Administration
Candadites
J. H. DAVIES FILES FOR
SENATOR
Mr. Davies, of Ketchikan, has
filed for Senator. If the people were
electing men to office because they
are fine gentlemen, good character,
and genial dispositions, Mr. Davies
would make a fine Senator. But
the contrary is true. Men run on
their records. Mr. Davies is a part
ner of John R. Beegle, for a long
time the mouthpiece of the cannery
men and trapmen. He was also a
member of the Territorial Fish Com
mission under whose direction Chas.
R. Garfield drew up a bill whose
chief purpose it was to secure title
to trap sites. He is called by John
W. Troy, the Democratic Boss of
the Republican Party, an “Admin
istration” man, meaning thereby that
he would support Gov. Bone. He is
supported by the cannery lawyers.
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A. E. GURR
Of Wrangell
About all that we can say about
Mr. Gurr is that he is the personal
choice of H. L. Faulkner, corporation
lawyer, for the House of Representa
tives. He has been selected with
the hope that he will beat W. D.
Grant in the Wrangell district.
Voters should be informed about
this man. Is he for a bill like the
Controller Bill, which designs to
place all strictly territorial affairs
in the hands of a Board of Control
elected by the people? One illus
tration will be enough. The Pioneers’
Home at Sitka is a strictly territor
ial institution, and yet the electors
of Alaska neither directly nor indi
rectly have a word to say as to how
this institution should be run.
Alaskans are good enough to pay
the taxes that support this institution
but they cannot be trusted to run it.
This can only be done by a gentleman
from Washington, D. C., or New Jer
sey.
Fishermen, the backbone of this
division, should know how he stands
on the fish question.
Mr. Gurr has not been found duly
prepared, worthy or well-qualified to
be entrusted with high public duties.
We should know a great deal more
about his ideas than we know now.
The general impression is that he
belongs to the “gang.” He certain
ly worked with them at Juneau, al
though that might have been entire
ly due to the fact that’ he is a good
bookkeeper.
Bankers seldom make good legis
lators.
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H. R. SHEPERD
Mr. Sheperd is a candidate for re
election, and runs on his record in
the last legislature. This record, the
Juneau Empire says, was most en7
viable. Here it is:
He got himself appointed on the
transportation committee and there
fought for the Steamship Companies,
winding up by signing a report dis
paraging the work done by the At
torney General by way of investi
gation of the rate situation.
He was the champion of the can
neries and trap interests and the fish
reserves. He voted for the Grant
Memorial under threat that he would
be defeated for city councilman of
Juneau if he did not.
He voted against the resolution
directing the Attorney General to
institute legal proceedings to defend
the people of the Territory against
illegal exercise of autocratic power
by the Bureau of Fisheries.
He voted against the law requiring
the big mines to pay an equitab’e
tax on their net incomes.
The record of this man is a long
one, and at every turn he was to be
found voting with the Solid Third
Division and Against the People.
H. R. Sheperd is so situated that
even aside from his disposition as
shown by his record, he would have
to support the Steamship Compan
ies, the big Copper mines, for the
reason that his son-in-law is the
general manager of the Guggenheim
properties in Alaska.
You can see the natural line-up,
Steamship Companies, the big mines,
the Canneries and the Trapmen, the
Federal Officials.
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Steelman Street
Ketchikan, Alaska
LETTER FROM ANGOON
Many people do not know where
Angoon is or what it is. Is it an
animal, a fish, a bird, does it bark?
It is the most progressive Native
Village in southeastern Alaska situ
ated about two miles north of Killis
noo, on Admiralty Island. It is op
posite the entrance to Peril Straits.
There are about two hundred souls
in Angoon.
This lown has an excellent town
hall with dimensions of about forty
by sixty and built entirely by the
Natives. In this hall are held the
community meetings, lectures, dances
and other things that concern the
entire people.
A Presbyterian Church was or
ganized there last year by Dr. S.
Hall Young assisted by Rev. David
Waggoner. These men placed Sam
uel G. Johnson and his wife in charge
of the work. They had been in
charge for several years without
recognition from the Presbytery.
Such faithfulness as they have ex
hibited is rare. Both parties are
former students of the Sheldon Jack
son Training School at Sitka.
On December 223rd last, the lead
ers of the church made a drive to
raise money for a church and col
lected during that day $735. They
are trying to get money to buy the
material for the building, the work
will be contributed. Friends will
make no mistake in sending money
to them to help. Simply address it
to Mr. Samuel G. Johnson.
The Sunday school is in charge of
Eli Ivatinook (affectionately called
“Kat” by his friends, and “Kat” by
his enemies—take your choice). In
t^e Christmas entertainment, Kat
had 38 kittens—or was it kiddies?—
on his program. Kat himself says,
“I had the best Christmas program
that was ever given around here.”
More power to him.
Collings’ Cash Store
I. W. COLLINGS, Prop.
58 Mission St.
New & Second Hand
HouseholdGoods
Telephone 188
Ketchikan, Alaska