The Alaska citizen., 1916-08-14
OF INTEREST
 ID ALASKANS
FOR DRAGGING ANCHOR.

oLA l lE, Aug. line govern ment has begun seeking evidence in the suit that it will institute against the Alaska Steamship Co.,, whose steamship Alameda will be charged with dragging her an. AJI which caused the last break in the cable service to Alaska.
 SUTHERLAND WINS SUIT.
 SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1.-The Circuit Court of Appeals held tha the failure to record a power of attorney inyalidated the title to an Alaskan mining claim. The claim n question is located in the Shu- shana district The court awarded the claim to Senator Sutherland, who filed on it subsequently to the location of the claim by c. L. Gates. who was acting with an unrecord power of attorney for F. w. Purdy.
 RAILS FOR OUR ROAD.
 SEAl ll--., Aug. t.--IUe Nan shan sailed from th.s port lonigu with cargo of rails and cOnstruc- tion material for Seward and An chorage delivery. All of the equip ment will be used on the coast end of the railroad.
 HELPING ALASKA.
 WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. g. President Wilson today amended the civil service rules so as to per ait paroled prisoners in the federal penitentiaries to fill civil service positions. The order was the re. suit of an effort on the part of the department of justice officials to provide work for Phillip Gosbee, prisoner at McNeils Island. Gosbee was convicted of murder as the re. suit of dispute over an Alaskan mining claim and was sentenced to life Imprisonment.
 HEN FRUIT COMING
 SEATTLE, Aug. 9.-Eight hundred thousand eggs from Petaluma farms will arrive from San Francisco to, morrow for shipment to Fairbanks on the Northwestern and other yes sels. The Alaska Steamship com pany announces that the Northwest ern will be dispatched Sunday morn ing for Nome and St Michael via Seward
 COAL LEASES SOON.
 WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. e. The general land office announces that next week advertisements for bids for leasing the coal lands in Alaska would be advertised Th lands cover the amount applied for in eight applications that are now pend i"" bCf.rn thn q D rt,lInt tfy: are for 6,36O acres in the Matanus- ka coal fields and three are for 5lS0 in the Boring river fields
 REPUBLICANS NOMINATE.
 JUNEAU, Aug. 9-The Republi- can divisional convention divorced Territorial politics from divisional politics and nominated one ticket for the local legislature by an unani- nous vote. The following were nominated on the ticket:
 J, R. Heckman, os Ketchikan, for senator; John G. Heid of Juneau; P. c. Mccormack, of Wrangel; Will liam Freeburg, of Chicagof, and Monte Bensen, of Treadwell, for house; Edward Hurlbutt of Thane, for road supervisor. This makes a straight out and out fight for legis- lature between parties. The matter of delegate and attorney genera did not come upon the floor of the convention.
 COAL FOR COAST.
 SEATTLE, Aug. 10.-The Alaska Steamship Go. today began a ship ment of 15,O00 tons of coal to Sew ard and Cordova The transporta- tion company promises to have the shipment cleaned up within three weeks, or as soon thereafter as con ditions will permit, There is coal shortage in both of these towns. Seward has been depending princi- pally on Alaska coal this summer.
 COMMITS HARI-kARI.
 SEWARD, Aug. 11.-Peter Skem- bos. a cook in the employ of the Alaskan Engineering commission, committed suicide by sticking a knife in his stomach and disem- boweling himself. No cause is known for his rash act.
 SLEEPER KILLED BY FALL
 SEATTLE. Aug 11.-Walter B Sheffer, thirty years of age, for the past seven years manager of the Hammond Warehouse company, of Seattle, was instantly killed on We'd