Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1906-04-13

Inter.dD ceon, Devils Lake
corp oratior no matter which
WAY the compromise went off.
And these people interested
themselves ID newspapers, in
saloons and iii dance halls, in
local politics and they got
next to the crowd. They
were able to manufacture senti-
Ement, and they did. Damn Nc
Kenzie was a good rule to follow
Ito start with and that is where
they found willing ears. A trial
lin Nome during that time d
Jury trial PARTICULAR y was al
farce. Amy shreWd lawyer could
tell after a jury had been iimparl-
lnelled what the verdict would
he no matter what the facts
nj 8. i1t be. talked to a witty
bar keeper and mixer Of drinks in
| 1.-THE Second Class. Saloon one
day about Alex Mex enzie and
my friend said: 1If Mckenzie
were put on trial for murder and
1 were on the jury I'd 60, to-
sleep as soon as I had been
sworn, and at the end Of the
| trial they could wake me up and
I'D vote guilty. rs
And lit is that kind Of atmos-
lphere which Rex Reach imbib-
led while at Nome. He has the
| poetic temp erarnent and imagi-.
nation. The rest is easy.
He never talked to Alex Nc
Kenzie in his life he never
talked to Judge Moves FIVE min
lutes. He knew Captain Met Cor
mick and he knew some Of the
few men who were connected
with Nc Kenzie but the bulk Of
Ibis information came from the
enemies Of Mckenzie and from
/ records which do not always
ltell the straight story. / have
perso nally sat down with men
lWho told me to what extent they
We're prepared to go in their fight
with Alex. Murder, arson, per-
Jury they did not balk at. One
imam told me that he was prepar-
ed and had arranged to overturn
la boat which was carrying a
United States deputy marshal to
la steamer in the roadstead at
/ Nome if his scheme to get. this
deputy roWed to another steam
Ter, miles away. had niscarried
OF been suspected by the deputy.
This deputy carried an order
from the court ether right
fully or wrongly issued does not
con Tern us now pre- umably it
WAS the lawful order Of the court
of the United States. The anti
Mckenzie crowd knew of the or
der and knew what it meant to
them it must not reach the per-
son for whom il was intended
1.-THE deputy must be drowned like
Ia rat in the boisterous surf Of
Nome, if need be. That the
Emergency did not arise was only
Idue to the cunning of the boats
crew and the stupid lily Of the de-
Iputy who allowed himself to be
carried three miles down the
coast TO a steamer, which when
hailed turned out TO be the
wrong one the right one with
lights extinguished had moved
many miles further out and W.
when it suited the purpose Of
the crowd Mckenzie was fight
ling departed for San Francisco
land the seat Of the court which
/ was supposedly reviewing the
factions of the Nome court with
Eall the facts before them. All
the facts were not allowed to
reach that court. Many So call
led facts were distorted, colored,
Idue to the artificial atmosph here
Icreated at Nome. am conyinc-
Led that justice raiscarried. q
In the meantime Rex E.
Beach did not strike iIrich ait the
| Kobuk but magazine managers
will pay him and others good
money for stuff for which the
public is supposed to be banker
ling. The Treason of the SEN
late has existed sine the senate
EXISTED and always will the
corp orations have been soulless
land greedy ever since corpora
ftlolls were known, and the trusts
are octopi in no matter what.
form Or shape they affect the
people
remember when s. JIM Hill
was the most cordially disliked
imam in the northwest. He built
Ia transcont nental railroad with