The Nome nugget., 1901-08-20
PETlu0H
ITO Remove Judge Moves Substan- Giially on the Same Grounds as
 Those Advanced by the Members ~Of the Bar Meeting a Large One.

tof Nome in holding a meeting and adopting resolutions asking President Mckinley to remove Judge Moves, mass meeting of citizens Was held Sat urday y'eveninr in the Standard theatre. .and similar action was taken. The huge meeting. with d unanimity that twas remarkable, adopted resolutions asking the president to remove Moves and seAtl an honestsand' 'eompetentsnan in his stead.
 Notice of the' meeting was given only a few hours previously but at o'clock the Standard theatre was packed with d representative crowd of men, miners predominatiog. The sentiment of the meeting was apparent from the '";tset, .and it was evident that the movement to secure Judge Moves removal met with the hear test approximation. :
 Captain George B. Baldwin was ,eleeted chairman Of the 'meeting ,and .Claudius H. McBride secretary. Cap tain Baldwin was one of the delegates .elected last fall by a mass meeting to 20 to Washington. and he told of the ignorance he had encountered there ,concerning Aksska. To the average .person Alaska was <tn island somewhere .or other, it's exact location not being known. He urgedthe people to stand dor what they considered to be right. .He told ofthe administration of justice .on the Yukon in the early days and the satisfaction given. They were :hmeri- .can citizens, he said, the peers of the world: their rights had been tramp}ed .upon; they had been wronged.' and theil' wrongs should be redressed. He didn't ,telieve in submitting to injustice with ,out raisinga vigorous protest.
 C. H. Mercy then offered the follow ,iny resolution, which was.aldOpted with but one dissenting voice:
 .Whereas, The residents Of'the city >of Nome and adjoining territory have invested thousands of dollars in the construction of buildingsand improve sments upon town lots and in the de- yelopment. opening. location and pros pecting of placer mining properties upon the Seward peninsula: and.
 .s.Whereas ThetresidGntSeOf the sec .Ond judicial district have watched with anxiety the course pursued by Judge Moves, as the judge of the district court for the second division of Alaska. in appointing receivers to sake-charge .of valuable mining properties, and oust the owners therefrom. and in issuing injunctions, stopping the working and development of mining claims and pre- venting many of the residents of this district, miners and business men. from .improv ing, working and developing ~aluable placer mining claims: and,
 ''Whereas, The residents of the said district believe rhat, by reason of the fact that Judge Arthur H. Moves is waciilating and dilatOry, weak ano partial negligent, careless and incom .,petent. that litigation, with preference ito the possession of mining claims, has been delaved and remains undispOset %Of; and
 "Wheress, The,citizens of said dis trict believe that,the present uncertain restless feeling of the community ant the stagnation of business. and the laot of development of mining property Ii caused solely by the actiOns,Of the sai' Judge Arthur H. Noyes'and the -cours' pursued by him upon the bench ant that his continuance in office woui' affect disastrously the mining interest of this community; therefore, belt
 "ResOlved, That the residents>O tn second judicial division of the diseric of Alaska, in mass meeting assemble at the city of Nome, do hereby petition the Honorable William Mckinley, presi dent of the United States, to remOv 1rom office Arthur H. Moves, presen judge of the district court for the di. trict of Alaska, second division, for tn reason that he is wholly incOmpeten and unfit to occupy %pc<Hion; and
 I've further petition that con potent, honest and qualified person b appointed immediately to the positio nov occupied by said Arthur H. Noye: and directed to forthwith proceed ahis district to dispose of the many COT &roversies now existing with referenc to the possession, working, mining an operating of placer mining claims. Be
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 "Resolved, That this resolution
 signed by the chairman and secreta
 lf this meeting, be forwarded upon th