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CALENDAR
NOVEMBER
8 M T W T K 8
l 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 0 10
11 12 13 14 15 10 17
IS 10 20 21 22 23 24
25 20 27 28 20 30
Moon's Phases.
Lust quarter. 9tli;
new muon. 15th:
first quarter, 22d:
full moon, 20th.
DECEMBER
S M T W T F H
l
- 3 4 5 6 7 8
0 10 11 12 13 14 15
10 17 IS 10 20 21 22
23 24 25 20 27 28 20
30 31
Moon's Phases.
Last quarter, Sth:
new moon, 15th;
first quurter, 22<1:
full moon, 80th.
\V K1)NKSHA v. Novkmbkk 28, l'.HW.
WORK MAPPED OUT BY WASKEY
Says a press dispatch dated Seattle,
Oct. 15:
‘'In the P.-I. this morning Delegate
Waskev reviews the work he has mapped
out for the winter sea-ions, including
administration, lie declares the terri
tory suffers by being so far removed
from the head of government, chiefly
because of the unusual conditions that
can not be understood by non-resident
legislators.
“The delegate specifies among the con
cessions congress will he asked to make:
(11 “Changes in registration and date
clauses of elections law.
(2) “Revised mining laws to protect
bona fide locators as against speculators
and to provide for certificates of repre
sentation work, so that false swearing
will he perjury.
(3) “Land offices at Nome and Fair
banks, and regulations to make record
ers satisfy themselves of the eligibility
of a filing before accepting it.
(4) “A lighthouse district with a geo
detic survey located at Ketchikan.
(3) “Additional provisions for support
of natives.”
Of course the foregoing can not be
verified as the genuine expressions of
Delegate W askev—indeed it bears every
mark of having been garbled;—but if it
has been sent out with his approval
who can interpret his meaning when lie
includes “administration'' in “the work
he has mapped out for the winter ses
sions’.’ The press dispatch containing
the delegate's alleged program says he
and Governor Iloggatt “are divided on
the big issue of the northern territory.”
Will the delegate undertake to direct
the governor and other administrative
officials? If heiloes he may suffer from
over work Ijpfore hi- short term of office
euds.
A** t‘» hi-* inort* -‘I’.t illr work, ‘Vhaiigf
in ivguit ration and «lutt* «*lan-»•* <»f*
linnx law” i- Hi>t. Thrrr h tn» rf yiMra
ti* in «'!ait*‘ in 11 »•• t'h**th»ti I aw : th* r» -
fort* al*nit the «*nly chang** that naiM !*•
ni:».!»• in that |*arti« uliir w«»tiM !»• !«* }»tit
mu1 in it, an«l that h what tht* •IrhuaU*
|wr4*ihiv «,«»nt»*ii»|»lat»*'*. Tin* gn»»l <*f *»u*h
a elan** i|tn*«ti«>itahh‘ That it wmil'l
|»r%*v«*f>t n»tn*la*r*» «»| |ir*»>|iirt*>r4 tmtn
qualifying t«» v«»i* i* TK«* *l*t*
f«»r •*!•••• •»«*»»'*. tht* Tu* t*lay in
\iin»»t»h» thn»ahh*
" Itr\ milting law* i«* |*r»»t#*rt l«>na
fide locators as against speculators”
sounds pleasant. After the revision
shall have been effected it will he inter
esting to note to what extent the pro
tection protects. Meanwhile, if Mr.
Waskey will effect a change in the
rulings so as to restrict bona tide loca
tors to the statutory twenty-acre claim
instead of the 160-acre one now in
fashion, he will accomplish a great good
for a great number. But he and his
constituents will find in the end that
too many nostrums are had for the pa
tient. Red tape is what the schemer
uses to run the line w hen he wants the
prospector's ground. Certificates of rep
resentation work, ami regulations to
make recorders satisfy themselves of the
eligibility of tilings would but add to the
length of the tape line. To pass an act
declaring false swearing perjury would
he as idle as to pass one pronouncing
stealing theft, or theft stealing.
Mr. Waskey will scarcely be able to
bring about all his intended reforms by
the 4th of next March. Let us hope not,
if he feels called upon to go beyond the
two prime requisites for a I'nitcd States
mining law—uniformity and simplicity.
Frank L. Hess, who was associated
with I.. M. Primtle in the I'nited States
(ieological Survey in tliis district in
11H14, lias an interesting and instructive
article on “The Production of Tin" in
the Chicago Mining World of Oct. ti. I >n
the whole Mr. Hess’s article, which is
mainly statistical, gives the impression
that there is no immediate prospect of
increase in the world's supply or of a
drop in the present high price. In 1!X)5
the only production in the I'nited States
was an insignificant ipiantity of ore from
the placers of Buck creek, Alaska. There
was no output from the lode claims of
the York region. Alaska. In Alaska the
season was exceedingly had, so that
sluicing on Buck creek was carried on
under great difficulty. However, the
first really good prospects on Cape
Prince of Wales were found during the
year, and the probability of future pro
duction is not without hop.-. Larger
quantities of tin ore were found in the
the Lest Kiver valley of the York region
than had been known, and small veins
were found at several points in the vi
cinitj of ..riginal discovery. Mr.
Ih ss enumerate- prospectj found around
the head of Buck creek, uii Ears moun
tain and other places, hut does not at
tempt to forecast the future of the tin
industry in Alaska.
Cuymtvi.uzKii p*M, \\ir«* t*r !*i*»nvry
art* for liy mineral
eullw lorn. Tl»«* larw* mtiiM'itinx, t ul*
l» „» and individual* nr** always «»n the
lookout for ehoter freehold riinen*,
and wlii u atta in'd t »ijn. rt/ in win* <>r
x|Ninity form art* imirli nought f« r. Cry*
talli/id a*»M i- run*. When in |*-rf«« t
«*ry»t*U ji|«n iiii« h« hring far un*r» than
I hr gt»UI value. Tin* Mining U orkl, 145511
Monad it«**k l*h«*k. t Iihdk", will furni*h
IIhw doling' to d i * | '• •**•* of tiiii Id
*|*-e lim n** with nano « of ifaw likely to
jair ha-. •.»!»»•
Chas.A.Traeger,
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Cash Prices p U R §
Paid for
JULIUS RAHMSTORF.
F. M. SMITH HARRY KURRUSS
SMITH & BURRDSS
Freighters
and Packers
Rampart, Alaska
IIknev, prosecutor of the Sun Fran
cisco hoodlcrs, declares that Kent and
Schmitz grafted more than $:t,000,000,
most of which Schmitz pot. Schmitz
lias been mentioned as a weakling. It
seems that the facts warrant the asser
tion only on the hroail principle that
any man is such who forsakes friends,
honor and the legitimate achievements
of strong manhood for the price of uni
versal contempt and an ignominious
end. There \vas the jiossihillty of a
much higher political station for
Sniitz, _
Sown month* H)ft> o»|*»iv«| *oMi*r* got
ilrttnk awl 4hot it|* ihv town at llrown#
vilU*v Tt x.i*. an*I m»v* I'rcuiilrnt
vi*11 ha** rwommi iaUHl that all tin* liM'fi
in tin* t«tM’»»hi|«niH ii»»|*lH-al«*»l lw »li*
iHHwifaWy ♦li-i-har*9«l !••*« MU'**' thrv till
m4 th«* guilty "mu aw.i WfH,
th**v ought to Im lii«*l n- io th«*
it tlw*y <l*>n I "|«‘hi Ii an* l tin
m«atth «»| a raittmit it thry «!•*.
.T. LINDLEY GREEN,
Lawyer.
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A. B. NOTICE.
Regular meetings of the Arcti^ Brother
hood Lodge are held at their hall on the
second and fourth Fridays of each month at
8 o'clock |>. m.
W. W. CROCKETT,
JULIUS RAHMSTORF, Arctic Chief
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