FILINGS FOR
A OFFICE 1ST BE
ANNOUNCEMENTS OF CANDIDA
CIES MUST BE MADE SIXTY
DAYS BEFORE PRIMARIES
PARTY ELECTIONS APRIL 30.
.. Law Enacted at Last Session of Leg
islature Also Provides for Payment
of Fee by Those Seeking Public Po
sition.
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One of the acts passed by the last
territorial legislature relating to the
holding of elections in Alaska, and
designated to materially change the
methods heretofore in vogue in the
northland for choosing candidates for
territorial offices, is known as chap
ter 48, “to provide for the holding of
primary elections in the Territory of
Alaska, etc.”
By the provisions of this act all
nominees for office under the territor
ial government and the delegate to
congress, for attorney general or any
other office created by act of congress
or the territorial legislature, not less
than sixty days before the date of the
primary election (the last Tuesday in
April. 1018, and similarly every sec
ond year thereafter) must fil * with
the secretary of the territory a de. :a
ralion of candidacy, signed and ac
knowledged, and certified to by five
electors of the territory who are
members of the political party to
winch such candidate belongs, and he
shall pay to the secretary of the ter
ritory the proper fee with the filing of
such declaration. The last Tuesday
in April falls on April 30, so the dec
larations of candidates must be filed
by March 1.
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Candidate for Legislature.
AI' candidates for members of the
territoj ial legislature, and all candi
dates for the office of road commis
sioner or other provisional office, shall
also, sixty days prior to the date of
such primary election, file with the
clerk of the district court for the judi
cial division in which they reside, sim
ilar declaration of candidacy as those
required from candidates for delegate
to congress, attorney general, and
shall also deposit with the clerk of
the court the proper fee, the fee to
be turned over to the territorial
treasurer.
The term of the declaration of can
didacy is prescribed in the act, and in
it the candidates pledge themselves
that, if nominated and elected, they
will qualify for the office, and that
they will support and abide by the
principles enumerated by the party to
which they belong in its national and
territorial p’a*forms.
Separate Tickets.
The election shall be, under this act,
con.iu* ted in all respects in accord
ance with the rules and regulations
pertaining to general elections in the
teritovy, with the exception that, in
stead cf the Australian ballot system
being employed, there will be provid
ed separate tickets for each of the po
litical parties represented by candi
dates. and on each of such ballots
there .-hall be plainly stated the po
litical party whose nomination the
candidate thereon seeks. These bal
lots are to he provided by clerks of
Lm courts of the. respective judicial
div: ions, and these, together with the
customary election supplies, shall be
forwarded by such clerks to the elec
tion officials at such primary elections
shall be the same as those acting at
general territorial elections.
L’nder the provisions of the act, the
po.is at such primary elections shall
remain open during the same hours,
and the balloting shall be done in the
same manner, as nearly as practicable,
except that a ballot box is provided
for each political party represented
by candidates, and each voter who of
fers to cast a ballot shall announce
his name, place of residence and par
ty affiliation, all of which shall be
registerd by the clerks of election.
Upon this announcement and registra
tion the voters will be handed a bal
lot of the political party with which
he claims to be affiliated, and after
having marked and folded such bal
lot it shall be deposited in the box des
ignated for the same political party.
Canvassers of Votes.
The clerks of courts for the several
divisions are canvassers of votes for
their respective divisions. As soon as
possible after the receipt of the re
turns from the various precincts, and
not later than 45 days after such
primary election, or as soon as the
clerk of any division shall be satisfied
that the returns from any missing
precincts cannot alter the result of
the election, it is his duty to canvass
the same publicly, and telegraph the
result to the secretary of the terri
tory, who may avail himself of such
telegraphic returns in deciding who
have been nominated by the respect
ive parties as candidates for the sev
eral territorial offices.
The filing fee required of all candi
dates is one per cent of the annual
salary of the office each aspires to,
but in no instance shall such fee ex
ceed the sum of forty dollars. From
| the fees thus received by the terri
torial treasurer shall be paid all the
expenses of the primary election.
The candidates on each ticket re
I reiving the highest number of votes
for any office shall be placed on the
1 official ballot of the general election,
j together with the designation of the
j political party by whom nominated,
j and there shall also be placed on the
official ballot, but without the desig
\ nation of their party affiliation, the
; names of all candidates filing nomina
tion papers in conformity to the pro
vi. :"ns of sections 11, 12 and 13, of
'chapter 25 of the session laws of the
te. itory of Alaska for the year 1015.
The qualifications of the electors at
the primary election shall be the same
ns at the general election, and the
penal provisions of the general elec
tion law prescribing punishment for
the violation of that law, are also ap
plicable to elections held under the
provisions of the primary election
act.
DK. ESTHER POHL LOVEJOY TO
STUDY CONDITIONS IN RE
PUBLIC OF FRANCE.
“Dr. Esther Pohl Lovejov, of Port
! land, Oregon, has been authorized by
I the American Medical Women’s as
j sociation to go to France to study the
conditions regarding maternal mor
tality. Dr. Lovejoy is one of the fore
most women physicians of America
and has made a special study of this
subject in its direct bearing on con
ditions among women brought about
by the war.”
The foregoing footnote is to be;
found beneath the picture of a for
mer resident of Fairbanks appearing I
in the December issue of the Pictor- |
ial Review, savs the Fairbanks News
, i
Miner. It refers to Dr. Esther Fohl,
formerly the wife of Dr. Emil Pohl,
i who practiced medicine in Fairbanks
■ for many year and who died there
several years ago.
Owing to the fact that the name
“Lovejoy” is connected with the name
of Pohl, it was at first thought that
the reference was not to the woman
physician formerly so well known in
Fairbanks. Former friends of the
family, however, have identified the
picture as that of Mrs. Pohl, and it
is therefore evident that the former
Fairbanks woman has attained
enough nation-wide prominence in
her chosen profession to have been
selected as the representative of all
women doctors of America in France.
HE HAD FORGOTTEN.
One morning a good tramp called at
a house for something to eat. After;
a sandwich and some cake had been j
given to him, he said: “But this is a
wheatless day!” “Oh, I am so sorry,”
the lady replied, “I forgot, here is a
paper napkin; perhaps you would like
to wrap it up and save it for tomor
row;” “Thank you, lady, a fine idea.”
But when she later found some
crumbs on the garden steps she said
to herself, “I'm afraid he has forgot
ten.”
GOVERNMENT IS
URGED TO IN
GEORGE VAUSE RETURNS FROM
VISIT OF SIXTY DAYS IN SE
ATTLE AND VICINITY.
DRAFT HAS BECOME POPULAR.
Residents of Puget Sound Metropolis
Are Giving Obedience to Conserva
tion of Food Orders—Many Anchor
age Folks There.
Citizens of western states are
heartily in favor of the action of the
I
United States government in taking
over and operating the railroads of
the country and are now demanding
that the government take over the
lumber and allied industries, accord
ing to George Vause, former superin
tendent of navigation on the Susitna
river for the Alaskan Engineering
commission, who has arrived in An-;
chorage from a visit in Seattle.
Mr. Vause left here November 10. !
“The Red Cross membership drive j
in the states was a tremendous sue- j
cess,” continued Mr. Vause. “The
original plan was to increase the
membership of the Red Cross from
10,000,000 to 15,000,000. The result
of the great drive was to bring the
membership to 18,000,000. Seattle
took a prominent part in the drive and
contributed more than her share.
Change in Sentiment.
“The attitude toward the selective
draft law by the youth of the coun
try has materially changed recently
and the young men now realize that
the training resulting from life in
the cantonments is a matter to be
highly desired. Some even go so far
as to state that the soldiers in the
training camps should pay Uncle Sam
rather than receive pay from him.”
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Mr. Vause visited the American
lake cantonment where there are in
training at the present time approxi
mately 40,000 soldiers and speaks
very highly of the methods adopted
by the officers to develop and train
the soldiers. The living conditions
are particularly pleasant and health
ful and while the work is at times
strenuous there is sufficient recrea
tion and entertainment to relieve the
ixiunuLuiiy.
Seattle, according to Mr. Vause, is
a bee hive of industry, and ship
building plants are working night and
day to keep up with the demands of
the government for more ships.
Food Regulations Observed.
“Much enthusiasm,” he said, “is ex
hibited by the residents of Seattle in
the observance of the meatless and
wheatless days and in most of the
homes the suggestions of the national
— od administration regarding the
conservation of food are strictly ob
served.
The freighter Revele, southbound
from Cordova, while in the Clarence
straits about twenty miles from Ju
neau, lost her propeller and was
picked up by the steamer Alameda
and towed into Wrangell, said Mr.
Vause, who was a passenger on the
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Alameda.
Mr. Vause met a number of An
chorage folks in Seattle, among whom
were Captain R. H. Holbrook, now
skipper on the steamer Tourist, which
plies between Seattle and Bremerton.
Captain Harry Barrington, who was |
with the Alaskan Engineering com- i
mission during the past two years on
the Susitna river, is acting as pilot on |
the steamer McGillivray, which also !
operates between Seattle and Brem- j
erton.
Mr. Vause will resume his duties j
with the Alaskan Engineering com- ;
mission and with the opening of nav
igation will likely be stationed be
tween Talkeetna and Indian river.
A LEGAL COURTSHIP.
“I sue for your daughter’s hand,”
declared the young lawyer.
“I rule against you,” responded the
judge.
“Is there no court to which I can
take an appeal?”
“Yes. I must admit that her mother
reverses many of my decisions.
JOSEPH JANEY AND ROBERT
SCHMITH ACCUSED OF SAY
GERM ANY IS RIGHT.
ABUSED WORK OF RED CROSS.
Prisoners Are Held in Jail While In
structions Are Awaited From At
torney General as to What Shall B«
Done With Them.
Joseph Janey and Robert Schmith,
of Cordova, have been arrested there
by the federal authorities, according
to the Cordova Times, on the charge
of having uttered seditious senti
ments. It is alleged they stated that
in the present war Germany was right
and the United States wrong. They
are also accused of making statements
derogatory to the American Red
Cross and its war work. This alleged
talk extended over a period of two
weeks.
Janey and Schmith formerly were
employed at the Cordova city bakery
where it is alleged that most of the
seditious talk took place, while they
were working on the night shift and
the proprietors were not present. As
soon as the facts became known to
Hartwig & Riesling the proprietors,
they cooperated with the federal auth
orities and gave valuable service in
securing evidence against the men.
Janey and Schmith are at present
in the federal jail and their cases have
been reported to the attorney general
at Washington, who will determine
whether they shall remain in Cordova
for the period of the war or be sent
outside to an internment camp.
FORTY-FIVE KILOWATT HYDRO
ELECTRIC PLANT HAS BEEN
PUT IN OPERATION.
COST IS FIGURED AT $22,000.
Enterprise Is Said to Be Fartherest
North of Any of Its Kind on Am
erican Continent and Relative Out
lay Is Highest.
A forty-five kilowatt hydroelectric
plant for light and power in the town
of Chitina has just been put in opera
tion. It was built by the owners and
operators, O. A. Nelson and M. S. Nel
son and has been under construction
for more than two years, and repre
sents an outlay of about $22,000,
which is probably the highest per kilo
watt of any plant in the world. Among j
its distintive features is the fact that
it is the farthest north of any year
round hydro-electric paint on the con
unent.
Small Lake Near Town.
Adjacent to the town of Chitina,
v^-hich is north of Cordova on the Cop
per River and Northwestern Railroad
is a small acre lake which is fed by
several mild springs that keep the
lake from freezing to any consider
abel depth even in the coldest winter.
This lake is a hundred feet in eleva
tion above the Copper river and sep
arated from it by a ridge. By driving
a 1,400 foot tunnel through this ridge
the water from the lake is carried
over to the Copper river side where
it is dropped down 100 feet through
270 feet of sixteen inch steel pipe.
Tunnel Is Biggest Part.
The tunnel was the biggest pai't of
the whole proposition. It was driven
through 900 feet of frozen earth and
loose rock and 500 feet of extremely
hard, solid rock. The earth and loose
rock were thawed with steam points,
such as are used in the Alaskan placer
camps where the permanent frost, as
at Chitina, is a few hundred feet deep.
The tunnel was timbered to prevent it
from caving in where the warm water
from the lake has thawed the earth
around it. The solid rock was drilled
with a power drill operated with com
pressed air, and blasted out with dyn
amite. Tony Span deserves a large
part of the credit for the successful
completion of the tunnel.
Nature of Power Plant.
The power plant consists of a seven
ty-five horsepower Leffel turbine with
automatic Woodward governor. The
turbine which has a speed of 1200 r.
p. m. is direct connected exciter, mak
ing a compact plant. The generator
delivers a three-phase alternating cur
rent at 2300 volts, which is carried
half a mile on a through wire trans
mission line to the town where it is
distributed to numerous transformers
that step it down to 110-220 volt cur
rent.
The rate for lighting current by
meter is 20 cents for the first fifteen
kilowatts, seventeen cents for the next
ten and fourteen for all over that in
each month. Special rates are given
for motors of larger size.
Average Rate for Current.
The average rate for current is
about 17 cents, which has to compete
with gasoline and kerosene at 60 cents
a gallon.
It was intended to have the plant in
operation by October 1, but due to
strained conditions of factories and
transportation the generator could not
be delivered on time and it was not
until Deecmber 20 that the first lights
were thrown on. The excessively cold
weather through all of December de
layed things still further.
The plant can supply the present
demand for current but will be en
larged when the demand exceeds its
capacity.
DESCRIPTION OF SUPPLIES CAR
RIED BY B. F. SWESEY AND
\V. G. WEAVER.
SELDOVIA OFFICER WRITES.
Deputy Marshal Says There Is No
Truth in Report Regarding Find
ing of Boat or Any Trace of
Wreck.
Description of the grub box and its
contents, belonging to Benjamin F.
Swesey ,of Seward who was lost with
William G. Weaver, also of Seward,
when their boat was wrecked in Cook
Inlet off Cape Elizabeth last October,
is made public in detail by Deputy
Marshal C. W. Barrington, of Sel
dovia. He says there is no truth in
the report regarding the finding of
the boat owned by the two men. His
letter follows:
“The grub box marked Swesey and
Revelle picked up on Elizabeth island
about the 23rd of October by two na
tives and turned over to me by Mr.
Ludy is about twenty-four inches long,
eighteen inches wide and twelve in
ches high and contained about a week’s
grub, consisting of small slab bacon,
little flour, tea, sugar, salt, syrup, po
tatoes, two case knives and forks,
spoons, nearly worn out butcher knife,
candles, and two Marvel hunting
knives. One knife was marked B. F.
S. on the scabbard. There was no auth
entic report of a boat being foune.
The launch Earl, chartered by Mr.
Bronson of the Port Chatham iron
mine made a trip the last of October
to Pert Dick and while going and
coming went near the short of Eliza
beth island and blew the whistle con
tinuously while passing but did not
see any sign of life, either at Eliza
beth island or any portion of the trip.
This is the last launch so far as I
know that has been in that part of the
country.”
DANGER AHEAD.
“Don’t you enjoy listening to the
honk of the wild goose?”
“Not when he’s driving an automo
bile.”—Exchange.
TAKING A CHANCE.
Some of the poets are venturing to
rhyme “camouflage.”—Exchange.
ALASKA’S SEAL
HERD NUMBERS
ANIMALS UNDER GOVERNMENT
PROTECTION ARE INCREAS
ING 35,000 YEARLY.
1918 INCOME TO BE $750,000.
Revenue Derives from Foxes at Pres
ent Time Amounts to About $60,000
Annually According to Report of
Federal Official.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 10.—
The fur seal herd in Alaska now
numbers close to 400,000 animals, and
is increasing at the rate of about 35,
000 a year. The probable income of
the government from the herd in the
fiscal year ending June 30 next will
be upward of $750,000, acccording to
Hugh H. Smith, United States fish
commissioner, and it will increase
steadily thereafter. It is the belief
of Smith that the time is coming
when the government will derive a
net inome of $1,000,000 a year from
the herd without any impairment
of it.
Income From Taxes.
In addition, thei’e is the income
from foxes in Alaska, now amount
ing to about $60,000 a year. From
seals and foxes the government is
now making two or three times as
much as it appropriated by congress
for the Alaska work of the depart
ment of commerce.
The total number of seals esti
mated to be in the herd in 1915,
when an official count was made, was
! 368,872, as compared with 294,687 in
11914, 268,305 in 1913, and 215,738 in
11912. The number in 1916 was
| 417,329.
In 1912, 5,228 pups of the season
| were branded on the Pribilof islands.
■ Subsequent observations made on
| these branded animals have been pro
j ductive of valuable information in
: regard to the natural history and
1 growth of seals.
Some of these animals were ob
served in 1913, and in 1914 they were
noted in large numbers. The number
that returned in 1915 was so large in
; comparison with the total number of
| seals under observation, as to indi
| cate a lower mortality in the first
| three years of a seal's life than had
I ordinarily been assumed.
The plan of- marketing the seal
skins in this country, instead of send
ing them abroad, has been a marked
success, according to government ex
perts, who point out that a reliable
market now exists at St. Louis which
j is well supported. This home mar
| ket idea was given definite impulse in
11915. Seal and fox skins are now
J dressed and and dyed in St. Louis,
and the annual sales are attended by
many home buyers.
WILSON’S ADDRESS
PLEASES RUSSIANS
MUSCOVITE EMBASSY IN WASH
INGTON ISSUES STATEMENT
EXPRESSING APPRECIATION.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 10.—
The Russian embassy in Washington
city today issued a formal statement
expi’essing appreciation for the senti
ments enunciated by President Wil
son in that part of his recent address
to congress referring to the Russian
people.
Magna Charta of Peace.
LONDON, Jan. 10.—London news
papers continue to comment with ap
proval on President Wilson’s recent
address before the American congress
outlining the aims of the United
States in the war. One leading jour
nal characterizes the address as the
“Magna Charta of Future Peace.”
It says that President Wilson dealt
more considerately with the Maximil
ist party in Russia than did Lloyd
George, premier of England, in his
recent speech, but that otherwise the
addresses of both leaders were very
similar.