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FIFTY YEARS
UNCLE Si HAS
OWNED ALASKA
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(Christian Science Monitor)
On March 30, 1867, while a violen
politcal storm was enveloping his ad
ministration, as a result of disagree
ment in relation to reconstruction ii
the south, Andrew Johnson, seven
teenth president of the United Statei
and immediate successor of Abrahan
Lincoln, communicated, in the forn
of a message to the house of repre
sentatives and the senate, the aston
ishing fact that a treaty had been ne
gotiated with Russia under th<
terms of which all of that nation’:
possessions in North America migh
be acquired by the United States. Thi
only formality necessary to the con
summation of the convention was rat
ification by the senate. At the time
almost any act in which Presiden
Johnson and his cabinet might havi
had a hand would have failed to ob
tain the commendation of the “radi
cal republican” majority in congress
and the purchase of Russian Americ;
was at first put down as a character
istic Johnsonian misconception of th(
needs of the country.
The United States, it was held bj
critics of the administration, alreadj
owned more land than it knew whai
to do with. Vast territories beyonc
the Missouri were undeveloped, al
most unexplored. Some of then
were practically inaccessible, monej
was even then being lavishly spenl
upon the construction of a railroac
'across the continent, an enter prist
which, it was thought, would be
likely always to be a drain upon th<
treasury, in the hope of bringing the
eastern into regular connection wit)
the fardistant western portion of the
republic; a huge elebt, piled up by the
civil war, was exacting heavy taxes
from the people; the times were elull
anel with it all came this “foolish’
proposal to pay the “enormous” sun
of $7,200,000 for an uninhabited and
it was termed, probably uninhabitable
area at the enel of the earth, which
Russia would no eloubt gladly have
parteel with for nothing!
While the attacks on the Russian
American purchase were aimed at
President Johnson, they w'ere felt
most keenly by his secretary of state
William H. Seward, to whom the ac
quisition of the territory was the rea
lization of a long-cherished dream. As
a variant for the phrase, “Johnson’s
Foolishness,” the transaction with
Russia was sometimes called “Sew
ard’s Folly.” Nevertheless, calmer re
flection, ana able ana eloquent aavo
eacy by Senator Charles Sumner o1
Massachusetts, brought about the rat
ification of the treaty. Toward the
close of his speech, touching on the
name of the newly acquired posses
sion, Sumner said:
“As these extensive possessions
constituting a corner of the conti
nent, pass from the imperial govern
ment of Russia they will naturally re
ceive a new name. They will no long
er be Russian America. How shal
they be called? Clearly any name
borrowed from classical history 01
individual invention will be little bet
ter than a misnomer, or a nickname
unworthy of such an occasion. Ever
if taken from our own history it will
be of doubtful taste. The name should
come from the country itself. II
should be indigenous, aboriginal, one
of the autochthons of the soil. Hap
pily, such a name exists, which is as
proper in sound as in origin. It ap
pears in the report of Cook, the illus
trious navigator, to whom I hve sc
often referred, that the euphonious
name now applied to the peninsula
which is the continental link of the
Aleutian chain was the sole word used
originally by the native islanders
when speaking of the American con
tinent in general, which they knew
perfectly well to be a great land. II
only remains that, following these na
tives, whose places are now ours, we
too, shall call this great land Alaska.’
And Alaska it was called. New
Archangel, later known as Sitka, was
the principal settlement under Russia.
It long: remained the principal settle
ment under the United States. Very
little was heard of the territory, after
interest in its purchase subsided, until
the gold discoveries on Klondike creek,
a tributary of the Yukon, on Aug. 16,
xojo, ui iicttiiy <t gciicituun alter tiie
i 'Signing of the treaty of purchase.
I Then there was a wild rush of pros
pectors, miners, and adventurers into
the new country; villages, towns and
cities sprang up over night, and with
' in two years the Klondike region alone
yielded more than $10,000,000 in yel
low metal. It is estimated that, to
1 date, the mineral production of Alas
ka aggregates about $350,000,000, but
1 mine production constitutes a single
1 item in the Alaskan industrial ac
1 ’count of the present day. A state
ment of the commerce of the terri
tory for one year, the last of which
we have a full report, shows miscel
1 laneous shipments from the peninsula
1 to the United States of a total value
' of $27,039,470. This is exclusive of
1 shipments of gold and silver worth
$20,035,894. The value of the salmon
product alone for a single year is al
’ most equal to three times the price
' paid for the country.
After the transfer of the peninsula
to the United States, Alaska was or
ganized as a non-contiguous posses
sion. It was made a civil and judi
cial district on June 6, 1900, and was
organized as a territory on Aug. 24,
1912. Its present capital is Juneau,
where, in March, its legislature will
'assemble for the third biennial ses
sion. The population does not exceed
75,000. Development along private
corporate lines was arrested a few
years ago, and now awaits the con
struction of a government railway
system, and an allotment of lands
which will insure the possession of
the country’s resources to settlers.
The territory is one of the naturally
richest sections of the earth, and it is
the only possession of the republic,
.thus far, that? has been held sacred for
the benefit of the people.
WHY RADIUM IS EXPENSIVE.
! One-sixth of the world’s output of
| radium is made within seven miles of
Philadelphia, in a factory at Lans
downe, which is one of the six plants
of its kind in the world, according to
the Philadelphia Ledger. It has a
capa ity of producing three grams
of radium a year. The process by
which the metal is made was discov
ered by Dr. D. H. Kabakjian, assist
ant professor of physics in the Uni
vtiM.y of Pennsylvania, and a resi
dent of Lansdowne.
There are only two other radium
factories in the United States. One
is operated by a private corporation
in Pittsburg and the other, a govern
ment enterprise, is under the super
vision of the bureau of mines in Den
ver, Colo. In all three plants the pro
cess by which radium, the most val
uable of all substances, is made,
broadly speaking, is the same. In all
the plants “radium salt” is made from
carnotite, a yellowish, claylike miner
al found in Colorado. Dr. Kabakjian’s
secret method of treating the carno
tite ore, however, is bringing better
results than any of the other proces
ses used in this country or elsewhere.
According to the inventor, it is ex
tracting 90 per cent of radium from
the ore.
Some idea of the delicacy of the se
cret chemical processes which the car
notite ore undergoes can be gleaned
from the output of the factory. Hun
dreds of tons of camotite are used
during the course of a year. Twenty
live men working nine hours a day for
a year will produce three grams of
pure radium salt. The market price
of radium is $100,000 a gram at this
time, and the Lansdowne factory’s
yearly output is worth $300,000. A
gram is one twenty-eighthn of a
ounce.
Radium is sent to all parts of the
world from the factory in Lansdowne.
“We have to be mighty careful how
we ship this material," said Dr. Ka
bakjian. ‘The radium salt is placed
in a sealed glass tube like this one,”
and he loled between his lingers a lit
tle glass tube not much larger than a
live-penny nail.
After the movies a nice lunch at the
North Pole Bakery. 328
PUN TO SET
CLOCKS MOD;
SAVE DAYLIGHT
NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—A plan to
set the clocks of the United States
ahead an hour May 1 to save daylight
until September 30, will be considered
by the Daylight Saving National con
vention which begins here Monday.
“This plan,” said Borough President
Marcus M. Marks of New York, who
fathered the idea in this country,
“which was so successfully used in
Europe last year, would save the
United States $90,000,000 in artificial
light and fuel alone.
“This plan has been heartily en
dorsed by leading commercial bodies
in Chicago, Pittsburg, New York,
Rochester, Detroit, Cleveland and else
where.
“The plan is simply that between
May 1 and September 30, when day
light comes so early, we set the clocks
of the country an hour ahead. That
gets the country to work an hour earl
ier and permits it to quit while it is
still broad daylight, thus obviating
the necessity for so much artificial
light.
“To this national convention, the
chambers of commerce and boards of
trade throughout the country, govern
ors of all states, the mayors of over
150 cities, the governor general of
Canada and other Canadian represen
tatives, the American Bankers’ asso
ciation, the American Railway associ
ation, the American Federation of
Labor and various other commercial
and financial, labor and scientific as
sociations have been invited to send
delegates and responses already re
ceived indicate an exceedingly large
attendance.
“Such leading men as Henry P. Dav
ison of J. P. Morgan & Co.; Otto T.
Bannard, president of the New York
Trust company; Frederick D. Under
wood, president of the Erie railroad;
Frank Trumbull, president of '"TH'e
Chessepeake & Ohio railroad, and Ar
thur Lehman, of Lehman Bros., bank
ers, favor its adoption in the United
States.
“I call attention to the great bene
fits which would accrue to the gen
eral health of the working people
through the added hour for recreation
which would be afforded.
“There is a bill before congress by
Representatitve Borland, for this day
light saying plan which we hope to
have made a law.”
MINES STATION WILL SOLVE
SOME NATIONAL PROBLEMS
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON,
Jan. 15.—All the problems in electro
metallurgy arising in the United States
will be referred for solution to the
federal bureau of mines station re
cently established on the campus of
the University of Washington. The
station will specialize in that depart
ment of the work of the federal bu
reau, but it will handle other phases,
too.
Coal washing and investigation into
the uses of coal will be another ac
tivity of the staation. It will handle
all the bureau’s research in this line
which originates west of Urbana, 111.,
where is -situated another station.
The Washington station, which
serves not only this state but the en
tire Northwest, including the coast re
gion of Alaska, was formally opened
Friday evening, January 12, with a
smoker. Dorsey A. Lyon, head of the
station; Robert F. McElvenney, super
intendent of the Tacoma smelter;
George W. Evans, mining engineer of
the station; E. Jacobs, of Victoria, B.
C., and President Suzzallo of the uni
versity, were some of the speakers.
GEORGE OSBORNE
The Leading Jeweler and Optician.
We are closing out our entire line of
Gorham’s Sterling silver ware. We
have on hand a complete line in the
two most up-to-date and artistic pat
terns. Don’t fail to take advantage of
the big sale in Gorham’s sterling sil
ver ware. Our stock is complete and
up-to-date. Closing out at cost. 391
DO YOU WASTE MONEY?
Almost every one does. Bread cast upon the
water comes back again. But when you throw
money away it mighty seldom ever comes back.
What’s going to happen to you when you have
no more money to waste? Why not open an ac
count here? $1.00 does it. Doing it once a week
for a year means $52 to the good for you—and
the interest we pay you in our Savings Depart
ment. Try it for a few months, you will be sur
prised to find how fast your account will grow.
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ALASKA
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Windows Roofing Paper
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The Royal Cafe
Special Arrangements Made for Entertaining Private
Parties.
The place of real service. Boxes, Lunch Counter.
THE
BON MARCHE
Opp. Postoffice
Ladies:
COME AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE GREAT
BARGAINS WE ARE NOW OFFERING.
$4.00, $5.00 Ladies’ Silk and Lace Waists, your
choice . $1.00
Ladies’ Cotton Hose, 2 pairs for...25c
Ladies’ Extra-Fine Worsted Skirts, $7.50 to $9.00
values, your choice. $4.50
Navajo Wool Blankets. $1.75
Comfy Wool Bed Slippers, pair.25c
Opp. Postoffice
ANCHORAGE CABINET
WORKS.
Furniture and Fixtures
Repaired and Made New.
Carpenter Work of All Kinds.
EXPERT TOOL GRINDING
AND SAW FILING.
Anchorage Cabinet Works.
JOE. CASALLI, Prop.
5th Avenue, Between C and D.