A. N. B. NOTES
ANGOON CAMP
This camp is the first camp ac
cording: to the alphabet, and cer
tainly first in every other way.
There are only a few people there,
but they make up for it in en
thusiasm and intelligence. When
Judge V. A. Paine, of Juneau, “for
got” to send them official ballots
last November, they made their
own on the typewriter much to Mr.
Paine’s disgust.
This place has about 150 inhabi
tants, but during the past three
years, they have built their own
town hall with their own labor; they
have installed their own electric
lights; they are building their own
water system; they have been the
first to raise all funds ordered by
the Grand Convention of the A. N.
B.; and today they are leading- in
the matter of the Printing Plant.
The contrast between Angoon and
Killisnoo another native village only
two miles away is very great- Some
think the backward condition of Kil
lisnoo is due to thinking about the
next world, getting ready for death.
Perhaps so. At any rate, while they
might live in streets of gold, and
pass through gates of pearl into
the next world, the streets of the
town in which they live now are
dirty, they have no town hall, no
electric plant, indifferent school at
tendance, and create a very unfav
orable opinion among visitors. Per
haps it was this town that Governor
Scott C. Bone was thinking about
when he told the people of New
York that the Natives of Alaska
were so bad.
The officers of the Hydaburg
Camp No. 5 for 1925 are:
Boyd Nakathla, President.
John Wallace, Vice-President.
Gideon Duncan, Cor. Secretary.
Edward Hamilton, Rec. Secretary.
Fred Wallace, Fin. Secretary.
Sam Douglas, Treasurer.
The officers of the Saxman Camp
for 1925 are:
Chas. T. Johnson, Chairman
Chas. Williams, Vice-Chairman.
Peter Johnny, Cor. Secretary
Thomas McKay, Rec. Secretary.
Henry Denny, Treasurer.
Angoon Camp No. 7:
Larry Jackson, President.
John Fred, Vice-President.
George G. Johnson, Treasurer.
Ike James, Fin. Secretary.
Eli Ivatinook, Cor. Secretary.
Willie Thomas, Rec. Secretary.
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Who is “the responsible and rep
resentative element in the Salmon
Canning Industry?” The Canning
Industry of course. And who is the
“irresponsible and representative
element” of that industry? The
resident fishermen, of course.
GOVERNOR BONE’S
REPORT
In the recent report which this
Governor of Alaska has made he
praises the progress of the Natives
for the purpose of damning them the
more.
He speaks about the fine progres
sive communities of Kake, Angoo i,
Bayview, Hydaburg, and Yakutat,
and tells of their fine government
by their own city councils, judges
and police; of their own saw-mills,
canneries, gasboats, townhalls and
self-improvement societies. Then he
says that large communities are still
very backward, ignorant, supeisti
tious and filthy, living as tribes and
in community houses with no pri
vacy.
As a result large masses of these
Natives are voting at the behest of
one man which is such a serious
problem that Congress will be ask
ed to remedy the matter by passing
a literacy test.
This Governor sent us from New
^ ork has been in Alaska three
years. During this time he has
visited the Native villages once,
spending a few hours in each and
at Kake, at least, he spent most of
his visit anchored in the bay.
He mentions certain “progressive
communities” and says the others
are not. Which are not? Is Sitka
behind Kake or Bayview? Is Hoo
nah behind Hydaburg? Where are
those “community houses,” Mr.
Bone ? We have a right to know.
What is the truth ?
Before Governor Bone came to
Alaska, we had no race troubles.
Indians and Whites lived side by
each in peace and harmony.
Since Governor Bone came to Al
aska he has headed a machine which
lias sought to get political control
WILLIAM L. PAUL
Lawyer
205 Bank Building
Ketchikan — Alaska
by inciting race prejudice. In order
to accomplish his purpose and make
it appear that the fault is on the
side of the Natives, he and his clique
have attempted to pass highly dis
criminatory laws and have other
wise treated these defenseless peo
ple unfairly- These days he is
preaching his poisonous doctrine at
public expense in the East.
ILLITERATE VOTES
In almost every issue of the Ju
neau Empire and the Ketchikan ~—
Chronicle, we have been told edi
torially and in news items that Wil
liam L. Paul controls about 1,000
illiterate votes, and in prophecies
these newspapers predict what cal
amities will befall Alaska if this
condition is not broken up
The strongly partisan Territorial
Canvassing Board, projudiced against
Indians to the last degree, has just
let it be known that ninety-three
persons in the First Division, being
Southeastern Alaska, voted after
signing their names by “their mark/’
The army of illiterates are now
reduced to ninety-three.
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