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THAT KETCHIKAN FIGHT
Let nobody be misled by the per
sistent iteration that the Ketchikan
convention was u square deal. The
Juneau gang never meant to give
anybody a square deal and every claim
put forth from that source of a willing
ness to unite the party on any fair ba
sis was a false pretense.
What the Iloggatt outfit wanted was
to gobble everything. They had less
than fifty delegates out of one hun
dred and fifty with a shadow of le
gitimate credentials and even their
deal with Corson gave them no ad
ditional uncontested votes. The op
position faction had It).'* votes from
precincts that could be carried the
same way every day in the year, and
thirteen besides. Yet the anti-Kog
P^tf faction offered to split even, hut
^very concession made in the interest
V.f harmony was so much given away.
As soon as the delegates left Ketchi
kan the two or three stray Hoggatt
organs in the territory set up the
yawp of a "Hoggatt victory," and
have been knocking the territorial
government plank ever since. The
Hoggaftites sold their pet principle
(sic) for the post of national commit
teeman but are not honest enough to
stay bought.
Not only did the anti-Hoggatt men
have more than two-thirds of the del
egates at Ketchikan but they had
them in spite of as rotten an appor
tionment as that which gives Missis
sippi as many delegates as Kansas in
national republican conventions. Ju
neau bad ten delegates and Valdez
five, yet Valdez has more people and
more voters, ami two years ago polled
nearly three times as many republi
can votes. Measured by the Hoggatt
rule of property qualification for gov
ernment Valdez doubles Juneau, im
porting twice the value of goods in
1907, as shown by the report of the
customs collector.
Cordova, a (luggcnheiin railroad
camp with little permanent popula
tion, was given four delegates at the
of Shackleford through the
connivance of Corson and Sheldon.
Fairbanks has at least double the pop
ulation of Juneau and Cordova com
bined but was given the same number
of votes.
As for the result af Chicago that
was merely a case of dictation by the
great I Am in the White House who
knows nothing of Alaska and will let
nobody hut Hoggatt and Jarvis fell
him anything.
CANNOT M)Slv VALDK2
Valdez needs no railroad to retain
its supremacy as (ho mining center of
Southern Alaska and chief seaport
for a vast area of the interior although
a railroad would help some by mak
ing transportation easier and cheaper
to the inside mining camps. Valdez
has 110 occasion to be 'jealous of any
cLv&l town, because all the railroad
building on the southern coast so far
has added travel to Valdc/. and taken
no business away. There is room for
all tin; towns now on the coast and
none will hurt any other.
The map shows that the railroad
now building from Cordova, even if
it goes up the Copper river, will never
approach as close to Valdc/. by land
oh the terminus is by water Vice
President IScolcs says the intention is
to build only to the Hoiianza mine.
In that ease it will not cut off the
Valdez trail to the interior because at
the point "where it will turn oast it
will he ncarlyias far from the nearest,
point on the trail as that point is
from Valdez.
The whole interior from the (rail
westward to the upper Susitna is trib
utary to Valdez and no railroad from
any other point can take its trade
away unless the Alaska Central
should build up tlie river, a possibil
ity too remote to cause immediate
worry.
ON« ROUTE TO 8U8ITNA
There i« Juat one practicable route
to the Hutdtna K<>ld district and thai
Ih from Valdez. All other routea from
the coahI are out of the <|UCHtion and
repeated trialw have dcmonntratod
the faet. (look Inlet Ih out of the raeo
until the government I>uI1<Ih a trail
from there a« good an the Valdez trail,
and the government will he In no
hurry to duplicate ita own work.
PalrhankH alone Ih cneroachlng up
on Valdox territory by trying to aup
ply the HuHltna dhtriet hut It eati
make little headway beyond outfit
ting the men who go In from the Tan
ana. NevertheleHH Valder, ought to
keep out fitting from the north down
to the minimum by Htretchlng it* ad
vantages to the utmoat. All the town
need* In a fair trail from (lulkana and
a mall route from the Goaat and then
to let nature take It* eourae. Hup
plle* are ao much cheaper in Valder,
pi In the north that an even break
,atlon to the Hualj^PwIII
'•on.
WANT OPPOSITION TO QUIT
Tho syndicate which in trying to
annex Alaska has thrown u chunk of
raw meat at the opposition by its
latent effort to disorganize the Alaska
sentiment which does not bow down
to the Guggenheim-Morgans by trying
to back Tom Cale out of the race for
delegate. The statement that Cale
had withdrawn from the light iB about
the lumpiest work recently exhibited
in Alaska politics. When Cale wants
to quit ho will hardly give notice
first to his enemies.
The politico-financial syndicate
and its agents are well aware that a
large majority of Alaska people aro
against delivering political control of
the territory over to them and they
can win only by dividing tho opposi
tion. They may succeed but they
could build several miles of railroad
with tho money they aro spending in
politics. Tho outlay on mendacity is
unimportant for their stock is un
limited.
S. W. Kccles of the "Guggenheim"
financial push, says copper will go up
to 15. He ought to know because his
outfit llxos tho price arbitrarily. Hut
the trouble is you never know when
those follows say what they mean.
Gov. Hoggatt admits that he has
knocked every railroad on the south*
ern coast except the Guggcnheims'
but insists that it is purely a matter
of patriotism.
Why don't the mandolin club and
thvir critics of the tire department go
at each other with elm clubs and show
uh a scrap worth while.
The I (oggatt-Corson combine is
starting out roorbacks a little early.
The affidavit man isn't due until the
week before election.
If Zola's works can bust up a Jap
anese cabinet the country hasn't
trained enough yet for a tight with
the United States.
Mr. Hryan is nominated attain and
he can be depended upon to keep
tlie flies off the husky Mr. Tuft until
election day.
HOGGATT TELLS WHY
HE LOVES THE GUGGIES
Following in that, portion of the
Soattlo-l'ost-lntelligeneer's recent in
terview with Governor Hoggatt in
which In* is quoted us giving his rea
sons for urging government, support
of thi* Guggenheim railroad in Alaska
and opposing all others:
' "1 have been accused of acting as
the personal representative of large
interests in Alaska, and it is said by
those who oppose me on the question
of home rule t hat t his is t he'reason for
my attitude on that question,' said
Gov. Iloggatt. "I am opposed to the
grafter and the man who t ries to get
something for nothing. I will not he
drawn into personal fights of conflict
ing interests, but will always work
for what I believe to bo for the best
interests of Alaska. The construction
of railways in Alaska is an important
factor in building up the northern
country, and I have been subject to
severe! criticism because I have op
posed the granting of franchises to
people who claimed they desired to
build railroads, but in reality the
franchise they were seeking was noth
ing more than a perpetual right-of
way without any qualitleHtions as to
construction. When I opposed the
granting of such a franchise to John
11. McGraw and associates, McGraw
raised a campaign fund to tight me. I
also opposed the granting of a similar
franchise to the Alaska Central rail
way, and will continue to oppose all
such schemed unless the grant con
tains a requirement for the construc
tion of the road.
"I am in favor of legitimate railway
enterprises for Alaska, but will al
ways oppose schemes that give right
of-way to pooplo who have no inten
tion of building and simply hold the
grant to'keep out legitimate compan
ies. Because I favored the granting
of a franchise to the Guggenheim
road I have boon subjoct to sovere
criticism. The backers of this road
have shown that, they moan business
and have the capital to carry out the
project., and I will favor any similar
project that makes the same showing.
• "The Reynolds Alaska Develop
ment Company was another concern
that fought mo because of my atti
tude on Its project*. Mr. Reynolds
proposed to do some things that wore
not only lmj>osslblo, but absurd, and,
backed by the endorsement, of tlio
Hoattlo Chamber of Commerce, ho
attempted to force support for bis
schemes."'
Meeting in Pontponed.
Heattle, July 10 Tim mooting of
the h took hold em In the Alaska (An
tral, planno<l for thl« woek, him heon
pontponed until July 21 to await the
arrival In thin city of President Front.
The meeting wn« called to ordor yes
terday but adjourned almost Immedi
ately.
Alaska Self Government.
(Post Intelligencer.)
Gov. lloggott, of Alaska, is back
here on his way back to Alaska, after
having attended the session of con
gress to oppose any propositions
which might be brought forward to
give the people of Alaska the sumo
amount of self-government that is
given to Porto Rico or Hawaii. Gov.
Hoggatt says that the majority of the
people in Alasku who are usking for
home rule are the class that want to
have dance hall dives und open gamb
ling. Gov. lloggatt alao says that he
will work hard for the election of
John W. Corson as delegate to con
gress.
It is quite possible that Gov. Hog
gatt. rather misrepresents the people
of his territory in the assumption that
those who favor home rule aro merely
those who desire to see a wide open
jKjlicy in effect. For example, there
is his candidate for delegate to con
gress, Mr. Corson, who has repeated
ly declared himself to be heartily in
favor of u full territorial government,
with a local legislature, and who has
given no evidence of a change of heart
on this subject since his nomination
as delegate by the Hoggatt conven
tion.
Gov. Hoggatt says further that if
all of the people of Alusku were to
usk for territorial government it
would bo impossible to securo the pas
sage of the law by congress. On what
he bases this assumption does not. ap
pear. Many influential members of
congress have repeatedly said that
they are willing to give the people of
Alaska the legislation that they ask,
if only satisfied that it is what they
want. The trouble is that at each
session of congress there are self-con
stituted delegates in attendance, none
of whom are in agreement with the
others. This was illustrated by the i
appearance of Gov. Hoggatt. himself
at the last session of congress. The
delegate to congres elected by the
people was heartily in favor of home
rule. Gov. Hoggatt was and is stren
ously opposed to the people of Alaska
having anything to say in the conduct
of their own utfuirs, being a believer
in government from the quarter-deck
exclusively. Naturally, in the con
flict of opinion, congress was not pre
pared to act.
Taft Preparing Message
Hot Springs, Va., July 11—Presi
dential Nominee Taft is hUMily en
gaged in preparing his message of ae
ceptanee and expectH to have it ready
to make public by next week. Ho in
relieving hiH labors by taking part in
mi occasional game of bane ball.
BOSTON BARD SENDS
WARNING TO ALASKANS
The following poem is fired at the
(Uiggcnheims by a warrior who signs
the name of Will Atkinson. If comes
in the mail from Ronton to the Pros
pector and is addressed "To Sour
doughs." The Prospector* disclaims
all credit for the effusion but is will
ing to give Sourdoughs the benefit, of
the advice it contains:
You have climbed sky-tow'ring gla
ciers,
You have mushed in through the
snow,
Yon have learned the lore of ages
Only the brave may know;
You have forced from Death his
secrets
Though.he buffets you about
Yet' the Ouggcuheims will get you
If you don't watch out!
You may win your game with Fortune
Though you know Death cogs the
dice,
You have left behind the sunshine
To face bleak worlds of ice;
You have conquered myriad perils
Undeterred by fear or doubt
Hut the Guggenhelms will get you
If you don't watch out!
More treacherous than the river
Where the thin ice mnsks its flow,
Far keener than'the wolf's sharp fangs
Colder than sleet or snow,
Ih their devouring maw of greed;
More cruel than the knout;
Hut the Ouggenheims have got you
If you don't watch out.
Their methods are the wolf packs,
Their morals are the sty's,
They wring their gold from hunger
And heed not famin's cries.
Oh, Alaskans I Rise and fight them!
Drive their hireling crew to rout!
Such thieves are only dangerous
When you don't watch out!
UNCLE SAM WILL NOT
SPANK NAUGHTY CASTRO
Waahington, July 11—Although the
admlnlHtratlon la IneenHod at tho ro
fuHRl «f the Venezuelan government,
to arhritrate the American clalma,
and 11a further determination to en
force the huge fine againnttho aaphalt
company there will he no war be
tweon the two countries. It la offici
ally announced that President Oaa
tro> atuhhorncaa ha« "earned a
breach In diplomatic relations."
From Oar an an cornea word that the
relatatlon* between Venezuela and
Holland are atretched to the break
ing point.
(Inc) Bankers and General Merchants (Inc)
Visit our BIG STORE while in (he city and look over our line
of Dry Goods, Groceries, Ladies' and Gents' Furnishings, Boots, Shoes,
Hats and Caps, Rubber Goods, Furniture, Carpets, Linoleum, Mats,
Draperies, Glass and Crockery Ware, Hardware, Stoves, Miners'
Supplies, Etc.
We receive a large shipment of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables on
every steamer. Special attention is called to a line of S. & W.
canned Goods, which are the highest pitch of perfection.
IIALDEZ BANK & MERCANTILE CO., INC.
li PIONEER OH km
BIG MOTOR BOAT
: EXHIBIT FOB FAIR
Power Craft Manufacturers
From All Parts of Coun
try to Make Display.
* Seattle, July 1;*>—For the firs I linut
in the history of world's fairs the
Alaska - Yukon - Pacific Exposition,
which will bo held here from June 1
to October li>, 1000, will have a large
exhibit of motor boats. Henry K.
Doseh, director of exhibits and privi
leges, has just completed plans for
the display. Manufacturers are tak
ing up the matter and their letters
indicate that tlicy will put forth their
best efforts to have big exhibits. They
realize that Seattle is a good market
for motor boats, and' t hat more than
likely they will be able to dispose of
all of the boats on exhibition and
more too by the time the fair closes.
The exposition being situated as it.
is, with bake Washington bordering
upon one side of the grounds and
Lake Union on the other, affords an
uuoxcelled opportunity for the dem
onstration of motor boats, bake
Washington which is t he largest fresh
water body in the Pacific Northwest,
having an area of t hirty-eight square
miles, is plied by scores of power
boats at the present time, Seattle has
a motor boat club with a strong mem
bership and its pleasure cruises and
races arc held on Lake Washington.
It is asserted t hat there is no other
city in this country endowed with
better facilities for motor boating
than Seattle. Besides Lake Washing
ton and Lake Union there are the
broad waters of Puget. Sound which
afford the enthusiast great opportuni
ty. There is both salt and fresh
water, and the scenery on all of the
waters about Seattle is unsurpassed.
The climate is such that motor boat
ing can bo enjoyed all the year
around.
A pavilion for the motor boat dis
play will be built on piles over Lake
Washington In one of the prettiest
spots on the exposition's shore line.
It will he 100 by 000 feet In size and
will be provided with slips varying
from six by twenty feet to twenty by
eighty feet. On the shore side of the
pavilion will be exhibited boats,
machinery and aeeesorlos. The ex
hibitors will be enabled to have their
boats in the water for demonstration
to visitors by trial t rips on the lake.
Motor boat, races will be a feature
of the sports at the exposition and It
is expected that many records will
be broken. A motor boat show will
be given In Seattle this coming Feb
ruary by the Seattle Motor llont Olub
under the auspices of the National
Motor lloat Association of the United
States.
Hitchcock CnllH On HliertiiHti
Utica, N. Y.f July 15—Frank lllt-cli
coolc chairman of Mm republican
national commit too oallcdltpon Vlco
PronldonMal Nomlnoo Hhcrman thin
morning. The snbjoot «»f dlsoUMlon
haa not. b«on mndo public.
Tvlograph and Mail ^ Town ifl Itself. Blacksmith Shop,
Station. etc., etc.
Wortman's Roadhouse
KOOT OK SUMMIT, TWKNTY MILKS KUOM VALDKZ
Accommodation for 40 horses. Warm Doghouses
A FULL STOCK OF GENERAL SUPPLIES
"'from1"Ilia™ lV:\'Vunsu,;!,mT ^vPontius Magnuson Prop
The Teikhell Roadhouse
48 Miles From Valdez
On Government Trail.
Host of accommodations for man and boast. Kreah Moat
always on hand. llorso and Don Food All tin; latest,
improvoinrnts. 1*IMVATIO ROOMS.
Mrs. Ed. Wood, Proprietor.
DRY CREEK ROADHOUSE
I,. G, niul G. B. RORIvR, Proprietors.
lis MILKS ON FAIRBANKS
FROM VAliDlOZ AND EAGLE TRAILS
ALASKA COAST CO.
K<|uippcd with Wireless
TIIB "INSIDE" ROUTE
To Tuneau and All Puget Sound Ports
M S* 5 s PORTLAND JULY 24TH
Kitfht nwrvert to change MtoamorH or Bulling riaton without notico
II. l<\ ALKXANDKIt, A. H. DAUTKICK,
(Ieneral Manager, Tacoma. Uenerai, Agent. Valdez
■>
ALASKA COMMERCIAL CO. I
Have established a sta
tion at SUSITNA, at
the forks of the Susitna
and Yentna rivers and
will carry a full line of
MINERS' SUPPLIES
Other Stations at UN ALASKA, KARI/UK,
AFOGNAK, SUNRISE, KODlAK,
KAGUYAK, TYONOOK
VALDEZ HOSPITAL
Reaorvation Avo. nrnr Court llnuw
Private Rooms for Patients Graduate Nurses
Honpital Tickets, $1.50 per Month.
Phone 77