The Knik News
Published Every Saturday by The
Seward .Gateway .Publishing Co. at
Knik, Alaska.
BERNARD M. STONE, President.
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The territorial legislature has a
plethora of bills introduced seeking
to create a new mining law. If
the legislature would content itself
by simply repea ing the territorial
mining law, thus making the
Wickersham federal mining law in
full force and effect, a happy solu
tio of the problem would be found.
It s r.esnogood purpose to ever
lasti giy meddle and tinker with
the mi ing l .w. It only tends to
breed confusion and litigation.
Speaker Champ Clark, President
Wilson’s chief opponent at the Bal
timore convention, in a recent
speech, said of the chief executive:
‘Me is careful, conscientious,
patriotic and brilliantly able. He
is one of the great presidents whose
names can be counted on the fin
gers of one hand. He is bearing
the greatest load of responsibility
of any president since Lincoln’s
time. ”
Every AlasKa newspaper ex
change that has readied the News
has favorable comment to make on
the large list of settlers whose
names were published ill this pa
per. . his week eight prospective
homestea lers arrived to look over
the country. And there’s still
room for more!
Secretary of the Interior Lane
says that the opening of Alaska, as
contemplated by the construction
of government railway lines, may
be compared in importance with
the building of the Panama canal
The Commercial Club and local
business houses, as well as individ
uals, are now receiving letters ask
ing for information about this
section, which shows that we are
advancing toward the limelight.
It is very gratifying to note that
this locality is to be given a govern
ment agricultural experiment sta
tion. That which aids the farmers
indirectly aids all of us.
Fresh vegetables at Brown 8c
Hawkins. “Quality first.”
Suits, “Alfred Benjamin,” and
'' 11 art, Shafner 8c Marks. ’ ’ Qual
ity first. Brown & Hawkins.
General News
Delegate Wickersham is an Ju-j
neau aiding the legislature.
Harry Yeager of Iditarod says
the camp will be a producer for
years to come.
Ketchikan experienced a wet
spell recently, when 1.45 inches of
water fell in 12 hours.
Sunrise is happy in the thought]
that Charles E. Herron will install
a dredge there this season.
The power schooner Bender
Bros, is taxing supplies to starving
natives of the Pribiloff islands j
Fairbanks has thirteen saloons'
and now seeks to induce Judge
Bunnell not to increase the umber, j
Albert White of Valdez has been'
appointed organizer for the republi
can party in Alaska and is on the
job now.
For three years Mrs. Van Curler
has been the only woman resident
on the middle fork of the Big Che-,
na river.
The Guggenheim Yukon Gold
Company has acquired the valua
ble Treadgold concessions in the
Klondike.
The power schooner Polar Bear,
Captain Louis Lane, has sailed for
the Arctic in quest of the lost ex
piUICI, OLCiCIlbbCU.
The Petersburg Report says a
malicious raven threw a soup bone
through a plate glass window in
that town recently.
A prospecting drill which is re
porte to possess virtues over ma
chines for iike service is a recent,
invention of a Cordova mechanic.
Encouraging reports continue to
come from the Tolavana district.
A number of new striK.es have been
made on tributaries of that stream.
Congress has passed a bill abol
ishing the $100 per mile tax on
railways in Alaska. '1 his will save
the Copper river road $18,652 an
nually.
S nator Millard has introduced (
a joint resolution in the legislature
urging congress to grant Alaska a
complete territorial form of govern
ment.
1
The United .States government'
has purchased Peary’s Arctic ex-1
ploration ship Roosevelt and willj
use it in Alaska waters a- a fisher-j
ies patrol boat.
Fred Villeneuve, a French Cana-i
dian, was found dead, his throat!
cut from ear to ear, in his cabin at'
Circle City recently. The murder j
is laid at the door of his partner,
John Johnson, who has fled the;
scene.
A Southeastern Alaska paper
says the strong men in the legisla
ture are Hubbard and Millard from
the Third division; Heid, Shoup,
Suker and HecKman from the First
division; Snow, Driscoll and Burns
Tom the Fourth, and Daly, Moran
ind Coombs from the Second.
Alaskans will not have to pay
poll taxes this year, according to a
report from Juneau.
Father Van dcr Pol, who has
been very ill in Oregon, is on the
road to recovery and is anxious to
return to Alaska.
Former Senator Ray is a candi
date for councilman at Seward.
E. T. Sawyer, son-in-law of J. T.
Harvey of KniK, is also a candi
date.
An ingenious former resident of
Fairbanks has a gold mine in an in
vention which prints lettering and
designs on apples and oranges with
out injuring the frnit.
Joe Warren, who was a deputy
marshal in the Second division and
widely known throughout Alaska,
is a special officer at the San Fran
cisco exposition. He is a man of
gigantic stature.
A Wickersliam municipal ticket
has been nominated at Valdez with
the following as candidates: Dr.
Eoyle, I)r. von Gunther, Edward
Austin, Ross Ve'key TT P, King,
Ed. Wood and Gtis Djarf.
George Watkins Evans, a noted
coal expert, says that 20,000,000
tons of coal are consumed aimually
on the Pacific Coast and there is
sufficient coal in the Matanuska
and Bering river fields to supply
this demand for 200 years.
Dr. E. Lester Jones, deputy
commissioner of fisheries, who got
himself disliked by declaring that
Governor Strong and Delegate
V- ickersham were not conversant
with matters pertain g to the fish
ing industry in A In si; a, has been
elevated to the position, of chief of
the U. S. coast and geodetic
survey.
For Sale—Two business locations
on main street, 60 and 40 ft front.
Building on lots suitable for small
business. Impure this office.
Preferred stock fruits and vege
tables. “Quality first.’’ Brown
& Hawkins.
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