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HERBERT E. RILEY, PROP.
CHIEF OF FOREST SERVICE
ON TRIP OF INSPECTION
SEATTLE. July 21.—Bound north on an
inspection trip to the Alaska forest reserves
for the purpose of collecting data to sup
port the forestry department in its opposi
tion to the abolishment of any forest re
serves in Alaska. Henry S. Graves, chief of
the United States forest service, accom
panied by E. A. Sherman, assistant forester,
mailed last night on the City of Seattle for
Ketchikan. Mr. Graves will remain m the
North at least six weeks, and expects to go
over parts of the Chugach and Tongass re
serves. This is his first visit to Alaska.
While on this tour of inspection Mr. Graves
will also classify lands within the reserves
that are not timbered and these eventually
will be excluded from the reserves.
"I am making my first visit to the North,
said Mr. Graves. “I. of course, have a
wealth of information relative to the re
serves there, but 1 want to see the country
and get first-hand knowledge of such lands
as can rightfully be thrown out of the re
serve limits. \\ hile North I will also bi .y
myself in collecting data to combat any
such bill 11s that introduced last winter in
congress to abolish the Chugach reserve.
I am opposed to any movement to abolish
-any forest reserve in Alaska, and the Chu
gach particularly.
"These reserves must serve as iue **uuu
pil. - of Alaska, and even for this reason
: j ,!U. they must be preserved. A wrong im
i r. -sion has been created through the com
plaints of Alaskans over the fact that some
land not bearing timber has been included
within the reserves. It is time that this
matter was cleared up. When the Chugach
reserve was created the land was not any
too well surveyed. Hence, in order to list
boundaries that could be recognized without
any later dispute, it was necessary to take
natural lines such as the sea coast, a moun
tain range and meridians. In this way. in
order to get the forested regions, we had to
include some land not bearing timber, as,
for instance, that portion crossed by the
Yaldez-Fairbanks trail, which, to tell the
truth, is so barren of timber that it was
hard to find anything upon which to nail
the notices. Miners traveling over this trail
set up a howl that reached all over the
country, and all sorts of complaints were
issued about forest reserve that bore no
timber. Now all such land will be taken
out of the reserves just as soon as we can
check up the boundaries of the real forest.
“There also have been stories to the effect
that it is impossible for Alaskans to use any
of the timber on these reserves. The sale
of timber from the Tongass and Chugach
reserves alone has more than paid the ex
penses of supervising these reserves.
"The timber is for the use of Alaskans,
and the development of the territory is to a
great extent dependent upon this timber.
Mining men can go into the reserves and
cut what timber they need and there never
will be a hand lifted to stop them. Legiti
mate demands for timber always will he
filled, as. for instance, the demand of the
Alaska railroad, which has authority to cut
all the timber needed. The navy also has
used considerable timber, and will use more
as necessity demands.
"I he vast interior regions oi Alaska, tor j
the most part hare of timber save in the !
river valleys, are absolutely dependent on j
these forest reserves. The timber must not '
be wasted, bur must be ready to be used. 1
hand in hand with the development of the
interior oarts of the country. As I said be
fore. lands valuable for agricultural purposes
and not bearing timber will be eliminated
from the reserves as fast as we can defi
nitely determine their boundaries. There is
a big construction problem in Alaska, and
all hands must work together to solve it.”
Mr. Graves and Mr. Sherman will be met
at Ketchikan by W. Weigle. Alaska forest
supervisor, and the tour of the reserves will
be mapped out.
“I am a stranger in Alaska and do not
know just where I wall start in,” said Mr.
Graves. “I w’ill go direct to Ketchikan,
and after a talk with Mr. Weigle I will
know more about the route to be followed.”
BROTHER AGAINST BROTHER
IN FIGHTING IN POLAND
(London Correspondence Associated Press)
The desperate fighting now going on
around Warsaw and throughout the eastern
zone of operations centers attention on the
colossal tragedy of Poland, the second that
unhappy country has endured, the first hav
ing stirred America to its depths when Kos
ciusko went there to tell Poland’s own
story and left its memories in the statue of
the Polish liberator in one of the public
squares of Washington.
But that first tragedy was as nothing
compared with what Poland is now under
going, the entire theater of eastern fighting
being within the territory of the old king
dom of Poland, with Russian armies tramp
ing over the north and west, all compress
ing Poland as in a double vice from four
sides, marching and fighting on a scale of
unprecedented magnitude, and leaving a
train of wreck and desolation even greater
than that of Belgium and Serbia. This is
the testimony of disinterested eye-witnesses,
Polish, English and American, who have
recently traversed the stricken regions, in
cluding C. C. Gibson of the Rockefeller
Foundation, who declared on his return
that this was one of the greatest tragedies
the world had known, the devastation of
Belgium shrinking in comparison.
Such telegraphic news as trickles through
from Poland, except the official reports of
military operations from the three sides, is
censored and garbled and gives only the
picture of fighting, without that of the pros
trate country under the heels of the fight
ers pressing from four sides. But from eye
witnesses returning from Poland, from
student refugees from the scourged district,
and from letters to those who have sought
asylum here, there is a mass of information
on the real conditions at the scene of these
gigantic eastern operations. Much of this
information flows into the hands of Miss
Laurence Alma-Tadema, daughter of the
great English artist, who for three months
has been working day and night as the sec
retary and directing genius of the Polish
relief committee, whose officers and patrons
embrace about every name of note in Eng
land—peers, cabinet members, ambassadors,
artists and authors.
"Think ot the magnitude oi mis appamng
Polish tragedy,” said Miss Alma-Tadema to
a representative of the Associated Press.
"It is difficult for us in England or America,
with conditions serene, to cast the mind’s
eye across Europe and grasp the fact that
all the titanic eastern battles are being
fought on Polish soil. And it is not only a
gigantic struggle of invading armies from
without, one following another, with all
their train of ruin and desolation, but it par
takes almost of civil conflict, with Pole
fighting against Pole.
"There are," she went on, "about 12,000,
000 Russian Poles and about the same
number of Austrian and Prussian Poles. All
of them have that intense longing to see
Poland rise again as a unified kingdom. And
yet of these 24.000.000 Poles, 1,000.000
Polish soldiers are fighting in the Russian
ranks and another 1.000,000 are fighting in
the Austrian and German ranks literally
brother against brother. One of the reports
reaching me tells of a body of Polish in
fantry on the Russian side charging at a
body of the enemy, with bayonets raised
and the batt'e-cry ringing from both sides—
only to distinguish as they came to grips
that both were shouting the cry of Poland—
and on that instant, as if inspired by a
common impulse, every bayonet was lowered
and every man in the facing ranks fell on
his knees and in their common language
breathed the Lord’s prayer. That was Po
lnad’s prayer on the battlefield of this terri
ble eastern conflict.
"Here is another thoroughly authenticated
case,” said Miss Alma-Tadema: “A Polish
infantryman raised his rifle and fired point
blank at an advancing foe, only to see him
pitch forward and hear him cry out in
Polish : ‘Mv God. I leave a wife and three
children.’ And this agonizing dying cry
in Polish rang in the ears of the brother
Pole who had fired the shot, torturing him
night and day, until he literally went mad
and was taken from the ranks a raving
maniac.
It was natural that the Kussian roie
should cast his lot with Russia, and this
loyalty has been rewarded by the inspired
proclamation of Grand Duke Nicholas prom
ising freedom for Poland, a pledge which
every Russian Pole accepts in good faith
as foreshadowing the reunification of the
Polish nation. On the other hand, the
Galician Poles showed a perfectly natural
first movement of allegiance to Austria,
which has given them the right of their
own faith and language and some semblance
of freedom. This and the laws of compul
sory military service brought about a million
Poles into the Austro-German ranks to fight
against their brothers in the Russian ranks.
And yet in both Austria and Prussia the
overwhelming majority of the Poles are at
heart solidly with the kingdom of Poland.”
When Mr. Gibson of the Rockefeller Foun
dation returned from Poland he told Miss
Alma-Tadema of the terrible scenes he had
witnessed in the stricken regions. Together
they planned for extensive measures of re
lief. tq be sent through Germany, with the
approval of the British foreign office. Ger
many consented, but the officials here
doubted the good faith of Germany’s con
senting to allow large supplies of food to
pass across Germany to Poland. And so
the negotiations halted, and now another
plan is on foot to get supplies into Poland
by way of Switzerland, without passing
through German hands.
ANTIMONY IN NOME DISTRICT
The antimony rock which Hed and Strand
are showing, and of which they will export
a parcel of fifty tons, is possibly the purest
ore that it is possible to obtain in the native
state. Notwithstanding freight rates are
so high, the operation of the mine in spite
of the favorable demand would hardly be
profitable. It is stated that almost fifty
dollars a ton is demanded for freighting
the ore to Nome.—Industrial Worker,
July 29.
Assessment Work Blanks at Pioneer.
SOME EXCERPTS FROM
SPEECH OF ROOSEVELT
SO WIDELY DISCUSSED
On July 21, standing beneath the Tower
of Jewels at the Panama-Pacific Interna
tional Exposition, former President Roose
velt delivered an address on "War and
Peace.” This address has been widely quoted,
and added interest attaches to it now in
view of the fact that President Wilson is
said to have been converted to the idea of
providing adequate national defense. Mr.
Roosevelt said in part:
“Pm not for war; I want peace, but I
don’t want peace to Uncle Sam because out
siders don’t think him worth kicking.
“I have a very strong feeling about the
Panama exposition. It was my good fortune
to take the action in 1903, failure to take
which, in exactly the shape I took it, would
have meant that no Panama canal would
have been built for half a century, and
therefore that there would have been no
exposition to celebrate the building of the
canal. In everything we did in connection
with the acquiring of the Panama zone we
acted in a way to do absolute justice to all
other nations, to benefit all others nations,
including especially the adjacent states, and
to render the utmost service, from the stand
point alike of honor and of material interest
to the United States. I am glad that this
is the case, for if there were the slightest
taint upon our title or our conduct it would
have been an improper and shameful thing
to hold this exposition.
“The building of the canal nearly doubles
the potential efficiency of the United States
navy, as long as it is fortified and is in our
hands; but if left unfortified it would at
once become a menace to us.
“What is true as to our proper attitude
in regard to the canal is no less true as re
gards our proper attitude concerning the in
terests of the United States taken as a
whole. The canal is to be a great agency
for peace; it can be such only and exactly
in proportion as it increased our potential
efficiecy in war.
“Those men who. like myself, believe that
the highest duty of this nation is to prepare
itself against war, so that it may safely trust
its honor and interest to its own strength,
are advocating merely that we do as a na
tion regarding our general interests what we
have already done in Panama.
“If, instead of acting as this nation did in
the fall of 1903, we had confined ourselves
to debates in congress and diplomatic notes;
if. in other words, we had treated elocution
as a substitute for action, we would have
none nobody any good, and for ourselves we
would have earned the hearty derision of all
other nations—the canal would not even
have been begun at the present day; and
there would have been a general consensus
of international opinion to the effect that we
were totally unfit to perform any of the
duties of international life, especially in
connection with the Western hemisphere.
“Well-Nigh Criminally Remiss’
“Unfortunately, in the last few years we
have, as regards pretty much everything not
connected with the Isthmus of Panama, so
failed in our duty of national preparedness
that I fear there actually is a general con
sensus of opinion to precisely this effect
among the nations of the world as regards
the United States at the present day. This
is primarily due to our unpreparedness.
“We have been culpably, well-nigh crimi
nally remiss as a nation in not preparing
ourselves, and if. with the lessons taught
the world by the dreadful tragedies of the
last twelve months, we continue with soft
complacency to stand helpless and naked
before the world, we shall excite only con
tempt and derision when disaster ultimately
overwhelms us.
“Preparedness agaiast war does not in
variably avert war, any more than a tire
department in a city will invariably avert a
fire; and there are well-meaning, foolish peo
ple who point out this fact as offering an
excuse for unpreparedness. It should be just
as sensible if, after the Chicago tire, Chi
cago had announced that it would abolish
its hre department as for our people to
take the same view as regards military pre
paredness. Some years ago I was looking
over some very old newspapers contempo
raneous with the early establishment of a
paid fire department in this country, and to
my amusement I came across a letter which
argued against a paid fire department upon
the ground that the knowledge of its exist
ence would tend to make householders care
less, and therefore would encourage fires.
Examples of Unpreparedness
“Greece was not prepared for w'ar when
she went to war with Turkey a score of
years ago. But this fact did not stop the
war. It merely made the war unsuccessful
for Greece. China was not prepared for war
with Japan twenty-odd years ago, nor for
war with the ailies who marched to Peking
fifteen years ago.
“But the clearest teaching is conveyed
in the experience of China and of Belgium
during the last year. As regards Belgium
the comparison should be made between it
and Switzerland. The territory of Switzer
land, like the territory of Belgium, lay be
tween the great combatants. One offered
as advantageous a path of entry to those
combatants as the other. A century ago,
for instance, when Switzerland was utterly
unprepared for war, the Napoleonic armies
used it as a highway in marching against
the Austrians and South Germans. Abso
lutely the same fate would have been theirs
now save for the vital fact that in the cen
tury intervening the Swiss people, having
learned the lesson, had prepared in advance
and were thoroughly competent to defend
themselves. They had a first-class citizens
army of about one-tenth the size of their
whole population. This army was instantly
mobilized and thrown on the frontiers, and
in consequence Switzerland's territorial in
tegrity was respected.
“But Belgium, alas! had not learned me
lesson which Switzerland had learned. For
eighty years Belgium had been at peace and
had achieved an extraordinary measure of
industrial prosperity. Her people had done
fundamentally what ours have done. For
many years they declined to prepare to de
fend themselves at all. It was confidently
asserted that the days of great wars had
passed, and that anyhow Belgium was abso
lutely inoffensive, so that nobody would in
vade her, and that if her territory was
threatened with invasion the opinion of the
civilized world would be sufficient to prevent
the carrying out of the threat. And besides,
it was pointed out that there were treaties
absolutely guaranteeing Belgium against in
vasion. And furthermore, it was explained
that The Hague conventions—which we our
selves signed, but which we immediately
treated as ‘scraps of paper’ when the de
mand was made to show that our signature
meant something—made the whole world
guarantors of Belgian territorial integrity.
“Curiously enough, it was was the dis
tinctly workingmen’s nartv which finally
became the most considerable factor in in
sisting that a beginning should be made in
preparing for defense. The beginning was
made. But it was only a beginning, and
war overwhelmed poor Belgium before she
had more than barely entered on the path
that Switzerland had so wisely trod.
China’s Position
“China offers an even more perfect par
allel to the condition to which in practice
the doctrines of the ultra-pacifists would
lead us. Fifty years ago Japan and China
occupied substantially the same positions as
regards the world at large. Japan now
stands abreast of the leading civilized na
tions of the world, her progress having been
on the whole more remarkable than that
of any other nation known to history. This
is not merely due to her development of
fighting efficiency, for the history of Turney
has shown that mere fighting efficiency by
itself will not save a nation from ruin. But
it is no less true that without fighting effi
ciency all other national efficiency amounts
to is a house built on the sand. Japan’s
progress would have been absolutely im
possible if it had not induced progress in
fighting efficiency exactly as in industrial
and social efficiency.
China, on the other hand, nan tor gen
erations been trained to regard peace as the
most desirable of all aims, and to look down
upon war and soldiers. She has acted on
the theory that the worst neace was better
than the best war. and therefore she has
suffered all the evils of the worst war and
the worst peace. The average Chinaman
took the view that China was too proud to
fight, and in practice made evident his
hearty approval of the sentiments of that
abject pacificist song. ‘I Didn’t Raise Mv
Boy to Be a Soldier.’ a song which should
have as a companion piece one entitled 'I
Didn’t Raise Mv Girl to Be a Mother.’ ap
proval of which, of course, deorives anv
men or women of all right of kinshin with
the soldiers and with the mothers and wives
of the soldiers whose valor and services we
commemorate on the Fourth of July and on
Decoration dav; a’song'the singing of which
seprps incredible to every man and woman
csnable of being stirred to loftv and gener
nus enthusiasm by the tremendous surge of
Julia Ward Howe’s ‘Battle Hvmn of the
Republic.’ China has steadfastl" refused to
prepare for war. Accordingly China has had
province after province looped off her, until
one-half of her torrttgrv is now under Jan
anese. Russian. English and French control.
Peace at Any Price Decried
“The professional pacificists, the peace-at
any-price, non-resistance, universal arbitra
tion people, are now seeking to Chinafy this
country. While the best people in China
are painfully endeavoring to raise the new
China to a position of international aspect
and of national self-respect, well-meaning
people here are doing their best to reduce
this country to the level of impotence to
which the old China has sunk—to which
she has sunk primarily because for genera
tions the moral fiber of the Chinese people
has been closely eaten into by the doctrines
of the professional pacificists, so that she
has shown herself incapable during the last
thirty years of preparing herself against war
and for self-defense.
“Probably the worst feature of our na
tional life is the habit of using words with
no relation to facts, of making promises
which are not to be kept, as 1 have said
above, of treating elocution as an adequate
substitution for action. This habit has
worked particular damage to us in interna
tional relations, and most of all in connec
tion with the arbitration treaties, peace con
ventions and the like into which we have
entered. We can accomplish nothing real
for international peace until we understand
that it is disgraceful not to make our deeds
square with our words, and therefore dis
graceful to make a promise which we either
ought not to or cannot keep. * *
Preparedness Corrective of Militarism
“I advocate preparedness against war as
the best type of peace insurance. Prepared
ness for war may be not only the best but
the only corrective for the spirit of mili
tarism. Switzerland is the most democratic
of republics, and the least militaristic, and
yet relatively to its size it is the one best
prepared against war.
“Preparedness is not the affair of a day.
If we begin at once, a year or two must
elapse before we shall have accomplished
even a beginning. We should do what Switz
erland and Argentina, for example, have
already done. They now have universal
military service in Argentina. The Argen
tine army is a great deal more fit to uphold
the Monroe doctrine south of ihe equator
than our army, and in spite of its high av
erage of individual efficiency and because of
its lamentable smallness, is unfit to uphold
the Monroe doctrine * north of the
equator. * * *
“Finally, and most important, let us re
member that there can be no efficient pre
paredness against war unless we prepare our
own souls. If we become soft and flabby
physically and morally, we shall fail. No
nation ever amounted to anything if its
population was composed of pacificists and
poltroons, if its sons did not have the fight
ing edge, if its women did not feel as the
mothers of Washington’s continentals felt, as
the mothers of the men who followed Grant
and Lee felt; men who are not ready to fight
for the right are not fit to live in a free
democracy.
“The only women fit to be wives and
mothers in a free republic are those who
feel that their sons are not sons of theirs
unless when their country calls their souls
are eager and their feet jubilant to answer
the mighty trumpet note which announces
that the hearts of men are being sifted out
before the judgment seat.”
PARROT TO PLAY PART
IN MODERN WAR GAME
For once much-lauded “Polly” of wants
a-cracker fame has proved herself useful as
well as noisily ornamental, and the green
tailed prattler is now an important feature
in the intricate sniping system which has
been developed in Europe during the past
year, says an exchange.
A French scientist recently discovered that
the parrot is acutely sensitive to the pres
ence of air-craft, and accordingly the allies
have “stationed” a number of the Pollies
on the Eiffel tower, in Paris, in order to
warn the sentries of the approach of Ger
man Taubes. Before the intruding ma
chine-bird is visible to the human eye the
parrot fairly “bristles with excitement” and
begins to screech.
Polly’s acuteness is not due to her eye
sight. as one might suppose, but to an un
usual sense of hearing which enables her to
give a very valuable warning.
The bird’ corps is not restricted to caged
birds, however, or even to those of the land.
At sea the gulls are almost of as great serv
ice, as they are quick to betray the presence
of a submarine which rises to the surface.
As soon as the periscope appears above the
water the gulls rise in big flocks, circling
around it and calling shrilly, thus indicat
ing the whereabouts of the submarine to the
lookouts of any ship that happens to be in
the vicinity.
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POLAND AND THE WAR
Nearly all the great battles being fought
on the eastern front in the European war
are in territory that once made up the
large independent kingdom of Poland. The
present population ot what was formerly
Poland is about 50,000,0U0, or practically
the same as the population of Austria-Hun
gary. Posen and parts of East Prussia and
West Prussia, now German territory, were
polish, as were also Galicia and Bukowina,
now Austrian territory. What is now known
as Poland is in Russia, but there was more
Russian territory once Polish.
Poland passed out as an independent coun
try more than 100 years ago, or shortly be
fore the close of the American Revolutionary
war, hut it is said that more than 20,000,
000 Poles today cherish hope that they will
again have a country of their own. Russia
several weeks ago gave a promise to restore
Poland, and in this way encouraged the
Russian Poles to fight against Germany.
Whether the Poles generally believe the
promise will be kept is unknown. They
seem to be divided in opinion, though many
of them think Germany would be less likely
to give up territory once Polish than would
Russia.
Had Poland not been partitioned but ha<l
remained an independent country, perhaps
there would have been no war today. In
that event Germany would not have bor
dered on Russia, and might not have held
the Russian blav to be such a menace.
Poland fell, according to William J. Sho
walter in the National Geographic Magazine,
because of the selfish individualism of her
nobles, who constituted one-twentieth of the
population and who were opposed to grant
ing rights to the peasants. Unanimous con
sent of the nobles was required to adopt any
vital proposition. Usually at least one held
out, and this caused Poland to become weak,
while adjacent nations became strong. The
nobles were strong for freedom, but it was
an individual freedom.
So the stronger powers, Russia, Prussia
and Austria, decided to cut Poland up and
take over the pieces. Poland was parti
tioned three different times. Finally the di
vision was settled by the congress of Vienna
in 1815, under which Russia received 320,
500 square miles, Prussia 26.000 and Aus
tria 35,000. It was the understanding at
the time that Russian Poland should remain
a kingdom, but the Russian czar was to
be the king. Otherwise the two govern
ments were to be distinct. Various revolts
in Poland “led to the complete absorption
of the kingdom into the Russian empire."
The present Poland lying between the
Prussias and Galicia is about the size of
New York state, but has a population as
great as that of New York and New Jersey
combined. Russia has tried many measures
to kill the national spirit of the Poles. The
Polish language was for some time forbid
den. and the singing of national songs was
tabu. Yet it is said that the Russian Poles
are now fighting loyally in the Russian
army, as the Prussian Poles are lighting in
the German -army.
Germany has employed some of the tac
tics of Russia in trying to suppress Polish
nationalism, but has had little more suc
cess than Russia. There are about 4,000.000
Poles in Germany. Mr. Showalter says Aus
tria has never treated her Poles as Russia
and Germany have treated theirs. Austria
has proceeded on the theory that the spirit
of nationalism carefully directed would be
come a source of strength to the Austrian
government. The Austrian Poles are free
to sing their national songs and use their
national language.
“Except that they must pay their taxes
to Austria and serve in Austria’s armv, they
are practically self-governing.” says Mr. Sho
walter. “And well this mav be. for all the
world knows that it was Sobieski and his
f#v*low Poles who saved Vienna and rescued
Eturope from the Turks.”
The world will await with profound in
terest the effect of the great war on the
restoration of an independent Poland, fondly
hoped for by millions of Poles.—Tacoma
Ledger.
NAUGHTINESS OF NOME IS
BEWAILED BY MINISTER
(Dr. Bauer in Salem (Ore.) Statesman)
I am just now completing my two years’
ministry, which, according to our federated
plans of alternating with the Methodists, is
;<iy limit. During these two years I have
been trying to answer the great conun
drum, Why is a mining camp? It is still
unsolved. I know more about mining
camps than I did before, but there are deep
things still unsolved. Here are some of the
things I found out: Nome has a booze bill
of over SI,000 per day; the big days are
just after the fall clean-ups. Gambling,
while opposed by city and federal authori
ties, is prevalent and damning. Forty-six
painted creatures of the underworld came
in on the boats now in the harbor, over
crowding the “cribs," coming to prey on
the miner who strikes it rich. Besides this
open evil we have an agnostic editor whose
delight is to hurl his shafts of scorn at par
sons and church pillars.
In opposition to these things we have one
little Protestant church, the Church of
Rome persistently refusing to take any part
in moral crusades, but receiving much of
its support from saloon men. There is a
kind of lonesome feeling for the pastor of
the little church as he faces the Ahazes and
Jezabels, and there are no juniper trees to
l resort to.
BOB GRIFFIS
BEGINS SUIT
A suit was filed in the district court on
Thursday, Aug. 19, which is more than local
interest, involving as it does title to valua
ble mining property in the Ruby mining
district, in which several well-known mining
men are or have been interested, and which
the Yukon Gold Company has recently ac
quired and intends, so it is reported, to de
velop by means of a dredge, the first to be
installed in the Ruby district.
'lhe case is entitled “R. H. Griffis, plain
tiff, versus Thomas J. Coffey, John E. Holm
gren and the Yukon Gold Company,” and is
brought to recover the sum of $8,U00, being
the alleged value of an eighth interest in the
Tanglefoot Association placer mining claim,
situate on Greenstone creek, a tributary of
Long creek, in the Ruby district, which
Griffis alleges is being wrongfully withheld
from him.
Ihe complaint alleges that on or about
September b, 1911, D. Sutherland, William
Shroyer, Ed Fernald, James Aitchison,
Ilarry Lawrence, Sam Sanderson F. Hawkes
and the plaintiff, by virtue of a valid mining
location, became the owners of the Tangle
loot claim, each being the owner of an un
divided one-eighth interest; that thereafter
the plaintiff gave to the defendant Thomas
J. Coffey his power of attorney to sell or
lease the plaintiff’s interest; that thereafter
Coffey fraudulently transferred to some
member of his family, without plaintiff’s
knowledge, and without any consideration,
the interest of the plaintiff in said claim;
that it was the intention of Coffey to de
fraud plaintiff of his rights in the said claim,
and that at the time of the transfer the
claim was known by Coffey to contain val
uable minerals; that thereafter, without the
plaintiff's knowledge or consent, the said
Coffey caused the interest formerly owned
by the plaintiff to be conve}red. to himself,
which conveyance was without value and
made with intention to defraud; that there
after. on or about March 10. 1914. Coffey,
Aitchison, Lawrence, Sutherland and
Shroyer, executed an agreement with John
Holmgren, Duncan Michie and Pete Jensen
to sell the Tanglefoot claim to the latter
named three men for $64,000. It is further
alleged that Jensen and Michie thereafter
assigned their interests to John Holmgren,
and that Holmgren assigned the property
to the Yukon Gold Company.
The plaintiff alleges that he has not re
ceived from either of the defendants any
part of the purchase price of the Tanglefoot
claim, and that by reason of the fraudulent
conveyance made by plaintiff’s agent, Cof
fey, he has been deprived of his propor
tion of the payments made under the agree
ment, and that unless his rights are pro
tected by the court he will be wrongfully
deprived of his proportion of the purchase
price, an undivided one-eighth of the
$64,000.
Plaintiff asks judgment against the de
fendants for the sum of $8,000, and for an
accounting as against Coffey of all moneys
heretofore paid to him as holder of the
plaintiff's one-eighth interest in said claim,
and for judgment for such sums. He fur
ther asks that John Holmgren and the
Yukon Gold Company be enjoined from
paying to Coffey any part of the purchase
price of the Tanglefoot Association claim
until the rights of the plaintiff have been
determined. He also demands costs and
disbursements of the suit.
The complaint is signed by E. M. Stanton
as attorney for the plaintiff.
STROVBOLI AGAIN IN ACTION
MESSINA, Aug. 18.—The volcano Strom
boli is again in eruption, and great quanti
ties of lava are flowing from its crater.
For an inexpensive watch to take the
place of a cheap dollar watch, I have art
ELGIN, in a 7-jeweled nickel case for $t'>.
Also HOWARD WATCHES (Torn 9 55 to
9125. \VM. TAYLOR, Flat.
“FOOL RESIDENTS OF NORTH”
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer I
“The Post-Intelligencer’s editorial article
yesterday entitled 'A Flyer in Foxes’ must
have proved somewhat of a revelation to
the reading public,” said an old Alaskan,
“but nevertheless it represents but one side
of the story, the Canadian eud of it.
"It is not generally known, perhaps, that
most of the silver gray foxes referred to by
United States Consul Mays at Charlotte
town are taken from the islands and main
land of Alaska. Originally they were
stocked by the Russian government. Dur
ing the past thirty years, what with the
use of poison and other unlawful methods
of destruction for their pelts, this most val
uabie fur animal has been reduced to a van
ishing point. Of late years the Canadian
breeder has appeared upon the scene with
money in hand, and for $200 each has
bought up almost every remaining animal
and shipped it out on an easily acquired
department permit.
“So eager has been the pursuit at this
price by both native and white men alike
that the coming two years will certainly
witness the departure to Prince Edward
island of the last living silver gray fox from
Alaska.
“The gaping outsider may inquire with
indignation, Where are the officers, the
game wardens, the laws for the preserva
tion of fur. fish and feathers? The answer
| comes thundering back. These are all a
joke, a roaring farce, and outside of the
beautifully written annual reports of these
officials, but a dead letter. Thus the fool
residents of this Northern territory have
dissipated their valuable patrimony for a
mess of pottage to enrich their most enter
prising neighbors of Prince Edward island.
Pondering over these things makes hot the
j blood of the Alaska pioneer.”
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more durable for machinery renairing
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