REV. MARSDEN IS MODERATOR
OF THE PRESBYTERY
Metlakatla Pastor Elected for Next
Year—Lay Pastors Licensed
Rev. Edward Marsden, native, pas
tor of the Metlakatla Presbyterian
Church, was elected Moderator of
the Presbytery of Alaska for the* next
year, at the session of the Presby
tery in April. Officers elected for
the triennium were: Rev. David
Waggoner of Juneau, stated clerk,
and Rev. R. A. Buchanan of Sitka,
permanent clerk. Members of the
Presbytery elected to the Home Mis
sions committee, which has charge of
the general work, and organization
of the Presbytery, were: Dr. G. G.
Bruce, chairman; Rev. David Wag
goner, Rev. G. J. Beck, missionary in
this district, and M. B. Summers, eld
er of the local church. The various
committees for the church work were
filled for the next three years.
Rev. Marsden was also elected as
Commissioner from this Presbytery to
the General Assembly, to meet at
Indianapolis, Ind., May 18 next. Rev.
Waggoner was elected alternate. Hon.
W. G. Thomas, was elected as Elder
Commissioner to the Assembly and
Samuel Davis, elder of the church at
Kassan, was elected alternate.
Elder J. S. Brown of Hydaburg
and Mr. Davis, natives, were exam
ined before the Presbytery at the
session today and licensed as local
evangelists to work in the Presbytery.
It is the plan to, as rapidly as pos
sible, educate and train native men
for caring for their own churches.
Reports were made on courses of
study for the native lay pastors and
there was considerable discussion on
the subject.
Besides Elders Brown and Davis,
are Haynes De Witt of Kaka and
Samuel G. Johnson of Angoon, na
tives, in attendance at the meeting
of Presbytery.
CRIME PROTECTED BY LAW
We are wondering how the Gov
ernor, who seems to be a fine Chris
tian gentleman, of high principles,
who believes in law enforcement, and
especially the 18th amendment, could
appoint a man like Senator Chamber
lain to a responsible office like tax
collector, who not only drank pri
vately, but at the public hearing of
the legislature on Transportation was
so drunk that he disgraced not only
him?elf but this Territory. Mr.
Knickerbocker, General Manager of
the Alaska Steamship Co., can truth
FREEING THE WAR PRISONERS—
WHAT THEN?
(New York Post)
It is shocking to liberal citizens to
think that after five years fifty
three men imprisoned under the es
pionage act are still in jail. Some
are literally rotting there, for two
have just been medically certified to
be in advanced stage of tuberculosis.
A third, accused of malingering by
the authorities, recently suggested
that they were mistaken by dying.
Charles W. Morse and F. H. Nobbe
had no difficulty in getting out of
Federal prison on the plea of ill
health. Yet we have the best of evi
dence that many of these war pris
oners should never have been put
there in the first place. Senator Pep
per months ago carefully examined
the cases of twenty-eight. He re
commended to the President an un
conditional pardon, giving as one rea
son the fact that “they were convict
ed when public sentiment was such
that it really prevened a fair trial.”
MRS. DANIEL JOSEPH
Mr?. Joseph died May 3rd and is
survived by her husband Dan, and
several children. She was a woman
in the middle years of life, and a
credit to the Indian race. It is only
a little while ago that we talked with
her and learned how anxious she was
that her children should go to school.
Mrs. McAvoy who taught her child
ren in the government school in Doug
las has told us many times what a
comfort it was to know Mrs. Joseph
and what fine children she had. It
is a great loss to this entire com
munity that she should be taken.
Dr. Pigg who attended her said
that everything was done that could
be done, but that the attack of heart
disease and pneumonia was too much
for her in her weakened condition.
We hope that her family will take
comfort in remembering her splendid
example, and that the sorrowing
children will try and live “for our
mother’s sake.”
fully say that from the impression he
got of the Alaska legislature, they
are an aggregation of drunks. We
strongly resent this inference that
the decent men therein should be stig
matized by this man elected from
the Third and now honored by the
Governor. Common drunks are slap
ped into jail. Since a legislator is
immune during the session, at least
after the session treat him as other
bums are treated.
FISH WITH GIZZARDS INHABIT
LAKE OF NORTH
Specimep Found in Kuskokwim River
Country Unknown Before
t
ANCHORAGE, Alaska., April 7—
White fish with gizzards like fowl
and a lake filled with gold fish are
among the phenomena of the Kusko
wim river country, according to D.
E. Stubbs, formerly United States
mineral surveyor and fox farmer who
recently arrived here from the Kus
kowim.
Mr. Stubbs reports that in addition
to oil seepages there are deposits of
bituminous and anthracite coal in this
vast region, which covers approxi
mately 50,000 square miles.
“I wrote to the agriculture de
partment, asking if there was any
bonus on specimens of fish with giz
zards and was informed that the spe
cies were unknown. There is a lake
of crystal clearness on the old Kal
makosky-Nushagak trail, where it is
possible to see 40 feet below the
surface. The lake is filled with fish
of iridescent color, identical with gold
fish.”
A judge pointing with his cane to
a prisoner before him, remarked:
“There is a great rogue at the end
of this stick.”
“At which end, your honor?” ask
ed the prisoner.
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