Bisbee daily review., 1903-11-28
SAYS OFFICIALS
 WERE CORRUPT

Miss Lena g. Walton of Nome is registered at the Lick House She ar rived in San Francisco Sunday tc re- new hec battle for claim number 19 situated on Ophir creek and valued at more than S1.00o.00O Miss Walton is a famous character of the great northwest and her fight against Chas. ID. Lane and his rich associates in the Wild Goose Mining company for title to claim 19 forms thrilling chapter in the history of the northern mines
 Five years ago Lena $. Walton was a Seattle milhner, but she cast aside her bonnets to take up the operations which have made her wealthy. Final iy she fell upon claim 19, which had been owned by the Wild Goose Min ing company Miss Walton claimed that S100 worth of assessment work had not been done on the property as required by law and together with J. H. Wilson took possession of it. The claim proved valuable and then began the struggle. According to Miss Wal ton the company last spring, in defi- ance of an injunction, entered into forcible possession of the claim by making a prisoner of her watchman and rushing little building set on rnnners on the peroperty.
 Aided by one of her employees. the little woman crert into the claim. re- leased her watchman and hurried to Nome with affidavits to the effect that the company's attorney had claimed to own the judge and jury before whom the case would come in the northern city An adverse decision was given against her, but Miss Walton secured a stay of judgment by showing that re- cords of the case had been tempered with before leaving the Nome court. Disguised as boy she located some of them issuing papers in the city and returned them.
 Later the case of claim number 19 bobbed up in the United States cir cult court of appeals in this city where Miss Walton claimed that mem bers of the Nome jury which tried the case had been drunk from champaign punch when they erturned their yer dict. The matter went over and TOW Miss Walton is here with her partner, J. H. Walton, to fight it to finisl.
 In speaking of the matter Miss Wal 
 with my attorneys to lay before the department of justice the evidence l have secured showing a shameless state of affairs in the vicinity Of the Cape Nome district. In my suit against Lane have ample proof 10 show that crooked work has been dnre at Nome and I believe some of the parties connected with it can be sem to prison for their participation. My prime object, of course, is to reopen the case. and after my evidence has been submitted I think we will have no trouble in doing so.
 We propose to prove that W. H. Ferguson, formerly United states com- miseicnar at Council City, deliberately withheld tbe-22ld records Of the dis trict and put tnem out1o the way in the interests of Lane. We will also show and prove by the affidavi:s of court officials that the transcript of the case was altogether changed by the assistance of men in power be- tween the time it left the court of Judge Wickersham at Nome and the time that it arrived ill this city 10 gn before the United States circuit court of appeals in this city. Portions of the record were deliberately made away with and other portions of docu- ments on file were changed.
 We will show that money was ai lowed to go into the jury room in ] box of collars while the case was or trial at Nome and that members oi the jury were made drunk. We aisl have afidavits to prove that three oi the jurors voted straight through the case against Lane and that when thc poll was taken they were allowed te pass without making answer wher questioned for their verdict. All oi this and open bribery. which We have affidavits to prove. was usec with tha connivan of officials, and we pror SC to cure through Attorney Genera Knox Q government investigation oi the whole affair. While the entiic facts can not yet be made public VIC believe that the complete proofs w> will exhibit will create the bigges scandal that has yet come out oi Alaska"
 In securing afidavits which shC claims will prove her statements Miss Walton has made herself the ad miration of the great northwest Dis guised as a man she shadowed a de tective who was searching for the stol en records Miss Walton captured him One affidavit from the watchman oi her claim was secured by the woman crawling into the sleping camp of the Lane people, securing the watchmar and taking him to a notary where he stated that Lanes attorney hat made the boast that Lane owned th' judge and pury at None.