Show Government for Alaska Washington 24It is probable a successful suc-cessful attempt will be made this winter to secure the passage of J a law giving the great Territory of Alaska a government It seems scarcely credible that this great country as large as half a dozen of our smaller states containing between 30009 and 40000 inhabitants is without something some-thing in the nature of a government but it is true The settler in Alaska today has no guarantee of safety to life or property no assurance that his effects on his death will not be seized upon by the first passerby or that his body might not be left to rot where jt lies There iso is-o way in which he can secure a transfer trans-fer title to land and ro method in which to recover that which is due from another an-other The country contains gold silver coal and other minerals The salmon canning industry is already on its feet and there is some fur trading with the natives of the interior It is understood that Senator Miller Gala president of the Alaska Commercial Company has prepared a bill providing for a simple form government which meets the approbation ap-probation of all prominentmeu interested in the territory Even exCollector of Customs Ball who has favored a complex com-plex government and is now on his way to Washington as delegate to Congress said Alaska should be given a territorial form of government He is understood since reaching San Francisco to have approved the Miller bill It simply provides pro-vides for a court having general jurisdiction juris-diction for an executive officer and for a delegate in Congress |