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The Alaska citizen., 1912-06-17
AMERICAN FLAG NOW
 ON MOUNT BLACKBURN

CORDOVA, May 9. Miss Dora Keen of Philadelphia, has succeeded in an accomplishment that she twice crossed the continent to achieve. She ascended Mount Blackburn and planted the American flag upon it's summit of over 1G.00O feet. She made the first attempt last August, with m success. On her second ex- pediion she set forth from Kenne- colt on April P. and just four weeks later, on May 19, the residents of kennecOtt witnessed her triumph as the saw the stars and stripes float ing from the icy peak beyond It was a daring achievement that be speaks an intrepid spirit in a cour- ageous undertaking The party en- dured many hardships. and at one time they were driven back four tn usand feet by a severe storm. But they plodded on, risking life and limb. until finally they were reward ed in victorious achievement of what they had set out to do. The party returned to Kennecott today. where most of them reside. Miss Keen will likely return to Cordova on Tuesdays train.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-06-17
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.

To Thomas WoOdson and Michael
 Hegarty. their heirs. personal rep
 resentatives and assigns: and all
 persons claiming by. through CT
 under them.
 You. and each of you, are hereby notified that during the years 1909 and 1911 the undersigned expended two hundred dollars in labor and improvements upon the Denver Asso- citation placer mining claim located in the Chatanika valley. near the mouth of Cleary creek in the Fair banks recording precinct. Territory cf Alaska; and the amount was so expended and such labor and i'm provements made for the purpose of holding said claim under the pro visions f section 2324, Revised Statutes of the United States. and constituted the annual assessment work upon said claim for the years 1909 and 1911. And if within nine " days after the last publication of this notice. you or either of you fail or refuse to pay the undersigned as eo-owner. your proportion of the expenditures legally acquired to hold said premises as aforesaid. for the years 1909 and 1911, together with ,l,
 interest in said claim will become the property of the undersigned un- der section 2324, Revised Statutes of the United States
 J. II. O'CONNOR. Date of first publication June 2. 1912.
 Date of last publication, September 9. 1912.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-06-17
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE

To F. R. Mclean, his heirs, eXecu-
 tors. administrators and assigns
 You and each of you are hereby notified that during each of the years 1907. 1908, 1909. 1910 and 1911. l expended twelve dollars and fifty cents in labor and improve ments upon the Cripple Creek As sociation placer mining claim, sit uate on Cripple creek, at the mouth of Ester creek, in the Fairbanks Recording District, Alaska, in order to hold your interest in said claim under the provision of section 2324 of the revised statutes of the Uni ted States, said expenditures being for your share of the annual assess ment work for said years: and if within ninety days after the last publication of this notice you fail or refuse to pay to the undersigned as co-Owner your said proportion of the expenditures aforesaid your in terest in said claim will become the property of the undersigned, as CO owner, under said section 2324 R. s.
 A. R. HELLO.
 First Publication May 20, 1912.
 Last Publication August 2l. 1912.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-06-17
SONS OF TAFT AND
 ROOSENEI FRIENDS

:. CAMBRIDGE. Mass ker- :. .:' init Roosevelt and Robert A. :. .:' Taft. both students at Harvard <. :. are good friends. in spite of :. :. the controversy that has arisen <. :. between their fathers They .:. .:' are most cordial whenever they <. :. meet socially at any of the ex- :. :. elusive Harvard clubs to which <. :. they belong .:
 :. Kermit is member of the {.
 :. senior class and occupies .:. .:' suite in the senior house of :. :. Claverly hall, one of the most :. .:' expensive domitories in Cam <. .:' bridge. MT Taft is a student :. :. in the law school and has his .:. :. suite in Carnegie hall, which Is <. < occupied almost solely by law !. 4 school men. .:.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-06-17
NOTICE OF SPECIAL TERM OF
 COURT.

In the District Court for the Territory of Alaska, Fourth Division In the Matter of Calling d Special July, 1912, Term of Court Tor the Fourth Judicial Divisi-n, at the Town of Iditarod. Alaska.
 In pursuance To an order of the above entitled Court. made and en- tered herein on the 18th day of May, 1912.
 Notice is hereby given that a Special July. 1912. Term of the District Court for the Territory of Alaska, Fourth Division, will be held at the town of lditarod Alaska. beginning on July Sth, 1912. at the hour of Hoo o'clock. a. m. for the transaction of all business which may be then and there pending and which may regularly c.me before the Court.
 Notice is further given that d Grand and Petit Jury will be drawn to be in attendance on said July X, 1912.
 In witness whereof | have hereunto set my hand as Clerk of the Dis trict Court, and affixed the seal thereof this 18th day of May, 1912.
 C. C. PAGE,
 Clerk of the District Court,
 Territory of Alaska, Fourth,
 Division.
 Date of First Publication, May D., 1912.
 Date of Last Publication July |. 1912.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-06-17
l.2.CENT PIECE TO HELP
 CUT COST OF LIVING

WASHINGTON, May II. - The house yesterday afternoon passed the Bulky bill, providing for the coinage of h-cent pieces and Scent pieces. The bill provides that they shall be coined of 75 per cent cop per and 20 per cent of nickel.
 All new 1.cent pieces are 10 be a trlfle smaller than the present penny. Hereafter they are to be made from the same specificad ms proposed for the halfpennies and g. cent pieces. The change in the proportion of copper and nickel will caused the reduction in size
 The k-cent pieces provided for has aroused curiosity regarding its use.
 A few instances cited by its ad- herents are:
 Some kinds of meats are listed at 1912 cents a pound, but If one takes one pound one pays 13 cents.
 In other lines the price often Is l2h cents or two for a quarter"
 If one does not wish two fer a quarter, the customer pays the addi- tional F cent. With the F cent piece the purchaser would be able to meet the exact price asked.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-06-17
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A GIRLS IDEA OF THE GAME

She was bright girl and her es cort, who was also her intended was delighted to find how quickly she grasped the points of the game She got on so we'll that he ven tured light wittlcism on the sub ject.
 Baseball reminds me of the household" he remarked There's the plate, the batter. the fowls. the flies. etc"
 And it reminds me of marriage she retorted: First the diamond where they are engaged: then the struggles and the hit, then the men going out, and finally, the difficult ty they have in getting home.
 And he sat and thought Boston Transcript.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-06-17
TRIBUTE PAID DELEGATE

MT. Flood. chairman of the com mittee on territories, when he brought the Alaska home rule bill before the house. then in committee of the whole, paid the following pretty tribute 10 our delegate:
 MT. Speaker ask unanimous consent that House Bill 38. with amendments, be substituted for House Bill l3987. and do It for this req Il. Mir. Speaker: It was the inten- Iion of the committee to have House Bin 38, with amendments, reported l. as chairman of the committee on the territories. undertook to make that report. but the bill was printed as II. B. 139S7, and it had my name on 1t as the patron Cf the bill As 6 matter of fact, the delegate from Alaska (Mr. Wickersham) Is the pa iron of the bill. And l want to say here that Alaska has been very in having representative of such high character and splendid ability as Judge Wickersham. (Applause) :. He has done an immense amount of work on this bill and Is the patr n of it. It was not the intention of the committee on territories or my intention to deprive him of the credit of being the patron of the bill. and s1 we have subseQu ently reported the bill H. R. 3S with amendments ask that that be substituted for the bill under con- sideration-ValdeZ Prospector.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-06-17
TWO WIVES LEGAL;
 WHAT CAN MAN DO?

.. PITTSBURG. KAN Peter :.
 :. Sharp, who recently tried the :. !: experiment of living peacefully :. !. with two wives. both regarded z. ':' as legal, has been refused .!- ':' divorce from Selia Sharp, wife :. < No. ?. :. j. Celia Sharp was not in court :. ':. and the judge said he could :. # net grant the decree unless she :. Z. agreed :. :. Peter Sharp's first wife, Anne .. ':' Catherine, became separated .:' ;. from him in the confusion of the .:' .:' great Chicago fire. Thirty years < !. later, believing her dead. Sharp :. :. married again. Last year Anne ::
 j. Catherine appeared. < :. Sharp tried to solve his dilem- .:' # ma by giving the two women < :. equal rights in his house. Dis ::
 :. satisfied with the result. he ::
 !. filed action against the last ::
 !. wife. :.
 j. <.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-06-17
Serial No Ul47 NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
 h. & PATENT

United States Land Office, Fair banks, Alaska. May Sd, 1912
 Notice Is hereby given that in pur- suanee of all Act of Congress. ap- proved May l0, 1872, George Has kins, whose postoffice address is Seattle, Washington, has made ap- plication fer patent for about HS4 feet by 1000 feet of placer mining ground, bearing gold, the same being placer mining claim No. l above dis covery on Ester creek, Fairbanks Precinct, AlasEa, and described by the official plat and field notes on file in the office of the register of the Fairbanks, Alaska, land district, as follows, tC-Wit:
 Beginning at Corner No. l, whence U. $. M NJ. No 349 bears $. r. II w. 2S43.3 feet, corner No. l. Sur No. 349 bears s. S3 l9' E. 1So63 feet; thence N. 12' 49' F. 44G feet to corner No. 2; thence N 1 2S' F. 43S.9 feet to corner No. 3; thence \. S9' AT w. 1000G feet to corner Nc. I; thence s. 4 49' w. 4367 feet to corner No 5; thence s. l2' AT w 435.5 feet to corner No. 6; thence $. oV U T.. 1UU1 lttl lb tOIHtl .Nt, I, the place of beginning; containing l9.953 acres. Variation, 3l F.. Adjoining claims are unknown frac- ticn and No. above, on the w.; on the N. No. 1 left limit bench; on the s. No. 1 right limit bench on the E. Discovery claim.
 Recorded in Vol 1 of locations, Fairbanks recording precinct. Alaska page 124.
 c. c. PAGE,
 Register. l hereby order that this notice be published in the Alaska Citizen, a weekly paper published at Fairbanks Alaska, which l hereby designate as the newspaper published nearest said land
 C. c. PAGE,
 Register. Date of first publication, May G, 1912
 Date of last publication July 1, 1912.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-06-17
THE DAWN OF DEMOCRACY
 BY GEORGE CREEL
BY GEORGE CREEL

ed 10 persons of his own choice. and held to their offices by depend. ence upon his own will We be lieve that the complicated order of kings. nobles and priests was not ihe wisest nor best n effect the happiness Of associated man; that wisdom and virtue were not here di'ary; that the trappings Of such machinery consumed by their ex- pense those earnings of industry they were meant to protect and by the inequalities they produced exposed liberty 10 sufferance. We believe that men. enjoying in ease and security the full fruits of their own industry, enlisted by all their interests on the side f law and order, habituated to think for them selves. and 70 follow their reason as their guide would be more eas- fly and safely governed than with minds nourished in error and vti- ated and debased. as in Europe. by ignorance, indulgence and oppression |"
 God definitions all. but is not the ground better and more simply cov- cred by the plain statement that democracy is simply Christianity put into workable, everyday form? For was not Christ Himself the first great Democrat?
 Gamaliel and Hillel had preached a gospel of betterment before Him, but il remained for the gentle Jesus 10 lift the first voice against inius- tlces and inequalities. declare uni versal brotherh cd. and attack those abuses of state and church that were personified in Pilate and Caiphas Read back through the Old Testa- ment, with it's pages of blood and war and oppression and slavery and cruel Concubnage, and realize how startling indeed must have been the Sermon on the Mount,
 Ht Illc Ol tue lsolu IS UOl t'blll- pletely ineligible when il is ean- sidered wholly with regard 10 it's spiritual significance, and not in re- lation 10 His attempt to supersede the tyrannies of Church and State by new and revolutionary social order. His faith was no mere wist- ful desire, postponing it's issues 10 another world, but a very definite attempt to make the children Cf the Father live in the love of fra ternity.
 He died-the early Christians were accused Of eating the bodies of little children al their acapes or love feasts they were slaughtered by the hund- reds-and the dream of democracy sank for a while beneath the wild waves of greed and savagery.
 It is the fashion 10 speak of Athens and of Rome as "democra- cies." especially in these days when the people are fighting for the right to rule, and hypocritical tongues point out their rises and falls as examples of what popular soyer- eighty does for nation. Neither Rome nor Athens were democracies in more than mere name. and they stand today as best proof of the assertion that inequality is the seed of rottenness.
 More than half the population of Athens were slaves, and were not allowed 10 vote in the agora or par lament Nor should il be forgotten that representation in the agcra was confined to Athens, the whole territory of Attica. as well as the Athenan islands and dependencies being excluded. IL was just as much i D. democracy as if the rich people
The Alaska citizen., 1912-06-17

From the lime when the first man hewd wood and drew water in fear he thought that there might dawn thr ugh the dark ages that rang to the grosn of the slave. serf. helot villein. bondsmsn and peasant. the heart of he world has thrilled To the thought that there muight dawn day when Equality. locking effort with Fraternity. should banish the ornelties of injustice and oppression. and let every soul stand in all pos sihle glory.
 These yearnings. sometimes sad fen heroic-these aspirations. now humble. now snblme-floated in sad vasueness over the face of the earth until the Greeks crushed together two words meaning people and pow. er. and gave DEMOCRACY to the language. And it is around these s1llables that the lovers of human ity of all ages have built their ideals around this potent word that there has clustered all that is finest in music, art. literature and war.
 Take away this great and splen. did movement toward the people-to- ward decoCracy-and you take away poetry and passion. even civilization itself. and leave mankind in it's primal welter of brutality. Even be- fore the stammerers of antiquity knew how tn talk of masses and classes, lhere was the struggle be strong Few. and it is the sparks struck by this clash that have light. ed the race on its upward way.
 Like all great words, democracy has suffered mpOyerishment, dis tortitns and misconceptions. Just what does IL mean 10 the average man today? The dictionaries tell us that II is form of government in which the people are supreme"
 
 he establishment of the truth that no man came into the world with saddle Oh his back, and others with boots and spurs to ride him. Lincoln declared that il was a government of the people, by the people. for the people" Thomas Jefferson, who made greater contribution to the cause of democracy than any other save One. laid down this definition in the course Of a letter to friend
 The doctrines of Europe were that men in numerous associations cannot be restrained with the limits of order and justice, but by forces physical and moral wielded over them by authorities independent of their will. Hence their organization of kings, hereditary nobles and priests Still further 70 constrain the brute force Of the people they deem 1t necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ig- nOranCe, and to take from them, as from bees, so much of their earnings as that unremrting labor shall be necessary to obtain sufficient sur plus barely 10 sustain scanty and miserable life. And these earnings they apply to maintain their priyi- legged orders in splendor and idle ness, to fascinate the eyes of the people, and excite in them an humble adoration and submission, as 10 an order of superior beings. We believe that man was a rational animal endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice: and that he could be re strained from wrong and protected in right by moderate powers confd-
The Alaska citizen., 1912-06-17

said Dr. Wiley, cares nothing it is evident, for the welfare of the human stomach His attitude is ex actly that of man in black l saw the other day.
 As this man in black was walk ing along one of our streets a beg gar whined piteously in his ear:
 Would you give poor fellow |. dime to save his life boss?
 Certainly not!' the man in black replied. Certainly not! Pm the un dertaker, sir "-Ex
The Alaska citizen., 1912-06-17

1 criminately herded together. Some | times even in the indictment climate | of the North. the jails were so poorly 1 constructed that there was insuffi.
 cient shelter from the elements
 In the newspapers of the period, | advertisements may be read in which ! charitable societies or individuals
 appeal for food. fuel and clothing l for the inmates of prisons. The 1 thief and the murderer had much
 more comfortable time of it in prison
 than the poor debtor"
 Conditions have bettered, of
 course, because the world betters | In spite of Us, but the symbol of
 justice still remains blindfolded l goddess painfully balancing a pair
 of scales in her hand The law of l the land still stands as power ! to sanctify an denforce BARGAINS
 and prevent the impairment of the l obligation of contracts. The State
 Is a SOVEREIGN power.
 . Just as We have never had real democracy, just so will We never 1 have it until these things are changed. The goddess of justice ! must take off her bandages and com mence to use her eyes The law of the land must refuse to enforce
 bargains when they are wicked. for
 it has been seen that much of the
 misery and poverty comes from the 1 fact that under present conditions the poor bargainer is at the mercy of the more cunning and the un- scrupulous. The State must quit it's 1 pose as sovereign power" and enter into working partnership for 1 the advancement of the interests of the people, or, as Charles Fer guson puts 1t. must commence to make goods cheaper and men 1 dearer"
 And it is these things thar We are doing Never before in the his
 tory of the world were We so close to real democracy. Ancient symbols i are losing their potency. rotten in l stituticns are passing, flfty-seven varieties of hocus-pocus by which ! the Few have been enabled to bam-
 boozle the Many are now derided and despised
 | All over the world. but in this new and splendid land of ours es- 1 peclally, there is increasing keen
 realization that inequality doesn't pay, at least, not in the long run. The
 classes are beginning to see that i the welfare of che is inextricably 1 linked with the welfare of all and that individual prosperity will never
 last unless 1t is based upon com
 munal prosperity.
 Selfshness is not only wrong but | it is STUPID. Injustice is not only l vicious but il eventually knocks
 down the very goal it hoped to at
 tain. All the ancient civilizations 1 perished because the rulers took no
 thought of the people, and Athens and Rome went the way of Jam shyd's glory because the masses 1 had no share in the beauty and com l fort of the classes
 It is to be hoped that We will es- cape the abyss-that the fight now | being made for real dem ccracy will ! be won-and that equality in jus 1 tice and in opportunity will become
 the law of the land. the law Of honor
 and the law of religion. Then, when
 We PRACTICE Christ as well as
 We preach Him, we will know that
 happiness and prosperity that God
 so evidently intended when He took
 such pains with the world.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-06-17

OtIdCN. SbuSHl NOluilldiN tNllt III Canada during the struggle. the great victory was won. and it seemed finally the Christ ideals were to be realized on earth
 But no, The landed and trading interests returned from Canada. and taking advantage of the reaction that always follows war. proceeded tO intrench themselves in political and financial power. A constitu tional convention was assembled in which Jefferson. Paine. Adams and Patrick Henry were not included Behind locked doors, under pledge of secrecy, Hamilton. Randolph and others of an aristocratic habit of mind framed a document that was frankly designed 10 defeat democ- racy even while il SEEMED to give the people power. This Constitution was adopted by the very narrowest margin, even though the vote upon lN NdN vast bN Nllf NidNSNS IdlIltl than by the masses.
 For. mark you, all the states had laws that effectually disfranchised those who had no property In Massachusetts. no man could vote unless he were a Christian worth clear S5.000; in North Carolina if he failed of owning the required 5000 in freehold estate; nor in Georgia if he did not own 800 acres of land and s20,00O; nor in New Hampshire if he lacked owning g., 2,500 in property In South Carolina he had to own 5000 in property clear of all debts. In New York. by the Constitution of 1777. only actua, residents having freeholds to the value of S50o, free of debts. could vote for governor and other state officials.
 The Revolutien failed to give the democracy which was hoped, and the Constitution and laws adopted under il entirely nnllified the splendid promises of the Declaration of In dependence Gustavus Meyers, in his Great American Fortunes" thus paints the conditions of the common people in the postRevclutionary period:
 At the same time that laws were enacted or were twisted to suit the will of property. other laws were long in force expressing the poor 10 a terrifying degree. Poor debtors could be thrown in jail indefinitely. no matter how small a sum they owed. The law. the laborer was accorded few rights. l. was easy 10 defraud him of his meager wages. since he had no lien upon the products of his labor His labor power was all that he had 10 sell, and the value Of this power vas not safegaurded by law. But the products created by his labor power in the form of property were fortified by the sever est laws. For the laborer to be in debt was equal to a crime The burglar or pickpocket would get a certain sentence and then go free. The poor debtor, however. was com pelled to languish in jail at the will of his creditor.
 "The report of the Prison Dis cipline Society for 1929 estimated that fully 7j,000 persons were an nually imprisoned for debt in the United States and that more than one-half of these owed less than twenty dollars. And such were the appalling conditions of these debtors prisons that there was no distinc tion of sex, age or character; all of the unfortunates were indis