TIIE ALASKA FISIIEKMAN
Published the 15th of each month at Ketchikan, Alaska
WILLIAM L. PAUL, ATTORNEY FOR THE
ALASKA NATIVE LKOTILERIIOOD
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FULL TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT.
ABOLISHMENT OF ALL TRAPS.
COMPETENT CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP.
“SERVANTS OF THE PEOPLE”
Is This The Inquisition?
It has come to the pass in Alaska when pub
lic officials resent criticism, even when just.
For example: cases of extreme brutality on
the part of deputy marshals have occured, com
plaints made, and behold, the United States Mar
shal exonerates and even praises the brutal de
puty marshal.
Daniel White was arrested for drunkenness
and assault on December 25, 1928 and sentenced
December 26th, to two months in the United States
Jail at Juneau. In the fracas which led to his
arrest, his right hand was broken. Suffering from
the fracture, he asked for medical aid and the
marshal’s office told him there was nothing the
matter wTith him. Medical attention was refused.
He wTas in great agony for 14 days when Dr.
H. C. DeVighne was called, too late. The doctor
bandaged the hand and treated it for nine days
when he had to put it in a piaster cast. The cast
was removed in 14 days. We are told that the doc
tor gave instructions to the marshal’s office to take
the Indian to his (the doctor’s) office but it was
not done because, we are told, his keepers said the
Indian would be out of jail in two weeks and
could then suit himself about going to the doctor.
This is a case of brutal injustice.
If this were the only case of brutality, we
might overlook it. But this is added to clubbing of
prisoners already handcuffed and unresisting.
“KICKED BY A DEAD HORSE”
A number of years ago, we were employed by
a large accident insurance company. One day
a claim was presented for death benefits. Inquiry
revealed the fact that the man insured had been
killd by a kick from a horse.
The horse had dropt dead on the street and
was loaded into a wagon on which our insured
worked. The legs were still so that they had to
be cramped before the men could get the horse
into the cart. On taking the body of the horse
out of the cart, the hind legs flew back on being
released from their confined place and kicked the
insured in his abdoman, killing him.
He was killed by a a kick from a dead horse.
Isn’t that what happened to Commissioner of
Education Lester D. Henderson? His party won a
partial victory in the last election by his betrayal
of his supposed Republican party and his support
ing the Democrats. But there seems to have been
just enough kick left in the old horse to put an
end to the tenure of this politician (a Tom Mar
quam admirer) who has dominated our schools
for twelve years.
If the position were made elective and the
people should elect him, we would have no com
plaint for we believe in “The Voice of the People.”
DIMOND’ S. O. S. FOR LESTER D. HENDERSON
“The development of opposition to the re-ap
pointment of Lester D. Henderson as Territorial
Commissioner of Education is made known this
morning in a cable received by Mrs. Harry F. Mor
ton, president of the Anchorage Woman’s Club,
from Senator A. J. Dimond. Details were not con
tained in the message but it was indicated that
the opposition was deemed sufficiently menacing
to require support from the various communities
to induce the senate to retain Henderson as head
of the Territory’s education department.”—An
chorage Weekly Times.
The cloven hoof appears.
Why should the Democrat Senator Dimond
be anxious to secure the reappointment of thc(?)
Republican Henderson, if Henderson were not an
important cog in the by-partizan machine?
And how about the support from Senator John
W. Dunn? He is now cheek by jowl with the fed
eral governor. We thought for a while that the
Senator was a fool in politics. We now believe
that he is by far the more clever politician for he
plays with the governor who supports Henderson
and Bunnell, the latter man fast becoming the
great economic and political issue of the Fourth
Division. Dunn will run for re-election and will
have the support of Bunnell who is the President
of the chief industry of Fairbanks.
Let that be as it is.
The business issue in the rest of Alaska will
be this—Will the people permit the major portion
of their tax money to be diverted to Fairbanks to