THE IDITAROD PIONEER
Published Every Saturday Morning at Idltarod, Alaska
Vol. S CHARLES A. DERRY, Editor No. 7
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“STRIKES BUT NO STAMPEDE”
The Seward l’nst, which has published much of conjecture.
,-i nsidernblc that was more "bull,” and a great deal that was in
accurate rcla'ive to the ToFtoi. expresses surprise that its efforts |
t,i create a stampede have not been fruitful. It says:
Stampedes are mysterious things, and come without regard
to the value of the d'-coma. Some of the wildest little
stampedes in Alaska have been to creeks where there was
about one color to the .square foot of bedrock. There now
exis; iu the Iditsrod, lowi r Yukon and lower Kuskokwim
all the demon's for a stampede, and yet there is no stampede.
The strike at Tolstoi is extensive and the pay has been lined
up on the creeks. It is going to be a good camp. Additional
discoveries would make it a regular bonanza. Down at Mar
sh, all City pay ha.- been lined up on a crock running into the
lower \ ukon, and more gold was taken out last season than
during the first year at Fairbanks. There was a little stam
pede over that way from Nome last winter, but it was noth
ing more thru the tame migration of gold miners to a new
camp. I’av has been lined up on Spruce creek, a tributary to
Dear, on the lower Ku.-kokwim. The latter discoveries show
that the: ■ is a gold-bearing belt extending south from the
”, war ! peninsula toward the Bristol bay country through a
country where the trails of men are few and far apart. . . .
W here are the old-timers of the "Camps of Chaos?" Can it
In- (hat the boys of 'lJS who have been in on every camp j
worth while no longer get the "itching feeling” when they |
see new pay of a strange run. or has Father Time worked his I
will and made faint the limbs of those whose spirit is still )
strip:? An explanation which is more plausible is that re- !
cent ' .taped''- to Shush: nna and east of the Matanuska di
vide wore unwarranted and worked up, and the oldtimer is
wary. With age conies a certain keenness of perception and I
a desire to st: nd lo ck and let the younger generation rush
hither and v, :i. but th" younger generation ,sn’t showing
much enthusi -: , p.-Fs. I ace the placer camps on the
l.w.c: Yukon are dawdling along son vhat after pattern
of a nuartz nulling disiiact, But van ran tell w.’i., a day
may ! ring for:h '
Tile Bo-t on!" led? divine- ho r."-on why there has been no.
- useless rush to the re.u u.s men,,one. 1. iiie statement th:.' fne j
■•e.orki . up" st.. '.p !, :!., Shushanna and other regions hr*
cause 1 the old-timer to become wary is true. Had there been j
ncaiis of communication with that remote district, and facilities,
for ubt u.ing mv.s as to the real conditions, that disastrous stum- j
• i do. wth its tala of hardship, suffering w! death, writ!! not;
’'.rare t .pen place. The sura -o th. lane has ‘ ."aide fault tin11
i mbs of those whose spir'd, is .sal young 1 is not- justified, lake ;
’he old war-horse who prances at tit.- familiar fiuffle-erll, the old-j
time Alaska prospector still keen to participate in the rush to 1
new fir! Is; and the ihlti' ihics of the tr J ate it” more a bar to. j
hi, taking part than they are to the younger generation. But j
things are m t a- they used to be. Before the telegraph and the
postal sendee C-uch as it is1 invaded the Interior it was an oa-y .
matter to "work up" a stampede. And it is well known tha: many j
such "v, orked-up” affairs were without the slightest provocation. |
The old-timer know, than "colors" ns v ha found on hundred* ol .
streams that will not pay to work; and now. before he beci
excited, he will desire information.
A few years asro th- developments at M ar-liml would li;:"- 1
brought a stampede that would have den disastrous to tii";.?..t■ 1 - i
Instead the truth was disseminated and the consequence was that ;
a few hundred men found profitable employment and the meat.? I
to prosecute further prospecting of the region.
The same is true of the Tolstoi. Developments have shown !
that there is good pay within a limited area, anti good prospects!
are found on many streams which are being prospected. Should |
designing men succeed in creating a "stampede1 to the distric. |
who would benefit? surely not the prospector, nor the miner, j
nor the man who is seeking legitimately to develop the country. :
The only beneficiaries would be the transpt nation companies and
those who have dishonest schemes to exploit. Gold is one thing j
t! ci need- no “boosthig.” If it is there it will lie uncovered A
common belief seem? to be that the “stampeding” of a district |
would cause it to be thoroughly prospected, as would not otherwise |
be the ci.se. In other word®, by the circulation of false reports a? '
to values, those who have rushed in early and staked claims may ■
through another's industry and expenditures learn whether their j
ground is worth holding, without the expenditure of a dollar.
.Alaska is dotted with the ghastly remains of “boom camps ;
which had no excuse fur being. The trails are lined with the
'r ones of hardy prospectors lured on wild goose chases. Ho who
would be responsible for a “wnrked-un” stampede must be an un- 1
ccnrc: mcble icoundrcl the people have learned to look for tin* i
truth as to these new discoveries, and assume to themselves the
privilege of drawing their own conclusions.
The people of this section of Alaska wish to herald to the j
world that it is unsurpassed in possibilities for the prospect; r. No .
other region can offer so much of promise of future reward for the j
man who. equipped with health, strength and determination, and j
some ■: ’ • as, will devote bis time and energies to an effort to un- j
c ”. er the hidden riches of nature. Also there are unlimited possi- j
biiitus for the man of means to aid in the development of promis
ing pro-ieriies. It offer? absolutely nothing at the present time to i
the class of men usually attracted from the Outside by a “stain- j
r.nie'' men of limited or no means, those looking for merchan- j
di?ing opportunities, and those of impecunious and profligate hab- j
its who must of necessity derive their sustenance from the real pro- j
ducers.
The greatest need of this section is not more men to become |
competitors in the labor market, but men who will discover and
develop its latent resources. With the activity of these two factors j
will come means of employment, and a permanent population j
which does not as a rule result from stampedes.
WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION LAW
The Pioneer on several occasions has taken opportunity to dls- |
cuss the swelled ''workmen's compensation act” passed by the
lust territorial legislature at the behest of the big mining companies
of Southeastern Alaska. We have pointed out, as have others,
;h.-.t the mei-uf is a fraud on its face, and that instead of being
a “compensation" act, its only apparent object was to limit the [
liability of employers in cases of injury to employes, and to deprive j
the workmen of rights already conferred upon him by statute. {
Cases which have been tried recently at Juneau under the terms 1
of this act tend to bear out fully the criticisms which have been
given publicity. In the recent case of Nick Deiner vs. the Alaska
Gastineau Mining Company, in which the former sought by an ac
tion under the compensation act to recover the sum of $3,600, the
plaintiff has been awarded a judgment of $1210, and as he had re
ceived $213.50 from the company, presumably to cover surgeon’s
services, hospital dues or maintenance, he received a balance of
$26.50. And this as the result of a verdict which declared that
the earning capacity of the miner had been permanently decreased
by the injury received. It is safe to say that had the suit been
brought under the common law and a jury had found that
plaintiff, whose jaw was broken while employed by the defendant,
had been permanently impaired, ihe verdict would have been at
least sufficient to reimburse him for the time lost on account of
the accident and possibly some measure of compensatory damages.
I* should not take many more such caves to show what a rank in
justice has been done to the workingmen of this territory by the
enactment of such a law. The enactment is the subject of much
comment by the territorial press, and it is likely that an attempt
will be made to repeal or amend it at the fi rthcoining session of
(be legislature. K. II. Ritchie of Valdez discusses the law in a re
cent issue of the Prospector as follows;
The Alaska legislature of 101 f> enacted a law which pur
port': to be a workmen's compensation law, modeled after the
workmen's compensation and industrial insurance laws in
force m about twenty states. It lacks, however, many fea
tures of the state laws, and is particularly deficient in making
no provision for enforced settlement of claims out of court.
Therein lies the fatal defect that justifies the charge that the
act was never intended for any purpose but to limit the lia
bility of mining companies. It did not include any occupation
but mining.
No doubt most of the legislators who voted for this law did
so in good faith. They believed it was what its tit e alleges
it to be. The legislature which will meet next March will
have an opportunity to make it a workmen's compensation
lav. I have drawn an amendment providing for compulsory
arbitration out of court at little expense of all claims for com
pensation by injured workmen. This is based upon provisions
of the Illinois and Nevada compensation acts, and Senator
Hubbard has promised to introduce it with any changes which
may occur to him as likely to make it more effective. It is
as follows:
“In case any question of law or fact regarding the appli
cation of this law arises in fixing the compensation payable
under its provisions which cannot be settled by a. reement of
the parties, the employe and employer shall each select a dis
interested party to act as arbitrators and these two shall
siiecf a third, or in case of their inai dtly to agree up-on a
third disinter -ted party, the judge of the district court of the
judicial division in which the injury occurs shall on request,
name > : b third party. The persons so named shall emisti
n v : board of arlrtri.tors in the case, and it shall be ihe duty
of both employe end employer to submit to such board, within
ton day.' after it is coivtit tiled, all facts or evidence in their
possesion or under their con.rid relating to the questions to
be (let•:-nined by the arbitrators. Said ho. i 1 shall in consider
ing the case have access to any books papers or records of
o'.’her the employer nr the em; love which may be material to
the questions lit K-ue. and t' : members sha 1 b empowered
to v:Mi the place or plant whore the accident occurred, to di
rect the injured employe to be examined by one or more regu
1 r pre. ticing physicians or surge-n> and to do all other acts
r •e'on.d !\ mvesary for a proper investigation of all matters
m disput-o
"The finding of such board of arbitrators siwll lie liimling
up, n !>■ :h riic cmpl yer and the employ,1, ex,-op1 f, r fraud or
mistake: Provided. That either party to such arbitration
shall have the right of appeal to the district court of the judi
c:nl divi ion where the accident occurs by tiling a petition on
1, ,pr;.l ill such t urt within twenty day- after receiving a copy
of the written findings and award of the arbitrators, tu*d giv
ing a bond to be approved by the court or judge there ,f t ,
comply with the final d vision in the case. Upon such rpptal
all uin-ti< ns in <u.-pn*,e -U : i i b* heard <-■' novo, an! citlier
party may have a jury uj on til ng n written demand therefor
with his petition.
"A demand fir arbitration of a claim for compensate a
: herein i rovided may lie served at any time by cither party
upon the other, and it shell be the duty of the party upon
whom such demand may be made to comply with the same
within tnn days thereafter. In case of refusal to comply with
such demand the party moving for same shall have the right
after the expiration of ten days to apply to the judge of the
district court of the judicial division where the accident oc
curs to name two arbitrators to act with the one named by
tie party, and the three persons so designated shall constitute
the bt ard of arbitration in the case, and they shell procee 1
as if named by the parties. All expense of the arbitration
shall be taxed to the employer, subject to revision in the dis
trict court on appeal.”
Another amendment win propose im* o. im . ii
to cover ell hazardous employments in the territory, such vs
railroading, sawmills, canneries and various manufacturing
pi uts. The present law is considered by many lawyers to be
class legislation, for the mining operators, by the mining op
erators and of the mining operators.
The law so amended will be a real compensation act. It
will take away from the courts and lawyers contr versies
over compensation to injured workmen and make such cases
matters of business adjustment, with rare r - rt to to- courts
on appeal. That has been the result in the slates which have
such laws.
The present Alaska law provides that employer and em
ploye “may” sue in the district court. They had that right
before, and the law added nothing to it. It provides that if
no settlement is made the employe "in: v" .-tie in the district
court. The employe had that right before, without limita
tion of the amount he could recover.
In the above Mr. Ritchie touches cn only a few of the defects
of the law, which was drawn up apparently with no other consid
eration than to make the position of the muting companies as
strong as possible. The coming legislature will be recreant to the
trust reposed in them if they do not reconstruct this act so as
to make it conform to principles of right and justice. Shout,
this be found to be impossible, the vicious measure should be re
pealed. and the injured employe be allowed to take advantage of
his rights before the law which this measure deprived him of.
♦
Th» otherwise, well written and sympathetic artiel of Roger
Foster, printed elsewhere in this issue, is marred by the usual
errors of the casual observer who commits his impressions to
writing. It is the veriest provincialism to draw deductions from
me re superficial evidence, and such provincialism as one woul 1
expect from no other source so readily as from a New Yorker.
Mr. Foster’s digressions on domestic life in Alaska, evidently drawn
from fish camps along the Yukon, are about as typical of Alaska
as would be a picture of conditions on the old Bowery as a repre
sentation of .New ^ ork family life. From a man of Mr. Fo.-f 'r.
attainments and experience such conclusions as he draws only
tan he attributed to a desire to say something sensational by way
:>f illuminating his story- a weakness excusab.e in a cub re
porter,” blit by no means pardonable in a practitioner of Mr
Foster’s eminence. __
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ESKIMOS’ POLITICAL STATUS
DEFINED BY NOME MAN
(Nome Nugget)
Carl J. Lumen has contrbuted to the cur
rent issue of The Eskimo, published by the
bureau of education in the inter"its of the
Eskimos of Northern Alaska, s>n instructive
article on “The Political Status of the Alas
kan Eskimo,” which is herewith reprinted:
Much argument has been raised since lire
i>cent flection, hold November 7, 1916, as
o the political status of the Eskimo, and
,is right, to vote, occasioned by the fact that
he contest for political honors at said elcc
tion was close and that the vote contained
a number of ballots cast by Eskimos.
Inasmuch as the Second judicial division
f Alaska contains a greater Eskimo than
bite* population, the right of the Eskimo
to vote becomes a very important question.
,>ace will not permit any elaborate argu
ment of this question, but simply a refer
ence to the various steps taken by the fed
■ral government in regard thereto.
Under the “Treaty of Cession” the United
dates agreed (Article 3) that “the uncivil
ed tribes be subject to such laws and
• ih> ions as the United States may from
one to time adopt in regard to aboriginal
mes of that country” (Ala kai.
In 1884 congress provided a civil govern
.cut for Ala ka (23 Slat. 24), since which
me this territory has been an organized
rritcrv of the 1 nited States, and by vir
e of Section 1891 of the Revised Statutes,
1 ieii provides that “the constitution and
1 laws of the United States which are not
11 v inapplicable shall have the same
ice and effect within ah the organized ter
tones, and in every territory hereafter or
ganized, as elsewhere within the United
iates,” the general laws passed by congress
it relation to the Indian tribes were ex
ended to Alaska, and the uncivilized tribe?
iv are entitled to the same rights, privi
and immunities under such law? a?
re the aboriginal tribe? within the United
Mates.
in 1SS7 congress passed a law (“Indian
■ ■vercl'y bill," Act Feb. S, 1SS7, 21 St at.
tiKSI under which “Indians” or “half
breeds” who have taken up their residence
■••••parate and apart from any tribe of In
dians, and have adopted the habits of civil
ted life, become thereby citizens of the
United States. As to the applvabih'y of
this law to Alaska, the circuit court of ap
peals for the Ninth circuit, in die case of
Nagle vs. the United States (191 ted. 141 i
ays:
■ The act is so specific and far-rca hing
tu it- scope that it mu.-t be held to be gen
r: 1 i:i it- purposes and intendment, and to
. ly to every Indian within the terrilori: 1
['mils of rim United States.”
The meaning if the word "Indum is de
fined under Sc,-. 2022 of the Compiled Laws
,.f Ala.-ka. which read as follow.-:
“That the term 'Indian' in this .. t sh ut
bf (•••nsiro.-.l to include the aboriginal races
'!• ii:ii,1111nr .-Masha when t.iu-.exed to the
United States, and their de-ccn lant? of
wi.i.ie or half blood, who have not become
citizens of the United States.”
Since the passage of the act of March 2.
1871 (16 Stat. 544) it has been the policy
i congress not to treat further with th.
a.uis a tribes, and t< govern them by
law End not by treaty, and this policy at
: ids ample reasi n why general laws . hou d
apply to individual Indians in A In- k a a?
well a.-- elsewhere.
The fourteenth amendment to the eon
: i tut ion designates as citizens of the United
•late:, and ,.f the -'ate wherein th. y re
p. all persons born or naturalized in the
United States, and subject to the jurisdic
tion thereof.
Ihe re a-on that the Indian of the United
states did not come under the fourteenth
amendment has been given by the court in
the case of Elk vs. Wijkms (112 U. .S 94, 5
Sup. Ct. 41', in which it says:
"The Indian tribes, being within the ter
ritorial limits of the United States, were
unt, strictly speaking, foreign states, but
hey were alien nations, distinct political
communities, with whom the United State.
,night and habitually did deal, as they
• ought fit, either through treaties made
by the President and senate, or through art
iii congress in the ordinary forms of legis
ui.ii.n. The members of those several tribes
wed immediate allegiance to tiieir tribes,
and were not part ot the people of the
United States.
The Eskimos of Alaska are divided into
a considerable number of geographic divi
- ionbased chiefly oil locality ami dialectic
uifferences. Politically they differ from the
Indian of the United States proper, in that
hey are not organized into tribes and owe
jl.egiance to no power ether than that of
. e federal government.
The organic act creating a legislative as
-embly in the territory of Alaska, and con
ferring legislative power thereon, extended
he constitution and laws of the United
tates to Alaska, but limited the power of
. e legislature in the matter of amending.
ltering, modifying or repealing the 'gen
■ral laws of the United States.”
The Second territorial legislature (1915 .
alizing the value of citizenship to the de
scendants of the aboriginal tribes of Alaska,
nacted a law (Chapter 24, Session Laws of
Alaska, 1915), under the provisions of which
native Indians born within the limits of the
territory of Alaska may have the fact of
heir citizenship definitely established by
■i mplying with the terms of said act. Con
ress could pass such a law, without ques
■ on, but the right of the territorial legis
lature to pass laws directing the issuance of
certificates of citizenship to Indians or
“whites” is very doubtful.
In the naturalization of John Minonk (2
Alaska, 200) the court held that the peti
tioner was a citizen at the time of making
is application, and because the court could
add nothing to bis status as a citizen, de
nied his application.
Any person who is over the age of 21, a
citizen of the United States and an actual
bona fide resident of Alaska, and who has
been such resident during the entire year
immediately preceding the election, has the
qualifications of a voter. Such a person,
desiring to exercise his right of franchise,
if challenged, can qualify under oath, after
which such vote must be accepted by the
election judges. Should such affidavit be
false, he could be prosecuted for perjury
thereunder. (Sec. 401, Compiled Laws of
Alaska.)
The Alaskan Eskimos have no tribal re
lations, are subject to the jurisdiction of the
United States, and, in the opinion of the
writer, are citizens of the United States,
with all the rights and privileges accruing
hereunder, and therefore have the right
if suffrage. CARL J. LOMEN.
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THE TRAIL-MAKERS
(By Henry Herbert Knibbs)
North and west along the coast among the
misty islands,
Sullen in the grip of night and smiling in
the day;
Nunivak and Akutan, with Nome against
the highlends,
On we drove with plated prow agleain
with frozen spray.
Loud we sang adventuring and lustily we
jested;
Quarreled, fought, and then forgot the
taunt, the blow, the jeers;
Named a friend and clasped a hand a com
pact sealed, attested;
Shared tobacco, yarns, and drink, air:
planned surpassing years.
Then -the snow that locked the trail where
famine’s shadow followed
Out across the blinding white and through
the stabbing cold,
’ast tents along the tundra over faces
blotched and hollowed;
Toothless mouths that babbled foolish
songs of hidden gold.
Wisdom, lacking sinews for the toil, gave
o'er the trying;
fools, with thews of iron, blundered on
and won the fight;
Weddings drifted homeward; else they tar
ried—worse than dying
With painted lips and wastrels on the
edges of the night.
j ’ . se of us who found the gold we followed
with the others.
Dazzled by the glamor of the halLs am:
women's eyes;
When the poke was empty, then we bor
rowed from another’s,
Till a grim repentance called us out tc
face the skies.
-terries of the saskatoon were ripening and
falling;
Flowers decked the barren with its tim
ber scant and low;
i !! a'- i *>» river-trail were many voices
calling.
And e w. the whining malamutes they
heard—and whined to go.
Eyelids seared with fire of ice and frostec
parka-edges;
Firelight like a spray of blood on face.
leun ant! brown ;
-hiding shadows of tire pines across our
loaded sledges,
And far behind the fading trail, the light.
aird lure of town.
'o we pdryed the bitter game nor asked for
praise or pity;
Wind and wolf they found the bon»s that
blazed out 1 nely trails . . .
Yhere a dozen shacks were today there
biotot - a to y ;
X.-.v, where cnee was empty blue, there
pass a thousand sails.
scarce a peak that does not mark the grave
of those who perished
Named- v. lost to lips of men who fol
lowed, gleaning fame
From the soundless triumph of adventurers
who cherished
Naught above the glory of a chance tc
play the game.
Half the toil and we had won to wealth in
other station:
Ru-ted out as useless ere our worth was
tried and known.
But the Hand that made us caught us up
and hewed a nation
From the frozen fastness that so long was
His alone.
Loud we sang adventuring and lustily we
jested;
Quarreled, fought, and then forgot the
taunt, the blow, the jeers;
-■;i:n»d and slaved and vanished—we, the
giant-men who wrested
Truth frt m out a dream wherein we
planned surpassing years.
DECISION MEANS MILLIONS
TO TERRITORY OF ALASKA
A Washington dispatch of January 15
conveys the news that the United States
supreme court has refused a writ of review
in the famous Alaska territorial license tax
law case, and as a result of the decision
all the canning companies and mining com
panies in the Northland will be coni[ died
to pay the tax at once to both the federal
and territorial governments on the output.
The decision of the supreme court was ren
dered upon an appeal taken from the United
States circuit court.
Some time ago the territorial officials
commenced suit against the salmon canners
to compel them to pay the license taxes on
output as provided bv the act. Judge Jen
ngs rendered a verdict in favor of the ter
torv. An appeal was then taken to the
circuit court.
Already hundreds of thousands of d< liars
re involved in the suit, which will be
rned over to the territories by the fi-her
ds. In a few instances the taxes have been
paid under protest, pending the outcome of
he suit.
The Alexander bill, which was designed
exempt the canneries from territorial
ixation, was recently indefinitely postponed
» the lower house of congress, and the ter
ritorial treasury will in consequence be en
riched many hundreds of thousands of dol
• rs in the next few years.
Professions i
Mlchlgran, 1881 Alaalca, !»t#
Kentuoky, 1891
George Woodruff Albrecht
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FINNEGAN & CAMERON
FLAT CITY
Agency for Edison Diamond Disc Phonographs and Records
TOBACCO CIGARS STATIONERY
CONFECTIONERY AND BILLIARDS
C. R. Camoron Jas. F. Finnegan
THOS. McMAHON
DEALER IN
FLAT, ALASKA