The daily Alaskan., 1908-09-21
JUDGE REED UNDER FIRE

The RIdgetop Miner, edited by W. F. Thompson, has its own views ss to the reason Judge Reid goes to Valdez in. stead of Fairbanks where he allowed two sessions of court to lapse while he was on vacation outside. These views form very warm reading for a chilly and blustery day. Here is sample the reference to "the crowd" means "the court house crowd"
 The very first blow which we get, blow more staggering to the vital in- terests of Alaska than any our iercest enemy could possibly invent, Is keep ing us here without a court. That blow works both ways. First 1t enables the crowd to handle large sums of our money pending court, and a quarter of a million dollars means some thing in a clOsely-pressed community like ours. Second it enables the crowd to keep their promise of immunity to the lawbreskers, for the longer the judge stays away the harder it becomes for the prosecution to keep it's evidence together.
 That the absence of 8 judge works An iudescribAble hardship on the entire community, rather pleases than displeases the courthouse. They are making us suffer to teach us a lesson we did not vote as they ordered us to.
 The plan of campaign seems to be deception; still things must not be done too raw. You cannot be told outright, in plain language, that your constitu- tional rights to have your affairs speed fly adjusted will be taken from you because you have disobeyed the court house crowd aud refused to vote for Corson. You must be lied to. You must be made to believe that the sb- seuce of the judge Is purely accidental, unavoidable, etc. Ordinarily the News would have been the best papsr in which to spread such impression, but the vlcissitudes of the campaign have placed the sponsorship and the financial inEricacies of that paper On the already oyerburdened shoulders of our honor able commissioner. A new channel had to be found, and the Times graci- ously loaned the leading column of it's front page las. Tuesday to master piece of newspaper deception-the head lines said that Reid was coming and the body of the article proved conclusiyely that even if he wanted 10 he could not get here in time to open court on Au- gust Sl. And yesterday the Times loaned the same column to tell us the wretched truth-that the judge does not intend to come here
 So Panama is 10 have no court thls year? Fine! Men indicted for crimes will not be tried until the witnesses against them are gone. Civil cases of deep importance to the long suffering miners of Panama will not be tried this year! Monies paid into court and there kept from it's rightiul owners since last April will remain tied up all this year, working desperate hardshIps on many and they add insult to injury by saying: I'The gold dust that has been paid to the clerk of the court will be as valua- ble in three or four months time, when court finally conyenes herem If the Impoverished miner whose money is thus tied up dies of starvation before the money can be pried loose from our commissioner, 1t will do the dead man lot of good.
 All speculation about a term of court this year can be shelved. Judge Reid has repeatedly said that he would not stay here in winter for all the gold in AlnsLn We dn nnt heIiere that the