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I'a/ J Coo. M. Arbaeklo. PubUthor No. 4
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CONSERVATION OF HEALTH
Boston mothers are up in arms against the arbitrary
methods ad< pt d by the hoard of health m that city in
making minute personal examinations of the school chil
dren, according to an Outside paper. The tactics employed
in the examination of girls, especially, has been complained
of. It is declared girls were required to disrobe to the
waist, save for a light gauze undergarment. “Despite the
tears of many and the angry expostulation of others the
daughters of Boston’s best citizens were treated like so many
immigrants," says the highly respectable Tacoma Tribune
in an editorial commenting on the matter—the inference
being, of course, that in the case of mere immigrants the
tears and expostulation might be disregarded with more
propriety. But “age, family, or apparent state of health
made no difference and the detailed examination of the en
tire student body in the schools went on,” said the Tribune.
Inis Boston incident causes ones mind to revert to the
numerous articles that have long been appearing in the
press of the United States on “health conservation.” The
contention is for the nationalization of the laws of health;
for their administration by a great department with rami
fications throughout the country and a head in the cabinet,
and for the placing in the department arbitrary power over
the persons of the people such as lias not been heard of in
modern times. The suggested “remedies” to be applied by
this great department includes such measures as the exam
ination and passing upon the qualifications of candidates
for matrimony; the sterilization of the unfit; the breeding
of human beings on such “scientific” principles as are fol
lowed in the breeding of cattle. Not only are such sugges
tions common in articles prepared primarily for the press,
but they are uttered by men and women of various degrees
of mentality and morality in divers gatherings in which
they get a hearing, and then are given wider circulation
through newspaper reports of the meetings. Of course the
nnme objections apply to these as do to all other despotic
schemes: those put in authority would prove incompetent
and vicious; those under their control would either rise and
kill them or become like cattle.
It is probable that this craze in which the word “sci
ence is applied to follies and wickedness of many kinds is
due to a system of superficial education. The light of
knowledge has burst so suddenly on many people accus
tomed to the dark that they aie bewildered and dart hither
and yon like beetles disturbed by the flare of a lantern.
Whatever may be the cause, this Boston incident ought to
suggest to sane and decent people the extremes to which
at least one despotic tendency of the times may lead.
JUST CLAIM FOR A TRAIL
Hugh O Neil, writing in the Yukon Valley News, of
lauana, the town at the mouth of the river of that name,
pjeads for the opening of a trail from that point to the
Koyukuk district. Outside of over two hundred people
hi the Koyukuk. there are about forty prospectors along
the route of the proposed trail between that river and the
Yukon—a region of great promise, but inaccessible for sup
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plies except in meager quantity which are almost all con
j sumed in transit. Only a trail is asked for—not a wagon
road.
That trail ought to be constructed this year. The
country’s prospects fully warrant it. Not only that, the
people of Tanana and the Koyukuk have paid into the
Alaska fund money enough to have paid for a good trail
'many times over—money which, contrary to the spirit of
the law creating the Alaska fund, was applied in regions
in which the people paying it were in nowise interested.
Not only are the people of Tanana and the Koyukuk who
have paid so much money into the Alaska fund entitled to
have some of that money expended on a trail that will be
of benefit to themselves and the districts in which they live,
but the trail work should be let to the lowest bidder, ac
cording to law, so that they may get the fullest measure of
benefit from the fraction of their own funds that is accorded
them.
Next to what is termed the association evil—which lias
grown into something that the epithet “association” is im
potent to express the iniquity of—the application of moneys
collected in the less developed districts to improvements in
the centers of greatest activity has been the greatest deter
rent to progress in Alaska.
THE BLAKE
“You people who hold big areas of
ground,” says tha Ruby Citizen of Jan.
3, “change your tactics a little and
give tha layman a chance to prospect
with some hope of receiving a substan
tial reward for his work if he uncovers
a paystreak on what is now virgin
ground; don't hog it all, but if vou
don’t want to let it out on lays, then
prospect it yourself. This camp will
never be developed to its fullest extent
as loDg as so few outfits are prospecting
as little ground as is now being pros
pected. You cannot make Lit is the
camp it is entitled to bn by sitting
around, with thousands of acres un
touched, and waiting for some one of
the few men now at work to develop
ground adjacent to yours. Get in and
help. If you cannot help in one way
you can in another. There are, hun
dreds of good prospectors in Ruby who
are unable to go to work on lays in
justice to themselves, because of terms
which are offered to them, those terms
being the same on ground in this dis
trict which is utterly unknown — even
on creeks on which absolutely nothing
has been done but the setting up of
stakes—as were given to laymen in the
early days of Dawson and Fairbanks on
proven ground. Now, you holders of
ground sit down and talk the matter
over with yourself, and see if you can
not bring yourself to view the situation
as it is; it is now January—the winter
half gone—and if something is not done
with your ground before very long
there can be nothing done on ii for an
other year. Either work the ground
yourself, let it out on lays, or give it
up and give somebody who will do
something with it a chance. Don’t be
hogs.”
What right has the newspaper to tell
the ground owner what to do? The
ground owner has fully as much right
to dictate to the newspaper, but should
he try 10 do so the newspaper would
tell him pretty quick to mind his own
business. The ground owner has taken
advantage of the law, as it has been
interpreted, to make whoever prospects
or works the ground do so on such
terms as he sees fit, to impose. The
newspaper might just as well tell the
workers to accept the inevitable and
get busy regardless of the chances of
deriving a benefit from their labor.
It is a case where individual interests
are in conflict, and the individuals will
act each according as he thinks best
for himself.
Indeed, the Citizen in another article
in the same issue remarks that l'if the
idle men who have been about town all
winter would get out on the creeks
and do a little prospecting it would
lake a very short time to uncover all
the paystreaks which are now lying
hidden in this district.” Thus, while
the "bog-it-alls” are chidden, idleness
is not condoned.
The Citizen quotes a man as saying
that less than thirty holes have been
bedrocked irt the entire Ruby district.
A month or two ago a statement was
seen to the effect that some three hun
dred creeks had been staked. The
area of ground “located” in the district
and held for chance profit through sale,
lease or other contrivance involving no
outlay of money or labor must be im
mense. The men who have thus bot
tled up a great region of possible pro
duction are not to blame. The process
is gone through in every locality
where a likely prospect of gold is
found. Just now in the Aniak district
the men who got in and did the staking
are—and are entitled to be—called lib
eral when they exact only one fourth
of the possible product from men whom
they permit to go on untested ground
and dig. This kind of thing has be
come so common that practically all
development of placer ground Is done
under that system; or else the ground
is prospected with a privilege of buy
ing it outright by paying the staker a
stipulated sum. It is a question of
como to terms with the staker or not
dig.
Stakers are not to blame. Their
operations are founded on the law as
interpreted. The workers are not to
blame for declining to dig holes when
to the hazard of such work is added a
penalty of 25 per cent, on whatever
their earnings may happen to be. The
newspapers themselves are responsi
ble, if there is any responsibility in
Alaska at all. While Alaska’s dele
date in congress was trying to have a
law passed to make it impossible for a
few men to stake unlimited areas ol
ground, a large proportion of the news
papers were doing all in their power
to thwart him. When such a law
passed the house and was sidetracked
by the senate, these same newspapers
gloated over its death. The prospect
ors wanted the law—even the hulchet
and-pencil prospectors. It was t he
newspapers that didn’t want it. They
wanted anything that would discredit,
tlie representative the prospectors had
honored with their confidence.
The Ruby Citizen is too young to be
responsible for the things it complains
of. Several other papers are guiltless
in the matter. But it will possibly
occur to the prospectors that even such
arc fudging a little when they attrib
ute hoggishness to people on one side
of a bad situation and laziness to those
on the other. With three hundred
creeks staked and less than thirty
holes down, with town and district full
of pencil-and-hatchet and piek-and
shovel prospectors and gray old winter
hiking over the divide toward a preca
rious spring, to lay the fault to indi
vidual demerit of the kind hinted at by
the Citizen would be to accredit Ruby
with an aggregation of hogs and lazy
bones awful to contemplate.
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MASONS ENTERTAIN.
] The Masons entertained their wives
| and daughters last Friday evening at
| their hall. A splendid program was
i rendered, as follows:
Address--Henry Roden.
Song—Miss Coolidge.
Recitation—Mrs. A. Larson.
| Song—Miss Kotch.
Closing Remarks—Dr. Spaulding, the
president.
Those present were: Mrs. Jaffe, Mrs.
McDonald, Mrs. T.arson, Mrs. Patton,
Mrs. McMahon, Mrs. Thorns, Miss
Kotch, Miss Coolidge, Miss Murray,
Miss Roberts.
SURPRISE PARTY.
A surprise party was tendered George
Friend last Saturday evening, and it
was a great success in all respects.
About thirty ladies and gentlemen were
present, and after Mr. Friend “came
to” the guests were entertained with
songs, recitations, games, etc. A splen
did lunch and all kinds of liquors were
served, and it was early Sunday morn
ing when the happy crowd left. Those
present: Mr ur.d Mrs Charles Strand
berg, Mr and Mrs Dave Strundberg,
Mr and Mrs Ives,“Mr and Mrs Duncan
Michie, Mr and Mrs McKay, Mr and
Mrs Jackson, Mr and Mrs Brewis, Mr
and Mrs Larson, Miss Coolidge, Miss
Ketch, Mrs Patzel, Mrs Williams, Mrs
Thorns, Messrs Pierce, Peck, Mading,
Hotz, Vogler.
BRIEFS.
A letter from Sam Godfried to P.
Pierce states that he has sunk three
holes in the Aniak but found no pay.
Less than a month will tell the story,
thinks Sam.
Dr. Herms, Mr. Boas. Mr. Pass and
Mr. Artel! were seen on the streets
during the week.
George Phillips, a prominent oper
ator from Willow creek, is in town for
a few days. He and his partner Kells
are taking out a dump and expect to
make the big cleanup as soon as water
flows. About a dozen men are working
on Willow this winter and all doing
well.
Martin Josephson returned from the
Aniak a few days ago.
Dr. S. Hail Young preached to a
crowded house last Sunday evening.
Mrs. C. T. Suter and Mrs. F. E. Sny
der visited Mrs. Arthur Shoenbeck at
Discovery for a few days this week.
Henry Roden, the well-known attor
ney, spent the week at Flat City and
on the creek. He talks of moving over
here for a few months.
Mrs. Cyril Wood and Mrs. Henry
Weir, of Iditarod, in care of Ben Brom
berg, spent a few hours in Flat City
during the week.
J. H. Christy left for the Aniak the
ear'y part of the week.
Mr. and Mrs. Swartz, of Discovery,
made a trip to Iditarod during the
week.
Mr. and 'Mrs. Arthur Field, from
Discovery, was in town last Saturday.
The people at Discovery are having
a j°lly good time this winter. Card
parties and entertainments of all kinds
are of daily occurrence.
When Mr^.-Albright’s favorite pup
was killed a few days ago Discovery
put on mourning.
Quite a few men are taking a look at
the Aniak country. Five dog teams
left for there last Sunday morning—
Joe Jerman and S. Kiikowitch, Mc
Donald and Cruikshunk, Sam Adams
and b rank Chew.
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ADVICE TO THOSE WHO ARE
CONTEMPLATING MATRIMONY
Charlottesville, Vu.—Girls contem
plating matrimony will do well to
write to Joint Armstrong Chaiober,
i who recently discovered a lest for per
j sonal magnetism, liy making the test
in time, according’ to Mr. Chaloner,
many unhappy marriages might be
avoided. Mr. Chaloner himself was
divorced by the PrincessTroubietskoy,
nee Amelia Rives, on the ground of in
com pat ability of temperament.
“Through the test,” Mr. Chaloner
say, “a young woman might discover
that her suitor was of a cold-blooded
; phlegmatic temperament and disposi
! iion at heart, though by practice lie
I had been able to enact the passionate.
I My little mysterious X-force, if applied,
; would show him up.
“Ratings in magnetic power will be
j put forward by all the matrimonial
agencies when endorsing the charm of
any male or female clients. For ex
ample: Attractive blonde, not peroxide,
weight 125 pounds; height 5 feet 5
inches, piquant features, retrousse
nose, svelte figure, kindly domestic
disposition, modified magnetic power,
98 per cent.
.Mr. Chaloner told of his discovery
in testifying to his suit to have him
self declared sane in the state of New
York. He showed that the test can be
simply made. All one has to do is to
take a silk necktie—floss silk was the
kind ha used—and place it against a
cloth curtain. The curtain employed
in the court demoustration by him was
of the kind commonly called rep. Tak
ing the necktie by one end lie pressed
it against tlie curtain: the tie being
held perpendicular to the floor. The
four fingers are together and the
thumb, pointing downward, also presses
against the scarf. If one is “mag- ■
netie,” after a few minutes the fingers !
being removed, the tie will remain ■
hanging as though pinned or mucilaged. I
If not magnetic, the tie will fall to the I
fieor, and the experimenter be shown u j
heartless, cold-blooded wretch who
could not possibly love his wife with
the fervor of a “best seller” hero.
“Not only,” says Mr Chaloner, “can
the ladies And out whether a certain
man is ‘magnetic,’ but contests in
magnetism can be instituted between
members of the opposite sexes. The
frequently deadly boresome after-din
ner period may be greatly enlivened in
this way.”_
U. OF W. MAIDENS LEAD
IN PHYSICAL PERFECTION
The girls of the University of
Washington are the most perfect
college women, from a physical
standpoint, in the United States.
Statistics compiled by the uni
versity’s department of physical
training, which have just been
made public, place her in the lead
with perfect grades for health and
grace of body.
Here are the measurements of an
average Washington co ed, aged
192 years: Weight, 121 pounds;
height, 5 feet 1 inches; breadth of
shoulderp. 14 inches; breadth of
chest. 10.4 inches; breadt of waist,
8.2 inches; breadth of hips, 11 3
incites; cepth of chest from front to
back 6 9 inches; depth of abdomen,
5 5 inches, girth of chest, 37 6
inches, gi: th of waist, 24 3 inches.
Dr. Heinrich Wortmann,
Office at City Drug Store, Tel. iC
First Are.. Bel. Willow and Richmond
Office Hours- - j: to 1, 3 to 4. 7 to S
CHAS. D. CARTER,
Dentist
Offices, Pioneer Drug Stores.
Flat Creek
DR. F. W. HE RMS,
Dentist
Dr. Wortmann's Office,
First Avenue and Willow Street
DR. H. BEHLA,
Dentist
Gold St., Flat City, Opp. Grand Flute:
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ALFRED E. MALT BY,
Attorney at Law
Notary Public
Office Simpson Bklg. First and \Vill* .
J. S. HARDING,
Attorney at Law
Room 1, Iditarod Hotel
Iditarod. Alaska
CHAS. E. TAYLOR,
Attorney at Low,
Notary Public, Ponveyancinfr,
Richmond St., Iditarod
Wickersham & Roden,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Iditarod, Alaska
E. COKE HILL,
Attorney at Law
M. & M. Bank Bldg, Iditarod. Alaska
GEORGE WOODRUFF ALBRECHT.
Attorney at Law
Michigan, ’8) Alaska, '10 Kentucky, '9!
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BORISA RAKOCEVICHE
GETS LONG SENTENCE
Borisa M. Rakoceviche has been
sentenced by Judge Overfield to 25
yeats in the penitentiary on Mc
Neil’s island, for the murder of
Fred Sellers, on June 14, 1911. In
passing sentence the court appealed
to the citizens of Fairbanks to aid
the officials in every way possible
to suppress gambling.
Rakoceviche, through his attor
ney, John A. Clark, changed bis
plea of ‘‘not guilty” to one of
guilty of murder in the second
degree.
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