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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1912.
ALASKAN PROBLEMS.
Alaska is an example of conserva
lion run wild. Its coal and wood and
lands and all that tliey contain are
being held In trust, not for any of us
but for our groat-grandchildren. While
we say hands off, Alaska is being
starved. It is time to give those
who aro striving to develop this none
too loveable land a chance to breaithe
and eat.
It was a good day's work when
the hands of the Wall street pion
eers were torn from the throat of
the far northern territory, but pro
tecting governmental fingers around
that same throat can hardly be cal
cd a blessing if they stay there <oo
long and grip too tightly.
Alaskan coal and coal lands have
bred many a scandal. The federal
court in Chicago will take up one
of these cases before the snow flies.
Hut because they have incited crook
edness that is no reason for making
them incommunicado for all time.
There's coal up there and lots of it.
The settlers and their strugggling in
dustries need it. Why not at least
Tiegin to devise a plan for letting
some one use it.?
One month ago on the dock at
Cordova there were two piles of
coal—550 tons in all—wating to be
shoveled into the bunkers of the
United States cruiser Maryland.
This coal came from Canada and cost
the American government, duty and
freight on an oil burning steamer
included, jUBt $11 a ton. And less
"than fifty miles from Cordova, on a
railroad (operated also with oil that
was brought from California) there
Ir one of the greatest coal fields in
the world, thoroughly conserved and
corked.
i lie weaieni luiim «»» m»»nu
one enormous pine forest. Every boat
iouchingg at Ketchikan, Sitka, Ju
neau, Cordova, Valdez and Seward ca^
xles lumber to these Alaskan New
castle. Ties and bridge limbers
■were imported to build the Copper
Itlver railroad. In this case the
jnoving cause may have been the
pique on the part of Morgan and the
Cuggenheims rather than economy.
The road costing $23,000,000, makes
possible the shipping of orei from the
Honanza copper mine. <the high grade
worth $10,00 a car. In a little over
a year $4,000,000 has been taken from
this mine, and the annual product
from now on should reach at least
that sum. They charge themselves
$S00 a car freight for hauling this
ore less than 200 miles. So the 23.
OOO.OOO will son come bark to one
pocket or t.he other.
Rig figures—but Ice was $30 a
«on in Cordova this summer, with
the Childs glacier, one of the largest
In the world, fifty miles away.
And while the treasures of the
land are tinder lock and key the gold
en harvest of the sea—the salmon
is being reaped with a thoroughness
that means destruction. Millions tip
on millions of fish are killed each
year, and, with the exception of pu
ny efforts by some canneries which
operate small hatcheries, nothing Is
done to conserve this Industry nad
avert the inevitable day when the
story of the buffalo will bo the story
of the salmon.
Alaska has Its problems and ne^df
counsel and aid. Coast towns that
three years ago had a population oi
3,000 today number 700 or less. The>
nre living In hope, hanging on In
expectancy and praying that some
thing will happen. Anything, thej
say, is better than nothing. Conser
vat Ion Isn't oxactly a popular woW
up there, and yet the solid men oi
these towns admit, that It has done t
lot of good. What they really wouU
like Is a chance "to demonstrate Iti
benefits rather than loave that pleas
lng task to the third or fourth gon
eratlon.
What Alaska suffered from firs
was exploitation.
What is suffers from now Is Buffo
eallon.—Chicago Tribune.
8KIRT8 AND MORALITY.
A Minneapolis preacher says "there
are men In hospitals and hell who
owe thier damnation to the skirts of
some bad, beautiful woman."
True perhaps; but the main trouble
is not with the skirt, or with the
"bad, beautiful woman"; it is with
the man. Whait difference should It
make to a real man, a manly man,
whether a woman is robed in a fig
leaf or an elaborate and intricate and
bewildering Parisian gown? For all
of her guises and fancies and conceal.
mentB, a woman is still a woman,
and men know her. We stroll into
the art museum; we see Physche
•bending above the pool, laving her
mirrored beauties; or 'we sec her at
the feet of Venus; and we seen Ven
us; or we see Cleopatra drifting
down the Nile, with water nymphs
playing around the edges of the
barge; but are we the least excited
by these things? Not if we aro clean
ly moral.
As for the skirts woman now wear,
they are, in all respoots, the most
rational skirts they have ever worn.
There1 is no big waste of material.
They enable women to walk without
unnecessary hindrance. They are too
short to sweep up the unclean accu
mulations of the street- No, ithe trou
ble is not witth the kind of skirts wo
men wear; it is with the men who
are abnormal and low in their inclina
tions. and we may as well admit it. I
GIVING LAND TO BURBANK.
Congress has passed a bill giving
'o Luther Burbank twelve sections J
of land in California, Nevada, Arizona'
and New Mexico for the propagation i
of spineless cactuses. The bill pro- j
vides that if Burbank succeeds in
growingg on this semi-arid land cac
tuses suitable for animal food for a
period of two years the land shall
be sold to him for the regular $1..r»0
an acre government land price.
While paternalism on the part of
the government is to be discouraged
on general principles the nation could
well give to Burbnak the twelve sec
tions of land and offer him a bonus
of $12,000,000 if he succeeds in his
experiment. There are milions up
on millions of acres of land in the
states named that produce nothing
but cactus, which grows luxuriantly
on the desert sands. If that plant
can be improved so that it will fur-]
nish food for cattle, the result would
be almost equal to the restoration
to the range of the farms of Iowa,
Kansas, Nebraska and other states
west of the Mississippi that have
been pre-empted and cultivated at
•the expense of reducing almost to
nothing the former vast areas that
were devoted to cattle raising.
The Burbank experiment with
cactus is of national importance. If
he succeeds, the moat problem will
have been solved for this nation for
many years to come.
WHY HE IS "SUNNY JIM."
"Fortunate we are that our oppo
nents are divideti Into two camps,"
said James S. Sherman recently in
his speech accepting the Republican
nomination for vice-president.
It Is strange no one ever thought
of this before. Mr. Taft is aimabil
ity itself, but It never occurred to
him. Mr. Hilles is the most optomls
tic of men, but he missed it. Even
Elihu Root, whose adroit mind rarely
slips a cog has not stumbled upon It.
To have so many opponents that
they cannot all get Into one parity
might bo fortunate If they were all
Democrats, but when one of *he
hostile camps is made up exclusively
of former Republicans the situation
presents a different aspect to most
people.
No wonder that Mr. Sherman's
friends In Utica refer to him as
"Sunny Jim."
A Willie** is to be sent from
Dawnon to Fairbanks to establish
the identity of Petric Allan, the
man wanted for having skipped
With $2,000 worth of gold dust
from Glacier creek. Allan is held
at Fairbanks. He was arrested at
Gibbon on request of the mount
ed police at Dawson, and then tak
, rn to Fairbanks to be tried be
fore the court.
Tho switching of two headline^
by the printer on the "make-up"
in tho Fairbanks Times office
caused chagrin and distress to
1 come to the editor. A funeral cap
lion wa«i placed at the head of an
- rtirle on the return to Fairbanks
I f a prominent attorney, and th?
1 .ttorney's return nlory was prom
• nent. with a burial heading.
The opening prices on Alaska
' salmon are far below their usual
mark and cannerymen in the
north are packing at a loss un
le s the prices soar materially.
VtDER TO SHOW OAUSK ON
TITION TO SELL LAND.
n the United Slates Commission
er's Court for the Territory of
Alaska, Valdez Precinct. In
Probate.
In the matter of the guardian
shin of the estate of Nels Oscar
Sail, a mentally incompetent per
on.—Order to Show Cause on Pe
tition to sell Land.
The United States of America
.1 j Nels Oscar Sail, Charles G. Sail,
Lewis Sail, Albert Sail and Marie
AVatson, and to all persons in
erested in the above-named es
tate or in the sale of lands be
onging to said estate:
The petition of Charles G.
Sail, as guardian of the estate of
the above-named Nels Oscar Sail,
a mentally incompetent person,
eing duly filed in this court, rep
resenting that it would be for the
J.enellt of the estate of said in
competent person and of all per
sons interested therein that cor
am lands and mining property of
aid mentally incompetent person
described therein be sold, anrt
praying that license be granted
to the said Charles G. Sail, as
guardian, to sell the same;
Now, Iherefore, you and each
of you are hereby cited, ordered
and required to show cause, if
any you have, before this court,
at. the United States Commission
er's court room in the court, house
jn the town of Valdez, in the above
named precinct in the Territory
of Alaska, on the 7th day of Oe_
to,)er. 1912, at 2 o'clock p. m.,
why the prayer of said pel it ion
should not he granted.
Done in open court at Valdez,
Alaska, this 2Gth day of August,
1912.
THOMAS R. SI IF. PAR D,
Judprc of the United Slates Com
missioner's Court in and for Ihe
Yahh'z Precinct, Territory of,
Alaska.—In Probate.
Charles Lorimr and K. K. Rilehie.J
Attorneys for Petilioner.
Kirs I pub. September 7. I9!2. |
La si pub. < )e|ol»er 5, 191".'.
Limited amount of treasury
slock of the Royal Development
Gold Mining company for sale for
5 cents a share. Money to be used
or development work. Inquire of
•John Ekcmo, or phone James Pat
terson, 202.
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