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FR0P0SED NEW MINING LAW
The bill introduced in the house of representatives by Mr. Vfick
ersham, entitled “A bill to amend the United States land laws in their
application to Alaska, and for other purposes,” is of peculiar interest
at this time, especially those sections dealing with mineral locations.
One of the most important features oi the bill is that which nullifies the
- act of the Alaska territorial legislature, “providing for the location
and possession of mining claims in Alaska, and repealing all acts and
parts of acts m conflict therewith, etc. There has been so much dif
ference of opinion in regard to this territorial act that it is perhaps
just as well that it should be obliterated.
It is probably too much to expect that a mining law will ever be
framed that will be satisfactory to all. There are those who argue that
the pioneer prospector, who endures the hardships and privations in
cident to penetrating a northern wilderness should be allowed to stake
all the ground he wants. And there arc those liberal-minded enough
to be willing that he be granted that right, provided he comply with
the law in regard to representation work, and not merely hold the
ground to the exclusion of those who could and would work it A
law that allows a man to stake for himself, and as attorney for others,
six claims each calendar month, is surely libera! enough in this re
spect.
The question of “location work" and “assessment work," which
has created some confusion, is cleared up in the Wickersham bill by
the use of the following plain and unmistakable language: “ihat
during each year, including the year of location, and until a patent
has been issued therefor, not less than $100 worth of labor shall be
performed or improvements made,” etc.
Section 13, among other things, provides for the recording of
assessment work. It continues: “And upon a failure of the locator
or owner of any such claim to comply wnth the provisions of this act
as to performance of work and improvements, such claim shall become
forfeited and open to location by others as if no location of the same
had ever been made: Provided, That the original locators, their heirs,
assigns or legal representatives, have not resumed work upon the claim
after failure and before such location.” The proviso is similar to the
one contained in the general United States mining law. It was omitted
from the federal law relating to mining in Alaska, and the recent tern
tonal act also railed to incorporate it.
Section 14 of the proposed new law deals with the limitation of
the power of attorney. This question has ever been a prolific source
of friction and discontent, and in the minds of many the Wickersham
bill will fall short of a satisfactory solution. It re-enacts the old fed
eral provisions that a power of attorney must be “in writing, duly ac
knowledged, and recorded in any recorder’s office in the judicial di
vision where the location is made.” The argument against this pro
vision would appear to be a sensible one. Each of the four judicial
divisions of Alaska comprises an enormous stretch of territory. Thus
mineral locations might be made in the Koyukuk, Innoko or Iditarod
districts on powers of attorney recorded hundreds of miles away, at
Fairbanks or other places, where it would be impossible to verify them
within a reasonable time. The provision of the territorial act in this
respect, that powers of attorney “must be recorded in the recording
district in which the claim is to be located before the location is made,
would seem to be preferable. But it is only fair to say that the same
objection is applicable in lesser degree to the latter provision, as some
times the recorder’s office of a district in which a claim is to be located
is more inaccessible than that of an adjoining district.
The evident intent of the Wickersham bill is to make the law
readily understood, and in this it is success ful.
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The congress of the United States is composed of as representa
tive body of citizens as it is possible to assemble in one gathering. For
intelligence, ability and honesty of purpose it would probably be im
possible to find their superior in any legislative body on earth. But
even in such a gathering it has often happened that intellectual freaks
have been found, and the state of Washington has furnished more than
her share of these. Representative Falconer of Washington, who is
described as a Progressive, last week introduced in the house a bill
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Prop.
prohibiting the sale and manufacture of intoxicating liquors in the
Territory of Alaska. Had this bill been introduced by a representative
of Maine, Kansas or Iowa, there might have been found some excuse
for its author; but coming from a congressman of a state which does
not enjoy the supposed blessings of prohibition, it is either the result
of a most benign solicitude for our welfare, an instance of unwarranted
effrontery, or the product of an addled brain, with the chances strong'y
in favor of the latter.
One of the most jealously guarded of American institutions is
that of local self-government. It was upon this issue that the war of
the revolution was fought and it was this question that caused the
rupture between the states. It is founded upon the idea that the people
of a given locality know best their own needs and wishes and are best
able to administer their own affairs. Congress has provided Alaska
j with a legislature and a measure of local government, and while the
acts of this legislature are somewhat circumscribed, it yet has the
power to express the wishes of the people. We recall no act of our
legislature which would warrant the presumptuous congressman from
Washington in the belief that prohibition is desired by the people of
this territory. This being true, the bill of Mr. Falconer, were it en
! acted into law, would constitute an act of tyranny of the most despotic
nature.
The worst feature of these legislative freaks is their willingness
to curtail the rights and privileges of others without in any way mter
1 fering with their own. The District of Columbia, in which the capital
of the nation is located, is governed more or less directly by congress,
its citizens having no word in the administration of its affairs. It
would be an easy matter for congress to enforce prohibition in Wash
| ington city, and the members of congress would thus have an oppor
j tumty of observing its workings at first hand, instea^l of trying it on a
| territory located five thousand miles away. And it would have the
| merit of showing that the congressmen were willing to endure the re
strictions sought to be enforced on others. Until this is done, proposals
such as that of Mr. Falconer cannot be looked upon otherwise than as
impertinent.
Without going into the merits or dements of the prohibition ques
tion, we submit that when Alaska wants prohibition she will make her
wants known. And it would be well for meddling congressmen to at
tend to the business for which their constituents elected them.
The Ford Motor Company of Detroit, which has received much
free advertising of late by reason of its announced plan of profit
sharing with its employes, is again in the limelight. This time it is
said to have discharged 900 Greeks and Russians who had remained
away from work to celebrate a church holiday. As there are said to
be 3,000 residents of Detroit alone on the application list for jobs., the
company found it easy to fill the places of the discharged workmen.
Men who depend upon the bounty of others are probably expected to
keep their religious enthusiasm under control.
A San Francisco dispatch of March 20, speaking of the then pend
ing deal between the White Pass & Yukon Railway Company and the
Northern Navigation Company for the transfer of the latter’s property
and business, says: “Such a purchase as the White Pass is endeavor
ing to accomplish would be viewed with anything but satisfaction by
business men of this city, as it would mean that the immense purchasing
power of the Northern Navigation Company would, in its elimination
by the White Pass road, be diverted entirely to Seattle.”
Several Alaska cities are laying plans to bring influence to bear
on the President to designate them as the terminus of the Alaska rail
road. And now comes Nome with a series of resolutions calling upon
the President to spend part of the $35,000,000 appropriated by con
gress to build a railroad from that city to the Kougarok and interior
Seward peninsula points. The government has spent enormous sums
in securing data for the guidance of its officials, an dthe voluminous
report of the railroad commission is no doubt familiar to the President.
It is altogether unlikely that he will be influenced by these various
selfish proposals, and will proceed to carry out his design of locating
the railroad where it will do the most good in developing the territory.
Congress has shown tis confidence in the chief executive by giving
him unlimited authority in the matter, and this was apparently satis
factory to all our people. Would ti not be the part of wisdom for
Alaskans to exhibit the same confidence in him that was displayed by
congress? We want the railroa dbuilt, and should avoid petty rival
ries for advantage of location or anything that would hamper the
work. These petitions, resolutions, etc., can serve no good purpose.
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MAYBE IT WAS THE NEWS-MINER
(Boston Transcript)
The Ohio man who laughed himself to
death the other day over a funny story
must take some paper that; we don’t get.
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WHAT SENATOR RODEN SAYS
AND WHAT IS SAID OF HIM
En Route to Fairbanks
(Fairbanks Times, March 17)
According to wires received here yester
day from Juneau, Senator Henry Iloden,
who has been Outside all winter, is at the
territorial capital en route to the Interior.
In the newspapers of the coast town the
scribes have devoted a number of articles
to the work done by the legislator while he
was at Washington. He reports that he
had several interviews with Secretary
Franklin K. Lane of the department of the
interior, in which he urged the cabinet
member to ask congress to grant Alaska
absolute home rule rights.
According to the Juneau dispatches, the
senator expects to visit Valdez and Cor
dova on his way to the Interior, and he
will reach Fairbanks the early part of next
month.
At the meeting of the Fairbanks Igloo
of Pioneers, held on Monday evening, an
attempt was made to oust Senator Roden
from membership, but on account of an
j irregularity in the proceedings, the matter
was continued until next week.
A number of friends of the senator are
anxious to hear him explain the position he
took on the Alaska railroad bill, and it is
probable that seme of them will wire him
| at Juneau today to ask for his side of the
| case.
The Senator's Explanation
(Fairbanks Times!
Juneau, March 19. At the beginning of
the first session of the territorial legislature
the two houses indorsed the report of the
Alaska railroad commission.
The Alaska Northern proposed to build
a line to Fairbanks and convince the Presi
dent that sufficient funds were available,
provided the coal would be mined by the
I government or opened to development by
others and the road given the hauling of
the coal for the navy on contract, as was
1 approved by the former secretary of the
I interior. The Seward proposition was re
garded as satisfactory if it was acceptable
to the administration, subject to the inter
state commerce regulations. In the event
that the fear of establishing the principle
: of government ownership should have
| caused the defeat of the bill, there still
| would have remained a chance for a rail
road from Seward.
If the principle of government ownership
had been considered as involved, the bill
would have been defeated, as is indicated by
, many s[>eeches which were made during the
I consideration of the bill, and which appear
in the Congressional Record.
The letter which was written to Secre
tary Lane says that transportation is the
! key to the situation in Alaska. “At almost
i any cost, give it any way you see tit," was
the way the question was put to the cabi
net member.
But I give it as my opinion that the
'construction of the linos as now suggested
will prove a strong argument against gov
ernment ownership, as the road beyond the
coal fields and mountains will never prove
a success.
I advocate the construction of two short
| lines to the coal fields direct, and a trunk
line from the southernmost port at Haines,
inside of Mount St. Elias and the Alaska
range, to Fairbanks. That route is naral
leled by promising mineral ranges. It does
not merely cut across country, as it is
planned to do.
Wick. Josiin. Ballaine and Daniel Gug
genheim all advocate government owner
| ship. Why? RODEN.
As to the Explanation
(Fairbanks Times, March 23)
While we are not prepared to say that
i Senator Henry Roden will be able to ex
[plain satisfactorily to Fairbanksans his rea
sons for opposing government ownership
| of railroads in Alaska, his statement, which
| appears elsewhere in this issue of the Times,
j indicates that he is returning to Alaska full
of confidence in his ability to set himself
right with his constituents. His statement
to the Times is all right as far as it goes.
He will find many Alaskans ready to agree
with him that the Haines route offers the
greatest opportunities of development, and
no one can deny the fact that we were
j ready to accept almost any old kind of a
[ proposition from congress, so long as it
promised relief from present conditions; but
he fails to offer any kind of an explanation
for informing the secretary of the interior
that Alaskans are opposed to the principle
of government ownership. That looks bad
on the fact of it, and it is one point Alas
kans will insist upon having explained, for
neither Senator Roden nor any of his col
leagues had any reason to believe that such
a statement was correct.
Discusses the Letter
(Nome Industrial Worker)
The action of the senators was evidently
an official one, as the superscription and
text would imply. Vet of that official act,
until the matter is thus given publicity,
“the people of Alaska,” concerning whom
the senators spoke, and for whom they
■spoke with all the infallibility of a pontifical
pronouncement ex cathedra, know nothing
and knew nothing at all about it. On the
contrary, with hardly an exception the
papers of the country seemed to be a unit
in supporting a government or any other
railroad, and surely none considered such a
question as a government-owned railroad
“pernicious,” to use hte language of the
presiding senator. * * * The vast ma
jority of the people support the govern
ment ownership of railroads, the senators I
notwithstanding, and we venture to say
that the vast majority of the senators,
even when they signed that document, knew
very well that they so favored it; that
hardly one of them would go before the
people and tell them that they were op
posed to the government ownership idea.
And because this is so, because they were
not representing the people of Alaska when
last April they signed that document, we
can see very well that from the very start
of their legislative duties they were pre
pared to betray and did betray the people
who elected them in this respect. That
communication is stamped with the seal of
the corporations, if not visibly, yet invisibly
and unmistakably.
So Say We
(Fairbanks Citizen)
Henry Roden, territorial senator, who is
one of the members of the last legislature
that sent letters to Secretary Lane to dis
courage the building of government rail
roads in Alaska, is reported to be on his
way home from the Outside. Mr. Roden
will be asked to explain w’hen he returns
why he took the responsibility of trying to
head off the enterprise for which nearlv all
Alaska has been working. It is only fair,
however, that the accused senator should
be given a chance to present his own ver
sion of the case.
Well, Henry
(Ruby Record-Citizen)
f‘I will place my resignation in the hands
of anyone designated by the people of Ruby,
to be used in case I do not carry out the
j wishes of the voters of the district, or do
not represent their best interests.”—Henry
Roden, in a pre-election speech at Ruby,
[Alaska.
Come through, Henry. Hand in your
resignation. I)o not wait to be petitioned
to do so.
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WHAT HE KNEW ABOUT CHICKENS
(Seward Gateway'
When Meyers, the new Carstens man,
; came to Seward he was looking around for
i some bright youngster to help him out with
the delivery work and make himself use
; ful about the shop. One morning a wise*
, looking youngster applied and was asked
1 what he could do. “Anything,” replied the
| youth; “how much is there in the job’”
"Three dollars a week.” “All right," said
the kid; “what do you want me to do?”
. "Get busy,” said Meyers. “Can you dress a
'chicken?” “Not on three dollars a week;
jit can’t be done.” That youngster is a
good judge of values.
THE PEOPLE’S EATH
i The Twentieth Century Turkish Bath is
1 emphatically the People's Bath. Its rapid
! progress in public favor is due to the good
! work it has accomplished in spite of oppo
! siticn and discouragement. It is too near
I the Twentieth Century to despise simplicity,
I the power and the unequaled value of the
Twentieth Century Turkish Bath.
It is the perfection of sanitary science for
the individual.
Not that it is to become a panacea for all
physical ailments, but a necessary part of
sanitary evolution. No agent can do more
in rescuing mankind from preventive dis
| ease and untimely death.
This constitutes the crowning glory of the
Twentieth Century Turkish Bath, thus
making it the most important factor in
personal hygiene.
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TWO EMINENT STATESMEN
TO INVESTIGATE IN MEXICO
Washington, March 17.—Judge George
Gray of Wilmington, Del., who succeeded
Thomas F. Bayard in the United States
senate, and who has held judgeships and
other positions of prominence under Demo
cratic administrations, and Richard Olney,
secretary of state under the administra
i tion of Grover Cleveland, have been select
j ed by President Wilson to undertake a mis
! sion to Mexico, to investigate conditions
i and report to the President, that the ad
| ministration may have the fullest under
! standing of Mexican affairs from sources
which cannot be questioned.
The Mexican foreign office has been no
tified of the mission of Messrs. Gray and
j Olney.
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Appointments by Telepnone
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E. M. STANTON,
Attorney at Law
Office Second St., Iditarod, Alaska
Next to Iditarod Hotel
J. C. MOODY,
Attorney at Law
IDITAROD, ALASKA
Office: Second Avenue
W. F. HARRISON,
Attorney at Law
IDITAROD, ALASKA
Second Avenue, Near Marshal’s Office
CHAS. E. TAYLOR,
Attorney at Law
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Abstracts of Titles
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Forfeiture Notice
To !.. M. Segee:
i yon hereby notified that I. the mi
| dersigncd, have expended during tile year
nineteen hundred and thirteen . 19 13> one
. hundred dollars ■ Slim In labor and Ini
; r .v.ments upon the Mammy Association
placer mining '"aim, on left limit of M mre
i creek, a tributary or the Takolna river, in
Mi McKinley mining district, Fourth divi
I Sion. Territory or Alaska, notice or
| i,.ration of which is found in volume
I l, at page I9n. of the records of said Mt.
McKinley mining district, in order to hold
1 -aid claim under tit,* provisions of section
carj or the aevised Statutes, and the
I amendments thereto approved January 22.
1SS" ronrerning annual labor upon mining
i claims, being the amount required to hold
i said placer mining claim for the period
! ending ". the a 1st day or December. 1913.
i Mid it within ninety days after the pub
] lieation or this notice you rail or refuse to
contribute your proportion of such expen
• diture as a co-owner, vour interest In the
Mammy Association placer mining claim
will become the property or the subscriber,
your co-owner, who lias made the required
expenditure, bv the terms of said section.
CECIL BARLOW.
j First publication, Feb. 21, 1914.
I Last publication, May 23, 1914.
Forfeiture Notice
To chas. Strong:
You are hereby notified that t, the un
dersigned, have expended during the year
nineteen hundred and thirteen (1913) one
hundred dollars (*100) m labor and ini
proveinents upon tlie New Moon Associa
tion placer mining claim, on otter creel;, a
tributary or the lditarod river. In Otter
precinct", Fourth division. Territory of
-\laska notire or location or which is round
in Volume 2, at page 1, of the records or
said Otter precinct, in order to hold said
claim under the provisions of Section 2324
of tile Revised Statutes, and the amend
ment thereto approved January 22, 1 880,
| concerning annual labor upon mining
claims being the amount required to hold
said placer mining claim for the period
ending on the 31st day of December, 1913.
And ir within ninety days arter the pub
lication or Jliis notice you tail or reruse to
contribute'Vour proportion or such expendi
ture as a "co-owner, your interest in the
New Moon Association placer mining claim
will become the property of the subscriber,
your co-owner, who has made the required
expenditure, by the ^ms^sadd^mtion.
First publication. Jan. 31. 1914.
Last publication. May 1914.
Allas Summons
In the District Court Tor the Territory or
Alaska, Fourth Division.—Marian Rimer,
Plaintiff, vs. Franklin Rimer, Defendant.
The President or the United States of
America, greeting:
To the above-named defendant:
Summons having been duly issued out of
the above court in the above-entitled action
and placed in the hands of the United States
marshal for the Fourth Judicial division or
the Territory of Alaska, and the said mar
shal having made due return or said sum
mons, setting forth his Inability to serve
said summons in said district, and that said
defendant couid not he found therein, and
the plaintiff having tiled and presented to
the court affidavits showing that said de^
fendant was not to be found within said
district, and that his whereabouts was un
known, and that due diligence had been
used to ascertain the same, and that a
cause of action existed in favor of said
plaintiff and against said defendant, and
the honorable Judge of the district court
for the above entitled district and terri
tory having considered the proofs adduced
in support thereof, made and entered an
order on the 10th day of March, 1914,
directing the publication of said summons
for a period of six weeks in The Iditarod
Pioneer, a newspaper of general circulation
within said district,
Now', therefore, you are hereby required
to appear in the district court in and for
the Territory or Alaska Fourth division,
within thirty days after the last publica
tion of this notice, that is to say, within
thirty days after the 2nd day of May. 1914,
exclusive of said day and answer the
complaint of the above-named plaintiff, a
copy or which has been duly tiled In the
office of the clerk of the above-entitled
court, and unless you so appear and an
swer the plaintiff will apply to the court
for the relier demanded in 3aid complaint.
Witness hte Honorable Frederick E. Ful
ler Judge or said court, this 21st day of
March. 1914. ANGUS McBRIDE, Clerk.
By GEO. W. ALBRECHT, Deputy.
First publication, March 21, 1914.
Last publication, May 2, 1914. ,