The Ketchikan miner., 1909-06-12
Dear Old Mother
 First With Clark

of Connecticut and former ac- quaintance of Walter E. Clark, has sent us copy of the Norwich Bulletin containing the following account of our newly appointed governor.
 Willimatic, May 1s-Mrs. William Ross of Chaplin received telegram Tuesday afternoon from her son, Walter Eli Clark of Washington, D.. c. The wording was in substance as follows: The president sent my nomi- nation as governor of Alaska to the senate today. am telling you first. "
 Mir. Clark is to succeed Governor Hoggatt resigned, and is exceptionally we'll qualified to fulfll the duties that will devove upon him as he is famii- Ear with conditions in that land having 2 made himself thoroughly conversant upon the same by visits there in the interests of the federal government the first time in 1900 as special in- vestigating agent for this government. On that trip he was member O., Lieutenant Peary's party that jour- neyed to Cape Nome. He wrote many interesting articles relative to the Alaskan situation. His second trip to Alaska was made in the early summer of 1906 and he returned home in Octo- Der of the same year.
 Mir. Clark's rapid rise in Washing ton to the present distinct houor has been closely followed by his eastern Connecticut friends and others for he is Windham county boy.
 Walter Eli Clark was born in the !, lSb9. At an early age he removed 10 Chaplin with his parents and received his elementary education ir its district schools and then his graded education in the Natchaug school of this city.
 Believing that he saw future's vo. cation in teaching he entered the state normal sbcool at New Britain and was the only boy with his class graduated therefrom.
 He went next to Waterville tt teach for brief period being soon elected to the principalship of the public schools of Manchester, filling that position wi.h so much credit that he was stirred to still greater endeavor ard entered Williston semi nary 70 complete his preparations fol college. In September 1891 he entered Wesleyan university at Middletowr and worked his way through by doing COT responding for the Hartford Cour- ant and other parpers. It was whil' there that his ideas for the futurt were changed. President Raymond O the university was impressed by hi; ability as a writer that he made tho remark to young Mir. Clark: "Yo, ought to earn your living by: youi pen" and acting upon that suggestion Mr. Clark has been doing so very sat isfactorily ever since.
 Even before his graduation iron Wesleyan in 1895 he had been tenderet tentative offers for newspaper employ. ment and he hired out with the Hart ford Post and went to work for that paper about July 1 the same year only to resign within four months to accept the night editorship of the Washington Times, and for almost four teen years has been rapidly climbing the news ladder there until he is to- day known as one of the leading cores pondents in the Capitol city.
 His closest connections for year: have been as writer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer the Buffalo Courier and the New York Sun bureau.
 No president has made any trip of importance during MT. Clark''s resi-
 nee in Washington without his con- nection with the party in newspa- per mans capacity. He has also been a successful writer Of magazine arti- cles.
 It will be remembered that he at one time had an office in this city CD main street.