The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1914-09-28
Town Gossip and Stories
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beautiful inland water channel vary
ine in width from one-quarter to
five miles. lined on both sides by
majestic mountains glorious in their
covering of heavy timber and dense
green foliage Picturesque towns
and villages are observed frequent
+ ly along the Canadian shores as well
as in Alaska proper. and there are a
sufficient number of quaint and in
teresting Indian villages to satisfy
+ the most eXaCting."
Alaska Construction of the gov
i immigration eminent railroad is eT-
To Grow pected to increase the
immigration here so much
that the inspector of immigration
f for Alaska is expecting to be given
much additional help. The following
concerning the matter is taken from
Juneau newspaper of recent date:
ID Maskeviszius. general inspect
or in charge of immigration in
Alaska. with headquarters at Ketchi-
kan. is in the city on business
In Alaska there is one assistant
TO the inspector, R Joy, stationed
at Skagway. In other places Gus
ton officials also act as immisr1-
ton inspectors.
! Mi. Maskeyiszius says that many
people are now leaving Alaska to
go to Europe This is mostly true of
the foreigners. more particularly the
IAustrians and Slavonians.
The inspector says that when
work is started on the government
railroad in Alaska it will be neces-
sary to have larger immigration
force. Many people will rush to
/ Alaska then expecting to get work,
and it is impossible for the present
force to begin to cope with the stu
alton which will confront Alaska
Eat that time"
Federal What Alaska has paid
Tax Paid the United States gov
BY Alaska eminent in income tax
/ es during the fiscal year
ending June so is told in the fol
! lowing, taken from the Juneau En-
pire:
! "Maska's contribution to Uncle
Sans money chests through the OPP
Grafton of the internal revenue laws
for the fiscal year which terminated
June Goth last was s31,857.
Most of these collections, of
course. We're on liquors and tobac-
{ cos The new forms of direct taxes,
+ J. owever. also furnished a consider
/ able part Of the whole.
Alaska paid S4,6S2S7 corporation
/ income tax, $2,427S3 individual in
come tax and s1.075.S1 corporation
excise tax.
/ internal revenue taxes collected
! by the federal government in the
State of Washington amounted to
SO542 corporation income tax; $122,-
47456 individual income tax and
$124,S91 40 corporation excise tax"
Red Tape Government red tape
/ flinders will probably hinder the
Travelling transportation of men
over the trail to Fair
banks in the spring, provided the
government determines to prepare
end of the line before navigation
begins.
1t is explained by W. S. Raeburn,
who has charge of the offices Of the
Alaska Engineering commission, that
a new law, which became effective
on July l. of this year, limits the
expenses Of government employees,
while travelling, to s. a day. in ad-
dition to their fares. 1t is not pos
sible for men to pay their expenses
across the Valdez trail and keep
within the IS limit, Mr.. Raeburn
points out, and just how this diff
Guilty can be overcome in case it
is determined to send men here, is
beyond his ability to determine.
Mr. Raeburn was formerly employ
ed in the international boundary sur
vey between Canada and Alaska. and
when he had to make trip over
interior country, he took care to get
receipts each day for all his eX-
penses. OF course, there was no
way at that time to get out of pay
ing him the full amount. but he says
that the big expense bills created
some animated discussion in Wash
ington, where they can hardly real
ize the cost of living in the North
Picture They have good joke
Excites on Dan Callahan over at
A Dog Fox 1t will be remem
bered that Dan recently
had some campaign posters printed
tor himself, containing a large pie
ture of himself. Well, one of these
posters was given to the Cliff House