THE ANCHORAGE DAILY TIMES
AND COOK INLET PIONEER.
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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1917.
DELAYING PUBLIC BUSINESS.
Irrespective of party affiliation, the people of this territory
are thoroughly disgusted with the petty politics being display
ed by the members of the upper bouse of the Alaska legislative
assembly. .Just think of it! Thts body cannot perfect an or
ganization, because of the petty patronage at stake! Why in
the name of common sense don’t these fellows compromise and
get down to business! If the senate were made up of men like
Price and Cannon, we venture that there would have been no
difficulty in organizing. We like the way the house was or
ganized. A committee on committees was selected and this
committee appeared to pay no heed whatever to party lines,
choosing men for committee assignments who had some knowl
edge of the particular matters that would naturally come with
in the province of their respective committees. Let us take a
look at some of the chairmanships, for instance: Burns, a dem
ocrat, and a level-headed business and mining man, heads the
corporations committee; Price, a democrat, a lawyer and busi
ness man, is chairman of the judiciary committee; Allen, a re
publican, and a noted dog musher, heads the highways com
mittee; Day, progressive democrat, or Wickershamite, which
ever you may choose, is chairman of the committee on territor
ial institutions; Coombs, a republican, heads the ways and
means committee; Nerland, Wickershamite, is chairman of the
committee on municipal affairs; and so on down the entire list
of committees. Justice was shown all parties and the house is
harmonious.
OUR REPRESENTATIVES RECOGNIZED.
The Cook inlet country, has no reason to complain of the
considerate treatment given our representatives in the lower
house of the Alaska legislative assembly—Messrs. Price and
Cannon, both sterling men of whom we are justly proud. We
find that Representative Price lias been assigned to one of the
most important chairmanships in that body—that on judiciary
and federal relations, while Representative Cannon heads an
other equally important committee, that an elections, election
laws and mileage. Mr. Cannon, whose hobby is agriculture in :
Alaska, is likewise on the committee on fisheries, fish, game and [
agriculture, and will find opportunity to employ his knowledge (
about the agricultural possibilities of the Cook inlet country.,
ft is entirely fitting that he should be on the mining and man- j
ufacturies committee, to which he has been assigned. Mr. Price j
is on the important committee on highways, and Ids name ap
pears among the members of the committees on labor, capital
and immigration; education, public health, quarantine and mor-1
als; and ways and means. The Cook inlet representatives may
be relied upon to do their full duty to their own particular
constituents and will likewise be found working for the best
interests of the whole of Alaska.
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ALASKA AN ASSET.
(Century Magazine) •
At present Alaska is paying 900 per eent annually upon the
purchase price. The reports for the fiscal year ending with
.June itemize as follows: Copper leads the list, being $26,500,
000; next comes fish, chiefly salmon, valued at $18,000,000 fol
lowed by gold to the value of $16,000,000. Silver mining yield
ed $1,000,000. All other resources, including furs, bring the to
tal annual yield to $670,000,000.
It is only since Klondike days that Alaska has at all been :
taken seriously, and even from that date the development has j
come slowly. For instance, the $26,000,000 of copper produced
last year amounted to only $4,600,000 in 1912. But the point in
all this is that Alaska has hardly been scratched, Government j
experts estimate that it contains deposits of coal worth billi-J
ons of dollars, besides much tin and petroleum. Here it is well I
to remember that this is the only coal for 10,000 miles along the
Pacific coast. It is entirely within conservative bounds to say j
that Alaska will be producing $100,000,0(10 annually within ten
years.
Last fall, we had been lead to believe that a United States
land office would be established at Anchorage this spring, but
as no one is making any noise about it, it might be well to
start another agitation along this line, so necessary is such
an office in the Cook inlet country. As we understand it, it only
requires an executive order to bring,about the establishment of
a land office at this point, anti it ouglti not to be a difficult mat
ter to get the secretary of the inl!£2itfr to make such a recom
mendation. As the situation is now, it is very inconvenient
located, as it is, at Juneau. In fact, the register and receiver of
the land office admitted to the writer of these lines, some two
years ago, that a land office should be established in this part
of the country, and if it was needed at that time, surely tin;
need has increased ten-fold since. Let’s have a land office here
without any further delay.
FOREIGN RELATIONS CHAIRMAN TALKS.
WASHINGTON, March 9.—Senator Stone, of Missouri,
chairman of the senate committee on foreign relations, says,
“Despite reports to the contrary, I am not going to resign as
chairman of the foreign relations committee and 1 am going to
be retained in that chairmanship in the reorganization of the
senate. ’ ’
GOLD FROM AUSTRALIA.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 9.—The freighter Waikawa,
which arrived here from Australia last night, brought $2,500,
000 in gold consigned to the firm of J. Pierpont Morgan & Co.,
of New York.
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Loussac’s Daily Gossip
FRIDAY, MARCH 9,1917.
Vol. 1. No. 199. ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, 4th and D
Did you take a picture of the skii race last Sunday with your
Kodak? Think of the pleasure of catching'just the moment
they were off—and the lasting pleasure of a souvenir in your
photo album.
AVe Alaskans are really nomads, here today and there to
morrow. AVe are ever thus at the call and beck of dame for
tune. But the day comes when we feel we have had enough of
traveling and then for the memories brought forth out of the
collection of pictures taken by you here and there. This is what
owning a Kodak will mean to you. AVe carry a full line of Fast
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Your favorite opera, your favorite song, or your favorite
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Snow Glasses are a necessity on the trail and so is a small
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FIGHT TO END FILIBUSTERING
BEGINS IN THE U. S. SENATE
WASHINGTON, March 9.—The fight to end filibustering
in the United States senate opened yesterday afternoon, when
the rule adopted by tin* joint caucus of democrats and repub
lican members came up for consideration. Senator Walsh, of
Montana, is in charge of the cloture rule and in speaking to
it, declared that, under the present rules, traitor^ might find
(heir way into the senate and by filibuster tactics hold tlje sen
ate at bay. while a foreign foe thundered at our gates.
PRESIDENT MUST REMAIN IN BED.
WASHINGTON, March 9.—Dr. Grayson, physician to
President Wilson, says the chief executive must remain in bed
several days vet, due to his severe cold. The weather condi
tions in Washington are not agreeable at this time of the year
and care must be exercised by those having a severe cold.
BRITISH NEARING BAGDAD.
LONDON, March 9.—The war office today announces that
the British forces under General Maude are within eight miles
of the city of Bagdad, occupied by Turkish troops.
131,000 TONNAGE SUNK RECENTLY.
BERLIN, March 9.—The German government claims that
within the past few days, tonnage to the amount of 131,000
gross, has been sunk by German submarines.
CHANNEL PATROL IS
DOING GREAT WORK
A special correspondent of the press
association has had an opportunity of
inspecting the work of the Dover pa
trol. In the course of his visit he was
accorded an interview with the vice
admiral commanding at Dover, Vice
Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon.
The admiral pointed out that there
had recently been a great deal of crit
icism leveled at the work of the pa
trol as the result of the recent raids
on the channel defenses by German
light forces using the convenient bases
of Ostend and Zeebrugge. The admi
ral, in his remarks, outlined the means
taken to safeguard the line of com
munication between France and Eng
land, and spoke of the success of the
measures which had enabled an army
which had grown to the huge propor
tions of the present expeditionary
force to be transported across the
sea without the loss of a single mem
ber.
In reply to the criticism the admi
ral pointed out the wide areas that
needed vigilant watching in that part
of the world both by day and night,
and the advantage enjoyed by the en
emy in being able to choose his own
time for attack.
"A day or two spent aboard some
of the ships of the patrol, and an op
portunity of witnessing their work,
enabled me to appreciate the force of
the admiral’s contentions,” writes the
correspondent. “I saw a few only of
the multifarious duties that fall to
the lot of the patrol to discharge. 1
began to appreciate just what de
mands on the comfort and spirit of
officers and men the task of escorting
the troops to the front entails.”
The commander of our ship told me
a story of two “torpedoes” illustrat
ing how easily the most expert eye
can be deceived at sea. “At one
time,” said the commander, “every
thing that stuck out of the sea six
inches was a submarine if it were seen
from the coast, and even aboard ship.
But I have been mistaken myself.
I remember once the look-out reported
‘Torpedo on the starboard quarter,
sir,’ and it looked all up with us. 1
picked up the trail with its phosphor
escent gleam, and as it was too late
to do anything, held on to the rail and
waited to go up. The ‘torpedo’ sped
up to the ship, disappeared, and reap
peared on the other side. ‘A huge
slice of luck,’ thought I. Just then I
sighted another, and thought, ‘The
beggar has got in two.’ The second*
torpedo repeated the first performance
and I could scarcely believe our good
fortune. I ran to the other side, and
to my consternation beheld both tor
pedoes turn inwards and start sport
ing with one another! Then I realized
that a couple of porpoises had given
us the fright of our lives. I think,
however, that they would have taken
in anyone.”
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GERMAN SUBJECTS, AT RATE OF
100 A DAY, LEAVE FOR MEXICO
NEW YORK, March 9.—German subjects are receiving
passports for Mexico at the rate of a hundred a day in New
\ ork city alone. Those departing are not naturalized Ameri
can citizens, but comprise those who have come to this country
in recent years. German-American societies in the metropolis
have placed themselves boldly on record as being in favor of
the United States in the present crisis, but German subjects
who have not become naturalized citizens lean toward the fath
erland. Hence, the anticipation of hostilities between Germany
and tin* United States' impels them to take their departure to
more friendly territory.
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