WEEKS NEWS OF DOINGS
OF ALASKA LEGISLATONE
LEGISLATURE ON CLOSE
HUNT FOR REVENUES
Junenti. Ms. April, 11—A revenue
• I>1 II agreed upon l*y the Ways and
Means Committee of tlie lower house
of th»* Alaska legislature includes new
am! increased taxes on various indus
tries and utilities.
The measure calls for a Lot of $100
per annum on dally newspapers:
weekly papers, $-’5 per annum. A tax
of $150 per annum Is provided for non
resident fur buyers. Private automo
biles are scheduled to J»ay a 1aX of $10
per annum and those used for hire
$25. Hath houses are listed at $5 per
tub . Hotels and lodging houses *n
Incorporated towns, .is well as those
outside of municipalities will be taxed
on the basis of the i.ills charged. Rein
deer will be i i\.*d 50 < < nLs for each
| carcass killed when not owned by Ks
khno. Kish traps win be assessed
I $500 and fish, fresh and frown. one
j rent per pound, t'ominerelal travei
■ era will pay a license fix of $50 for
'each house represented. Dance halls
J : anted for any purpose will pay j tax
of $25 pry year. Dr-duos and hydraul
I i.- mines will be t 'X«*J from a tenth of a
I'mill to 15 cento a yard, actual values.
Tlie woman Juror bill was defeated
In the House, Saturday by a. vote of
thirteen to throe. Xeurland, IUism and
J Klsner alone voting for the measure,
ep. I'ochmn led the assault on the
ill. deelurtng it 'inconceivable th it
i<-n will support a measure to compel
leir mothers. sisters and dauffh’ers
» sit on juries in the view of public
>-«s und listen to testimony in trials
hich is frenquently so vile .i« to sho« k
ie sensibilities of men. Itep. Oocliran
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EIGHT HOUR BILL BEFORE
TERRITORIAL HOUSE
Juneau, Als. April 13— In the long
eat session of the present term jf the
territorial legislature, the House is to
day considering the Getchell eight hour
labor hill. Representatives Brown and
Cochran of Nome made a hard light
to amend tbe bill by limit ng overtime
work to four consecutive days in any
one wc«k but los*. The measure was
amend >d to include dredges and the
House in committee of the whole
adopted Cochrdn's anu ndment ex*end
ing its provisions to cover snrfai
placer mining.
The House Ways and Means Com
m'tteo has reported a l»ill carrying
$41,000 for the Fairbanks School cf
Mines. A Senate bill introduced by
Hunt "f Ketchikan defines offends
against the election laws and provides
penalties. Hep. Murray "f Cjrdnv.-.
has introduced a House hill amending
the school tax laws bv requirin'; col
lectors to give a bond n amount equal
to the tax to be collected.
The House today passed a Senate
memorial relative to the laying .f ■
new cable between Seattle and Sitk
and Sitka and Valdez.
A road bill, substantially re-enact
ing the road law of 1917 and repealing
the present law. is on tomorrow’.s cal
endar for House consideration. A
number "f amendments have i'reads
been proposed and the committee ar. 1
individual members will probably of
fir others. Many bills of useless in
tent have been slaughtered by the
House Judiciary Committee since th
opening of the legislative session.
WICKERSHAM STILL
CONFIDENT GOVERNORSHIP
Juneou. Alaska April 11—-Pr!
viitp telegrams received from Wick
ersham ami Delegat- Dan Sutherland
yesterday Indicate that both have more
than a small aomunt nf confidence in
the ultimate appointment >f Wicker
sham to the governorship.
It Is now suspected that the reports
sent out recently were intended to
stampede the WJckersham supporters
to some (flic- else and the douhtfc they
raised were for a .purpose.
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NEWS LETTER
bridge will be 150 feet in length. and
Tiie re[K»rt comes from Cord.n.i th.-if
the Rtnrnge of coal nn<l a trip pie f*»r
handling the product from the- Katalln
cocci mines. It is thought that a spur
will l»e built by that roadSo t ip the
fields The estimated cost of the |. ns
and tripple is $40,000.
The United States government is
to ice a**ked to develop the oil fields of
Alaska along the same lines they are
now using In the Northern coal lands
by the Alaska legislature In Juneau,
when It convenes March 7. according
to Senator K. K. Chamberlain of Sew
ard. who arrived from his home on the
Northwestern.
, Speaking of his plan fo* legislation,
he said: "Yfy first official act will lie
the Introduction of a memorial to Con.
gres asking that the. federal gove rn
ment put down a test well in each oil
diatrict reported by the geological sur
vey. All lands In the North are prac
tically owned by the government, and I
believe that the greatest oil fields In
the world "'ill he developed in Alaska,
therefore It Is up to thp government
to prospect Its own land. The expense
of 'prospecting, in the event of discov
eries would be directly returned to th«
government In royalties and nents from
lepi leasers. Alaska would be hene
fitted to an unlimited extent, and that
ia the end I am seeking.**
Approximately 10# men are reported
at work, on the Keno hill. property of
the Kayo dieted, Tahoe . district,
where miners arc hew draWTpgHie a
I day anti bouj'd. Fifteen hundred tons
j of sack'd ore, ready for shipment, are
I said to contain from 300 to 3000 ounces
I of silver per ton, besides a large per
I ventage of lead. Considerable mining
j activity is reported In the Heaver dis
trlot near Nenana, where several win
ter dumps have been taken oA pre
paratory to sluicing as soon as the
water runs in the spring, operations
vtere delayed somewhat by cold weath
er last month but everyone is working
• gain and good cleanups are\»ntlciput
The Alaska Coal and Coke Company I
has secured a lease on blocks 26 to 31
j inclusive in the He ring Itiver Coal
I fields, according to a recent announce- j
! rnent of the l\ S. J„and Office at!
! Juneau. The “land covered J»y the!
j lease comprises approximately 2,000 1
j ac res and embraces a portion of the
famous Cunningham group of claims. !
I The group of claims leased to the Al- ;
I askn Coal and Coke Company is ■sit- j
j uated about one mile east of the Fal- !
[con Joslin leasehold and lies north of
i Kunhtaka l-ake and east of the glacier!
of the same name.
Thirty tons of bituminous coal, tin*
first shipment from the Kvuirs Jones
Company's mines in the Matanuska
district, recently arrive*! in Anrhorafp.
The company expects to make regular
sliipments in future.
| Slump in the fur market has result -
■ I in general suspension of trapping?
along the lower YukoYi, Seward penIn
-ula and other‘sections of the terri
tory. As a result many of the settle
aunts of the far north have conditions
less prosperous than a year ago. Trap
pers returning from their lines in the
Ketchikan district report game is
scarce this season.*
| Weather,In Jumau for January was
I warmer than is usually recorded in
| Chioagoff for the same month, accord
ing to M. II. Summers, meteorologist
in charge of the weather office at
Juneau. The month of January aver
aged 2.2 degress below the piean tem
| average of 2-1.5 degrees and a norm-1
I temperature of 26.7 degree*.
Totaling 1108.320,895. Alaska’s com
| nieree. one of the great bulwark- of
jSeattl'-’a prosperity, virtually-held its
own in 1920 as compared to 1919 when
the figures were $109,552,339. The de
crease is only $1,322,414 and it is large
ly confined to gold and silver ship
ments. The year 1919 showed slump
j of more than $17,000,000 as compared
to the record of 1918. so that the 1920 '
slump is insignideent in comparison.
The statistics which were received in
the annual report of the customs de
partment's northern headquarters in
Juneau shpw that Alaska has halted I
the downward movement and is now on j
The great territory's imports'll' 1920
totaled $38,418,473 as compared to 83.8.- j
957.259 in 1919. Krports +n 1920 to:
taled $69,911,422 as compared to $70.
695,080 in 1919. Merchandise exports
from the I’nlted States showed a'gain
of nearly $500,000. while gold aiftl sil
ver^shipments fell off more than $1,200 -•
000 due to the low purchasing power of
those metals In 1.920.
flow to see the establishment of i large
pulp and paper manufacturing plant
ger of the Alaska Oust1 until .\lin‘ng
according to Frank Walters of Thano.
Just down from the North.
An oil leasing and prospecting p<:r
mil him Juki bren Iwued to Janies H.«f
nett of Cordova by the 'United States
department of the Interior Th-* ap
pl cation covers a claim of 2.5‘JO aer*’*
n the Yakutagu district.
The Katinal racking Company Is
the name of the new concern that Is ;
'building a salmon cannery and a small j
sawmill on Katmn-i Hav. It Is the In*
tension to perate the cannery this
Eleven cars of Alaska aid Puget
Sound salmon left for Eastern markets
recently, making the second 1'irge ship*
ment of salmon from this city this
month. The fish will be distributed
from Ht Paul to Middle Western and
Southern points. , Four cars of peanuts
prepared by a .Seattle Arm were In the
name (rain. The salmon shipment ag
gregated 660.000 pounds.
A two-line saWnon cannery Is be
ing constructed at Kanatak. on Port*
age Bay, across Shellkoff Strait front
Kodiak Island.
Five Indian girls were recently
brought (o Dawson by Bluhop Stringer,
front their homes on the upper reaches
of the Porcupine Itlver. They are to
be placed In the mission school at Car
oHms. At Dawson the girts were
yeated to their first eight of elec tile
lights,, telephones.' bicycles gpd auto*
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