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• THURSDAY. APRIL 30, 1913.
A PUBLIC DEFENDER FOR SEAT
TLE
While we are planning to improve
the city government, why not give
serious consideration to the proposi
tion to provide a Public Defender for
Seattle?
We are all beginning to realize that
the administration of law is a lop
sided arrangement, especially the ad
ministration of criminal law. We pro
vide Public Prosecutors to press
charges against alleged law-break
ers, many of whom are poor persons,
and we provide these prosecutors with
plenty of assistants and antplee funds
to conduct prosecutions.
But we do not take the same care
of the interests of Imperiled defend
ants at the bar of justice.
We-let them do the best they can
with the meager funds at their dis
posal, in hiring lawyers, or, quite fre
quently, when extreme poverty pre
vents them from getting counsel, we,
through our judges, appoint lawyers,
oft times young and inexperienced, on
short notice, to act as defenders.
This is injustice.
It is directly antagonistic, in effect, ;
to that axiom of the law which holds
that all accused persons shall be con
sidered innocent until found guilty.
We do not make proper provision to
allow them to prove their innocence.
We make a determined effort to find
them guilty.
Many a poor man has been convict
ed and sent to prison in this country
who would have rightfully escaped
punishment, or received a lesser sen
tence, if he had been provided with
as good counsel by the community as
was employed to prosecute him.
We, the people, who create the
courts and the system of justice, are
really responsible for the failure to
protect the poor man who stands ac
cused. without money to defend him -
self, before judge and jury.
With a Public Defender, having just
as much assistance as the Prosecuting
Attorney and just as muchc money,
the prisoner would have a fair
chance, and only a fair chance, to
prove his innocence if wrongly ac
cused.
It seems hard to do exact justice
in this old world.
The whole tendency of mankind
seems to be in the direction of try
ing to punish and punish severely
every infraction of the laws and to
hunt for opportunities to find men
guilty.
A few hundred years ago our fore
bears delighted in adding torture to
imprisonment in dark cells.
We have improved slightly, but still
make our penitent aries and jail as
cruel places of confinement as pos
sible, even though we are here and
there letting in a little sunlight and
discarding stripes and jute mills.
As a result of our activities in man
hunting and convicting people, we
now have over 60,000 convicts in the
United States—an army which is ever
growing, instead of diminishing in
numbers.
But to get back home.
With a Public Defender appointed
in Seattle, we shall take a long step
towards fair administration of jus
tice.
Also we shall be doing something
towards helping to check the grow
ing sentiment that the courts are
against the poor.
Los Angeles county has recently
appointed a Public Defender and the
results already are most satisfactory.
The Defender and his assistants are
ably taking care of the many cases
against the poor, accused persons and
with most excellent results.—Seattle
Sun.
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FEDERALIZATION AND LEGISLA
TION.
Sir Edwadrd Grey’s views regard
ing the federalization of England ac
quire added interest when contrasted
with Viscount Morley’s. # Both use
the United States as an example, to
be followed according to Grey, to be
shunned according to Morley. •' Grey
argues that unless England is feder
alized the country "ttould go un
der through the sheer inability of
parliament to transact its business.”
Morley's view is that England should
shudder at the horrible results of the
facility of legislation exemplified by
federalization in the United States.
Morley regards this as an Aboriginal
and internal threat to our institu
tions, and he would preserve En
1 gland from such a plague of legisla
tion as ours. This is a consideration
more enduring than the exigencies of
the Irish situation, whose acuteness
surely needs some remedy. To adopt
federalization to placate Ireland is fu
tile, unless it is to be carried through
to the ultimate end. In that aspect
federalization is of importance en
titling it to be considered on its mer
its in principle, rather than as a po
litical expedient. Thus far the Brit
ish dominions or “nations” have been
kept in a state of inferiority, some
thing like our counties, rather than
sovereignties, like our states, inde
pendent within constitutional limita
tions. Morley had been informed that
within four years congress had pass
ed 10,000 acts, and he tvonders how
we endure the litigation which re
sults from legislation by nearly fifty
legislatures.
Viscount Morley's remarks «re
moderation itself, considering the
provocation. New York state inher
ited the common law of England, but
has. passed 56,973 more laws. And
New York is not the leader of legis
lation by any means. The addition
of the output of laws by forty-eight
legislatures to the grist of congress,
which so surprised Viscount Morley,
does indeed make a formidable total.
Even Americans have been stagger
ed by it. But there are two reasons
why they expect their institutions
nevertheless to survive, let us say,
as long as the unfederated British
empire. One is that nobody is ex
pected to obey all those laws. The
percentage of mortality among Amer
ican laws explains the high vigor of
American institutions. The disad
vantage of excessive litigation must
be admitted, but it is offset by the
ability to get things done- if they are
really necessary things. The exces
sive output of law's by congress may
be compared without disadvantage to
the inability of parliament to legis
late at all. They have been ob
serving our federalism a full century,
and they have not yet understood
it. The proof is that they are un
able to federate eve'n the British
Isles, not to mention the dominions
overseas. The settlement of the Ir
ish question on the principles of fed
eralism would be purchased cheaply
at the cost of even multitudinous laws,
objectionable though they might be.
The quieting of Ireland would he
only one benefit. The removal of the
Irish legislation to Dublin would al
low the Dnited Kingdom to get some
laws passed for itself. Honors are
easy between an excess of legislation
and an inabili'y to get necessary
laws.—Fx.
Alameda Reach Cordova Tonight.
The steamer Alameda is due to
reach Cordova at five o’clock tonighl
and is expected in Valdez early to
morrow morning.
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Educational Qualifications of Osteo
paths.
The standard schools of osteopathy
(those that are recognized by the
American Osteopathicc Association)
are located at Kirksville, Mo., Bos
ton, Philadelphia, Chicago, Kansas
City, Des Moines and Los Angeles.
Each have a course of four years of
eight months, with a faculty equal
in every respect to the faculty of
the best medical schools, and all sub
jects taught in leading medical
schools are taught in the standard
schools of osteopathy, except meteria
medica and medlca therapeutics.
These two subjects are replaced by
two branches which are even more
scientific and deep—Osteopathic ther
apeutics and mechanics and the Ba- ,
sic Principles of Osteopathy. The !
medical student is given more work
in pharmacy and various side-issue
theoretical specialties, but the osteo
pathic student gets immeasurably
more thorough practical training in
anatomy—in the body itself. The
best osteopathic physicians as a class
are admitted to be the best practical
anatomists in the world. That is why
they are such safe and efficient
“anatomical engineers.” Adv.
War News and Bock Beer.
We offer special four bottles of
Ranier bock beer for $1.00; a brew |
of excellence, at the Big Place. tf
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Have your watcb repaired at the
Valdez Drug Cc. by an experienced
workman. All work guaranteed and
promptly done tf
Music! Music! Music!
All the latest popular music at the
Valdez Drug. Store.
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TIDE TABLES.
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Thursday, April SO..
High tide, 2:08 a. m. and 3:55 p. m.
Low tide, 9:24 a. m. and 8:61 p. m.\
NOTICE OF SPECIAL TERMS OF
the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division, at
Dillingham, Unalaska, Unga and
Kodiak, Alaska.
The President of the United States of
Aui6ric(i *
To the Residents of the Third Di
vision of the Territory of Alaska,
and to All Whom It May Concern:
GREETING:
You, and each and all of you, will
please take notice that by an order
of the court, duly made and entered,
a special term of the District Court
for the Territory of Alaska, Third
Division, has been called and will be
held at Dillingham, Alaska, begin
ning on the 10th day of August,
1914, at the hour of ten o’clock a. am.;
In the Town of Unalaska, Alaska,
beginning on the 22nd day of Aug
ust, 1914, at the hour of ten o’clock
a. m.;
In the Town of Unalaska, Alaska,
beginning on the 25th day of August,
1914, at the hour of ten o’clock a. m;
In the Town of Unga, Alaska, be
ginning on the 26th day of August,
1914, at the hour of ten o’clock a.
m.;
In the Town of Unga, Alaska, be
ginning on the 1st day of September,
1914, at tlie hour of ten o’clock a.
m;
In the Town of Kodiak, Alaska, be
ginning on the 29th day of August,
1914, at the hour of ten o’clock a. m;
In the Town of Kodiak, Alaska, be
ginning on the 5tli day of September,
1914, at the hour of ten o’clock a. m;
Said Special Terms of Court will
continue as long thereafter as the
public welfare may require.
Dated at Cordova, Alaska this 12th
day of April A. D. 1914.
FRED M. BROWN,
District Judge.
JAMES C. McREYNOLDS,
Attorney General.
Attest: ARTHUR LANG, Clerk.
Date of first publication April 20,
1914.
Date of last publication May 25,
1914.
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Administrator’s Notice.
In ihe Commissioner's court for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Division.
In probate.
In the matter of the estate of W.
C. Stull, deceased.—Notice.
Notice is hereby given that Arthur
Lang, administrator of the estate of
W. C. Stull, deceased, has rendered
and hied for settlement by the above
entitled court, his final report and ac
count of his administration of said
estate, and that Saturday, the* 30th
day of May, 1914, at the hour of^'0
o’clock, in the afternoon of said day,
at the court room of the above entit
led court in the town of Valdez, Alas
ka, has been ordered by said court,
as ihe time and place for the settle-,
luent of said account, at which, time
and place any person interested in
said estate, may appear and file ex
ceptions in writing to said account or
otherwise contest the same.
ARTHUR LANG,
Administrator of the Estate of \V. C. j
Stull, deceased.
Date of first publication March 30, i
1914. |
Date* of last publication April 30,
1911.
DELINQUENT SALE NOTICE.
Name of the corporation, Big Four
Mining Company.
Location of principal place of bus
iness, Santa Maria, Santa Barbara
county, California.
Location of works, in the Third di
vision of the Territory of Alaska, near
Valdez.
There is delinquent upon the fol
lowing described stock, on account of
assessment levied on the 14th day
of February, 1914, the several amounts
set opposite the names of the re
spective shareholders, as follows:
Chas. Adam,- certificate No. 27, 500
shares; $50.00.
L.»S. Drum, certificate No. 4, 2,500
shares; $250.00.
L. S. Drum, certificate No. 49, 500
shares: $50.00.
Jas. Drum, certificate No. 21, 500
shares; $50.00.
Jas. Drum, certificate No. 50, 1,000
shares; $100.00.
R. Holland, certificate No. 13, 5,600
shares; $550.00.
C. Gifford, certificate No. 31, 1,250
shares; $125.00.
H. Gifford, certificate No. 32, 2,500
shares; $250.00.
H. H. Jessee, certificate No. 9, 1
share; 10c.
II. H. Jessee, certificate No. 66, 500
shares; $50.00.
H. H. Jessee, certificate No. 67, 500
shares; .$50.00.
J. L. Robeson, certificate No. 28,
250 shares; $25.00.
Harry Thole, certificate No; 56, 500
shares; $50.00.
Harry Thole, certificate No. 57, 500
shares; $50.00.
And In accordance with law and
an order of the Board of Directors
made on the 14th day of February.
1914, so many shares of each parcel
of stock as may be necessary will be
sold at public auction at the office
of the company, in the First Nation
al Bank of Santa Marla, in the city
of Santa Maria, county of Santa Bar
bara. state of California, on Monday,
the 11th day of May, 1914, at the hour
of two o’clock p. m. of Bald day, to
pay delinquent assessments thereon,
together with costs of advertising and
expenses of sale.
E. T. BRYANT,
Secretary of Big Four Mining Com
pany; office in the First National
Bank, First National Bank Build
ing, Santa Marla, California.
First publication April 24, 1914.
• Last publication May 15, 1914.
Hospital of the Good Samaritan.
For $6.00 wo will give you a ticket
entitling you to hospital service and
care for any . eight weeks, out of the
year, from date of your ticket, when
incapacitated by injury or sickness.
See W. H. Ziegler.
cThe Home of
Hart SchafFner
& Marx
bi Clothe# em
ffsome banker should announce that
he had a special lot of gold dollars,
made for him, that he could sell at 50
cents, you wouldn’t believe it; but a lot
of you accept a similar statement from some cloth
ing dealer, and cheerfully pay $14.79 for a suit, on
the theory that “clothes is clothes,” we suppose.
In our Hart Schaffner & Marx $25 suits there
is $25 worth of value; you’ll get more than double
the service and satisfaction that a cheap suit would
give.
Our profit in the $25 sale
isn’t as great as yours
For Sale By
ALASKA WATER LIGHT & TEL. CO.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Gradual* of National University
Washington J>. G.
DENTIST
Phone 110 Fourteen years in
Office Rooms over VALDEZ
Valdez Druif Co.
DR. GERMAN
Phone 10 THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drue store. Office hours
9 a.m.. to 6 u. m.. 7 t>. m..to9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
E. E. RITCHIE
LAWYER
phonk:i3# Valdez, Alaska
C E. BUNNELL
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Offices Well Street
Phone 3i VALDEZ
Cable Office Hour*.
Week days 9 a. m. to 9 p. in.
Sundays and holidays 9 to 10 a. m.
and 5 to 6 p. m.
Steam Heat Electric Lights
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Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OF
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Puget Sound ljUi¥lDJul\ Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
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