LEEHEY TALKS
< ABOUT SHIPS
AND SHIPPING
“The Alaska Territorial Shipping
Board is conducting a very search
ing investigation into everything
which pertains to steamship trans
portation to and from this terri
tory,” said Maurice D. Leehey to the
Ketchikan Chronicle as he was leav
ing for Seattle. “I am on my way
home from Juneau, where I went
for a conference with the board, ac
companied by Richard M. Semmes,
who has been retained as traffic
adviser. You know Mr. Semmes is
an old-time Alaskan of Yukon days
and was manager of the first Ad
miral line when it had the Bertha
and Portland on the run to South
west Alaska. Mr. Semmes had just
returned from army service and we
were fortunate to obtain him for this
work.
“We are going into every phase
of the question, and the steamship
companies promise to give us every
aid in assembling complete data. I
think the companies realize that our
Territorial Shipping Board is fair,
and wants to help the companies
with their troubles, thereby better
enabling them to give a better ser
vice and better rates to the shipper.
No doubt the steamshp people have
their troubles, and we shall also try
to find means to economize in the
service, but it is of prime import
ance that la definite schedule of
sailings be established and main
tained.
“Just now in the past 24 hours,
the only three passenger boats of
the Admiral line all called at
Ketchikan northbound. I am told
that none of them have any mail,
as that was sent north on the Prin
cess Mary which has a contract
from the Canadian post office de
partment. How long will the Cana
dian government allowr our govern
ment to sponge on them lor that
service? It is undignified in our
great government, to say the least,
but the post office department will
not award a mail contract unless the
companies agree 10 a ucmmc
schedule, and the companies say they
can not do so on the rates the depart
ment will pay. But we must get a
definite schedule some way. Three
northbound passenger ships here in
one day means none for several days.
m And the traffic seems large enough
¥ when you try to get space for
freight or buy a ticket. Why, I
can’t even get a steerage ticket to
Seattle. But we are going into the
whole subject fully, and that is a
big job, requiring some months of
hard work. We must first, know all
the facts which bear upon the sub
Jk ject, and I am sure we shall then be
able to find some relief from a sit
uation so absolutely forbidding to
Alaskan development.
“I have watched the mining de
velopment in the Salmon river val
ley above Hyder for twelve years,
as I have clients who have been in
terested there that long and who
have stood by the district with un
shakable faith. Now they have at
least two wonderful mines developed,
and others give almost positive
assurance of greatness. The great
schistose intrusion in which the
veins are found extends over on the
Alaska side, and mines will be de
veloped there also, but the Alaska
side is lower down and covered with
more debris and vegetable growth,
making prospecting more difficult
than on the Canadian side.
“And the one thing upon which
Alaska primarily depends for growth
is the development of her mines. I
appreciate the wonderful fisheries,
but the fact is they are developed too
much so far as salmon and halibut
are concerned. It is a question
whether that production can be
maintained, but there is no question
that Alaska’s mineral wealth has
scarcely been scratched. Why, pros
pecting has been done only along the
beach and below the timber line,
practically speaking. There are only
two or three operating mines back
from tidewater, while in all the
world outside of Alaska and British
Columbia there is not a single mine
operated at tidewater. If all this
can be had at tidewater in Alaska,
what will be developed when cheaper
transportation is provided to the
great Interior? So we are right
back to the fact that the one great
problem in Alaska is transportation,
and the Territorial Shipping Board
is hard at work to help solve it.”
GOVERNOR RIGGS
ENJOYS A BEAR HUNT
The following letter from Governor
Riggs of Alaska is published in a re
cent number of Outdoor Life:
“I finally got my bear and enclose
you a picture of it. My stenographer,
Mr. George W. Folta, who is known as
the champion bear killer of Juneau,
and I left here on a launch on June
19, headed for Berners Bay, but after
crossing the bar, we found the
weather so good that we decided to
make a longer run and go to Chicha
gof island. We arrived at Hoonah
the next day about noon and procured
information to the effect that there
were some bears in Port Frederick.
Near the head of Port Frederick Mr.
Folta discovered two bears on the
beach. We landed on the windward
side and sneaked up through the
brush. After traveling a short dis
tance we saw the bear browsing,
about 200 yards away. We made an
other sneak through the woods until
we were within about a hundred yards
and then I took a shot at him.
‘‘The bear started up the bank and
into the brush immediately. Mr.
Folta let loose with his automatic
with a couple of shots and we ran
over to where he was last seen. After
trailing him for about a hundred
yards we discovered blood and a little
farther on saw the bear in an opening.
I took another shot at him at him and
then Mr. Folta shot. In another hun
dred yards or so the bear was seen
in a little swamp, evidently in dis
tress, and Folta took the final crack
at him and he dropped.
‘‘On skinning him we found that my
two shots had punctured him just
back of the shoulders, while Folta’s
last shot broke his backbone. Of the
other shots, one took him in the fore
leg and another clipped off the end of
his nose.
“As this was the first grizzly whose
death I had been in on, I claimed him
as mine. He is a medium-sized bear,
measuring about seven feet from tip
to tip. The hair is in prime condi
tion and not rubbed.
“While we were up in the woods
after our bear, the game warden, who
was with us. ran across two more
on the beach, much larger. These
were evidently the first two we saw
and the one killed we knew nothing
of previously. We left the head of
Port Frederick the next morning and
went up another bay and saw a bear
in the distance, but did not get a shot
at him.
“If we had known the country I
am confident that we could have had
quite a successful hunt. However, I
am very well pleased with my first
grizzly.
“The picture enclosed, taken in the
woods, is not as clear as it might be,
as it was getting along pretty well to
ward night and it was raining slightly.
“THOMAS RIGGS, JR., Governor.”
NATION-WIDE ACTIVITIES
OF ILLICIT DRUG TRADE
NEW YORK, Sept. 5 (by Associated
Press).—Eight men were arrested
here yesterday with drugs in their
possession worth one hundred thous
and dollars, which was seized by rev
enue agents.
The raid w7as the most important
ever made in this district. The pris
oners are believed to be members of
a gang operating throughout the coun
try.
REOPENING FUR TRADE
WITH GERMAN DEALERS
NEW YORK, Sept. 5 (by Associated
Press).—The New York Fur Auction
Sales Corporation has established an
agency at Leipsig as the first move
in th,e re-establishment of the fur
trade with Germany.
AREA HELD BY*YANKS
HAS BEEN DOUBLED
COBLENZ, Sept. 5 (by Associated
Press).—Marshal Foch has decided
that the American forces are to hold
permanently a Rhineland area twice
as large as the area which has been
under American jurisdiction since the
last combat division went home.
SPANISH VETERANS
MEET IN WASHINGTON
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5 (by As
sociated Press).—William Jones was
yesterday re-elected commander-in
chief of the Spanish War Veterans.
Washington was chosen as the con
vention city for 1920.
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! The Southern league rule that
> managers must not appear in
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,4 Molesworth. The fat manager ;|z
5 of the Birmingham team dons a R
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;» Wilbert Robinson’s team. He !;
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MIME NOTES
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Joe Jackson is hitting again.
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Mule Watson seemingly is well
named.
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Dode Paakert continues to hit in
hard luck.
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The Nashville club is trying to brace
its team a bit.
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Gill is a Holy Cross pitcher, and has
both stuff and confidence.
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Reb Russell can play the outfield
and give a good account of himself.
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Babe Ruth has made a home run in
each of the American League parks.
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It Is reported that Casey Stengel
does not care to play in Pittsburgh.
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The collapse of J. Carlisle Smith is
one of the surprises of the season.
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Billy Southworth has pulled himself
out cf his batting slump in fine shape.
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Outfielder Earl Potteiger of Worces
ter is the Eastern league’s leading
hitter.
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You never meet “Rube” on the farm
any more. He now plays ball for a
living.
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Joe Hornung, veteran player of the
80’s, is now employed as a bank mes
senger in New York.
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From the way the Athletics and the
Phillies love the cellar, there must be
something in it for them.
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A1 Wickland, former Chi-fed and
later with the Beloit team, is going
along in fine style for the Yankees.
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Lena Blacklmrne is not expected to
do much hitting for the Phillies.
Crnvath took him on a waiver.
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