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VOL. 1.
NO. 17
McGKATH, ALASKA, MARCH 10. 1921.
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Message of Executive
Is Read to Members
of Legislature.
Juneau, March 14.—Governor
Kiggs, in his biennial message
to the .Legislature, says that the
mining industry throughout the
. Territory is beg;nning to revive,
that oil land activity is increas
ing, that the pulp industry is a
•reality, with prospects of sev
eral more pulp mills being in
stalled in the near future.
Alaska pleads for a cessation
of factional fights, says the ex
ecutive, and a unity of efforts to
secure enact merit of beneficial legisla
tion so that representatives of the
States having control over the'Terri
tory may see-*featufce people of Alaska '
can be safely entrusted with t'hepowers
of self-government.
The Governor recommends the adop
tion of a budget system for the Terri
tory,* consolidation bf all boards and
commissions under one general board,
repeal of the primary law, suspension
of the eagle bounty. He says that the
fisheries are becoming depleted, that
only 50 per cent of the pack expected
this year was caught. Compared with
1918, lumber production has decreased,
with prospeets that the value of lum-|
her products will be still lower this j
year. Because of decreasing sources j
•of revenue in the past the Legislature
must find new sources for taxation, but
the greatest care must be exercised to
avoid the erroneous excessive taxing of
any individual or corporation.
' Na Soviet Stuff for Japan.
TokiopMurch 12.—Foreign Minister
Uohida, addressing tqe House of Peers,
said that, following the example of the
other great world powers, Japan has
not made any effort to open diplomatic
i negotiations with the soviet govern
. ment at Moscow.
VERNOR
Owen\*ray left this morning1 for An
• choragej'headed by a team of seventeen
« dogs, »'Wi1?h -Miss: Roth; Reat on the
handlebars. A'-record run is antici
pated.
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Messrs. Widman and Hard, sawmill
men near Berry Landing, are late ar
rivals. __
Herman Hansen, coming from eighty
miles up the Kuskokwim, arrived here
Monday.
Frank Fox returned today from
Ophir, traveling in corppany with Mrs.
Lee Atwater and her little girl.
Deputy U. S. Marshal McMuilen rc
v turned today from Ophir.
Movement to Cut War
Time Wage Scale to
Present Price Basis
New York, Martin 14.—A general
movement b> the rai roads to cut the
war-time wage *cale to the present
price basis is in full swing today. Th'e
new scale becomes effective for two
hundred thousand men on New York
Central lines on April l(ith.
For Wounded War Veterans.
Washington. March 14. — Payment by
the war risk bureau otabout four dol
lars each will be made tO'o::e hundred
wounded thousand wttr veterans this
month.
HIS F
MESSAG
Harding Asks Immedi
ate Ratification of Co
lombia Treaty.
Washington, March 12.—Pres
ident, Harding’s first formal mes
sage to the Senate asked for the
immediate ratification of the Co
lombia treaty. The Senate con
sidered the treaty in executive
sesosin, and agreed not to take
action until Congress convened
in April, and to vote on the
treaty on the eighth day of the
session.
The Senate confirmed the nom
ination of Theodore Roosevelt as
Assistant‘Secretary of the Navy.
President Harding recommended Dr.
Crissinger, a lifelong friend, of Marion,
for comptroller of -currency.
Charles E. Gay Dead.
Seattle, March 14.—Charles E. Gav,
for five years United States commis
sioner at Candle, Alaska, died at his
home in this city today.
Louis Blackburn tind Charles Goebel
came from Nixon on Monday* and are
spending a few days here attending - to
business^natters.
Populace Indifferent
When Allied Troops
Crossed the Rhine
Dusseldorf, March 13.— Many resi
dents witnessed the entry of the Allied
troops, which the populace viewed wi-th
indifference. The Americans will re
main on the old ground at Coblenz, ac- j
cording to orders. There are less than
twenty-five thousand men in the army j
of occupation in the sections occupied,
and no friction anywhere. During the
entry traffic across the border line wa9
stepped and all messages censored.
American Federation
of Labor Cuts Loose
Undesirable Compaoy
Washington, March 14.—The Amer
ican Federation of Labor todav severed
relations with the International Fed
eration of Trade Union. I his action
was the result of the adoption by the
International of resolutions favoring
the soviet government of Russsa.
Washington Legislators Adjourn.
Olympia,' rtturch 13—Tttfc Legisla
ture adjoumee here tonigqt, having
voted twenty seven million dollars for
State expenditures for' the next two
years. ___________
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Montana Governor Calls
an Extra Session of
legislature,
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Helena, March 12.— The Mon
1 tana Legislature has been called
; into extra session to inaugurate
and enact additional tax laws as
a means far enforcing prohibi
tion and creating a tax com mis
sion.
Governor Dixon’s message in
timates that bribery Avas used at
the recent session of the Legis
lature to defeat the tax commis
sion bill, and he calls upon the
State attorney general and -the
attorney for Lewis and Clark county to
make an investigation of'the charges.
-All lobbyists were excluded from
both houses following the reading of
the me8st£e.
Mary Pickford’s Divorce Affair.
r Minden, Nev., March 12.—ileasser
tion that Leonard Fowler, attorney
general for Nevada, had no authority
under existing laws to bring his recent
action to set aside the divorce granted
Mary .Bickford, was made in a brief
filed today by Miss Pickfor 1’s attorney.
G. Hamilton, Pack Olson, Jacob Mc
*Gee -and Do!ph Smith left Monday for
Tacotna. Mr. Hamilton will proceed
its far as dditarod, and will probably
rrturn here later.
Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Aitaen came in
from Candle on Monday, returning to
their home on Tuesday.
W. E. Case, Einer Carlson and John
Claherty arrived here Sunday fr am over
the Anchorage trail.
Captain W* E. Geiger departed to
day for Nixon.
H. E. Carter visited Tacotna Sunday,
returning on Monday.
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NEW JOBS
Secs. Weeks, Benby and
Mellen Make a Few
Outlines.
| Washington, March 12. r— Sec
reta-ry lo# .War Weed's, . an
nouncing* policies to be pursued
I by him in the conduct '-of the
! War Department , says he con
templates reorganization of the
cation’s miliiary forces to such
e-xtent that they will be made
into a harmonious, well-balanced
and effective army, consisting of
regular troops, National Guard
and organized reserves.
Secretary of the Navy Denby
i announces that he will be the seagoing
head of-the Navy, and that be will go
to sea whenever it is--'possible tor fair,
to do so. He plans to go this winter to
the base of the Atlantic fleet at Guam
tauomo bay, Cuba, returning -with the
j fleet in April
Secretary of the Treasury Mellen,'in
his first official statement, asks the
people to stand by t.be Government in
a program for rigid economy and urged
immediate establishment of a budget
system._
Marshals and District
Attorneys Can Finish
Terms, SaysDaugherty
i Washington, March •>1' —To ne\'«
■ papermen and press correspondents At
torney General Daugbertv authorized
the following:
‘■\ly idea is t hat United States mar
shals ahd district attorneys, if they are
doing tfheir work satisfactorily, should
be allowed to serve out their tear.3 and
finish work already started by tnem.”
'Death of William T. Burns.
William T. Burns, three times mem
ber of the Alaska Legislature, died
February 24 at Fairbanks, of acute ap
pendicitis, according to word lately re
ceived here
Louis Sudd berg? who bag ►•‘been pros
pecting up the Hartmari for the past
two years, came in Tuesday, to remain
for a few cars,
Paul Minnick came in from Black
creek on Monday, for a few days’ visit.
B. B. Smith come over from Ophir
oh Tuesday, bringing the mail wtfh
him.
Charles CPHalhiran returned today
from a trip to Nixon.
Walter Stephens and Johnnie Sin
clair eatne in today from Candle.