„ CURTAILMENT OF TERRI
TORIAL DISBURSEMENTS
(Anchorage Times.)
Curtailment of expenditures has
been made necessary because funds in
the Territorial treasury are running
low. That is the explanation given
by Governor George A. Parks for the
withholding of funds from highway
and other projects which were au
thorized, by. the 1931 Legislature. It
is costing the Territory about f80,000
month, he says, to carry on the fixed
. activities, including regular expenses,
such as school support, old age allow
ances, .maintenance of Sitka home,
road repairs, salaries- and the like,
. and for the reason that expenditures
must be gauged very largely by reve
, nues from fishing taxes, it has been
• deemed advisable to make radical cur
tailments pending the outcome of the
present fishing season.
At the end of March this year there
- was in the .general fund of the Terri
tory a net balance of $794,181.03, and
. it is estimated that the collections
during the remainder of the year will
be. approximately $234,310, making a
total-of $1*028,491.03. These receipts
. are-estimated on the basis of prob
-wable. revenues for the year.
* If. the Territory were to, coontinue
u to. spend money on the basis of the
average- of. the last two years, plus
the - proportionate increase of appro
, . priatiins for the biennium, the total
> ». of. expenditures up to the end of of
-the jyear would be approximately
$1^)28,275.86. which would leave a
. balance in the treasury general fund
. -atithe end of 1931 of only $215.17. In
. fact* it is believed at Juneau by the
i treasurer and auditor, who do the es-1
~. timating, that there actually will be j
. a shortage of cash at the end of the
. year unless there are drastic curtail
ments. I
In vie wof this situation, the Gov- ’
v erncr explains, it has been decided to
.. holdup all special appropriations un
. til-there is assurance of ample funds
...in the treasury to carry on without
. jeojardinzing fixed obligations, sue!)
• as schools, etc.
-In turning down the house proposal
i...to. increase taxes* during the closing
hours of the late session of the Leg
islature, members of the senate esti
< mated that revenues from the fisher
L ues and other taxes would be ample to
cover all of the expenditures author
• ized for the biennium. But it is point
• ed out. by Governor Parks that fish
•. eries taxes do not come in until about
the first of each year and it is never'
known, until the money actually is in
. the hands of the treasurer, how much ;
*. can be collected. The larger com- ;
. panies pay promptly, regardless of:
the outcome of their operations for
.. ay particular season; but there are
numerous small concerns which do
• do not pay when business is bad, and j
there is no way in which the Terri
I
tory can collect from some of them.
There is a considerable amount of un
paid taxes hanging over from last
year and there probably will be more
delinquents.
The Governor shares the optimistic
views of the senators with regard to
the outlook for the red salmon pack
this season and should it come up to
expectations the treasury naturally
will be greatly relieved of its strain.
A normal pack of reds, the Governor
suggests, will make it possible to
make a start during the fall on some
of the projects which at present are
being held in abeyance, including the
Anchorage-Eklutna project. Another
normal pack of red salmon next sea
son would make it possible to carry
out the tntire legislative program of
construction, with a doubling up of
of activities to make up for lost time.
It is expained by the Governor that
it is his desire to avoid digging too
deeply into the general fund for two
reasons. To us up all of the money
now or at any time during the year,
on the chance that ftutre revenues
would take care of future require
ments, would be a hazardous step,
with nothing left for emergencies.
And it would mean, also, the with
drawal of funds which have been dis
tributed among the banks of the Ter
ritory in the form of secured de
posits. It would mean the calling in
of these funds at a time when some
of the smaller banks might find it in
convenient to call in loans or dspose
of securities.
The Governor appreciates the fact
that there is disappointment in vari
ous communities because of the ac
tion taken in holding up appropria
tions, but he feels confident that
things will work out all right, that
the end of the bienniu mwill find con
ditions on an even keel again. It is
just a question of having patience.
The curtailments are general
throughout the Territory, with all
special appropriations held up pend
ing favorable signs in the fisheries
situation. This includes, among other
things, all new road projects, but an
effort is being made to continue to
carry on maintenance work as usual.
OUTSIDER WANTS A HOME
STEAD AND A WIDOW
(Anchorage Times.)
The publicity given agricultural
possibilitie sin Alaska has brought
many inquries to the industrial de
partment of the Alaska Railroad and
the General Land Office at Anchor
age, letters having come from many
sections of the United States and
embracing a great variety of ques
tions, many commonplace and some
quite out of the usual run of in
quiries.
Among the unusual was a letter re
ceived by Register J. Lindley Greene
in a recent mail from a man residing
I
s Revigator Restores Water’s
Lost Element
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THE most important thing in life is health. We cannot con
tinue to live healthfully unless we live with some respect
to the laws of nature. Life is but cellular buildiny and cellu
[ '• lar elimination. ‘ This lost element of water is Radio-activity,
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jf Sir Arbuthnot Lane, the great English physician, says “Most
■ diseases are directly traceable to bad drainage in the body”—to
■ ; the accumulation of clogging waste matter or poisons nt vital
> • -organs.
jv, / ’For centuries the world has recognized the value of health
[' springs, and medical officers now attribut the value of the fam
-<ous springs to the natural radio-activity of their waters. This
f: ^radio-activity is one of n^ure’s ways of dissolving and elimin
! ating these health-destroying poisons and building
■ad .tissues.
> i- lb ia now possible for everyone, sick or well, to have perpetu
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THE: REVIGATOR WATER JAR.
, j Order one today from any of the following sub-agents:s Vic
Ebright, Plat; Tom DeVane, Ruby; Oliver Anderson, McGrath; '
Fred Roethlisberger, Ophir; Chris Petersen, Takotna.
1_—SHaErwagiB’gBS
in a small Oregon town. He is in
terested in obtaining a homestead in
the Anchorage district, and if he can
get a wife and a job along with it he
will be all the more pleased. Mr.
Greene ha sinformed the writer of
the letter that the Land Office has a
lot of land available for-homestead
ing but that the government doea not
promise jobs to prospective settlers
and cannot guarantee a wife- with
every homestead.
“I want to know What it will cost
a man to locate on. a homestead in
Alaska,” the Oregon -mars writes.
“Also, can a man get work, in the
shops in Anchorage, and horw much
do the shops pay for common-labo-? ;
Also, do you know of any widow ^that
owns a homestead? I am a single
man and would like to find a lady of;
that kind. I am a man of good char -
acter—no -bad habits. Don’t use- to
bacco in any form.”
If there are any women homestead,
owners in th erailroad belt who are
interested in getting a husband with
out bad habits, .Judge Greene will be
pleased to hear from the mso that he
can put them in communication with
his Oregon correspondent.
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BEARS ARE INCREASING
IN KUSKOKWIM SECTION
1 We have five species, or subspecies,
of bears in Alaska
The polar bear, in the far North, is
% sea bear, spending; his time on the
i Arctic ice and living almost entirely
! on meat, often found swimming miles
from ice or shore. He is white.
Our white foxes are blue in sum
mer and our rabbits are .gray ; in
summer, but the white bear is always
white.
! The grizzly bear, well know n to.
Western North America, is common
' in Alaska. His range extends from
Mexico to the Arctic coast. There are
several varieties of this species, and
the Alaska brown bear is either a va
riety of grizzly or a closely related
species. The Alaska brown bear is
the largest meat-eating mammal in
the world and found only in Alaska.
The brown bears of other countries
are different species.
I have taken care of about fifteen
grizzly bears, and find they are not
large. Females weigh 200 to 300
pounds, males up to 600 pounds.
I generally weigh them and feed
them to dogs. Dogs do not like bear
meat very well, but will eat it if it
is cooked.
Grizzly bears live on vegetable!
diet, plus meat when they san get it, i
and of course on salmon streams they
like salmon in season, with side
dishes of berries.
I never went three miles to hunt a
bear. The bears come to the rein
deer herd, and after learning how
easy it is to kill a reindeer they stick i
around until I hang their hides on a J
pole.
Grizzly bears like young moose and
sometimes kill the cow while she is
trying to protect her young. With
caribou and reindeer they more often
kill adult animals. They begin kill
ing reindeer in May or June and, if
TABLE OF DISTANCES BE
TWEEN MEN AN A AND FLAT
Miles
Nenana . GO
Tavern Roadhouse _ 17%
Knight’s Roadhouse _ 23%
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse_58 -
Diamond Roadhouse __ 78
Roosevelt . 89
Lake Minchumina..116
Trappers’ Cabin _ 132
Lone Star Roadhouse _ 160
Telida Roadhouse__ 169%
Slow Fork Roadhouse_187
East Fork Roadhouse _).206
Berry’s Landing Roadhouse_ 227%
Big River Roadhouse.241
McGrath _ 268
Takotna _ 280
Bill Goss’ Roadhouse _ 291
Ophir __ SOS
McCafFerty . 366
Brown Creek shelter eabin_318
Frits shelter cabin _ 338
First Chance shelter cabin _ 346
Sehermeyer R. H. _ 360
Iditarod__ 376
Bonanzas sheler cabin, 12 miles
from Flat.
Crooked Creek shelter eabin, 19
miles from Bonanza.
permitted to do so, continue their
iepradations until October. They do
not make a gseat slaughter, like the
timber wolf, but are satisfied with
sne or two reindeer at a time. They
:ien lor winter during October.
In this part of Alaska a resident
may kill a brown or grizzly beat at
any time.
'lhe black bear is much smaller and
has small claws. I have handled
about thirty-lve of them, and find
they weigh from 100 to 300 pounds,
rhis is our common bear. He likes
a moose calf if he can get it, and
sometimes he kills caribou or rein
deer adults. This is the bear that
breaks into our cabins, destroys our
provisions, and will even pack the
bedding through the broken window
out into the rain. He likes bacon
ham and sugar, canned fish and salad
oil. He . He bites through all the
tin cans to be sure he has not over
looked anything. This is the bear
that seems to be increasing. They
den in September This bear has no
legal protection; may be killed any
time, and no limit.
The glacier bear is a small bear,
like the black,, and resembles the
black bear .in general. except color.
Only two species of bear are
known in the Kuskokwim and lower
Yukon region, They are the grizzly
and black.
Are grizzly bears dangerous ? Like
dynamite, they have power to do
harm, and one should not* be careless
with them. Most of the accidents
where people have been killed or
wounded by bears ir Alaska have
been caused by using a rifle .too small
for the work. I know, of two cases
where unarmed men-v - :e attacked by
hears. In both insta .»s the bears
were grizzlies. A- w> unded grizzly
will generally try too get away;
sometimes, though,-wi- hanger and
desperation, he -w4U ch; rge. And no
bluff- this tim»-*i*you must kill him or
get out of his way. Otherwise it is
a case for the coroner
A. H. TWITCHELL,
What Every Woman Knows,
She came to her husband in tears.
“I’ve been insulted!” she sputtered.
"Tour moterh has insulted rae!”
“My mother!” he exclaimed. “But,
Alice, she’s miles away.”
“I know. But a letter came for
you this morning addressed in your
mother’s handwriting—and I opened
it.”
He looked stem. “I see, but where
does the insult come in?”
Alice wept all the more.
“In the—the postscript,” she an
swered, “it said: 'Dear Alice, don’t
target to give this letter to George.’ ”
—Ex.
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