Valdez daily prospector., 1916-03-09
THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1916
AS OTHERS SEE US.

"While the world is following the great conflict abroad, war is being waged at Valdez that is causing that city of knockers to be the laughing stock of the coast from Seattle to the Kuskokwim. The fight started years ago during the period when Reynolds was trying to put over his railroad to the interior. He failed to make good. A well-built railroad was constructed from Cordova. For few years a promising gold mine near the town maintained goodly payroll and kept the place from going down. Later on when the government railroad decid- ed upon Seward as the winter ter minal and Anchorage as the summer terminal, the clique at Valdez again got busy and like mad dog running around in circles and biting innocent bystanders, the knockers are now and for some time have been engaged ir destroying their own standing and their own property.
 Heretofore the clique has been ob- aessed with jealousy over the selec- tion of other ports as railroad termi- nals. But in the last year the railroad question has been somewhat lost sight of by politics and personal feelings. A Democrat from Georgia was ap- pointed to high political office and the press of Alaska is filled with the charges that he has had anywhere from a dozen to eighteen relatives placed on the government payroll, and in retaliation, it is claimed in the Valdez and Seward papers, that this official has had many of the promi- nent and eminently responsible citi- xens of Valdez, who are members of the Tillikum Club, arrested, as trus- lees of club engaged in the sale of aiQuor. AS is well-known the Tilli- kum Club is a social organization like any other club in the United States and whose membership consists of business men, army officers, fnf1uen- tial citizens generally and govern- ment employees, the idea being to build up an attractive organization In the northern port where the mem bers can enjoy all the comforts of home. Several of the members theo- retically arrested were found to be residents of Seattle and they could not be extradited.
 One of the clique responsible for -Stirring up the internal disSension has been accused of selling in Chica- go and elsewhere Valdez town lots, and when these lots have been inves- tigated they have been found to lie adjacent to the Valdez Glacier and there Is danger of some more prose- cations in this respect for obtaining money under false pretenses.
 The same clique last summer caus- ed considerable amusement by for bidding the steamships to land at the Valdez docks and insisting that such steamships use only the municipal AOChSI UuAiI SO"C yCdIo d6Op ONI which have never been used and are now falling into decay. The mayor of the town is Dr. F. M. Boyle, who has been one of the leaders of the light for many years, but he recently lost out in his fight in the Valdez dock and the various steamships by . decision rendered by Judge F. M Brown, who decided in favor of the Valdez Dock Company and held the ally ordinance of the Boyle-Frame crowd absolutely void.
 The Seward Gateway of December 7th contains a statement that Dr. Boyle has sold his drug store at Val dez and will leave for Philadelphia, so it is expected that the conduct of