OFFICIALS TO
CO OPERATE IN
ROADBUILDING
Forest Supervisor W. G. Weigh
arrived on the Alameda to confer with
Major W. H. Waugh, Captain John
Zugg and Lieutenant Sidney L. Cartel
of the Alaska Board of Road Commis
sioners, with reference to co-operation
in Alaska road work for the year
1919. These officials conferred this
morning, and later Major Waugh and
Mr. Weigle called on Governor Thos.
Riggs Jr., where a further conference
took place. All the officials were
agreed that there should be co-opera
tion in such a way as to make the
available funds produce a maximum
of results for the people, and they will
work together toward that end.
There are four separate road funds
in Alaska—ths fund that is under the
control of the Alaska Board of Road
Commissioners, of the War Depart
ment, the forestry fund that is under
the control of the office of Public
Roads, of which Major Waugh, presi
dent of the Alaska Board of Road
Commissioners is agent, a fund for
the construction of roads and trails in
the various forests, to be expended
under the direction of Forest Super
visor Weigle, and the Territorial fund
which will be expended under the di
rection of the Territorial Commission
ers, of which Peerry J. Wiley will be
chairman.
The Military Appropriation bill
carries $300,000 for the Alaska Board
of Road Commissioners. It will also
have its share of the occupational tax
funds.
The money available from the office
of public roads is now $139,000.
The forest fund under the control
of Forest Supervisor Weigle is $9,300.
—Juneau Empire.
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NOTICE
Any person taking fire apparatus
from the fire stations without permis
sion will be prosecuted.
D. T. PHILLIPS, Chief.
LOWER INSURANCE
PROMISED FOR JUNEAU
It will be remembered that about a
year ago Juneau was fortunate
enough to secure a reduction in fire
insurance rates, as against a general
rutse which was going on throughout
the United States.
This was brought about after a very
careful survey of the city’s fire fight
ing apparatus, Including the alarm
system, the equipment of motor
trucks, and the ’new high pressure
water system. The survey was con
ducted by Kennets C. Hamilton, rep
resenting the San Francisco Board of
Fire Underwriters, who on the morn
ing of his departure from Juneau
turned in a test alarm from the box
at the City Dock. This occurred at 5
o’clock one Sunday morning, and in
less than three minutes after the first
tap on the bell the big LaFrance truck
with nine men aboard were at the
City Dock prepared to tackle anything
in the nature of a fire.
In making his report Mr. Hamilton
took all these facts into consideration.
Also about this time a letter pointing
out some pertinent facts on the sub;
ject was written by one of the local
fire insurance agents, which proved to
the board of underwriters that the
Juneau rates could be reduced, in face
of the fact that a general raise was
going on over the whole country.—
Juneau Empire.
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Jack Holt, who is well known in
Valdez, is now playing opposite Anita
Stewart.
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Colonel Mary Pickford, when she
could not accept the invitation by
cable to go to France to join her regi
ment in their peace celebration, sent
a cable and a check for $1,000 to
make up for her absence. She ap
peared at the Empress again last
evening in “A Romance of the Red
woods” to a crowded house.
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Earle Williams is being sued for
breach of promise for $160,000 by
Roma Raymond of New York.
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Dustin Farnum, who has lost two
motor-boat races to Frank Carbutt
around Catalina island, is buildinig a
new boat in which he will try his luck
again. He will be at the Empress
(■soon in "Durand' of the Bad Lands.”
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George Beban is planning to go to
New York with his recently finished
picture, “A Son of Italy,” which is
supposed to be his best effort.
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Charley Chaplin received $250 for a
kiss from Lady Stewart McKenzie, a
visiting noblewoman from Scotland, on
New Year’s eve, on condition that he
present it to the Red Cross.
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William Shea died suddenly at his
home in Brooklyn. He was a big
favorite in the movies.
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Mack Sennett raided several Los
Angeles beauty parlors and corraled
a new bunch of pippins for his com
ing comedies. Watch the Empress
programs.
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SAYS GOOD COAL HAS BEEN
FOUND NEAR BROAD PASS
“We are having the finest weather
in the North, have had but one ses
sion of cold weather, and around the
Christmas holidays it was too warm—
just a few degrees below freezing,”
writes J. H. Scott, general agent for
the White Pass St Nenana.
Mr. Scott said that the mail service
in the Interior was impossible this
winter. “It takes two months to get
mail,” he said.
About the mining around Nenana
Mr. Scott wrote that he has become
convinced that they really have some
good mining prospects, both placer
and quartz along the railroad. The
first coal that was taken out, Mr.
Scott saw, was a big joke, but he con
tinued, he had reason to believe that
they have some good coal, especially
near Broad Pass. The coal here is of
a hard quality.
* At Christmas the old bachelors id
Nenana raised $500 and gave all the
kids a real tree and Santa, Mr. Scott
said, for “as they could get no booze
to celebrate with they decided to
spend their money on a more worthy
purpose.”
Speaking of the Princess Sophia
disaster, Mr. Scott said that the Ne
nana district was fairly distracted
watching the wire. It was impossible
to get news. He said that George
Marcus, whose wife and daughter
were victims of the wreck, was cer
tain that they were not on the boat,
for he had wired his wife to remain
North on account of the influenza
epidemic. “When the passenger lists
arrived the shock was so severe that
it almost knocked him out,” Mr. Scott
said.
WILL BE THE’LORD
OF ALL HE SURVEYS
HONOLULU, Jan. 2 (by mail).—If
Angus McPhee, a well-known stock
man of Hawaii, had the usual dream
of adventurous boyhood, sole and un
disputed possession of a tropical isle,
that dream has come to realization.
Mr. McPhee has leased for a period
of twenty-one years the entire island
of Kahoolaws, of the Hawaiian group,
from the territorial government. The
island contains about 30,000 acres.
For seven years the annual rental
will be $600, and appraisals will be
made then and every seven years
thereafter to fix the rental for the
later periods. Mr. MdnAle will run
livestock on Kahoolaws.
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