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WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1913.
McNAB’S MANLY COURAGE.
There is much more to this res
ignation of United States Dis
trict Attorney McNab of Califor
nia and his charges against At
torney General McReynolds than
the mere prosecution of the al
leged white slaver and the alleg
ed coal trust combination, in
which the delays ordered by the
Department of Justice at Wash
ington incensed McNab and
caused him to resign. The ques
tions raised by McNab reflect
upon the integrity of the Feder
al officials at Washington and
charge that “insidious” influen
ces are at work in high places to
defeat the ends of justice.
Most attention, of course, will
be directed to the charge made
by McNab that undue influence
is being used to protect the son
•of a prominent official from pros
ecution for violating the Federr
al law against white slavery. Two
young men of prominent families
were accused of criminal conduct
under the provisions of the
Mann white* slave act, and the
allegations in III.nnplaint
a<gains| them were of a particu
larly aggravated character. One
of these young men was the son
of a California state Senator, and,
sa it developed, a political fav
orite of the administration, who
lifts been recently appointed loan
important oflitdnl posit ion. As
a mallei* of course this man and
bis companion are not, to be con
demned out of hand and without
trial: but the fad of their being
charged with a serious crime
stands of record; and the state
ment that they and their friends
.-■Itlad boasted of their ability to
secure a postponement of tin*
prosecution through the authori
ties at Washington has not been
denied. These were a serious
combination ot eii'enmsiancos
which made the order from the
1*1 iarlment of Justice for tlie
postponement of the trial a ser
ious mailer. The state
ment from Secretary of l.ahor,
Wilson, explaining Imw that or
der for postponement came |o lie
issued does not help the rinse—in
fact, from the viewpoint of de
partmental culpability it hurts
it.
Attorney Mc.Xah strengthens
his ease by showing that the at
torney for one of young men
lias been indicted on a charge
with tampering with the jury in
llii* ease, lie says, what, is fa
miliar to everyone, that delay will
■ probably result in driving the
witnesses away and leave the ac
cused unwhipped of justice.
President Wilson has promptly
and properly directed that a spe
cial attorney he appointed to
prosecute the ease.
It is inure man prnname mat
Mr. McNah’s resignation was nec
essary to the propei- prosecution
of the case, after all the excite
ment had neen raised by his quar
rel with his superiors at Wash
ington, but he is certain he has
performed a distinct public ser
vice by his courageous and manly
stand in favor of the vigorous
prosecution of the accused men,
regardless of their business, so
cial or political standing. The
pressing and most apparent need,
if justice is to be done, is for a
speedy trial of the accused on the
serious charges made. The pro
posed postponement was unfor
tunate «n d has an ugly look.—Ex.
It was the militants who put
the rage in suffrage.
Even the cost of dying is rais
ed. louden grave diggers have
struck.
There is a bit of a riot going
on among the Chinese to decide
which one is father of his coun
try. '
HUNTING THE WARY SEAL
Must Be Killed Instantly Before H«
Can Quiver a Flipper.
“The seals were lying on top of
the ice, basking in the sun. You
see them here and there like small
black dots sprinkled over the vast
whiteness of the ocean. Each is
lying beside a hole through which
he has all winter been getting his
supply of fresh air, which he has
kept open all winter by continual
gnawing, and which he has now en
larged from the two inches that
were necessary to give air space to
his nostrils in winter to perhaps a
foot and a half in diameter, so that
he can haul himself on top of the
ice,’’ says V. Steffansson in Har
per’s Magazine, writing of a seal
hunt. “He is dying on a slippery
incline beside this hole, and the
least twitch of his body will 6lide
him into the water. He must there
fore'be approached and killed be
fore he has suspicion of danger, and
he must be killed instantly, for the
quiver of a flipper would be almost
as effective as the most energetic
movement in sliding his body into
the water.
borne arctic explorers of experi
ence have said that a white man
may learn to kill caribou as well as
an Eskimo, but no white man can
ever learn to hunt the seals that
bask on the level sea ice. In my ex
perience this is so far from being
true that I find hunting seals, while
it may be a disagreeable job, to be
an exceedingly simple one.
“The whole secret is that you
must play seal. It is hopeless to at
tempt approaching unseen, so your
care must be that whenever he sees
you he shall think you, too, are a
seal. Your manner of locomotion
must therefore be that of a seal,
which differs but slightly from that
of a snake. In other words, it is an
unpleasant bit of work to crawl
300 yards seal fashion over the sum
mer ice, covered as it is with pud
dles of water anywhere from two to
ten or fifteen inches deep. „
“The nature of the animal is that
he sleeps for thirty, forty, fifty or
seventy-five seconds at a time with
his head lying flat on the ice. Then
he wakes up and stays awake from
five to fifteen seconds, raises his
head about twelve or fifteen inches
above the level of the ice and sur
veys a complete circle of the horizon,
then drops his head on the ice and
goes to sleep again. The eyesight
of the seals seems even less keen
than that of caribou, so you can
walk unconcernedly to within two
hundred and fifty or three hundred
yards, according to the light.
“Then you have to commence
playing seal. When he sleeps you
wriggle ahead, when he wakes you
lie still, lie must never see you
in any other than a prone position,
so it is entirely unsafe to go on all
fours even a few yards across a
puddle, for if he catches you at it
labor up to that point will be lost,
lie would instantly dive into his
hole.”
Daring and Credulity.
Martin Frobisher’s adventures in
search of the Northwest passage
form a curious mixture of daring
and credulty. With the piratical
instinct of the true Elizabethan,
Frobisher was tempted to forego
exploration in quest of phantom
gold. One of his sailors had brought
home a piece of black pyrite, which
the goldsmiths of London declared
to contain no gold, but which an
Italian quack valued highly. The
Italian’s advice being preferred,
Frobisher went out a second time
to Greenland’s icy mountains and
brought home 200 tons of rubbish
that much tarnished the credit of
his latter days.
The Ideal
“Here, boy,” said a benevolent
looking man in a crowded car, “get
up and give that poor, fired old lady
your seat.”
“I may be poor and tired,” the
lady resentfully remarked, “but I’ll
thank you to mind your own busi
ness. The idea of a man whose
baldness shows even when he has
his hat on talking about other peo
ple being old!”—Chicago Record
Herald..
Good Idea.
First Beggar—How is it that you
always manage to get something
from both of those women on the
ground floor of that apartment
house ?
Second Beggar—Dead easy. I
ring both bells at the same time.
Both women come to the doors at
the same time and each one want*
to outdo the other.—Fliegende Blat
ter.
A Chinese Proverb.
When the sword is rusty, the plow
bright, the prisons empty, the gran
aries full, the steps of the temple
worn down and those of the law
courts grass grown, when doctors
go afoot, the bakers on horseback
and the men of letters drive in their
own carriages, then the empire is
well governed.—Chinese Proverb.
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Notice to Stockholders.
Notice is hereby given to the
stockholders of the Midas Cop
per company, that the regular
annual meeting of the company
will be held on Wednesday, July
21, 1913, at the hour of 2 p. in.,
at the office of the company, for
the purpose of electing officers
for the ensuing year.
MIDAS COPPER CO.,
A. E. GRIGSBY, Sec’y.
Valdez, Alaska, July 2, 1913.
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FORFEITURE NOTICE.
Valdez, Alaska, April 23, 1913.
To H. Muir, your heirs and ad
ministrators, and to all whom
it may concern:
You are hereby notified and
will take notice that I, the sub
scriber, T. E. Dougherty, have
expended during the year A. D.,
1912, one hundred dollars ($100)
in labor and improvements upon
the "Minnie” lode mining claim.
Said claim is situated and lies in
the Valdez Recording Precinct,
Territory of Alaska, about six
miles from Shoup bay. The no
tice of location thereof is of rec
ord in Book 8 of Records, at page
370, in the olfice of the United
States Commissioner for the Val
dez Recording Precinct at Val
dez, Alaska, to which book and
page reference is hereby made for
a more particular description of
said claim. Said expenditure was
made for the purpose of holding
possessory right and title to said
mining claim under the provis
ions of Section twenty-three hun
dred and twenty-four of the Re
vised Statutes of the United
States and the amendments there
to, providing for the annual la
bor upon mining claims, said
amount being the sum required
to hold said mining claim during
the period ending the thirty-first
day of December, 1912.
If you fail or refuse within
ninety days from the personal
service of this notice, if person
al service be had, or within ninety
days after the publication of this
notice to contribute your propor
tion of such expenditure as a co
owner, your proportion, being in
the sum of eighteen dollars and
seventy-five cents ($18.75), your
interest in said claim will become
the property of the subscriber,
who is vour co-owner, and who
has made the expenditure and
improvements as above mention
ed pursuant to the provisions of
the said statute.
Dated Valdez, Alaska, April 23,
1913.
T. E. DOUGHERTY/
Date first pub, April 2i, 1913.
Date last pub. July 20, 1913.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
l’o William Hogan.
You are hereby notified that I
have expended during the year
1912, one hundred and thirty
three dollars and thirty-three
cents, lawful money of the Unit
id States, in labor and improve
ments, upon your two-ninths in
terest in those certain lode claims
lying and being on Knights Is
land, in the recording precinct of
Valdez, Alaska, which are known
as and called the “Shamrock”
claim; the “Tramp” claim; the
"Star No. 2” claim; the “Mother
Hill” claim; the “Beach” claim,
and the “Last Chance” claim,’ the
location notices of said claims be
ing of record in the office of the
Commissioner and Recorder, at
Valdez, Alaska, in order to hold
said claims under the provisions
of Section 2324 of the Revised
Statutes of the United States,
concerning annual labor on min -
ing claims, being the amount re
quired to hold said lode claims
for the period ending on the 31st
day of December. 1912.
And unless within ninety days
after the completion of the publi
cation of this notice, to-wit: with
in ninety days after the 6th day of
July, 1913, you contribute your
proportion of such expenditure
incurred n performing said an
nual labor and improvements,
which is the sum of one hundred
and thirty-three dollars and thir
ty-three cents, your interest in
the claims will become the prop
erty of the subscriber of this no
tice. your co-owner, who has
made the required expenditure,
by the terms of said section.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this
5th day of April, 1913.
' S. A. HEMPLE.
Date of first pub. April 6, 1913
Date1 of last pub. July 8, 1913.
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