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OUR AGENT AT WASHINGTON
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The citizens of Alaska are again called to select a
delegate to congress. The incumbent is seeking reelection
contesting Mr. George Grigsby of Ketchikan.
1 Voters, however, should consider what these candi-j
dates are standing for; their opinions on questions of |
importance to Alaskans; who is behind them and what;
service can they render for Alaska’s welfare in Wash
ington.
The incumbent has represented this Territory in
Washington for eight long years. During that time we
ask what effort has been made to assist prospecting and
mining? Has there been introduced any bill enabling a
prospector to locate a low grade placer proposition? No!
Has any effort been made to change the coal leasing
law so as to enable lessors to work coal on a scale for
export or even for distribution along the Alaska coast
line? None whatever!
It takes money to open up a coal mine and it is con
ceded the present leasing law offers no inducement for
capital to take a chance to develop these fields.
Has any effort been made to stop or to change the
grossly unjust law whereby a homesteader in Alaska is
deprived of the benefits of coal or oil being found under
lying the surface of his or her homestead? No! Home
steading in Alaska is about the most discouraging and
most expensive method we know of to acquire land and
the hardy and courageous pioneer who faces the heav
iest hardships and odds after five years of patient toil,
gets his patent but in after years, when age creeps upon
him and his strength fails, some wild-catter comes along,
finds oil or coal in his neighborhood and the homesteader
cannot reap his just reward; the reward that the pio
neers of the West and South are reaping today; the Alas
ka homesteader cannot, like the Indian tribes of Oklaho
ma, look forward to a life of ease from oil on his ground.
All lie can look for is the Sitka Home. The big tax dodgers
hack East need the royalties for the public treasury so
to keep their taxes low.
Is this developing Alaska or helping the pioneer?
We hear a lot about the fisheries about this time of
the year—election time—hut for the last eight years
nothing in between except to call the Republican Pres
idential Nominee abusive names. Alaska wants more
hand canneries but we dont hear anything about that.
Mr. Grigsby, on the other hand, stands before the
people of Alaska upon a definite platform setting forth
in plain language what the Democratic Party believes is
for the best. He is pledged, if elected, to make every
effort to secure legislation to correct present evils and to
ease up the laws so as to enable pioneers, and their next
of kin, to reap some benefits from hardships he or she
has endured.
If you had an agent that could not show better re
sults after eight years than the incumbent has shown as
the agent of the people of Alaska, in Washington, we
doubt if you would reengage him. In fact we are sure
you wouldn’t.
So, Mr. and Mrs. Voter, apply the rules that you
have for carrying on your personal affairs to politics
and employ a new agent for yourself at Washington and
if he dont make good fire him two years from now and
get some one else.
The necessity of nailing campaign lies should cause
a perceptible boom in the hardware trade.
In the early days of our history our mines gave the
Nation wealth and prosperity. They are doing the same
today.
An aviator should never set out on a long flight with
out looping the loop a few times to see that everything
is working right.
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IWIFE OF WHIZBANG !
EDITOR SEEKING !
MEDAL^ ALASKAN;
FAWCETTS OF MINNESOTA BE
LIEVE MUCH CREDIT DUE,
WALTER KOTOFF
“I shall do all in my power to
gain the Carnegie Medal of Honor
for Walter Kotoff, devoted Rus
sian pupil who saved the life of \
John Bess Howe when she was acci
dently shot thru the stomach last
winter at Ninilchik,” said Mrs.
“Billy Whizbang" Fawcett before
she departed Saturday on the S.
S. Yukon for her home at Robbins
dale, Minn.
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Mr. Fawcett had just completed
a hunting trip along Cook Inlet
| where he had poor luck follow
ing bear tracks “Bigger than a
four gallon hat. I wasn’t exactly
j sure I wanted to meet up with the
owner of said tracks,” said Captain
' Billy.
WALTER KOTOFF, THOUGH
advanced in years and a graduate
of mining in Russia, took the
overland trek last November from
Ninilchik after Miss Howe had
shot herself while cleaning a rifle,
his object being to reach the nea1
est radio station to call for help.
He had been a pupil of Miss Howe
who was teaching him English,
but when he got to Kusilof, 50
miles away, he found the station
abandoned so he rigged up a sen
der and, recalling some of the let
ters of the Morse code which he
had not used for 25 years, began
to send.
THE MESSAGE
was picked up by the Anchorage
station and Russell H. Merrill,
aviator, and Dr. A. D. Haver- ’
stock, sped down the Kenai pen- :
insula and picked up the wounded i
woman who had been suffering for j
days and was slowly approaching j
1 the portals of death.
It was on Thanksgiving Day
the two landed on the ice near ;
! Ninilchik, six miles from where
she lay, from where she was car- !
ried to the plane in the arms of
the men and by a dog team. They
! then flew back to Anchorage
where Doctors Haverstock and
Rex Swartz, of the Alaska Rail
road staff, made the necessary op
eration and saved the life of the
plucky girl who afterwards was
restored to health in the Virginia •
Mason hospital, in Seattle. She is : ■
now with her parents at Seymour, !
Texas, -but declares she will re
turn to Alaska right soon as it is
the home of the best people on
earth.
In the meantime Kotoff, not
knowing his message had been re
ceived, started on his overland
journey back thru the deep snows,
j storms and fighting his way along
I the shoreline, to Seldovia where he
! finally found out his revered tea
l cher had been saved.
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CAN mC A WO
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NG AND ENLARGING. Schaller- i
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LIBERTY
THEATER
8 O’CLOCK
ONE SHOW — 8 O’CLOCK
Monte Blue
supportd by
JAMES J. JEFFRIES
in a corking good prize-fight story
ONE ROUND HOGAN
A play that is the equal of the old “Leather Pushers’’ in
exciting action. Not only a number of good boxing mat
ches, but also an intense drama of human emotions.
YOU’LL WANT TO STAND UP AND SHOUT
If you want some fast action entertainment
HERE IT IS
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We will give you, also, the two-reel comedy
a
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HER BLUE BLACK EYES
in which Spain's Beauty Prize winner has the lead part
And a Reel of Jokes
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Vote For
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Tony Dimond
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Your vote will be appreciated on November 6
James Cusick
of Latouche, Alaska
CANDIDATE FOR REPRESENTATIVE
TO THE ALASKA
LEGISLATURE
On the Democratic Ticket
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FOR SALE
Ideal cannery or saltery composed of 40 acres,
right in the heart of the salmon and herring
fishing grounds situated one mile from Un
alaska, land-locked fine beaches and plenty of
running water. A*so 10 acres in Chernofski
Harbor, Unalaska Island; only available fresh
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For further information communicate with
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