The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-31
CONSOLIDATION OF JUDICIARY
 NOT EXPECTED
Bill Recently Introduced in House Said to Have
 No Significance

JuQlclal DlVISlOnS or AIaSKa. IDe
 bill was accordingly introduced in
 the Senate in December and was
 overlooked in the House Commit tee and was not presented until
 March IT, which has no particu- lar significance, however, as the
 Senate bill has not even had | 1 hearing.
 1 There is a desire upon the part i of some people in the Interior to take over the leasing or manage ment of the agricultural experi- ment station at Rampant. The Delegate has taken the matter up with the Secretary of Agriculture. Several communications have been received lately from Alas kans who wish to enter the Army aviation school at San Antoinic. Texas, but the applicants have been either above or below the age limit for entering the school, which is between the ages of 20 and 27. Applications are also ire quently received by the Delegate from young men who wish to en- ter either the Military Academy at West Point or the Naval Acad- emy at Annapolis There will be no vacancy at West Point for AL askans until 1884, and nothing at Annapolis until 1883.
 There has been considerable de- lay in awarding the contract for the construction of the Federal Building at Fairbanks. because the lowest bidder, Wm MRcDonald and Son, of St. Louis, whose bid was for $393, ,000, were in doubt as to whether they wanted the contract when they learned that they had made a miscalculation on freight charges for steel material But the 1 NIacDonalds finally decided that they would take the contract un- der their original bid and not have new bids called for, which act was under consideration by the Treas ury Department Had this been done considerable delay would have resulted and possibly the plans and 1 specifications changed somewhat, which is just what the people of Fairbanks do not want
 B. D. Stewart, Supervising En- gineer in charge of Alaska work for the Department of Commerce and Department of the Interior, came from his Juneau headquart- ters and is in Washington in connection with official duties.
 The Bureau of Indian affairs is considering the appointment of a Chief of Alaska Division, with headquarters at Juneau, which po- sition has been temporarily filled by Charles w. Hawkesworth, who has been serving as Acting Chief since the resignation of Jonathan H. Wagner, who was stationed at Seattle before the headquarters was moved to Juneau. Two of the applicants for the position will be in Washington shortly to confer with the Department. Both are very high class men and one has spent a couple of years in Alaska doing research work.
 Ernest Sawyer Walker has re- ceived a letter from Julius L. Meier of Oregon, stating that he was taking up with the Portland Cham Der of Commerce the possibility of arranging for a caravan of writers and newspaper men to drive to Hazelton, British Colum- bia, and return, with a view to giving publicity to the proposed International Highway to Fair banks, Alaska.
 The Department of the Interior, through the Geological Survey, an-. nounce the completion of a manu- script report on the Valdez Creek mining district, Alaska, by Clyde P. Ross. This is one of the re- ports resulting from the special study of mineral resources in the area tributary to the Alaska Rail- read that was carried on during the field season of 1881. The re- port contains topographic and geologic maps of the Valdez Creek and vicinity. This district, which lies east of the upper Susitna river, is known principally for its