Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-05-30
ALASKA GRATING
GEO. CLARK said TO Be TOOL OF
GUGGENHEIMS.
DepOSed Alaska Officials Say They
We're Removed to Fore stall Prose-
CufiOn Of Men Higher Up. Clark,
HOggatt and ShaCkiefOrd Said to
Be Syndicate Men.

WASHINGTON, May 27-That Gov.
Walter E. Clark, Former Gov. w. b.
HOggatt and Louis ShackelfOrd, Re-
publican national committeeman from
Alaska, are only tools OF the Guggen-
helms and that the Guggenheim syn
dicate seeks to control the courts, the
district attorneys and the politics Of
the territory, was the substance OF the
testimony offered yesterday by John
J. BOyce and Daniel Sutherland be-
fore the subcommittee of the Senate
judiciary committee.
BOyce and Sutherland made these
charges in their protest to the SUBJ
committee against the confirmation
by the senate of the Presidents NOM
inatiOn OF H. l.. Faulkner and John
Rustgard to be respectively United
States marshal and district attorney
in juneau. Sutherland as marshal
and BOyce as district attorney were
removed recently by President w. H.
Taft, who then nominated Faulkner
and Rustgard for the offices.
Sutherland and Boyce told the SUBJ
committee that Faulkner and Rust
gard owed their appointments and
they themselves owed their removal
to the Guggenheim interests.
luGy CudI Ecu IAdC tAOy VOAS w
posed on false information furnished
by attorneys and others in behalf Of
the Alaska Katalla company to fore
stall the prosecution of influential
persons charged with having tamper-
ed or attempted to tamper with wit
nesses and jurors in the trial of Ed.
.Hasey, who three years ago in a
picturesque battle, held Keystone
Canyon against a railroad construc-
ton gang for rival company.
One man was killed and several
Others were wounded. 1t is charged
that the Alaskan syndicate became
active in Hasey's defense and $7O,-
900 was spent in that case. Hasey
was acquitted on one charge but was
sentenced to IS months imprison-
ment on another.
While BOyce was prosecuting these
cases and Sutherland was gathering
evidence for other similar prOsecu-
tiOns, both were removed from ofilce,
and Faulkner and Rustgafd were
named in their stead.
The Obiectors before the subcom-
mittee charge their removal was due
to the influence of Hoggatt, Clark
and ShacklefOrd.
They further allege an object OF
their removal was to prevent BOyce
and Sutherland from defending the
interests of the United States in the
suits to establish the disputed claims
in the Guggenheim cases. They de-
clare it was desired to place officials
friendly to the Guggenheim interests
in control of the governments slVe
of those cases.
Incidentally they charge Faulkner
is ineligible to the position to which
the president has nominated him be-
cause as they alege, he is Canadian
by birth and not yet naturalized.
T. Il. Lyons, one of the attorneys
who defended Hasey, has since been
appointed a United States judge III
Alaska and. so the committee was IN
formed, has been ordered to the
Juneau district on July 1.
Delegates James Wickersham yes
terday completed the statement he
began Tuesday in support OF the
charges he makes against the appoln-
tees and those whom he alleges to be
responsible for their nomination. His
allegations were supported Dy boyce
and Sutherland.
Louis Shackleford, Republican ma
tional committeeman of Alaska, began
a statement in defense OF Faulkner
Just before adjournment.
Although Senators Knute Nelson,
w. T.. Borah and l.. S. Overmann, VINO
constitute the subcommittee, are said
to wish open hearings, the rules re-
quire all proceedings relating to con-
firmation of appointments be conduct
ed in executive session. Hence the
sensational charges made before the
suhcommittee simply have leaked"
f,Ov,, tho committee room.