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SEWARD, ALASKA. THl'RSDAY, SEPTEMBER, 9. 1915. ,
“Alaska proposes to keep astride and even in advance of the most ad
vanced states of the Union on social and industrial legislation. This was in
dicated when the senate passed an old-age pension bill, abolished capital pun
ishment. enacted drastic punishment for lazy husbands, extended the fran
chise to Indians who qualify at examinations and considered a workmens
compensation act.
“Indigent men and women over*sixty-five years who lived in the terri
tory for ten consecutive years since 11HK> will be entitled under the pension
act to $12.50 a month for life.**—(Prescott, Ariz., Courier.
The papers all over the country are publishing advice to the people to
keep out of Alaska. If Alaska has nothing why was the railroad built and
if Alaska has some Yesources why should people be kept out?. Alaska must
be developed and laborers must be here to develope it. It is the most ridicu
lous* stutF to try to keep men who are worth their salt from coming. We
might be sure that no one will be tempted to come all the way from the states
for the wages paid on the government railroad. That surely will never cause
a stampede of gold seekers, so why are the papers outside so busy giving
Alaska a black eye? The following from the Spokane Chronicle is a speci
men of the dope being printed now in the States:
‘*A government engineer down from Alaska foresees a great rush to that
country in the coming months, because of the announcement of the route of
the government railroad. He thinks it indubitable that the development will
be wonderful. He feels certain that great ore bodies now unknown will be
located, opened and made rich mines, that towns w ill be built and that there
will be other development.
‘He sounds a warning, however, to the “chechaco.” People without ex
perience should bo prepared for discouragement. There will be hardship,
disappointment and sutFering for those who go with small means looking for
whatever may turn up.
“To achieve prosperity in Alaska will require definite knowledge of con
ditions or the time and means to acquire it.”
COL. SLEICHER’S IDEAS
CONCERNING ALASKA.
The following interview with Col.
John A. Sleieher, proprietor of Les
lie’s Weekly and Judge Magazine, is
taken from the Chicago Tribune:
“Alaska is a land of magnificent
distances and every section naturally
seeks development before any other.
This is all right. Fair competition does
good, not harm, but there is room for
everybody in Alaska and the heighten
ed effect of sectional jealousies should
not gain a foothold there.
“Secondly, Alaska should not only
semi out photograhphs of its wonder
ful glaciers, the most remarable in
the world, and its snow-capped
mountains its dog sleds and its ice
bergs. It should do what the Swiss
mountaineers always do, accompany
the pictures of icy peaks with photo
raphs of preen pastures and lofty
timber and the enormous potatoes,
turnips, and other root crops that
flourish so amazingly in its rich soil.
“Thirdly, stop the tendency to
muckraking and trust abusing. What
good have they done? Is any poor
man richer? Is the cost of living any
lower? Has Alaska grown?
“Fourth. Alaska should have laws
that will attract and not repel the
man with money—the man who wants
to go into business, whether he be a
big man or a little man. If the big
man cannot tind an investment prof
itable in Alaska, then surely the lit
tle man cannot.
“Alaska will learn by experience.
It is learning. It is a territory of
toilers, with no idlers or tramps.
Providence has blest it with inestim
able natural wealth. The harvest is
getting ready for the husbandman.
Let Alaska’s doors be open to him and
in another decade all will be trans
formed.
“My suggestion for the relief and
devolpment of Alaska is a provision
for the appointment of an assistant
or deputy secretary of the interior to
reside in Alaska—someone thoroughly
familiar with its conditions and re
quirements, who shall have plenty
authority to issue mineral and land
grants, subject of course to the ap
proval of the secretary.
“From a scenic standpoint there is
nothing in the world to equal the j
Alaskan trip and it is all made in
complete comfort. The tourist trav-1
el to Alaska will grow by leaps atul
bounds.”
. ■■ —
man serving time
asks for pardon.
FAIRBANKS.—In a letter to Dan
Callahan received yesterday, August
Bronson, who was convicted of taking
part in the $30,000 gold dust robbery ,
in Iditarod in 1012 when the Iditarod
tram was held up, asks his friends
here to help him get a pardon. He
says in his letter that the principal
witnesses against him told the story
in order to protect themselves, and
that the then district attorney, J. J.
Crossley, schooled them to testily in
said manner. He also accuses At- j
torney Henry Roden of accepting a
fee from him as his lawyer, and then I
taking the place of an assistant pros
ecutor. He asks his friends to write
to former Judge Overfield in his be-1
half.—News-Miner.
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FAIRBANKS BRIDGE
PLANS WERE BURNED.
FAIRBANKS.—That the Fair
banks bridge plans were burned up in >
the Valdez fire, is the information!
j contained in a letter received here by •
the road commission from John Zu^.
R. J. Sommers of the office here, does j
not believe the loss of the plans will
materially delay the construction of
the bridge. Mr. Zug himself lost con
siderable personal property in the fire
as did Captain Edgerton.
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