Likewise, restoration to the
frpublic domain of all the
land incorporated in Pub
lic Land Order 82 is highly
essential to the many thou
sands of persons who des
ire to go to Alaska to live.”
In northern Alaska, 48,000
000 acres of land were
withdrawn. This acreage
ik adjacent to the Navy’s
Naval Oil Reserve No. 4.
“I submit,” Delegate Bart
lett wrote Secretary Krug,
“that it would be wise pol
icy to return all this to the
public domain forthwith
because adequate protec
tion would be afforded the
government and the public
with existing laws in oper
ation. On the Alaska Pen
insula, 15,600,000 acres
•were withdrawn, and in
the Katalla - Yakataga re
gion, 3,040,000 acres, mak
ing a grand total of 67,
440,000 acres. Big as Al
aska is, it cannot stand a
withdrawal for long on
that basis plus all other re
servations made for one
purpose or another.
“I respectfully urge that
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Nome Directory
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
Meets First and Third
Thursday each month
DONALD J. LYLE, W. M.
NORVIN W. LEWIS. Secy.
V NOME LODGE
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Meets Second Friday
S. DAYID MAZEN. N.O.
ROBERT BALDWIN. Secy.
HAGEN
JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
Court House Is Opposite Us
Phone Main 40
O. D. COCHRAN
Attorney At Law
Phene Main 1S1
Nome. Alaska
. IRA D. ORTON
• Attorney At Law
Room 1—Nevada Building
* Nome. Alaska
Seattle Office*
Ml Lawman Building
Telephone EL. MM
there is emphatic need for;
the rescinding of Public
Land Order No. 82 in the ‘
immediate future, together!
with action calculated to
make the land area adja
cent to the Alaska High-'
way available for develop
ment.”
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MRS. GRANT TO STATES
FOR VACATION
Mrs. Luella Grant, cook at the
I U. S. Jail, departed Monday even
ing for an extended vacation.
She will visit with relatives in
i Denver, and will be gone for over
a month.
SHISHMAREF EX-GI SHOOTS
HAND ACCIDENTALLY
Alex Weyonna, ex-soldier, of
Shishmaref, had the misfortune
of shooting his hand, and has come
NOME POPULATION GROWS
FOR FOURTH CELEBRATION
Alaskans and tourists are arriv
ing in Nome in great numbers,
swelling the population over the
holidays to nearly double the
normal census.
Six oomiaks 'skin boats) loaded
with King Island natives, arrived
in the last few days from the
island. The Lomen Commercial
Company tugboat BOZO alsoj
brought a load of passengers.
Three skin boats arrived from
Diomede Island and one from
Wales, loaded with passengers,
gers.
The Islanders report a scarcity
of Walrus during the winter, on
account of ice conditions.
Father B. F. LaFortune was one
of the few who remained on King
Island for the summer.
to Nome for attention.
Alex stated with a sheepish
grin, “But I got plenty seal.”
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