SOME LIGHT
UPON DAY
LET us consider the status of Judge
Day’s investigation of the judici
ary of Alaska. Complaints were filed
With President Roosevelt, that serious
corruption existed among the Federal
officials in Alaska, and investigation
was demanded. The President delegat
ed on this mission, one of his foremost
and trustwortay government officials,
with instructions to make a rigid Inves
tigation. Assistant Attorney-general
Day was chosen by the President as his
represefitative in this important matter
and left Washington early in July, of
this year for Alaska.
Commencing his investigations in the
First judicial division, Judge Day visit
ed all points, especially where courts
had been held, giving the people the op
portunity to substantiate the complaints
filed from that division. The result
„ was that Judge Brown was found guilty
of “improprieties in office,” and the
President has demanded his resignation.
Judge Day then proceeded from Skag
way towards the Third division, stop
ping at Dawson awhile. Upon leaving
- the latter city, for his tour of this div
ision, Judge Day was accompanied by
elose and staunch friends of Judge
Wickersham. -
-The party left Dawson on the N. C.
Company’s palatial steamer Susie, pro
ceeding down to Eagle, where the Su
* sie remainedarf ew hours. Influential
friends of the Federal officials in this
_. division, who accompanied Day’s party
. from Dawson, knew that damaging ev
idence of corruption was awaiting Day
at Rampart. They having been per
sonally present at the last term of the
District court held at Rampart, were
familiar with the corrupt official man
. inulations executed at this place.' On
“ the steamer’s arrival at Rampart, find
ing the people anxious to interview him
and submit _ the proofs of the matters
under investigation, Judge Day inform
ed them that he did not have time, and
could not hear them on the subject.
The judge remained on Rampart soil
just ten minutes. The steamer pro
ceeded on her way to Tanana, where
more friends of Wickersham's joined
Day's party, en route ior Fairbanks.
At this pl&ce Judge Wickershatn was
holding his first term of court in the
precinct, and where he was well prepar
ed to meet this 1 ‘investigator. ” These
particular and interested friends of
Judge Wickersham did not loose sight
of Judge Day until he was well on his
way to Nome. Great efforts were made
to bring Wickersham’s friends and
henchmen before Judge Day, and ex
treme measures wrere successfully used
to prevent Judge Day receiving evidence
of facts detrimental to the Federal of
ficials of this division.
The result is that Judge Day reports
the charges against Wiekersham un
substantiated, and recommends that he
be reappointed. Why did Judge Day
report to the President that certain
charges were not sustained, when he
had not given the people a chance to
submit to hirn their proofs? fie cannot
furnish the President one particle of
testimony obtained by his committee at
Ramparc. There were men with Day’s
party when it passed Rampart, who
knew it would be dangerous to their
own interests, should the residents of
Rampart interview Judge Day. They
also knew that the acts of the Federal
officials could not stand an honest in
vestigation at this place. Is it possible
that corruption has such a strong grasp
on our government to at an investigation
i of this nature cannot be carried thro
without enveloping it in a mass of filth.
Around and About
Morris Farrell left Thursday with a
load of freight for Louie Iverson on
Squaw creek. Frank Hammond will
help Iverson to bed-rock some holes on
Sourdough gulch.
\
Deputy-marshal Charles Dreibelbis
should satisfy himself as to the safety
of the court-house from fire. The fact
that such an event would destroy the
records, would not be as serious as the
loss of the furniture, which could not
be replaced.
The Hotel Florence had ujiarrow es
cape from destruction by fire Tuesday
afternoon. One of the reservoirs of a
gasoline lamp caught fire and burned
a large area of the ceiling in the bar
room. A large barrel of water stood
conveniently near, and a few bncket
fulls prevented what might have been
a local calamity.
Carries a Fui! and Comp!
Assortment of the Finest
Brands of imported and
mestic WiNES
- ...LIQUORS and CMiARS
rampart
TANANA
JOE AN1C1CH
Proprietor
WE FREIGHT
Regular Trips to Glen and
Sourrounding Greeks Twice
a Week
TEAMING & JOBBING
One Team Always in Town
Cord Wood Sold and De
livered in Any Quantity
Jim McHugh Frank Smith
On The Direct Cutoff to Fairbanks
MEALS and LODGING
Warm Stables For Horses
STEVENS & SINCLAIR
444444444444 4 M&AMAM6M
HOTEL FLORENCE
BARBER SHOP
SHAVING AND HAIRCUTTING
JIM CARPENTER
Notarial work, and legal papers drawn
- at Forum Office. James B. Wingate
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