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These Lots are centrally located, being
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office of U. S. Commissioner and across
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Federal Reserve.
The Lots origionally sold for $1200.00
and $500.00 respectively. For further in
formation see Dr. J. R. Bowen, the dentist
Bowen Building, Nenana.
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ceived the people. He saw the tele
pram in the office of the Nome
Xuppet signed James Wickersham,
stating that the committee on elec
tions by unanimous decision, had
reported that Witkersham had been
duly elected delegate of Alaska.
This statement was absolutely false,
he said, as the committee on elec
tions had made no report and would
make no report until after election.
Reports had been received at Ju
neau from people going out by way
of the Yukon river, that nearly all
the settlements, wood and fish camps
along the river had been bulletined
with the information thht Wicker
sham would be reseated and that
Sulzer had been ousted.
These people of the camps and
settlements along the river, he said,
could not be reached and madg
aware of the truth. Everybody
likes a winner; likes to get on the
band wagon; and the statement
made public and which indicated
that a Democratic committee had
I'liuscu a n.epuDiican, n irue, would
i go a long way in his favor, he
thought. This and other false state
ments, which he refuted by state
ments contained in the Congressional
• Records, at the meeting at the
Coliseum, he again refuted and in
vited anyone who wished to satisfy
himself to see the records for him
self. Copies of the Congressional
Records are now in the possession
of Commissiner McDonald, who
would gladly let anybody see them.
Mr. Grigsby’s remarks were con
cise and to the point and carried
conviction to his hearers.
In concluding the refutation of
the statements made by Wickersham
he said he would leave it to the
intelligent voters as to how much
credence they can give and how
much trust they can repose on a
man who will deliberately make
false statements to gain his own
personal ends.
He referred briefly to the state
ments he made in his address at the
Coliseum, went into some length
into the eight-hour law and the gold
bonus, promising his hearers that
he would do all he can towards
getting a valid eight-hour law passed
and supporting to the fullest extent
the gold bonus proposition.
\\ ickersham's complaints against
the Cuggenheims, the Alaska Pack
ers Association and the transporta
tion companies, which appeared to
be his campaign material, were gone
into at great length and Mr. Grigsby
very clearly pointed out that Wick
ersham had introduced no legisla
tion of any kind to relieve the burd
ens he complained of.
The title to the Copper mines
owned by the Guggs were given
them by Judge Wickersham when
he was on the bench, and it was
' well known that he sought employ
ment as their attorney at $15,000
la year, and that this offer to serve
: as such attorney was turned down,
according to Mr. Grigsby. He
| started his “howl” against trans
portation rates in 1908 and they
| have steadily increased, but he had
’ yet introduced no legislation to re
move the burdensome conditions he
was forever complaining about. Re
garding the government railroad,
which Wickersham claims was made
possible in terms of a bill he had
introduced and secured the passage
of, Mr. Grigsby stated as a positive
fact that Senator Chamberlain, of
Oregon, was the author of the bill
and that Wickersham had requested
the privilege of introducing it in
the House at the same time that
Senator Chamberlain introduced it
in the Senate. This statement could
j be verified if necessary by a refer
■ ence to the Congressional Records
bearing on the subject.
He spoke on the fisheries, which
was the biggest asset Alaska poss
essed and brought in the most rev
enue and which needed to be foster
ed and taken care of, and yet Mr.
Wickersham in his bill creating a
territorial legislature, also known
as the Organic Act, did not give
Alaska the power to interfere and
control the fisheries. Mr. Wicker
sham made a statement some time
ago to the effect that he was amaz
ed when he read the word fish in i
his bill, and implied that someone
had “slipped one over nim." Later;
on he stated that when the word
fish was about to be inserted in his i
bill he fought the insertion of it, J
on the floor of the House and wa~(
defeated. An investigation into the j
circumstances of the insertion of
this clause in the Wickersham bill
and a reference to the Congressional
Record disclosed the fact that at
the hearing of the bill, in committee,
Wickersham. without any fight, with
drew his objections to the insertion
of the clause which barred the terri
tory from doing anything to its
fisheries. This was another instance
of a glaring misstatement made by
Wickersham.
In concluding, he urged the voters !
to consider the matter from every
point of view and support Sulzer,
who had entered on his duties at ?.
time when the country was at war
and was, in a great measure, handi
capped in getting needed legislation
through, owing to the more press
ing war measures that demanded;
the attention of Congress.
During the eighteen month period!
in which Sulzer served the interests j
of this territory, 15,000 bills were*
introduced in Congress, and 52 of j
tnem were made into laws. Of th se
52 bills, only 14 of them did not
pertain to the war, and of the 14
two were introduced by Sulzer dur
ing a time the lawmakers of the
nation were busy as never before
■ in the history of the country. One
of the two bills was known as the
Seward Bonding Act, which enabled
the people of Seward to have a
dyke built to protect that town
from floods. Wickersham refused
to put through the Juneau bonding
bill for school purposes. The other
bill was one which made free home
stead surveys possible and thereby
removed a very burdensome and ex
pensive reqirement in homsteading
land in Alaska.
Sulzer was now busy with bills
which will eliminate many other ob
jectionable features in the home
stead laws, notably the removal of
the regulation which requires that
a strip of land eighty rods in length
must be reserved between any two
homesteads bordering on navigable
or other waters. He was also work
ing very assiduously toward obtain
ing a gold bonus.
It must be realized that the mat
ter of obtaining appropriations at
the present time was almost quite
impossible, owing to the war, but
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Mr. Grigsby said that during his
stay of about two months in Wash
ington, D. C., the delegate was busy i
all of the time interviewing cabinet
| officers, who were his personal
friends, and appearing before the
various committees in the interests
of the territory, and if it was
humanly possible to obtain the pass
age of any bill for the good of
1 the territory he said that Sulzer was
the man that could do it.
The only concrete results obtained
by Wickersham during his tenure
of office for a period of about six
years, was the Miner’s Lien Law,
which was seldom used; and the ap
propriation for the building of de
tention hospitals in Nome and Fair
banks, which were also seldom used.
Mr. Sulzer was going about in his
quiet unassuming way, endeavoring
to obtain favorable legislation and
was trying to get the passage of a
bill which will make possible the
building of an asylum for the Alaska
insane on a site to be selected by
a committee.
Mr. Grigsby’s address, which was
clear and concise throughout, was
listened to with rapt attention by
the large crowd present, and was
brought to a close about 11 o’clock,
the speaker thanking his audience
for their attendance and attention.
Mr. Grigsby left for Fairbanks
early this morning, where he will
address meetings in the interest of
Delegate Sulzer.
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A telegram was received today
from the officer commanding at
Fort Dodge, Iowa, stating that Mike
Saroff is dead. Mike went out with
the first draft from Fairbanks. His
brother, who was a Nenana regis
! trant, went out with the second
I draft.
I
Reverend Drane retturned today
from a trip to Tanana Crossing. He
says that the mission is ministering
to the spiritual needs of about two
hundred Indians over an area cov
ered by a wide radius.
Carl White arrived in Fairbanks
. today. He traveled overland with
a pack train of eight horses. He
brought the mail, expresg and eleven
passengers, among them were the
two Hudson brothers, Gus Green
and Ray Crook.
Judge Bunnell left Valdez this
morning for Fairbanks.
Chief Deputy Marsha! Miller is
1 due in Fairbanks in a day or two
from the Outside.
E. H. Boyer resigned his position
with the N. C. company, and is pre
paring to leave for the states to
join his family. His place in tho
N. C. Co. is filled by John Buckley.
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