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FALSE ECONOMY
The proposal to discontinue operation of the Alaska
Railroad for three months in winter can hardly be con
sidered in seriousness unless the movement is offered as
a rebuke to those who have by detachment from the influ
ence of the road, set up a sort of Ghandism of non coop
eration as a protest against railroad rates.
It would have been as logical for the administration,
which was responsible for the construction of the railroad,
to have halted work in the midst of construction and an
nounced that it would not be finished because the Yukon
River precluded a monopoly of the transportation busi
ness.
If the movement is in rebuke of this portion of Alaska
for its protest against exhorbitant freight and passenger
rates, then it indicates to what abyssmal depths a govern
ment supposedly of the people, may go to exact reprisals j
for insubordination.
It would be as logical to counsel the discontinuance of
the Coast Guard Service, the Signal Corps, the mail and
all other governmental services which do not show reve
nues in excess of or equal to the costs.
Modern government is not a conception of material
ism, but is supposed to be the agency thru which its citi
zens or subjects may act in concert in building up unculti
vated and undeveloped portions, relying upon revenues ac
cruing thru taxation upon the emoluments and assets re
sulting from this primary national investment. t
To be brutally frank, with the idea predicted upon
actual signs visible to all who have normal facilities, the
entire Alaskan situation appeal's to be the pro
duct of a sinister spleen on the part of small fry politi
cians at Washington. It is a case of locking the school
house door and announcing to the class that it will remain
prisoners until the guilty one recants and confesses.
Even the most gulhbje apologists for the condition
speak only half-heartedly and with fear that they will be j
the next to feel the mailed-fist of those unstatesmanlike1
powers.
The Alaska Railroad has been a monumental scandal I
from the date of commencing construction to the present |
hour. The cost was due to tne setting over skilled engin-!
eers of a lay mind incapable of grasping the rudiments of
such enterprises, and by piece-meal appropriations pile up
overheads such as would be piled up if the road were clos
ed three months next winter, with high-salaried sinecures
relieved of all duties save drawing salaries, as is the case
with the Yukon River steamboat personnel, while those
vcho have grown up with the road in the ranks of labor
may rustle wherever they can for a job until called upon
in the spring to repair the deterioration caused by neglect
in winter.
The scandal embodies the statement of former Secre-;
tary of the Interior Hubert Work when he announced: j
“We have built you a railroad; now it is up to you to make j
it pay.” j
To which Alaska has a right to reply: “You take the
chains off Alaska, let the railroad be run by private inter
ests even without a cent of return t othe Government for;
this same period it hasbeenmisoperated from Washington :
and Alaskans will assume the burden of attracting capital j
and eventually make the railroad earn its way and interest
on its investment, even though the capital account is more
inflated than a Wall Street trust.”
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Things are so tough in the States that even the gold- j
(riggers’ eyes are blue.
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WHITE and CO.
High Grade Line of
CIGARS
TOBACCOS
CANDIES
FINEST BILLIARD HALL IN ALASKA
Seward
General Hospital
SewardAlaska
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These items are taken from the
various papers of the Territory.
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Eight modern airplanes from dif
j ferent parts of Alaska were recent
ly at the Nome airport in one day.
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A. C- Stewart, operator of. the
Monument and Sunset -mining pro
perties in the Seward peninslua dis
trict, made his first successful
cleanup this year.
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Two of the mammoth electric
dredges of the Hammon Consolid
a t e d NGold Fields are operating
within two and three miles from
Nome and a third dredge was ex
pected to be in operation in a short
while. The company had 180 men
on the payroll a couple of weeks
ago.
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Equipment and supplies for a
new drag-line bucket system to be
used at Bluff, in the Seward Pen
inslua district, recently arrived at
Nome, and the outfit was to be as
sembled and placed in operation
at once.
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The Star of England, three mast
ed steel barque, formerly in the
service between San Francisco and
Alaska was sold recently by the
Alaska Packers Association to Ed
ward Grieve, Los Angeles capitalist.
It is planned to use the craft on a
research expedition to the Fiji Is
lands. Africa, and other points.
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A ONE-TRACK MIND
A story is told of Capt. O. A. Jo
hanson and a member of his craft
wherein the latter was incapable
of pulling a pair of oars in even;
stroke.
Noting the sailor pulling first
one oar and then the other, the
Captain began to sing out:
“Think to starboard, think to
port; think to starboard, think to
port.”
Thus the sailor finally got the
line ashore.
LEGAL NOTICE
UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
GENERAL LAND OFFICE
DISTRICT LAND OFFICE
Anchorage, Alaska, June 28, 1932.
Notice is hereby given that Louis
Bell entryman, of Lawing, Alaska,
has submitted final proof on his
homestead entry Anchorage 07892,
together with his witnesses Melvin
A. Horner and Paul C. McMullen,
both of Seward, Alaska, for Forest
List 8-104, H. E. S- No. 104, located
on the south shore of Kenai Lake,
Alaska, and it is now in the files
of the U. S. Land Office, Anchor
age, Alaska, and if no protest is
filed in the local land office within
the period of publication or thirty
days thereafter, said final proof
will be accepted and final certifi
cate issued.
J. LINDLEY GREEN
Register.
Date First Publication July 13, 1932
Date Last Publication Sept. 7. 1932.
Publish: July 13, 20, 27, Aug. 3,
10, 17, 24, 31, Sept. 7, 1932.
TO BUILD OBSERVATORY
W. J. Rooney, of the Carnegie In
stitute, was an arrival on the liner
Yukon in Seward today and is en
route to Fairbanks where he will
start the installation of a complete
electrical and magnetic observatory
which will be used to study atmos
pheric phenomena in that region.
The building of this observatory is
in line with the plans for the In
ternational Jubilee Polar year
which begins August 1, and runs to
August 31, 1933. One other station
will also be built in Alaska and this
will be constructed at Point Bar
row. All in all over 100 polar sta
tions will be occupied and nearly
all the nations of the world will
participate. Three other members
j of the Polar Observation party will
I arrive in Alaska at a later date.
GOLDEN BELT TOURISTS
Golden Belt tourists on the SS.
! Yukon, who arrived in Seward
i Thursday, were Mrs- M. E. Black
j and Miss Maude Kennedy, who
; joined the tour party at Seattle
| after driving across the continent
from Pennsylvania; Miss Maude M.
Buckley, Miss Marie Kunz and Miss
Anna T. Durkin, of New York City;
and Mrs. E. J. Kelley. Augustus
Ludwig is ijhe conductor of the
tour party.
The McGee Aiways pontoon ship
was flown into the City Thursday
evening from the Interior. The
plane left again a couple of hours
later and was again headed for the
Interior.
Mr. and Mrs- H. C. Shurtleff of
Montpelier, Vt., accompanied by
Miss Maude Shurtleff, are making
the Golden Belt Tour of Alaska and
were arrivals on the SS. Yukon in
Seward Thursday evening. They
visited Yellowstone Park on their
way to Seattle. Mr. Shurtleff prac
tices law at Montpelier and is U.
S. Commissioner there.
NEW EDITION OF CHART
ALASKA—No. 8530. Seal Rocks to
Gore Point. June, 1932. Scale 1:80,
000. Size, 30 by 41 inches. Price 75
cents- Sows results of survey by
the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Sur
vey covering the previously unsur
veyed portions of the chart.
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* _Show^Tonight at 8 o’clock
i WILLIAM POWELL—’DORIS KENYON
| MARIAN MARSH
i in the English play
i the road to Singapore:
i A drama of super-class people in the tropics
i The man who preys on other men’s wives
* finds easy conquests in the warm, moist
* air of Ceylon. This play is more than just
i j a single picture of straying from the “Nar
| row path”, it explains the real reason for
i most of the slips of married women. Noth
in ing hectic or over drawn—“a f f a i r s” as
! they usually are, shown in a charming w’ay.
\ With it there is a two-reel feature pic
* ture, the solving of a murder mystery. This
* is something new in the way of two-reelers
j and a Fable.
! There is also an interesting News reel
The Alaska Railroad
(MT. McKINLEY PARK ROUTE)
TRAINS ARRIVE TRAINS DEPART
Each Thursday 6:30 p- m. Each Friday 9:00 a. m.
Each Friday 6:30 p. m. Each Saturday 7:30 a. m.
Mixed train from Anchorage and intermediate points
arrives each Wednesday p. m. Mixed train for An
chorage and intermediate points leaves not earlier
than 10:00 a. m. each Saturday. The Friday morn
ing train connects with the gas car at1 Anchorage,
making no stops between Ajnchorage and Fairbanks
and arrives at Fairbanks at 5 a. m. Saturday carrying
passengers, express, mail and perishables.
Mixed train carries a coach and handles passengers
MOTORSHIP DISCOVERER
Next Sailing out of Seward on July 26
Sails from Seward every two wTeeks for
Anchorage and Cook Inlet ports. Phone 111,
Anchorage, for schedules and rates.
Capt. Heinie Berger, Master
STEAMSHIP STARR
CAPTAIN ARTHUR RYNING
Sailing for Nushagak and way-ports Aug. 8
SAN JUAN FISHING & PACKING CO.
Chas. A. Jansen, Agent
Phone Madison 139 Seward, Alaska
ADMIRAL LINE SAILINGS
SEATTLE
SAN FRANCISCO
LOS ANGELES
SAN DIEGO
NEW YORK
Leaves Seattle North
Watson .. July 20
Evans . Aug. 3
Watson . Aug. 10
Evans . Aug. 24
Watson.Aug. 31
Leave Seward South
Evans.July 25
Watson . Aug. 1
Evans . Aug. 15
Watson . Aug. 22
Evans . Sept. 5
WTatson . Sept. 12
Wayne Blue, Agent.
Phones
Main SI, Madison 40
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.
t-AIMKV
Steamer—
Leave
Seattle
Leave
Seward
YUKON.JULY 16 JULY 22
ALEUTIAN.JULY 23 JULY 29
* YUKON.JULY 30 AUG. 5
ALEUTIAN.AUG. 6 AUG. 12
YUKON.AUG. 13 AUG. 19
Denali sails for Alaska July 16
Sailings marked (*) connect with steamer Starr
at Sevtand. All Sailings from Seattle at 9 a. m.
on dates shown.
J. H. FLICKINGER. Agent