The Nome nugget., 1902-07-09
4 MATER or JUDGES.

News of he recent cnhr32No between the judge of the district court for the Second judicial division and the United States n;ar-ha! has reached what i. here termed the "outsdc" and a, 2 result t}a news papers are indulsing in editorial. of column or so in length. Some oi them are treating Ne matter from the standpoint of ignorance ana mi-iuforma- tion The average 'outsi1e' newspaper always as sumes to know more oi Alaska aud Alaskan affairs than do the people who live in the district. This may be the fault of t!e newspapers, perhaps 1t is .he people of Alaska who themselves responsible sor the wise lucnbratious concerning Alaska which frequently fill the columns of newspapers published elsewhere in the United states
 A leading article in the Seattle Times of June p is remarkable both for its knowledge and dense g- norance of judicial affairs in the second judicial dv sion. The Times had an intense hatred of former Judge Arthur II. Noyes probably because the judge and the Times editor formerly lived in Minneapolis. and knew each other, not wisely, but too well The Times, too, is sort of demo-rop-silyere paper and as such it could not be expected to put itself or record as saying much in favor Of republican rsd- eral official in Alaska, except with an ulter;or motive in view.
 At the expense of Judge Noyes United States Marshal Richards and the gentleman who is to sue ceed Judge Moves in this judicial district it goes out of its way, while praisng Judge Wickorsham, who has been temporarily presiding as judge of this dis trict to create prejudice against Judge Moore who has been appointed to lhe vacant judicial seat.
 The NUGGET has always accorded Judge Wicker sham that Credit which it considered was his due; it hss said that he cleared judicial atmosphere that murky, and which Judge Noy,s had been largely instrumental in creating by reason of his instability of character and weakness of purpose. Tie oppol- tuniy to clear the atmosphere was there, and it was srasped by man who saw it.
 There is, however phase of the Times editorial which will be to most people in this section of Alaska, since it nsinuates that the a,nentable df- ferencea which resulted in the contempt proceed ings brought in the district court against United States Marshal Richards the direct result of a refusal of the judge of the court to approve the first quarterly report of the United States marshall" Tn declining to do so are toI by the Times that "Judge Wckersham harshly criticised by the marshal and his friends and so when the reports concerning the fixing of uries which had prevailed for some time came before Judge Wickcrsham he at once ordered nvestgation resulting in the con- victon of Richards"
 This is susceptible of only one meaning: We to understand that the contempt proceedings were begun because "Marshal Richards and his friends"
 
 passed by him, the reports of 'ury fixing" which reached the judges being used as prctext for ordering the investigation
 The Times handles its subject in raucous mar ner, perhaps because it's information was so extremely one-sded If the judge and the marshal had any differences in relation to the auditing of accounts the fact was carefully concealed by both officials. The record in the contempt proceedings at least does not show that such the case,
 After expressing its dogmotic opinion that if the news had been received in Nome that Judge Moore had been sent 10 Eagle and Judge Wickelshan was to be retained in Nome "such action would have re- ceive the endorsement of 95 per cent of all the peo- ple of the cape the Times in its superabundanco of ignorance, goes to state that the me people who is would seem according to the Times nnuendo, are afraid to do otherwise than endorse Judge Wicker sham while he is present, are satisfied not only with the judge but believe in the honesty and integrity of the clerk and the acting district attorney" Truly the ast sentence quoted inspired, and the people