The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-07-08
GOLD
OUTPUT
INCREASING
Reports E. H. Flagg Who Is
Home From Nome
Says Repeated Scandals Prove
Damaging to Country

e. II. Flagg, deputy revenue collec'
tor for the district Of Nome, who Is
visiting his family in Salem, talks
very Interestingly concerning that
country While Northwestern Alaska
is not fabulously rich in mineral
wealth. it has proven one Of the most
reliable and best paying mining dis
tricts known.
Mr.. FIagg left Salem In March, 1901 /
and has been located at Nome during
his II months absence. Nome has a /
population Of 1900, including about
5000 recent arrivals Mr. Flagg says
the output Of gold at Nome is increas' /
ing annually, and will continue to in.
crease
Companies with large capital are in.
stalling plants that will employ from
1900 to 1900 men. Nome is a poor
place for a poor man who expects toI
engage in mining, for the reason that
II Is all deep placer mining, the ore,
in many places, being below the sur
face.
Mr.. Flagg reports the past season
TO have been one Of the coolest
known, but without any severe biz.
yards, the thermometer going 46 de.
grees below zero. Only few Salem
ties are located at Nome. Mr.. and
Mrs. Levi Balmer are the only Salem
people living in Nome City. DR.. and
Mrs Derbyshirc, of Stayton, are liy.
Ing there.
Mr.. Flagg says the frequent scand.
ais that are brought against officials,
that In many instances are competent
not only cripplcs the administration Of
affairs, but it very damaging to the
country itself The latest scandal I'm
the territory was the recent arrest and
conviction Of United States Marshal
Richards on the charge Of contempt Of
court, In attempting TO defeat the ends
of Justice In an alleged tampering
with a jury Richards was convicted
before Judge Wlckorsham, and 1t is
said the men were political enemies
in the state OF Washington, Wicker
sham, who succeeded Noyos, who was
displaced will soon be superseded
by Judge Alfred S Moore. Of Beaver
Pennsylvania, and the replacement
Of Wickcrsham will probably prove
more satisfactory, The fine OF $500
that was imposed upon Richards was
not paid, pending an appeal that will
probably be taken 10 congress,
The Mono Nugget, an Independent
paper, very severely and In uucompro.
missing terms, dcnounces the cunylc.
tion Of Richards. and charges the pre-.
siding Judge (Wickcrsham) with being
biased and projudiced. In a lengthy
editorial Ia criticism of the verdict of
the court the Nugget says, in part,
There have been many things in
the administration of Justice In North
western Alaska which were gricvously
wrong, and which are 10 be deplored,
hut there rs nothing to our mind.
more rcgrettablc than this latest In.
stance of what We believe 10 be a
gross miscarriage OF Justice and grave
judicial error Il, 10 us, Is glarngly
evil with all due respect 10 the dis.
uict court, as at present constituted.
we may be permitted 10 state our be-
lief that United States Marshal Rich.
ards is no more guilty of the quasi.
crime OF which the court has
seen tt to convict him than is the
court himself Mr. Richards has been
marshal of this district for more than
a year past During that time ne has.
In the estimation of ninety per cent. of
The people of this judicial division.
proved himself faithful, efficient and
paInslaking official lie has taken
great pride In the conduct of his Of
Zee, and in the strict orformance of
every duty; his official and personal
records arc clean In the eyes of the
loople, ne stands unimpeached i'm the
minds of the great majority of his fel |
oW citizens, NOTWITHSTANDING the
Judgment and sentence of the tenn
'orary judge of the district court has |
pronounced upon him 10 may De that
n the eyes of the national administra |
ION his character will be blackened |
md his reputation destroyed. hut I'm |
he eyes OF his fellow citizens OF
Alaska who knew him |
nd who value a faithful honest. fair
MT impartial administration of official
uties. free from petty spite and with.
ut maleyoleuce 20 any his character
ud reputation remain unsulied and