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Yol. 9 No. 14
EIGHT-HOUR LAW INOP
ERATIVE
From meagre reports received
in this camp it appears that the
eight-hour law enacted by the
last Territorial legislature in re
sponse to the almost unanimous
demand on the part of the elec
tors at the 1916 election has been
suspended by those having au
thority to do so, and has also
been declared unconstitutional by
the District court of the Fourth
.Judicial Division of Alaska.
The law, as enacted, was a
clumsy affair: evidently the hand
iwork of an amateur law-builder,
and its only virtue (aside from its
good intentions) was its brevity.
And even at that it proved to be
too lengthy. It was Sec. 3,
or the “suspension” clause of the
law, that sounded its death knell
as soon it was passed by the Ter
ritorial legislators. Once its sus
pension was effected for the ben
efit of the Coast fisheries, to
make it inoperative in all lines of
industry throughout the Terri
tory was but a matter of a few
days, and some “reasonable
pleadings’’ by astute attorneys
into the willing ears of a discred
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same at 25c and 50c per roll
(all double rolls). Come and
make your selections before
the stock is “picked over.”
Geo. W. Adams, Iditarod
iled governor who was awaiting
an opportunity to “catch even"’
with the party that made a place
for him in the political sun.
The Red Cross Society needs
funds ALL the time nowadays.
Join tho local Lincoln Red Cross
Club today. Don't delay.
GOOD CITIZENSHIP
(Bv “A Close Observer” in Ketchikan
1 ’rogressi ve- Mine r.)
Whenever a man declares himself to
be a good citizen look out for him. for
lie is only talking to forestall accusa
tion. Moreover, no GOOD citizen needs
declare himself, His acts and deeds
performed will stand out as conspicuous
evidence as to the character of his citi
zenship. The GOOD citizen needs no
accuser, nor need he fear investigation
should there be those who might sus
pect him.
The GOOD citizen does not parade
around the country holding secret con
ferences in which to preach kaiserism.
The GOOD citizen does not burn mid
night electricity to discuss pro-German
propaganda with the disloyal.
The GOOD citizen does not turn his
back upon the solicitor for Red Cross
funds witli which to make our boys
more comfortable at the front, nor does
he undertake to discourage the young
men from enlisting in their country’s
cause.
The GOOD citizen is always “Johnny
on-the-spot” when his country needs
him, and was never known to shirk a
public duty or fail to fcelp the country
which gives him shelter and succor.
It does not follow that because a man
holds citizenship papers he is a GOOD
citizen. These can be revoked. Unfor
tunately we have within our borders
many who possess such documents, but
who have yet to demonstrate not by
self-assertion, but by act or deed that
they are worthy of it. Printing offices
make citizenship papers, but it takes
God Almighty to qualify a man for
GOOD citizenship.
Ruined by Humor
Gov. Tom Corwin, of Ohio, grew
crochety in his old age and had an idea
that fate had not given him a square
deal. He laid it to humor, with which
his speeches sparkled—for no man was
brillianter. He saw many who were
his inferiors in ability advance to the
highest offices while he dropped back
to private life. Once when Col. Don
Piatt bad worked his audience into
good humor by a witty talk, Tom Cor
win called him aside and said feelingly!
“Don’t do it, my boy. It will cost
you your standing with the people if
you persist in that. In order to stand
well with the people, and be considered
by them fitted for the serious busiuess
of the high offices, you must be a sol
emn ass. It is so the world over, and
was so in all tunes. The earth is dotted
with monuments that have been erected
over the remains of solemn asses."
WHAT THE* 0. S. ASKS
Oue meatless meal each day.
One wheatless meal each day.
A wheatless Monday.
A meatless Tuesday each week.
A wheatless Wednesday.
A porkless Saturday each week.
(Meatless means without beef, mutton
or pork.)
(Wheatless means without bread,
cracker or cakes made of wheat flour
alone.)
Front Street, Flat City Formerly the Bagoy Premises
Flat City Hotel DOG KENNELS
_ Mrs. J. E. Gunning, Prop.Special Rates by the Week and Month
Open at AH Hours The Old Reliable Place
Discovery Cafe
HENRY DURAND, PROP.Front Street, Flat
Thp At-anrl GMS' ,c,y
| llU Cwl lMI Mrs. Geo. Mutchler, Prop.
Nicely Furnished Rooms Barn for Horses and Dogs Baths in Connection
Pioneer Sheet Metal Works
GENERAL HARDWARE
Stoves and Graniteware Gasoline, Goa! Oii, Etc.
The Only First-Class Doe; Harness in Alaska
DEMOCRATS
OF VALDEZ
FOR SULZER i
Valdez, April 1.—At a large
and enthusiastic meeting of the
Valdez Democratic Club last Sat
urday evening the organization
unanimously endorsed Hon. Chas.
A. Sulzer as the Democratic can
didate for delegate to congress,
and pledge him loyal and earnest
support in the primary and elec
tion. The club condemned the
action of William Maloney, the
Territorial mining inspector, as
a Democratic candidate on the
'ground that he (Maloney) was
i not acting in good faith, but was
1 working in the interests of Judge
Wickersharn, and will endeavor
to fraudulently vote electors
who were heretofore affiliated
with Wickersharn Republicans in
the Democratic primaries. Mr.
Maloney’s political backers and
campaign managers are well
known Wickersharn supporters,
notably Messrs. Aldrich and
Hubbard.
There was much enthusiasm at
tho meeting whenever Sulzer’s
name was mentioned. His record
in congress was reviewed, and
heartily approved.
C. J. Todd is the president of'
the Valdez Democratic Club, and |
Harry Nelson is the secretary. 1
_A.___ I
i ALASKA HOME-ROLE
MEASURE OUTLINED
_JL
Washington, Feb. 23.—There will be
several very important changes in the
Organic Law of Alaska should Delegate
Charles A. Sul/.et’s full Territorial
form of government bill become a law.
It will give the Territory full control
of its taxation problems and the ex
penditure of the money derived from
the taxes. It will permit the Territory
to legislate on the fisheries, the game,
the domestication of fur-bearing and
other wild animals. It will give the
Territory the power to assume full con
trol of the schools and roads of the
Territory. It will increase the mem
-
bership of the legislature, and thus
permit all sections of the Territory to
be represented therein in proportion to
the population, and it will make local
self government possible by permitting
establishment of counties whore they
are needed.
Alaska has nearly 000,000 square
miles, and different sections of it are
widely separated. That is an area al
most as great as that of the country
east of the Mississippi, and the distance
from Nome to Ketchikan is as great as
that from San Francisco to Pittsburg.
Local self-government is out of the
question when such a territory has but
one governing body—a body that must
occupy the combined relation to the
people of legislature and boards of
county commissioners or supervisors.
When one considers that in the States
it takes half dozen to a score of State
legislatures and from four to fire as <
many scores of county governments in
each State to provide the means for
popular expression of government over
an area as large as Alaska, one may
judge what a hopeless proposition is'
the effort to make a self-governing
Alaska out of all the Territory with
but a single governing body, and that
with members so few that wide
stretches of the Territory canuot be
represented.
The Sulzer bill also provides for an
increase of the power to utilize the
public credit for the purpose of public
improvement should it be desired to
use it; permits the organization of cor
porations in the Territory having their
principal places of business outside of
the Territory; allows the Territory to
tax privately owned railroads; gives
Alaska two more district judges and
another delegate to congress.
The election date is changed from
November to October and the date of
the meeting of the Legislature from
March to January. The October elec
tion date will make it possible to get
the returns from elections to the cap
ital before close of navigation, and
members of the Legislature would be
able to reach the capital without hav
ing to make a long trip over the ice
and snow. The earlier meeting of the
legislature would bring it at a time
that would not break into the busy
days of spring or summer.
While the bill would make it im
possible for the people of the Territory
to change the woman suffrage or the
prohibition laws without the intervon^
tion of Congress, there is no reason to
suspect that there will he any desire
for action on these matters by the
poople of the Territory. No State or
Territory that has adopted and tried
out woman suffrage lias ever willingly
discarded it, and Alaska will not. The
large majority for prohibition at elec
tion when tlio saloons of tho Territory
wero all running full blast would in
dicate that there will be no demand
for tho restoration of the liquor traffic
in the North.
Whether or not the measure will
pass this year is now questionable.
'J’hero is a disposition on the part of
Congress not to consider legislation
that has no relation to the war. How
ever it may be said that Chairman
W. C. Houston, of the House committee
on Territories is very strongly in favor
of a wider measure of home rule for
Alaska, and that i-.e is not by any
means convinced that the measure
might not be taken up at tho present
session of Congress. If it is taken up
earnestly there is no doubt but that it
will pass the House and become a law,
perhaps not without amendments but
with ail or most of its teeth intact.
Deligate Sulzer, in discussing the
measure, has said that lie has no pride
of authorship, and will be satisfied with
the passage and approval of a law that
will produce the desired results.
“HOOVERIZED” SHITS THE LATEST
The wholesale tailoring concerns
have agreed among themselves to
“Hooverize” materials for men’s cloth
ing this coming spring and summer
Suits will be Hapless, vestless, ploat
less, patchless, cuffless. Checks and
stripes will not be much in evidence,
and the tendency will be to discourage
undue roominess in all raiment. This
tendency obtains among the makers
of women’s garments also, as a woman
from New Bedford found, recently,
when trying to buy a dress in a Boston
department store. She tried on several
gowns, but tn none of them could she
raise her arms to the level of her
shoulders.
The saleswoman explained that
“they are not lifting their arms in
New York this season.”
‘‘But they are in New Bedford,” re
torted the woman from the erstwhile
whaling city, for she came of no servile
stock. “I won’t take it.”—Christian
Science Monitor.
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Tub and steam baths at all hours.
Suyder House, Flat.
Watch Repairing and
Jewelry Work to order
J. L. SALE, FLAT
Max Sitnel, after being delated here
a few days by stormy weather, started
for Tolstoi last Tuesday.
Professional
Michigan, 188 1 Kentucky, 189 1
Alaske, 1910
George Woodruff Albrecht
COUNSELOR AND LAWYER
IDITAROO, ALASKA
The Pioneer Attorney of fOltarod
CHAS. E. TAYLOR
Attorney at Law
BANK BLOCK
First Avenue Iditarod
PR. MOORE
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
J. WILSON REED, M.D.
Physician and Surgeon
Flat Hospital, Flat, Alaska
DR. H.BEHLA
Physician *«■>
Surgeon
Dentistry in Connection
RESIDENT PHYSR 'TAN
Behia Hospital
Flat, Alaska
Big Slocks of Fresh Sootis
Everything for the Miner and
Prospector
MAX S8MEL “
Stores at Cripple City and Mouth of Tolstoi
Fresh Bread for Sale Daily
Arcade Cafe
FLAT CITY
Open Dav and Night
FLAT CITY
RESTAURANT BAKERY
Front St., Opp. Flat City Hotel
Our Coffee Is Unsurpassed
All Kinds ot Pastries, Piis, Cakes and Bread
J. W. Farrell,
The Gnly Issue: “Hooverize”
Discovery, Otter
Miners & Merchants Bank
IDITAROD, ALASKA
Capital, $50,000.00
General Banking Business Transacted Bold Dust Bought and Assayed
Drafts Issued on Any Part of the World
SEATTLE CORRESPONDENT. SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN BANK
TERRITORIAL DEPOSITARY
OFFICERS:
CHARLES ROSS, President
CLAUDE BAKER, Vice-President
R. C. BUTTON, Cashier
FINNEGAN & CAMERON
Agency for Edison Diamond Disc Phonographs and Records
TOBACCO CIGARS STATION ER*Y
CONFECTIONERY AND BILLIARDS
C. R. Cameron F- Finnegan
FLAT CITY
THOS. McMAHON
DEALER IN
General Merchandise
FLAT, ALASKA