Seward daily gateway., 1923-03-31
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The students and faculty of the Alaska Agricultural College and the School of Mines at Fairbanks have issued Volume I, Number l, of the "Farthest North Collegian,' fine publication filled with useful informa- tion regarding the resources of the Fairbanks district.
 Alaska has less self government and autonomy than Porto Rico. Philippines or Hawaii, and semi-aliens in other territories are subject to less Federal tax than are native born Alaskans, de- clared Falcon Joslin recently, speak ing before the Alaska commhtee oi the Chamber of Commerce at Seattle.
 Secretary of War Weeks and his attendant party of Congressmen will sail from Seattle for Seward, arriving here June 4, and after visiting all the railway towns will go down the river to S. Michael and embark for home.
 Shipments of merchandise from the Territory of Alaska during February totaled $l,504,693, which shows an advance over the first month Of this year according to report for the customs district of Alaska by John C. Mcbride.
 If President Harding is able to wis Alaska next June it will hasten statehood for the territory, according to Delegate Dan Sutherland.
 Five new automobiles arrived at Ju- neau this week, consisting of touring cars and trucks.
 Thirteen automobiles will arrive in Seward t:n che of the next ooatS. being one of the largest shipments ever entering the territory. The ship ment consists of three Chevrolets, three Bucks, and seven Stars, all but one sold to local parties.
 Twenty-four estates were escheated to the Territory of Alaska the past year, through one form or another This includes the estates of inmates of the Pioneers Home which passed 10 the territory.
 E. E. Smith, student of Minneap- olis recently arrived in Sitka and pre- sented papers showing that he had wagered $500 with friends in Mime apolis that he could make the trip to Alaska and return on $l0 by June l. He left February II. He has been as- sisted greatly by the Elks of which order he is a member. His fasher has a chain of stores in Minnesota.
 The Ketchikan Power Company was the successful bidder for a million and a half feet of timber on Long island in southeastern Alaska. The timber will be logged. Over five million feet in Sumner strait will be advertised in a short time,
 Harold Bailey of Sitka has three live blue foxes which were trapped on Chichagoff island and which no one will purchase. Fox farmers re- fuse to buy them saying that the foxes that escape become renegades and will lead the other foxes away ii they are placed back on the islands. Bail ey caught the foxes with one and a half Newhouse mink trap.
 Dogs are being used near Sitka to guard the strawberry plants from at Jacks by deer on the U. s. agricuhu- ral farm.
 Sitka is planning to erect a sea-wall across the shortcut of Lincoln ave- nue. the ocean cutting into the site ot he Sitl,a Rational monument groun,.S and endangering other property The government owns all land contiguous to the site.
 Dan Hire, pioneer of the pioneers, died recently at Sitka. He had cross ed the plains in early days, fought h. dians in the early seventies, and had worked for the Shoups in Idaho. be ceased arrived at Candle near Nome in 1900, and was admitted to the Plo- neer Home in 1914. He was born in Kentucky and was 84 years of age at the time of his death. His funeral was one of the largest ever held in Sitka.
 Biological expert Culver who recent ly visited the moose herds in the ke- moi Daninc cu1a renOrts that many small