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The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1914-04-14
CANDIDATES ELECTED IN coRDovA
Councilnen:
Treasurer of School Board:
Mrs. w. J. Mcdonald


Citizens 5; Independent, /. The
successful candidates. are as fol-
lows: Murray Smith, mayor; F. 5.
Gordon, Peter Lorentzen, Dan Cal
lahan, DR.. r. r. Myers. Geo. NJ.
Smith, Andrew Nerland. OF these
men Murray Smith, Gordon and
Nerland ran on the Business Mems
ticket, while Lorentzen, Myers and
Geo. Smoth We're on the Citizens
ticket. Dan Callahan ran as an
Independent and was elected for the
ninth successive term. The total
registration of voters was 964. with
a total vote cast of S75. There
were 203 women registered and all
but nine of them cast ballot, they
showing much interest throughout
the day. The highest vote cast for
Mayor Smith, was 527, and the
lowest vote cast was 81 for
Socialist. The highest vote cast for
any of the Socialist candidates was
11S. For clerk of the school boarl,
the. election was held yesterday and
there were two women candidates.
The women were kept busy driving
around in automobiles and taking
voters to the polls.
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1914-04-14
HANCOCK Mich Anri

HANCOCK, Mich, April 14.-The
miners who have been on a strike so
long at the Calumet copper mines
have taken vote and declared to
call off the strike. Many efforts at
settlement had been made without
avail. At times the feeling ran
high and as result of various con-
flicts between the strikers and the
men at work or officers of the law,
many have been killed and injured.
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1914-04-14
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JOHN f. ERICSSON.
FOR CHIEF ENGINEER

~ WASHINGTON, April O.
- Strong efforts are being made
a. to have John Ernest Ericsson,
A. of Chicago, appointed by
- President Wilson as chief
- engineer of the government
- railroad construction in
a Alaska. Since June 1897 he
has been city engineer of
a. Chicago. He was born in 4
- Sweden in October 1858 and
A. came to the United States in
A. 1891 as resident engineer for
A. the Glover Leaf railroad. \
a. year later he was on the L. S.
a. government canal surveys.
- and in 1854 he went to Chi
a. cago as craftsman, becoming
A. assistant engineer in 1855
e. and continuing to serve until
- 1889 when he went to Seattle
- as assistant chief engineer to
o. design the $2.00O,O00 water
- works system for the city.
- In 1890 he returned to Chi
- cagO and became assistant
q engineer on tunnel work, and
a served as first assistant city
a engineer from 1898 until
A. 1897. He is consulting engi-
neer for waterworks, ETC.,
a. for various cities. In politics
A. he is Progressive Democrat.
a
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1914-04-14

WASHINGTON, April 14.-Yes-
terday afternoon John Lind, who
has been the Presidents personal
representative in Mexico since last
fall, arrived in this city. He will
have a long conference with the
President and go over the entire
Mexican situation.
VERA CRUZ, April 10.-There
has been considerable fear expressed
for the safety of the American
women in this city and it was
thought best that they be safely
placed. AS a consequence they were
taken aboard the United States
battleships that are in this harbor-
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1914-04-14

SEATTLE, April 13.-The steam
er Northwestern sailed for the north
last night at her regular hour. For
Cordoya she had % cabin and 13
steerage passengers; for Valdez II
and 8; for Seward Is and 8. Among
the passengers for Cordova are:
Geo. Max Esterly and F. A. Hotch-
kiss, who will direct Work on their
placer properties on Chittitu and
Rex creeks, Volney A. Richmond,
manager of the Northern Navigation
Company, will go by his stage line
from Cnitina to Fairbanks. ]. w.
Forester is returning to his duties
as division engineer on the Copper
River & Northwestern Railway.
Other Cordova passengers are: ]. E.
Sommer, James Chisholm, Hans
Frydenlund, Henry Bellows, and J.
R. Hirst.
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1914-04-14

SKAGWAY, April 10.-The wo-
men were active in the municipal
election or Tuesday and were in
evidence everywhere. They INDUCED
in many of the methods so long in
vogue among the men politicians.
with some slight innovations. They
furnished many with lunches, passed
out cigars. had--aaSSes to convey
voters to the polls and circulated
sample ballots of their ticket.
The women largely united in an
effort to break the old ring that has
been ruling the town for years past.
AS result the entire non-partisan
Union ticket was elected as against
the Taxpayers ticket, the men on
that ticket having been in power for
the past six years. ]. NJ. Tanne-,
who has dominated the council for
ten years past was defeated, as was
also his first lieutenant Henry
Prudential. The new council is
composed of the following:
James Kennedy, mayor, manager
of w. Clayson's clothing store, born
at Juneau, and brother of George
Kennedy, of Cordova; William Bat
son, who conducts a meat market;
Alex. c. Blanchard, chief clerk and
auditor of the White Pass & Yukon
railway: William r, Hillary, cashier
of the railway; George Magee, clerk
in railway office; Howard Ashley,
master mechanic of railway; Oscar
Selmar, barber. All these success
full candidates are married men with
families. Many of the prominent
women of the town worked from the
opening of the polls to the closing,
rustIing votes for the winning
ticket, which stands for progressive,
clean and moral government.
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1914-04-14

John Rustgard, United States dis
trict attorney for the Juneau divi-
sion, announces that he will posi-
lively retire from his present posi-
ton on June 1st. He will open a
law Office at juneau. The Demo
cratic Club of Juneau recently re-
solved that John be fired but it is
expected that he will not be, dis
turbed until his term expires.
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1914-04-14
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YUKON RIVER FLEET
HAS BEEN SOLD

4 SEATTLE, April 0.-It A
\ has been officially announced a
= by Leon Sloss, of San Fran A
y cisco, president of the North a
a ern Navigation Company, that A
4 the steamer possessions of his a
4 company on the Yukon river a
\ have been sold to the White a
= Pass & Yukon Railway Conn a
a pany. The cOnsiderai is a
\ not announced but it is sup a
A. posed to be i'm the neighbour a
A. hood of S2,OOO,OOO. The fleet a
a consists of 81 steamers and a
A. barges. This will end the a
= rate war that prevailed last a
a season between the White A
= Pass, which operated line a
A. OF steamers between White a
q Horse, Dawson and Fair a
a banks, and the Northern Nav a
. i1ation company, which a
q operates between st. Michael a
= and White Horse. The 4
p latter company was recently a
81 - "
A. awarded the mail contract. q
A. for the ensuing four years. A
= 1t is now believed that the a
a report that the Guggenheims a
= were also to be a party to q
4 the purchase of these river a
4 \
3 steamers was not well A
- founded. a
~ \
= q
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1914-04-14

FAIRBANKS, April 9-There
was a lively interest in the election
held here on Tuesday and the result
showed that no clique dominated
the voters. For council there were
81 candidates in the field, divided on
the different tickets as follows:
Business Mems, Z; Socialists s.;
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1914-04-14
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George B. Grigsby was at the
ticket and will be mayor. The fol-
lowing were elected to the council:
G.. B. Grigsby, w. II. Webb, Andy
Anderson, H. H. Moller, Henry
Bourough, Philip Murphy and A. w.
Orland.
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1914-04-14

The following are the recently
elected councilmen at Ketchikan: ID.
Smith Harris, mayor; Everett Pau2,
f. E. Ryus, NJ. j. Heneghan, W. H.
Patching, Peter Shark, H. l.. Fed
erson.
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1914-04-14
VOTE FOR COUNCILMEN.

Citizens Progressive Ticket:
+. Y. Boyle, 1870
J. f. Currier, 1877
Chas. j. Gocdall. 12i
Thos. Davis, 121
C. $. Bratton, 105
DR.. j. A. Vance, 90
+. A. Jones, %.
Taxpayers Ticket:
Geo. c. Hazelet, 135
III. A. Slater, 1877
Edgar j. Davis, 121
Geo. DOoley, 11S
II. A. Hegg, rs
f. Glassbrenner, 1OS
A. f. Lathrop, 1O7
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1914-04-14

WASHINGTON April 8.-Ever since the passage Of the
Alaska railroad bill the President has been closely examining
and studying all available data concerning the Of the
territory and the available routes that will to the best
advantage and greater benefit open up that territory At
first it his idea to send commission of engineers north to
look the situation and report to him before making his
choice of routes But he has gradually gotten away from that
notion He has large relief map Of Alaska showing the
proposed routes recommended by the railway commission
named under authorization of Congress in August 1912
hanging the wall of his Office This he has frequently studied
addition all available matter that has been issued by the
various departments concerning the of Alaska He
has also been frequent consultation with DR. Alfred Brooks
who member of the railway commission and who is
regarded having extensive and accurate knowledge
of Aaska and possibilities than likely any other
Others have also been frequently consulted,
particularly Secretary of the Interior Lane who is to directly
represent the President in looking after the gigantic project
building not to exceed 1000 miles Of railway Alaska AS
result of all his investigation it stated yesterday afternoon
that the President would not send another commission to
Alaska to locate routes but that he had practically selected the
himself 1t announced however that the President
would likely make public the routes selected until after
Secretary Lane visits Alaska Congress adjourns
In the meantime he selecting the who will have active
direction of the construction.
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1914-04-14

WASHINGTON, April 14.-Now that the President has
practically decided the for the railroads
in Alaska he is exercising much caution in the selection of the
men who will entrusted with the working part of the
enterprise Secretary Lane when approached this afternoon
the matter of commencement stated eve expect to
the who will make the surveys for the Alaska
government railroad lines within three weeks' When
approached the subject Secretary of War Garrison
sad II have been canvassing for available depart
and hope take up the question with the President
shortly It is intention to push the work the railroads
rapidly possible
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1914-04-14

the state of Washington has introduced in the House bill
providing for prohibition in Alaska He has had complaints
territory regarding the abuse Of licenses sale
of liquor to intoxicated and of the activity of the
saloon element in the control Of the politics. he has deter
mined possible make the territory dry accordance with
petition which he received from Nome When the legislative
assembly created for Alaska effort made change
the bill introduced by Delegate Wckersham and place the
regulation liquor within the of the legislature This
the delegate objected to- declaring that satisfactory
results would be attained the allowed to remain
with Congress The act passed provides "Nor shall
spurious intoxicating liquors be manufactured sold
under such regulations and restrictions Congress
shall provide"
VALLEJO April 9-Orders have been received from the
navy department for the cruiser Maryland sail from here
May Is for Alaska She will go Cooks Inlet
aboard the 900 tons of coal from the Matanucka field that Jack
Dalton has freighted from the mine Old Knil This
coal mined last under direction of George Evans
experienced engineer and from all reports is of good
quality and clean 1t is believed that it will result in much
better test for eaming purposes than did the poor quality Of
Boring river coal that tested last 1t is expected
that the test Of Matanuska coal will be made the Maryland
Some of the this cruiser who participated in the
Of the Boring coal express the opinion that another test of
fair sample of the coal from that field would give much better
results.
MEXICO CITY April 11-For time yesterday afternoon
it looked as though serious results would be precpitaed
because of unwarraned upon the part of Mexican
general launch from the gunboat Dolphin, flying the
American flag and carrying Paymaster Small detachment
OF marines all uniformed but unaed put in at Tampco for
supply of gasoline colonel of the Mexican eeras arrested
the paymaser and his and paraded them through the
streets 1t only after vigorous protest upon the part Of
Rear Admiral Mayo that the released As
the reported here President uea apoogized
to Nelson OShaughnesy secretary of the embassy General
Zaragoza also expressed regret Admiral Mayo that the
occurrence should have happened
WASHINGTON, April 14-Senator Lea created quite q
sensation in the Senate late yesterday afternoon when
introduced bills that regarded extreme Socalist;c
He provides for the purchase of all the interstate
railways the building of hundred vessels used
American merchant marine and for the creation commits
sion of 20 to supersede the interstate
commission Another bill provides that the government shall
take complete control of the banking and transportation
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-06-24
Arguments for Co Edueation.
From the Detroit Free Press.

The one incontrovertible argument In
that since men and women are to work
together In so many ways, hold so many
interests in common after their school
days. it Is best for them to meet and
mingle early. rather han experience a
training in school that shall still fur
their differentiate them as male and fe-
male. 1t may be urged against segre-
cation that 1t makes sex attractions the
chief and indeed almost the only COM
mon meeting ground or point of under
standing between the embryo young
men and young m Girls, isolated,
weave mental halos for boys decora-
ton. Meeting them in the class room
destroys illusions and helps. at least
q little. to Danish romance. A girl could
hardly idealize q boy who flunked In
especially If she had con-
Quered the topic. Coeducation helps
get rid of the halo notion: nevertheless
we admit sex attraction Is not disposed
OF by cOeducatiOn. 1t remains a prob
lem In eve-u high school and college:
every teach~e knows the symptoms and
the effect Of q "case"-which is high
school English for an attack of calf
love. But just as the boy who has sis
ters and the girl lucky enough to have
brothers get q clearer view Of the 9TH
or sex than the only child possibly can,
10 boys and girls educated together
cut out 9 lot of nonsense that ordinari-
" accompanies youth. It IL usually the
g1rl who haS been educated wholly with
girls who runs away with the chauf-
feur: h has had no chance to expe.
rtence what Donald Mitchell called
preliminary k~tndlings."
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-06-24
What Do You Know About Sleep?
Frederick Peterson. in the Atlantic.

GACOSi1Ch 1cleISOH, III IuG AIldNIlC.
What is sleep? A commonplace nat
ural phenomenon which we accept as
we do air M water-a battling mys-
ferrous condition in which we are
compelled to pass a full third Of our
earthly life-yet sleep, strangely
enough. has been little studied or
written about in all our c~ompendiums
Of learning. In the 10000 pages OF
the encyclopedia, which may be looked
upon as in a sense a microcosm. an
epitome of all the accumulated knowl-
edge of the world, there are but two
pages devoted to sleep. This measures
the general interest of humanity In the
subject. One would think that psychol-
ogists would find a special field in
this eclipse Of the mind for eight hours
every day, yet those huge tones of
Baldwin-the dictionary Of psychology
devote half a page to sleep. The
practical interest Of medical men IL
In the disorders Of sleep, but they
treat OF It in their medical books al
most wholly from the standpoint OF
therapeutics. seldom or never from
that Of etiology. The chief literature
Of sleep seems to be found among he
poets. religious devotees and mystics.
I shall not quote Shakespeare. but
only say that his innumerable refer
ences to sleep and dreams and the
disorders Of sleep prove him to have
been an extraordinary observer. An
Incompatible clinician was spoiled IA
him when he became q poet.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-06-24
Tho False God Thrift.

from the Wichita Beacon.
The other day q wreck of = man uas
picked up in q Decent lodging house in a
large city and k to a hospital. Later
Il was found that he was rich: that ha
had nearly 1900 in bills on his nersnn and y
10000 in banks. Us anu
"A miser? He would have resented that
name, but OF course that was what he was.
he mad scrimped and saved oidesperateiv
IN MS younger days that later on. when
ne mad enough to make him com fortahie.
he couldn't use It.
god thrift. AZ als
Once we knew a huckster woman who
got up at 2 O'clock in the morning. loaded
g wagon with vegetables from her truck
Term n herself peddled untii in the
aiternoon. Then she returned to the farm
ana worked until dark.
f1er property was worth at least 500. OOO
and sne mad an income five times as large
as tnat OF the average preacher. There
was no need at all for her to toll so ex-
cesslvely.. But she had formed the hahit
inc couldn't stop. NDs
N her fanatical worship OF thrift she
NAG gone money-mad.
maxim. ""iy
Almost but not quite.
Isn't 2 better one to save your capacitv
tGr ENJOYING sanely the Joys OF ma to
which humanity IL by nature e~ntitied?'S
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-06-24
CUT COST OF LIVING
FOR HIS employees
Railroad Head Put Through
a Successful Co. Cooperative
Scheme for Workers.

observation-disclosures G~onZenbach, a
consulting engineer who
uas 1ust been made general manager of
ene Empire United Railway. connecting
~ and Rochester, If he carries
out u plan which he used with great
success in Wisconsin. will earn a rep
utatlon in the Empire state.
AS president of the S~heboygan Rail
Way ~ Electric company, he showed his
employees now to solve the problem of
s nv n.sr cost OF living. and put through
snccessfully one of the most effective
cooperative employees welfare stunts
In n history of this state.
nc carved q hog in a lecture before
EMPLOYEES to demonstrate the money
sa ing which u family car make dress
ing lts own meat; he conducted prize
garden contests for which the company
furnished the land, and asked the COM
pahy 10 make a profit-sharing system
one or inc features of it's welfare work.
me Milwaukee Electric Light IL Rail
way company now has under consid-
eratlon the adoption of Il cooperative
system along the same lines.
president Gon2enbach. who came up
from the ranks, has his to say:
we encouraged the men in their
nome life as much as possible and got
them TO reduce their personal expenses
by raising many. of the necessities and
some of the Injuries.
VIC encouraged poultry raising and
gardening.
Amy employee could have the use of
as much of the company's land as he
wanted to cultivate.
w owned 16 acres at the out
skirts which we plowed and narrowed
and turned over to employees free of
charge.
Several times during the season the
gardens were judged by a committee
and prizes were awarded.
The company provided Il canning
outfit for the use of employees.
Where the wife n daughter can
make their own clothes and make them
well, u big share of the cost OF living
problem has been solved. and 1 COM
mended and complimented families
where this happy condition obtains.
"When you buy certain f%oodstuffs
you are hiring somebody to do the
things for you which you could do for
yourself-just as If our wife hired a
dressmaker to MAKE her clothes for
her.
ITO illustrate: Ten cents worth of
radish seed will keep a family in
radishes an entire summer season. You
DO not even need a back yard to plant
them ina little corner will do"
Conducting these contests was only
part of the welfare work. The spe-
cial feature was the profit sharing sys-
tenn.
For instance: Power station en-
ployes are paid a bonus for effecting
saving in coal and supplies. This Is
shared in by every one Of IA employees,
from the chief engineer to coal passer.
One mont $2OS.68 was distributed
among them. Motormen and conduc-
tors work on a merit system and re-
ceive yearly muse dependent upon
their records.
Employees were organized into a mu-
tual benefit association to the support
of which the Ompan contributed.
BY his practical demonstration
when at Sheboygan. with a hog weigh
ing 21O pounds and costing 10 cents a
pound. President Gonzenbach proved
that $12.05 could be saved by buying
and curing the entire animal.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-06-24
Who couldn'v au... It9

II Is green and red ana white. II slis-
tens temptingly with tia frost that's on
i. after Il has been in the Ice bog an
It 10 sweet. 'sweeter than the honey
that bees have made after they have
hown countless miles in search Of sweet
It Is Juicy. More fuzzy than tn. MACH
that has gathered its moisture from pure
morning dow. $500
Il Il cooling. More cooling than tho
waters that now from out b depths Of
the rccesses that are hidden behind rocks
and smooth-worn pebbles.
What 10 1t?
Il 9 IN elixir Of life: IN Inspiration to
oh, yum, yum!
It oon Will be here.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-06-24

civilized humanity has been clothed
mainly in cottons. Outside of the
orient, which consumes it's own prod
uct, IS per cen of the total production
Of cotton fabrics is from raw material
grown in the United States. Imagine
then, the feelings of the cotton grow
ers Of the southern states when the
came into fashion. BY that edict Of
the leading modes of Paris and Lon
don the demand for raw cotton to be
manufactured into dress fabrics was
reduced by two-thirds. or possibly
three-fourths. The hobble was the SUI
preme effort of the French designers on
behalf Of the great French manufac-
turers of silk goods, who are their
masters. For the less material re-
quired to make a skirt. the greater
number of women who can and natur-
ally will wear silk instead of cotton. It
is estimated that the mode Of narrow
dresses has cost German manufacture
ers the product of 10000 looms a year.
For his same reason French MANY
facturers some time ago appealed to
the government to use it's influence to-
ward amplifying female raiment."
The speaker gave especial emphasis
to her next statement:
The following of such dictat.on
causes foolish women to eat their
hearts out with longings they cannot
afford to crafty; leads to unhappi-
ness, the ruination of homes and the
bartering Of virtue itself.
life more saps her strength. time,
means and nervous vitality than the
triple-headed lion that guards every
event of daily life in the form of what
shall l wear?' How shall it be nader
and How shall 1T be paid for?'"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-06-24

Oxford university will send out A
expedition OF English scientists, with .
Polish GIRL Tor . guide. to study the
origin OF the native tribes OF Siberia.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-06-24

land u ~ years.