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* VOLUME XX111. NUMBER 9. SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1928.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Interior Department
Reports Supply Bill
Total $222,430,000
BUREAU OF EDUCATION COMES IN FOR LARGE
SUMS CARRYING ON WORK AMONG NATIVES,
ALEUTS AND ESKIMOS-$158,000 FOR CARE
OF INSANE—$50,000 FOR TERRITORIAL LEG
ISLATURE-GEOLOGICAL SURVEY $64,500—
McKinley park $35,900.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. (#>)—'The multitudeinous
activities of the Interior Department will require the ex
penditure of $222,430,000 next year under the second De
partmental Supply bill reported to the House by the ap'
propriations committee.
All but $62,000,000 of the total which is nearly $38,
750,000 below that of last year, is for army and navy pen
sions.
Under the geological survey appro
priation an allotment for $64,500 is
fixed for investigating the mineral
resources of Alaska; $35,900 is estim
ated for the operation of Mt. Me Kin
ley National Park.
In the Bureau of Education appro
priation $941,300 is allotted to Alaska
including $486,500 for the education
of Eskimos and Aleut Indians and
other natives; $160,000 for medical
relief among the native races of the
Territory and $19,500 for support of
reindeer stations and instruction of j
Alaskan natives in the care and man
agement of animal#.
The sum of $1,300,000 is provided
for the Alaska Railroad; $16,200 is
set aside for the suppression of the
intoxicating liquor traffic among the
Indians of Alaska; $158,000 for the
care and custody of Alaska’s insane;
$50,000 is fixed for Territorial legis
lative expense and $24,600 for the ex
penses and salary of the Governor of
Alaska.
WIEN MES NOME
NOME, Jan. 12. {£>)—Noel Wein,
flying a Stenson Detroiter cabin
plane, arrived from Fairbanks with a
big first class mail making stops a!
Nulato, Ruby and Unalakleet.
To deliver the mail to other points
the mail will go overland to Point
Barrow and other Arctic points bj
dogteam. Wien expects to leave foi
Fairbanks Saturday with four jpas
sengers. f
BRILLIANT SCHOLAR DIES
DORCHESTER, Eng., Jan. 12. (/P)—
Thomas Hardy, aged dean of English
Literature, died at his home aftei
months of illness.
FUR AUCTION SALT ,
'INCREASE; 10 PERCENT
WINNIPEG, Jan. 12. (£>)—Fox
prices at the Winnipeg fur auction
ishowed an improvement of 10 to 15
percent over the last sale.
Half of the blacks ranged from $150
to $290. -The blacks sprayed skins
from $35 to $90.25. Quarter blacks
sold for $90 to $190 and silvers from
$60 to $140.
ENTRANCE 1S O. K.
PANAMA, Jan. 12. (JP)—Entrance
of American troops into the republic
of Panama is explained as being part
of annual maneuvers with the approv
al of the Panamian government.
!
FALCON JOSLIN IS
DEAD FOLLOWING AN
ILLNESS FEW DAYS
—
PROMINENT IN ALASKAN AF
FAIRS SINCE EARLY DAYS;
HERE LAST YEAR
.
I SEATTLE, Jan. 12, (#>)—Falcon
Joslin, pioneer Alaskan, miner, build
er of the Tanana Railroad and promi
nent in Alaska affairs in* the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce, lied today
from kidney trouble.
Mr. Joslin was active until he was
taken sick yesterday. Altho not in
the best of health for sometime he
made an Alaskan trip to Fairbanks,
last summer and disposed of 'some
; Alaskan quartz properties.
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COLLEGE BISKETBILL
TEAM STILL WINNING
PUT WRANGELL TONITE
i KETCHIKAN, Jan. 12. (/P)—The
Fairbanks College basketball team
again defeated the Ketchikan High
school by a score of 13 to 6 Tuesday
| night, Wednesday they defeated Ket
i chikan city team 30 to 21. The Met
|
J lakatla champions were routed on
■ their own floor Monday by the score
' of 38 to 26. Fairbanks meets Wran
■ gell tonight .then sails on the Admiral
'Rogers for Juneau.
Ruth Snyder Granted
Stay of Execution
Until Tomorrow A.M.
SUPREME COURT JUSTICE LEVY GRANTS STAY
PENDING HEARING OF SUIT BROUGHT BY
INSURANCE COMPANY AGAINST DAUGHTER
OF MRS. SNYDER WHO IS BENEFICIARY TO
EXTENT OF $97,000.
MEAT MAY BE SENT TO BREMER
TON FOR TEST BY “GOBS”;
1565 POUNDS
WASHINGTON, Jajn, 12. (/P)—Al-[
askan reindeer will be trie<l out in
| the mess |.t ithe Bremerton Navy
yards to see if it can win a place in
the navy’s ration menu, Commisssion
J er of Education Tigert, informed the
; House sub-committee which consider
! ed the Interior Department’s appro
| priation that 1565 pounds of meat he
: sent for test meals for the sailors.
It was declared that: if the experi
i ment proved successful it might pro
vide a market few’ 631,000 Alaska
reindeer.
RESERVOIR SITE ABOVE BOULDER CANYON, COLORADO RIVER
With the building of a 550 foot storage dam at Boulder Canyon a reservoir capable of impounding 26,000,000 acre
ftjet of water will be formed. The area to be submerged is now valueless and arid. The length of the reservoir is
nearly 100 miles. Water thus stored will permanently secure the rich agriculture of the desert valleys in Arizona ana
California which must depend entirely upon irrigation water for life. Flood menace will forever be eliminated ana 80
per cent of the silt content of the stream will be removed here. Engineers say the reservoir is so large it wouia
require three centuries for silt deposits to accumulate sufficiently to interfere with the functioning of the reservoir.
As an incident to the flood control and irrigation features of the project, hydro-electricity will be developed to j»y rM
the cost. The government is asked to loan money to build the dam only after contracts^ for t electricit£ haye^ been
signed by responsible parties
resources.
such as corporations, cities, irrigation districts., etc. Every cent will be repaid with Inter
consideration to tbiig tremendous internal development project far conservation of natural
JUDGE GIVES REASON
NEW YORK. Jan. 12. ^--Supreme
Court Justice Levy told why he grant*
ed a stay for Mrs. Ruth Slnyder;
“there may as well be for after the
oral argument there was a lack of
merit in the application but no one
may gainsay that the least this in
fant, Lorraine Snyder, daughter of
Mrs. Snyder, is entitled to an oppor
tunity to be heard. This must of
necessity occur in a brief time.
“Obviously, neither the State nor
any person, need be aggrieved by
this delay, of possibly one day. Lit
tle Lorraine may become the bene
ficiary of insurance totalling $97,000.”
Samuel L. Miller, attorney for
Henry Judd Gray, announced he
would apply for a writ of habeas cor
pus in behalf of Gray who is sentenc
ed to die in the electric chair at 11
o’clock tonight. The writ set forth that
Gray's constitutional rights were vio
lated by a joint trial with Mrs. Sny
der. At the same time Attorney Mil
ler wired Governor Smith asking for
a stay of execution for as long a time
as Mrs. Snyder was granted.
LORRAINE, DEFENDANT
NEW YORK, Jan. 12. (£>)—Mrs.
Snyder, whose execution is set for to
night, has been granted a stay of
execution until 10 a. m. tomorrow, by
Supreme Court Justice Aaron J.
Levy. The stay was granted pending
hearing of a suit brought by The
Prudential Life Insurance Company to
avoid payment of $97,000 on the life
of the slain husband.
The application to the Supreme
Court was unexpected more on the
part, of Mrs. Snyder and her attorneys
as it had been announced a writ of
habeas corpus would be sought.
The Federal Court application was
said to have been made in behalf of
Lorraine Snyder, the daughter, who
has been the defendant in an Insur
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