THE ALASKA TELEGRAPH SUBJECT
OF DEPARTMENTAL CONCERN
Would one department of the United
States government deliberately set out
to punish another department ?
Of course not Federal departments
dwell together In peace and hnrmoin
and brotherly love—on the surface.
Hut strange things do happen.
For example, the war department
has been trying for several years to
get rid of the Washington-Alaska mil
itary cable and telegraph system which
is unusual. A department that once
gets control over anything, as a rule
never lets go. But in this instance tin
war department wishes to expand the
signal corps in other directions, par
ticularly in aviation, and cannot be
cause so many of its men, nearly 200 in
fact, are tied up on Alaska duly, which,
really and truly, is not military dtitv
Last year the chief signal officer.
Brig. Oeu. Scrlven, and the secretary
of war botli recommended that the
Washington-Alaska Military Cable *
Tolograph Company he witched on the
pontofflee department. They pointed
out that the postofflee department was
the ideal one to handle the business
Then rose up Postmaster General
Burleson in protest. He is having
trouble with his parcel post and flee
rural delivery and other systems arid
he could not see tile Alaska job with
a spy glass.
Heme Gen. Seriveti. in his annual
report Just made public, relates with
evident regret the fact that the post
master general has decided “that the
time is not considered opportune" for
(he transfer, and urges that somebody,
anybody in fart, take the system off
his hands, but It is plain to lie seen
that he still has designs on I he post
office department.
By chance on the very dm that his
report came out there appeared in the
postotfiee department's daily bulletin
a notice to postmasters, headed "TCcnn
omy In Use of Telegrams.” urging
postmasters to go easy on running up
telegraph hills.
“The necessity for economy,” sa\s
tile notice, "has become more urgent
because of the fact that the postotflee
department, instead of being allowed
to send messages free over the Wash
ington-Alaska military cable ind tele
graph system, as in the past, must
now pay a charge of one-half the com
mercial rates, in accordance with the
following regulation issued hv the war
department” and proceeds to quote the
new regulation
Now. maybe, after Postmaster f»en
eral Burleson has seen some of his
annual appropriation fade away in
paying Alaskan telegraph bills he will
revise his ideas about taking over the
system.
The> are cagey people up there in
Hie war department.—P I
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STRENGTHEN OUR ARMY
WE NEED TRAINED MEN
By Geo. C. Chamberlain, Senator from
Oregon.
As long as we maintain the Monroe
Doctrine, retain the i’lulippinos, coit
troi the 1‘anaiua canal and dominate
the i'acitic, which is our manifest des
tiny, we must have an army adequate
to care fu- these conditions and meet
emergencies.
No one advocates a large standing
army in this country, but we ought to
have as a military organization an
army of efficient officers and driller
men which can be augmented by train
ed men from a reserve and supplemen
ted by the national guard of lhe state*.
There ha* been a great deal of gen - |
oral discussion as to the necessitx of
better preparation for sudden warj
emergencies, and there seems to be
quite a unanimous opinion that .it the!
present time our arm> i* wholl> in i
adequate owing to the methods that
have been employed.
Wo ought not to leave ourselves in
an attitude where we four the possi
bility of invasion by Japan on the Pa
cific Coast or by any other foreign
country on our Atlantic Coast nor in
apprehension as to what might happen
to our troops in ease of inters ention in
Mexico because the army is inadequate
for emergencies.
At all events, it seems • erlaln that
the country is becoming aware of tiie
unprepared condition of our army and
will sustain emigres* iu making such
changes seem necessary to place the
army upon a footing to meet emergen
cies and secure the honor and integrity
of the nation.
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ALASKA NOTES
i From our tJxeiiaaefta.)
Plans for the salmon cannery at
tenth Arm have been completed.
The real estate dealers of Seward
have organized a real estate exchange.
A Takutat river miner has presented
the tVya hotel at Seattle a totom pole
thirty inches in length.
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The steam freighter Delhi, which
was wrecked in Sumner strait, was
insured for two-thirds of her value.
She was valued at $250,000
The burned Moore's wharf at Skug
way is rising from the ashes, and the
White Pass railroad company plans to
make the dock the finest in the North
A census of the children of Ketchi
kan between tho ages of one and four
teen years shows tliat there has been
an increase of forty-four during the
year.
Over at Cordova an electric storm
of unusual violence occurred recently
and an intense flash put the electric
lights out, leaving the icty in darkness.
The storm lasted for several hours.
So many school teachers have ap
plied to the Governor's office for posi
tions in Alaska that it has become
necessary to print a circular letter
which Is mailed in lieu of a written
reply.
The capacity of tho Pacific Coast
Gypsum company, at Gypsum, Alaska,
is to bo greatly enlarged. A barge con
taining 100,000 feet of lumber was re
cently brought to the mine from Puget
Sound.
The man arreatod at Juneau charged
with stealing hams, was turned loose
by the grand jury, but he was made
to serve fifteen days in the munilcp.il
jail for the swearing he did when ar
rested.
Recent telegraphic messages from
Washington state that tho government
is soon to install five powerful radio
stations in different parts of the coun
try. It is believed that one of tho
stations will he erected on the Alaska
coast.
George W. Dillon, of Skagwav. who
was foreman of the federal grand jury
until excused by Judge Itobt. Jennings,
has linen arrested on a secretly re
turned indictment charging him yvitli
selling malt liquors without a license
A careful record of the weather for
January, kept at Whitehorse, shows
(lie average temperature for the month
to have been six degrees shove zero
Only ten mornings in January was the
temperature below zero.
The first territorial convention of
tlie W. C. T. C. will meet in Slcagway
sometime in May. Mrs. Cornelia Jew
ett Hatcher, president of the Alaska
branch of the national W. C. T. 1T will
conduct the meeting. 1
Experienced fishermen who have
spent several months prospecting the
coast of Alaska fur shrimp of market
able size have announced that they
have been successful in their efforts.
They claim to have located a shrimp
bed near the south end of Wrangell
narrow*
if the government uses the timber
along the right of way for the building
of the Alaska railroad it must pay the
forest service for every stick. This is |
tho statement of a Washington cor
respondent to a Seattle paper. The
forest service must even he asked for
permission to build a grade snd every
thing else.
A new’ system of crushing and treat
ing oro will lie installed in the big
plant now' being installed at Thane for(
tho treatment of ore from the Persever
ance mine. Tho company is preparing
to handle L’4.000 tons of oro per day at
a. profit of 75 cents per ton. It is
claimed that the company have 50.
000,000 tons of ore Mocked out.
Natural gas is believed to exist in
the vicinity of Cordova and the resi
dents of that town have visions of
beating the Standard Oil company on
the price of fuels some time in the
future. The gas bubbles up in a num
ber of places in sufficient strength to
burn when ignited, and it is believed
that a gas-burning formation exists
under the town.
On January 11 tho Mother Lode Cop
per Mines company maif* tho first
shipment of ore to the Tacoma smelter
The shipment miisist. J at 250 tons of
high-grade oi*t\ < rih* r shipments will
be made regularh , as the company
plan to ship 1,500 tons during the win
ter. The oro is nil mined and narked
roads for sledding to the railroad.
The Juneau land office has rejected
the application for patent for 160 acres
of coal land in the lining river district
known as the Rathborie group Hath
bono is reported to have sold the
claims to a resident of Manila. i\ I .
who will sustain the loss by the action
of the government.
KAISER FOR WAR
TO FINISH
I1E1UJ.N' Instead of a customary
Now Year's reception, the emperor re
cently received the commanding gen
eral*. with whom lie attended divine
services. He then received the con
gratulations of the Court at Meld-head
quarters. Addressing the correspon
dents, he said , among other things.
"I hope you wilt he aide ill the new
year to report many good things We
shall not lay clown our arms until »f
have gained a complete victory "
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CAESARI TRIES TO
MAKE ESCAPE
AND IS KILLED
\VI I ITKHi iltSK. 'I T While trying j
to escape at the change of his guards j
recently. Romilo Caesari. reprieved1
murderer, was shot and r*»eeivod
wounds from which he diisi
The lirst bullet struck Caesari in the
leg The wounded man rose and con-j
tinued his flight. When about 100 i
yards from the barracks, a second shot
passed through him. penetrating his
stomach. Caesari fell and was brought
back to the hospital, where he died
twenty-four hours after his break for
liberty. The body will he interred here.
It was at six o’clock in tlie evening I
when Caesari’* dash was attempted, i
He assaulted one of the guards and'
shoved him from the corridor into the|
cell, threw a coat over the head of the'
other guard, and made a break for lib- j
itv. lie was in his stocking feet and 1
had on neither hat or coat.
Constable Hayes, one of the guards,
pursued Caesari, who was making for |
nearby woods Haves fired two shots
in tlie air, hut tlie filing man did not
slop. Tlie constable then began firing j
point blank at the escaping assassin
Two shots took effect. fine entered j
tiie loft side of the back just above the1
| pelvis, passing through Ihe intestines
une struck him in the thigh. The shots j
brought him down and tie was taken to
the hospital where lie died twenty-four
hours later.
Caesari made no statement before tie'
died. The man whom Caesari was j
convicted of having killed was Dom
inico Metis The slaving took place
lu re a year ago.
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NOTICE OF MARSHAL'S SALE.
I'Millie notice is hereby giyrn, that
Milder and by y i t tie of Writ of Ex
ecution issued am ,,f thr clerk's Office
of the Histriet Court for the Histriet of
A lit skit. Second Hiy ision. upon a certain
judgment therein tendered on the KUn |
day of Man'll. I•* 1 r.. arid entered in!
fay or id' Allien Meyer and Company a I
corporation. plaintiff. and agains |
Sleyerls n l"husen Mining and Dredg
|iug Company, a corporation, defendant, 1
[for the sum of thirty-tire hundred and
|seventy-six and SO mo <$37.7«S0) did I
lars. w ith interest on said amount front
the date of said judgment at the rate
of eight per cent m per cent) per an
mini, together rvith the costs of suit
taxed at three hundred and forty-five,
'and 20-100 <$340.20) dollars, upon!
which Execution there has boon ap
plied sixty-six and-38-100 i$tiil3si dol
lars. I will on the 12th day of May,
1!Ma, at trvelve o'clock noon of said day
at the front door of the t'nited states
• Court House, at Nome, Alaska, as com- (
manded in said Writ of Execution, of
I for for sale and sell to the highest anil
host bidder for cash all of the right,
title, and interest yvhieh tile defctalant
hud on the 21st day of September, 1014.
I or at any time since in and to certain
[placer mining claims known as.
i Numbers 4. .a, ti. 7, S. and fl Above
situated on Solomon River; the ]
Herron Association Claitn, and the
| Fraction, situated between Nos 4
I and 7> Above on Solomon River, in (
j the Cape Nome Recording I’nrinct.
District of Alaska. Second I'ltvi ion.
•Dated tit Nome, \laska, this 13th day
i of \pril. ml7.
E It JORDAN,
It’niled States Marshal. Second Divis ]
I ion. District of Alaska
j April 13, 20, 27. May t. 11. HR a
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ORDINANCE NO. 236.
I An ordinance poviding for the ap
pointment and fixing the salaries of
Municipal Officers of (lie Town of
Nome, Alaska, for the year ending on
the third Trusduy after the first Tues
day in April, mitt
Bo it ordained and enacted In the
Common Council of (he Town of Nome,
Alaska.
Section 1. That the following officers
of the Town of Nome, Alaska, shall he
appointed for the year ending on the
third Thursday after the first Tuesday
in April, BUS, and the salaries thereof
respectively shall he, and the same are
hereby fixed as follows:
Chief of tlie Fire Department.
per month.$175.00
Municipal Clerk, as Clerk, Mu
niciple Magistrate, Assessor
and Tax Collector, per month.$125.00
Health Officer, per month $50.00
Treasurer, per year .$1.00
Municipal Attorney, per month
(and office).$50.00
Section 2. This ordinance shall take
effect and he in force on and after Hie
23rd dhy of April. 1915
Passed by the Common Council of
the Town of Nome, Alaska this 22nd
day of April, 101".
GEO. A. DIAMOND.
President of the Common Council and
Ex-officio Mayor of Nome
Attest:
E. GRIMM
Municipal Clerk. ,
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