will be lowered to the point when
vast areas of low grade placet
ground, where operations are
now too expensive, can be work
ed profitably.
The creamery and the flour
mill are already here and the
packing house will follow soon.
Small manufacturing plants are
coming with the development of
cheap power. The reindeer in
dustry is now expanding and
end seeking better transporta
tion facilities for the marketing
of the carcasses and hides. Fur
forming has come to that stage
cf development which insures
success. Alaska is a challenge
to the young man and woman
of today who arc seeking i
change from the beaten paths of
the masses. Life here is whole
some and develops the resource
fulness in our people that char
acterized the pioneers of the
past century.
The education of the Alaska
children is not neglected. More
money is spent annually fcr edu
cation than for all other schools
grade and high schools, for the
towns and the Alaska Agricul
tural College and School of
Mines situated at Fairbanks, as
sure the boy and girl an oppor -
trinity for higher education.
Good roads are being built,
aviation fields dot the country
and transportation by rail and
water is keeping pace with the
development of the country.
Free homestead lands, free
schools and no taxes on property
cr farms outside of incorporal
ed towns appeal to thousands of
people in the States at this time
of depression throughout the
Nation.
By M. D. Snodgrass, In
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TOM MARQUAM IS MISSING
Milton S. Kronheim, Wash
ington bondsman, is exerting ev -
ery possible effort to locate Thos.
A. Marquam of Fairbanks, who
has been in and out of Wash
ington, D. C., since the fall of
1027, but who disappeared Janu
ary 19th last.
When Marquam was an inde -
pendent candidate for Delegate
to Congress in November of 1923,
he failed to comply with a law
requiring that he file with the
Clerk of the House of Represent
atives, a schedule of his cam
paign expenditures. He was
placed under arrest for viola
tion of the Federal Corrupt Prac -
tice Act and brought from Fair
banks. He was under a $5,090
bond, with four men from his
home town as sureties. The
Grand Jury in Washington-in
dicted him on two counts and
he was placed under $1,000 bond,
with Mr. Kronheim posting the
amount, and thus releasing the
four sureties from Fairbanks.
One of the counts returned
against Marquam was a misde
meanor and after some delay
the District Attorney agreed
that if Marquam would plead
guilty to the count that would
only result in a fine and the oth -
er and more serious charge
would be dismissed. But the
District Attorney has waited for
nearly a year for Marquam to
appear, get his sentence and pay
nis money fine.
Kronheim is anxious to be re
leased as sureties. letters to
relatives in Portland, Astcri
New York and the postmaster
at Fairbanks have failed to
bring any enlightening response.
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“A wise man will make more
opportunities than he finds.'’
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GOOD FOR EVIL
Much complaint has come
from the Third Division in re
gard to the appointment by Re
publican officeholders of Demo
crats to minor offices. It ap
pears there is such dearth of
Republicans in the Third Divi
sion that the offices would just
naturally go vacant without ac
ccpting the appointment of a
sterling Democrat to the posi
tion. In one or two instance i
Republicans are alleged to have
been removed in order to give a
Democrat a chance.
Personally, we are pleased at
the magnanimity of the Third
Division officials. It is rarery
one hears of such devotion to
one’s enemies, and their acts
might be copied without profit*
(to Democrats) in the First Di
vision. There are many mem
bers of the minor party who
would cheerfully accept afficial
recognition and, while no such
action is on record, might re
ciprocate in case the situation
were reversed.
Mr. Sisson, one of the attor
neys general who is investigat
ing political conditions in Alas
ka, will probably find much to
astound him in the way politics
are run in the great appendix
to the continental United States
but we assure him that it is
caused by our desire to return
good for evil; to turn the other
cheek to the smiter, and not
from any desire to disrupt the
party.”—Stroller’s Weekly.
Now, Stroller’s, be fair and
don’t chide the waywardness of
Third Division Republican offi
cials alone! Let him who is
without sin be undressed in the
dark. The way of official Re
publican officials, not all, in the
First Division has oft puzzled
the “poor illiterate” student of
Republican politics. Without
turning the spotlight of publie
iiy upon the generosity of offi
cials, we make the general as
sertion that fifty per cent of the
minor appointees will be boost
ing and supporting financially,
the Democratic nominees of the
next campaign. Copper that
bet and you lose. ,
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THIS IN AMERICA
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Down in Henryetta, Okla., re
cently a crowd of 300 men and