Alaska News Notes
Cash Cole, who has hied his declara
tion of candidacy for governor of Alaska
on the republican ticket, has cot. com
pleted working out his platform- but
expects to make it public within a
short time, according to the 'uneau
Km pi re.
Mr. Cole says, however, that he is
opposed to fishery reserves and in ac
cord with Delegate Sutherland's posi
tion on that subject. lie believes that
the closed season law on salmon fishing
points the way to Territorial regula
tion of the fisheries and that future
Territorial legislatures cun handle
i, Stem along the same line.
The law under which Mr. Cole sub
mitted his declaration was passed by
the 1921 legislature. It provides lor
the expression of opinion b-y the voters
of the Territory for governor. Candi
dates for the nomination are required
to file for the primaries as in the case
of elective public offices, and those
winning in the primaries enter the
general election. The .caudidate re
- csiViDg the highest vote will, under
the law, have his name submitted to
the President of the United States as
the choice of the people of Alaska for
their governor for a term of four years.
Not to he outdone by other Alaska
cities, Anchorage will have a seaplane
iu the spriug according to Al Jones,
who says he intends to have a lair-sized
ship sent there iu the spring with
which to do commercial ilviug. His
i-ead quart e re will be at Anchorage, hut
lie intends to make trips occasionally
to Cordova, Seward, Latouohe, Kodiak
and other Cook inlet towns, where he
will put on exhibition Bights, carrying
passengers for tripsin the immediate
■viciuity.
Miss Dorothy Haley, formerly con
nected with the Juneau Daily Empire,
and more recently with the Anchorage
Times, has been appointed tourist
agent for the Alaska railroad. Miss
Haley expects to tie located in Juneau,
which is the central place for Alaska
tourists to congregate in making out
6-tieir traveling itinerary, and also
headquarters for tourist agents for the
Yukon & White Pass and other trans
portation lines.
Frank Manley, formerly a well known
Alaska mining man, who for some
years has been engaged in the oil game
In Texas and Galifut nta, is expected to
return to the Nottb again. According
to reports from Fairbanks, Jay Johnson
and a crew of six men have gone to the
Heaver country to work some ground
Machine, Black
smith and
Sheet Metal Work
All Kinds of Repairs <
Stoves Built
and Repaired
Robt. E. Lowrie
Tokotna, Alaska
! recently acquired by Maulev from
| Charles Germain, the deal having been
i put through bv Frank Wiseman, Alaska
agent for Manley.
Alaska grown farm products are to
be given the preference over imported
loodstuffs in the railroad camps, dining
cars and hotels on the Alaska railroad,
according to Captain J. 11. Hughes,
the newly appointed superintendent of
commissary and stores for the railroad.
A large order has been given to P. J.
! Riekert, Fairbanks greenhouse owner
| and farmer, for cabbage, celery and
; parsley, for use in the railroad camps
, and dining cars.
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J The new steamer recentlv purchased
i by the Alaska Steamship Company for
I service on the Southwestern Alaska
| run during the coming summer is the
I Colon. The vessel is 360 feet Song, f>0
feet beam, and 19 9 feet depth of hold.
Her gross tonnage is 5.670. net, tonnage
3,513. and she is equipped with engines
of 5,000 horsepower. She was built in
Philadelphia id 1899.
It is said that the Alaska Electric
Light and Power Company, of Juneau,
will carry the case recently decided
against it to the United Slates supreme
court. The case involves ’ho right of
town councils to regulate light and
phone rates, and was decided against
the company in both the district court
and the circuit court of appeals.
Joe Sullivan, one of the best known
among the old-time mining men of
j Nome, and one of the most successful
from a financial point of view, is now
the ow ner of the Jefferson Hotel, in
Detroit, Mich. Sullivan and Jake Ber
ger had valuable holdings on Daniels
creek, at Bluff City, being among the
original locators in that section.
A bill seeking authority for the city
of Juneau to float a bond issue amount- ,
ing to $200,000 has been introduced in ;
; Congress by Delegate Sutherland. In
1 the event the bonds are issued the pro
: ceeds are to be used for the construe
1 tion of a permanent street system and
| to install a new sewer svstern.
i (in ratiruau iur uar*
1-ying livestock have been reduced
i about .'JO per cent in order to stimulate
farming. On stock to be used for
bleeding purposes a sweeping reduc
tion in the existing rate has been
| made, where the shipment is approved
by the department of agriculture.
j Lee A. Powless, ex-devil dog, ex
doughboy and former timekeeper on
the Alaska railroad, has been appoint
. eti by the city council of Anchorage as
! chief of police of that town to succeed
| the late H. C. Kavanaugh
The abandonment of Chilkoot bar
racks, at Haines, as a military post,
has been recommended to the war de
partment by Major General Charles G.
Morton, commanding officer of the
Ninth Corps area, Sar. Francisco.
According to James P. Daly, of Nome,
the Hammon Dredge Company will ex
pend four million dollars in the Nome
district vvithid the next two years, in
an elaborate mining venture.
ft is estimated from the tonnage (tar
ried over the Alaska railroad during
the past vear that the earnings of the
road increased approximately 36 per
cent.
A bill designed to speed up the sale
of small areas of timber in Alaska was
introduced in tho lower house of Con
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greas last month by Delegate Suther- 1
land. It provides for the sale of tim
ber, where the stum page does not ex
ceed $1,000, without first being adver
tised.
The wooden bridge over the Noyes
slough on the Alaska railroad, live
miles south of Fairbanks, will be re
placed at once with a steel span, 1*5
feet long. Steel for the bridge is on
the ground, and the work of putting it
in place will start shortly.
It is reported that the Evan Jones
Coal Company will let a contract for
dtiving a 1400 foot t mnel on its prop
erty within a few days.
Mrs Joe Henders' n, wife of a mine |
operator on Ester, near Fairbanks,
died recently, following a brief illness ,
from apoplexy. _
"Big Dan” McGiilivary, one of the
pioneer mining men of the Dawson and
Fairbanks sections, died recently in
San Francisco. <’ ,
A husky member was escorting an
inebriated friend and fellow member to I
the top floor of the club house, where
the latter might slake his thirst with
out interruption. Three ‘lights of
stairs had been laboriously climbed
when they paused for the moment on
the landing. “Do you think you can j
stand two more stones?” the inebriate
was asked.
“Shertainly,” was the instant re
sponse, “if they’re ver’ funny ones.”—
Judge.
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