The Alaska citizen., 1914-11-30

from Nome. and of his previous eN.
periences in Alaska. the Nugget
/ in part. says:
Mr. kuhl is an interesting char
acter and has fund of information
which he has acquired by many
years Of experience and observations
+ in the North He says that the
natives of Baily Island. when he
first knew them, were quite numer-
Gus but now are reduced to two
families by disease which was brought
/ by early whalers. He says that
measles and consumption have been
1 the diseases which have carried off
the natives Mr. Kuhl reports that
the whaler Herman had passed Point
/ Barrow going to the westward and
all the whaling and trading ships
were now out of the Arctic
Times Alaska seems to be the
Here Are only place under the
Good American flag that has
not suffered from the
| financial depression in the States.
In discussing the promised improve
ment in the financial conditions in
the States the other day, Dick Wood
| president of the First National bank,
remarked;
| There has been nothing in Fair
banks to indicate that there was a
| financial depression in the country.
Times here have been just as they
We're previously"
1t is probable that all the business
men of the city will agree with what
Mr.. Wood says in this regard. If
there have been few weeks oc-
casionally of quiet times, it has
been due to local conditions and
| has had nothing to do with the fin
ances of the States.
| However, it is pointed out that
the expenditure of $35,o00,o0o for
the construction of the railroad by
the government, will bring to In
terror Alaska a new prosperity that
few other localities of the country
| have ever known.
Moral When District Attorney
| Policy Roth took office, every
Explained body was wondering if
he would enforce the
policies adopted by Mr.. Crossley in
regard to the restricted district.
Mr. Roth had little to say at that
| time in regard to his future policies,
for he was too busy working to
overcome the political undercurrent
that was trying to drag him down.
| A few days ago The Citizen ask
ed Mr.. Roth what is his policy re-
garding the moral conditions here,
and be replied that he would keep
the district closed
Some people have asserted that
conditions about the city We're bet
ter before the district was closed
than at present. for then vice was
not scattered about the city. Mr.,
Roth has been asked about this SEN
timent. but he replied that he is
going to do that which the attorney
general had approved
The matter of closing the district
had been explained to the attorney
general by Mr.. Crossley. after he
had accomplished its closing, and the
attorney general had replied that in
the light of what Mr. Crossley had
explained OF conditions here, he be-
lieved that the closing of the dis
trict was proper
Detention Some of the federal of
Hospital ticials have come to the
Is Problem conclusion that the new
detention hospital will
never be opened. 1t seems that the
government prison inspector when
here compiled a lot Of data concern
ing it. He found out, for instance,
the number of insane people sent
from here each year and the aver
age time they We're kept in Fair
banks after being committed to the
asylum This was to determine the
use to which the building would be
put.
If the prison inspectors report
had been favorable to the opening of
the hospital, it is quite certain that
the institution would now be in use
but inasmuch as the government has
not ordered its opening it is be-
ginning to look as though it will
never be used for the purpose it was
intended for.
However, it is quite probable that
when the government constructs its
new federal building here, one de-
partment of it will be used as de
tention hospital, in connection with
with TIE Jail the cost of mainten-
ance would be materially decreased
If the government does not open