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Thursday, June 23, 1910.
FOR DELEGATE
JAMES WICKERSHAM
A CONDITION WITH A MENACE.
Seattle, Wash., May 6th, 1908.
Captain D. H. Jarvis, Treas.
Lowman Building,
Seattle, Wash.
My dear Captain: (U. S. vs. HASEY)
The enclosed account of Mr. M. B. Morrisey
lias been submitted to roe by him. I do not
claim to have personal knowledge of all of
the items therein mentioned,—necessarily I
could not have such, but I do know that Mr.
Morrisey was taking care of several of the
Government’s witnesses. I saw him take
them into restaurants very many times (it
was generally rumored arounud Juneau
that the majority of the Government’s wit
nesses were broken) and I have not the least
doubt that Mr. Morrisey cared for them in
the manner shown in his account.
In addition to this I wish to express my
appreciation of the services rendered by Mr.
Morrisey, not only in Juneau but also at
Valdez during the session of the Grand
Jury there. I found him very efficient and
competent and his acquaintance with many
of the Government’s witnesses and control
over them, placed him in a position to be of
the greatest possible service in defending
this action.
I scarcely need tell you that Mr. Morrisey
is an Expert Accountant employed by Mr.
Heney at Cordova. He is unxious to return
there promptly to resume his duties and I
trust that you will treat him in a very lib
eral manner.
Yours very truly,
JOHN A. CARSON.
[ Receiver’s mark ]
Entered Voucher No. 34C8.
Seattle, Wash., May 6, 1908.
K AT ALL A COMP AN Y
In Account With
M. B. MORRISEY
Moneys received from John
A. Carson.§650 00
Balance due me.. 483 40— §1,133 40
DISBURSEMENTS
Expense on S. S. Farallon Cordova
J line au. §5 CO
Occidental Hotel, for M. B. Morrisey 22 60
Occidental Cafe, for witnesses. 75 00
Alaska Grill, for witnesses. 195 00
Cash to Jimmy Kelly. 37 00
“ “ J. E. O’Riley. 75 00
“ “ F. Rummel. 9 00
“ “ J. A. Briggs. 10 00
“ •* Torn Corcoran. 10 00
“ “ Wm. Garster. 12 00
“ “ Whitey Graham. 26 00
Expense entertaining witnesses and
jurymen. 200 00
Personal expense for March and
April.. 270 00
Expeuse cable, F. E. Youngs. 3 80
Hotel Seattle 6th to 8th (estimated).. 15 00
Rent of typewriter. 2 00
Stationery, etc. 1 00
Expense incurred at Valdez during
Grand J wry session ... 120 00
Tickets Seattle-Cordova [ deduct ] ... 45 00
$1,133 40
45 00
$1,088 40
650 00
[ Marked ] $438 40
Approved: Entered
W. H. Bogle. Voucher No. 3408.
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Above are reprints from photographic
copies of a letter and an account sent by
Delegate Wickershain to the chairman of
the senate committee on the judiciary, April
29, when the delegate laid charges against
Herbert L. Faulkner and John Rustgard,
nominated, respectively, for United States
marshal and United States district attorney
for the first division of Alaska. Delegate
Wickersham claimed that Marshal Suther
land and District Attorney Boyce were re
moved to prevent them from securing the
indictment and conviction of the men named
in the copies of the letter and account, for
bribery and corruption of witnesses and
jurors, and that Governor Clark aided the
attorneys and lobbyists for the Katalla
Company in securing the dismissals.
The charges, if true, show a state of cor
ruption that is a disgrace to the na
tional administration. If they cannot be
proven, or even if it should turn out that
they are unfounded altogether—which no
one here or at Washington can reasonably
expect after what has transpired—still a
menace is brought to notice that deeply
concerns us all. President Taft has declared
that he will listen to no one but Governor
Clark; that he will rely on him for every
thing. In elaboration of this policy it is
said the attorney general has taken into his
own hands the naming and assigning of
deputy marshals—each of whom, we may
conclude, will be trusted in everything
within his own particular sphere. This
makes every minute part of the machinery
for the administration o 1. justice more di
rectly answerable to the president. From
the manner of man President Taft is we
would expect him to be influenced by the
large interests—interests akin to those that
Delegate Wickersham charges spent seventy
thousand dollars and corrupted jurors and
witnesses to turn the scales of justice. Pres
ident Taft might be ever so just In his inten
tions and yet be misled by his trusted but
interested advisers. Another thing: many
a man in power has become hedged about
by such conditions that he was forced to
tolerate great wrongs without being able
even to interpose a humble protest.
OUR FRIENDS THE SOCIALISTS.
The Socialists, encouraged by a sweeping
victory in Milwaukee, declare they will
next gain control of municipal affairs in
New York and Chicago. They may do so,
for American politics have progressed so far
on the road to centralization that Socialism
looms big on the forward horizon. There is j
no such thing as standing still: to advance
is to cross the narrow border and enter into
the dreamer’s haven; and the only way to
keep out is to come back over the long, I
stony and devious road that leuds to a nerve
less and decrepit democracy.
There are many so-called schools of Social
ism, but they all profess to have in view
these ends:
An industrial system under which all will
work at producing necessaries and luxuries
for the use of all. Wherefrom it would fol
low that—
There being no possibility of existence ex
cept through the machinery provided for
all alike, individual interests would be non
existent; therefore there would be no need
for political government; no war; no waste;
no want; no overwork; no crime, because
the incentive would be uhsent; no disease or
immorality, because the breeding of men
and women would be on scientific principles
and their lives regulated according to strict
rules of hygeine; etc., etc., until all the
evils of the world have been eliminated.
This, in brief, is the Socialists’ dream,
which so many non-Socialists pronounce
very beautiful but impossible of attainment.
To me its possibilities are not half so remote
as its beauties are obscure. I had rather be
the wildest Hottentot that ranges the South
African jungle than to be a system-made in
dividual representing the Socialistic ideal of
civilized man.
Socialists are disagreed as to how the ulti
mate condition will be brought about—
education, agitation, the ballot, the perfec
tion of machines and the drilling the opera
tives receive at the hands of their selfish
masters, the control of stupendous indus
tries and great numbers of men by u single
head—nearly everything that comes under
their observation seems to beckon them on
to shady groves just beyond. To me the
thing they court seems to be a huge central
ized despotism, and my greatest fear is that
they attain it and it may prove so soothing
to their wasted faculties that they will wel
come the chunge. My source of joy is that
my life is so far spent I would not be resi
dent of their fat world for long.
However it may end, Socialism is a real
Movement, deserving to be printed with the
capital M with which its adherents honor it.
The hold it is taking on the minds of men is
shown by a thousand circumstances sprout
ing in soil that would be expected to nour
ish no such fruit. The tariff and the trusts
have carried the germs of Socialism just as
certainly as the tenements of the great cities
have bred the germs of consumption. Not
an utterance or a gathering for the promo
tion of nation-wide or world-wide measures
for the benevolent limitation of individual
liberty of conduct but what is inoculated
with it; the effort to make war impossible
is a bud of it; the mixing of govern
ment departments with the country’s indus
tries is a gnarled and crooked branch of it,
BILLIARDS POOL !
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CHARLES CHANQUIST, Prop.
Tanana Alaska ;
and the conservation of land and water and
the thing's contained therein is the vermin
infested trunk of it.
Once in a while some one is heard to voice
a belief that what is needed in the United
States is less, not more, governmental ma
chinery; less, not more, governmental inter
ference with the personal and private affairs
of citizens; less, not more, bureaucracy and
red tape. Rut he is behind the times and in
a minority, and does not attract much no
tice.
My own diagnosis or the >ociulist Move
ment is that there is a subtile poison around
which an abnormal growth is forming, to
later fester and become a loathsome sore.
The name of the poison is power. Rooted in
religion, in superstition or in any form of
hereditary or delegated authority, power is
always a dangerous thing. The Socialists
may imagine that by confiscating the devil’s
stock of sulphur they will reduce the tem
perature of his domain to a genial warmth,
only to find that the fire will later on break
out afresh and burn hotter than before.
C.
Ax outside paper says Colonel Roosevelt is
a good man gone wrong. That is a state un
attainable by his successor.
Frank H. Waskey, Alaska’s first delegate
to congress, who was on the Susie on her
trip down the Yukon lust week, took occa
sion to deny through the Dawson papers
that he is a candidate for a second instal
ment of that honor. Folks will be really to
take his word for it.
The suggestion that congress may yet do
something for Aluska at this session carries
with it the possibility that when the thing is
done it may be TO Alaska instead of for it.
A demagogue is a man who roasts Taft for
wanting to govern the people of Alaska like
they are a parcel of niggers, and then roasts
Wickersham because his recommendations
are disapproved by Taft.
A sycophant is a man who keeps whim*
pering about the benevolent intentions of
congress and the administration and declar
ing if Alaska’s elected representative would
keep his mouth shut the people would be
treated “generously.”
A HYFOC’HITE is a man who seeks pay
from the corruptionists and praise from the
people.
A damphooe is the fellow demagogues,
sycophants and hypocrites need in their
business.
Old-timer Rocking on the Beach.
From the Nome Industrial Worker.
Rocking away on the beach sands on
the lower end of the Sandspit with all
the unconcerned patience of the pioneer
is a man named Stewart, who is a tine
type of the old-time Alaska prospector.
Mr. Stewart is one of the original Forty
milers, having discovered Franklin
Gulch in that district in the early days
with Franklin and McHugh. He pros
pected around Circle and Rampart, hav
ing just returned to Birch creek in the
former country when the big strike was
made in the Klondike by Carmack, and
did not hear a word about it until long
after the big exodus from Circle City
had left that camp untenanted save by
one or two standbys.
Many years ago Stewart was in the
Cassiar when that country was booming
and he did very well himself there. No
country impressed him so favorably as
the Peace river district, where game
and timber are plentiful and trapping a
profitable occupation. Gold he panned
and rocked in many creeks. He has an
idea of going there in the event of his
going outside this fall, and perhaps will
settle there. It was in ’86 that he first
came to the Yukon country and stayed
there for some years doing very well.
Notice to Creditors.
The estate of MARY E. COOPER,
deceased.
j Notice is hereby given by J. C. Dehn
and J. Russell Walle, executors and ad
ministrators of the estate of Mary E.
Cooper, deceased, to the creditors of
and all persons having claims against
' said deceased, to exhibit them, with the
necessary vouchers, within six months
after the first publication of this notice,
to sail! executors and administrators at
their office at the Tatiana Commercial
Co.’s store, in the town of Tanana, Fort
Gibbon precinct, Territory of Alaska,
the same being the place for the trans
action of the business of said estate.
Dated this 17th dav of Mav, 1910.
.1 RUSSELL WALLE,
J. C. DEHN,
Executors and Administrators.
Date of first publication May 19, 1910.
Date of last publication June 2.1, 1910.
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St. James’ Mission
Holy Eucharist the first Sunday in each
month at 11 a. in. Each following - unday.
Evening Prayer at 8 n. in. Every Wednes
day evening, Evening Prayer and Lituny at
8 o’clock. WINTHROP PEAHODY,
Priest in Churge.
Warning, Owners of Dogs
i vOGS caught molesting the eattle and
* ' horses in my pasture will he shot. The
stock are being chased day ang night and I
will have to do something in their defense.
A. J. CAMPBELL.
Tannna, Alaska, June 23, 1910.
After a short trip to the outside lie re
turned again in the early part of ’95 and
there were then rumors of the Klondike
in the air. He however went to Birch
creek, as has been said, and just missed
being in on the ground floor when the
new El Dorado was opened up.
Smoking a huge meresehaum pipe,
Mr. Stewart tells an interesting story of
those early days and has still all the fire
of youth’s ambition burning unabatedly
within him.
Woman Would Climb McKinley.
According to the Dawson News a
a woman now has here eye, figuratively
speaking, on the top of Mount McKin
ley. If Tom Lloyd gives her the high
sign when she sees him she will proba
bly make the ascent. She is Miss San
ford, of Boston, is an experienced moun
tain climber, and is now in Dawson. It
was her intention to climb Moosehide
dome last Tuesday night to see the mid
night sun, and hopes to go to the Idita
rod and Fairbanks before long.
Miss Sanford has climbed the Matter
horn and other Alpine peaks. Two
years ago she made the ascent of Mount
Rainier by way of Paradise valley, but
it proved sucii an easy task that this
year a special trip to the coast was made
in order to assail Rainier from the north
side, a feat that has been done by but
few men and never before by a woman,
and it, too, was accomplished.