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EDITORIAL
\\ \\ r I'.KKiKK 1IOTEI.S
Kverv citizen of the state has an
interest In the negotiations now go
i : on bet we- i the board of resents
of the University of Washington and
the Metropolitan Building Company
over the proposal of the company to
erect a S3.000.000 hotel on land in
the heart of ■ tt'.e leased from the
university by the company in 1904.
The primary interest of riie citi
zens of the state lies in the fact the
university owns ten acres of land un
der lease to the company for fifty
years, from which the university
draws revenue which reduces taxa
tion for its support. By the erec
tion of four laru.e modern buildings
■ n tins trait, the Metropolitan Huild
ing Company has made :! a center of
business activity, greatly inhanscing
the value of the property. The erec
tion of the proposed $3,000,000 !'<•
tel on the trait would ftx the uni
versity property as the real een er
of Seattle, making it of great value
ior all the time to come, meaning a
much greater revenue for the sun
port of the university, when the pres
ent lease expires.
l lit1 st'cunuurv uuvreai ui lue wvo
l-ic of the state is tliat such a hotel
is badly needed in Seattle to help
draw tourist trad ' to this state. Spo
kane has its Davenport: Tacoma is
planning for b. ter hotel accommo
dations. but present hotel accommo
dations in Seattle are not sufficient
ly attractive to induce tourists to
stop, with the result that many go
on north to Canada, or south to
California who would spend time
and money in this state, going from
Seattle to the other cities and resorts
of the state, if Seattle had a really
good tourist hotel. The heavy tour
ist travel of Canada and Southern
California is largely the result of
the establishment of chains of good
hotels and there must be a similar
chain of good hotels in Washington
for this state to become equally pop
ular with Canada and California am
ong the tourists. A good tourist ho
tel in Seattle is an essential link in
this chain, especially since the estab
lishment of the trans-pacific passen
ger service of the Admiral Line
which vill bring 200 or more trav
elers in or out of Seattle every week.
The Metropolitan Building Com
pany. in its proposition to the board
of regents, asked for an extention
of fifteen years on the leaso of the
proposed hotel site, including the
site of the Metropolitan theatre,
which is in the same block and which
would be made practically a part of
the hotel structure, and of a strip
of the next block to the west, needed
for erection of a beating plant for
the hotel, the rental of the site to
be readjusted in lit53, when the
present lease expires. The company
claimed that they could not finance
the new hotel i!i!!e.;s they had a full
fifty year leaso. They also asked
some minor i lianges in t'.:e existing
lease.
The proposal of the Metropolitan
Building Company was at first turn
ed down tlatl>\ by the board of re
gents. Their refusal of the offer of
the company roused a storm of dis
approval from commercial organiza
tions and newspapers of Seattle,
which had hailed the announcement
of the plans of the company as the
realization of the long-cherished
dream of Seattle to possess a really
great hotel.
Out of the controversy that arose,
it now appears that the board of re
gents did not intend their refusal of
the proposition of the company as a
termination of negotiations and ef
forts are now tinder way to effect a
settlement of questions Involved
which will enable the Metropolitan
Building Company to go ahead and
finance their hotel project aud the
university^ to get the advantage of
the increase in the value of its tract
and of the revenues from it; which
the construction of the hot"! will
bring.
TAX REIHCTIOXS WOI'LD HELP
A revision of federal taxation is
one of the foremost governmental
problems. Successful action In this
field would result in a needed stimu
lus to business activity. It is not
only a right apportionment of the
tax burden that is needed; the vol
ume of taxes should be kept as low
as is consistent with sound fiscal pol
icy. Secretary Mellon's insistence
that expenditures be curtailed will
be generally approved.
The war and navy departments af
ford the largest opportunities at the
present time for a reduction in pub
lic expenditures without counterbal
ancing losses to the public. Of the
total ordinary expenditures for the
first three quarters of the present
fiscal year. $3,784,000,000, approxi
mately J1.350.000.000. or 35 per
cent., was expended by these two de
partments. Interest on war debts is
not included in this figure.
Industry has no more war profits
with which to maintain war time
government expenditures and gov
ernment expenditures and govern
ment overhead must be trimmed ac
cordingly.—Ex.
Territorial License
Law in Effect
Kevenue Hill ^I'assed I>y I,e>;i>la
1 iiiv IVovidos Xew Schedule
<if l.lcenso Ta\.
I'lSIIKKlKS T.W IS RAISKH
All Varieties of Sen I'ooil Included
in N'i'vv St'! its lull1 — Fish Tril[>>
Mn>t I'jiy -S-"0 License — nun
Kesident Fishermen Taxed.
Th<> following Is a list of the ter
ritorial licenses enacted l>>* the last
session of the torritori il legislature,
unci now in effect:
Attorneys-at-law, ami doctors, in
( ''.tiling persons practicing medicine
surgery or osteopathy, tea dollars
($11' > per annum. Each member o(
a firm shall tic liaMe for this tax.
Optometrists, fifteen dollars ($151
per annum.
Dentists, twenty-five dollars ($25)
per annum. Each member of a firm
shall be liable for this tax. *■».
Automobiles, for hire, or for trans
portation of passengers, five-passen
ger cars, fifteen dollars ($151 per
annum: seven-passenger cars, twen
ty-five dollars (525) per annum.
Automobile trucks, or delivery
cars, whether for hire, business, or
personal use. one-ton trucks, fifteen
dollars (J 15) per annum; trucks
i of more than one-ton capacity, twen
I ty-five dollars (J 'J 3 I per annum; the
treasurer of the territory to fur
nish to each lincesee a license metal
tag to be placed on each truck, car
or automobile for which a license
is issued, under such regulations as
the treasurer may make. *
Bakeries doing a business in ex
I cess of one thousand dollars ($1000)
and less than two thousand dollars
($2000) shall pay a license of five
dollars ($5) per annum, and those
doing a business in excess of two
thousand dollars ($2000) shall pay
an additional five dollars ($5) pet
annum for each one thousand dol
lars" worth of business, or fraction
thereof, done annually.
Electric light and power plants,
selling light, power or steam for heat
and supplies to the public, one-half
of one per cent, of the gross re
ceipts in excess of twenty-five hun
dred dollars ($2500) per annum
from light, power and steam sold;
one-half of one per cent, of the net
profit from supplies sold,
i Telephone companies, one-half of
one per cent, ot gross receipts In ex
cess of fifteen hundred dollars
(SI.500) per annum.
Water-works, selling water or
power to the public, one-halt of one
per cent, ot gross receipts in excess
of twenty-five hundred dollars
($2500) per annum.
Employment agencies, operating
for hire and collecting a fee for sor
vice, five hundred dollars ($500)
per annum.
Fisheries
(a) Clam canneries, two (2)
cents per case;
(b) Herring canneries, two (2)
cents per case;
(c) Salmon canneries, seven (7)
rents per case on kings and reds or
sockeyes; three and one-half (3%)
cents per case on medium reds; and
three (3) cents per case on all
others.
In adition to the above tax,
salmon canneries shall pay one per
cent, of their net annual income.
The net income shall be determined
in the same manner as the net in
come is determined under the Fed
eral Income Tax Law, .except that
no deduction shall be allowed on
money borrowed or on account of
taxes paid.
(d) Salteries: Ten cents per one
hundred pounds on mild-cured red
king salmon; five (5) cents per
one hundred pounds on mild-curcd
white king salmon; ten (10) cents
per one hundred pounds on salted
codfish: two and one-half (2&)
cents per one hundred pounds on
all other salted and mild-cured fish.
- (e) Fish traps, fixed or floating,
two hundred dollars ($200) per an
num. so-called dummy traps in
cluded.
(f) Gill nets and stake nets, two
dollars (S2> i>er one Uuudred fath
oms, or fraction thereof.
(g) Seines, ten dollars ($10) for
the first one hundred and fifty
fathoms, and five dollars ($5) ad
ditional for each twenty-five addi
tional fathoms, or fraction thereof.
(Ill Fishermen who are not resi
dents of the Territory, five dollars
($5> per annum. The term "tislt
erman" shall meau to include r.ll
persons employed on a boat engaged
in fishing.
Cold Storage Plants: Doing a
business of one hundred thousand
dollars ($100,000) per annum or
more, five hundred dollars ($500)
per annum:
Doing n business of seventy-five
thousand dollars ($75,000) per an
num and less than one hundred
thousand dollars ($100,000), three
hundred and seventy-five ' dollars
($375) per annum:
Doing a business of fifty thou
j sand I $50,000 i and less than sev
j enty-five thousand dallars ($75,
■ 000 > per annum. t»vo hundred and
; fifty dollars ($250) per annum;
Doing a business of twenty-five
I thousand dollars ($25,000) and less
than fifty thousand dollars ($50,
000) per annum, one hundred and
twenty-five dollars ($125) per an
num :
Doing a business of ten thousand
dollars ($10,000) and less than
twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,
000) per annum, fifty dollars ($50)
pvr annum:
u-oing a .nsiness of fo,;* thousand
' , $4,000) and less than tea thou
.sat.d dollars ($10,000) ner anouni,
twenty-five dollars ($25'• per an
num;
j he "annua business" uirJer tui.i
section shall be consider-.d the g").'.s
amount recei \-i for the ;r duut
and for stornijj of produce for
ot tiers.
I ish buye' j i-Jeilers in fresh
firh), one-ten i! of one per cent,
lound on fish purchased, except
for sale at retail, whether or not
the fish buyer operate? a cold stor
c ee plant.
(a) Fish oil works and fertilizer
plants forty (40) cents per fifty
(50) gallon barrel for oil and_forty
(40) cents per ton for fertilizers
and fish meal.
tb) Whale oil. fifty (50) cents
per fifty (50) gallon barrel for oil
and fifty (50) cents per ton for fer
tilizer.
Laundries.
Doing a business of over two
thousand (2,000) an.l less than five
thousand dollars ($5.00) per an
num, twenty-five dollars per an
num;
Doing a ousmess or nvt; uior.sau'j
(5,000) or more and 1*3 than ten
thousand dollars '$10,000) uer an
num. fifty dollar. ($50.> per an
num: doing a business oi t^u thju
s;.nd dollars ($10,000) or more per
annufii. seventy-five doll.rs ($75)
per annum.
Meat .Markets
Meat markets doing a business of
not less than ten thousand dollars
($10,000) nor more than ovmty
tive thousand dollavs ($25,000) per
annum, fifty dollars per annum;
Doing a business of not less than
twenty-five thousand dollars f $25,
000) nor more than fifty thousand
dollars ($50,000) per annum, one
hundred and twenty-five dollars'
($125) pe rannum;
Doing a business of not less than
fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) nor
more than seventy-live thousand
dollars ($75,000) per annum, two
hundred and fifty dollars ($250)
per annum;
Doing a business of not less than
seventy-five thousand dollars ($76,
000). nor more than one. hundred
thousand dollars ($100,000) per an-,
num, three hundred and seventy-five
dollars ($375) per annum;
Doing a business of more than
one hundred thousand dollars •
($100,000) per annum, five hun
dred dollars ($500) per annum; and {
fifty dollars ($50) additional for,
each twenty thousand dollars' [
worth of business done in excess '
of one hundred thousand ($100,-'
000) dollars per annum;
Provided, that the sum required
to be paid for a license for prose-;
cuting the business of a meat mar
ket under the provisions of section j
2569 of the Compiled Laws shallj
be deducted from the amount of1
tax due under the provisions of this I
subdivision.
Reindeer Industry: For each
reindeer killed for ine market twen
ty-five cents (25c).
Mercantile establishments, other
than exclusively wholesale mercan
tile establishments: Doing a busi
ness of more than one hundred thou
sand dollars ($100,000) per an
num, fifty dollars ($50) per an
num on each twenty thousand dol
lars' ($20,000) worth of business
done in excess of one hundred thou
sand dollars ($100,000).
Mining: One per cent, of the
net income in excess of five thou
sand dollars ($5,000). By "net"
income is meant the cash value of
the output of the mine less operat
ing expenses, repairs and better
ments actually made, and royalties
actually paid, and all taxes paid
under Section 2569 of the Com
piled Laws of Alaska; Provided,
that the lessor of any mine op
erated under a lease shall be deemed
to be engaged in mining within the
provisions of this act and the roy
alties. less the cost of collecting
the same, received by him, shall be
deemed to be the net income within
the provisions of this act; but where
he receives royalties from more than
one mining property he shall pay the
tax on the aggregate income over
five thousand dollars ($5,000).
By mining is meant any op
eration by which valuable metals,
ores, minerals, asbestos, gypsum and
marketable earth or stone is ex
tracted from the earth.
Public messengers; twenty-live
dollars ($25) per annum.
. Ships and shipping; freight and
transportation; oceau and coast-wise
vessels doing business for hire ply
ing in Alaska waters, registered else
where in the United States and not
paying a tax or license elsewhere,
and freight and passenger lines pro
pelled by mechanical power regis
tered in the Territory of Alaska and
river and lake steamers and barges,
as well as transportation lines doliy;
business wholly within the Territory
of Alaska; one dollar per ton on net
tonnage, customhouse measurement
of such vessel.
Hunting license for non-resideni
hunters, one hundred dollars ($100)
per annum.
Dealers in non-alcoholic bever
ages, twenty-five dollars ($25) per
annum.
Manufacturing and repair shops,
not otherwise herein listed ns tax
able, employing less than three men,
ten dollars ($10) per annum; em
ploying three to ten men. twenty
five dollars ($25) per annum; era
ploying ten men or over, fifty dol
lars ($50) per annum
Saw-mills (lumber mills and shin
gle mills), five (5) cents per thous
and for shingles, and ten (10)
cents per thousand feet, board meas
ure of lumber, per annum.
Coal dealers, five*(5> coats per
ton sold per annum.
Dealers in fire-arms, 'lve dollars
($5) per .>nnum.
According to citizens jobberies cn
small beats and cabins urid other
places not .watched, ate becoming
more frequent.
It is claimed tha*. vandals have
smashed up neari) overyfb.'ni? in the
old Comet mine batman here and
Skagway, to secuie the brass and
such fittings as might be turned into
cash. Sledge hammers were used
and machinery and equipment pound
ed to pieces for the least bit of
brass.
During the past two weak:) com
plaints have been received that pro
visions and even equipment have been
stolen from several small boats a
long the wafer front, while the own
ers were absent, or from boats which
the owners keep moetly for pleas
| ure.
Miners from the hills and from
trips by boats declare that cabins
which used to be in fairly good con
dition, have had the windows brok
en the interior furnishings smashed
and c'arried away and even the doors
chopped up for fire wood.—Ex.
Subscribe for the Dally Alaskan
I
bister Says
"I like candy. I like 'it be^t when
I get the kind I go for and 6ee it —
put into the package fre;h and
clean from the showcase."
We also know that we cannot be
too particular about the candy we
sell and the way we keep it. So sis
ter shows good judgment in com
ing here to make her purchases.
Chocolates and Bon Bons
The best of the advertised brands
of package confectionery can be
secured here. We can help you
select the right box holding just the right
assortment of hard or soft fillings or both.
We will be glad to quote spccia quantity
prices for candy needed for partits, bazars,
and special occasions of all kind .
i /or I I
Purist Confections
Keller Bros., Skagway, Alaska
SMUGGLERS RUN WILD
Traffic Carried on Huge Scale on
German Border.
Custom* Officials Are in Plots and
Government Is Unable to
Check Evil.
Berlin.—Smuggling over the Dutch
and Danish frontiers, which the tier
man government hail gone to great ef
fort to suppress, again is nourishing
"on a colossal scale," and at sortie
points with the full knowledge and
connivance of many government oiti
clals, according to reports reaching
here.
Smugglers are declared to be out
bidding the government for the aid
of dishonest officials, and the "ver
itable army of customs officers on the
borders have permitted millions of
marks worth of tobacco, cigars, ciga
rettes, coffee and sugar to cross the !
border duty free within the last few
months."
Flying squadrons of customs oliicers
have been organized by the govern
ment to catch the smugglers who are
said to have so thoroughly system
atized their operations that "customs
receipts are rapidly falling back to
nothing, for custom control is again
only on paper."
Fifty thousand pounds of coffee are
being smuggled over the border daily
at one point, a report says, and smug
glers everywhere are working with the
sympathy and assistance of all dwel-.
lers along the frontiers.
Men, women and even children, are
said to be engaged lti this trade. High
prices, low wages of customs officials
and the depreciated value of the mark
Is credited as one of the principal
causes for the widespread violation
of Import and export regulations.
The smugglers are described as be
ing so well organized and so confi
dent they carry on their business "by -
land and wholesale scale, and quite
Bnonlv."
With overalls coming down In price.
It may be tliut labor will decide It
can now ufford to soil tliem with hon
est toil.
"The Earth" Is the name of a book
of poems just published. It should
sell like liot-cafces, for everybody
wants it.
An optimist Is one who still en
Joys that snug feeling that comes
from watching the flames In his
coal stove.
Americans who have married titles
occasionally have to appeal to the di
vorce courts for relief from entan
zline alllancos.
CHAR?/i OF HOUSE OF LORDS
Upper Chamber of the British Parlia
ment Well V/orth a Visit From
the Traveler.
As tbe ordinary stranger takes his
seat In the gallery und surveys the
house of lords, lie sees much to charm
nls eye, lo kindle tils imagination, and
even to stimulate his sense of rever
ence, writes a correspondent of the
London Times. lie feels humbled, If
not intimidated by the almost religi
ous solemuess of the place. It Is
glowing In gold and colors. Ail the
glory of tlie "tiger moth's deep da
masked wings" gleams in its splen
did decorations. 1 --i there Is nothing
gorgeous In Hie scene. The suhduej
light of a cathedral—"dim and yel
low," as Shelley found it In Milan—
prevails, transforming things that
might otherwise strike upon the
senses as garish into a delight to the
eye, and an inspiration to the mind.
Everything heightens the Impression
that one is in the beautiful chapel of
an ancient cathedral rather than In
a modern legislative chamber.
The lofty stained-glass windows
have bii:» and crimson figures of the
kings and queens of England. Most
of them were worldly minded men and
women, but like sainls they look In
their antique garments, snd the seem
ing of rapt meditation pnd ecstatic
Introspection m their f:.*fcs. Between
the windows are pede ;ls on which
stand large bronze statues of knights
in armor, grave and stern of aspect,
leaning on their naked swords and
lances.. They recall times when the
battle of principles was fought not
with words of subtle-minded and
rendy-tongned men In frock coat and
silk hat, hut with sword and battle
nxe, wielded by brawny soldiers on
pran :!ng steeds.
War Herats Appreciated.
Hungary will have Ihe largest fam
ily of ln-rues In the world by the gov
ernment measure for the allotment of
In nil to soldiers recently introduced,:
says a dispatch from Budapest. The
beneficiaries will be limited to men
who can prove they fought In the
World war and opposed the Red gov
ernment. They will he permitted to
incorporate the word "boss" (hero)
in the family name. Thus, Vargo Jan
will become Tloss-Varga Jan, or John
Hero-Vargo.
Archduke Ferdinand of Austria an
nounces that his services as a butler
are available at ?5 a day. But can an
archduke assume a haughty enough
expression to look like a butler? *
Treasury officials say that Uncle
Sam must have four billions a year.
Which, after all. means only 54 apiece
from all of us, even If we had to pay
it nil ourselves. >
White Fass & Yukon Route
TIME TABLE XO. 4",
Daily except Sunday
No 1, N. Bound
1st Class.
9:30 a.m. Leaves
11:55 a. m. "
1:30 p. m. "
3:05 p. m. "
5:25 p.m. Arrives
NKAGWAY
WHITE PASS
BENNETT
CABCBOSS
WHITEHOB.SE
Passengers must be at the depot in time to have Baggage in
spected, and checked. Inspection is stopped thirty minutes before
leaving time of trains.
160 pounds of Baggage will be checked free with each full fare
ticket, and 75 pounds with each half fare ticket.
No. 2, is.. Boar.il
1st. CI ass
Arrives 4:30 p.m.
Leaves 3:00 p.m.
" 1:45 p. m.
" 11:50 a. m.
" 9:20 a. m.