The Cordova daily times., 1921-08-08
GOUernOr Bone DeLiUers Message From HardHag
 70 People Of Territory

hazy and theoretical ideas of the members Of congress and many East erners that Alaska was the vast treasure house oI the nation, while i'll realty it has vast potential resources ! but enormous amounts of capital must be expended before any real develop meuL will materahZe. Alr. HaZelet said that the future of the country would depend on the abolition of bur | cauCratiC rule from distance Oi D., OUO miles, and upon the relaxation ol | obnoxious conservation pOlCIes Ill cN IstenCe. He declared that people wnu came here to gain fortune quickly had better return to the states, as Al aska was not place of sudden and great wealth, as generally believed outside, but place in which to make 1 your home and grow up with the COun try. Mir. Hazelet said that he believed that when Mir. Bone retired as govern or he would be recognized as the greatest chief executive Alaska had ever had; that he was in hearty aC cord with all constructive measures represented by Governor Bone and would work with him to the utmost of his ability in all such matters.
 1 A HOOsIER BORN AND BRED Alaska's new governor is true ! Hoosier, as he was born in Indiana 1 6l years ago, spent his boyhood days in that state and when he was 27 years of age. married Miss Mary Worth, of Anderson. Indiana. After receiving a high school education, MT Bone started in on his newspaper work as reporter in Indianapolis Shortly after his marriage he went 1 to Washington. where he secured a position with the Post. He remained with that daily for seventeen years i travelling from news editor to manag 1 ing editor He purchased an inter est in the Washington Herald in Oct ] 1906. and became the editor of that paper
 While in Washington Mir. Bone and the late Senator John Wilson became quite friendly, which resulted in Mir Bone going to Seattle in 1911 and talk | ing over the editorial management of the Post.Tntelligencer. He retained that position until Oct 1918, when the paper was sold to Clark Kettle i ton and associates. Shortly after that Mir. Bone went East on a trip and : coming in contact with his old friend Will H. Hays, chairman of the Re publican national committee, he was induced to accept an important post that had as its object the up-buildine of the party organization.
 His title was director of publicity and while he was in charge of that 1 bureau, with headquarters at New
 York. his relations with the chairman and later the presidential candidate was of a most personal nature. His first duties included a trip from the Atlantic to the Pacific, when he got
 into close touch with all the party leaders During the campaign his work was efficient and of high value
 Soon after he took up his residence in Seattle. with his wife and three
 children, Editor Bone developed ar
 interest in the northen country tha
 grew as he became better informed
 of the trials and needs of Alaska During the years 1914 and 1915 he wa!
 chairman of the Alaska bureau of thu
 Seattle Chamber Of Commerce. anC has ever since manifested a deep in
 terest in the progress and welfare o
 the territory.
 During the summer of 1913, MT
 Bone. accompanied by his wife ant daughter Mildred, joined the Seattle
 Chamber of Commerce tour througl Alaska. The guest of honor was Seu Mann, of San Francisco, a persona representative of Secretary of the In terior Lane. The excursionists wer' , shown the attractions of Ketchiksu