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URffil OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1917 Number 27 35th Year OIEGOM CITY CO TIMBER LAND TAX HELDTOJE JUST DISTRICT ATTORNEY WINS NOT ABLE VICTORY THROUGH I SUPREME COURT . i WILBUR WILL APPEAL CASE Law Violator Defeated and Timber Barons Held to Pay ' - .'"' Full Assessment iiiiaiBisiiaa Bsasaaaaa B, ,;,." '. . ffl 1 District, Attorney Gilbert L. B B Hedges has been advised this B H morning of the intention of Ju- H lius Wilbur and his attorneys a to appeal the decision against a him to the United States su-, B preme court on the ground that a the indictment upon which he a was convicted was faulty and B not according to law. The no-. B tification orders that the man- B date under which Wilbur B could be jailed immediately be B held up for 60 days pending the B appeal to the nation's high- B est tribunal. District Attor- B B ney Hedges secured the convic- B B tion of Wilbur in Judge Camp- B H bell's court. ,,.- B BBfflBHBSBa BBBBSBEBBB . Two decisions decidedly encour aging to Clackamas county officials, and one of them especially interest ing to taxpayers, were handed down in Salem on Wednesday by the state supreme court. The first has to do with the noted "Wilbur" case, ap pealed from Judge Campbell's court. Julius Wilbur was formerly the proprietor of the iniquitious Friars' club on the bank of the Willamette at Milwaukie, where he is said to have trafficked in liquor against the state prohibition laws and the laws of decency in the county. Wilbur was sentenced to pay a fine of $300 and spend approximately six months in jail when a jury in Judge Camp- bell's court found him guilty of vio lating the prohibition laws. Represented by Charles W. Fulton, ex-United States senator from Ore gon, Wilbur appealed the case to the supreme court following his convic tion after the trial here on Decem ber 18, 1916. The supreme court was asked to grant a hearing and it was ' through the court's refusal yesterday , to grant such a motion that victory came to the county. Wilbur's attor , ney's intimate that the case is not yet ended, but in the county seat their attitude was taken as a bluff. By their action the members of the su preme court yesterday sustained Judge Campbell. But the case that is perhaps the most important to the taxpayers was that settled when the supreme court denied a rehearing in the case of the Weyerhaeuser Land company against Clackamas county. This company, paying taxes on some 5000 acres of , timber in the forests back of Molalla, ' has had the present case on the dock ets since October 20, 1915, when it sued the county for a reduction ' of more than $300,000 in its tax assess ment. In that notable case, conducted throughout by District Attorney Gil bert L. Hedges, with the assistance of Deputy Thomas A. Burke, the cir cuit court here ordered the county to reduce the assessment to a certain . extent, although not as much as the company had asked. Not satisfied, the Weyerhaeuser interests appealed to the supreme court and the case was tried there. The supreme court decision revers ed the circuit court in that it held the Weyerheuser company to pay the full amount of the assessment made by the county. Its hopes blasted, the company appealed to the supreme court for a rehearing, but after con sidering the evidence presented by the company and by District Attor ney Hedges for the county such a re hearing was denied yesterday by the supreme court. This leaves the mat ter where it was in the beginning and the timber barons will be forced to pay the full and just amount of the tax assessments aganst their heavy timber holdings. In the meantime attorneys for the Weyerheuser company yesterday fil ed complaints against the county for the reduction of the last tax assess' ments totaling close to $650,000 reduc ed to slightly more than $250,000, or a total reduction of approximately $400,000. The reduction asked, the complaints say, are based upon the actual value of the timber land in volved. Lad Is Injured Losing control of his bicycle at the top of the New Era hill Tuesday, Kenneth Hutchinson of Oregon City suffered painful injuries and bruises when he hit an obstruction at the bottom of the hill and was thrown from the vehicle. The flesh was torn from an arm and he was badly bruised. The lad is 16 years old and a son . of Mrs. Ida Hutchinson of this city. PRESIDENT ASKS AID OF SCHOOL CHILDREN RED CROSS HAS PREPARED FOR JUNIOR MEMBERSHIP WITH SCHOOL ACTIVITIES President .Wilson issued a procla mation Tuesday calling upon the school children of the nation to do their part in the war by joining the Junior Red Cross to assist in the mercy work of the senior organiza tion, i ' The proclamation follows: "To the school children of the United 1 States: "A Proclamation The president of the United States is also president of the American Red Cross. It is from these offices joined in one that I write you a word of greeting at this time when so many of you are beginning the school year. "The American Red Cross has just prepared a junior membership with school activities, in which every pu pil in the United States can find a chance to serve our country. The school is the natural center of your life. .Through it you can best work in the great cause of freedom to which we have all pledged ourselves. "Our junior Red Cross will bring to you opportunities of service to your community and to other com munities all over the world and guide your service with high and religious ideals. It will teach you how to save in order that suffering children else where may have the chance to live. It will teach you how to prepare some of the supplies which wounded sol diers and homeless families lack. . It will send to you, through the Red Cross bulletins, the thrilling stories of relief and rescue. "And best of all, more perfectly than through any of your other school lessons, you will learn by do ing those kind things under your teachers' direction to he the future good citizens of this great country which we all love. "And I commend . to all school teachers in the country the simple plan which the American Red Cross has worked out to provide for your cooperation, knowing as I do that school children will give their best service under the direct guidance and instruction of their teachers. Is not this perhaps the chance for which you have been looking to give your time and efforts in some measure to meet our national needs?" WHISKEY BRINGS FINES TO DAYTON MOTORISTS Justice of the Peace John N. Siev ers Tuesday assessed fines totaling $125 against three Dayton, Or., citi zens who were found guilty of trans porting liquor in violation of the state law, by a jury in the justice court Tuesday. Paul Lpudenshu. shen and W. H. McCain each were fined $50 and their companion, J. T. Ohlert, was fined $25. There were five men in the auto mobile party which Motorcycle Pa trolman Meads stopped on the high. way more than a week ago. Three of the men objected to being stopped and attempted to take their spite out on the officer. The other two in the party took no part in the fist fight and at the trial yesterday gave evi dence for the state. They were Sher man Miller and Tony Cinamon. Rep. resented by a McMinnville attorney the three fined Tuesday served no tice of appeal to the circuit court. YOUNGSTER RUNS AWAY Eleven-Year-Old Boy Has Not Been Seen Since Wednesday Everett Pendleton, 11-year-old son of Louis Pendleton has disap peared from his home and nothing has been heard of the lad since late Saturday night, when the father heard he was in the vicinity of Maple Lane. Everett has been gone from home since last Wednesday night, when he learned that his father was looking for him in the woods where the boy and an older brother had gone to hunt in violation of the will of the father. The boy came home late in the evening and was told the father had gone to look for him. He left immediately. The lad formerly lived with a family at Corbett, but was sent back to his home because he ran away repeatedly. He wears a brown coat, blue overalls and a gray cap and is about the average size for his age.. MOOSE HOME READY Lodges Will Dedicate New With Much Ceremony Hall The new Moose lodge building at Twelfth and Main streets is to be dedicated by the lodge on October 2 and the members are making elabor ate plans for the occasion. Other lodges which hold their meetings in the Moose hall will take part in the dedication of the new building, in eluding the Knights of Pythias, Py thian Sisters, Artisans, Fraternal brotherhood, and Knights and Ladies of Security. Moose lodges from Portland, Molalla, St. Johns and Sa lem will send delegations to the city for the dedication. Special cars probably will come from Portland and from Molalla. The new Moose band of this city will take a prom inent part in the affair. rs s IS REAL WONDER LITTLE LAD WEAVES THINGS OF BEAUTY WHILE CON FINED TO HIS BED ORSE RACING A FEATURE Some Departments Lack Quantity But Old Time Quality is There Strong The outstanding feature of the best collection of juvenile workman ship ever gathered together in Clack amas county is a display made' at the county fair, in progress at Canby this week, by Clyde Lorenz, who for merly was a pupil at the Lone Elder school near Canby. This little crip pled chap, bedridden from the effects of a childhood injury, has plied his needle with sue1- wonderful skill that his efforts have astounded his eld ers of the other sex and made them wonder at the deftness of the lad. Clyde, who is only 14 years old and unable to attend school, lies on his bed and weaves most beautiful patterns with his needle. He has on display in the juvenile department at the county fair a collection including pillow tops, six table mats, two hand kerchiefs and a collar and cuff set for feminine adornment. The pillow tops are great examples of the little fellow's skill. One of them bears the American flag crocheted in the three colors and done so carefully that the width of the lines are nearly perfect and the size and placing of the stars on their blue field is exact. The juvenile department of the fair this year is certainly the most inter esting part of the exposition. It out distances any previous attempts on the 'part of the school children of the county to collect their workman- ship for display and, according to such an authority as Brenton Vedder, county school supervisor, who is in charge of the department, it is big ger and better than. any other juven ile exhibition yet made. The children have baked, canned and sewed a col lection that in many cases puts their elders to shame. Their jellies, their cakes and their canned goods look de lightfully palatable and their needle work is a revelation in what young hands can do when properly trained. Most of the exhibits in this depart ment are eligible for entrance in the state fair contests and the school de partment will transport most of the displays to Salem at the opening of the fair there. Aside from the juvenile depart ment the fair probably can claim no outward superiority to the exposition of .last year. The exhibits are not nearly so extensive, either in the farm crops department or the live stock pens, but every article -display ed is of a quality that the exhibits of last year or any other year could not beat, for they are near perfection. The livestock pens contain' some of the county's finest animals and fowls. Of course, the part of the fair that draws interest one year the same as another, is the race program, and this year there has been a collection of fast animals at Canby that have thrilled daily the large audiences in the grandstand. An innovation on the racing program were1 the automo bile races of the opening day. Be cause the contests were lmited to stock cars, and that calls for amateur drivers, there was not that degree of speed that might be expected upon a more noted speedway, and the entries were limited to a few brave souls who risked their lives on the course. But the events were interesting nev ertheless. Ed Fortune has been suc- cssful this year in getting a good entry list of race horses , and the program each day has been fast and snappy owing to the speedy starts and the "quality of the horses. The carnival company on the grounds is furnishing amusement to a great many with its merry-go-rounds, ferris wheel and side shows. The concession space is well taken up and there are some popular booths about the grounds. As is usual, the camp ing grounds are occupied by a large number of exhibitors and others who are making of fair week the occasion for a delightful outing. This evening the band at the fair grounds will render one of its popu lar concerts and the customary dance will be held at the band auditorium to attract many to remain over dur ing the evening hours. Tomorrow has been set aside as all-county day, and marks the closing of the annual harvest exposition. A feature of the program for the day will be the live stock parade that has characterized other fairs. An interesting race card has been prepared and will start, if prompt, at one o'clock. Sues for $5000 Damages in the sum of $5000 are asked in a complaint filed here Sat urday by Lee Stanley Jacobs, of Stafford, against M. C. Baker, of the same community. Jacobs charged Brown with the circulation of false rumors about the former's family af fairs, invulving the name of Mrs. Baker and Mr. Jacobs. LQREN OUNCIL STARTS ON CITY'S NEW CHARTER EVADE CONFLICT IN BOUND ARIES OF PRECINCTS AND CITY WARDS - i.1- - . 1 1 . : To avoid conflict with the recently approved measure for holding munic- pal and state elections at tnes ame time, the Oregon uty council, through Mayor E. C. Hackett, has ordered City Attorney George L. Story to prepare for publication a new revised edition of the charter of the municipality. , The volume that it is planned to issue will . comply with the provisions of the measure passed by the voters last June and will contain a complete revision oi laws, amendments - and ordinances passed since the" preparation of the present copy some two years ago. It will be necessary for tne coun cil to devise some means of making the boundaries , of the three city wards the same as the boundaries of the 11 precincts that are maintained in state elections. The present char ter provides for the election of nine councilmen, three from each of three wards. Mayor Hackett and, certain members of the council, do not ap prove of the idea of election council- men-at-large and will work out some schome to avoid this. T maintain the present system of ward represen tation Mayor Hackett will attempt to solve the problem. It may be necessary, in order to maintain the ward representation scheme, to ask the county court to change the boundaries of the 11 vot ing precincts in county and state elec tions to conform with the municipal boundaries. In any event, some such pla will 'be incorporated in the new charter, and Mr. Story will time his' work on the volume so that its inclusion will be assured. The city council has given up hope of seeing the charter which the Live Wires of the Commercial club proposed to submit for consideration through a committee headed by 0. Di Eby. FEDERAL LOCKS CLOSE FOR DELAYED REPAIRS The Oregon City locks were clos ed Wednesday by government en gineers t in charge pf the work thct nas Deen going on or contemplated there for some time. The present undertaking will be the deepening of the lower lock chamber and the pas sageway will probably be closed for six weeks, providing that inclement weather does not delay the work. The chamber will be increased in depth from a low water stage of less than three feet to a minimum of six feet. The deepening of the lock has been contemplated for several years, and from one cause and another has been delayed until the present, when an appropriation of $80,000 was pro vided through the efforts of Con gressman Hawley to carry out the plans. aaaaaaaaaB aaBBBBBas a , a a COUNTIES ARE PEEVED B a Decision of the state high- B way commission to postpone B construction of the west side B route of the Pacific highway B ffl until the completion of the east H side road has evoked wide in- B H dignation. There is talk of B ffl holding a meeting to ascertain H if steps can not be taken to H B force the commission to do B otherwise. Senator Vinton is particu larly bitter in his criticism. He contends that the support of the Yamhill, Polk and Washington delegations was the only thing that made pos- a sible the enactment of any a kind of road, legislation in the a last legislature. B B aiBBaaaaa aaaaBBaaaffl GIRLS TAG SOLDIERS Honor Guard Buys Labels County Cannot Afford to Get Ordered to "tag" each of the 21 men who will comprise Clackamas county's quota to leave for the nat ional army cantonment at American Lake on September 21, County Clerk Iva Harrington had quite a problem to solve until the Girls' Honor Guard came to the rescue. Adjutant Gen eral George A. White communicated with Miss Harrington, telling her that the men must be tagged. The state evidently did not prepare to pay the bill and the county had no funds for such a purpose. The girls of the Honor Guard settled the matter by appropriating from their bwn funds money to pay for the tags which will label the young men who leave here next week as Clackamas county's war contribution. The girls will also pay for baggage and equipment tags for the men. . "Friends of Soldiers" Meet A meeting of the precinct chair men, who have chargo of the local campaign in behalf of the war library fund, will be held at the Commercial club parlors this evening to further perfect arrangements for the cam paign by means of which it is hoped to aid in supplying proper and plen tiful reading matter to the national army and navy camps of the nation. LUMBERMEN SEEK RAIEIIISTIIG INTERSTATE COMMERCE COM MISSION WILL HEAR GATEWAY CASE VALLEY MILLS COMPLAINING Discrimination Charged to Railroad Companies. Gate Only Swings One Way The case of Willamette Valley Lumbermen's association against the Northern Pacific, Great Northern, Spokane, Portland & Seattle, and other railroads serving the states of Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota and Nebraska, which was brought to ob tain lumber rates from valley points to destinations in those states on the same basis as the rates in- effect from other producing points in the coast group to the same destinations will be heard before Examiner Mar shall, of the Interstate Commerce commission, in Portland today. For a long time the valley lumber men have sought to obtain this re lief through friendly negotiotions with the interested carriers, which were unable, however, to agree be tween themselves upon the divisions of the rates to be established. The only remedy remaining to the valley lumbermen was a resort to the com mission. Especial interest attaches td this case because the Willamette valley is said to be the only lumber producing section west of the Cascade moun tains between the Canadian and Cal ifornia boundaries that is shut out of the northern destination territory, which is served by the rails of the Northern Pacific, Great Northern, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. For years the mills in Washington on the lines of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern west of the Cas cade mountains have had joint through rates on ftie coast group ba sis' to local points on ihe Union Pa cific system lines precisely on the same basis as the rates contempor aneously in effect from points in the Willamette valley or from Portland to these same destinations in local Union Pacific territory commencing in southeastern Idaho and going east thereof to the Missouri river. "These rates from the northern mills apply via Portland through which, as a gateway, the lumber traffic from the Washington mills in the coast group passes on its way to Union Pacific local territory," says William C. McCulloch, a Portland at torney who is to appear at today's hearing as the representative of the complainants. "This same gateway at Portland is not open, however, to the lumber traffic of the Willamette valley that seeks to reach the markets served by the northern lines in the states of Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota and Nebraska. The gate at Portland opens to the south, but not to the north. ' "The valley mills in this case as sert that the gateway at Portland should be open to traffic going in either direction, and that the gate should swing both ways, instead of only one, and it is from this circum stance that the case has come to be referred to commonly as the 'Port land Gateway Case.' "Primarily the Willamette valley lumbermen are directly concerned in the outcome of this case and yet if the relief asked for is granted there can be no doubt that the beneficial effect upon the valley as a whole and upon the city of Portland as well and its business interests will be very marked. Unquestionably the open ing of the Portland gateway would permit the valley mills to sell in these northern markets a very sub stantial part of their production. The relief -asked for by the valley mills, however, is refused and contested by the Northern Pacific, the Great Nor them, the Spokane, Portland & Se attle and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. "These latter roads all serve mills located on their lines in the state of Washington, which enjoy coast group rates to the destination territory in volved in this case, and these roads have for many years pursued a traf fic policy of confining their distribu tion of lumber to the territory serv ed by them or their connections to the mills located on their own roads, and the desire to continue this traffic policy leads them to fight against the granting of any relief to the valley mills in this case." SOLDIER MARRIES County Clerk Iva Harrington Tues day issued a marriage license to Max A. Hollmann of Hoff, Ore., and Miss Anna Rothenberg of Macksburg. The young man has been certified for ser vice with the national army and has received orders to report here for transfer to the cantonment at Amer ican Lake. He will leave Friday I with the other 20 young men who ( comprise the present quota. OREGON GIVES MUCH MONEY FOR LIBERTY STATE LOYAL IN FINANCIAL SUPPORT. CONTRIBUTES $15,000,000 TO WAR' . Counting the total contribution made in this state to the first issue of Liberty loan bonds, Oregon has contributed the huge sum of $15,000, 000 to the cause of the war against Germany and her allies, according to the most recent compilations of the fiendish desearcher and statistician. Considering that Oregon has a popu lation estimated at 800,000 the total contribution' shows a per capita con tribution of $18.50, which is held to be remarkable. Of course, the total looks small when the amount paid out for Liberty loan bonds is subtracted. That amount was $13,820,000. The next largest contribution was that made to the cause of the Red Cross society of America, which obtained $1,005,000 of the money of the people of Ore gon. The state contributed $42,000 to the Y. M. C. A. funds for work on behalf of the soldiers. Approximate ly $45,000 was provided by interest ed citizens for ambulance units and their equipment. With the collec tion of $40,000 in the state toh. elp buy ' so-called Liberty huts for sol diers, there will have been contrib uted $15,000,000 less $48,000. It is estimated that this amount has been made up through contribution to other pariotic works and through the funds collected by several lodge or ganizations. SPENCE ARRIVES FOR A WASHINGTON CONFERENCE The entire Oregon delegation and Senators Brady, Poindexter and Jones and Representative Dill, of Washington, and Smith, of Idaho, held a meeting at Washington on Monday with W. H. Hurrah, of Pend leton; C. E. Spence, of Oregon City; C. W. Nelson, of Seattle;. R. Insing er, of Spokane; S. C. Armstrong, of Seattle, and C. M. Mackenzie, of Col fax, to consider plans to have pri mary markets established on the Pa cific, coast with a, view to getting $2.20 for coast wheat, the same price as has been set for Chicago. , " Senator McNary presided and the conditions in Oregon and Washing ton were explained by Messrs. Harrah and. Insinger. At the meet ing it was decided unanimously to endeavor to explain to the president at a hearing ar.d secure the appoint by him of a representative to inves tigate fully the northwestern con ditions, with authority to grant the request for primary markets if he finds that the conditions justify. Senators Chamberlain and McNary called on the president Monday after noon and endeavored to obtain a hear ing for the entire delegation and the farmers' representatives. Representatives of farming, ware house and other interests of Oregon, Washington and Idaho will also con fer with President Wilson soon over the fixed price for wheat which they say 13 affected by the railroad rates. Tri-state granges ' and other or ganizations hope to have the presi dent remove alleged discriminations ia rates by which they say farmers of that section are compelled to Bell their wheat for 80 cents less than the Chicago standard price. RECEPTION READY Recruits for National Army Will Be Commercial Club Guests Preparations for a public recep tion to the 21 men who comprise Clackamas county's quota for the draft army to leave here on Friday, are complete and provide for an in teresting time at the Masonic temple this evening. The reception will start at 8 o'clock and a feature will be the patriotic address of A. E. Clark of Portland. Mrs. Carl Moore of Gladstone will sing several selec tions and remarks may be made by local men. A musical program will be rendered. The affair is under the auspices of the Commercial club, which will also see to the entertain ment of the young soldiers between the time of their arrival here tomor row at 2 o'clock and their departure early the following morning. AUTO HITS "SAMMIES" Local Guardsmen Fall Before On Coming Machine. No Injury Privates Roberts and McLeod, sta tioned here with a detachment of in fantrymen from the Oregon nation al guard, were injured Saturday afternoon when a light automobile driven by Edward W. Gudhart, of Portland, ran into them. The car knocked Private McLeod to the side of the road and knocked the other sol dier to the ground, passing entirely over his body. Mr. Gudhart, . who gave his address as 988 Garfield ave nue, ascertained that the soldiers were not injured and settled for the damage he did to their uniforms be fore he went on. Marriage License A marriage license was Issued here yesterday by County Clerk Har. rington to Philip F. Put and Elsie Louise Dahlstrom, both of Colton. YUKON COUNTRY LAND OTSILENCE CREATION'S UNSETTLED WASTE WHERE BRAVE MEN TOIL FOR GOLDEN GLITTER COUNTRY OF FEW PLEASURES Alaska's Coast Line, More Than, Distance Around World, Has but Two Doorways (M. J. Brown) Right here I want to square you away on some misiniormation ana wrong impressions that so many people have of Alaska. Thousands of people know very little about the geography of the country and they scramble It with the Canadian northwest and make them one and the same. You will hear a man on the outside say ne is going to "wnite norse Alaska," and over the pass. White Horse is in Canada. The world-famous Klondike gold country is invariably located and spoken of as being in Alaska. It is not. It is in the Yukon Territory and a part of Canada. Dawson, famous Dawson, once the greatest gold camp on earth, is al ways spoken of as in Alaska, but it many miles from Uncle bam s territory. It is British. - On a steamer from Seattle you en ter Alaska near Prince Rupert and for four or five hundred miles you travel in Alaska until you reach Skagaway. This is through the tail of Alaska the coast end. Then you cross into the Yukon Territory and hike down the Yukon four or five hundred miles more to the front door of Alaska the coast end. Then you cross into the Yukon Territory and hike down the Yukon four or five hundred miles more to the front door of Alaska, and by that time it seems to one he must have been through the territory and come out again. While he has only reached the front gate. It's one whale of.. a territory, i v...: If you would follow the entire boundary lines of Alaska take its coast lines and stay with them 1 around the entire territory you would have- traveled farther than around the worlds-more than 27,000 miles. This is a literal truth, but re- . member that there are more than 11,000 islands included in the pur- -chase from Russia. But take my word for these fig ures. JJon't you try to maKe tne cir cuit. ' I seldom give a figure or statistic in travel letters. To most people they are tedious and dry' in such a place. But to drive it in, to make you comprehend what a moose of a country it is, let me state it embraces nearly 600,000 square miles, one-fifth as large as the whole United States. It is as big as Germany, France and Spain put together. It is thirteen times the size of New York state. Now have you some idea of what a bunch of land (not real estate) Uncle Sam has up in the great North Land the dominion of silence and vast- ness? A year before the writer was born, 1867, Czar Peter got hard up for ready cash and he offered to job lot the whole tumbled waste of unpeo pled creation east of the Beclng strait, to Uncle Sam for something like $7,000,000. Secretary Seward figured the deal out and concluded' land was worth two cents an acre just to look at, if it wasn't good for anything else, so he told his Czarship it was a go and the purchase was made. And history tells us this act of Congress was bitterly criticized by the press and people that we had paid "$7,200,000 for polar bears and icebergs." The deal was called "Se ward's folly." And I am almost tempted to give you a line of figures of the enormous wealth that has been taken out of this country in the past 20 years, from the mines and fisher ies. But I won't. Uncle Sam could give every man, woman and child in Alaska and mind you this includes every Indian and Eskimo nine . square miles of land and yet have some left over. I said he could give. Wrong he couldn't I should have said he could apportion. Nobody would take the land only in the mining camps and near a few favored sections. No body wants it it is absolutely with out value. It would be impossible to live on it.. A native would starve to death on nine square miles. , I can go to one place in Alaska and I expect to at the close of the trip where I will be as near St Petersburg as Cleveland and much closer to China than New York. And yet I will be in the United States. The place is Prince Cape of Wales a little north and west of Nome. - And just stop a minute and con sider there are but two entrances to this great north land, only two roads through which it is possible to enter the interior of Alaska the White Pass and Yukon railroad from Skag way over to White Horse, and the (Continued on Page 8)