The Chitina leader., 1912-02-10
Truth Comes Out al Last


- seles acs gwen IN our local columns months ago.
' :hat II snould nave such widespread circulation IN the
East is not only surprising but verv pleasing shows that
at last the fruits of abors at hand the
are realizing that the Guggeem bugaboo has been
played to the limit and must 90 into while Alaska
oeVeopeo ana quilt up 1t will put ques on the writings
lies and moutngs of the Pcot press writer's once
and forever and Larop Pnchot get their stuff
accepted by any honest journal Golfers Weekly has crawed
nto s hoie Hamptons suffering dissolution the Pacc
Monthly is out of business Leses is giving thousands of read
er the truth about Alaska and the and the Outlook
backing water along reversing itself at turn
NOW the truth is out about the arch SO we nave
reason to feel elated.
The following is from the Sioux CITY Journal of JAM 2s
1872 but other clippings received show that has appeared In
many OF the prominent newspapers of the East;
Seattle, Wash, JAM 27The Controller Bay conspiracy
which charged that President Taft permitted the uggenhelms
TO grab valuable tide lands and terminal sites on Controller
Bay in Alaska after having been influenced to do by his
brother Charles P Taft wbo it alleged behind Dick
Ryan, the promoter claimant exposed III all Its
here today by Barney Goss former secretary TO delegate from
Alaska James Wckersham, and the attempt to besmirch the
President attributed directly Clifford Pnchot jim Wicker
sham and John Latrop mead of the nchot press bureau
and the man who first published the now famous Dck to
Dick letter fake
Goss has quit Wickershams service returned to the Pa
cc and engaged again newspaper work He not at
all bitter against his former employer but owing to the fact
that he made affidavit setting forth how the Controller Bay
conspiracy plotted and perperated the people of the
United States which affidavit he declares Chairman Graham
Of the Controller Bay investigation committee has fit to
suppress its entirety Goss thinks only fair and proper
that he should give out what he set forth in the affidavit that
given by him before he left Washington D. c. return to
Pacific coast.
at report made by Jim Wickershm of a
versaon had with Dick Ryan that served the nucleus of
the Controller Bay plot declared Goss II have known Ryan
the promoter for several years. meeting him first in Alaska
where put in several years. and until some few months
had to believe that he and Wckersham the
81 friendiest of terms.
II walking down Pennsylvania in Washing
two three weeks before the Controller Bay began
to figure in the first headlines of newspapers throughout
he Whe TO m
:ary he back inquired why my boss Jim Wckersham,
fighting him his attempts to gain control of Controller
Bay tide land and terminal sites Barney why your boss
Jim Wckersham, fighting me about Controller Bay? Ry
ans first remark
II told Ryan did know that Wickersham was fight
ing him. he what his therefor and he
next inquired Why don't Jim know have Charley Taft back
of me in this matter?'
~ considerably surprised this Ryan, for
Alaskan knew that these claims for the purposes out
lined by Ryan, practically useless and probably
used in stock obbng DEAL far could learn for
would Alaskan credit Ryan with being accredited
special other kind of agent for the Guggenheims
any other interests his record in Alaska too we'll known
THAT all that passed between about Controller
Bay and hurried chief Delegate Wckersham report
him what Ryan had said Mr. Wickersham Immediately call
ed Mr. Latrop into conference and within few days the Con
troer Bay grab by the Guggenhems, through alleged
agent namely Dick Ryan, began be exploited great
length in newspapers throughout the country President Taft
ar his brother being aers and abeors in chief
the attempt to bottle what alleged be the best
nral harbor in Alaska That the start of the Controller
Bay conspiracy was heard of mentioned until re-
ported Ryans statements to to Mr. Wclersham The
roer Bay natural harbor stories have since thoroughly
exploded through Secretary Fishers trip up Alaska when
great storm its always placid waters that the
entire party in grave danger of death
81 am convinced that Ryan only throwing monu-
mental bluff in his remarks to because he first last and
all times promoter who in his Alaskan transactions traded
upon the guby of threefourths OF the people who would
not believe his denial of nsnuaton that he Guggen
helm agent and because of this he would be able sell stock
his scheme he able to obtain possession the lands he
sought
THE first dispatches about the plans of the special inter
grab Controller Bay quickly followed by the pub
LEGATION of the fake Dick to Dick letter do know who
faxed it, planned thought it out but do know that the
letter the papabe kind of fake and the Graham in
vestgating committee evidently realized that because it per
sseny refused Ashmun Brown former secretary to
oanger though he waited around IN Washington patiently
for weeks to be heard
The scandal that developed subsequent my report
Wckersham of what Ryan had told me the