ALASKA
JOTES
The management of the C- P
R. has announced that sufficient
9teamers will be placed on the
southwestern Alaska run during
the coming Jseason to assure a
round trip twice a week between
Victoria ajid Skagway. This is a
material increase over the prev
ious year but it is said that de
velopment of the north warrants
the increased service.
Five hundred and thirty dollars
have b$en raised in Anchorage
by the Red Cross Society of Ser
bians. The money is for the re
lief of the distressed and needy
people of Serbia which has been
devastated through /the ravages
of the war.
Mrs. J. H. Nolan, postmistress
at Nolan, on the upper Koyukuk
river, established a new agricul
tural record last summer for the
fartherest north mining camp of
Alaska. She raised a ton of cab
bage, five hundred pounds 01
potatoes, three hundred pounds
of carrots and two' wash tubs full
of tomatoes. The latter were
raised in a hothouse and the
choice ones sold for 50 cents
apiece. Nolan is away up in the
Arctic.
The police at Whitehorse, ac
cording to the Star, are active in
breaking up a ring which has
been peddling whisky among the
natives. Joe Royal, a laborer,
and James Kennedy, a tailor,
were the first whites to be gath
ered in.
The Cook Inlet Pioneer says
that Anchorage will naturally be
the base of supplies during the
construction days of the trunk
line from that place to interior
Alaska and that the town is due
for unbounded prosperity, in all
lines of business.
Advices from Warranton, Va.;
state that the mother of R- Irwin,
the game warden who lost his life
last fall when the launch Frances
R- was swamped, died from
grieving for her son She hac
been opposed to his coming to
the north.
It is reported that a number of
the residents of Seldovia arc
kicking against the postmaster
there. But there is always some'
one who is dissatisfied with con
ditions as they are and it does
not do any community good to
keep it in a constant turmoil.
C. Huelstonfc of Seward, left or
the steamer Dora recently to take
a chance op the plaper strike
which is reported to have beei
made near Cold Bay. He is £
placer miner and thinks enoUgi
has been discovered to warran
the trip btu believes it would be
a mistake to start a stampede.
The Ruby Record reports tha
one hundred and thirty three
reindeer slaughtered there to sup
ply fresh meat for the miners oi
Long creek The herd were, par!
of that of Boyne and Klemetsen
who say that they have locateel
ideal grazing grounds Unalaklee
where their fifteen hundred ani
mals are thriving.
Dawson News: Reports from
the Mayo district state that men
are doing winter prospecting or
mining on quite a number of new
creeks. The most attractive new
placer creek is Johnson, when
men are working on claimed nea*
disovery. They reported having
50 cent pans. The creek is small
but what there is of it seems quit*.*
promising.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
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Householders, owners and
agents are notified to immediate
ly begin cleaning up their prem
ises and have the rubbish hauled
to dumping ground or out on ice
not less than 200 feet from shore.
W. D’ARCY CHACE,
Health Officer.
WB CAN DO IT.
Par Brat ala's work anti prompt d»<
Uvory phono Main 181 and tks Paopla1'
Sham Laundry will aand and pot your
laundry.
W. J. WILLIAMSON, Prop
EVELOPMENT
BOARD PLAN
Secretary of the Interior Lane’s
development board plan, which
lias been introduced in the form
of a bill in the house by Delegate
James Wickersham of Alaska, is
a matter that will interest Alas
kans generally. A resume of the
bill follows:
Section 2. Specially states that
all sessions of the commission
shall be held in Juneau, the cap
ital of Alaska. That all employes
of the commission shall be sub
ject to the civil service regula
tions of the United States; their
salaries shall be fixed by the
commission, with the approval of
the secretary of the interior, who
shall delegate to this local exe
cutive body the authority to per
form all duties required by law
Section 3. Requires the com
mission annually, or at any other
time when requested so to do by
the president, the secretary of th^
interior, or -congress, to render a
detailed statement of its accounts
and all its official acts.
Section 4. Stipulates that in
the absence of the governor, who
is ex-officio chairman, the mem
bers of the commission may elect
one of their number to act a
chairman, and not less than thre
members shall constitute quo run
for the transaction of business
Each member shall be authorized
to administer oaths in all matters
within their jurisdiction, and the
district courts of Alaska shall eir
fore obedience to their subpoenas
and aid them in other ways with
in their judisdiction.
Section 5. Roads, trails and
bridges—That all duty, power
and authority of the Alaska
board of road commisioners shah
be transferred to the Alaska ad
ministrative commission, and a!
the work and duties heretofore
* performed by the Alaska roac
commission shall hereafter b<
performed by the Alaska admin
istrative commission, and all the
work and duties heretofore per
formed by the Alaska road com
mission shall hereafter be per
formed by the Alaska administra
tive commission, under the con
trol and supervison of the secre
tary of the interior.
Section 6. Telegraph and Cable
lines.—That all government tele
graph and cable lines in Alaska
and Alaskan waters, and all
cable liifes connecting Alaska
with Puget sound, including the
cable ship Burnside, and all other
authority now exercised by the
secretary of war, or the war de
partment shall be transferred to
the secretary of the interior.
Section 7. Navy Radio Sta
tions—That all wireless stations
now under the direction of the
secretary of the navy, jvith all au
thority pertaining thereto, (shah
be transferred to the secretary
of the interior.
Section 8—Education, Indian
Affairs, Mining Bureau—That
all duty, power, authority and
jurisdiction now exercised by the
commissioner of Indian affairs,
the commissioner of the bureau
of education, the director of the
bureau of mines in Alaska, shall
be transferred to the Alaska ad'
mdnistrativc commission, and
they shall perform all and every
duty of said commissioners un
der the direction and supervision
of the secretary of the interior.
Section 9. General Land Office
—That all duty, powty and au
thority relating to the disposition
and control of public lands in Al
aska shall be transferred to the
surveyor general, who shall be a
member of the Alaska adminis
trative commission (resident in
Alaska)., and the secretary of the
interior shall have control of the
general land office, and direct its
affairs with the aid of the sur
veyor general.
Section 10. Forest Service—
That all duty, power and juris
diction now imposed by the law
upon the forest service in Alaska
shall be transferred to the Alaska
adminstrative commission, and
also all authority now exercised
by the secretary of agriculture
over the forest service shall be
hereafter exercised by the secre
I
of the interior in manner j
provided by law. i
Section il. Biological Survey j
Wo'k—That all duty, power and <
authority now exercised by the
secretary of agriculture and the
1 iolcgical survey bureau, over
such work in Alaska (except
scientific research work) shall be
transferred to the Alaska admin- !
istrative commission.
Sections 13 and 14. Fur Seal!
and Salmon Fisheries—All duty
and authority now exercised over
the fur seal and salmon fisheries
in Alaska by the secretary of
commerce in Alaska by the sec
retary of commerce shall be trans
freerd to the secretary of the in
terior.
Section 26. Provides that the!
secretary of the interior shall
have general supervisoy appellate
power and jurisdiction over the
Alaska administrative commis
sion and all its subordinate de
partments.
Section 27. Provides for the
appointment by the president of
an attorney general for Alaska,'
who shall be the legal adviser
for the commission
There will be an Alaska fund
especially set apart.
.'Section 30 reads: All money
received by the Alaska adminis
trative commission other than
from appropriations made by con
gress, shall be deposited in the
treasury .of the United States and
there set apart in an Alaska fund,
and this fund shall be under the
direction and control of the gov
ernor of Alaska, who shall be the
chief of finance of the Alaska ad
ministrative commision, and all
of said fund shall be used for the
administrative commission, an '
all developments and welfare of!
Alaska, subject to rules and regir j
lations adopted by the secretary
of the interior.—Alaska Review.
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it is possible for every one in Nome to
subscribe for the Nome Daily Nugget
which furnishes the latest telegraph
news as well as local happenings.
You do not even have to go to the
postoffice; you can have the paper
delivered to your home or office every
day day before supper is served
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YOUR HOME INDUSTRIES
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DOLLARS spent outside go out of cir
culation and never return here again.
Dollars spent with your home mer
chants makes for Home Prosperity.
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SPRING MEDICNE
A good spring tonic taken at this time of the year is of h/
great benefit to everybody "
Among the simple and efficient spring medicines the fo; «
lowing are recommended; -
CASCARA BARK
SASSAFRAS BARK
S'jLPHUR AND CREAM OF TARTAR
Also
APARIENT POWDER. ■
Which contains Sulphur, cream of Tartar and other valua ;
ble ingredients. }
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