Fairbanks Times (Newspaper) - March 17, 1912, Fairbanks, Alaska Our Slogan A Government Railway from Tidewater to VOLUME MARCH WHOLE NUMBER Annual Alaska Under Auspices of Nome Kennel Attracting Wide FIVE THOUSAND IS SUM OFFERED Many Entries Are Already With Possibility of One Team Making Trip from March in the annual Alaska which will take place here early in under the auspices of the Nome Kennel is becoming steadily more intense as the date of the race approaches and the own ers of the numerous teams which have already signified their inten tion of are now busy get ting their mushers in condition for the long The Kennel club has announced that a purse of will he hung up for this years event and the present indications are there will be at least the usual of including one team from the The positions of the train men are rendered still more hazard because of the fighting among the which occurs at fre quent intervals along the line of Hie FISHER OFFICER SHOT EL March tion has just reached here to the effect that Major chief of the staff of Villas federal been by the rebels and ordered shot by General SECRETARY OF THE WHO HAS JUST RETURNED FROM THE CANAL SAYS THERE IS ENOUGH EXTRA EQUIPMENT THERE TO CONSTRUCT PROPOSED RAILROAD TO INTERIOR SISTS THAT GOVERNMENT RAILROAD BE Com ments This Morning Upon An Apparent ency Regarding IDEAS HAVE UPPER HAND Former Forester Will Per suade Roosevelt if Elected to Hand Alaska Over to Central State Department Receives Advices Stating That Warning Has Been Given to Americans at ADDITIONAL TROOPS WANTED ON BORDER American Railroad Men Em ployed On Mexican Roads Are Quitting Their Jobs and Hastening March received today by the state department contain the in formation that all Americans now at on the east coast of have been warned to leave the country at once and it is almost certain that they will be compelled to vacate without the opportunity to realize on the prop erty which they must necessarily leave behind March the Roosevelt and the Sunday says In all recent Colonel Roosevelt places great stress upon tie right of the people to self He keeps reiterating this over and over singularly no man ever occupied the chair who went further in denying the rights of the people to regulate their own domestic affairs or those of communities than did President Colonel Roosevelt was brought out to run for the presidency large ly through the persuasion of Glf ford who of all men ever in public life is the one most ob sessed with the idea that the peo ple are not capable of managing our but that they should be managed on the Prussian plan by central bureaus out of reach of the Colonel Roosevelt has always supported the Pinchot If Roosevelt is thoroughly con of the right of why did he not give Alas ka even the slightest vestige of selfgovernment He never exhibit ed the slightest sympathy with the idea of popular government in his acts as March of the Interior Walter who has just returned from an inspection of the Panama has reported to the president that much of the railroad equipment now in use along the canal will not be needed there after the completion of the canal and he suggests that it can be turned to good advantage in Fisher insists that the government construct a railroad in the North and it is his intention to submit a recommendation t0 congress urging the use of the Panama equipment in the Alaska It is predicted here that the recommendation of the secretary will have the ef fect of aiding the passage of the Flood which provides for an investigation by the committee on railroads on the feasibility of a railroad from the Alaska coast to the Matanuska coal LOWER CABIE TOLLS PROMISED ALASKANS CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER AT WASHINGTON FAVORS REDUCTION OF TWENTY PER OF WAR MUST BILLS IN CONGRESS AFFECTING INDIGENTS IN ALAS LAWS as the successor to Harvey who yesterday tendered his resignation as chief of the bureau chemistry in of the many former State Pure Pood Commis Durke are urging ap pointment to the important govern ment Oriental Liner Oceana Is Punctured by German and Goes to Bot tom With FIVE MILLION IN GOLD DUST LOST Chamber of Commerce of Coast Town Will Write Letters to Congressmen Urging WILL FOLLOW LEAD OF Government Railroad from Some Point Other Than Cordova Awakens Gugg Town to Members of Crew Fight With Passengers for Pos session of With Fatal By Times bills the relief of conditions in Alaska have been introduced from time to Senator Jones introduced a couple xf compulsory edu cation and for the inauguration of a sanitary system in the terrl in giving Alaska ment only by He be govern temporary auto GOVERNORS ASK AID March Colquitt has wired to Washing advising the war department of he urgent need of additional troops along the which is daily becoming a source of great er danger to those Americans resid ing in the extreme In many the Americans have no pro whatever from tbe Mexican brigands who come across the line at will and help themselves to the property of the Stated SALES ON RAT GIVE RISE TO RUMORS Ferguson Is Suspected of Selling Out to trie Both of these bills passed the senate committee and quite likely will get by the unless some thing Senator Knute tried and true friend of the who sometime ago got by with a for the establishment of a light house on Cape Elias succeeded in getting through the senate a to provide relief for the indigents of Senator Nelsons took five per cent out of the por tion of the fund used for school purposes and directed that it be used or the purpose of relieving the Delegate Wicker sham evidently fearing that Nelson would get the credit for immediately introduced a substitute in the house which pro vides that ten per cent of the road fund shall be turned over quarterly to the United marshals to be expended for the relief of per sons incapacitated through sick ness or By striking out the enacting clause of Senator Nel sons it will not be necessary to put the through the senate lands would be for the government to open up and develop a coal mine in the Matanuska coal fields for the benefit of the United States navy and make a contract with a private railroad enterprise to haul from the mines to the If a contract of that kind is entered the senator contend there would be no need for the again and it is quite likely that j construction of a railroad by the A J ovl AIVA A X 11 AM C1 A O0 tk Al Oft the delegates action will cause the measure to be Wicker shams drawn after his usual slipshod if enacted into a would arbitrarily place about government as the Alaska Northern Railroad company would be more than willing to complete its rail road if the coal fields are He pointed out to the committee in the hands of each of the j that the government could make a United States this money saving of a million dollars a year leing taken out the road j by shipping its coal from Alaska whether it is needed or and there is no provision by which it may be returned in case it should not be Before the senate territorial com Senator John rep of the Pacific coast cham bers of stated that one of the easiest ways out of the controversy out of the Alaska coal rather than from the West Virginia Senator Wilson also inform ed the committee that an area of arable land larger than the thir teen original states had been dedi to solitude in the West through the socalled conservation Continued on Page LA FOLLETTES Senator Makes a Hit Colonels Former Stamp ing in March Guggenheim talk was started here this week through the transfer of the Ferguson interests on Flat creek to who is the accredited representative of the big syndi Ferguson does not deny that he has sold to but he refuses to make known the amount of money or any of the de tails of the March 16 Senator La Follette brought ap plause from his audience of cattle men here today lie delivered a red hot roast at the expense of whose trust affiliations in the East are regarded with sus The Wisconsin candidate is attracting huge audiences along the entire route of his RAILROAD QUIT SAN March ing the past several a num ber of railroad formerly in employ of the Mexican rail have crossed the line into American and they say that nearly all of the American employes of the foreign road quitting their jobs because of the great dancer which constantly threatens They eay that an American is thoroughly despised across the and that the pres AND HAVE STARTED INSIDE give an excellent opportunity to mlt violence without few ef coven Head of Bank Left Cordova March Barnette and Leroy Toiler were passengers on the train which left place for this flier vUl take the mm m win March Patricks day celebration here will take the form of a fiftyfour mile dog race for a purse of This amount has already been guar anteed by the promoters of the and it is possible an addition al sum will be added before the race has been Considerable interest is manifest ed in the particularly by the owners of dog and a large amount of money has been wagered on the for WHITELAW REID IS SURPRISED AT March a cable received aw the American ambassador expresses surprise that Theodore Roosevelt has consented to be a candidate for a third Reid says the former president repeated y told him he would never accept another AND DAUGHTER ON THE JURY TO OTHER Secretary of State Invited Others to Join in Panama March a dense fog today off the Sussex coast near the Oriental liner Oceana and the bark Pis gana came together with terrific and the Oceana went to the bottom with twentyfive of her pas sengers and in which formed part of her When it was realized that the Oceana was doomed and there ap no sign of relief from the the made a the lifeboats andT endeavored to make off with The passengers made a heroic effort to restrain the tout in the fight which followed their the sailors were Five hours after making their escape from the sinking the boats carrying the crew sank and all were Of the passengers who went to the bottom with the nearly all of them were women and children who were unable to hold out until their rescue could be March Prompted by the activity of Fairbanks in urging upon congress the necessity of improving the present wagon road between Chitina and the chamber of commerce has decided to inaugurate a vigorous campaign with the same object in Like the chamber will address letters to all of the con urging their support in the matter and such other steps will be taken as are considered Cordovans realize that a good wagon road connecting with the Copper River Northwestern rail road means much more to this city than the construction of a railroad from some other point to the interior and every effort will be made by the citizens to induce congress to appropriate the funds necessary to carry out the proposed of are boosting Fifteen Thousand Chicago Demand More Wife of Frank Waskey Is SAN March Serving As Juryman Qn his return from President Moore stated that in Secretary of State Knox had issued invitations to foreign governments to participate in the March International exposition that Seore Blodgett and Edna the Fisher had father and are serving as jurors in a case now being tried in the superior court before Judge Waskey is wife of Frank first from Alaska to HILL OF MAINE IS DEAD March former governor of died here today of heart promised that the Yosemite and er national parks in the West would be improved and rendered as attractive as possible by 1915 that the treasury department will issue government and silver coins commemorative of the expo sition and that the de issue special stamps before the exposition their demands for an increase in wages are granted before the end of this the organized car penters of this city will quit work on April The demand for more pay is backed by over woodwork ers and their walking out at this time will mean a serious loss to a number of the larger who are at present engaged in the fulfillment of important It is understood an effort will be made by the employers to arbi trate the but it is thought doubtful if the carpenters will listen to anything but the increase de TAR RUNS AWAY AHEAD AMONG THE President of Road Commis sion Recommends for Coast Town for Flood AMOUNT IS CUT TO SUIT LEGISLATORS Valdez Asked for Seventy Five but They Probably Will Receive Several Thousand ESCAPED CONVICTS HAVE BEEN TRACED March first of the escaped convicts who broke out of the state penitentiary on was discovered by the officials here It is definitely known now that the prisoners de parted fourteen hours ago on a fast express and the officers are doubtful of their ability to over f E IS URGED AS WILEYS Former Wyoming Pure Food Commission May Get March an estimate furnished by Major president of the Alaska road the com on territories has finally recommended the appropriation of for the construction of a permanent dyke back of Valdez for the protection of that town against the glacial floods which occasionally sweep through the The amount asked for originally was but this amount final ly was cut to and even then appeared excessive to the legislators until they had been con by Major Richardson of the need of such an March response to the request of Taft for tions as to whom he shall appoint Congressional District Can Overwhelmingly for March poll of the congressional districts in the entire nation which are safely classed as Republican brings out the startling information that in those districts only five of the candidates for congress favor Roose velt for while 134 favor the reelection of President EVANGELINE BOOTH BROKEN IN HEALTH March geline commander of the Salvation has just arrived here from the South and is badly broken in TAWNEY SAYS WILL NOT BE CANDIDATE March Congressman Tawney denies that it is his intention to become a candi date senatorial Tawney served as from
