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The Alaskan., 1928-02-24
give more than an outline of what the manual contains.
DOGS AND DOG POISON

Lately some dogs died of poison here in town. If poison was delib
 erately set out to kill the animals we are remarking that not only is this a dirty proceeding, but 1t is a fiendish method to lessen the canine
 population. However, We are of the opinion that the poisoning was more by accident than design. The tim Der wolves have been plentiful dur ing the winter right around the back fringe of town. We have an idea that seme one has made an ef- fort to get one or more by the pois- on route, and that dogs wandering, as dogs will wander, picked up the stuff and suffered accordingly. Wo ion't know whether or not any of the Biological Survey officials have been in this vicinity, but we do know that they are keen after dogs that stray beyond village limits. We also know that they use stych- nine pellets to kill dogs. The ex- perience that Rake went thru threc Tor four vars ago proves that they keep pretty close tabs on loose dogs
 For a few days dogs were dropping in the streets of Rake pretty fre- Quently Thirteen in one day, f)r instance. It was some little tiD.>; before it was really kown what was the trouble. Biological Survey or dciais hlG made pills out Of tallow, bacon and strychnine anl lad sprirkled the back hills liberally with the drug. Good dogs suffered with the lesser liked dogs. The pills played no fayorites. The act created a fuss that still smould, |eIs. On the face of things, it wasn't fair, but the Survey took the stand that dog is a worse enemy emy to deer than is wolf, and went right after the animals rough shod-a! got 'em. We don't think anyone in town has been guilty of deliberately putting out poison baits here in the city limits to kill dogs.
The Alaskan., 1928-02-24
HOW FAR AHEAD ARE WE?

A Korean recently got a lengthy jail sentence here for scrapping with his bride. For a long time he lived with the woman-an elder ly native-more or less peaceably as just "her man" Under a fine splurge of the moral squad the couple were made to marry, then the fighting began. We can't see where society gets any benefit, or is made any better, by this goody- goody measure. Anyway, if clean ups of this sort are in order why not go after the others who have neglected to get an official Okey to their unions?
The Alaskan., 1928-02-24
HERE IS A GOOD GOOD POSITION
 FOR A REAL WORKER

We are offering Permanent Posi- tions to a few reliable men and wo- men, in which an excellent income from side-earnings% ,even to PART TIME workers acn be made. During our 35 years in business we have ap- pointed over 518,OOO agents who supply our household necessity to our customers in every country in the world. Many of our agents have been with us over thirty years and have achieved Financial Inde- pendence Increasing local de- mands and repeat orders, make t necessary to appoint more local re- presentatives in many localities in the United States. No special ex' perience or capital required. A straight forward, dignified business Why not represent the largest ana best known house of it's kind in the world. Send us your address and the Manager of our Appointment Bureau will send you FULL PAR TICULARs. When we appoint an agent we furnish free samples for Trial Tests in the homes of your locality, etc.
 Address ALPHEUs BANCROFT WASHINGTON, D. C., (Attention Clerk No. D. 14s8 U (You1
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and our jails would have to be en- larged. Great systemi
 ''Alaskans' at $5. Per Ton


 Those "Alaskans' who live in the States, vote in the States Occasion ally voting in both places) and cali up this way occasionally get their freight handled for around $5. per ton. We are taxed from $50 u |all the traffic will bear, and then some, per ton. The steamships, to Mr. Money Bags and to MT. Big-Wig are conveniences. To you and me they are luxures. If real Alaskans had anything to say about this, they'd either be tilt upward for Big Wig and Money-Bag or there'd be a slash made for just us com mon folk. Let's sQueal real loud about it and vote as we squeal.
 VOTE FOR THE FOLLOWING CANDIDATES
 At The
 PRIMARIES, APRIL 24th, 1928. Dan Sutherland, for Delegate to Congress; George Albrecht, for Re- spubhcan National Committeeman; vote for two-William H. Chase and Judge James Wickersham for dele- gates to the Republican National Convention; vote for two-William ID. Grant and J. B. Gottstein for All ternates to Republican National Con ventiOn; vote for John Rustgard for Attorney General for Alaska; and to fill Divisional Offices, vote for Charles Benjamin, .Wrangel' for Senator; Peter Mccormack, WrangelL Representative; A. l.
 Continued on next page
The Alaskan., 1928-02-24
ALASKA BUSINESS FOR 1927

We have before us digest of the commercial statistics of the Customs District covering 1927. In the words of the digest 1927 shows a regret table decrease" Compared to 1926 we are short $23,s7s,O32. That's some amount, isn't it? Shipments to Alaska increased $4,215,336 ov- Ter 1926. Even tho we didn't ship so much, We purchased heavier. The report says, Despite the unfayor- able year, there still remained bal ance of trade in Alaska's favor of $21, 1,185,249."
 This balance looks nice in print. but of the S21,1S5,249 mighty lit. tie ever reaches Alaska. It goes ir- to the pockets of those who tour Alaska in the summer days, who vote outside of the territory, who are scarcely more than visitors at any time. Alaska isn't good enough to live in, but it is fair enough to have outside workingmen live in, toll in and to create dividends in for nonresident bosses. Alaska is-
The Alaskan., 1928-02-24
A MANUAL OF INSTRUCTIONS

structions to prohibition officers, detectives and others connected with the dry law enforcement. The rules, as laid down, come from Prohibition Commissioner Doran and there is q yelled command to live up to them to the letter.
 We are strongly antl-saIoon, and to a certain degree, antt-liQuor. We are also strongly against the Vol stead law. True enough, there has been a certain amount of good come from it, but as a whole we look Oil it as one of the sad failures in le- gislation. We think there is a bet ter method, in taking care of the drink question, than anything out lined in any of our present day dry laws, Volsteadian or otherwise. 1t was too sweeping and unreasonable in the first place. There were too many things not taken into account, nor considered. The law has bred criminals galore-a new brand ot 'em-, 1t has built up an army, al expensive army, of ill bred, arro- gant, iron-hseled officials, some of whom are as crooked as a ram 8 horn; it has grown suspicious, hatreds, fears and discontents; it has nursed secret and underhand methods to full grown crime and open law breaking. About all that can be said of the antiliquor legis- lation Is that it closed the public saloon, sidetracked the bum, made the average drink 80 rotten that the man of the street and the worker and producer would rather not drinG at all than risk health and life in taking swig of the stuff
 The new rules offer more home protection against the ever increas ing army of snoopers, pussyfooters and such ilk prowling around with badges over their manly hearts. The manual issues clear warning to agents and officers concerning use of search warrats. It forbids entrance to private dwellings without them and it must be reasonably certain that there is illegal intent before a search warrant may be drawn. Your own beverages, in your house, are safe enough if you are not sell ing or creating disturbances thro' having 1t. Homes" are construed as: "A room,-or rooms-not oc- cupied transiently, but solely as a residence in any house, hotel or boarding house."
 There are warnings against what is known as "entrapments." This as we understand it in plain words. Is the scheming of officers and agents in methods tending to trap or snare the suspected person, or persons, thereby forcing liquor vio- lations. There Is this on "entrap- nents": Successful prosecution has sometimes failed because there was some evidence that the accused was entrapped. It is contrary to public policy and to the views of leading courts to punish a man for the com mission of an offence which he would not have committed if officers of the law had not inspired, persuaded and lured him to do so."
 "1he promiscuous fourishing and display of firearms is prohibited :"
 An officer should remember that he will be held strictly accountable and personally responsible for the 1atal result of any use of firearms by him."
 The manual takes up automobile searching thusly: "The agents are told of Supreme Court decisions respecting automobile searching il, which it was declared that it would De intolerable and unreasonable if any agent were authorized to ston
The Alaskan., 1928-02-24

CTS in. The final analysis is that Alaska supplies the riches, pays for the exploiting of itself and seems pleased to get in return rather measly living content.
 All this is not so good. No coun- try can last any great length oI time on any such schedule. Alaska has stood up to this decidedly lop sided "bill of conditions" for years only because she was rich in raw things. Each year she gets thinner, more peeked, hollow eyed and rag ged. Population decreases, towns are abandoned, roads grow to brush and the great Northland silence comes back to it's own.
 With the great lust of loot there has grown an arrogant desire to rule. Much of our legislaation is framed by those who live in palatial homes IN THE STATES. And an Astonishing feature of this alien rule is that there are those who live in the Territory aiding in every pos lsible way the midnight schemes of the outsiders. Right here in town there are those who quite openly declare that conditions as they are must not be changed. They say that just so soon as carpet-bag govern ment ceases, and we fence out the law breakers of the States, we are doomed to poverty, empty bellies and shirtless backs. Are we so ig-
 norant, so simple, so weak, so to- tally unfit as all this?
 No, folk, it isn't 80. We have
 been busy digging, moiling, drag
 ging the seas, shoveling the hills
 and swinging the ax, and we haven't paid attention. We knew that things weren't right, but We haven't stop ped to think. Well, it is high time
 right now to put our thinking bon
 nets on and cogitate.
 Alaska is in the same position as
 8 country over-run with the victor
 ious troops of an enemy. We have
 little to say and no one to say it to. What we produce is taken away
 and what we need in food, in clothes
 and home life we are made to pay
 double and three tims more than it
 is all worth.
 Those who pull the financial
 strings of the Territory are, nearly
 to a man, traitors to the Territory
 even tho residing for the time be- 1 ing in the Territory. They want
 the governing power to remain as it
 is. It is to their advantage They
 are as bad to the Territory as were
 the Tories in the War of the Revo- lution to the Continentals.
 Can Alaska get any place in a
 murky mess of this kind? De-
 cidedly she can't We must govern ourselves. Those who are against this movement must be
 fieeced of power, and the way to be- gin this fleecing is to vote a back
 bone to everything for Alaska and Alaskans Out with the tourist trib,
 of off1cialdom Nullify the acts of
 the money changers. Stamp out the vicious summer camps of alien work CTS. Shove out of harms way the
 destroyers of those things vital to the country. It has to be done some time Eventually, why not now?
 FAVOR TIMBER BARONs Timber barons are offered tim
 Der as it stands for 35 cents per thousand, stumpage. If you or I want to put in logs we are taxed from $1.5O to $2.0O per M, stump gage. Let's shoot this ruling full of holes and allow the settler a chance to file whether the land carries tim- Der or not. Let's offer some in- lducamant f0 tho h,1i o~I 4Ao
The Alaskan., 1928-02-24

Justice" has it's snoopers and pus- sy-footers and ferrets putting in t. the highways and byways of every village. There is a regular hound ing system carried on to build up personal regulations and to make big, healthy looking records of pro- secutions and convictions Needless to say, in this rapid fire system of policing there are more perescu- tions than prosecutions. The mad desire is to get somebody in jail. This Hawkshawing has permeated the life of every Alaskan town, usurped the powers of town government. stamped out legitimate objection and caused no end of expense tn those who have happened to be lspotted by the watchful eye of Justice" from Washington, D. c. We've had enough of it.
 The Press and the LO0ters
 Strange as it really is, big DOT tion of the press of the Territory runs hand and glove with the ap Ipointed officials of the big teepe2 l at Washington. This isn't done for Inothing. There are indirect favors. The traitor press wants things to slide as they have been sliding. It Islands four square with the loOters and with alien dictators. The sluic- l ing of money into the tunnels of
 this traitor press may be shut of when we get down to home govern lment The publications, then will Ihave to get along on their merits.
 and not as now, on the leakages land seepags of big business and
 officialdom
 l No Prosperity In It
 Never yet has a country prosper ed through the government of out
 side, or foreign, appointees It Is
 not possible Interests are too Igreatly divided, there is no pulling together and the aim is to look fol
 bouquets from Washington instead
 of praise from the home folk. Mind Iyou, there is as much difference ir the atmosphere between here and Washington, D. C., as there is be- |tween Sebastobol and Shantung. IT Ifact many of the big eastern depart, Iment stores and business houses re igard Alaska as a foreign country
 with some sort of a national flag Iof it's own. To most customers we !are a simple sort of outlander,-
 a mixture of wild adventurer and leave man. We must be looked af Iter by big, stalwart officials appoint
 ed for the different jobs by a" be Inign government. This appointment; lprogram runs into the ridiculous Ioften. Just now witness the spotters Ifrom Idaho-nearly a couple of dog.
 en Of em-spotting the towns oi Alaska. If we had national guard lfrom New York, now, and com Ipany of Texas Rangers, brace oi IFIorida bailiffs and some under GOV fer men from Alabam', we'd be jake
The Nome nugget., 1928-06-16

and unsurveyed and claimants If any unknown. except at the s. F.. Cor. of this claim Ba"ney Anderson is q claimant all ng line 3 PDGE. Location notices ar C record: P. D. Page 479. Vol. l10 D. G. E., Page 47s, Vol. 1t'. r.@ords of the Cape Nome Recording District.
 THOS. D. JENSEN,
 Register. Publish May F. l9, 26 Juue ,, 9, 16. 23, go, July :, 1923.
The Nome nugget., 1928-06-16
CONFIRMATION OF STRIKE

VICTORIA, Pl- Confirmation of the placer geld strike at Squaw Creek on the Yukon, was received by Min: :ster of Mines, Sutherland, from C. L.Munroe, Gold Commis- sioner at Atlin. British Columbia Munroe said that the Indians were taking out from sixty to eighty dollars q day from their claims. They are using only the most prim- itive methods It is all course gold and one nugget was discover ed which was valued at thirty two dollars.
The Nome nugget., 1928-06-16
Get Your Air Mail Envelopes
 At The Nugget Office
MINERAL APPLICATION Nome Serial O819
Mineral Survey No. 1855 IN THE UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE. NOME. ALASKA.

May 70, 151o Notice is hereby giveG that Ira NJ. Rank. whose residence and ppstottice address is Nome, Alaska. hcs made application in the Unit e. s ates Land Office at Nome, Alaska. for patent for his placer mining claim No. i Below, on Last Chance Greek in the Cope Nome Recording District Territory of Alaska and within the Nome Land District designated as Min eral surves No. 1855, the exter- for boundaries thereof being as follows. magnetic variation T. de- grees 15 minutes to IS degrees 50 minutes East.
 Beginning at Cor. No. 1 identi- cal with location and with Cor. 2 Good Chance Association and Cor. No. No. Below Discovery. bot. of Survey 1888. q scllist stone 12 inches above ground. marked 2GC 4-5B-1S3S. 14B-1S55 with earth mound alongside. |. S. l.. NJ. Survey 1888 bears x. 54 degrees 31 minutes East 93135 it. No other bea ring objects available; Thence $. 20 degrees 20 minutes E. 62S.O feet to Cor. No. , ident- cal with Cor. of No. } Below. a schist stone 12 ins. above ground with stone mound alongside and marked 3-5B1S3S. 2-4B-1 S55. Thence s. 60 degrees 23 minutes w. 1140.5 fl. to Cor. No. 3 identi cal with Cor. No. ? of No. 3 Below Discovery on Last Chance Creek Sur. 1889, d schist stone 12 ins. bove ground with stone mound alongside and marked 2-3B-1S39; 3-4B1S55. No bearings available, Thence N. 2S degrees 40 minutes w. 619.0 1t. 10 Cor. No. on line 3-4 Good Chance Placer. Survey 1888. 8 schist stone 24xSx4 ins, 12 ins. in ground. marked 4-4B- 1855 with cross on top surface for true point and earth mound "A ins. base 16 ins. high alongside. No bearing objects available. Thence N. 71 degrees II minutes E. 393.7 it. to Cor. No. , identical with Cor. No. 3 Good Chance Placer. a schist stone marked 3-GC-1S3S; 5-4B- ,;tl, Ip of Cor. No other bearings avail able. Thence N. B degrees o6 minutes F.. G40.0 it to Cor. No. 1, and place of beginning containing an area of 14479 acres. U. s. Location Monument Survey 1888 to which this claim is tied, is a lime schist block 25 4 it. 1 it. above surface, marked on top IT. s. l.. NJ. 1898 with cross for true point and stone mound 6 fl. base 3 it. high alongside. Is located near top of rock bluff on left or north side of Last Chance Creek about $50 feet from channel of same and about 1100 feet from its mouth, in Lat GA degrees 43.3 minutes N. Long. 165 degrees 26 minutes w.
 The adjoining claims are: on the north Good Chance Associa tion Placer Sur. 1s3s; on the east No. Below Discovery on Last Chance Greek Sur. 1S3S: on the south un- known and unsurveyed and on the west No. Below Discovery on Last Chance Creek Sur. 1899 and unsurveyed ground with claimants if any. sunknown.
 | Location Notice of record at Page 324, Vol 105. Cape Nome Recording District.
 | This claim is on unsurveyed land and about 1s miles northerlv from Nome, Alaska. on Last Chance Creek
 THOS. D. JENSEN.
 Register. Publish May 2c. June ?. 9, 16. | 09 9n Yr1x, "A or 1o0e
The Nome nugget., 1928-06-16

i OFFICE AT NOME, ALASKA. May II, 1928. Notice is hereby given that Ira NJ. Rank, whose residence and post
 office address is Nome. Alaska, has | made application in the United
 States Land Office at Nome, Alaska for a patent for his placer mining
 claim No. Above, on Dry Creek.
 trict. Territory of Alaska, and
 within the Nome Land District, designated as Mineral Survey No.
 1S49, the exterior boundaries
 thereof being as follows. magnetic variation 19 degrees 25 mins. to 20 degrees 05 mins. East.
 Beginning at Cor. No 1. identi cal with location, on line B.. Steele Nome Bench. Sur 1214, q schist stone 24x14x3 ins.. 12 ins. in ground marked 1sA-1s49 and cross fer true pn,nt with earth mound 24 ins. base is ins. high alongside, |. $. L. M. No. I bears x 21 degrees I mins. E. 7060.00 feet Cor. Steele Nome Bench identical with Cor. Hourn Bench both of Sur. 1214, bears N 2S de- rrees DO mns w. 269.5 fit, q fir post in@. square feet above ground in earth mound seribed 3-41214, Thence $. 2S degrees % miAs. F.. S25.5 feet to Cor. No. identical with Cor. , Steele Nome Bench and Cor. seeker Placer Sur. 1915, fir post ins. square ? feet above ground in earth mound scribed 3-1214, 1-1S15. 2SA-1S4s. Thence S. 6S degrees Il mins. w. 1133 feet to Cor. No. identical with Cor. 6, Seeker Placer. q fir post I ins square feet above ground in earth mound, scribed G-1S15. 3-SA-1S+9. Thence s. degrees 33 mins. E. 507.00 feet to Cor. No. 1, schist stone 24ASX6 ins. 12 ins in ground marked 4-SA-1s49 and cross for true point with earth mound 24 ins base IS ins, high alongside. Cor. ) Socker marked 5-1S15 with stone mound alongside. bears s. degrees 5 l mins. E. 1S0 feet. Thence N. S9 de-
 grees 57 mins w. ss0.00 feet to
 Cor. No for which is set schist
 stone 24x1ox3 ins. 12 ins. in
 ground, marked 5-SA-1s49 and cross for true point with e-rth
 mound 24 ins. base s ins. high be-
 side same. Thence N: 13 degrees % mins W. 1072.00 feet to Cor. No. 6, schist stone 24X12X3 ins. 12 ins. in ground, marked G-sA- 1s49 with cross for true point and
 earth mound 24 ins. base IS ins. high beside same. Thence x. GS degrees IS mns. E. 615.5 feet to | Cor No. 1 and place of beginning.
 containing an area of 19.529 acres. This claim is on unsurveyed land
 on Dry Creek. and about s,75 | miles N 22 degrees E. from the town Of Nome. in Cape Nome Re-
 cording Precinct Territory of Alaska.
 L. $. l.. NJ No. TO which this
 claim is tied is limestone block
 about fl. fl. it, high
 chiseled |. s. L. NJ. No. i on top
 surface with cross on same for
 true point. and mound of stone al oneside. In Lat. 64 degrees 35 mins N. Long. 165 degrees 19 min w on south or right bank of
 Dexter creek about 140 feet of
 same.
 l Location notice recorded at Page
 10 of Vol. POS records Cape Nome
 Recording District.
 l The adjoining claims are: on the
 North. White Fraction placer un-
 surveyed: on the East Steele Nome
 Bench placer Sur. 1214 and Seeker
 placer Sur 1915; on the South ana
 West unknown and unsurveyed.
 THos. D. JENSEN. l Register.
 Publish May 12. 1e. 2s, June 2, "a.
 IS, 23. 30, July 2, 1928.