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EOF (iOYEHXOR, OF ALASKA
J. F. A. Stroxo
THE NEW MINING LAW
'I he Fairbanks News-Miner recently printed an editorial!
in which it attacked the new mining law. The article took j
the form oi'questions supposed to have been submitted to I
the editor by an alleged miner, and the replies thereto by j
the editor: hut being fairly well acquainted with the brii-j
liant editor's inventive genius and facile pen, we are in-1
clinch to believe that the miner aforesaid was but a figment
of the imagination, and that both questions and answers!
originated in the editorial sanctum. However, here are the
questions and answers referred to:
O. Does his new milling law call for more development to bold a
piece of ground? A. Xo.
O. Will it prohibit wealthy men from hiring 50 men at so much
per day to use their rights and the power of attorney of two other men
each, to stake 300 40.acre claims? A. Xo
O. The g; end can th-n he held to the detriment of the bona fide
p: spector lor a year and a fraction of a year, with only a sui f. pro',
pect, can it not? A. Yes.
Taking the first question, let us examine the new law.
and see what it lias to say on the subject of development. |
The first clause says " . . until a patent has been ismted
. . . not less than one hundred dollars worth of labor shall!
be performed or improvements made during each year, in
cluding the \ ar of location, for EACH AND EVERY 20
ACRES OR'EXCESS FRACTION THEREOF.” Under
the old law the same amount of assessment work was suffi
cient to hold 160 acres, or eight claims.
1 lie second query is more likely to contuse, but here. |
again, the law i- piite plain. In sections 2 and 3 it is ex-!
pressly stipulated that no person, whether acting for him
self or under power of attorney, may locate more than two j
placer claims of 20 acres each in any one mouth; nor can
any pers >n procure the location of more than two claims for
himmelf in the -ame period. As for wealthy men hiring 50
others to stake i n- them the suggestion is preposterous. Is
it likely that men are going to stake for others in return for
a few days pay when they could stake for themselves ( To
suggest that they would do so i to give the Alaskan miner
credit for very 1 i' tie sense indeed. He would be a fool to i
throw away his opportunities in that way. But there are
also financial reasons why -rich a practice will find little
favor. Sending 50 men out for say three days would cost
$1,500 in wages t > say nothing of re ;ordin.g and other fe; s,
and that for the mere locating of unproved ground, upon
which heavy .t* -sment work would have to 1> > performed.
lliese iii men <ou!.l only locate luO claims and a> section 3
prohibits am person from procuring more than 10 acres in
any one month, there would have to be 50 principals in any
case—a condition vastly different from that which obtained,
under the old law.
j he third question is answered in much the same man
ner as the first two. The ground can not be held to tlie j
detriment of toe I -no tide pros pc tor. 1 eca use in most in
stances it will be the bona tide prospector who holds it. It
is the pencil miner who will lie eliminated; because if then
is one thing more than another which annoys the pencil
miner it i> the bugbear of assessment work. The new law
says- that dlUO worth of assessment work must he done on
each 20 acres every year, INCLUDING THE VEAR OF
LOCATION.
1 lie la la use of the act says that any location made .
<>r attempted to be made in violation of the new law is null
and void, and the whole area may be located by any quali-1
le d locator as i. no eu h prt vi< ns location had been made.
3liners will note this, and it will be to their own interest to!
see that the spirit of the law is not violated.
It is, of course, possible that minor questions of inter
pretation of the law have yet to be settled; but the miner is
entitled to construe the law according to the dictates of
common sense, and regardless of the quibbling® of shyster
lawyers and others, who, searching fora winter's grubstake,
may discover a mare’s nest.
DAUGHTER BORN TO LADY SECIES
London, August 21.—A daughter has
been born to Lady Decies, formerly
Miss Helen Vivien Gould. The birth
took place at the Deck s' family estate
in the west of Ireland. Mis. George .T. j
Gould is staying with her daughter.
Helen Vivien Gould married Lord j
Pecies February 7. Util, in New York.
Mrs Max .Shuei returned to Diskaket
last week.
) Beef, by the side,.$ .40
; Vea!, “ . .50
] Mutton, by the carcass.. .35
' s urkeys, per lb.40
; Halibut, 11 25
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iSSTAROD MEAT CO.
Se ;ond St. - Phone 15
S-Irst Class in e-act First Ave,, Iditarod
THE
Furnished Rooms, Bath Rooms, Spring Goto Good Stabies Adjacent
C, J, hurley, President J. P, Gleason, Vice President A. Bruning, Cashier
CAPITAL $50,900.00, FULLY PAID !:! CASH
General Banking Business Transacted
The Bdiiarod Branch of iho
American Bank of Alaska
Wili be Discontinued After Sept. BO, *952
_ €iir Hat City
Cssan Farnlslied llooois Fine Cafe in Gannsction
COGD STOCK CiGAHS AMD LiCUORS
Large Stables, Warm Dug Kennels Open Day and Night
'TTH/fa ff Ftfl J ?T?'{r Tfte FnTi0':'3|;J O'-aker i^id ftp j
il Ji.-j ^ W ’iPlJa &U *by.& * g' FLAT CITY
Draught Betr doi-iastis Cigars Good Basis Every Evening
FLAT CI7Y' *4tort4u‘,r!*‘
JBljEL £.r‘-M jL* FP.GNT STREET
G!:; i Spring Beds, 8niii, Cry Rooms, rtTEtt
ItliiililiEu 111
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The approach of the Presidential elec tion is giving rise to
much argument among our local politicians, who, although they
have no say in the matter, are as keenly interested in the result as’
any citizens on the Outside possibly could be. The following notes,
may aid in settling some knotty problems.
There are 4* states in the Union, as against 48 in 1908. The i
admission of Arizona, with three ele rtoral votes, and New Moxic .
with four, and the increased allotment Of representatives in Con
gress, based on the census of 1910, have ad led a total of 49 to the,
electoral college, which now ntimbers fid:?, against 4-S3 in 1908.
The additional votes are divided about, evenly between the two •
principal p: ties.
The mod noteworthy feature of the present political outlook is;
tiie large number of states whose electoral votes cannot be placed
for certain in either the Democratic a Republican columns.
Judging from state elections in and saw-' 1908 it is predicted
that at least lun electoral voles v\ J for the Republican
; sminee, and 170 for the Democratic nominee. This leaves 207 in
the doubtful column.
The following states are considered safely Democratic: Ari-!
zona, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri. Arkansas, Louisiana, Missis-:
sippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida. South Carolina, North Carolina, j
Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia. The Republican states are:
Washington, California, Utah. Wyoming, South Dakota, Minne
sola, Iowa. Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Rhode1
Island, Vermont and New Hampshire. The doubtful stales are:
New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Colo
rado, Kansas, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland,
X v. V<:t R, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Maine.
Maine, an old Republican bulwark, is considered doubtful for
the tirst time in its history.
Maryland has shift- d from one party to the other for the last I
12 elections.
Mas--; ■ ts is v lass d ns linen i tain f< r the first time in its
history. It gave Tuft a plurality of 110.423 at the last Presi
thi election, but in 1911 elected Eugene N. Foss, Democrat, to the
governorship by 8,000.
Nevada gave Bryan a plurality of 457 in 1903, but in 1910
elected a Republican for governor.
New Jersey, once Certain Republican, is now doubtful for sev \
eral reasons. Wood row Wilson, D mccrat, was elected governor '•
in 1910, with a plurality of 49.05G, but there is a strong Roosevelt
sentiment in the state. In 1898 Taft carried the state with a plu-j
raiity of 82,776.
New Mexico is doubtful. It elected a Democratic governor,
but both houses of the legislature are Republican.
New lork is claimed by both parties. It has gone Republican
since 1896, and elected Taft with a plurality of 202,602 :n 1908.
Cut in 1910 Gov. Dix, Democrat, was elected by 67,401.
North Dakota has a Democratic governor and a Republican
legislature.
Ohio was counted safely Republican in all elections down to
1905. Since then it has changed frequently. It now has a Demo
crat for governor, and a Democratic legislature.
Oregon gave Taft a plurality, but elected Gov. West, Demo
crat, in 1910 with over 6,000.
West Virginia has always gone Republican, but in 1910 four
Democrats were elected to congress, and only one Republican.
Wyoming is considered safely Republican, but it elected a
Democratic governor in 1910.
El Paso, August 21.—The rebel
leader General Orozco abandoned the
city of Juarez yesterday morning, and
is marching south, persuroably in the
direction of the City of Mexico. It is
understood that the rebel forces are
converging on the capital from ail
directions, but whether with the in
tention of attacking the city, or dis
cussing terms of surrender is not yet
known.
A demand had been made upon
General Orozco that he turn overall of
his property and money to pay the
rebel soldiers, who are getting unruly.
Gilbert Nairn, who left last Tuesday
for the Outside, will go straight to New
Mexico, where his folks resido, and
where he will make his future home.
Out in Montana they are making
bread from alfalfa flour, and atGreeley.
Colorado, the hotels are serving alfalfa
stew.
A woman at Muocie, Indiana, told
her husband she was going to plant
some beans. The husband showed his
displeasure by throwing a pound of
butter in his wife’s face. Divorced.
Marlin Madden, for many years a
labor leader of Chicago, died of
tuberculosis at Lake Villa, 111., July 22.
Rev. Elmer V. lluffner, of the Kirs!
Christian church of Grand Junction.
Col., delivered a sermon recently in
which lie said said that old maids were
“waste humanity,” and should be sent
to a barren island.
Judge Tazewell, of Portland, Ore.
refused to interfere with the right of a
father to chastise his daughter, but
fined the man $10 for delivering in
strident tones his opinion of “busy,
bodies” because the woman next door
objected to the proceeding.
Rouseveltian logic: “A good man’s a
good man and a bad man’s a bad man.”
Eight Detroit aldermen have been
arrested for accepting bribes from
railroad oflicials.
John Cassa, of the United Stales
navy, lias been sentenced by a court
martial to one year's imprisonment for
refusing to allow himself to bo vaccin
ated. Cassa claims -to be a Christian
Scientist, and as such does not believe
in vaccination as a protection against
disease.
The iioi.se committee! which lias been
inve-tigating the labor system in vogue
in the plants of the United States Steel
Corporation, declares them to bo in
human and iniquitous.
The r-.-sidents of Heno. Nevada, have
been shocked to learn that the reset’
voir which contains the city's supply of
drinking water is daily used as a bath
ing pond by 500 foreign railroad
laborers.
The New York Times (Hern.) is
authority for the statement that odds
of 2 to 1 on Woodrow Wilson's election
to the Presidency are being offered by
members of the New York Stock
exchange.
—
TIGHTWAD TOWN
In Tightwad Town they're chasing
dollars, and when they catch a silver
bone, they pinch the eagle till it
hollers so load !iwould rend a heart
of stone. In Tightwad Town they
all have axes for any schemes to
make things move: ‘‘it would,'1
they say, “increase our taxes if we
the village should include.” In
Tightwad Town there is no knowl
edge of books, or authors, art or
song: they starve the church and
bust the college, anti boost the
mortgage works along. In Tight wad
Town man's estimated according to
the wealth he owns: he's most
revered and elevated who has the
tallest stack of bones. In Tightwad
Town they're only civil to strangers
who have brought their wads: in
Tightwad Town the souls will
shrive! pursuing milled and minted
gt'ds. In Tightwad Town there's
little laughter, there is no warmth
in hand or heari: men seldom smile
who follow after the idols of the
money mart. With streets unpaved
and sidewa’ks broken, and houses
old and tumbledown, the word of
hope is seldom spoken in Tightwad
i Town, in Tightwad Town!—Walt
I Mason.
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SOURCES OF DEMOCRATIC
FUNDS AT LAST ELEC MIN
Washington, .inly 20. —Herman Hid
den, treasurer of Lite Democratic ti - 1
tional committee in 1908, produced today i
for the inspection of the Senate com- ;
mit.tee investigating campaign expend-1
itures, official reports of the national J
committee's receipts and expenditures |
he had filed with tlie secretary of state
of New York in 1903.
J. ,T. Martin, private secretary to the
secretary of state, produced tlie reports
as official custodian of them. These
showed the total receipts were $029,
644.77,and the total expenditures $619,
310.06.
Mr. Ridder told the committee how
lie raised money for William J. Bryan’s
last Presidential tight.
“I was the largest contributor,” said
Mr. Ridder. “I gave $37,000. Mr.
Bryan made a rule that, no one should
contribute more than $10,030. So $10.
000 was subscribed in my name, and
each of my sons gave $S) 000.
“Did August Belmont contribute any
thing in 1908?” asked Chairman Clapp.
“No, he did not,” said Mr. Ridder.
Mr. Belmont had told the committee
recently that he had contributed about
$250,000 to the Democratic national
committee in 1904.
“Did Thomas F. Ryan contribute in 1
1908?" continued Senator Clapp.
“No, he did not.”
_
Gold dust melted into bricks of any !
size. W. Taylor, Flat City.
i
Qpp. Traction
Company Depot
Nicely Furnished Rooiitt FLAT C5TY Large Crying Room
ASMD BAKERY,
Foot of WillOw Street
Now Open for JUiSiness. CUISINE UNEXCELLED
[test oi Everything ill the Mariiet Served MEALS /5c AND UP
Although the Yukon Gold Co. have not y ' tak n tip the ground on
Otter which they had been piospeeling earlier in the season, that does
not deter them from reaching out for ground on o'ker creeks, and early
this week one of the drills on Flat creek was disrutntled and v. ill be
placed on Chicken, whe.e the company has secured options.
Regarding tlie Otter-creek proposition there have been many people
from tire very stall who doubt if the proposed deni will go through,
i'he leading operators and the owners have more limn once expressed
themselves satisfied with the results obtained from the ground, and
while the price asked is apparently high the oh nets do not consider
it to be unreasonable.
The smn asked for the properties on Otter creek is said to reach
$800,coo, and representatives of the Yukon O-Jd Company appear to
be satisfied that it is useless to offer an amount less than that at tire
present time.
lit the event of the negotiations coming to naught this season, it is
likely the parties will get together later on and arrive at a satisfactory
understanding, as was the case on Flat creek
Mean .virile Otter ctetk owners ate going ahead as if no such con
cern as the Yukon Gold Company was in the district, and are already
making preparations for next -iimiiier’s work.
MAJOR STRCK-J TALKS
ON BLiluCBATIC Ofii: i
Last Saturday we<*k. at A. 15. Hall,
Flat City. Major J- F. A. Strong ad-;
dressed a ropresr .native gathering of
creek residents oo the issues of theday.
Major Strong bits just returned from the
Outside, where he was a delegate to the 1
Democratic national convention at
Baltimore, and on that account his
address was listened to with particular
interest.
Major Strong drew a roseate picture;
of the prospects of the Democratic p irty
at, the forthcoming elections, assuring
La is hearers that not only would the i
house of representatives and the senate
both be overwhelmingly Democrat is.
but that Governor Woodrow Wilson,
wo u’d ha- elected to the Presidency
without the ques’lcn of a doubt.
Major Surrg believes that the su
premacy of lie D.• mocr.itio party in the j
councils of the n ition means the begin
ning of a new era for the people of the
United States, and the complete
restoration to the people of those rights,
privileges and immunities which are
guarantees! under the constitution.
The Democratic party today, says
Major Strong, i purged of the domi
nation of Wall street—of Ryan, Murphy
and Belmont, which had brought the 1
party into disrepute, and the days of
special privilege and spoliation of the
people, have p issed, and the power of
; he bosses has gone never to return.
Joseph A. Holmes, who was reported
lust week on his way to the Bering
river coalfield, to inspect the same for
ihe United States government, is the
director of the Bureau of .Mines, at
Washington, an 1 already made an
exhaustive examination of the Matausua
tiel. Is.
Dr. Heinrich Wortmann,
Offices: Iditarop and Flat »Try
Telephones tit each place
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Wiskcrshzin Roden
Idifiiro-fi Alaska
Gf-ORGE WOODRUFF AL3RECHT,
Attorney at Law
Michigan, '81 Alaska. *10 Kentucky. 91.
The Fioneer AUnrnev • i this Camp
Films Developed
And All Kinds of Photographic
Work Done.
MiSS TJERNSTROM, KsDOHALO HOTEL
ASAm IN BUSINESS AT THE OLD STAND
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FRONT ST. Manuel Gularie, Prep.
Homo t°hh Gedarbrook and Old Lewis Hunter Rye
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From a Stein <
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Miner’s Home_Saloonj
THE HOME OF THE “QUAKER Mf~ j
Foot of Willow St., Iditarocl