The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-19
Town Gossip and Stories
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'are being prepared for the govern ment II is expected that the report will be i'll the hands of the authori- ties in Washington by the first of the year and that in a short time thereafter. the route of the road will be determined
 Al Miner All the way from Los Wanted By Angeles has come a His Mother pathetic plea to The
 Citizen to aid an aged mother in locating her son, formerly of the Fairbanks district. The son who is wanted by his mother is Al Miner. who was last heard from in this district two years ago.
 Mrs David r Roy, wife of a the story of the lost son. and forth with sent a letter to The Citizen eX planins the case. Mrs. Miner, the mother who is yearning for some word from her absent son. is about 70 years of aees It seems that the last news she received of him was through a former resident of this district. who had seen him here about two years ago.
 -l, 1-p nf hn whereabouts of Al Miner. he will do a humane act if he will inform this office or write to Mrs. David T. Roy. care of the Engstrum Apart ments, los Angeles. California. Chena People of Cinema are People not intending to sit Protest quietly by and allow
 the government to annul their townsite survey without a pro test They have employed Me Gowan X Clark. local lawyers. to protest against the plan of the gov ernment of annulling the townste survey.
 Through their attorneys the people of Chena have filed request at the local land office that they be given 90 days time. from September 9. in which to show cause why their townsite survey should not be annuled This application will b" sent to the department of the inter ior and it will not be known for several weeks if the extension of time will be granted.
 The attempt of the government to annul the tOWnsite survey for Cinema, is believed to be due to T desire to make new townsite there when work is started on the new government railroad.
 Movies" To It seems now that the Advertise government is planning Alaska to advertise Alaska by
 the use of moving pie lures at the San Francisco eXposi tion next year. There has been a photographer in Alaska for some time, taking moving pie lures of the scenery. Concerning him the Juneau Empire has the following to say:
 "E B. Thompson. the government photographer who was sent North to get moving pictures for the govern exposition at San Francisco, secur ed some beautiful scenery along the Taku river while with the F. P. Pond expedition last Sunday. He also secured a long reel of the celebrated glacier in motion.
 While here Mir Thompson took moving pictures of the industrial ac- tivities, including scenes among the larger mines and ore reduction plants on both sides of the channel.' Mail Sometimes ruling Of News some department of the Limited government, which at
 first seems to be of lit tie importance, has far-reaching effect.
 Last summer, about July 1, it was ordered that each department of the government must pay for it's use of the Alaska telegraph system. Previous to that date. all government officials in Alaska were permitted to send telegrams of a public nature without any formality. But the new ruling made it neces- sary that the signal corps, which operates the telegraph system, must be paid for the service by the de- partments using it.
 At the time, the public paid but little attention to the ruling, for it was not made evident that the mere formality in the matter of sending official telegrams could af feet the people of Fairbanks. But it will affect them this winter in small way. for it will prevent the postoffice from getting information from day to day about the incoming l.. i'd ,nf of