VOL. I
PETERSBURG, ALASKA OCTOBER 29 1926
NO. 16
Marquam Fails
Impress Voters
On Wednesday night Thomas
IVlarquam, along with Edward Lock
en and Allen Shattuck spoke on the
political issues from their side of the
fence. The theatre was well filled
hut before the meeting was over
more than a third of the audience
had left the hall and the balance of
tne audience did not wait for the
out the theatre.
Henry Roden, attorney from Ju
r.eau was chairman and toasmaster
of the evening. Had Tom left his
campaign speech in the hands of
Henry he would have faired a lot
better for the crowd began to tire
of the whole affair before Henry
■was through toast masting.
Edward Locken was the first inde
pendent candidate to speak. His
platform was but the oral expression
of the “twaddle” in the Empire of
the entire campaign. Our reporter
was unable to get to the meeting
in time to get his entire speech. He
declared that in order Alaska get
any results from Washington for a
relief in the fisheries industry it
would be necessary to elect a man
as delegate who would have influ
ence with * officials there. That in
a3 far as trap legislation, there was
no hope therefore no use in any at
tempt on the part of Alaskans to
abolish the traps.
He believed in a literacy test,
foreigners had to undergo certain
examination as to fitness before they
could qualify for citizenship, there
fore natural born Americans should
should have requirements of liter
acy and that a test of ability to read
and write the constitution. Native
n oney was acceptable in business
aDd their vote will be appreciated.
Fut “we don’t promise to abolish
the fish traps.”
He asked wnat has me t-aui-ou
therand ticket done for Petersburg.
Pictured fine roads that Wrangell
had and declared Sutherland was
opposed to the building of the road
to Blind Slough. Blames the Su
therland-Paul ticket for the fishery
conditions which he declares are
getting worse. Urges the people of
Petersburg to vote at thiselec tion.
.MARQUAM’S TRAINED SEALS.
Henry Roden must be running for
cflice as he forgot his toastmasting
and entered into a tiresome tirade
against Sutherland declaring Dan
not a resident of the Territory and
as having accomplished nothing for
Alaska. Show one thing that Dan
had accomplished for the Territory
and where he pays taxes and he
vould vote for him. He thenintro
uceaAllen Shattuck. The speech oi
this senatorial candidate was thal
of a business man to business men
He declared that the territory had
not been represented by business
men so now a businss administra
tion was necssary. He declared foi
the abolishing of the taxes on th<
fox industry. That in the mattei
of tax reduction the territory would
derive the most from the experienc<
of bankers. Said that capital inter
ests are being prejudiced from com
ing in by virtue of attitude of th<
people of the territory toward -cap
ital already invested. Speaking o
the conduct of the Pioneers’ Hom<
declared it most satisfactory. Tha
William Paul threatens to tie up al
funds by court order unless the In
dians were made beneficiaries unde:
It and the mothers’ pension laws
"’ii at the whole ticket is friendy t<
the interests of the Teritory and t(
the Indians. Decried the injectioi
of racial issues and insisted that i
must be stopped else great harn
come to the body politic. Opposed
Ok* idea of Indians being beneficia
ries of any Territorial funds and de- ■
cl firing that they were amply cared j
for from Federal funds. That If j
tnese funds were raase available to
Indians the government might with
draw its aid and thereby place a
greater burden upon the Territory.
Paid it would require fully a fourth
as much more to operate said fund.
Stands for a community property
law providing for transfer of pro
perty from husband to wife upon
death without need of written will.
Declares that the conduct of terri
torial government should be based
upon a reasonable levy of taxes.
I rges the election f Marquam and
to make Alaska a betterplaee to
live in. Under the Independent
ticket he said that the Territory
would grow. We are on the eve of
investment in timber, pulp and pa
per mills. If we are not fair to
the capitalistic interests now in the
Territory how can we be fair to the
interests which are on the eve of ne
tianee to Alaska. Tells of pulp pos
sibilities and tells of the old Thom
as Bay pulp project. If 225 tons of
pulp a day were turned from such a '
plant it would mean a population j
in Petersburg much greater than !
today. “Be careful in your atti-;
tude toward cauital and they will j
cor ie ts* us” he declared. Speaks of
the harmful unfavorable publicity i
due to the work of Sutherland andi ;
declared it had a deterrent effect on
investing capital. Independent men i
ana are businessmen and are able to |
give the territory a business admin- j
istration.
.THE MAYOR OF FAIRBANKS .
As prelude to his speech Mar
ti uam gave a history of the deal
whereby Frank Boyle, Democratic
nominee entered the primary race
to defeat Adams of Nome and then
withdrew in favor of Marquam. Be
for he entered the race he urged
that a "better man
that they “find a good man, a better
n an for the work.” Being convinc
ed that he would not have a chance
in the primaries with a thousand
illiterate votes he fell in with the
idea of letting Boyle run so that the
withdrawal of Boyle in the Novem
ber gould leave the forces against
Sutherland undivided.
He has not assumed any position
any time in his four months cam
paign to secure votes and he would
net trim his sails now.
He denounced the "scurrilous at
0
tacks upon his character and stated
that Valentine publicly denonuced
the "Valentine Affidavit” as a piece
of forgery.
As a delegate his first effort for
the Territory would be to correct
the impression that laws in Alaska
1 veer in no wise enforced. Just how
' well he would succeed he would not
' say.
L Secondly. In the matter of roads
> the interests of every town lay. That.
• rads come only through concentrat
• ed and united local effort and only
s through hard fighting. Advised the
• people of Petersburg to holler for
! roads until they got it as there was
> plenty of funds available. Suther
t land he stated was opposed to roads
l along waterways. If elected he
- promised Petersburg plenty of roads.
Third. The use of herring for
• fertilizer was wrong. He had seen
) the waste of thousands of barrels
> of this feed fish himself at Killisnoo
1 when he first entered the country,
t But no rash steps should be taken
i whereby invested capital would be
hint. The Bureau of Fisheries and
Secretary Hoover were in harmony
with his ideas of conservation. He
believed that in the future the Bu
reau of Fisheries would put a stop
this wanton and wast of food fish.
He has greatest confidence in the in
tegrity of Hoiover and O’Malley and
would not believe them under the
influence of the Fish Trust. He
quoted Hoover as saying every can
nery would be destroyed before the
depletion of our fisheries would be
permitted. That Hoover knows the
regulations to be wrong but they are
•o be corrected. Sutherland’s mis
tng to the House in his fight for the
take was in defying Hoover and go
people of Alaska.ing By so doing
he alienated the President and the
entire cabinet. By so doing he had
destroyed his standing and useful
ness as representative from Alaska.
All that is now necessary is the
sufficient escapement of salmon to
streams and a few minor changes
and the law will be satisfactory to
Alaskans. The Bureau of Fisheries
is not under the domination of the
big packers of fish but that he per
sonally knew of the iron bound re
gulations and enforcement by the
Bureau of Fisheries in the Bristol
Bay section. That the Bureau play
ed no favorites. O’Malley was try
ing honestly and efficiently to en
force the regulations. "By fair, de
cent representation things can be
accomplished by himself at Wash
ington,
hut situation,
He knows as much about the hal
ibut situation as the Bureau of
Fisheries and the halibut fishermen
themselves. Competition from the
Japanese was to be feared and pre
vented by the placing ofan embargo
on fereign business entering U. S.
Senator Nelson held Judge Wick
ersham and Dan Sutherland in con
tempt because of their attitude in
the matter of appointments of cer
tain officials and again declared the
usefulness of Sutherland destroyed
completely by antagonizing of offi
cials in Washington.
Decries the “Indian question and
states frankly it should not have en
tered this campaign. The respon
sibility laying with William Paul,
the worst enemy of the Indian. That
he lived off the subscriptions of the
Indians by fooling them into believ
ing that through his efforts he
would abolish the traps. That he
worked the Indian vote through a
secret organization and told the In
dians how to vote.
Indians should not be permitted
to benefit from pension funds or
from the mothers pension funds as
they were amply cared for by the
government. They had advantages
hrough governmental aid that white
people had even to the financing of
that they shrould receive aid but not
from territorial funds.
He favors a literacy test law to
be enacted by congress and that the
tesf shall be one of reading and
writing. He favors a fair test.
His big argument for winning the
votes was the defamation of the
good name of the territory. He
spent the biggest part of his argu
ment in attempting to prove the
authorship of the “Hearst article.”
Any one who has read the Ju
neau Empire during the past two
years have his entire argument set
forth against the election of Dele
gate Sutherland.
GARILEY DEAD
_HARRY GARTLEY DEAD ..
. . Last Monday evening a number of
local Masons went to Wrangell to
attend the funeral of Harry Gart
ley. The group included: Ed Lock
er, L. J. MacKecknie, L. B. Corne
lius. Fred Nelson, Sam Gauffln, F.
Fiyer, Chester Holm, C. D, Osten,
M-irtm Nelson, Olaf Hauseth, Knud
Heusled, Earling Johanson and Ole
Ekrom.
Mr. MacKecknie had charge of
the ritual at the grave. Harry Gart
ley was a member of the Ketchikan
I.gode No. 159 F. and A. M. and one
of the most respected citizens of
Wrangell. He had been a resident
of that town for twenty-one years
and for several years was manager
of the Wrangell Mill Company. He
is survived by his widow and three
sons who live in Wrangell and his
father who lives in Victoria, B. C.
SHOP
Lf
. .Rev. Ness, Bishop .presiding of
Norwegian Lutheran Church of Am
Norwegian Lutheran Church of Am
erica of Northwest Diocese arrived
Monday on the Alameda and lectur
ed at the local church on Tuesday
evening . Using over a hundred col
ored slides he portrayed the work
of the Church in America. The first
njew was the landing of the May
flower which brought the first Nor
wegians to America 103 years ago.
A view of the historic first Nor
wegian Church built in America was
shown as were also many views of
colleges, seminaries, hospitals, etc.
The full scope of the work of this
church was portrayed. In the ev
ening he held divine services preach
ing a powerful sermon. Thursday
he showed many views of scenes in
Norway which were familiar to a
great number of families in Peters
burg.
. .C. W. Russel, merchant at Wran
gell made an assignment of his store
for the benefit of his creditors dur
ing the past week. Elmer E. Carl
si rom formerly owner of the Thling
et Trading Company has been put
in charge at the request of the Se
attle Merchants Association as their
representative.
The Mathison Store, which had a
rating of $50,000, became financial
ly involved and being a part of the
Matheson Estate, was ordered sold
by court order. The purchasers be
ing Russel and Walker. Walker re
retired from the firm during the
past year since which time Russel
has been operating the store.
The obligations assumed by the
buyers were so great that they were
unable to avert disaster.
Upon the death of Mr. Matheson
it was noted that credit extended to
fishermen was not being met owing
to the fact that they were not earn
ing as much as prior to promul
gated fisheries regulations. The en
tire financial structure hinges about
the earning power of fishermen in
Alaska. When the businessmen
are awakened to this fact there is no
doubt but that they will give great
er heed to the urge of fishermen for
the abolishment of fish traps in or
der that resident Alaskans have op
portunity of greater earnlnf power.
. . Tuesday the Peereles bakery at
. Juneau was demolished by the explo
sion of about fifty pounds of 40 per
cent dynamite. .The Wright Jewel
ry Shoppe had its jewelery thrown
into the street and all the windows
into the street and all the windows
in several adjoining buildings shat
tered into small pieces. The boiler
in the Coliseum raised from its base
and shifted to another position,. No
one was hurt and there has been no
explantion or cause shown for the
dastardly act.
The Department of Justice an
nounced recently that “returns from
i ho various judicial districts Of the
country indicate that progress has
been made in prohibition during the
Pi:st year:”
Preliminary reports received at
the department, the statement said,
disclose that there were 44,022 con
victions in the Federal Courts under
the National Prohibition Act during
tne fiscal year ended June 30, 1926,
which “was the highest number of
convictions reported for any one
year since the Federal law went into
effect six years ago.”
At thesa me time the department
announced that during the fiscal
year the Division of Identification of
the Bureau of Investigation had re
ceived 138,002 finger prints of new
violators of the law, which brought
the total number of recorded finger
on file up to 1,052,852.
Fines aggregating $7,336,595.
was paid while the jail terms aggre
gated 5,666 years.
I Karl K. Katz, travelling passen
ger representative of the Northern
Pacific Railroad is in the north in
the interests of his company. He is
going through to the interior and
on his return south he will stop off
at the diffeernt coast towns.
The Northern Pacific is the road
that made the Great Big Potato fa
mous. This line gives the direct en
trance to Yellowstone National Park
and also passes thru the famous bad
lands of the Dakotas, as well as the
fruit and farming lands of Wash
ington, Idaho, Montana, the Dako
tas and Minnesota.
FISH TRAPS MUST GO
Recent advices from Canada an
nounce that Arthur Meighen, Prime
Minister declared by telegraph to
Federal Department of Marine and
Fisheries advising the cancellation
of existing trap licenses. The vig
orous protest of fishermen was the
cause of the withdrawal of these li
censes which were issued but recent
ly. The argument set forth by the
fishermen being that the traps would
seriously deplete the fisheries by
catching enormous quantities of sal
mon entering Canadian and Ameri
can waters.
Your duty and obligation as an
American citizen is to vote on No
vember second regardless of party
affiliaton. Disgusted with politics?
Help change it for better or worse.
Editorial
TOM MARQUAM FAILS TO
CONVINCE PETERSBURG
Tom Marquam spoke .at .grea
length Wednesday night and befor
be ^as through with his speech al
most a half of his audience had lef
the hall. His whole argument be
ing a mere vituperation agains
I D?n Sutherland. Had he stopper
he stopped fifteen minutes after h>
opened his speech he would havi
secured votes by his talk. In fac
Roden put forth the only argumen
against the election of Dan. Th<
speech by Marquam convinced th<
voters of Peterscburg as to his un
fitness for office and his lack of t
fair working platform.
By process of elimination we deal
with Roden. When the Congres
sional investigation as to fitness of
Judge Reed and Attorney Shoup was
under way the charge was made
that Reed had sentenced to jail men
for perjury, who upon trial were
found by jury to have been not
guiltay of the charge. In defence
of his conduct, Reed presented to
the Committee a letter written by
Attorney Roden who conducted the
defence of the alleged fish pirates.
As there attorney he said he was
morally certain of their guilt and
that the punishment meted them
was no more than they deserved.
The Comittee had some able lawyers
and' they questioned the ethics of
Reed in presenting .the letter and
it led one of the Senators to ask:
“TV hat kind of lawyers do you have
in Alaska to do such a thing as
that." We ask the same question
new and wonder that an honorable
man would knowinly defend the
guilty to defeat justice and then to
turn against his clients asin this
VALENTINE AFFIDAVIT
In speaking of the affidavit, Tom
sa\s that Valentine called it a for
gery. But Tom did not make a de
j nial of the charges himself. He
| eaves that to others to raise to his
defence. There are men right here
in Petersburg who declare in “good
American” language that every
word of it is true and knowing such ^
to be the case Tom hides behind the
denial of Valentine. As to the
charge that no one dared print the
matter we say that this affidavit
was printed in the issue around th
was printed in the Alaskan the first
part of the month and inthe Alaska
Fisherman for October. As to the
Dr. Young-Stillman letter we did
not care to further clutter our col
umns with the unsavory history of
this candidate.
iiiiijLuiia rauu—iiUi
Marquam made many misstate
ments which we are loth to believe
deliberate falsehoods. But as he
iterated and reiterated them we
cannot refrain from the belief that
the man was no bigger than his
words. His first mistatement as to
William Paul was that through a
secret organization he controlled a
thousand Indian votes. The “se
cret organization referred to is the
Alaska Native Brotherhood, duly
organized under the laws of the Ter
ritory. Insofar as Tom is concerned
it will remain a secret organization
for he could never qualify under
the simple laws of admission. There
are other white men of character
wno are members. Governor Brady
was made a charter member. No
its organization but -one -meeting
was held behind closed doors. There
ure no secret word signs or grips.
ThG onlly qualification required of
a white person to associate mem
bership carrying all rights of mem
bership and benefit save that of
holding office Is—friendship and
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