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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1^9.
DEPLORABLE POLITICAL PRAC
TICES IN SHORTY STOF
FER’S CABIN.
(From New York Sun.)
We find with a certain sorrow that
the machinery of practical politics
turns true whatever may be the eth
nic atmosphere enveloping it. This
discovery is made by reading reports
of hearings in the election contest
case of Wickersham against Sulzer
for the seat of delegate from Alaska
in the house of representatives.
In the Alaska island of Afognak,
where Gregori Yakanak rules as chief
of the Aleut Indians, much enterprise
was shown by John Taushivak and
Mike Doiehok, Aleuts who speak and
read English, in the 1916 election of a
delegate. Those upon whom they op
erated the machinery of practical pol
itics were fellow Aleuts who speak
their tribal language only a speech
which cannot be written and which
has but a few guttural sounds for the
expression of even the most passion
ate political predilections, yet which
seems to have been enough for all
practical purposes.
Consider, for example, the testi
mony of Anton Dolchok, Aleut, tes
tifying through an Interpreter:
"Q. HOw came you to go to Shorty
Stoffer’s cabin on the morning of elec
tion? A. The fellows told me to go
down there and he would show me
how to vote for Wickersham.
“Q. You, then, were down at Shorty
Staffer's cabin? A. Yes.
“Q. What did Shorty do? A. He
showed me how to vote for Wicker
sham.
“Q. Did he give you anything at the
time—1 lean any coffee and cake? A.
Yes; ho ;ave me coffee and cake.
"Q. Where did you go after you left
the polls ' A. I went back to Shorty
Stoffer’s cabin, and had some more
toffe- and cake.”
Anton, it will be observed, was a
repea er, not at the polling place, but
where the coffee and cakes were
serve as incentive and reward for
-^ ~ ~1 ua/ ii no mvn c
explicit in revealing the purposes of
the sv/eet offerings in Shorty Stof
fer’s cabin. Gregori testified through
Mrs. . nnie Christianson, who served
as in> rpreter:
“Q. Ahat did Mike Dolchok tell you
about who to vote for? A. He told me
to p>' . in ballot like he marked.
"G Did he tell you to vote for
Wickarsham? A. Yes.
“Q. Did Mike Dolchok go with you
to the polls where they were voting?
A. Yes; Mike went with me over
there.
“Q. Did Mike mark your ballot? A.
Mike showed me where to vote.
“Q. Shorty Stoffer is not a native,
is he? A. No; he is a white man.
‘‘Q. You never had visited Shorty
Stoffer’s house before elction day, had
you? A. No.
“Q. Did you on the morning of the
election of the seventh of November,
1916, go to Shorty Stoffer’s cabin?
A. Yea.
“Q. Who told you to go up there?
A. Mike Dolchok.
‘‘Q. What did Mike Dolchok tell you
to do? A. He told me I must come up
here to the election and vote.
"Q. Are you a native? A. Yes.
"Q. What did you do on the morn
ing of election when you reached
Shorty Stoffer’s cabin. A. I didn’t do
anything.
“Q. Did you have coffee and cake at
Shorty Stoffer’s cabin? A. Yes.
*’Q. What did Shorty Stoffer say to
you about voting? A. He told me to
have some coffee?
Did the arguments in support of
Afognak’s favorite son run low as the
procession of sovereign citizens were
conducted through Shorty Stoffer’s
estaminet and thence to the polls? It
seems so from testimony of honest
Sam Mercuroff, who “voted like Mike
Dolchok told me to,” and then return
ed to Shorty’s cabin, but there, Citi
zen Mercuroff testified, “I had two
little cookies ond a cup of coffee,” is
there not a suggestion mere that
Sam's untutored mind grieved over
the littleness of his earned reward,
that the cakes had turned to cookies?
We have said that Aleut gutturals
seemed to provide expression to fit
every political emergency, but deeper
research shows this not always to be
so. In the report of the examination
of one Aleut witness the questions
and answers run:
“Q. For whom did you vote for at
torney-general? A. The interpreter
says he cannot interpret this in the
Aleut language.
“Q. For whom did you vote for sen
ator? A. The interpreter says he can
not Interpret this in the Aleut lan
guage.”
While offering much the same
shield for a witness thlB reply has
some advantage over the more fam
iliar “I do not remember,” yet sfeds
verisimilitude to other testimony by
more highly civilized but no wittier
witnesses.
Altogether the proceedings in
Shorty Stoffer’s cabin prove that the
arts of politics teach themselves in
regions icy or tropic. We may yet
learn that seals, walruses, polar
bears, tempted by dainties which
most tickle their palates, have added
to the electorate of our non-contigu
ous territory with no diminution in
the excellence of the results. The
house seated Mr. Wickersham and re
jected Mr. Sulzer by a vote of 204
to 64.
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In the Commission’s Court for the
Teritory of Alaska, Cordova Pre
clnt, Before A. J. Adams, Esquire,
United States Comissioner and Ex
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In the matter of the estate of Charles
Leslie Hale, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the
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Dated at Cordova, Alaska, this 16th
day of January, A. D., 1919.
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Hale, Deceased. [
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Date of last publication Feb. 24, 1919.
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In the United States Commissioner’s
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Territory of Alaska. In Probate. In
. the matter of the Estate of William
Herrold, deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned administrator of the es
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the creditors of and all persons hav
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Dated the 15th day of January, 1919.
K. G. ROBINSON,
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January 16. 1919. 6w
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Notice is hereby given by the under
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Edward Gustafson, deceased, to the
creditors and all persons having
claims against the said Edward Gus
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with the necessary vouchers, within
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In the United States Commissioner’s
Court, Cordova Precinct, Territory
of Alaska (In Probate).
In the Matter of the Estate of Gun
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Notice is hereby given that V. G.
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Gunnard Johnson, deceased, has ren
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such administrator, and that Tuesday,
the 15th day of April, 1919, at 10
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said probate court at Cordova, Alaska,
has been duly appointed by the pro
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final account, at which time and place
any person interested in said estate
may appear and file his exceptions in
writing to the said final account and
contest the same.
Witness the Hon.
(Seal) A. J. ADAMS,
Judge of the said Probate Court, and
the seal of said Court affixed, this
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