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Vol. 9 No. 1(>
WORKING EIGHT HOURS j
Although well-considcrcd court j
decisions declare Alaska’s eight j
hour law to be unconstitutional, j
it is pleasing to note the fact that j
a large majority of the mining!
operations hereabouts will be!
conducted in the spirit of that:
good-intentioned but badly-coni j
structed piece of legislation.
REASONS TO DOWN GER
MANY
Ruy Barbosa, an eminent Bra-1
zilian jurist, in calling upon neu
tral South American countries to
come out against Germany, said:
“We cannot be neutral in the
presence of crime. It is impos
sible to be impartial between
right and wrong. The tribunal
of public opinion and conscience j
may not remain neutral as be- |
tween law and crime."
Reading this it makes an Amer
ican ashamed that the United
States did not take part in the!
war until after the Lusitania was i
sunk, and the Huns had ordered j
unrestricted submarine warfare,,
says the Tacoma News.
After all. were there not!
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weightier pensions for us to join
the battle for the right than Ger
many’s order that took a few
American lives and threatened
destruction to American prop
erty?
Would not any nation be justi
fied in joining the attack on Ger
many because she is an outlaw
among nations and because her
defeat is necessary in order that
justice and truth may be ascend
ant in the world?
Alaska for Alaskans, thoslogas
adopted by Charles A. Sulzer, in
his last campaign lor delegate,
will undoubtedly put him back
where he is now, as Alaska’s rep
resentative at Washington, D C.
Delegate Sulzer is an Alaskan.
He is not one who is holding
onto a Territorial appointive po
sition, nor a man who goes Out
side the moment he is defeated.
Delegate Suiter is an Alaskan,
and always will be. He has no
isms but Alaska-isms—the devel
opment of the Territory, the
building up of an empire in the
North.—Seward Gateway.
Those more or less excellent
people who want an inconclusive
peace are the exact mental repli
cas of the fellow who cut off the
pup’s tail an inch at a time in
order tp be humane —Chicago
Daily News.
HIGH TRIBDTE GIVEN HR. WILSON;
New York, March 14. Lord Head-1
ing paid a high tribute to President |
Wilson in an address made here. 14s !
said no human being has the faculty of J
stating in belter language the “true
nature of your country’s ideals than
President Wilson.’’ He said Europeans
were learning to look upon President
Wilson’s utterances and cherish them
as reaching an unalterable determina
tion of tbe United States to never stop
the war until the principle of righa has
prevailed over that of might.
Every reference made to the Presi
dent of the United States by Lord |
Heading was heartly apolauded.
MEARS FORMING
NEW REGIMENT
Seattle, March 'll—Colonel Frederick
Means, formerly a member of the
Alaskan Engineer ing commission, ar
rived in Seattle from Washington to'
start recruiting a regiment of engineers ;
for service abroad, The regiment is I
to be known as tire Thirty-First regi-|
raent of Engineers.
The colonel has summoned from An
chorage a number of men who have
been employed in the railroad servicee
and witii whom lie is well acquainted
personally.
The regiment will be organized at
Ft. I^eavenworth, Kansas but the ma
jority of men, or as many as possible
will be taken from Alaska, the North-;
west, and from men who were engaged '
in the Panama work with the officer.
Men particularly wanted are loco
motive engineers, firemen, conductors
and other practical railway builders
and
A herd of ahout 1550 reindeer arrived ;
recently at Shagluk, aud the natives of
that vicinity will be taught the gentle
art of herding and caring for the
animals.
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Nicely Furnished Rooms Bam for Horses and Dogs Baths in Connettion
Pioneer Sheet Metal Works
GENERAL HARDWARE
Stoves and Graniteware Gasoline, Goal Oil, Etc.
The Only First-Class Dog Harness in Alaska
SULZER ALWAYS FAYORED EIGHT HOURS
Juneau Empire: There never has been any question con
eerning the stand of Charles A. Sulzer, delegate from Alaska
to congress, on the eight-hour wage subject, by those who know
him. He w^s one of the first to adopt the eight-hour schedule
in his mine, and did it voluntarily. However, political enemies,
who know different, have not hesitated to misrepresent his
stand in the hopes that it would redound to their own benefit
among the workers. Today the following telegram was re
ceived from Mr. Sulzer:
Washington, D. C., March 1, 1918.
Hon. William E. Britt, Juneau, Alaska.
Eight hour law was referred to governor of Alaska
immediately after suspension agitation started. For
obvious reasons it would be very improper for delegate
to interfere in premises at this time. Have always
favored eight hour principle, and neveroperated on
any other basis- (Signed)
Charles A. Sulzer,
Delegate to Congress from Alaska
FIRST UNITED STATES GRAVES IN FRANCE
Directly behind the front line trenches in France there took place on
November 4 the fuueral of three American soldiers, the first to give their
lives for the cause of right. The scene, under a gray sky and with raiD
falling steadily, was very impressive. Three companies of infantry from
the battalion to which the dead had belonged, American artillery detach
ments, and a number of French infantry and artillery formed a hollow
square round the three graves. At the head of each grave a small silk
American flag flew in the wind, and during the entire ceremony salutes
were fired in honor of the dead—not the ordinary salute, but shell aimed at
and landing in enemy lines at one-minute intervals alternately from French
and American batteries.
After the coffins had been lowered into the graves the general command
ing the French division under which the American troops are being
trained delivered an address, in the course of which he said:
In the name of the th division, in the name of the French army
and in the name of France, I bid farewell to Corporal Gresham. Pri
vate Enright, and Private Hay, of the lGtli Infantry, United States
army. Of their own froe will they had left their happy and prosperous
country to come to France. They wished to give their help, and also
their generous hearts did net forget old historical memories. They
had taken their place on the front by the side of France, and they have
fallen facing the foe in a hard and desperate hand-to-hand tight. Honor
to them! Their families, their friends, their fellow-citizens will be
v proud to learn of their death.
Men ! These graves, the first to be dug in our soil of France at but
a short distance from the enemy, are as a mark of the mighty hand of
our Allies, firmly clinging to the common task, confirming the will of
the people and the army of the United States to fight with us to a fin
ish, ready to sacrifice so loDg as it will be necessary, until final vic
tory for the noblest of causes—that of the liberty of nations, of the
weak as well as the mighty. Therefore the death of this humble cor
poral and these two private soldiers appears to us in extraordinary
grandeur.
\Ve ask, therefore, that the mortal remains of these young men be
left here, be left forever to Franco. We will, in the fullness of peace,
inscribe indelibly upon their tombs: “Here lie the first soldiers of the
Republic of the United States to fall upon the soil of France in tho
cause of justice and liberty.’’ And the passer by will stop and uncover
his head. Travelers through France and from France, from every Al
lied nation, from the United States, those who, in reverence and heart,
will nine to visit these battlefields of France, will deliberately go out
of their way to visit these graves, and bring to them tribute of re
spect and grat it tide.
Corporal Gresham, Private Enright, Private Hay, in the Dame of
France 1 thank you. God receive your souls. Adieu.
PRIMARY BALLOT
Thu names that will appear on the ,
official ballot for the fourth judicial
division, at the primary election to be
held throughout. Alaska on Tuesday,
April 30, so far as known, are:
Delegate to Congress
Francis CoDally, Socialist.
Charles A. Sulzer. Democrat.
William Maloney, Democrat
James Wickersham, Republican.
Territorial Senator
O. P. Gaustad, Republican.
L. K. Pratt, Republican.
Luther C. Hess, Democrat.
Territorial Representatives
E. B. Coll ini, Republican.
John W. Dunn, Democrat.
A. M. Kilgore, Democrat.
A. J. Nordale, Democrat.
G. W. Pennington, Democrat.
Road Supervisor
Robert Sheldon, Democrat.
Peter Steil, Democrat.
H. H. Ross, Republican.
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“FATE OF WORLD
HANGSON BATTLE
Albany, N. Y. April 13.—Former
President Taft, while addressing the
state legislature yesterday afternoon,
said:
“Upon the result of the present
battle on the Western front seems
to hang the fate of the world.”
Mr. Taft urged that the American
army should hare 1,000,000 fully
equipped men in the field.
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CANADA SAVING THE DAYLIGHT
Ottawa, April 13.—The Canadian day
light-saving measure goes into effect at
2 o’clock Sunday morning:
HEW BABY AT JACK RONAN S HOME
Seward Gateway: Born, March 10, to
Mr. and Mrs. John Ronan, a girl baby,
weight !H pounds. The attending doc
tor reports both mother and and baba
doing nicely.
J«>b Printing at The Pioneer office.
J. W. Rarrell,
The Only Issue: “Hooverize”
Discovery, Otter
Miners & Merchants Bank
IDITAROD, ALASKA
Capital, $50,000.00
Beneral Banking Business Transacted Gold Dust Bought and Assayed
Drafts Issued on Any Part of the World
SEATTLE CORRESPONDENT. SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BANK
TERRITORIAL DEPOSITARY
OFFICERS:
CHARLES ROSS, President
CLAUDE BAKER, Vice-President
R. C. BUTTON, Cashier
THOS. McMAHON
DEALER IN
General Merchandise
FLAT, ALASKA
U. S. Commissioner IT. J. Atwell, of
Brooks, recently fined Gertie Sheppard
$1,000 for selling intoxicating liquors.
The fine was paid.
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IDITAROD, ALASKA
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