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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19. 1904
Published daily except Sunday by
THE GATEWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY
Entered in the postoffice at Seward, Alaska as
second-class mail matter.
U. V. HO BEN and E. fTjESSEN, Proprietors
E F. Jessen, Editor and Manager ♦
C. J. Lincke, Associate Ed'tor
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WHO IS MISLEADING THE PUBLIC?
On March 30, last, in response to a cablegram of en
quiry with respect to rights of subjects of Alaska to ob
tain a five acre tract within the national forest, Mr. Flory
of the Juneau office sent the following answer
“The live-acre homesite law applies only to the public domain. I
anticipate that the Secretary's instructions will provide that areas not to
exceed live acres will he eliminated from the national forests on applica
tion after permanent h mies, to the exclusion of homes elsewhere? have
been estab.ished under special permits issued by the local forest super
visor.”
On the strength of the above cablegram the Gateway i
pointed out that only these occupying portions of the for-1
est reserve under the special permits referred to, were!
permitted to hold such areas in the forest reserve. * Fur- j
ther, that only in cases where the residence was perma
nent—that is, where the holder maintains no other res
dence, was opportunity given for acquiring title under
the recent law of Congress. The Gateway also point
ed out that residence in the forestry reserve under pres
ent existing regulations was by permit revokable within
30 days under certain conditions, and that the new law
was not a remedy in that it prevented one securing such
a site by purchase near some small lake as a summer out
ing spot.
Immediately following the publication of the cable
gram and comment thereupon, Mr. Russell Annabel, of
forestry service, supplied the Gateway with a statement
to the effect that
“While the act applies to unreserved (the emphasis is ours) public
domain, it will be made applicable to the national forest in the same
manner as are trade and manufacturing sites. That is, where a citizen
has established a permanent home within the forest, the site can. upon
application, be eliminated from the forest. It therefore becomes unre
served public domain subject to the provisions of the act.;’
On April 1, last, W. J. McDonald, forest supervisor,
commenting upon an Associated Press dispatch sent from !
Seward by the A. P.’s regular correspondent, made this!
statement over his signature in the Cordova Times: “This!
office has no such record of any such ruling, and I do not
know what authority the Seward representative of the
Associated Press has for sending such a dispatch.”
The correspondent answers: “Because it was a fact
stated over the signature of Mr. McDonald’s superior,
Mr. Flory, and later confirmed by Supervisor Annabel.”
Who is correct, the Gateway and the Associated!
Press or Messrs. Annabel, McDonald or Flory.
The Associated Press and the Seward Gateway pub
lish facts- When its news gatherers desire a piece of
news they do not accept hearsay, but go to an authoritive
source for facts and publish them regardless of who it
affects.
It is too bad Mr. McDonald does not use the same sys
tem, and an oversight on the part of his superior in not
coaching him on the latest “speech from the throne”.”
As will be seen by the reply of Mr. Flory to the Gate-1
ways enquiry, * * “Five acres will be eliminated!
from national forests on application after permanent
homes to the exclusion of hemes elsewhere have been es
tablished under special use permits.” * *
What is a permanent home? Where one receives his
mail, has his wash done and votes. Therefore, a citizen
of Seward, desiring, as the Gateway pointed out, to secure
a site for a summer home or hunting lodge, may do so only
under special use permits, not by purchase.
Going further, the new law specifically states, if the
forestry agents are not to be impeached by one of its num
ber, that the land must be fit fop no other purpose such as
agriculture.
The Gateway selected a3 an illustration a pioneer wo
man whose establishment on Kenai Lake has become na
tionally known, not being able to secure a patent for her
hotel and hunting lodge.
. Now it is announced by forestry representatives on
the ground that “after urging the passage of this act for
five years,” Nellie Neil will get her patent. For this pe
riod she has been waiting before being able to erect a
suitable establishment because she had nothing more
than a squatter's right, or special permit, which permitted
a forest supervisor to eject her at the behest of that bu
reau under its own interpretation of right and wrong.
Possibly within another five years we may see some
other ruling of the Forestry Bureau come forward grant
ing Alaskan subjects rights equivalent to those enjoyed
the subject peoples of Europe. In the meantime, if you
own a summer cabin you will have to select a spot unfiit
for anything else, pull up stakes and move out on this
worthless spot in order to hold it, or have some nice young
NEW MR CHICAGO
HAS PLURALITY OF
OVER 7U0 VOTES!
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ADDITIONAL DETAILS OF RECENT |
ELECTION AND RETURN OF |
“DIG BILL”
CHICAGO. April 12. (,zp)—‘Tig Bill”
Thompson, republican, who was elect
ed mayor of Chicago ha 1 a plurality I
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estimated at 77.000 votes over his !
democratic adversary, Mayor William |
E. Dever.
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The election saw records fall as j j
more than a million votes were cast
and the expected killings failed to
materialize, though there .was some
shooting and two democratic club |
houses were bombed early in the
day. Thompson’s- victory was gained
largly in the negro sections, which
cast 70,000 ballots with an almost
unanimous vote for him, he also drew
a big wet support. There are a few
precincts still to be heard from, but
they cannot change the position of
the men. With 161 missing precincts
the vote -stood, Thompson 481,470,
Dever 409,729 and Robertson, inde
pendent candidate, 40,186.
Early returns from the “silk stock
ing” districts showed Mayor Dever
leading Thompson by a small plural
■ty, but later returns from the wet
listricts and black belt turned the
tide and with 950 precincts in. Big j
Bill swung into the lead and was
never again behind.
The swing from Thompson in a j
normally republican city was estim- !
ated to be 80,000 votes and only May- 1
or Dever’s dry tendencies had elim- j •
inate l tlie majority of the democrat- • !
!
* c vete. as ne might easily have cap
tured the election, according to ex
perts.
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Thom; -on issued a statement aft.- j
er the election, saying that one of j
nis first o!tic?ai acts will be to oust j
Superintendan; of Schools, William
McAndrew, whom he called a “stool
pigeon of King George” and he de-j
dared that he will surround himself i
with men who will advance the in. |
terests of Chicago and uphold the
principals o! George Washington.
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VENECRA, Calif., April 12.' (/P)—:
Three slight earthquakes shook Yen- |
tura last night. The first tremor I
was the most pronounced, shaking i
houses and teds so that it awakened ,
the residents. The other quakes fol- I
lowed at five minute intervals, but j
no damage was reported.
REACH HIGH POINT
NEW YORK, April 12. (TP)—The
general average of 20 leading rail- I
road stocks on the New York stock
exchange were yesterday lifted, to
the highest level since 190S.
man with leather leggins, pea-green unifor mn’ every
thing, rather pleasing in personality, but bearing the
royal coat of arms of the Forestry Bureau serve notice on
you to get off within 30 days.
Were not the conservation blight withering progress
'ike the locusts of Egypt the public domain would have
long ago become useful in many ways and made to return
taxes, provide*employment for labor and cease to be a wil
derness, as the Gateway pointed out in a recent issue.
It is an insult to the intelligence of the most unlet
tered man in Alaska for the Forestry Bureau to attempt
to mislead him into the belief that the interpretation as
gfven by by Mr. Flory and Mr. Annabel means anything
different from what the above quotations show.
A paradox—Woman wants but little (t)here below,
yet wants the little big.
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NEW YORK, April 12. (^—Rober
ta Jane Pratt, the adopted daughter
of Everett S. and Mrs. Pratt, who
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over the child’s adoption, has staged
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