OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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WHAT IS THE ANSWER?
Canada builds a $35,000,000 railroad through a
wilderness and an army of settlers is maitmg: ro
The Pass, former terminal point o± noithem 1ail^ e
tension in Manitoba, and such magazines as Worlds
Work and the Saturday Evening Post carry interesting
accounts of this extension of the frontier along with
acts of encouragement on the part of the Dominion gov
ernment and the Province of Manitoba to aid the pio
neer in gaining a foothold, his is a government en
terprise, subjected to all the political obstruction to
which The Alaska Railroad was subjected. ,
Yet there is a vast difference between Uncle bams
$57 000,000 railroad and the Hudson Bay railroad. Can
ada, following a time-vindicated principle born of the
United States and the Dominion, offered the pioneer a
share in whatever he discovered. This policy drew more
than a million settlers from the United States to a
country having no advantage over Alaska save in its
contingence to the United States. During the same pei
iod Alaska lost population.
.The United States, reversing previous politics,
clapped the blight of conservation and its offspring,
bureaucracy upon Alaska, tied its resources up in a
mass of red tape and restriction, set a proprietorship
over every item that might be turned to economic ac
count, and then sat down for 23 years expecting results.
Money is being expended in the States to attract
settlers. A stroke of the pen, abolishing bureaucracy,
would accomplish more.
Why is the alleged Alaska delegate marking time,
instead of forcing this matter?
Richard Washburn Child says wars could be elim
inated if business men instead of politicians got to
gether and agreed to co-operate in world affairs. Well,
we are willing to allow the war-making profiteers to
fight it out among themselves as long as they leave
the remainder of mankind out of it.
AVAST THE MOSQUITO!
“Everything is lovely—but the mosquitoes, 10
marked a tourist on a recent visit to the Railroad Belt.
“It might be advantageous to take steps to eliminate
the pests, especially around settlements and along the
railroad.”
Less logical ideas than this have been propounded
and accepted. It would not entail a very heavy cost to
spray the environs of towns so infested and the entire
right-of-way. A few carloads of oil would do the work.
During the early construction days of the Alaska Rail
road it was done and the good results lasted years.
Working jointly with the railroad civic heads—the
City Councils or Chambers of Commerce—could open
war on the breeding spots of the mosquito.
Oldtimers will recall, during the construction days,
when mosquitoes were gradually decimated until they
were no cause for comment. There is no use in dodging
facts now, practically every arrival from the wilderness
in this and lower river districts complans of the pests.
They were cleaned out at that early period by smearing
oil in breeding places; a great amount of burning oc
cured, and numerous bogs and swamps drained. Since
these areas have grown up again, there has been a grad
ual increase until the pests have become a source of
critical comment.
This thing of being an editor has its drawbacks. If
you say something your d—mouthy; if you say nothing
they say your d-dumb.
The United States produces 4,500,00 tons of
hay annually. Now we know where the seeds in our
imported strawberry jam came from.
The people of the earth speak 2,754 languages and
dialects. Yes, we have heard all of the radio announc
ers.
FISH LOSS H PROBLEM j
FLORENCE, Ala., July 18,(j<P)-A ■
The Hoover administration has a j
brand new Muscle Shoals problem.
It pertains to the raising and low
ering of the level of Lake Wilson
*:hru Wilson dam to control mos
quitos.
The protest has gone to Washing
ton, charging that lowering the
lake level not only destroys mos
queto larvae but fish spawn as
well, therebv ruining a lot of good
fishing
HELD ON $1,000 BAIL
CHICAGO, July 17, (/P)—Miss
Helen Hertz, daughter of John
Hertz, sportsman, is held at $1,000
bail, on charges of assault with a
deadly weapon, following an auto
mobile accident in which Miss
Dorothy Wilson, daughter of a
wealthy manufacturer was injured.
Miss Wilson required a blood trans
fusion.
WASHINGTON, July 18, (/P)—'The I
Alaska delegate has been informed \
by the Treasury Department that!
*he N. P. Severin & Co., of Chicago !
was the lowest of 15 bidders on the |
new federal building at Juneau, j
Their bid was $712,000 with $25,000
additional if Alaska marble is used.
The contract will be let within a
pew days, it is said.
BOAT UNMANAGEBLE
ST. PAUL ISLAND, Aboard U. S.
S. NORTHLAND. July 18, (JP)—The
schooner Dorothy, of the Chicago
Field Museum Eymedition, is being
towed to Teller by the U. S. S.
Northland, after becoming unman
ageble in a stream off Nome. It
broke the rudder in the ice off j
Kolychun Bay, Siberia. Temporary !
repairs were made in Nome.
NEW CURRENCY
WASHINGTON, July 18, (A3)—One
third smaller in size, but with the
same buying power, $3,921,000,000
of the new currency was put into
circulation by banks thruout the
country.
DEEP MINING
The depth to which mining can
be carried out will be limited much
| more by the temperature of the
| rocks than by engineering diffi- I
culties.
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The first attempt at scientific
mineralagy was by George Agri
cola in the 16th century.
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! U. S. Coast ana ueoaeiic Survey
Charts and Tide Tables at Schall
; ererers Alaska Shop.
LEGAL NjM 1EE
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR
THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA,
THTr?H DIVISION, SEWARD
PRECINCT, AT SEWARD
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES
TATE OF KARL WILLIAM SPATH,
DECEASED.
NO.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
j NOTICE is hereby given that the
undersigned has been by said court
appointed Administrator of the es
tate of KARL WILLIAM SPATH,
deceased, and to the creditors of
land all persons having claims
I against the said decedent, to exhib
it them with the necessary vouch
ers, within six months after the
first publication of this notice, to
the said administrator at his p ace
of business with C. M. Brosius in
the Town of Seward, Alaska, the
!5ame being the place for transac
tion of the Territory of Alaska,
Third Division.
Dated at Seward, Alaska July 13th
1929.
JOHN PAULSTEINER,
Administra ;or.
Date first publication July j.5, 1;)29.
Date last publication September 13,
1329.
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