The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-07-20
WICKERSH Ham
@TTORNEY-GENERAL SAID TO
HAVE NEGLECTED. TO PROSE.
CUTE ALLEGED CRIMINALS.
ALASKAN SPRINGS A Mine
Startles House Committee Into Urging
Probe.-Says Nations Defrauders
en- Coal Contracts Were
Shielded.

Washington, D. C. - Att~orney.gen
eral Wickersham will be called upor
to furnish the house with all docu
ments, afidavits and testimony in his
possession relating to an affidavit sub.
mitted to him more than a year ago
and sworn to by II. J. Douglas, for,
mcr auditor Of the Alaska syndicate,
in 1908, according to a decision reach.
ed by the house committee on judi,
ciary, which determined to report IA
Vorably a resolution of inquir,' of.
fered by Delegate Wickersham of
Alaska.
The decision followed secret consid-
Grafton of charges made by the dele.
gate that the encouragement DELHI
erately permitted the statute of limi-
tations to run against agents of the
Alaska syndicate who defrauded the
government through perjury to the ex-
tent of $4,000.
Delegate Wickersham startled the
committee when in executive session
he produced a copy of an affidavit re-
lating to an alleged criminal act com
mitted by Captain ID. II. Jarvis of the
Alaska syndicate and formerly promi.
nent in the government evenue cutter
service, who committed suicide in
Seattle on June %, the day following
the introduction of the Wickersham
resolution calling for production of the
papers in the case, and by John II.
Bullock Of the John p. Sesnor Coal
Company of Nome.
Fraud on Nation Charged.
Through connivance Of these men II
was charged that the government was
defrauded on coal contracts and THAI
evidence to that effect was permitted
to remain Enacted upon in the attor-
ney generals office for more than a
year until the statute of limitations
expired last May.
Delegate Wickersham furnished the
committee with Photographic copies of
a letter OF an attorney for the Alaska
syndicate TO ID. II. Jarvis admitting
the expenditure of money to control
government witnesses in the Hazey
murder trial in 1908, wherein an agent
of the Alaska syndicate was accused
of numbering laborers employed by
interests during the construction
a railroad in Alaska.
A photograph of an e account
for $1,l33.40 of NJ. B. Morrissey, EN-.
ployed by the syndicate to entertain
government witnesses and jurymen in
that connection, also was submitted to
he committee. This evidence Dele
Wickersham declared also is in
possession of the attorney gen.
eral. The delegate urged on the Judi
ciary committee the Douglas affidavit
involving the representatives of the
Commercial Company,
one of the Alaska syndicate concerns.
and the Sesnor Coal Company.
The Douglas affidavit charges that
the war department advertised
or bids for coal to supply the Alaska
posts, Mr.. Jarvis, treasurer of
he Northwestern Company, and John
1. Bullock of the Sesnor Coal Com
'any a rival OF the syndicate, agreed
o submit bids which would insure the
ward OF the contract to one company
n the other, there being no other COM
.'etitor, agreed to certain lighterage !
.harges and fixed upon a division of I
he profits. ]
n Senscr Company got the con- :
ract to furnish 1000 IONS of coal at :
2S a ton, a price which Douglas claim :
d was nearly twice too high and the :
rofits were divided, Douglas himself 9
ntering $1,000 from the Sesnor Com
any on the books of the Northwest :
rn Company as the later's share of :
he profits. '
Both Bullock and Jarvis made false >
ffidavits to the government that no
but the company which each rep >
esented had any interest in the con- q
ract. The evidence submitted indi. .
ating an attempt to control govern /
lent witnesses is a fac-simile copy 8
I a letter written by John A. Carson
ounsel, for the Alaska syndicate, to
Jarvis, under Seattle date.
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