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A. N. B. PUBLISHING COMPANY
Louis F. Paul. Editor and Manager
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Application entered as Second-Class Matter July 16, 1926, at the Post
Office at Petersburg, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
ILLITERATE VOTE
John Oscar Harris was passing
out Tom Marquam’s election cards
a short time ago. When he was
asked why he was passing thQ out
he replied: “Long ago he was my
friend. I got in trouble and he was
my lawyer and he got me out of
jail. When he saw me he was
glad. So he gave me his card and
he told me to give some to the na
tives around here and tell them to
vote for him.”
Illiterate votes are alright if
they would only vote for the Mar
quam for independent club dele
gate. We cannot understand why
the Indian vote is dangerous when
it stands for principle and uot Prin*
cipal.
In the meantime John Oscar Har
ris went and talked it over with
some one not an Indian and he
came and told us he had “found
out all about him and that he
would not pass out any more of his
caids.”
A MESSAGE FROM GARFIELD
Power is generated by energy
and energy by the will “to do.”
Have you ever seen a heavy cart or
truck stuck fast in the mud? The
jaded horse or run-down engine
unable to move it another inch be
cause of drooping spirit or defec
tion. A dozen onlookers—some
merely waiting to see what is going
to happen—others giving advice
and direction. But none of thes will
start the cart or truck moving.
Then from the crowd step out
three or four “doers.” They put
their shoulders to the wheel lend
ing both effort and example until
others follow them. The thing be
gins to move, gain momentum as
all things do when once out of a
rut. And so it is with civic pro
gress—community movements, lo
cal enterprises—when “doers” put
the shoulders to the wheel.” —Se
ward Gateway.
CANNERY MORALE IMPROVED
The general morale of the can
nery workers and fishermen in the
Bristol bay region during the past
season has been excellent, Seward
arrivals yesterday report. It is
thought this improved condition re
sulted from the precautiontaken in
Bellingham, Seattle and San Fran
cisco, in the selection of employes,
and also from the new regulations
in effect last spring. It was stated
there was one suicide in the district
one fisherman drowned, one man
torn to pieces on shafting in a can
nery and that three Filipinos died
from poisoning by drinking “white
mule.” -Seward Gateway.
The improved personell if the
canneries has been noted in this
district. Blame “precautions” and
“selections” if you will. The fact
remains that the' exposure of moral
conditions in the Westward regions
bofore the Congressional Committee
was the direct cause of this years
clean-up. The grand jury report
from that division was the paper
that brought ‘,the fair name of
Alaska into disrepute. Were wre to
publish copy of same, now in our
possession, the postal authorities
would order us out of the mails in
stanter. Facts are facts and should
be met without equivocation.
President goes fishing and wife
picks berries says the press. If he
would only get on an Alaskan seine
boat for one week he would find
that his wife would not only pick
pick berries but she would have to
dig clams also.
A town without enthusiasm and
faith in its own resources and fu
ture is a town that Is dead.
.. THE TEXAS RED HERRING .
The doctrine of race hatred and
“supremacy of the white race” is
i not legitimate political issue nor is
I it child of reaj Americanism. The
following article from an issue of
! Collier’s Weekly published year
j well answers the political matter
; put out by the rule or ruin element
I in the Territory:
j “In this country an avowed dic
! tator would not have a Chinamen’s
j chance but a sleight-of-hand man
j who can awaken some hatred can
i get away with anything.
The latent prejudices of the
people are the real enemy of de
| mocracy.
j Consider in this connection the
| Fergusons of Texas. Theirs is an
enlightening episode for those who
care about this country of ours,
i Mrs. Ferguson got into trouble
, because large sums of money were
I paid favored contractors. Similar
! offenses led to th« impeachment of
: her husband eight years ago. “Old
I Jim,” who is credited with having
acted as governor wnue his wire
wore the title, seems not to have
b-arned enough from his previous
[ainful experience.
The misfortune which has befall
en the Ferguson family is, however
much less important than manner
in which the people selected their
governor. This is important be
cause what occurred in Texas is
constantly happening elsewhere.
Nobody seemed to know and cer
tainly few cared whether or not the
quiet wife of a discredited politi
cian was able to administer the
state of affairs. Mrs. Fergusou was
tne nominee opposed by the Ku
Klux Klan and the majority wanted
to register a protest against the
Klan.
Whatever else an affair of this
sort may be, it is not an election,
in Texas the Klan was a red herring
used to divert the voters from the
trail toward effective government,
This incidentally is not an argu
ment in behalf of the defeated can
didate who may have been less fit
for office.
Mrs. Ferguson is a reminder thal
voting by prejudice does not as
sure the election of competent offi
cials. In politics, as elsewhere
riots have to be considered.”
WHY MAIL ORDER HOUSES
GET BUSINESS
Any “home merchant” who isn’t
awake and fails to tell the people
about ihs wares, should read thi£
startling statement, made by the
manager of a big Chicago mail or
der house: “We have a bureau
whose duty it is to read the country
papers. There is not a paper of an}
consequence in our territory that we
do not get. The bureau looks ovei
these papers and when we find a
town where the merchants do nol
advertise in the local papers, oi
where advertisers do not change
their advertisements regularly, we
immediately flood that section witt
literature. It always bring result!
far in excess of the same effort pul
forth in territories where the loca:
merchants use the local papers
-Stroller’s Weekly. Mr. Otness hat
been busy this past week distribut
ing a catalog from a mail ordei
house. ’Nuff said.
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Tho motorship Oregon took a car
go of lumber consisting of 40,00C
feet of heavy clears. The shipment
will be unloaded at Seattle foi
trenshipment to the east and from
there to the United Kingdom
-Wiangell Sentinel.
Fresh strawberry short cake
lots of whipped cream at the Totem
Pole. ,
Surgeon General Hugh S. Cum
ming, of the United States Public
Health Service, in his capacity oi
Director of the Pan American Sani
tary Bureau, has been advised by
the Director of Health of the Re
| public of Mexico, that a new sani
iary code has been adopted by the
Mexican authorities and has been
put. into effect.
Included in this code is a pro
viso inserted by the Mexican
|
authorities requiring stringent
smallpox vaccinations. Under this
! section, all persons residing in Mex
ico, or entering Mexico, must be
'accinated while those having per
manent residence in the country
j must be revaccinated every five
years.
In addition children must be vac
I cinated against smallpox before
I tney are four months of age, the
responsibility for failure to com
ply with this regulation resting
1 with the parents or guardian. The
responsibility for vacination of em
ployes of factories, ranches, and
other places having large groups of
working people under the code, is
j placed upon the employers or su
perintendents of these plants.
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WASHERMAN TEST FOR
ALL CRIMINALS
The Department of Justice has
announced that it has decided to
apply the Wasserman blood test to
all inmates in the various pena]
and correctional institutions in or
der that prison records may show
a complete chart as to the health ol
of the convicts. Use of the Wasser
man chart has been sporadic here
tofore but through the cooperation
of the University of Kansas, oppor
tunity was presented for the appli
cation of the tests to'ali convicts in
the Leavenworth Penitentiary at a
minimum expense and Attorney
General Sargent decided to take ad
vantage of it and thus initiated it
in all prisons.
Mr. Sargent in a statement is
quoted: Under reccommendation~
of the Federal prison authorities
of the Department of Justice, step:
have been taken for the aplication
of the Wassermanblood tests in the
various penal and correctional in
stitutions of the government. To
some extent these tests ave been
taken at the Atlanta and McNeil Is
land penetentfaries. A recommend
ation has been reeived from the pri
son inspector for the taking of the
blood tests at the Leavenworth Pen
etentiary and arrangement has been
made with the University of Kansas
Medical School for • assistance in
i taking the Wasseran blood tests for
| the entire convict personnel, of the
penetentiary.
The expense of this service,,
j which is very small, has the appro
val of the Department.
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GAUSTED CHARGED
EMBEZZLEMENT
O. P. Gausted was arrested on the
| charge of embezzlement of funds
from the Washington-Alaska bank
• * *
while receiver and trustee of that
institution. The amount tken from
tie bank it is stated is $28,000.
Gausted resigned as receiver the
latter part of July and Judge Clegg
appointed M. R. Boyd to succeed
him. M. A. Thomas, department of
justice agent had been investigating
Gaustad’s administration for two
months. Bail in the sum of $25,!
,000. was set after he had been ar
rested.
HALF MILLION FOR ALASKA
• _ •
Henry O’Malley, United States
Commissioner of Fisheries reports
that 21,303 seal have been killed
on Pribiloff Island this year. This
is an increase of 2,000 over the kill
of last year. The sale of skins from
these Islands totalled a little over]
$500,000 so that Alaskans and
others urged that a part of this re
venue be scpent in Alaska. The Bu
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roau of Fisheries did not tell the
I-ublic in plain terms that it cost
the Governent almost as much to
kill, pelt and tan the skins as they
were sold for. On paper this indus
try is a fine asset to the territory.
In foct under the Bureau of Fish
eries it is almost a liability.
“Say it with Ice Cream” in a
cozy booth at the Totem Pole.
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DAN E. STANDARD, M. D.
Physician end Surgeon
Office in Worth Block
SITKA HOT SPRING
HEALTH RESORT
Rate $3.00 per
day and up
Dr. Goddard, Pro.
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ALASKA CAFE
George Kim, Proprietor
Meals at all Hours
Good Services, Fair Prices
We Solicit Your Trade
When in Town Stop at
ARCTIC HOTEL
First Class Rooms
Reasonable Rates
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KETCHIKAN, ALASKA
Home Service Mending
of Laundered Goods
We give full value for your
money.
H. OYAMA, PRO.
SKYMAN'S
Barber and Beauty Shoppe
Busy all the time.
There’s a reason why
Opposite Post Office
Built
Attractively
You can ret
the latest de
signs in
Sash, Doors
& Millwork
direct from the
manufacturer
at money-sav
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good condition. Must be 12 to 14
feet in length. Address P-111,
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