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SOME LESSONS OF LAST\
WEEK.
Some very useful le sons m iy Ik
drawn from tlie proceedings in the :
commissioner’s court at Rampart i
list week. One of these is that it !
is alwai s advisable to keep out of
court as long as jossible; and, ifj
once in, to get out the quickest and
cheapest way permissible. Stub
bornness in court gains scant h -nor
..nd no cash.
Another lesson—and one that1
could be studied with profit by
others than the one who furnished
the example la t week- is that
public opinion and the law will not
excuse outrageous conduct on the
part of individuals, even though
that conduct may be directly trace
able to bad and unlawful surround*
ings Each tub lias finally to stand
on its own bottom
This particular offense could not
possibly have occurred at the hour
it did if the very matt laying the
complaint had not betn running his
place in violation ot the la.v: the
offender might not have been -o
indecently drunk if the saloon had
closed at 12 o'clock that Saturday
night. Hut the saloon did not
close: the man in ht« drunkenness
abused the proprietor in such vile
language that after paying the j>en
alty shame imi>ets him to publicly
n|*»logi/e and the victim of the
l»ul words invoked the vengeance
of the law. All this has hcen sufh
• tenth thrashed out The law and
to a great talent public opinion up
holds the action of the saloon man.
Vets go* a I
Now that this much has lets
established by taw and by public
opinion would it t>e eapecttng too
much of these two great forces to
ask that the saloons them; elves be
kert within the bounds of .he law?
It is doubtful if ever in all Alaska
a single saloon has made any pre
tense of obeying the law. '1 hey
a e open seven days a week and
gambling is only regulated by the
amount of money to be g< ined at
the table:. Now that the time for
the spiing cleanup is appront hing,
would it not be well for some of
the numerous people in the district
who squandered last winter’s grub
stakes in saloons to ask that the
law be enforced?
That would be bad law and worse
public opinion which would justify
a sa’ooti man in calling on the
courts to avenge an insult, in his
unlawful place, by a drunken per
son, and fail to heed a demand that
all such places themselves be held
accountable for their own trans
gress i.u.s.
TIIE DIETRICH BILL.
Following is that portion of the
Dietrich hill defining the scope of
the lawmaking power of the pro
posed Alaska government hoard:
See. 2. That the Alaska government;
hoard shall be convened and prorogued
by the governor whenever he shall deem
it expedient and shcdl have authority to
make laws for Alaska, not inconsistent
with the laws of congress, upon the fol
low ing subjects and such others as con
gress may from time to time specify:
K;.is ng of revenue by taxation, appropri
ation ami expenditure of the public funds
of Alaska, construction and maintenance
of w agon roads and trails, establishment
and maintenance of an educational sys
tem, care of the indigent and insane,
preservation of game, public health and
morals, establishment of a constabulary
outside the limits of incorporated towns
with powers and duties similar to those
of the northwestern police of Canada,
creation and organization of municipali
ties, including the making and repeal of
ordinances therefor, and the establish
ment and regulation of mining districts;
provider!—etc.
The proviso contains practically
all the mining regulations needed,
and it must he admitted they are
good ones. Many other ] rovisions
of the hill are excellent.
But to s«.y, as H. I». Reynolds
of Valdez did tie fore the senate ter
ritorial committee on Jan. 20. that
such a Is vatd with such limited
towers ‘‘would give Alaska an op
portunity for self government with
in safe limitations and without
added taxation, is not true Mr.
Reynolds wi- well within the truth
when he said the board “would re
liete congre*s of the necessity of
threshing out the new. immature
and ephemeral problems, leaving
them free to act upon the larger
affairs ol permanent goiernment.“
It is hv no means impossible that a
governing hoard is '.he feat Alaska
ran hope for at present it is ahno
N. V. HENDRICKS
ESTABLISHED 1904
Alaska Commission Buying Agency
SEATTLE, WASH.
We Buy and Ship for you. Only on Commission
Ceill on our Agent or write to u»
lutely certain that it would be an
improvement on the present plan.
But to call it self government is
like weighing ont black sand and
trying to pass it for gold. Meati
*ime, the usefulness of the board
would be enh meed by making it
wholly appointive, so t" it there
would be no divided responsibility.
Gov. Brady, Collector Jarvis and
Harry I). Reynolds, of Valdez,
spoke in favor of the Dietrich bill
before the senatorial committee.
The governor and Mr. Reynolds
indorsed the bill unqualifiedly, and
Capt. Jarvis favored the principle
involved so ,ar as it gives local self
government.
Douglas Island News: We note
with alarm that Gov. Brady gives
his personal indorsement to the
Dietrich bill, providing a new form
of government for Alaska. —There
is government by injunction; gov
ernment by receivers; and now
Alaska is threatened by a plan of
government by appointment—and
they call that self-government.
Juneau Transcript: The editor
of one of our exchanges writes:
“One of our newly married couples
kneads bread with her gloves on.
The editor of this paper needs bread
with shoes on; he needs it with his
trousers on, and unless the delin
quent readers of this old rag of
freedom pay up soon, we will need
bread without a darn thing on.’’
Fairbanks News: One of the
cheekiest, not to say most insolent
things we have seen lately is the
attempt on the part of Senators
Ankeny and Foster to secure the
important I'nited States consulate
at Yokohama for ex Marshal Rich
ards ot Nome Richards was found
guilty in the Nome court of “jury
fixing.’’ and alter strenuous efforts
on the j>art of hi* friends to keep
him in office, was summarily dis
missed by President Roosevelt.
This charge was only one of many.
Ills whole term of office at Nome
was marred by disgraceful acts.
Now. to have hi* name presenter!
tor this consulate argues either an
ignorance of the facts on the |«rl
of these two senators that ts dis
grace ltd. or a moral ohliqtiitv lhai
hr worse
C. H. GIBBONS, M. I>.
Physician and Surgeon.
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(iKORCE A. SALISBURY,
Attorney and Counsellor,
Kampart. Alaska
J. I.1NDLKV <iHKKN,
Lciwyer.
office at the Courthouse.
OF KICK OF
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THE
HEETER
TANANA, ALASKA
S. E. HEETER, ED FERGUSON,
PROPRIETOR MANAGER
FIRST-CLASS
Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Leaves for Glen Every
Five Days.
Freighting and Packing
To ami From All
the Creeks.
Good Teams. Good Service
I>awson News: What would be
the result if tomorrow the informa
lion given to the world of gold
miners was to the effect that from
this time forward in Yukon any
miner coaid dig and wash wherever
he found unworked ground * If it
was any man's privilege to dig am •
where that ro one else was digging,
would there not presently be an in
litis of a hundred thousand diggers
from alt parts of the world*
I.tent Searles was reprimanded
by the secretary of the treasury tor
bis "dreary, desolate Alaska" talk
in tHbkosh The nature of the re
bake t» not made pit hi n