NOYES LEAVES NOME.
liar association scn<ls message asking
his removal— JuVg > Wicker.* h m
arrives on his way to Unalaska.
• Nome News’. Aug. 17.—Nome
Bar Association has sent a message
to the president, which wid be tele
graphed from Seattle to Washington
asking ttiat Judge Noyes be re
moved and his successor be appoin
ted at once. Noyes is character
ized in the message as being ‘ va
cillating and dilatory, weak and
partial, negligent, careless and
sbsolutely incompetent.
Judge Wickersham arrived yes
terday. In answer to a question of
the News’ man, the judge said; “I
am not here to hold court, and have
beard nothing that should have
given rise to any such rumor. I
shall proceed to Unalaska where I
shall hold court until the business
is disposed of. Then I go to the
sound on a sixty days leave of ab
sence granted me by the depart
ment, and after that I return, to the
Yukon by way ofSkagway. ”
A petit and a grand jury was
drawn here to accompany the court
to Unalaska.
Aug. 13.—Judge Noyes left here
on the Roanoke last night. He is
ofl his .-way to Washington.
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Judge Noyes appointed his old
private secretarjq A. K. Wheeler,
U. S. commissioner on Monday.
R. N. Sfeveus will remain here.
j Aug. io.—Nome has been with
out mail for one month. The str.
Roanoke arrived with 104 sacks
this morning.
NORDSTROM HANGS.
Hauled to the seailold screaming for
mercy —iied to a board — Miserable
, spectacle--The crime he expiated.
Seattle, Aug. 23.—Charles W.
Nordstiom was hanged this morn
ing. The minutes immediately
proceeding the execution will never
be forgotten by the witnesses tuere
of. The screams of the doomed
man first apprised those in execu
tion-chamber of the near approach
of the hour of death. When the
final summons came to Nordstrom
'his stoiid demeanor forsook him en
tirely, and pitieously begging for
mercy, incoherently denying his
guilt, he was literally dragged to
his death. Upon the scaffold, to
which he was assisted by five men,
it was necessary to strap him to a
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board in order to proceed with the
execution. . i
The crime of which Nordstrom was
found guilty was committed Nov. 20,9gi.
He shot and instantly killed Win.Mason
a youth of 21, by shooting at him thro’ a
a' window, while eatmg supper. The
murderer was tracked by his foot prints.
Nordstrom was arrested with the ride in
his hands. Nordstrom’s attorney, J. Ir.
Lewis, exhausted every point to save his
client’sneck, and did manage to prolong
his life nearly ten years.
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A GRAVE CHARGE.
, Belcey alleges forgery — Laymen afraid
oi impending litigation—Billon to
«?ngage counsel—.Some creek items
A most peculiar state of affairs
exists on 4 above Glenn gulch.
Miss Garratt, in whose name the
claim was staked by Jack Belce\,
soid the north half of 4 to Mr.
Thumrn. Now it is al eged th~t
Belcey is half owuer in the ground
and that Miss Garratt, by her sale
to Thumm, has sold herself out of*
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the claim. Miss Garratt has record
ed a transfer of Belcey’s interest to
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her, the signature to which is wit
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nessed by Frank Hiatt. Belcey
it is reported, claims he never sign
ed such an instrument, and brands
it as a forgery. Lays covering over
600 feet of the disputed 500 feet,
was let by Miss - Garratt, and the
lays were also let by Belcey. The
laymen, not knowing where they
are at will not proceed and have
abandoned their lays. Dillon, who
left on the Alice, it is reported will
engage counsel in Eagle to handle
the case for Belcey.
Mr. Thumm will leave ou Ibe
first boat for the States.
Moulton and Woods have taken
a lav on Thumm’s half of 4 above,
and also on his Gold Ruu propert; .
Mrs. Butler has refused an offer
of $60 >o for claim on the west *
bench of Glenn gulch.