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FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
( incllding Alaska)
Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT
Thomas R. Marshall, of Indiana
FOR GOVERNOR OF ALASKA
J. F. A. Strong
FOR TERRITORIAL SENATOR, FOURTH DIVISION.
Henry Roden
THE LXXOkO MAIL SERVICE
The matter of improved postal facilities for outlying
camps in Interior Alaska is one which might well be taken
up by the Alaskan legislature at its inaugural session, as
present neglect ol this important question is the source of
much hardship and inconvenience to many deserving com
munities.
lake, for example, the Ophir district. Throughout
the past summer the people of Ophir have not received a
single consignment of mail, and during the coining winter
the service will be but once a month! Such a state of affairs
is wrong—unjust. The Innoko diggings have been estab
lished for five years and constitute a permanent settlement,
with every indication of healthy growth in the near future.
Every year there is a steady output of gold, and the total
production since the discovery cannot be less than a million
dollars. Surely these people who spend their lives in blazing
the trails and opening up the country are entitled to more
consideration at the hands of the postal department than
they are receiving! Surely these American citizens have a
Light to expect that matter addressed to them and mailed
in good faith will be delivered, and that without outrageous
delay!
In the specific case of the Ophir district the question
of expense, or isolation, should have no bearing on the
matter. Many postal districts in the United States are al
most. if not quite as isolated as the Ophir district—yet they
have a weekly mail service. Some mail routes out in the
states do not pay—but the people along those routes are
not on that account deprived of mail facilities. It is un
derstood that such facilities are among the prime necessities
of civilized life. Are those isolated communities in the
states more progressive or more intelligent than ours! We
know they are not. \\ iiy then are our pioneer communi
ties discriminated against! Because they have no voice in
congress—they have but a delegate who is* voteless and com
j>aratively powt?rlt?ss.
1 lie only hope for betterment, seems to rest with the
Alaskan legislature. If the case for these isolated com
munities be properly presented the legislature will certainly
take steps to remedy the evil. The postal department
might ignore an appeal for redress coming from a voteless
delegate, they must heed the recommendations of a united
legislature. i
ALASKA AT THE EXPOSITION
A communication which arrived in last week’s mail;
hi ought the information that congress will appropriate tliej
811111 one million dollars for the purpose of financing!
an Alaskan section at the Panama-Pacific exposition.
Assuming the information contained in the letter to be
based upon actual knowledge, Alaskans will learn with
interest that after nearly half-a-centurv of indifference, the
national legislature is at last alive to the growing import
ance of the territory both as an outlet for American
trade and also as a field for future settlement by American
citizens.
While Alaskans have always had a whole-souled belief
in the future prosperity and greatness of the territory,
Alaska lias been sujected to so much criticism on the one
hand and its resources to'so much fulsome exaggeration on
the other, that the people of the United States have been
at a loss to discover the truth, and, as a consequence, in
terest which had been aroused gave way to disgust, followed
oy indifference.
1 lie formation of a distinctively Alaskan section at the
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great exposition will act as a corrective of the many false im
pressions existing regarding the territory. People will learn
that instead of being a wilderness of perpetual snow, Alaska
has many thousands of square miles of land suitable for
agriculture and stock-raising; that the climate, which had
I been represented to them as almost beyond the powers of
| human endurance, is superior to that which prevails in the
j northwestern states: and that the people inhabiting the
territory are men and women much the same as they them
selves are. But that is not all. They will also learn that
Alaska is the one last great land of opportunity—the one
place to which they can go and, without sacrificing their
American citizenship, find opportunities for advancing
their individual interests such as awaited their fathers in
the early days of the West.
With a million dollars in hand, and with a capable and
| energetic commissioner, the good that will result from the
I establishment of an Alaskan section cannot be estimated.
The territory’s resources in mineral wealth alone will be
sufficient to attract abundant capital, while and exhibition I
of the country’s agricultural products will attract the
| farmer and stock-raiser.
Congress could not spend a million dollars to better
advantage.
Tuesday, November 5, 1912, is the date of the election. ]
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S In offering himself as a candidate for Senator A
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from the Fourih Division of Alaska,
| HENRY R&BEM \
$ submits the following outline of his Plat-'4
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Improved conditions of labor for miners, including bet- g|
tet- living quarters, and an eight hour day; pj
Amendment of the placer mining laws so that they 8
would be easily understood by the every day man, gi
and thus enable h.im to go and stake ground with 8:
the certainty that he was not at the same time Mi
staking a lawsuit; gj
Amendment of the miners’ lien law so that it would in- ©|
elude the claim, and not merely the dump, as is the 3 i
case at present; © |
Amending the law regarding assessment work, so that p
those doing assessment work for others would beg
paid for the same in cash, i. e , $100 for $100 worth g
of assessment work; , §
Providing for a home for aged and infirm prospectors, g
and establishing a fund for its maintenance; 8
Better educational facilities for Alaskan children, sop
that they would get a fair start in life; gj
Provision for the care of the sick and otherwise unfor- y
tunate, so that it would not be necessary to “vag”M
a man simply because he is without means; X
An extension of the powers of the Alaska legislature ©
until it has absolute control of those matters whichSj
are peculiarly Alaskan. gj
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o If elected, HENRY RODEN promises to use his utmost
5 endeavors to secure the passage of measures cov*
Pi ering the above, and wi!i, in addition, support any
c, measure which has for its object the betterment of
y. the condition of the laborer,the furtherance of Alas
3 kan trade, or the general prosperity and happiness
3 of our citizens.
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A CANDIDATE
My friend Whang Baxter’s out of work. He used to be a
hardware clerk and did hi3 duty passing well, but rheumatism
on him fell and bunged him up to such extent that ail his coin
to the doctors went. And new he’s on his feet once more,
and wants a job in some one’s store. Your suffrage for old
Whang I court; he’s far more worthy your support than chronic
patriots who chase across this poor old planet’s face and beg
that you’ll save their goat when comes the day on which men
vote. Let all the chronics go and hang; come out with me and
whoop for Whang. He.needs a job, the statesman don’t; he’ll
earn his pay, the statesman won’t It makes no odds to you
or me who our next main squeeze is to be; we’ll have to rustle
just the same, whate’er the outcome of the game- But old
Whang Baxter, out and down, is living here in our own town;
he needs a job like everything, so let us make the welkin ring,
and give a big torchlight parade, and hold a caucus for his aid,
and try to influence the press to help relieve old Whang's dis
tress.--Walt Mason.
The Monroe Doctrine
(Denver Weekly News)
The Monroe doctrine, while named
after President Monroe, really had its
origin in the suggestion of Jefferson,
Madison, Adams and others. And,
strange as it may seem, it was not an
American who made the first, formal
proposal that the United States should
inform Europe that a conquest of South
America would not be allowed.
The way it came about was this:
Europe, after :he fail of Napoleon,
went into a great political federation
formed by Austria, Prussia, Russia,
France and Spain. They called it the
Holy Alliance, and the object was to
establish the doctrine that kings and
other monarchs held their power by
the direct gift of God. One of the first
acts of the Holy Alliance was to crush
a revolution in Spain with a French
army aud restore the dissolute Bour
bons. The next move would have
been to reconquer those South Ameri
can countries that had been lost to
Spain.
England alone refused to enter into
t lie sweet-smelling compact, and it was
Premier Canning who said to Mr. Rush,
the American minister, “It is time
that the United States and England
once more stand shoulder to shoulder.
I have been invited to send represent
atives to the conference of Royalists,
but I will not. do it, Say to Mr. Mon
ro® that if he will take the initiative,
forbidding the Holy Alliance to land
its armies upon American soil, I will
sustain him with the full force of
(-treat orttain. '
A little later Thomas Jefferson ad
dressed a letter to President Monroe
on the subject, from which the follow
ing is taken:
“The question is the most moment
ous which has been offered to my con
templation since that of independence.
That made us a nation; this sets our
compass and points the course which
we are to steer through the ocean of
time opening on us. And newer could
we embark on it under circumstances
more auspicious. Our first and funda
mental maxim should be never to en
tangle ourselves in the broils of
Europe. Our second, never suffer
Europe to intermeddle with cis-At
lamic affairs. America, North and
South, has a set of interests distinct
from those of Europe and peculiarly
her own. She should, therefore, have
a system of her own, separate and
apart from that of Europe. While
the last is laboring to become the
domicile of despotism, our endeavor
should surely be to make our hemi
sphere that of freedom. One nation,
most of all, could disturb us from this
pursuit; she now offers to lead, aid and
accompany us in the undertaking. By
acceding to her proposition we detach
her from the band of despots, bring
her mighty weight into the scale of
free government, and emancipate a
continent at one stroke which other
wise might linger long in doubt and
difficulty. Great Britain is the nation
which can do us most harm of any one
or all on earth; and with her on our
side, we need not fear th9 whole world.
With her then we should most sedu
lously cherish a cordial friendship; and
uuuiiuy »uuiu leuu mote to Knit our
a flections than to be fighting once
more side by side in the same cause.
“But we have first to ask ourselves a
question: Do we wish to acquire to out
own confederacy any one or more of
the Spanish provinces? I candidly con
fess that I have ever looked on Cuba as
the most interesting addition that ever
could be made to our system of states^
The control which, with Florida Point,
this island would give us over the Gulf
of Mexico, and the countries and
isthmus bordering on it, as well as all
those whose waters flow into it, would
fill up the measure of our political well
being. Yet I am sensible that this
can never be obtained, without war:
and as its independence, which is out
second interest, and especially its in
dependence of England, can be secured
without it, I have no hesitation in
abandoning my first wish to future
chances, and accepting its independ
ence with peace and the friendship of
England, rather than its association at
the expense of war and her enmity.”
It will thus be seen that the original
“Monroe Doctrine” not only formed a
practical alliance with Great Britain,
offensive and defensive, but that it
also had in view the independance of
Cuba.
PAPERS WERE LOST IN NOME FIRE
Tacoma, October 5.—John Bul
lock. oti trial for hi-, councctio;
with the coal frauds against tlit*
United States, testified heie todav
that valuable papers asked for had
beep destroyed by the fire which oc
curred at Nome in 1908.
Send the
iditarod Pioneer
To Your Friends
Outside
Nome, October 7. — Wlien the
Victoria sailed last Thursday every
available ticket bad been sold, and
there was hardly room to move on
the steamer’s decks There were
also a large number of stowaways
on the vessel.
The Victoria will make one more
return trip.
KNOX REVIEWS HAWAII SOLDIERS
Honolulu, October 5. —Before
leaving for Seattle with Secretary
fisher, Secretary of State Knox re
1 viewed the troops stationed at
Honolulu
CLOSING DOWN III NOME DISTRICT
Nome, October 5—Plants are
closing down daily owing to lack
of water, and the end of the season
is in sight.
AITKEN TAKES OVER x
INTERESTS OH HAPPY
By an agreement dated Septem
ber 25, 1912, Thos P. Aitkeu has
secured a lay on the Summit asso
ciation, at the head of Happy cieek,
from Jerry Ford. The lay runs for
four years from June 15, 1913, and
[calls for 11 40 per cent, royalty and
the assumption of an indebtetuess
of $2 450
Geoige Albright and Win. Knox
have disposed of their interest in a
iay on the Happy claim, Hippy
creek, to Tom Aitkeu for the sum
| of $2,000, and the assumption of a
I debt of $1,087.
The laymen on the Summit had
jan exceptionally profitable season
j this year.
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ALL THE TIME AT THE
Open Day and Night
In the District Court for tho Territory
of Alaska Fourth Division.
In the Matter of Lee Roby. Bankrupt.
— No. i B.~ In Bankruptcy.
Notice is hereby given that Lee
Roby, having on the 21st day of August,
1911, been duly adjudged a bankrupt in
the above-entitled catt.se, has filed his
petition for a discharge as a bankrupt,
and tha same will be heard by said
Court on the ,10th day of November A.
D. 1912, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon,
at the courthouse at Fairbanks, Alaska,
at which time and place all creditors
and other persons in interest may ap
pear and show cause, if any they have,
why the prayer of said petition should
not be granted. C. C. PAGE,
< — •—\ Cierk of said Court,
Seal ;- By Geo. W. Albrecht,
•' Deputy Clerk.
In the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Fourth Division.
In the Matter of Geo. F. Marsh and
Harry Ashland, Individually and as
Co-Partners, Bankrupts.—No. 5 B.
Notice is hereby given that Geo. F.
Marsh and Harry Ashland, individually
and as co-partners, having been duly
adjudged bankrupts on tlie 6tli day of
May A. D. 1912, in the above-entitled
cause, have filed their petition for dis
charge as bankrupts, and that the same
will be beard by said Court on the 30lh
day of November A. D. 1912, at 10
o'clock in the forenoon, at the court
house at Fairbanks, Alaska, at which
time and place all creditors and other
persons in interest may appear and
show cause, if any they have, why the
prayer of said petition should not be
granted. C. C. PAGE,
, —Clerk of said Court,
- Seal - By Geo. YV. Albrecht,
' ' ' Deputy Clerk.
JUDGES OF ELECTION
Commissioner George W. Albrecht
has appointed the following judges of
the election to be held on Tuesday.
November 5, for the purpose of elect
ing senators and representatives for
the First Alaskan legislature:
Otter Precinct — A. A. Shonbeck,
Karl Thiele, Arthur D. Field.
Flat Precinct- Frank Snyder, Tom
Dean, C. R Peek.
Valley Precinct—M. R. Ritchie, W.
It. Day, \V. J. Williams.
Dikeraan Precinct- James R. Fuller
ton, E. M. Drown, Stewart McCon
nell.
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Offices: Iditarod and Flat City
Telephones at each place
DR. H. BE ML A,
Dentist
Offices, Pioneer Drug Stote.
Flat City.
Appointments hy Telephone
CHAS. E. TAYLOR,
Attorney at Law,,
Notary Public, Conveyancing, ®
Richmond St., Idilarod \
Winkersham & Roden,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Iditarod, Alaska
GEORGE WOODRUFF ALSRECHT,
Attorney at Law
M!ch!;an, 'St Alaska. '10 tgnfucky 91'
The Pioneer Attorney of this Camp
E. M. STANTON,
Attorney at Law
Office in Wickersham A Roden Bldg,
Second Ave.
NOTICE OF ELECTION
For Two Senators and Four Rep
resentatives
Notice is hereby given, in accordance
with the requirements of the act of
Congress known as “The Horae-Rule
Bill,” to create a legisla’ive assembly
in the Territory of Alaska, passed and
approved August 21, 1912. providing for
the election of two senators and four
representatives to Ike Alaska legisla
ture, from tiie Fourth division, that
there will bo an election for the pur
poses as above stated on Tuesday, No
vember 5, 1912: that said election will
be held within tlie corporate limits if
the Town of Iditarod, Alaska, on tl ■
said day between the hours of 8 o'clock
ante-meridian and 7 o'clock post-meri
dian. at the City Hall.
In witness whereof, I hereto set my
hand and official seal this llSth day of
September, 1912.
T. R. THBRSTON,
Municipal Clerk.
NOTICE OF ELECTION
For Three Members of the Town
Council
Notice is hereby given that, in pur
suance to a resolution passed and
adopted by the Common Council of the
Town of Iditarod, Alaska, at a meet . tr
held on September 17, 1912, there will
be an election held in tho Town of
fditarod, Alaska, on November 5, 1912,
for the purpose of electing three mem
bers of me town council to fill vacan
cies therein; that this election will be
held in the City Hall, between the
hours of 8 o’clock ante meridian and 7
o'clock post meridian.
In witness whereof I hereto set my
hand and official seal this 28th day of
September, 1912.
T. L. THURSTON,
Municipal Clerk.
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