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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1919
WHY EXCLUDE ALASKA?
Despite the avowed intention of the
department of the interior to see that
Alaska gets the benefit of legislation
being enacted in Washington to re
lieve conditions in the States, there
seetns to be a disposition on the cart
of the national law-making body to ex
elude this territory from practically
every bit of remedial legislation. This
Is especially true where it concerns
the nation’s so-called conservation
policy, says the Fairbanks Citizen,
The exclusion of Alaska, however,
Is not a new thing; it has been going
on for years. Remedial laxvs are en
acted to aid in the development of
the natural resources of the several
states, already in a state of partial
development, but they generally spe
cifically exclude Alaska. If these
law's will increase the ratio of devel
opment in natural sources of wealth,
already being worked, they will, or
would if permitted, undoubtedly as
sist in opening up the resources of the
country that are now locked up as
far as material advancement is con
cerned.
It can not be charged that all of the
fault lies at the door of our represen
tatives in Washington. Some of them
at least have made repeated efforts
to prevent such exclusion. That fail
ure has attended in a large measure
most of these efforts is no reflection
on their ability, but rather an illus
tration of the stubbornness of congress
•when it comes to dealing with Alaska
affairs. It has adopted a set policy
dealing with imaginary conditions
which in fact never existed, and it
seldom deviates from that policy. j
The eighty-rod strip provision be- j
tween homesteads applies only to
Alaska. A new coal and oil land j
leasing bill was recently passed by J
congress that, unless amended in the |
last hearings, does not include the
territory in its provisions. When Sec
retary Lane first proposed his sol
diers and sailors’ homestead measure,
it did not include Alaska in its provi
sions, despite the fact that the war
drew almost all of Alaska’s young
men into it, and most of them are still
in the States because of adverse con
ditions produced in Alaska by war
changes. These are but a few of other
and numerous instances.
:\Iost Alaskans would like to know
he why of it. The territory has been
termed a storehouse of riches. In fact
it is now a vault of potential wealth
M-nmn ttipvp is but one combina
tion, and congress has that. So far it
has refused to use it. We hang on
from year to year, hoping for a change
that so far has not come. If the fault
is the territory’s it is time it knew
it; if not, then surely it is time that
congress adopted a new policy. Every
resource is under lock and key save
our fisheries, and these are thrown
wide open under a^dea of increasing
the food production of t,lie nation. The
result is stagnation in the one case
and starvation for a large proportion
of the native population in the other.
The remedy, as has been frequently
pointed out, lies in the hands of con
gress. It is a matter of duty that
Alaskans unite in efforts to see that
it is applied.
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS /
George B. Grigsby invited King Al
bert to visit Alaska on a hunting and
fishing trip. The king said that he
would enjoy doing so, but that he had
too many questions to settle at home.
Sorry, king; we would be glad to have
you give the country the once over
and would have the game laws set
aside for the duration of your visit.—
Douglas News.
The Ketchikan Chronicle, comment
ing upon the need for a government
industrial training school for natives
in Alaska, says the advantages of such
a school might be extended to include
the white children as well. Perhaps;
but there should be industrial training
schools in connection with the high
schools in Alaska, The high school
offers the organization for the educa
tion of Alaski^children, and the work
in them should be extended as fast"
as the territory is able to do the work.
—Juneau Empire.
This paper has been late in appear
ing for the past few days, owing to
the fact that we have been adding a
few new parts to our typesetting ma
chine. The machine is aging, along
with the rest of us, and seems to\re
sent having new clothes hung or
draped upon it, and in such times it
pouts and bucks and fills and just
won’t perform according to the old
schedule. After it becomes "harness
broke” to the new fixin’s it becomes
good again, and today we note a
marked improvement in its morals and
actions, which would seem to indi
cate that the paper would be out on
time tonight.—Fairbanks News-Miner.
This town now has a half hundred
automobile owners, counting the dozen
owned by the signal corps. The roads
in the vicinity of the town allow the
use of autos the greater part of the
year, which adds materially to the
pleasures of the owners. The new
thing that should be done is to organ
ize an auto owners’ club, which would
be a factor in the building of better
.roads and keeping those we have in
better repair. The more cars used,
the greater the demand for good roads.
Had the proposed road to Fort Lis
cum been built, probably another
twenty-five cars would have been add
ed to the list, as the Granby, the Light
company and the officers and men at
the post would have quickly availed
themselves of this cheap and quick
means of transportation.—Valdez
Miner.
Retrieving Barbed Wire.
The problem of retrieving the burled
and broken barbed wire on the bat
tlefields of Flanders and northern
France is being tackled by the British
war office salvage committee, and a
machine 8>r the purpose lias been In
vented and built which is thus de
scribed :
One truck and trailer carries the
whole of the plant, which can work
on the most uneven ground. A stout
wire rope with a number of hooks is
worked by a winch. As the barbed
wire is drawn up it passes through
two sets of rollers, and the salved met
al appears in blocks from one foot to
18 inches square, and weighing from
70 to 80 pounds. For smelting it sells
for about .$25 a ten. The staff in
charge of the scheme thinks that there
are 100,000 tons that can be removed,
and if that Is the aggregate weight the
cost of the 40 outfits said to have been
ordered should be amply justified. -
Job printing at Daily Times office.
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NOTICE OF SALE
In the Probate Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division, Valdez
Precinct, at Valdez. In the matter
of the Estate of Robert D. Gray,
deceased.
Notice is hereby/ given that in pur
suance of an order of the above-en
titled court, made on the 22d day of
October, 1919, in the matter of the
Estate of Robert D. Gray, deceased,
the undersigned, executor of said
estate, will sell at pubic auction to the
highest bidder for cash, and subject to
confirmation by said court, at the of
fice of the United States commissioner
in Cordova, Alaska, all the right, title
and interest and estate of the said
Robert D. Gray, at the time of his
death, in and to all those certain lots
and parcels of land, with the buildings
thereon, situated in the town of Ka
talla, Alaska, and described as fol
lows, to wit:
Lots 3 and 4 and six feet of lot
5, in block 23, of the Townsite of
Katalla, Alaska;
The buildings on said lots, de
scribed as follows: One frame
building 20 feet by 40 feet, one
and one-half stories;
One frame building 12 feet by
4G feet, one story;
One frame building, 22 feet by
28 feet, one story, shed roof;
One frame building 24 feet by
68 feet, two stories. All said build
ings being connected together;
Wharf 16 feet by 40 feet, with
an approach 300 feet by 10 feet,
on lots 4 and 5 above, with 600
-xTeet of 15-pound steel rails;
And certain personal property, con
sisting of hotel furniture and fixtures,
now situated and located in the build
ings above described, and certain
wharf appliances and fixtures now sit- -
uated and located in and about the
wharf above described, and used in
connection therewith.
That all of the foregoing real and
personal property will be sold jointly
and in one lot at the place above men
tioned at 2 o’clock p. m. of the 22d day
of December, 1919. For further in
formation apply to the undersigned or
Edward F. Medley, attorney for said
oqto in
JAMES SMITH,
Executor of the Estate of Robert D.
Gray, deceased.
First publication, Oct. 29, 1919.
Last publication, Nov. 26, 1919.
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