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“BRIGHTEN THE CORNER"
Nobody worth while ever stops
growing. That’s what makes them
worth while.
Choate at eighty advised folks to
hurry up and get into his class; the
fullest, happiest, most eventful years
of his life were the FINAL FIF
TEEN.
When he died a short time ago. he
was advising the United States to get
a move on.
“For God’s sake, hurry up.” he said.
And coming from him, it meant
something. Even the United States
heard it and jumped.
He was that big.
Hut Choate didn’t get that size over
night. He was eighty-live years grow
ing for the occasion. If he had stopped
at seventy, even at eighty, he would
not have been there—he wouldn’t
have been heard.
The steamer Mary Powell has been
running on the Hudson for sixty
vears. That’s why—she’s been RUN
NINO.—Now York Mail.
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RESCUED MARINERS GRATEFUL
New friends have been made for
the United States in Japan through
the treatment accorded the officers and
crew of the wrecked freighter by offi
cials and residents of Unalaska.
The sailors and officers of the Ko
tohira Maru had about the same feel
ing of wonder as to how they would
be treated, by American residents oP
western Alaska as an American crew
would have should their ship be
wrecked upon a remote island of the
Japanese group. To be taken into the
home of the deputy marshal and giv
en plenty to eat was a most pleasant
change from fourteen days in an open
boat and never were men more grate
ful for kindness.
At ports along the way to Seward,
the Japanese sailors who could not
speak a word of English, repeatedly!
hunted up Japanese cannery hands and
had them explain to the officials of the
Santa Ana and the government offi
cials how pleased they were and how
they would tell all the Japanese at
home about the kindness of the Amer
icans of Alaska.
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XEXAXA GOLD STRIKE
To old-timers the recent find of gold
in a railroad cut at Nenana, which
caused considerable excitement, is
just another “discovery’” of that w*ll
known fact that the gravels of all of
the streams of the Tanana Valley con
tain minute particles of the precious
metal. This has led many of them to
predict that this valley with all of
its tributary streams will some day
prove to be one of the greatest dredg
ing propositions that the world has
ever known. For the fact of the mat
ter is, that these minute particles of
gold, which, however, sometimes rise
to pay size, have never been found
in sufficient quantity to permit their
mining by any known method of to
day. unless it is by dredging.
In anticipation of this expected
dredging process, numerous mineral
claims have been located in various
places along all the rivers of the in
terior, places which seem the most
promising. In many instances these
locations have been allowed to lapse,
only to be taken up by some other
adventurous prospectors. In one or
two instances, however, long strips of
dredging ground have been staked, and
it is expected Dy tneir owners mai
the day a dredge starts on them will
see either them or their progeny very
wealthy men.
Such a find as that made at Xe
nana recently was similar to the
“strike” at Chena which caused con
siderable excitement here this spring
and which caused the government rail
road authorities to again throw open
the ground for entry. When they had
taken this action considerable staking
was done, hut, although pans contain
ing as high as four dollars were found,
nothing in the way of what could be
called pay was located, although con
siderable prospecting was done.
Therefore, reasoning by the results
of that and other prospecting, there
is nothing at Xenana that could be
called pay unless such has been found
in a body larger and of greater val
ues than have been heretofore known.
The gold there is merely the same
prospect that can be found in the
gravel anywhere in the interior.—The
Fairbanks-Citizen.
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FINANCING THE WAR
The United States is financing it
self in this war by loans and taxes.
It obtains funds from the people, some
by taxation and some by the sale of
bonds, and then it goes into the mar
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(kets and buys from the people what I
it needs. The people supply the gov-!
ernment with money and the govern-j
ment with this money buys from the
people what it needs for the war.
There are three sources from which
the United States can draw the sin
ews of war. First, is the fixed prop
erty of the nation. This represents
our farms, factories, mines, railways
and all other property including ac
cumulated savings. From the corpus
or body of none of these, except the j
accumulated savings, will the govern-1
ment obtain war funds, and even from;
the accumulated savings it will draw
a relatively small portion. These ac
cumulated savings are invested in in
dustries and business which are neces
sary to the country’s welfai^i and
prosperity and it is only that portion
of these savings which are seeking
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investment tnat me government wm
reecive in exchange for bonds.
The second and the great source
from which the government is to de
rive its war fund is the wealth pro
duced during the war. Part of this it
| will obtain by taxation and part in
. exchange for bonds. The annual pro
duction of the United States, from its
i farms, mines, factories, and other
: sources, amounts to fifty billion dol
lars a year and out of this fifty bil
lion dollars will come the funds, part
from taxes and part from the sale of
bonds, with which the United States
will finance itself during this war.
By taxation this generation will pay
its portion of the cost of the war. By
the sale of bonds the next generation
is called upon to pay its portion, and
this last portion will be paid from
the wealth production after the war.
By this method the capital of the
country, its sources of income and its
wealth, are unimpaired. It is only
the yearly increment of this property
that is called upon to bear a portion
of the cost of the war. Thus despite
the waste of war and the destruction
of property involved, the country may
emerge from the conflict stronger fi
nancially, more efficient and even
wealthier than before. What the gov
ernment receives it receives from the
people without impairing the sources
of wealth of the country, and passes
it back to the people in exchange for
: the productions of the country. It is
in a way only a shifting of credits.
The Government collects the cur
rent taxes and by means of bonds
anticipates taxes of the years to come,
and all the money thus acquired passes
back into the hands of the taxpayers.
This is why governments which follow
sound economic methods not only are
not impoverished by wars but some
times emerge the stronger as Eng
land did after the Napoleonic wars
and the United States did after our
great Civil War.
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EARL GRAY
PASSES OUT
Former Governor-General of C anada
and South African Leader
Dies at 66
LONDON, Aug. 29.—Earl Grey, for
mer governor-general of Canada, died
today, aged 66.
Gray’s active career comprised not
only the administration of the gov
ernment of Rhodesia and representa
tion of the British government as
Governor-General of Canada, but in
dustrial and financial operations in
the development of South Africa. One
of the most noted movements to which
he gave his support and in which he
was a leading spirit was the Public
House Trust Company of England, an
enterprise designed to supplant the or
dinary saloons for the sale of intoxi
cating liquor by the establishment of
well-conducted public houses and to
discourage the use of intoxicants b>
substitution of tea and coffee.
Earl Grey was an intimate friend
of the late Joseph H. Choate, Ameri
can ambassador to Great Britain,
often visited the United States, call
ed upon Presidents Roosevelt and Taft
at Washington, and declared that he
was a lover of America. This senti
ment he gave as his reason for restor
ing to the United States a picture of
Benjamin Franklin which had been in
fhe possession of his family since Earl
Grey's great-grandfather, Major-Gen
eral Charles Grey, was quartered in
Franklin’s house in Philadelphia as an
officer of General Howe’s staff dur
ing the Revolutionary J<Var. The resto
ration of the picture was announced
by Earl Grey at a banquet tendered
to him in New York while he was
Governor-General of Canada. In mak
ing the announcement he said he be
lieved there were higher’ laws than
the laws of possession.
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Sailings from Seattle:
Mariposa.Aug. 23
Northwestern... Aug. 27
Alameda.kept.
Alaska.Sept. 7
Santa Ana will sail westward after the arrival of the S. S. Alaska,
which left Seattle August 18th. .
S. S. Ketchikan will leave Seattle August 21st with oils and ex
plosives.
All ships go through to Anchorage.
For further particulars of service, rates.apply to Agent.
A. H. MCDONALD, Agent.
For the benefit of those Interested in Alaska in
General and Seward in Particular an
INFORMATION BUREAU
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ties are requested to address tbeir communications to
INFORMATION DEPARTMENT, SEWARD
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INFORMATION
FAR AFIELD
Even California Used As Base for
Spies Under Sea
War-Fare
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 22.—Allied se
cret service and intelligence officers,
with the co-operation of the police of
the Scandinavian countries, have re
cently succeeded in unearthing and
dispersing a large and well Organized
Geiman submarine intelligence office
headquarters in Gothenburg,* Sweden.
In their investigations, the officers
discovered a naval intelligence map of
the waters surrounding the British
Isles and the North sea. The water
area on the map was divided into
small squares, each one numbered. An
elaborate code was also found for use
in conjunction with this map. Mes
sages based on this code, although ap
parently reading like private mercan
tile telegrams and cable grams, could
be deciphered into accurate descrip
tions of allied warships or of belliger
ent or neutral merchantmen.
From the spy headquarters in Gothr
enburg, agents were sent to Scandina
vian ports and attempts were made
whether successful or not, to get them
into England. These agents were sup
plied with code and many mentioned,
and were reporting to headquarters
on the sailing of merchantmen. It is
supposed that in some way the head
quarters in Gothenburg communicat
ed the information to German sub
marines at sea, probably by wireless
stations hidden along the coast. One
of the chief branches of the Gothen
burg office was in California, and a
Norwegian was actually engaged there
to go to England on the espionage
service, in addition of process of in
visible ink writing for mail reports.
Another branch was in Malmo, Swe
den. It is believed that many of the
agents of the German spies in Gothen
burg were Scandinavians. At about
the same time of the discovery of the
Gothenburg office, a German giving
the name of Klein was arrested in
Sweden, charged with a plot to mur
der British Ambassador Buchanan in
Petrograd. Klein was afterward re
leased, but deported from Sweden.
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home. Mrs. Young, Alaska House.
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“C” LISTS 6—1946, —2023, —2025,
—2026.
RESTORATION TO ENTRY OF
LANDS IN NATIONAL FOREST
Notice is hereby given that the
lands described below, embracing
500.16 acres, within the Chugach Na
tional Forest, Alaska, will be subject
to settlement and entry under the pro-1
visions of the homestead laws of the
United Sthtes and the act of June 11,
1906, (34 Stat., 233), at the United
States land office at Juneau, Alaska, on
September 29, 1917. Anv settler who
was actually and in good faith claim
ing any of said lands for agricult
ural purposes prior to January* 1,1906,
and has not abandoned same, has a
preference right to make a homestead
entry for the lands actually occupied.
Said lands were listed upon the appli
cations of the persons mentioned De
low, who have a preference right sub
ject to the prior right of any such
settler, provided such settler or appli
cant is qualified to make homestead
entry* and the preference right is ex
ercised prior to September 29, 1917,
on whicn date the lands will be sub
ject to settlement and entry by any
qualified person. A tract of land de
scribed as follows: Beginning at Cor.
No. 1, established on line of C. R. and
N. W. Ry. right of way; extending
thence S. 66 deg. E. along line of
right of way, 7.05 chs. to Cor. No. 2,
identical with the N. W. Cor. of Tract
B; thence S. 24 deg. W., 1.51 chs. to
Cor. No. 3, identical with the S. W.
Cor. of Tract B; thence S. 66 deg.
E., 66 chs. to Cor. No. 4; thence N.
24 deg. E., 1.51 chs. to Cor. No. f>;
thence S. 66 deg. E., 6.95 chs. to Cor.
No. 6; thence S. 23.26 chs. to Cor.
No. 7; thence N. 60 deg. W.f 80 chs.
to Cor. No. 8; thence N. 23.20 chs. to
Cor. No. 1, the place of beginning,
containing 100.02 acres; application of
Tony Lynch, Cordova, Alaska; List 6—
1940. The S12 Lot 4 (23.11 acres),
S*4 NM-6 Lot 4 (10.27 acres), S1
SWtt SEtt, Sl(. N% S\vy4 SEy4, Sec.
16; Lot 1 (50.29 acres), NWVi NEV4, .
Sec. 21, T. 11 N., It. 3 W.. S. M.
(unapproved survey), except 139.93
acres restored by List 0—903, the net
area hereby restored being 19.74
acres; application of Axel Hirvela, I*.
0. Box 1591, Anchorage, Alaska;
List 0—2023. A tract of land describ
ed as follows: Beginning at Cor. No.
1, identical with Cor. No. 2 of Nelson
Steele homestead No. 301, whence For
est Service Monument, consisting of a
post 5 inches square and 5 feet long
set in mound of stones 10 feet from
mean high water mark on north shore
of Kenai Lake approximately one-half
mile north of the mouth of Quartz
Creek, near point of conspicuous bluff
of grey slate at extreme north side of
Quartz Creek valley, bears S. 02 deg.
W., 139.20 chs.; extending thence N.
45 deg. E., 40 chs. to Cor. No. 2;
thence S. 34 deg. E., 38 chs. to Cor.
No. 3; thence S. 45 deg. W., 40 chs. to
Cor. No. 4, identical with Cor. No. 3
of Nelson Steele homestead No. 301;
thence N. 25 deg. 30 min. W., 39.00
chs. to Cor. No. 1, the place of be
ginning, containing 100.38 acres; ap
plication of Sol. F. Giles, Roosevelt,
Alaska; List 6—2025. A tract of land
described as follows: Beginning at
Cor. No. 1, identical with Cor. No. 3
of Wm. A. Simpson homestead No.
109, whence Forest Sendee Monument
described in List 0—2025 bears S. 07
deg. 15 min. W., 00.30 chs.; extending
thence N. 56 deg. 30 min. E., 40 «hs.
to Cor. No. 2; thence S. 24 deg. E.,
39.70 chs. to Cor. No. 3; thence S. 56
deg. 30 min. W., 41.80 chs. to Cor. No.
4; thence N. 21 deg. 30 min. W., 40
chs. to Cor. No. 1, the place of begin
ning, containing 100.02 acres; appli
cation of Frank Lyon, Roosevelt,
Alaska; List 6—2020. July 7, 1917.
C. M. Bruce, Assistant Commissioner
of the General Land Office.
Aug. 9-16-23-30, 1917.
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