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Election November 7,1916
For Delegate to Congress From Alaska
CHAS. A. SULZER
For Attorney General
*
GEORGE B. GRIGSBY
For Senator, Third Division
JOHN RONAN
For Representatives, Third Division
THOS. H. HOLLAND
CHAS. McCALLUM
THOS. C. PRICE
FRANK. B. CANNON
For Road Commissioner, Third Division
JAMES E. WILSON
For Attorney General
of Alaska
GEORGE B.GRIGSBY
ELECTION NOVEMBER 7
, - - , i—.
NOTICE OF ADVERTISING OUT
AND DECLARING FORFEITURE
OF INTEREST IN QUARTZ MIN
ING CLAIMS FOR FAILURE TO
FAY ANNUAL ASSESSMENT.
T# J. A. Bell, L. V. Ray aud II. J. Con
roy; you aud each oi >ou, your heirs
executors and administrators, are
hereby notiiied, that, 1, J. li. suater,
one oi the owners in the iollowing
described Quartz Gold Mining Claims1
situate in Uie Moose i'ass Mining Dis
trict, Renai Recording District, JLiuru
Division oi tiie Territory of AUiska
and more particularly described as
follows, to-wit:—Independence Quartz
Mining Claim, May Jb low er Quartz
Aiming Claim, blue Rock QuarU
Mining Claim, i* resno Quartz Mining
Claim, Mammoth Quartz Mining i
Claim, Meadow Lark Quartz Mining
Claim and Arctic Circle Quartz Min
ing Claim, you above named being in
terested in the above described Q mru
Mining Claims aud each ol them,*
i’hat 1 have perform id and caused
i to have performed oil said claims and:
each and every one of them, and
have paid for the *auic, the annual as- j
sessment work f.»r the year lolo, last
past, amounting to the sum of one
hundred dollars per claim, making the:
total amount of said aanual assess* I
weut work on s*id claims the sum of
seven hundred dollars all of which 1
huve paid, that fliere is now due and
owing to me from you, part of said
assessment woik thereof; which said
amouut became due aud puyable to me
A>u the hist day of Jauuary, 1916.
You and each of you and each of
your heirs, executors aud administrat
ors are hereby notilied to pay to me
i your share of said assessment work
on or before Ninety Lays after the
first publication of this notice, to-wit:,
—Ninety days after the first day of
August, 1916 und in case you fail or
refuse so to do, your and each of your
interest in above described Mining
Claims aud each of them will be aud
is hereby declared forfeited to me. and
your interests and the whole thereof
j will be then aud there terminated.
In witness whereof 1 have hereunto
set my hand and seal this 1st day of
August, 1916.
J. B. SLATER.
First publication August 1, 1916
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SEWARD, - ALASKA
JAPANESE INTERESTS
WANT LOW TARIFF
BETWEEN THE ALLIES
TOKYO, Oct. Ji.*—After the .var the
Allies should have a uniform, compar
atively low tariff wall for the rest of
the world, according to resolutions
adopted at the annual congress of
the Associated Chambers of Com
merce of Jupan whose meeting Has
adjourned at Tokyo.
The congress endorsed the war
time measures proposed by the Paris
Economic Conference, but expressed
new desires as to the post-bellum
policy.
“As regards post-bellum measures,
the Entente Allies should protect
themselves against commercial ag
gression by tariffs and other means
and promote economic relations
among themselves,” state the* resolu
tions. “For this purpose the Allies
should freely open their national re
sources to each other, and should re
frain from a preferential policy in the
matter of import duties so far as the
Allies themselves are concerned.”
SERIAL NO. 02708
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE, Juneau,
Alaska, July 25, 1010.
SOLDIERS ADDITIONAL HOMESTEAD
ENTRY BY ASSIGNEE.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO ENTER.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
NORTH ALASKA SALMON COMPANY, u
corporation organized and existing under the
laws of the State of California, and whose
post otlieo address is 110 Market Street, San
Francisco, California, as assignee ol Joseph
R. Harrigau, administrator of the Estate ol
Kyhran Horan, deceased, being entitled to the
benelits of section 2306 of the Revised Statute*
of the United States and amendments thereto,
has applied to make entry »»f that certain
tract of laud situated on the EhsI side ol
Kvichak Buy near t'upe Suworof, about
miles above the mouth of Nahnek'River. in the
District of Alaska, in Latitude 58 deg. 15 min.
45 sec. North, and Longitude 157 deg. lo m»n.
00 sec. West, Hiid described us U. S. Survey
No. 016, and more particularly as follows, to
wit:
Beginning at Corner No. I of said survey,
whence U. S. L. M. No. 015 bears S. 0 deg. 30
min. W. 46.81 chs. distant, and witness corn
er to suid corner No. 1 bears Eust l.u8 chs
distant, and from which witness corner Cape
Suworof bears S. 12 deg. 58 min. W. miles
distant, thence from said Corner No. 1 East
Var. 21 deg. 30 min. E. 20.83 chs to corner
No. 2 from which witness corner to said
Corner No. 2 hears north 38 Iks. distant.
thence North 14.25 chs. to corner No. 3, from
which witness corner to corner No. 3 bears
South 3.63 chs. distant; thence West 7.85 chs.
to corner No. 4 M. C.. whence witness corn
er to said Corner No. 4 bears East 1.46 chs.
distant; thence by meanders from true corner
No. 4 M. C. along the line of mean high
water on Kvichak Uuy,
S. 34 deg. GG min. W. 1.90 oht.;
S. GG deg. GG tnln. W. 9.30 ehs.;
S. 21 deg. 14 min. W. 3.Go ehs.;
S. 32 deg. 21 min. W. 4.67 ehs. to Corner
No. 1 M. 0.. the place of beginning, contain
ing 21.93 acres.
As Additional to Homestead Entry No. 14 lb
made August 26. by Kyhran Horan, at Ionia.
Michigan Land Office, for the S. *;*j ‘>f St U
of Sec. 30. Township 13 North. Range 10
West, containing 30 acres.
Any and all persons claiming adversely said
tract of land, or any portion thereof, are
hereby notified that unless their adverse claims
are filed during the j>eriod of publication and
posting, or within 30 days thereafter, they
will be barred by virtue of t#- statute and the
regulations thereunder.
It is hereby ordered that this notice be
published for the statutory period of 60 days
in the SEWARl) GATEWAY, a newspuiwr oi
general circulation printed at Seward, Alaska,
published uearest tho laud applied for.
C. 11. WALKER.
Register.
First publication August 4. 1916.
Last publlcatlou_Oct1_1_L_J_^|J^___j>aMM^^^M
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The resolutions express the be
lief that the Allies should amend
their treatment of goods exported
from Japan.
“The treaties between Japan and
England or France are not impartial,”
the resolutions read, “in that there
are fewer preferential tariffs on the
other side than this. Such partiality
should be corrected. Betweeen Rus
sia and Japan there are no preferen
tial tariff arrangements; therefore,
these arrangements should be made.
“Regarding the preferential tariffs
between one of the Allies and its
Dominions, it is desirable tha' no
Bower of the Allies should establisn
preferential tariffs with its Dominions
lest Japanese export trade be adver
sely affected.”
The latter resolution evidently was
voted with an eye to the preference
extended to British goods by Canada
and Australia.
Following is a suggestion made by
the congress to British chambers ol
commerce:
“Japan and Great Britain are co
operating to gain mutual benefits.
The British trade orders should be
carried out less rigorously, and the
British chambers of commerce arej
asked to exert their influence to the
end that only luxuries are included in
the list of prohibited imports.”
* It is suggested to the Petrogradj
Chamber of Commerce that this body,*
in view of the especially triendly rela
tions that exist today between Russia
and Japan, take steps to remove the
present obstacles to trade between tin*
two nations. It is stated that the i
Russian ban on imports affects Jap-1
ancse commerce to a considerable de- j
gree.
Copies of the resolutions have been |
sent all the Allied nations.
notice of call for bids by
CITY C()l?NCIL FOR GRADING
FART OF FIFTH AVENl E.
Rids are called for, for the grading j
of Fifth avenue, in the town of Sew-1
ard, Alaska, between the North mar
gin of Adams Street and the South
margin of .Jefferson Street, said grad
ing to be done in accordance with the
established grade of said street, under
the supervision of the city engineer,
owners of abutting lots shall have the
right to as much surplus dirt, dump
ed on adjoining lots as they may re
quire, without extra charge, except
that the leveling of said dirt shall be
done by the owner of the lot request
ing the dirt dumped thereon. Sait!
work to be complete within thirty
days after contract as awarded, a
bond as provided by ordinance will be
required. All bids must be filed with
the Municipal Clerk on or before eight
o’clock P. M., Sitka time, October 9th.
1916.
Bv order of the common council.
O. H. POEHLMANN,
K).g—fit. Municipal Clerk.
NOTICE OF CALL FOR BIDS TO
CONSTRUCT SIDEWALK
BY ORDER OF THE COMMON
COUNCIL of the town of Seward,
bids are hereby culled for, for the
construction of a sidewalk, ten feet
in width ,of lumber, on the east side
of Fifth avenue, in the town of Sew
ard, Alaska, between the south mar
gin of Adams Street and the north
margin of Railroad Avenue, or to con
nect with the sidewalk in front of the
A. B. Hall; contractor to furnish all
material and labor; said work to be
done according to the plans and .speci
fications promulgated by the City En
gineer. All bids must be filed with
the municipal clerk on or before the
hour of eight o’clock P. M., Sitka
time, Monday, October 9th. 1916.
By order of the common council.
0. H. POEHLMANN,
10-.°,—fit. Municipal Clerk.
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Statement ot Col. W. P. RICHARDSON, Pres. Alaska Road Commission
VALDEZ, Alaska, Sept. 18, 1016.
In-as-much as Delegate Wickersham has been industriously circulating
throughout Alaska for the past two or three months certain small pamphlets,
notably a hearing before the Military Committee of the House and a so
called speech, concerning the appropriation of $500,000 for road work during
the current fiscal year, and concerning the past estimates and expendituies
of the Hoad Commission, 1 consider it necessary and proper to make the ro
lowing statement in order that the people oi Alaska may know tin fuit.-> in
the case. ,
In a letter dated August 2.‘J, 1015, written by me to the Fairbanks Com
mercial Club and made public last fall in the “Seward (lateway,” 1 stated
that 1 did not consider it necessary to send him (Delegate Wnkersham) a
copy of that letter, and “that his natural procedure would be to again take
advantage of some committee hearing or extension of lemarks, « t*.
This has happened. He appeared before the Military Committee of the
House, during its last session, on the pretense of giving support to the esti
mate of the Secretary of War of $500,000 lor military and post roads, etc.,
in Alaska, when the estimate had already had the approval of the President,
and the Delegate was afraid it would pass. He is a member of that Com
mittee and there was no occasion for his having such a hearing except to try
and use it to mislead somebody. He could and should have given his aid in
another way il he really wanted to support the estimate.
As it was, he couldn’t resist the temptation to misrepresent the facts and
attack the Commissioner’^?work: for example, lie makes the statement that
“they can put the gravel over the road in the winter time better than they
can in the summer.” This absurd statement caused only merriment among
certain old timers in the Territory who know something about winter condi
tions and something about road building.
The Delegate’s intention probably was to intimate that I ought to remain in
Alaska during the winter, digging fruitlessly in the frozen gravel, or spoil
ing at great cost the surtaec of tile snow roads, while lie could puisne In.
foolish attack upon me unhindered in the City of Washington.
In the tabulated statement of expenditures by the Hoad Commission, a
given by the Delegate in his hearing before the Committee lie includes
moneys appropriated and disbursed bclore the Hoad Commission came mt**
existence, TJUU and 1DU4. Such a misrepresentation o! lacts needs no com
ment.
Also, he states that they, the Hoad Commission, expend under a
certain particular statement “more for salaries and other purpose inuu^th**^
do for the construction of the road. lhe salaries ot the Member... i. tie*
Board are paid out of funds for the pay of the Army, and no other .salaries
are paid whatsoever except to persons working on the road or keeping Un
necessary accounts in the ollice. His statement is false.
1 repeat: the prediction has been fulfilled. He not only appeared be
fore a committee, but bus indulged in an “extension ot remarks.
Congressional Hecord of June 26th shows that when the Alaska load item
was up for discussion the. Delegate had no word to say until alter the item
had been adopted and then he asked consent to “extend” his remark.', which
now appear throughout the Territory in the form of a so-called peeth.
never delivered any such speech. There is a limit, of course, to what Mem
hers of Congress* will Maud for on the Moor of the Hou.e, but their aeem
little restraint upon thi.> “extension of remark**’ business However. M -
times lias, its good side.
On tlu* front page of tin* so-called speech the Pclegult* »*i. tp a ■a raw
man to knock down, in the form ot a letter from Mr. Ila> to Mr. Kahn I
is easy to understand how the Delegate, with his well known propon.dtw
could procure such a letter; hut as a matter of fact nobody ever accused him
of making "objection or opposition to the* t oinmittee again.-L the appc’ptia
tion, either by letter or* by statemnt. He is too astute for that. It would
become public and known throughout Alaska. He purse.- other methods,
information is also that he never attends the meetings of this Committee un
less for some special purpose, and has always ignored the appropriation.- tor
road work.
On this front page he also states that:
•** * ^ * neither the Delegate from Alaska nor any other
Congressman can procure an appropriation tor any sum whatever ' >t
carrying on the work of the Alaska Hoard ol Koad ( ommi.v'iom*i
by any bill introduced by him, unless he can procure the Societal ,
of War and Col. Richardson to approve the amount asked for h> a
formal estimate under the law.
This may be true of tin* Delegate from Alaska, but i? it is lie ha made
it so himself. He has no standing and perhaps is afraid it ma\ be foun.i out
in Alaska. It is not true of other Congressmen. The statement, furthei
more, is contradicted by himself, top of page 1), where he say.-:
"In four instances shown in the above table, it itlu* Koad t om
mission), lias received more than Co!. Richardson estimated for.
The tirst appropriation ever made for the work, fiscal year I'.Mi,, wa
procured without any formal estimate, and there have been several increa. e.
in the amount appropriated since without a formal estimate, notab!) foi th
dike at Valdez, but the increases were not procured b\ the Delegate. I lo*
Delegate, nevertheless, claims that lie procured the appropriation ot SoOO.
000, which must mean that he coerced the Secretary of War ot :• ija- '
somebody. The fact is that the Delegate endeavered to entrap the President
of the Road Commission into submitting a foolish estimate, based upon
false arguments, of $200,000 for the completion of the Ruby-Long Civek
road, f ailing in that, he is merely trying now, as lu* ha.- in cases of othei
legislation, to stop in and grab some credit for himself which lu* is not en
titled to. He doesn’t even know how it happened ami has but a vague idea
on the subject, if he did know, l presume he would charge me again, as
lu* has in the past, with lobbying for increased appropriations lor road work
in Alaska, as though that were a crime. If the Delegate can’t
money for roads in Alaska, as he says, except on an estimate appiov -i />
the Secretary of War, then what good is he, and why does In* claim to have
gotten $500,000 ?
The greater part ot this so-called spcecn is taxon up wiin qumauu...
and references to the law ot estimates which have little bcaiing upon it-'
ease, except to show the Delegates weakness. It is put out merely to mislead
and confuse people. The assertion that the Alaska Hoard ot Road t onimi.i
sioners has always received all it asked tor is not true. 1 he untruthfulne^.
of this statement was proven in correspoiulence given out last year. lh<*
records quoted by the Delegate from the hook of estimates have nothing to
do with the recommendations and estimates submitted by our Hoard, until
those estimates have been approved by the Secretary ot War and the I’tca
dent and forwarded to the Treasury Department. The estimates of the Hoard
have not always received this approval.
I take the following extracts, which are pertinent, from the ietu-i o the
Secretary of War and interim, transmitting the supplemental estimate ot
$500,000, dated March 2, 1016:
“It is, of course, known that the Board of Road t ommissioncrs
has never been authorized by any specific enactment of lavs to sub
mit estimates for road work in Alaska, unless it is held that the ou
ginal act of January 27, 1005, which brought the Board into exist
ence and imposed certain duties upon it without providing sutlicienl
funds to carry out those duties properly, indirectly conferred such
authority. . . ,,
“This view seems to have been practically accepted by Congres.-,
limited appropriations having been made from year to year, begin
ning with the fiscal year 1007, lor ‘Military and Post Roads in A*
aska and supplementing the work under the ‘Alaska J‘ und.
“A special report was submitted on November 25. 1912. accom
panied by an additional estimate of $750,000, as a step towards a
comprehensive system ot roads lor the territory. lhi> amount !>•
ing considered in excess ot what should be carried on the Aim\ Ap
propriation Bill, and the Board having no other channel through
which to seek the appropriation, no result was obtained.
The Department has now modified its view somewhat, apparently, and
the Secretary further stated in this same letter:
“Considering the original law organizing the work under direc
tion of the Secretary of War, with the subsequent action of Con
gress in appropriating certain amounts from year to year through
the military committees upon estimated approved by the Secretary
of War, it would appear to be the manifest purpose of Congress
that the work should follow that course.
“In this view of the matter, the President of the Board recom
mended that the Board be authorized to submit at appropriate times,
‘subject to the approval of the Secretary of War, und chargeable to
civil works under the War Department, such estimates as are neces
sary in the judgment of the Board for a proper prosecution and
maintenance of the work; and in furtherance thereof, that an addi
tional estimate be now submitted to enable the work to be curried
forward during the coming year.’ ” * ,
This recommendation was approved and a supplemental estimate o
$500,000 was submitted by me, and being approved by the President, was
sent to the Secretary of the Treasury for transmission to Congress.
If the Delegate were in fact interested in procuring or in aiding to pro
cure funds for the work under the Road Commission it might be pertinent
to ask why ami under what presentation of fact or argument he succeeded
in getting reported out of the Committee on Territories his bill 4648, em
powering the Alaska Legislature to repeal the law establishing the Road
Commission, and why, under cover of a memorial of the said Legislature—
which merely asked for authority to modify the laws relating to taxes, etc.,
and to have control of the Alaska Fund,—he attempted to put through th.s
additional orovision.
No member of the Road Commission, 1 may say Here, ana no person in
the War Department, was in any way whatsoever responsible for passage of
the original law creating the Road Commission, ami no one in the War De
partment will, in my opinion, make an effort now to have the law continued,
if it is considered undersirable or objectionable to the people of Alaska, but
so long as the responsibility is upon the Department, every effort will be
made by the officers in charge of the work to get substantial results; and
everv thoughtful person acquainted with the present conditions in Alaska
and ‘interested in a proper development of the Territory knows that some
form of Federal aid, which means Federal direction, is necessary to get such
10 Uit may not be amiss to remind those, who may be sufficiently interested
to read the foregoing comments, that the Army has simply been doing in
Alaska what it did in the earlier frontier days in the West,—only more,-—
in the construction of telegraph and cable lines, and wagon roads and trails;
that this is a vast and difficult work and has been carried on with energy and
efficiency, as far as available funds would permit or could be procured
through*the War Department, and with an intelligent understanding—I do not
hesitate to assert,—of the needs and conditions to be dealt with, and without
any expectation of reward or benefit, either from the War Department or
from the people of Alaska; bat the Members of our Board are entitled to
reasonably decent treatment from the man who pretends to represent Alaska,
instead of being continually slandered and misrepresented as has been the
case for several years past. . _ .
If Ihe Delegate choose to make denial of the abote statement 1 can only
leave the matter to be judged upon the recoixl here quoted against him, and
upon his past utterances. VV. P. RICHAKD&ur*,