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HAVE you noticed that swell little store at 511 4th Ave. that has been empty so
long and that you were wondering what was going in there?
The E. S. Hewitt & ( o. wish to announce that they are now open and invite
you to call and inspect their line of office equipment. J
No expense has been spared to supply the most discriminating with the best
the market affords in up-to-date time and labor-saving devices from reliable manu
facturers. A call will convince you that it pays to buy in Alaska.
Qiir Motto: “The House That Givps You Service.”
OUR LEADERS:
BURROUGHS ADDING MACHINES '‘Tffggf TODD AND PEERLESS CHECK WRITERS
L. S. SMITH & BROS. TYPEWRITERS CORONA TYPEWRITERS
FIRE PROOF SAFE CABINETS
OFFICE FILES AND DESKS
A first-class typewriter and adding machine repair department has been installed.
E. S. HEWITT & COMPANY
! PHONE 78-R
511 Fourth Ave.
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In declaring invalid the Alaska
eight-hour law, Judge Bunnell, in his
opinion, said, after setting forth the
charge upon which the defendants ap
pear before the court, and after read
ing the points urged by the defend
ants:
“Section 8 of the Organic Act pro
vides that the enacting clause of all
the laws passed by the legislature
shall be ‘Be it enacted by the Legisla
ture of the Territory of Alaska.’ No
law shall embrace more than one sub
ject, which shall be expressed by its
title.
“An investigation of the respective
Organic Acts of the territories shows
that each has contained a section simi
lar, if not identical, to Section & of our
Organic Act, and that during the eariy
days of the territorial legislation
much difficulty has been experienced
not only by the legislators in selecting
apt and appropriate titles for the laws
enacted, but also by the courts in pass
ing upon the same, to the end that the
’ title and body of the act, as an expres
sion of the legislative will, shall each
serve its own proper purpose and func
tion without doing violence to the
plain and positive provisions of the
Organic Act or Constitution. The
courts have always been disposed to
exercise great liberality where the
question of the appropriateness of the
title of an act has been in question,
and it is only when the title so far
violates the provisions of the act as to
be impossible of sustaining the same
that the act has been declared uncon
stitutional. It frequently happens, as
in this case, that the legislators, im
pelled by the duty incumbent upon
them by virtue of their office, enact a
law calculated to insure protection to
those engaged in hazardous vocations,
and it is with the greatest 'reluctance
that the courts, knowing the benefits
to be gained by such a law, are com
pelled to hold the same invalid be
cause of a failure on the part of the
legislators to follow the plain provi
sions of the Organic Act. Especially
is this true where the benefits to be
obtained are generally recognized and
a great majority have sought to coin
ply in good faith with the spirit and
letter of the law.
“The title of Chapter 29, Session
Laws, 1913, reads:
“ ‘An act to declare employment in
underground mines, applied to metalli
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ferous lode mining only, underground
workings, open cut workings, open pit
workings, smelters, reduction works,
stamp mills, roller mills, concentrat
ing mills, chlorination processes, cya
nide processes, to be injurious to
health and dangerous to life and limb.
To regulate and limit the hours of em
ployment in said occupations; to de
clare the violation thereof a misde
meanor and to provide penalties for
the violation thereof.’
“Section 1 provides that:
“ ‘Employment in underground
mines, underground workings, open
cut, open pit workings, smelters, re
duction works, stamp mills, roller
mills, concentrating mills, chlorina
tion processes, cyanide processes, is
hereby declared to be injurious to
health and dangerous to life and limb.'
“Section 2, with reference to the
period of employment of working
men while engaged in the various
kinds of work enumerated in Sec
tion 1, specified a new kind of work,
to-wit, employment of workingmen
‘at coke ovens.’ It is apparent that
the title of the act is not germane to
that portion of the subject matter of
the act relating to the employment of
workingmen ‘at coke ovens,’ and such
subject matter is therefore mere sur
plusage. A further examination of
Section 2 discloses the fact that, al
though seven other kinds of employ
ment of workingmen are enumerated,
to-wit, in underground workings, un
derground mines, stamp mills, roller
mills, open cut workings, chlorination
processes and cyanide processes, there
is an express limitation to the scope of
the act by the following words: ‘Pro
viding, however, that this act applies
to metalliferous lode mining only.’ ”
The court then went on to read the
act as it would read after eliminating
from the title and the first and second
sections thereof, all that becames sur
plusage by reason of the express limi
tations contained in Section 2, Chap
ter 29.
it is tnus seen tnat while the title
of the act of 1913 designates eleven
kinds of employment which are also
enumerated in Section 1, only eight
kinds of employment are designated in
Section 2, one of which, to-wit,‘at coke
ovens’ is not mentioned in the title.
The fact that a title is broader than
the act is not fatal, but the scope of
the act is necessarily confined to the
express .limitations set forth in the act
itself. So this act, by the provision in
Section 2 ‘providing, however, that
this act applies to metalliferous lode
mining only,’ is not capable of amend
ment under the same title so as to in
clude all kinds of mining and reduc
tion processes.
“Following this line of investiga
tion, it is found that the title of the
amendatory act enumerates eleven
kinds of employment, while Section 1
would broaden the scope to fifteen,
and Section 2 extends the number to
sixteen by adding ‘underground
placer mining,” all under the title of
the original act.
“The case of Preston vs. Stover, in
97 N. W., 812, is particularly in point.
It is stated in the syllabus: ‘Under
the old as well as under the present
constitution, where the title to a bill
is to amend a particular section of an
act, no amendment is permissible
which is not germane to the subject
matter of the original section.’
“It therefore necessarily follows
that the demurrer must be sustained.”
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1 LETTERS
The local Chamber of Commerce
has received two letters that will
prove of interest to readers, as fol
lows:
Washington, D. C., Sept. 20, 1910.
Mr. A. S. Koch, Secretary Chamber
of Commerce, Anchorage, Alaska.
My dear Mr. Kich:
The organization service bureau is
engaged in collecting data of best
structural standards and most effect
ive methods of trade and commercial
organization work and tiling same for
ready reference.
As this data will be gathered to a
considerable extent through a study !
of annual and special reports and by
laws, we would be pleased to have
you send us one copy each of your lat
est issues of such publications, to
gether with such other information
from time to time as you think would
be of value to our reference library.
it is purposed tnrougn inis Dureau
to make the plan and method of dis
tinctive achievement of one organiza
fcion known to others, and it is hoped,
in time, to arrive at certain definite
standards of structure and method
that will make for the elimination of
experimentation.
We will be pleased to have you call
upon us at any time for such informa
tion as we may be able to give, and
we solicit your co-operation in mak
ing the bureau a success. Not only
call on us when you think we can be
of service to you, but write us when
ever you have experiences that you
consider worthy of recording.
Very truly yours,
D. A. SKINNER,
Acting Secretary.
CALVIN B. BROWN,
Chief Organization Service Bureau.
The Alaska bureau of the Seattle
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A Month of Preparation I
Next month you will be far too busy thinking of and planning for Christmas |
and the happiness of others, to give much thought to your own apparel. This, then, jj
will be the month of your preparedness; you will want pretty new things for the hoi- j
iday season, for Thanksgiving and all the festive occasions in between. We shall *
endeavor to have this month one of savings and attractive special values—a month j
which shall be a real help to you in your wardrobe planning. I
Everything in Ladies’ Ready-to-Wear apparel. Also a full line of Art goods— j
for Xmas presents. I
The Style Shop
Comer Fourth and C
Courtesy and Quality Our Motto |
Chamber of Commerce has written the
following letter to the local body:
Seattle, Wash., Oct. 19, 1916.
Anchorage Chamber of Commerce,
Anchorage Alaska.
Gentlemen:
We wish to express our thanks in
behalf of the management of the
Northwest Land Products Exposition
and of the executive committee of the
Alaska bureau for the display at the
land show of 1916. These will now
be placed in the permanent display of
our rooms.
The show just closed proved a great
success and assures a far greater show
next year in which we hope that the
Anchorage district will be well rep
resented.
Thanking you for your valued co
operation, we are,
Yours very truly,
ALASKA BUREAU,
j. l. McPherson, Mgr.
FIND VENEZUELA IN REAL
NEED OF NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.—Many
American citizens in Venezuela some
months ago received the shock of
their lives. They read the news that
the late Hooker T. Washington was
leading a negro rebellion against the
U. S. government—that he was even
then passing through Richmond, Va.,
on route to Washington, at the head
of an army of 30,000 men.
Americans, after the first shock,
recollected the quality of the U. S.
“news” received in Venezuela and
dismissed the story with a smile. In
the same manner they disposed of
the report, a week after the Chicago
conventions, that both had nominated
a man named J. M. McGurk for pres
ident.
Preston McGoodwin, United States
minister to Venezuela, returning to
his post after a vacation here, related
the incidents in discussing steps neces
sary to better the understanding be
tween this country and the I.atin
American nations.
“News facilities must be improved,"
he said. “News is the big thing that
is going to bring the two continents
together for proper political and com
mercial relations.
“News of the passage of the Adam
son 8-hour law and the prevention of
the great railway7 strike had not reach
ed Venezuela Sept. 4 when I left there,
and exporters fearful of having their
products tied up in American ports^
were not shipping their goods. (
“The steps taken by the United
Press in establishing a real exchange
of news between North and South
America is one that should earn the
congratulation of thinking people in
every country in this hemisphere. We
need to know about South America as
badly as South Americans need to
know about us. The average Ameri
can has got his views of South Amer
ica from novels, the movies and tales
of comic opera revolution.
“He knows little of her vast com
mercial and agricultural possibilities.
He knows nothing of the people them
selves.
“All this ignorance- can be broken
down by good news service, bringing
the life of each nation to the other’s
doorstep each day.”
Daddies Gone, Children Err.
MANCHESTER, England, Nov. 4.
—Fifty-seven juvenile offenders were
haled into the local police courts here
in a single day. Nearly all had lost
their fathers in the war. Lack of
parental guidance was held chief fac
tor in the delinquency of the chil
dren,
HE CAREFUL OF GAS
HEATER ADVISES DIXON
(By Samuel G. Dixon, Pennsylvania
Commissioner of Health.)
This is the season of the year when
many people instead of starting their
furnaces use gas stoves to take off the
chill. Not infrequently they use rub
ber pipe connections and in the ma
jority of cases the stoves are not con
nected with a flue.
Such an arrangement is dangerous
in the extreme.| Every year many
deaths are reported as a result of just
such conditions. Coal gas or water
gas contains a large percentage of
carbon monoxide and this having lit
tle or no perceptible odor may be pres
ent without .being noticed. There is
no warning and unless material hav
ing an odor is added to the gas, the
victim becomes unconscious and unless
aid arrives a fatal result is almost
certain to follow.
Do not use a gas stove without flue
connections and proper ventilation.
< cater heaters are often in
stalled in bath rooms without outside
connections and then these are made
us of to heat the room. Such arrange
ments are extremely hazardous.
RENTAL OF OPENFACED
SUITS GOES UP
NEW YORK, Nov. 3.—Joining in
with the increasing cost of .living,
loving and dying, the cost of society
is now about to advance—a dress suit
combine is in the making and if put
through will spell ruin to many a so
cially inclined but sweathered gallant.
Heretofore the rental of a “two
tailed tormentor and trimmings” has
stood at $1.50 per night. Part of the j
time the owning company, when it did j
business wholesale, such as outfitting
a group of young statesmen from the
more rugged political zones for the an-j
nual hop, had to take out some of the
money in program advertising. Noth-1
ing doing hereafter.
“Two dollars or you boys wear
your sweaters,” is an epitome of the
battle shout of the owning firms. They
have united to make good the shout.
Sanitary Market
| ri.o only (old storage plant In con
1 ncrtion with market in Anchorage.
Home-made Sausages. Fruits. Veg
, etables. Butter and Eggs, at whole
sale. Restaurants and roadhouses,
special attention.
Ith Ave.. Met H and I Sts.
E. E. KURTZ & CO. \
LAUNCH BRIGHTON
NATE WHITE, Captain.
Carrying U. S. Mail Between
Anchorage, Hope, Sunrise
and Glacier Creek—All
Points on Turn
Arm.
Nu Bone Cofsets
! All prices and all sizes. Fittings i
in your own lionie if so desired. I
Call or address:
MBS. T. B. NEEDHAM
817 Fifth Av. Near H. Phone 29-B
again
PERSONAL SHOPPING BY MAIL
'T'HE items in Women’s and Chil-1
* dren’s Wear, and Men’s Haber
dashery, that cannot be obtained from
your home merchant may be ordered
from us, and will be sent POSTAGE
PAID to any Alaska address reached
by U. S. Mail.
During the Holiday Season, as at all ;
times, we shall be glad to study your
wishes in the selecting of Gifts, and in
properly packing and mailing them to
your friends. Let us send you the lat
est issue of our Mail Order News.
Address Mail Order Department "A”
FREDERiCK&NELSON
SEATTLE- *
Wood Undertaking Co..
FUNERAL. DIRECTORS
LICENSED EMBALMERS
Anchorage Matanusk*
NEW ORESCENT HOTEL
F. W. REDWOOD ft CO., Props.
Warm Rooms. Moderate Rates. Hot
Baths.
Cor. Fourth and C. Anchorage
JUANITA ANDERSON
At Seldovia, Alaska
Will supply all' comers with Groceries. Dry Goods,
Ladies’ and Gouts’ Wearin g Apparel and Hardware at
"Rea son able Prices.
CABINS FOR RENT
LADIES AND GENTLE
MEN ALWAYS FEEL
AT HOME
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MONARCH
11 WORLD'S
BEST
At ROBARTS BILLIARD
AND BOWLING Parlors
P. O. Opposite.
1 UNION CIGAR STORE
» 4th Ave. Bet. C and B Sts.
Choice line of Cigars and
Tobaccos,
Confectionery and
Soft Drinks.
Meet Your Friends at the
UNION CIGAR STORE
GUS STIPOVICH and
OTTO GUSTOSON, Props.
Tex Jones
R. C. Jeffery
The Panhandle
CIGARS
CANDIES
TOBACCOS
FRUIT
NUTS
4th AVE. NEAR C STREET
Taxidermist
W. D. WANDLING
5th Ave. Bet. C and D
Anchorage ::
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, Central Barber Shop
Modern Equipment Throughout
New Sanitary Bathroom in
Connection.
417 4th Avenue.
THE COOK INLET
TRANSFER CO.
WOOD AND IGE
A SPECIALTY.
MARIUS BENSON - Mgr.
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Union Laundry
and Bath House
Fourth Ave., Between H and I,
Anchorage
OUR WORK IS GUARANTEED
-and
SANITARY
THE LARGEST AND CLEANEST
BATH TUBS IN ANCHORAGE
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COMMERCIAL AND
PICTORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
WHOLESALE WORK
Kodak Developing and Printing
HARMONY THEATRE.
Tony's Cafe |
OPPOSITE EMPRESS
THEATRE.
1 TABLES FOR LADIES
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