IG M N ARE HERE
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On the steamer Alameda that arrived this morning were
several officials who represent the interests that are closely ah
lied with the development of this section of Alaska. They are
Robert W. Baxter, vice president of both the Alaska Steamship
Company and the Copper River & Northwestern Railway;
Charles J. Jones, traffic manager of these two companies, and
Stephen Birch, vice-president and general manager of the Ken
necott Mines Company, and other mining interests of the Alas
ka Syndicate in Alaska. Mr. Birch is a familiar figure in this
section of Alaska, where lie has been operating for ten years
past. On the return of the party from the westward Mr. Birch
will go to the Bonanza mines and spend some time in the in
terior. Mr. Jones has been with the Alaska companies for two
years past and although he has only made one visit to this sec
tion he has been in close touch with conditions and operations,
proving a valuable aide to Joseph H. Young, recently resigned
as president.
Mr. Baxter was elected to succeed Mr. Young on May 15,
and as the head of the transportation interests of the Alaska
Syndicate, his first visit to this section will be one of inspec
tion and to familiarize himself with the general conditions and
requirements. The people of Cordova, Chitina, and the Copper
river country will anxiously await any announcements that he
may later make as regards any contemplated extensions or im
provements along the railroad, such as would mean the em
ployment of additional men, and the consequent benefits that
would naturally arise to the various communities in an in
creased pay roll.
Mr. Baxter is an experienced transportation man, with the
reputation of being broad-gauged, fair to the traveling and
shipping pubdic, and with an appreciation of their rights and
requirements. Those of our people who had the pleasure of
meeting him today found him genial and friendly disposed, lie
and the other officials went with the special train to the gla
cier and later will again board the Alameda and make the
round trip to Seward. On the return he and Mr. Jones will re
main a week and depart for Seattle on the steamer Mariposa on
the 24th.
Mr. Baxter lias had a steady and upward career since he
entered the railway service with the Union Pacific Company
in 3878, as a messenger boy. With the same company until
3890, he was successively telegraph operator, train dispatcher,
chief train dispatcher, trainmaster, superintendent and general
superintendent of the various divisions. From April to Septem
ber, 1891, he was superintendent of the Ohio & Midland divi
sions of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, at Newark, O.; Septem
ber, 1891, to June 1892, superintendent of the Oregon and
Washington divisions of the Union Pacific Railway, at Port
land, having jurisdiction over rail and water lines; July, 1894,
the Pacific division of the same road, headquarters at Port
land., having jurisdiction over rail and water lines; July, 1894,
to July, 1898, general agent for the receivers of this same road,
at Portland, Ore.; July, 1898, to October, 1903, superintendent
of the Nebraska division of the same road, at Omaha, Neb.;
July, 1904, to December, 1908, superintendent of the Pennsylva
nia division of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, at Sayre, Pa.; sup
erintendent Wyoming division, at Wilkesbarre, Pa.; superin
tendent at Buffalo, N. Y., of rail and water lines, having juris
diction over Lehigh Valley Navigation Company steamboats
running between Buffalo, Detroit, Chicago and Milwaukee;
December, 1908, to January, 1910, superintendent of transpor
tation Lehigh Valley Railroad, at Bethlehem, Pa.; July 1, 1910,
to May 15, 1912, general superintendent of the Illinois Central
Railroad at Chicago, resigning the latter position to accept his
present offices.
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No new developments have occurred within the past 24
hours as regards the situation in the volcano stricken district
to the westward. The people are endeavoring to return to their
homes, and if possible find some reason why they may continue
to reside there with some degree of comfort and with a possibil
ity of again earning a livelihood. The wireless station at
Whiteshed endeavored to get into communication last night
with the Manning at Kodiak or some of the cannery vessels
that are equipped with wireless, but they were unsuccessful. A
report from Seward states that there is nothing new.
SEATTLE, June 14.—In accordance with instructions
from the department at Washington, twenty thousand rations
are now being loaded on the steamer Admiral Sampson to go
to Seward, and ten thousand to go to Kodiak direct. The Samp
son will sail tomorrow night. The order for the Rush to pro
ceed to Kodiak has been recalled.
JUNEAU, June 13.—In accordance with requests received
from Cordova and Seward that he use his influence to have a
liberal appropriation made for the relief of the volcano suf
ferers, Governor Clark wired the President and other officials
at Washington urging that an immediate appropriation of
$100,000 be made.
SEATTLE, June 13.—A telegram has been received from
S. W. Eccles, head of the Alaska Syndicate interests, directed
to Vice-President Baxter. lie authorizes him to place the fleet
of the Alaska Steamship Company and the Copper River &
Northwestern Railway at the disposal of the proper persons if
they can be used in any way to relieve the victims of the erup
tion. Mr. Baxter is also authorized to use all money that may
be necessary to render assistance.
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SEATTLE, June 15.—Announcement was made this morn
ing that the holdings of Frank G. Manley, Henry Riley and
Tom Aiken, in the Iditarod country, had been sold to the Gug
genheims for a consideration of $2,000,000. The deal has been
on all winter, most of which time Mr. Aiken was in New York.
This purchase, which is in addition to others made by the big
mining magnates of the East, means that the Guggenheims pro
pose to work Flat and other creeks on a big scale, and with
dredges.
\ MY LOSES IDS JOB
(By WILL A. STEEL.)
The office of United States Commissioner and Recorder, and ex-officio
Coroner, at Cliitina, is non vacant. M. R. Healy, the man who lias held the
offices for a year past, has either been removed or lias resigned. The
published rumor last week that the grand jury was to exonerate Healy and
that he was then to retire from office, has been verified, even though the
court officials at Valdez have sought to keep the matter a secret. When
parties tried to make recordings and when the deputy marshal arrested a
man for insanity on Tuesday, the former Czar Healy was forced to con
fess that he no longer had jurisdiction. A wire to the marshal at Valdez
instructed the deputy to take the insane subject and witnesses to Cordova
for hearing.
And thus another chapter is closed in the now famous aid notorious
Healy case. And there will be general gratification and jubilation, for the
afflicted people of the Cliitina valley have won a signal victory. They
were oppressed and persecuted, but their efforts to secure relief have nev
er ceased since the battle lines were formed last November. And because
of the many obstacles thrown in their way, in the fight for principle, hon
or and patriotism, attaining the desired result has been a notable achieve
ment that redounds to the credit of many residents of the Cliitina precinct.
They stood up under fire and never faltered in the determination to rid
llie precinct of an undesirable alien, who sought to persecute loyal Amer
icans who had the temerity to criticise his acts of injustice and personal
vengeance.
The battle was taken up last November when a petition signed by one
hundred citizens of Cliitina, asking for the removal of “Judge” Healy, and
giving good reasons therefor, was presented to Judge Cushman.. At the
same time the grand jury at Cordova was investigating the official acts of
the commissioner. When lie was summoned before the inquisitorial body
and admitted that he was an alien, having simply declared his intention
to become a citzen twenty years prevously, the grand jury ceased any fur
ther investigation and practically recommended to the court that he be
removed. After three months time, during which Judge Cushman had a
reasonable time for action, the agitation was again started. It was then
that tlie editor of the Daily Alaskan and Cliitina Leader allied himself with
the oppressed, and pledged the columns of independent and fearless news
papers to aid in securing the much desired result, which lias just lieon at
tained.
The light throughout has been in the open, t barges have been pub
licly made and names given of the complaining individuals. Charges were
formally tiled with Judge Cushman, asking for the removal of “Judge”
Healy, and giving the reasons therefor, substantiated by the statements of
various injured persons. Then, when Mr. Healy sought to be naturalized
on May 25, the deputy district attorney was enlightened as to the appli
cant's ineligibility to secure citizenship. Among the charges was that he
had attempted to vote at the delegate election at Chitina on August 9, 1910,
that he was challenged and that he then swore in his vote, all of which
he admitted at the hearing, but which did not deter Judge Cushman from
immediately and unhesitatingly granting him the rights of citizenship, even
though he had called a session of the grand jury to sit ten days later to in
vestigate charges against “Judge” Healy.
As to the farce of the grand jury session, all are familiar. Written
protest was tiled against including on the jury strong partisans and allies
of Healy, as well as men who had been convicted of crime. Hut the court
turned a deaf ear to this protest and appointed one of these men as fore
man of the jury, as had been previously arranged. Then the district attor
ney’s office loaned itself to the defense of Healy, instead of trying to se
cure justice for the people. And the natural and expected result was a
complete whitewash for the man whom twenty witnesses gave specific testi
mony against. The only possible reflection on him was with reference to
his crimes of illegal voting and perjury, when the grand jury report stated,
"we believe that he should not have voted at that election.”
“Judge” Healy was not even criticised for the notoriously corrupt
method of collecting the 1911 road tax and the disbursing of the same. He
it was who appointed the road overseer, arranged for him to employ
Healy’s brother and pay him $968, to pay the wife of the overseer $300
for keeping books that she likely never even saw and that were cared for
in the commissioner’s office with not a day’s labor on them. X'o reference
was made to the total amount of $2,200 collected, of which $1,440 was
from company officials at u cost of $72 for collecting, and the balance of
$760 being collected at a cost of $1,673. The only reflection in the report
nits on the collectors for discrimination, losing sight of the fact that Com
missioner Healy instructed the collectors to pay no attention to the salaried
men, but to be sure and catch the laboring man.
What has made the Healy case more notorious than anything else was
the steadfast support he received from all the court officials. Upon all oc
casions they seemed ready to apologize for him, browbeat men who made
complaint against Healy, ridiculed the good intentions of men who sought
to perform a public duty in exposing the contemptible methods that an
alien practiced upon good American citizens, and in various ways sought
to strengthen and uphold the actions of a man whose own confessions have
condemned him with all reasonable people. Hut the end has come, and
the people of the Chitina precinct will take on renewed hope and courage
in the knowledge that their liberty and property is no longer subject to the
disposition of a vindictive, cruel, crafty and cold-blooded individual who
has been without a country for the past twenty-one years, and who will
likely have his naturalization papers canceled when the proper officers in
vestigate his many false representations.
Cordova, .Tune 14.
A wire from our correspondent at Valdez states that Judge
Edward E. Cushman this morning appointed J. W. Nickell, of
Cordova, as the successor to M. II. Healy at Chitina. The ap
pointment carries with it the offices of United States commis
sioner and recorder and ex-officio coroner. It is a position
usually held by an attorney, who is allowed to advise, draw
up instruments and otherwise practice his profession. In addi
tion he is allowed fees not to exceed $'250 per month, and ex
clusive of any little expense that the office may be subject to.
During the six months period from July 1 to December 1, 1911,
the former official reported to the court that his fees amounted
to $1,244..‘>8, to all of which he was entitled, after paying any
incidental expenses. Any other amounts that came to him by
reason of this office he was not required or expected to report.
Mr. Nickell has been a resident of Cordova for nearly three
years past, coming here from one of the northern counties of
Washington state. Ho has held positions of various kinds, his
last one being clerk in William Clayson’s store, which termi
nated about March first. He is a member of the band and fire
department. He has never been prominent in politics, although
he was one of the contesting delegates elected at the independ
ent Republican primary in February last, where voters were
permitted to cast their votes for delegates to the territorial
convention, without having to affirm, if challenged, that they
were bona fide Republicans and intended to support the party
nominee for delegate to Congress.
The editor of the Daily Alaskan
frequently receives letters of com
mendation on the policy of the paper
in exposing the methods of the vari
ous federal officials in this tnird ju
dicial division. One that was re
ceived on Wednesday from McCar
thy’s and signed by two miners who
had just come in from interior prop
erties, is as follows:
‘The stand the Alaskan has taken
in showing up our federal officials
should be appreciated by every good
citizen and men that know the differ
ence between right ana wrong. Travel
along in this line and we will all be
with you. We will not only be with
you, but will remind all we come in
contact with that we have a friendly
newspaper that isn’t afraid to tight
the battle of the people when they
are right, and to show up the illegal
practices of the men who are sworn
to give justice to all. The enclosed
check for $10 is for all copies of the
Alaskan that bear on the Healy case.
Hoping that things will lead to the
place where justice will be dealt out
as It should be, and guilty officials
prosecuted, we remain your friends,
although we don't personally know
you.”
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Deputy Marshal Sam Brightwell
went to Valdez on the Alameda last
night. He took with him two unde
sirable citizens. One was Mickey
Graham, of Chitina, who was brought
down by Deputy Brown, under the
impression that he was insane. A
hearing was given him before Judge
Tucker, and it was decided that
Mickey’s great trouble was ‘‘snakes,”
so he was given a fine and sentence
that will total 153 days. By that time
it is expected he will have sobered
up. The other prisoner was Emil
Johnson, who was bound over to the
grand jury on a charge of robbing
the warehouse of Finkelstein and Sa
piro.
Let us do your jou work.
NOTICE or FORFEITURE
To Joseph F. Diggs, Mike Norton
and Dan Rice, their personal rep
resentatives and all persons claim
ing by, through or under them:
You and each of you are lierebv
notified that the undersigned have
expended the sum of $300 in labor
and improvements upon the mining
claims known as The Jumbo, The
Chitina and The Lebanon, in the
Chitina Mining and Recording Dis
trict, and situated about two miles
west of Mile 109, Copper River At
Northwestern Railway, at the head
of Eagle Creek, Territory of Alaska,
and the amount was so expended
and such labor performed for the
purpose of holding said claims un
der the provisions of Sec. 2324, Re
vised Statutes of the United States,
and constitutes the annual assess
ment work for the year 1911, and if
within ninety days after last publi
cation of this notice you and each of
you fail to pay the undersigneu, as
co-owners, your proportion of the
expense for the year 1911, together
with the cost of this advertisement,
your and each of your interest in
said claims will become the proper
ty of the undersigned under Section
2324, Revised Statutes of the United
States.
JOHN AMBER,
OSSIAN ANDERSON,
Co-Owners,
Chitina, Alaska.
Date of first publication, March 9,
1912.
Date of last publication, June 13,
1912.
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