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SEW VRI). ALASKA. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 13, 1915
From all indications it now seems certain that the mining law passed by
the first territorial legislature will be repealed by the legislature which meets
in Juneau next month. From the beginning many people saw where that law
was sure to cause a tremendous lot of trouble without any compensating ad
vantages. The \\ ickersham bill passed by congress previously had eliminated
most of the ills created by the power of attorney system so that the territor
ial law must not at all be credited with the improvements in that respect.
The territorial law was passed without consulting the opinion of the
people of the territory and was to say the least of it, a very hasty piece of
legislation. It is well known that it was voted for by members of the legis
lature who actually did not know what they were voting for. This was dis
covered immediately after the session when members of the legislature dif
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fered in their statements as to several of the clauses.
The mining laws of the territory affect more men directly than any other
laws and the greatest pains should be taken by the territorial legislature be
fore any more are passed. In the meatime the consensus of opinion seems
to be that the law passed by the first legislature should be stricken out.
That the l nited States government will he hard put to it to avoid serious
trouble in connection with the European war now sems to be growing surer
and more sure. That some of the belligerent nations are taking undue ad-!
vantage of thi*« country no one can deny. With the exception of Italy this
is the only first class power in the western hemisphere which is neutral and
Italy’s relations with the fighting powers are such and so dangerously un
balanced that neither side in the war would dare to take half the liberties with
her that they have taken with I ncle Sam. The world knows that this nation
wishes devoutly to remain aloof from the European embroglio and for that
reason liberties are taken which never otherwise would have been dreamt of.
Indeed the pacific intentions of the 1 nited States have been such that it will
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require unusual efforts and plain talk to remind Europe that even if Amer
ica does not want to fight there is a limit to her patience.
The news coining from the outside world is disquieting to say the very 1
least but it feels to be altogether impossible that the I’nited States can be 1
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drawn into the vortex of blood.
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NEWS FROM ALL PARTS
OF THE NORTHLAND
The Juneau land office rendered an
adverse decision in the application of
the Matanuska Coal .Mining & Devel
opment company, for the title to
1200 acres of coal lands in the Mat
anuska district. The group of claims
under contest is known as the Munley
group. Judge M. G. Munley of Port
land, interested in the Punter Bay
cannery, was one of the claimants
and other Portland and Spokane men
were interested. Patrick Walsh of
Spokane had the controlling interest.
—Skagway Alaskan.
SEATTLE, Feb. L—Cecil Edward
Rowe, son of Rishop P. T. Rowe, was (
seriously burned yesterday by the ex
plosion of a gasoline lamp. Itishop
Howe had only left a week ago on a <
trip through Alaska and is now at
Juneau, where information of the ac
cident was sent him.—Ex.
JUNEAU.—K. Yamaguchi. a Jap* 1
anese, convicted of the manslaughter
of T. Katjita, at Sitkoh Bay cannery
last April, was sentenced by Judge
Robert W. Jennings this morning in
the distrct court, to serve twenty
years in the Federal penitentiary at
McNeil’s Island, Wash.
BRITISH SOLDIER MI ST
HAVE GENTLEMAN BOSS.
Difficulties Found to Secure Full
Sare of Officers.
LONDON. Feb. 11.—The question
of military training in the schools is
now a live one over all Britain, and
the chief agitators are not army men
but teachers. Lack of proper mater
ial for officers to take the place of
those killed and injuiod at the front
and to supply Kitchener’s huge new
army and the inadequately' officered
territorial force, is one of the most
serious problems of the war. All of j
the higher schools have been called on
for subalterns, as the British “Tom
my’' objects to serving under any offi- j
cer not born a gentleman. The teach-1
ers feel that they were in a sense to
blame for not having given their j
students some elemental preliminary
training further than that of the small
student officers’ corps.
At a meeting of the Incorporate
Association of Headmasters in the -
London Guidhall, F. H. Templar said |
in regard to the New Zealand system i
of universal military training in the
schools; “While conscription produces
militarism, national training destroys,
it. The citizen soldier is a man whose
every interest is bound up wth the
maintenance of peace.”
Another speaker pointed out that
military drill and rifle shooting wen
compulsory in the Swiss schools, yet
he asked who could accuse the Swiss'
of militarism.
A resolution declaring that military
training in the schools would save the
country from having to improvise an'
army in war time by providing a re
servoir of partly trained men, was:
passed with only a few dissenting I
votes. j
Garden City Brand, high grade j
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Fred McGary: '
You are hereby notified that we
have expended Three hundred dollars
in labor and improvements upon the
Tanana Association, Homestake and
Wild Cat Association Placer mining
claims on Dollar Creek, Left Limit, as
will appear by Affidavits Proof of An
nual Labor for year 1914, recorded in
the Office of the Commissioner and
Ex-Officio Recorder, Cook Inlet Pre
cinct, Territory of Alaska, Third Divi
sion, in order to hold said premises
under the provision of Section 2324
Revised Statutes of the United States,
being the amount required to hold the
same for the year ending December
31-1914; And if within Ninety days
after this notice by publication, you
fail or refuse to contribute your pro
portion of such expenditure as Co
Owner, your interest in #aid claims
will become the property of the sub
scribers under said section 2324.
Dated at Susitna. Alaska January
13th, 1915.
Andy Taylor,
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