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ALASKA: The Presidential fish reservation in Alaskan waters, against which Territorial Delegate Sutherland protested, will continue, according to Secretary Hoover. "Having fitted a lid on the further destruction of northwestern Alaskan salmon," said he, "I intend...
ALASKA: Governor Scott C. Bone in opening the Territorial Legislature at Juneau censured D. A. Sutherland, Alaska's delegate to Congress, who inserted a charge in The Congressional Record that the Alaskan fisheries had been turned over to a fish trust...
...experiment was founded on the Alaskan one at the advice of its originator, the Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jockson. He began work in the early eighty's. I had no idea that what he was introducing could be anything more than a philanthropy. Altogether 1280 reindeer were imported into Alaska in twenty years. There are now considerably over 200,000 animals in a hundred herds. The meat is now selling at a higher price than beef, having worked its own way up as a desirable article of diet. The valuation of the skins cannot help increasing. The Chief of the United...
...good supposing that dividends would be paid during the first ten or fifteen years, though the Alaskan experiment showed that the return is much larger and much quicker than any of its first investors dreamed of. Mr. Gilbert Grosvenor, of the National Geographic Magazine, should be referred to in this matter as an authority. He was ridiculed as a false prophet even for the modest support he gave the problem in 1902 in the National Geographic Magazine...
...result of Mr. Bragdon's knowledge of lighting effects, it has been possible to shift the scene in the first act from the business man's home to the interior of an Alaskan bar-room without lowering the curtain. In this new setting a pantomime representing "The Shooting of Dan McGrew will be vividly rendered...