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26, 1907, at the Poslofhce at Nome,
Alaska, under the Act of Congress of
March 3. 1878.
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City Official Paper
NOME, ALASKA, JUNE 30. 1915.
Krom information received relative
to the difficulties lately arising over
the sale of the Alaska Northern rail
road, It appears that the bone of the
contention as to who shall receive the
purchase price of one million, one hun
dred and tifty thousand has Its being
in a number of claims against the road
which art- designa ted as "preferred"
and which are supposed to receive first
consideration. As these claims total
the sum of one million dollars, or the
greater part of the purchase price and
leave only the small sum of one hun
dred and fifty thousand for those who
arc tile holders «>f the ordinary bonds
and who have Invested no less than
»ne million in cash in the enterprise,
it is not surprising that they are pre
paring to start trouble. If is the old
case of the big fellows having the in
side track and the little fellows getting
squeezed. It appears that the major
ity of these preferred claims are the
ones controlled by the Canadian bank
syndicate with which the government
has directly dealt in the purchase nego
tiations and, under the agreements In
cident to the taking over of the Al
aska Central by the Alaska Northern,
are to receive first consideration re
gardless of the claims of those who as
sisted in the rehabilitations of the road
by advancing nn^ million dollars after
the transfer was consummated. In
other words these preferred claims are
lo be paid before the bond holders re
ceive one cent of the one million they
have advanced to the road and to car
ry on the receivership prior to the tak
ing over by the Alaska Northern. Dur
ing the years following the transfer the
bondholders have not received a cent
of return on the money invested and
nowf that their last opportunity to real
ize on their expenditure is presenting
itself, they are not Inclined to be left
out in the cold. The suits recently
stated are therefore a natural protest
against taking one hundred and fifty
thousand ns a suitable return for their
money.
The newspapers throughout South
eastern Alaska generally are inclined
to take a rather pessimistic view of an
alleged announcement that the tele
graph and cable tolls to the const town*
of Alaska may be doubled some time
during the present summer. At the
present tlm© the coast papers are pay
ing a toll of one cent per word on all
telegrams received while those of Fair
banks are paying at the rate, of one
and one-half cents. Commenting on
the reported raise, the Valdez Miner
says: "If carried Into effect, the news
papers of Alaska, will be forced to cut
down materially the number of wordr
received bj them and incidentally the
public will suffer In receiving a less
amount of news regarding outside
happenings." The article further as
serts that the doubling of the cable
!■ ils can have but the one result of
less news for the public “with papers
lily man.” of the dailies in the territory
('copped and only we’k'les continued.”
All of which speaks volumes for the
(onditlon of the local newspapers w!:n:
it is retnemberd that the dull pipers
of Nome are already paying & rate ex
actly d vble that pai ‘ by all but tw»
or three of the Alaskt papers an ', that
the volume of telegraph news puOTWt-,
ed is fully as extensive as that of‘ar?y
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other paper published in the territory,
either daily or weekly. With three or
four exceptions none of the papers In
Alaska print anything approximating
the amount of telegraph news items
contained in the columns of the toeul
press and when it is considered that
for the comparatively diminuti c tele
graph service they pay but onr half
the costs charged to this section of Al
aska, we are forced to conclude that
the Nome papers must be enjoying an
almost unequalled prosperity as com
pared to the majority of those pub
lished in other sections. Incidentally i;
tray be remarked that this fact also
betokens that Nome must be somewhat
more prosperous than are the majority
of the Alaska towns in which news
papers are published as the abilltv of
a newspaper to maintain an extensive
telegraph service, without subsidies, is
rtf pendent entirely on the patronage
extended. Generally speaking the sub'
s •• iption list of the average Ala <ka
piper, owing to the limited popnlu
tan, rarely suffices to pay more than
a small part of the costs of produc
tion and the deficit such ns it may be.
must be supplied from the advertising
received.
Hence the fact that the newspapers
of Nome are able to exist and carry a
burden of expense double those of the
majority of the papers published in the
territory indicates still further that
Nome is indeed prosperous or the ad
vertisers could ill afford to advertise
on a sufficiently large send to keep two
papers in existence and prospering un
der the most severe conditions.
ALASKA
NOTES
(From our Exchanges.)
The reports now reaching Fairbanks
from miners in the Tolovana district
Indicate that the camp will be one of
the largest In Alaska, as pay has been
found at points far apart and the camp
Is more expensive than at first thought.
Conservative miners who have been in
on all the great strikes in the north
since the days of Dawson are confident
that the new camp will make good and
they are spending time and money to
open up the claims they have located.
Many lays have been taken and ma
chinery will he taken into the camp as
soon as the road is built.
A deal has been closed lately where
by the Pacific Coast Company has dis
posed of Its interest in the wreck of
the steamer Delhi to Capt. .!. E. Sayles
and Capt. Carl Lancaster, so that the
latte are now the sole owners. They
state that they now have two plans
under consideration for handling the
wreck. The one calls for dismantling
her where she lies, strippling the
winches and gear generally; the other
is to tow her to Loring. where she
can he dismantled more easily. There
is a great deal of equipment on the
wreck and considerable cash should he
realized on the deal.—Ketchikan Miner.
The town of McCarthy has been
promised a new school, and this has
brought up another problem more puz
zling to solve. It is the question of a
teacher. One faction wants a teacher
young and pretty, while the other fac
tion wants an equally efficient hut
homely teacher. Old timers pointing
to the examples of other mining camps
and posts, declare that a yountj,
and pretty teacher will not he able to
stand out the first month, but will suc
cumb to the many offers of marriage
which it is confidently declared will
come from tth susceptible sourdoughs
and lonely miners of the creeks. The
parents of the children to be educated
want a plain if not positively homely
teacher, one who will stay on the job,
while the ardent would he swains are
just as warmly espousing the cause of
beauty.
Superintendent Meattle, who recently
returned to Juneau from Metlakahtla,
where the government has taken over
the control of the natives and Is build
ing a large school, says that the eight
reindeer which were recently brought
from Nome district are doing well. One
of the unimals received injuries from
which it died during the trip. The
other seven were placed in charge of
herders and turned loose, with the ex
ception of the lead deer, which was
picketed. Six of them eluded the
vigilance of the herders and escaped.
They have been seen several times, tint
ever, they will be all right, providing
the wolves do not kill them, lteindeer
moss which was brought in sacks to
feed them until they became accli
mated was spurned as food by the deer
and they are thriving on the native
moss and fodder which grows in abund
ance on the island. They have demon
strated that they can thrive on the feed
growing on the island and a good in
crease is looked for in the spring.
It Is getting evident that the people
of Juneau are becoming really mad
over the proposal to make Seward the
capital. They even go to the lengths
of saying insulting things to Seward
people who happen to visit their city
This hardly looks as though they are j
inclined to regard the proposal ns such
a joke as they pretended to believe it
it is really no joke, but the people of
the present capital will gain nothing
by making it a crime and visiting on
its advocates the punishment of crim
inals. They may succeed in securing
tlie capital buildings yet and if they
do Seward will have nothing to say
but what is friendly. Juneau might
also light its corner without getting
mean.-— Seward Gateway.
"Tlie recent session of the Alaska
legislature was perhaps one of tlie most
interesting experiences of my life," said
Representative J. 1’. Daly, of Nome, to
a reporter for the Seattle I’.-l. "Tin
work was enjoyable, and because of the
keen interest felt In tin- welfare of the
different divisions by the representa
tives and senators there was no time
for fooling or horseplay. it was all
strictly business, and during the clos
ing days of tlie session the hours were
so long that on the way to our rooms
we almost met ourselves going to yvork.
The legislature as a whole is made up
of a tine body of men I think that in
the aggregate they will compare with
any of tin* state legislatures of the
country."
Col. W. A Swanitz, tlie chief engin
eer and builder of tin- Alaska Central
railroad, was in town today on route
to Seward, and he reports that five
'suits are now pending against the
transfer of that railroad to the govern
ment. say s the Cordoy t Times Col.
Swanitz. will return to Cordova within
a few days and proceed to Katalla to
engage extensively in the oil business.
He represents a syndicate of capital
ists whs have taken over the Alaska
Petroleum & Oil Company, arrange
ments having been made for the dis
charge of the receiver. He will at once
begin the work of drilling, going to a
depth of 3.000 feet, and expects to de
velop the Katalla Oeld.
The department of education. In
charge of the education of the Eskimos
of Alaska, report that the natives are j
unable to compete with the white men
in the reindeer industry and that gov
ernment supervision is still needed.
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