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The Alaska Citizen IM'BLISHED WEEKLY BY I HARMON CASKEY Prop CITIZEN BLOCK FAIRBANKS, j -a Second Class Matter. May 14 at the postoffioe at Fair hntiLs, Alaska, under the Act of March J 1878 ' N GENERAL. OFFICES • NEW YORK AND CHICAGO BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES SUBSCRIPTION PRICE uor? \ ear (In advance) MO 00 Sli Month** (In Advance) 5 00 fhree Month* (In Advance) 2 50 One Month . 1 00 S'.nxle Copies . 25 Day erf Publication MONDAY Phone 262 Phone ENDORSEMENT When you vole for Sulxer you aiw endorsing the policies of our great President; you are complying with u truest direct from him to the people of Alaska that the Delegate from Alaska be In accord with the Administration, a Democrat, not a political jumping jack who today de Clares he Is a dyed-in the-wool yard wide-non-shrinkable Republican, hut who is drawing his salary and mile uge from a Democratic regime and elected upon his campaign statements that he was h Wilson Democrat Mr. Wickersham's sun Is setting; the people are tired of Our Jim and his platitudes. The day of the pro fesslonal politician is over; the peo ple want results, and Wicket-sham is not getting them. Mr. Wicker sham points with pride (?1 lo the many things he has secured for Al aska, but It remained for Juneau to find out that he had stalled them for a number ol years In their ef forts to obtain permission to bond their growing city for the purpose of erecting a suitable school: Wiek ersham stating that he had done everything In his power to get the committee to act upon the matter: that the committee had adjourned for the year and that nothing could be accomplished this year. The Ju neaultes thought differently, sent an unknown and unheralded envoy to Washington, and in three days he a> vompllshed what Our Jim had failed to do In three years. No wonder Jim has gone back to the First Division to try and avert the landslide which spells defeat, not realizing that he Is steadily losing the support of the intelligent voters of the Fourth Di vision; relying upon the efforts of his rapidly disintegrating "machine" to carry his home bailiwick. Wickersham is running as a "Straight” Republican; yet that par ly has failed to endorse his candi dacy; he is a man without a party except the "Wick party” be con Bldered as such. If he should he elected he will be neither fish nor fowl, he will have no standing with either Administration; his days of usefulness are over. Mr. Hughes has evinced no interest In Alaska; his Seattle speech con tained the briefest of .statements that "you have a Territory of great prom lse In Alaska." Not tt woru of en couragement. not a statement that the great work commenced during a Democratic Administration would be carried out, much less extended In any manner, and it is the opinion of several Alaskans Just returning from the Stales that his utter lack of enthusiasm on this subject will mean that President Wilson will be the choice of the State of Washing ton. A vole for Chas. A. Sulzer is a vote of confidence in President Wil son; it means that he will receive the support of the Democratic Sen ate and House, the assistance of President Wilson in the measures brought before them for the benefit of Alaska and a continuance of the work Just being started in our great Territory. AND REMEMBER THIS -THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WAS FIRST TO AID ALASKA. MISTAKE8 ARE NATURAL. In criticising the last legislature for the acts passed by it there are several things to keep in mind. In regard to the eight-hour law the Judge, In making his decision, found forty or more cases where similar acts had been enacted by other leg islatures. This shows that if the Territorial Legislature sometimes errs state legislatures, also, fall into the same difficulties. As a matter of fact, law making is not so simple a task as it appears on the surrace. Moreover, the courts themselves find it difficult to agree. Even the Supreme Court has reversed itself, and In nearly every important deci sion there is a dissenting opinion. Often the decision is made on a slight majority. Therefore, when such eminent lawyers find so much trouble in interpreting the law, a little charily ought to be given to j the Alaskan law makers Most of them have been men who! desired to do the right thing, but j they were not skilled In the law J To some extent, at least, it would j not do them much good if they were j Congress itself, which Is made up j practically of lawyers, has often fall en into the same error. When the actual preparation of j an act for ihe statute book is con | sldered. It is surprising that they d , as well as they do There are J I many clashing interests and opini ons to reconcile that in the end the law is thrown hastily together in the last days of the session It Is to be hoped that our legislature has learned a lesson in regard to the ti tie of an act and the subject luattei therein — THE WOMAN'S WAY. It is an interesting source of specu l-ition us to how much the women are taken in by the bombardments of the politicians. It has often been a erted bv those who pretend to know that the fairer sex is always bus eeptible to a uniform or to a knight (-riant. For a long time Theodora sexelt has tried to be both. in Chicago Thursday he was, then. ,1 his old tricks. However, there is some doubt as to the above Intel pretatlon of feminine psychology. Women have long studied the pe culiar mental qualities of men, and it is not likely that they will be moved very far, either by bombast or compliments. They know Just about what both are worth when they come at the time of a political ampalgn. There is no doubt but that Teddy i-- something of h lire eater, but he\ will remember that this same Toddy was a close follower ot public opinion when he was President. Pub lic opinion during the past years ha. been averse to war if there was any honorable way to avert It. Now that an honorable way has been found they, the women, who more than any have been for peace, will listen to such thunder with a smile. The political leaders have yet m find that the women must be won by deeds in politics as well as in life. Most of the leaders have found out that In their own homes it is deeds that count. Yet they still cling to the old. medieval notion that wo men in the aggregate are moved by thunder and lightning. We wonder if those same women who cheered Roosevelt at Chicago were laughing at him in their sleevw GEORGE B. GR'GSBY. In view of the fact that George B. Grigsby, of Nome, was expected to be in Fairbanks to speak for himself, little has so far been said In the, Fourth Division in advocacy of his candidacy for the attorney-generalship of the territory. So far, in fact, the only statements regarding Mr. Grigs by in Fairbanks have been voiced by his opponent, Mr. Schofield; and, while it cannot be denied that the lat ter gentleman evidenced to a remark able degree his capabilities as a po litical mudslinger, it was hardly to he expected that he would go out of his way to throw bouquets at his op ponent In fact, Mr. Schofield's friends will undoubtedly insist that their candidate was perfectly justi fied, after he had charged Mr. Grigs by on the public platform here with every imaginable degree of moral turpitude and legal crookedness while in office at Nome, in omitting to state that, less than two years after these "crimes" had been committed, Mr. Grigsby was elected mayor of Nome by an overwhelming majority. It has now developed that the ne cessity of attending to legal busi ness at Nome this month will pre vent a campaign by Mr. Grigsby in the Fourth Division. One of the accusations made by Schofield against Grigsby had refer ence to the latter’s removal from office, this being brought about, ac cording to the Republican candidate, because Grigsby had committed acts of "Crookedness" which held him up to the odium of the people. As has been Intimated, the subsequent PUB LIC endorsement of Mr. Grigsby may be taken as an adequate denial of the truth of Mr. Schofield's statement. It is conceded that the Republi can territorial convention which nomi nated Schofield was completely domi nated by Shackleford, the represen tative of the would-be special inter ests of Alaska who are fighting the taxation that it will be the attorney general’s special duty to enforce. It was those same Interests that forced through their usual devious methods, George B. Grigsby’s retirement from office in Nome, and thereby brought about the public condemnation the action warranted. These same inter ests are aware that if Grigsby is elected they can expect no more than their jUBt due, and it is not on record that they have ever deemed this to be quite sufficient. What they expect from Mr. Schofield can be left to the Imagination. It is with sound reason urged that a vote for Mr. Suizer Is an expres sion of confidence ;n President Wil son. With even 41 eater force It can be insisted that the votes registered for Ortgaby trill count in this re sped, for the contest tor the allot ne>-generalship Is the only one In which the Republican and Democratic parties are opposed Ortgaby haa the confidence end re- | spec! of his home division, where j tie has resided with his family for sixteen years. He is capable, clean and a thorough Alaskan WORK OF DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS _ That the WilHon administration has been one 01 accomplishment is well I known to the reading public, but the 1 annexed synopsis of the work done 1 in the past thiee years will refresh • the minds of those who might have foi gotten part of the early record of the 64th congress and at the same time furnish good argument tor the support of the Democratic [ ticket in Alaska, thereby expressing ; a confidence In the territory’s most! effectual friend, President Wilson. The Sixty-fourth congress In Its ; first session Passed 252 public and 174 private ! acts; 33 public and 4 private reao- i Unions Killed the Gore and MrI.emort reso lutions providing for a surrender of American rights on the high teas. j Prevented a national steam rail- , road strike through the passage of i an Eight-hour-day Law Appropriated $655,000,000 for ua-1 tlonal defease. Passed army and navy measures, enlarging and Improving both, for tie' defense of the country. Passed the Shipping Bill, appropri ating $50,000,000 for a Government owned merchant marine Enacted legislation insuring long time loans to farmers at low rates. Passed a Child Labor Law to keep children out of the factories. Gave greater measure of self-gov ernment to the Philippines. Created a Tariff Commlaslon. Passed a Workman's Compensation Act for Federal employees. Provided Federal aid to Slates in construction of roads. Imposed a prohibitive tax on cotton sold for future delivery In rictltloua or wash sales Amended the Postal Savings Law, increasing the amount which Indi viduals may depoatt from $600 to $1,000 with interest and an addi tional $1,000 without interest. Amended the Federal Reserve Law to permit national banks to estab lish foreign branches. Pabsed the Emergency Revenue Law, providing for increasing the Income tax, levying a graduated tax of l to 10 per cent on Inheritances ranging from $50,000 to $5,000,000; a 10 per cent net profit tax on manu facturers of munitions, 5 per cent net profit tax on manufacturers of materials entering into munitions, and a license tax on actually invested capital stock of corporations capi talized at more than $99,000. WORDY WARFARE. It Is merely natural that the heat engendered by the friction conse quent on a political campaign should result in a boiling over when tue parlies thereto are cureless with the steam gauge. Fortunately the im pc ru.ncfc -I the result, so fat a. the general welfare of tne particular com munity in which the effervescence tunes place, can be meats ured by that homely simile which describes a controversial warfare as a "storm in a teacup." A trite lllustra'.'.-n of this slate of affolia Is furnished by the battle of wits (?) that Is being waged over the eight-hour law between the even ing paper and the local representative of the Wlckersham party. The ill-con sidered. and, to say the least, ex travagant, reflections cast by the N-M on thone members of the Al aska Legislature who voted for the measure have been taken as a text by the local manager of the present delegate’s campaign from which he preaches a sermon, the Intent of which is to prove that none of the aforesaid members are tit for re-elec tlon. The importance of the discussion to the community is, of course, entire ly negligible, its glaring foolishness being as apparent as is the childish ness exhibited In the hunt for a quarrel. For to state that a member of a legislature, or other law-making body, la Incompetent because be vot ed for a hill which subsequently has been declared to be poor law would argue that practically every Congress of the United States has been made up of incompetents. This is, perhaps, best demonstrated by the fact that the ordinary law library ia made up of about one per cent statute and text books and ninety-nine per cent volumes devoted to the elucidation of the differences of opinion that possibly can be arrived at by the Judges whose place it is to admin ister those laws. So far as the eight-hour law ia con cerned. the phase of the question that alone can be claimed to he of Importance Is that Senator* Hath-'; | I-nd and Sulxcr „nd Represi main ■ : Hum* expressed their approval u 1 i the measure by their votes in favo. i Of it. presumably because they were I iu accord with Its sentiment. I’n doubtedly these gentlemen have no - desire to hide their records in this j regard The minor legal defect in , the bill, if such It Is eventually prov- | ed to be. can hardly with fairness i be charged against any of them, in ! view of the fuct that none have had legal training. SIGNS OF THE TIMES yesterday’s telegram from the Rec ord Herald of Chicago, to the effect that It wan to join the ranks of the liemocials, is one of the most en couraging signs of the times. Last presidential election that paper sup ported the Republican party It has always been an independent paper, with a leaning toward the Republican patty. It Is one of the greatest pa pers of the middle west, and has a great Influence thioj^ghout the nation. If new spapers reflect the trend of j public opinion at ah, and they un doubtedly do. the reaction from the movement toward Hughes must bare set In. 1‘erhaps they were waiting, as George Harvey was, for some definite constructive argument on the part of the grand old party, in his failure to provide this Hughes made » great mistake. He should know that, for the papers have always been calling for juat that thing frutu him. He cer tainly ought to have his "blanket off" by this time. THE ALASKAN'S VOTE. It Is bow a good time for the voter to ealmly sit down and figure out Just what this election means to him. Although Alaskans have no electoral vole yet, they do have a way of expresslng^thelr confidence in the present administration. The . moot obvious way for them to do so is by a vole for Sulaer. Has ibis administration done the things that the voter would have it do.' Is 1< worthy of further support? leaving party considerations aside for the moment, is there anything that the present administration has not done that could have been ac complished by the other party? These are some of the questions that the honest voter will ask himself before he goes to the polls on election day. Granted that some mistakes have been committed, is It likely that any other man or set of men would have* been able to come through the fire of the past few yeWis without a few shrapnel wounds upon them? The most that anyone can ask Is that. In the face of new and strange de vices of warfare, the leader bring to bear a cool and sane Judgment. APPRECIATION. It la unfortunate that Alaskans have no direct way to show the ad ministration how much they appre ciate the splendid work that is being, done for the territory. It Is, no doubt, true that the adminiatration will go on with the road work and the gov ernment railroad without a single word of approbation from the terri tory. It Is Interested in the develop ment of the Immense resources of the country. President Wilson can very well wait for posterity to thank him for his efforts. There is nothing for him to gain politically from his invest ment of the government's money In Alaska. In this development work he has shown the mind of a real statesman, for, without any regard ! for the political aide of the matter, be has tried to help a distant part of the empire. However, there Is a way for Al askans to show their appreciation of the magnificent efforts of the ad ministration. Wilson has urged that Charles A. Suiter be elected dele gate from Alaska. lly voting for Suiter, then, and by electing him Alaskans can express their thanks for the efforts that have been made for them. ON MODERN NOVELS. It la a pleasure to open a modern book and find therein something of humanity as it really is. Too many of the so-called popular novels are of a hot-house nature. The emotions are so strained and unreal that the reader rises from a reading of them with the same feeling that he wak?» from a nightmare. Then the love Blory is given a pie dominance far above its real impor tance in life. It is a strange contra diction that Americans produce a sen timental literature that, if any of its events happened in real life, they would laugh them out of court. How their sense of humor permits them to wade through the Beas of senti mentality is an absurdity in Itself and a good humorous subject. "Widecombe Pair,” a novel by Kden Phillpotts now at the George C. Thomas Memorial Library, is a book that presents humanity. There is no attempt to arouse an Interest by a silly love theme, although, as in life, the love theme occurs. Perhaps the book is a trifle gloomy, as are the b>,. • lost of the realists. I.lfe. h- a .1 - SCenmd closely, is likely to fill the sensitive man with pessi mistic thoughts. liut the reader feels that here is real life The people talk anil act. as they most often do. It Is refresh ing not to have your feelings laeer ated aud distorted by the unnatural Thest unusual things may occur, but they are out of the line of most of the common folk. Let us give thanks for that. Kor that reason alone, and there are others, it Is refreshing to open the novel mentioned. It Is pleasant to visit and see through the author's eyes the quiet beauty of the rural community and the quaint persons with which the story deals. i hen there are so many people that you can get acquainted with. The hand some hero and the languorous siren and the beauteous heroine become tiresome after a while. It is Inter esting to know that the novelist hus round other people In the world. "HOOSiER POET" TIME Now that the "frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock " those who have lived in the middle west cun take down their poems by James Whitcomb Riley and live again the kindly life of those broad plains. As one critic has said, Riley Is the poet of the broad prairies. There Is nothing of the rude and boisterous spirit In him. Nothing, either, of the great passions and tumultuous ambitions that dominates the work of the master appears in his homely verse. Eor bis Is the simple, tender verse of a quiet, busy people. He was not a great poet in the sense that the term is commonly understood, but he has created a new folk poetry. Everywhere one of those people of his community stands before the reader. There is the contented farm er in the poem quoted above, and the Lla-town humoriBt, and the hired man in "The ltaggedy Man," and so on. All of them breathe the hu mor and the pathos of a simple eoun try people. No comment on the work of the poet is complete without reference to his poems for the children. To paraphrase the book that the poet loved, whole generations of children yet unborn shall rise up to call him blessed. There is something wrong with the child that doesn't shiver with "Orphant Annie," or have op portunity to meet a chap like "The Raggedy Man." Such a comment is the one, perhaps, that the poet would like best of all. That he lived chil dren Is written in no uncertain terms in the best ot his verse. Last it should be written that there is nothing in his work that a child dare not read. His poems need not be placed on the upper shelf, where the child can not reach them. His works are as clean as the meadows that delighted him. It is a pleasure to take one of his books and visit for a while with Just ordinary people. Pleasant it is to be where the sentiment is clean and pure and wholesome. Now that the poet has passed away, fortunately not before he was fully recognised, it is well to wish him Oodspeed, as George Harvey does in his address, in the words of one of bis beBt poems— "Good bye, Jim, Take keer 'o yerself." FRIENDS FOR A* THAT. The game of politics certainly brings out the humorous side of American life. Although the time of narrow, partisan politics has in a measure passed, there is still some of the spirit left. That spirit sees the cloven foot always on the candi dates of the other party and the halo on the brows of their party leaders. Still there is plenty of vituperation vented on the opposite party. Not one-half of It all do they mean. If they did mean all that was said there is more than one neighbor hood that would be in a regular Kentucky feud. But most of them say. "Oh, it's Just politics,” and pass ft by at that. After the election the party strife Is forgotten and bitter enemies cun again become bosom friends. Now it seems strange that the men who use the partisan method of war fare do not realise that the majority of the voters are neat to the dope. Their fiercest broadsides are recog nised as blank cartridges. There fore what Is the uae of all of the political dope? Why not say that the other fellow is a pleasant fellow and has a little- brains and honesty. IT would seem from her remarks as reported in our dispatches last Bight from Cordova, that Lena Mor row Lewis, the Socialist candidate for delegate to congress from Alas ka. Is campaigning more in the Inter ests of Wlckersham than of herself. "Why don't you speak for yourself, Lena." A heese warming was held for Mrs. Shermer at Chatanlka yester day afternoon. AN OPEN LETTER To the Honorable .lames Wickersham : Sir I am in receipt of .1 pamphlet, containing speeches supposed to have been delivered by you in Congress and published July 2G, 1916, (no doubt tree of charge under the unani mous consent of "leave to print privi lego.”) I admit, as a campaign docu mem, in your own behalf, it is a masterly effort on your part, but as to the truth and veracity of the assertions made therein by you, I have my doubts. Hence, I am writ ing this open letter to you in the hope that you may enlighten me on some of the assertions you made in that speech In respect of Bill en titled to The Full Territorial form of Government for Alaska you Intro duced in Congress January 4. 1916. In your speech you claim that the Wilson Democratic Administration is opposing your efforts to secure Full Territorial form of government for Alaska To say the least, that stale ment dumbfounded me. Do you mean to say, and admit, now that your Home Buie Bill for Alaska, proposed, Introduced by you and passed by Congress August 24, 1912, is defec tive? When did you change your mind? I can recall the time when your Alaska Home Rule Bill was be fore Congress as introduced by you and when you sent the Bill, with a circular letter, to all youi eonatitu encies ami i.skcu mem in uiane sip geBtlons ab- ut it. Some of us. who believed in Home Rule, and thought that Alaska was entitled to Home Rule, studied the Bill as introduced by you, but came to the conclusion that your Home Rule was no Home Rule at all, BUT A DELUSION AND A SNARE a joker Home Rule Bill, as it were -and so expressed our-< selves, and pointed out the defi ciencies in your Bill. I can recall distinctly your speech delivered in Fairbanks on October IS. 1911, where you denounced everyone who dis agreed with you as "enemies of Al aska, undesirable citizens, ignoram usses and Guggenheim agents, etc." You made the assertion at that time that your Home Rule Bill, as drawn by you. would grant to Alaska as liberal, complete and full Territorial form of Government as Congress ever before extended to any other Terri tory. Do you now admit that in 1911 you yourself were ignorant ot the fact that your Home Rule Bill was not a Home Rule Bill at all. BUT SIMBLY A JOKE? Or did you simply fool and bluff your constitu encies? Which was it? You must have done one thing or the other, then, because in the pamphlet above referred to which you have sent broadcast all over Alaska (free of charge.) there is another Home Rule Bill, which you call the "Full Ter ritorial Form of Government for Al aska." Besides your own acknowledgment, time has proven to the people of Alaska that at least you either did not know how to draw a Home Rule Bill in 1911, did not understand the principles of local self Government, OR YOU THOUGHT THAT YOU COULD BLUFF AND FOOL US FOR EVERMORE. Time has proven to the satisfaction of most people of Alaska that the Alaska Legislature, under your Home Rule, is not, nor can it be, a legislative body as far as any beneficial legislation is con cerned. but only a debating society, or a body of petitioners. Time, to gether with your own action of intro duelug another Home Hule Bill, has proven that your invectives which you hurled upon those who disagreed with you In 1911. like chickens, have come home to roost. To make a disliuction between your two Home Rule Bills, allow me to call your first the full Terri torial form of Government; the sec ond the super-full Territorial form of Government. Sir. you have intro duced your super-full Territorial form of Government for Alaska, pub lished It in a pamphlet, together with your campaign arguments for re-elec tion, and sent it throughout Alas ka, denouncing the friendly Wilson Democratic Administration as ene mies of Alaska (echo from 1911) and why? Just because someone has disagreed with you in respect to that super-full Territorial Bill ol yours. I have honestly endeavored to com pare your two bills, have tried to see wherein your super-full bill is superior to your full bill. 1 have failed to see any material difference between the two. I admit that with a strong microscope one can see some nibbling and whittling here and there, but the same old joker, the same old bill of 1911, which you yourself admit now is deficient, is there. You have confessed by your actions that you were wrong in your contentions in respect of your full Territorial Bill. 1911, as being per fect. How about vour super-full Bill? Do you actually believe that the people of Alaska will believe you again and stand by you, right or wrong, and discredit an administra tion that has been friendly towards them; an administration that has passed several acts of material bene fit to the Territory'' H> what righ* or reason do you expect in* , or an other voter in Alaska, to s ipp* c you in your contention tha» la* %V:1 son Democratic Admin tr.> mi - an enem> of Alaska and von die mil tried and true friend of Alaska’ You. sir. have been tried ml found wanting, on >our past record Y*m are either ignorant ot what »s in * ■ ■ sary to give Alaska a mil Terri orial form of Government, or >ou still be lieve in the same old Home Rule Bill which you dr»*w p : the Hen Thomas (’ale and which Mr (’ale <n troduced in Congress, and which Dill afterwards became known ^ the Be\ eridge bill or you still believe th it you can fool the people According to your own statement two years ago. President Woodrow Wilson anti Secretar> Franklin K Lane were the best friends Alasl,. ever had; and to my way of thinking they are now as good as they ever w'ere To my wa> of thinking, too. you have failed in that political pamphlet of yours, to show when in they have failed in theii friendship towards Alaska Someone in Wash ington, D. (’., opposed your sup* i lull Home Rule Bill, and, as usu: I you became sore and began to d* nounce everybody. But if your stipe full Home Rule Bill is as fault> your full Home Rule Bill has proven to be, the man who opposed ” con ferred a lasting benefit lo Ah.ska. Your Honor, after read ng your po litical pamphlet and tv dling your past record, do you expect me. or anyone else with a h■ i.• i ind, to take your word as against the 'rl<ndly ae tlons of President Woodrow Wilson and Secretary Franklin K t.ane? No, sir, you did not advance any convincing argument in your politi cal pamphlet that the Wilson Demo cratic Administration i - ; n enemy of Alaska, and you the only friend of Alaska, anil Ihal is the i n on why I have written tHi opt u letcr lo you, and not only i, bu there are quite a number ot my roughneck friends who are of tin s m- opinion ns 1 am Hoping that when y"u 1 to Fairbanks vim will eive more light on the subject, I remain Respectfully yours, MARTIN HARRAIS. STILL ON JOB TELLS DETRACTORS OF LEGIS LATOR FEW FACTS ABOUT FORMER DOINGS The Evening Flapper, consistent with its record for misrepresent.* tion and unreliability, in commentine upon our feeble efforts .. behalf ot Senator Sutherland’s Candida* > foi re-election, errs in the following par ticulars: Sen. Sulzer 1)11) NO T father the resolution which brought us the mining experimental station, because*, firstly, there never was any such resolution; secondly, the mining ex perimental station which Sulzer’s MEMORIAL asked for was to be es tablished at JUNEAU, and the bill which provided for the establish ment of twelve of tins* stations throughout the United States was PASSED BY CONGRESS before the legislature had convened. Y\ hat we stated in our former article was that Sulzer tried to steal our school of mines and was frustrated by the watchful waiting of our faithful Dan We did, however, make one mis statement in the former article, in stating that the two Pioneers' hills were all the constructive legislation passed by our legislature. The elec tion law Is another constructive mea sure, which was passed at the las! election by Dan Driscoll, with the collaboration of Sen. Sutherland. We hope the voters of the Fourth division have not forgotten that Senator Sutherland was the only member of the first senate who re fused to sign that letter declaring against the government railroad. The "seven slippery senators" were not of the machine that gave Thomp son’s infantile legislator so much trouble at the last session. Advt. LAURA HERRINGTON SENT OUT. Laura Herrington, one or ihe tuitr breed girls who gained so much no toriety In connection with the trials which, for a time last spring, occu pied the attention of the court here, and resulted in the conviction of several men on serious charges, will leave for the Outside today. Sin Is being sent out by District Attor ney R. F. Roth, who has arranged with the attorney general of the United States to have the girl put in a private school at Portland, Ore Mr. Roth did not say to what school the girl would go. She will go out in custody of Mrs. Paul Ringseth as matron.