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"CUSS" ONLY L\ WINTER
This is the time of the yey in
Alaska when so many people can be
heard swearing that this winter Is
their last sure and certain. Three
mouths from now when the sun is
shiii.ng and all the world looks
bright Alaska wjll look just a lit
tle better than any otheT place to
the man who has to work for a
living. Many a man has gone out
side after having been thoroughly
saturated with the independent
spirit of the north and he has yean*
ed «o come back, to get away from
the cheap and numerous competition
fiom the semi-slavery that is ever
a concomitant of so-called civiliza
tion —Seward Gateway.
TAX TO V1ELI> $300,000
Washington —Alaska Territor
ial license tax laws upon fishing an
luiujug corporation^ were put into
eflec* by a supreme court ruling
Jan. 15, ls>17. Appeals in test
«ui:s from the lower courts decrees
upholding the territorial legis
lature's tax acts were dismissed.
The decision of the supreme cour
iu upholding the Territorial cour^
iu tie taxation oases generally
u.'east's Alaskans, because of the
fact that it means a guarantee of a
additional income to the territory
of nearly $300,000 annually. This
ii.come from the cannery tax of
from 1 to -4 cents a cose on sal
mon, a saltery tax of 2^ cents per
10 j pounds of fish, a fish trap tax
oi $J00 per year and a gill net tax
of $1 for each 100 fe^t. a<5 w-ell as
a mining tax of 1 per cent of th«
net income in excess of $5,000.
The suit was commenced, by re
presentatives ot' mining' and fishing
Interests at Juneau, following the
demand of the territorial officials
tor taxes as imposed by the Leg fe
ature- of 1913 and 1915. The com
uani.es admitted the facts and the
umouu's duo in the test cases, and
the- turritor/ agreed to accept taxes
aud accrued interest at the rate of
i> pw cent and waive enforcements
of the penalties provided by law, in
case '.ha decision resulted favorably
to the territory.
Penalties in the statutes for non
taymtn"- of taxes include a 10 per
cent interest charge as a fine, With
each month a separate offense.
Fish packers and mining men wh
Objected to th$ payment of the ter
ritorial tax did bo on the ground
tha« it was an additional tax, as
taey were already paying a federal
tax. Their point was that the
Organic Act which was passed by
Cousress in 1912, and which gave
Alaska her Territorial form of gov
ernment, specifically provided 'kat
the territory should not legislate
on fisk or fur laws. The act of
1906, which exempted tke salmon
canneries from the federal tax of 4
cents a case, by the release of sal
mon try from private hatcheries, al
so was brought into the case, be
cause it specified that the federal
♦ix "shall be in lieu of all other
licence fees and taxes."
The territory contends that the
organic act, passed in. 1912, should
"no* operate to prevent the legisla
ture from imposing other and addi
tional licenses and taxes." The ter
ritorial point of viejv -was that this
section of the law repealed the act
of 1906 and made canneries and
mining companies liable for a terri
torial tax which would be "other
and additional" to the federal tax.
The first territorial tax imposed
In 1913 ou the fisheries provided
for 7 cents a casa on scckeye and
king salmon, and $4 cent a case on
humpback, cohoe and chum salmon.
The tax law of 1915, 'which su
perceded that of 1913, provided for
4 ceirta a case on king', sockeye or
red salmon, 2 cents a case on med
ium reds and 1 cejit a case on all
others, besides the saltery, fish
trap and gill net taxes.
Estimates of the income from
th^ tax to the territory place the
revenue from the mines at about
$2b9,0.00 per year, with $175,000
from tbc fisheries and about $75,000
from all other business and manu
facturing plants taxable under the
territorial law.
The appeal of the cases from the
district court of the First Divi
sion of Alaaka to the circuit court
o* aopeals at San Francisco was
taken by John Cobb, territorial
counsel, last year. The cases were
continued and fought out in the
supreme court by George B. Qrigs
by, attorney-general elect and pres
ent counsel for the territory.
Glass, china and reputation are easily
cracked and never well mended. -
Franklin.
Professor Schell, head of the
Government School at Metlakahtla
paid Ketchikan a visit for the
first time since coming to Alaska
last September. He arrived this
morning aboard the Good Tidings,
mloted by Reverend Edward Mars
den and will leave sometime this
afternoon.
Professor Schell, u»ys the Ketchi
kan Progressive-Miner paid a de
lightful visit to this paper reoently,
telling of th© many new improve
ments in the little village within
*he last two weeks. The water
works have now been extended nil
over the town, the men, contribut
ing their labor free of the mutual
benefi* of all the townspeople, he
stated.
The Metlakahtla Commercial com
pany, which wa3 organized last year,
has added some new capital and will
commence work on a new building
to be erected in the near future,
and which will be opened as a de
partmental store, run by the com
pany.
Preparations are tinder way, Mr.
Schell stated, for the big annual
i fair, given by Klawock, Hydaburg
and Metlakahtla, which will t>e held
in Metlakahtla on February 15.
When asked as to his opinion of
[Alaska, Mt. Schell answered that
this was his first trip to Alaska
and he was very favorably impress
ed, Mr. Schell wag employed by
the government in the schools of
the Philippine Islands for six years
prior tc his coming north.
Professor Schell is assisted by
botn his wife and daughter at the
>chocl as well a the Misses Dan
ford and Wybrant and Mr. Ge{l.
THE PENALTY
OF OVERWORK
Many Alaska People Are Beginning
To Fell the Stra£a
The heavy tax of overwork — the
extra Btrain upon the back so neces
sary *o many trades and, occupa
tions is hard on the kidneys. The
kidneys begujn to fall in their work
and the poisonous matter collects ia
the system. If your work seems
hard for you, if you seem tired and
listless, if yon notice sediment in
the urine, uanaturaj color or irregu
lar passages and seem to be running
down without apparent cause, be
gin at once with Doan's Kidney
Pills, the remedy that has proven
ao beneficial to so many residents o)
'his vicinity. It has brought
strength to the backs of thousands
of working men and. women.
Mrs. Margaret A. Nesary, 1513
Twenty-firgt Ave., S., Seattle, Washy
says: "I* I worked too harl I had
dull, sickening pains across my
loins and hies. My whole system
was affected and made me feel poor,
ly in every way. Spells of dizzi
ness came on and I had a glimmering
before my eyes at times. My kid
neys were irregular in action and
'ha passages were distressing.
Doaa's Kidney Pilla gTeatlyl benefited
me. In spite of my advanced age,
I am active and do all my own
housework."
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy—
pet Doan's Kidney Pills—the saanq
that Jlr," Nemsary had, Foater-Mil
t>urn Props., Buffalo, N. Y.
SETTLING A RATTLER.
Prairie Dogs Did the Job Well by Bury*
infl Him A-live.
It would not seem n very easy thing*
to bury a snake alive, but that Is what
ui^ Oklahoma man saw some prairie
dogs do.
He was resting under a tree when
he noticed a commotion amohg some
prairie dogs near him. They w#uld run
up to a certain spot, peep at something
and then scamper back. Looking more
closely, he saw fifteen to twenty dogs
about a rattlesnake, which presently
went Into one of the dops' holes.
No sooner had It disappeared than
the little fellows began to push In dirt,
evidently to fill up the hole. By the
time they had pretty well covered the
entrance the snake stuck his head up
through the dirt, and every dog scam
pered off to a safe distance, .all the
time barking.
The snake crawled to another hole
about a rod distant and went in. Then
forward came the dogs again, and all
went to work to push up earth to the
hole. This time they succeeded and
completely covered the entrance. This
done, they proceeded to beat the earth
down, employing their noses for this
purpose. When they had rendered the
earth quite hard they went away. The
observer examined their work and was
surprised to find that they had packed
the earth in solid with their noses and
had sealed the snake Inside.—Los An
geles Times.
ANCIENT ANIMAL GIANTS.
Monster Sloth# That Were ■■ Large
a Rhinoceros.
In an account of the fossils of giant
animals of Argentina to be seen In the
Museum of La Plata the Rev. J. A.
Zahm, author of "Through South Amer
ica's Southland," calls special attention
to the mylodon, a ground sloth as
large as a rhinoceros and related to
the megatherium that flourished thou
sands of years ago.
The mylodon may have lived within
comparatively recent times. Only a
few years ago Nordenskjold discover
ed In a cave In southwestern Patago
nia a large piece of well preserved
skin covered with greenish brown hair
and small bony knobs that was recog
nized as the skin of the mylodon.
There Is good reason to believe that
the mylodon was still browslug In the
forests of Patagonia as late as fifty
years ago. Indeed, there are natural
ists who conteud that It Is still living
In some of the caves of southern Chile.
So strong was the conviction that as
late as 1002 au expedition started from
England the chief object of which was
to search for a living mylodon, and,
although It failed to find one, there are
men of science who continue to believe
that a living mylodon will yet be found
somewhere In the forest depths of
southern Chile or Argentina.
IVickajack Cave.
Moknjack was once the name of an
Important Cherokee town on the bank
of the Tennessee river. The Chero
kees, who had aided the Iirltlsh in tho
Revolutionary war and hnd been well
paid for their assistance, clustered
their wigwams at this point about
17SO-S2, and the village was known
as one of the "Chlekamauga towns."
The meaning of tho name Is n-jw lost,
though it was probably of Cherokee
origin, as It occurs In the annals of
the tribe as a man's name. This name
Is also given to a creek and to a very
remarkable cave, the latter being situ
ated very near that point of the south
ern boundary of Tennessee where It Is
Intersected by tho line separating tho
states of Alabama and Georgia. Nlck
ajack cave, though but little known,
is one of the wonderful caves of the
world, being of even more Imposing
proportions than the Mammoth cave
of Kentucky.—Argonaut
The First Music.
The father of song, music and danc
ing, all three, was the savage who
first clapped hands and shouted In
time at some rude festival of his tribe.
From that clapping and shouting has
been evolved the whole art of Instru
mental music, including even the en
trancing complexities of the modern
symphony. From that shout or rudi
mentary emotional utterance has pro
ceeded by a kindred evolution the
whole art of vocal music down to the
modern opera or oratorio. From the
savage leap has come every variety
of dancing.
How Flying Fish Fly.
The popular notion that flying fish
beat their "wings'' is a mistake. It ap
pears that the v.ings are not true or
gans of flight, but rather play the part
of a parachute or an aeroplane. The
whole motive power is supplied by the
tail, which acts as a propeller, and the
vibration or quivering of the wings In
the air currents and their occasional
shift of inclination are not phenomena
connected with the propulsion of the
fish in iiS aerial flight.
Dirty Windows.
A German professor has ascertained
thafin Industrial cities windows which
have not been v \s'ied for ten days ex
clude from C" > per cent of the
light. If not -bed for four.weeks
they may e::-: as much as 80 per
cent of the lig'if.
Picture Frames.
In the early parts of the fifteenth
century carvers and gilders in Venice
were permitted to attach their names
to the frames of pictures by famous
artists.
Set not tuyself to attain much rest,
but nuch patience.—Thomas a Kem
pis.
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Arctic Brotherhood. —
Camp Skajfwary No. 1>
A. B. meets every sec
ond and. fouirth) Tues
day evemlng; at 8:30 P
m. anarp. Visiting brothers cordial
ly wt'vcaa*. W. L. Stevenson, Arc
tie Chief. W. E. Burford, Arctic
Kecc rder.
Fraternal Order
Kaglefi—
Skagwojl Aerie)
No. 115, Frater
nal Onler of
Eagle*} xuQets tJiej first ami third
Wednesday night of each month at
•UiPh hall an Fifth Avesiue. Visit
ing bruthlers cordially lnvitefcl to
att<Mid. J. M. Qreishach, \V. 1'.
J. V. Miller, Secretary.
P. & A. M.
Whltei Pass Lodge
F. & "A. M. No. 113
ineet9 2d and 4th
Fri. Ev'gs, of each
month. Visiting brothers are wel
come.
Elmer L. Wheeler, W. M.
Address all communloationg to
the Secretary.
B. P. O. ELKS
Slcayway Lodg*
No. 431, B. P. O.
K. maota every
Thursday night
<vt 8":00 o'clock.
ViailiUg uiumoin
cordially welcome.
HENRY FRIEDENTHAL, E. R.
T. J. VAWDEWALL, Secretary.
Pioneer of Alaska Igloo, No. 12,
wee<* ta A. B. Hall first Monday in
v>tpry month at 8:80 p. m.
Visiting Brothers cordially wel
come.
W. L. STEVENSON, Pree.
V. T. DORTERO. Roc. Sac.
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