Douglas Island news., 1901-01-09
BOLDT EXPLAINS.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. 24th, 1900.
 lEDIToR; SlR:-Mr. Replogle or some, body else has sent me a Douglas Island News of the 5th of Dec, page con, taiuing pice about me in the K. C. Star.
 When you look back among your pa per you will find on page about such Indians - headlines is: "Killisnoo Kinks" by Mrs. c. E. VanHuebner. On page 5 you will find a pice from Mir. and Mrs. Wm. Wallen Back from Daw- son; such is in the Douglas Isl News of Oct. l7th, 1900. The Star man got a glimpse of it and mixed the whole thing up so that got about hot when l seen the pice in the Star. If newspaper re- porters in Kans. City, Chicago, St. Louis and other places never get a thing right I am not to blame. Before I would cut pice out of a paper and send it to Alaska in order to run some one down I would be sure if Boldt real ly made such a report or not. do not believe everything that newspapers publish today. You ought not to.
 did not make a remark that would take my family back to Alaska in few days. I simply told the man that l just got bak few days ago.
 About the snow have told the truth when said to him that snow was deep, for when left the mountains on your Island and across the bay did not look like much else hut a round mass of snow. The deep guIches were pretty we'll filled and on some places hardly the top of the trees could not be seen. do not tell your people that you did not have more'n 8 1 inches snow on Douglas Isl. this fall they will not believe you you got to show them. You had five inches of snow on sea level when left. Rain, snow and ice, sleet, is about all the good wether you have there, the sunshine is not much to depend on it don't less long. I have done missiona- " work among the Indians in Juneau and found so many as IS women with there children sitting on the floor, that is no lie.
 What you say that painted the friends church in Douglas City last summer is not so, it was late in fall when varnished the inside of that church just done that to help the Quakers save some money and to help myself a little. The Apostle Paul worked with his own hands-I thank God for every Dollar I can honestly earn. I have not taken anything from anybody on your Isl. left as an hon. est man and man & I want to come bak as a man not to do anybody or run anybody down. Hope you will kindly correct the statement you made in your news and mak it good and send me a news as soon as you done so.
 Yours very sincerely,
 F.W. BoLDT.
 The above letter is its own oondem nation. We don't think we have wronged Mir. Boldt. If the Kansas City Star man did that is not our fault. If he meant that the snow was deep on the mountains, why didn't he say so. The vindicitive temper of the man is shown when he writes, "Rain, snow and ice and sIeet is about all the good weather you have there" In that state ment he shows his deplorable igno- rance. Alaska has climate that, while not at all times irreproachable, is pref erabIe generally to that of Missouri.
 No one criticised Mir. Boldt because he did honest work, and his bringing the Apostle Paul into tho controversy is altogether unealled for. We all work here on Douglas Island, and we men tioned that one thing as the only good thing we knew about Mr. Boldt.
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