OUR INTERESTS AT
THE NATION’S CAPITAL
(Continued from Page 8»),
r clary ox tne interior w l.bur, will,
pi jVa iuteres,ting reading to Alas
kans. This is paticulaioy true by
reason of the declaration made. in.
the. .S,.mate. »i the United States on
July lb,. 1932,,. by one of the leading
Democratic members, the lion. Wm.
H. ..ISongy pf..Utah. Among many,
otne. statements made, Senator King
decojvd; “I shall oppose any further,
appropriation for the Alaska Raii
roau, and i shmi offer a bill, if no one.
f.tse doi-s, and at the December ses.
s cu yi ilit Uongrt-ss, catling for the
t c. this. taj.road.!’
The report of Coi- Ohlson shows
that u.-.e.msa suffered by the Govern
oie... i!i the operation of. the railroad
during the fiscal year ending June
36,U932, was $177,283,. or 30 percent
low.cr than, ever before in the history
of me road. The operation deficit foi
the, year, .exclusive of capital invest
ment, in iact.. was but $412,466.75, as
contrasted, w.th $580,750.55. for the
fiscal year ended June 30, 1031. It.
was Lss tnan one-haif the deficit
wn,eh the Government has been
called, upon to make in any year pre
vious to 1031. It appears that the
operating deficit, for the present fiscal
year will be about $300,000. The
tabie for the. operating deficits of
this Government-owned road for the
pgst three years is as follows: 1930,
$1,237,120.12; 1931, $589,750.55; 1032,
$412,466.75.
T he Alaska. Railroad, which is 470
miles long' and has a branch 38 miles
long to the coal mines in the Mata
nuska district, was begun in. 1915,
and completed when President Hard
ing drove its gold spike in 1923. The
puipose of its construction was to
open the way into the heart of Alaska
and connect with the river traffic of
the inland streams. Private capital
declined to build it because, obviously.,
it.could not, until the country is de
veloped hecome. a revenue -producer.
Realizing, that it woud have to bear
the hurden of an annual deficit, the
Government built it in th einterest
of the development of the interior
territory and in the hope that mining
and. agricultural activity would
eventually make it pay.
At Nenana, 412 miles from Seward, i
and. 50 miles short of Fairbanks, the ;
railroad reaches the Tanana river,!
which leads, into the Yukon. During,
th eopen season, May to September,'
the railroad operates river steamers 1
from Nenana, down the Xanana and
Yukon rivers, by way of H.oy Cross
to Marshall, 858 miles. These boats
serve, a large territory, with its
miners, missionaries, prospectors,
traders, lshermen, woodchoppers,
trappers and Indians.. Nenana is a.
terminal point for White Pass and
Yukon Route steamers, operating |
from Whitehorse and Dawson, on the
Yukon., river. A considerable number ',
of passengers, mainly tourists, are |
exchanged between these, steamers
and. the. railroad. In the interest of
economy, every expenditure that, could ,
be spared was cut off during the last
year,, .and. so the losses have been
have been brought to the lowest, fig-j
ure in its history.. j,
Former ’.prominent Army officials j
of the Alaska Road Commission are ]
gaining prominence in official', life in
Washington. Major John C. Gotwals,
as a part erf the District of Columbia
government, has the title of engineer
commissioner. He is also a member
of the public utilities commisiosn, the
district zoning commission, and the
National Capital park and planning
commission. Major Malcolm Elliott,
who recently returned from Alaska,
has been assigned to mportant duties
with the Rivers and Harbors Engi
neering Loarrl. Maqor D. H. Gillette,
at pi. sent in charge of the engineer
.ng o , isio mrf the office of public
bu.icings and public parks, and as
sistant executive, officer of the Arling
ton Memorial Bridge Commission, is
s.y.rtd ui December to become assist
ant director of public huiidings and
pubuic parks, according to the tenta
tive program of. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d*
director.
How. the Democratic “pep” is “fiz
zling out” over the recent local local
v.ctory in Maine may be determined
from a statement in Hearst’s Wash
ington paper of October 6, which
says: “Maine certainly belongs to
Hoover- Herald’s poll shows Maine
is Republican. Tabulations give
Hoover Pine Tree State by from 20,
oOO to 00,000 votes on November 8,”
But then likely our good friends on
the Juneau Empire will designate
this as “Hot Air from Washington,”
And, speaking of prognostications,
that good friend of Alaska, Senator
Key Pittman, who spent some of his
early days in Nome, does not measure
up to. the powers of the present-day
Roosevelt estimators in the States
and Alaska, who have the strength to
claim everything in. sight and out of
sight. Senator Pittman has heen se
verely reprimanded for publicly intti
mating that three of the Mid-West
States may be carried by President
Hoover. Speaker Jack Garner con
fidentially informs his listeners that
Roosevelt, and. Garner will carry every
State in the. Union, and yet the coun
try seems to he settling down to the
general belief that Hoover and Curtis
will continue in. office another four
years, although they may not be
“overwhelmingly” re-elected, as the
Juneau Empire seems to really fear
some of the oldtimers in the North
will rememher Robert Lee Paris, who
assisted in the early days in making
a survey of the. Yukon delta and the
north coast of the Bering Sea. He
died in Washington on October 5, and
for the past 15. years had been assist
ant director of the Coast and Geo
detic Survey.
Thomas P.. Hanlon spent 35 years
of an active life in Alaska,, much of
the time in. the Fourth division, ,, hut
some time ago. he came to Philadel
phia, where he received, word .that a
brother in Waterford county, Ireland,
was seriously ill,. He decided to cross
the pond to see his brother, when the
quesetion of a passport arose. He
was naturalized in San Francisco in
1893, but . the' records there , were de
stroyed in the 1906 fire and earth
quake* and the papers that he had
were lost in a. fire at Ruby. It was
finally arranged with the State De
partment that he be permitted to go
to Ireland for six months, but he
overstayed the time, and* when he ap
plied to the American consul in Dub
lin recently for a. passport the pa
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Needlesa:ta say this insurance should he ofithe verjri'
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FAIRBANKS, ALASKA
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Agency
, pers were sent to. the- State Depart
ment in Washington, with an appeal
to Delegate Wickersham from Mr.
: Hanlon to get him back to this coun
' try, as he wished to return to. Fair
banks. While tha State Department
is sympathetic in the matter, there is
j no substantiating evidence upon which
| a passport can be. issued, but the
! Delegate has made <uch ropresenta
i lions to the consul at. Duhiiu that it
is expected he will issue a visa that
will allow Mr. Hanlon to sail across
the Atlantic so that he. may proceed
to Alaska.
The Federal Radio. Commission has
granted the application of. the An
chorage Radio Club.., Inc., for a li
cense covering changes in.equipment
: and increase in power to 1230 kc., 250
. watts, from 6 p. m. to midnight.
* In one of the morning. newspapers
in Washington there, appeared the
other day an illustration, of. Dr. Ales
Hrdlicka, curator of physical, an
thropology at the Smithsonian Insti
tution, with some of the ivory art he
recently brought back from Kodiak
Island, where he discovered many
! valuahl relics. The Doctor has re
turned after spending several months
on his exploration trip. He declares
that back some centturies Kodiak
Island was a teeming population cen
ter from which Asiatic migrants may
have peopled North America. He
found scores of ancient village sites
that showed the Island to have been
inhabited by two successive peoples.
The earliest were of a high cultural
type, but apparently were wiped out,
to be succeeded later by a lower order
of primitive people.
The Federal Home Loan Bank
Board expects to open the regional
bank, in a few days, of the eleventh
district, which includes Alaska,
Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah and
Wyoming. It will be located in Port
land and will have a minimum cap
italization of $6,000,00. The directors
named are J. Philip Weyerhauser, of
Lewiston, Idaho; L. H. Hoffman,
Portland, Oregon; Frank S. McWil
liams, Spokane; J. T. S. Lyle, Ta
coma; Worrell Wilson, Seattle; Ben
H. Hazen, Portland; W. C. Schuppel.
Portland; P. C. Bulen, Great Falls,
Mont.; X. H. Andrews, Ogden, Utah;
Edward S. Jenkins, Salt. Lake City;
and. Frank E. Burns, Seattle.
A Relief to Everyone..
The members of. one of New York's
most somber and ancient clubs were
recently amazed toj observe that, the
doors, to. the, club's bar were standing,
open.. For. nearly three years those
doors hadibeen^kept discreetly dosed.
The harkeeper, was asked the rea
son for the daring innovation. He
replied:. “You see, sir, Mr. Wicker
sham is one of our members, and
while the Law Enforcement Commis
sion was in existence, sir, we thought
it best, out of regard for Mr. Wicker
sham, to see that the doors were kept
shut. Naturally, we shouldn’t wish
to afford embarrassment to anyone
of our members. But, fortunately,
the necessity is now past. It’s a re
lief to all of us, sir.”
Are you a Knsko Timas subscriber T
Why not join the happy throng?
ORDER AND NOTICE OF GEN
ERAL ELECTION
To Be Held On
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1982.
In the Commissioner’s Court at Mc
Grah,. Fourth Division, Territory
of Alaska.
I, W. T. &nderp.-»at, Uniod States
Commissioner in and for the Mount
McKinley Recording District, Fourth
Division, Territory of Alaska, pur
suant to an Act of Congress, ap
£ roved May 7th, 1906, entitled MAn
ct Providing for the Eection of a
Deegate to the House of Representa
tives from the Territory of Aaskat”
and an Act of Congress approved
August 24th, 1912, entitled “An Act
to Create a Legislative Assembly in
the Territory of Alaska, to confer
legislative powers thereon, and for
other purposes," do hereby divide the
above-named Recording and Election
District into three voting precincts,
whirh shall be known as follows:
1. That saitT McGrath voting pre
cinct is bounded, as follows: From
Swift River to Hip* Itiver and tribu
taries, except Takotna river.
And 1. hereby, specify that certain
i building known as U_ S. Commis
; sioner’s Office, situate at McGrath, in
1 said McGrath voting precinct, as the
. polling place for said voting precinct.
|2. That said Takotna voting pre
! cinct is bounded as follows; From
. the head of Moore Greek, or. the Ta
kotna .'river, and all of its .tributaries
except Nixon river.
And L hereby specify* that, certains
building known as Pioneer Hall, situ
ate at Takotna, in said Takotna vot
ing precinct, as • the polling place for
said voting precinct.
3. That said Nixon voting precinct
is bounded as follows: From Rig
Riyer to the head of Kuskokwim
River and all its tributaries.
And I hereby, specify that certain
building known as Mespelt’s Mess
House, situate, at Nixon Mine, .in said
Nixon voting precinct,, aa the polling
I place for said voting precinct...
Notice is hereby given that on. the
8th day of November, A. D. 1932, an
election will be held for the purpose
of electing
A Delegate to Congress;
An Attorney General for the Ter
ritory of Alaska;
An Auditor for the Territory of
Alaska;
A Commissioner of . Education, for
the Territory of .Alaska;
A Highway Engineer for thb Ter
ritory of Alaska;
One Member of. the Senate of, the
Territory of Alaska.: (Ion>gterrti){:
Oue Member of. the Senate of-the
Territory of Alaska (short term;;
Four Members of the House ; of
Representatives of the Teritory of
Alaska;
Two Road Commissioners for Road
District No. .
The said election will be in the
voting precincts above mentioned and
at the polling places hereinabove
specified. The said polling places
will be open between the hours of 8
o'clock a. m. and 7 o’clock p. m. of
said day.
Dated at McGrath this 5th day of
Octber, 1932.
W. T. VANDERPOOL,
i U. S. Commissioner for the
Territory of Alaska, Mt.
McKinley Recording Dis
arict, residing at McGrath.
Good Reason.
Mother (to -small daughter who
j manta the lights- left oo)—Bat you
j sleep in the dark, et home, darling.
Small Daughter—Yes, but it's my
_ own dark at home,.mununie.—London
MoncswraRfinm
Notice is iembg gm» to F. W.
Carter, A. B. liiijun, Cmage (X
Friend, ead HL ©efce EDU, and thritr
heirs aad udm that their perttoea
of the inmnwat work for the yean
1984 to 1W, ioelohe, dsoe on the
Boaanaa AsaociaHon placer mintagr
«*■*■». si tooted ea Flat creek, trite*
tary of Otter meek, te the Otter Bo*
carding Proeioct, Fourth Dhiiiaa
Territory o£ Alaska, most he paid
within ninety (90) days from date
hereof, or forfeit aU right aad tSlo
to. said piaeer mining claim.
PATRICK; SAVAGtk
Dated Flat. Alaska. Jan. 1A, 1382.
First publication. March S, 1882,
Pioneer
Machme'and
all kindSjOf
Sheet Metal
Work
Safetys
Stoves
R. E. LOWRIE
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