Editer of the Gait way:
Deer sur:
Just been readin what a man
from town named Valdez written
you about what apears to be a row
twixt two Swedes, one named
Ohlson tother Breedman. As high
as I kin figger out this row started
over a railroad and tote road, which
the Valdez man thinks is goin to
wind up by shetting down the rail
road and tearin up the tote rode.
Well if a bunch of good Swedes
built a railroad and somebody don’t
like it, they can tear it up if they
want to, can’t they?
If the tote road is tore up they
wont be no way for marchin sol
diers into Fairbanks. What’s Fair
banks done that they ought to send
in soldiers? I was up there and
they make almost as good stuff as
my sugar moon even if they charge
moren we git down in the Ozarks.
But what is soldiers got to do
with one man claimin tothers done
him dirt? It apears to me that
neither side is got the right to send
for soldiers unlessen they is a feud
and somebody not mixed up in the
row gits hurt.
I set up all night reading what
the Valdez man had written, and
all 'I got out of it was that he
didn’t believe some things and
knowed nothing about the rest.
Its just like me don’t know nothing
about the whole mess- All the book
learning I got was studying the
Almanak and my old dad was agin
that. Edycation ain’t good for a
body, he uster say. Look as the
niggers, the fust thing they do
when they gits to learn to write
is forge somebody’s name. When
they git to read they learn they is
supposed to vote and instead of
havin to lynch one to celebrate the
forth of julie we have to leave the
grass smotherin the crops while we
git out and lynch one every month
otherwise a good American citizen
couldnt stand on his rights. Now
look at me, here I’m bustin into a
rukus which ain’t none of my busi
ness j'ust like that Valdez man.
He’d better keep quiet about roads
and railroads. He got along fine
down in the Ozarks when it tuck 3
men to drive a brindle steer along
the roads—one to do the cussin’
one to gee and haw and tother to
pack a fence rail to prize the cart
outen the mudholes. No revener
could git into the country over such
roads, and we alius got a fair midd
ling toll out of a sack of corn for
haulin it to the mill along with all
the fish we ketched while waiting
for the grist to be ground.
I’m agin railroads too. They
built one in our country and it bo
daciously raised hell.
Fust they run across some of our
best new ground and put barbed
wire alongside the road to keep our
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FLEET LEAVES
The Seward Fisheries salmon
fleet, consisting of five large dor
ies and the tender Northwestern,
left the port of Seward Friday
evening enroute to the Copper
River flats. The dories will fish for
salmon there during the coming
season and the fish will be haul
ed to the local cannery for pack
ing. The tender Northwestern was
expected to return to Seward soon
after towing the dories to their
destination.
RAIL HEAD INJURED
General Manager Otto F. Ohlson
was struck on the head Friday by
a falling timber at the scene of the
snow shed cavein Friday. Colonel
Ohlson’s injury was not serious, it
was reported.
Mrs. U. S. Henshaw, of Valdez,
who has been in the local hospital j
left for her home in Valdez on the
SS. Alaska.
cattle out, and cattle guards whare
the fences come. What chance did
a man have outrunnin’ a shoat or
or a revenuer in ployed ground and
climin thru that wire, not counting
jumping a 10-rail fence or gitting
tangled up in a cattleguard.
The fust time they run a train
into Chikepin Crossroads all the
folks for miles round came down
to see the thing. When it come
aroarin into the depot some of the
younguns stampeded into the
swamps and they aint found em
yit. My grandmammy was so
skeered she was prostitute for three
weeks. Ligs Scoggins stood twixt
the track chawin tobacco and
watchin the train snortin down to
ards him. When it come point
blank of ketching him he lit out
up the track. When .the train
train stopped we ask Lige why he
didn’t got off the track. Naw, said
Lige, if I’d got into that plowed
ground it’d a ketched me shore.
This Valdez man seems afeared
that he aint protected and wants
the navy and army to come up and
help him. As I take it this tote
road he is hollerin about runs up to
Fairbanks. Whynt he not try to
patch it up with Fairbanks, keep
out of their territory and split up
the busipess? Hed ought to know
that if they have a good tote road
to come over and they is as tuff
as he makes out how’s he goin to
keep em out of Valdez until the
navy arrives.
I asked a fraternal brother who
built the tote road. He said the
gov’ment- I asked him what start
ed the row. He said the man usin
the tote road begin chargin less for
hauling than the man whos runn
ing the railroad. What happened
then? The railroader told him
hed hafter rustle his own business
and not expect the railroad to help
him. Well, I said, why dont the
tote road man call road day as we
uster do down in the Ozarks, make
every man bring along some kind of
tool and keep the road going and
spite the railroader? Damfino, he
says.
Now let’s git this thing right I
says. The gcv’ment built the rail
road, then it built the tote road.
They don’t expect to git anything
back for the tote road but want
something for riding on the rail
road. If people don’t ride on the
railroad because the tote road is1
cheeper how in hell they goin to
keep the railroad running when
everybody who pays for it is kicking
because there ain’t enough money
in the gov’ment’s pocket to run
things.
This Valdez man says if the rail
roader knew the toteroader like he
does hed known the toteroader was
a square shooter and only wanted
to build up the town. What’s per
sonal character to do with it? One
man wants to get something out of
his railroad to keep from the
stockholders telling him to quit and
tother wants to make some money
by using a part of the railroad’s
business at cut rates.
Now they are hollering for the
soldiers. Before this thing gits too
far they’d better ask China how
their town looked after the soldiers
got through with it
I come to Alaska to get away
from railroads, toteroads and men
wearin uniforms some with stars.
If this is the way things are turn
ing out I’m going to Mexico.
Now, mister editor, I want you to
fix this up by making the spelling
read right. As I said before, I
don’t know nothing like the Val
dez man but feel better after
writing this.
Don’t sine my name just say
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GENEVA, May 21.—The League
of Nations was informed that many
native men, women and children in
44 Liberian villages had been burn
ed to death in attacks by Liberian
frontier forces. Dr. Louis Grimes,
Liberia’s representative, confirmed
the report, saying that 81 men, 49
women and 29 children had been
killed, many of them burned to
death when the towns were set
afire. Such measures were neces
sary to maintain order, Grimes
said. The League’s Liberian com
mittee urged military force be
sent to the Kru Coast immediate
ly to aid in pacifiication.
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Jolly Three orchestra will play.
SATHER IN PORT
Pete Sather, skipper of the MS.
Rolph III, brought his craft into
port early this morning from Nuka
Bay. Accompanying Mr. Sather was
Tom Babcock, of the Downey &
Babcock guartz mine on Surprise
Bay. On the return voyage to the
mining area Capt. Sather will be
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operator at False Pass and an em
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Georgie and Iris Colwell left on
today’s train for Anchorage where
.they will join their parents. They
have been attending the local
schools and have been staying with
their grand-parents, Mr. and Mrs.
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now and then, to see how Seward is
getting along.
A change of moon occurred Fri
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The river steamer Jacobs, enroute
to Holy Cross, departed from Ne
nana at 5:15 p.m. Friday.
The river steamer Jacobs, of the
Alaska Railroad, left Fort Gib
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river points.
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served in real Alaska style and in
real Alaskan atmosphere. Miss Lee
conducted the Primrose Inn, at
Mile 18 last year, and enjoyed an
excellent patronage. The “Tumble
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