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CANADA'S OEM AND *OK L.VUOU
Sinr.- the opening of the Canadian
.. to agriculture the Dominion j
a as uever seen the time wheu there
was uot a scarcity of farm labor
within its borders. .Before the out
break ol the war that t&s been re-1
cruittd, .is all wars are, very large
ly from the agriculture! districts, j
too large a percentage ot the im
jn'grants arriving at its eastern
l>oris was settling down in the |
cities. Lone before aa outbreak of
war iu Europe was thought possibie
a determined effort was being made
by the authorities iu Canada that
were charged with the regulation
of immigration to divert the stream
from urban to rural districts, aud
this effort was ouly partly succes
luL The iuflui of Americans tend
ed to people the west, but the farm
er immigrants from the United
States were inaiuly oi the laud
purchasing, proprietary, labor-em
ploy'ng class, and their incoming
did little or nothing toward solving
the labor shortage problem, but,
rata.-r, a great deal toward enlarg
ing it.
Since the outbreak oi the war
thvre has been a steady drain up
on the young manhood of the Can
adian agricultural districts; this
drain continues; how long it will
last will depend largely ou how
long the empire may need Canadian
volunteers. At present e\eryboi!y
in the Canadian country home to
w bom the call to the colors h.us not
come is striving to make up tor the
absence of the young fellows w ho
are at the front or In the training
camps, with the result that the
crops hav» been gathered and stored
and marketed and chipped with
much greater expedition thau might
reasonably have been expected.
It is not the present, However,
so much as the future, that is of
concern to Canada in this respect.
The war will coma to aa end and
great numbers of the Canadian vol
unteers will return, but with them,
cr even starting ahead of them,
unless all previous experience shall
be departed from, will be a great
rush of European immigrants for
the Dominion and the United States.
The latter country already realizes
that this will bo the case and has
taken some steps toward control,
regulation and diffusion of the
flood. If it is permitted to sub
merge the eastern industrial cen
ters of either country an economic
probli'ai will be brought about
greater than that of labor short
age. There has been considerable
discussion in the Canadian press in
regard to the matter, and there is
reason to believe that the immigra
tion authorities of th? Dominion are
giving it the serious attention it
deserves.
But the problem is not one that
either country can solve single
ianded. If immigration is checked
or subjected to close restriction iu
one, the stream will simply be large
ly diverted to the other. It is easier
to set across the line than through
the immigrant stations, and it will
be easier for both countries, la a
mutual benefit arrangement, to keop
unwelcome people off the continent
than to manage them jvhen they
shall have landed. The whole sub
ject oE immigration and immigrant
distribution should, it would
Seem, be placed in the hands of an
international oommission, with as
little delay as possible. Canada's
need will not bo properly supplied
by any influx of ctrangers unless
that influx shall bo subjected to
intelligent supervision, regulation
and elimination.—C. S. Monitor.
COURT HOLDS l'EDDLERS'
FEE IS EXORBITANT
Juneau Empire: That $10 is an
exorbitant fee to be imposed by a
city upon persons desiring to con
duct a business as itinerant mer
chants is IIiq decision of Judge
Jennings as rendered in connection
with au appeal of the casq of the
Town of Ketchikan against A.
Greenbaum, recently made by the
defendant against whom a decision
was reudered in the municipal court
at Ketchikan several weeks ago.
Greetibaum had been fined ?5o and
costs by the municipal magis
trate, and immediately appealed the
case to tho district court.
In hts decision, which was Ten
dered this morning, Judge Jen
PHIL ABRAHAMS
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"I gut up nt daybreak and heard the
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"The Idea," exclaimed the intensely
sj mpathetic woman, "of disturbing
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that cannot be cured by Hall's
Catarrh Cure.
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transactions and financially able to carry
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Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mu
cous surfaces of th« system. Testimonials,
sent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold
by all Druggists.
Take Hall « Family Fill* for constipation.
nluga said: "This question is a
question of peddling without a li
cense. A. Greenbaum was charged
with a violation of the ordinance
concerning peddlers and was fined
by the ;lty magistrate $50 and
costs. Hi appealed to the district
court. W.ille the city council has
not power to tax businesses, it has
the general police power usually
conferred uu municipalities. There
fore, the ordinance requiring ped
lers to pay a license fee of $10
per day must derive its validity
from 'police power."
"The question is. Is $10 a day a
reasonable license to be exacted of
itinerant peddlers. If. is true that
ordinarily tho question of reason
ableness or unreasonableness of a
sum required as license is one to be
decided by evldeuce, but when the
sum required is manifestly out of
all proportion the matter becomes a
question of law. Ten dollars a day
is $300 a months and $3600 a year.
That sum will employ three police
men at $3.35 a day each to accom
pany the peddler for every day
l e plies his trade.
"It requires no particular acumen
to discern that the imposition of
such sum is not for tho purpose of
Serial No. 02488.
APPLICATION TO MAK£ HOME
STEAD ENTRY
U. S. Laud Office, Juneau, Alaska,
September 21, 1915.
NOTICE 13 HEREBY GIVEN:
Thai John James Rath, whose post
office address is Haines, Alaska,
lias applied to eutor uuder section
2289 ot the revised statutes of the
United States, and of the Act ol
March 3, 1903, the following des
cribed tract of land as a homestead,
situated about oue mile westerly
l'rom llaiues, Alaska; beiny U. 3
Survey 7S5, and beginning at Cor.
N<j. 1, from which U. S. L. M. No.
573 bears S80°47E *70.30 cha., lden
ucal with Cot. 4 Survey; No. 205,
Cox. No. 1 U. S. C ay Reserve, and
Cor. 4 Presbyterian Mission; thence
alotg the southerly lino of Survey
205, W. 20. clis. to COr. No. 2,
thence S. 28.10 chs. to cor. No. 3,
thence E. 15.42 chs. to Cor. No. 4,
thenco N. 9°11'E. 28.43 chs. along
westerly line of Presbyterian Mis
sion to Cor. No. 1, the place of be
ginning, containing 49.75 acres.
Variation 29°21'E. Lat. 59014'N.
Loug 135°27'W.
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely any portion of tho above de
scribed tract, are required to file
with the Register and Receiver of
the U. S. Land Office at Juneau,
their adverse claims thoreagainst
under oath, duriug the period of
publication of this notice, or within
thirty days thereafter, or they will
bp barred by prevision of the stat
ute. JOHN JAMES RATH.
I* is hereby ordered that the fore
going notico bo published for the
statutory period In the "Daily Alas
kan," a newspaper of general circu
lation printed at Skagway.
Date of first publication, Septem
ber 30, 1915.
Dato of last publication, Decem
ber 1, 1915.
C. B. WALKER,
Register.
regulation, but tor the purpose of
prohibition, and perhaps Incidentally
tor revenue. *
"The ordinance Jn this case la
held Invalid. The case lsi dismissed,
the defendant la discharged, and
his boudsi are exonerated."
At a recent meeting of the Ju
neau city, council an ordinance was
passed imposing a license fee of
$25 per week for all itinerant ped
dlers.
KOYUKUK OUTPUT
WLLL BE $250,000
Fraulc E. Howard, ex-commission
er of the Koyukulc country, when
in Fairbanks recently, was asked
lor his opinion of what thg output
would be for that region the doming
year, and he said that ho thought
It would be la the neighborhood of
$250,000. Most of th$ money -will
come from Hammond river, although
there will be considerable gold pro
duced on J creek In the Wild river
country and on Nolan creek.
On J. creek there are five outfits
working 'n, open cuts. They hayo
to depend on the rains for their
sluicing water and consequently aro
uuable to take out much money. Up
to the time Judge Howard left the
Koyukuk, they had produced In the
neighborhood of $35,000, and If the
haye plenty of water this fall will
probably produce more.
About $115,000 was washed up
last srring on the lower half of
No. i above Hammond river by
Frank Smith and Knute EllngBon.
Oa the upper half of the Bame claim
Jack Holzor and Lee Wilson washed
up about $35,000. There are no
oDerations on Hammond river In the
summer by reason of the fact that
there Is too much. \^ater to handle.
jr. A A. M.
Whilo PilM Lodge
F. & A. M. No. 113
meet* 2<i au>" 4t.h
Prl. BT'g? of each
mouth. VislUnj, brotrcrs are wel
come I'hll Abrnhftuia, Secretary.
Kliui-r L. Whonler, W. M.
B. P. O. ELKS
Skag-way Lodge
No. 431, B. P. O.
E. meets every
ThuxBday evening
at 8:30 o'clock.
AUiyg*
Visiting brotu
ors cordially welcome.
HOWARD ASHLEY, E. R.
F. J. VAN DEW ALL, secretary.
Fmtern*] Onler
Eagles—
Skag-waj Aerie
No. 25, Frater
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2<as;es ineeie me flr*i and third
SVedntssday night of each moath at
their hall on Fifth arenue. Vtmltlng
arotherB cordially iarllei to attend.
John C. Wood, W. P., J. K. Mc
Aliat.r, Secretary.
Arctic BroAJieriM.od.—
Camp Siaeway No. 1
A. B. meets every sec
owl and fourth Tues
day ereulng 'at 8:00 p
m. stuirp. Vifiitlng broltem cordial
ly welcome. A; J. Achwon, Arctic
chief, \V R. Hlllery, Ar^tlo Re
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