Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1906-01-11

officials Of the department. of justice.
1 know that Mr.. Mckenzie protected
interests in his charge and that had
it not been for the action of the court
in Alaska, tile California crowd would
have had it all their own way from
the first and there is no telling what
amount OF robbing and fraud would
have resulted.
''The district judge at Nome and
the acts of his court were the first
legal obstacles that the San Francisco
gang had ever met with in their high
way career in the Nome field. 1t was
a battle royal, and when Mr.. McKen-
zie refused to obey the orders Of the
Frisco judges, on the advice Of Attor-
ney Geary-the author Of the Chinese
exclusion bill it was natural. that
proceedings for contempt should fol-
low, and the receiver and attorneys
involved in the refusal, punished for
contempt.
sIt can be stated that the only one
not punished by the Frisco gang was
the same attorney on whose advice
Mckenzie acted in the matter Of the
receivership.
II want to again say that no min
er's dust was ever traced to McKen-
zie's hands, or to those of his
friends. Instead he proved himself
the friend of the common miner and
stood for his rights against the orders
OF a federal court of high authority
and was punished for it most unjustly,
as Attorney General Knox stated to
me, after a thorough investigation Of
the case. He said that "the action
against Mckenzie was the most high
handed and unwarranted proceeding
1 have ever met in. my experience as
a lawyer, and I took great pleasure in
recommending President Mckinley
to pardon him."
"They say, that Mckenzie is a
''gang" man Ssbut his endorsement by
the former, attorney general who is
known as the anti-gang leader Of
Pennsylvania and the close friend of
Roose velt, ought to count forsomething
with those who have predjudices
against gangs.
''The Beach magazine articles are
conflicting, and ab-
surd descriptions Of Mckenzie, and
give a wrong idea of the man as his
friends well know. They strive to
create a false impression of his char.
acter by admitting some good quail
tiles, and adding a lot to make him ap-
pear a cold blooded villain. These arti-
cles vii makeihis friends feelworse than
they will him, as they know the state:
ments and charges are dead wrong.
They make it appear that the claim
jumping and all the need for a court
Of Justice arose after the arrival Of
Mckenzie, and that he was to blame
for it all. It is true that he was iden-
tilted with the court proceedings soon
after he got there, in the receivership,
but the origin Of the troubles among
the miners dated back long before
Judge Noyes-whO was appointed on
the recom mendation Of the lamented
Senator Davis of Minnesota-reached
Nome. Miners, attorneys, and claim
jumpers were only waiting the arrival
of a court to start the law suits and
get claim contests settled: for the sea.
son when sluicing work can be done
there is short.
sBeach attributes to Mckenzie Ger
tain personalities that every one who
knows him knows are false, such as
smoking cigarettes, and talking in a
boasting style about his plans and
what he did and was going to do. All
who know Mckenzie know that he is
one Of the most modest; of men in his
own work, and is always giving credit
to others rather than taking it for
His friends know that he is
q generous, broad minded, manly man
with sympathies for the poor and al
ways ready to aid man lin distress,
and that his work Of building up and
pushing the state Of North Dakota
has been the greatest and most effect.
i've Of any resident in the state. The
magazine articles seem to me to be
the work Of some subsidized writer,
hired for the purpose.
"Those who approve Of them at
home here are of course inspired by
political or personal grievances and
jealousies and care nothing for facts
as long as they can use the articles to
aid their political schemes. "
State Oil Inspector Jackman esti-:
mates the total oil receipts at from
Is, ,O0D to 80, 600 barrels, or from 1850
600 to 100000 gallons, which at 25
cents per gallon would make about
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