The Nome nugget., 1901-10-04
,Judge Moves Talks of Nome
 Attorneys
ALSO HIS CRITICS
lie Says That Some of the rl1wycrs of Nome Left Their Homes for iReasons of Their Own and "Some Are No Better Than Drunkards."

"A late copyrof the Minneapolis Jour nal received in Nome contains an inter- view with Judge Arthur II. Moves. The interview was given in response to one whi h appear ed in the $ attle ,parers from Gen. F. $. Corser, well known citizen of Minneapolis, president of the Corser Investment Company who spent a couple of months in Nome this seasCu. Gen. Corser investigated conditions here for himself, and wben ,he got to the outside he talked stra ght ffrom the shoulder, and in that ta k Judge Moves did not come out un- scathed.
 On his arrival in Minneapolis Judge Moves was shown Gen. COrser's inter- view in the Seattle papers, and it does not seem to have pleased him. Hi, .refesences to "some of the Nome at- torneys" will prove interesting to many people in Nome. besides the at torneys themselves. It will also be noticed that Judge Moves expresses .hjmseifes being curious abont the pe- titien of the lawyers of Nome for his removal Undoubtedly his curiosity shas been gratified ere this. The Trib- une's article follows:
 E. $. COr-er, of Minneapolis. who has sreeently returned iron, Nome ard who is now Cn his way hOm&, has gj%en out d stateme nt to the Seas, papers. in swhich he says that Judge Arthur H.. Moves, who is now in thIs city on his way to Washington to meet the charges made against him. k generally regard ed in the Alaskan city as q man u l. worthy of respect CT confidence. in effect Mr. Corser said that the iepu- Ia le population of Nome consider the Ju .ge venal and corrupt to the last de- gree
 Judge Moves. when seen this morn ing, was decidedly caus,ic in his con- h enas upon MT. Corsc,'a criticisms of h.mselt. Said he:
 ''In answer to the published state sments of Mr. Cor>er, l desire to say that 1 believe he is a. tru h1ul as he k ,hOnest. and furthermore that he ir of she exact class and type of men at Nome, aud who have come out there, or been sent Out, for the express pur- pose of malignng and slnnderiny the court. That all desire to say about ,the mattec."
 Regarding the story telegraphed atr9m.the c0ast to the effect that Il peti- etiun was on it's way to Washington, signed by 52 members of the Nome bar :and demanding his removal Judge Moves sad that his friends at Nome had offered 10 get up petition in his behalf before he left Ihe,e. but that he had refused because he did not think ,rsuch a document would be necessary.
 "Oi course, said he, ',there are a lot ,oi bI0llen-dOwn, wor, hess attur- neys out there who are sore at ne, probably be,ause 1 decided some case against them. YOu can imagine just what sort of legal talent q mining town such Il, Nome would mai urally attract. We have some good. repu able lawyers out there, and we have many who have probably left their homes for reas0ns that they would not like to have made public. Some of them are no better than drunkards. should con ider It a mistnrtunA to have the good op. nion oi such men. I'd like to see that petition. m curious about the names Cn it.. don't believe there are tifty-two oi them, though"