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leys of California, but, it is evident that
their spirits still haunt the Tanana.
They have made their stake aud gone
but there are more, encouraged no doubt
by Barnett’s success, who apparently see
big game and are dreaming -of the day
when they too may sail away to sunnier
climes laden with booty.
When Barnette was on trial at Valdez
on several charges of embezzlement, con
version and making false statements, he
wore a suit of mackinaws, so it is related
to impress the jury w ith his claim that |
he had nothing left, while at the same j
time his agents were furnishing wine to |
government witnesses. And so the story
goes, after the trial he departed on a
steamer for the South i n company with
his attorneys, newsagents, professional
strong arm men and abandoned women
who accompanied the “merry party’’.
Bate News items report Barnette as
owner of one of the fastest race horses
in the world. According to best infor
mation he is worth upwards of $1,400,000
about £500,000 of which belongs to the
depositors of the W. A. Bank. To retain
this amount, his agents w i 11 apparently
leave nothing undone, even to the re- |
inoval of Judge Tidier and the appoint- :
went of a pliant tool in his place.
_
THE PLOT
The plot of the Barnette element to j
steal everything i n sight, is as old as \
Fairbanks is old. However, it was given j
a new birth last November when the co
habitation cases from Fort Yukon came
on for trial.
Here was a golden opportunity for the
gang to start a crusade against Crossley
Using the popu’ar prejudice against
pmissionaries as ar starter, these modern
“Soapy Smiths” raised the wolf cry,
The public fell for it temporarily. I n
cigars stores, saloons and every place
where men gather the missionaries were
damned by the hour. The Indians were
no good anvway, and Crossley was an
I
incompetent, spending the government’s
money a a though it were willow leaves
And here one is compelled to halt and
regard that strange erratic thing, the
public. The people o f Tanana Valley,
cheated, betrayed, robbed and scorned
bv the old gang for years, schooled again
and again to the fact that nothing good
was to be expected of them, did, with
out ever stopping to consider the source
from which the wolf cry sprung, proceed
to run with the pack.
Poor, foolish public. How many times
will it be necesserv to flim-flam you be
fore you learn who your real enemies
are ?
To proceed, Klopsch started a paper ;
with the evident purpose of throwing!
mud for the gang. A blind man could
almost see the force that was behind his
publication. His trial was not an attack
upon the free press. It appears to be
simply a case of McGowan vs. Judge
Fuller. And McGowan came out second
best.
THE GRAND JURY
The grand jury incident, as explained j
by Pyne, the foreman, preceeded the j
Klopsch incident. However, it is only!
fair to say that undoubtedly some mem-1
Tiers of the grand jury did not realize !
what influence was at work demanding
an investigation of Crossley’s office.
They too were carried away b y the wolf
cry against missionaries and allowed’
themselves to be fooled by the gang for i
about the fiftieth time.
BLEEDING FAIRBANKS
Mining is said to be the chief occup
ation in the Tanana, but mining the
miner has proven bv far to be the most
lucrative. And it is without a doubt eas
ier i n Fairbanks to be crooked than
straight, if one be following the route of
the least resistance.
When Barnette steamed up to the pres
ent site of Fairbanks and destroyed a
good moose pasture, the first thing he
should have done on stepping ashore .
was to unfurl a black flag centered by a
skull and cross-hones. In the name of i
Idler Rochester & Stein Block
at
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vdk ALASKA
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Alaska has some nifty Old-party bosses
in embryo.
Now, take for instance that last Val-*
dez convention. Nothing slow about that
as old party conventions go. A Split,,
a Rump, an exhibition of proxy juggling
that would make Chicago’s pride, Bath
John, green with envy. And sent two
delegations to the National convention.
As ti e peerless one decided at Baltimore
which of Alaska’s hydraheaded deleg
ation was the correct one-we’ve now the
“ins” and the “outs”. And, ugh! what
they “outs” did say of the “ins” let’s
not open up old sores. But there’s anoth
er Old party convention coming up soon
and the outs are crying “Harmony!”
“Harmony!” In 1910, there being no
Democrats in Alaska, the good Repub
licans had a complete moyopoly o n the
plum tree and the other spoils perquisites
and prerogatives, good Democrats didn’t i
conventionize. And now, this being off ■
year for good Republicans, only the good j
Democrats will conventionize, and they I
know how do these Good Democrats.
The credentials committee will have a ,
nice little steam roller all their very own :
Oh! but there, 11 be weeping and wailing
and gnashing of teeth and a clashing o f
dull axes. Alaska voters will do well
to observe the workings of what will
probably be their last chance to witness ]
a regular old party convention.
I’. S.: On the interior branch of the
Alaska Plum Tree still hang the two'
much coveted plums. Safely an d teas
ingly perched right in sight, they are
withstanding some awful shocks. And j
that awful blast from the last Guy Faw
kes plot. Wow! “So near and yet so far” I
those juicy lucious, plums droppetli not
they may yet turn to sour grapes. What
Democratic frameup? Rot! Bosh! ’Twas
merely coincidence. Meanwhile down at
the busy Dull Axe club the hustling
hopeful members keep the old Grindstone
turning round and round. (.Wonder who
will be the uext of the numerous Alaska
Old-party Also-rans ? Likewise, watch
the good Democrats, like lunatics, at the
coming convention, throw' themselves
under the Democratic Juggernaut, yclept
Steam Roller.
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A PROBLEM IN
MA 1ATICS
If Klopscli, who had 4 lawyers, gets 6
months in jail, how many months would
he have got if he had had all the law
yers in Fairbanka?
the devil, he should have taken possess
on of the ground and staked out a town
site. Then with a set o f gold scales, h e
could have more appropriately begun his
reign of crime and death.
Fairbanks, the spot known to the In
dians as the Lily F'ield, has been the
dark and bloody ground of the North.
Its history is the story of a pack of hum
an wolves gathered from all quarters o f
the globe to hunt without 1 e t or hind
rance. Judges have been their puppets,
honest people their prey. Bloodthirsty,
heartless, cold hnd cruel, they are com
parable only to the four-footed pack
seen nightly in'the Tanana mountains
running along in the cold slant of the
moon.
- And this is civilization. These are civ
ilized beings. W here then are the sav
ages?
The Lily Field of Indian legend,
where IVIan-tuk met the maiden, Falling
Star, is no more. On its flowery site jur
ies are packed, government attorneys
are treated as though tjiev were lepers
because they fail to discriminate between
big and little thieves, and about the only
'decent judge they ever had is a curiosity
So what’s the matter with Fairbanks?
We Socialists know what the matter is.
We are laying the axe to the root of i t,
and we guarantee a permanent and ever
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