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Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1912-07-25
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The Alaska citizen., 1912-09-02
K0LLM PLANS B|G NOVELTY

Ere the kollm caravan departed from our midst on Monday after, noon, the popular artist told several of his friends of scheme that, if carried out, should accomplish much in the way of inducing tourist travel to Alaska. As was stated in last weeks Citizen it is the inten- tion of Mir kollm to travel to Val deZ over the trail by easy stages. Sketches of the majestic Alaskan ranges will be made along the way. and when the coast is reached the sourdough artist will take passage on one of the boats that travel the inside passage. All the time the indefatigable Max will be using his brush and pen. When at last he ar the most beautiful points of interest from Fairbanks to Seattle on can vas
 MT. Kollm will then journey to his farm in California where he will put the finishing touches on his work
 When in 1915 the great Panama Pacific exhibition throws open i's doors to the public. and the pleasure loving thousands rush to the pike" to indulge in the hundreds of joy creating inventions that are to tempt the multitudes, those who get on the scenic railway will not be af- forded a drive through the old Alps. or trip through a dingy coal mine as in days of yore, but the glorious scenery of the inside passage and the majestic magnificence Oi tn" Alaskan range will tempt many person who has made the trip for the excitement of the ride take it again to fully enjoy the slendor of the Alaskan scenery as portrayed on canvas by Max Kollm
The Alaska citizen., 1912-09-02
WILSON 2 ID 1 l. 5FAVOR|TE IN NY.

NEW YORK. Sept. 1. Before the stock exchange closed yesterday afternoon one bet of $3,000 to $l 300 had been made that Wilson would be elected. A bet of ten dollars to one thousand was made in a downtown cafe that Taft will not get the electoral votes of single stat :. One man had $500 to bet that Roose- welt would not be elected, but he could not find any takers
 At uptown cafes Wilson ruled 2 to l favorite, and many bets of nun dred to fifty dollars were rec )rded There is thousand dollars Tn the Albany hotel to he bet on Wilson at the odds of ten to six. There was no one who would cover it at those odds.
 All over town the betting !s be- ginning to pick up.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-09-02
CHORAL CLUB
 CONCERT SOON

About the thirteenth of this month the music-loving people of Fair banks will be given an opportunitN to hear the Choral club in a publi' recital. There are about fort, voices in the local organization. and under the tutorage of Director Will ing for about three months. Mr No. Ian has had a varied experience in this kind of work. having been dir ector of a choral society in Cincin- nati for some time, and having dur ing his career had charge of mahy similar organizations.
 !" The music has all been import ] from the Outside, and a committee is now making all arrangements fr' the program. which will introduce 10 Fairbanksans the newly form ed club. This committee consists of Director Nolan, R. w. Taylor, Elmer Sanderlin, Mrs. J. A. Clarke, Edith Waite and w. Rustemeyer. The proceeds will go to continuing the good work of the club. and further ing the development of the good voices of the town
 Such an organization as this of fers the music loving residents |, splendid opportunity of hearing the best music from the Outside. Away up here in the interior chances are seldom secured to satisfy tha; craving for good music which comes to us all at some time. Therefore such work as this should be genera ously supported by those whose na- lures are hungry for one of the lux uries that is constantly denied .. resident of Interior Alaska
The Alaska citizen., 1912-09-02
HAVE GONE OUTSIDE.

From No. below. Fairbanks creek. came Mir. and Mrs Robert Matheson on Tuesday morning. and when the Panama pulled away from her dock few of the onlookers real dredee on Chicken creek in the For ty-Mile country, was bound for Los Angeles, where he and Mrs. Mathe- son will winter
The Alaska citizen., 1912-09-02
MR. AND MRS. M'lEAN LEAVE.

After an extended stay in Fair banks made necessary by the seri- ous illness of his wife, MT. J. H. Mclean will leave Tuesday on the Panama. MT. Mclean, who is the
 assistant city treasurer of Seattle, came here with the Shriners who initiated the forty odd men who crossed the hot sands of the desert for the first time. Mrs. Mclean was taken suddenly i'll, and it was found necessary to operate on her. Then a second operation was performed, and
The Alaska citizen., 1912-09-02
THE LATEST ROBBERY.

Chatanika. besides being the scene of one or two sluice box robberies. is also suffering from the activities of robbers. The bunkhouse of the men employed by Brown, Dunlap X
 Roberts. on their claim. well in the flats. was entered on Thursday night and the clothes of the men rifled 10 the extent of s14 in cash and about $25 in nuggets. The thief or thieves then made their escape. leav- ing behind no clue to their identity.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-09-02

for some time she was in serious condition. She has so far regained her strength now that the doctors Will allow her to go on Tuesday. A little daughter is anxiously awaitinp the return of her parents in Seattle
The Alaska citizen., 1912-09-02
PEOPLE ARE INDIGNANT.

The residents of the creek are talking of forming a vigilance com. mittee to protect the life and prop erty of the law abiding miners ana their families. If anyone is caught dO.ns anything at a.. crooked it is certain that they will be severely dealt with
The Alaska citizen., 1912-09-02
COULD NOT STAND IT.

On Saturday morning Maik Sulli. Von, who has been operating with his brother on Goldstream, started Tor Seattle over the trail. He got about 22 miles out of town, and then decided that he preferred the
The Alaska citizen., 1912-09-02

boats. Back to town came Mdik. and he sailed for Seattle on the Tnl- ana. Maik says that the g miles going and coming cost him, almost as much as a ticket to Seattle. His feet gave out, he had to come back on the stage, and he lost fifty dol lars out of his pocket.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-09-02

Marshal Love very generous : went over the entire case with the reporter. Until little over d year ago. the local office had been in the habit of issuing John Doe" warrants in cases of this kind. Point ing out decision of the controller of the treasury. the office of the a. torney general of the United States forbade the local office to use the John Doe" warrant, except under such difficult conditions as to maI Q their issuance practically impossi ble It must be borne in mind that all money appropriated from Washington for the use of the local office must be expended legally un der one of the specified heads, that is. it must be used for naught save the absolute carrying out of jus. the plans laid out for the United States marshals. by the head office in the capital.
 All other matters must first b. submitted to the attorney general, and a special dispensation made bv him before anyone can take any action. This request must and should come from the office of tn" local district attorneys office. Tn governments legal brains are sup posed to be exemplified in their at torney's. and it is for the district attorney or his assistant to decide whether the evidence submitted bv the complaining witness is sufficient ernment in proceeding in it's prose cution of the defendant on a criminal charge It being deemed that the evidence is sufficient to warrant such procedure. under the present ruling a telegram asking that the money he appropriated must be sent to Washington, and until such money is appropriated action can not be taken
 When the marshal sends his re- ports to Washington if the auditor finds that any money has been ex pended in any way that is not par ticularly specified by the attorney generals office the local marshal has to make that money good to the United States government People will argue that such cases as these will never be turned down by the government. and that the marshal should go ahead and let the ap, propriation come along, as the main office sees fit to send it. Marshal Love is under. a bond, and is duty bound to uphold the rulings of his department He has no right to break that bond, and would be leg ally liable if he did so The mar shals office here and everywhere is simply to serve a warrant, a summons, subpoena, or any other legal. document sent out by the local courts. Therefore the system that makes such laws, and not the man that executes them is at fault.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-09-02
VICTIM SEES MARSHAL.

The victim of the second holdup arrived in town Saturday and gave all the information that he possibly could regarding the men who beat him up to the United States mar shal. He describes as well as he was able the nuggets stolen from him. The deputies are on the creeks Investigating the holdup. Dep uty s. B. Waite yesterday interview ed the man who had released Sam kavocevich from his bonds. The man was then in Oines.
 Saturday morning about II o'clock Deputy Bert Hansen left town on
The Alaska citizen., 1912-09-02

horseback supposedly bound for the scene of the holdups. The marshars deputy was bound for. Every flor, is being put forth by Marshal Love to intercept the men who are ter. roriZine the community
The Alaska citizen., 1912-09-02
MARSHAL LOVES STATEMENT

MARSHAL LOVES STATEMENT.
 When the story of the SC ad holdup on Fairbanks creek was heard of, people began to wonder what sort of protection trey could get The miners on the creek form ed a vigilance committee to protect life and property of those in whose district the robbers were operating. Many people criticized the mar shal's office for not going at once to the creek and making every pos sible effort to run down the perpc- trators of the crime. It wac said that the local office of the United States marshal was, not doing it's part in the prevention of such of fences as the ones that shocked the residents. of the Panama Valley. Ac cordingly a representative of the Alaska Citizen went to Marshal Love. and asked him to give to the pub lie the reasons that prevented him from making some special effort in a case of this kind to safeguard tha lives and properties of citizens of the United States.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-09-02
DELAY OF JUSTICE DUE ...... :..-.
 TO W|CKERSHAM'S OFFICE

The residents of the country. around Fairbanks were startled 10 learn that on Tuesday night Emil haakinen was held up h. asked Fairbanks creek district. Kaakinen Was making his way to the cabin of n partner of his. Adolph Rippa. who Is located on the upper end of above discovery. The time of the hoIdup was between the hours of II and l2 at night. According to t'ie : victim. the rohher searched him af- ter suddenly jumping him from tn, brush. He first leveled a gun at the head Of his intended prey. an | then lowered H 10 the chest After looking through the pockets of Kaal. inen and getting nothing. he bade him hike" This of course kaak- inen did in double quick order. The crime was a bold one. for not far away there was a placer outfit at work and it would have been a fairly easy matter to follow the rob Der had the alarm been given
 As this is the first thing of tn. kind To happen since the notorious "Blue Parka Man" was apprehended il caused no little excitement. partin- ularly among the residents of 'thc district in which the crime occurred But when two days later. without even the cover of night to protect them. two men boldly held up Sam kovaceyich on the public road tn connects the creek with the rail road. the people began to think ser iously of the matter Kovacevich relieved of sl26 in coin. and si0 in nuggets. His hands were then tied. likewise his feet Then he was brutally assaulted. and beaten into insensihility and rolled in the brush Two men, one answering the de- scription of the man who held ur Emil Kaakinen two days before. made the holdup. It took place within a mile and a half Of the Summit Roadhouse. at point known as the Bear creek saddle. near the head of Bedrock tcreek The man who figured in both holdups is de- scribed as being about 6 feet tan of rather slim build He wore a black hat. and colored haudker- chief hid his face from view he. low his eyes. His accomplice in the second holdup was a man about feet, s inches in heighth. He wore a brown slouch hat, a black coat and blue oYeralls
The Washington times., 1912-08-20
RICH ARE FAVORED IN TAX
ASSESSMENTS is CHARGED
Radical Changes Proposed In Local
System of Taxation.
The following are the committees recommendations
ADMINISTRATIVE.

The following the committees recommendations.
ADMINISTRATIVE.
Full.yaIue assessments.
Of his powers
testimony relative to estate values under oath.
The keeping the Of record Of all important leases aid
in determining property values
publication and v4ue sheets.
q systematic method Of equaixng
The establishment tables Of building factors and deterioration
determining value Of improvements.
Of the legal requirement reforming
numbers squares.
portions Of single buildings
LEGISLATIVE
Annual, in place Of b nial, assessments.
Of rate Of IN cent leaving the rate to be
fixed annually b, } requirements Of the budget
recording consideration In all real estate transfers.
The substitution twelve field for the three assistant
field work.
for the field
ally and Jointly to "view" each piece Of property
creation board Of appeals from which the field
shall be excluded.
power the Commissioners
any Of the assistant for
divorcing matters from the assessors office.
roll transfer the
assessors office the office of the
collector
The Washington times., 1912-08-20
TO THE OPEN ROAD.

Woodrow Wilson recognizes the great underlying
cause of the formation and strength Of the Pro-
gressve party More than that he has had the frank
to state it. His statement itself emphasizes the
vitality, power, and possibilities of the Progressive
movement to every human being in the nation. 1t
recognizes why the people turn the new organiza-
ton instead of looking any longer to the dry husks
and shells-the machines, syndicates and interests
dominating the old parties!
What Governor Wilson said was incorporated in
his speech at New Jersey Day celebration at Seagrt,
August IL
suppose you know the force that is behind the new
party that has recently been formed the socaed Pro-
gressive party.
1t is force of discomfort with the regular parties
of the United States 1t is the feeling that have
into blind alleys and often enough, and
that they propose to find open road for themselves
These are Wilson'S own words set down verbatim.
They are a singing statement Of the whole truth.
They indct the old organizations for their obstacles
to political and industrial freedom. They put with
perfect truth and force the hopelessness confronting
the people who have sought for industrial and social
justice for man and woman. They reveal the enor-
nous potential power of the organization which has
been formed to lead the people along the open road
to human rights and equal opportunity for ALL
Governor Wilson was warned within an hour after
he had made this sweeping confession of the weak
ness blindness, and decay of the old organizations
their denial Of justice-hat he had said too much.
Hatngy he endeavors to explain, once more, just as
he used his letter of acceptance in trying to explain
But the burning words remain as they were spoken
1t was divine discomfort with conditions in the
two old parties which has given birth to party ready
to do, ready to demand equal privilege instead of
special privilege common welfare instead of policy
shaped by grasping greed; regard for humans, as
such, instead of corporations and machines 1t was
clear that only through body of men and women
who set up the standard of service of the common
good that the way from the blind aley-paths of the
crooked politician and crooked fnance-lay the high
way to the true progress of the nation. The Pro-
gressives have pointed the way They have shown
their ability to lead along it. And the people are
proving their eagerness, their zeal to follow
Governor Wilson has stated a great truth in
political history, however unwttngy and it will live
through the campaign the guide to all those who
ask the cause Of the power of the party. 1t is
on the Open Road.
The Washington times., 1912-08-20
UNION MEN FAVOR
POPULAR VOTE ON
EXCISE MEASURE
c. L. u. Secretary Believes
People of District Should
Have Voice.

Union labor favors the submission of the
Jones-works bill to a referendum vote
of the District, according to John Col
poys, secretary of the Central Labor
Union. The referendum is the sugges-
ton of Congressman Bartholdt of Mis-
souri,.
when questions of this kind are pre-
sented,' said Mr.. Colpoys. the people
of the District should have an oppor-
tunity to say what they want. Our dele
CATION to the Hagerstown convention Of
District of Columbia Federation of La
Dor are instructed to favor resolutions
opposing this bill. The people of the
District should have the right to say
something about this, and we are maxi
ing our protest at existing methods
known in this way.
'1f referendum were permitted, Il
would be advisable to limit the vote to
those passing certain educational quail
ther restricted to those who have been
in the District long enough to have
real interest in the city, say two years
I'VE believe that existing liquor laws
would be adequate If they were proper
ly enforced"
Congressman Bartholdt suggested the
popular vote as result of the cam
paign being made by Christian Endeav-
or workers to ascertain the attitude OF
every member of Congress toward the
Jones-Works bill, which they hope Yet
to be passed during the present ses-
sion of Congress.
The Washington times., 1912-08-20
A TEXAS CITYs ADMIRABLE ENTERPRISE

Houston, Tex, which has l25, 900 inhabitants and
confidently counts having million later has set
an example for other ambitious cities by sending
special commissioner to Europe to study and report
on the management of public utilities.
Houston wants to know whether municipal own
ership of public utilities tested most thoroughly in
Europe has been successful; why and how the Ger
man people have elevated city management to the
rank of profession putting it beyond reach of pol
iticans wrestling for mere personal partisan ad-
vantage; how much and how successfully the German
cities have substituted training for industrial eff
cheney instead of smattering academic education, in
their primary and intermediate public schools Final
ly Houston wants to gain knowledge of these facts
not through books, but through citizen of Houston,
who, being intimately acquainted with present Con-
ditions there, will be able to judge and advise how
much and how little of the best European municipal
practice can be introduced into the government of
Houston
So Houston has commissioned Frank Putnam, a
newspaper man who has made special study of
municipal government, and been active in promoting
municipal betterments in Houston, to spend six
months in Europe and gather these facts.
Mayor Rice and his associates in the government
of Houston prove in the novel undertaking that they
regard the city hall the business house of Houston
and that they the managers believe it to be their
duty to get the best methods and ideas They make
it easier to believe that Houston is destined to be-
come the chief city of the South, when they exhibit
this broad-gauge determination to apply in the ex-
tension of their own citys municipal services the
worlds latest and best practices This is the spirit
that builds great cities
The Washington times., 1912-08-20
THE FARMER IN POLITICS.

When it comes down to the voting when 1t comes
down to the making Of the laws, where are the en-
bated farmers? When have the farmers occupied
the center of the stage in politics Candidate Wilson
In addressing the South Jersey Farmers Association
If Candidate Wilson had taken the trouble to
anayze the vote that nominated him at Baltimore
he would have ascertained that it the embattled
farmers of the great Middle West that made him a
winner over the sullen opposition of the city bosses
like Murphy and Sullivan.
II he took the time to study the progressive
movement, which he now processes to represent, he
would learn that progressive ideas have had their
birth and grown to full stature on the Western farms
The embattled farmers of New York upstate dis
rcts appealed to Wilson to assist them in overthrow
ing Tammany and Murphy, but Wilson is not so keen
to assist them that he will risk offending Tammany
and the money-bags back of Tammany.
Mr.. Wilson will learn on election day, if he does
not obtain hints of it BEFORE that the farmer occupe:
not merely the center of the stage in this fight for
progressive IDEAS but a large part of both WINGS
and Wilson's surrender to the bosses has not been
overshadowed by any of his patitudes about scientific
agriculture.
The Washington times., 1912-08-20

substituted, The red ink indicated an
advance of more than % per cent over
the black and. raised to the 100 per cent
basis, came within 10 per cent Of the
prices awarded by the Commissioners of
condemnation.
''3. While the assessors office could
discover much higher values to assess
In these and in the other ten squares yet
to be condemned by the Government. 1t
failed entirely to find any beneficial
effect upon the Immediately adjacent
squares-any increment of value due to
proximity to a proposed great public
improvement-and in them made no in
crease in assessment over the black-ink
figures.
No Established Instructions.
That there are no written printed, or
otherwise established Instructions in the
assessors office for assessing land
values, although a matter of modern
municipal practice.
That there are no written, printed. O.
otherwise established instructions.
tables. or standards for determining
construction cost or the deterioration of
building values which are also of mod
ern practice.
That while there is much pretense of
getting and keeping ready for access
important data for use in determining
values, those which your committee
found were generally unauthenticated,
unrelated, and chaotic.
That practically all your committee s
diligent search has revealed for the
guidance of the assessor and the assist
ant assessors in arriving at values Is
the assessorial naked Judgment
That the assessor ha failed to ad-
duce testimony under oath as an aid to
proper assessments. His plea of insult
ficient power is contradicted by the
fact"
on the home of clifford Pinchot, which
1t Is stated is underassessed $4,000 and
The Washington times., 1912-08-20
THE CASE OF JAMES WARD ROGERS.

Our American State Department might do far
worse than investigate the killing of James Ward
Rogers, American pioneer and jungleman, by de-
tachment of British troops in Belgian territory OF
the eastern Soudan.
Rogers even aSpainted by the man who led the
expedition that hunted him to his DEATH appears to
have been anything but an entirely bad man. 1t is
conceded that he had subjected vast territory to
something like orderly administration, and developed
industry of no mean proportions. Americans
comparing him to our own pioneers of the Daniel
Boone type, or Englishmen, with Cecil Rhodes in
mind, might find much to admire and commend in
his work in the wilds of the Dark Continent He
appears to have been one of those genuses fol
pioneer work that have carried the frontier Of civil
zation into the wilds of every continent. Our owr
history begins in the stories of such adventurous
spirits from Champlan and John Smith, down tc
Lewis and Clark and John Jacob Astor.
If Rogers had. been British subject, murdered
by American soldiers in the territory of third ma
ton, we would get word from Downing street with
out delay that Britain would expect reparation More
than likely, too Britain would discover that Rogers
work had added great province to British domains
and that he was great and good frontiersman o
civilization not an outlaw to be shot on sight
Why not have some light on this case? 1t seem:
worth while.