The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-01

| board, made announcement today of the fact that they do not intend to give employment to any more Outsiders. They say that they had places for fifty men and that all the jobs have been filled. Addition al help will be needed when the various parties are ready to begin work in Alaska. but, as already an nounced, it is the intention to give that work to residents of the North. It is not known exactly how many places there will be to be filled after the surveyors have reached | Alaska.
 The announcement was issued be- cause of the great number of ap- l plicants for jobs who daily make their appearance at the temporary offices of the board in the Alaska ] building. When the commissioners reached their rooms this morning, there were fully 1000 men waiting to ask them for work. One of the men arrived on the scene before s o'clock. in order that he might be ! among the first to make application for work.
 LIVE STOCK SENT HERE.
 SEATTLE, May 28.-According to information given out today by of ficials of the Alaska Steamship com pany, the present season will mark the commencement, on large scale of stock raising in Alaska. The Alaska Steamship company alone has contracted to take large num- Der of cattle, horses and other stock to the Northern territory, and it is predicted that the close of the present season will find large areas of Alaska grazing land occupied. Farmers in Southwestern Alaska already have contracted for the ship ment of more than six hundred head of sheep and hogs and arrangements have been made for the transporta- ton of an equal number of horses and cattle to Western and Central Alaska.
 HANK WE'D DRoWNs. DAWSON. May 28.-Arrivals in this city from the head of the White river bring the news of the drown ing of Hank Weld, an oldtimer of this camp, who is reported to have lost his life in the waters of the White near the mouth of Snag creek The boat was capsized by a sweeper.
 Norman McCauley, who was with Weld. managed to reach shore. Weid's body was not recovered.
 STRoNGS ENTERTAINED.
 SEATTLE, May 2S. Governor and Mrs. Strong will be guests of ton ityt, nf 1oIi nj oh which has been arranged by the Sc attle Press club It is expected that the governor will be invited to make short address.
 ENGINEERS GET BOAT.
 SEATTLE, May 2S-The crew of the Midnight Sun, the launch which has been turned over to the Alaska engineering board by the boundary commission for use on the Tanana river. left for the North last night. They will proceed direct to Dawson, where the launch is in winter quar- ters, and from there they will go 10 Nenana.
 On Sunday night, Is horses will be shipped North on the Alameda by Thomas Riggs, Jr. The stock is to be taken to Fairbanks for the use of the Interior survey parties. It is understood that additional hors- es will be purchased at Fairbanks,
 Henry Deyo, who is now at Cor dova, has been instructed by the board to organize survey party at that point and work from Chitina over toward the Matanuska country.
 kARLUk WRECKED.
 NOME, May 29.-Captain R. A. Bartlett, master of Explorer Stef- ansson's flagship, the Karluk, ar rived at St. Michael last night on the steam whaler Herman, and re- ports the wreck of his vessel in the Arctic ice at point 60 miles north of Herald island, which is east of Wrangell island, off the Northern shore of Sibera.
 Captain Bartlett states that the Karluk was crushed by the ice on January Is, and that following the disaster, he and the members of the crew mushed to Wrangell island. where 16 of the men are now en- camped, awaiting the arrival of the relief ship. The captain left the island about the middle of March and made his way to the Siberian coast in company with an Eskimo, where he was picked up by the Her man. The camp at Wrangell island is we'll supplied with provisions, but Captain Bartlett and his companion were reduced to short rations before they were rescued by the whaler, and suffered many hardships.
 The Herman appeared off Nome early yesterday and reached St. Michael last night The ice is still solid in front of Nome.
 The Karluk was carried off by the ice last fall. while Stefansson and several other members of the ex. petition were on shore hunting carl bou The vessel has been reported several times since its disappear ance, but Captain Bartlett brings the first word direct from the lost ship.
 WASHINGTON, D. C., May 26.- Senator Wesley L. Jones. of Wash. ington, is making vigorous fight against the proposed repeal of the prafarantial clauSa Of the Panama