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FRIDAY, FKimrAKY 13, 19M.
JAPANESE AND IMMIGRATION.
The overwhelming defeat in the
House of congress, says an exchange,
of the amendment to the pending im
migration bill which would bar Japan
ese immigrants constitutes an cm
phatic rebuke to the attempt of Cal
ifornia to make a state policy a na
tional pronouncement on the ques
tion of citizenship and alien owner
ship of land. It leaves, however, in
an unsettled condition the question of
the rights of Japanese emigrants to
the United States, a question that re
quires more than interchange of ami
able diplomatic notes for its settle
ment.
There can be no doubt that the
United States desires to maintain
friendly relations with Japan, but it.
is reasonably certain that President
Wilson and the congress will in no
manner interfere with the unques- '
tionable right of the state of Cali j
fornia to control her own land titles,
over which the controversy with Ja
pan has arisen. In the tirst place,
the Constitution of the United States
does not delegate to the national gov
ernment any control whatever over
the lands owned by the several states,
and in order that there might be no
misunderstanding about the limita
tions placed upon the power of the
congress and the national executive,
the Tenth Amendment to the Consti
tution, declared in force after a rati
fication by the several states in 1791,
specifically stales: “The powers not I
delegated to the United States by the 1
Constitution, nor prohibited by it to
the states, are reserved to the states
respectively, or to the people.” The
reserved rights of the several states,
generally designed as “States' rights,"
is one of the fundamental tenets of
the Democratic party, now in power,
and it w«s the partisan controversy
over this question, as much perhaps
as the question of slavery itself, which
led to the Civil War of liftv years ago.
It is therefore certain that the pres
ent administration would not seek to
coerce the stale of California with re
spect of her land tenures, even if the
Japanese contention were tenable.
But it is not at all tenable. An
American citizen is noi privileged to
own land in Japan, and in seeking the
right of her subjects to acquire title
to land in the United States, Japan j
is demanding from another what she!
herself does not grant. The only pre- j
text for her demand is that in her j
treaty with the United tSales, her]
subjects are granted the same rights j
as those of the most favored nation,
a term which should be expunged
from treaties, because of its liability!
to misinterpretation, as in this in
stance. The “most favored nation”
clause does nol mean that the United
States government is going to usurp
any of the right^ of a state for the ^
benefit of anyqije;..
The apparent -conflict between
treaty obligations and state laws is;
one which . must eventually be de- \
termined by the 'United States Sit-j
preme Court. Attempts to deal with !
the measure in an immigration i)ill j
can only result in further befogging ]
and complicating it.
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$4,500,000 Land Deal On.
DENVER, Col.. Feb. 13. -Samuel D.
Nicholson, of Denver, representative
of the Guggenheim Exploration Com
pany, is in New York in an effort to
dose negotiations for the purchase
of virtually all of the Rico mining
district in Dorlores County, Colorado.
The transaction, which it is expected
here will be closed in a few days, in
volves an outlay of $4,500,000.
“Presumably to furnish ore for the
American Smelting and Refining
Company,’’ is stated as thes reason
for the pending purchase. The smelt
ing company is in Rico at present and
lias been for- years getting its share
of the copper, gold and silver and
iron-silver ores of the camp.
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LENGTHEN LIFE IS OBIECT
OfSOGIETY HEADED BY TAFT
Will Teach Hygiene and the Colonel Gorgas of Panama
Prevention of Disease. Fame Chief Consultant.
National In Scope. $1,000,000 For Work.
WITH former President Taft as
chairman of its board of di
rectors and Colonel William
C. Gorgas of the- Panama ca
nal commission as consultant in sani
tation and hygiene, a “life extension in
stitute” has just been incorporated in
New York.
It is a unique corporation—the busi
ness basis of a philanthropy, its ex
press purpose being to lengthen human
life by applying modern science. It
will perform this service both for life
insurance companies and for the gen
eral public by examining periodically
the physical condition of policy holders
and other individuals and by dissemi
nating life saving knowledge.
No Lack of Funds.
While essentially philanthropic, the
i.ife Extension institute, unlike some
other agencies to promote health and
longevity, will be placed on a self sup
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WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT.
porting basis from the very beginning
it’ the ideas of its founders are carried
out. On its board of directors are a
number of men with large means at
their command, and the new health
promoting agency is heavily backed
with capital, it is intimated in well
informed quarters that $1,000,000 will
lie at the disposal of the founders,
though it is not believed that anything
like that amount will be required to I
start the work.
The directors of the new institute are
William Howard Taft, who since Ids
experience with tropical hygiene in the
Philippines and Panama has been an
enthusiast on the possibilities of mod
cm scientific hygiene; Harold A. Ley.
the originator of the plan; Professor
Irving Fisher of Yale. E. E; Uitteu
house of New York. Robert W. De
Forest, president of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. New York, and trus
tee of Russell Sage foundation; Frank
A. Vanderlip, president of the National
City bunk of New York; Charles H.
Sabin, vice president of the Guaranty
Trust company of New York; Dr. E. R.
L. Gould, president City and Suburban
Lands company; Francis R Cooley,
banker, of Hartford. Conn., and Henry
H. Bowman, banker, of Springfield.
Mass. ""
The president of the institute will in'
E.' E. Itittenhouse, now conservation
commissioner of, the Equitable Life
Assurance society, who was the first
insurance executive to give policy lip.ld
el's free • health examinations to, pro
mote longevity. The treasurer will be
Harold A- Ley and the secretary' jftmek
D Lennnban.
Dr. Eugen'd Lyman Elsk. a-‘ well
known writer and worker In hygiene,
who hns had much experience In this
kind of work, will be medical director
•‘Broadly speaking,” said President
Itittenhouse. ‘‘the aim of the Life Ex
(fusion institute will be to bring about
n closer relation between as large a
portion of the public as we can reach
ami their medical advisers and to
spread abroad knowledge to promote
health and prevent disease which will
tie l lie fruit of research by the best
medical minds in the world.
"In the promotion of health and Ion
gevity there are two distinct fields.
One is treatment. That is filled by
tile physicians, and the institute will
in no wise encroach upon it. The other
is prophylaxis. This is our field, and
we intend to bring to our work in that
field the ripened fruits of scientific dis
covery and experience for the protec
tion and preservation of health and the
prevention of disease."
Board of Health Experts. ;
The institute lias a ••hygienic refer
ence hoard" of almost a hundred lead
ing experts on various subjects per
taining to health. The purpose of this
board is to help to determine the truth
on hygienic questions referred to it.
The chairman of the board is Profes
sor Irving Fisher of Yale, who was
among the first to interest life in
surance companies in the possibilities
of lengthening human life. The board
also includes Dr. I,ce K. Frnnkel.
head of the extensive social service
of tile Metropolitan; Dr. Burnside Fos
ter, who was the first to advocate free
medical examinations for policy hold
ers: Walter II. Page, United States
ambassador to England, who has been
especially active in the movement to
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exterminate the hookworm disease;
Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor
of the telephone and a deep student
of eugenics: Dr. C. I!. Davenport of
the eugenics record office. Dr. George
11. Simmons, secretary of the A inert
can Medical association: Dr. William
J. Mayo, the celebrated surgeon: Dr
William 11 Welch of Johns llopklns
university. Professor Bussell H. Chit
tendon, director of the Yale Sheffield
Sciontitie school: President David
Starr Jordan of the Carnegie Pence
foundation; Miss Mabel Boardman of
the Red Cross. Dr. Wlckltffe Rose of
the Rockefeller bookworm commission.
Dr Harvey W. Wiley of pure food
fame. Dr. William H. Tolman of the
American .Museum of Safety and some
seventy others, mostly technical ex
ports in scientific hygiene.
The idea of forming the institute
originated witti Harold A Ley, a busi
ness man of Springfield. Mass. The
purposes and field of the institution
were recently discussed at a dinner in
New York city, attended by the presi
dents of the live largest life Insurance
companies Among the s|H-akers on
this occasion were former President
Taft mill Colonel Gorgas
How the Scheme Operates.
Following this mooting, one of the
largest insurance companies represent
ed made an agreement with the in
stitute for periodical health examina
tion of its policy holders Tlds is the
lirst of the large companies to adopt
this plan
The method to lie used to prolong
life is very simple and the same as
applied to ordinary machinery—inspec
tion'and repairs. Any person, whether
as a policy holder In a company which
employs the institute oK'as an outside
individual, may have'an expert ex
amination made of his physical con
dition. If he is entitled to the ex
amiiuition as a. iioliey holder he has
It without post to himself
After the human machine, tins been
inspected the individual will he ad
vised to see iVis family physician, who
will lie fiifnishcil a full statement of
the rl'siilts df the examination—high
tiiood ' pressmv or whatever the dls.
ability 010. disabilities may be: Dr
Fisk on the basis of his experience in
this work Is convinced that the simple,
early discovery of slight "Impair
ments.” which would Induce the Im
paired man to consult blj doctor be
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In the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
In the Matter el' the Annexation of
Certain Territory to the Incorpor
ated Town of Valdez. Order Set
ting Time for Hearing Petition and
Giving Notice.
A petition having been this day
presented to the court for the pur
pose of instituting the proceedings
required by law for the annexation
of territory to an incorporated town,
said petition praying for the annex
ation of certain described territory to
tile incorporated town of Valdez, in
the Territory of Alaska. Third divis
ion: and it appearing to the court
that said petition is signed by forty
eight qualified electors of said incor
porated town, the same being more
than one-tifih of tin; number of votes
cast at the last municipal election in
said town, and by live actual resi
dents and owners of substantial prop
erty interests in land in the territory
proposed to be annexed and verified
try two of the signers of said peti
tion: said petition setting forth the
boundaries of the territory so pro
posed to be annexed to said town, an
having attached thereto a plat based
upon an actual survey by a compe
tent surveyor, setting forth the lim
its and boundaries thereof by metes
and bounds, and stating the number |
of inhabitants therein:
Therefore, i appearing to the court
that said petition is in the form re
quired by law; it is ordered that said
petition be heard and considered by
the court on ‘.he 18th day of Febru
ary, 1914, at 10 o’clock a. m. of said
day, at the court room of this court
in Valdez, Alaska, if said day be a day
of jurisdiction in said court, or if the
same be not a day of jurisdiction,
then said hearing shall be held on the
first day of jurisdiction thereafter. It
is further ordered that notice of such
hearing be given by posting printed
or typewritten copies of this order
in three conspicuoous places within
the limits of said incorporated town
of Valdez, and by posting such cop
ies in three conspicuous places with
in ihe limits of the territory so pro
posed to be annexed to arid included
within the limits of said incorporated
town, and by publishing a copy of
this order once a week in the Valdez
Prospector, a newspaper of general
circulation published nearest to said
incorporated town.
Done in open court at Valdez,
Alaska, this 7th day of January, 1914
FRED. M. DROWN. Judge.
First publication January 10, 1914.
East publication February 14, 191;.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
In i lie United States Commissioner's
Court, ex-officio Judge in Probate,
Valdez precinct, Third Judicial Di
vision, Territory of Alaska.
In the matter of the estate of Rob
ert Martin, deceased. Notice to erect
itors.
Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned, administrator of the estate
of Robert Martin, deceased, to the
creditors of, and all persons having
claims against the said estate, to ex
Dibit them with the necessary vouch
ers, within six (6) months after the
first publication of this notice, to the
said administrator at the office of C.
E. Bunnell, at Valdez, Alaska, the
same being the place for the trans
tion of the business of said estate.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this. 13th
day of January, 1914.
W! H. CASWELL,
Administrator of the estate of Robert
Martin, deceased.
Date of first publication Jan. 14.
Date of last publication Peb. 17.
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Meet every Tuesday evening at S oVIikkIl
Liable Mull. All members are re*ijested it;
attend. T.C.QriXN, Arctic ('hie!
S. AK'MKCK. Secretary
Local Valdez
SOCIALIST PARTY
Meets Thursdays at
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the local quarters back of
Ingram & Bush’s Cigar Store
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Notice of Marshal's Sale.
United States of America. Third Di
vision, Territory of Alaska, ss.
Public notice 's hereby given, that
by virtue of a writ of execution, dated
January 9th, A. D. 1914, issued out
of the District Court, for the Third
division, Territory of Alaska, on a
judgment rendered in said Cour., on
the 5th day of January, A. D. 1914,
in favor of the United States of
America, and against James Fish, ad
ministrator of the estate of Louis Ca
m'cia, deceased, Angus Chisholm,
Frank Gustafson. Max J. SchnPdt and
Jennie Raymond, I have, on this 9th
day of January, A. D. 1914, levied
upon the following described real es
tate, situated ill the town of V Idez,
Territory of Alaska, to-wit:
Lot nine (9) in Block B; lot three
(:!) in Block two (2); lot four (4)
in block twenty-four (24), of the
Valdez Townsite, according to the
official plat f said townsite on tile
in the office of the recorder for said
precinct, and ihat I will, according
ly, offer said real estate for sale, at
public vendue to the h'ghest and best
bidder, for cash, on the third day of
March, A. D. 1914, at two o’clock p.
m., at the front door of the Court
House, Valdez, Alaska.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, January
9 1914
F. R. BRENNEMAN.
IT. S. Marshal, Third Division, Ter
ritory of Alaska.
Fjrst publication January It*. 1914.
I^ast publication February 21, 1914.
Hospital of the Good Samaritan.
For $fi.u(i we will give you a ticket
entitling you to hospital service and
care for any eight weeks out of the
year from date of your ticket, when
incapacitated by injury or sickness.
See W. H. Ziegler.
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Sundays and holidays 9 to 10 a. m
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IWashington/. D. C.
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