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DESTITUTION.
The recent regrettable case where
no official responsibility would be
accepted for the burial of an indig
ent has been the means of revealing
the fact that the Territory of Alaska
at the first session of the Alaska
legislature, by the passage of H. B.
85 Chapter 51 of the sesion laws of
1913 did actually provided for such
cases.
Moreover when the case in ques
tion was brought to public notice
by an article in this paper, Mr.
Thomas Gaffney, the special agent
for the suppression of the liquoi
traffic telegraphed to Mr. Davison at
Juneau relative to the matter, feel
ing convinced that the case was
full> covered under the law above
referred to.
The official reply to this message
said in part: “Replying to yours of
9th inst. The burial expenses ot
Fegtrdahl case will be paid by Ter
ritory. Suggest you confer with Mar- j
shal's Office and arrange matters.
Expenses should be kept within
reasonable limit . . , , forward
vouchers here and payment will be
made”.
This case is referred to so that it
may become marked in the public
and official mind and there may be
none of the unseemly delays which
have unfortunately been marked in
quite recent and similar cases.
The law provides clearly and dis
tinctly provisions for just such in
terments and surely such delays as
have occurred have been due in all
such instances not to any wanton
indifference, but rather to pure ig
norance of the existence of such a
law.
Certainly it is observed with greai
concern that all so many who tala
an active hand in the settlemeni
and the development of the coun
try, many who give the best part ol
their lives and energy for very' little
reward during life and upon an in
digent death find themselves ever
outlawed from decent and kindly
offices that mark the last tribute
that people are able to pay to their
dead.
This specific case is somewhat
lightened by the fact that many
when they heard of it and it was
brought to their attention, were not
only willing but anxious to perform
this last act of human kindness
and indeed, when it comes to a
show down in Alaska, there is sel
dom any case of wanton neglect
that proceeds with full knowledge
of the facts.
However, in order that even de
pendence upon familiarity with the
circumstances may be removed, this
matter is here referred to, so that
when any such an incident again
occurs, those may know how to act
in the emergency. For such cases
reflect not at all upon the dead, but
rather upon the living. After life s
fitful fever those who are gone
sleep well.
it imports little where they find
their last resting place. But that
their remains should be neglected
by those whom they befriended and
who knew them and living to
gether exchanged kindly greetings
is always a reflection upon those
who living must take responsibility
for that neglect. It stands out too
a strange comment that while
burying the dead was a fluty kindly
and humanly undertaken by the
savage, regardless of the circum
stances of the deceased, our civilized
nations neglect only those who are
unfortunate enough to die destitute.
A STAB WITNESS.
In the trial of Mrs. Kona Mooney,
one Frank C. Oxman is again to be
the star witness the state through
prosecutor Fickert will produce.
This is the mysterious “wealthy
cattleman from Oreogn", who had
no ulterior motive in telling the
truth, tho whole truth and nothing
but the truth.
They have torn the cloak fairly
well from this masquerader. In
stead of being a wealthy cattleman
j he is a fraud of the first water, liv
ing by his wits, the consorter ot
i sporting women and the willing tool
i of those who need him and will pay
the price.
In holding Oxman for trial for
subornation of per Judge Brady de
livered himself as follows:
The sole question that has been
before this court since the beginn
ing of the investigation and which
I am now to determine, is as to
whether or not a public offense has
been committed, and as to whether
or not there is reasonable and prob
able cause for believing the de
dentant guilty of it. I have care
fully weighed the evidence submit
ted and must decide both questions
in the affirmative.
The point has been made that the
evidence was insufficient to justify
this conclusion. I feel that such is
not the case.
The letters written by the defend
ant, and admittedly in his liand
writtiug, to Kigali, are not ex
plained.
In addition to these letters we
have the testimony of the witness,
Riga!!, as to two conversations
which he had with the defendant,
which coroboratc the matters set
forth in the letters.
These conversations show that
the witness Kigali, was approached
by the defendnt to obtain testimony
in the Mooney case and thereafter
was promised compensation in the
sum of $200 for so doing. In view
of this uncontradicted testimony
there is nothing left for me to do
but to hold the defendant. In my
opinion it is amply sufficient to war
rant the holding. Therefore, it ap
pearing from the evidence etc.”
We take this from an article by
Robert Minor when the Oxman case
was before Judge Mathew Brady
! above quoted: Judge Mathew Brady
I is not a Spreckels Grand Jury,
i Judge Brady runs an open court
I and so Oxman, Ficlfert and C'unha
! did not dare run any P. S.,s in
Brady’s court. Probably more press
ure was brought to bear on that
court to let Oxman go than any
judge has had to resist in years.
The prosecutors bent every effort
trying to make their prosecution a
failure. Messengers from Fickert
brought information to Oxman
lawyer and it is even said that the
law points were looked up in the
District Attorney's office and turned
over to Shortrigde with the hope
that Shortridge would betft the Dis
trict Attorney with them. The
Grand Jury was used as a club and
excuse. Had Brady been looking |
for a coward’s outlet he would have
had some sort of makeshift excuse
that the Grand Jury had refused to
indict Oxman. But Brady stood
up like Judge Gridin. There seems
to he such a thing as justice in his
lexicon”.
Who is Oxman any way? At
Princeton, Indiana he sold to Mayoi
Greene 200 acres of land which he
did not possess. In a suit brought j
by John Spain against the O. & W.
railroad for damages, Oxman served
as an “extry witness” , and was
caught lying, he not having been on ■
the train where he claimed to have ■
seen John Spain. The "honest cattle
man” tried land frauds, damage
suit perjury, bad checks and then
gallows-murder to get hold of some
money.
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THE HINOENBERG LINE
AND ALLIED OFFENSIVE
Y By Perry Arnold, United Press
Staff Correspondent).
NEW YORK, June 1, (By Mail).
—Something like 145 square miles
of French territory regained; more
than 60,000 prisoners taken; from
75,000 to 250,000 killed and stopp
age of all plans for a German west
ern front offensive have been the
results achieved to date In the great
Franc?>-Britir?h offensive.
The figures are purely estimates.
Neither the Allies nor Germany have
yet issued casualty lists for this
fighting. The front is so irregular
that it is difficult to figure oat ac
tual acreage' wrested from the in
vader. But the defeat of Hinden
burg's plans for the summer’s fight
ing have been achieved beyond all
<doubt.
The strategy of the famous Hiu
denburg retreat was to force the
British and French to make their
much-advertised spring offensive
,over ground chosen by the German
commander and against positions
defensively prepared in advance.
Hindenburg selected the last few
days of winter an the time in which
to make his retreat, figuring it was
too early for the Spring Offensive
to begin, and th.vt the spring thaws
i would" come at time when move
ment of pursuing troops, would be
most difficult. However,, in order
to hamper pursuit, he laid waste to
every inch of ground. At least
three supplementary defense lines
to the Hindenburg line were spread
over this ground released to the
French and British. The Germans
figured these lines would check all
advances and permit withdrawal
with a minimum of German losses
to the Hindenberg line.
Once intrenched along the Hinden
burg line, the Germans planned a
spring offensive of their own on
some other front, confident in the
impregnability of this long-pre
pared line against any Franco-Brit
ish offensive.
But the French and British pur
suit was far more speedy than the
Germans had counted upon. Not
only did the tdlies quickly swarm
over the first preliminary German
defense lines, but they speeded up
and started their Spring Offensive
several weeks ahead of time. More
over, instead of directing the at
tacks at the pivots to the north and
south on which Hindenburg had
swung his retreat.
The British turned the northern
point on tilts Hindenburg line by
capture of Fresnoy, Gavrelle and'
Oppv. To the south, the French
crumbled it away around Cerny and
Graonne. It is around these north
ern and soutnein points that the
*i;;’jling is of l.eieest intensity to
day.
The Hindenburg line is supposed
to start somewhere about Drocourt,
which lies midway between Lens
and Douai. A so-called “Switch
line" presumably long prepared,
connects Drocourt with the old
German line around Lens. From
Drocourt the Hindenberg line
swings through Bois Bernard to,
Fresnoy, then south to Oppy,
through Gavrelle, Roeux, Pelves,
Boiry-Notre Dame, Remy, Hcnde
court, Riencourt, and to Qucant.
This rection of the Hindenburg
line has been dubbeif ffie “Wotan
line” by the Germans, after the
Norse Supreme God. The Wotan
line is protected by the so-called
Oppy line— a preliminary defense
front between Oppy, Gavrelle and
Roeux. it has been penetrated at
these three points by the British.
From Qucant, the Hindenburg
line runs through Beauraetz, Villers
Heudicourt, Roisel, Vermand, St.
Quentin, LaFere, Laon, Sissonne,
Craonne, across the Aisne and down
to a poii t north of Rhelms.
This section, from Queant south,
has been called the “Siegfried line”
by the Germans—after the Wagner
ian hero. It has been penetrated
at Craonne and near Rheims by the
French.
ACCEPT OFFER.
Dr. J. H. Mustard who volun
teered for active service in the
Army Medical Corps on the mail re
ceived a letter wherein he is direct
ed by the the War Department' to
proceed to Fort Gibbon to be exa
mined for the service. It is possible
that these orders may be changed
so that the examination may be
made by Dr. Sharpe of Fort Davis,
thus eliminating a somewhat costly *
trip to the Interior fort.
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