Stikeen River journal., 1898-06-04
THECAT
Plot Against J.W.lvey

/ and ulncd. III order that they might
color their reports against lvey. and
hold him up to the reading world, as Il
vile and terrible monster. In many
instances. be it said to the credit of the
knights of the pencil, they refused to
color
One. Haggerty, who had made his
living from fallen women in Skagway,
was sent to Seattle to work the news
papers, and he it WAS undoubtedly. who
inspired the column of falsehoods which
appcar.d in the post-lntelligcnccr Of
May 81 against lvcN.
Numerous letters were sent to lvcy's
bondsmen with intent to get them to
/ withdraw.
/ Evidence alcyin" corruption in tie
customs service. was also manufactured
t., asury.
The conspirators also planned to
have lvcy indicted by the present
grand jury sitting at Stka.
In accordance with the plot. the
. Alaska Miner. published at Juneau by
! W. A. Beddo,, has been pouring hot
shot into he customs service and MIR.
Ivey in particular for several weeks
past.
immediately set his forces to work.
and collected a vast amount of indis-
putable evidence. He has the names
of all the conspirators at Sitka, Dyea,
Skagway. Juneau, and Wrangel, the
amounts subscribed, and paid in. the
agents who have done the ''distrihu-
ton the persons brbed, and the de-
tails of the whole plot. and has gone to
Seattle whore he can communicate
with the proper authorities by telc-
graph and mail. and it will not be
surprising if nearly the whole official
roster of Alaska is changed by July LIST
Last week Mr.. lvey was here, when
the information came to him of the
treachery of O'Connell. he promptly
Went to Juneau. and with OConncll' :
successor walked into the latter's Office
D'Connell refused to surrender. \ hot
debate ensued, in which O'Conneil left
the room. and Mr.. lvey installed the
new man.
by the terms of the conspiracy W. a.
iieddoc, of the Juneau Miner. was to
handle the whisky business at Juneau
under O. Cornell as collector of Gus toms.
Each saloon keeper would have had to
pay him ASCERTAIN sum of blood money
for ''protcction' for the privilege of
selling liquors.
One man at Juneau pledged one
thousand dollars toward the campaign
fund against fvey. One of the arch
conspirators is an eX-law partner of an
uncontrmed federal official. They are
mixed up in an attempt to blackmail a
big mining company, whose directors
have been aroused and are pushing a
rigid investigation before IA committee
of the L. S. senate. The report of
that committee will make sensation
Mr.. Ivcy has challenged the grand
jury to 90 into his official record.
Now that the fight is on, it will be a
hot one to the finish.
There can be but one result of the
ISSUES that have been joined, and that
is, that Mr.. Ivey will be the winner.
He will retain his office as long as he
keeps his oath, for the president is de-
tcrmincd that the law shall be enforced,
and in this determination he is sus-
tanned by all law-abiding Americans.
In the language of Grant, as has been
quoted. if the law is bad, enforce it,
and its repeal will come quickly.
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of groceries and provisions, boots and
shoes, ready made clothing, shelf
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