on remarked: “Removal of ex
isting restrictions on location of
mining claims in Alaska seems
likely to result from the visit of
the Congressional delegation to
Alaska.
“If the proper sort of bill isj
piepared by Alaskans and intro-'
duced in Congress to wipe out;
the restrictions and extend to
that Territory the general min-!
ing laws of the United States, it!
probably will receive favorable!
consideration from the Public.;
Land Committee.
Representative Eaton also said!
“Alaskans should not delay in
making their wants known toi
Congress. Now is the time to1
ask for appropriations. Do net
wait until next December for it'
will be too late then. The com-^
mittee compiles the budget along
in September and October and
has it printed by December.
Another thing I wish to tell Alas
kans, and that is not to take ad
vice too literally. When told t<
pray for what they want, the;
must understand that what i
really meant is that they shoulc
pray for the strength to go ou
and get what they warn."
In speaking of the Alask;
Railroad, the study of which wo;
one of the principal purposes o
the Congressional party’s visi
north, Congressman Eaton said
“The physical condition of tht
system seems to be good. It car
give efficient service. I have no
had opportunity to make a tlio
rough study of the rate struc
ture. However, I know that higl
rates will decrease business an
that moderatea’ates will increase
business. My opinion is that the
Alaska Railroad rates should be
adj usted.”
Congressman Addison T. Smith
remarked: “Every Congressmar
and Senator should come tr
Alaska. Federal lawmakerc
should make themselves ac
| WE Move Anything Loose On One End jj
RELIABLE TRANSFER
General Hauling
Per rick $3.50 — FOREST WOOD — Thee ricks $9.00
jj Phones
3 and 12
The Telephone
Is the Open Door To the Merchant's Es
tablishment. One telephone order to-day
means more in the future.
Telephone Exchange
AV.'.V.V.1
Passenger accom
odations on all the
Admiral Line Ves
sels have been
completly and ma-,
terlally improved. |
You will find them
very attractive and
comfortable.
Northbound from Seattle
\Admiral Evans
Admiral Evans
Admiral Evans
Oct. 13
Nov. 3
Nov. 24
Southbound worn Peterburg
Alaskan Glacier Sea Food Co, 1
Petersburg, Alaska ::
Packers of Shrimp Meat,
Crab Meat and Clams. |
BIGGEST PACKERS OF SHRIMP MEAT IN THE WORLD f
I
Buyers of j:
Halibut, Salmon, and Trout
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They all scream For Carnation Icecream
ALWAYS PURE at
BRACKNEY’S
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Harbor Store
‘Where Your $ Has More Cents*
General Merchandise -
- Fishermen’s Supplies
E, W. Harris, Proprietor
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t;quainted with this great Terri
r'lory and then they would bo
> more willing- to co-operate in its
11 development.
;i “The annual deficit of the
■Alaska Railroad makes some of
L|the federal lawmakers nervous,
j but I do not think that the sys
f tern should be disposed of or its
; service curtailed to the detri
: ment of the country.
>i “The crying need of Alaska is
i' airmail. To wait three or four
: days for letters from the States
. is archaic in view of late aerial
. development, and this terrible
t fault should be remedied by the
[ federal government at once.
! “Establishment of air mail ser
j vice in the North will help busi
ness net only in this territory
; but in the States,
j “I believe Congress should be
mere generous than it has been
in dealing with Alaska’s requir
ments.”
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DELEGATE WICKEMSFMVT TO
FILE FOR IlE-ELECTION
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§arly in July it was indicated
j by Delegate Wickersham that he
j would go before the Republican j
iprimary in April for renomina
j tion so the announcement thruj
| Stroller’s Weekly is no surprise. I
For that matter, the political]
|pilots haye been forced to ad-;
]mit that there is no equal tim-j
,ber for the office in Alaska and
I that the Judge could not help
I but enter the race again.
It is expected that others will
(declare for the same office—it
would be rather peculiar not to
(have the Republican primaries
more or less directed by the po-;
(Jitical brigade of Juneau,
j It is a long time yet before the
i Territorial convention of Demo-:
crats will be held: in the mean-:
time the Divisional conventions
I will have more or less settled,
to the satisfaction of the Old
Gang. It is a foregone conclu
sion that Senator Dimond will
be the party choice to oppose
Delegate Wickersh’am. And it is
also predicted that Geo. Grigs
I by will hie in opposition to Tony
j Dimond and the betting in some
S circles is 60-40 that Grigsby ae
i ieats uiraona.
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By examining the. tongues, of
fhe patient, physicians find out,
the disease of the body, and phi
losophers. of the mind.—Justin.
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Washington Newsletter
By Will A. Steel
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ROADS AND FOREST FUNDS
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The Forest Service of the De
partment of Agriculture has
just announced that funds to
taling $1,240,608 will be made
available to 32 states and Alas
ka. from the receipts from the
national forests in the fiscal
year 1931, to be used for roads
and schools. Of this sum Alaska
will receive $12,931. In addition
he Service will spend $496,243
for national forest roads and
trails, and of this Alaska will re
ceive $5,172.
DEFENDS ROAD ESTIMATES
Major Malcolm Elliott, presi
dent of the Alaska Road Com
mission, has come out to the
States from his headquarters at
Juneau and is expected to reach
Washington very shortly. He
will remain as long as necessary
for the purpose of defending es
timates for road construction in
Alaska, for the fiscal year 1933
NAVAL RESERVES
Some parties were desirous of
establishing homesteads on Low
ell Point, just south of Seward,
and which some time ago was
embraced within the confines of
the U. S. Naval Reservation, but
which it was believed had been
restored to entry- The Delegate
took the matter up with the Gen
eral Land Office and finds that
on March 23, 1908, approximate
ly 3,350 acres of land, including
Lowell Point on Resurrection
Bay, were reserved for the use
of the Navy Department as a
coaling station. But the records]
show that the land was never
restored to the public domain,]
and accordingly is not subject
to homestead entry.
PROSPERITY LOAN
The Chicago Federation of La
bor has passed a resolution call
ing upon President Hoover to
call a special session of congress
to float a Ten Billion Dollar
prosperity loan to meet the pre
sent unemployment emergency,
by starting government con
struction work without delay,'
and has sent copies of the reso-i
lution to Delegate Wickersham
and other members of Congress
RELIEF FOR PROSPECTOR
Requests from Alaska have;
come to the Delegate asking that!
he try to secure legislation that!
will relieve the prospector from]
performing annual assessment!
work on silver locations, until
the market for silver should re
act.
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WASHINGTON VISITORS
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Among the visitors to Wash
ington the past week were Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Hunt, who were
married in the Idicarod about
fifteen years ago, but who are
now located at Beevi’le, Texas.!
Mrs. Hunt is a daughter of Chas.j
A. Taylor of Fairbanks, and
when quite a child accompanied)
her parents in the early days
through the Rapids at White •
Horse and down to Dawson.
ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES
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A young scientist named Mo
reau B. Chambers, working for
the Anthropological Division of!
the National Museumj returned
to Washington the other day af
ter spending the summer on St.1
Lawrence Island, just south cfi
Bering Strait. When Mr. Cham-j
bers arrived cn the Island in*
Alaska on June 19th, the tern-,
perature had risen to its sum-)
mertime average of about 45f
degrees. Previous excavation
work on the island, carried on
during the past four years by H.
B. Collins and others of the
Smithsonian Institution repre
sentatives, has resulted in know
ledge of a remarkable cross sec j
tion of Eskimo history, the most !
comprehensive and accurate ev-‘
er obtained by scientists.
The site on St. Lawrence Is
land is unique and of extreme
archeological importance. The
five ancient villages represent a
vivid portrayal of Eskimo cul
ture from its earliest stages to,
the present. It was for some
time a metropolis for Eskimos,;
because of its excellent facil-;
ities for fishing and hunting. For
hundreds of years it was a cen
ter of Eskimo population, and it
is through records unwittingly
left by tribes inhabiting the re
gion for centuries, that so much
of archeological importance is
discovered there.
Mr. Chambers’ work produced'
specimens which undoubtedly!
will reveal much hitherto un-|
known concerning these peo
ples. Many of the specimens
are absolutely new to science,
while others, of which similar
types have been discovered be
fore, will probably substantiate
and bear out theories now held.
The entire collection of more!
than 3,000 specimens will fill
gaps in the Museum’s present
collection, and will furnish ma
terial for new and important
study.
Mr. Chambers’ discoveries in
dued a wide variety of harpoon
heads of ivory and bone; spear
throwers; wedges; ivory picks,
toys, ornaments, drills, arrow
points and knives; wooden bows
and dishes; whalebone armor;
and clay pottery. The most im
portant phase of the collection
is the great variety of harpoon
heads. Hundreds of them were
found, some of which were hith
ertoo undiscovered types. They
are for the most part made of
ivory taken from walrus tusks.
These specimens represent every
stage of Eskimo culture, and are
of great value as diagnostic ma
terial. It is through study of
harpoon heads, as typical ex
amples of Eskimo workmanship
in various stages, that are found
most important clues leading to
i new knowledge of the race, both j
j ancient and modem.
On the recent expedition there
were no human bones found.j
Last year, however, Mr. Collins
discovered an old house contain- 1
ing 12 skeletons. Most of the
human bones disintegrate after
about a year, due to the Eskimo (
tradition of surface burial on
the side of a hill where corpses ,
are not at all protected from *
beasts or weather.
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EMPLOYEES IN INDIAN *
SERVICE, ALASKA
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The office of Indian Affairs *
announces that in the Alaska
Division there are 240 employees «
in the teaching service, that in
cludes 5 District Superintend
ents, 214 teachers and 21 mis- ;
cellaneous employees. Physicians,
dentists, and nurses number 52
with 21 who are on the medical !
boat, practical nurses, janitor.',
etc. In addition there are about \ :
100 carpenters and laborers em- \ «
i (
ployed on construction work ir
respective of private contract
work, making a total of 413 em- ’
ployed. There are 99 day schools
in operation, including 5 newly :
established schools at Copper \
Cfenter, Kalshak, Newhalen, Pt.
Lay and Tanaa Crossing. There
are 3 industrial schools in op »:
eration at Eklutna, Kanakanak
and White Mountain, with anotu *i
er new building at Shoemaker ;l
Bay, near Wrangell. Day school* *1
not yet open but established are j
at Attu, Cheechingamute and 3
Ekwak. There is one orphangc !]
and school for the blind. There !j
are 6 hospitals, including 2 newly
opened at Mountain Village and
Xotzbue with 2 building at Chit- •;
na and Yakutat. There are 20 •:
medical centers where nurses or j
part-time physicians are sta- •]
tioned, with an itinerant medi- -I
cal boat on the Yukon river dur
ing the summer months.
In the appropriation for 1931
1932, the following new buildings
with costs, were allowed: Akiak,
$8,000; Alka, $5,000; Attu, $5,000,
Beaver, $7,000; Belkofsky, $500;
Bethel, .$8,000; Cheechingamute,
$8,000; Eklutna, $23,000; EkwaK.j
$5,000; Hconah, $20 000; Iliamna.
$5,000; Kalshak, $7,000; Ko
kri'nes, $7,000; Klilukak, $250;
Ncatak, $7,000; Perryville, $2,000
Point Lay, $7,000; Quithlook, $4.
000; Sevoonga, $4,000; Shageluk
$7,000; Tanana Crossing, $4,000;
Ugashik, $250; Wainright, $1000;
Nome, $10,000; Shungnak, $10,
000.. ..
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ALASKA
TOTEMS,
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INTEREST
Two stately Alaska totem poles
intricately carved and briiiiani-j
ly colored are today flanking the |
door of Secretary of Interior
Wilbur. The poles were carved|
by John Wallace, Hydaburg In
dian and set up in the capital
to promote popular interest in
Indian arts and craft of the
many people under jurisdiction
of the Interior Department, and
also to create interest in Alas
ka.
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VITAMINS IN SALMON OILS
It may be interesting to Alas-1
kans to know that the Govern-i
ment tests made oh.>;
prepared from waste and from
canned salmon has shown that
salmon oil from some sources is
tv/ice as potent in vitamin D
and equal in vitamin D and,
equal in vitamin A to a good
grade of cod liver oil. The oils
that showed this potency wereU
obtained from the salmon wastej *
which had been handled in such i ^
a way as to preserve the maxi- i ^
mum vitamin potency. These
findings are of importance tojj
both the producer of oils and to | <
the consumer. At the present l
time less than one-third of the l
salmon waste is being utilized as «
a by-product of the salmon in- <
dustry. b
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AMATEUR GOLF AMUSER | \
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George C. Grove, representing <
the Alaska Amusement Co., and ■
who was instrumental in estab- '
lishing various golf courses ini!
Southeastern Alaska, is a visitor <
in Washington. J!
COLISEUM
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Saturday Only
Just like Heaven
Action and thrills with the Paris Underworld.
Also Chapter 4 of “FINGERPRINTS”
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SUNDAY and MONDAY
The one we’ve alt been waiting
for
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CHARLES FARREL and JANETTE GAYNOR
IN
The Man iftho Came Back
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Tuesday—Wednesday
BUDDY ROGERS With HELEN KANE
IN
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Heads Up
THURSDAY and FRIDAY
The Greatest Comedy ever made!
“50 Million Frenchmen”
DON’T MISS IT!
With OLSEN and JOHNSON
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Pool and Billiard Tables
Cigars and Tobaccos of all kinds
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from $1.75 per box up
For Eating, Cooking and Preserving
Sweet Cider for Your
Mincemeat
Bring your own
Containers
Sanitary Market
MEALS THAT YOU WILL
ENJOY
When You Want It and How
You Want It
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Get away from the heat an:'
drudgery of getting meals
at home on these hot sum
mer days.. Keep Cool and
Be comfortable at
Grand Cafe
Keep Out of the Kitchen
Finest Meals always ready at
ALASKA CAFE
(Leave the dishwashing to us.)