The Nome nugget., 1902-02-19
THE END or THE NOME CONSPIRACY.

The Nome contempt eases. which were tried in San Francisco last fall, simply brought 10 the public gaze evidences of of the most amazing conspraces to obtain gold by legalized robbery that has ever been known in the history of the jurisprudence of this any other country. That such a conspiracy existed was we'll known in Nome; that the fight made to uncover it and bring the principal conspir ators ito condign punishment successful is a matter of congratulation not only to the people of Alaska but to those of every section of the United States. Alexander Mckenzie, the head and front of the offending looers, the first to feel the ndgna ton of an outraged judicial tribunal. The others, who were either willing pliant tools we have little doubt, are now having plenty of time to chew the 'cud of bitter reflection within prison walls.
 Those who have read the evidence educed in the contempt proceedings the part of the government cannot but be struck by the brazen efrontery dis played by Mckenzie, his tools, hirengs and hench- men. in the plot to steal claims from the rightfu in the expectation of reaping great profit by their lareenous acts.
 We had hoped to be never again compelled to refer to the villaines transacted in the and fall of 1900 in Nome in the name of the law but the revelations made during the trial of the contempt cases demand it. The nquites of the organized band of freebooters who landed the shores of Nome in July 1900, whose sole object 10 plunder under the aegs of alleged law and with the aid and connvance of as weak and vaclatng man as ever dsgraced the judiciary, should be pointed cut in manner strenuous that coming generations will not forget the lesson The way of the ransgressor hard and the chief in that foul conspiracy now may realize it. We said that their purpose in com. ing here to plunder. Their subsequent acts proved it. They no doubt thought that here, the extreme confines of civilization, backed by federal judiciary they could exercise control that was ab soute. Chechakos themselves, yet schooed in all the wies and subterfuges taught in depraved school of politics, they doubt reasoned that the gold miners and gold hunters of these frozen regions were all "brothers to the OK" They doubt pictured to themselves the with which they could seize and seQuestrate the richest placer mining ground in Alaska to their own use and behoof. What was the spoaton of innocent and ignorant people, unused to law or it's devious ways to them Simply as dried leaf to be brushed aside with breath The plans SO carefully laid by powerful though sinister mind were launched but the same master hand which di- rected the conspirators met men as astute and re- of war The conspiracy detected and it's chief thrown into prison but it's balefu effects are still felt. Those conspirators and federal officials came to Nome with the full lust of power strong upon them. A hog roots for acorns and buzzard gorges on it's carrion with profounder obvious- ness to everything the satisfaction of its desire than did these consprators show in their predatory incursion into Northwestern Alaska. The men who "blazed the trail" nothing to them. These free. booters foolishly imagined themselves the people the law was mocked at, and the men who were SUD- posed to administer it in justice and equity were the Subservient toos-that is. those of the number who were not actually a part and parcel of the con- spiracy.
 We have no false sympathy to express no hon. eyed phrases to utter pity to urge in behalf o those men who, thrown from their high pedesals now find poor to do them reverence. Thei, names will be anathematized 80 long as warm blood through the veins of the people of Alaska Thess consprators came to rob, to plunder and destroy And the fate which feel assured that they have met is one which no honest, selfrespecting mar should deplore. The lesson thus taught is bearing fruit. Honesty of purpose, faithful discharge O sworn duties by officials of the United States govern