Seward daily gateway., 1931-12-19
ALASKA ITEMS IF INTEREST AT TIE
 NATIONAL CAPITOL

W.A.S)-In addition to many bills for pensions and private claims, Delegate Wickersham has prepared and sent to the Clerk of the House for introduction in Congress many important measures, among which are the following:
 A bill to amend the Organic Act and give the Territory greater powers; providing that the Legis- lative Assembly shall have power to provide for the creation and organization of counties and county l form of government; that no county shall have less than 500 le- gal voters nor less area than 2,000 square miles, and shall not be creat- ed until the question is first sub- mitted to the legal electors resid- ing within the proposed county and approved by three-fourths majority of the legal votes cast at such elec- ton.
 That the United States shall an- nually pay to the Territory a sum equal to 50 per cent of the amount received from the share of the U. s. in the operation of the seal fish cries of the Pribilof Islands.
 To repeal the Act of Congress entitled An Act to Prohibit the Manufacture or Sale of Alcoholic Liquors in the Territory of Alaska"
 To establish a Supreme Court for the Territory of Alaska, to be com- posed of a Chief Justice and the -four District Judges.
 To authorize the construction of la coal bunker as a part of the A. aska Railroad at Seward, and ap- propriating $75,000 therefor.
 To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase Block 8, in the Town of Juneau, for the site and better fire protection of the Federal and Territorial building, and appropriating $80,o0O for car rying out the purposes of the Act; providing that the Town of Ju- 'neau shall first donate $4,000 to assist in the purchase of the land.
 To authorize the entry of fur farming homesteads, after lessee has resided on the land for at least three years and paying $2.5o per acre for sail land.
 To repeal the present law provid- ing for the location of placer min ing claims and restoring to Alaska the general mining laws of the United States, as pertaining to placer claims (By request of the Territorial LegiSlature).
 To provide that no boat, trap, or other property, belonging to any Indian or other person residing i'll Alaska, shall be seized and held for forfeiture for alleged violation of the fisheries law, until after the arrest, trial and conviction of the owner or operator of sail property
 Amending a bill to provide that it shall be unlawful to wantonly waste or destroy salmon or other food fishes taken in the waters of Alaska; nor shall any portion of food fishes, except the offal, be manufactured into oil or fertilizer.
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 Because of the curtailed produc- tion at the Kenencott copper mines the Copper River and Northwest ern Railway expects to close down it's 196 miles of rail operating about the middle of January to remain idle for three months. During that period the mail will be. carried be- tween Cordova, Chitina, Mccarthy and Kennecott by airplane. Appli- cation to deliver that service has been received by the Postoffice Department in Washington from the Gillian Airways.
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 Announcement was made on No vember 28 of the death of Richard Stanley Ryan, at the home of his brother-in-law at Berkeley Springs, W. Va. Dick" Ryan will be re- membered by all the early Alaskans, as he was prominent in the settle ment of Nome and later was 8