OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
Published daily except Sunday by
THE GATEWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY
Entered in the postoffice at Seward, Alaska as
second-class mail matter.
H. V. HOBEN and E. F. JESSEN, Proprietors
E F. Jessen, Editor and Manager
C. J. Lincke, Associate Editor
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
“WHOM THE GODS WOULD DESTROY THEY FIRST
MAKE MAD
In his appearance before the Legislature in support
of the Comptroller bill, Delegate Sutherland made several
matters definitely clear. The first is his erroneous con
ception between what is and what is not debate on the
merits or dements of a question. He appears to have
chosen expression of his personal opinion of the people
of Alaska rather than going into the details of the Comp
troller bill and explaining the merits its authors claim for
it. He scouted every opportunity to answer categorically
the arguments of the press and individuals opposed to the
measure. Rather he dismissed it with a waive of the
hand and the statement that he had read only the title
of the bill and that was enough. Without employing his
talents as Delegate to Congress in elucidating the legal
and economic features involved in the bill, he advised the
- Legislature to pass it. In fact it was more in the nature
of an admonition or mandatory outburst such as a school
teacher might have given to his grade pupils. Evidently
he considers the mentality of the Legislature as gauged by
the latter standard. It was evident from the outset he
desired to “get the goats” of the solons before one or more
became recalcitrant and disobeyed his mandate.
The speech was too grotesque and filled with amusing
absurdities to be taken seriously save by those who relish
a show. His reference to the genealogical trees of those
who oppose the Conptroller bill might have been scouted
by a debater. As the lawyers say: it opens a line of evi
dence which one must defend. When he says that the,
press (which is practically a unit in opposition to the bill
and therefore is the chief offender in this opposition) has
its genealogical tree rooted in the Latin race, he displays
a woeful lack of knowledge of biology as well as genealo
gy. We are not aware of any Latin connected either as
owner, editor or printer—aye even to the printer’s devil—
with an Alaskan newspaper. To clear ourselves of the
classification, it might be said that this newspaper is
owned by a native-born American of Danish ancestry and
an American of Nordic (page the Attorney General)
blood. Its mechanical staff consists of a Dane, a Scotch
Teutonic cross, a Scotch-Swedish cross, a full-blooded
Finn and a full-blooded Swedish printer’s devil, while its
leading newsboy is as Scotch as Harry Lauder. We are
unable to translate the names of the owners and publish
ers of the Anchorage Times into anything sounding like
Mussolini or Diaz. Going further into the Third division,
we find such names as Thompson and Nordale in the Fair
banks News-Miner. Around Nome almost every name
ends in “uk,” “vitch” “sky” or “son,” while there is enough
Irish in the First division to compose a corps of the Fe
nians or Barney Shanahan’s Populist party of Montana.
But of course, Mr. Sutherland was between the devil
and the deep sea, as it were, in playing to popular preju
dice, therefore he classified the exponents of the popular
thought—the newspapers—and opponents of the super
bureaucratic Comptroller plan as the devil, and the na
tives of Southeastern Alaska as the deep blue sea.
Very good gallery stuff, but not to the credit of one
who claims to be expressive of the crystalized thought of
Alaska.
The more one hears of Mr. Sutherland’s opinions and
his policies, the better they come to understand his fail
ure to make progress in Washington. There he encount
ers* intellects trained to grasp the merits and demerits of
a legislative question, and who are not swayed by out
pourings of splenetic wrath. They do not accept ha
rangue for logic and bombast for an earnest desire to se
cure remedial legislation for Alaska.
Summarizing Mr. Sutherland’s speech before the
Legislature, it was in line with the defensive the Comp
troller’s bill has assumed from the outset. It was filled
with didactic statements but contained not one scintilla of
analysis or argument. It was an attack upon the home
owners—not hotel dwellers who are transcient while hold
ing high office as the gift of Alaska—and an appeal for
racial dissension and cleavage in Alaska. It was untruth
ful in that it contained statements which he cannot verify
by any proof direct or circumstantial. In other words, it
was beneath the standards one expects from a delegate
to Congress, who should represent something higher than
a common scold.
“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.”
It might be interesting to know how much tax, if any,
is paid in Alaska by some of the most ardent advocates of
important legislation that has to do with affairs of Alas
ka.—Stroller’s Weekly.
A letter received at Valdez by Mrs.
VVm. Conley states that Mrs. Charles
Walker, formerly of Valdez, was re
cently run down by an automobile in
Oakland, Calif., and seriously injured.
The same letter also contains the
news of the death in Oakland of Mrs.
Robert Brookfield, formerly of Val
dez.
* * *
While driving piles at the Pure
Food cannery at Ketchikan last week
Hogar Sorenson of the Over-Reach
Piledriver company, a ■ brother of
Hans Sorensen, narrowly escaped
death when he was hit on the head
by a pile. He suffered a painful
wound on the head and lost consid
erable blood as it was.
* * *
D. C. Sargent, who is the owner of
a group of copper claims in the Nab
esna district, returned to Cordova
from the States and will leave for
the Interior. This season he propos
es to extensively prospect his proper
ty and has ordered a diamond drill
! from a Portland house for that pur
i
pose. The services of a diamond
drill man have also been secured and
a force of men will at once be put to
work. Food supplies, powder and
other equipment was freighted in
from Chitina last fall.
* * *
From far and near, from the Inter-'
ior and the coasts, from the island
possessions in the far west and the
insular territories in the southeast,
came the applications ior teachers’
positions which the Cordova school
board met to fill last week. None
was selected yet, chairman J. C.
Smith ^reported because the selection
of a teacher entails much correspond
ence and reports as to their qualifi
cations, before final choice can be
made. Most of the applications came
from teachers in North Dakota and
Iowa.
* * *
One of the most likable and best
known old time miners and prospec
tors of the camp, Patrick McBride,
lost his life last week by being bur
ied under a quantity of snow tna‘
sloughed from over the portal of the
Extenuate turinel, says an article in
the Portland Canal News. McBride
and his partner, Alex Abrahams, had
come out of the tunnel with a car of
rock and dumped it. The latter had
returned underground ahead of Mc
Bride and he, not appearing, Abra
hams went out to investigate. The
night was very stormy and the wind
blew his light out. He could noi dig
thru the snow single handed in the
darkness and when he had aronsed
the camp and removed the snow, Mc
Bride’s life was extinct.
* * •
A. Jeper, owner of the floating
junk shop on Stedman street, was
lodged in the Ketchikan federal jail
following arrival of the first two
bench warrants from Juneau which
were recently sworn out by Assistant
United States Attorney H. D. Stabler.
Jeper is charged with possession and
sale of liquor. The man was first
named in an abatement complaint,
charging his place of business to be
a liquor nuisance. According to offi
cials, his bail has been set at $1000
by Judge Thomas Reed, now in Jun
eau. The second bench warrant will
not be exercised, it was announced,
inasmuch as the man named departed
for Seattle immediately following
Stabler’s recent abatement campaign.
The warrant for his arrest, however,
will be hteld here in the event of his
appearance in Ketchikan again, it
was announced.
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