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ALASKA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
The introduction of he hill by Delegate Wickersham for the
formation of an "Alaska revelopment board, as told in this weeks
dispatches, is no doubt in !r e with the plans oi Secretary of the Interior
Lane, who originated the I lea and has diligently sought its enactment
into law. The plan should lot he confused with the “commission form
pf government” for Alas’ :, which some erroneously believe it to be.
Secretary of the Intedor Lane announced to the newspapers re
cently that he will urge the passage of the hill to create a development
board for the purpose of . dmmistenng the affairs of the federal gov
ernment in Alaska. He st.; ed that he felt sure that it would be passed,
although he expected that some opposition would he offered to his
plan. A number of cons ' essmen who are anxious to serve Alaska s
interests have expressed th- mselves as m favor of the bill.
It is supposed that th ? bill just introduced is much the same as was
the old bill, which was she! ed at the term ending last spring. It so, it
will provide that the devoir pmenl hoard consist of five members, to be
appointed by the President, three of whom will be residents of the terri
tory, to have supervision c' cr the work now administered by the differ
ent executive departments at Washington. It will have nothing to do
with the legislative functio: s of the territory, or, indeed, with the gov
ernment of Alaska. As ex darned by the secretary, the passage of the
bill will have the effect o’ saving thousands of dollars to the govern
ment annually. The bill wi ! provide that the headquarters of the board
will be at Juneau, where t can work in active conjunction with the
governor and with the A!, ska legislature when the latter body is in
session.
The passage of the bill, however, will have more the effect of sav
ing time than money. The bill will provide that the present functions
of the fisheries department the forestry department and the United
States land office will come under the jurisdiction of the board. i llC
matter of titles to propertv and patents would be handled by the board
if it handled the affairs of ! ;e land office, while the conservation of the
forests and the ,,ce of the * rpber therefrom would he regulated by the
1 oard, as the official representative of the forestry bureau. The amoun1
of taxes which should be cud by the fish industry of the territory also
would be one of the import int items handled by the board.
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THE GOVERNMENT RAILROAD
Up to the present it as been the prevalent opinion hereabout1*
that all matters pertaining to the government railroad which is bein:
consructed from tidewater at Seward to Interior Alaska had been de
termined—that the termin is had been selected, that the route to the
valley of the Yukon had been chosen, and that a board of competent en
gineers had been selected o carry out the plans of the President and
congress. It was known that a bitter rivalry existed among the coast
cities for the advantage of being named as the terminus of the road;
but it was thought that any jealousy heretofore existing had been stifled
at the time the President's decision was announced, and that all true
Aiaskans would work toge . ler for the territory’s interest in securing the
early completion of the read. It appears, however1 that such is not
the case. The Aiaska E\ •; ning Post, published at Seward, puts forth
the following editorial in ; ecent issue:
The Post had it figured or that it would not have to make a fight on the enemies
of the government railroad from . eward, that question seeming to he settled and a past
issue, but recent developments 1 ke it plain that the battle has not yet been won. A
legular organized lobby will be m he job in Washington this winter, working to have this
route abandoned, or at least onh mpleted as far as the Matanu'ska coal fields, and the
balance of the $35,000,009 spent i : the completion of the Copper River A Northwestern.
Agents of this movement are ri • it here in Seward, and also at Anchorage, fomenting
trouble, starting attacks on the Alaska engineering commission, gathering material for
use by Washington lobbyists, a 1 < otherwise trying to discredit this project. It is the
same crowd which first fought th government railway project and then tried to insert
gnough jokers in the bill to prevent .he President from selecting any other than the Copper
river route. The Post has been busy for several weeks tracing up the back history of
these men and gathering materbl for an attack. There will be no defense tactics used.
The Post proposes to carry the . ght into the enemy’s stronghold from the very start,
and right here is where the disgu's * is ripped off one of Seward’s most dangerous enemies.
The Post then proce;: Is with an attack on Falcon Joslin of Fair
banks, claiming that he wis in the employ of the Guggenheims at the
time he was lobbying for ike railroad bill m Washington, and that he
was interested in securing 'he purchase of the Copper River & North
western railroad by the government.
The people of Alaska are not interested in the personal differences
of promoters, whether I< ated at Seward, Cordova or Fairbanks;
nor do they care to listen to grievances of the disappointed ones. What
they are interested in is the early completion of the railway unit already
under way and the commencement of work on other branches which
will be just as important tc the country traversed as will be the one be
tween Seward and Fairbanks. Anything which tends to hamper the
work of the engineering (c mmission will be frowned upon. If there
be such a movement on f< ot as the Post describes it will receive little
support from the people of Alaska, as they are mainly interested at
present in the speedy completion of the work of railroad building, and,
outside of the cities directly concerned, not at all interested in the planj.
of townsite boomers. /
ROCKEFELLER AND THE UNIONS
After contesting with employes of the Standard Oil Company
for years the question of their right to organize themselves into unions
to deal collectively with their employers, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has
discovered that they have the right to organize, but he wants them to
he organized under a plan cf his own devising. It is only natural that
those who know the saintly1 character of the Rockefellers should credit
jhem with the best motives in this matter. But strange as it may seem,
there are those who are perverse enough to maintain that the best in
terests of the miners of Colorado would be served by affiliation with a
union organized by workingmen for workingmen, and not by million
aires for their servants. Sam Gompers, head of the American Federa
tion of Labor, thus discusses the matter:
.So Mr. Rockefeller has formed a union—a union of his employes of his Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company, and perhaps imagines (hat he has solved the problem of just re
lations between himself and his employes. But with all his wealth and all his brains and
the brains that he could buy and suborn, he has missed his mark. Imagine an organiza
tion of miners formed by the richest man in the world, who employs its members. What
influence can such a pseudo union have to insist upon the remedying of a grievous wrong
or the attainment of a real right? The miners employed by the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company, of which Mr. Rockefeller is the head, have been whipped by means of atro
cious brutality and hunger into submission, back to the mines. And these miners have
been formed into a union by Mr. Rockefeller’s benevolent altruism.- But he has organ
ized them, and for that at any rate labor is truly grateful, for when men come together
to discuss even in the most cursory way their rights and their interests and welfare there
is afforded a splendid field for development and opportunity
Secretary of the Federation Frank Morrison made the following
statement:
Mr. Rockefeller’s plan is significant. In his alleged collective bargaining plan he
yields more than any other employer hostile to the trade-union movement. Mr. Rocke
feller says he acknowledges the principle of collective bargaining—-and to enforce his con- j
ccptir.n of this theory creates a union and evolves a comprehensive plan that is financed J
by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. We are told these workers will be “permitted” j
to present their grievances. If one dissects this theory he sees that the power that “per- j
mils” can also withdraw any time it elects. Herein is the fundamental difference between j
the Rockefeller plan and that of trade unions. One develops independence, the other
relies on the graciousness and good will of the employer. There can be no compromise
between the two theories, for if workingmen are to be really free, their rights to regulate
their own lives must, be acknowledged.
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TO ELIMINATE THE WHITE PLAGUE
Physicians who have spent years in the study of tuberculosis de
clared at the recent session of the American Association of Clinical Re- j
search, at Philadelphia, that the cure evolved by Dr. Jefferson D. Gib-i
son of Denver, Colo., retiring president of the association, is one that in ]
ten years ought to place tuberculosis among the relatively non-fatal
diseases.
Dr. Gibson mentioned the cure in an address recently and de
scribed it in detail in a paper at the recent meeting of the association.
It provides a cure by adding X-rays, ozone and static electricity to the
climatic and dietetic treatment now common in tuberculosis hospitals.
By this method, he claims, the presence of the d.sease can be detected
in healthy, robust persons even before the well-known symptoms begin
to form, and cures can be effected in advanced cases in remarkably
short time. In his paper Dr. Gibson said:
it might seem that 1 have allowed my enthusiasm to run away with me in studying
this cure, hut I think a feeling of gratification, at least, is justified when 1 say that out
of 757 cases thus treated there have been only sixty-one deaths. I wish to state now with
i emphasis that the X-ray will finally bring about the emancipation of the human race from
: this dreadful scourge. In a few years, when the method is better developed, iti wi.l he a
disgrace for a physician to allow a case of tuberculosis of any kind to progress to an ad
i vanced stage, because the X-rays even now find the incipient tendencies even before the
. symptoms form.
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QUESTIONS OF GEOGRAPHY
Only a year or so bark the postoffice department at Washington wrote a very vig
or'll.- letter to the postmaster at Dawton, telling him if he did not receive a report from
j his office immediately he would close up the office; that he had received no report from
j him and that one should be filed immediately. As Dawson is in Canadian territory, the
j postmaster very wisely objected to sending in hi< report to Uncle Sam. A department
i .-tore in New York refuses to ship goods to Alaska, as it does not care for bu.-ine.-s from
! a “foreign country.” The Kansas City Star wants more money for sending th.o journal
| of intelligence to our insular possessions, and a man from Iowa wants to know if we pub
lish our paper in Eskimo or English. Ex.
As showing the ease with which humanity may fail into error, the
j same Alaska newspaper which reproduces the above contains an ac
i count of the recent quadruple murder at Whitehorse, Y. T., for v/lrch
j Alexander Gagoff is now awaiting the death penalty at that place. The
i article s headed, “Survivor Tells of Alaska’s Big Murder.” Alaska’s
j murder list would seem to be quite long enough without trying to lay
| claim to those chargeable to our Canadian neighbors.
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Discussing Roosevelt’s speech at the Plattsburg military encamp
i ment, which drew forth a reprimand for General Wood, Secretary Gar
rison said: “I have just read Mr. Roosevelt’s statement. I see he
i blames the whole thing on me. He takes the position that it is notori
; ous that he has the habit of making indiscreet speeches, and that there
fore it was my duty to End out if he intended to go to Plattsburg, and
I if so, to head him off and save him from himself. Well, maybe that’s
i so, but it is a rather large order. He is a very active man and 1 am a
very busy one, and it’s going to be a pretty hard job for me to keep my
i eye on him all the time. The colonel’s attitude reminds me of a story
of the Maine farmer who was on hs way to the railroad station one
morning, when he met a friend, ‘\khere are you go.ng? asked the
i friend. Tm going down to Bangor to get drunk,’ he replied, ‘and,
j gosh, how I dread it.’ ”
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If we are to believe Delegate Wickersham—and there is no reason
for not doing so—the Alaska engineering commission, under the direc
tion of the secretary of the inte.^or, will have eight and a quarter mil
lions of dollars to expend on the Alaska government railway project
during the coming two years. The delegate explains that Chairman
Fitzgerald of the house appropriations committee agreed to the grant
ing of whatever sums the secretary asked for, and that is the amount
I Secretary Lane inserted in his estimates. This is a large sum, and its
I proper expenditure should inaugurate an era of construction work such
as will insure the speedy completion of the Seward-Fairbanks line. With
that unit completed, some portion of the balance of the $35,000,000
i appropriated should be used in work of building a line from Susitna
to Idgarod, as planned by the o^inal railway commission.
The Pioneer is chargeable with a somewhat ludicrous blunder in
its last week’s issue, in mistaking the telegraphic forecast of the open
ing of congress and the guess of the correspondents at the contents of
the message for the actual occurrence. It is the more inexcusable m
yktw of the fact that there is a fixed date for the assembling of the na
tional legislature.
William J. bryan was asked recently by a Dallas reporter ir he
ever ntended to be a candidate for public office again. ”1 think, sir1 if
you had any sense you would not have asked that question,” replied the
exponent of peace. What did he mean?
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Luke McLuke says that oratory may be great stuff, but when a
man is shouting you have an idea that he isn’t doing much thinking.
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The seriousness of the situation created in this country by tne
activities of agents of belligerent nations may be surmised from the
attention given to the matter by the President in his message.
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KRAUSE EXTRADITION CASE
Readers of The Pioneer have been ramie
what mystified by the telegraph^ news
items relaiive to the Krause extradition case
ut Feat'll-. Probably lie frequent intcrrup
•*ons to the cable service are responsible for
he fact that the initial news s! ry was not
-•onl to this newspaper. Exchanges just re
ceived, however, supply the missing detail*,
and the following from the Seward Gate
way in a measure explains the case:
Victoria, B. C., Nov. 4.- It is believed
here that William Christie, tlie amalgama
tor of the Treadwell mine, at Juneau,
Ahu-ka, has been kidnapped by German
• ympathizors. lie has disappeared com
pletely, and every effort for the past three
flays has failed to locate him. Christie, it
is reported, was responsible for the sending
of .•>ever:.l hundred volunteers from Tread
well ami elsewhere to Europe to fight for
ihe allied nations, and to this fact is it
fributed his disappearance. Last Monday a
man visited him at Treadwell and declared
himself to be a deputy marshal. He served
a subpoena on Christie to appear in court
at Juneau. ChrKtie left on a launch instead
of ‘he ferry. :-nd hu> not since been seen nor
heard of. He was married only a month
ago. He was a 32d degree Mason and was
me of the most respected individuals, and
his disap1 earnn.ee has caused a sensation.
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nineteen hundred and fourteen . l9l 4 the
-> i,: nf one hundred dollars < ,? 1 on . in labor
ind imp* »v« im ; - up n til» M iinmy Asso
ciation placer mining claim, mi left hunt
of M • creek, a tributary of the Tnkotna
ri\er. in Mmint McKinley mining district,
F urrh iliv-i ii. Territory <u Alaska, notice
of whicli is f ’Ui'd in Volume 1. at Page 19o,
of p;e i u’ds of said Mount McKinley min
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der the provisions nf Section 2324 nf tin*
Revised Statutes, and the amendments
thereto approved January 22. tSSO. con
cerning- annual labor upon mining claims,
being the amount required to hold said
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on itie .list day of December, 1913, and < a
the Hist day "f December, 19 14.
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