Alaska Central Affairs
SEATTLE. — A syndicate of Eastern
capitalists, headed by A. C. Frost, of
Chicago, and Henry C. Osborne, of To
- ronto, came into complete control of
the Alaska Central Railway company
, yesterday at the annual election of trus
tees. The members of the syndicate
are also the new owners of the Tanana
Railway Construction company, which
ha3 the contract for building the Alas
' ka Central from Seward to the Tanana
river, 420 miles, and a branch to the
Metamuska coal fields.
The new trustees elected are as fol
lows: A. B. Frost, H. C. Osborne, G.
t L. Francis, of Toronto, Frank Thomp
8 At, of Montreal, George Turner, of
Spokane; W. C. Poland, of Chicago; J.
E. Ballaine, of Seattle; Jas. A. Haight
of Seattle, and Oscar G. LaLaree, of
Spokane. The trustees elected the. fol
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l/wing omcers: a. r rose, president
H. C. Osborne, vice-president; W. B.
Poland, until recently s peri tendtnt
of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, gen
eral manager and chief engineer; G. L.
' Francis, treasurer, and Jas. A. Haight,
secretary.
The completion of the road will be
- pushed with all speed. The re ad will
be built this year to the head of Knick
Arm, and 150 to £00 miles additional
each year until the Tanana river is met.
Twenty miles of road was built last
year, as far as Lake Kenai, and trains
are operating over that much of road.
Ten crews of engineers will be put in
the field immediately in addition to the'
ones already working on the line.
Wail From Valdez—No Funds
VALDEZ, Feb. 11.—There is .great
danger that the> district courts of Alas
ka will be tied up by the. lack of funds
as
hill late last month. The Bill provides
that all license and other , moneys col
lected in Alaska, except 'fines, 3hall be
turned into the Alaska fund, to be spent
in builaing roads, etc. This does not
leave enough money for court expenses
to pay the salary of one janitor, to say
nothing of the other court attaches. In
fact, unless an appropriation is made
this congress, the entire machinery
the courts wili be blocked. Ail the
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shals have heretofore been paid out-the ;
funds collected by the court from var
ious sources and set aside for that pur
pose. But under the new law this has i
all been appropriated to the Alaska!
fund. Nor can the courts proceed witii;
business until the money . for expenses j
is available. They can contract no!
debts against the government and the <
only course open to them under existing j
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kinds not.paid directly from Washing-1
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the late firm by the miners of this'dis
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