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A ALASKA INTERESTS AT ]
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL s
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E. A. McIntosh as postmaster. A pe- 5
.-flic* at Galena, half way between <
Ruby and Nulata. is now being con- ,
sidcradr bye tbA\d enactment. 1
TAe> Dejtttrrmient of the Interior has ,
T tad printed and is now circulating a ,
\. very, attractive leaflet with the Alas- ,
- i . ka flag printed in blue with gold ,
• stars and a description of the design.
L it also contains an illustration of to
it terns, with a “Story of the Chief’s
Daughter,” »rtd “Story of the Raven.”
Assistant Secretary of the Treas
t ury Ferry. K. Heath has addressed a
I letter to the Delegate stating that
t the coplaint of the painters of Juneau
’ that the contractors for the interior
painting of the new Federal and Ter
ritorial Capitol Building were not
paying prevailing wages, had been
investigated. The contractors contend
uuu tncy ttitS 1*0. J r“
$7 to $10 and that local wages are
from $5 to $8, and that they are not
employing any helpers. They further
state that they are paying laborers to
move furniture and clean up the
building at the rate of $3.50 per day,
while the custodian at the building
pays but $3.33 for the same type of
help. The custodian of the building
confirms the statement of the con
tractors as to the wages paid paint
ers but adds that laborers receive
$4.25 and up. As a consequence Mr.
Heath feels that the painters are
being fairly treated, but has 3irected
the construction engineer to take the
matter up with the contractors and
insist that laborers be paid he pre
vailing wage.
On Thursday last Delegate Wicker
sham was the honor guest at the reg
ular weekly luncheon of the Kiwanis
Club of Alexandria, Virginia, and he
took occasion to regale his auditors
with a very interesting talk on the
scenic grandeur and industrial possi
bilities of Alaska.
The Commerce Department reports
that a recent sale of 15,125 Pribilof
Island fur-seal skins was held at St.
Louis on September 14, with a total
sum .of $282,642 derived from the
sale. The prices for black skins were
18.3 per cent lower and for “logwood
brown skins” 8.4 per cent lower than
at the last preceding sale in March.!
A further offering of 10,000 Alaska
skins will be held at i?t. Louis in Oc
tober.
Of the total, ©,125 dyed black furs
sold foe $178,407.50, an average of
$19.55 per skin; and 5,000 dyed log
wood brown sold for $104,235.25, -an
average of $17.37 per skin. The dyed
black skins brought prices as follows
tegular skins ranged from $18 to
134.50, with an average of $22.05 per
kin; scarred and faulty skins ranged
rom $14.50 to $25, with an average
if $17.51; and No. Ill’s brought from
!9 to $11.50 each, or an average of
!10.14 per skin. The logwood brown
ikins brought prices as follows: Reg
ilar skins ranged from $14.75 to
>32.50, with an average of $19.84;
icarred and faulty skins ranged from
512.50 to $21.50, with an average of
516.09; and No. Ill skins sold for
55.75 to $8 per skin, the average
>eing $6.90.
The Washington Star the other
evening had the following to say
ibout some of the recent visitors to
Vlaska.
“Eight Government officials, includ
ng two United States Senators (Wal
:ott of Connecticut and Norbeck oi
South Dakota) and one member oi
:he House (Representative Carter, oi
California, are bubbling with enthusi
asm over their summer farthest
North. The others were Henry O’Mai
ley, commissioner of fisheries; Assist
ant Attorney Generals Charles P. Sis
son and Charles B. Rugg; Paul Red
ington, chief of the Biological Survey
and Carl Shoemaker, secretary of the
Senate committee on wild life re
sources. The party left Seattle or
June 28 on Commissioner O’Malley’s
inspection ship, U. S. S. Penguin
Putting in at Metlakatla, Alaska, th«
wayfarers proceeded in turn to Ket
chikan, Anan creek, Juneau, Westeri
Alaska, Bristol Bay, the Pribilo:
Islands, Walrus Island, Unalaska, Ke
nai Peninsula and McKinley Park. A
Anan creek they saw something ti
make a fisherman’s mouth water
one of the many “counting weirs'
which the Bureau of Fisheries main
tains in Alaska under the White Law
providing that there shall be a 50 pe
cent escapement to spawning beds.
Some 350,000 fish were disportinj
themselve sin the first one and a hal
miles of river at the time. At thi
Pribilof Islands the Washingtonian
gazed upon a herd of a million seals
Senators Walcott and Norbeck wen
to Alaska to brush up on wild life re
sources. Messrs. Sisson and Rug]
wanted to survey Department of Jus
tice activities in the Territory.”
At the Interior Department it ii
stated that Ernest Walker Sawjm
will atten da meeting at Victoria oi
October 10 of the American and Ca
nadian representatives of the Pacific
International Highway Commission
At that time reports of engineerinj
parties will be submitted and studied
with the idea of deciding on a definite
route for the new project which wil
connect the States with Fairbanks, bj
way of Dawson, Yukon Territory. A
present the northern end of the Brit
ish Columbia highway system is a
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Hazelton. From there to Fairbanks A
a road 1,000 miles long will have to be
built, at an estimated cost of $10,
000,000. Of the unfinished part, .500
mdes are in British Columbia, 300 in
Yukon Territory, and 20 Oin Alaska. c]
At Fairbanks the new road will con- a
nect up with the 2,000 miles otfge^d q
road sal ready in Alaska. Asa Tepre, t]
sentative of the Interior Department p
Mr. Sawyer is giving particular stady t
to the problem of getting rid of. the 0
annual deficits of the Government-^,
jwned railroad in Alaska, through!the ^
building up of more traffic by the de ; s
velopment of the natural resources of„ 4]
the Territory. At a meeting of the f
Pacific Foreign Trade Council eon- j
vention, held at Oakland on Sep tern- a
ber 17, he delivered a very illuminate ,x
ing and interesting address on the un- 'j
told mineral resources of Alaska and j
the exceptional charm of its.scenic at-1 ^
tractions. ;
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One of the chambers of commerce;
In Southeastern Alaska was under the ]
impression that the Secretary of Ag-| „
riculture had issued an order that the..' (
funds available for road and trail, j
construction in the Teritory should he j t
reduced 50 per cent, and that by tea-],,
son of this reduction in available (
funds the construction of work would j
be greatly reduced. Forest Service ,
officials, however, say that the report^
cf curtailment of funds is unfounded ,
and that the sums originally alloted
are to be expended.
Mrs. James Wickersham attended—
and had as her guest Mrs. Charles W,
Htwkesworth of J uneau—the garden
party given one afternoon recently
by Mrs. William N. Doak, wife of the
Secretary of Labor, at their home,
Notre Nid, Fairfax, Va.
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! Commissioner of Fisheries Henry ;
OMailey has returned from Alaska to ’
, re.- ume his official duties at his head- ^
j quarters in Washington. At present
, he is busil yoccupied with the budget '
{ bureau and has not yet had time to :
co. i'er with the Delegate from Alaska;^
► on the suggested regulation to open
the mouth of the Yukon river for lim
, it d commercial fishing, which idea
. has been vingorously opposed by
those residents of the interior who
live along the river. ;
Dr. W. A. Borland, physician *n
charge of the government hospital at
IKanakanak, has been in Washington
for a few days to make answer to
some reckless charges that were.eir
cuiate dagainst his administration
during the past few months when he
and his small force of nurses were en-j
gaged night and day in combatting.
I the several very serious epidemics
'that prevailed in the Bristol Bay sec-!
tion. The Doctor expects to return *
I to his official duties in a short time. j j
: Tillie—Will you get a vacation this ■
summer,
Millie—Yes, six weeks. The boss
goes away for awhole month, you
! know, and I get two weeks of my
own.
TABLE OF DISTANCES BE
TWEEN KEN ANA AND FLAT
Miles
Nenana___00
Tavern Roadhouse . 1714
Knight’s Roadhouse_2814
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse_68 _
Diamond Roadhouse_78
Roosevelt _89
Lake Minch umina--116
Trappers’ .Cabin---.182
Lone Star Roadbouse_168
Telida Roadhouse..16814 !
Slow Fork Roadhouse_187 !'
East Fork Roadhouse _.) 208
Berry's Landing Roadhouse_ 22714!
Big River Roadhouse_241 {
McGrath___288
Takotna _280
BiU Goss’ Roadhouse-281
...800
_800
shelter cabin-818
Frits shelter cabin-898
i First Chance shelter cabin_846
Scfaermeyer R. H.-380
Iditarod---370
Flat........884
Beaanzza she ter cabin, 12 miles
from Flat.
Crooked Creek shelter cabin, 9
miles from Bonanza.
Ophir
McCafferty ..
Brown Creek
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SSAULT CHARGE MODIFIED
BY AN ANCHORAGE JURY
(Anchorage Times.)
The trial of Oscar Kajander,
larged with assault with a danger
is weapon, was concluded in District
ourt yesterday and turned over to
le jury during the late afternoon,
fter having been out a short time
re jury brought in a verdict of guilty
f simple assault.
The defendant was employed as a
uacd. in the fedderal jail at Naknek,
mall settlement in the Bristol Bay
istrict. It was testified by witnesses
nr the prosecution that Deputy U. S.
larshal Reed had found the defend
nt asleep. while on duty at the jail
ad had requested him to go home.
!he defendant, who admitted that he
ad taken a few drinks, at a dance the
irevious night and more the morning
.fter, resented the action of his chief,
ccording to the ■evidence, and later,
rmed -with a shotgun, threatened the
ife of the deputy. Reed tried to per
uade the defendant to put the gun
lawn-and finally fired several shots
!ram >his revolver to frighten the
ruard into submission. Finally it was
eeji by the deputy that the guard’s
run was jammed in some way so that
t could ..not be discharged. He then
rharged the guard and beat him over
he.'bead .with the revolver, after
vhich: he was placed under arrest.
it was felt by the jury that the
suard, in his condition of mind, might
Lave shot the deputy had the shotgun
>een in working order, but. in view of
'a . Frank J. Guskey
; Notary, .IMblr
t t Tafcotitn,* -A
the fact that the gun could net be
discharged in the condition it was in
at the time ir question j< the jury did
not consider it a dangerous weapon,
and the charge therefore -was modified
to simple assault.
Kajander was later sentenced to
sene six month sin jail at Valdez.
Old Hand—PluCk, my boy, pluck;
that is the one essential to success in
business.
Young Hand—-Yes, but the trouble
is finding someone to pluck
Mrs. Talkalot—-Would you believe
the scandal 1 just heard about Mrs
Flyabout ?
Mrs. Chatterbox— Certainly—tell me
all about it.
Pioneer
Shop _
Blacksmith*
Machine anc
all kinds of
Sheet Metal
Work
Safetys
: Staves
> Proprietor
.Babeesch
v Furs Bonght and Sold Clothiog
All Kinds of Nice Freeh Groceries and FtkIIf
Moosehide Mitts and Boots
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'Canned (Goods of All Kinds
Beds and Beddtog" .
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