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WHAT IS COMING
T<> those who in t-heir daily |*erusal of the Outside new* endeavor to
see below the onflowing current of events, there is :i somewhat ominous in
flection in many of the recent press reports which suggests that there is
something portentious brewing of which the most of us are scarcely aware.
For instance, when the nation is looking forward to a long era of un
disturbed peace: when there is one actual and one proposed coalition of na- !
tions to prevent future wars, why should war with i marked warning of non- j
toleration of war profiteering occupy so large a part of President Harding's i
inaugural address? When the Hist, covetous <>f the gains resulting from the
presence of the nation's battle fleet rather than insistent on full observance i
of strategetic rules, has clamored for months against the maintenance of a
fleet on the Pacific, why should the new administration at the very outset of |
its career devote two cabinet sessions to discussion of some, mysterious pro
posal to place the entire war fleet in the Pacific? What are the reasons
which prompt two cabinet deliberations on such a question and why the sec
recy about it? Does it portend some need for protection of which the rank
and file of the American people are ignorant? If so, where lies the danger?
Do the Japanese immigration controversy and the commercially animated dis
pute. over the island of Yap present prospects of imminent strife? Why
;■ gain should the president, himself the sponsor for a new league of nations
to prevent war. make war and war profiteering so large a feature of his key
note address !n the nation.
All these and many other questions of similar tenor must occur to
those who watch the trend of things as presented in the daily grist of news and
the inference is hardly escapable that if the utterences of th«‘ press bureau's
are correct the times are pregnant with large, possibilities of future trouble.
A WISE DECISION
A recent announcement tha* the government is planning to divert in
clining immigration from the cities to farms discloses that we are at last
commencing to see the light of crtminon. sense respecting the future handling
of the immigration problem.
The worst feature of our immigration system in the past has been the
failure to distribute the huge volume of labor represented in the tremendous I
immigration to points where it was most, needed. Oreatmasses of immigrants'■
have in the past been permitted to congregate in ‘he large cities, where their
labor created a form of competition distinctly harmful to both the foreign and
domestic laborer, and also prevented the rapid assimilation which would na
turally result from wide distribution.
Under the proposed system the government through the Interior,
Agriculture and Labor Departments, will take upon itself the task of help
ing the immigrants to find employment in fields where labor is most needed
and especially to the farms, where their services are required more than in any
other line of industry. A majority of incoming immigrants are farmers or
farm laborers to start with, hence their induction into farming here will
permit them to start in a field with which they are more or less familiar.
Proper distribution of immigrant labor will go a long way toward
remedying many of our economic ills and will do more to Americanize the
immigrant than any scheme we can adopt. Prior to the war foreign labor
was more or less of a drug on the market in nearly all large centers in t'he Fast.
Under the proposed system the foreign laborer would not be permitted *o con
gest in the cities and set up the close labor competition which has made the
foreign laborer so much disliked by American workers in the pas*' With
the immigrant diverted to fields where his labor is needed promptly on ar
rival there will be little need for apprehension regarding his influence on
American labor.
The new administration deserves to be congratulated over Its decision
to handle the immigrant problem along the eminently sensible lines suggested.
QUAINT PHILOSOPHY
F. R. Clerrish is printing a leaflet, called “Little Chats" in a
private shop-—his hobby. It is certainly a unique publication. Here are
some simples of his philosophy of life, copied therefrom.
Did it ever occur to you that a man's life is full of crosses and *emp
tations? He comes into the world without his consent and goes out of it
against his will, and the trip between is exceedingly rocky r The rule of
contraries is one of the features of the trip.
When he is little the big girls kiss him. and when he is big the little
girls kisK him.
If he needs credit he can’t get it, if he is prosperous everyone wants
If he is In politics he is for graft, if he ie out of politics he is no good
If he doesn’t give to charity he is a stingy cuss, if he does it is for show.
If he is actively religious he is a hypocrite, if he takes no Interest in
religion he’s a hardened sinner.
If he is affectionate he is a soft Mut. If he cares for no one lie is cold
If he dies young he had a bright future, if he lives to be old he miss
ed his calling.
If he saves money he’s a tightwad, ifshe spends It he's no good.
If you get it you’re a swindler, if you don’t get it you’re a bum.
1S0 what ter ’ell’s the use?
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Voice of the Alaska Press
(ARTICLES UNDER THIS CAPTION REPRESENT THE EXPRESSION
OF VIEW OF THE ALASKA PRESS ON CURRENT TOPICS)
I Tlie ignorance* in regard to Alaska
that exists in the states is well Ulus- j
j trated by the recent exf|>orience of
John Kron of Juneau. Tie ordered a
bit of merchandise from a large Chi- I
eago house but was told that "we are i
unable to ship C. O. !>. outside of thf
I'nitid States." Alaska being a for
eign country, the envelop enclosing
this communication bore a “ftve-cent"
stamp.—Valdez Miner.
HELP THE PROSPECTOR
(Front Juneau Capital)
The govern or’a plan to assist the
prospector is good. Kvery commercial
and other organization in Alaska
should assist in getting appointed min- j
ing engineers in the several towns, by
the bureau of mines, to assist the de
velopment of mineral resources. Al
aska hits scarcely been scratched. Sys
tematic prospecting has been done in
very few places. The prospector's j
problem in finding mineral is a hard
one. and often more difficult in his
task in getting capital interested.
With a preliminary report in his favor
furnished by a government engineer,
he will have little trouble in getting
a further hearing from capital. Many
prospectors have not money enough to
get assays made, let alone the financ
ing of their prospect far enough to j
demonstrate whether they have any
thing worth while.
ASSESSMENT WORK CHANGE
(From Juneau Empire)
The new law which changes the
period for which assessment work
must be done on mining claims in
Alaska and elsewhere' in the I’nited
States from the calendar year to the
fiscal year will be an Improvement ns
far ;ts Alaska is concerned at least.
Under this law hereafter the assess
ment wo tit must l>e done each year be
tween July 1st and June 30th instead
of between January 1st and December
31st. Alaska is generally speaking a
summer country. That is the period
of the greatest activity. It is the per
iod when most of the work is done.
The planning and organization is done
during the winter for the summer sea
son. The change in the assessment
year for mining claims on the public
domain will fit in well with this situa- ;
tion. It will be easier for people who
hold claims to prepare for working
them under circumstances that will
make the annual assessment fit into
their plan of work for the season when
the assessment work period begins
and ends during the active season, and
mere benefit is likely to come from the
assessment expenditure.
By putting a crew of men at work
In June and keeping it on the job un
til into July it will be possible under,
the new law to do tyro years’ assess
ment at practically the same time.
This should make it possible to get
possible to get more actual good from
the assessment work and encourage
the development of mining claims.
SOME MAIL SERVICE
(From Valdes Miner)
If Burleson's resignation is going to
take effect March i he should relieve
the public by making immedia*e an- I
nouncement of the fact. T*'.? only
thing fast about United States mails
are the ^Hors they use on th“ stamps _
And the only thing up-to-date about
’em are the cancellation machines.
You see the mall trucks speeding
over one-way streets like a fire chief
whirling to a burnin’ brewery That's
some speed. When you gel a flash
of that thrilling sight you know the
mail truck hoys are hustling with
sacks of Minneapolis mail to catch the |
New Orleans express. Yet the inai!!
service is the poor man’s telegraph. It
costs the same, to send a letter from
New York to Ix>s .Vngeles as It does
to send one from the Battery to the
Bronx. And it bikes the suane time.
•There are now four classes of Unit
ed States mall. Kach class is behind
the other two days to four weeks. A.
newspaper is entered as the post office
as second-class matter and arrives at
the subscriber's address as first class
THE NEWSPAPER CHAIN
(Prom Fairbanks News Miner)
Following the footstep* of Chariev
Heron, who failed. Hal Selby of Val
dez and Harry Steel of Cordova are out
to weld a chain of Alaska newspapers.
Owning the Valdez Miner and the Cor
dova Times, they have taken over the
Seward Gateway and are preparing *.o
take over the Anchorage Times and the
Jnneliu Capital, the Heron papers, to
l>c in line for everything there ls in a
political way in the First and Third
Pi strict. Eventually they may cover
Fairbanks and Nome, hut Harry has
run papers in both these camps, so may
not think too highly of that part of
the chain.
The News-Miner has the safest
newspaper chain is the strongest one
"f :>!l the monopolists. When the Gar
den Island Citizen burned out and had
nothing left but the reinn:mt of a sub
scription list, the News-Miner absorb
ed it. It til us became a part of our
‘‘chain.” As the strongest part of any
chain is the weakest link tlien-in,
there is only one “link” in the News
Miner chain, and it keeps us busy see
ing that the single link tines no* be
come the “missing link.”
THE NORTH AWAKENING
Dispatches from Ottawa, confirm re
ports previously received here to the
effect that large enterprises a rtf' being
planned for the Yukon and the Mac
kenzie valley. (Advices from the
American centers also tell of large
projects under way for the develop
ment of Alaska. Others tell of im
mense concessions being obtained late
tlie Bering Sea. Thus practically from
(he Atlantic to the Pacific tidewater
ind far inland are great works in th“
ranking
Recent advices to the News confirm
ed the previous reports of a project :o
build a pipe line from the Mackenzie
nil fields, and further stated the object
is to cross Yukon and Alaska to Bering
Sea. and from that point distribute
the. oil by tankers to ports of the
world. This means a vast enterprise.
Other dispatches tell of the applica
tion for a franchise for a railway for
the Mayo valley to serve the new silver
fields. Plans also are to be laid before
Ottawa for granting Yukon an increas
ed road allowance and for radio, air
ship and other sendees for the region.
The Mayo silver has stimulated a num
ber of transportation people to figure
on new craft for the Stewart river
next season. The number of individ
u»l enterprises brewing is also indica
tive of great optimism.
Just now' there is a lull in certain
Maes in the north, owing to winter’s
handicap, but the p'aspects for the
spring never were more radiant Yu
kon rnr.y find herseif -no center of a
boom in thes pring. Yukoners have
every reason to tak.? the cheerful view
and to prepare accordingly.
The charity that covers a multi
tude of sins sometimes uncovers a
multitude of miseries.
New and uptedate le^al forma far
Proof of Annual Assessment Wart
al.se Oil Location blanks, Dead blanks
for general use, Special and General
Power of Attorney forma. Plaeer and
Quarts UfSlkp farms new an sals
at Nugget Office. Prise 15 cento aaofi
or $1.00 per desen.
Use Cation To Keep
GaUren’s Skins Heaitky
n mother* would only uwCaliean Soap
Oiofanopt lor every-day toikt and
iytba aTO^5|ti^pfrr«ai^
on3»lt is dcBcately
qnWtdr perfumed.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To Chas. Milot and J. Sheehy, your
heirs, suuce*ws and assigns:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the undersigned has ex
panded in Libor and improvements
during: eadh of the years IPOS, 1909,
1910. 1911. 19tf, 1913, 1914, 1915 and
1916 t.ho sunn of one hundred dollars
estr-h year, oa the PENNY RIVER
GROUP situated on Penny River, in
the .Cape Nome Recording1 Precinct.
Territory of Alaska, notice of location
of which is recorder in the records
<»f said Recording Precinct. Said
labor and improvements Itavine been
done on said claim for the purpose of
holding the same under the provisions
! of Section 2324 Revised Statutes of
| the United States and supplemental
legislation.
And you are hereby required to con
tribute your porportion of said expen
diture as co-owner to the undersigned,
within ninety days after the final pub
lication of this notice or your interest
in said mining claim will be forfeited
and become the property of the under
signed. your Co-owner, as provided bv
sauid section of the revised statutes.
T^ted Nome. Alaska Jan. 8. 1921.
J C. CORNER!4,
Publish—Jan.8. 1.5. 22. 29 Feh. 5. 12.
119. 26. Mar. 5. 12. 19. 26. Apr. 2. 1921.
MINERAL APPLICATION
r. S. I AN D OFFICE
AT NOME. ALASKA.
February 10. 1921.
NOTICE IS HEREBY RIVEN That
Andr^v Gunderson, of IjOs Angelos.
California, has made application be
fore the United States Rind Office,
n t Nome. A kudu, by liis authorised
agent. Ben V. Gillette, whose address
is Nome. Alaska, for a United Stsites
patent for the consolkLited placer
claim, bearing placer gold, known as
the ! X. L. and FIXXRENCR Plarers.
uStua-U' on Pta-rmlgao GuTfrh. about
7%i miles East qt the Town of Nome,
and Vi rmil-e North of Bering Sey, and
designated as Mineral Survey No.
126f. In. the Cape Nome Mining and
Recording District, Territory at Alas
fca, the exterior boundaries of wid
placer claim, according to the plat and
field notes at said' survey, now on
tile in said la-nd office (with a mag
netic variation at from 20 **g. 05
rain, to 20 deg. 25 min. E.) fs aaj
FLORENCE PLACER
Beginning at corner. No. 1. a fli
post 4 ins. sq. 4 ft. long, in earth
mound scribed I-1266-E. whence U,
S. I,. M. No. 335 bears N. 12 deg.
01 min. W. 7308.5 ft.: thence S,
62 dcjf. 03 min. E. 1399.9 ft. to Cor,
No. 2: thence S 14 deg. 49 min. W.
628 ft. to Cor. No. 3: thence N. 6i
deg. 28 min. W. 1296.5 ft. to Cor
No. 4: thence N. 7 deg. 35 min. E.
710.6 ft. to Cor No. 1, place of be
ginning. containing 19.889 acres.
in earth mound, ecribed 1-2.1266-1.
L.-P. whence U. S. 1«. M. No 331
bears fir. 19 deg. 28 min. W. 8277.<
thence S. 67 deg. 51 min
1287.4 ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence 8,
6 deg. SO min. W. 706.2 ft. to Cor,
No. 3; thence N. 65 deg. 24 miif. W
1844.8 ft. to Cor. No. 4. identical witl
Cor No. 4 Florence Placer, this stir
vey; thence N. 14 deg. 49 min. K. 621
-* *- Cor. No. 1. place of beginning
containing 19.227 acres.
Total area applied for 39.116 acres.
The adj^nin^claiPigjarejxMurvev.
«1. and claimants unknown.
IT. S. lAication Monument No. 335
is a fir post 6 ins. teq. 5 ft. above
{ground, in earth mound, .scribed IT. S.
I,. M. No. 335. situated on the east
side of Nome Itiver, on the divide be
tween hist cl of t!unnlngh;un and Irene
<‘reeks; in latitude 64 doff. 30 min. N.
Longitude 165 deg. 10 min. W.
THOS. McQANN
Publish—Feb. 12. 19. 26. Mar. 5. 12.
19. 26. April 2. 9. 1921.
MINERAL APPLICATION
U. 9. LAXD OWICE
AT NOME. ALASKA.
February 10. 1921
NOTICE IS HEREBY’ GIVEN. That
William Koenigs. whoso post office- ad
dress is Eatonvllfe. State of Washing
ton. has made appticmtion before the
If. S. Land Office at Nome. Alaska,
through Kafemus Jensen, his duly au
thorised agent, whose poet office ad
dress is Nome. Alaska, for a U. S.
patent for the consolidated placer min
ing clafcn known a* the ELMA and
SUNSET placer, being Mineral Survey
No. 1247. in the €*pe Nome Mining
and Recording District. Terrltofy of
Alaska. That the exterior boundaries
of said survey (with a magnetic var
iation for from 20 deg. 39 min. to 21
deg. 06 min. E.) are as follows.
ELMA PLACER
Beginning at Cbr. No. 1. identical
with the X. E. location corner, a dr
poet ♦ ft. long. 4 ins. sq. in earth
mound, wribed 1-6-1267-E-S, whence
V. N. L. M. No. *36 hears N. 29
deg. 26 min. E. 6060.8 ft.; thence
S. 20 deg. 51 min- W. 605 ft. to Cor.
No. 2; thence N. 66 deg. 24 min. W.
1440.5 ft. to Cor No. 3. Identical
with Cor. No. 4. Survey No. 1191.
Massachusetts Association Placer;
thence N. 22 deg. 48 min. E. 517.2
ft. to Cor. No. 4, identical with Cor.
No. 3. Survey No. 1131, Massachu
setts Association: thence S. 69 dog.
58 min E. 1422.4 ft. to Cor. No. 1.
place of beginning, containing 18.427
SUN8ET PLACER
Beginning at Cor. No. 1. identical
! with Cor. No. 2. Survey No. 1131
Massachusetts Association, a flr poet.
4 ins. sq. in earth mound, scribed
2-1131-MA-l -1267-S. whence lr. S. L.
M. No. 335 bears N. 19 deg. 41 min.
E. 5979.7 ft.; theme K. 69 deg. 21
min. E. 151.7 ft. to Cor. No. 2.
thence S. 13 deg. 50 min. W. 647.1
ft. to Cor. No. 3: thence N. 75 deg.
09 min. \V 249.3 ft. to Cor. No. 4.
identical with Cor. No. 5. Survey
No. 1131. Massachusetts Association;
tlienee N. 66 deg. 24 min. W. 1001.
ft. to Cor. No. 5: identical with Cor.
No. 2 Efenn Placer this survey; thence
N. 20 deg. 51 min. E. 605 ft to Cor.
No. 6. identical with Cor. No. 1 Elans
Placer, this survey: thence S. 69 deg.
58 min. E. 1024.5 ft. to Cor. No. 1.
place of beginning, containing an urea
of 17.856 acres.
The total arm applied for is 36.283
Said consolidated claim is sitiBated
on Willow Creek, about one-half mile
West of Cunningham Creek, and 6*4
miles Bust of the Town of Nome. In
said recording district and territory.
That the adjoining claims are, on
tho North, South, and West, th#- Mass
achusetts Association Placer, Mineral
Survey No. 1131, on the East, claims
unknown and unsu<yeyed.
P. S. Location Monument No. 325
is a fir post 6 ins. sq. in earth mound,
scribed 1'. S. 1.. M. No. 335. and
situatexl on the east side of Nome
River, on the divide between Cunning
ham Creek u.nd Irene Creek, in Latitude
64 deg. 29 min. N. Longitude 165
deg. 10 min. W
THOS. McOANN
Publish—Feb. 12. 19. 28. Mar. 5, 12.
19. 26, April 2. 9. 1921.
MIN EWAL^A IMPLICATION
t’. 8. Land Office
At Noinp. Afiudta.
February 10. 1921
NOTICE IS HKREBT OIVEN. That
William Koenig* whose present pent
office address l« l&Uonrille jn the
State of Washington, hoe. through
Rasmus Jensen, his duty authorized
agent, made appfVSfction before *tu>
United States Lied Office at Nome.
Alaska, for a United States patent for
the consolidated placer mining claim
bearing phter gold, known a a the
INDEPENDENCE FRACTION and
SURPRISE BENCH, being Mineral
Survey, No. 1*59. Jn the Cape Nome
Mining and Recording District, Terri
tory of Ala4cu. The exterior bound,
a lies of said pdbcer mining claim,
noeordjng to the plat and field notes,
now on file in wild land office better a»
follows (with a variation of from 20
deg. 40 min. to 21 deg. 10 min. B.)
SURPRISE BENCH
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, & fir poet
4 ft. long. 4 ins. aq In earth mound,
scribed 1-1259-S-BH.: whence V- »•
L. M. No. 440 bears N. 22 deg.
imln. W. 1232.0 ft.; thence 8. «>
deg. 42 min. E. 212.4 ft. ito dor. No.
thence S. IS deg. 21 min. B.244.1
Cor. No. 2; thence S. 7 deg.
ft. to Cor. No. 5; thence N.,* deg.
47 min. E. 5*2.2 ft. to dor. No. 1.
place .of begltydng. containing 1.4.215
INOEPEMPENCC FRACTION
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, » fir poet
4 ft. long, 4 Ins. sq. in earth mound.
scribed 1.12B9-I-F whence U
X*. M. No. fd* bears N. B4 det.
min. W. 17*2.2 fit.; thence N. 22 d<
22 min. E.626.2 ft. to Cor. No^f:
thence S. 17 deg. 2 min. B. 1*1*.S
to Cor. No. 2; thence 8. 22 deg.
32 min. W. 623.1 ft 46 Cor. No.
identical with Cor. No. 3 Suiprier
Bench, this survey; thence N. 12 deg.
21 -Irtin. W. 244.3’ft; to Cor. No. 5.
identical with Cor. No. 2 Surprise
Bench Placer, this survey: thence N.
5 deg. 1* min. E. 222.25 ft. W Cor.
. place of beginning, containing
The total area applied far le 23. VI
______ Inearth mound.
chiseled IT. 8. l». M. No. 4*2. Mtuated
min. W.: latitude <4 deg. 2* m!n.
The foregoing claims are situated
about 3 miles E. of of the Town of
Nome, and about H mile N. of Ber
ing Sea. and 1.000 ft. «. W. of Ott«*r
Creek, a tributary of. Nome River, in
wid recording district. Territory of
Alaska. — ' •
There are no adjoining chums to the
knowledge of the applicant. /
THOB. McOAlW^r , /
Publish—Fe*>. 12. 1*. 26. Mar. 5. JR.
19. 26. April 2. 2. 1921. M