PUNISHMENT TO FIT
THE OFFENSE
One of Governor Bone’s appointees
to office at the beginning of his
term was Charles Brown, Sr., of
Nome, as agent for the suppression
of the sale of liquor to the Indians.
Mr. Brown was an unusually ef
ficient and active agent.
Charles Brown, Jr., was elected
from Nome to the Alaska Senate
and rendered excellent service as a
member of that body at the last ses
sion. Senator Brown, during the
session was at all times called upon
to render decisions in accordance
with the will of his constituents but
at variance with the will of Gover
nor Bone to whom the Senator’s fa
ther owed his position in Govern
ment employ.
Senator Brown’s honest determina
tion to do the will of his constituents
cost his father his position upon
which he depended for the main
tainence of his family.
The successor of Mr. Brown, Sr.,
n said to be a close friend of Sena
tor Ayer. Ayer was one of the
lickspittle senators who cringed and
toadied to the Governor and while
talking like a progressive was al
ways on hand to turn tricks for the
interests to the injury of the people.
Thus was Browm punished for his
honest service to the people who
elected him and Ayer rewarded for
his side stepping tactics.
ANCIENT HISTOm
There is an argument about the
land which the Masons have pur
chased from the Electric Light Com
pany owing to a disputed five feet
which Dr. G. E. Dickinson claims to
own.
This five feet is claimed to be
long to the adjoining lot and for
merly owned by Mr. Eardley and
sold to the doctor. This lot was sur
veyed by J. C. Barber and stakes
driven to mark the line. Mr. Bar
ber, however, claims that he never
surveyed the lot, but Eardley says
he paid Barber for alleged services.
The other day, a well known sur
veyor went over the ground and
he found the original stakes that
he found the' original stakes that
Mr. Barber put in there when he
made the survey, and these stakes
indicate that the disputed five feet
belonged to Eardley. Barber must
have known it. But when he sur
veyed the corner lot for the electric
light company, Barber included Eard
ley’s five feet formerly surveyed
by Barber himself.
Then when the electric company
was trying to sell to the Masons,
Barber was warned not to include
the disputed five feet and informed
of the reason. But Barber, who is
a Mason, went ahead and sold a
lawsuit to his own lodge of Masons.
Now we learn that Dr. Dickinson
has offered to give up his right to
that parcel 5 by 100 feet if Barber
will give the doctor that rock pile
next to his office and measuring
about 10 by 20. The courts may
decide what the law is, but we think
that in equity Barber should save
the Masons from a lawsuit “for the
good of the order.”
LEST WE FORGET
In these days when the Juneau
Empire and others are attacking
John Rustgard for fighting the trusts
that control transportation on the
ground that he has accomplished no
thing and has only wasted some $20,
000 in his useless attacks, we should
remember that these same papers
sang a different song a few years
back. The difference is that they
were in the saddle.
In 1919, the legislature passed a
law creating a Territorial Shipping
Board consisting of Governor Riggs,
the Secretary of the Territory and
Territorial Treasurer Wal stein G.
Smith and appropriated $300,000 for
this purpose.
Section 2 provided that the Ship
ping Board should establish a gen
eral steamship freight and passen
gen service not only between dif
ferent Alaskan towns, but to Seat
tle.
Section 8 provided that the At
torney General (Mr. Murphy at that
time) should be the general counsel
for the Board.
Section 10 provided that the Gov
ernor and Attorney General of Al
aska should introduce a bill in Con
gress for a law authorizing the Ter
ritory to issue bonds up to $5,000,000
to carry out the provisions of the
Act.
How did the Democratic ring car
ry out their trust?
They authorized Maurice L. Lee
hev, well known Seattle attorney, to
open up a Seattle office where the
said attorney did some “investigat
ing” which cost the Territory $24,
217.13.
The Seattle Attorney and Gover
nor Riggs introduced a bill PRO
HIBITING connecting lines with Se
attle, and PERMITTING a lease or
charter of existing lines.
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When George Hazelet, Jim Galen
and Ed. Whittemore were going out
side recently, they were met at Ju
neau by Governor Bone, Corporation
Lawyer Bert Faulkner, and Jack Mc
Bride. It is said that whenever Mr.
Bone wished to speak to Mr. Faulk
ner, he would speak to Mr. McBride
who would then pass it on to Mr.
Faulkner. Even birds of a feather
sometimes peck at each other.
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ALASKAN FISHERMAN.
TRAPS IN SCOTLAND
From Annual Report 1914 of Pro
ceedings by Board of Agriculture
and Fisheries of Great Britain—Doc
uments No. Cd 8072:
Page XVI With few and unim
portant exceptions all the fixed en
gines in the estuary and in the riv
ers on the English side were abol
ished in 1861.
Page XVI Throughout Scotland,
ever since 1563 all fixed engines in
rivers and in the estuaries of rivers
were illegal except on the Scottish
side of the Solway exempted by the
Scots because so often it was in
British hands.
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