The Alaska daily empire. [volume], November 07, 1912, Image 3

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WHO OWNS OUR SHIPS
ASKS DR. STARR JORDAN
What shall we say as to "free'
ships'* and the Panama Canal? If
our nation has agreed to treat all
ships alike, including our own. let
us stand by that agreement Of vio
lation of treaties we have been more
than once accused. If we know what
we have promised, let us stand by
it. even though it seems strange that
we cannot "throw our money to the
birds," while every other nation is ?
free to do It. i
But why "throw our money to the
birds?" Do "the birds" require it ,
or appreciate it? What claim have j
coastwise steamships of the United
States to use our canal at the ex
pense of the American people? But
these are "our ships" we say. Since
when have they become "our ships?"
Have the New York and London capi
talists who owned them ever turned
them over to us? Have they ever
agreed to divide their profits with
those who make great profits possi- <
ble? The great enemy of democracy
in privilege. To grant a concession
of any sort having money value with
out a corresponding return Is "priv
ilege." The granting of privilege In
the past Is the source of most of
the great body of political evils from
which the civilized world suffers to
day.
While declaiming against privilege,
even while exalting its curtailment
as the greatest of national issues to
day. we start new privileges without
hesitation. We throw into tke hands
of an unknown group of men. to be
come sooner or later a shipping trust,
a vast unknown and increasing sum
of money extorted by direct taxa
tion from the people of this country.
No accounting is asked from them;
no returns for our generosity. We
give them yearly, to begin with, as
much as an American laborer can
earn in 12,000 years; in other -words,
we place at their service and at our
-
expense 12,000 of our worklngmcn.
From our taxroil we |>usb over to
them the payments each year of 30,
000 families. Ami all because these
ure our ships. "Our ships;" we have
here the primal fallacy of privilege,
a fallacy in the impending bankrupt
cy of this spendthrift world.
In Europe and America taxes have
doubled in the last fifteen years, and
half of this extra tax has gone to
build up "our ships," "our bankers,"
"our commerce," "our manufactur
ers," "our promoters," "our defense"
in nation after nation, while the
"man lowest down" who bears the
brunt of these '.axes is never called
on to share its benefits. The ships
that bear our flag In order to go
through our canal at our expense are
not "our ships." By very fact of
free tolls, wo know them for the
ships of our enemy, for the arch-ene
my of democracy is privilege.
DAVID STARK JORDAN.
1
PROGRESS ON SALMON
CREEK DEVELOPMENT
i
A representative of The Empire
made a trip over the Aaska-Gastineau
Company's construction work at Sal
mon Creek recently and noted con
siderable activity.
The frame work Is under way; the
concrete mixer is busy and the beds
are being made for the generator and
water wheels. The pipe lines are
laid down and rivited within about
300 feet of the penstock.
The Hume was practically finished
up to the dam on Tuesday night. The j
saw mill has been moved about a mile
and a half up the creek to the point
where the old water mill stood. The
mill should be in operation on its
new site within the next three or four
days.
The lower dam is under construc
tion. At this point the water will be
diverted from the creek channel and |
carried through the flume a distance
of two miles at a grade of about 13
feet to the mile, furnishing water at
the penstock to a pipe line with a
300-foot head.
This flume is 6 feet wide by four
feet high and will carry approximate
ly 3,000 miners' inches of water. Pine
living quarters have been established
in new buildings at the lower dam site
and a large force is housed and cared
for at this point.
The old mill camp has still a few
teuants. and quite a large force is
maintained at the tide water camp
where the power house is under con
struction. Work Is also carried along
systematically at the upper dam site
where a small force is maintained.
Everything seems to be moving
along in good order and work will
continue until there is more evidence
of coming winter than now prevails.
MOSCOW PREPARES
FOR HOLY WAR
Moscow prepares for the holy war
against Turkey. Thousands of young
girls, sanitary students, etc.. have pe
titioned to be sent down to the Bal
kans to help the Slavs. They are
hurriedly organizing, and they mean
to start as soon as money and band
ages are ready. Rich merchants sub
scribe freely toward their expenses.
Circassian students are forming
volunteer corps to march into Mace
donia and are liberally supported by
the townspeople. Great excitement
prevails and the whole city looks
forward to the Balkan war.
Many hundreds of young Russians
have applied for leave to Join the
Macedonian Christian bands organ
ized by the famous Bulgar Sandalsky,
who defied the Turks In Macedonia
for over twenty years. Three years
ago he capitulated to the Young
Turks when they promised autonomy
for Christian subjects. He now says
his promise loses its force, and he has
collected 10,000 insurgents within
three days. He has arms for 20,000
more. They were smuggled across
the Bulgarian frontier.
WINGS FOR SHIPS MAY
PREVENT THEIR SINKING
Pellico Portello, Brazilian, proposes > <
to save sinking ships by means of
rubber wings. His invention is on ex
hibition in Paris.
1
The idea is not to make a vessel
fly but merely to keep it afloat after
It has been bit by an iceberg, for in <
stance, as is in the Titanic's tragic i
predicament. : 1
Portello's idea is that every ship j
should be equipped with a lifebelt
of rubber wings, or sacks, stretching
around the craft. These wings, he
says, could be filled with air by means :
}f special pumps at almost a minute's
warning. The "wings," he asserts,
would cost comparatively little, and,
uninflated, would be scarcely notice
able or encumber the ship at all.
No steamship or other vessel thus
equipped, it is declared by Portello,
could sink except in a leisurely way,
allowing the passengers and crew am
ple time to escape in the small boats
and rafts.
Naval expei's express interest 'u
the young Brazilian's model, but have
made no pronouncement as to its
feasibility.
NOW GROWS
SEEDLESS PRUNES
Dietsch Had Been Experimenting
for Seven Years.
KALAMA, Wash. ? After seven
years of experimenting a seedless
prune has been produced by Carl
Dietsch, a fruit grower near Kalama.
He has a tree that bore a bushel and
a half of the new fruit, which ripen
ed well. This prune contains a pel
let about as large as a grain of wheat.
The fruit is about three-fourths of an
inch in diameter and two inches long.
It is of excellent flavor.
TO STUDY
THE WAK
Gen. McCleruan. CoL Parker,Lieut
Col. Dlckman and Major Carter, the
commission of American army offi
cers sent to Europe to study mill
tary methods, have returned from St
Petersburg and are now in Berlin
It is said that in Russia the feeling
against America on account of the
Jewish passport and treaty renuncia
tion questions prevented them get
ting as deep an insight as the)
wished into Russia army methods.
The Daily Empire delivered in Ju
neau, Douglas and Treadwell for $1.0C
a month.
SAVES HOMt ur
FRENCH DRAMA
A committee organized to raise
money to buy the house in Paris in
which was born Plerro Corneille, the
father of the French drama, was in
despair about obtaining money <
enough, when J. Pierepont .Morgan 4
offered to complete the needed sum. .
This graceful act has greatly on- .
hanced his popularity in France. j
WAY TO AVOID RUDE J
ENGLISH CHANNEL WAVES, j
A company has been formed In j
France for regular passenger hydro- j
plane service across the English -i
Channel between Calais or Boulogne j
and Folkestone or Dover. Appllca- ]
tion has been made to the English 3
authorities for the necessary permits. J
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work in small family. Telephone ?
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SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION. 1
Case No. 940-A. J
In the District Court for the District j
of Alaska, Division No. 1, at
Juneau. j
First National Bank of Juneau. Plain- ^
tiff, vs.
Ellen G. Bach. Frank Bach, North
west Rubber Company, Schwabach
cr Bros. & Co., Inc., defendants.
To the NORTHWEST RUBBER
COMPANY and SCHWABACHER
BROS. & CO., Inc., defendants,
GREETING:
In the name of the United States of
America and pursuant to an order of
the above entitled Court in the above
entitled cause made on the 5th day
of November, 1912, you and each of
you are hereby commanded to be and
appear in the above entitled court
holden at Juneau. In said Division, in
said Territory, and answer the com
plaint tiled against you in the above
entitled action within thirty days
from the date of the last publication ?
hereof: and if you fail so to appear
and answer for want thereof the
plaintiff will apply to the Court for
and the Court will grant the relief
demanded In said complaint, to-wlt:
Judgment on a promissory note )
against Frank Bach, In the sum of <
one thousaud dollars ($1,000.00), '
with interest thereon at the rate of ]
twelve per cent (12 per cent) per <1
annum, from the 24th day of May, '
1909; one hundred dollars ($100.00) ]
attorney's fees; together with its
costs and disbursementn herein in- ?
curred; further for a decree foreclos
ing a certain mortgage upon certain
property situate in Douglas, Alaska,
against all the defendants herein.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of the above entitled court this
5th day of November, 1912.
E. W. PETT1T, Clerk.
First publication, November 5, 1912.
Last publication December 17; 1912.
SPECIAL TERM OF COURT.
, In the District Court for the District
of Alaska, Division No. 1,
At Juneau.
In the Matter of Calling a Special
December, 1912, Term of Court at
Juneau.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
pursuant to an order of the Honorable
Thomas R. Lyons, District Judge for
. the District of Alaska, Division No.
1, made on the 4th day of November,
1912, at Juneau, Alaska, a SPECIAL
; TERM of the DISTRICT COURT will
be holden at the United States Court
! House at Juneau. Alaska, beginning
? on Monday, the NINTH DAY OF DE
. CEMBER, 1912, at the hour of ten
, o'clock in the forenon of said day.
E. W. PETTIT.
Clerk of the District Court for
the District of Alaska, Division
No. 1.
. Dated and published at Juneau,
Alaska, this 5th day of November, A.
D. 1912.
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JOHN RECK. Vice-Pros.
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E. P. KENNEDY
GEO. F. MILLER
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