THOUGHT WICK INEFFICIENT;
BEEN ADJUDGED INSANE
Charles Estmere, a Juneau civil en
gineer, who went to Anchorage jus
prior to the recent election, on th<
self-charged mission of demonstratinf
to the residents of Anchorage tha
Delegate Wickersham was only abou
60 per cent efficient, and who had ela
borately worked out tables to demon
strate this fact, has ben declared in
sane by a jury in the commissioner'
court at that place. Estmere, no
long since sent to Secretary of the Ir
tertor Lane, at Washington, charge
against the Alaska engineering corr
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mission, alleging that they were wan
tonly wasting timber and proposing
remedies for the waste.
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John Rawson is removing his store
from the Ross building to the ground
floor of the Northern hotel.
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The Christmas services at the dif
ferent churches, where creditable pro
. grams were rendered, were largely at
, tended.
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The Dally Times is a member of the
1 Associated Press. Oot the news.
ROADS IS
SAYS LANE
In his annual report to congress,
Secretary Lane, of the interior de
partment, Bays emphatically that Alas
ka must have wagon roads. The fol
lowing is part of his statement:
“The roads that have been con
structed are not the fine highways
of many of the states, but they mark
the beginning of a system of military
and post roads which are of incalcu
lable service in the development of the
regions through which they run. Au
tomobiles during the open seoson ne
gotiate the road between Valdez and
Fairbanks, and Chitina and Fairbanks,
making regular trips. The further de
velopment of the mineral, agricul
tural and other resources of the ter
ritory is as much dependent upon the
construction. Railroads will open to
development extensive districts, to be
sure, but wagon roads must, in the
last analysis, be depended upon to de
velop tonnage for the lailroads.
Through the agency of good roads
the natural resources of the territory
will be developed; over these roads
mail routes will be established, and
the present cost of transportation
largely reduced, and, therefore, they
will be money savers as well as money
makers, for the national wealth will
thereby be greatly increased.
"The federal appropriation for roads
in Alaska for the present fiscal year
was substantially increased, and it is
suggested that hereafter congress
should appropriate annually not less
than $500,000 for this purpose for a
period of years. It will be an in
vestment that will be productive of
lasting results. The territorial govern
ment is co-operating with the federal
government in the building of roads
and trails so far as its means will
permit, and it is probable that here
after the sum available from the ter
ritorial treasury will be substantially
increased. The expenditures by the
Alaska road commission, which if
charged with the work of construct
ing and maintaining roads and trails
in the territory, during the fiscal yeai
amounted to $300,720.62, of whict
$135,708.80 was received from th<
Alaska fund and $165,000 from a spec
ial appropriation made by congress
Total mileage, wagon roads and traib
on June 30, 1016, was 2,210."
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When Ordering Job Work Don’t
Think It is Your Duty to Build Up
Concerns in the States, But Give
The People Who Are Paying i
Wages and Spending Their Money
In Cordova a Chance to Live.
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MOTION PICTURE FILMS
BE ADMITTED TO MAILS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. — Tin
postoffice department has issued ai
order that motion picture films wil
be admitted to the mails, beginnini
January 1.
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Job Printing at the Times.
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BUENOS AYRES, Bee. 26. — The (
plague of locusts that has assailed the
crops of the northern provinces of the
republic is slowly working its way
southward. These insects, together
with an unprecedented drougth.
threaten to reduce the crops by half,
and in some sections by an even great
er percentage.
The locust comes from some part of
the unexplored region of southern Bra
zil and pours over the country in great
streams so thick and long as to often
darken the sun. From Pena there
comes a dispatch saying that a stream
extending 30 kilometers has settled
upon the fields and left no green
thing in that part. The young,
hatched from the millions of eggs de
posited, have in places covered the
I railway so thickly as to impede traf
fic, and trains have been stalled until
the Insects have been shovelled from
the tracks and burned in ditches.
The government is waging a vigor
ous fight, but seems to be making
little headway. The department of
agricultural defense has 20,000,000 me
ters of metallic barriers for the pur
I pose of penning swarms, which are
then burned, trampled by farm ani
mals or buried. This is accomplished
• because the young locust Is without
wings. It much resembles a young
* grasshopper except its coloring is
i much brighter, red and yellow, black
i and green predominating,
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( Ladies' and gent's shoes oiled and
shined. Alaskan Hotel barber shop.
Prompt delivery.
YEW POWER BOAT BEING
BUILT FOR LOCAL TRADE.
Dave McDonald, who recently went
0 the states, has let the contract for '
1 modem motor boat, which he^will j
tut into service on the Cordova 'bay
vhen built. It will be sixty-four feet
long, with a fifteen foot beam and
three and a half foot draft. Two thirty
horse power Imperial engines will be
installed. Mr. McDonald expects to
sail from Seattle for Cordova on
April 1.
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Daring Hearts'
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