Valdez daily prospector., 1912-08-02

Fairbanks.
 On the strength of Wicker sham's favorable report to Wash ingtOn, Barnctte was able to make a transfer of his trading site 10 the Northern Commercial com pany of San Francisco, at a great financial benefit to himself and Wickersham. Wickersham receiv- cd several town lots, which he de- clarcd later, while answering charges at Washington- in the early part of 1907, that said lots were given to him gratis, and mo- body doubts that he received them for using the influence of his of ficial position to make Fairbanks the headquarters of the Third ju- dicial district of Alaska.
 A corner lot in Fairbanks pre- scented to Wickersham. upon which a gambling house operated, was sold by him for S20,OOO a few days prior tO the prohibiting of SdiilDlliS III hIdSkd.
 At the time when peace rcigncd ill the Tanana valley as tO litiga- tion Wickersham raised the dis |covery question, whereby he would not recognize even ten cents to the pan as discovery, unless talk on from bedrock. This worked a hardship OH the poor miner and prospectur and placed him at a disadvantage with the later arriv- alS who had money and facilities. for sinking shafts to bedrock in the deep and expensive ground of the Tanana creeks. Thus he jrop- ardiZed the rights of the original locators, throwing into litigation claims not having shafts to bed rock at that lime.
 Generally his decision on point of discovery was reversed by the circuit court of appeals. Although forced to part with the lions share to the lawyers who defend ed their cases in Wickersham's court. Wickersham would not permit a man to plead his own case, and made the assertion that a case not worth having a lawyer to plead was not worth being tried in his court.
 Wickersham. who is now so loud in condemning the associa- tiOn claims, was one of the first, in company with Barnette, to. make use of it. They staked prac- tically the whole of Fish creek, of which Fairbanks creek is a tribu- tary, thus ushcring into the Tan ana the hated association claim.
 During the Panama strike Wick crsham proved unfricndly to the working man in different ways. He showed his immense prejudice by placing his signature to a teIc- gram that was responsible for the closing of the workingnlan's club, the "California." pretending that the plarc was a hOtbcd of rioiS. plolS. etc. The case was tried in Judge Rcid's court and after three extensions of time were granted to enable Marshal Perry, Wick crSham and the mine owners as- sOciatinn to acquire sufficient evil dcncc t0 make case, it. result cd in being thrown out of court.
 Later, and after Wickersham was elected delegate to congress, he showed his true colors by se- lecting the much despiscd Barney GuSs as his private secretary, who is still with him at Washingio on. Barney Goss was the scab editor on the scab Fairbanks News, which became SO filthy in it's abuse of organized labor, that cv- en the mine owners became em- barrassed and ashamed of having such journalistic civet cham pioning their cause. They with drew their support with the result that the filthy sheet had to tenn porarily suspend publication. Be- fore the advent of the despicable Goss the News was a fair and re- liable paper.
 If Wickersham really wished to wholly guarantee a working mans wages, in his lien bill, he would have drawn it Co include the claim from which dump was extracted, or included the claim owner as joint owner and partner of lay men. For instance, many dumps in the Tanana are absolutely wort h lcss o1uipp to tha fact ibof