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SOCIALISM DECLINES
Let the cause be what it may, the statistics are conclusive of the
truth that the Socialist party has lost nearly 50,000 dues-paying mem
bers in the past year. On top of this is the suspension of several So
cialist newspapers and the merging of many of those that have sur
vived so as to preserve some channels of publication for the doctrines
of the party. The Chicago Daily Socialist, the Coming Nation and
the Cleveland Socialist have passed into the graveyard of buried hopes,
while the Washington National Socialist and the Appeal to Reason
have consolidated with the thought of saving something from the mu
tual wreck. Between dead and dying party organs and a fast de
creasing membership, socialism, as interpreted by the national organ
ization, seems to be running down hill at a rapid gait, says the Rocky
Mountain News.
home or the leaders in seeking tor the cause ol me disruption ana
a remedy for it blame the activities of the saboters and the “reds,”
who for a time got control of the party machinery. It is reasonable
to think that the policy of “direct action” as expounded by Haywood
and his sort has something to do with the incipient disintegration. It
is more likely, however, that the progressive policies of the Demo
cratic and Bull Moose parties will be found a truer reason for the de
fection. A large membership in the Socialist party was there to pro
test against the bipartisan system in politics which for many years
bound together leaders of the old parties for enjoyment of the spoils.
This class was only nominally socialist. In a general way they gave
adherence to party tenets, but they were not fervent believers in the
Marxian or Kropatkin theories of social revolution, and as for sabot
age and the syndicalism of continental Europe, they had no use for
them whatever.
It is from this element that the loss has come almost exclusively.
They have found an outlet for their feelings in the progressive policies
of the national democracy and satisfaction in the pending national
legislation. Instead of following the line of negative protest they
have determined to give their sympathy and support to a positive
creed that aims for the achievement of some of the very things for
which they have craved. On one hand the “reds” have driven them
out by their advocacy of violence; on the other, progressive princi
ples and a manifest and honest desire to put them into practice have
they will never go back as long as the political lines of cleavage are
marked as they are now. _
TAMMANY DECEIVES NOBODY
It is a subject for rejoicing that the clear vision of the country
sees through Tammany’s transparent strategy and refuses to be de
ceived or misled. Whatever becomes of Sulzer, Tammany will be
the worse in the end for having crossed swords with him on this vital
question, and the issue of popular self-government will have been em
phasized and given a more deadly edge by the whetstone of this con
flict. Tammany may destroy a political enemy, but it will have ad
vanced unconsciously and unintentionally the cause of general reform
and progress.—Baltimore Sun.
NEBUCHADNEZZAR
Ihe children saw him eating grass. “What brought him
down to such a pass?” they asked, and gazed m wonder. A near
by sage replied: “I ween, he read the Health Hints magazine, and
so he’s scared, by thunder. That publication teaches man that
poison lurks in every can sold by the village grocer; and every
time he eats a pie, or on a doughnut casts his eye, he to the grave
is closer. The milk we drink, the steak we chew, will raise a
grievous howdydo inside our anguished bodies; there’s poison in
our scrambled prunes, there’s verdigris upon our spoons, and
death is in our toddies. The modern Borgias ply their trade in
shops where eatables are made; they dope our loaves and fishes;
there’s poison in the purple ink that poets, when they’re thirsty,
drink, and doom in all our dishes. And e’en the water from the
well has germs that make the drinkers yell, if it has known no
filter; what wonder, then, 0 children sweet, if good old Neb has
chilly feet and stomach out of kilter? He’s scared to death by
what he reads, and so on hands and knees he feeds, and fills him
self with forage; no man can read the weird Health Hints ap
pearing in the public prints, and still retain his courage.”
—Walt Mason.
Kay is the chief agricultural crop of ! Australia raises nearly 10,000,000 acres
Switzerland. i of wheat a year.
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t Foot of Willow St., Iditarod
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A Gravina Island rancher has fenced
his garden with woven wire to keep out
the deer.
* * -*
Governor Strong has appointed Henry
Alhei.lt of Cordova as game warden for the
White river district. He was employed
on the railroad for a time.
Albert E. Harris was recently appointed
agent for the Milwaukee in Alaska and Yu
kon territory. This is the first time that
any transcontinental road has had a rep
resentative stationed in Alaska.
* * *
Sam C. Dunham, author of the book,
“The Goldsmith of Nome,” is out with an
other book of verses, entitled “The Men
Who Blaze the Trail.” Dunham now re
sides at Fruitvals, near San Francisco.
* «- *
ITacer claims on Kenai river, from Lake
Kenai to Lake Skilark. have been taken
under option by parties seeking dredger
ground, and drills will be placed in opera
tion as soon as possible to determine the
gold contents. If the values prove satis
factory to the prospective purchasers, the
biggest deal ever pulled off on the Kenai
peninsula will result.—Seward Gateway.
Dr. Brooks says there are at least 64,000
acres of coal in the Matanuska field, and
it is probably much more. This amount
has been definitely measured. The field
will be completely mapped this summer.
The coal. Dr. Brooks says, is mostly high
grade, but in places it is badly crushed and
faulted. Owing to the folding it is im
possible to get an accurate idea of the
tonnage.
* * *
“If the United States government can
afford to spend four hundred million dol
lars digging a canal across Panama, it
surely can afford to spend forty millions
in Alaska. I'm in favor of government
owned railroads ill Alaska, and am urging
and shall continue to urge a complete sys
tem of opening the coal and also the ag
ricultural lands I have faith that my
sen will live to see Alaska with a popu
lation cf from six to ten millions of peo
ple.”—Secretary of the Interior I*’. K. Lane.
* * *
The Seward Commercial Club has re
ceived from Stagneth & Johnson samples
of tanned shark skns and two samples of
shark liver oil. The skin3 and oil are the
product of the experimental refinery lo
cated down the bay about eight miles from
Seward. The proprietors have been work
ing this season with limited equipment, and
their output for the year will be between
50 and 100 barrels of oil. Even at this
rate, considering the price of $1 per gal
lon that the oil brings on the Outside mar
ket, and a price of 40 cents per square foot
ior ihe tanned leather, they will make
better than wages. The oil is sent Outride
and further refined and then placed on the
market as cod liver oil, or in its crude con
dition is used largely in tanneries. The
leather is valuable in upholstering and in
the manufacture of trunks, grips, etc.
* * *
It will be unfortunate for Seward if the
government should figure out a more ac
ce-v-i'ole way of reaching the Matanu.-kd
gold fields. The people of that town hav
demonstrated so much pluck in placing
their faith in the future importance el
their delightful little city that they ilcsonc
to see a growth rapid and substantial. And
they surely will have it if the government
accepts Seward as the terminus of a rail
road to the Matanuska coal fields and
Kuskokwim geld country. They have one
( f the prettiest townsites in Alaska and a
substantially built little city, populated by
enterprising and hopeful people. - Ex.
* * *
Although his plans did not materialize
this year, F. W. Wunn of Seattle is making
preparations to establish a cannery on the
South fork of the Yukon river, about 40
miles from its mouth. He had organized
the Yukon Packing Company, capitalized at
5250,000. George Seward, the Chicago
banker, who was one of the defendants in
the F'rost Alaska coal trials, and other Chi
cagoans were interested in the company.
As they have been superseded by Wiscon
sin capitalists, the company will be re
organized under hte name of the Y'ukon
Packers’ Association, which will be cap
italized at 850,000. The incorporation will
probably be completed this month.
* * *
flow would you like to see the Kenai
peninsula, or the greater part of it, thrown
into a game preserve, in which the animal
life therein would be immune from slaugh
ter the entire year round, with penal servi
tude facing a violation of the regulation
creating it? asks the Seward Gateway. We
are nearer on the verge of such a consum
mation than most people hereabouts real
ize, and it is up to the men in the hills, or
largely so, whether or not it shall come to
pass. Those who have the power to make
such a regulation are not unaware that the
Kenai peninsula is the great game country
of Alaska. They are also fully alive to the
fact that there has been wanton destruc
tion of this wild game. They know as
well as we who live on the ground that the
game law is a dead letter to numerous per
sons who gain a livelihood by trapping or
hunting for the market; that these persons
have a wholesome contempt for the war
dens of game and miss no opportunity to
harass and hinder their work of preserva
tion.
Recent investigations indicate that the
greater part of the diet of the bat consists
of mosquitoes and advantage is being taken
of this fact in ridding communities in Texas
and other southern states of the mosquito
pest.
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AGU1NALD0
Former Filipino Rebel Is Now a Peaceful
Farmer and Manufacturer
AgumuMo. erstwhile rebel leader, en
gaged in farming and in the manufacture
of a special brand of hemp braid for hats,
is the enticing picture of Philippine indus
trial conditions drawn by J. 0. Muerman,
formerly division school superintendent of
Cebu, P. I., now a rural school specialist
in the United States bureau of education.
Aguinaldo’s peaceful pursuit is typical of
the change that has taken place in the
Philippines during the past few years.
Mr. Muerman describes entertainingly the
remarkable educational advance in the
islands since the day the first American
teachers disembarked from the United
States transport Thomas, a dozen years
ago. Unhampered by academic tradition,
and face to face with problems of educa
tion that were as big as civilization itself,
these educators and those who followed
them have gradually developed a system
of Filipino schools under Filipino teachers
hat is rapidly transforming the social and
industrial life of the islands.
Compulsory industrial training, fitted for
;he needs of every-day Filipino life, is the
most distinctive feature of the island
chools. The Amercans have carefully stud
ied the possibilities of the valuable raw
materials abundantly at hand in the
islands, and are able to show the Filipinos
how to make the most of them. Every !
Fi.ipino schoolboy is required to do a cer
tain amount of work with native woods
and fibers; every one must learn to till
tlie soil by actually doing it in the school
garden and in a plat of Ids own, and every
Filipino schoolgirl is taught certain essen
tials of sewing and other home-making
arts. All the children in the schools are
obliged to pass through ths period of ele
mentary training in the every-day tasks of
life.
Most insignificant in the scheme of in
dustrial education is the recent establish
ment of the Philippine school of house
hold industries. Two hundred women from
different parts of the islands were brought
together at Manila, shown how to adapt
their native skill in embroidery and lace
making to the demands of foreign mar
kets, and then sent back to their homes
to form centers of industrial progress in
their own communities. The government
has established a sales agency to dispose of
I he commodities thus produced, and so far
the demand has greatly exceeded the sup
ly. One Filipino woman who was trained
in the new school has 800 women work
ing under her and is receiving from firms
in the United States orders for thousands
of embroidered shirt waists and handker
chiefs. The beautiful Pina cloth, made
from pineapples, is one product to which
special attention is paid. Before the Amer
ican came this cloth sold for from 10 to
50 cents a yard; the demand for it is now
such that it brings from $1.50 to S3 a
yard.
“The hardest thing American teachers in
the Philippines have to contend with,” says
Mr. Muerman, “is the American spirit of
bustle. The American is in too much
haste. He wants to get everything done
at once. He tries to overturn in a few
weeks the traditions of centuries. And yet,
coming into a country where the idea!
tends to be that of inanana never do to
day what you can by any possibility put
off till tomorrow —he has really made
astonishing headway in transforming the
Philippines into a country of today, where
things move with something like American
hurry. The old folks shake their heads
and sigh for the good old times, but the
young people, boys and girls alike, are
glad to take advantage of the more effi
cient methods. They play American games
and accept the educational opportunities
offered them with equal adaptability, and
it is through them that the new Filipino
civilization is making its way irresistibly.
“Agunialdo with his hemp weaving and
agriculture may be a less heroic figure than
the wily general who for so long eluded
the American armies, just as clean streets
and city high schools somehow make less
noise in the concert of the powers than
the roar of guns in Manila bay; but when
the real history of humanity is written it
can scarcely leave untold the story of the
unselfish efforts of America to carry the
light of education to the Philippines.”
LGNG-HAIRED HORSES
An experiment in the raising of feorses is
now being made in the Yukon territory,
about 175 miles west of Whitehorse. Ow
ing to the abundance of fine lands avail
able for pasturage in Alaska and Yukon,
should the experiment meet with success,
the raising of horses will become an enor
mous industry in these regions. After the
horses have lived for some time in these
localities their hair grows longer, as a
method of nature to protect them from
the cold. Horses have even been seen with
a crop of hair as thick and long as that
of the buffalo. Twenty-five brood mares
were imported from Vancouver about a
year ago and placed on the experiment
ranch on Duke river. All these animals
have gotten through the winter well. Some
horses brought from the Oregon ranges to
do transportation work in 1911 included
several mares, which foaled last spring, and
their colts all lived and were hardier ani
mals than their ancestors. It is believed
that when the horses are native to the re
gions their added hardihood will greatly in
crease their availability for transportation
purposes.
Railways of the world at the close of
1911 represented a total capitalization of
$56,050,329,364.
KAID MACLEAN
TO WEB ASAIN
The announcement comes from London
of the engagement of Kaid Sir Harry Au
brey Mac Lean to Miss Ella Prendergast,
daughter of the late General Sir Henry
Prendergast, V. G\, which recalls the ex
ploits of the Scottish chieftain in the Moor
ish empire. Soldier of fortune and ad van
turer of the best type, his career has been
as adventurous as it has been glorious.
Forty years ago Harry Aubrey de Veie
Mac Lean was an officer in her majesty’s
Sixty-ninth regiment of foot, poor, but with
the best blood of Scotland in his veins,
lie was too poor to go the pace with Ks
brother officers, so eventually he resigned
hs commission and went to Tangier.
He went to see the sultan of Morocco,
Moulai Hassan, a grim oi l warrior, strong
enough for himself, but worried about the
succession of his heir, a puny, weak boy.
There were pretenders to the throne who
were waiting for the rid sultan to die
to place force behind their claims.
Mac-Lean proposed himself to Moulai Has
san as a sommander and military instruc
tor for the imperial bodyguard, who should
be equipped with modern weapons. His
proposal was accepted and MacLean soon
knocked his thousand fighting men into j
good shape.
MacLean devoted himself for the next few i
years to putting down brigands and pre- 1
serving order. Then the sultan died, and
there was an insurrection when the weak
son, Mulai Abd-el A/iz was put on the :
throne. MacLean put this down sharply, j
as he did several subsequent uprisings.
Meanwhile Raisuli and his bandits had I
been ravaging the northern section of Mo
rocco, and in 1907 MacLean attempted t;i
stop him. Raisuli had become world
famous in 1904 when lie captured I n Per
dicaris, a wealthy American, and held him
for ransom. Morocco, prodded by the Unit
ed States, final'y raised $55,000 to free
Perdicaris. Raisuli captured other foreign
ers and held them, and MacLean sent word 1
to him that he would meet him in t.\
desert alone. MacLean went alone, but
Raisuli took some of his men, and made i
MacLean a prisoner. The bandit demand
ed $200,000 for Mac Lean’s freedom. He ■
dropped this price several times, but no
one would pay it, and after MacLean had |
been held prisoner for seven months he
was turned free.
It was not long after this that MacLean ,
returned to England and took a country
home in Norfolk. MacLean’s first wife was
Miss Catherine Coe. He married her in
.1882, and her social position was such that
none of the European women at either Gib
raltar or Tangier would consent to any
social intercourse with her, in spite of her
husband’s influence and power. ?ir Harry
continued to live with her until 1905, when
matters got so bad that he sued for a di- j
vorce.
LAND REGULATIONS
The following information comes from
the general land office, and may he of
interest to those contemplating land en
tries :
The regulations approved January 13,
1B04 (32 L D. 424), pursuant to the re
quirements of the act of May 14, 1SBS (30
Stat. 409), as amended by the act of March j
3, 1903 (32 Stat. 102S), provided that "no
entry of any kind in the district of Alaska
can, however, be allowed for land extend
ing more than one hundred and sixty rods
along the short of any navigable water,
which is twice the extent originally per
mitted by the act of 1S9S, and along such
shore a space of at least eighty rods is re
served between all claims.”
In administering said acts in accordance
with such regulations and the instructions
herein contained, no survey will be ap
proved and no application, selection, filing
or location will be allowed under any law
for such reserved areas other than for land
ings or wharves, as provided in section 10
of the aforesaid act cf May 14, 1898.
The reservation between claims along
navigable waters is absolute, except as to
landings and wharves, and precludes all
forms of appropriation under any law, but
the inhibition in the reservation between
claims along “other waters” applies only
to scrip, land warrants and soldiers’ addi
tional claims.
In order to carry into enect the will oi
congress respecting the limitation of claims
along the shore line and the reservation of
80 rods between all such claims, it is di
rected that where any claim is so loeated !
as to approach within eighty rods of the j
actual shore line, such claim will be con
sidered as located on the shore for that
purpose.
The term “navigable waters” is con
strued by the act of May 14, 1898, supra,
: * * jnc'uc[e ai] tidal waters up to
the line of ordinary high tide and all non
tidal waters navigable in fact up to the
tine of ordinary high tide mark”
The limitation along the shore line is,
however, extended by the act of March
J, 1903, supra, to “along any navigable
or other waters.” It becomes necessary,
therefore, to define what is included in the
expression “other waters.” In the opinion
pf ths department those words should be
neld to include all waters of sufficient mag
oitude to require meandering under the
manual of surveys, or which are used as
i passageway or for spawning purposes by
mlmon or other seagoing fish.
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ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD
Camp Iditarod No. 27, Arctic Broth
erhood, meets at A. B. Hall on the
first and third Monday evenings of
each month at 8 o’clock. Visiting
Brethren cordially invited to attend.
SAM BAYLES,
Arctic Chief.
J. C. CURRIN,
Arctic Recorder.
Notice of Forfeiture
ro Julian Spencer. V. C. Sutlif, J. Dolan, M. C
Kdtnunds and C. Mack, their heirs, assigns,
successors or personal representatives:
You are hereby notified that I have expended
n labor and improvements for each of the years
>f 1912 and 1913 the sum of one hundred dollars
-$100—on the Rosebud association placer miri
ng claim, situated on Otter creek, a tributary
>f the Iditarod river, in the Otter Mining ari l
Recording District, Territory of Alaska, which
lave been duly recorded at the commissioner s
)ffice at Iditarod. The above amounts have been
•xpended in order to hold the said claim under
'he provisions of the law concerning annual
abor upon mining claims, being the amounts
equired to hold such claim. And you are
urther notified that if, within ninety—90—days
ifter the last publication of this notice, you fail
o contribute your proportion of said expendi
ure, your interest in said claim will become the
'roperty ot the undersigned, your co-owner
A. ST. UWRFNCf.
First publication September 27, 1913.
I,a.st publication December 27, 1913.