Daily Alaskan
L. S. KEI.T.ER, PUBLISHER
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9UTH EMANDS' SLANDER
The folio-ring interview appeared in
the Pioneer Press of St. Paul recently
and has been widely circulated and
copied throughout the east. While th*
article is without a semblance of truth,
nevertheless it will do Alaska an un
told amount of harm, The delectable
??Colonel" Sutherland, who poses as
having "large mining interests in
Alaska," is aa itinerant resident of
J uneau and is supposed to be, at the
present ticue, somewhere in the east in
connection with a mining venture in
which he is interested at a point near
that place:
"While Alaska is a modern El Do
rado, the development of its resources
depends upon careful nurture and intel
ligent effort by the government to
protect property rights." This is the
opinion of Col. W. J. Sutnerland,
who was in St Paul yesterday on his
way from Alaska to New York. Col,
Sutherland has large Tiining interest!
in Alaska and his tr>p to New York
is In connection with these interests.
?' 'What Alaska needs,' " said Col.
Sutherland, '* 'is a continuation of the
present style of government. We do
not want and it would be a great calam
ity to have a territorial form of govern
ment thrust upon us at this time. Alas
ka should be governed for some time
from Washington with intelligent in
vestigation of the needs of the district.
The district shouidjbepoliced by United
States troops, and the governor should
have the authority to use the troops id
quelling Indian uprising or in putting
down mob rule of any kind. The federal
government should open up wagon
roads into the interior, so that the coal
Held may oe developed and the present
travel congestion may be relieved.
Railroads will be welcomed, but they
should not be secured by land grants.
We need good, competent judges, prob
ably Western lawyers who have a good
knowledge of admiralty, contract, min
ing and criminal law in all its phases.
The government in dealing with Alas
ka should use ordinary good sense,
doing for the district what is required
because of the peculiar conditions ex
isting there.
Only Two Indnatrlaa
" 'It must be borne in trim) at all
limes that Alaska has oaiy two indus
tries of auy consequence, and can have
only two? mining and fishing. Of
course, along the coast we can grow
garden truck on a limited scale. Any
thing which can be planted toward the
end of May and which wiii mature
before the first frost by the end of
August is possible aiong tbe coast, but
It is easy to see that extensive garden
ing is out of the question. We can
raise just alwut enough to give us a
few green things three months of the
year. Crass grows quite rapidly on the
coast, reaching a height of three or
four feet. It grows rapdly but con
tains little nourishment, although
horse." can live on it. in the interior
horses can pick up a scant living two or
three months in a year. Agriculture is
not and cannot be an ludustry in
Alaska.
NmiI Good Jadeei
' One of the sources of much trouble
in Alaska has oeen the administration
of iustice. In the states it is generally
thought that any gocd lawyer will make
a good judge, that experience is not ab
solutely necessary. But conditions are
such in AJ&ska that a judge to be com
petent must hive special qualifications.
Our industries are such that a judge
should have a good knowledge of admir
alty, mining and contract law, and, of
course, he must be well up in criminal
procedure. The lack of this knowledge
has been tbe foundation of much of our
trouble, for with some exceptions. Judge
Wickersham for example, some of the
men who have been 9cnt up there to ait
as judges have not had special qualifica
tions. The work in some of tbe courts
is two years behind limn, and in some
instances causes which wore heard as
much as two ye >rs ago have not been
decided by the judges. ?
"Judge Wickersbam, whose district
takes in the territory around Fairbinks,
was receutly called to sit in Judge Gun
cison's court, and it is said that when he
gets tbe calendar cleaned up in the
southeast district he will sit in Judge
Moore's court at Nome for tbe same
purpose. Judge Wickersham is giving
general satisfaction, for he is well in
formed on maritime and mining law
and is known to be an honest, fearless
judge.
Labor Troubles Tbreaton
"Labor troubles are threatening the
prosperity of Alaska, and the people up
there will not be surprised to see the
labor question 'jecotne acute before long
The miners are being unionized, and
while there might be no particular ob
jection to this, the developments so far
have been along the line of lawlessness.
This has been the case at theTreaawell
mine on Douglas Island, just opposite
Juneau. There have beea threatened
clashes between the Treadwell owners
and the union miners, and it oow looks
as though the union will attempt to put
the mine out of business.
"Gov. Hoggatt used the troops to pro
tect the Treadwell property, but he re
cently received an order not to again
send in the troops unless be receives
orders from Washington. The result of
such a policy, leading possibly to dan
ger of destruction of the mlniag proper
ty, will be that if the owners cannot get
protection they will attempt to protecv
their property thumsetves: bloodshed
will follow and we will have a state of
anarchy.
"Unions have been organized at Nome
and Fairbanks and there is a general
feeling of unreat throughout the d istrict.
One result of this agitation hax been to
cut down the goid output at Fairbanks
to less than half of what it was last year.
The Treadwell company has suspended
payment of dividends, ana it is a ques
tion, It the labor troubles continue,
whether the Treadwell company wil!
continue to operate.
Mnat Dig For Go!d
''People who Imagine thai Alaska is
a place where all one has to do to get
gold is to start out with a basket and
pick up the nuggets are very much mis
taken. Mining is just as serious a busi
ness there as is railroading or farming
in the states. As a matter of fact, there
are only a few placer mines in the dis
trict, and what few there are, are lo
cated in the interior and at Notm. The
Treadwell mine and practioally all the
mines of Alasna, which furnish the gold
supply from that district, are low-grade
ore mines. The ore at the Tieadwell
mine runs about 42.25 to the ton, but
there are immense quantities of it. You
see it is a question of labor and modern
machinery to get results.
''There is some agitation among the
non-property holders for a territorial
form of government in Alaska. Such a
thing would be a serious blow to Alas
ka': development, fo<* the most of the
population In the district is made up of
miners and fishermen who are in Alaska
one year and thousands of miles from
there the next. It would mean that
local government would become more
unstable than it now is, for it would
give the lawless element an opportun
ity to get in their work.
"The mine owners do not want any
thing but what is reasonably right.
They simply ask protection in their pro
perty rights, an opportunity to operate
their mices, an even-handed adminis
tration of justice by judges who are
picked because of special fitness, and an
attempt on the part of Washington to
deal with the Alaskan situation as a
good business man would under similar
circumstances."
'Alaska should be policed by troops
and placed under Military control.
These troops should be used to quell
mobt* and to prevent Indian uprisings!"
iu the records of all Alaska, The
Alaskan challenges the "Colonel" to
cite and prove one single instance
where there has been mob violence.
Not since 1878 his there been any
trouble with the Indians. In that
verr there was a slight dissatisfaction
displayed by a few ol them near Sitka,
but so insignificant was the affair, that
but a few can now recall what
it was occasioned over. The Indians
of Alaska are the most tractable on
the globe. Never have (bey been
given rations from the government and
they scorn to become wards of Wash
ington.
Martinets of the "Colonel" Suther
land stripe certainly would welcome
the arvent of government by military
officials, who, througn vanity of the
pomp of warlike display, might be in
duced to permit mining buccaneers to
obtain the riches of Alaskas' mines
from behind stockades, guarded by
federal troops and worked by coolie
Ijbor. But such a day will never
dawn. No where in the world will
! abetter citizenship been countered than
in Alaska and no where would such
despotism as "Colonel" Sutherland
would saddle upon us be resisted with a
more united manhood.
The Treadwell mine management did
have some trouble with a few of their
employes over a boarding house
squabble, bat that has been settled long
ago. There is no friction existing now
and the mine is operating the same as
ever. Troops were lent to the mines,
it is true, bus their presence was so
entirely uncalled for that an investi
gation followed and the officials at
Washington have since issued an order
that in future no troops be sent any
where in Alaska unless it be under
directions from Washington, It is
almost needless to say that not a dol
lars worth of property was harmed at
Treadwell. However, is there a mining
country in the world that does not have
its labor friction's, and is there one
known anywhere that can show such a
spotieaa record as that of tbe miners of
- this country ?
"Colonel" Sutherland speaks as If
the Treadwell mine was the only mine
in Alaska. From one end of the ter
ritory to the other gold is found. The
past production which yielded its hun
dreds of millions, is but a bagatelle
compared with what the future will
be. New discoveries are reported
almost every week and the districts
that have been in operation for years,
are but scratched over. A simple illus
tration along these lines will suffice?
, the Guggehheims are this year spend
milllons putting in machinery in the
Klondyke district which is one of the
very oldest in the north and their faith
in its riches can be taken as a fairly
good criterion that the district is not
yet worked out.
This nomadic mining' "Colonel"
prates of two industries, and only two.
which Alaska has? mining and fishing.
What benefit does Alaska get from its
fishing industries, pray ? Through con
nivanco ami fraud a congressional
piracy is maintained which provides
that a pittance of four cents a case
is paid the territory for the privilege
of allowing its streams to be stripped
of fish. Each season corporations send
crews of hungry, diseased Chinese fish
erman to Alaska. They bring with
them the rice and tea they eat, and
whtn the seasons catch Is finished they
go away. And this is one of the "only
two" industries the "Colonel" has en
countered in Alaska.
Nor has the fishing industry been
left immune from the hungry maw of
those who would have Alaska controll
ed by federal troops. Lobby after
lobby his been sent to Washington in
the interests of those who control the
fishing rights and they have sought to
have remoyed the four cents a case
royalty the territory is receiving. This
attempt to rob Alaska of her iucsine
from the fisheries, wh'ch revenue, by
the way, is used to build roads into the
interior, doubtless wes viewed by ''Col
onel" Sutherlaud as a proposition
which would V>9 acted on likewise as a
"Good business man would under simi
lar circumstances."
"We can raise just about enough
green things to give us a few things
three months in a year." In this state
ment "Colonel" (Sutherland surpasses
himself. The latest report of 1'rof.
C. Georgeson, special agent for the Ag
ricultural department at Washington,
shows that in the garden of Judge Frank
E. Howard, at ColdfoJt, sixty miles
nor:h of the Arctic circle, rhubarb 1U
inches long: cabbage weighing eight
pounds and turnips which weighed six
teen pounds were grown. Taken at
random from reports which appear in
the same publication, and which caver
every station of Alaska are letters writ'
ten from growers of garden truck who
tell of the wonderful success they had
with radishes, lettuce, turnips, bean .
cucumbers, beets, parsnips and cabbage
?all placed in the ground a few weeks
later than those planted in the south
and all of which matured and wore
served in ample seasou. Here in Skag
way and in other places potatoes are
grown that will average more thsn five
hundred bushels to the acre; at Ram
part station, which for the sake of com
parison, wc will say is as far north ns
northern Sweden, good barley, ojts and
winter rye are raised. At the Copper
Center station of the agricultural de
partment more than $1,000 worth of hay
was sold last year, all of which was
raised on the station farm. An order
issued by the War department on the
tenth of the present mouth directs thai
no more canned vegetabies be shipped
to the Alaska Posts for the reason that
all the vegetables required can be
raised by them here. There is no bel
ter grass anywhere than in Alaska.
Horsas that are allowed to forage for
themselves all winter in the Interior
come In when spring opens in good con
dition. For more than three years
butter and cheese have been made at
the Kenai station and none of the cows
have been fed anything other than
home grown feed.
On the western coast of Alaska there
are more than fifteen thousand miles of
grazing land where cattle can run all
the year, with the possible exception cf
three months, without feeding.
Despite all of the above the fund of
"Colonel" Sutherlands' misrepresenta
tion seems inexhaustabie, for, continu
ing, he says "There are only a few pla
cer mines located in the district and
what few there are are located in the
interior and at Nome"? What of Forty
mile, Koyukuk, Cook Inlet, Valdez,
Kuskokwlm and the score of others that
are actively operated today and which
yield fortunes every wet k V
The Alaskan can conceive of nothing
which would permit any man who has
interests in Alaska to indulge in a chim
era of talk like "Colonel" Sutherland
has. Tbe "Colonel" with the visionary
title, The Alaskan is charitable enough
to Hay, must certainly not have been
himself when he gave utterance to the
bombastic mouthings which are credit
ed to him.
This newspa|?er seeks to give no
montebank free advertising, yet there
ure occasions when circumstances so
array themselves as to permit of no
other alternative. Alaska has been
given many back hand blows by men
who come hero to make their bread hut
the viltification of the warrior from
.Tuneau is the limit.
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