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1 1 GEORGE DOOLEY, Secretary.
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;; 120 Steam Heated Rooms Single and Ensuite
;; Hot and Cold Water, Electric Lights
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CHITINA
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CHITINA, ALASKA
All Rooms Heated
CAFE and BILLIARD ROOM
A I .urge Parlor and
Reading Room
H. T. STAESHOLT
PROPRIETOR
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THE HOTEL
CHITINA
ENLARGED AND COMPLETELY RENOVATED
SPACIOUS LOBBY .... STEAM HEATED
CAFE AND BAR
The Comfort Home of the Interior
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Proprietor Chitina, Alsaka
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FIRST BANK OF CORDOVA
CAPITAL STOCK $25,000
4% on Time Deposits
Our Stockholders Are
S. BLUM GEORGE C. HAZELET
M. BROCK FRED GLASBRENNER
A. E. LATHOP DELIA LYONS
JAFET LINDEBERG
DESPOSITORY FOR TERRITORIAL FUNDS.
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" If Franklin K. Lane, secretary of
the Interior, or Woodrow Wilson, pres
§ ident of the United States, want to
use any timber, earth or stone from
tho nationnl forests of Alaska for the
construction of the government rail
road 'in the territory of Alaska, they
will have to pay the forest service for
It out of the railroad appropriation,
and take it under the forest service
supervision.
If Josephus Daniels, secretary of
the nnvy, wants to cut. costs in navy
shipbuilding by using the timebr from
" the national forests, he, too, will have
to pay out of his appropriations.
The rights, the powers and the pre
rogatives of (tie forest service In the
administration of the national forests
must be preserved.
This Is the ruling of the committee
on agriculture of the house of repre
sentatives, and the ruling has been
indorsed by the house Itself.
The reason given is that the forest
service is entitled to whatever hook
r keeping showing that can be made of
F earnings, even if that earning consists
r simply of taking money out of one of
F Uncle Sam's pockets and putting it
► in another.
As an immediate result the govern
ment railroad in Alaska will have to
pay out of its maximum allowance
of 135,000,000, just as a corporation
would pay, ofr Its ties and timber.
When the agricultural appropria
tion was being made in committee,
! proposals were submitted to it
to permit the government railroad in
Alaska to take earth, stone and tlm
ber free from the national forests, it
having been found that the national
forest service had no authority of law
to favor even Uncle Sam himself in the
matter of parting with the precious
! treek or anything else. Also a pro
. posal was submitted, at the insistance
of Secretary Daniels, to permit the
navy to take free such timber a. It
might need for naval purposes, it
being understood in both cases that
the costs of labor and transportation
were to be borne by the department
which took the timber or other mater
ial.
In the committee Representative
Henry T. Helgesen, of North Dakota,
opposed the proposal “The effect,"
he told the committee, “would be to
increase all of those appropriations
(those for the railroad and those for
the navy, by the amount of the value
of the timber or other material that
they took. They already have their
appropriations so far as they have
asked for them, or that congress
i linntrht (lint ItiAi! minUf * I.»_J
tills would increase them by that much
without any other act of congress. I
cannot see why they should be given
anything free of charge.”
The committee sustained Mr. Hel
geson, and when the bill came to the
floor of the house it did not contain
the desired language. Representa
tive Albert Johnson called attention
to the fact.
Replying for the committee, Repre
sentative James C. McLaughlin, of
Michigan, felicitated the country that
the people's "forests are being taken
care of.” Referring to the Alaska
railroad proposal he said.
“That matter was fully considered
and discussed by us iii^ the meetings
of the committee, and we determined
to recommend to this house that no
such provision should be put into this
appropriation bill. Congress has ap
propriated money for construction of
a railroad in Alaska, sufficient for the
purchase of materials of all kinds, and
there is no reason why that money
should not be used.
"The forest service is attacked in
this house every time a bill is present
ed more vehemently that any other
provision of the appropriation bill.
The forestry service is, and always
has been, more savegely attacked than
any other of the department of agri
culture. The amount of money neces
sary to carry on the service is crit
icised, and if we were to permit the
adoption of this provision, if we were
to recommend the incorporation in
this bill of a provision which would
permit the timber from the forests
to be taken for other branches of the
federal government without payment,
we would be recommending the use
by other departments of the proceeds
and assets of the forest reserves, while
we are coutiuuing all the expenses of
the service, expenses which are so
closely scrutinized and so severely
criticised.
"The forest service ought not to be
criticised because of lnrge appropria
tions made in Its behalf and be denied
the right to realize on its resources,
or to be asked to separate itself from
its property without receiving pay
ment or even being credited with the
value of tbe property.
"That is the reason why the com
mittee has refused to permit the in
corporation In this bill of the provision
for the use of timber from the forests
for the construction of railroads or
other branches of the government ser
vice without payment to the forest ser
vice.”
In consequence of this decision the
forest service is a factor of large mag
nitude to be considered in any rail
road building activity in Alaska. It
would be difficult indeed to do any rail
road construction in Alaska, such as
outlined by the railroad bill, without
trenching upon national forest soil.
But the government railroad build
ers may not touch a stick or stone
or remove a shoveifuli of earth with
i the boundaries of the national for
est without the consent of the national
forest service. That service also has
power and authority to supervise the
taking.
In other words there exists at least
an apparent conflict of authority, ex
actly of the sort described so vividly
by Secretary I>ane In his paper on "Bu
reaucracy in Alaska," which he pre
pared as an argument in behalf of his
proposal for the creation or an Alas
‘;an development board..
Curiously the reclamation service
years ago secured authority of law to
take timber free from national forests
for use in its projects, and still has
that authroity, but congress denies to
the navy department and to the gov
ernment railroad builders similar au
thority.
The senate, when the agricultural
t)l 11 reaches that body, may remedy the
natter. Failing that special legisla
ion will be necessary.
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TURKS ARE TRICKY
ON BATTLEFIELD
LONDON, Jan. 23—(Correspondence
)f the Associated l,ress)--"We are
lere very close to Adam and Eve's
ibode, the “Garden of Eden," writes
i lance corporal with the English
'oroes fighting the Turks Sn the coun
ry back of the Persian gulf.
“It is very hot and the country Is
10 place for n white man. We live
>n bread, tea, and dates. The great
est hardship is the scarcity of water.
[ have not had a shave or a wash for
teventeen days.
“We captured two forts and a tel
egraph office yesterday without the
oss of one man. The Turks lost
’orty. Some of the methods of the
rurks in action are curious. A fa
vorite trick of theirs is to fall down
n close action as if dead, and then,
lfter the line of British has passed
hem, they get up again and fire at
hem from behind.
While retreating the Turks frequent
y discard numerous articles of clotti
ng, lest they should impede their
flight. Before the retreat has lasted
ong they have nothing on but their
shirts and ammunition belts. No
matter how hot the fighting is, one
cannot refrain from laughing at the
spectacle of several hundred men run
ning at top speed with their long shirts
flapping around their bare legs.'
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ALASKANS IN YAKIMA
WILL DINE TONIGHT
The second annual “get together"
celebration, confined strictly to Sour
doughs and their families, of Alas
kans who are in Yakima, Washington,
will be held tonight.
The association has about 400 mem
bers in all parts of the Yakima val
ley. The executive committee elect
ed last year consists of E. B. Veit
kanke, president; It. S. Milroy, sec
retary; P. G. Kappleman, treasurer;
Mrs. N. C. Richards, George Thomas
and Arthur Haiti win, directors. Offi
cers for tile ensuing year will be elect
ed at the coming meeting.
KNIGHT'S ISLAND MINE
TO BE DEIIEEOPEI
The Shamrock mine, at Hogan
bay. Knight’s Island, is to be develoi
ed on a large scale, according to M. b
MaHtsno and Oanoran. who have Jus
returned from the property. Th
former is a wealthy Japanese of Seal
tie who lias acquired a $10,000 Interes
in the Shamrock Mining company, o
Hogan bay. Mr. Oauvoran is a well
known Seattle attorney who Is alsi
interested in the property.
On their return from an inspectloi
of the mine both expressed themselve
as being highly pleased with the prop
erly. Mr. Mastsuo, who has beoomi
wealthy through his knowledge o
mining, stated that they would return
possibly on the next trip of the Wat
son, leaving Seattle February 25, witl
a crew of thirty miners to begin op
erations. He believed the mine wai
worthy of extensive development.
ENGLISH CRUISER
HUMILIATED
IT TBS
CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 26—(Cor
respondence of the Associated Press)
—A correspondent of the Taswlr-I-Es
kira sends a number of interesting
episodes from the bombardment ol
the Turkish coast north of the citj
of Alexandrette. The most interest
ing of these Is how the threatened
bombardment of the city itself wat
averted.
After shelling the railroad line neat
Pajas, a British cruiser appeared be
fore Alexandrette, where, meanwhile
two locomotives of a train which had
been partly demolished by British
shells also arrived. The commander
of the British vessel demanded the
surrender of the garrison of Alexan
drette and the transfer of all arms
in the city within eighteen hours un
der penalty of bombardment of all
public buildings.
The reply made hy the Turkish
"ommander was that for each Turk
killed he would hnng an Englishman.
In the end it was arranged that the
blowing up of the two locomotives
hich had escaped the bombardment
at Pajas would settle the matter. The
correspondent speaks of the locoino
lives as “culpable” but does not ex
plain why he uses this term.
Later in the day the Turkish com
mander sent word to the British cruis
er that he could not find any dynamite
for the blowing up of the locomotives.
All the dynamite had been sent to
Damascus, he asserted. The com
mander of the British cruiser then of
fered to supply enough explosives for
the destruction of the two locomotives.
While these pourparlers were in nro
gross n Turkish locomotive engineer
hnrt quietly steamed to Pajas, hooked
Ins engine to the partly demolished
but still mobile train and then made
off In the direction of Mersina. When
the English heard of this they made
the two engines In Alexandrette use
less, and then steamed back to Pa
jas, too late, however, to reach the
train with their guns. With throt
tle wide open the Turkish engineer
was well away toward the tnterior
"hen the British crusier arrived off
Pajas.
To make the humiliation of the
British more complete they had in
the meanwhile been joined by the
Russian cruiser Askold. When they
returned to Alexandrette they found
that the commander of the city still
'insisted that for each Turk killed in
the proposed bombardment an En
glishman would be killed, not by
breaking his neck at the end of a rope
but by strangulation, possibly the
most horrible form of death. Check
mated the two cruisers steamed for
other ports.
Found—A Muff
After tlie dunce Saturday night a
lady’s As’rnkhun muff was found in
Engle hall. Owner may have same
by calling at the Times office.
Kinney has a corner on Coffee.
What »o mean is COFFEE, not the
wishy-wiahy kind you have been
buying and nicknamed coffee. One
can of Dwight Edwards will convince
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