The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-27
ID SEEK BIDS. ION METLAKATLA 6 CANNERY SOON
Five-Year Contract Expires No Tariff on Coal lm-
 ported in Alaska

' q held by the Annette Island Pack ing Company now owned by the
 Pacific American Fisheries, has just expired. Under the 5erms of previous agreements the cannary,
 which was built in 1918, has been
 acquired by the Indians residing
 on the Island but their interests are looked after by the Government The leasing system has been con-
 sidered most advantageous to the owners. Because of the low price received for canned salmon during the past two seasons the Pacific American Fisheries does not seem anxious to seek another lease, but may do so.
 The Post Office Department has just assured Delegate Wickersham that his efforts to secure a regular mail service to Saint Timothy dur ing the winter has been successful. Authority has been issued for a monthly service from Nov. l, to March 31, next year, effective Dec 1, 1892.
 Dr. Charles E. Bunnell, president of the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, has been in Washington the past week con- ferring with officials of the h.
 terior and Agricultural Depart insnts on a cooperative program Of the extension service of the College maintained from Federal appro- priations. He will spend some time in New York before returning to 1 Fairbanks.
 Alaskans generally will be pleased to know that Assistant Attorney General Charles P. Sisson has been appointed General Counsel for the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, with offices in the Commerce Department building. For nearly four years past MT Sisson has been in charge of Administrative affairs of the Department of Justice and in that capacity has made several trips to Alaska, where he has met mot only the officials of his de- partment but the people generally, who have a high regard for his ability, his friendliness and his deep interest in the development of the Territory and the welfare of it's people.
 The Indian Bureau of the h. terior Department is now having a session with the sub b-committae of the House Appropriations Com mittee in the effort to impress upon the members the necessity for the sums granted by the Bud- get. Alaska interests, in both ed ucational and medical branches, are being represented by Dr. w. Carson Ryan, Jr., director of ed ucation, Paul w. Gordon, director for education in Alaska, David E. Thomas, Alaska division of the Indian Bureau, Dr. F. s. Fellows, medical director for Alaska, and others. The Biological Survey, in the Agricultural Department, has had a hearing before a sub-com- mittee on the budget that seeks to somewhat reduce the appropria- tion of the current year, and any further cut would likely hamper the work in Alaska
 The Post Office Department giv- es the information that the post master at one of the small offices in the second division of Alaska has been found guilty of selling intoxicating liquor, and suggests that the office might be abolished and the few patrons served by car- riars on the star route now in op- eration in that vicinity.
 It looks as though Alaska was not to receive any benefit from the tariff of ten cents per hundred pounds on coal imposed by the revenue act of 1892. Nearly all the coal shipped into Alaska is from the Canadian mines in the vicinity of Victoria. It has been explained by Commissioner of Gus toms Eble that a provision of the act states that the tax on coal shall not be imposed if during the preceding calender year the ex- port of coal from the United States to the country from which such article is imported has been greater in quantity than the imports into the United States from such coun- try. Thus under the act the duty will not have to be paid on ship ments from Canada, and therefore. shipments from Germany and Great Britain must be exempt un- der terms of most-favored-n nation treaties existing between the Uni- ted States and these countries. On Nov 26, funeral services were held in Washington at St. PauPs Catholic church, for Mrs. Ellen L. Carter, widow of the late ca. rr,l,o,,ac IT (~o~+o~ 1fl