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Entered aa Second -Clam Matter September 2nd, 1915, at the Post Office at
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ISLAND OF OAHU. WILL HAVE
GARRISON of 18.000 MEN.
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HONOLULU, T. H., Jan 4- - The j
Island of Oahu, all of which is in !
chided in the city and country of Hon
r tolu, will have a garrison of i \0C0j
men. exclusive of quartermaster i
Corps, transport corps, headquarters
detachment and medical corps, di
cording to recent war department ad
v*cet received by the Hawaiian de
partment The total of all ranks, it iskj
estimated, will be in excess of 20,000 i
itien.
The United States force on Oahu
will be composed as follows: five regi- •
raents of infantry, with a total I
strength of 321 officers and 8,338 men.'
One division of field artillery with 111 ‘
officers and 2,116 men and one 155 j
mm. howitzer regiment with 57 offic
ers and 1,064 men.
Coast artillery, 110 officers and 3,
320 men. One regiment of cavalry with
44 officers and 974 men. Heavier than
air service, including one group for
headquarters, two observation squuu
drons, photographic section, one air
park, totaling 72'officers and 491 men..
Lighter than air service including one
headquarters group, two balloon com-1
panies totaling 13 officers and 218 ’
men. One regiment engineers at peace
strength with 26 officers and 710 men.
Signal corps of 10 officers and 205
men.
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SCOUT CRUISER FOR U. a NAVY
TACOMA, Jan., 4— The Omaha,
the 1st scout cruiser built for the U. S.
Navy since 107, was launched at
the Todd Drydock and Construction
last month with Miss Louise
B. White of the Nebraska metropolis :
as sponsor. Miss White was selected
by the mayor of Omaha to christen the j
boat.
Shipyard records show the Omaha,
which is 550 feet and six inches in
length is the longest vessel ever built
on Puget Sound. She is of a new type ;
of construction and as she was design-J
cd primarily for speed, it is believed 1
she will be among the fastest ships ,
afloat, with a mark of thirty five'
knots an hour.
Four propellors, two on each side,
have been built on the cruiser. Her
boilers will generate 105,000 horse
power and her displacement will be
7,100 tons. The armament will con
sist of twelve 6-inch, highpower rapid
fire rifles, two 3-inch anti- aircraft
guns, two 3 pounders, . two machine
guns and two twin torpedo tubes.
The Omaha will be launched bow
first, instead of stern first as usual.
The keel was laid in 1918 and she
V7*l be ready for : service late next
y.^r. The Omaha* which is one of
three scout cruisers under construc
tion he»*e, will cost aproximately $3,
500,000 when fully equipped.
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The navy asks $1,000,000, the same
as before, for mining coal in Alaska.
The department of the interior asks
that the salary of the governor of
Alaska be increased from $7,000 to$7r
500 and that his contingent expense
account be increased from $8^00 to
$11,000 to permit him to repair the
governor’s mansion and to have more
clerical help.
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1 ALASKA NEWS
A Washington special says: At a
meeting of the house, committee on
territories called by Chairman Curry.
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' a decision probably will be reached to
drop the Alaska development board
bill for the present session and to have'
no hearings on it until the new con
gress shall have assembled in special
session. The reasons for this are two-,
fold; first, if the bill did pass this ses
sion it is feared that President Wilson
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would veto it, inasmuch as Secretary
Payne, upon whose advice the presi
dent now relies a great deal, is not in
sympathy with the measure. The spec
ial reason is that if the bill did not
pass at this session the hearings would
have to be gone all over again.
After rescuing the government em
ployees and natives on the Pribilof
sland of Alaska from a serious short
age of food and coal during the Ion;?,
bleak winter and braving the dangers
of Bering Sea waters after the e!o-c
of navigation to merchant ships, the
steamship Saturn, Lieut. Com. It. J.
Carst&rphen of the United States Na
vy Transportation Service, has arrived
in Seattle. The Saturn brought a ship
ment of 24,000 seal skins valued at
$2,000,000 ; 40 barrels of seal oil and
fertilizer as her horn ward cargo. In re
sponse to an appeal for assistance
from the residents of the little dots of*
land in ering Sea known as St. eGorge
and St. Paul Islands, the Saturn sailed
from Seattle Oct, 14 to attempt to
land winter supplies. After loading
450 tons of coal, 300 tons of provisions
and 1,600 gallons of gasoline in drums
the Saturn steamed for the North.
SEATTLE, an., 4— A Washington
special says: n his annual report made
public today, Secretary ohn Barton
Payne, of the department of the Inter-1
iar, declares in favor of the establish- j
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ment of a government operated line of :
steamships to Alaska, “even at a loss,;
and to provide an adequate service as
reasonable rates.”
Secretary Payne declares against
any larger measure of local govern
ment in Alaska. This is interpreted to
mean that he is out of sympathy with
the suggestion made by his predeces
sor in office, Franklin K. Lane, who
so vigorously urged the creation of an
Alaskan Development Board, resident
USE SLOAN’S TO
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Ton can just tell by Its healthy,
Stimulating odor, that it Is
going to do you good
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in Alaska, to take over the authority
for the disposition of ldhda and re
sources in Alaska, now held by some
twenty-two different bureaus and.com
missions in Washington.
r\ accordance with the report of the
Brooks committee, it is considered a
wise course to coordinate the different
departments of the government having
to do with Alaska through a commit
tee consisting of a representative from
each department accordingly such a
committee has been named, as follows:
War Department, Major Clarence 0.
Sherill, corps of engineers; ftavy De
partment, Capt. W. C. Cole, U. S. na
vy; Interior Department, George A.
Parks, mineral examiner am! chief of
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field division, general land office, Al
aska; Postoffice Department, ames B.
Corridon, superintendent of railway
adjustments; Department of Agricul
! ture, E. A. Sherman, fisheries; TJnited
States Shipping Bo&rd, H. V, Sunt,
staff assistant, office of director of
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oerations.
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| ' In the estimates prepared for con-1
sideration by Congress Alaska figures
heavily. Every branch of the govern
ment having to do with that territory,
! asking increased sums, save the Alas
! kan engineering commission, requests
jonly $4,000,000 for the railroad as
against the $7,000,000 it had last year.
The largest individual item in this es
timate is $403,500 for the bridge over
the Tanana River. The army requests
$955,000 to be expended by the Alasfy.
road commission in the construction
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of roads, ti ails and bridges as against
the $350,000 obtained last year. For
the maintenance of its Washington-Al
iska telegraph and cable service, the
army asks $212,434 as against $140,
| 000 last year.
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The geological survey wants $190,
000 for investigating the mineral re
sources of Alaska, an increase of $750,
000. The bureau of mines wants $76,
000 for the purchase of the site and
the erection of a building for its ex
periment station at Fairbanks. The
bureau of education wants $419,000
for education of natives of Alaska, an
increase of $144,000; also $125,000 for!
medical relief , an increase of $35,000;
and $5,000 for vocational training of
Alaska insane, a new item. For the
care and custody of Alaska insane,
$134,150 is asked, an increase of $13,
520. or the support of its reindeer sta
tions in Alaska, the bureau asks $15,
000, an increase of $8,600. For the pro
tection of game in the territory, $62,
540 is asked, an increase of $37,540.
The comprehensive ten-year, pro
gram planned by the commission, Col.
Steese explained, provides for fcbout
4,000 miles of through routes by road
or trail, and 2,500 miles of short spurs
and development connections between
the protruding communities and water
or rail transportation. Definite im
provement for 1921 figured in the
commission’s estimates include com- *
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pletion of the reopening of the Valdez
Fairbanks and Haines-Camp roads,
and substantia] progress on the follow
-nig named through routes; Talkeetna
Cache Creek, Rainy Pass, Tacotna, O
pliir, Long, Ruby; Lignite, Kantishna,
Roosevelt; Davidson’s Landing, Kuga
rok, Candle; Fairbanks, Chantanika,
Miller House, Circle; Eagle, Forty
Mile and international boundary con
necting ith road to Dawson. Mainten
ance of existing systems, as well as
numerous spurs and feeders, also are
within the scope of the plans.
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MUD LAKE GOING DRY
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YAKIMA, Wash., Jan., 4— Mud
Lake one of the greatest resorts for
! water fowl in the Yakima 'Valley will
; soon be gone, the Indian Reclamation
j Service having decided to build a can
al and drain the lake so the land can
be used for raising crops. Hunters
started a movement to stop the work
but did not press the matter whep they
found the value of the land to
claimed was too great to let the iafcr^
remain..
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PERT PARAGRAPTHS OF' SBNSE
AND N0NSBN9B FOREIGN AND
LOCAL, CAUGHT ON THE
FLY BY -THE HUMAN
TOOTHPICK "
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Fellow coming up the Main Street
jut night facing the old North Wind
as she was blowing about fiftyteen
miles an hour, was cussing under his
breath, or without his breath as the'
case may be, because the wind 'was
cold and he doubted the veracity of the
Weather Man, who had reported a few
degrees above zero. He swore, this
feHow, that it was sixty below. It was
not until he reached a point in front of
Juntos' Barber Shop. As" he was pass
ing this tonsorial parlor he was almost
knocked off his feet by a warn j>last
| of wind. As he proceeded the wind
grew warmer. By the time he had
reached the Van Gilder Building he
was thoroughly convinced" "that Old
Mother Nature had decided to send a
Chinook to warm the . frigid atmo
sphere. Hq. was congratulating himself
and everything, else «n the change <Jf
weather when some crepe hanger dem
onstrated that the warm wave of wind
wfs caused by the excess heat .in the
walls of the Van Gilder Building.
Thomas Oliver the genial janitor of
the said building had used a few extra
shovels full of high priced coal and the
building was heating the surrounding
atmosphere.
“Water,” remarked the prohibition
statesman, ‘‘in one of natures most
wonderful gifts. When you get tired of
drinking it or talking about it, you can
go 1 ishing in it”
A sturdy old Sour Dough named
Quayle,
Of cider imbibed a full payle,
He cranked up hit flivver, '
And drove straight in the river,
Where he drownded and thus end
ed the tayle.
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Alaska road wdric fornext year
will call for a congressional appiwpria-•
tion of $955,000, and an expansive
million a year program for ten years
will also be sought, according to the
statement of Col. James G. Steese, one
of the three officers of the corps of
engineers,, regular army, who compose
the Alaska road commission. Col. gtee
se, just bade from Alaska, was in Se
attle on his way to-Washington, where
he will report to the secretary of war
and appear before * a congressional
committee. 1
Write Violet Ray C., Dennison, Ohio,
if you wish a loving and wealthywife,
Enclose Stamp.
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