Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-01-10
MUST Be SPECIFIC.
Government Officials Tired Of Hearing
Newspaper Charges Against
5# Judge Noyes. .
Foes of the Judge Must Come Out IN
!. the Open if Their Charges are
to be Considered. =.

"A IeceuL washington ulSpdCcu III LIE
Minneapolis Journal says: Samuel
of San Francisco and Cape Nome, al
attorney who is in contempt before Judge
Noyes' court at the latter place, has
made trip across the continent for the
express purpose of seeing Mckinley
and asking him to interest himself in
the charges against Judge Moves to the
extent of recommending to Attorney
General Griggs that Judge Noyes and
Brown be transferred. -,
Knight saw Mckinley late Saturday,
but received no satisfaction from him.
The president said there was no official
action for him to take, and he po-
litely but firmly declined to use his in
fuence with the attorney general:
From the president Knight went to
Attorney General Griggs,, who told him
that no steps would be- taken until for
NAL action had been preferred against
Noyes. g.: j.
~ ~ Meanwhile, Judge Noyes' friends, one
and all, are protesting against the pro-
posed transfer and saying that if it is
made Noyes will resign. A transfer,
says Judge Noyes' personal representa-
tive in Washington, would be tanta-
mount to pronouncing him guilty. These
protests have reached both the presi-
dent and the attorney general, and un-
doubtedly are having the effect to
strengthen the attorney generals atti-
tude of non-interference until written
charges are made. A transfer would be
an easy way out of the mess ordinarily,
but it becomes the most difficult way
when Noyes protests against it and tells
his Washington representative to an.
nounce that he would look.upon it as a
declaration by the department. of justice
that he is guilty.
In reply to Governor Brady's state.
ment that Judge Noyes will be muir
dered if not removed from Nome by the
beginning of the mining operations mex
summer, A. X. Wheeler, of Minneapolis
Judge Noyes' private secretary, who ii
in Washington this winter to represent
his interests, said to me today:
Judge Noyes and his friends are en-
tirely willing to run tie risk of assassi
nation. We all went through the mil
at Nome last summer, and at timel
things were pretty wild, but we stood
our ground and shall continue to do! so
l Erl~a NoyyNc uc M .k%~-lsA- 49,.
hints of possible murder, nor do L. It il
all wind and does not brighten us. W.
strongly oppose all transfer of Judges
and want to fight out the matter right il
Nome, where all the parties in interes
are and weere tho mines in interest ar,
located. At the very least our consen,
to transfer would be regarded as an ex
hibition of cowardice.
Attorney Griggs was very vigorous il
his his expression today when I called
to see. him. He said:
I told Knight, and have told other,
who have come here to talk agains
Judge Noyes, that I would pay DO at
tention to verbal charges. I cannot &C
on talk. The lowest salaried clerk ii
the department is entitled to hav,
C1dTBeS dRdIuSG uIui TeuuceQ 20 WTlLlnG
and an opportunity to reply to them
How much SC is the incumbent o
the high Office of United States judge
When written charges are preferred
shall take such action as appears to IN,
to be necessary in the premises.
The charges against ,Noyes have no
yet gone beyond the newspaper stage
and the attorney general. intimates YER,
plainly that he is tired of listening to al
endless string Of talk from people VIII,
are in a positions..to give their charge
definite and formal shape in writing.
EDITORS AWFUL PLAHHT.