The Nome nugget., 1901-11-02
No More Steamers Until Mid
 adIe of May Next.
LONG TIME TO WAIT
Before the First rlaii FrOu, the Out. side Reaches Nome, and When We
 Get It It Will Be Three nonths or More Od-Nothiug Hike Patience.

The people of Nome are ''up against 1t, so far as navigation of Beling sea is concerned, until about the middle of ,next May.
 The last mail from Seattle was ti,ted about January l5 or February l, 1902, we will be tblissfu1ly unconscious of what has transpired on the great out side. And when the first winter mail reaches ns we will still be three months 'behind. This is one of the penalties we pay for presuming to live outside of civilization.
 There are many tLings the people of ethis'isolated region would like to know. For instance, about October IA, Judge Arthur H. Noyes District Attorney Joseph K. Wood, c. A. s. Frost, Judge Moves private secretary, and Thomas J. Geary, connsel for Receiver Ajax sander Mckenzie, were to tell the cir .,cuiteourt of appeals for the ninth dis ,trict Why they should not be punished flor contempt.
 About town the general opinion is that all would be convicted. Bets are offered that Wood would get "a year sGeany si: months, Frost the same, ,aShile it is stated that Judge Moves is good for at least F months. Judge Moves friends in Nome, and he still has few left, declare that he will be exonerated and will never serve an il1ouf's sentence inthe Alameda county jail in California. for the offense wish which he is charged. They do not :. .awant to ma ke any bets on it, however. They cite the fact that Judge Hum- .phreys, of the supreme court of Hawaii, against whom charges were preferred by the bar of Honolulu for malfeasanee and misfeasance in office. was absolved .by Attorney,General F. C. Knox after a hearing of the case. Fhe charges ,,against Judge Humphreys have here tOfOre been referred to in the NUGGET, From what can be learned, Judge sHumphreys was. opposed to the traffic in ''slave girls'' in Honolulu. He also objected to attorneys appearing in his court in their shirt sleeves. and he .could not see why sprominent citizens -should be excused from jury duty. His enemies filed charges, ,oand the judge won out. But the charges made against .Judge Moves are of an entirely ditfer- .,ent nature, ,.and itis thought that>while Judge Moves may have been sustained by Attorney General Knox he will not escape the wrath of the circuit court of appeals.
 Judge Moves friends say that he will return to Nome early Gext spring and ,resume his place upon the bench, but in the light of recent events it is not at :,Ell likely. If it shohldi transpire that sthe attorney general found him guilt Jess of the, charges preferred, ignored tthe petitions of the attorneys of Nome and 4.OO0 of the people of Northwestern Alaska, and even if he escaped the cir cult court of appeals, it is not generally ttdlought that the department of justice twill venture to.send him back to dis ,trict wnere his presence would be most .Mnwelcome.
 On the other hand it is urged that gWashington dossn't care a rap as to ,the people of Alaska; that they are fhard to please and, generally, that they do not know what they want. &But it seems they are. able to distin- ;guish between a good and bad thing, just thesame. They knowaan incom- potent official when they meet him, and ,,are ready to commend good one when he is found.