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A Large Parlor and
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H. T. STAFSHOLT
PROPRIETOR
THE HOTEL
CHITINA
ENLARGED AND COMPLETELY RENOVATED
SPACIOUS LOBBY STEAM HEATED
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The Comfort Home of the Interior
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Proprietor Chitina, Alsaka
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The disposition of a fund exceed
ing $00,000 paid into the Alaska Ter
ritorial treasury ns 25 per cent, ol
the proceeds of the sales of timber*
and leases of land within the Ton
gass and Chugach forest reserves If
e of the matters that the legislature
will be called upon to decide, and It
is one that promises to create some
division of sentiment. It is conaend
ed by some that this fund should be
expended for the benefit of roads and
schools within the First and Third di
visions, as the forest reserves nre
situated within these divisions.
Others contend that the funds
should be distributed throughout the
territory.
The Law on the Subject
The federal law which controls the
expenditure of this money reads ns
follows:
“That hereafter twenty-five per
cent, of all moneys received from each
forest reserve during any fiscal year,
including the year ending June 30.
1908, shall be paid at the end there
of by the Secretary of the Treasury
to the state or territory In which said
reserve Is situated, to be expended as
the state or territorial legislature may
prescribe for the benefit of the public
schools and public roads in the coun
ty or counties in yhich the forest re
— »'>w'iuru iiihi wnen
any forest reserve is in more than
one state or territory or county, the
distributive share to each from the
proceeds of said reserve shall be pro
proportional to its area therein.”
While Alaska hnB no counties, mem
bers of the legislature from the first
division contend that the judicial di
visions under the Alaska organic act
are equivalent of the counties of
other states and territories.
However, the members of the legis
lature from the Second and Fourth
divisions, who favor the divleton of
the fund into four equal parts for
expenditure in all four divisions have
a ruling of the Treasury department
to justify the legality of the fund.
Department Ruling
The following is a decision of the
Comptroller of the Treasury, rendered
for the guidance of Governor J. F. A.
Strong at a time when the disposition
of this fund was a matter of corres
pondence between the Governor and
the Treasury department.
“The underlying purpose of the stat
utes is that their benefits shall go to
the public schools and public roads
of the fiscal subdivision whose re
sources have been impaired by the
withdrawal of land for national for
ests. if Alaska has no fiscal units
corresponding to counties in other
states or territories then the terri
tory of Alaska is itself the fiscal unit
in which any of the forest reserves are
located and should be so considered
in dealing: with these statutes..
"Alaska was divided into political
subdivisions called ‘judicial divisions,’
I do not find, however, that in the col
lection of revenues and their appli
cation to the expenses of public
schools and public roads division lines
have been recognized by her fiscal
laws.
"Revenues of incorporated towns
were applied to school and municipal
expenses of the municipality in and
for which they were collected, but
revenues collected outside of incorpo
rated towns were carried in what was
known as the ‘Alaska Fund,’ which
was available for school and road pur
poses throughout the territory gener
ally. There was no segregation of
the revenues of each division and no
separate apportionment by divisions
of the revenues collected.
"The national forests of Alaska
were not taken from any county or
counties or corresponding fiscal di
vision or divisions. The territory
itself is the fiscal unit from which the
forests were taken, and the territory
is the unit to which any benefits of
the act must accrue.
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"CAPT:” BEASLEY FIGHTING
"Jim” Beasley, noted Alaskan ro
tnancer, whose name has furnished
much copy for the scribes on the New
York papers during the past five
years, is now fighting with the Allies
according to reports.
FAMOUS OLD McOULLOCH
WILL BE AT THE FAIR
The United States coast guard
steamer McCulloch, which became
famous as Admiral Dewey’s dispatch
boat at the battle of Manila bay, and
the steamer Unalga, latest addition
to the service on this coast, will be
anchored In man-of-war row at San
Francisco the coming summer as a
part of Uncle San’s exhibit at the
Pannma-Pacific exposition.
The Unalga, which In lying In Se
attle harbor, will leave that port about
April 20 for the South entrance of
Unimak pass, where she will cruise
about ready to aid the fleet of fishing
craft and merchantmen which go to
Bering sea early each spring.
After performing this service the
officers of the Unalga expect to be
ordered to the exposition. The
steamer McCulloch Is now at San
Francisco, her winter station.
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MODE BERING GOAL
CLAIMS CANCELLED
The officers of the Juneau land of
flee received from the commissioner
of the general land office at Washing
ton, a notice of their decision in re
gard to the Hartline group case, In
volving fourteen coal claims of the
Hartline Coal company, in the Bering
river field, containing approximately
2,000 acres of land.
The decision of the commissioner
modifies the decision of the Juneau
officers, in that it holds that the charge
of fraud brought by the government
had been sustained by the evidence,
but accepts the decision of the local
officers in that the claimants had
failed to open coal mines on the claims
located.
The officers of Juneau office at the
time the case was decided, held that
f there was not sufficient evidence pre
sented by the government to sustain
the charge of fraud.
The Hartline claims were chiefly
claimants of one family residing in
Ana, Ills., and acted through their
agent, John W. Hartline.
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LAND DONATED FOR
LIBRARY AT SEWARD
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Our former townsman, Robert Ash
land, owner of a large tract of land
in Seward, Alaska, sent a telegram to
Mrs. J. Borden Harrlman, of New
York, volunteering to donate four
lots for a site for the public library
which Mrs. Harrlman proposes to
give to the city. His telegram fol
I lows:
“Mrs. J. Borden Harrlman, New
i York:
“All Alaskans are glad to hear of
your intention to erect a public libra
ry at Seward. Being an Alaskan and
having at heart Alaska's welfare lu
general, and Seward's in particular, I
would be glad to donate four lots
or more in Laubner’s addition to Sew
ard, for the site of the said library."
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GOVERNOR CLARK TALKS
“ALASKA” TO CLUBMEN
Walter Eli Clark, eighth governor
of Alaska, who is now owner and pub
lisher of a Republican daily newspaper
at Charleston, W. Va, recently ad
dressed the Men's Club of the Kana
wha Presbyterian church at Charles
ton, on "Alaska.” The church 1b
the largest in the Kanawha valley, its
Men's club having a membership of
three hundred.
Governor Clark spoke on the agri
cultural, mineral and forest resour
ces of the territory, and predicted that
in time Alaska would take her place
among the states of the union as one
of the richest commonwealths under
the Stars and Stripes.
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NEWSPAPER MEN WILL
EDIT NEW MAGAINE
J. .1. McGrath ami Bernard M. Stone,
Seward newspaper men, are about to
begin the publication of a magazine
"The All-Alaska Review,” according
to word received here.
McGrath, who is a veteran news
paper man in Alaska, at one time pub
lished the Alaska Review at Seattle.
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You will be pleased if you eat at
the Windsor grill.
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Kinne-y has a corner on Coffee.
What we mean is COFFEE, not the
wishy-wiBhy kind you have been
buying and nicknamed coffee. One
can of Dwight Edwards will convince
STILL NEGOTIATING
FOR C, R. & N. 10, BT.
A Washington dlspntch under date
of Feb. 21 aaya:
"If Secretary Lane had hoped to
acquire both the the Copper River
ft Northwestern and the Alaska North
era, and many things point to the fact
that he did, there is evidence that
he has not won the President entire
ly to his way of thinking. To put
it bluntly the President has been af
fected by the campaign some inter
ests have been conducting against any
proposed purchase of the Copper Riv
er road.
"Hence the President's refraining
from making a fight to get more than
$2,000,000 this year from congress.
Talk that the administration proposed
to buy out the J. P. Morgan road was
distasteful to him. The result is a
small appropriation and promise of
comparatively little work being done
in Alaska. Much of the $2,000,000
granted will be used in further sur
veys.
This does not mean that negotia
tions for both the Copper River and
the Alaska Northern are to be drop
ped. Those for the Inst named road
have progressed far. It is signifi
cant that Thomas Riggs, of the Alas
ka Engineering Commission, spent
several days in New York last week,
and the responsible ownership of the
Copper River lies in New York.
Also of significance in other ways
Is the fact that Sidney FI. Condon,
confidential secretary to John Skel
ton Williams, comptroller of the cur
rency, has resigned his position to be
come assistant cashier of the Harri
man National bank at Seward, the
bank chartered last week. He will
leave for Alaska about March 1."
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REPRESENTATIVE TANS!
SUBJECT OP WRITE-UP
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The Juneau Dispatch has the fol
lowing to say about Cordova's only
representative in the territorial legis
lature:
T. B. Tansy, of the Third division,
for the lower house, has been an as
sayer for the past two years at the
Kennecott mine.
Mr. Tansy was put forward as the
compromise candidate by Cordova fdr
the last legislature, but some of the
different factions were so busy knif
ing each other that he got lost in the
shuffle, although he got a big vote
among the miners and workingmen.
Mr. Tansy is a typical Alaskan and
prospector and miner. When some of
the “boys” adviBed him that he ought
to get out and spend a little money
in order to make himself popular and
better acquainted among the business
men, he declared that he would not
spend one red cent toward getting
elected other than necessary printing
bills for campaign purposes, and he
stuck to that.
“They know that 1 am a working
man, without ready cash.” he said,
"and if I have to buy my way to be a
good fellow, 1 don't want the Job.”
Vainly some of his frineds tried to
get him to recede from this position,
but he was as stubborn as an old
Missouri mule and wouldn’t budge an
inch, all of which shows that Mr.
Tansy has a mind of his own as well
as some pretty strong convictions.
He has a hOBt of friends among the
working classes and those who know
him best declare that he will stand for
a square deal for every class, whether
the working men or the capitalists.’’
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SAM MANDICH IS
ALIVE AND WELL
Sam Mandlch, reported to have fal
len in battle with the Servian troops,
is alive and well. The local warrior
writes to E. Valentine from Kragu
jevatz, on a postal card showing
Mandich’s picture, and that of a com
rade. Sam is now fighting behind
a big black mustacblo ami the picture
shows him with a bayonet fixed on his
gun, and his cartridge cases well
filled.—Juneau Empire.
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GEO. BUSCH RESIGNS
FROM EXPRESS COMPANY
Geo. J. Busch, chief route agent in
Alaska for the Wells-Fargo Express
company, and who has many fiends
in Cordova, has resigned his position
and W. 8. Saunders has succeeded
Him. It is understood that Mr.
Busch iB in San Francisco
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