Control, money led to vote on creating city of Haines

Why did the settlers of the Chilkat Valley vote to create a City of Haines 100 years ago?

Stories told for years by old-timers averred that the need to control stray dogs was the issue that tipped the scales toward support of a local government. In “Haines: The First Half Century,” late historian Lib Hakkinen said residents supported incorporation “for the purposes of maintaining order and improving the school system.”

But accounts in The Haines…