The Seward Gateway
PUBLISHED DAILY
at Seward, Alaska
HAL B. SELBY
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
tntereo as Second Class Matter Sep
tember 2nd, 1915, at the Post Office at
Seward, Alaska, under the Act of
March Third, 1879.
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AND THAT’S THAT
The editor of the Seward Gateway
is waxing more and more eloquent on
the matter ot the removal of the court
headquarters from Valdez to “some
other point”—point not stated. The
gentleman says: "The Valdez miner
says The Gateway’s argument for a
couit term at Seward is ‘piffle.’ Per
haps it is. but it is piffle that had bet
ter be taken seriously by Valdez, if
she wishes to retain the court house.
■I'nless the other towns are treated
mo)v fairly in the future than they
ha\e been in the past, Seward will he
found lined up with Anchorage for re
moval of headquarters to some other
point.”
We don’t know, of course, just
how the editor intended this, but it
sounds wonderfully like a threat.
Should this be the case we would re
mind him of an old and wonderful
fully true saying that “Threats like
chickens, come home to roost.
It the Gateway editor intended that
for a threat, we come right back at
him with another to the effect that
it the Alaska railroad does not treat
Valdez more fairly in the matter ot
running trains into this city ^ \ aldez
will be found lined up with Ketchikan
in an effort to have the road moved
down there.
The Gateway says further: “It all
the cases that come from the west
ward were tried in Seward, and all
the cases from the Copper River val
ley were tried in Cordova, where they
should be, there would be little use
for court headquarters in Valdez.”
This is an excellent argument but
a better one is that if all the cases
from the westward were tried in Ko
diak where they could be handled tar
more economically than in Seward
Seward would not have a term ot
court once in fi'e yeais.
While this matter of terms ot court
at various places is being so harmo
niously discussed, let’s insert a tew
facts in to the matter instead of broad
generalities that have their origin in
mere guesswork.
It is hup that Valdez, being tne
coitrl headquarters, court is in sess
ion at all times while the judge is in
town, but this ordinarily means that
perhaps one day a week the court
sits to hear motions and other miscel
laneous business that attorneys may
desire to present. This tor the con
venience of litigants and their attor
neys. on the other hand, during the
last two and one-half years regulai
sessions of the court have been held
at Anchorage covering approximately
110 days, at Cordova for forty days
and at Seward for thirty. Thus An
chorage has had more days of court
than Valdez, though the amount of
business transacted has been much
smaller at Anchorage than at Valdez.
It would appear then that Anchorage
has little cause for complaint.
Reward has even less to kick about
Let’s go back over the records a few
years. What do we find? These ov
erwhelming arguments for frequent
terms of court at the Terminal City.
1. No civil jury case has been tried
at Reward since 1915 and no Seward
or westward civil case has been tried
at Valdez or elsewhere in that time
with the exception of one case arising
at Seldovia, and which was tried at
Anchorage last year by agreement ot
the parties attorneys on both sides
being Anchorage lawyers.
2. Since Judge Cushman began
holding court at other places thar
Vandez in 1910 no civil case has evei
been tried except at the town where
it arose unless by consent of parties
or on change of venue for cause.
3. A regular term of court was es
tablished for Reward, some years ago
and regularly convened for severa
years, and as we have stated before
one year with a jury that was dis
charged within an hour after cour
convened. Court was held at Sew
aid in July, 1916, and not a singh
jury case was tried. In August, o
1917. only one case, a murder cas<
from the westward, required the pres
ence of a jury. In September, 1918
there was not a jury case ready foi
trial, and the same is true of the ocur
sessions of 1919 and 1920 and 1921
At the July, 1922 term at Sewan
with grand and petit juries, all tin
indictments returned were with twe
exceptions, for crimes originating
outside of the Seward district, prin
cipally Anchorage. Only one of thesi
cases was tried at Seward, an Anch
orage case, the others being taken tc
Anchorage on motion of attorneys oi
on motion of attorneys for the de
fense, even the two Seward cases be
ing tried one at Anchorage and the
other at Valdez on change of venue.
In the five years, 1919-1923 inclus
ive, 51 cases were filed on the Seward
district court docket. This number
the court for an order directing the
sale of property for delinquent muni
cipal taxes and subsequent approval
of the sales, one change of name and
an Anchorage divorce, brought in Se
ward because the attorney for the
plaintiff lived there. It also includes
several cases in which an action was
filed, but dismissed before going fur
ther.
The above are facts, not guesswork.
On what grounds then, can Seward
claim she has been unfairly treated
There are none and it remains to be
seen whether the Seward Gateway
will be as fair as the Cordova Time
and print the facts correcting its own
misstatements.
That threat of the Gateway to side
with Anchorage to take the court
headquarters away from Valdez may
prove to have been illadvised. For
years Valdez has gone along, a lamb j
among the wolves, making little or J
no protest when other towns grabbed :
off her envied possessions. It may j
be that this little threat will prove
the last scourge to metamorphose the
seeming lamb into the most ravenous!
of the wolf horde—time will tell. j
Far be it from us to even insinuate I
that the good people of Valdez would ,
stoop so low' as to attempt revenge j
for real or fancied grievances, but 1
we wonder if the editor of the Gate-j
way and the good peopde of Seward !
realize how frail is their own struc
ture, and that some day. as in the fai
ry tale, a wolf may come along and
blow and blow until he blows their
bouse down; do they realize as near-1
ly every one else in Alaska does that
the Alaska railroad, if it would handle
any considerable tonnage of coal or
ore economically and profitably it
must seek another outlet to wafer
transportation than Seward; that al!
the necessary surveys and plans for
such an outlet, requiring but wtlve
acted upon at the proper time; that
succh an outlet, requiring but twelve i
miles of railroad transportation, ten
of which is over approximately 2 per
cent grade; that an agitation once
started for the construction of this
cutoff would find ready support and
would be almost impossible to com
bat. Think it over.—Valdez Miner.
REFERENDUM ON WAR
BY' Willis Corson
The power of declaring war should
be in the hands of the people. They
are the ones who have to risk their
lives and pay the war taxes, nty their
representatives or rulers. It is giving
one group of persons too much power
to place in their hands the ability to
plunge the great nations into war
with all its horrors. On the other
hand, a few peace-at-all costs preach
ers should not be allowed to keep the
nation from resenting an insut to the
flag or from wiping out a stain on her
honor.
The votes should be in the hands
of the burden-bearing public so let's
do our part to see that it gets there,
not alone in our nation but in all the
nations of the world
INHERITANCE TAX
By Marit Eide.
Ther has been some discussion
about having a bill taken to Cong
less as the Inheritance Tax. Why
should one man be allowed to keep
thousands of dollars in his family and
not pay a tax on it at death? As this
money is handed down from one gen
eration to another it will grow in size
and give one man too great an influ
ence in our gvoernment.
Collier’s Weekly says, “We like to
see men win but we hate to see them
block traffic.” This is very true and
if the wealthy people pjfy an inherit
ance tax they will be forced to work
to keep up the tax on their wealth.
FIVE TO FOUR SUPREME COURT
DECISIONS
By Merritt Shellhorn
The Supreme Court is one of the
most powerful organizations in Am
erica. The nine men comprising this
body have more power than even the
president and they, unlike the presi
Department of the Interior
The Alaska Railroad
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A Standard Gauge Railroad operating the
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western Alaska, from the Ports of Seward
and Anchorage into Interior Alaska. Low
rates, Homestead and other opportunities.
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