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Thursday, June 9, 1910.
FOR DELEGATE
JAMES WICKERSHAM
THE GAME AND THE RAKEOFF,
There will be one main city in the Idita
rod.
The United States commissioner and the !
United States deputy marshals will be there.
The saloons will be there.
These things have been ordered concur
rently by the judge of the district court and
the directing head of the United States mar
shal’s office for the judicial division.
In direct consequence the marts of human
flesh will be there, the great interests will
be there and the parasites of high and low
degree will be there. It is centralization,
and certralization is the soul and body of
American politics and American business.
The effect will not be advantageous to in- j
dividual enterprise. For a time actual min- !
ing may scarcely feel the leeches that will
surely fasten upon it; but from the first the
small business man will occupy a losing seat
in the game and finally the “bank” will leave
all the players clean.
ALLEGED PLOT TO OUST CLARK.
Telegraph and cable tolls, in common with
most things in Alaska, come high and mes
sages are sometimes sent so “short” for rea
sons of economy that they put one to guess
ing as to their real significance. There was
an instance last week in a brief telegram
printed in this paper saying “A party of
Pennsylvanians have subscribed a fund of
$50,000 to force the resignation of Governor
Clark of Alaska.” By putting a number of
fragments together the following partial ex
planation is reached: A couple of months
ago a proposition was put to congress by an
association of men, mostly of Pennsylvania,
to construct a railroad from a point on the
Gulf of Alaska to the Yukon river near
Eagle, with a branch to Fairbanks—the gov
ernment to guarantee 4 per cent, on the
bonds of the road, to run for thirty years, at
the rate of $40,000 a mile on a total mileage
not to exceed 650 miles. A bill was intro
duced carrying the guarantee and other lib
eral provisions, and Delegate Wicker sham
favored it. This bill is what has been briefiy
referred to in the dispatches from time to
time as “the Railroad bill.” The promotors
of the road are the men alleged to have
raised the fund to aid in unseating Governor
Clark, and “an officer of the United States
army who has served in Alaska” appears to
be the authority that the fund was actually
raised. The Leader thinks probably the offi
cer is Major W. P. Richardson, but it don’t
know—and it don’t know much more about
the case than stated above, for it has been
some time since outside mail has been re
ceived here. However, the President and
others oppose the measure on the ground
that it would be unfair to other railroad
builders.
Those people who have suffered so much
anguish in the belief that the administra
tion is failing to love Alaska because
Alaska’s delegate does not bootlick the ad
ministration should take heart. By procla
mation President Taft has created a na
tional park of fifty-seven acres at Sitka.
The park contains some of the finest totem
poles in the world and the United States ma
rines are to be set as sentinels to protect the
totems from tourists.
THE DEPOSED-OFFICIALS EPISODE.
In The Leader today is printed the charges
laid by Delegate Wickersham before the
senate judiciary committee against Faulk
ner and Rustgard, nominated respectively
for marshal and district attorney for the
First division of Alaska, in place of Suther
land and Boyce, who were summarily dis
missed. The committee consented to hear
evidence on the matter, and the deposed offi
cials went to Washington to appear in their
own defense. What the outcome will be is
unknown; but it is plain that Delegate Wick
ersham is representing the views and wishes
of a great majority of people in the First
division.
The officials were summarily dismissed by
President Taft on April 27, on the ground of
general incompetency, following the sugges
tion of Governor Clark. An angry crowd at
Juneau burned the governor in effigy for his
action in the matter, and mass meetings
were held at Sitka, Skagway, Haines and
Ketchikan protesting against the removal of
Sutherland and Boyce. At Juneau the big
gest mass meeting ever held there passed
resolutions protesting against their dis
missal, denouncing Governor Clark, Hoggatt
and Shackleford for their interference with
affairs of the territory, and calling upon
congress to investigate the matter to the
bottom. Mr. Sutherland appeared before
the meeting and produced photographic
copies of the Guggenheim expense bill al
lowing Morrissey, the government witness
in the Hasey case, many hundreds of dollars
to corrupt witnesses and jurors. Mr. Suth
erland also produced a letter from Attorney
Carson to Capt. Jarvis and his associates,
Louis Shackleford and Thomas Lyons, en
dorsing the bill for payment. The bills and
letters caused a great sensation. A tele
gram was read from Senator Borah promis
ing the people of Alaska an opportunity to
present protests and petitions to congress.
Hundreds of telegrams were sent to Wash
ington demanding an investigation of the'
dismissal of the officials without a hearing
and demanding that the connection of Mor
rissey and the Guggenheims with the trial
of the gun man Hasey be probed. Hasey
was tried in the federal court last year for
shooting a man while defending the Guggen
heim right of way in Keystone canyon. He
is now serving a term in the federal peni
tentiary at McNeil’s island.
One of Delegate Wickersham’s pre-elec
tion pledges was to work for the passage of
a miners’ lien law for Alaska. Like every
other pledge he made it was faithfully kept,
and the law was passed. The people who
are now opposing Wickersham’s re-election
strove to defeat the passage of the law on
the ground that it would be detrimental to
"business.” Mr. Working Miner, what do
you think about it?
AN ESTIMATE OF WICKERSHAM.
R. J. McChesney is editor of the Cordova
North Star, from which the following is re
produced. He was a pioneer newspaperman
of Fairbanks, and is widely known as a
clean, conscientious and able man:
James Wickersham has announced his can
didacy to succeed himseif. It will be good
news to his many friends in Alaska. No more
able man has ever represented a new coun
try struggling for recognision at the hands
of a busy and reluctant congress.
Though deprived of a vote, attacked at
home and at the capitol by malignant ene
mies, he has succeeded in heading off iniqui
tious legislation, though fathered by the ad
ministration itself, and has brought to the
attention of congress and the leading publi
cations of the United States the crying need
of this great Northland.
His defeat of the Beveridge bill is in itself
a performance worthy of the support of all
Alaskans. His labor lieu bill, which passed,
entitles him to the gratitude of the work
ing classes. His other bills—the one taxing
the fisheries, giving Alaskan fishermen and
storekeepers and permanent residents the
preference; another for securing govern
ment aid for railroads; one for a local
legislature; one for amending the mining
laws so us to cure the power of attorney, as
sociation and oiher active evils, and one for
an insane usylum to be located in Alaska, are
all in line with pressing needs of the terri
tory at the present time.
He has compelled action so that the powers
of the interstate commerce commission
could be applied to Alaska. He has taken up
the cause and ably defended the tights of
Russians and natives accepted as wards of
the government when Alaska was ceded to
the United States. In fact, he has been un
tiring, energetic and active in all things
looking to the betterment of conditions in
the territory. He has faithfully fulfilled his
trust to the people who elected him and de
serves to be returned so that he can continue
his good work and put through measures
now pending.
Delegate Wickersham is one of the most
able men in the territory. He can meet the
senators and representatives from other
states and territories on their own ground;
discuss with them in an intelligent and
forceful manner the needs of his people, de
bate law points with them as an able jurist,
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and impress them with the fact that they are
meeting and talking with a man of force and
character.
And what is also important—he knows his
Alaska—knows it like a book; knows every
section and district and its particular needs;
knows the people, having been a pioneer
among them and can readily answer all
questions concerning the people and their
interests. To those who know him best, and
will speak the truth, it is unnecessary to add
that he is incorruptible.
Of all the many thread-bare and oft-re
peated charges brought ugainst him by
scheming politicians and subsidized organs,
not one charge has been proven touching
his honesty and upright character. In
short, Jrmes Wickersliam is a man umong
men; a man well able to lead and take his
place among statesmen, and one whom the
people need not be ashamed to refer to as
Alaska’s delegate. His friends will be glad
to hear of his decision to re-enter the race.
It gives them an opportunity to get out and
work for him and assist in sending him back
to congress.
THE SOCIAL TEMPEST,
A small copper kettle sat down on the fire,
And its dissatisfaction rose higher and
higher;
And it sputtered within its short crooked
spout,
Till the cat swore and asked “What’s the
trouble about?”
But it fussed and it fumed in its feminine
way,
Till Tom was convinced that the deuce was ,
to pay;
Though he couldn’t quite understand what |
it said,
He quite realized that the kettle saw red. j
And a listener heard, who was ancient and i
wise—
For the clock in the corner struck one with
surprise—
As he said to the kettle, in tones stern and ,
gruff,
“Don’t you think for this time that you’ve 1
sputtered enough?”
But the trouble was deeper than ever be- '
fore.
And the kettle it sobbed till it bubbled right
o’er;
Then said in a voice that was luden with
care,
“Oh! my troubles are more than a kettle
can beur.
“If you really must know why I’m feeling
so sore,
For years I’ve been kept with the pots near
the floor
W’hile the brass kettles shine on the shelf
all alone,”
The copper one wailed in u thin, piping
tone.
But the clock kept on ticking, as clocks will,
you know,
And its pendulum constantly wagged to and
fro;
Still, if you listened intently, you could hear
from within
A chuckle that spread o’er its face in a grin.
And he said: “Copper kettle, you never can
pass
With the bright, shiny ones that are made
out of brass;
Yet I seem to remember that once 1 was
told
More useful is copper than brass or pure
gold.
“Brass kettles are all very well in their way,
But give me a copper for mine every day;
Though brass ones are fixed up so shiny und
grand,
We must ever remember they’re polished
by hand.” T „
ARTHUR ANDERSON DEAD
Well-known Sullivan Creek Miner
Passed Away Suddenly.
Arthur Anderson, a well-known miner of
the Rampart-Hot Splines district, died at
Sullivan May 29 at 9 p. m. The body was car
ried to Hot Springs May 80 and buried the
next day.
He had been sick only two days with stom
ach trouble, which resulted in severe cramps
and speedy death.
Mr. Anderson was a Mason, highly esteem- j
ed, and was a member of the mining firm of ;
Kelly & Anderson. 1
Notice of Forfeiture
To T. J. Wilson, llov R. Henderson,
Alfred Place, J. C. Junkin, Chris S.
Hillstead, O. A. Lavinon and C. H.
Hull:
You and each of you are hereby no
tified that I have expended the sum of
one hundred (100) dollars in labor and
improvement, for each year, for the
year 1908 and the year 1909, upon the
following placer mining claim, to wit:
The First Chance Association Placer
claim, situated and being on Golden
creek, a tributary of Illinois creek, in
the Fort Gibbon Mining and Recording
Precinct, Territory of Alaska.
Said work and improvement was done
under the provisions of section 2824 of
the Revised Statutes of the United
States, being tbe amount required by
said section 2324 to hold said claim for
the years 1908 and 1909; also that proof
of the annual assessment work was
filed under chapter 2559, entitled “An
act to amend the laws governing labor
or improvements upon mining claims
in Alaska,” approved March 2, 1907;
and that if within ninety days after
the last publication of this notice you
fail or refuse to contribute your pro
portion of such expenditure, for said
years, as co-owner in said placer min
ing claim, your interest in said claim
will become the property of the under
signed under said section 2324.
Dated at Tanana, Fort Gibbon Pre
cinct, Alaska, March 10, 1910.
S. F. McDILL.
Date of 1st publication, March 10, 1910.
Date of last publication, June 16, 1910.
Notice to Creditors.
The estate of MARY E. COOPER,
deceased.
Notice is hereby given by J. C. Dehn
and J. Russell Walle, executors and ad
ministrators of the estate of Mary E.
Cooper, deceased, to the creditors of
and all persons having claims against
said deceased, to exhibit them, with the
necessary vouchers, within six months
after the first publication of this notice,
to said executors and administrators at
their office at the Tanana Commercial
Co.’s store, in the town of Tanana, Fort
Gibbon precinct, Territory of Alaska,
the same being the place for the trans
action of the business of said estate.
Dated this 17th day of May, 1910.
J. RUSSELL WALLE,
J. C. DEHN,
Executors and Administrators.
Date of first publication May 19, 1910.
Date of last publication June 23, 1910.
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