Agriculture but his plea was
without avail. The situation at
Washington is explained by him
in the following cable sent to the
Alaska press:
“Have had various protests
from Alaska chamber bodies and
have advised them that the
president and Secretary of Agri
culture, have had many com
plaints from various sections of
the country but have decided
that no alterations would be
made. This morning I again
went to the department to pre
sent your contention but after a
conference decided that no
change could be made without
bringing a renewal of protests
from other sections.
“They say the regulations are
for one year only and that sports
men ought to be willing to deny
themselves for the benefit of fu
ture abundance of birds. Am
sending copies of the new regu
lations to newspapers of terri
tory so that the public can get
ell the reasons for restrictions.”
-x
RATES ON RAILROAD ”
-X
Congressman Prank Murphy of
Ohio, who was in Alaska last
summer declared: “The recent
increases in rates on the Alaska
Railroad were unfair and un
necessary and their effect has
been to decrease the transport
ation system’s business and to
retard the development of the
country.
“The federal government,” he
contended, “should rectify its
mistake in the administration
policy of the railroad. The law
er rates should be restored and
service adequate in every par
ticular should be maintained.”
It has been suggested that the
railroad serves territory owned
by the government. Therefore,
the government should give free
transportation rates to those
who are pioneering in the devel
opment of resources in areas
owned in entirety by the federal
government.
-x
INDIANS PLAN SUIT
-x
In council, the Pottawattamie
Indians of Shawnee, Okla., vot
ed to retain a firm of Washing
ton atorneys to claim indemnity
from the government for lands
along the Chicago shores. They
claim they lost their lands by
the flow of migration whereby
they were forced off their lands
and compelled to accept other
“reservations” prescribed for
them.
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INDIANS TO TEST TREATY
OF 1885
-x
In 1885, the Indians who
roamed the Western Washing
ton wilderness, pledged them
selves to cease coveting the
scalps of their white brothers.
The Redskins buried the hat
chet. smoked the pipe of peace
with the paleface, and gather
ed at Muekilteo, on Puget Sound
for a great powwow with “Big
Chief Pale Face” Isaac Stevens,
governor of the territory.
At that meeting was born the
treaty granting the Indians the
light to hunt and fish through
out Washington in common with
the white men. On the basis of
the treaty, the Indians through
the years have taken their game
when and where they would,
and frequently have run afoul
c:C the white man’s strange
game law, which cast the Red
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