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VOL: IX
. McCarthy, alaska, Saturday, Dec.
25, 1926.
BRIEF LOCALS
Mrs. Chas. O'Neill was the
guest of Mrs. James Murie over
the w^ek end.
Don’t forget the big dance
to-morrow night.
Sam Seltenriech will open
his new Chile Parlor on Front J
Street at 5 o'clock this evening.
There will be a special train
tonight carrying first class mail
and perishables, It will arrive be I
tween 5 and 6 o'clock.
Capt. Hubrick is having new j
fixtures installed in his building:
on Second Street. When the work ;
is completed he will have one of j
the best equipped stores in the j
territory.
I
Owing to Christmas and New j
Years coming on Saturday the!
News will be issued on Friday. |
Word has just been received!
that there will be an Excursion)
train tomorrow night. It bring
the Ivennecott people to the dance
and return.
Mr and Mrs Ed Saindon will
entertain with a Christmas din
ner to-morrow. Covers will be
jaid for fourteen.
The school children held there
annual Christmas tree this after
noon. By the laughing and shout
ing we think S mta j Claus done
There is still tjime to make
you)1 costume for the New Yeats
dance at Kennecotfc.
his best.
The Christmas bells ring sweet
1 and clear,
l_ ’
I riie carol singers add their lay,
| Good wishes come from far and
near
j To cheer yon along your wav.
j May every wish to you most dear
And all good things that we can
say
He yours through all the coming
year
And make a happy Ch ristmas day
Tiie News
POLICE MUST PASS
BREATH TEST”
IndiunapOiis, I ml. : As t.lie result
of compiaints that some patrol
men have been indulging in “eye
openers” the night police shift
has added to its routine a new
test.
It is the ‘ breath” test.
The men are lined up in the
roll call room and the order to
“wheeze out!” is given. Amid bio
wing and wheezing Lieutenant F
Drinkut and Sgts. Reilly, Eisen
hut and Dover advance along the
lines sniffing the various aromas
in search of an alcoholic breath.
Thus far no member of the
force has been questioned altho
it was said several with red noses
are under suspicion,
KKNNECOTT MOVIES
| Christmas Dav 1.30 P. M.
Free
Billy Dove Warren Baxter
“The Air Mail”
Ben Turpin Comedy
Sunday- December 26th
Raymond Griffith
“The Night Club”
News Comedy Music
.
Wed. — December 29th
Norma Ta 11 n ad ge
“The Lady”
News
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THE
MENAC
8 m'. a Progress
William Paul spoke in \! 1 o
Orpheum Theatre at Sitka on die
eveningof November'2S before an
tudience composed of about ninty
per cent natives and ten per cent
whites, He could have spoken in
the A. N. i>. Hall, but this would
not have served his malicious pur
pose. He wanted some whites to
be present to enable his const— ;
ituents to gloat over the fact that j
he dared to defy and \ illefy them j
to their very faces. In his speech .
Paul threw down the gauntlet to.
the white race. He flung taunt
after taunt in the face of the
whiles to the unholy glee of the
natives and the white lipped re
sentment of those few represent
atives of a civilized people who
had come to hear him. Paul slur
red the American Legion openly
and brazenly. He denounced Hen
ry O’Malley, IT. S. Commissioner
of Fisheries, as the crooked tool
of capitalist, and accused Secre
tary of commerce Hoover of ex—
tending special favors to the
eannerymen. In a melodramatic
roar of hate he cried that Mrs.
George Peterson of the Sitka Sch
ool Hoard was worse than a raur
derer because she had voted to
exclude a native child from enter
ing the Sitka Public School, and
he declared his intention to get
her husband, U.S. Forest Ran
ger George Peterson. He bragged
about his own pure life and chris
tianity and ridiculed the Pres—
byterians o Sitka because they
had one church for the natives
and another for the whites. “If I
lived here,” he stateb, "L would
take forty stinking natives with
me to church every Sunday night
I and if they the white Presb.vter
| tans did not like it they could
leave, and if the organist left I
would play tin* organ myself. Any
way she was an Episc opalian
1 when l knew her i;i Wrangell.’’ Me
exhorted the natives of Sitka to
elect natives on me sciiool board
so they would have control o! the
Sit ka Public School. He denounced
the Government of the United
States as a thief for robbing the
natives of their trapping grounds
and fish streams.
William Paul, the Indian Med
icme man, had his say He appeal
ed in every possible way to the
race prejudice of his Native aud
ience. No leader in the days of
Indian warfare ever worked hard*
or to kindle the fires of hate again
i st the whites than did Paul, In
his cheap, melodramatic way he
played insistently upon the fan—
cied Wrongs of the Natives and
the fact that they had been robbed
' of their rights and possesions by
i the whites, and purposely for
getting to mention anything that
the whites had done for t he Native.
A sneering sinister embodiment
of desti notion William Paul stood
before them, drunk with power,
crowning himself as a martyr,
dramatizing his efforts in behalf
of the Natives —A menace to the
whites and the Natives alike.
When William Paul is away
the whites and Natives of Sitka are
friendly and no race question is
manifest. When Paul is here you
can see the gleam of hate in the
eyes of the Natives.and gradually
a steely spirit of resentment
creeps into the atitude of the whi.
tes. When Paul is in town the
| Ranch boils and seethes like a
kettle of tar and schemes and
plots are hatched in the dark
against the hated oppressors. Ill
ogical, without a sound argument
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