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ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
J. F. A. STRONG
Telephone No. 3-7-4
Entered aa second-class matter November 7. 1912 at the postoffice at Ju
neau. Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
Ctoe year, by mall $10.00
Six months, by mail 6.00
Per month, delivered 1.00
JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1913.
TH ENEED OF A FEDERAL BUILDING
PERHAPS if Congress keeps on appropriating a few thousand
dollars each year for a federal building in Juneau, in the
course of a decade a sufficient sum will have accumulated to
begin construction work. The necessity of a public building
sufficient to house the various United States government offices
in the Capital City has been referred to in these columns, and it
is a matter that deserves the attention of the people of this city,
and incidentally of all the people of the Territory, for all have
more or less interest in the capital.
Alaska now has a Territorial Legislature, but no permanent
place for its meeting. This could be provided for in a federal
building. Juneau as the capital, and the leading industrial city
should have a postoffice instead of the present, poor, unsanitary
and cramped quarters which would not be tolerated in a village
of one hundred people in any of the States of the Union. A new
federal building could be so constructed as to allow for a com
modious and up-to-date postoffice.
The Surveyor-General's office, the office of the Collector of
Customs, the Land Office are all housed in private buildings.
These would also be provided for if there were a federal building
of the requisite size.
The growth of Juneau and its assured permanent future as
a town of considerable proportions should be a strong enough
argument to secure the construction of a public building.
The only public buildings ever constructed by the Govern
ment in Alaska have been a few court houses and jails, Juneau
having by far the most pretentious building. Yet there are small
towns scattered throughout the United States, where federal
buildings have been erected?buildings that were not needed?
because of political pull. Wyoming, for example, can be cited
as proof of this statement.
Juneau needs a federal building, for no other reason than
absolute necessity, and we believe that the need will be supplied
in the not distant future. But, if we do not ask, we won't re
ceive.
President-elect Wlison is a man of discretion, if not of valor.
He declined to face an army of two thousand militant suffra
gettes.
REVISION OF OUR LAWS
THE Nome Bar Association seems to have done considerable
"digging" in the way of searching out the revisions and
amendments -that are needed in the civil and criminal codes
of the Territory. The list which they have compiled and which
was printed in this newspaper yesterday, shows careful and
painstaking research, and, we think each and every recommen
dation therein contained is along safe, sound and progressive
lines. Attorneys have long complained of the lameness of both
the civil and criminal codes; and the operation of the criminal
code especially has been proved, time and again, to be exceeding
ly faulty and in a number of recent flagrant cases to be alto
gether ineffective.
The Territorial Legislature promises to nave pienty 01
work to do, and it is hoped that it will be done well. Progressive
legislation isdemanded by the people, but we cherish the hope
that none of it will be of the freak variety that one sometimes
sees introduced in the States, and some times enacted into law.
If the Legislature will devote its time to the passing of good and
wholesome laws, within its limitations, it will earn the confi
dence and receive the support of all Alaskans.
"Has't banged at the Chilkoot?" wrote Joaquin Miller in
1897, after crossing that historical peak. And the "Poet of the
Sierras" loved the mountains, and their rugged grandeur seemed
to inspire him to greater flights of fancy. He was a product of
the mountains and loved to live on the border of things.
A CONDITION, NOT A THEORY
THE Alaska-Gastineau Mining Company, through its general
manager, states, in effect, that it is purely an industrial cor
poration; that its business is mining and milling ore, and
is not engaged, nor does it intend to engage in other pursuits.
The population of Juneau and Douglas is bound to increase by
the great influx of people that the developments now under
way will attract to this section. Many more people than are now
here must be housed and fed and clothed, and if we are to bene
fit by this expansion of population and secure the additional
business which it will assuredly bring, the new problems which
changed conditions always bring must be met and solved in a
right way.
And it is a condition, not a theory, that is now confronting
the people of the Channel Cities.
An exchange says that "knocking is an Alaskan by-product.'
Why by-product?.
QUICK-CHANGING MEXICO
WE DO not believe in taking a pessimistic view of men oi
things, but here's Mexico with at least three Presidents
one elected and two or more "proclaimed,' and more trou
ble looming up in the near distance for that much-afflicted peo
pie. For, it must be understood, when we are considering th<
affairs of the neighboring republic, that the great mass of th<
people, native to the soil, are not directly concerned in the mul
tiplicity of outbreaks or revolutions which are so common ii
that land that, to us. they become monotonous. The revolution!
have nearly always been the work of a few designing men, whili
the people at large were practically unconcerned as to the merit;
of the men contesting for place and power. Indeed if not sub
ject to conscription, or if they were without the fighting zones
many of the Mexican people scarcely knew, or cared, who the
President might be. |
And now, according to the dispatches of yesterday and to
day Mexico is to have a new President, and as a natural corol
lary of its troubulous history, more "revolutions" will be quick
ly in order.
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If the Congress will pass the Booher
coal leasing bill, now before it there
will be things doing along the line of
railway construction work. This is
j the straight tip. coming from one who
knows.?Seward Gateway.
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In view of the fact that it cost the
government $75 a ton to mine our coal
we can't see who is going to steal
it.?Valdez Prospector.
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A report reached town Saturday
night that Fairbanks had been desig
nated as a sub-port of entry, when E.
W. Griftin, of Chena, received a tele
gram to that effect from the Outside.
This was also accomplished, if the
report is true because of the good
and untiring work of our Commercial
Club and Mr. Wickersham. ? Fair
banks Citizen.
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Now that the snow blockades have
commenced to work down on the Cop
per River Railroad line, the people
of Ruby and other Northern points
will have a fine mall service?we don't
think.?Ruby Record-Citizen.
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What are known as the "Moose
cases" will be tried at the term of
court to be held in Seward this spring
?at a date yet to be fixed. W. G.
Whorf and J. A. Uerbert, of Seldovia,
are accused of having in their pos
session moose meat out of season.
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It is reported that a couple of sticks
of dynamite were found on the porch
of an inhabitnt of a sporting house in
Seward o nemorning quite recently.
Just what the motive was has not been
explained as yet.
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A. H. Bryant has been appointed
superintendent of the Valdez Creek
Mining Company, which has taken
over the holdings of Peter Monahan j
and associates. The company is com-,
posed of Boston capitalists, who pro- j
pose to open the ground on a compre
hensive scale and will mine by the!
hydraulic method. My Bryant will
send in a big outfit, consisting of some
sixty tons, for use during the working
season.
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Otto R. Hansen, the Milwaukee mil-;
lionaire, who visited Seward last seas
on and who put some money Into,
mining property in that vicinity, has
purchased the group of lots in the
townsito formerly owned by Frank
Thompson, of Toronto.
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George Leavit died at Seward re
cently, a victim or cancer or the stom
ach. Mr. Leavitt went to Unga in
18S0, where for years he was a guard
at the federal jail. He had a son in
the U. S. navy and a daughter in
school at Oakland, Calif.
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An exchange has discovered that
Alaskans grow gray before their time
for the same reason that a weasel or
' a ptarmigan puts on a coat in the win
- ter time resembling the snow.
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A white man in Alaska purchases
1 more in a year than any other white
1 man In the world. The amount, ac
l cording to government report, is $4,000
per capita.
J. L. McPherson, a railway engin
eer of extended experience in Alaska
and now secretary of the Alaska bu
' reau of the New Seattle Chamber of
Commerce, says it is signiflcent that
the routes recommended by the Alas
ka Railroad Commission are identical
with the roads built by the Alas
ka Road Commission.
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The jury in the Fredolin-Falstadt
' election fraud cases, at Valdez, recent
' ly, went into the court room and
- asked the court if the defendants
a would be deprived of their citizen
s ship in case the Jury convicted them.
This question the court refused to
answerand the Jury retired to deliber
1 ate further.
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a Mr s.J. K. Smart, of Fairbanks, who
, was so active on behalf of the deposi
tors of the defunct Washington-Alas
ka Bank was presented with a beau
> tiful gold nugget by a number of ad
mlrers. The nugget was mounted with
sin emblem of liberty, a miniature re
production of' the statute of liberty,
with a sparkling diamond for a light, j
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Two Seward young men, who are
destined to "make good" are Fred
and Ralph Pederson. Through their
own efforts, and by hard application,
they earned money to guarantee them
a college course, the institution of
learning which they are .attending
being at Tacoma.
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For the second time since its in
stallation one of the poles at the wire
less station at Dutch Harbor was
down during a gale last month. It
had Just been repaired from the first
damage, and the collier Nero, which
made the repairs, had just sailed for
the States when the hurricane came
and put the station out of business
again.
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William Eisenmenger, formerly the
"Water King" of Iditarod, was arrested
at Fairbanks recently on a charge of .
assault and battery upon one J. T. Me
Ginley. The scuffle took place on ;
Cripple creek, near Ester. A jury in
Commissioner Dillon's court acquitted
the former monarch.
A complete line of tobacco iars and
pipe racks at BURFORDS.
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Juneau-Sitka Route ? Leaves
Juneau for Hoouah, Gypsum,
Tenakee, Killisnoo and Sitka?
8:00 a. m.. Nov. 5. 11, 17, 23, 29,
Dec. 5, 11. 17. 23. 29. Jan. 4. 10.
16, 22, 28, Feb. 3, 9, 15, 21, 27,
March 5, 11. 17. 23 and 29.
Leaves Juneau for Funter and
Chatham, 8:00 a. m.?Nov. 17,
Dec. 11. Jan. 4. 28, Feb. 21.
March 17.
Leaves Juneau for Tyee, 8:00
a. m.?Nov. 23, Dec. 23, Jan. 22,
Feb. 21, March 23.
Juneau - Skagway Route ?
Leaves Juneau for Pearl Harbor,
Eagle River, Yankee Cove, Sen
tinel Light Station. Jualin, El
dred Rock Light Station, Com
et, Haines, Skagway,, 8:00 a. m.
?Nov. 3, 9. 15. 21, 27, Dec. 3,
9, 15, 21, 27, Jan. 2, 8. 14, 20,
26. Feb. 1. 7. 13. 19. 25, March
3. 9. 16, 21, 27.
Returning leaves Skagway the
following day at 8:00 a. m.
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4:30 p. m.
C:30 p. m. i
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9:00 p. m.
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wclt for
Juneau
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9:25 a. m.
12:00 noon
1:40 p. m.
3:25 p.m.
4:55 p.m.
0:55 p. m.
I 8 :25 p. m.
9:25 p.m.
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Juneau
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9:30 a. m.
' 12:05 p. m.
1:45 p. m.
3:30 p. m
5:30 p.m. I
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11:30 p. m. I
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4:30 p. m.
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Saturday Night 0'ily
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for Juneau
Returning Leaves
Sheep Creek
11:40 p. m.
Leaves Trtadwell
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Leaves Douglas
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