ilMSKA INTERESTS AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
OPitmiwd from Pare I.)
serves for the bears, and argued that
• ‘theie are at least 5,000 brown and
grizzly bears on Admiralty Island, or
prpbab’y. well over half the grizzly
and brown, bear, population in Alas
ka!” Both‘ these islands in South
eastern Alaska, off from Juneau, rich
in.timber and mineral resources, with
* many settements, and for that reason
'Megate WLokersham spoke in oppo
sition to the proposed reservations,
which the committee is not erpected
toi recommend
The favorable report of the district
engineer. at Juneau on the harbor im
provement. at Petersburg was report
ed favorably by the division engineer
at. San Francisco, and now. the Dele
gate has been informed that the re
port was further approved by the
Board of Engineers in Washington.
. When it is approved by the Chief of
Eingineers it will be sent to- the Sec
retary of War, who will transmit it
to Congress, when it will be referred
* to. the committee on rivers and har
bors and be reported for the rivers
and harbors bill. To be included in
the appropriation, bill will be the nert
step.
A letter from the Secretary of
War, transmitting a favorabe report,
dated January 13, 1382, from the
Chie fof Engineers of the U. S. Army,
on survey of. Salmon river, at Hyder,
went, to the House committee on for
eign commerce and ordered to be
printed, with illustrations.
At various times when work was
being done in Alaska complaint has
*- been made that workmen, were not
paid the “prevailing" wages. In a
bill recently introduced by William
P. Connery, jp., Representative from
.Massachusetts and chairman of labor
committee in,the House, provision is
made to protect, this class of. labor.
The bill, which amends an. act that
was approved March 4, 1381, reads
as. follows:
“That every contract or subcontract
to wh.ch the United. States,, the Dis
trict of Columbia, or Territory is a
party which, requires or involves the
employment of laborers or mechanics
on all public works or other projects
of the United States, the District of
Columbia, or Territory shall contain
a provision to the effect that the rate
of wages for all laborers and me
chanics employed by the contractor
or any subcontractor on said public
works, covered by the contract or
subcontract, shall be not less than the
prevailing rate of wages in the city,
town, or village of the State, the Dis
trict of Columbia, or Territory in
which such public work is being per
formed.” A penalty of $5 per day for
such laborer or mechanic violating
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the provisions of the bill i* imposed
on the contractor..
In the January 10 Sunday edition
of the New< York Herald Tribune are
v.-o pages of photo-engravure illus
trations of Alaska animal scene*.
.lie.se pictures were taken on an ex
pedition into Southeastern Alaska
ast summer by Arthur N. Pack and
W iliam L. Finley on the yacht West
ward, under the auspices of the Amer
can Nature Association and Nature
Magazine. Their object was to pho
tograph animal and bird life and in
particular to study the habits of the
Alaska brown bear.
J. M. Pearl, of Fairbanks, a Span
ish war veteran who has been in
Washington since last spring receiv
ing treatment for has eyes, was dis
charged from the U. S. Veterans hos
pital on Monday and immediately de
parted for the West. He has been
very materially benefited.
The Explorers’ Club held their an*
nual dinner at New York last Satur
day evening, at which Admiral Byrd
showed some most interesting pic
tures of the South Pole. Among the
group present who are interested in
Alaskan affairs were: Robert Froth
ingham (big game hunter); Ernest
Walker Sawyer, Department of the
Interior; Merle LaVoy, Mt. McKinley
explorer and picture expert; Carl J.
I.omen, reindeer); Ilia Andrevitch
Tolstoy, Mt. McKinley “fan”; Earl
Rossman, writer; W. B. Poland, of
Alaska Central Railroad; John M.
Holzworth, big bear enthsiast.
The Delegate has received tele
graphic complaints from Bethel and
Fiat concerning what is described
“the abominable mail service this sea
son,” and the matter has been taken
up with the Postoffice Department,
with, the promise that an immediate
investigation and correction will be
made. The Flat people say that no
attention is being paid to any sort of
schedule of incoming or outgoing
mail,, and that no mail has been re
ceived over a period of three weeks.
The complaint from Bethel sets forth
that “we are totally ignored by the
present mail contractors, who have
failed so far to give satisfactory ser
vice, as we are at present two mails
behind. We are under a heavy ex
pense owing to the large amount of
furs, platinum and gold dust awaiting
shipment, as a case in point. Air
planes of the present contractor are
leaving mail at the Flat office and re
turning to the coast with passengers
and freight. Previous mail service
was regular and satisfactory."
The Indian Rights Association, of
Philadelphia, which has to its credit
48 years of active and non-partisan
work for Indian civilization and citi
zenship, has become interested in the
reindeer industry of Alaska. Through
its Washington representative, S. M.
Brosius, the following information
has been furnished Delegate Wicker
sham:
“The Home Missions Council, at
its annual meeting held in Toronto
January 5, 1932, adopted a resolution
calling on the Secretary of the In
terior, ‘in the interest of justice to *
less privileged and helpless race,! to
use all the power and influence of his
office to secure the absolute separa
tion of the reindeer herds as between
the natives of Alaska, and! the whites,
and the establishment of definite
ranges tar the Eskimos, or natives.
The Government introdheedi the rein
deer as a food commodity for the Es
kimo, with th eintention that owner
ship should vest solely In the natives
and in certain missions to .hold, and
administer in behalf at the motives
Strong white commercial interests
have obtained large balding* xaRi up
to the present time all. that re
gardless of ownership. haxre ketanm
in common herds. The natives have
felt that th elniermingifcog ef the
herds has worked to their disadT&rt
tage and materially to the advantage
of the white*. The . injustice at this
plan to the natives is attested by mis
sionaries and others on the ground,
who are in close contact with the sit
.at.jn. According to reliable in
formation that has come to us, noth
ug has yet been done to give the na
tives that protection from the Govr
eminent to which they are entitled’’.'
Matthew K. Sniffeen, secretary .-of
ih.e Association, was in Washington
yesterday and stated that he has fiksi
with President Hoover three affida
vits of protest against the furtheev
continuance in office of Judge G. J.
■Lomen, who presides over the Second
or Nome judicia division, and whose
second term has expired.
INDEMNITL FOR LOSSES
CAUSED BY FIRE
Indemnity for losses caused by fire
may be had under the following vari
ous methods: Lloyds, Reciprocals,
Mutuals, Self-Insurance, Stock Com
panies.
Reciprocals of inter-insurers oper
ate quite the same as the Mutuals,
Lut usually restrict the membership
to one particular cass, such as all the
wholesale houses in one city, and in
this they are like the factory mu
tuals. New members are admitted
only upon the approval of all.
Howeverf, they do not have the
same rigid requirements that the suc
cessful factory mutuals have, and,
while this form of insurance was
quite popular for a time, experience
has shown that where the same de
gree of safety was secured there was
a distinct disadvantage in the atten
tion required, and no advantage
whatever in cost over the standard
stock companies.
The restriction upon membership
greatly reduced the moral hazard
which al standard stock companies
are forced to contend with, but this
very restriction made impossible a
sufficient spread of risks to get any
thing like an average loss rate.
It was a case of no loss at all or
else one that was a “shock’' or a
“catastrophic” one—and the Recip
rocal went to pieces. j
All things considered, says a well
known insurance expert, the safest,
the best .and in the long run the I
cheapest fire insurance is that writ
ten by standard stock companies.
He brushed his teeth twice a day
with a nationally advertised tooth
paste, reports Louis L. Morris, editor
of the Hartwell (Ga.) Sun. The doc
tor examined him twice a year. He
wore his rubbers when it rained. He
slept with the windows open. Ho
stuck to a diet with plenty of fresh
vegetables. He relinquished his ton
sils and traded in several worn-out
glands. He golfed—but never more
than eighteen holes at a time.. He
got at least eight hours sleep every
night. He never smoked, drank, or
lost his temper. He did his daily
dozen daily. He was all set to live
to be a hundred.
The funera will be held next Wed
1 uesday. He is survived by eighteen
: specialists, four health institutes, six
gymnasiums, and numerous man
ufacturers of health foods and anti
septics.
| He had forgotten about trains at
- grade crossings.—Pathfinder.
“What do you do?”
| “I keep house, Bcrub, scour, bake,
wash dishes, cook, do the laundry,
fron, sew.”
And the census taker listed her:
“Housewife—no occupation.”
Is the Probata Coart for the Bathe!
Prwiaa, Fourth Division. Territory
af Alaska.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Notiee is hereby given that aU cred
itors having claims against the estate
of Andrew Johnson, deceased, are di
rected to present them, together with
the proper vouchers, to the under
signed, at Bethel, Alaska, within six
months from the date of this notice.
OSCAR SAMUELSON,
Administrator.
Dated at BetheL-Alaska, January €,
1B32.
INTERESTING NOTES.
T Vi to inion bureau of statistics at
Ottawa puts Canadian^ population at
lOSKUWOt.
Miara -than 100,000 children are af
- fected .every, year- By divorces of their
pa neats i..
Tima lost in New York City be
cause of traffic delays has- Been esti
mated-at a money value of a. million
deltas*»«,-day.
TPorTtkfe fifst time in history Siam
has 'addpteiti legislation providing for
. registration, jof trade marks.
Preparations have been begun on
oanaks’—n-make the inland capital of.
bhJsaHrrcuctwpoEt.
Tho United States has a virtual
world monopoly .of the cornstarch in
dustry, Vb^iTjg- the .-only country that
ptoduicos: that.commodity. in appreci
able qoaadtin.
The cost tdf Teach soldier’s ration
has b<ien:,ftfuriduime cents under the
1930 figure. .
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Aa> inquiry has keen lowiwi con
c»rainjp the wkftHSoflU of Pmd
lieniryx. vk» Ml Mariw for Alaska
ibnt !S jrMf* if*. He has hlokk
grmy cjei; Ivf* haAd; is now about
4* years of **(-.
Anyone having My Mumstfra
about the 1W1 parson, plaaee com
municate with the OsfMtffl Office,
Juneau. Alaska,
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Frank J. Goakey j
Notary Public |
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