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MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1919
UNWISE AGITATION
Crazed with disappointment over
his failure to be elected as delegate
from Alaska, James Wickersham has
again placed in motion those obstruc
tive tactics for which he has become
famous. Instead of doing all in his
power to further any project .which
will add to the population of the ter
ritory and make for its betterment,
he has allowed his better judgment
to be swayed by an insane desire for
revenge on those whom he believes
responsible for his defeat. The ques
tion of whether Alaska needs the rail
road constructed as quickly as possi
ble and that nothing should be done
to tie the hands of those responsible
for its construction does not seem to
enter into his calculations, Backed
by the Ballaine-Herron combination,
he has started a fight which threatens
to undo all the great work Secretary
Bane has accomplished. Just why the
construction of a railroad in the terri
tory should be made a matter of polit
ical activity is hard to see. It would
look as if any party or person who
would throw millions of dollars into
public service would be regarded as a
beneficiary instead of an active enemy.
This opposition, which has met every
endeavor of outside capital to develop
the territory, has held It back a half
century. Until our citizeqp learn to
welcome without criticism those who
are willing to spend their money freely
in developing our natural resources, it
will always be hampered in develop
ment. It is a matter of grave concern
to all persons interested in the future
development of the country to see the
hostility manifested toward a magnifi
cent gift generously donated by the
government. The question of misman
agement and incompetency should not
be entertained for a moment. The
cost of the road has been excessive,
but not out of proportion to the cost
of other things in the territory. Our
citizens have always paid from one
to two hundred per cent more for
what they got than if they had resided
in the States. If the railroad costs
one hundred millions more than the
original estimate it should not occa
sion this unwise agitation which may
yet cause operations to be suspended
pending an investigation.
The time has come when Alaskans
must judge people by their works.
Mr. Wickersham has been fighting
Alaska’s battles for many years. He
has incidentally mixed a few scraps
of his own in with ours. He has ac
complished nothing and has made ene
mies of former friends of the terri
tory. Secretary Bane has been fight
ing for Alaska for many years, and
incidentally fighting the delegate’s op
position to everything not introduced
by himself. The secretary has been
instrumental in causing the expendi
ture of many million dollars in the
territory.
Which man is doing the most good—
Secretary Bane or James Wicker
sham?
Bane the constructor or Wicker
sham the obstructionist?—Valdez
Miner.
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IS YOUR LIFE A HARD ONE?
Do you people at home feel at times
tnat this war has made your life pretty
hard? Read what an American cor- ,
respondent writes about one of our '
boys who had been doing his duty:
‘‘In a little Held hospital west of
Montdidler I stopped at the bedside of
an American boy, one of those victims
of the German mustard gas, with
which the Hu^s are making all their (
present gains. His eyes were matted
with yellow pus and ne could not see.
His face was terribly burned. His Ups ,
were swollen and purple. His whole ,
body turned the color of an Indian,
and portions of It looked like melted
lesh, as though It had been liquified.
“The fighting had been renewed alt"
ilong the American lines, and German
wounded had begun coming into our
lonpitals. I said to thic oldier:
“ ‘The boys are getting their re
renge for you fellows tonight.’ He
smiled through his seared lipo, and in
a voice so faint that I had to bend
down to listen, he gasped, 'God! I wish
I was back there with ’em!”’
Do you still think your life a hard
one?
Help support that boy and the hun
dreds of thousands "of others doing
their duty. Buy War Savings Stamps
to the limit of your capacity.
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NOT A THIRD TERM
We are informed in cautious terms
by a correspondent who weighs his
words with the care of a diplomat that
Mr. Wilson will not run for a third
term as president. At that dinner of
his recently when the President bal
anced the fate of the world on a
French fried potato, so to speak, he
almost intimated that he did not in
tend to accept a third nomination.
“It has been known for some time
that the President did not contem
plate breaking the tradition dating
from the time of Washington, that a
President should serve no more than
two terms.”
Now that the President has taken
us into his confidence we shall take
him into ours. It has been known for
some time all over the country that
tho people did not contemplate letting
the President serve more than two
terms. We tell this little secret that
the people are so unanimously in ac
cord with his latest decision. They
approve it from the ground up.
The President has been wavering
on this subject for a long time. His
zealous friends began to groom him
for a third term as soon as the United
States entered the war. We give them
credit for being entirely patriotic in
their motives. They argued that here
was the only man in a national of 110,
000.000 people who knew enough to
hold the office of executive in the
country’s greatest crisis since the
Civil war. For nearly two years the
President has been of the same view,
but now that he has given the matter
careful consideration he is willing to
entrust the country to someone else,
if the people are. And, as we have
said, they are, ,
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VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRSS
The Alaska legislature is taking
stops to protect the halibut. If you
would a3k some of the people in this
neighborhood who at one time
thought they would make a fortune in
the halibut fishing business they will
tell you that the halibut needs no pro
tection and that he can well take care
of himself.—Douglas News.
Gifford Pinchot is as busy as a bird
deg again. He is securing the aid of
all the big circulating newspapers in
the States in preparation of attacking
the public land bill, which failed of
passage on account of the senate fili
buster. It is possible his campaign
may be successful—Juneau Dispatch.
Glancing over the doings of part of
the world, it strikes us that perhaps
we would do well to take our bearings
before venturing the assertion that we
here in Ketchikan are possessed of
sound minds. Taking the reports and
comparing our demeanor here, we are
either passing a period of insane tran
quillity or the rest of the world is mad.
Which is it?—Ketchikan Miner.
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posit their donations on the ground
floor from 12 m. to infinity.—Valdez
Miner.
In spite of the assertions sent out
from Anchorage that Cook inlet is
dear of ice. and open for navigation,
;wo unsuccessful attempts have been
nade by the navy tug Oneonta, in
command of Captain Christiansen, to
■each Anchorage with the Alaska En
gineering Commission’s barge Law
•ence. Two weeks ago word was seno
'rom Anchorage that Cook inlet was
dear for the navigation of steamers,
uul efforts also were made by An
;horage officials to induce the steam
ihip companies to make early rout
ngs to Anchorage. The Seattle offl
:ials of the transportation lines re
used to “fall,” and with the exception
f a small, gasboat no craft has reached
Anchorage yet.—Seward Gateway.
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SHORT STORIES
ABOUTALASKA
OCCURRENCES
The ban which had been placed on
all Indian potlatches during the influ
enza epidemic by Governor Riggs has
been removed.
Two prisoners, Thomas Lovelock
and Fred Smith, recently broke Jail
at Ketchikan, but were captured
shortly afterward.
Harry Bjork of Juneau was arrest
ed recently for the attempted larceny
of a case of butter from the launch
Yukon, owned by the Hoonah Packing
Company.
The body of one of the women re
cently taken from a cabin on the Prin
cess Sophia by a diver has been posi
tively identified as that of Mrs. W. J.
O’Brien of Dawson by her sister.
Robert J. McChesney, foreman of
the Juneau Empire, has returned from
a trip to the States, and will resume
his position with the company. He
says business conditions are good in
the States.
The halibut boat Nautilus went on
the beach on Douglas island recently
in a Taku gale. The boat dragged her
anchors and floated onto the sandy
beach. She pounded heavily, but was
pulled off uninjured later.
Andy Dieringer, the hustling livery
and transfer man of Valdez, has added
another truck to his fleet of Ford
autos. This is the fourth, with two
five-passenger cars. Mr. Dieringer is
the largest individual outo owner in
the territory.
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One of Alaska's worst trails; that
between Kaltag, a lower Yukon river
town, and Unalakleet, a northern
sound point between St. Michael and
Nome, is being given stakes to help
the mail carriers and their dog teams
during the winter.
Louis Shortridge, an Indian ethnolo
gist, who for the past for years has
been conducting the John Wanamaker
Alaska-British Columbia expedition, is
now married. Mr. Shortridge left his
field office in Haines recently ancj went
to Sitka to claim his bride, formerly
Miss Elizabeth Cook.
Herbert McKean of Ktrkville, Mo.,
has been appointed superintendent of
the Sheldon Jackson school at Sitka.
He spent four years as teacher in the
Philippine islands, and has been di
rector of manual arts at the Kirks
♦ille normal school. He is expected
to arrive at Sitka with his wife and
child about May 1.
It has been reported that rich pay
has been showing up on Livengood
creek, at the mouth of Amy, in the
Tolovana. Martin Claich, the owner
of the ground, has let a lay to Jim
Sherrard and Mike Kelly. The Sher
rard interest was later on disposed of
to William Samson, and Samson and
Kelly are very optimistic over the
property.
The ferry boat Ghent, plying be
tween Douglas and Juneau, recently
had engine trouble and went ashore
in a Taku gale on Douglas island, near
the old sawmill. A small boat was
lined back and forth from the boat to
the beach, and all the passengers were
safely landed. A small hole was
punched in the boat, but otherwise
she was undamaged.
Walter Fisher has moved his min
ing plant to the ground he has been
prospecting on lower Goldstream. For
the past two weeks he has been fixing
up a working outfit that will meet
the requirements of the ground. Fisher
has prospected the district on lower
Goldstream, in the vicinity of Spinach
creek, and says he is well satisfied
with what he has found.
Overloaded with fish, the launch
Valhalla, owned by Ole Deazy of
Dauglas, was" swamped in deep water
off the end of Douglas island last week
and the three men composing the
crew barely got ashore in safety. They
spent a day on the beach and nearly ■
froze before they secured a small
skiff and rowed to .Douglas. The boat
was a total loss.
According to a prospector from the
Toklat region who arrived in Fair
banks recently another death has oc
curred among the trail blazers of the
North. He reports that while he was
coming out of that country he met
Game Warden Foster going Into find
the body of a prospector who was re- ,
ported frozen to death about a hun
dred and fifty miles beyond Lake Min
ch umina, in the vicinity of Mount For- i
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iker. The report of the finding of the
nan’s body was brought In by a party
>f Indians who were hunting in that
vicinity.
Charles A. Sulzer, delegate to con
gress from Alaska, has closed down
his copper mine at ulzer on account
of the low price of the red metal and
will not resume operations until the
price rises, which is not believed to be
probable this year. The last shipment
made by the Sulzer mine netted only
12 cents a pound and it is said the
smelters are refusing to accept copper
ore at any price.
Frederick E. Blitz, a fox farmer of
Telegraph creek, arrived in Wrangel
recently, having made the trip down
the Stikine on the snow and ice. He
made the trip in exactly one month,
and was alone all the way. On ac
count of severe weather he was ten
days longer than usual in making the
trip. He recently killed a number of
foxes and shipped the skins via Atlin
to Victoria.
While away from his place of busi
ness a few hours recently W. D.
Brown, a second-hand store man on
Front street, Juneau, sustained the
loss of all the empty bottles which he
had stored in a shed back of his place
of business, which he reports were
stolen. The thieves made their haul
in daylight, and wore red handker
chiefs as masks. They were scared
away and left a good coasting sled in
Mr. Brown's possession.
Having received his preliminary
education at the Sheldon Jackson
school at Sitka after which a course
in higher classics was received at Car
lisle, Henry Phillips, a native Chilkat
Indian, appreciating the benefit that
his education has meant to him, has
decided to send his little daughter,
Edna, who is 9 years old, to Chemawa
government school at Portland, which
is considered second to the Carlisle
school in point of educational facili
ties.
Late arrivals from Fairbanks creek
say that the' warm weather has caused
many claim owners to make prepara
tions for the coming season. Terrill
had landed several hundred cords of
wood at the big dredge and has 100
tons of crude oil to haul yet. William
Sherwin is cutting wood for the dredge
and will be through in a few days.
Billy James and partner are taking
out a?-dump with a windlass on the
old discovery claim and is reported to
have good pay. A few outfits are
shipping along the creek.
Upon the arrival of the gasboat I
Estebeth at Skagway recently Mrs.
Johnny -Mark and six-weeks-old infant
and Mrs. Marks’ aged grandmother
and a relative orphan boy, who is on
crutches, were taken to the hospital
where it was found that Mrs. Marks
and the infant were suffering from
tuberculosis. The woman was so weak
that she could hardly walk, and the
baby coughed continually. The at
tending physician stated that the
death of both patients was but a
matter of a few days.
According to the report of the Mala
mute Kid, the Toklat and Kantishna
districts will be h^avy producers this
year. Recently he made a trip into
that district with a mining man from
Ruby, taking in a whole year’s sup
ply of provisions at the time of the J
trip. It is probable that from three ,
to five more outfits will go in soon.
Quite a stampede is on to the Toklat
and Kantishna. Among the old-timers
returning to their claims were Dalton,
Capp and Charley Spann, all of whom
hold claims,near Glacier City.
Afe Brown, who has been on a pros
pecting trip of several months on the
Mackenzie river watershed, arrived re
cently in Dawson. He was on the
middle Hart river. He left there sev
enteen months ago with a party of
three, one of whom is still up the
Klondike. Brown formerly had charge
of the stock of the United States gov
ernment on the Yukon-Alaska bound
ary survey. Jle had not heard of the
Sophia disaster or of the war until
he met a man at a roadhouse four
days before arriving in Dawson.
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