The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1912-06-29
LATE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

WASHINGTON June Ex-senator Reed smoot of Utah.
chairman of the public lands committee, has reported
Alaska coal bill which is meeting with favor by Secretary
Fisher and many of the mining companies It believed that
this will solve the fuel problem and allow the
Alaska be developed smoot enhu
siasc supporter of the bill and will urge its passage at this
session.
The bill is considered the liberal yet introduced
and provides for the leasing of the coal land for period of
fifty years. The royalty fixed at not less than
than cent of the value of the coal at the mines
WASHINGTON June 27.-The public lands committee
has favoraby reported to the Senate home rule bill for Alas
ka 1t is the Smoo measure and provides for local egisa
ure of sixteen members four elected from each judicial dv
ion also gives that body wider authority egisa
ton than any of the other bills introduced.
Provision is also made for railroad commission of four
members to report to Congress the most available route in
Alaska for the construction of government railroad
An effort will be made pass this bill before Congress ad
journs and is endorsed by the administration there is
every reason to believe that it will become a law.
SEWARD June 2e-Considerable excitement was caused
became known that the volcanoes the westward
again in eruption The captain of the cannery tug Nora
reports that Friday last he five distinct craters the
mainland Katmai smoking and flashing fire alternately
The officers the cutter Bear also witnessed this and
result all of the cutters the Manning have
again left for the westward realizing that their services may
be needed.
trip Kodiak and those who made the trip for the purpose
viewing the damage done in the volcanic have been
amply repaid by the Witnessed
1t is certain that the north end of the island will be
unfit for stock raising and will probably be abandoned All
the Sheep few lambs the Kodiak government expert
mental station, killed Several head of cattle lost
and dead CLANS fish and ducks along the beaches
for miles.
All of the spawning salmon in the lake back of Kodiak
killed. and the Goldfish and halbut have left the bay
Fortunately the ash belt is not than fifty miles wide
the north of Kodiak and south of Aogna but in it's track
are to be found DEATH desoation and bigted hopes.
Father Petten the Russian priest among the persons
missing.
SEWARD, June 22-The tug Printer arrived here last
night from Kodiak for COAL and brought the latest from
the volcanic stricken district She reports that tugs and
launches have visited the mainland at Douglas, Katma and
other places and taken hundred refugees Aognak
There large number of natives than hundred
yet unaccouned for the mainland and fears entertain
ed that they may have persisted
The volcanic ash at Katmai fell to depth three feet
and the theory that the fumes and ash blown high
the air that they ded away thus saving inhabitants from
being suffocated
Agent Snodgrass of the government experimental station
at Kodiak is aboard the Sampson, returning from the
states His advces to the effect that the livestock
ON the islands living but he believes their condition to be
serious He will make tests of the ash determine whether
not the farms will have to be abandoned the present 1t
may be decided take the stock the or sell same
asturage ruined Lieutenant Seares has also left the
Sampson for Kodiak.