Douglas Island news., 1905-02-01

Arthur K. Delaney was born at Fort Ticonderoga, on Lake Champaign, Jan
 uary 10, 1S41. In 1S45 he removed with his fathers family to Wisconsin, then one of the new and coming territories of the United States. He resided in Wisconsin continuously until April, ! 1887, when he came to the coast. He received a common school and acad- emic education, working his way through one of the high schools of Wisconsin by teaching school at odd times and devoting his energies to any work which might give him funds to complete his academic course. He also read law from time to time in the office of Amos J. Rising, later one of the judges of the supreme court of the state of Colorado In 1865 he was ad mitted to the bar, and the same year married his old school-mate, Anna J. Wallwork, who travelled the journey of life with him for 36 years. After his admission the Judge became quite active in the practice of law as we'll as in public matters. In 1869 he served as a member of the Wisconsin assem- bly,, and at the expiration of his assem- bly, term was three times, consecutiv- ely. elected county superintendent of schools for his old county of Dodge. In 1881 and 1882 he served as a member of the state senate of Wisconsin md on the election of Mir. Cleveland to the presidency was appointed in 1885 U. s. district attorney at Milwaukee, Wis cousin, which position he resigned in 1887 to accept the office of collector of the port at Sitka, Alaska, where he ar rived in April of that year. While in Wisconsin the Judge was party to a congressional fight against General Edward s. Bragg which covered a period of six years and was one of the most remarkable in the congressional history of the country. At the con- gressional convention of 1884 over 5000 ballots were taken, every one resulting in a tie vote, which was ultimately broken by the nomination of a "dark horse" In 1886 the Judge won the nomination, but the fight had been so prolonged and become so excessively bitter that the party organization was broke into fragments and the Judge was defeated at the polls, and the next succeeding April, having received his commission as collector of customs for the district of Alaska, he started for the north, reaching Sitka on the 10th day of April, 1887, since which time he has been resident of Alaska. In 1889 the administration having changed the Judge removed to Juneau and opened a law office, readily obtaining a very active practice. Mir. Cleveland again exhibited his confidence in the Judge by appointing him in December, 1895, U. s. Judge for the District of Alaska, which position he held until after the inauguration of President Mckinley.
 Judge Delaney was not only an able lawyer. but as an orator had few, if any, peers on the Pacific coast. In politics he was an ardent democrat of the old school, who sincerely believed in the principles taught by the great founder of that party, and was only intolerant of their distortion by latter day poli- ticians seemingly more intent upon party and personal aggrandizement than heedful of the public good. His ability was of a high order, his integ- rity as a man and as an official, unim- peachable, and those who knew him best-and their name is legion-have long ago pronounced the epitah which should be written indellibly upon the enduring tablet that shall mark his resting place in mother earth:
 He was an Honest Man
 and no greater praise can be awarded any man, however great his other de- servings. Journal.