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In The News
The Alaskan
Sitka, Alaska Territory
Volume I, Number 3.
Saturday, November 21, 1885.
Page 2.
JUDGE MCALLISTER'S PETITION. -- The late visit of Hon. Ward McAllister,
former Judge of the U.S. District Court for Alaska, was an outgrowth of
that unfortunate quarrel between the civil authorities and the Home
Mission superintendent, over which our people were so much excited. As
usual, in all such quarrels, both parties were in some respects wrong,
thought it is not our present purpose to show how. The Judge now comes
to Alaska to obtain affidavits to disprove the charges made against him
by Dr. Jackson. Incidental to this he presents for signature petitions,
written by himself, at Wrangel, Juneau, Killisnoo and Sitka, setting
forth that he was an honorable and just judge and man, while in office
here, and he has announced his purpose by their aid to seek to get
reinstated in his office. It is rather a humiliating spectacle to see
the ermine sought in this way; and it must also be laborious work, as
the reasons given by two gentlemen to whom he applied at Juneau will
show, one of them declining because he was a democrat and the other
because of his being a republican.
E. W. HASKETT.-- Our people were greatly shocked, on the last arrival of
the Idaho, to learn that E. W. Haskett, late District Attorney for
Alaska, who left on the October steamer to return to his home in Iowa,
had fallen from a train near the Needles station, California, and was
instantly killed. This was all that could be learned, no particulars
being given in the telegram, which was published on the day the steamer
left Nanaimo. Mr. Haskett was a man of many bright and kindly qualities,
and during his brief stay in the Territory, while his official action
had made him enemies, yet made many friends, and there are none who do
not lament his sad and untimely death.
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