WEEKS NEWS OF DOINGS
OF ALASKA LEGISLATURE
RESOLUTION AGAINST JONES
BILL FAVORABLY REPORTED
Juneau. AJs. Mch. 22—Senator Col
Tins' resolution, directing the attention
of the Territory to the necessity of
commencing legal proceedings to an
nul the clauses of the Jones Shipping
Act ■which excludes Alaska from Its
provisions, was favorably reported by
the Senate Judiciary Committee this
morning. Senator Collins, has intro
duced another bill in the Senate to re
p«ul Chapter 32. Session Laws of 1919.
which "uthorissod the creation of the
Terriiorial Shipping Board.
Senator Chaffriberlaln of Valdez, has
introduced a senate memorial to have
twenty per cent of the revenue derived
frrtni the sale of sea) skins by the
government paid to Alaska for terri
torial purposes. The memorial states
that last year's sales amounted to two
million dollars, seventy per cent of
■which was paid Into the national
treasury.
NEWS OF THE
TERRITORIAL CAPITAL
Juneau. AJs. Mch 22—Judg
Brown of Valdez opened a special term
of court here today as Judge Jenning's
court is unable to handle the accumu
Jile are mostly criminal cases, a major
portion Wjifr violations of the liquor
law.
“Clubfoot” Johnson, operator of a
local booze still is among the numlier
awaiting trial. Johnson came to grief
when, while operating the still in his
home, an explosion blew one of his
tanks through the roof and caused a
fire. The firemen destroyed the still.
Advices from Washington indicate
that no federal appointtments will 1m*
made until the forthcoming special
session of Congress is convened.
Judge Wickershaim. the reports say. is
V>eing fought by the cannery interests
and theOuggenheim’s. but he is never
theless eonfldent he will succeed to'
the governorship, f IcBridjp is a can
didate^ for the ofl& ’t (fell^btor of
Custcwps at Junoftii Ut»t is out;
for Hazelett for governor and claims
that if Hazelet is not appointed he
will consider it a defeat for the Al- I
nsk.a republican organisation.
It is reported here that Major Ttieh
nrdson. former head of the Alaska
Road C<tnmission Is actively seeking
the governorship.
NEW JURY SYSTEM PROPOSED
FOR INCORPORATED TOWNS
Juneau, Als. Mch. 24—A bill, re
ported to pass the Judiciary Commit
tee of the lower house of the Alaska
Legislature today, provides for anew
method of selecting jurors in both
criminal and civil cases in justice
courts in incorporated cities of the
first class in Alaska. The measure
proposes that in such cases jurors
•shall Vie drawn from a list prepared
by the city clerk and United States
Commissioner. The lis* is to contain
the names of not less than fifty or
more than three hundred male electors
and is to be prepared once a year.
The Ketchikan and Juneau members
of the legisla‘ure claim theire is. great
.abuse of the law in their towns under
the present system of drawing juries.
Rep. Chas Bi own of Nome has been
appointed on a committee to investi
gate and report on conditions in the
Pioneer Holme at Sitka.
A bill has been intr
roduced in the
Senate l>y Collins of Fairbanks! to give
women the right to si*. on juries. Sen
ator I*rioe of Anchorage has introduc
ed a Senate bill to repeal the present
primary law.
(Rickert of Fairbanks has introduced
{•. bill in the House to appropriate
$» 1,000 for the maintenance of the Ag
ricultural College and School of Mines
tit Fairbanks. Seventeen thousand of
the sum is to be available this year
and 124.000 in 1922.
Oetchell of the Firs4. Division has
presented a bill in the House declaring
employment in a saw mill, factory,
laundry or manufacturing establish
ment, or in open cut or open pit. quarry
cr .mine, for more than eight hours
in any day to be injurious to health.
The measure includes lx>th men and
women engaged in such employment
I’Ut excepts 'watchmen and employees
making repairs, cases of emergency
when Hves or property are in immin
ent danger. The bill prescribes that
employees may work not to exceed
four hours overtime upon condition of
payment at the rate of ttme and a half
for overtime. Penalties provided for
violations as follows: A fine of $100
to $500 or imprisonment from one to six
months, or both, for the first offer.se;
For the second offense Imprisonment
for from 60 days to one year, if in the
case of an individual, and a fine of
$500 to $1,000 If a corporation. Sen
ator Frawley is due to arrive here Sun.
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BRITISH WRITER
FAITHFUL DEPICTOR
OF ALASKA
Mrs. Charlotte Cameron. the distin
guished British writer and traveler
who spent some time in Nome two
yeans :vgo at the end of a journey thru
Alaska, has published a book on Alas
ka and the Yukon, which, according
to a recent issue of the Cordova Times,
is not only decidedly interesting but
also possesses the merit of describing
conditions in the North with fidelity
to truth, something that can be said
of very few- literary works on the
Northland, either prose or verse. The
Times says:
M. S. Whittier, of Juneau, has re
ef ived an autographed codv of'Char
lotte Cameron’s book. "A chech^o in
and Yukon." the rtlblt^fter
summer spent in the north in 1919.
Mrs Calmeron is said to be the widest
traveled woman in the world. She
•has been in all of the out-of-the-way
by- paths as well as the main traveled
•roads of the world, and written hooks
of travel on the four cornea's of the
world. She has had conferred upon
her the Order of the Britbdi Empire,
for services rendered her country and
is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical
Society of Ixmdon. Her Alaska book
ir one of the best that has been writ
ten of the north.
In the preface of he.r book Mrs.
Cameron declares that she had a pas
sion for geography as a child, and in
the "rosy days of my youth, Nome—
away off at the end of Alaska— pos
sessed a peculiar fascination for me."
However, she had traveled In other
sections first, and the knowledge that
she had gained in South Africa, In
cluding the Cemian African colonies,
made her services in demand at her
London home during the war. It was
in this service that she earned the
Order of the British Empire. With
the war over. she. sailed for America,
and in the sumtner of 1919 she left
California, for Alaska and the fascinat
ing Nome.
The book takes the reader from Se
attle through Southeastern Alaska,
stopping at various towns, including
Ketchikan. Juneau and Skagway. over
the Wihite Pass to Carcross and Atltn,
thence back to Carcnosa, Whitehorse
and down the Yukon to Dawson. All
these towns are accurately portrayed,
and many interesting stories of their
scenic, industrial and commercial ac
| tivities, their history and their people
are related with fidelity to truth and
the spirit of the north. Frorcn Dawson,
she takes her readers on down the Yu
kon to Tanama and up the Tanana to
Fairbanks. Thence back to the Yukon
and again down that waterway to St
Michael ;und thence to Nome. She
pays tribute to many well known Al
askans including Gov. and Mrw. Riggs,
whom she visited at Juneau. Senator
j and Mrs. J. It. Hecktman with whom
she traveled down the Yukon to Tan
ana and with whom she caught up
again at Nome, Mr. and Mrs. Jafet
Lindeberg. Mr. Whittier and others.
Mr. Whittier was a fellow passenger
from Vancouver to Juneau.
The book Is interesting from cover
to cover and true to conditions. There
in an incredibly small number of er
rors in the book. Which is in narrative
form, but which branches off enough
to give a very accurate treatise on the
resources, activities and history of Al
aska and Yukon. Territory. Time and
again the author pays tribute to th*
'great, generous people of the North."
thedr uniform kindness. Chivalry, brav
ery and patriotism. She appeals to
the governments of .the United States
and Canada to aid in the development
of the country that the resources
(might yield their riches to mankind
and reward the adventurous and per
severing pioneers of the land of their
efforts in claiming it for civilisation.
Accurate pictures of the natives of
the north ;tnd human interest .stories
concerning people and events, enliven
and make intensely interesting the
very fine volume .
If the book secures the circulation
that it very well merits it will add
immensely to knowledge of Alaska and
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SAYS ALASKANS
BETTER OFF THAN
OUTSIDERS
"Alaska looks Rood to most people
and. candidly I believe we are better
off than any section of the world to
day.” is the way in which it. W. J.
Reed. Nome’s genial customs repre- !
(tentative, epitomizes the difference vn !
conditions in Alaska and the Outside !
world in a mid-January letter from
Juneau to S. C. Anderson here.
"Everyone coming from the States,
and especially the city of Seattle. «ay
that conditions are very, very bad and
thooL<«mds are out of employment with
nothing in sight," Mr. Reed states.
Continuing he says: "Factories, mills. J
rniii'S, and all other lines ore clowns
down or tightening up .and reducing
■wages all along the line. Of couwe
there are strikes in many industries.
a: labor will not accept the wage cuts,
which must come In time.
"Oonunodities are dropping, espec
ially clothing, and I beMeve clothing
is fifty per cent less in price than
when I reached Seattle last fall. All
lines in net come down with wages and
it will probably take a year to restore
conditions to the noimal again; may
be longer than that When one sums
the whole situation up ‘Alaska* looks
good to most people and. candidly. I
believe we are better off than any
section of the world today.
"T have been basking in the shades
of Juneau's snow capped mountains
since the l&th of List November and
from all indications will be some time
longer. However, the weather here
has been about all you could ask for.
The sun has shone most of the time ,
(when it was not raining) and the
weather has not 'been cold to a person
who Is accustomed to such minor'
things in this Northland of curs. 1
"Juneau is a good town and has a
future. While it is quiet at present,
there are many things in sight to make
a marked change the earning summer
I*eople in the East are looking to Al
aska for their future paper supply and
this section of the territory has a sup
ply of spruce wood that is especially
suitable for pulp and good for very
little else. While it requires vast
capital to finance a pulp and paper mill
still there Is ample money tin. sight
for anything in that line, even tho
other lines are hard to promote at
present.
“You could not find a finer class of
people anywhere than Is in Juneau.
It seems they put themselves out to
make it pleasant for strangers and I
will guarantee that when the boys re
turn to Nome from the legislature,
they will say Juneau is ’all right.’
‘Have been on the sick list for the
past tern days with a very severe cold
but am feeling better now. After l
get a month in California will prob
ably feel like a ‘kid’ and trust to re
turn to Nome well fitted for the sum
mer's rush. I look for a rush North
ward the coming spring on account of
the conditons Outside. Don’t be sur
prised 'if this, comes true, Mrs. Reed
is in the East and has been for some
time, but will meet me in Colifornia.”
Have you registered for the Munici
pal and School Board election? Books
close Saturday, March 26th.
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Try our sourdough Hot Cakoa none
hotter, at ARCTIC BAKERY.
ALASKAN SENT
MESSAGE ENDING
GREAT WAR
Major) George D. Beaumont, who
was* recently mentioned in. a Seattle
news dfegntch o* in line for one of the
Alaska manOialshlps, possesses the
distinction of having been the man
who actually ended the Great War by
eroding the famous message along the
battle front that the armistice with
Germany had been signed and the hos
tilities should cease, according to a
recent issue of the Seattle Times.
1 trior to the opening of hostilities
l»etween the United States and Ger
many. Georg*.': Beaumont was assist
ant superintendent of telegraph for
the Alaska Engineering Commission,
with headquarters at Anchorage from
which point he enlisted.
The story of how an AJaAan came
to end the mightiest military struggle
in history on November It. 1918 is told
in the Times as follows:
Major Beaumont received the verbal
order at the time of receiving the writ
ten message, to ‘Shoot it. she’s over!"
The major said he hod sent many mes
-•>;<ges during his thirty years at the
key but when he sat down to shoot
that special one. he would not have
r;ired to have had any other key
pounder see him. The copy of the orig
in;! 1 message is frahned and hangs in
Major Beaumont's bedroom, at his
home. 763 Bellevue avenue, Seattle.
Major Beaumont, at the time of
sending the message ending the war.
was a captain in the capacity of tele
graph officer for the First army under
command of Ueut. Gen. Hunter Uig
gett with headquarters at Souilly.
France, personally dispatched the fate
ful message which was brought to him
by messonger from Gen. laggett’s of
fice at 7:25 o’clock the morning of No- !
vemiber 11.1918. and whirth ended the ;
war for some 500.000 American soldiers !
of the historic First Army.
At the same time similar messages i
were being dispatched to the Second j
army in the St Mlhiel sector, to the j
chief of the air service, artillery and
staff rjepartments and to ail bas"s
comprising the remainder of 2.000,000
American soldiers in France.
Major Beaumont describes the oe- '
casion as follows:
"We stayed up all night,’ said the ;
major. "Myself. :uid the shift on dut- \
in our portable telegraph office.. And
by the way that was the only portable
telegraph office in the A. E. F. It
was an erperluBerrt and It surely was
making good. Several times the fact
that it was on wheels was all that
saved It from destruction.
"I took that crew who were with
| me at hradquarterw, a.woy from Major
W. Mines, another Seattle man <n
the telegraph service. He’s here !n
town now with the Western Union.
The morning of Nov. 11. every one of
us was tired out. We had been on our
toes for four daya and the strain was j
beginning to tell on us. T was sitting
in a little office I had on the trailer
and had ceased to keep track of the
cigars T had smoked. The boys were
out in the instrument room lighting
fresh smokers from the stumps rtf old
ores. To every one of use the minutes
aeemed like ages and the same atmos
phere prevailed everywhere around
headquarters.
"At just 7:25 Jn the morning *%
messenger from the general’s office ap
peared at the outer door of the trailer
and handed up a typed message to one
of the boys with the words ‘Shoot it—
she’s over!’ I jumped from my chair
in time to snub the message and
glance over it.
“Fehapns.” I told thorn. *it’a all off.
You can ail step back and watch the
old man send a telegram." and I did.
1 shot It on a through wire first to the
First artmy corps and then jumped to
another instrument, to the Third anny
corps. At the same time two of my
mon. Master Signal Electrician Moss
and Sergeant Schnelderhans whom I
thought especially worthy of the honor,
were sending the. message to the Fifth
artmy corps and to the Second Colonial
French, respectively. And do you
know that Schneldeiihaus, one of the
men who informed our troops that the
Hermans were beaten, was a natural
ized American of German birth!
"Eater the same message was sent
to all outfits, first by radio and then
by phone and then by motor cycle
messenger. But that message didn't
actually end it all. it merely notified
the troops that by 11 o’clock the last
shot must be fired ;ind that the bom •
bardment which had been kept up con
tinuousTy for 49 day* would end In
less than four hours. I’ve been told
that same of thefcn made good use of
those last four hours of actual warfare,
and also that same were killed aft*
they had learned that the war was
NEW NEWSPAPER AT MeGRATH
McGrath, the leading center of the
Kuskokwim district, after many years
of Isolation from the events of the. ou*
side world, is now in touch with the
world through the medium of "The
Kusko Times, a breezy little four page
twice a week, newspaper, published by
A. X. Grant, former Nome newspaper
nan. who is both owner and editor.
The little journal, copies of which
were received by recent mails, carries
in each issue about the same amount,
of Outside telegraphic news as is con
tained in the Nugget’s Daily Bulletin,
together with a sundry array of local
news iuid display advertising, the lat
ter in quantities so generous as to in
dicate the full support of the local
business and merchantile interests,
which evidently are awake to the value
of a newspaper in the community.
The copies to hand comprise numbers
5 to 7 of volume I. published to Feb
ruary. indicating that the little* paper
was launched on the journalistic sea
in Januajy.
Notice is horoby given that the
School and Municipal Election for tho
CHy of Nome, Alaska, will bo held
April 5th, 1921 for tho purpose of
electing a Mayor, four Couneilmon,
City Attorney, City Treasurer, City
Clerk and Clerk of the School Board.
Polling place for said election wilt be
at the City Hall.
E. GRIMM, City Clerk.
WIL80N IN GRIP OF INDIGESTION
(Delayed In Transmission)
Washington, Mch. 25—Woodrow
Wilson had a sever© attack of indi
gestion this afternoon.
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