IDITAROD, ALASKA
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OFFICERS:
CHARLES ROSS, President
JOHN HOLMES, Vice President
R. C. BUTTON, Cashier
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Caters io Largo and Small Parties
PRIVATE DINING ROOMS
Popular Prices Everything First Class
HERBERT E. RILEY, PROP.
SEATTLE COMMERCIAL CLUB
URGED ALASAKA COAL BILL
i>. iiiiU’ ('oinnuMvial « tub Bulletin'
An especially timely resolution was
passed at the club meeting Tuesday evening,
the subject being "Alaska coal.
The resolution, in addition to pointing out
that Alaska mining operations were already
suite ring as a result of an insufficient
amount of coal, recited that as coal used
by the navy on the Pacific was brought
from the Atlantic seaboard for the most
part in foreign vessels, a shortage will soon
exist at the government stations because for
eign bottoms are not available to transport
fuel to waters on this side of the continent.
“Coal from the Boring river field is suit
able for navy use.” the resolution stated.
“This was indicated by te-ts made by
Brooks and Martin of the Geological Sur
vey. There should be no further delay in
opening up Alaska coal fields on some basis,
operated either by the government or by
private capital, so that physical suffering
and financial loss may be prevented.
• i * h idstuffs have very largely increased in
price in Alaska since the European war be
gan The decrease in the value of copper
in connection with the increase in prices of
supplies may force copper mines as well as
other enterprises to shut down. In fact,
mines have already shut down in Juneau
because of this.’’
This matter is of the utmost importance
to Masha and the entire Pacific coast, li
there ever was a time when Alaska coal
was needed, that time is now here. Coal
for the navy yard is being brought around
from the Atlantic, or to be more correct,
it h.;- been so carried. Most of the vessels
engaged in this trade were foreign bottoms,
yiow not available because of the war. mer
chant vessels not daring to risk capture or
t -ing -ank by a cruiser of the enemy. M ith
no American vessels to take their places,
where will the navy yard supply come
from ?
BritishsfcColunihia supplies Alaska with
c( ::1. The cutting off of this supply may
occur at any moment, owing to the hos
tilities. Such action, with no coal (level
opment in Alaska, would be a calamity
which would cause endless physical suffering
and great financial loss to northern indus
tries.
If Alaska ever needed help in any matter
she needs it now to get congress to realize
that Alaska coal is a Pacific coast neces- '
sitv. Alaska people and her representatives
in the national capital have talked, written j
and petitioned until patience has ceased to
be a \irtue. Her magnificent coal deposits
lie there untouched and untouchable by her
own people solely to please a few mis- j
guided conservationists. It is a crime that j
this condition should be allowed to con
linue.
Alaska is a cold country. Fuel, and plenty j
pf it. is a necessity. To send money out !
of the country anti to pay heavy toll-* m
freight is more than ridiculous when the
country itself affords vast deposits. Some
of this coal could be mined and shipped out
within ninety days, so easy of development
are some of the fields.
Individuals can do little or nothing in a
case like this. It requires the combined
influence of bodies of men like the Seattle
Commercial Ciub to secure attention and
action. This club has consistently advocated j
the opening up of the Alaska coal fields.
Now all its influence will be brought to
bear with Washington officials and with
members of congress t<> the end that this
injustice to Alaska and her people may be j
undone.
The club does not attempt to detate j
how these fields are to he opened, whether |
by government operation or by private cap- j
ital. That i< left for congress to deter
mine. The important thing is to get busy ;
digging coal and place it where it will do |
somebody some good now. not a century or
two in the future.
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WICKERSHAM'S ANNOUNCEMENT AND PLATFORM
Tu the People of Alaska:
I shall be a candidate for re-election as delegate from Alaska at the
November election. This announcement is made upon the request of many people
in Alaska, and because my duties as your representative in congress prevent me
from coming home at an early date to make it in person.
In case of my election in November it will be my purpose to work for con
gressional enactment:
1. In support of the progressive Alaskan policy declared by President
Wilson in his message to congress, December 2, 1913.
2. To continue appropriations in aid of government-owned and operated
railroads in Alaska.
3. To secure better administrative control over railroad and steamship
lines in Alaska, a reduction of the present confiscatory rates, an. 1 permanent dis
solution of the monopoly which has so long controlled transportation facilities in
Alaska in violation of the Sherman act.
4. To secure an additional appropriate n of $450,000 for the immediate
completion of the capitol building at Juneau, and other appropriations for other
needed public buildings in Alaska.
5. To secure the construction of a safe and suitable harbor at Nome, and
the improvement of Dry strait.
6. To secure the passage of a fair coal-leasing bill, so the mines may be
immediately opened for development without monopoly.
7. To secure appropriations for aids to navigation, and for roads, trails
and bridges.
8. To protect our fisheries from destruction and monopoly, and to compel
them to pay their just proportion for the support of Alaskan government.
9. To create the commission form of control in the administration of na
tional affairs in Alaska, so that our public lands, fisheries, coal mines, forests,
roads, game, Indians, and educational, charitable and penal institutions may be
managed in Alaska by a single commission headed by Alaskans.
10. To procure the reservation of sections 16 and 36 in each township of
public lands surveyed, for the support of common schools in the Territory; for a
jaw granting a second homestead to those who have none in Alaska; for the estab
lishment of an agricultural college in the Tanana valley; for the survey of all
homesteads on unsurveyed lands in Alaska at the expense of the United States.
11. To otherwise aid in the general progressive policy of the development
of Alaska along lines approved by her citizens and President Wilson.
In again announcing my candidacy, permit me to call your attention to
the changed conditions which now surround Alaska problems in congress. For
the last four years every effort made by your delegate to secure sympathetic sup
port for progressive laws in aid of the development of Alas-ka was denied. Alas
kans will long remember the attempt to pass the infamous Beveridge bill for the
creation of an appointive carpet-bag legislature for Alaska, under war department
control, and the impudent refusal of George W. Perkins to permit the construc
tion of a competing line of railroad into the Matanuska coal fields and the Tanana
valley. How our ports were closed in restraint of trade by this same transporta
tion trust is told in the recent pleas of “guilty” in the United States court at
Juneau. They are as powerful in Washington as in Alaska, and in both places
really had a “free hand in Alaskan matters.”
But a change came when Woodrow Wilson became President. A Western
man with Western ideas and courage to carry them into execution was made sec
retary of the interior, and given a “free hand in Alaskan matters.” The door to
monopoly was closed; that to conservation with use by the people without mo
nopoly was thrown wide open, and the rusty wheels of progress were put in
motion.
It was not necessary for the delegate from Alaska to change his position,
his principles or his line of effort to secure sympathy and support. The adminis
tration changed—not the delegate from Alaska. With that change in administra
tion your delegate found himself in company with those who sought progressive
Alaskan legislation. The delegate introduced the Alaska railroad bill in congress
on April 7, 1913, the first day of the special session; on December 2, 1913, Presi
dent Wilson in his first message (o the regular session approved it, and thereafter,
with his active support, it became a law. His administration procured other pro
gressive bills to be introduced in aid of the development of Alaska, and those
offered by your delegate have met with friendly support and approval. Today the
enactment of truly progressive laws fur the development of Alaska, free from
monopoly, is being personally urged by President Wilson, and occupies first place
in his administrative program.
Alaska and the Pacific coast ought to give him and his Alaskan policy un
stinted support. JAMES WICKERSHAM.
James Wickersham
Judge James Wickersham, the Alaska
delegate in congress, says (here are immense
quantities of gold rocks in the vicinity of
Fairbanks. And the rich placer mines are
very far from being exhaust-* !. So far, he
declares, $74,000,000 of gold has been taker;
out of the territory in and around (Vat
frontier city taken out by workingmen,
mostly, who have owned the claim:;. Half
of all those millions, Judge Wickersham as
serfs, was paid for freights—not for food,
clothing and machinery, but for the item of
transportation alone, says a writer in the
Washington, 1). t'., Herald.
“The freight rates of Alaska,” ho said to
me, “are the highest in the civilized world.
Every white man, woman and child in the
territory has an annual freight bill of $350.
Such is a part of the tribute we pay to the
Alaska syndicate.”
Moreover, the syndicate owns all the
warehouses and stores. Independent mer
chants going into the country, Judge Wick
ersham states, soon become bankrupts. The
syndicate, by its own vessels, carries provi
sions. clothing, tools, machinery and hay
from Seattle to Cordova. It hauls these
necessary supplies for living and working
over its railroad to Chitina, and thence in
its own sleds to Fairbanks. No outside man,
partnership or corporation can compete,
Judge Wickersham points out. against such
an all-embracing monopoly.
So Judge Wickersham came to believe
that the national government should build
a railroad from a southern port in Alaska
to Fairbanks, and thus liberate 36,000 white
Americans in the territory from the extor
tions (T the syndicate. He claims that no
private interest in the United States could
get the $35,000,000 necessary for the con
struction of the railway. The syndicate is
so powerful, he says, that the banks in this
country would be afraid to finance the
project.
“Lobbyists Roosted on the Rails”
Therefore he went before congress with a
bill for a government road from the shores
of th" Pacific ocean to the interior water
ways of the territory. The bill was de
bated, and became a law, “though lobby
ists,” Judge Wickersham says, “roosted on
the gallery rails of the senate and the house
of representatives.”
The President of the United States will
choose the route and build the road. Army
engineers, no doubt, will recommend a route
and it is equally as certain that they will
superintend the work of construction. Judge
Wickersham believes that the road will be
started this year and will be completed in
the autumn of 1916. He hopes, of course,
that Fairbanks, his home, will be the north
ern terminus of the line. Branch roads
will open the great coal stores of the terri
tory. It is about 450 miles from the Pacific
ocean to Fairbanks. The law limits the
President to the construction of 1,000 m:les
of railway and to the expenditure of $35.
000.000. Also he must reach coal for the
use of the army and navy.
The President of the United States dug
the Panama canal. There was neither graft
nor mismanagement. Congress is sure the
President can construct a railroad in Alaska
without scandal or any loss of money. Once
the road is built, it will be operated by the
national government or leased, under regu- !
lations, to private interests. As yet that
matter has not been decided. Leasing, how
ever. is favored bv many members of con
gress.
If Alaska, finally, is “liberated.” then,
logically. Judge Wickersham years hence
will be called the “liberator.” He looks the
part and has lived up to it ever since lie
began his great battle with monopolists in
the city of Tacoma, though Tacoma was
only a small village at the time. He had
arrived in Tacoma with a wife, a baby and
$35 in cash.
But he was born back in Illinois on a
farm. “I went barefooted,” he said, “until
I was IS years old.” He put on hi* shoes
at that age, walked into Springfield and
studied law with General John M. Palmer,
afterwards a senator in congress and, in
1896. the candidate of the Gold Democrats
for President.
Lived on $5 a Month
“I slept in a back room of the office,”
Judge Wickersham informed me, “and on
a bed of my own manufacture. I swept the
floors, kindled the fire and washed the win
dows- occasionally. General Palmer paid
me $5 a month. I lived on that sum. actu
ally. for two years. My father would have
helped me, but I wanted to worry along
without assistance. After I was admitted
to the bar General Palmer got me a place
in the local census office. A year later I
was married.”
At Tacoma. Attorney Wickersham turned
to carpentering. He had learned to use
hammers and saws at home. Tacoma was
then a town of 1,800 people, a goodly num
ber of whom were trying to practice law and
do collecting. The year was 1883.
“In 1884 a bunch of men met to nomi
nate a county ticket,” Judge Wickersham
said to me. “I was still shingling houses,
making fences, and so on, and, being busy
and not present to defend myself, the
bunch nominated me for probate judge.
‘Honest John.’ long in the offic.e ran on the
other ticket. I beat him. much to his sur
prise and disgust, and to the amazement
of the rest of the inhabitants.
“I held the office for four years, and was
then appointed city attorney. The water
and lighting company, after a vote of the
citizens, had previously sold its plant to
the municipality for $1.750,000. Coming
By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them
HAMILTON and HOWARD
WATCHES
The Railroad Timekeepers of America
SOLD ONLY
AT FIXED SELLING PRICE
Extra Thin Models in Solid
GOLD CASES
FROM $55.00 TO $125.00
IVORY-NUGGET JEWELRY
Wm. Taylor, Flat
For a Quiet Sleep
FURNACE HEAT
REASONABLE RATES
Second and Willow Streets
MRS. N. P. GILMORE
I into office, I held that the city council had
been bought up, that voters had been
brought in from the outside, and that the
' city had been swindled. Thus believing, I
brought suit. Bitter days followed. 1 was
attacked by newspapers, politicians and
business men, but I got the case to trial
and obtained a verdict of $787,000 Against
the water and lighting company.”
By this time James Wickersham had
many friends and many enemies. His
friends, headed by Addison G. Foster, whom
he helped to elect to the United States sen
ate, asked President McKinley to appoint
him a federal judge in Alaska. His enemies,
without his knowledge, joined in the request
- they wished to get him out of Tacoma
and the state of Washington. He went to
Alaska as judge of the interior district.
His Big Battle at Nome
About that time scandalous acts were
being done at Nome. Placer claims worth
a million dollars each, the gold lying on
the ground, almost, had fallen into the
hands of their discoverers, Laplanders and
Norwegians, principally. Certain men in
the United States organized a camorra and
proceeded to rob the Laplanders and Nor
wegians of their property. Government of
ficers assisted in the work.
When the government officers were taken
to San Francisco under arrest, Judge Wick
ersham was sent to Nome and instructed to
“clean up the situation.” He did so vig
orously. Then he resigned from the bench
to become the Alaska delegate in congress.
Fairbanks, containing but three houses,
built in a clearing in the wilderness, “500
miles from civilization,” to use his own de
scription, was his home.
Next he grappled with the fiercest and
most powerful monopoly of all the Alaska
Syndicate, composed, as he still maintains,
of the Guggenheiins mostly. He found
the three southern gateways of Alaska -
Valdez. Seward and Cordova -in posses
sion of the syndicate. Immediately he be
gan strenuously to appeal for a nationalized
railroad running from one of the three ports
named northwurd into the interior of the
territory.
The road has been authorized and will be
built. Agricultural and mineral lands will
be given or sold to settlers. Alaska will
fill up with small competitors instead of
big monopolists. Before long it will be a
state. James Wickersham. it is reasonable
to predict, will be the first senator in con
gress to be elected by the new common
wealth. lie is 50 years eld -a gray-cyed
man. with a short, thick mustache, and a
modern-looking man in well-fitting and
high-priced clothes.
Were he to be met in Wall street one
would think he belonged in a bank or a
broker's office. He could ride in a private
car and bis very appearance would make
people believe he was president of the
road. He is no Eskimo or Indian, nor tran
per with moccasins on his feet and a bundle
of furs on his back.
His Great Six-Hour Speech
Ethnology, or the study of the races of
men. has been enriched by his writings and
investigations. He has a decided talent for
composition and oral statement, and his six
hour speech in the house of representatives
on Alaska, its resources and possibilities,
brought him wide fame as an orator and
an author.
“The words ‘government ownership’ have
no terror for me when a region as great in
area as the thirteen original states of the
Union, and of Vermont, Kentucky, Tennes
see, Uhio. Indiana and Illinois in addition,
awaits development and deliverance from
monop; ly." Judge Wickersham said to me.
“The pcof le forget that the Cumberland
road, reaching from the Potomac to the
Ohio, and costing SS.OOO.OdO, was built
more than a century ago and paid for with
money out of the public treasury.
“When we wanted railroads to the Pa
cific coast immense tracts of the people’s
land were given to the men who had agreed
to construct the roads. The lands were the
same as money put out at interest. The
government wiJ pay for the Alaska road
and keep its Alaska lands. By and by when
the lands have increased in value they can
be sohl to settlers. The treasury in the
end, therefore, will have taken in more
than was paid out.
“I ofhr no excuse for urging congress to
enter upon railroad building in Alaska. £hall
the national government. I asked in the
house of representatives, or the Guggen
heims control the destiny of Alaska and its
people—which
EFFECT OF THE WAR
ON BERLIN’S NIGHT LIFE
(Berlin Cor St. Louis Globe-Democrat)
THE HAGUE, Aug. 19.—The first shot
fired in the war killed the gayety of Berlin
as if a blight had descended upon the cap
ital. Not in many years has the city been
so quiet, with every form of amusement
frowned upon by a populace rendered grave
end solemn by the tremendous nature of
the conflict and the grave happenings in
the fatherland.
There are great crowds in the streets at
night, but they are different from those of
a few short days ago. No longer do the
pleasure resorts attract the Berhnese. Now
they parade solemnly along Unter den Lin
den and wait with the greatest eagerness
for the issuance of bulletins by the war
office, telling of the progress of German af
fairs and German arms.
These bulletins, which are issued only
two or three times during the day and arc
posted in public places, are of the briefest
character. The general staff usually re
ports in concise language of some encounter
upon one of the several points of contact
with the enemy.
The parading crowds at night also pay
frequent visits to the monuments of General
Von Moltke and to Bismarck, and also to
the Column of Victory. They surge between
the emperor’s palace and the Brandenburg
gate, talking gravely of the events of the
j day and waiting for some news from the
I front.
The women in these crowds vastly out
number the men, and though the war has
been under way only a fortnight, the women
and girls who are mourning their loved
ones have startlingly increased. It has been
suggested that inasmuch as the men are
sacrificing themselves for the fatherland,
I it would be well for those they have left be
I hind to discontinue wearing black.
All the pleasure places, the theaters, mov
j ing pictures and other entertainments have
been discontinued, and the famous “night
| life” of Berlin is no more. Even the opera
house discontinued. It is not a city of
| mourning, but a city rent by the most seri
i ous of feelings.
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FIRST MEETING
OF LOCAL A. B.’S
The first meeting of the season of Iditarod
Camp No. 27, A. B.. last Monday night,
while not largely attended, was one of the
utmost interest. The finances of the organ
ization were discussed, and plans for activi
ties during the coming winter were made.
Nominations for the various offices during
the coming year w’ere made, and these will
b? voted on at the next meeting, Monday
evening, October 2ti. Plans were also made
for entertainments during the coming win
ter.
The financial reports of the officers
showed that the campaign inaugurated last
summer to free the hall of debt had made
most gratifying progress, and as a result
there are now outstanding against the prop
erty of the camp liabilities of but a few
hundred dollars, with the prospect of clear
ing these off within a comparatively short
time. At the time the movement to wipe
out the indebtedness was started there were
debts against the building aggregating sev
eral thousand dollars. The success attend
ing the efforts of the camp in this direction
is largely due to the efficient and wide
awake officers, and they have been highly
complimented on their work.
Entertainment Feature's
Discussion of plans for winter entertain
ment? developed the fact that it was the
consensus of opinion that, as in previous
years, the Brotherhood would be looked to
to inaugurate and supervise the social activi
ties and amusement events during the com
ing winter, and steps were taken to start
the seasi r. by providing for a ball to be
given at an early date, and also for a more
pretentious event at Thanksgiving, which is
to be the real opening of the winter festivi
ties. Some of the members of the enter
tainment committee having left the city,
Herb Riley and A. E. Molt by were named
to fill the vacancies.
Nomination of Officers
The following members were placed in
nomination for the various offices for the
ensuing year, the election to take place at
the next meefing:
Past Arctic Cl.:ef Claude Baker.
Arctic Chief—-Charles Derry.
Vice Arctic Chief—Albert Wile and Percy
G. Charles.
.Arctic Chaplain—Frank Gularte.
Arctic Recorder William Ansley.
Arctic Keeper of Nuggets—Cyril P.
Wood.
Trustees— Claude Baker. John Holmes,
Ira Wood, IP Riley and Percy G. Charles.
Other officers to be appointed by the Arc
tic Chief.
Basketball Talked of
Some members of the camp spoke en
thusiastically of the possibility of organizing
basketball teams during the winter, and it
is thought likely that this sport will be re
vived. There is excellent material avail
able, and apparently it only needs the active
interest of the players to provide splendid
amusement in this direction.
The gymnasium paraphernalia will be at
the service of all members, and this will
furnish recreation ad amusement of a bene
ficitl nature to many.
Altogether the outlook for a season of
unusual activity is splendid, and the open
ing events will be looked forward to with
interest.
EUGENIC MARRIAGE LAW
CREATES APPREHENSION
The New York Law Journal, speaking of
the decision handed down by the supreme
court of Wisconsin upholding the constitu
tionality of the eugenic marriage law, says
it is “significant as upholding an initial
stage of what may ultmatfely grow to be a
serious invasion of private right in the in
terest of the public benefit.” The chief
question raised in the attack on the con
stitutionality of the law was based on the
contention that it is class legislation, be
cause it discriminates between male and
female applicants for marriage licenses in
that females are not required to present
health certificates, while the males are. On
this point the court says in part:
“An argument is made that the law is
void because the classification is unreason
able, arbitrary and discriminatory in that
it singles out men about to marry and
makes a class of them; there beng. as it is
argued, no substantial differences which sug
gest the propriety of different legislative
treatment between men who are about to
marry and women who are about to marry.
Theoretically the argument is strong. Classi
fication is not to be condemned because
there may be occasional instances in which
it does not fit the situation; it is proper
if the great mass of situations to which the
law applies justify the formation of a class
and the application of some special or
different legislative provisions to that class.
Classification can rarely be mathematically
exact. The question is not whether in some
individual instance there is any perceptible
distinction, but ‘whether there are character
istics which in a greater degree persist
through the one class than in the other,’
and which justify the different treatment.
That there are such characteristics in the
class of unmarried men is as certainly true
as it is discreditable to the. male sex.”
To Winter Stock on the Peninsula
The Alaska railroad commission will
make the experiment of wintering one hun
dred head of horses at Homer, on the west
side of Kenai peninsula. This section is
best for stock-raising, the department of
agriculture says. Thirty Alaska farmers
there put up five hundred tons of native 1
hay. John Sutherland, the foreman, says
the yield near Fox creek is two and a half
tons per acre, and the stand six feet high.
Commerce of the Territory
That the Alaska railway commission will
be able to report amazing figures on the
commerce of Alaska is indicated by a com
pilation made by Robert W. Baxter, presi
dent of the Alaska Steamship Company, and
vice president of the Copper River &
Northwestern railroad. According to Bax
ter's figures, merchandise valued at more
than $18,700,000 has been shipped from '
Seattle to Alaska during the past ten
months. This, in round figures, is more
than $3,500,000 in excess of the shipments
made for the banner year of 1912.
Alaska Strawberries
From returns supplied by a grower, H. D.
Lenhart, at Mile 87, on the Skeena river,
one acre and a half of strawberries have to
date produced $700, the strawberries selling
at an average price of $2.50 to $3.50 per
crate, and at least a quarter of the crop
still remained. In addition to the product (
realized upon, some $150 worth of the fruit
was lost for lack of shipping facilities.
ROOSEVELT NOT REAL EDITOR
—
It is net quite correct to say, as a New '
York telegram says, that Mr. Roosevelt La*
given up the associate editorship of the
Outlook. Wide as is the American usage
• f the word editor, i‘ did not properly ap
ply to Mr. Roosevelt, who on going out of
office became attached to the New York j
Outlook as its principal and very highly I
paid contributor. He was ca'led contribut- i
mg editor, a term unknown to us and new j
in America, and provocative of many jests :
miong Mr. Roosevelt’s journalistic friends |
and opponents.
“Readers of that lively paper, the New
York Sun, for example, will have re
marked that letters from private correspon
dents go under the heading, “From Our Con
tributing Editors,” a standing gibe at Dr.
Lyman Abbott’s celebrated coadjutor. The
Outlook is in appearance wholly unlike any
English weekly, and although of recent
years it has become predominantly a politi- I
cal journal, it has retained the special liter- j
ary and religious character impressed upon ]
it by its editor in chief in the years when j
he was Beecher’s successor at Brooklyn. Dr. j
Abbott is now a veteran, and for a good \
long time past the chief burden of the j
editorship has rested upon his son, Law j
rence Abbott.—Manchester Guardian.
South Carolina farmers have bought, since j
the first of the year, more than 1,000,001'
tons of fertilizers, a record in such pur
chases.
Black Cod. 35c pound.
Iditarod Meat Co.
DARING NAVIGATOR
IS HERO OF THE HOUR
E. J. Smith, better known to bis many
friends by the sobriquet of “Clean Sport,'1
had ihe distinction of being the last man
to navigate the Iditarod river from Dike
man to this city prior to the freeze-up. Ife
arrived with his vessel, the (Otter, on Tin -
day last, after a fast trip from the down
river burg, bringing with him four pasn n
gers—John C. Currin. Charley and Harry
Larson and Bob Cockburn. It is said hi<
passengers were rather severe with the skip
pel’, insisting on his continuing the voyage
in spite of the fact that he wished to ti‘*
up Monday night and take a much-needed
sleep.
Chiropractic Massage, combined with Gel
vanic ami Faradic Electricity, is one of
the best know n remedies today for backache
and muscular rheumatism.
CROSBY MASSAGE PARLOR.
Alias Summons—No. 197-1
n the District Goiirt ror the Territory of
Alaska, l'c 11rfh Division.—George i
S'hirriada, plaintiiT. vs. John r. Baird
Juiirn Wad a and J. A. Mellhenny, eo
partners, defendants.
The President of the (nited States of
America, greeting to the above named
defendants:
Summons having been issued out of the
ibove court in the above entitled action,
and placed in the hands of the I'nited
States marshal for the Fourth judicial di
vision of Alaska, for service, and said mar
shal having made due return thereon that
after diligent search lie could not tlnd the
said defendants or either or any of them
in said district. And the plaintin Inning
made due application to said court f"r ; T>
lication of >aid summons in the inm.n-r
required by law. and the court haur.v
considered ‘the same, did. on the a 1st day
July, toi l, make an order directing that
aid summons he published once each week
f r six consecutive weeks in the hlitarod
Pioneer, a new>papor of general circula
ion within >anl <Ii-1ri<• t:
Now. therefore. you are hereby required
to appear ti t rt for the Ter
ritory of Alaska. Fourth division, within
thirty daj - after the c mapletion of the
said publication of summons, to wit: within
thirty days after the 91st day of Novem
ber, "lfli i, exclusive of said day, and an
swer the complaint >T the above named
plaintiff, a copy of which is on die m the
office of the clerk of the above entiled
court, and unless you so appear and an
swer. the plaintiff will take judgment
against you f.»r the sum or $7.'ir» and in
terest from I"1-.tuber is. 19i:t. allege I to
be due on a-count or cash advanced and
ror goods Id and delivered arid ser\
ices rendered by plaintiiT, as more fully
appears in said complaint, together with
the ci sts and disbursements of said action,
and will apply to the court for the relief
demanded m said complaint.
Witness the Honorable F. E. Fuller, judge
of said court this 9tli day of October, in
tire year of our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and fourteen.
(Seal * ANGl S McBRIDE.
By GEO. W. Al.BREGHT. Deputy Gh-rk.
HOTICE GF ELECTION
Notice is herein' given that on Tuesday.
November :t. toil. in the eitv lire hail, will
he held an election ror the purpose of
electing a delegate to congress and one
senator and tour representatives t > the
Alaska legislature from the Fourth judicial
division.
All citizens of the lulled Mates it
vears or age or over, who are a'-tnal mil
bona tide residents nr Alaska, and who
have been such residents ntniiuimusiy do
ing the entire rear immediately preceding
the election, and have been stieli re-udeiiis
continuously Tor thirty days ne\t | ,1
th«- election m the iivorporaL d limits <■;
Iditarud. shall b<‘ qualified f«» vt-m.
TOWN (»!■' IPITAKOb, ALASKA.
H. A. Ml'.VEILS, Clerk.
October 3, 19 1 I.
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