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MONDAY, AUGUST i, J913.
THAT HEAD TAX.
In order to carry into effect the
laws passed by the territorial
legislature the members thereof
passed a $4.00 head tax, which is
to be paid by every citizen of the
territory, except a few exemptions
usually made in such cases. The
law is not a popular one, nor j
should it he but the critics of
it must remember that the en- j
abling act allowed the members
'but sixty days in which to pass
the needed laws.
Not until t he end did the mem
bers know how much money ]
would be necessary to carry on
the territorial work, provide for
the home for indigents, mining
(inspectors, territorial treasurer
and other incidental expenses.
The head tax was devised to
tax, if possible, the floating pop
ulation that conies to Alaska in
the summer to work for from
four to six months and return to
Seattle and the Barbary coast to
spend their ill-gotten gains. No
Jaw would be constitutional which
provded for a Lax on that class
only, so it was made general, the
legislators believing that Alas
kans would be willing to pay
$4.00 towards the expense of
maintaining the territorial gov
ernment, and at the same time
the 20,000 foreign laborers would
be taxed for the privilege of com
ing to Alaska and securing some
easy money. The plan of allow
ing the commissioner a fee to
collect it. and making it mandat- i
ory upon-the commissioner that
he do collect it, also forcing all
employers of labor to give to the
commissioner a list of the names
'of the .. in their employ was
adopted for the purpose of com
pelling the cannery companies to
aid in the enforcement of the
law.
The Prospector does not like
the law, but if should be enforc
ed, and if one man is made to
pay all should be made to “blow
in.” The criticism of the com
missioner in Valdez and in other
precincts is not fair; they are but
doing a duty imposed upon them
by tbe legislators.
Nor is ihe criticism, of the leg
islators fair; they were compelled
in the last days of the session to
provide revenue with which to
carry forward the work of the
people of Alaska and in doing so
struck upon this means. Later
•they will provide other means of
taxing that will be just as severe
on the individual, but he will be
fooled into thinking someone else
pays the bill.
So pay your lax with good
grace. Today is tin* last day or
the 25 per cent, additional penalty
will be added to it.
IS THIS AN AGE OF GRAFT?
The Chaulauquas are in full
bloom and there is aparently an
epidemic of platform lecturers
-.country is going to the dogs and
no help at hand. It does not
make ■much difference whence
these Chautauqua speakers hail,
they all tell us that the crying
need of the hour is a return to
the olS-fashioiied standards of
honesty and morality.and a re
vision'of the buniness and po
litical codes; that graft must be
eliminated if the /nation is to
survive and civilization take no
backward step.
Is this an age of graft and
are (he moral and. business
standards any lower than they
have been in the past? Is not
this the complaint that has been
made since the gray dawn of his
tory? Of course we are no bet
ter than we should be, but we are
unwilling to admit that we’re not
better than our predecessors. If
we were not, there would be some
cause for alarm.
These Chautauqua speeches
tell us that this is the age of
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gold dominated by greed, when,
as a matter of fact, it is nothing
of the kind. Graft obtains, it is
true, and the power of money is
exercised, it is true, but at no
time in history, at least in the
history of this nation, has hu
man rights been recognized above
property rights so clearly as now
and at no previous time has
graft and grafters, been, in shell
ill repute. ■ -
Anyone at all familiar with
business condilioins of the pqst
decade must admit that it is on
ly within (lie last few years that
i( has become unpopular for
leaders of high finance to make
a million or two overnight by the
stock-watering, stock-jobbing
form of graft. Only a few years
ago it was accepted as a mat
ter of course that tile corporation
lawyer who got into congress or
in (he Senate should guard I he
interests of his former employ
ers and pick up money oil (lie
side in stock deals. This may
seem to he the age of graft, but
it is because more publicity is
being paid to graff in its various
forms and grafting put under the
ban. Throughout the country
there are signs and evidences of
reform by law and in the awak
ening of the people and their as
sertion in orderly form of equal
ity of opportunity and just re
ward for intelligent effort in pro
portion to value.
The developments of tile Iasi
year should impel tile Chautau
qua speakers to change tlieir
tune. The disclosures In the in
vestigation of the Washington
lobby may, if is time, reveal the
extent lo which graft has domi
nated or influenced public ad
ministration in the past 1ml, at
(lie same time, they furnish ns
suralnee that graff has been de
throned and that the people and
the country are going ahead to
ward belter things. The condi
tions furnish a cause for rejoic
ing rather than for lamdntalions,
as the Chautauqua lecturers
would have us believe.—Ex.
No children under 15 years of
age are to lit* allowed on the Don
aldson going to or coining' from
Fort Liscum until further notice.
Superb pictures at I lie Orph
eum tonighl. Change tomorrow.
FOR SALE—“Chris” dory and
Evijidure motor. Prime order.
Inquire Mrs. Shepard.
Fine watch and jewelry repair
ing, all work guaranteed. H. V.
Herndon, with Owl Drug Co.
FOR SALE—flood pack horse.
Inquire of T. E. Dougherty.
For bicycle repair work, call
on Owen Meals.
Fine program at the Orpheum
tonight.
Geo. Reinke. the watch repairer
and jeweler, is at the Valdez Drug
company.
The regular Wednesday night
dance at Moose Hall.
Schedule of Donaldson.
Oflice of the Quartermaster
Fort Liscum, Alaska, June 9th,
19t 3.
Daily, Saturdays and Sundays
excepted.
Leave Fort Liscum, 1:15 p.
m. and 5:00 p. in.
Leave Valdez 2:00 p. m. and
5:30 p. m. •
Sundays
Leave Fort Liscum, 9:30 p. m.
Leave Valdez, 12:30 p. m.
, Saturdays:
Leave Fort Liscum, 1:15 p.
m., and 7,:00'p. m,. _ ,;
Leave Valdez 4:00 p. m. and
10:30 Pim. •■ ' - r
. There will be no trips on the
2hd and 4th Fridays of each
month, these days being used
to clean boilers.
Spevial trips or cancelling of
the above will be1 made without
notice only to meet the exigen
cies of the service.’,
By order of Lietut. Col. O’Neil.
L. A. KUNZIG. „
1st. Liejutenant, 30tjh .Infantry.
Quartermaster,
. Go to the
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fy, EVERYTHING* COOP
JACK CAULIN 4b Ca
CITY EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS
When in a hurry call on me.
“QUICK ACTION”
is my motto.
Phone 82. J. A. SPENARD. Prop.
LAUNCH BRIGHTON
CAFT. STAMEY
Leave* once a week from
■?,? VALDEZ DOCK for
PORT WELLS and
Way Port*.
TTPfTjSPE^AL TRIPS SEE CAPT. STAMEY
BARGAINS
ADLER will sell
A Bailey piano in first class
shape at a bargain.
A Five-room house with ten
foot shed for less than lumber
cost.
When! In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON, PROP.
SlRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Avt Seward, Alaska
FOR SALE—“Quick Meal” oil
stove. Suitable for camp use.
Perfect order-. Inquire Mia
Shepard.
They are all good live pictures
at the Orpheum toliight.
Bring your job work to the
Prospector office.
Cable Office Hours.
Week days 9 a. m. to 9 p. m.
Sundays and holidays 9 to 10
.. m. and 5 to 6 p. m.
The Order of Alaskan Moose
For Sale Cheap.
Twenty-eight foot Racine mo
tor boat hull. Inquire of E. P.
Cashma.i.
NOTICE OF SEIZURE.
In the District Court for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Di
vision.
United States of America, Lib
elant, vs. one ship’s boat, her
tackle, apparel, furniture and
equipment.
Whereas a libel of information
has been filed in the above couri
on the 14th day of July 19l'L on
behalf of the United States again
st the above mentioned ship's
boat, her tackle, apparel, furni
ture and equipment; and where
as the substance of said libel of
information, is that the said
ship’s boat, her tackle, apparel,
furniture and equipment were
seized on the 25th day of July,
1910, and turned over to the Unit
ed States Marshal who now fields
the same at tin Port of Unalas
ka, Alaska, as forfeited to the
United States for the reason that
the same was, then and there
found engaged in unlawfully kil
ling fur seals within the waters
of Alaska, and praying that the
said ship’s boat, her tackle, ap
parel, furniture and equipment
be condemned and sold for use of
the United States. ,
Now therefore, in pursuance
of the monition under the seal
of said Court to me directed and
delivered, I do hereby give public
notice to all persons claiming
the said ship’s boat, the tackle,
apparel, furniture and equipment
or in any manner interested
therein, that they be and appear
before the United States District
Court for the Territory of Alas
ka, Third Division, to be held at
Unalaska, in and for the- said
Territory and Division, on the
18th day August 19.13, at 10
o’clcok in the forenoon of that
day, provided the same shall be a
day of jurisdiction, otherwise on
the next day of jurisdiction there
after, then and there to inter
pose their claims and to make
their allegations in that behalf,
and that in event of their fail
ure so to do default and condem
nation will be ordered.
H. P. SULLIVAN.
United States Marshal for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Divi
sion •
GEORGE R. WALKER.
The shoe to land you at the new
diggin’s is the
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A new line just received that
will stand the wear
Copper River
Draying Co
FreitrhiiDtr ami passengers to all pans
of the interior. General Trucking
bid. Wood, - Proprietor
, McKinujy St, Valdes
Chas. R. Crawford
Wall Street Phone 159
Plate glass, window glass, roofing and
building papers, roofing pitch, lime, ce
ment, plaster lath, shingles, builders'
hardware. Shop and job work of all kinds
Window*, Door*, Moulding, Finish
ing Lumber
Agents for Fairbanks, Morse & Co.
Valdez Sheet Metal Works
Manufacturers of
YAKSHAW STOVES
Plumbing, Steam and Hot
Water Heating, Pump* and
Well Point*.!
Sheet Metal Work of Every
Description, Hose Valves,
Irot °ipe, Fittings.
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ftALASKA WATER, LIGHT & TE_ EPHONE COMPANY.
Steam Heat > Electric Lights!
THE COPPER BLOCK1
Finely Furnished Rooms All Modern Conveniences
Good tuc Diirrn G ° °d
Goods I lit DUrrCl Goods
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OP
Native and f f TMD17D and Building
Puget Sound Li U IVlDJllX Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Price* Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
Patronize a Home Industry
VALDEZ DRUG CO.
Drugs and Druggist Sundries
PRESCRIPTION SPECIALISTS /
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We do a
general
Banking
Business
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Bank in
rear of
mercantile
department
We Pay 4 Per Cent Internet an lime Certificate of Deposit.