VOL. 2
PETERSBURG, ALASKA MARCH 30, 1928
NO. 36
The Frame Up Of Frame
Feby 14, *28
Mr. Wm. Eddy,
Douglas, Alaska.
Dear Mr. Eddy:
I have youre of resent date, Jan.
20 - relative to the “perking of
politics” in your locality.
In Ketchikan the United Sons of
Alaska is the strongest factor pol
itically. They are now nearly 1000
strong and easily controlled the last
City election. They will probably
put up a City ticket at the coming
election. Your position relative to
Mr. Will Paul i3 not logical, for you
suggest Mr. Benjamin of Ketchikan
as a logical candidate for Senator,
notwithstanding the fact that he
and Mr. Paul are close political
friends. To vote for Paul and not
vote for Benjamin, or to vote for
Benjamin and not for Paul would be
quite foolish. I wish to assure you
that I have no combination with
Mr. Paul. However, I cannot well
understand how you can oppose Mr
Paul as he is a bossom friend of
Mr. White, your superior officer.
I am awfully glad to know where
you stand as to Mr. Paul’s can
didacv.
Of course you understand that
Paul has a strong opposition in his
own party in Ketchikan and this
city polls nearly *4 the vote of the
Division. He will not run as well
this year as he has in the past for
the same reasons that you state he
will be “shelved” up there, and a
stronger effort than ever before will
be made by those who heretofore
have opposed him. Mr. Paul is op
posing Senator Hunt who has many
old time friends here and this op
position to Senator Hunt will
estrange Paul's friends among the
Pioneers. He is also opposing me
in every way, and is naming, or at
tempting to name, the primary
nominees on the Republican ticket
without any consultation whatevor
with the National Rep. Committee
man, elected by the people of Alas
ka. He assumes to be Legislator,
Chief of the Indian voters, dictator
of the pale-faces, Nat. Committee
man, advisor of Senator Hunt and
generalissimo for Dan Sutherland,
and I fear he has over-burdened
himself. In other words he as
sumes to be the Mu3solina of the
Republican party in this Division
I feel that Senator Hunt is much
stronger here than Mr. Paul. There
are scores of Republicans here who
will support Senator Hunt who will
not support Representative Paul, for
the reason that the Representation
supports Benjamin against Hunt
Senator Hunt has just finished
his term as governor of the locai
Fort of the United Sons—an or
ganization with 700 members with
in the municipal boundaries. Nev
ertheless Mr. Paul is opposing him
in favor of Mr. Benjamin of Wran
gell, who refused to become a mem
ber when I organized in Wrangell.
During the last month a strong
organization has been organized at
Scow Bay, Petersburg and Sitka, all
of which will stand by the U. S. ol
A. candidates.
Grover Winn would get gooc
support here had he not declined t<
assist in organizing the U. S. of A
in Juneau. This alone will cut^hin
out of 150 votes, at least, in Ket
chklan ,and probably a number it
Petersburg, Sitka and other place
where the organization is growing
Gildea is Supreme Secty. of th
U. S. A. and Gene Wacker is th
John Hancock of the organizatio:
—the first man in Alaska to sig
the “Declaration of Principles.
Mr. Wacker is also widely know
among the Natives and will pull
heavily from Paul. He is the own |
er of the Wacker City Townslte, a
few miles from Ketchikan, and runs
a stage mail line between the two
towns over the Government high
way. His wife 1b part native, a
graduate of an Eastern school, and
a granddaughter of an Indian
Chief. I hope you will give him
and Mr. Gildea your loyal support
This locality as well as Peters
burg, Wrangell and other points are
very largely Scandinavian, and Mr.
Meyer Hoffstad ,of Petersburg, (a
United Son), I understand is then
candidate. He will undoubtedly be
endorsed by the U. S. A. Who is
Leroy Noland? Who are his as
sociates? Where does he roost:'
Would like to know all about him.
If you are in Ketchikan, or
pass through, be sure and stop.
I can tell you much I will not
write. Poor old Doc. Caswell; he
would receive a big vote here were
his associates different.
Be sure and write me giving
all the political dope you can. I
have just 2 axes in Alaska to
grind and I’ll grind ’em, too.
FRAME.
(The above is probably something
the Hon. Frame didn't want any
one to see but Marshal Eddy, who
is now dead. It appears that hav
ing a couple of Axes to grind is
of more Importance than the wel
i fare of the territory, j Frame is
openly fighting the carpet bag ap
pointees, albeit secretly in league
with them. He is the republican
national committeeman and yet he 1
is bucking Dan Sutherland and do
ing what he can to assist Grig3by,
the democratic candidate for dele
gate.—Editor.).
TO DANCE ON APRIL FOOL DAY
i
The big dance of the Elks that
Thebig dance of the Elks that
was sidetracked a while back to
allow the basket ball games fait
swing at Wrangell, will come ofT on
Saturday evening at the Sons of
Norway Hall.
I
ANOTHER CONSUMPTION VICTIM
Mrs. Elizabeth Marks Jackson,
aged 18, died yesterday afternoon
at the home of her aunt, Mrs. John
Silva, after a lingering illness. The
remains will be taken to Haines to
morrow on the S. S. Evans.
THE WOUND WAS FATAL
A report came to THE ALASKAN
this forenoon that Henry Bean, who
was taken to Wrangell suffering
from a bullet wound in the chest,
died there early Friday morning.
JUST “BULL**
■ “Barndollar Didn’t Get a Dollar”
—“The United Sons of Alaska Win
Their Fi.*st Battle." The above
’ quotations are taken from the News
Bulletin of Ketchikan, in their
^ claim that it was the actions of the
U. S. A. that decided the matter
(killing the Curry Bill). Just
“BULL."
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NOTES MARINE
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The U. S. M. S. Highway arrived
in from Juneau last Friday. It
marks her first stop here for some
time .
i
The U. S. M. S. Coast Guard
Cygan docked at the Citizen's wharf
n last Saturday forenoon.
HEKBY HOOVER POSES
FOR THE ALASKAN.
Mr. Hoover would like to be
president. He is the gentleman
who saved uu from sugar and
flour one time, and he’s been
saving us from fish here in Al
aska—to the benefit of the
packing trust.
Shot Through The,
Chest
Last Sunday evening, in a vacant
cabin between Kake and the ca
aerj on the village driveway, Harry
bean accidently shot himself with
i Remington 25-20 rifle. It ap
pears that a shell became foul in
the magazine so that it would
neither enter the rifle barrel, nor
fall into the magazine of gun. Bean
worked with firearm slide for some
Lime, but the shell refused to pro
perly place itself. Bean than walk
ed off the beach to the cabin and
:ried again to clear the arm. Fin
illy ha turned th® riflo witk
;o him with butt resting on the
ground and tried again to work the
Aide. Giving it an extra hard push
:he mechanism worked, the ‘shell
entered the barrel and discharged
is it entered the chamber. The
muzzle of the rifle was against hi3
chest; the bullet entered about an
inch below the left nipple, ranged
jtralght through and lodged just
below the left shoulder blade. It
missed the heart but plowed thru
Lhe lower portion on the left lung,
rhere was considerable inside hem
orrhage and some by nose and
mouth. The wound—where bullet
entered;—bled only slightly. He
was found shortly after the ac
cident and was rushed to Peters
burg on the Eunice by John Bean,
his brother. Here, in town, he was
first viBited by Dr. Jones, and >Uiis
doctor advised immediate removal
to the Wrangell hospital as his place
was crowded. Dr. Standard was
then called and he went with the
wounded man to Wrangell. Some
six hours later the bullet was re
moved and Dr. Standard returned
home on the Yukon Tuesday fore
noon. He left the patient with his
chances at 50-50 one way or the
other. The removed bullet, one of
the soft nosed variety, was as flat
as if hammered on an anvil al
though it hadn’t touched a bone in
its travel. John Bean, returning
some 12 hours after Dr. Standard,
was advised at the Wrangell hospital
that there was an improvement in
the case and recovery would be look
ed for unless pneumonia set in
That complication would make the
matter more serious.
Will A. Barrows, who has been on
the editorial staff of THE ALASKAN
for the greater part of the winter,
will sail south on the Alameda next
Saturday or Sunday, Seattle bound
When he’ll return he doesn’t know;
maybe not at all. It will depend
on how the winds may blow and
whether or not lee shores are jag
ged.
Interviews Presiden
Coolidge
William L. Paul, member of the
Legislature, has ju3t returned from
Washington.
An audience with President Cool
idge was arranged by Senator Chas.
Curtis, Republican leader of the
Senate. The President was very
much interested in Alaska and ask
ed a number of questions, and told
Mr. Paul that he would do all that
he could io help the Territory.
In reply to a question, Mr. Paul
told the President that the resident
seine and gill net fishermen should
have ten days more fishing after
the traps were closed down, and
that this was only fair because the
fishing season was closed down just
as soon as the salmon get passed
the traps and before the seiners
really had a chance at them.
The President showed great in
terest and had his secretary write
down the request.
The Associated Press reporters
represented that Mr. Paul had ask
ed that only native fishermen be
allowed this extra ten days. Mr.
Paul said today that this is not
true, but that he asked that all
fishermen be given this privilege.
While in Seattle, a number of
cannerymen said that they would
support the request made by Mr
Paul. They seemed anxious to sup
port any regulation which would
give the residents of Alaska a
chance to make a decent living.
Last Thursday evening at the
Pio.ieei Hall six tenderfoot scouts
received their certificates of mem
bersh’p. 'Ihusly the good organiza
tion grows.
William Worth stepped ashore
from one of the south bound steam
ers from Juneau this week to visit
friends and attend to some business
matters before leaving again for the
I States on the next south bound Ala
meda, due to sail out of Petersburg
March 31.
THE ROOKIES—the rookies!!
Here is real comedy. It is honest
to-goodness funny because it’s nat
ural. In the staging of ROOKIES
all interest w'as lost in the filming
because no one had an idea It
would get over. In a 3ort of drift
ing manner the play was filmed and
there is so much of the human touch
to it that it is now recognized as
the outstanding comedy of ’em all.
It may be seen at the MacGregor—
the Pink Lights—on Saturday and
Sunday.
BOY SCOUTS
j The1 Commercial Club Meeting
Meeting opened up with consid
eration of communication from the
Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce.
This had to do with the herring
situation. With the note from Ket
chikan was inclosed a copy of a let
ter to Fish Commissioner O’Malley
taking up the alarming scarcity of
the small fish in S. E. Alaska.
' A letter was received from the
Governor of Alaska relative to the
National Convention of the Kiwanis
Club in Seattle May 17th. There
was a suggestion in this that it
might be well to keep in line witii
the convention as matters of im- <
| portance to the terrtiory were to
come up for consideration.
ISO members ot- me Young Men's
Business Club— a Seattle Chamber .
of Commerce auxiliary— have made i
it known that their Alaska tour will s
take place on the 2nd of June. The :
S. S. Alaska has been engaged for . <
the voyage and a stop will be made
at Petersburg.
1
There were inquiries from Seward ,
bearing on employment chances in i1
the section of the country on fox (
farms. Advised that no known va- i
BETWEEN THE LINES — CON c
TRAST TWO REPORTS—ONE BY {
JOHN—THE OTHER BY “LABOR”
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The U. S. A. News Bulletin, edited 1
t>y John Frame gives no credit what- €
ever to Dan Sutherland for his t
great victory in defeating the Parks- t
Curry Bill to allow the Alaska Le- 1
gislature to supplement federal sal- s
aries.
This is m ime wun nrs secret up- -
position to Sutherland. e
In the same Bulletin, Frame pub- t
lishes in full a mere speech a
on the Controller Bill by George
Grigsby, and sends out over 3000
copies.
in contrast, is me accoum, uy iuc
jrreat labor paper called LABOR, i
printed in Washington. They give i
credit to whom credit is due, c
but of course they are not acquaint- t
ed with George Grisby.
Frame’s Account. '<■
“The United Sons of Alaska Win f
Their First Battle.” 1
“When an attempt was made by ■
the bureaucrats to have the Terri- i
tory pay the Federal officials an “ad- '
ditional salary” by special Congres
sional Act repealing all laws pro
hibiting it, the Sons immediately
fired a resolution to every member (
of Congress opposing it. That res
olution is published in this issue
of the Bulletin. The question came
up in the House recently and was
defeated by a vote of 130 to 12.
“Governor George Parks was the
prime mover of this “salary grab”
and too, he would have been the
chief beneficiary. A man by the
name of Barndollar was his co-con
spirator. The executive is already
paid a larger salary by the govern
ment than is received by the gover
nor of two thirds of the States
Eternal vigilance is the price of
liberty. Get busy.”
Account From -Labor
“DAN” SUTHERLAND
WINS GREAT VICTORY
Alaska Delegate Knocks Out
“Extra Duties” Report of
House Committee
Delegate “Dan” Sutherland of Al
aska won a big victory in the House
on Monday of last week. The Com
mittee on Teritories, at the •sug
gestion of the Interior Department'
brought in a bill materially chang
ing the organic act, or constitution,
of Alaska, and permitting Federal.
cancies in thig line of endeavor at
present.
There was appointed a committee
on entertainment for the high
school basket ball players. This
matter taken up farther in another
column.
An invitation was extended to the
Petersburg Band to be the guest of
the Club on the meeting of April
4th.
At this meeting William Paul,
Ketchikan attorney, was a gue3t.
He spoke briefly on the herring
situation and replied to a number
questions bearing on the Ashing
ndustry in general
There was some spicy remarks
lipped back and forth at one time
if the meeting. The occasion for
lie verbal clash came through the
tuggestion that a financial offer be
nade toward the U. of W. Glee
31ub. It was asked how come—
his donation stuff—when home am
isement enterprises were suffering
or lack of funds. Suggegted that
harity begin right here on this
(articular section of Mitkoft Island.
ifiicials to receive compensation fot
performing so-called “extra duties."
“This is simply the entering wedge
n the part of the bureaucrats who
iow dominate Alaska,” said Suth
rland in an impassioned appeal to
he House. “If carried, it means
he destruction of local self-govern
aent and the establishment of a
uper-bureaucracy.”
L*a Guardia of New York and
rland and when the House divided,
he popular delegate won . by the
urprising vote of 130 to 12.
For The Basket Ball Toesers
The Commercial Club has taken
ip the cheery task of backing the
uovement and show of appreciation
>f the high school ball players. At
he Sons of Norway Hall on the
rth of April there will be a dinner:
ifter the dinner there will be
ipeeches and gladsome words for
he lads, and then there’ll be an
jntertainment and following this
i dance. A nominal cover charge
o help defray dining expense is all
;hat’ll be charged. Let’s see a
•ousing turn out. It’s in the nat
jre of a welcome even though stag
id a day or so late.
T. S. Elsemore, cashier of the
Bank of Petersburg left out on the
3. S. Watson on the 30th.
The S. S. Oduna of the A. 8.
S. Co., timber, coal and powder
laden, arrived in, north bound, on
the morning of the 30th.
New Mill Machinery Here
Boiler, Engines and fittings for
the Sather Mill at Scow Bay arrived
on the S.S. Yukon Tuesday morninf.
The Hogue and Tveten Co. are
leading a movement to discourage
the sale of 22 calibre and BB am
munition to minors in the city. A
mighty good plan.
The Petersburg Fire Dept, will
meet next Wednesday and elect of
fleers, go over equipment and attend
to other fire protection business.
The City election is on April 3rd
—Tuesday. Don’t forget to vote.
The Kake carnival, of a few days
back, was something new in public
entertainments. It was a grand
success. $327. receipts.