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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19,4904
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LEGISLATIVE SPIT-BALLS
Much of the radical legislation pending in Juneau re
sembles nothing so much as a recalcitrant school boy
blowing spit-balls at the* teacher.
In this respect some of the tax measures, bills for
intruding the legal machinery of the Territory into the
private affairs of industry, etc., are the spit-balls and
their authors the bad school boys. Of course invested
capital is the teacher.
As incongruous as it may seem, the fact stands out
glaringly that two of the highest officials of the* Territory
are accessories, if not the prime movers, in this general
assault. They are the Delegate to Congress and the At
torney General.
One may readily understand the position of the Dele
gate to Congress as one actuated by the sting of defeat
in an effort to play Samson with the fishing industry. As
to the Attorney General,, a different analysis must be ap
plied. If there is cause for rankling antipathy, it does
not appear to lie so much against the fiisheries as against
vested interests in general, not overlooking the transpor
tation service to Alaska, wherein he proved such a poor
lawyer and worse logician in his assault on the rate ques
tion, emerging therefrom in such ridiculous light that a
man possessed of the finer sensbilities of one capable of
being Attorney General ought to have retired to private
life in shame.
If there was merit in the matter of transportation
rates, it was lost in the general bungling of the question.
In fact, the Attorney General could not make out a case
incapable of being impeached, not by a clever lawyer, but
by a layman.
When the rate question was disposed of the sum total
of the result was to show that the office of Attorney Gen
eral was not p^tupted by a desire to secure equity for the
Territory of Alaska so much as to satisfy a personal
spleen.
In the absence of evidence supporting the position of
the Delectte that the fishing industry of Alaska had been
surrended to a mononolv and citizens barred from partici
pation, but on the contrary, as evidenced by the number
of newT canneries which have sprung up especially in the
waters claimed to have been surrendered, and the added
fact that these canneries are financed and owned by local
capital, one naturally arrives at the conclusion that per
sonal incentive and not the public welfare dominates the
Delegates’ attitude.
It is a pardonable error for legislators, and especially
those inexperienced in the arts and trickeries of poli
tics. to turn to what thev believe is an authoritive source
for information and guidance with respect to manv mat
ters which come within their scope of action. This is as
if should be, until it is shown that the source of informa
tion is poisoned and biassed by vindictiveness and preju
dice.
This condition appears to be the dominant one with
the Delegate and Attorney General. Recent bolshevist
measures presented to the Legislature by the Attorney
General serve to prove it. They cannot be sincere with
out revealing their author as lacking in legal knowledge.
The Delegate's general blanket assault upon the fish
eries may be set down as political expediency—to please
those who surrender the faculty of thinking for them
selves to his care, or who are as yet unable to view all
sides of the question.
The result of this personal vindictiveness has been
a reaction to the detriment of the Territory, wherein the
people are made to appear ridiculous, capital has been
frightened and the era of progress, so devoutly wished his
been set back.
Sometimes it requires a stiff jolt to awaken the indi
vidual or masses to action. There may yet be some virtue
in this deluge of freak legislation. It will hit so hard that
even the most casual individual will feel it.
Then there will be an awakening and a house-clean
ing.
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DRUHNIMRKET ARRIVES
S. W. Dunkel, from the Lone Star
State of Texas, but of more recent
| date of Tacoma, Wn., where he has
been employed by the Frye-Bruhn j
company for the last five years, arriv- j
ed in the city Saturday from Seattle j
to assume charge of the company’s j
local meat market. Mr. Dunkel is i
succeeding C. D. Blake, manager of
the market for the last year, who is
leaving for Seattle next Saturday
owing to the poor health of Mrs.
Blake. Mr. Dunkel jumped right into
the job in half an hour after his ar
rival Saturday and from that time on
had the opportunity to meet personal
ly a large portion of the market’s ex
cellent trade.
Today, with his big white apron
gleaming, second only to his genial
smile, Mr. Dunkel was about the bus
iest man in town. Mr. Blake will re
main in charge during the week and
prior to his departure will appreciate
the opportunity to personally intro
duce Mr. Dunkel to the market’s
many customers.
Yes, girls, Mr. Dunkel is married!
Mrs. Dunkel will join her husband
later.
Speaking of battles, he is an over
seas veterans, serving two years with
the Oklahoma C cavalry and later
with the Signal Corps.
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HOT fN NEW YORK
! NEW YORK, April 25. (^—Con
tinued hot spell throughout the east
ern states today, the temperature at
New York was maximum 72 and
minimum 50. In Chicago the wintery
weather continued causing heavy
losses in the orchards and other
early crops. The streets were cov
ered with snow, and a new low tem
perature was reached.
ALSO WARM IN SOUTH
SAN FRANCISCO, April 25. (ff)—
Californians sweltered yesterday
when the mercury for the first
! time this year hit 80. *
It is reported today that the
steamer Starr had picked up at sea
a scow loaded down with machinery
i and cannery equipment and was
i
headed back this way.
HUSBAND FRAMED HER
NEW YORK, April 25. (£*)—Mrs.
Dorothy Campbell Young, defending a
divorce suit against her husband,
Corland H. Young, the wealthy mag_
azine publisher, declared she was not
| guilty of infidelity and accused her
; husband of “framing” her.
CHILE AMBASSADOR QUITS
WASHINGTON, April 25. (JP)—
j Ambassador .Cruchada of Chile re
| signed his office. It was rumored
| that a difference over Tacna Areca
policy with director Ibanez was the
cause.
I
i MORE ON HOLDUP
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HARDENED VETERANS WEEP
MEXICO CITY; April 25. (JP)—All
j Mexico grieved over the terrible train
holdup, in which more than 100 per
sons lost their lives. The Mexico
City station was a scene of wild emo
! tion as crazed and maimed survivors
j of the atrocity arrived in the city and ,
the relatives broke under the
Even hardened veterans of man.
j paigns lost their callousness as the
: children from one to ten years old,
I
I were carried from the train swathed
LIBERTY
THEATER
8 O'CLOCK — ONE SHOW — 8 O’CLOCK
The Greatest Dramatic Actor
LEWIS STONE
and the beautiful
BARBARA LA MARR
in
“The Girl From Montmarte”
A great play staged in rustic and maritime Spain
SPANISH ENCHANTMENTS
PERFECT DRAMA—DARING ROMANCE
Love, Passion, Hate and Fights, all in this picture
And Billy Dooley in a screaming two-reel Comedy
that will sure get the laughs
PATHE NEWS
On Our Shelves
NEW STOCK OF OLYMPIC ASTOR DINNER
WARE
This is a beautiful pattern of very moderately priced
dishes—32 and 42-piece sets; also open stock*
A NICE LINE OF TABLEWARE
We can now fill all yours orders for hardware
... Our grocery department was never as complete
as a present.
.Mefford’s and Long’s Alaska ranch eggs arrive
twice each week.
WE FEATURE THE FOLLOWING BRANDS:
Swift’s Premium Ham and Bacon—White Nugget
Eggs—Gold Nugget Butter—S. and W. Canned
Goods—Hills Bros.’ Coffee—Carnation Milk.
Seward Trading Co.
Inc.
For courteous service phone Main 135, day or night.
SEWARD WATER &
POWER COMPANY
SEWARD, ALASKA
“Good Water a Necessity in Every Home”
John Nelson, Mgr. Wayne Blue, Agent
Office, Arcade Building. Phone Main 17
C.M.B.
Builders’ Supplies
in bandages. Entire families were
wiped out by the disaster and several
survivors were driven insane by the
loss of dear ones. According to the
stories of the survivors, it is indicat
ed that the passengers were allowed
to leave the train before burning to
J death, but many who had been wound
ed' were left in the train to be burned
alive. This is the worst holocaust in
i history.
! Seward Fish Co. Adams 56. Lund
blad, Prop., Adams 19.