Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-11-23
he |! | IS COMING EAST,
ale. Allexander Mckenzie Has Lett Frisco
aud is Attending Private Busi-
ness at Seattle.
=, Expects then to Come to Bismarck and
then Proceed East on
Business.
Statement Of How He Turned the Ia.
bles on the Heads Of the Pioneer
Mining Company.

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bles on the Heads Of the Pioneer
Mining Company.
Seattle, Wash, Nov. % %. - Alexander
Nc arrived in this city. this
week, accompanied by Captain j. G. 4
Barr A perintend dent of McKenzie's
properties at Nome. Mr. Mckenzie
came catl e direct from San Francisco where
he had been taken by the deputy
United States marshal who arrested
him in Nome on charge of contempt
oA court An appeal to the United
States supreme court had been made
on a writ of certioram thus taking the
case out of the Immediate hands Of the
circuit court at San Francisco. Nc
kenzie was released on putting UP
81, 600 bond for his appearance on one
charge and was released on his own
nizance in the other three cases.
!. He has fatty refused to express him
self in regard to the trouble which he
has recently eountered. He is wait
ing until the matter is ended and will
not be interviewed in regard to the
contempt proceedings. But he is evil
dently confident of the outcome.
However, he is not running any fur.
fher danger of contempt " expressing
an opinion in the case. 5.55
The receivership nominally exists
at the present time and will until hel
has made his report to the court at
Nome by which he was appointed. AS
it will be imp possible to submit this re-
port until next summer, he will not be
discharged until that time. Il
4 Mr.. Mckenzie win remain in Seattle
for a few days attending to private
business and will then go to his home
at Bismarck, N. D. Later he expects
to go to Minneapolis.
Ill. He is a great believer in the Nome
country and means to 60 back and
continue the work on his own proper
tiles which was interrupted last sum
mer by litigation and the failure of
certain machines which were taken up
to work the tundra. & 4
Among the recent arrivals from
Nome is Harry G. Steel, editor and
owner of the Nome Daily News. He
founded the paper two years ago as a
weekly and tnis last summer changed
it to a daily for the season. It will
be issued weekly during the winter.
Mr.. Steel will spend the winter ait his
home in Pennsy ylvania. (.
In speaking of the Anvil Greek re-
ceivership controversy Mr.. Steel tells
of a peculiar proceeding which has not
reached the public. His story is in
teresting III.
It seems that when Receiver McKen-
zie turned over the claims to the Pho
neer Mining Co., as ordered by the
San Francisco court, there was due
Workmen a large sum if money as
wages earned during the receivership.
When the work stopped these men
naturally wanted their pay. They ac-
cordingly went to McKenzie's Office
In a. body. about ] so of them. and de-.
manded their pay. As large number
crowded into the office and were max
ing a lively monstration. It was
commonly reported about Nome that
the action of the men was at the insti-
CATION of C. D. Lane and Others who
hoped to tangle Mr.. Nick Kenzie and
further embarrass him in contempt OF
court. Mr.. Mckenzie was equal to
the occasion. He at once told the
men bhat If they would appoint COM
mittee their troubles would be consid-
cred. The men readily agreed. Then
when the Office had been cleared the
committee stated that they had been
working for two months on the claim
and had not been paid. that 1t was inn;
possible to get other work and all Of
them We're destitute and without
means Of getting out to the states.
They had been fed BY the Pioneer
Mining Go. which had q large supply
of provisions on hand which had to
Pc used or be spoiled. But when the
work was stopped the Pioneer COM
pany closed Its eating house and would
not feed Them Thus many OF them
had been without anything to eat for
over 9, day.
Mckenzie ait once told the commit
tee that he would see that the men
had something to eat, even il he had
70 buy AZ himself However, as IL
was necessary FOR the men to set out
q the country besore winter set In, Il