Mr. Sisson, Mr. White pointed
out, has visited Alaska several
times and is well known here. “I
am sure it will be entirely satis
factory to the Republicans of
Alaska for him to act for them,”
he said.
The Marshal said he would be
unable to make a trip East at
this time. He attended the Re
publican convention at Chicago,
and plans a more extended ab
sence from the Division next
Fall. At that time he expects to
go to Idaho and assist Senator
John Thomas in his campaign
for re-election.
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Conserving Birds And
Bear
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(By Father Bernard R.
Hubbard, S. J.
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From Saturday Evening Post
July 30, 1932, Page 43.
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“A fortnight passed, and with
it an anxiety we never wish to
live through again. The Arctic is
friendly in spots and at times;
but not where we were.
Recent legislation has enlarg
ed the Katmai National Monu
ment boundaries so that now
they extend far up beyond Cape
Douglas. This means that trap
pers and fishermen trying to
earn a livlihood in these parts
have been evicted from their
cabins and holdings, and now
more than a thousand miles of
inhospitable, mountainous coast
line without a human being
make the region more deserted
than ever. The food and shelter
of a trapper’s cabin have saved
more than one life in Alaska.”
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Continuation of the investiga
tion of the mineral resources of
Alaska has been provided for in
an appropriation of $60,000.
Paul Files As
Independent
Following a conference with
various leaders in Ketchikan and
Juneau, Wm. L. Paul, Ketchikan
attorney, announced that he
would run as an independent
candidate for Attorney General
of Alaska in the election next
November. He filed his accept
ance of a petition filed in the
Office of the Auditor last April.
James S. Truitt of Anchorage,
incumbent John Rustgard and
and Paul now make the scramble
for that office a three-cornered
affair. Mr. Truitt is the Demo
cratic nominee wmie Mr. Rust
gard is Republican.
A lot of political conjecturing
is being done by the politicians.
Truitt predicts that he will win
by a large majority as the re
turns m the April primary gave
him 3,723 votes against Rust
gard’s 2,940 with Frank Foster
drawing 1,430 votes or a total of
647 more votes than Truitt. The
Democrats believe that they will
be able to hold their entire vote
while Rustgard and Paul will
split the Republican vote.
Foster drew votes from the
southeastern section that Rust
gard cannot hope to get. It is
believed in some quarters that
the votes of the Indian precincts
would have gone Democratic if
Paul had not filed which perhaps
is one reason why Rustgard was
willing that Paul should enter
the triangle. The Democratic
leaders scoff the idea that any
Indian votes would swing Demo
crat as they had voted solid Re
publican in the past.
If anybody believes that the
race is going to be a cut and
dried affair with Paul entering
the race just to see his name
in print might disalusion him
self at an early date. Paul is
now making plans for an active
campaign which will extend
throughout the territory. And no
campaign that he ever entered
into was without color or cam
paign issues.
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Some Think
T. R.’ Running
A lot of people think the late
Theodore Roosevelt is running
for President. The one-time
president’s widow says she has
leceived more than 300 congrat
ulatory telegrams from folk who
confuse “T.R,” with Franklin D.
Roosevelt, the Democratic nomi
nee.
They were not from Alaskan
Indians.
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ALASKA GASTINEAU
MINE ORDERED SOLD
Another Bubble
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A court order for a receiver’s
sale of all the property of the
Alaska Gold Mines, a company,
was signed in Federal Court,
in Juneau, upon petition by
Ilmile Gastonguay, the receiver.
Date of the sale is August 15.
The sale order includes all pro
perties known as the Thane
group and embraces mining
claims, ground', several power
plants, transmission lines and
Thane townsile. No offer less
than $100,000 will be considered.
The Alaska Gasti",eiu Mine,
principal pro; c ly cl the com
pany, is situated at Thane,
four miles below Juneau, and was
closed in 1921. It had the largest
milling plant in the world under
a single roof, with a capacity of
15,000 tons every 24 hours.
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Weave carefully the threads of
habit, lest they become a cable
too strong to break.
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