The Alaska citizen., 1915-02-01
.Of INTEREST
 ID ALASKANS
WRITES OF ALASKA

of Secretary of the Interior Lane, entitled Red Tape in Alaska" The cabinet member says that the terri | tory is fettered by the present pa. perwOrk system of administration. The machinery now in operation in Alaska will not answer for the new policy for the development and ex- pansion of the Nor,hland. Efficient, responsible supervision, the article continues. must be brought about. | The solution of the difficulty lies in a development board, appointed by the President and confirmed by the senate.
 The redtape system is impossi- ble. he says. with the control of lands in one department, the control of forest in another, roads in an other, and fisheries in a fourth; with the care of black bear entrust- ed to one department. and brown bear to another
 In conclusion, the secretary says that at present nine national depart ments deal with the public business of Alaska, through twentythree sep arate offices or bureaus.
 FINDS NEW CHANNEL.
 WASHINGTON. D. C., Jan. 25.-- Secretary of Commerce Redfield an nounces that Captain Lukens, of t!e survey ship Yukon, has discov- cred a navigable channel at the mouth of the kuskokwim river, thus opening vast territory to develop ment. The secretary predicts a future for the Kuskokwim valley imilar to that of the Yukon, and says that the finding of the navig- able channel will hasten the de- velopment of that region.
 GOVERNOR IN "MOVIEs."
 JUNEAU, Jan. 25 Governor Strong has consented to pose for the movies this week. Beverly Dobbs the moving picture man, is here taking views and will include the territorial executive in his collec- tion.
 TO CERTIFY ELECTION
 JUNEAU, Jan. 25. Governor Strong has announced that the miss ing election returns from the Fourth division will not prevent the issu- 'nce Of certificates of election to the members of the territorial leg stature from the Interior.
 BISHOP ROWE COMING.
 JUNEAU, Jan 25. Advices re ceived in this city today from Se- attle state that Bishop P T. Rowe is scheduled to leave the Puget sound city tonight enroute for h. terior Alaska. The bishop will spend four days i ere before going to Cor Iowa and thence over the trail to 'airhankS.
 OPPOSE BUYING ROAD.
 WASHINGTON. D. C.. Jan. 25.- Several members of the house com mittee on territories have announced that they will ask President Wilson not to accept the offer of J. P. Morgan to sell the Copper River X Northwestern railroad to the gov ernment. The committeeman eX- press the fear that Morgan's activity might make it impossible to secure from congress the. S5,000,000 want cd for the commencement of pro posed new work,
 TWO CANDIDATES NAMED.
 SEATTLE, Jan. 26.-Andy Ander- son and George James, both of whom are now in this city, have announced their candidacy for the vacancy in the upper house of the Alaska leg, stature caused by the death recent y Of Senator Bruner of Nome. Ow- ing to the fact that the special cleo ion called by Governor Strong to fill the vacancy will not be held until the latter part of next month, it will De necessary for the Second division to elect some man who is already on ne coast
 WANTS RAILROAD HURRIED.
 NEW YORK, Jan. 27.--In a dis cussion of the unemployed question before tie federated churches of this city, Colonel Roosevelt declared last night that no time should be lost by the federal government in start ing work on the Alaska railroad He said that the commencement Of that enterprise would partially solve ,he unemployed problem by giving work to thousands of idle men.
 ALASKA GETS MORE PEOPLE.
 JUNEAU, Jan. 27.-The annual re- nnrt of Collector of Customs Pugh which has just been issued. shows hat the population of Alaska has in creased three thousand during the past year The increase has been confined chiefly to the coast re- zion of Southeastern Alaska
 STRONG REFUSES.
 JUNEAU. Jan. 27. Governor Strong has refused to change the date of the special senatorial cleo tion to February 20 as requested by
 number of Nomeites.
 MONEY DUE ALASKA.
 WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 28,-- Representative William E. Hum phrey, of the Washington state del egation, expresses the belief that congress will grant the necessary funds for the purchase of wire drags for the use of the geodetic ,urvey in charting the waters of Alaska. The bill now pending be- fore congress provides for the ap- propriation of $50,000 for betterine conditions in the North.
 SMISER IS REPUBLICAN.
 TACOMA, Wash, Jan. 28. - The Washington correspondent of the Ledger has informed his paper that big shock is awaiting the Demo crats of Southeastern Alaska in con- sequence of the appointment of Sniser of Tennessee, as district at torney for that division. It is claim ed that the new appointee is deep iyed-in-the-wool Republican.
 LANE IN CHARGE.
 WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 29.-