Evening star., 1901-08-08
DENIES ALL THE CHARGES
JUDGE MOVES OF ALASKA FILES
ANswRR TO ALLEGATIONS.
Attorney General Expecting Papers In
Hawaiian Case, AlsO-Prob-
able Disposition.

Attorney General Knox has received the
answer OF Judge Arthur H. Noyes of
Alaska to the charges made against him
that he used his position to his personal
and financial interests in the settlement OF
number of mining cases arising at Cape
Nome. The answer consists of twenty
three typewriter pages in addition to affl-
davits and other papers Judge Noyes was
recently granted leave of absence to come
on here to defend himself against the
charges, and is expected here in the next
few weeks. In the meantime he has sent
on to the Attorney General a written an
swer to the charges that were preferred.
he denies these charges in whole and al
Ieges tnat rival mining concerns are at the
bottom OF the trouble. Attorney General
Knox will go over the papers in the case
today and will possibly make public the
answer No disposition of the case will be
made until Judge Noyes has had reason
able time to make up his own side of the
case. The Attorney General viii go into
the case thoroughly, as he is convinced
that there is much ill-feeling involved and
Opportunity for many wild statements.
The Case of Judge Humphreys.
Mr.. Knox expects to receive in q few
days specific charges from Hawaii against
Judge A. 8. Humphreys. against whom a
number of rather vague charges have been
Judge Humphreys. who is now In Wash
ington- does not stand charged with any
speclnc Wrongdoing although In resola.
ttons adopted by members of the Honolulu
Bar Association, and forwarded to the de-
partment, he is accused Of running his ju-
dicial office to the benefit Of himself; Of
being dictatorial and overbearing to men,
bers of the bar; Of participating in politics
ana running a newspaper. The charges,
however, are SO general that the Depart
cannot their
present state. Judge Humphreys will re-
main in Washington until his case Is dis
posed Of and will look after his own in
terests. So far the Department of Justice
Is not In frame Of mind to- regard the
charges as having sufficient bottom, .and,
unless the alleged definite charges now on
the way here amount to something, Attor-
ney General Knox may dismiss the whole
matter as unfounded. Judge Humphreys
friends in Hawaii and in this country have
flooded the department with letters and
documents testifytng to his integrity and
high character.
A Common Practice.
AS a general proposition the officials at
the Department Of Justice do not look with
sympathy on the constantly frequent at
tacks on territorial judges. Attorney Gen.
eraI Knox has already found that it is q
common thing to make charges against a
territorial judge He says that all of them
cannot be bad, and that there must un-
doubtedly be good ones among them. The
Attorney General attributes the tendency
to make such charges to the fact that these
officials are not appointed for life as are
regular federal judges. Their appointments
are for only four years. and their offices are
temporary. The facility with which they
can be removed on charges of almost any
kind creates a desire for their removal for
certain purposes and thus the life of a ter
ritorial judge Is never a most satisfactory