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GOVKRN'MKNT POLICY POOR.
By its vacillating policy in developing Alaska, the government is
nearing away capital a.nd causing many old-timers to quit in disgust and
leave for the States. whien the railroad was projected the towns of
Nenana and Anchorage were laid out on a lavish scale. Streets were
graded, sidewalks built, water .systems, telephone lines, electrict lijjht
iplants, and all the requisites of modern cities were constructed out of
the railroad moneys. Then came the slump. The government pulled
its machine shops out of Nenana, removing them to Fairbanks, ceased
running its light and telephone and water plants, and left Nenana
stranded, a town without a population. The same program was enacted
at Matanuska. and may yet be the means of wrecking Anchorage and
Seward.
At Valdez government support was removed to other town the
troops were removed to other places, and today Valdez is struggling :■»
adjust herself to economic conditions not of her making
If the ^government would announce some settled' plan of develop
ment which it could assure settlers would be carried out lor a period of
live years or over, there would not be so many blasted hopes and ruined
businesses in Alaska today.
The removal of the land office from Juneau, the capital from Sitka,
the troops from Gibbon and Valdez to other (points in the territory, the
shifting and changing laws and regulations enacted, all tend to ruin any
chance of permanent settlement for all time to come. The men pour
ing out of Alaska today are the best of her population. They comprise
the old-timers, who have braved the cold, the wind and the storms to
develop little properties all over Alaska. They have a ameer* and
abiding love and faith in Alaska that can never be acquired by a ehee
chako. They have gambled and lost and by their g -ine outsidf have
shown that they were discouraged over the outlook.
Give us a settled ipoliey of development, no niattei what it may
he. or how it effects our business, and we can adjust ourselves tv it —
Reprinted from the Seward Gateway.
THK DKKlt AM) THE PIONEER.
The Territory of Alaska has appropriated $10,000 to be expended
in placing deer cm the islands of Prince William Sound. It is paying its
Pioneer pensioners $15 per month, a beggarly pittance when one con
siders the cost of supplies. Ten thousand dollars for deer and $15 per
month for a Pioneer. Their values should be somewhat more equal, it
appears to roe.
The deer are for the benefit of the sportsmen of the Territory and
the Territory is apparently making sport of the Pioneer. It is true that
a sum was appropriated to increase the pension of these aged trail
builders to $25 per month, but up to the first of the month their checks
were still made out at the old rate.—Exchange.
TEAPOT DOME LEASE
INVOLVES EX-SEC.FALL
Washington. Dec. « Apspearinc
before the Senate Public Lands
Committee, wfiich is investigating
he alleged corrupt «.fficiaI acts .if
former Secretary of the Interior
Pall. George H. Schuler. Treasurer
>f New York State, and a former
'larine Captain, testified that he
eras sent with a squad of Marines to
he Tea Pot l>ome Reserve to stop
he «dl company from drilling. Fall,
ic said, told him that the oil com
iany was trespassing, and that the
natter had been taken up with the
ate President Harding, but the lat
er did not want to take any action
3ecaiise one of the officials of the
:>il o.omipany was a friend of the
President, and one of the contribut
ors to his campaign fund. Schuler
added that the late President finally
contfente(| tn the stopping of the
company’s drilling.
Washington. Doc. 6 The Senat
orial investigation into the leasing
of th** T**a Pot Dome Oil Reserve to
TIarry F. Sinclair went into sensa
tional channels, delving into the
private affairs of Fall, Bx-Secretary
of the Interior, who made the lease
to the Sinclair interests. It wa.
shown that Fall was in such bad f:ti
ancal straits that the County taxes
on his ranch at Three Rivers, New
Mexico, went unpaid from lf*ll to
1021. After the Tea Pot Dome
lease was let to Sinclair, these taxes
w.-re paid and extensive improve
ments were made on the ranch, and
Fall further acquired an interest ir
forty other ranches, w'hose acreac.
aggregate seven hundred thousand.
SAYS BALLAINE
IS STILL AFTER
THE COVETED PLUM
Seattle, Dec. 6-—“The Strangling]
f»l the Alaska Railroad." a pantipVet
just off the press, is John R. Ral
laino’s latest effort. Durian the cur
rent week llallaine will leave SeV*
tie for Washington t.. lay before
President Coolidge th-- farmer's
charges in this pamphlet form con
cerning the Alaska Railroad. Uni
laine will insist that the road br
taken out of the hands of enemies
and that there will he no develop
ment of traffic f-.r the Alaska Rail
road under Governor Bone’s contro
of its policies, llallaine writes as .1
1 losing paranrapu t*. his forty foie
page exposure, that no needful mea
sures will be applied to make it an
agency in opening Alaska to sett!
ment and development as Congr«-«
intended. The process of strangti
lation has been persistent and cun
ning. «ays Hallain. .
In his appeal to the President,
HaHaim- will be supported, it is de
clared. by the Railroad Broth.t
hnods of the I'nited States.
Seattle. Dee. As a sequel to
Mallaine’s pamphlet. "The Straneu
lati-.n of the Alaska Railroad.” it is
said that it is a political still hunt
on his part for the position of Di
rector General of the Alaska Rail
road line. Many of Ballaine's old
time acquaintances say that is the
case, and a few of them know that
he sought such a position under a
like lament to the late President
Warren (J. Harding, and it is sail
that Ballaine bee an maneuvering
for the coveted “Plum" almost from
the date that the late President
took his Oath of Office.
TOPICS I\ Kit IKK
Germany doubtless will be wil
ing to arbitrate* as lone as France
irn’t..—Toledo Blade.
The thing that makes soil so valu
able in the eyes of the nations is
the oil. Jackson County Journal
“I)o motor cars make ns lastvV"'
asks the Digest. Well, not If we’re i
pedestrians. Roanoke World- j
No wonder Coolidge looks so ’in- |
ha pipy. We can imagine no more j
miserable stat** than being a politi-'
cian with a New England con sc - (
slice.—Little Rock Arkansas Ga
The American Indian needs a lot 1
>f convincing that the Government i
las his welfare at heart. Yes. and i
‘ven after he is convinced he will :
probably still have his doubts.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Members of nobility are said t«>
»e seeking positions as domestics
The servant problem is already dif
ficult without being complicated by
questions of social precedence -
Washington Star.
Reports of further decline in the
value of the German mark are some
what difficult to understand; how
ever. they may mean that part of
the rim has cotne off one of the
zeros.—New York Evening Post.
Hut for Prohibition it wouldn't
be safe to drive on the streets and
highways. On the other hand, if «»e !
had the saloons, as in the old days. |
there would be fewer • automobiles !
on the streets and highways.- To •
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