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ALASKAN DECLARES THAT
LITERATURE OF TERRITORY
IM .NOT DISTINCTIVE
JUNEAU, AlasKa. Mar. 9.—Altho
( Alaska is a “storehouse of inspira
tion for distinctive Alaskan litera
ture” there is a demand for writers
to “accurately portray the beauty of
Alaska and give the world a true
picture of the territory,” according
to R. E. Robertson ,a member of the
Parent-Teacher Association here.
* “I little doubt that if all the gov
ernment reports and surveys by va
rious companies written on Alaska
were dumped down on Alaskan soil
it would cover her 590,000 square
miles so deep that Mt. McKinley,
the highest peak on the North Amer
ican continent, would be covered,”
said Mr. Robertson. “And, despite
all that has been written about the
territory, there is nothing really dis
tinctive about Alaskan literature.”
Mr. Robertson declared certain
poems and novels classed as Alaskan
were not strictly distinctive.
THREE PEASANTS EXECUTED
MOSCOW, Mar. 7.—Three peasants
were executed near Odessa lor the
murder of provincial newspaper mer
whom peasants accused of spying foi
the government. Other correspon
dents in other parts of the countrj
are menaced.
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DRAINAGE OPERATIONS ADD
ACRES*TO DUTCH TERRITORY
AMSTERDAM, Mar. 9— Queen Wil
helmina will presently find her do
main enlarged by 150 acres. The
new territory has been annexed
from the sea, being the first actual
gain of ground as a result of the
Zuyderzee drainage operations, ac
cording to a report recently issued
here.
This gigantic undertaking, which
deals with an area of 1,400 square
miles and an estimated expenditure
of $100,000,000, was interrupted by
i the war, but has since been proceed
ing slowly at different points.
The difficulties encountered were
; great, but none of them was unfore
jseeu by the hydraulic experts in
charge. Time after time, the report
says, dykes or embankments erected
in the section of the island of Wier
ingen, slipped away into the sea ow
ing to the shifting nature of the sub
soil. With the quiet tenacity pecu
i liar to the Dutch in their everlast
i ing fight against sea encroachment,
iihe dykes were rebuilt again and
(again until they now stand six feet
| above high tide, and so firmly knit
| together with clay, sand, willow
j twigs, basalt and cement that the
I fiercest gales have done them not
! the slightest harm, the report says.
| The tests have been very severe
this winter. Recently during a fierce
storm the quaint island of Marken
escaped complete submergence by
only a couple of inches, while the
town of Monnickendam on the main
land was flooded.
JAPAN TO LIMIT MANEUVERS
TOKIO, Mar. 9.—Tentative plans
for the maneuvers of the Japanese
navy next autumn contemplate oper
ations decidedly limited in extent and
scale as compared with those recent
ly concluded. It is understood the
problem will be strategical rather
than practical. As roughly agreed
upon the plan is iu defend the Kure
naval port from an attack by a com
bined fleet advancing along the main
land coast from the seas to the
north of F.okaido toward the Inland
Sea via the coast of Shikoku prov
:nc *.
EXPERT FINDS RUBBER
TREES FLOURISHING IN
SOUTH PART OF LUZON
Manila, Mar. 9.—That Para rubber
trees will flourish in the southern
provinces of the Island of Luzon
within the typhoon belt, is the con
clusion reached by A. W. Prautch,
agent of the departure of agricul
ture, who has just returned from an
extensive inspection trip through the
provinces of Albay and Camarines
Sur.
After traversing the same region
in these provinces where 12 years
ago some 40,000 Para rubber seeds,
brought from Singapore, were plant
ed, Mr. Prautch declared in his re
port to the department that he found
hundreds of rubber trees that have
grown to maturity and are now sur
rounded by the jungle, owing to lack
of attention.
“Some 40,000 Para rubber seeds
were purchased by me in Singapore
and brought to the Philippine Islands
in 1912,” said the report. “The gov
ernment took a keen interest in this
movement to encourage rubber grow
ing and I was employed several
months in making a campaign in
Camarines and Albay provinces to in
terest the people in the cultivation
of the rubber tree. The seeds were
all disturbed and planted. They
grew wrell and today many are large,
matured trees.
“In most cases the seeds were giv
en to caretakers of distant hemp
plantations, and where this was done
the trees grew*. However, as the
rubber tree does not produce in less
than four years, interest had died
before the end of -that time. The
trees matured, the seeds dropped,
germinated and produced young trees
but today the tropical jungle sur
rounds them.
“I counted more than 600 large
rubber trees of 20 inches or more in
circumference and found one tree
which measured 39 inches in circum
ference. I counted 108 small rubber
trees under one large tree. These
sprouted from the seeds which fel
last August and September. I fount
many of these self-planted trees a;
thick as a man’s wrist and smaller
“The impression widely circulate!
that Para rubber trees will not grov
and flourish in the area where ty
phoons prevail is a myth, as thi
sturdy trees which I found complete
ly refute that argument. It is cei
tain that these trees will stand an;
storm, as they sway in the strong
est wind like bamboo. It appear
that someone expressed the opinioi
that Para rubber would not grow ii
the Philippines north of the Islani
of Mindanao. The thousands of mor
trees planted in an exposed positio
that actually have weathered man
severe tvnhoons in Albay and Can
arines show that this theoretic guess
is not founded on fact.
“I am thoroughly convinced that
rubber trees will thrive wherever
abaca (hemp) trees are successfully
grown.”
FRANCE MAKES FAST PROGRESS
COLLECTING WORLD WAR DOPE
PARIS, Mar. 9.—The historical
service of the French war depart
ment has beaten all records in the
preparation of its first collection of
documents relating to the World
War. It took the same service 40
years to complete the compilation of
the history of the war of 1870; in
this case it has done an equal
amount of work in about one-tenth
the time.
Documents were collected and
classified as the war went on, and
this work still continues. The doc
uments already fill four floors of the
big Babylone barracks in Paris, and
General Girard, who. directs the work,
anticipates that larger quarters will
eventually be needed.
Representative Frey, of the Missou
ri legislature, aged 71, took a pistol
away from a robber who tried to hold
him up, and the robber fled.
Sixty girls in a London shop went
on strike because one of their num
ber was discharged for smoking dur
ing the noon hour.
Hugh and Lige Landrum, cousins,
and both heads of families, killed
each other with shotguns at Laurel,
Miss., when Lige’s dog attacked the
other man’s sheep and was killed.
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FOUND—Bunch of keys, inquire at
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
CALL FOR BIDS
Sealed bids will be received up to
3 o’clock P. M„ Mar. 16. 1925 and then
publicly opened, for ali horses, wag
ons, harness, wagons and corral equip
ment, now located at the Government
Corral, at Anchorage, Alaska.
Included in the above are bob sleds,
horse shoes, ferrier’s tools. 12 head of
| work horses and harness, etc.
Any and all of the above can be in
spected at anytime, by applying to
the undersigned. Bids will be receiv
| ed for all or any part of same,
i The Alaska Railroad reserves the.
I right to reject any or all bids.
W. P. MEALEY,
Storekeeper.
; Dated Feb. 2. 1925. Anchorage, Alaska.
First Publication, March 5, 1925.
Last Publication. March 13, 1925.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior, United
States Land Office.
Anchorage, Alaska, Dec. 29, 1924.
Notice is hereby given that Axel A.
Johnson, together with his witnesses,
Gilbert M. Chambers, and Andrew An
derson, all of Seldovia, Alaska, has
submitted final proof on his home
stead entry. Serial 05589 for lands in
U. S. Survey No. 1406, and is now on
file in the local land office, at Anchor
age, Alaska. If no protest is filed in
i the local land office, at Anchorage,
; within the period of publication, or
| thirty days thereafter, said final proof
| will be accepted, and final certificate
i issued.
J. LINDLEY GREEN,
Register.
First Pub. Feb. 24, 1925.
Last Pub. Mar. 26, 1925.—Dly.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
I Department of the Interior, United
; States Land Office.
; * Anchorage, Alaska, Jan. 7, 1925.
Notice is hereby given that Charles
Miller, together with his witnesses,
Edward Slavin, and John Rodin Crit
< tenden, ail of Seldovia, Alaska, has
- submitted final proof on his horae
* stead entry, Serial 04056 for lands de
scribed as the SE 1-4 SE 1-4, Section
2, E 1-2 NE 1-4, and Lot 1, Section 11,
- T. 6 S, R. 13 W. S. M. and is now on
; file in the local land office, at Anchor
Jage, Alaska. If no protest is filed in
the local land office, at Anchorage,
3 ! within the period of publication, or
i thirty days thereafter, said final proof
! will be accepted, and final certificate
, issued.
1 J. LINDLEY GREEN,
5 Register,
i First publication Feb. 17, 1925.
.. Last publication Mar. 24, 1925. Dly
NOTICE OF REGISTRATION.
NOTICE Is Hereby Given, that at
the hour of nine o’clock A. M.f on the
second day of February, 1925, the reg
istration books of the Town of Sew
ard, Alaska, will be open at the office
of the Municipal Clerk in the Seward
Bank Building for the purpose of reg
istering all qualified electors, twenty
one years of age or over, who are citi
zens of the United States and who
have resided continuously one year
next preceding the date of the elec
tion in the Territory of Alaska, and
six months next preceding the date of
the election "within the corporate lim
its of the Towm of Seward. All elec
tors must before voting register tlieir
names and qualifications with the
Registration Officer.
Registration books will be open
every day except Sundays and holi
days, beginning February 2, 1925, dur
ing the following hours:
Until the Friday next preceding the
first Tuesday in April:
From 9:00 o’clock A. M. to 12 noon.
From 2:00 o’clock P. M. to 5:00
P. M.
On Friday and Saturday next pre
ceding the first Tuesday in April:
From 9:00 o’clock A. M. to 12 noon.
From 2:00 P. M. to 5:00 P. M.
From 7:00 o’clock P. M. to 10:00
o’clock P. M.
That said Registration Books will
be closed for such election at 10:00
o’clock P. M., Saturday, April 4, 1925.
That said election will be held on
the first Tuesday in April for the pur
pose of electing Towm Officers and
Member of the School Board of the
Seward School District.
The officers of the Town to be elect
ed are as follows:
Mayor.
Three Members of the Seward Com
mon Council.
One Member of the Seward School
Board, a Chairman.
Dated at Seward, Alaska, February
2, 1925.
WM. H. WHITTLESEY,
Municipal Clerk.
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