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The" Best Appointed Plate in Town ;; Best of Everything Served !! at Moderate Prices \ +111 I I I II iii 11111 II 11 H I s 0 THE BEST LOAF OF 1 BREAD \ X Is Sold At | San Francisco Bakery ? ? G. MESSERSCHMIDT. Prop. X x ? First National Bank OF JUNEAU CAPITAL $50,000 SURPLUS $10,000 UNDIVIDED PROFITS $15,000 DEPOSITS OVER $400,000 Complete facilities for the transaction of any banking business. OFFICERS T. F. KENNEDY. Pres. JOHN RECK, Vice-Pres. A. A. GABBS, Cashier DIRECTORS F. W. BRADLEY E. P. KENNEDY GEO. F. MILLER T. F. KENNEDY JOHN RECK P. H. FOX A. A. GABBS M. J. O'CONNOR Latest Novelties in Tobacco Jars and Pipe Racks at Burford's Governor's Message to First Alaska Legislature (Continued from Page 1.) local taxation, that a proper ratio be maintained between gross revenue and cost of collection, for if the cost is excessive, the tax is, to the extent of that excess, an excessive and un just tax. The question of an eco nomical system of assessing, equal izing and collecting taxes in a Ter ritory as large as this and in which : the means of communication are so slow and expensive, is one of the most difficult problems with which you will have to deal. The present taxable resources are not large enough, in my opinion, to warrant the passage of any legisla tion for public works greatly as these j are needed. We must still depend al most or quite exclusively upon the monies of the Alaska Fund, and such appropriations as may be made by Congress, for the purposes of road and trail building- unless certain special provision for supplementary work be made through the enactment of a law ; not calling for the imposition of taxes. I shall discuss this proposed law later j in this message. The amount of reve | tines to be raised in the next two years ! should lie limited to the actual cost of administering such laws as may be enacted by the Assembly at this session. Several of these, which have j been the subject of wide-spread dis i Mission throughout the Territory, are badly needed, but with possibly one I or two exceptions they will require only an inconsiderable expenditure of! | public money. I* I'noi-a ni-lnr For me penuu ui iuui , to 191L\ the average annual receipts from taxes and licenses of every de scription in Alaska, exclusive only of customs and internal revenue collec tions. but inclusive even of the local property taxes collected by the incor porated towns, were only $o.r>S,50$.l.r>. This statement, taken in connection with otir common knowledge that in many instances property in Alaska isj already sufficiently taxed, readily sug gests the comparative paucity of! sources of further revenue. I can not forbear, at this juncture, to remind you that, while our Territory has been sadly neglected by many Federal Con-) grosses in that some of our most vital j needs have not been supplied, the to- j tal disbursements of public money for | the support of the government in this] Territory reach approximately $4.000,-1 000 per annnum. or more than ten times the amount of the local tax and license monies. This is mentioned so that we may not fail to consider, first, our inability at pres ' ent to support ourselves, and. sec ond, the need of uniting in memor ials to Congress for such national leg islation for Alaska as will speedily render our great natural resources pro ductive. and therefore sources of available wealth for the whole people and the purposes of a better govern ment. There are wanting in Alaska sever al provisions of law which are afforded in some form probably in every other civilized territory in the world. These may readily be enacted by the present Assembly, some of these were passed by the United States Senate last year but were not acted upon by the House of Representatives. Among the first in importance is a law for the super vision of hanks and banking, other than national associations. The ab-1 sence of any restrictions, even of a I requirement for simple periodical ex amination by government officers, has caused depositors and shareholders to suffer in several conspicuous in stances. The lesson has been suffi ' ciently impressed. We should not wait for further costly repetition. In my annual report to the Secretar> of the Interior for the years 1911 and 1912, the following remarks were sub mited: "There is 110 law especially ap plicable to the organization of banking institutions in Alaska and no legal means for their con trol. It has already been proven that this condition is capable of producing the gravest conse quences, and it is not a credit to a civilized government that it should not be permitted to exist. Besides the national banking as sociations, of which there are two, and which, of course, are subject to the provisions of the national bank act, there are in the Terri tory at least 12 so-called private banks, either organized under the laws of some of the States, or not " incorporated at all. None of these is subject to any supervision by State or Federal authority. It hardly seems necessary to say that this situation should be relieved without delay by the enactment of a simple provision for official examination. The expense of such examination probably should be borne by the banks." Quarantine. No legal means Exists in Alaska, at > least outside the incorporated towns,! for the establishment and enforcement! of a quarantine to prevent the spread I of contagious diseases. No law exists j under which a patient must be iso- j ? lated. The penal code, it is true, pro-; vides for the punishment of a person j guilty of "intent to cause the preva-j lence or spread of such (malignant! or infectious) disease." but this strange provision rests upon an hy-! pothesis as absurd as it is abhorreut, and which, as a matter of fact, never materialized anywhere in Alaska. A year ago I was informed by the chief; administrative officers of the Public' Health and Marine Hospital Service that, under a liberal construction of the laws governing that service, it was possible to establish and main lain quarantines at Federal expense at all interior points in Alaska, as well as at seaports and at places on the international boundary. An officer of that Bervice was accordingly detailed for special duty in Alaska, with in structions to exercise the usual func tions of a Stute or Territorial com missioner of public health. A month ago, however, when the necessity arose of establishing a quarantine at two places in Southeastern Aluska, it was found that the Public Health and Marine Hospital service had no funds available for the purpose, and no ac tion was taken. Unless the difficulty regarding funds be soon surmounted ?and I await further advices from Washington on the subject?It will be necessary for the Legislative Assem bly to deal with this subject. The menace of small pox and other contag ious diseases should not be suffered to exist without means of check. With out submitting any particular form of legislation I suggest that a Federal quarantine law will not prove expen sive to administer if local resident physicians be employed, with com pensation only at such times as pre scribed duties are actually rendered. These local health officers may be au thorized to establish quarantines in stantly in emergencies and to con tinue them and to defray the expense thereof under directions from the Gov ernor or other designated officer of | the Territory. | Sanitation and Public Health. I recommend the enactment of suit able provision for sanitation and pub lic health. Any law on this subject should apply to the native inhabitants as well as the whites. The need of a simple sanitary code is presented most frequently in the native settle ments, but is often observed else where; while the danger to white res idents which comes from the exist ence of unsanitary conditions and in fectious diseases in the native vll j lages adjacent to the principal towns j is constant. Vital Statistics Registration. I Among the subjects of minor legis {lation few are more important than compulsory and systematic registra tion of births, marriages and deaths. The nature of this subject is such i that it does not arouse wide public; interest until some pitiable example ; of human suffering arises from the absence of certain vital records. There have been several such exam ples in Alaska. A registration law has among other effects an important mor al one, for the marriage contract is more likely to be observed and op portunities for fraud and deception of various kinds are less frequently found. A model bill on this subject, prepared last year in the Bureau of Vital Statistics of the United States Census Office, was passed by the Sen I ate but was one of those which did not ! receive the attention of the House. The public expense of administering this law would amount to littl" or noth ing. I heartily commend its provisions to your consideration. This subject is also treated in n useful and sugges tive way by the Alaska Commissioners on Uniform Laws, whose report I ex I poet to communicate to the Assembly ; a little later. Compulsory School Attendance. j Also among these measures which I were passed by the United States Sen J ate last year but which were not acted {upon in the House is a bill providing for compulsory school attendance. Such a law is needed rarely to secure the attendance of white children in Alaska, but the act is very necessary J for the natives, and its provisions should be made applicable equally to whites and natives. It may be found desirable to incorporate in an act of ? ui.. nf f|,p the Legislative Assemmj oun.c v.. ? . provisions of the bill which was in troduced in Congress, and 1 therefore Invite your attention to them. Relief of Destitution. That some of the primary needs of Alaska, quite simple and elementary In their nature but none the less Im portant, have been neglected since the earliest settlement of the Territory is well illustrated by the notorious lack of any means relieving the poor. I refer particularly to cases of destitution caused by physical acci dents brought on by the rigors of life on the frontier. By far the great er number of the persons who are poverty-stricken from this cause have not contributed to their present un fortunate condition by any fault of their own making; and to many of them, notably the old prospectors and early miners, the Territory owes much, for they blazed the way for more prosperous residents who came after them. A bill setting aside for the re lief of destitute whites such a per centage of the Alaska Fund as would yield from $9,000 to $18,000 a year at present, was actually passed by both houses of Congress last yea.*, but strangely enough it appears that the usual conference committee to con sider the easily reconcilable differ ences between the Senate and House bills has never ben appointd. Only one day of the present Congress re mains; and if the bill be not enacted by the national body at once, there fore, the subject should be considered by the Territorial Asembly with a view of enacting a suitable relief measure. Mining Law Amendments. The mining law enacted by Con gress last year was not such as to bring a sufllcient measure of relief, and further provisions are necessary to meet the conditions found in this Territory. aiuuiik uiu muiu I1U|JUII ant Ih a modification of the require ment that tho first assessment must ho completed within the calendar year. The requirement operates unjustly in the case of locators who make discov eries and stake their claims very late in the year, when the time is insulli cient for inaugurating profitable opera tions to improve the property. A com promise plan possessing such merit, in my opinion, is the one which would require the first instalment of assess ment work to be done within ninety days of the date of location, without reference to the end of the calendar year period. This Initiutory work would he to some oxtent incidental to the discovery and location, and would have a tendency, at least to settle many of the questions of genuinness of the discovery Itself. Other desirable provisions are so familiarly known and have been the subject of such wide expressions of opinion that I refrain from a discus sion of them all within the limits of this communication especially as the legislation on this subject must needs be somewhat varied and voluminous. Optional Amount of Assessment Work. As a plan calculated to enlarge great ly the extent of wagon-road building wthout the imposition of further taxes, 1 heartily favor the enactment of a mining law as described in the following extract from my current an ual report to the Secretary of the In terior: "I strongly recommend a further modification of the general min ing law as applied to this Terri tory, under which assessment work on both quart?, and placer mining claims may be paid in cash or in labor to be applied to the construc tion of roads and trails outside of incorporated towns. This policy is sound in principle and would cer tainly accomplish much for the de velopment of the Territory. The I soundness of the principle rests on the fact that so-called assess ment work 011 mining locations is intended to promote the develop ment of mines and io discourage speculative holdings. This pur pose is notoriously defeated in countless instances not only he cause false affidavits as to labor on mining ground are promoted, but because much of the assess ment work, done in good faith with the object of complying with the law, really does not accom plish any rear development at all, but, from the conditions of mining, is work wasted. This is particular ly true in groups of quartz claims and in placer tracts purchased for dredging operations, upon which lahor in any given year can be profitably applied only within the confines of one claim. By grant ing to locators or claim owners prior to patent the option of pay ing the amount of their assess ments in cash for wagon-road con structions, much perjury would he prevented, litigation would he forestalled, and the real develop ment of mining properties has tened and rendered more profit able." Tho power of a territorial legisla ture, however, to enact such a provis ion, under the terms of the general mining law is at the best a matter of doubt. I mention it here particularly because of the paramount need of se curing the construction of more ex tensive highways and trails, and be cause this plan of raising rev enue may be made the subject of a memorial to Congress by your honor able body. As a matter somewhat nearly relat ed to the foregoing. I recommend the repeal of the road tax law ol April 27, 1904, since experience has shown that the tax is not only excessive but unequal in the burdens which it im poses, and expensive and difllcult to collect. Labor Laws. A miners' labor-lien law to take the place of the act passed by Congress in 1910, the provisions of which are notoriously inadequate and ineffective should be enacted by the Legislative Assembly. I warmly support the position of those who would ultimately have eight .hours of daily labor recognized as standard throughout the manual trades and occupations. For a long time, however, there must be excep tions to the eight-hour rule, and in u country of pioneers especially should tlve subject of eight-hour legislation be approached with caution. Upon most easily recognized grounds of common equity, the eight-hour day must be made compulsory only when special conditions can be assigned rendering imperative a shorter period of daily labor than that which, in excess of eight hours, prevails. In this connection I mention the sal mon fisheries and canneries as an in dustry whose representatives should be listened to carefully on the subject of shorter hours of labor; and I invite your attention to the interests and wel fare of more than 4,000 Indians or oth er natives whose principal time of la bor is already restricted to the short period of salmon fishing each year and whose earnings are measured ex actly by the number of hours they are employed. Excellent measures of legislation other than those which I have brief ly discussed herein have been suggest ed from many sources, and among these are several to which some of the members of this Assembly were pledged in the platforms on which they were elected. I do not discuss many of them in detail, but among those most worthy of early consideration are those providing for the control of pub-' lie service corporations, more ceono mlcal means of uettling estates in pro bate, adding slander to libel as a crime under the provisions of the pen-' il code, imposing a tax on transient traders, revising the existing list ofj trade and occupation licenses, and I making delinquent taxes a first lien, an property. The nature of several of these provisions brings me to the sub ject of revising our civil and criminal codes. Code Revision. Among those subjects of needed leg-! islution which are within the scope of J your powers, not a few are such as | will require the amendment of various ! provisions found in the civil and crim inal codes of Alaska. These codes, en acted more than a decade ago, have afforded during that period the prin cipal means of civil administration and judicial action in this Territory. But the codes were not based on the best models, and they were somewhat has tily prepared without a full knowledge of the needs of the district. However, these needs have changed rapidly with the early development of the country. The experience particularly of Terri torial civil officers and of our courts of justice, as well as of lawyers who have been active in professional practice, lias suggested strongly the need of many amendments to both codes. But such amendments should not be made piecemeal, and the whole task is a large work, requiring much painstak | ing effort, a thorough knowledge of the principles of law and equity, and | mature discussion and deliberation ex tending over a considerable period. Among the statutory provisions for the government of this Territory are many imperfect enactments, more ori less unsuited to the purposes for which they were intended, and often conflicting or ambiguous in their terms. This incoherent and highly un satisfactory body of law should not be made worse by abortive and author ough efforts at code revision. It is not to be expected that thjs large and im portant task could be completed by the Assembly within the sixty days of its present session, even if other matters of legislation should receive no attcn iton at all.. As the work could not be completed, it ought not to be begun; for it is a work requiring consecutive effort, and should bo performed at once and as a whole. I recommend that the whole subject of code revision be assigned to a com mission of from three to live mem bers, who should be instructed to re port all needed amendments to the civil and criminal codes for ratification either by the next legislature, or by the present legislature if an extraor dinary session should be convened for that purpose. Hoping that the disposition of this subject will be made by you as sug gested, I recommend that at the pres ent session no acts be passed amend atory of the codes, with the single ex ception of an act to revise the list of trade and occupation licences. Needs of National Legislation and of Administrative Reforms. It is as unnecessary as it is irrele vant for me to discuss at length in this message those great needs of our Ter ritory which require national legisla tion. They are not only familiarly known to you to such an extent as to enable you to present intelligent and forceful memorials to the national leg islature hut the proper executive offi cers have already performed their du ty by presenting them to the Congress, which alone possesses the power to j grant remedial action. I venture to J suggest only in this connection that, in any petitions or memorials which you may address to the Congress on those prime necessities of railway construc tion and better land laws, you give primary expression to the demand for prompt affirmative action on the gen eral subject, and only secondary (lis cushion, If any at all, to the particu lar kind of relief which is to be af forded. The Territory has suffered so long and the need of relief is so ur gent that we may well give empha sis to the general necessity only, rath er than prolong the period of waiting by Introducing new elements cA partic ular discussion or controversy. In any event, it is to be hoped that in these petitions to the higher law?making power, the action of this legislature will be made unanimous if possible, for they will thereby have greater force. It is regrettable in flu* extreme tnat a larger measure of administrative au thority lias not been granted to offic ers residing in the Territory. This means that there should be a trans fer of several adtnlnlsf ratructlve func tions relating to this Territory from departments and bureaus in Washing fion to the proper offices in Alaska. We suffer greatly from ?; ??: resident administration the more so because the Territory is so distant from the seat of federal government, and be cause there is a general lack of knowl edge of our conditions among execu tive officers at the national capital. It is sometimes true that those distant officers are not sufficiently interested in the greatest welfare of the people of the Territory, and are not at all re sponsive to proper considerations of public opinion in Alaska. It is an unwelcome reminder of our present condition of comparative neg lect and lack of fostering care by gov ernment that the body of law and reg ulations applicable to Alaska appears, when considered as a whole, a patch work of inequalities and conflicts, incapable of being economically or har moniously administered. Some of the worst faults are found in the school [system, and in the game, fishery, and | fur laws; and it is unfortunate that the Legislative Assembly is express ly inhibited from applying proper rem edies by amending those laws. In the consideration, however, of those classes of legislation which have been delegated to you by the creative act of Congress it is my earnest desire to assist you in every way that is per missible during the remaining short period of my official tenure. WALTKIt K. CI. A It K. Ciovernor. EXPEDITION TO LOOK FOR MISSING MEN An expedition lias been sent tip the Bremner river to try and locate Har ry Happle and Johnny Van Iderstein, J who wore expected out from that conn- - try not later than the first of October, t and who have not arrived as yet. savs ithe Valdez Prospector. Oeorge Stone and Charles May man left Cordova a few days ago with a doe team to go to the camp of Hap ! pie and Van Iderstein and ascertain the trouble. Happle came to the railroad last July and Rot a few supplies, which he took with him up the Bremner. He said they would come out in Sep I tember, as they would be out of grub by that time. They have not been heard of nor seen since that time and their friends are worried. A collec tion was taken up in Cordova and Stone and Mayman were sent to the Bremner to ascertain the reason for ; their delay. C.old was found in the Bremner ! country in 1898 and many prospectors have gone in each year. Several plac I er properties have been opened up ? showing good values. Both Happle and Van Iderstein are I old-timers In this section and have been prospecting in the Bremner for several years. Finest line of Calabash pipes In Alaska at BURFORD'S SEAL SHIFT OYSTERS?Freeh at fhe local agency?CHAS COLDSTEIN ^ -K? ? 1" 1'? i" 1"? I I-11! I I I I I 1 I I 1 I I ! !? | THE CIRCLE CITY HOTEL MRS. M. E. BERGMANN, Prop. ;; J HEADQUARTERS for PROSPECTORS AND MINING MEN:: ELECTRIC LIGHTED STEAM HEATED :: ;; THIRD STREET JUNEAU, ALASKA ;; -H 1 ?! 1 I I I I I I I 1 I I t I H-M-H-I I 1 I T I I I I I I 1 I I I I I I I I I I ! I 1 I i 1 | | i In A Class By Itself IMPARTIAL tests made by The Columbus Labo ratories of Chicago give Fisher's Blend Flour a higher rating than that of the Dakota all-Hard Wheat Patent Flour. Considering that this scientific combination of East ern Hard Wheat and Western Soft Wheat costs you from 20 to 25% less than what lias always been con sidered the highest grade of breadstuff, you can readily see that it will pay you to insist on having Fisher's Blend Flour For Sale by All Dealers