-17- Beautiful weather - the ther =mometer registering about zero, and above - clear cold & crisp. Today sent out copies of my [previous word struck through] the News reprint of my resignation and the Presidents reply thereto, to the newspapers in South Eastern Alaska, from Seward to Ketchikan, to overcome the story persistently repeated by Hoggatts friends that he procured the President to request my resignation. I am greatly disappointed that Hoggatt should thus approve so malicious a lie about another official.
