The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1912-02-24
(BY WILL A. sTEEL.)

the number of business houses is only accord with
the legitimate demands of trade and consequence all the
places securing fair and remunerave share
4 of patronage.
Prospectors soournng there invade the
hills quest of rich mineral Mining operators and
daily arriving and adding to their quantities OF supplies to
the work. Outfits going into the Slate
district while thousands of tons of supplies and mach
cry being taken the north and east of Chna into the
Kotsina Chtna, Nizina and Chittystone districts.
There is prevailing hope, that has almost reached an
abiding faith that with the coming spring summer con
trucon will the branch line OF railway for the
Great Northern Development Company will run from Stre
Mile 146 the Kuskuna river to the big copper prop
ery that has been well opened Manager Gray This
will also be tributary to the properties owned and be
developed by the Alaska United Copper Exploration Com
and of the Mccarthy property During the construction
work the of Chtna will undoubtedly busting
community.
Another that tends to the belief that Chit
destined to be permanent of much Importance is
recent information that from Washington There the
impression is becoming certain that Congress will
providing for the construction of railroad to the
Maanuska coal fields bill has been introduced providing
the appointment of commission to investigate the most
route And engineers who have studied the maps an
os of the avaaberoutes almost unanimous IN the eff
that the route that must be selected because OF its
grade is from Chna 1t than reasonable Ger
anty that the picturesque little town nesting among the hills
certain prove factor the interior section of Alaska
evelops.
But Notwithstanding rosy future that is in for
favored community feeling of unrest and uneasness
AIDES almost every artery that should be enriched by har
unfortunately, woefuy lacking within the community
and has spread to people who contemplate making Chtna Their
field faction and permanent residence That unfortunate
has existed for several months past and the writer spent
several days investigating the reports that have
ssteny circulated and for the seeming strife
md antagonism In giving conclusions propose to state
plain facts with the obectthat healthier condition might
suit.
It is undoubtedly true that the whose question
able and reprehenbe acts than all other elements have
this unsavory condition M R. Heay Until early
bo
had wandered for parts of the world and
Alaska locate land the hill from
Chna thinking that in line of the proposed railway
and would have to be bought from him at good profit He
lived hemts life until he given work the office
the U s. Commissioner and Recorder And after that
when the presiding official resigned Mr. Heay appointed
to the office.
It shortly after that this fattened Caesar reveled in
the glory of his prominence and became Nero drunken with
temporary power He staked about the village mpressng ali
with his mighty Importance and that ruling the
throne of stce ~ where vors would be shown the fawnng
and yielding AS time he succeeded in almost creating
reign of terror Desised individual the weak fell
prey his dominance the unlawful his favor by then
words of adulaon that appealed almost unprecedented
egots while the strong and who have failed t
the knee have been subjected in to his vndc
veness and And to another element whose favor he
in carrying the nefarous Vaccinations of mind
bent destroying those who might oppose his unhoy warfare
has assumed than thou demeanor that in
stances has deceived of whom he but making tool
Like snake in the grass this than willy Judge
NJ r. Hea fastened his fangs upon different ele
until his dominance became hurul both ndivd
uals and the town that there revolt last November
Charges laid before the Grand Jury sitting Cordova
both against this who held the exalted office of United
States Commissioner and his mnion and stool pigeon, Deputy
United States Marshal Bown Scores of witnesses
oned but many seemed reluctant to freely speak the
empb acts of the they feared But brought
that the mghy Judge who had emgated the shores Of
the United States 20 ago had not become citizen The
Grand Jury then ceased their investigation and reported this
fact the presiding Judge of the Federal Court with the
ca that he be dismissed from the office The
matter taken under advsement by the court and
peced that change will be announced in the office
another official is selected
d Instead of Immediately resgnng his position which h
under false he sought continue to draw
salary from that he persistenty declined to
ognize for by applying for citizenship which
not yet been granted And in the meantime his baleu
influence continues leaving the promising young town in tn
hroes of insecurity that derment to its people and OBJ
stace to it's advancement In his work he is crafty cunnin
nsdious In instances he keeps the background
his plots being carried out by Others they not Away