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the protestation of its owner.
The “King” thereupon made
threatening remarks to the own
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cf the deputies was cut on the
hand by the king. He was landed
in the local bastile where he la
ter had a conference with the
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Announcement:
Ernest Kirberger announces that he will be in the market
again for fresh caught furs, legally taken and sincerely
advises trappers to bring their collections in as fast as they
are obtained. It is better to deal with the man who has
given fair and square results.
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teacher, Principal of the Hoonah
School and the Marshal. Mr. U.
S I. B. Man is an educated Da
kotan who has sentenced men
and women to jail for a period
I oi one year and a fine of a thou
sand dollars for having booze in
' possession—and left the children
of these pedple to the tender
mercies of the North. After the
conference, Mr. School-Teacher
Judge set the hearing a week off
thereby raising the expense of
the case some $50.—which is nice
lor the tax payers.
There are some interesting
stories coming out of Hoonah
not to the credit of the repre
sentative of the U. S. Indian
Bureau which will bear a, bit of
investigation. For instance, it is
said that he furnished the mo
ney to Slim Lewis to purchase
the boat used in transporting the
illicit liquor which was given to
young boys and girls. Report
from this otherwise quiet com
munity have been anything but
good and it is being urged that
the superintendent of the Indian
Department take a squint into
the affairs at Hoonah.
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JUNEAU
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Miss Minnie Field, matron in
charge of eighteen children un
der the Territorial Board of Chil
dren’s Guardians, gave the chil
dren under her charge a real,
old-fashioned Christmas dinner,
tree, trimmings and theatre
party. Miss Minnie is a real
mother to these youngsters who
have been less fortunate in the
selection of their parents.
The Alaska Juneau Gold Min
ing Company declared itself
Santa Claus to its stockholders
by raising the quarterly dividend
rate from 10 to 12 y2 cents.
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KETCHIKAN
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Gunnar Stenstrom of Ketchi
kan was sentenced to serve six
months in the Ketchikan federal
jail and pay a fine of $250 for
having a five gallon keg of whis
key in his possession last week.
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Washington Newsletter
By Will A, Steel
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The people generally from all
sections of Alaska have been en -
tirely satisfied with the opera
tion of the Washington-Alaska
Military Cable and Telegraph
System. The service rendered
and the tariff charged have been
acceptable and the suggestion
that the government authorize
the sale of this system of com
munication has met with a pre
test from practically every sec
tion of the Territory as well as
from the Pacific coast states. Lij
the last Congress a bill was sub-1
mitted by the War Department!
to authorize the Secretary of j
War “to sell in parcels or as a
whole” the Alaska Communica
tion System. The bill was referr
ed to committee but no action
taken, and the report that aj
similar bill was to be introduced!
in the present Congress again
caused consternation through
out the Territory. Delegate
Wickersham made a special plea
to Secretary Hurley to not again
introduce this bill, and set forth
the various reasons why the
government should not dispose
of the system.
A very gratifying reply has
just been received from Douglas
MacArthur, General Chief of!
Staff, at the request of Secretary
Hurley, who enclosed various
correspondence with the Presi
dent, and ended with the signi
ficant and very pleasing para
jgraph: “As you v/ill see from
I this correspondence, the War
Department is in general agree
ment with your point of view.
In the absence of further in
structions, the Department does
not intend to reintroduce the
legislation in question.”
In addressing President Hoov
er on the important subject Sec
retary Hurley among other
things said: “I am enclosing a
letter from the Alaska Delegate
dated Nov. 2, 1931, wherein he
urges on the part of the people
of Alaska that no legislation be
| initiated authorizing'the sale of
the Alaska Communications
| System. As expressed in my let
ter of Dec. 3, 1930, the War De
partment, per sc, had no objec
tion to this sale; however, it *s
'understood that the committee
which originated the recom
mendation for sale did not at
| any time obtain a pertinent ex
pression from the people or gov
ernment of Alaska. This being
I the case, it would appear that
the enclosed letter of the Dele
gate might well be taken into
consideration before resubmit -
ting legislation to Congress.”
The President undoubtly took
into consideration the letter of
the Delegate with the result that
the sale of the system will not
be authorized, and the people of
Alaska will ever hold in grate
ful remembrance the kindly
consideration of their interests
by President Hoover and Secre
tary Hurley.
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There will two lectures on
Alaska given in Washington this
week, both to be illustrated. To
night Representative Robert G
Simmons, of Nebraska, who
visited the North last summer,
will talk before the National
Grange, and will feature motion
pictures made by Mr. Simmons
while on his trip thru Alaska. On
Wednesday night R. Harvey
Sargent, topographic engineer
of the Alaskan branch of the
Geological Survey, will give a
lecture before the Y. M. C. A
Motion pictures will be shown ol
a recent aerial survey in which
Mr. Sargent participated. He hat,
made 22 visits to Alaska in con
nection with the survey.
Rev. Michael Joseph Kippen
brock, who spent three years as
rector of the Episcopal church
at Cordova, and who came out
last August to take the pastor
ate of a church at Alexandria,
Va„ expects to return to Fair
banks next April.
It has been suggested to the
Department of Justice that it
would be an act of economy for
(he government to own the
buildings at McCarthy, Chitna,
Kodiak, Unga, Seldova and other
localities, which are now being
rented. But the Department has
not been impressed with the
idea.
Horace M. Albright, Director
of National Park Service, spen!
some time in McKinley Park last
summer and is of the opinion
that the boundary lines of the
Park should be extended so as
to take in Wonder Lake. He
states, however, that he does not
favor including any part of the
Kantishma mining district.
Frank Reinosky, of Rampart,
and who has spent over twenty
years mining and fur trapping
in the Interior of Alaska, came
out from the north in October
and is now in Washington dis
cussing Alaska problems with
the Delegate.
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Senator Frazier, chairman of
the committee on Indian Af
fairs, and Delegate Wickersham
in the House, have intioduced a
till similar to the one that was
presented last session but was
never reported from Comittee.
The bill “Authorizes the Thlin
get and Haida Indians of Alaska
to bring suit in the United
States Court of Claims, and con
ferring jurisdiction upon said
court to hear, examine, adjudi
cate, and enter judgment upon
any and all claims which said
Indians may have, or claim to
have, against the United States.”
When this bill passes it will give
the two tribes of Indians, re
siding in Southeastern Alaska
the right to have a hearing on
what claims they may have a
gainst the United States for
lands or other tribal, community
cr individual property rights,
taken from them by the United
I States without compensation
therefor, at the time of the
'purchase of Alaska from Russia.
The aim of the bill is not to re
cover and property rights but
simply to compensate the In
dians in money for the value of
such rights as the Court of
Claims may decide they are en
titled to. In a number of in
stances the Indians of various
! states have been given the right
| to sue the government and in
inost instances they have re
ceived money judgements.
j Former Delegate Dan Suther
land will spend mast of the win
ter looking after the financial
interests of his sister, v/ho con
ducts a large girls school al
Ogontz, Pennsylvania. He will
make an occasional visit to
Washington, where Mrs. Suther
land and Donald will remain
until the son finished school.
Mrs. Sutherland has made a
connection with the new firm of
Folger, Nolan & Co., investmeni
brokers, located in the American
Security Building, Fifteenth
Street at Pennsylvania Avenue.
Delegate Wickersham ha?
been carefully studying the ef -
fect, if it could be accomplished
of extending the Federal High
way Act to Alaska. At present
the Alaska Road Commission is
expending eight hundred thou
sand dollars and the Forrest
Service nearly one million dol
lars yearly, in the Territory. It
is the opinion of some of the in
terested officials here that if
Highway Act were extended to
Alaska Congress would consider
the needs of the Territory and
the sum now being expended
and at this time the sum appro
priated might not exceed the
amount now being received,
while the Territory would be
compelled to contribute as its
share possibly from three to five
hundred thousand dollars year
ly , as well as all costs of en
gineering expenses and all
maintenance of roads after they
have been constructed thru the
joint efforts of the Federal gov
ernment and the Territory, The
Delegate has been advised not
to open up the matter in the
present Congress because of the
general inclination to decrease
oil oppropriations. The amount
agreed on by the R-idg'd far the
Alaska Road Commission for the
ensuing year is $650,000 and it
will require considerable effort
tn have the sum increased to the
$800,000 that the Commission
expects to get.
In his annual report submitted
to the President by Secretary of
• he Interior Wilbur he states
that one of the great latent re
sources of Alaska is its forests.
Thirteen per cent of the nation
al forest area of the United
States is in Alaska, most of it on
the southern coast from Ketchi
kan to Cook Inlet. A billion
board feet annually may be har
vested each year. Ninty per cent
of all production will be usable
for paper. Hydroelectric power
sites are abundant.
The annual report of the Sec
retary of War shows that during
the fiscal year 1931 the Wash
ington-Alaska Military Cable
and Telegraph System handled
traffic as follows: Commercial
traffic, “This line,” $289,431.43;
‘Other lines,” $44,584.51; Gov
ernement business, $399,628; to
tal $673,643.94—less other line
payments $44,584.51 — making
net credits, $629,059.43. This is a
ret credit of $6,956.91 over the
previous year. It is further stat
ed that for the past year the
Alaska system has been inten
sively engaged on the project to
replace the Alaska cable by radio
circuits. The new land trans
mitter building in Seattle was
completed, the existing appara
tus installed and everything
placed in readiness for install
ation of transmitters to be de
livered in August 1931. The new
transmitter building at Anchor
age and the temporary remote
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receiving building at Ketchikan
were completed.
By reason of change of sched
ule in sailing date of steamer
Victoria from Seattle from Dec.
22 to 20, this news letter is sent
out two days in advance of the
usual date. The Delegate will
mail to all newspapers in the
Territory printed copies of all
general bills he introduces in
Congress. A number of bills that
have been introduced are among
a total of over five thousand
presented during the first week
of the session, few of which have
been printed.
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