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MAY INVESTIGATE JUDGE
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Federal Judge James Herbert
Wilkerson of Chicago, the gen
tleman who issued the infamous
Daugherty inj unction against
the Federated Shop Crafts, may
be investigated by a Senate
Committee headed by Norris of
Nebraska.
For a long time the Insull in
terests have been anxious to take
over the Chicago street railway
system on their own terms. They
have encountered all kinds of
obstacles.
Finally, they decided to throw
: h Chicago Railway Company
jnany into the hands of a receiv
!
: or.
The Westinghouse Electric
Company went into Judge Wil
;corson’s court and complained
that the railway company owed
it $57,075 for materials supplied
and had refused to pay the bill.
Representatives of the com
ps r, obligingly admitted the in
dc ic-dness and agreed to the re
ceivership, although they had
plenty of money in their treas
ury to take care of the claim.
Judge Wilkerson appointed the
president of the railway com
pany and two of Insult's right
hand men as receivers, fixed
their salaries at $60,000 a year
each, and gave them two attor
neys, one at $25,000 and the oth
er at $24,000 a year.
“All this was done to collect
a debt of a little more than $60,
000,” Norris told the Senate.
Norris presented a resolution
| asking that the Judiciary Corn
mil too, of which he is chairman,
be authorized to inquire into the
case, “to determine whether by
means of said collusive proceed
ings the said United States Dis
trict Court was induced to as
sume jurisdiction which properly
! belonged to the state courts of
! Illinois.”
If the Senate adopts the reso
lution many responsible citizens
| of Chicago believe one of the
greatest scandals in the history
of American municipalities will
be unearthed.
Should the Senate refuse to
act, the deal will probably go
thru, as there is no other power
willing and capable of combat
ing Insull influence.
INDIANS CLAIMING MILLIONS
FROM U. S.
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Everett Sanders, secretary to
the president, during the Cool
id go administration, will lead
the light of the Assinniboine In
dians of Montana to recover $17
900,000 they claim from the fed
eral government.
Three representatives of the
tribe from the Fort Belknap and
Fort Pack reservation appeared
before Judge C. B. Elwell in dis
sign contract with Sanders.
1851 Treaty Figures in Case
The claim represents the val
ue placed upon land the Indians
assert was granted them under
treatyof 1851 but which was
never received. The tract lies
between the Yellowstone and the
Missouri Rivers, west of the
Musselshell, in central Montana.
The government claims the
grant was extinguished by a later
treaty but the Indian leaders
assert that the later treaty nev
er was ratified and insist that
the grant ./till is valid.
The Indians are represented
by the law firm of Davis, James
ana Beebe. James W. Good, se
cretary of war, was their repre
J sentative until he became a
t member of the Hoover cabinet.
Sanders succeeded him.—Am
erican Indian Bulletin.
“I’ll love him all I can, obey
him all I choose,
And when I ask for funds he
never must refuse.”
“I’ll love her all I can, and
cherish her if I must,
And when she asks for funds, I’ll
mostly be on a bust.
Then you are man and wife, and
happy may you be, if you
can. fl
As many be your years as dollars
' in my fee, in the “can.”
“SOURDOUGHS”
Portland, Ore.,
June 29, 1929
The Alaskan,
Dear Editor:
In that far dimness which
falls on by gone times, the pio
neer of Alaska, with goldpan,
pick and shovel and pack on his
back, risked his life, limb and
liberty to seek out the hidden
treasure along the wild streams
of Alaska. It was indeed good to
live when Alaska was young. And
it is true that they dwelt and
worked where romance was, and
true also that our indebtedness
to those dear old men is heavy.
What is bravery unless it be
something more than the mere
flouting of a physical hazard?
The cheerful, casual bravery of
early days, when men and
women quitted the known for the
unknown, the certainty for the
uncertainty, and severed the
thousand ties of familiar associ
ation, to house themselves in
rude cabins and tents and have
coarse fare for food, is in simple
fact and epic of our civilization.
Here was renunciation, and here
was courage. But here also was
acceptance of life. For it was a
time in which hardship, though
no more pleasing to endure than
now did not deter the “Sour
dough” in his determination to
create a home in the land he
loved. For he said, and the
words were hers as well, that the
long miles would pass, and in
hopes of striking it rich and
probably the crudness of an un
tamed Alaska would some day
pass, and time should find them
happier than ever before, in
their own homes in their valley’s
of Alaska. They were dreamers,
if you call them so—but they
had a way with dreams. They
wrought to bring them true. It
isn’t a secret lost to the times,
for the formula is of great an
tiquity—yet one considers now
and then, that it might be more
often applied with something of
that happy resolution the pio
neers brought to the Alaska
country. These Sourdoughs are
never at a loss to tell of the by
gone days when they blazed the
trails over the hills, and thru
the valleys of the Yukon. They
are the sound metal or Aiasxa,
such were our dear Pioneers.
The record of his restlessness,
of his migrations, is more spirit
ed than any fiction. These are
the shining chapters of the story
of his life. The roughhanded
dreamers. The commonphase
adventurers. They looked to the
skyline where the blue curve of
it beckoned and they could not
bide at home. For surely yonder
was virgin land, and gold, and
more freedom and more oppor
tunity somewhere beyond the
[Alaska hills.
In every period there have
| been those who could not bide at
| home. Nor endure discontent,
| but must needs strike out for
themselves to have of life more
fortune than it promised where
they were. In this wise and
[by such means were nations ex
panded. These were the people
| in whichever era they lived and
who thrust the forest back and
blazed the wilderness trails, and
made possible our cities and our
civilization. The one-gallused
men and our sun-bonnet women.
True couriers of the advance.
No, it was not the purpose of
the Sourdoughs to write romance
for us. Neither was it their pur
pose to prepare a wild country
for us. These accomplishments
were incidental to the better
ment of their own lots. They
were, in their period, of the ac
tive and considerable portio nof
society which anticipates its ne
cessities—individual by individu
al, and looks forward with eager
ness to the constant, the chang
ing adventure of living. For they
were unafraid of life. And were
gifted with unrest. And this is
the lesson they yield to us, who
followed after—Never to be
afraid of life, and never to be
quite content this side of true
contentment. To look forward
eagerly.
Those dear “old Sourdoughs.”
Their faces are seamed with
Alaska history. Their eyes saw
Alaska when life in Alaska was
somewhat ruder than it is now,
but excellent to live in. When
j neither wife, nor husband count
ed it shame to work with their
'hands when Alaska was young,
and they were young also, and
people sang with love for his fel
low man in his heart. Bless
them! Help them! Those grand
old men, and women (pioneers).
Sourdoughs of the bygone days.
Let them rest! And after they
are gone, if they rise again I
know they would say, Let me
live my life over again in the
hills and Valleys of dear Alaska,
where the mighty Yukon River
wends its way.
Sincerely,
JAMES R. LITTLE
CENTRALIA LABOR TROUBLE
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Ray Becker, Centralia logger
who is serving a sentence of 25
to 40 years as one of the elleg
ed Armistice Day slayers at Cen
tralia, was denied a writ of ha
beas corpus by Judge Bourquin
recently. Becker has already
served 10 years of his sentence.
The history of this case is not
one of which Americans need be
proud. A jury of labor leaders
sat thru the entire trial of the
men who were convicted of the
killing of Grimm and other Le
gionahes parading on Armistice
Day. There verdict was “not
guilty.” To read the other side
of the story is to wonder .wheth
er our system courts are depart
ments of justice or injustice.
The brutal and inhuman of la
boring men as was brought out in
the tnal is beyond understand
ing. And that every effort to
secure their release frustrated it
would appear that vengeance
rather than justice is the aim
of the principals in the case.
DRAW BACK TO ABORIGINEE
The great drawback to the
progress and development of the
Indian races, more especially of
the States are the narrow
boundaries of a reservation sys
tem fostered by a paternalistic
bureau which prevents the dis
carding of inherent languages,
habits and customs. So long as
the Bureau of Indian Affairs
emphasizes racial segregation,
so long will the racial character
istics, habits and thought pre
dominate. So long will assimi
lation be of tardy gtowth.
Regardless of the fact that
;he Indian is American born
and pure American stock, so
long as racial language and
habit and thought are a com
pulsory part of their environ
ment it may not be expected
that any more rapid progress
will be made in assimilating
them into the body politic.
The rapid disintegration of
foreign nationals into American
citizenry is by virtue of environ
ment which obliterates old
country ideas and old country
ideals. Sentiment is not lost up
on the Italian, the Russian, the
Slavonian, German or what not,
and he is not compelled to live
upon reservations which foster
mother language. Yet the sys
tem under which the aboriginal
tern is forced upon upon the ab
original American with the re
sult that we have “American
bcrn foreigners” in our midst
with their own governments and
without the rights and liberties
of other citizens.
KIDS WOULDN’T DO WORSE
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Now that the Legislature has
thrown the Territorial school
Commissioner into the political
arena we may look for the next
session to insist that the kiddos
be given the privilege of electing
their teachers.—Gateway.
Certainly the kids would be
more honest in their election of
a man for office than the federal
brigade which makes the rank
est kind of political plays with
that office under the guise that
it was not in politics. The fool
ed no one—not even themselves.
VIRGINIA GETS JOLT
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The Virginia law denying ne
groes the privilege of voting in a
primary election was held un
constitutional by Judge D. L.
Groner recently in the case of
James O. West, negro, who sued
precinct officials for nominal
damagesg to test the law. He
was barred from voting in the
last Democratic primary. Judge
Groner ruled the law was con
trary to both the fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments to the
constitution.
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