The Chitina leader., 1914-03-10
Late Telegraph News

.
Q endum vote on the proposition Of
r bond issue to raise 100000 70
r public recreation buildings will b.
1 voted on here soon, it was an
5 nounced today. Brilliantly lightet
t Fairgrounds for use at night o
Y those who work during the day Il
: part of the plan. Each playground
> would be supplied with gym
l nasium.
| WASHINGTON. D. c., March r.
Colonel Goethals believes that onl,
J a very small percentage of the ma
chinery used for building tn,
Panama canal could be used for thu
| construction of the government rail
4 roads in Alaska. In offering his
testimony before the House com
mittee considering the Ramsdell bill
!, for Mississippi river improvements
i. he declared that it would be imprac.
teal to use the Panama mahcinery
equipment on either the Alaska OF
Mississippi projects with the excep-
ton Of some minor parts. The
great bulk OF the machinery used in
building the canal had been espe-
cially built for the purpose and was
of too massive construction to be
used to advantage. He believed
lighter machinery would be required
| for building the railroads in Alaska
and was also of the opinion that
special machinery would be required
to handle the Missippi project when
it was undertaken.
MASSILON, Ohio, March g.
April 16 has been selected as the
date upon which Gen. Jacob s.
Coxey proposes to lead his second
army of the unemployed" out of
Massilon for Washington. General
Coxey announced that demands will
| be made upon Congress that work
| be furnished for those in idleness.
Coxey plans to reach Washington at
| the same time as the contingent
from the western states under
General Kelley.
DES MONIES, Iowa, March g.
Preparations are being made to
resist through the courts the en-
forcement of the Iowa law provid-
ing for the sterilization of insane,
diseased and criminal wards of the
commonwealth. A test case will be
entered in the name of a prisoner,
as plaintiff, but it is understood
that prison officials are paying the.
legal expenses of the case.
WASHINGTON, D. c., March e.
The treasury department basing its
estimates on Geographic reports
from internal revenue collectors,
states that the revenue derived
from the income tax, together with
the corporation tax, for the past
ten months is in excess of $780,
OOO, 900.
WASHINGTON, D. c., March g.
Explorer Steffanson, in letter writ
ten to the National Geographical
Society, states that he will sled his
supplies from Point Barrow to st.
! Patrick's island during the winter.
He sends information that the men,
| bers of the party are all enjoying
good health.
WASHINGTON, D. c., March G.
w. T. Lopp, chief clerk of the
Alaska division of the bureau of.
| education, is now in Washington to
appear before the House committee
on appropriations. He will ask for.
S125,0OO for medical relief and
$250,000 for food and necessaries
for the natives. Included in this
last appropriation is the item for
the new schooner.
| 1t is the belief of government off
|
| be saved in transportation by hav-
| ing special government schooner,
and that the Indians may be trained
| in sea-craft with much advantage to
! themselves and the nation. The ship
could be used for transporting sup
plies during the summer and as Il
training ship for natives during the
winter.
| BOSTON, March 6.-Arohdeacon
Stuck, of Fairbanks, Alaska, who
scaled Mt. Mckinley, the highest
peak in America, delivered a lecture
here last night on Alaska. He de-
clared that the crying need of the
territory was a system of wagon
roads rather than government rail
roads He believes the ,appropria-
ton of $7,250,O00 asked for roads
by the Alaska Road Commission
will accomplish more for the de-
velopment of the territory than will
the. building of the trunk line to the
interior.
The Archdeacon has been all
over the territory and states that in
many camps, owing to the lack OF
roads, the miners are compelled to
pay enormous rates to- have their
!, supplies delivered on the ground
where they are operating.
WASHINGTON, D. c., March e.
, Senator Works in speech in the
J Senate today on the Mexican situa'
tion declared that the United States
would be forced. to deal with
Mexico in very decisive way ir
the near future. Continuing ne
: characterized President Wilson's
Mexican policy as lone of the dark
est pages of the American history
We claim the right through the
: Monroe Doctrine to protect foreign
ers in Mexico but we have failed tt
do so, and other nations will bt
justified in demanding satisfaction
: if we do not secure it for them whel
? their subjects are unjustly treated.
5 PORTLAND, Ore, March 6.-Th'
: prohibitionists of this state ar,
) preparing to make a fight to hav'
1 this state go dry at the election
: next November. Negotiations hay'
: been opened with Billy Sunday, thu
: noted revivalist who has been hold