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The Alaska prospector., 1902-03-20

CIrY GOVERNMENT. MAYOR. J. l.. STEELE
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 HEALTH OffrER ADAM SWAN. PgE>. SCHOOL BOARD. GOVERNMENT OFFICERS. ,JonN l.ToN>. U. S. COMMISSIONER E.C. llAsEN. DEPUTY |. S. MARSHAL JonN GoopELL.
 DEPUTY COLLECTOR CCSroMS (. \. CkAEy, POSTMASTER.
The Alaska prospector., 1902-03-20
The Alaska PrOspeetor.

Published at vat1es. Alaska. every Thursday morning hy thc i'RosrlsTDR PrBLIsHlxc Co.
The Alaska prospector., 1902-03-20

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The Alaska prospector., 1902-03-20

Entered at the Valdez postoilicc aS second class matter.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-03
TIE LIGHT 20 STRIKE.

The decision of the New York court of
appeals, just rendered, sustaining the
right of union workingmen to refuse to
work with non-union men and to engage
in a strike for the enforcement Of the
right, will be regarded as victory for
organized labor.
The point at issue seems to have been
very simple, and the decision in itself is
plainly dictated by considerations Of com
mon sense. Certain members of the Ma
tional Protective Association of Steamfit-
ters and Helpers, a union labor organiza-
ton, refused to work in company with
men of the same calling that did not be-
long to a trades union. They offered
their employers the option Of discharg.ng
the non-union employees, or going without
their own services. They went further
than this and declared a strike on the re-
fusal of their employers to discharge the
non-union men.
Judge Parkers opinion, so far as it can
be judged Of through the published synop-
sis Of it, lays down series of self-evident
propositions, from which is plainly de-
ducible the right claimed by the men,
Had the men decided to quit work, be-
cause of the hiring of non-union work
men, and confined themselves to such
action, there would be no disposition to
question that they We're acting within
their legal rights. Having not only de-
cided to quit, but to order strike. their
action was, of course, much more far
reaching in its effect on others rights.
We must all exercise our legal rights with
reference to the legal rights and ex-
emptions of others; and, accordingly. If
by striking these men invaded the legal
rights of others. their action very proper
ly might have been condemned by the
courts and remedy applied. The high
est appellate court of New York holds
that they did not impair others legal
rights by quitting work and ordering a
strike.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-03
"BEN ROLT."

(Poem which made the late Thomas Dunn
English famOus.)
Oh! don't you remember sweet Alice. Fer
Bolt? -
Sweet Alice, with hair so brown.
0h7 mePI WIN delight when you gave her
And trembled with fear at your frown
In the old churchyard in the valley. Fen
Bolt,
In a corner obscure and alone,
Iney nave htted slab of granite so gray.
And sweet Alice lies under the stone.
They have fitted a slab Of granite SO gray.
And sweet Alice lies under the stone.
Oh, don't you remember the wood. Ben
Bolt,
Near the green sunny slope of the hill.
"nere OH we nave sung meath its wide
And kept time to the click Of the mill?
me mill has gone to decay, Ben Bolt
And quiet now reigns all around.
see, the Old rustic porch, with its roses
so sweet,
Lies scatter'd and fallen to the ground.
See, the old rustic porch, with its roses
Lies scatter'd and fallen to the ground.
Oh, don't you remember the school, Ben
And the master so kind and true,
And the little nook by the clear running
Where We gather'd the how'rs as they
On the masters grave grows the grass,
Ben Bolt,
And the running little brook is now dry
And of all the friends who were school
There remain, Ben. but you and 7.
And of all the friends who We're school
mates then
There remain, Ben. but you and 1.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-03

ton ard decided that it was time her
misery was ended.
Leprosy Here Not Contagious
Residents of Brooklyn We're much inter-
ested to learn that more than half the
lepers found in New York state after a
two years hunt by the United States
leprosy commission are at large in their
borough. According to the local health
authorities, however, there is no occasion
for alarm, as the lepers in Brooklyn num-
Der only four, and they have form of
leprosy which is not regarded as con-
tagious except in warm climates.
Only seven cases were found in the
state by the commission, four in Brooklyn
and three in Manhattan. The officials Of
the health department in Brooklyn know
the whereabouts Of three of the lepers in
the borough. One of them is said to be a
business man of some prominence,
another is a laborer, and the third a boy
thirteen years old. Eminent observers
of the disease declare tnat it is dying out;
that no new cases develop from contagion,
but that most of the cases are traceable
to a bad diet, usualI.- a diet of spoiled
fish"
Bicycle Season Opens
Cycling is once more in the ascendant.
That is evidenced by the large number of
cyclists seen speeding along the various
pleasant weather arrived. The cycling
clubs in the city have all mapped out
busy season. The Metropolis Wheelmen
have several schemes in view to stimulate
interest in the sport, prominen. among
which is the projected run for motor
cycles to take place early in July over
the Boston-New York course.
American Fine Arts show
New York has at least one show during
the season to which we all have learned
to look forward with expectancy The
twenty-fourth annual exhibition Of the
Society of America has in fact rather
more festive appearance than usual, owing
to the presence of pictures by men of note
whose work is rarely seen in the regular
annual collections.
The South gallery has the painting by
James M. W 4istler, known as The An
dalusian Woman" at one end and a
marine by Winslow Homer at the other.
In the Vanderbilt gallery is the Sylvia"
by Edwin A. Abbey, and the ''Siegfried,"
by Albert Pinkham Ryder, one of the
founders of the society, who has long re-
Trained and indeed still refrains from ex-
hibiting his pictures The "Siegfried,"
| that strangely fascinating scene of wild
wood, wild cloud, and fairy folk, belongs
| to Sir William Van Horne, of Canada
| and was in the Pan-Amerfcan Here. too,
are a nocturne by Whistler, showing fire
| works near the Crystal ralace London,
| and the admirable portrait of Mr. John
| La Fargo by Wilton Lockwood, Just ex-
| hibited this winter in Philadelphia.
The prize in memory of Julia A. Shaw
which is awarded to women only, is the
| greeting to Mrs. Mary f. MacMonnies for
her ''Blossoming Time in Normandy" a
landscape in brilliant tones depicting a
French garden when the orchards are in
bloom. A picture bought by the Shaw
! fund this year is Leonard Ochtman's
Early Morning. a landscape full Of the
quiet poetry this painter commands when
he is at his best.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-03
New York oeeHer.

NEW YORK, April 2-Mayor Low took
an almost unprecedented action recentIv
in requesting the president Of the tax
board to add his name to the tax rolls
for the sum Of $4,000 taxable estate.
He said he had made certain changes
in his investments last December, one
effect of which was to make him prop
erly liable to a personal tax of $57, 900 dur
ing the current year.
He added that as his property was not
liable to this tax last spring, when the
present rolls were prepared, he thought
that his name might not appear upon
them. and asked the board to correct the
rolls by adding his name to the list Of
those liable for personal taxation in the
sum of $57, COO
Beggar's Wife Wore Diamonds
By appealing for sympathy on account
of a paralyzed arm, and selling packages
of court plaster at any price the sympa-
thy thus aroused prompted man to pay,
a beggar who has become a familiar fig
IRE on elevated railroad trains has made
enough money to keep his wife and fam
lily in comfortable circumstances, and
such luXuries as diamond earrings for his
wife were not beyond his means.
Boarding a train he would pass through
it, telling his tale of woe, and when that
mine became exhausted he would leave
and take the next train that came along,
continuing the process for many hours a
day.
He was arrested for begging, and while
Hart was langufshing in a cell two Wom-
en- called at the police station to inquire
for him. One of them, well-dressed and
with diamonds in her ears, said she was
his wife. The other. a young women, who
had on long silk dolman and picture
hat, said she was a friend of hers.
His wife learned with surprise that her
husband was a beggar, and not waiter
as she supposed.
Alice, the Famous Old Bear, Gone
They killed Aid Alice the big silver
tip grizzly bear, at the Central Park Zoo
early this week because she had outIived
her usefulness as an exhibit. Tom, her
mate, fought hard for her, and between
them they withstood ch1oroform and las
soes for several hours.
1t was fight that could have only one
ending, but poor Old Alice fought it out
until she earned the death of a game
beast.
When, all other means falling a bullet
was put through the sick old bears brain
her mate stood over the body, nosing it
and lightly touching it with one gentle
paw.
When he realized that Alice was dead,
Tom turned to the men with the green
light in his little eyes that means murder,
and looked at them steadily for long
minute; then the green light died out, he
sunk back on his launches, paid his
slaughtered companion the courtesy of
the long, rumbling death howl, and made
his way to the den at the back Of the
cage and there laid down. He did not
move as they dragged the carcass of
Alice out of the pen, and all day he lay
at the mouth Of the den, needless of the
crowd brought out by the pleasant day.
Lately poor old Alice became paralyzed
in her massive hind legs, her teeth began
to fall out, she got thin and NANCY and
the men who knew bears held a consulta-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-03
RECOGNIZE DEFEAT
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be compelled to withdraw from the field
on account of the prevalence of crime
Mr.. Kirke, Bryant's partner in charge Of
the St. Paul end of the business yester-
day, said; 1T is true that some of the
companies have Withdrawn from Mime
apolis. We shall not withdraw but we
have been obliged to increase the rate.
The Minneapolis police force seems to be
sort of standing invitation for the
crooks. Burglaries are committed whole
sale and the rates must go up or tile
companies retire.
st. Paul Enjoys Protection.
Mr.. Kirk sad there has been no in
timatiCn that the companies operating in
St. Paul desire to withdraw from the To-
cal field and that there is no reason why
they should so desire On the other hand,
on account of tie excellent police protec-
ton st. Paul enjoys, the st. Paul agents
Will write the most hazardous risks, such
as jewelry stores and other similar risks,
for SIS per $1,000, and residence risks at
a much lower rate.
Another prominent insurance man said:
Yes, the rates have gone up in Mime
apolis, but they will not go up in st. Paul
as long as we have the police protection
we now enjoy. Instead Of going up, the
tendency is downward and business is
none too brisk at the very low rates we
are now getting. ST. Paul is one of the
best policed cities in the world. Good
police protection makes a city a high
class risk, but at the same time the pub
lie, once secure in its faith IN the police,
as it is in st. Paul, the effect on the
business is very marked 1t makes all
the difference in the world. Look at
Minneapolis now The companies which
have nerve enough to stay in the held
are obliged to make their rates so high
that they get only poor risks and The in
evitable result is the loss of money A
few years ago
st. Paul Was in the Same Condition.
The hustling agent could have written
an immense amount of business. The
people wanted and really needed burglary
insurance, but the advertising the COM
panies would have received from the
payment of losses would have been but
poor recompense for the amount paid,
and st. Paul was mighty poor risk. a
return of the old conditions would send
the st. Paul rates soaring and in a very
short time result in closing up the local
business The insurance business in
many of its branches is not conducted
along philanthropic lines much less the
with poor police protection the losses are
so out of proportion with the premiums
that sometimes even a threatened change
in the administration of police affairs viii
close up every burglary insurance Office
in a city.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-03
4 GREAr M.IUSTLCE.

The decision of Judge Otis on the long
bailiff of the police court gives point to
the folly and wrong Of making laws to
fit individual cases. The law concerning
the appointment of baiIiffs involves the
pernicious principle of separating the
power Of appointment from the power of
removal. The law as it stands is Of
course the product of partisan politics.
brought into play for the advancement Of
the interests of individuals. If the mu-
nicipal court judges are entitled to the
right of concurrence in the act Of re-
moval of the officers of their court they
ought TO have the larger right of the ap-
pointment of such officers. If they are
not, they ought to have nothing to say
whatever either as to the right of ap-
pointment or removal
AS a general proposition it is true that
the court should have the appointment
wants. The principle cannot be said,
however, to apply in this case, nor at all
as our local courts are administered. In
the district court all the attendants are
appointed either by the clerk of courts or
the sheriff. The police department may
be said to stand in practically the same
relationship toward the police court as
the sheriff's Office does toward the courts
of record of the county. To that extent
and in that sense the appointment and
removal of officers of the police court
possessing, as they must, the police pow
er, ought to be invested in the head of
the police department. The known infiu-
ence Of partisan politics in the conduct
of the affairs of our local police court
rather discourages the idea of giving the
power of appointment and removal to the
judges. Yet, since the judges of that
court have the right to appoint the clerk
there does not seem any adequate reason,
aside from politics alone, why the judges
or their clerk should not have both the
power Of appointment and removal
Whatever may be the final method
adopted by the charter commission for
disposing Of the scandalous state of
things growing out of the present condi-
ton Of the law, it is quite plain that the
greatest injustice has resulted from the
present situation and from the litigation
growing out of it. The four men whose
rights have been involved are, everything
considered, worthy and capable men.
They accepted the positions 10 which they
were appointed in good faith and dis
charged their duties faithfully, both be-
fore aad since the prevailing litigation
was inaugurated. They have been, with
out any fault on their part, mere pawns
deprived of their pay month after month";
and their tenure Of office has remained
utterly uncertain since the first decision
given by any of the several courts which
have been called on to adjudicate the
questions at issue. They have their obli-
gators in life like the rest of us; and,
Republicans and Democrats alike, they
are entitled to be paid for the time that
they have given to the position whether
or not they have been engaged in the
actual discharge of it's duties. They GER
tainly ought not to be made to bear the
pecuniary penalty of the misconduct of
these who framed the law as it stands
today
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-03
Open Headauarterr.

The Republicans will open headquar-
ters today in the Arrol building East
Fourth street adjoining the Minnesota
clI0. The headquarters will be in charge
OF Chairman of the Executive Commit
tee w. B. Webster and Secretary Fantnu
U. Warner, who will be assisted by Ed
ward M. Parrish, of the Second ward
The committee will have the second and
third floors of the ArroI building, and
the headquarters viii be open every dav
and evening until election day The ex-
ecutlVe committee IS expected to meet
daily after today through the entire cam
paign.
Chairman Webster yesterday appointed
the following subcommittee, subject to
change:
Finance-T. G. walther. E. Vanish. E.
nick
Printing-Charles S. schurman. G. H
Shaw, j. Stevens
Press-F. G. Warner. E. Vanish, Oscar
Claussen.
Halls-Emanuel johnson. Jacob Reich
ert, H. E. w. Schultz, G. w. Shaw.
Speakers-W. l.. Ames. Harry Howard.
Oar f. Reese, Timothy Reardon.
The Prohibitionfsts have organized their
city committee with the following Off
GERS: Chairman, c. A FowbIe: secretary,
"A. G. Lackey; treasurer, William Haw-
thOrne Jr
The Roosevelt Rough Rider club will
hold its annual meeting and election
Monday evening
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-03

F4TOR HUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP
A large majority of the voters Of Chi
cago, at the CITY election on Tuesday, ex-
pressed themselves in favor Of the city
owning its public service corporations.
The matter was presented to them in a
non-partisan manner. Their expression
of opinion had no effect on the fortunes
Of local candidates.
A certain proportion of the qualified
voters of Chicago petitioned for the priv
ilege of voting on the principle, and so
ballots were provided for the purpose.
The voter could say he favored such city
ownership, that he opposed it, or he could
refrain from expressing an opinion The
decision had no weight in the way of in
itiating efforts to buy up the public
service corporations or constructing new
ones.
Thus removed from other influences, the
decision Of the majority was decidedly in
favor of the city owning its public service
corporations. T e Clio believes this
is the first instance of the kind on record.
Other cities have voted on specific propo-
sitons but this was an impartial free
expression Of opinion on the policy cf
municipal ownership. It is important as
showing very great preponderance in
favor of the policy, when an expression
can he secured not involved with specific
propositions, such as buying given plant
for given sum Of money.
The country at large will watch with
considerable interest the further de-
velopments in the matter 1t would seem
that the city council of Chicago, with
such an Endorsement OF the policy, should
begin the work of securing the public
service corporations for the city by due
process of law. theoretically, there is
but one way to look at the matter. For
instance: If the Twin City Rapid Transit
company makes fortune for the stock
holders, would it not be better for the
city to own the street railway and use
the profits of Its operation in the paying
of expenses, thus reducing the burden Of
taxation, or in the way Of giving the pen
pie lower fares. AS a practical PROPOSE
ton however, there is more to be said
against it.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-03
CITIES IMPR0TING.

New York City alone expects to spend
$2l,0Co,0OO in improving and identifying
general improvements this year. The
money will be put to the best use on
sewers, bridges, streets, alleys, parks,
playgrounds-in fact, in every way that
attractive.
This commendable example is being fol-
lowed elsewhere. Chicago, Philadelphia,
Boston, Brooklyn, st. Louis, and other
large cities are to spend large sums in
like manner.
Money spent judiciously in improving
a city is a good investment. And the
present time when workmen are en-
ployed, business is good. and there is
general era Of prosperity, is the best time
to spend money for such purposes. Like
bread cast upon the waters, it will re-
turn. Increased population, expanding in
dustries, more visitors, general content
among the residents these things
and others come to the city noted for its
finely paved streets, it's beautiful parks,
it's bountiful supply of pure water, and
it's recognized public spirit.
st. Paul is already noted for its at
tractiveness in the spring and summer
seasons Yet all recognize that these
attractions could be increased very ma
terially. T he Clio b believes there is
an awakening public appreciation of the
actual profit to a city of public improve
ments and that the residents of Mime
sofas capital will not be content until
their city is acknowledged the queen of
American municipalities.
Public improvements cost money, to be
sure; so does everything worth having.
But in comparison with the lasting and
satisfying results secured for the money
there is no source of expense SO gener-
ally approved. In a very few instances
there is a temporary Inconvenience caus-
ed by the added expense of public i'm
provements, but there is no limit to the
time they are enjoyed when once Sc
cured.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-03

70 fill honOrably and creditably the posi-
ton to which he aspires Prior to 1886
he was employed as bookkeeper by the
old grocery firm of Hall & Paar Since
that time he has been engaged in ttlsi-
ness for himself. Mr. Betz stands for
clean politics. He believes that city and
county offices should be conducted on
strictly BUSINESS principles, in the inter-
est of all the people. He also believes,
and will stand if elected, for the strict
enforcement of the laws governing cor
porations enjoying public franchises, and
the principle that a public officer is a
servant of the people and not their mas
or
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-03
THURSDAY. APRIL 3. 1902.

Strange how unreasonably weak nation
alities can be, evidently without trying
Here is Holland, now protesting through
her premier that she is not clamoring to
enter the German empire. Indeed she will
fight to the last ditch as her kinsmen Of
The TransyaaI have done and are doing
before accepting the unquestioned advan-
tages Of such a political connection with
the British empire. There are evidently
more fools among the people of the world
than the Beers, the Irish or even the Fill
pinOs.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-03
MANHUNT AT CHICAGO
DETERMINED CHASE MADE FOR
MAN WHO ATTACKS YOUNG GIRL.

CHICAGO, April 2.-Citizens of Lake
View spent last night in a manh11nt with
the intention Of wreaking vengeance on a
man who had assaulted Margaret Muir
ray, pretty telephone operator. Miss
Murray is confined to her bed. Suffering
from conclusion of the brain.
she was followed by a weIl-dressed
young man while walking home last
night. Becoming frightened she started
TO run, but her purSder overlook her ard
grasped her throat. She tried to scream
and her assailant beat her head against
the brick wall and she fell unconscious.
When she recovered she staggered into
from conclusion Of the brain.
The proprietor secured a rifle and with n
party Of fifteen men armed with clubs,
pistols and shotgUns began to search for
the miscreant From Miss Murray's de-
scTlp ne was recognized as a man
against whom other complaints have re-
Gently been made. The miscreant was
not found.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-03

Do the Republicans of st. Paul see any
thing that looks like the handwriting on
the wall in the elections at Milwaukee
and West Superior? The people of large
towns are never thoroughly happy unless
they have a good, oId-fashioned Demo-
cratic administration.