The Chitina leader., 1913-06-03


 that he will retain as his private secretary the present incumbent, w. w. Shorthill. "T consider MT. lShorthills services to valuable to be dispensed with at this time," said the Governor, land no change will be made, at least for the present time. !"
 Mir. Shorthill served the past three years as secretary to Governor Clark.
 The Dawson light plant destruc- tion by fire was serious setback tor that camp.
 Mayor E. E. Ritchie of Valdez was a former newspaper man, with a good record to his credit. Nome is having a busy season, and the outlook for a revival of mining activity seems bright. Fairbanks has an energetic pound- master. Sixteen canines were placed in durance vile in one week. The only opposition to the name of John Y.s Ostrander to be U. S. Judge at Valdez, was that taken by several soreheads of the Frame type. Juneau Dispatch.
 According to the new arrange ments members of the U. s. Signal Corps can remain in Alaska as long as they have a mind to. With the double time no longer in force the objection to their remaining here |overlong, is of course removed. It adds to the efficiency of the service in Alaska also, for the men will be inclined to remain who are familia.' with and experienced in their work in every way.
 M. c. Hazel, of Buffalo, New York, is trying to locate an uncle, MT. John Kerr, who left Buffalo in 1898. John Kerr, who is sought after, is a. bout "A years of age. M. G. Ha- gels addreess is APO Front Street, Buffalo, New York.
 The inside saloon deck and in- -termediate passenger rates between Seattle and Nome have been raised $500. The governments new life boat regulations were given as the reason for the advance.
 The cry is raised that MT. Exum the newly appointed U. s. Marshal, is a Guegenheim man merely be- cause he Was employed, in a cleri- cal position on the syndicate's rail- road. Such premature criticism is unjust to Mr. Exum.-Seward Gate way.
 Dr. Emil Krulish, who has been looking after the health of Alaska for the past year, says that tubercu- losis will exterminate the native pop plation of Alaska within the next sixty or seventy-fve years if it is not eradicated at once He says that fifteen per cent of the native population is now infected with the disease, in either the latent or active stage. This condition has been brought about with the advent of the white man into the country; the natives have contracted his dis eases, with the result that degenera- ton and demoralization are rapidly exterminating the native population. As proof of this assertion, Dr. Kru- fish points out that the native pop ulati.n of Alaska decreased I4.5 De. cent between 1900 and 1910. The causes leading np to this are found in the ulsanitary condition of nlosT of the. touses d., the villages, crn~d ed and unventilated, where the !n- mates eat fl oLi the same dish, drink II OAAA IhO ochiiC tSoPol oPodty anu C-A- pectorate cu ihs same floor The advent of civilization even in Alask1 IS evidently rt altogether scss- ing. 1n- in:!l sition of the advan tagos or q a .vantages cf one race on anotner usually leads to the grad ual eliminat!on of the weaker race.
 The ban on black bear has been lifted in a sweeping order. Dr. Brown, the bureau of educa- tion physician, has taken charge of the fight against the epidemic of diphtheria at Nulato.
 June will witness two big trials in the Feleral court at Juneau-the Mcdonald murder trial and the transportation cases.
 J. J. Underwood's boow, "Alaska an Empire in the Making" now on the market, has met with a ready sale.
 The first threshing machine ever brought north will reach Fairbanks in July and will be placed on the Rickett homestead.
 Former Gov. John G. Brady, of Aleska, is now in Europe, where he went in connection with business venture that concerns Alaska, ac- cording to information received in