THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1920
REPUBLICAN TICKET
{•„ For President—
WARREN G. HARDING.
For Vice President—
CALVIN COOLIDGE.
For Delegate to Congress—
W DAN SUTHERLAND,
For Senator—
E. E. CHAMBERLAIN,
For Representatives—
A. E. LATHROP
JOS. H. MURPHY
R. E. ELSNER
A. H. FRAME.
THE BROWN BEAR ISSUE
A strange controversy has arisen
over the disposition of the Alaska
brown bear, as to peace or war with
the white man- acording to a recent
editorial in the Seattle P.-I. For
very many years it has been the gen
eral testimony of Alaskans and those
visitors to Alaska who have come in
to involuntary contact with the brown
bear- that he is a decidely dangerous
animal, with a disposition to attack
human beings whenever opportunity
offers. The government, for some
years, has protected the brute by
means of the federal game laws,
while it has withheld the protection
of the law from the comparatively in
offensive black bear through some
strange inversion of federal reason
ing. In moving for a reversal or this
protection. Alaskans have found two
or three naturalists who ascribe a
peace loving and comparatively harm
less disposition to the brown bear. Dr.
William T. Hornaday, who should
know, is one of these friends who
contend that the animal is compara
tively harmless.
Answering this contention, Thomas
B. Drayton of Seward, relates the ex
perience of one Clarence Thompson
on Chicagoff island. Thompson, it
is said, came unexpectedly upon a
brown bear feeding upon the car
cass of a deer, and the bear instant
ly made for him. Thompson fired
two shots With a 30-40, both taking
effect, but the vitality of the animal
was so tremendous that the shots did
not stop it. The bear got to Thomp
son and tore off his scalp with the
first stroke, and the second blow
fractured his skull; the man was bad
ly mutilated and every scrap of
clothing was torn from his body; he
was found by a searching party and
died the next day.
There is other testimony from Alas
ka to the same effect as to the bear’s
disposition to make trouble for a
white man. In fact the general feel
ing in Alaska is that if one happens
to meet a brown bear the thing to do
is to run. and run hard.
However, the government should
not find it necessary to rely upon
hearsay evidence in deciding whether
or not the brown bear is the amiable
beast that Dr. Hornaday claims it is
The proper way, as in other Alaska
Issues, is to send a commission from
Washington to investigate the brown
bear’s disposition by actual contact
and to make an intensive study at
close range. In this way the govern
ment could doubtless procure a re
port that would fix the brown bear’s
status undeniably and irrevocably.
ALASKA'S DELEGATE
(By E. E. Ritchie)
Dan Sutherland should and proba
bly will be elected this year as Alas
ka’s delegate to congress. Two rea
sons are sufficient. He is well qual
ified for the job and It is an advan
tage to a territory for its delegate to
belong to the administration party.
After March 4, 1921 the Republican
party will have the president and
will control congress by a large ma
pority in both houses. Anybody who
doubts this is suffering from hectic
Wilsonitis.
Dan Sutherland came to the north
west with the pioneer van following
the Klondike discoveries. He has
remained here ever since. He has
mined in Nome, Atlin and the Tanana,
and has fished in the Panhandle. He
has a personal acquaintance through
out the territory not exceeded in ex
tent by any Alaskan. He knows all
the sourdoughs and many of the new
comers, and he knows what every
part of Alaska wants and has an in
telligent idea of what each part of it
has a reasonable chance to get
Alaska needs at Washington a dele
gate who has the intelligence and in
dustry and patience to help preoccu
pied members of congress understand
that they can get more useful in
formation about the territory from
people who live here than from apost
les of general asininity in the far
east who want to try their fads on
this long-suffering field.
The Republican candidate for dele
gate was born and raised in New Eng
land and has capped his early educa
tion with the free life and vision of
the northwest. He knows the east
and he knows the west. He is a
thoroughbred American and a thor
oughbred Alaskan. It is enough.—
E. E. Ritchie in Anchorage Times.
SECRETARY DANIELS MAY
MAKE TRIP TO ALASKA
According to a personal letter re
ceived in the mail on the Alameda,
Secretary Daniels may come north
with Admiral Rodman next month
when the destroyer fleet visits Alaska.
The letter states that Admiral Rodman
with the destroyer fleet will leave the
south after July 15 and he may spend
perhaps a month in the vicinity of
Seward hunting and fishing. “Secre
tary Daniels may accompany the ad
miral north and size up the coal
fields,” the writer also says in the let
ter, which is dated from San Diego,
where the larger part of the Pacific
I ueet is at present stationed.—Seward
Gateway.
LATE ALASKA NEWS
John W. Troy, editor of the Juneau
Empire, has gone to the States to at
tend the Democratic convention. A.
W. Henning, a newspaper man of some
prominence, is in charge of the Em
pire while Mr. Troy is away.
McGrath is having quite a boom in
quartz mining. Fourteen shafts have
been sunk on properties in the vicinity
of the camp and the ore is high grade.
s Eight hundred tons of ore will be
| shipped out this season by Tom Ait
ken.
Neona Smith, aged 10, native girl
of Petersburg, was recently drawn into
the gypsy of her father’s power boat,
her injuries consisting of a badly frac
tured skull, the right arm fractured
in three places and the hand almost
torn from the wrist. She is not ex
pected to live.
Hughie Gillis, a fisherman, was re
cently taken to Juneau on the charge
c‘‘ operating a still at Echo cove, and
for furnishing liquor to a native. The
officers found fifty gallons of mash
in a cabin but failed to find the owner.
Jim Anderson, a native, reported that
he came to the cabin one day while
hunting, and that Gillis came out of
the cabin and forced him to dirnk at
the point of a gun, afterwards placing
him in his boat and firing several
shots to speed him on his way
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technical construction of the modern
piano.
If you wish services that twenty-five
years of practical ana theoretical
knowledge can give you, better have
Anderson attend to your piano, both
for the good of your pocketbook and
your piano. In town yet for a few
days. Phone Windsor hotel.
P. S.—Agent for Kohler and Camp
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