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Show NEW GOVERNOR OF ALASKA Walter E. Clark Has Been Clothing Clerk, School Teacher, Newspaper Man and Miner. Washington. Walter Ell Clark, re-:ently re-:ently appointed governor of Alaska by President Taft, has been clothing rlerk, school principal, newspaper man and miner. He was born In Ashford, Conn., in 1869. As a young man he chopped wood and worked in a clothing store to make his way through the State Normal school at Xew Britain. At the age of IS he became principal of a school of 500 pupils in Manchester, HI WALTER E. CLARK, New Governor of Alaska. Conn. Later he entered Wesleyan university, Easthampton, Mass. After graduating he became a full-fledged uew-spaperman, starting at a salary of $6 a week and working up in the business until he became a Washington Washing-ton correspondent. He remained In Washington throughout the Spanish-American war. Neglecting the newspaper business busi-ness whefi the first rush for the Alaskan Alas-kan gold fields was on he went to Nome and turned miner. But by the time Mr. Clark had reached Nome placer mining (the washing out of the gold by hand), had become a venture of no profit and he was compelled to accept defeat. But before leaving Alaska its future governor made a trip around the peninsula In the revenue rev-enue cutter Bear, going as far as Indian In-dian Head on the northeastern coast of Siberia. Returning to Seattle he was engaged en-gaged as Washington correspondent of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In this connection Mr. Clark mentioned ;o his employers the possibilities of a special Alaskan industrial edition. In ( getting the material for this edition, which won Mr. Clark his reputation as an Alaskan expert, he and his wife, formerly Miss Lucy Norvell, magazine maga-zine writer, made an 8,000-mile trip through the frozen north, visiting every mining camp of consequence. The late E. A. Hitchcock, secretary of the interior, on the strength of this edition, recommended Mr. Clark as governor to succeed John G. Brady. He refused to take the place, but when it became a question of getting a successor for Gov. Hoggatt, Mr. Clark's name was again suggested. This time he took the job. |