable copper mines. The Alaska
Industrial Company, whose mine, the
Jumbo, is located near the head oi
Hetta Inlet has just made a shipment
on one steamer of 3000 tons of high
grade copper ore, yet the whole 27
miles of Cordova Bay and Hetta Inlet
is without light, buoy or beacon,
although pretty accurately described
i-n the last issue of the Coast Pilot.
The trade of Alaska is assuming enor
mous proportions and everything is
carried in ships, so it is of vital im
portance that those necessary aids
to navigation should be in place. If
there are not survey boats enough,
then buy or build some more and try
to keep pace with the growth of the
country. As it is, the survey is five
years behind, and the prospect of be
ing speedily finished is not very
bright. If some good writer will
draw up a petition and all the cap
tains and shipowners sign it, perhaps
we can get the aids where most
needed the coming summer. ♦
JAMES J. DOYLE,
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I One of the last acts of the fifty-ninth
ongress was its best; it killed the
lip subsidy bill.
The fifty-ninth Congress adjourned
ne die at noon last Monday. When
le clock marked the hour of 12,
ncle Joe, with a resounding whack
' his gavel, said “its all over boys—
it!’’ and they got, many of them to
sturn no more.
The Wisconsin leigslature has
lopted a memorial asking congress
i take up the question of tariff re
ision and asking the president to
,11 an extra session for that purpose.
>wer tariffs are desired. The merr;
ial was introduced by a republican
id passed by a republican legisla
te. *
War is on between Nicaragua and
onduras, and unless the U. S. and
exico interfere to stop it some
greaser,” possibly two or three of
em, will stand a good chance of
ing immolated on his country's
tar before the one or the other cries
Id, enough.
The more the worse. It is announc
that a submarine disturbance such
those which occur in Bering Sea
casionally, has shoved up over a
ousand new Philippine islands. If
is be true, and the thing occurs
ain, Uncle Sam will find himself
e owner of something that he will
id difficult in giving away, to say
thing about selling to the highest
dder.
Prosecutor Jerome must be proud of
e grilling to which he subjected
e Thaw woman on cross-examina
in. It may well be doubtful if a
blic prosecutor can be justified, or
en excused, for proceeding to such
lgth in an effort to send to the
ictric chair a man who at roost was
ly instrumental in having rid the
irld and society of a vile monster.
A.11 the same, notwithstanding his
oneration by the legislature, Sen
’O Joe Bailey may not be expected
pose quite so conspicuously here
,er for the admiration of the senate
lleries. His exoneration is more
the shape of a thick coat of white
,sh calculated to obscure the fact of
i having been, like poor dog Tray,
light in exceedingly bad company
in anything else it can be likened
["he Arctic Brotherhood, an organ
ition confined exclusively to Alaska
1 that part of the Pacific British
ssessions lying north of the 52nd de
?e of north latitude, lias decided
erect a camp at the Seattle-Alaska
kon exposition to cost not less than
,000. The Brotherhood can do
it easily, considering that it has in
membership a dozen or more
mbers any one of whom could do
,e that amount without material
iletion of his exchequer—though it
irobable that all A. B’s in good
nding will be allowed to contribute
ir share.
i Juneau payer (bat it Juueau
wanted territorial government she
could get it. Yes, well, the people
of Juneau have time and again—-at
every opportunity afforded them, at
public meetings, in nearly every
partisan and non-partisan district
convention held in that town, and
finally at the first general election—
declared for territorial government.
Why then, do they not get it? Is it
because that in the case of that town
the tail is strongor than the dog, and
that the “people be damned” fellows
are allowed to misrepresent the public
sentiment—or what is it!
Mrs. Flora McDonald, of Chicago,
wife of the once celebrated “Mike”
McDonald, millionaire gambler and
party boss, is in jail for having shot
and killed one Webster Guerrin a
couple of weeks ago. McDonald says
that the woman's victim was a black
mailer who was forcing her to pay
him money on threat of making dis
closures seriously affecting her char
acter. However that may he, the
woman is certainly old enough to have
known better than take the life of a
man in the hope of saving a character
that was damaged beyond repair at
least a quarter of acentury ago.
Horn Juo, O, Spooner has resigned
his seat in the U. S. Senate, and the
telegraph roports that Hon. “Ike’’
Stephenson has started a campaign for
the succession. “Ike” has a long
nourished hankering for the togo,
and a barrel, and upon the vulnera
bility of the legislature to the in
sidious influences pf thp latter must
depend his hope of suoess. 8pooner is
a man of conspicuous ability, and
small pf stature, but were he the
veriest pigmy physiclally speaking
his senatorial toga would be several
sizes too large for a man of Stephen
son’s caliber. Ye Gods, what a
change that would be!
The mother of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
can hardly be classed as one of those
parents children are enjoined by
the scriptures to honor with respect.
Treating as unworthy of credence
the testimony of the daughter to the
effect that the mother was a direct
party to her original shame, yet is
the mother worthy of the severest re
probation for the stand she has taken
in furnishing the public prosecutor
with data for the wholly cruel and
merciless cross-examination to which
the poor girl was subjected in giv
ing her testimony in behalf of her
husband. Inhumanity could have
gone to no greater length in the evi
dent desire and intent to blacken the
character of her own daughter, than
in this case, which will find its only
compensation in the influence it will
have in strengthening the public be
lief in the truth of that daughter's
testimony to the effect that she owed
her original ruin and disgrace to the
connivance of the mother herself with
the lecherous rascal of whom the
world was well rid, when Thaw shot
him down. ~
They want his money. In 1898, or
’99 the Swedish Mission Society sent
one Peter Anderson as a missionary
to the Eskimos at Golovin Bay,
Alaska. The missionary buiness for
which Peter appears not to have
been particularly well adapted,
didn’t argee with him, and he for
sook the calling for that of prospector
in which he amassed a fortune of
several hundred thousand dollars.
Now, the society has obtained a
judgment for $250,000 against him,
on the ground that being sent out by
it he was its agent, and that conse
quently it is entitled to all his gains.
What the society would have sued
him for had he confined his operations
to the saving of Eskimo souls with as
little success as has thus far attended
the efforts of the average Alaska
missionary can only be guessed. How
ever, some missionary societies, like
some of their agents, appear to be
possessed of “itching palms.”
It is reported that a Pittsburg
combination is sending, or will send,
a cargo of supplies to Alaska with a
view to beginning work on a railroad
to be known as the Alaska Pacific
Railway and Terminal line. The
line will start from Martin Island,
in Controller bay, and follow the Cop
per river route over which several
other roads are proposed, notably the
Rosone, Burleigh, Guggenheim and
other projected lines, none of which
are asking government aid, but all
intent upon a grab which will give
them either the control of the copper
and coal deposits, or else a valuable
franchise on which to speculate. None
of these proposed lines pur
pose obligating themselves for the
construction of a through line from
tidewater to the Yukon, and none of
them are deserving of either govern
ment aid or encouragement. Their
projected roads are seemingly intend
ed for the exploitation of private in
terests alone, or else for the ’purposes
of graft one upon the other. One of
them, the so-called Burleigh outfit,
has not even complied with the pro
visions of the law, . ender which it
could secure a right of way, ter
minals, etc., but is seeking a special
charter calculated to give it advan
tage over the others which it |
could not otherwise have. Of all
these projects it is the least merit
orious, and has the least to commend
it to the favorable action of congress,
which will not be justified in lending
government aid to any line which is
not calculated to develop the country
generally to the exclusion of special
and private interests.
WHERE AIDS TO NAVIGATION
ARE NEEDED.
Now, that all the former prospect
holes on Prince of Wales island have
become full fledged mines and ore
sxporter, many lino ships are coming
h?re for cargoes and without exeey
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1 NOTICE OF REGISTRATION.
. Notice is hereby given that the ^
registration and poll books of the «
town of Ketchikan are now open at <1
the Library building on Main street, i
Registration is compulsory for voting i
in the election of April 2th. Office |
hours 1 to 5 p. m. daily. Books close J
Saturday March 30.
i D. G .NEWELL, |
Registration Officer. J
IN THE UNITED STATES C'OMMIS- 1
SIONERS’ COURT, for the District g
of Alaska, Division No. 1, Ketchi- %
kan Precinct, In Probate.
Int- he matter of the estate of Johnny i
Kitkoon, Deceased. ‘ f
Notice to Creditors.
The undersigned, Mark Williams, _
I 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 ('has. If. Cosgrove
in the town of Ketchikan Alaska.
MARK WILLIAMS.'
; Administrator.
Dated at Ketchikan, Alaska, this
0th day of January, A. D., 1907.
Job Printing;
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