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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1905.
“COPPERS” AND GOLD BLOCK
PASSAGE OF DIVISION BILL
The people of the Third judicial div
ision are beginning to realize that Judge
Wickersham has been playing them
false in legislative measures at Wash
ington and sacrificing their interests
for his own aggrandizement and finan
cial gain, as well as harassing them
with his corrupt administration of jud
icial affairs. The exposure of his man
ipulations against th§ passage of the
extra judicial bill places him before the
people in his true light:—that of an un
reliable political mountebank.
In the summer of 1903 he argued to
the senatorial committee the necessity
of the division of the Third district. In
the fall of the same year Valdez, Eagle
and Rampart petitioned congress for
the diyision, owing to inadequate court
facilities under existing conditions. At
a public meeting held at Rampart in
the fall of 1903 for the purpose of ask
ing congress to act. Judge Wickersham’s
henchman publicly stateJ that Wicker
sham desired the judgeship of the coast
division on account of it being a more
desirable climate to live in. Commiss
ioner J. Lindley Green, jWickersham’s
local representative, thereupon made a
motion that a memorial be sent to the
president requesting the appointment
of N.*V. Harlan as district judge of the
Yukon division.
At that time the great copper boom
was under full headway at Valdez.
Judge Wickereham visited Washington
and assisted in drafting the division bill
nuking Valdez and Eagle the court
headquarters for each division. Leav
ing the bill before the senate judiciary
committee, Wickersham went to New
Yor*., the headquarters for “coppers,”
and while there news of the great gold
excitement at Fairbanks reached him.
Not wishing to lose control of the ju
dicial manipulation of affairs in a boom
ing gold district by being district judge
of the Coast division, nor that of a
booming copper district by being dis
trict judge of the Yukon division, he
hastened back to Washington. When
he got there he opposed his already in
troduced division bill and by political
mampulations blocked its passage. He
thus defeated the will of the people and
preserved his own judicial domain in
tact, with both gold and “coppers” un
severed and subject to his judicial man
ipulations. Since then he has been
making the fight of his life to retain
his position, as district judge. Would
if not be advisable for the government
to stn 1 a “gunboat” into the Third div
ision for the purpose bf “shooting up”
the corrupt federal officials thereof?
“If not, why not?”
THE “GRAND DUKE” WOULD
POSE AS A MARTYRED MAN
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Governor brady does not seem
much worried over that “famous” let
ter from Judge Wickersham. If, as
the letter infers, the governor has been
campaigning against the judge, it
would seem more proper for Wicker
sham to submit the proofs of such to
the president and Secretary Hitchcock,
and permit them to propound the nec
essary questions to Governor Brady.
While the “grand duke” pretends to
be offended at certain matter incorpor
ated in the governor’s report for 1904,
he does not confine his questions to the
specific statements therein, but branch
es out into a broad field of political in
uendo which infer him to be a martyr
sacrificed through political trickery.
He asks Brady to tell him the names of
the senators who spoke to the governor
about him, and what they said and done
to prevent his confirmation. Also, if
any one else gave him any information
concerning the administration of affairs
in the Third judicial division.
Wickersham also asks who said the
eourt facilities in the Third judicial
division were in adequate, when he
well knows that he himself has said so.
To use Wickersham’s words;—“this
seems like two cats fighting across the
fence.’’ Brady says thfere are things
about Wickersham’s private character
he does not like—prooably the govern
or is fearful lest there be a mix-up
with the New England maidens he is
trying to induce into Alaska.
Wickersham does not seem offended
at the governor’s recommendation that
the salary of the district judges be in
creased; he only winces where the shoe
pinches. In fact he is just mad be
cause his corrupt manipulations are ex
posed, and he jumps into Brady think
ing to gain some sympathy and support
from anti-Bradyites. He seems offend- .. 1
ed because H. D. Reynolds personally
requested the president to appoint some
one as judge of the Third judicial div
ision who was not interested in local
matters. That was treading on the
“grand duke’s” financial corns—hence
his vindictiveness towards Reynolds.
McHugh & Smith
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NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE
■MOTICE is hereby given, that pursuant to an or
* der of the Probate Court, Rampart precinct,
District of Alaska, the undersigned, G. H. Wand,
administrator of the estate of Lars Svendsen, de
ceased, will, on the 25th day of September. 1905,
at the hour of 11 o’clock a. m. on said day, at the
Court house in Rampart, sell at public auction *to
the highest and best bidder for cash, all the real
estate belonging to the said estate, described as
follows, to wit:
The lower three hundred [300] feet of placer
mining claim No. 2 below discovery claim; the
placer mining claim No. 5 below discovery claim;
the placer mining claim No. 6 below discovery
claim. All said mining claims being situated on
Little MinOok creek, Rampart Recording District
District of Alaska. . G. H. Wand,
Administrator of said estate.
Rampart, Aug. 19. 1905. First pub. Aug. 26, 1905. j
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Fresh Rhubarb Roots
Just received at this office, a first
class lot of Fresh Rhubarb Roots, fori
next spring’s planting. These bulbs]
will keep perfectly through the winter
if kept from freezing. / /
As we have more than we require for
our own planting, and to introduce thisw''
valuable plant into Rampart gardens.
individuals can secure a limited quantity 1 \
at cost and carriage. I