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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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TIMES SAYS BOW NECK TO YOKE
The Anchorage Times, like Hajnlet, has pondered the
question: “whether ’tis nobler in the mind to take up
arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them,
or to die, to sleep,” etc.
Unlike the courageous scion of the Vikings, the
Times has decided to sleep, a choice not entirely new with
the Times.
The Times says, in taking issue with the Gateway on
the big timber grab in Southeastern Alaska: “It seems
to The Times that the Forest Service has found the right
solution, the one offering the greatest benefit to the great
est number.” . .
Would the Times advocate withdrawing the right of
the individual to own a trapsite or other means of taking
fish and delegate this right solely to one big organization
which was financially able to expend ten million dollars in
one plant, and substitute for the present system, which
now gives any man a right to a share in the fish and to
catch and sell them to whomsoever would buy, a rule that
only this one big corporation would have a right to the
fish?
This epitomizes what the big pulpwood deal in South
eastern Alaska means. It seeks five billion feet of tim
ber with the exclusive privilege of logging it, and the For
estry Bureau grants until 1982, as stated in a story in the
Times, to do the logging, or a monopoly of 45 years.
The Times says the position taken by the Gateway
that in view of the fact that the conservation policy “ar
bitrarily took from the pioneeers of Alaska what was
theirs by right of precedent and custom in the nation, it
could ameliorate the wrong by allowing bona fide Alas
kans to acquire title to the timber units so that they can
do the selling instead of the government” is a “pretty sen
timent.” What is justice and honor but refined senti
ment as opposed to the principle of savage might makes
right?
rur uie saKe oi argument let us suppose tnat tne
Gateway's suggestion that the right of pre-emption was
given Alaskans, was in effect. It would mean that every
pioneer in the Sitka home would be holding timber, or
ere this would have vended his holdings, instead of being
an object of charity which costs the Territory large sums
of money annually to sustain, a condition created through ,
despoiling them of a natural right. It would mean that
any man with a desire to be more than a wage slave,
could be logging his holdings under supervision of the
Forestry Bureau in an advisory capacity, and selling his
material to any pulpwood or lumber industry that cared
to buy. The only difference would be in that Alaskans
would participate in the enterprise as free and unham- 1
pered American citizens instead of being subjected to a
serfdom whereby the opportunity would lie in either being
on the payroll of one big corporation or that of the bu
reaus, as is now the case with respect to timber.
The Times points to the return to the Territory of '
funds for schools. Are we reduced to that phase of Bol- c
shevism wherein the individual becomes the creature of 1
the State and not the State the creature of the individual? 1
Are Alaskans to be reduced to the status of the natives, ]
supervised by the Bureau of Education through doles for £
education from the national Treasury instead of being the ]
creators of their own economic condition which will and
has eared for such matters in the States of the Union? e
It seems that the Times overlooked the fact that funds de- 1
rived from individual enterprise and industry would be 1
sufficient to meet all educational demands, and that other c
economic features would be paramount. ]
Alaska faces a condition where it must resign itself ]
to all the principles taught in Communism, where the ;
weal or woe of the individual is contingent upon the at- \
titude of the State, composed not of the forces which \
have created the great American commonwealth, but op- 1
portunists and those who by fortuitious circumstances <
secure the ballots of the people, or it must renew the j
battle for its rights to existence as a free unit of the Am
erican republic. .
1 If the Times can marshal one scintilla of evidence i
that Alaska has progressed better under the paternalistic k
WILL WORK nm MIRE
CICHECOEEK DISTRICT
The outlook was never better in
;he Cache Creek district than it is
;his year in the opinion of Charles
hooper, who with his brother R. H.
Cooper and N. D. Baker, controls
thirteen placer claims on Willow
sreek, a tributary to Peters creek.
With representatives of dredging in
terests drilling Peters creek to deter
mine the extent of the pay and sev
eral small outfits this year equipped
with hydraulic machinery, activities
in the famous placer district promise
to outstrip those for several seasons.
Mr. Cooper and associates installed
a No. 1 giant last year, after com
pleting a mile of ditch and putting in
1,300 feet of pipe running from 20
down to 8 inches. The equipment was
purchased from the Ramsdike Mining
company, which operated on Rams
dike creek in the same district.
Mr. Cooper and associates operated
only 30 days last season owing to late
ness of installing equipment and the
scarcity of water late in the season,
but made sufficient test to convince
them that they have something good.
The poorest ground, says Mr. Cooper,
averaged $1.30 per yard, which in it
self is good pay.
There 'will be four men on the job
luring the coming season and the op
erators hope to take out a good clean-!
Lip.
As yet nothing definite has been
learned with respect to the operation
ef the cache creek dredge, which was
operated last season by Englehorn
and associates until the breaking of a!
spudder caused a shutdown, but it is
rumored that the same outfit will have
:he dredge next season.
Jim Murray is well set up with hy
iraulic and tailing stacker on Cache
creek, near the dredge headquarters
camp and should have a good run next
season.
Talkeetna promises to be a busy
place about March 1 ,when the Cache
creek, Peters creei and Fairview
!
iistrict operators and prospectors be-;
?in outfitting for the summer’s opera
tions. With improved road conditions :
provided by the Alaska Road Commis
sion, freighting costs will be materi- j
ally reduced and greater convenience
be given to operators who have pio
aeered the region and proved it one
)f the best in AlAaska.
FHREHT5 OF DEftTH !
MADE MRS. CHAPLIN;
\IOTE RECEIVED THOUGHT SENT
BY CRANK; CHAPLIN IN NEW
YORK
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 3. </P)—
threats of death unless she drops
[ivorce action against Charles Chap
in the film comedian ,were received
iy Mrs. Chaplin it became known
tere yesterday. The note wras laid to
, c'rank. Police protection however
ias been requested. Chaplin in New
fork has hinted that he will remain
:ast to finish work on the “Circus”
lis latest picture and will then come
o Los Angeles to fight the divorce
barges.
LIBERTY
THEATER
TONIGHT ONLY-8 O’CLOCK SHARP-TONIGHT ONLY
The famous best selling novel of the year
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HERBERT
BRENON
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P ROD UCTION
WITH
ALICE JOYCE
NEIL HAMILTON
MARY BRIAN
ESTHER RALSTON
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By Anne Douglas Sedgwick—Wonderfully put into
pictures
This great drama tells the story of a young girl’s
struggle in the clutches of her mother’s unsavory
reputation.
An unusual book and now an unusual play
MARY BRIAN ALICE JOYCE
Plays the innocent Plays the
girl_ Mother
And there is WALTER HINES in an extra good
Two-reel Comedy
"OH, BRIDGET"
And a Reel of Jokes
NOTICE TO PARENTS—Because of the great number of com
plaints every week from our patrons, we are compelled to take dras
tic actiop to put a stop to the unreasonable yelling and noisiness of
the children. We have talked to the children and some of the pa
rents in v5in and so have to resort to other methods to cure a condi
tion that has become unbearable. As a first step, we reserve the
right to eject any child or youth who, in our opinion, makes any un
reasonable noise, and to forbid them entrance thereafter as long as we
deem necessary to secure their future behavior. We will use the
greatest care to make no mistakes, but it is impossible to always
pick the exact guilty one, and so if you don’t want to run the chance
of having your child excluded in the balance of the noisy group you
will please keep them by your side-.
THE MAMAGEMENT.
JOHN C. WHITE
& CO.
High Grade Line of
CIGARS, TOBACCOS, ft
CANDIES
FINEST BILLIARD HALL IN ALASKA
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system of bureaucracy than it did prior to the adoption of
she experiment, or can point to any section of the United
states that has lagged as far behind, we are willing to
irop the subject and follow the suggestion of the Times j
shat we scrap the fundamentals of Americanism and ;
shrow ourselves upon the mercy of the State as the an- }
dent serfs threw themselves upon the mercy of their lords
md masters. #
And in passing—why educate our children if the op- 5
)ortunity awaiting them is confined to accepting a day's s
>ay job from the government or the big corporation that 1
s beneficiary of the government's bounty? 1
FACES ON SHOE HEELS
Strange things happen in the fash
on world of the Royal Borough of
Kensington. Latest of these is the
lew heel mode of the evening shoe,
t is a painted face of a woman with
itriking headdress, executed in emer
g'd3 and brilliants and which tones
vith the decoration of the slipper
ind evening gown.