The San Francisco call., 1910-04-09
GOLFERS DELVES DEEPER
INTOALASKA COAL FRAUDS
BaIlinger, Flint, Gillette and Mckinley Are
Connected With Scandal

Senator Frank Flint, Governor
Gillett, Congressman Mckinlay and
other California nota bles have been
brought to the front once more in
connection with the Alaska coal
scandals by an article appearing IN
the current issue of Golfers Weekly.
Two articles, in fact deal with
the western situation in regard to
the Alaska claims and the action
taken by Secretary Ballinger in con-
nection with the conservation of
natural resources. The first of these,
written by Golfers special CORE
spondent. C. p. Connolly, is en-
titled who Is Behind Ballinger"
while the second is an unsigned ar
,icle bearing upon One Pfnchot-Bal-
Hnger Controversy"
Connollys article contains line
up of the Alaska coal claimants, in
which ii is shown that prominent
westerners allowed themselves, their
immediate families and their more
distant relatives to be used as dunn
my entrymen for the rich Alaskan
coal fields. 1t is said that the estl-
mate formerly published, in which
the coal deposits were listed at
SO, 100000, was an underestimate
and that the fields form the richest
prize that has fallen into the lap of
vested interests in 80 years.
The outline of the great coal con-
spiracy, as set forth in the limited
space allotted TO special article in
Golfers, does not go into the de-
tails of the alleged conspiracy in
which Secretary Ballinger was
leading spirit, but only follows the
principal trails. After reciting a
long series of facts concerning Bal
linger's personal and business re-
lationship to the Cunningham coal
claimants, the article of exposure
There is another fact which
points TO the common control of
Alaska by this group of politicians
and capitalists to which Ballinger
belongs.
Donald r. Mackenzie Can inti-
mate friend of Ballinger). John III.
McGraw and Edward levin secured
the passage recently of bill grant
ing them 1000 acres of government
property for town site at Cordova
bay, the seaport terminal of the
Morgan Guggenheim railroad. which
is to run to the Cunningham coal
fields. The passage of this bill
was secured by Senator Piles, with
5 the assistance of Senator Knute
Nelson, chairman of the Ballinger
Pinchot investigating committee,
and Senator Frank P. Flint of Cali
fornia, another member of the Bal
linger-P -Pinchot committee, and the
town was named Nelson, in honor
of the Minnesota senator. Levin
had previously financed Senator
Piles efforts to secure heirs to the
ing to S1.000.000. Heirs were Sc
cured. but their alleged spurious
ness gave rise to a scandal involv-
ing the supreme court of the state
of washington, and was the sub
ject last winter of a legislative in
vestigation.
Adjoining the Cunningham group
of coal claims in Alaska are the
claims known everywhere except in
Seattle as the Green group. In Sc
attic I'm 10
group. That is their proper desig-
nation. NJ. A. Green is an en-
ploye or side partner of Harry
White. There are other groups con
group of. coal claims is the largest
in Alaska. There are so claims in
this group alone.
Harry White is said to be. or to
have been, an agent of the Guggen-
helms. He is somewhat of a finan-
cial and commercial mystery. He is
q man of wealth and influence. His
reputation, however. is not good. He
was compelled to resign as mayor of
Seattle. That was about 1892 or
1899. Later. White moved to Los
Angeles. Cal, though he gravitates
god deal between there and Sc
attic.
Harry White has boasted in past
years of his family relationship to
the Tafts. He is a personal friend
of DR.. William A. Edwards, who is
married to President Tafts sister,
and who lives at Los Angeles. Be-
fore the writer went to Los Angeles
he had a long interview with Harry
White in Seattle. in the course Of
which White told him incidentally
that he had gone to Alaska in 1897
with Doctor Edwards" White was
also President Taft's personal rep
resentative on the Pacific coast dur
ing the last national campaign He
was also the organizer of the Taft
clubs on the coast. In the Los Ange-
les Times of July 20. 1908. Harry
Whites picture appears on the front
page, together with a column and a
half interview with him as the per-
sonal representative of President
Taft Under Whites picture are
geles man of affairs. who is per-
sonal representative of William H.
Taft on the Pacific coast" Harry
White is believed by many in Seat
tie to be the man who secured Bal
linger's appointment as secretary of
the interior. Even before Taft's
linger would be appointed secretary
Of the interior. anJ that there would
be a radical change from Garfield's
policy.
The sum and substance of the
Ballinger controversy and the al
by Connolly in the following hypo-
thetica1 Illustration. in which he
SAYS the distinction is shown be-
tween lawful and unlawful claims
Suppose the government should
say, as the government does say
that those hardy men who went to
Alaska from New York Ohio, Mis-
for the purpose of settling up and
deyelopin2 that country should each