budget this year for $656,000
and there is no assurance that
congress will give them that.
“I personally feel that this is a
time when those who are in
terested in the welfare of the
territory ought to help us and
they can help us tremendously
if they will refrain from asking
for money. We cannot close the
public schools nor turn the in
valid pioneers into the street to
build roads and we do not in
tend to do so. People should also
tear in mind that at the present
time one dollar out of every five
of the territory’s money goes for
indigent relief of some kind, and
even though the worthiness of it
cannot be questioned it is a
burden in itself.”
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Alaska Bounty
Funds Exhausted
Funds for the payment of
Territorial bounties on hair seals
and no more bounties will be
paid on them by the Territory
until more money is made a
vailable for that purpose by the
Territorial Legislature it was
announced by W. G. Smith,
Treasurer of Alaska.
Claims for bounties, Mr. Smith
said, will be listed and voucher
ed by his office, and held until
action by the Legislature. In the
event the Legislature makes the
necessary appropriation next
spring warrants will be promptly
mailed out to all claimants.
The bounty on each hair seal
is $2 and on eagles $1 each. The
1031 Legislature appropriated
$17,500 for the former and $5,000
for the latter. Thus bounties
have been paid on 8,700 hair
seals and 5,000 eagles since the
funds were made available.
The wolfe bounty fund is in
g(K)d shape. The appropriation
ir» 1931 for that purpose was
$40,000, and it is believed will be
sufficient to meet all demands
until the Legislature meets next
March,
Details of Primary in first Division
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A total of 4763 votes were cast
in the First Division in the pri
mary elections held April 26, last,
according to the official canvass
of the vote which has been
completed by John H. Dunn,
clerk of the United States dis
trict court. The Democratic vote
was 707 larger than the Repub
lican, the respective totals being:
Democrats 2 7 3 5, Republicans
2028.
The Democrats had majorities
in 26 precincts, the Republicans
in 25, and three cast an equal
number for both parties. Two
precincts, Pennock island and
Wacker, did not have a single
Republican vote.
Vote For Candidates
Representative A. H. Ziegler
was high man in the three
cornered race for Democratic
nomination for Delegate to Con
gress. He received 1116 votes as
compared to 925 for George
Grigsby and 652 for Senator
Dimond. The total Democratic
vote for that nomination was
2G93, more than 1000 more than
was cast for Delegate Wicker
sham who was unopposed for
the Republican nomination and
received 1667 votes.
James S. Truitt, Anchorage at
Uorney, unopposed for Demo
cratic nomination for attorney
general, received 1795 votes
while in the Republican party,
Representative Frank H. Foster
got 781 and Attorney General
John Rustgard 1081 votes.
Representative Frank H. Boyle
polled 1715 votes, unopposed for
the Democratic nomination for
auditor. Percy Charles got 242,
Cash Cole 1158 and H. I. Lucas
53C for the Republican nomina
tion. „
William A. Hesse, Democratic,
and F. E. Mann, Republican,
both unopposed for their res
pective party’s nomination for
fclghway engineer, received 1851
and 1267 votes respectively.
Karnes and Keller
Anthony E. Karnes, Democrat,
and W. K. Keller, Republican,
also unopposed for nomination
of Commissioner of Education,
received 2048 and 1573 votes res
pectively.
Norman R. Walker, Democrat,
unopposed for the senatorial
nomination, got the highest vote
cast for any uncontested position
on either party’s ticket. He poll
ed 2106 votes while J. E. Johnson,
who will face Walker in the fall
election, received 1458 votes.
Mayor Thomas B. Judson, Ju
neau, led in an eight-man fight
for the four Democratic House
nominations, getting 1255 votes.
The other three successful aspU
lants were: Joe Green, Hyder,
1183; F. J. Baranovich, Ketchi
kan, 1152; and J. W. Kehoe, 1141
votes.
There were but four Republi -
can candidates as follows: H. P.
Hanson 1419; L. H. Kubley 1316;
R. N. Scruby 1419 and Grover C.
Winn 1322 votes.
Connors Carries Division
In a triangular fight for elec
tion for Democratic national
committeeman to succeed him
self, James J. Connors of Ketchi
kan led the field. He was given
905 votes, John W. Frame 785
and R. E. Hardcastle 669 votes.
In the Republican primary. E.
A Rasmuson, Skagway banker,
swamped Jack White, Juneau
businessman b y almost 1000
votes. The respective vote was:
Rasmuson 1314 and White 375.
Three candidates on the Frame
ticket for delegates to the Demo
cratic national convention led in
that fight, an organization can
didate was fourth, and two
Frame candidates fifth and
sixth. The vote in that contest
was:
John B. Rice 1171, Eugene
Wacker 1137, H. M. Heath 1105,