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TIME FOR A CHANGE
The present grand jury system which requires that
one charged with a felony be detained in default of bail
until a number of his fellow citizens consider his case, has
been the cause of considerable criticism from time to time I
and recently at Fairbanks two Russians were detained a
year for trial.
If two Americans were locked up in Russia withoutj
trial for a year a movement would be started to send the|
fleet over and rescue them.
These men were arrested on April IT, 1916, and, un
able to get bail, have been lying in the federal jail ever
since. Both wanted to plead guilty and when the time for
them to do so came around they entered such pleas. \\ hen
they were arrested last year the grand jury had just end
ed its sitting and there was nothing for them to do but
stay in jail, awaiting the next term ot the grand jury.
As it happens, in these particular cases, no great hard
ship is worked as Judge Bunnell took the situation into
consideration and sentenced them to only one day in jail
on this charge. But. had they been innocent and had they
been forced to remain in jail for a year it would indeed:
have been a hardship.
Under the law, as it is at the present time, if a man;
is arrested on a felony, there is no way he can have his
case disposed of until the grand jury takes a guess at it.
Even if he wished to plead guilty, he is not permitted to
do so. _
IT COMES TO ALL
There’s no use denying it. Old age is coining to the
writer and coining fast. Even though we could forget it
we are not allowed to do so—every day something happens
to bring home to us the fact. \\ e can’t stand as much as
we used to. Eor instance, we sat up last night “holding
hands’ with Arthur Williams, lost a lot of sleep, and this
morning it is snowing; the baby is sick abed; a neighbor’s
cat anxious to become better acquainted with us this morn
ing came in while we were asleep and left a dead mouse in
our bed as a calling card; Cornelia Templeton Hatcher is
out after a law to restrict advertising in Alaska papers;
our new militia company of the Alaska Loyal League can
not find a floor to drill on, because their shoes would mark
up such floor; there is no local money to assist our farmers
in raising greater crops this year, and our coffee didn’t
taste right—it can l>e nothing but old age.—(Fairbanks
News-Miner.)
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CO-ORDINATION N EEDED
Recently Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the interior,
writing for the National Geographic magazine concern
ing the work of his department, had the following to say
regarding the spirit of national development:
“An intense nationalism has been the marking note
of the past year. Each American has realized with keener
consciousness the meaning of this land to him, and has
sought for a larger view of its many aspects, and, if pos
sible, to gain a glimpse of its future. To each has come
his dream. We know that there is more to national feel
ing than pride in the possession of a land that is rare and
valuable or the splendid memory of a history of struggle
for those things of a spirit which men call principles. The
highest sense of nationality comes with a sense of purpose
—a sense of common purpose—for the United States is
not yet ours in the proudest sense, and cannot be until we
are doing all that can be done to give to all its people and
to the world the full expression of its highest intelligence
applied alike to its resources and to the life of the peo
ple.”
Alaska is, from a point of settlement, a new land, one
of the youngest. Handicaps to its being thickly habitated
have arisen from more sources than one. One of the first
of this is, of course, an exaggerated conception of the
rigors of the climate; another the absence of adequate
means of transportation and communication. During the
last few years a systematic campaign carried on simul
taneously by all the towns of the territory has been great
ly beneficial in exploding the “land of eternal snows and
mountains of ice” myth, and people are beginning to real
l/.e that we have up here things besides placer mines. The
railroad being built by the government will gut the dis
tance from the interior to the coast from days to hours,
and eventually put the northernmost town within week
end visiting touch of the States. Thus the drawback of
slow communication will be done away with.
In the history of the development of any country
there are, roughly speaking, four stages. First comes the
pioneer who lives off the country’s obvious supplies, kill
ing the game for his food and trapping the fur bearing
animals for his clothing. Next we become producers of
raw materials, grains, minerals, lumber, etc. Following
this comes the manufacturing stage, in which only the
coarser things are touched. This eventually expands into
wider markets and more varied industries, accompanied
bv more economical methods of production and exchange.
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For a large part of Alaska the first stage has passed,
although some of the territory has not quite emerged from
it vet. But for the remainder of the country the second
phase has just been entered. Large tracts of mineralized
ground are untouched, and the ring of axes in vast
stretches of forest has never been heard. The agriculture
uf the country is still in its infancy.
We are just now standing at the threshold of our
period of greatest opportunity. We should take advan
tage of the lessons taught in the development of other
lands and profit by them as we endeavor to build up our
own land. In this land of the last frontier, larger than
some of the first class nations of the world, are founda
tions for many varied industries, and homes for millions
ready for occupancy with the expenditure of almost no
money, and very little real labor. The time is coming when
all these will be taken up, and it rests a great deal with
us, who are already here, as to how rapidly they are oc
cupied.
There is at present a crying need for a co-ordination
of purpose and effort, which, successfully applied, will
surelv revolutionize the entire life of the territory. Start
in the schools and identify them with the work that must
lie done in the different industries. The schools as mere
scholastic institutions of learning have outlived their use
fulness and must be carried out on broadei lines if they
are to play their part in the future of the land.
Towns must lay aside sectional differences, outlying
sections get in closer touch with the towns. No longer
will individual effort serve our aims or achieve our ends.
The will of the individual must be fused into the will of1
the mass, and a unity of purpose take the place of the pres-'
ent haphazard, hit-or-miss system that prevails. All of;
us may not live to see this accomplished, but we can help
the work so that it will be easy of continuance, and in so|
doing we will have done our “bit," for this is the surest'
and quickest way to realize our dreams of making Alaska
the ideal home spot of the world.—(Fairbanks Citizen.)
Cheer Up Folks
THE UK’S MORE IN THE KITCHEN
A Suspicion
“Why is George Washington de
scribed as ‘First in war and first in
peace 7
“l dunno,” replied Senator Sorgh- j
uni. “I suspect somebody was trying
to square him with both the prepared- j
No. 31
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF
ADMINISTRATRIX WITH WILL
ANNEXED, and NOTICE TO
CREDITORS.
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR
THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA,
THIRD DIVISION, KENAI PREC
CINCT.
In the matter of the estate of
ADAM BLOCH, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned that she has been appoint
ed administratrix with the will an
nexed of the estate of Adam Bloch,
deceased.
All persons having claims against
the said deceased are hereby notified
to exhibit and present such claims,
with the necessary vouchers, within
six (6) months from the date of this
notice, and the first publication there
of, to the undersigned, ANNIE
I CHRISTIANSEN, said administra
i trix, at the office of L. L. James, Jr.,
in the town of Seward, Territory of
I Alaska, which said office the under
signed selects as her place of business
in all matters connected with said
j estate of ADAM BLOCH, deceased.
Dated: Seward, Alaska, April 10,
! 1917. ANNIE CHRISTIANSEN,
Administratrix with the will annexed
of the Estate of Adam Bloch, De
ceased.
I,. L. JAMES, Jr.,
Attorney for said Administratrix.
April 21-28-May 5-12.
ness people and the pacifists.”—
(Washington Star.)
High Cost
Six young boys standing on thej
main street of a suburban city, about
to start a snowball fight, in the vicin
ity of two or three stores with large <
windows.
One of the youngsters: “Aw, wait
a minute. Let’s go over to a side
street. These windows cost $100
apiece.”
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