The Cordova Daily Times
GREATER CORDOVA’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER
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H. G. 8TEEL, C. H. WILCOX, C. H. SCHEFFLER, Publishers
H. G. STEEL, Editor and Manager
C. H. WILCOX, City Editor.
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CORDOVA, ALASKA, WKDXKKDAY, FKDRI ARV 24, 11!);'.
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FLIMSY CHARGES ARE DISMISSED
AND JUDGE ADAMS VINDICATED
HE series of trival and flmsy charges preferred against
United States Commissioner A. J. Adams by the editor
of the Daily Alaskan, were given a public hearing, at the
city hall last night, by Federal Judge F. M. Brown, the District
Attorney, United States Marshal and Clerk of the Court be
ing in attendance. The complete vindication of Judge Adams,
together with the high tribute paid him as an official and cit
izen by the highest tribunal in Alaska, is a source of congrat
ulation to the many friends of our esteemed townsman, and a
deserved rebuke to those who have been attempting to tra
duce and malign by falsehood and misrepresentation all who
failed to agree with the narrow policy of that paper or its
few henchmen.
Not a single charge against the United States Commis
sioner was proven, and he was called upon to answer nine
counts. In fact the whole proceeding savored of malice upon
the part of a few discredited and disgruntled politicians who
have been running affairs with a high hand, until checked in
their mad career by a judicial decision that has branded the
disturbing element. These same people have accused
practically everybody else in Cordova with the acts of which
a verdict of guilty has been rendered against them
It was fortunate, indeed, for the good of the community
that Judge Brown decided to have these imaginary and mag
nified grievances threshed out at a public hearing, as the evi
dence presented proved conclusively who has been at the bot
tom of all the strife that has been fomented here during the
past year or two. The pen proved a mighty weapon for a
time, but there is always a day of reckoning, and a little pow
er given to some people frequently results in their undoing.
This thing of continual nagging and holding up to ridi
cule of a large number of our representative citizens cannot
go on forever. There are times when patience ceases to he a
virtue, but the intervention of Judge Brown, by his excoria
tion of the methods that have been pursued by our contempo
rary, and which applies with equal force to his few pawns,
should result in change for the better for the community. The
raising of false cries will no longer deceive, as the court has
dug to the root of the evil and pointed out the danger that
might result from a continuation of those tactics.
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EXAMINING THE CAUSE AND EFFECT
OF THOSE WHO WOULD ’’RULE OR RUIN’’
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NE OF the delights of living, if not the chief delight,
is the study of the other fellow’s intellectual lucubra
tions. The process by which men reach conclusions,
whether they be by the hazardous flying leap or bv laborious
and meandrian routes, with many hesitant adventures, com
mand the interested attention of thinking people. The an
alyst tikes to pick up a man as a professor impales a bug upon
pin, and examine his convolutions, editors, by the way, being
one of the chief subjects of this entomological method.
Now let us exam ine the moving spirit in Cordova’s “Board
of Strategy ” Ilis route to reach a vital spot in an enemy
was the laborious one, and through the association of smaller
lights—legal and otherwise—a beautifully laid scheme was
hatched, but it was frustrated by the hand of justice, and re
sulted in a flying leap that will cost the city a large sum of
money and also the abolishment of a form of trade that many
of our business men have enjoyed, until this meddlesome in
terference brought about the change.
Thus is forcibly brought home to our people some of the
beautiful blunders into which this gang has led Cordova.
There have been many of them during the past year, the cli
max evidently being born of heat rather than thought, but is
nevertheless far-reaching in its effect. Vituperation directed
against a majority of our people, did not do the effective work
hoped for, and more drastic measures were hatched in the hope
of a big coup. But the inevitable has happened—the “official
organ” started something that it was unable to finish, and is
now likely to work a hardship on the municipality as well as
individuals.
In an attempt to discredit a federal official attention fo the
district court was directed to a section of the compiled laws of
Alaska which gives the power to the common council to pro
hibit minor breaches of the law and states “the cost of such
imprisonment shall be borne by the municipality and not by
the United States.” And furthe r adds, “The municipal mag
istrate shall have jurisdiction of all actions for violation of
municipal ordinances.” In other words the chief of police
has been filing complaints and having warrants issued in tin
commissioner’s court, which the complainant states was done
for the purpose of earning fees for the commissioner. Judge
Brown thereupon called attention of the United States Dis
trict Attorney to the fact that objection had been raised to the
federal authorities trying these cHses, and as the government
was bearing the burden of the expense, he said it was a matter
that should be looked into- The District Attorney stated that
he thought the fault laid with the municipality and not tin1
federal officials, as the complaints were sworn to by the city
officers, and intimated that if Cordova wanted to pay these
costs she would likely have an opportunity to do so. Another
charge that the Daily Alaskan made was that devices, in the
nature of slot machines, were being conducted, and this, too,
was referred to the District Attorney, with instructions that
the law be enforced, which means that our people will be de
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prived of this form of pastime.
All of which brings ns into the straight and narrow path,
but not as a reform movement, only a little foolish experiment
alism on the part of a few of our citizens with a grouch.
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JUDGE BROWN DEPLORES THE ATTACK
MADE UPON CITIZENS BY THE ALASKAN
IN commenting on the continued attacks made by the Daily
Alaskan upon reputable citizens of Cordova Judge Brown,
at a public hearing last night, deplored the attitude of that
paper in the following language: “ You know that men who have
this feeling are not impartial, they are not unprejudiced, they
are not free from bias, in the very nature of things. They are
influenced by this sense of dislike ami that is the bad feature
that makes nothing but trouble and the troubles that these j
small communities have grow out out of just that very thing, of
men trying to hurt each other and they both usually succeed if
they start out to hurt each other. * * * You cannot justify
these articles in my judgment as a bona fide public-spirited
matter of calling attention to tin* wrong doing of a public offi
cer. They seem to me more in the nature of caviling. * * * 1
believe that men who hold others up to ridicule and shame and
keep nagging other men in the papers are laying themselves
open to some retaliation. I don’t say that that men have a
right to take the law into their own hands or use violence, but
I do say that men who hold others up before their neighbors in
the town are inviting that sort of thing and they might invite
even worse injuries; they might invite even death itself, which
is often caused by men being shamefully nagged. * * * I
think this is a trifling matter in a way and a childist matter, in a
way, for grown men to go on quarreling and raising such a fuss
and getting others into it and making a lot of trouble for the
town and everybody else. 1 don’t think it is right and' I would
very much like to see it changed. If you still go on and say ‘I
won t submit, this man is a dreadful man. I am going to fight
him and T am going to carry this fight on, the town will get
into the throes of all sorts of confusion over what I think is a
very, very small matter and I think really we can rely upon the
better judgment and good sense of the men you have here, men
who can pull together and make your town, upbuild the town;
their better judgment and good sense will assert themselves and
these things will cease.”
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Conditions in Mexico seem to be growing worse rather than
better. That the constitutionalists soldiery has been guilty of
the wildest excesses and that it has been particularly brutal
toward women, are allegations well braced up by competent
testimony. The liberty which they were supposed to be seek
ing has became license of the worst order.
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In almost every community there are some persons so sel
fish, so lacking in public spirit, so willing to allow others to do
things for the benefit of the town. All they can do is to find
fault with the more progressive citizens and attempt in every
way to discredit and disparge any and everything that tends to
prove of general good, simply because % y cannot accomplish
th(> work and an* envious of others who get, results.
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