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SATURDAY. DECEMBER 21, HW7
TIME TO GET TOGETHER
Now that the republican national
committee has extinguished the action
of the Juneau convention in electing
delegates to tin* nanionul convention it
looks like a good time for republican
factions in the territory to get to
gether. It would have been better if
the committee chosen at Juneau had
offered the olive branch to its rival
chosen in 1900 and proposed to unite in
a call fora spring convention. Never
theless there is no reason why all
members of the party should not
recognize the new committee, which
was elected by the largest republican
convention ever held in Alaska, anil
try to put the party on a permanent
basis. The time is ample for every
politician to get in his work.
It must Ik* conceded that there was
no sense in calling a convention for
November. The excuse was that in
the two preceding quadreuniates con
ventions were held in November, but
bad precedents are better abandoned
than followed. It was claimed that
November was the best month it) the
year for the whole territory, which is
not true. It is the worst month for the
Tanana and the southern coast, and no
better than any other w inter month
for Nome and Southeastern Alaska.
Further reason against the fall con
vention lay in the necessity for a later
meeting to nominate a candidate for
congress.
The important thing now to unite
the party. Alaska should not tollow
in the wake of the Southern republi
cans. who always have t .vo or three
parties in states where they poll only
a few thousand votes. One republican
party is enough for New \ork. Penn
sylvania and Illinois, audit should be
enough for Alaska.
The American plan work* in Pur
key also. A Turk s«v utv . the position
of building in>pector in Con-tanti
nople —salary ?ls a month, seldom if
ever paid. He wa- poor and lived
modestly in a little h«> in th*> poor
er part of the city. He -<>on bought a
lot on tin* Bosphorus, hitiit a beautiful
mansion, added several wive-, to his
liarem. iraporttd a bla *k eunuch from
Mecca to attend the n and soon beeame
one of the wealthier pkh in tie* em
pire.
The Seattle Mo >. ■_ rimes sus
pended publication h ca t-e it v: l not
pay although it was a popular paper.
The trouble was that tie- bu-imss of
fice manipulated everything in favor
of the afternoon edit ion. The Times
does no* say this editorially but it a
fact.
The !>tearner Dura pr>po.-i- to -ail
from Seattle December *J1 with
Christmas present- for the Western
Alaska ports. The boat will have to
hurry to get there even for Russian
Christmas, which i- thirteen days
behind the American celebration.
Cable news reports thut severe gales
are delaying the progress of Secretary
Taft’s ship, but does not specify
whether or not his political ship is
designated. The story may refer to
the little blast which carried away his
six Alaska delegates.
If the president declines a third term
a few more times somebody will be apt
to murmur that the gentleman doth
protest too much, as Hamlet’s mamma
thought of the lady in the play.
The cable correspondent missed the
death of John F. Trowbridge, a steam
ship manager known to nearly every
body in Alaska, but he keeps us posted
on effete European royalty.
It was just as well to close the tele
graph offices on Blue Sunday in Idaho
because cussing over the wire is ta
booed anyhow.
Unfortunately these bank wreckers
never think of it to commit suicide
before they wreck tin bank.
Money is the root of all evil and
most of us are rooters.—Philadelphia
Record.
ADD ANOTHER BLUNDER
When Seattle banks refused to pay
small drafts on funds in their possession
to the credit of Alaska banks they
added another blunder to the array of
commercial malfeasances which cause
the city to stand indicted before all
Alaska of an attitude of graft toward
the territory which lifted it from
bankruptcy ten years ago.
The issuance of clearinghouse cer
tificates and refusal to pay out large
sums in cash to depositors in Seattle
as in ail other cities was absolutely
necessary to prevent a repetition of
j '9.». Had not runs by stampeded de
positors been checked that way half
the banks in the country might have
been compelled to close and bank
ruptcy would have run riot. The sys
tem worked individual hardship but
it was necessary to stop the panic.
Hut the small handful of Alaska
! drafts which were refused were on a
| different ba>;s. They were held by
men who paid cash for them in Alaska
after the panic started. Had the pur
chasers supposed that payment of the
i drafts would b* refused they would
have carried the cash with them.
I One Seward man who was on his way
! east to make a visit was held up on a
$000 draft and pud $”*> a week to spend
j in Seattle. A Seward business man
1 lost a profitable real estate transaction
because payment of a $1000 draft was
; refused. He might have sent the cash
I by express hut supposed the Seattle
hank would wa.v the money it owed.
This hank winch held up Seward
men was the Huget Sound National,
which is henceforth blacklisted in
Seward.
Tlie original hold-up was hv the fi
nancial highbinders of Wall street,
who refused to pay money their hanks
owed to the west, hut Seattle hanks
would not have missed the cash called
for by straggling Alaska demands on
current transact ions.
RIVAL ALASKA RAILROADS
All indications point toward me con
struction of two railroads from I he
sout hern coast of Alaska in u:o near
future, each to tap a vast coal field.
One of these will he the Alaska Cen
tral to the Matanuska, with rails I
roady laid fifty-three miles, an i twen
ty miles of grade beyond the track
terminus. The other will he a line!
from somewhere to reach the Kayak
coal field.
The terminus of the Alaska Corral
is fixed eternally at Seward and toe
route is definitely located.
The terminus of to* roil t> t he
Kayak field will be Coadov i or K nulla 1
or some other place where a »>r c m j
he found and a way out locate 1. Ph if
Kata I la is hopeless as a harbor >e iis
settled. Cordova has a fair iivur |
hut it is claim *1 th u almo-t proo *i-j
tive obstacles lie between it and me
coal field. To - worst of tiies-- a g a
e al morane of several m -*s wh di i
geological explor *rs say is si »’e ■
for a railroad grade is an engine r * * it
fora powder muguz'm*. P * ■> c nn
that it will he crumpling and sliding
continually.
Cndouhtedlv i railroad w.,1 !»-■ built
from some aecessih' - h irhor to he
Kayak coal. It is slid that ilmcc is >m-'
s-nall hay sui’iblo f >r a ha -b »r not '
far from K i'alla. and posshh two.
liotli of thes* have h'ei ignored, hit;
i if they are pi*acficahie one may lina.iy ;
1h* chosen, if the line trom Cordova
should be found to he impossible.
Idle coat will he reached,
The interesting feature of tho rival
coal areas is that they and the rail
roads reaching them seem liaely to he
controlled by rival capitalistic inter
jests. The Guggenheim crowd, hacked
by the Morgan syndicate, will control
at Kayak. From all accounts the
Alaska Central appears to he hacked
now by the Chicago. Milwaukee & St.
Paul, which' is allied now with the
Harrimun-Standard Oil crowd in Wall
street. The hitter enmity between
| these two groups of high financiers
makes it certain that if they control
rival railroad and coal interests in
Alaska there will he no pooling.
The statement that the Milwaukee
Jtc St. Paul has practically acquired
control of the Alaska Central seems
authentic and receives added strength
; from the reason given—that the Mil
waukee has little coal along its entire
line between Chicago and Puget sound
and must come to Alaska for an ade
quate supply.
Speaker Cannon announces that he
will stand pat on committee assign
ments as well as on the tariff and his
old clothes. Standing pat is where
your Uncle Joseph is strong. He
clings to the existing order like a
glutinous polyp to a Silurian rock.
The scrap in the house between
Williams and DeArmond shows that
the grand old democratic party isn’t as
! dead as its enemies lately hoped.
j The cable news brings the startling
I information that the administration
has not yet formed any plans for the
return of the battleship Meet from the
Pacific. Inasmuch as the Meet was
three days out from Hampton Roads
when that statement was put into j
action the government seems pretty J
slow, especially as the fleet was report-1
ed the previous day to be 18,000 miles
from Cape Hatteras. Really the navy j
department ought to wigwag to Mars |
to look for the warships in one of its i
canals along next week.
Tf Richmond .P. Hobson, the naval
Don Quixote, has switched to the side
of universal peace it must lx* a a case
of traditional Hobson’s choice in the
pursuit of fame.
A Chicago packinghouse complains
that it has lost $100,000 this year
through the operation of the pure food
laws. It can’t use putrid scraps under
false labels.
At least Gov. Hoggatt supplies the
newspapers with lots of news.
This Is Going Some
Charleston, S. C., Dec. 18—A wire
less message from the Pacific fleet this
morning stated that it was sailing well
in smooth water and was 18,000 miles
oil Cape Uatteras.
A request for repetition of this mes
sage brought the same figures from
Valdez. Evidently it has been balled j
up somewhere on the line. It is im
portant if true, because if the fleet is
18,000 miles from Cape Uatteras it is
off the earth.
No Plans for Return of Fleet
Washington, D. C., Poe. 19 No plans
have yet been made for the return of
the battleship fleet now on way to the
1 ‘acific.
Land and Mineral Decisions
—
Published by Woodford 1). Harlan,
land attorney, Washington, I).
Mineral -Practice -The burden of i
proof is properly upon one alleging the j
mineral character of a tract that has, |
prior thereto, been adjudged agricul
t ural.
Mining Claim—Practice—When spe
cial agent reports non-compliance with
law, whilst the proof shows such com
pliance, hearing should he ordered
and special agent he directed to pro- j
cluce his evidence.
Homestead Townsite - V homestead i
entry made with intent to use the laud:
ora part thereof for townsite purpo- j
si s renders the entry invalid in its en-!
11 rely.
Practice—The granting of an oral j
argument at any time is entirely in j
in discretion of the secretary of the
interior, and after final judgment has
i>cen rendered in a case it will not he j
granted except upon the grounds
unieh warrant a-motion for review.
Residence Residence of a married
man le-id to be where his family re
sides. .n tlie absence of proof to the
contrary. The validity of a settler’s
i i sidence is not alleeted by the fact
mat his wife refuses to live on the
land.
Saratoga Conies and (ioes
Steamer Saratoga arrived from Se
nt tie Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock,
bringing a general freight cargo and'
twenty passengers. Fifteen of the j
latter were railroad workers from Ka
talla, who formerly lived here and
eame to Seward to winter, liking the
place better as a winter resort than
any other on the coast. The steamer
sailed for Seattle Tuesday morning at
4 o'clock.
StWARD STEAMERS
Bertha; sailed from Seattle 18th
Dora; sails from Seattle 21th.
Santa Clara; sails from Seattle 21st.
Northwestern; sailed for Seattle 13th.
Saratoga; sailed for Seattle 17th.
WEEKLY WtATHER RECORD
Weathei record for the week ending
December 21.
Temperature.
Max. Min.
Sunday 31 27 Snow
Monday 36 32 Rain
Tuesday 39 32 Rain
Wednesday 37 35 Rain,sleet,snow
Thursday 36 31 Rain,sleet,snow
Friday 37 31 Rain, snow
Saturday 30 29 Cloudy
Temperature in November
The mean temperature of November
in Seward was 30.08 degrees, a very
low mark. The highest temperature
was 47 degrees on the 6th. The lowest
was 11 degrees on the 5th and 6th.
There were seven clear days, nine
cloudy, two part cloudy, rain fell on
| seven and snow on five.
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