The Alaska daily empire., 1921-01-20
ALASKA NOW L|QU0RLESS,
 SAYS MURPHY
Attorney General Tells North Dakota Newspaperman
 Alaska Is Bone Dry.

who is now in Washington, n. C., stopped and visited in his old home town, Minot, North Dakota, when eastbound and the Minot Daily News gave him the following write-up which will be read with interest by all Alaskans: ze-
 People in the United States who protest against the strict terms of the Nolstead act should make trip to Alaska and they would return with the opinion that the Federal to J. c. Murphy of Juneau. Attorney General of Alaska, who stopped off in Minot over the weekend enroute from Alaska to Washington.
 'Our Territorial Legislature in 1914 enacted a bone dry law that sounded the death knell of intoxicat ing liquors in Alaska and the people up there who like drink of whis- key would be perfectly content to have the Territorial law removed from the statutes and be prosecuted under the Volstead act" MT. Mur- l phy said. te.t uta.. .'.... 1 One or two fellows in the Terri tory attempted to operate stills but one man could carry all the whiskey to be found In Alaska in suit l case, he reports. .f e
 Former Kenmare Man.
 MT. Murphy, who has been in All aska for 16 years, is a brother of Mrs. NJ. E. Dwire Of Mnpt and was her guest during his visit in this city. He was one time located at i Kenmare, being partner of Attor- ney l.. J. Palda in kenmare 20 years ago. He has been Attorney General of Alaska for several years and is going to Washington to rep resent the Territory in tax case before the U s. Supreme Court. The ' Territory collected a license tax from the Alaska Fish Salting and By-Pro ducts Co. of KillisnoO, Alaska, for 1 1917 and 1918 and the company is endeavoring to recover the amount paid, approximately $20,000. The appeal from a decision in the Fed eral Court at Juneau, Alaska, comes before the Supreme Court Jan. 15. 1 Attorneys for the company are also enroute to Washington from Alaska. | Mr. Murphy spent seven days mak ing the trip from Juneau to Minot and expects to be back in Alaska again February 1. He retires from office March | having been defeated for reelection Nov 2 He and Congressman George B. Grigsby Of Alaska were defeated by John Rustgard and Daniel Suth-l erland respectively. Murphy and Grigsby are Democrats and went down to defeat as a result of the Republican landslide which extend ed to Alaska There are no other Territorial officers elected with the exception of members of the Legis- lature, Is in the lower House and eight in the Senate. The Governor and other officers are appointed asI was the case in territorial days in 1 D9 kota.
 Want Railroad Finished.
 | Alaska residents, Mir. Murphy re ports. are keenly interested in theI request before Congress for 4,000,- l 900 to complete the Alaskan rail road. The road runs from Seward on Resurrection Bay to FQrbanks. 40 miles inland. All but 84 miles of the road has been completed at a cost of $52,000, 0,000. ..-.
 The completion of this railroad means a great deal to Alaska, he de- clares The Territory is rapidly de- Eveloping and the indications are that the next few years will zee Alaska come rapidly to the fore. One pulp mill is now being built and others will follow. These mills will tap a new source of wealth in Alaska, and with the prevalent high price of paper, the demand for pulp will not fall off in the very near future.
 Considerations are very favorable in the Territory this winter, MT. Murphy reports There are some idle men but that is the case every winter. There is less of hard times in Alaska than anywhere else in the world at present now. he declared. MT. Murphy states that Gerald Dwire, son of Mrs NJ E. Dwire. is identified with the business office of the Juneau Empire, the largest daily newspaper in Alaska. and is so tcken up with the position and the country that he does not intend to return to Minot