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Story McKenzie
Noy cs Regime
Is Re-Published
Seventh and Final
Installment.
Evidence showed That Receiver
Took $100,000 In Gold Out
Of This Property
(Continued From Saturdry)
Upon a reference of the receiv
er’s accounts to a referee ap
pointed by Judge Noyes, it was
found that the Receiver had tak
en from the mine $100,000, and
that his expenses were no more
than $35,000. The evidence shows
that neither the Receiver nor his
bondsmen have any property whi
ch can be found to apply upon
this large deficit of $65,000. All
these matters were properly
shown to this court upon these
proceedings, to throw light upon
the transaction, to show the ani
mus of Judge Noyes in those
cases and to aid the court to in
I
terpret the nature of his conduct
in the matters upon which con
tempt is charged.”
Sentence Imposed Upon Judge
Noyes and Other Officials
Of The Court.
The sentence imposed upon
Judge Noyes was that he pay a
line of $1,000. He escaped the
stigma of a jail sentence “in view
of the fact that he holds a public
office.” District Attorney Wood
was found guilty of contempt and
sentenced to four months impri
sonment in the county jail of Ala
meda County, California. C. S.
A. Frost, the special agent from
the department of justice, who,
soon after his arrival in Nome
became the assistant district at
torney and later Judge Noyes’
private secretary, and who spent
Government money hiring detec
tives to gather testimony in these
cases, was also found guilty of
contempt of court and sentenced
to imprisonment for twelve mon
ths in the county jail. Judge
Ross in his concurring opinion
says:
Contempts Committed in Pursu
ance of a Corrupt Conspiracy
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“I r.m rf the opinion that the
H'ldence and rccoids n the ca^c
how beyond any reasonable
ieubt that the chcumstances un
. r w ich. end the purpose fo:
wh ch each of those persons coin
; mitted the contempt alleged and
o found, were far graver than is
) indicated in the opinion of the
court, and t. at the punishment
i awarded by the court is wholly
inadequate to the gravity of the
oirense. I think the records in
evidence show very clearly that
the contempts of Judge Noyes
and Frost were committed in pur
suance of a corrupt conspiracy
with Alexander McKenzie and
with others, not before the court
and therefore not necessary to be
named, by which the property
involved in the suits mentioned
in the opinion, among other pro
perties, were to be unlawfully
taken, under the forms of law
from the possession of those en
gaged in mining them, and the
properties thereof appropriated
by the conspirators. For these
shocking offenses it is apparent
that no punishment that can be
lawfully imposed in a contempt
proceeding is adequate. But a
reasonable punishment may he
here imposed, and I am of the
opinion that in the case of the
respondent Arthur H. Noyes, a
sentence of imprisonment in the
county jail for eighteen months
should be imposed.”
Judge Morrow concurred in the
opinion of Judge Gilbert, which
became the opinion of the court.
Maladministration of Law Re
tarded Development Several
Years, Nome Section
The effect on the country of
| this maladministration of the law
was baleful. Here was a new
region, rich in the promise of
gold, and capital was needed to
build ditches and construct rail
roads, to install improved mining
machinery and do the “dead
work” that must be done before
mining claims are put in a con
dition to produce gold. But there
i is nothing that frightens capital
more easily than uncertainty of
titles. Capital withdrew from
Nome, and the bankers in Nome
declined to make loans on min
ing property. Many mine own
ers would not attempt the devel
opment of their properties, fear-.
ing that if they found rich pay
an adverse claimant would tie up
their claims and burden them
with law suits. With capital,that
might have sought investments in\
the country, frightened away;
with the money in Nome locked
up and declining, on account of’
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(U. S. Weather Bureau)
Cloudy and unsett'ed weather
continues over the Nome Fair
banks airway with some snow
squalls reported from the cen
tral Yukon and Tanana river sec
tion.
Ceiling and visibility were fair
to good over most of Alaska.
General moderation has occur
red in nearly all parts of Alaska
and all temperatures reported at
7 a.m. were above zero.
Barometric pressure was ris
ing this morning over western
Alaska.
The lowest temperature at
Nome last night was 17 above
and the highest yesterday 34
above.
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Martin Harrais
Commissioner,
Died Seward
'Hv The Associated Press i
SEWARD, Dec. 28, — Martin
Harrais, aged 72, cf Valdez, and
a regent of the University of Al
aska, died here yesterday.
He was U. S. Commissioner at
Valdez, a mining engineer, a for
mer football star at the Univer
sity of Washington.
Harrais had been in Alaska
for thirty years. He was presi
dent of the Valdez order of Pio
neers of Alaska. A widow Mar
garet, who is enroute here on
board the steamer General Gor
gas, survives him.
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insecure titles, to assist in the
development of the country; with
mine owners afraid to prospect
claims, lest a valuable discovery
involve then in a law suit—un
der these conditions it is obvious
that serious injury was done to
the Nome gold fields. The devel
opment of the country was retard
ed at least two years. But con
fidence has been restored, and
the field of industrial endeavor
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While these extraordinary court
proceedings slowed the wheels of
progress, they did not inflict a
permanent injury on the country.
There has been a delay in provid
ing the best facilities for the de
velopment of this region, and in
this delay lies the only injury
that has been done the country.
Had the District Court recogniz
ed the fact that the gravel de
posits of this region were the
best receiver for all claims in
litigation, the injury done to the
mine owners by his regime
would not have been more than
the injury done to the country.
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