WICKERSHAM OUTLIVES HIS USEFUINESS
Washington, Aug.. 1.—The heretofore bold, fighting,
audacious and frequently untruthful delegate from Alaska has
been shorn of all his fetters and gave a most pitiful exhibition
before the Judiciary Committee in tolling his own death bell.
After having ranted through two sessions of Congress, de'
nouncing all of his old friends who failed to take up his per
sonal battles James Wiekersham today admitted that he had
■ made a failure of himself.
The delegate declared that practically everybody in Alas
ka was against him; he had been discredited by the adminis
tration and President Taft had taken all of the patronage from
him; and in his frenzy declared that the Guggenheims voted
S,000 employes illegally against him. This latter statement
was immediately branded as false, as the total vote of all the
other candidates in the field at the election was not that large.
The above scene followed a line of general charges made
before the committee by the Attorney General and the delegate,
which body decides it has no power to do anything with, but
will report the evidence to the House. As a parting shot to
Alaska’s discredited representative Attorney General Wicker
sham said: “If the delegate will stop calling everybody names
and imputing dishonorable motives to every act of those not
in accord with his desires he will be of more value to Alaska.”
Washington. Aug., 1.—Delegate Wiekersham, of Alaska,
was yesterday forced to admit before the Judiciary Committee
of the House that he sought to act as attorney for the Guggen
heims at a salary of $15,000 a year and when his offer was re'
fused lie started in on a campaign of villification against the
Alaska Syndicate. The admissions of the delegate created
quite a sensation. Although it has been frequently charged!
that he was wreaking personal vengeance in his fight against j
the Guggenheims it remained until yesterday for the proof to^
be introduced in congress. The delegate became very wrathy
when he. found that he made an expose of his hand and at
tempted to divert the attention of the committee by repeating
his charge that the Attorney General was protecting criminals !
in Alaska.
Washington, August 2.—Delegate Wickersham. discour
aged and disgusted, is packing his effects and will leave the
capitol the end of the week for his home in Alaska. His career
here has been anything but satisfactory to himself or anyone |
else for that matter. Having antagonized the administration by
his bull-dozing tactics to a point which became unbearable
his usefulness as a representative in Congress ceased. He
made reckless and untruthful charges against practically all
of the heads of the departments, members of the different com
mittees and most Alaskan enterprises. Instead of devoting
his attention to the needs of the territory his time was spent
fighting personal quarrels.
Wickersham’s last ray of hope was in the fact that the
Democrats controlled the House. As a matter of politics he
I believed the members of that party would uphold him in any
attack he instigated that might bring discredit on the ad
ministration. During the past two months he was at all times
attired in his fighting clothes and became so daring that the |
President, Attorney General and others were his prey. But
the judiciary committee of a Democratic house refused to take
cognizance of his numerous charges. This was his last card
and he is now down and out with both parties._. i
PRESIDENT SINCERE IN
DESIRE TO HELP ALASKA
Washington, August 2.—President Taft, in discussing
Alaska, declared that he was doing his utmost to secure a
speedy solution of existing problems and says the scandal
mongers are largely responsible for the retardment of progress
and development of the northern territory. He says he wants
to do the right thing for the advancement of the people’s in
terests and also to open up the country.
In discussing this phase of the question the President is
quoted as saying: “I cannot too strongly emphasize my de
sire to see Alaska occupy the position she deserves in the
commercial world, and this can only be done by treating the
investors and pioneers fairly, and allowing them to work hand
in hand in the production and marketing of the mineral wealth.
1 am sending Secretary of Interior Fisher to Alaska to make
a personal investigation, because I appreciate the importance
not only to the territory, but to the whole country, of the
earliest possible development of the territory’s resources, i
He is a true conservationist and a practical man in whom I
have great faith, and will make recommendations that will
completely solved the questions involved”
“I an convinced that President
Taft is sincere when he says that he
wants t-o do the right thing by
Alaska,” says Dr. Young, the veteran
Alaska missionary who is in Fair
banks on a short visit. ‘‘I called
at the White House last winter
and had a lengthy interview with
the president. He impressed me as
a man who is open minded and
ready to give ear to all sides of
a question.
”God Knows,- he said to me, “I
don’t want to do an injustice to your
people. Alaska has been shamefully
neglected and mistreated by con
gress. and i want to do all I can
to repair the injustice. I may have
been misinformed on some facts
and conditions, but I want to do
what is right, and I snail make ev
ery effort to learn what is the
right thing to do.”
Dr. Young in pleading before the
president the cause ot the Alaskans,
dwelt emphatically upon the high
character of the people of the north,
and on their fitness to govern them
selves. He deprecated the impres
sion that has been created by tales
of fiction such as the works of
Service and London, and to some ex
tent by Rex Beach, because those
writers drew utterly false pictures of
the typical Alaskan or else took their
, characters from the lower strata of
! society.
After completing the church and
parsonage at Cordova and clearing
I it of debt( Dr Young resigned his
work and expressed his desire to
retire to literary work. What he
has written in the past has been
well received by the public and the
publishers have called for more; and
he has. as the result of 33 years’
experience in Alaska, a vaster ac
cumulation of facts and a deeper
knowledge of the real Alaska than
probably any other man in the ter
ritory. But the church refused to
let him go> and he consented to
remain two years more.
The characteristic trait of l)r.
Young is optimism. He regards
Alaska as a chosen land, and is ar
dent in advocating her rights and
working for her future. He is now
looking forward to the organiza
tion of churches at Ruby City and
in the Iditarod wdth as much eager
ness as if he were a young mission
ary just out of the divinity school
instead of a matured reverend of
sixty-four.
“What Alaska needs in the way of
mission work,” says Dr. Young,” is
not so much money as men. Money
can be had in plenty, but men who
can adapt tnemselves to conditions
in Alaska and apply the gospel in
sympathy with the Alaskan charac
ter—such men are scarce. They are
the kind the rich churches in the
east gobble up.”
Dr. Young installed Rev. Koonce,
formerly of Rampart, in the church
at Cordova. He also built the
church and the parsonage in Fair
banks. He is warm in his praise
of the work of Dr. Condit in Fair
banks, and wishes Alaska might
have more ministers of the same
caliber and character.—Fairbanks
Times.
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Washington, August 1.—The leasing of the coal lands of
Alaska is provided for in a bill introduced in the House yes
terday afternoon by Congressman Joseph T. Robinson, a Demo
crat from Arkansas, who is chairman of the Committee on
Public Lands. The same bill was also introduced in the Senate
by Senator Works, of California.
It is designed to lease the coal fields on a basis of conser
vation and at the same time prevent a land monopoly.
A royalty charge is made per acre and leases are not to
exceed thirty years. The maximum royalty is one cent a ton
for low grade coal up to three cents a ton for the higher grade
fuel. All lessees of licenses are limited to a lease or license
with a maximum of 5,120 acres. Mining lessees are barred
from monopolizing coal trade and from selling unfairly or dis
criminately, or from operating wastefully and unsafely as to
miners.
In addition to the royalty the government receives a rental
of twenty cents an acre for the first year, fifty cents an acre
the second year and $1 an acre thereafter.
Iditarod is now connected with the
outside world by a wireless to Kal
tag on the lower Yukon river.
Stations have been established at
Kaltag and Iditarod City by the pri
vate corporation backed by Falcon
Joslin, president of the Tanana Vel
ley Railroad, at Fairbanks, and oth
ers. The plants were installed un
der the direction of Milligan, the
former wireless operator of the sig
nal corps at Fairbanks.
Kaltag has been the nearest gov
ernment telegraph station over which
messages to the Iditarod have been
sent, and the missives were taken
over the trail from there. But the
splendid equipped stations which the
company has completed at an im
mense cost, will do away with the
belated methods formerly in vogue
for the transmission of messages.
The rates for ten words are $3.$$
from Kaltag to Iditarod City, and
$4.50 from Kaltag to Flat creek.
The messages are telephoned from
Iditarod City to Flat. Although a
little high they will probably be re
duced later.
Let the Leader do your job work.
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GUILTY OF
Seattle, Aug. 5.—The inspectors
have rendered a decision charging
Capt. Guptil, of the wrecked steam
er Spokane, with negligence and or
dering a sixty days suspension.
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Chicago, Aug. 5.—Joseph Vaeck,
a 17 year old boy, shot and killed
his father, a wealthy contractor, and
after committing the deed pinned a
black hand society note to the body.
In his confession he claims that his
father tried to induce him to murder
his mother.
tedIT
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New York, Aug. 5.—Theodore j
Roosevelt has agreed to appear be
fore the Stanley investigating com
mittee of Congress and tell what
he knows about the absorption of j
the Tennessee Coal and Iron Com
pany.
Liberty, Mo., Aug. 5.—“I will nev
er testify against him,” declared
Miss Choat, with her arms around
her father, Lafayette Choate, who
was bound over to the grand jury
for hitching his daughter up with a
team of mules to a harrow, encirc- i
ling the field and then tieing her to
a hitching post.
Estampes, France, Aug. 5.—Cap
tain Felix, Commandant of the Mili
tary acadeny, broke the altitude rec
ord by soaring in a monoplane 11.150
feet for two hours and three minutes
He volplaned down in 12 minutes.
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