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ABOUT CORPORATE RULE
Twenty years ago Judge Lafayette
Dawson on leaving the federal bench
in AlaHka said to Gov. Swinoford, "I
am going to leave the territory be
cause it is going to be a country for
corporations'and hir«id men."
Since then corporations have been
striving industriously to install a
British East Indian rule in Alaska,
with some success. They have made
their chief progress under President
Roosevelt, the frantic corporation
baiter in the country at large, who
consults nobody regarding Alaskan
affairs except two or thivc rorpora
tion agents.
No intelligent man in Alaska or
elsewhere, unless In- is making a
ixtliticul campaign on thai kind of a
platform, lias any war to make on
corporations as such. No man who
wants to see Alaska grow ami de
velop will place a stra .v in the way of
legitimate corporation business. No
IxKly who knows anything has any
objection t<> seeing "the (iuggen
heims," that mysterious, intangihle,
elusive linaneial faetor which is ac
cused of starting numerous enter
prises in Alaska and has so far eom
pleted none, spend unlimited money
on railroads and mines in the terri
tory. The popular objection is to a
chain of political peanut stands.
It is more or less definitely stated
that the (luggenheim afrite is now
practically non-existent; that the
(luggenheinis were so badly squeezed
in last year's panic that .1. I'. Morgan
is now in control ot all their holdings
and virtually acting as trustee or
receiver for them This matter* lit
tle. The (iiiggcnheim bogey man
never terrilled anybody with steady
nerves. Alaska people would rather
see the (luggonheiins, Morgan or
Rockefeller build railroads and create
industries in Alaska then to have the
work postponed indefinitely.
Alaska people propose no handicap
to corporate activity except political
dictation by a handful of corporate
agents.
STANDS HY HIS FRIENDS
Judge Wickershain stands by the
friends who have stood by him and
who are always glad to honor and
support him when they can do so
without violating previous obi igat ions.
Nearly all his friends in the territory
hod gone so far in support of Dele
gate C'ale for re-election that they
could not abandon that ll^ht even to
support Judge Wickershain. Had he
become a candidate before ('ale the
present delegate would not now be in
the field.
As to Judge Wickersham's <|iialili
eations for the post of delegate in
congress there can be no dispute.
Ills bitterest enemies concede bis
ability and hardly any other man in
Alaska could carry as much weight
and influence at the national capital.
Two years from now, if Judge Wick
ershain is willing to be a candidate,
he can count on all bis present
friends, and doubtless many new
ones, for time will soften the rancor
of old opiiosit ion.
The tin'1' t-l»€» coming election iih
it will be in every other political con
test BO long HH W. 15. Iloggatt is a
factor in Alaska polities is to elimi
nate t li e governor who in a ken a spec
ialty ot attacking the motives of
every man who sees lit to disagree
with his personal vieww. His screeds
include men who once counted tliem
selves_ his personal friends IhiI who
do not cure t*> he his acolytes.
The way to destroy lloggalt and
hiH tribe is to elect ('ale, and it does
not now seem possible that the gov
ernor's corporations can buy enough
Votes to defeat the present delegate.
It is understood that Clov- llogKatt's
corporations expect to elect John
Corson by voting several thousand
Chinamen, Japs and Indians not
taxed at the Bristol bay canneries,
where there are ahont a dozen legal
voters. Incidentally all the railroad
holms that can he worked in at Cor
dova will help in the good cause.
Joe Cans announced after his llrst
fuss with the battling Dane, "That
Nolson man has sure got a powerful
ap|>etlto for punches," find it seems
that the gentleman from llcgewieb
has exhausted the saffron serap|>er's
supply.
Mr, Bryan throws out a pioee of
halt for Mr. Hearst and the Country
look* on with interest to see If the
Independence league promoter will
bite.
It Is said that. Frank Youngs is
olalmlng the laundry vote solid for
Corson, but the Cain men say that
vote Is all split np.
Please take notice that Howard and
Valdez smoked the pipe of peace over
a base ball game. Now let Cordova
and Katalla patch up.
UWS FOR ALASKA
Seattle i'ost-lllU'lllKcnce
Congressman Humphrey, speaking
of legislation fur Alaaka, saya that
congress is really intereatetl in the
territory, and would pass any and all
laws needed for it eould the evact in
formation he secured as to what the
people of Alaska really want. The
trouble is that at each session there
arc self-chosen delegations visiting
Washington with utterly an (agnostic
ideas, and between the conflict of
opinion it is impossible for congress
to act{iutelligcutly, so* consideration
of important matters is postponed.
It was this condition which it was
hoped the elect ion of a delegate to
congress from Alaska would end. Ap
parently it has not done so. The
j deleg ate to congress was chosen by
the people of Alaska to represent
them and to be their mouth piece.
He is presumed to be at Washington
to see that their wishes are carried
into elTect. Hut the delegate to con
gress, i>u reaching Washington, is en
countered there by other self-chosen
j delegates, among others, forexamplo,
the appointed governor of the terri
i torp, who leaves the ostensible scene
of his labors and goes to Washington
during the session, and tnere enters
opposition to the great majority of
the proposals brought forward by the
elected represent at ive of the people.
The governor has position and influ
ence. I It- is able I o make a showing.
It would seem that the simplest
mat tor for congress would be to ac
cept t he delegate chosen by the peo
ple of Alaska as representing their
views, and to pay no heed U> others,
no matter what their appointive posi
tions may ho, when their views come
in conflict with those of the delegate.
Tin* people choose the delegate, and
can repudiate him promptly if lie fails
to represent their views. They have
neither voice nor inllucncc in the sel
ection ot federal officials.
Somehow Tammany doesn't Heem
Incut so much ice in a democratic
1 nat ional convcnt ion as in its own jay
I town.
Now that Wickcrsliani is out. of it
let ns hope there will lie no bolos
employed in the Tanana election.
i II the strenuous Koosevelt wants
| action he illicit limber up a little hy
leaning Castro over a barrel.
DEATH IS PORTION
OF KOREAN TRAITORS
j Seoul, Korea, July U—Death has
j been the portion of more than 1,000
sympathi/.cr* of Japan in the hitter's
eompicst of Korea, according t*j sta
! tisties just made public by the Japan
' esc government. The report terms
these deaths murders and places them
, at t he door of t he insurgent s, so called.
The struggle against Japanese sup
remaey in Korea is still hcin^ waged
with unrelenting devotion to the
cause of this country's freedom.
Those termed by the Japanese as in
surgents arc, by the majority of their
countrymen, known as patriots and
in t lie opinion of Koreans those who
who have died, died the deaths of
traitors
PLAN TO KILL KING
OF SPAIN IS EXPOSED
Lisbon, .Inly II—'l'lio existence of a
xvi'll prepared plot to kill King Alfonso
of Spain was revealed today by Dr.
Alpion, *• hiff or tin- political faction
known as the progressive dissidents.
Tin1 plot was eoncieved by the lead
ers of the progressive and the repen
! era tor parties.
Wholesale arrcsta are expected to
j result, from the expose. Dr. Alpion's
betrayal of tbe plans of his fellow
political conspirators has caused a
sensat ion.
ONE FIGHT TOO MANY
SAYS BEATEN JOE GANS
San Francisco, July 0--HI ending from
the beating received from battling
Nelson, Joe dans, erst while premier
light weight ringster of the world,
bravely faced tho result and said:
"One light too nianv" as he wkh
helped to his dressing room at the
end of the seventeenth round of the
Fourth of July light atColma. Claim
has undoubtedly gone stale for his
old time cleverness was apparent only
in Hashes and he has to a great ex-'
tent lost, his power to punish.
On the other hand Nelson has
"Como hack" and it, was the battler
of old who wrested the laurels from
the dusky warrler. There was an
Inmeiise crowd at tho ringside.
Hteve Adams la On Trial
< J rand Junction, Colo., July 8—
Steve Adams, one of those Implicated
with Marry Orchard in the various
crimes confessed to by the latter,
was placed on trial here today,
charged with tho murder of Arthur
Oolllns, formerly a mine superinten
dent. The town Is swarming with
members of tho minor's federation,
many of them having boon summoned
as witness* for the defense.
OIK ARE ALL
LINED WITH MUD
Chemist Says Thirty-one
Tons of Sediment Is
City's Daily Ration.
Omaha, July 3—"How much of mo
in mud?"
Tho foregoing i» the question that
is being acked himself and everyone
else by each individual resident of
Omaha today. Learned and involved
dissertations are being delivered on
every Htreet corner, estimates are be
ing made as to what quantity of what
one consumes goes to make up one's
physical being and the city is all roil
ed up concerning the most mud-ob
scured problem with which a sover
ign people has ever been confronted.
Behind it. all is the city chemist,
who with Maohiavelian design sent
forth from the Ijiir of his labratory a
statement, thet people of Omaha drink
thirty-one tons of mud each twenty
four hours. The only fact in mitiga
tion of the offense of tho city chemist
is that he was called upon for a re
port. by those who are investigating
the city water supply. Omahans have
always known that the tluid they
drink is a little cloudy but of late
there lias arisen much complaint con
cerning the impurity of the water and
the investigation now on is for the
purpose of ascertaining just how
much ground for complaint exists.
The result of the investigation has
astounded even the most ardent ad
vocates of the Missouri as a source of
water supply and they admit that the
grounds for complaint are not only
solid but that they may be found in
the interior of every citizen of the city.
Some go so far as to say that contin
uation of libations from the present
supply means the ultimate return to
the days of construction and tho basic
material from which mankind was,
according to Hihlical .lore, orginially
manufactured.
ANOTHER DEFI IS
ISSUED BY CASTRO
Caracas, Venezuela, July 6—1The
Venezuelan government has afllrmcd
the $5,000,000 line levied against the
asphalt company and there is now no
possible appeal. It is this due that is
in great measure responsible for the
trouble between this country and the
United States and the action of the
government in affirming the fine in
the face of the great opposition is
looked upon as a direct defi to the
United States government,
In recalling h is diplomatic represen*
j tatives from this country, President
Roosevelt is reported as having said
that there would be no further action
unless President Castro committed
some overt, act. Now the people of
Venezuela are wondering if the action
in connection with the fine will he
considered as "overt."
JEALOUSY CAUSES
PERSIA'S TROUBLE
Teheran, July a—With the revolu
tion that threatened for u time to re- j
Hult in the overthrow of tho Hhah'tt
rule practically ended, It haw Just bo
come public knowledge that the
hIuiIi'h attempt to deceive certain diw
cardod courtlem Ih reHpoiiHible. Tho
whole Htory Ih one of court intrigue
rivalling anything of ltn character in
t he history of France or any other coun
try and oven in lt« prosent status has
CHtahliHhcd a inoHt. bloody page in the
hiHtory of Persia and c»f petty court
JealouBloH.
Home time ago tho shah practically
diHiniHHcd from IiIh personal court a
number of men high In the floclal and
political lifo of the country. Thene
men lined their influence with tho
members of parliamont to obtain the
diHiniHHal of a clique of the shah's
friends. Tho Hhah met this demand
with feigned compllatieo and when
the decoptlon waH discovered there
wan struck a Hpark resulting hi tho
revolutionary explosion.
Orchard Ih Made a Truaty
Holse, July .I—Harry Orchard yes
terday afternoon began bin term of
life Imprisonment. He was removed
from the condemned cell bo aoon an It
wan officially known that hla sontonce
had been commuted from death to
the penitentiary for life. Orohard
will have a comparatively easy time
of It for ho haa been made a trinity
with cherlcal duties.
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DEATH VIAL IS
SUICIDE'S DIFT
1 lazelhurst, Miss., July 7—Unable
to decide which of two young women
he eared most for, 101 i Graves, a pros
perous young farmer of this place,
swallowed the contents of two small
vials of poison Sunday night and
died, before death solved Grave's
problem the perplexed swain tied
ribbons around each bottle, enclosed
the bottles in wedding cake boxes
and addressed one to each of the
young women with whom he was in
love. |
The death of (1 raves was not dis
covered until after t he young women
received, through the mail, their
greusoine mementos which were
placed in the post office by a servant.
The investigation resultant upon the
alai m given by the more or less skep
tical young women proved that
Graves had not been joking when he
indictejl his message of farewell.
SUFFRAGETTES IK
ROW WITH POLICE
London, Juno 3—Nearly 200 women
milfrngists surrounded the parliment
building yesterday afternoon and for
more than an hour fought against a
cordon of |>o)ien drawn up to prevent
tho suffragettes from entering the
buildings. The woman repeatedly
charged tho police but were repulsed
each time and each time were warned
not to repeat the attempt.
An enormous crowd assembled to
watch t he women and to jeer at the
police. Tho cheering spurred tho
women on to moro desperate efforts
ami finally tho police drew thoir clubs
in order to drive back their assailants.
Several of the women were arrosted
and the remainder finally retreated
without having accomplished their
object.
The women are threatening to use
bomhs If unahlc by other means fo
obt-aln their desires.
Telkhel to Have Trotit
Hob Robinson, proprietor of tho
Heaver Dam road house has received
word that the government, has sent
bin; 10,000 eyed eggs of tho blaek
«|M>t.ted trout, the eggH coming from
Yellowstone National Park. Mr. Rob
in hod Is going to stock tho Tlckhel,
using Heaver Dam creek for the
hatching location. His desires for
the eggs were furthered by Delegate
Oalo.
A. H. Tzcwls, well known in Alaska
as a civil engineer and mineral sur
veyor, is a passenger on the Bertha
bound for Homer, In Oook Inlet, where
he ban be<»n engaged for two sum
mers past In surveying coal lands for
a Michigan company. He Is accom
panied by W. W. McAlplne, manager
of the company.
Telegraph and Mail A Town in Itself. Hla:;kHimth Shop,
Station. oto., etc.
Wortman's Roadhouse
FOOT OF SUMMIT, TWENTV MILKS FROM VALDEZ
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A FULL. STOCK OF GENERAL. SUPPLIES
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48 Miles From Valdez
On Government Trail.
Best of accommodations for man and beast. Fresh Meat
always on hand. Horse and I)<>n Feed All the latest
improvements. PRIVATE ROOMS.
M rs. Ed. Wood, Proprietor.
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118 MILES . ON FAIRBANKS
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