The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-03-04
POLITICS IN ALASKA.
Worn Out Hacks Looking Long
ingly at the Crib.
OFFICES WILL NOT GO AROUND.


The City Of Topeka arrived from Alaska yester-
DAY, having had pleasant but uneventful trip.
She left Juneau on February d and Brought
down letters and papers OF that date.
1t would appear from private advices that
political excitement is runnin- high in the terri
tory. Candidates for Federal appointments are
thicker than bees, and everybody 10 anxious to
know who will receive the plums The better
class OF citizens are fearing that ex-Gov. Swine.
ford and ex- Marshal Max EudeIman will be re-
appointed. although they know that If Cleve-
land were made aware OF their repute In the
territory they would not have another turn as
the public crib. Other candidates for the mar.
snaiship are L " Williams, OF Missouri.
formerly United States commissioner at
juneau. and Judge r. c. Rogers, pres
ent United States commissioner at Sit
ka. Judge Rogers has just returned
from trip TO California. and his friends claim
he has sure thing on appointment. For clerk
OF the United States court Dr.. G. D. Rogers, at
present marine surgeon and physician at the
Presbyterian mission at Sitka. appears to have
the inside track. Judge Cation, of Sprague.
WASH. is said to want the position on the United
States district bench now so ably filed by Hon.
Warren Trtitt. The people would very much
like to have the judiciary taken out of politics,
and are very well satisfied with Judge TruItt.
The same is the case with Collector E. I. Hatch,
whose clean and able administration has
0hASAktuoucQ LIN Will the law ouO OIOot peo>
pie. irrespective of politics. John F. Maloney,
OF juneau. wants to be United states dis
trict attorney, and has gone to Washington
City to surge his claims for the posi-
ton. Charles Koehler, of Koehler 4 James,
merchants At juneau. would like to be United
States commissioner there, and John G. Trip, of
the same place. while not an open candidate,
would have 1t known that he bet his money on
Cleveland and, if the president needs his serv-
vr1ll M nhnv ~
These are but few OF the many candidates for
office in the territory. II President Cleveland
would send a commission to Alaska to learn the
needs OF the people and their desire for an hon.
est and fearless administration, he would not
think OF appointing several Of the men named.
Speaking of the looseness o: judicial procedure
in times past in the territory, the Alaskan says:
Ia late years in appointing a jury commits
sioner, whose duty 1t is to draw the names of
the jurors TO- serve during term court. in
conjunction with the clerk OF the United states
district court, the law has been ignored by the
judge that such a jury commissioner had to be
selected from the opposite political party to
which the said clerk belongs. Elk Judge John
s Bugbee pointed out several Irregularities
in the venire of jurors to serve in the last
see that Judge Warren Truitt has shown dis
position TO eradicate such unlawful proceed.
lngs BY appointing Mr.. Erwin A. Anders, last
Wednesday. commissioner to draw the venire
OF seventyive qualified jurors to be and appear
at a special term Of the United States district
court, to convene at Juneau on the 18th of
March prox Mr.. Anders 10 q well known Dem.
Ocrat
Information has reached sitka of four Indians
losing their lives of Mount Edgecomb on Janu-
AIRY Is. Six Indians were in a canoe which was
caught In tho surf and four were drowned BY
the csnoe being thrown onto q rock. The other
two barely escaped to tell the tale.
The suffering from the big FIRE at Duncan's
Metlahkatia mission on February 3 Is aggravated
by the fact that lumber cannot be procured to
rebuild. In July 1889. the mission sawmil.,
valued ut $4,000, was burned down. but friends
in the East helped rebuild it, putting in mill
with 5000 feet capacity. second fire came
and destroyed this mill. When the big FIRE
came the town was without a mill, but one will
be erected soon, the machinery being already
on the ground. Several subscriptions have
been received by Father Duncan to aid in the
rebuilding of the town. One of tho largest
came from Seattle.
The Juneau City Mining Record tells of %.
we're earthquake which was felt there on the
night of February 20. It says:
In stores and dwelling houses the dishes.
bottles, etc, ratified considerably, and the hang.
ing lamps swayed for at least fifteen minutes
after the shock The vibrations seemed to he
from southeast to northwest and was probably
the Severest shock ever felt in Juneau, aud it is
probable that within short time we will hear
OF considerable damage being done somew here
and that the elements treated Alaska like the
government has been treating 1t by giving US
the tail end OF the shock. The shock was severe
enough to satisfy our curiosity, and If our little
city possessed tall and stately brick buildings il
ia more than probable that considerable damage
would have resulted.