Validity of Fur Tax
Law Is Sustained
by Recent Decision
Commissioner W. P. Green in the
lust mail received the following com
munication from Territorial Treasurer
Smith, regarding the collection of
license and pelt taxes:
Juneau, Nov. 13, 1922.
Dear Sir:
This office has been informed by the
A Myroey General for the Territory
•art,validity of the fur tax law, Chap-. ,
ter 42, Session Haws of 1921, has been
sastaiued by recent decis>ou of the
l niied .States District Court of the
voucth judicial division.^
LnJ,6.vjev’ of such decision. United
States commissioners throughout the
Territory,,having authority to collect
taxes under the law referred tax are
urged to take such steps as- are neces
sary to collect in all license and pelt
uxea payable within their respective
precincts. Information relative to de
tision upholding the law will be given
publicity as far as possible from this
office
It is understood that in a number of
cases fur farmers, buyers and trappers
have withheld payment of taxes due
pending otucome of the suit now de
cided, but there is now no longer any
valid reason for delay, aod prompt pay
ment of taxes due should be insisted
■upon. In event refusals to pay are still
"not with* please promptly notify this
•jffkie or that of the Attorney General
or the Territory, of the names of the
persons, firms or companies so refusing
and possible amount of license taxes
iue.i Very truly yours*.
W. G. Smith,
Territorial Treasurers
M exican and Civil War
Yets Bill for increased
Pensions Gets the Veto
Washington.—The Bursutn bill, pro
viding for increases in pensions to
Civil and Mexican war veterans, was
vetved today by Harding. The Presi
d ent declared the increase in govern
mental expenditures involved would
amount to beediessness, and objected
also t® the bill’s loose provision for
•pensioaiog widows.
Henry Ford's ‘Cure7
for World's Unrest
Detroit.—The cure for the worjd un
restiis "to create for every able-bodied
m«D>in the world a job of some sort,’’
Henry Ford told -a delegation repre
senting the industrial- labor offices of
the League ofNations, whose members
held a conference here this afternoon
CHARLIE’S
| LAUNDRY
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A Bath in a Real
Bath Tub
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Shoe Repairing
Sign. Writing
Paperhanging
CHARLES REBHUN \
The-Efaody Mao
British Debt Commis
sion. in a Big Hurry
to Get to Washington
Mew. York.—Sir Stanley Baldwin,
chancellor of the British exchequer,
and Messrs. Montague, Collet and Nor
man, members of the British debt com
mission, were taken off the storm
tossed steamship Majestic at quaran
tine today, in order to get an early
train for Washington-.
War Secretary Would
Recommend Promotion
Washington. —Secretary, of War
W23k®*iBdieuted today that if he saw
any hope of approval by congress be
would recommend, that. the rank of
lieutenant be conferred on several offi
cers who- rendered1 distinguished ser
vice during the war, ducluding Major
Senerals Liggett and Crowder.
This Landlord Gi&es
Bonus for Children
Lor aim O.—U G Lie well, purchaser!
if eight houses, formerly owned by tbe
Emergency Fleet Corporation, today
iunounced that he would not reot them
to families without children. “I’ll' do
better than that,” Dewell said “To
3ach babv born in my homas I will give
i *5 sawing account.
Notice of Forfeiting. ..
ro B. T. James Ed McArdle and
Charles Knell,, yow heirs, executors
and assigns*
You are hereby notified-that- I, the
jndersigned, your co-owner, • have ex
pended in labor and im Drove meats the
sum of oot leas than oua hundred* dol
Jars. -[$100.00] for the years 102fl'*nd
1021 upon your interests- in the Good
Luck Fraction, situated hetweeo Nu>l
and No. 2. Above Discovery on Moore
creek, in the Ml. McKinley mining aod
recording precinct, Territory of Alaska
in order to hold said claim under the
provisions of Section 2324 of the Re
vised Statutes of the United States and
the amendments thereto coooerning
annual labor upon mining claims, being
the amount required to bold said min
ing claim for the period ending June
30, 192L
And if within ninety days after the
publication of this notice- you fail or
refuse u> contribute your proportion of
said expenditures, as well as the cost of
recording the same, and the costs of
this advertisement, your interests in
-aid claim will become the property of
;he undersigned, your co-owner, who
has made the required expenditures
jnder the terms of said section 2324 of
J>e Revised- Statutes of the United
States. Cegil, Rart,ow,
Co-Owner.
Date of first publication, Jan. 6. 1023.
Date of last publication, April 7, 1323.
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Hudson Bay Ship Re
turns From Far North
Returning from the long trip to
Herschel Island', .the Hudson. Hay
schooner Lady Kindersley arrived at
Ketchikan recem.lv en route m Vab
couver. The captain, August Foelmar
reported, says the Ketchikan Chroni
cle, that be had not.been able to go as
far East in the Arctic as he had hoperiv
because of the heavy -ice which did not
moue out and the consequent difficulty
of navigation.
The schooner* went north with a
thousand tons of stores an 1 provisions ,
for the Hudson Bay stations. Herschel
Island was reached on August 30, ai.d
when it was seen that further progress
could not be made 'to the east, -with
certainty of getting back, or saving
tbe ship, it was decided to turn about,
and, on September 11, the vessel ar
rived at Poirn Barrow.
The fup catch in the far North has
been good during tbe last year. The
schooner returned with a good cargo of
white fox skins, the chief catch in the
A retie for the season.
While in the North tbe .schooner -
a -
learned of the killing of a Hudson Bay
factor at one of the company’s stations,
and also of the murder of a mounted i
policeman. Mounted police were on
the trail of the slayer.
Owen Gray arrived this evening from
the Nixon mine. Coming with him
were William Gibbs, Charles Boyd and
Haifdaau Wiig.
Dentist Coming to Tacotna.
Rubvr Jan. 5 *— Dentist will leave
here on the 10th for Tacotna.
Mail Carrier Billy Duffv returned
yesterday from Big: river,..- bringia-gi
about 1500 pounds of outside mail, and *
left this morning on his wav to-Flali
Fritz Tittel aud Alex. Meugeh after^
an absence of several months in the
hills, were Thursday arrivals, for a
ihort visit.
John Rieck aod Scottv Auld left Fa.*
:otna a couple of days ago for Boob
Jreelr. where they plan to take out a
winter dump.
Receiving and sending hours- at tba
McGrath station are as follows: -.
Week Days—10 a. m. and 4 pi m.
Sundays and holidays—9:45 a. m. and t
1:30 p. m.
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Trappers, do not forget that we will pay the best
prices for your Fur, or," if preferable, we will
advance a liberal amount of money on your
Fur and ship on a commission basis.
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