The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-01-24
THROUGH THE SENTINEL PFRTSCOPE

banks throw up high snow em- hanRments along the right-of-way. The moose slip down over the cm- bankments and wander along the railroad track until they find suitable place fo get back up in lhe bush. If there happens to be one nf the Alaska Railroads stream liners" coming along about that time. the moose hold the right-of- way. and the engineer swears as he hauls back on the throttle to avoid a moose-meat collision Tn fact. the Colonel reported recently the rai,- road had had 14 train delays and one derailment caused by moose. Tn one instance. moose attacked the train. the Colonel said Outcome of lhe attack was not revealed. Tn an 0the erase moose ran three miles in front of the train before leaving the track. The Colonel was getting Q little impatient and wanted au- thority to kill the animals but Fish and Wildlife Service, custodians of these big animals. drowned on the idea. The Service thought if it lets the bars down it would furnish too good an alibi for violators.
 Several timely suggestions were offered the Colonel in his dilemma. One, particularly apropos, was that the moose might be harnassed to the engines giving the railroad additional power - moose powe". Gov. Gruening held the delay isl not sufficiently serious to warrant killing these noblee animals whose presence on the railroad, while an occasional handicap to speedy transportation. is more than a compensating feature as an attrac- tion to tourists in the summer time The Governor further sug- gested the moose should be con sidered one of the hazards as well as one of the delights of railroad ing in Alaska"
 At last report the Alaska Rail roads trains were still making the moose route; Game Management Jack O'Conner was giv- ing consideration 10 how to edu cate a moose to keep off the rail road right-of-way, and there was some question about the delight Colonel Johnson was finding in All aska railroading.
 As the opening of the legislative session hears, January 27, some of the old war horses as well as some of the new members are getting active on organization plans. Sen- ator Doe" Walker of Ketchikan, Senate veteran and head man of the so-called Walker bloc, was headed for the Interior on a To-day trip. Doe was going to visit has daughter and son-in-law, MT. and Mrs. John O'Shea of Fairbanks. He probably would be doing a little 'politicking" on the side. Lineup in the Senate looked something like this: Andrew Nerland of Fair banks was out for President. Move was afoot to run Dr. L. P. Dawes of Juneau to head off Nerland with the aim that o. D. Cochran of Nome would slide in as President. Senator Cochran is a former Presi- dent of the Senate and a Democrat who has gone along with the walker bloc on occasion. Nerland and Dawes are both Republicans OVer on the House side, a conaest was shaping up between Democrat hoDert Hoopes of Fairbanks and Republican Dewey Anderson off Nome for the speakership. Hoopes has served in the Legislature be- fore. Anderson, associated with the Lomen interests is a first-timor Result could be election of Repub-
 iean Oscar Gill of Anchorage as Speaker, or it could be anything else. It was anybody's guess as the maneuvering got underway.
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 Following a drubbing in the De- tober election, Alaska Democrats were having organizational troubles, sort of a jurisdictional dispute although there was no re- port of request for portal to port al pay. John Walmer, Clerk of ahe Court in the First Division, first resigned as Democratic Territorial Chairman. Under party rules, dut- ies of that office then rest with National Committeeman Howard Lyng unil a new chairman is named by the Central committee 1r elected in convention. Thus far none has been chosen. Meanwhile, Walmer, who was also chairman of the First Division committee, re- signed that post quietly and turn ed his portfolio over to Mike Mon agle of Juneau, a member of the committee. Monagle began a quiet letter campaign to get Helen Mon sen daughter of the late former