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ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE
J. F. A. STRONG
Telephone No. 3-7-4
Entered as second-class matter November 7, 1912 at the poetofflce at Ju
neau, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
Q?e year, by mall
Six months, by mall 6.00
Per month, delivered L00
DEFENSES TO PERSONAL INJURY SUITS AND THE
COMPENSATION ACTS
THE movement for the abolishment of the "contributory neg
ligence," "fellow servant" and "assumption of risk" defenses
to suits for damages for personal injuries by employee
against employer, that is manifested in Alaska by Senator Ro
den's bill, has resulted in the inauguration of workingmen's com
pensation acts in many States. It is argued with reason that
there is a good deal of fiction in these defenses and that they
often result in injustice to the working men. On the other hand,
if they were abolished and the extent of damages to be secured
in this character of cases were left to juries it would result in
an uncertainty that adds to the hazzard of capital invested in the
industries. Recognition of the justice of the demand for the re
moval of these defenses, and a desire to be fair to employers, have
caused legislatures to turn to the industrial insurance or working
men's compensation laws as a remedy. They do away with un
certainty in a large measure, on both sides. A working man that
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is injured in the States where these laws are in rorce, in me
course of his employment, is certain to get compensation without
the assistance of a jury and without the delay and costs of at
torneys' fees and court fees that always attend a suit in court,
and, on the other hand, the employer can figure in advance on
what his tax for the maintenance of the insurance fund will be,
and add it to his regular over-head expenses. That the employ
er will not be caused hardship by this proceeding is exempli
fied by the fact that most employers in States where there are
no workingmen's compensation laws carry accident insurance to
protect them from losses of this kind. They are not required
to carry this insurance where the State has stepped in and pro
vided for industrial insurance.
The workingmen's compensation acts permit the insurance
premiums paid by employers to protect themselves from direct
losses in damage suits to go directly and quickly to injured work
ingmen rather than to be eaten up in profits of casualty insur
ance companies and cost of suits at law.
Whether nor not Alaska industries have developed to an
extent that would warrant the adoption of the workingmen's
compensation act in this territory or not is a matter for grave
consideration by the Legislature, but it should be considered
with the purpose in view of being exactly just to both employer
and employee.
Some Washington Democrats, no doubt, suffered from chills
when they read National Committeeman John Pattison's state
ment that some Republicans, at least, were likely to be in office
in the Evergreen State for two years.
PEACE AT OLYMPIA
THE differences between Gov. Lister and the Republican ma
jority in the Washington Legislature were compromised in
the last days of the session that terminated last week. The
legislature accepted the administration bill consolidating many
of the departments of the State, reducing the cost of and sim
plifying the operating machinery of the government, and receded
from its position of a li/o-mill tax levy for the seven State high
ways, and agreed to a levy of 1*4 mills for the first year and
one mill thereafter for that purpose. The permanent highway
tax levy was reduced from 2!/> mills to IV2 mills. This and other
items of reduction premitted the Governor to keep his promises
to the people that the expenses to the tax payers will be re
duced during his administration, so he accepted the compro
mise. and everybody went home from Olympia happy and con
tented.
There will be sympathy everywhere for Senator Tillman be
cause his fellow Senators believed it to be necessary to deprive
him of the chairmanship of the appropriations committee, a po
sition upon which he had set his heart. He was the senior Dem
ocratic member of that committee as well as the senior Demo
cratic member of the naval affairs committee. He has been a
Senator for nearly a quarter of a century and has given splendid
service to his country. Naturally, he expected to get the leader
ship of the important committee that has claimed so much of
his talents?particularly so in a Senate that is dominated by
progressive Democrats* He is a progressive member of his par
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ty. wnne senator .Martin is raiea as a conservative, nowever,
the appropriations committee is one of the hard worked commit
tees of the Senate, and the great South Carolinian is old and
feeble. His hard working days are over. Much of the time he
is unable to appear in the Senate or at committee meetings, so,
naturally, he had to give way to a younger man.
Eastern newspaper writers are giving much space to spec
ulation upon the quantity and quality of the influence Bryan will
have in the new administration. Most of them, of course, just
now construe "influence in the administration" with reference
to the bearing it will have upon the dispensation of patronage.
The gyrations of every little straw that flits within the vision
of observers is being seriously discussed. Yesterday there were
long articles being written on the refusal of former Secretary
Richard Olnev to accept the British mission; today it is Bryan's
interference in the Illinois situation, presumably at the instance
of the President, and tomorrow no one knows what it will be. In
the meantime President Wilson and Secretary Bryan are going
about their ways administering their official duties as big men
can, seemingly unconcerned about all the guessing that is go
ing on.
C. W. Speer. the well known com- The following are registered at the
mercial man arrived in Juneau recent- Orpheum Hotel: Peter Heney and
ly. and will be here for about ten days. Paui Klatch. Seattle, and D. Smith
R. J. Reed, of Portland, Oregon, ar- Harris, of Ketchikan,
rived on the Spokane, enroute to Sitka, George Bettes the well known trav
where he will take a position in the . . _ , A _
? . _ . , eling man, arrived up on the last trip
Sheldon Jackson School.
Kazis Krauczunis arrived in Juneau of the Jefferson- will leave for
on the Spokane last night. Skagway in a few days.
Juvenile Courts
May Be Established
(Continued from Page 1.)
to which they may have been sen
tenced.
"Sec. 3.?That the antecedents, char
acter. and condition of life of each
child of which said juvenile courts
shall take ottlcial notice shall be inves
tigated as fully us possible and the
facts learned entered in permanent
records, in which shall also be entered
the subsequent history of each child,
so far as it can be ascertained.
"Sec. 4.?There shall also be created
In and for the Territory of Alaska a
board of to be known as the Board
of Children's Guardians, composed of
three citizens, at least one of whom
shall be a woman, to be appointed by
the Governor of Alaska; the mem
bers of said board to each serve with
out compensation, and the said board
to be a body politic and corporate and
have the powers and be constituted as
hereinafter provided. Of the first
three members to be appointed after
the passage of this act one shall be
appointed for one year, one for two
years, and one for three years. There
after all appointments, except such as
shall be made for the remainder of
unexpired terms, shall be for the term
? 1 ~r
of throe years, une meuiuvr ui d?4u
board, designated by the Goveronr,!
shall be the chairman thereof, and one
member, designated by the Governor,
shall be the secretary thereof. Tho
board shall have the power to con
clude arrangements with persons or
institutions for the care of dependant
children at such rates as may be
agreed upon, and to appoint agents.
"Sec. 5.?That the board of chil
dren's guardians shall be the legal
guardians of all children committed |
by the juvenile courts as hereinbe
fore provided, and shall have the full
power to board them in private fam
ilies. to board them in institutions
willing to receive them: to bind
them out to apprentice them; or to
give them in adoption to foster par
ents?provided, that in arranging for
the care of dependent children the
board shall always take such consid
NOTICE OF MUNICIPAL ELECTION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a
municipal election for the election of
seven (7) councilmen to serve for the
ensuing year will be held at Juneau on
Tuesday, the ilrst day of April, A. D.
1913.
The election will be held at the Mu
nicipal Council Chamber on Third
street, between Seward and Franklin
streets, and the polls will be open on
said first day of April, 1913, between
the hours of 9 a. m. and 7 p. m.
The qualifications of an Elector for
Councilmen shall be as follows: He
shall be a male citizen of the United
States, or one who has declared his
intention to become such, of the age
of twenty-one years and over, and
shall have been a bona fide resident of
Alaska for one year, and of the City
of Juneau for six (6) months next
preceding the date of his election, and
shall have registered in accordance
with the provisions of the Ordinance.
NOTICE is further given that Ben
Bullard, John A. Winn and John Ken
nedy have been appointed Judges of
said election and that Allen Shattuck
and Thos. Mauzey have been appoint
ed Clerks of said election.
A. W. FOX.
(SEAL) City Clerk.
First date of publication March 10,
last publication, March 31, 1913.
NOTICE OF SCHOOL ELECTION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That
an election will be held for School
Treasurer, to serve for three years,
on Tuesday, the first day of April, 1913.
The election will be held at the Mu
nicipal Council Chamber on Third
street, between Seward and Franklin
streets; and the polls will be open on
said first day of April, 1913, between
the hours of 9 a. m. and 7 p. m. on
said day and at said place.
The following persons shall be qual
ified electors for School Board: All
adults who are citizens of the United
States, or who have declared their in
tention to become such, and who are
residents of Juneau School District,
and shall have registered in conform
ity with the provisions of the Ordi
nance. A. W. FOX.
(SEAL) City Clerk.
First date of publication March 10,
last publication. March _31, 1913.
NOTICE
United States Commissioner's Court
for the District of Alaska, Divis
ion No. One, Juneau Precinct,
In Probate.
In the matter of the estate of FRED
BROMAN, Deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that the
undersigned has been, by the United
States Cimmissioner, Probate Judge
of the above entitled court, by an or
der duly made and entered, appoint
ed administrator of the estate of Fred
Broman, deceased. All persons having
claims against said estate are here
t by notified to present them, with the
proper vouchers and in legal form,
within six (6) months from the date
. of this notice, to the undersigned, at
his residence on the Beach Road at
1 Douglas, Alaska.
Dated this first day of March, 1913.
L. A. SLANE,
Administrator.
eration as it can under the circum
stances of the religious beliefs of par
ents.
"Sec. G.?That the Governor of Alas
ka shall have the power to prescribe
the form of records for the juvenile
courts and the board of children's
guardians, and the methods to be em
ployed by both in paying bills and in
uuditing accounts. And a semi-an
uual report of its operations hereun
der shall be made by the board of chil
dren's guardians, addressed to the
Governor, in which shall be included
a report of all actions hereunder by
Juvenile courts, said reports to be for
the use and information of the Gov
ernor and the Legislature.
"Sec. 7.?All children committed
hereunder shall be visited by a mem
ber of the board of children's guard
ians, or any agent thereof, as often
as the welfare of the child demands.
"Sec. 8.?The judges of the juve
nile courts herein provided for shall
hear and examine all cases relating
to children under this act upon the
complaint of any parent or guardian,
school teacher, school trustee, truant
otllcer. or other reliable person, and
the judges of such juvenile courts and
witnesses who may be called before
the same shall receive the same fees
and compensation as may be provided
for the trial of misdemeanors before
a justice of the peace. And it shall
be the duty of the United States mar
shal to serve any reguiariv issueu
process of said Juvenile courts. And
the juvenile courts provided for here
under shall issue a certified copy of
all judgments committing any child
under the provisions of this act, said
certified copy of the judgment to be
sufficient authority for the persons or
institution to whom any child may
have been committed for holding such
child."
NOYICE OF FORFEITURE
TO L. A. Moore, Berta Jarmy and
Fred Stevenson: You and each of you
lare hereby notified that you co-owner,
the undersigned, have performed all
{the necessary labor as required by Sec
| tion 2324 United States Revised Stat
utes and the amendments thereto ap
!proved January 22nd, 1S80, concern
ing annual labor upon mining claims,
j upon the Sum Dum group of placer
! claims and upon the Duck creek group
; of placer claims, for the year ending
! December 31st, 1912, for the purpose
jof holding said claims;
And unless you, within ninety days
after the first publication of this no
tice, pay your proportion of the cost
of said annual labor as required by
law, and the cost of this notice, your
interest in said group or groups of
1 said claims will, in accordance with
law, become the property of the un
, dersigned; the proportion to be paid
| by L. A. Moore, holding one eighth in
terest in each group is S25.60, and the
cost of this notice; the proportion to
be paid by Berta Jarina is $12.70,
and the cost of this notice, holding
one-eighth interest in the Sum Dum
group; and the proportion to be paid
by Fred Stevenson, holding one-eighth
interest in the Sum Dum group is
$12.70, and the cost of this notice;
Said claims being located in the
Harris mining district, near Power's
creek, and about six miles from the
Postoflice at Sum Dum, Territory of
Alaska; and recorded in book eleven
(XI.) on pages 51 and 52 of Placer
records, on the 5th day of February,
A. D., 1912, in the the office of the Ju
neau Recording District.
First publication March 8, 1913, last
publication June 8, 1913.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
" -i
REGISTRATION NOTICE
NOTICE is hereby given that the
registration books for the .Municipal
and School Election, to be held on the
first Tuesday in April, 1913, are now
open at the oflice of Sowerby & Bell,
on Second street, between Seward i
and Main streets, between the hours
of 9 and 4 each business day. The
books will be closed on Saturday the
29th day of March, 1913. \
J. W. BELL,
Registration Officer.
The Juneau Steamship Co.
U. S. Mail Steamer
GEORGIA
Juneau-Sitka Route ? Leaves
Juneau for Hoonah, Gypsum,
Tenakee, Killisnoo and Sitka?
8:00 a. in., Nov. 6, 11, 17, 23, 29,
Dec. 5. 11, 17. 23, 29, Jan. 4, 10,
16, 22, 28, Feb. 3, 9, 15, 21, 27,
March o, 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.
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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, 15, 21. 27.
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following day at 8:00 a. m. I
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tween JUNEAU. DOUGLAS, TREADWELL and SHEER CREEK
Lv. Juneau for
DouRlna and
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