PARKS OPTIMISTIC REGARDING j
FUTURE OF THE TERRITORY!
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“Never in all the years I have been
going to Washington from the Terri-j
tory have I found so much friendly’
interest in Alaska-.as I found in. evi
dence on my recent visit,’’.-said-Gov. ]
George.A. Parks, in a statement given
-to the Alaska Daily-Empire,, on his1
.to the Alaska Daily Emnire. on .KU j
return to Juneau.-after. ; n absence of
almost three and one-half months.
Most of this time ..was; ».tn ' the |
National. Capital
- Almost three months were spent by ;
him in Washington. - All of this time j
avas.devoted to Alaskan affairs dis
• cussing Alaskan legislation, .'depart
mental affairs,1' bove.au: -regulations,
■<etc. leHe visited - Denver, spending
some time- there with nis parents,
and returning to the—Pacific Coast via
Denver, making a special trip to New
York; where he .wmcitte guest of W.
N. Beach, xt -the aimtisJ merer of the
Camp Kirie* Club. ..-And in those cities,
as well, as on his. traveling’, to and
from i t hem : and- hetweet Washington
... and Aiaskih, fw, found everywhere .an
active interest in the Horrito'
The Governor}' ,.s a -result of his
personal contact in rihe States, his in
formation' ole developments pertaining
to the1 Territory, is probably more op
's timistie regarding pending improve
ments ijr governmental relations and
policies}. pending Alaskan- legislation
- arid industrial'dftVe.opm. htir loan ’ he
has ever been during his many years
6 - of residence in the North. And, as
most Alaskans know, Gov. arks tends
naturally to conservatism, rather than
to unreasoned enthusiasm.
‘‘The friendliness of Administration
officials and-numbers of Congress, the
' interest of prominent private citizens,
their desire to help Alaska help itself,
was most .striking and highly gratify
ing,” he declared, "irra,,. sure that
Out of this will'dtvelop sonitthing of
matetiai ValuiP W-tne Territot y.
“There is''every' hope 1 dr success ir<
inducing pUip anu'paper manufactur
ers to come to Alaska and establish
that industry here,” ne said. “As
sistant District Forester B. F. Heintz
elman is carrying out' hrs mission in
splendid shape. The response he has
received, particularly in the East, has
been surprising. He has the support
' of the Forester and the Department
* Of Agriculture, and the outlook for
substantial development in the' na
tional forests in the Territory at an
‘ early date is very good.” Both Mr.
Heintzelman and his mission, which
was to bring home to manufacturers
the opportunity for pulp and paper
making in Alaska, have been receiving
much favorable publicity, the Gover
nor added.
Governor Parks referred but briefly
* to thA Administration plan for reor
ganization of its Alaskan bureaus,
involving a change in the policies
heretofore followed. The plan, he
said, is agreed upon in principle by
the executive!departments involved,
■arid final details -were being settled
;when he left Washington.
Broadly speaking, the gist of the
plan is to decentralize and transfer
from Washington as many of the
functions and as much of the author
ity-now Vested there over Alaskan af
fairs as is possible and centralize
-them within the Territory under rep
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resentatlves of the departments con
cerned, who will have local adminis
traive power not only as to the func
tioning of the individual bueraus of
each department but also to co-ordi
nating them one with another within
the parent department, of those of
other ? depar tments The plan was
worked out, hy the secretaries of the
Interior,- Commerce and Agriculture
in conference and is agreeable to all
of them It -was the intention to in
troduce as an Administrative measure
a bill embodying the plan, which, it.
was expected, would pass without dif
ficulty.
Other Alaskan legislation has been
favorably received by Congress, in
cluding the Alaska Road Commis
sion’s appropriation, the Juneau gov
ernment dock bill favorably reported
by the Mouse Committee on Terri
tories, an appropriation for control
ling Lowell creek at Seward, the ap
propriation for improvement of Wran
geil Narrows,, and other measures.
Through legislation already enact
ed, the creation of a medical relief
service in the Yukon river district has
been made possible. A boat has been
secured from the Alaska Railroad at
Nenana and will be altered and fitted
out for the work. It will start on its
activity at the beginning of naviga
tion, making headquarters at Tankna.
The service is expected to ultimately
bring about the rehabilitation of Fort
Gibbon as a center for such work and
to become a center of industrial train
ing, social-service and medical relief
for the entire Interior.
The present season will probably
witness the biggest tourist travel in
the history of Alaska, according to
present indications, the Governor said.
'On all ’sides there is an increasing in
terest in -Alaska as a national sum
mer playground. Many prominent
men will probably visit the Territory
this year. At least one party of men
who are-deeply interested in play
grounds and national parks will spend
some time in Alaska, several weeks
in McKinley; Park alone.
General VV. P. Richardson, or Col.
Dick, ;is he is widely known in Alas
ka, was; taking an activ< interest in
Territorial affairs, as usual. He hopes
i to beta'll*- 'o make a trip to Alaska
t during- the summer.
! 1 In New York the Governor visited
1 with .Mr Beach, wKo.hss spent several
summers in the North, with, former
Governor Riggs and others connected
with Alaska irk the past.
■While visiting'his'parents, in dh n
! ver, the Governor induced them to
come to Juneau this spring, and they
will arrive in about thirty . days) t>
spend a month with him.
In Seattle the Governor was the
guest. of the -Siattle Chamber of
I Commerce at a dinner given at the
Actic Club. It was a line meeting, he
said, and drew out a representative
gathering of business men and cap
italists sincerely interested in Alaskan
development. He compliwfenled O. D
Garfield, former Juju .write, and now
manager of the Alaska department ot
the Seattle Chamber i-l Commune, or
the good work he was^o doing f°T
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COMMUNITIES ARE URGED TO
RAISE OWN FARM PRODUCE
(Fairbanks News-Miner.
Believing that communities are self
sustaining anti that those which* raist
as much of local commodities as art
■required are more valuable assets tt
a railroad than those that ship in al
of their produce, Noel W. Smith, gen
eral manager of the. AlaskaaRaihoad
points out a few of the items whicl
he believes could be produced locallj
which are now being hipped in fron
the States, with a loss toi the Terri
tory of several hundreds'of thousand:
of dollars each year. A Iff would re
quire bigger farms, larger herds o:
cattle and more chickens;’re advises
but would amply repay the owners it
years, to court
Some of the laTgt i items of trier
chandi.se. now shipped -ih, he lists be
low. The- totsts-'represent the grosi
shipment'of the'aHic es mentionet
over the Alaska Railroad during thi
year of 1925,.and.cover points betweei
Seward and' Fairoanss, and other dis
tricts getting their supplies from th
railroad belt:" tr. is uis belief that al
of the items mentioned can be han
died lolally arid mat all requirement
can be met here, by proper applicatior
on the part of the'xcrmers and ranch
ers, 'With the assistance of the mer
enants and big purchasers.
The figures Mr. Snfth gives hen
are authent ic and show the * act.ua
quantity of each rrlripped over the
railroad from the Seward dock.
During the calendar year 1925 the
following shipments were made ever
the Alaska Railroad: f>86 tons of
dressed meats; 1252 tons of bav; 4.12
tons of potatoes; 18fi tons of butter;
282 tons of eggs.
These am Vrr« impressive figures
for the thinking farmer to consider
M. Smith believes, and it is his earn
est belief, that much of this immense
total oJi^BPennodities can be handled
through &ic»l- farms and ranches
Mr. Sniiti) advertises-thesm facts'fo*
what they are worth to the progres
sive-thinking producers of the Terri
tory along the lines of his ideas men
tioned in the first paragraph of this
article, which is, as he clearly states,
that a community that supports itself
and is in a position to supply the
needs of other commnnfties in the
Territory is of far greater value to it
than one that must ship in everything
or almost everything,-that it. weeds.
These progressive suggestions are
along the lines of Mr. Smiths state
ments of several days'ago, ir v. iiich
he pointed out that the future of th
railroad depended flittij'eb upon the
development of industries' not now
being given consideration and which
would, win n praperlt? ftrganhtcd,
bring in many hundreds of- settlers
and business men. As nointod out
befxme by Mr. Smithy each man in the
district of the Alaska Railroad is
worth so many dollars and cents each
year in a revenue-bearing capacity,
and if the population contiguous to
the system is doubled .the operating
revenue would be doubled as well. If
the road is ever to be self-sustaining
and do the greatest good for the: Ter
ritory, it must tie supplied with' local
commodities and local passenger
travel, he. states
Mr. Smith's schemata are fai-reach
ing and delve 'deeply into future pos
sibilities.
He als» j'hints: out that local inriiis
I tries, including the beet- sugar, box
-making -plant, wvi other projected
schemes, will give greater markets
for local coal, which can be made ti
do more good rfor the countrj by
! using it in r hi m. nufacture of local
products and shipping out, the finished
products xhdir hy shipping out the
coal.
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UPHEAVAL ON TI KE IN HiOS
Chicago.—Action by Kentucky rac
ing authorities to -put;gi' the sport of
j crookedness recalled h rldtime turf
followers here the ..dr si ic steps those
j who would keep-thorn nghhred racing
clean were forced-to i ki during the
summer-meeting of li)0X at Halt. Lake
City, when thirty men were suspended
or ruled off-the turf for life.
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Trainers, bookmaker- toots and
j jockeys were numbered among those
l-banned.
I That was in the day- of bookmak
! ing, and the rulings hit those who
; were trying to beat tiie hookies by
cheating in actual .raring; outsiders
who tried to heat the bet-takers by
obtaining the results quickly and then
betting on a certainty, and bookmak
ers who sought to cheat the public.
Some horses were running without
racing plates, and some were run shod
in work horse shoes.
Horses were .pulled deliberately by
jockeys, and others, apparently in ex
cellent condition, were sent to the
, post unfit to put forth their best ef
forts.
Batteries .and drug- were used on
the horses, and at least one winning
horse was disqualified because he car
ried five pounds .less than the-weight
assigned him, a trivial poundage in
commmi use, hut enough to decide the
issue in most horse race.
A mere “twist of the wrist" actual
ly is enough to “puli ’ a horse. As
, the jockey sits, or stands, high up on
the animal's withers, with 'his arm-s
. extended alongside the horse’s neck, a
. quarter turn of the wi ist will suftkji
; to hold the thoronglibn d back
I enough to cause him to lose,
i Racing plates axe tiny shoes weigh
i ing only a few ounces, just enough to
protect the horse’s feet, and each ad
: ditional bit of weight is enough to
! keep the racer from putting forth his
- best efforts.
; A horse that may have run three
i days previously in excellent form can
- be reduced to the status of a certain
- loser by giving him a big drink dt
water just before sending him to the
s starting post. A long gsliop the
l night before a race will take so much
out of him as to cripple his wiimint
chances.
All these i1 mgs ’•ere r*«.m*d t,<
and discovered hy tht'offici#ls at th<
Sah Lake fity meeting.
Doping horses.once was indulged tr
upon the t mff until some nnima Ls at t
ually became addict* <1 to thf us* pi
I drugs and exhibited marked ,-ymn
toms. Tt was an art. nefarious as. i’
! was, L time the dosage to sri" c «tl it
effect ius* ns the race .started o>
shortly th< reafter. Tinder d> urg<
the horse would not- nut forth, effort
It otherwise could not. produce
Batteries varied. Some were wort
by the jockey ■.vith-.wiresereachi71p.out
for the necessary contact with thf
horse. The trust nearly per feet ..hat
tery • revealed by the - Salt Lake, t'p
investigation however, was a tiny ora
which fittc in the end of a T&hi|.. A
touch of that to the horse's neci
sntrrrt d nim >< unwonted efforts
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'Vasniturion The Navy jsjrti Wai
Depart ment have. .agreed ..that .i.t<
Arm-' tale rue - and operate the rt'dic
station ; I -« v^rd, Alaska, so. as tc
reduce th- «ns*. of. opera tior
Natn& to Pay Schoo1Ta>
j To All Who ' his’May Concern.
In accord whh Chapter. 3&, -fclefeMo:i
Urn of -Alaska. !U1G, and afuendmenls
thereto, »'l -.ale persons between the
atresof tweo<v-< ,e and ftfty years, who
are not'“suitor.. in’ tfce United "Statu*
navy or reven e suttir service, rol-on
• leerdireuie:), paupers'cr insane per
sons,'' aru n uired to> ;5av &q auo al
sahool Ur: of • dollars-(85,
This ta.»: is <l-i:e and payablo a Tier (he
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and deduct as boreia-eoeolisiu within
first Monday in tbs month of April and
he paid before the first day of
■ May, providing you are in the Terri
tory of Alaska ««: said first-date if not,
the tax is d-e witbia thirty days aftei
•vosr arrival in .Alaska or within ten
days after written or oral demand ie
made urjou you by the -school tax col
lector1. 'Ta ten not paid in accordance
with the foregoing requirements shall
become delinquent, and each person de
Uoqueot abaU be subject to, a fine o
two.dotla.rDj
AH persons, arms and corporation*
employing' labor in Alaska shall fur
oish to col*colors a list of all employe?,
solv-eet to tax'nod ' eatuktyara of . Itf-bor
j as above set out are authorised by pro
i visions of raid act to-deduct araoubt o'
the tax from the wages of each era
ployee who is subject thernto. If any
1 of such-crop .ivewsbail fail to report
i he period tlesignoted for payment o
I said tar. tn ■ ;nkr'ec»p!:>ysr.s--of labor
! shall be eui -y of *a misdemeanor*anr
subject toe n:» of from &>'} iy $500.
AH nentoo sub-neb-to. end rsfifsinf.
I or oeifleatina ui pay; said ta nt-y sub
i ect to a fine iff sdSy or imprisonment it.
ail ,'nr peril-! of one month-; ar.d al.
such era-pl n of .labor as Herein set
out. who nr 'It :t or raiaac "to collect
said sax fro -employees .nay be pro
reeded .*.•;» tr- ?. -anti shall pay the
! amount of each individual far, and s
fart Per jwii . i-y- tif SsJt-for each SttcL
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Tan re net i t- tfi.T 1* furnished by the
lax collect**, -
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