Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-02-08

"Get Holt out OF the way while IN.
hot is at Kamatlah. 1t isn't doing
Holt any good to sit tight clamped to
that claim of his. He needs q change.
can contest his claim. Run him up
into the hills. Or send him across to-
Siberia on a whaler. Or, better still,
have him arrested for insanity and
send him to Nome. I'll get Judge Lane
dor 10 hold him awhile"
s'Leave it to me. The old man is
going on a vacation, though he doesn't
know it yet"
"Good enough, Wally. I'll trust you.
But remember, this fight has reached
an acute stage. No more mistakes.
The devil of it is we never seem to
land the knockout purcn. We've
beaten this bunch of reform idiots be-
fore Winton, before the secretary OF
the interior, before the president and
before congress. Now they're begin
ming all over again. Where is 1t to
endY'
"This is their last kick. Probably
Guttenchild agreed to it so as TO let
the party go before the people at the
next election without any apologies
Entirely formal investigation, should
say"
This might be true, or 1t might not.
Macdonald knew that just now the
American people, always impulsive in
ifc thip1-ino cttnnnrtinU CtrnnUIU
the movement for conservation. A
searchlight had been turned upon the
Kama tlah coal, fields.
The trouble had originated in de-
partment row, but it had spread until
the Macdonald claims had become
party issue. The officials Of the land
office, as well as the national admin
istration, were friendly to the claims
ants. They had no desire to offend one
of the two largest money groups in the
country. But neither did they want to
come to wreck on account of the Gut
tenchilds. They found it impossible to
ignore the charge that the entries were
fraudulent and if contaminated would
result in a wholesale robbery of the
public domain. Superficial investiga.
tons had been made and the claimants
whitewashed. But the clamor had per-
sisted.
The facts were simple enough. Mac
donald was the original promoter OF
the Kamatlah coal field. He had en-
gagged dummy entrymen to take up
100 acres each under the homestead
act. Later he intended to consolidate
the claims and turn them over to the
Guttenchilds under an agreement by
which he was to receive one-eighth of
the stock of the company formed to
work the mines. The entries had been
made, the fee accepted by the land of
fee and receipts issued. In course OF
time Macdonald had applied for pat.
entS.
Before these were issued the maga<
zines began to pour in their broadsidess
and since then the papers had beeT
held up.
The conscience Of Macdonald wac
quite clear. The pioneers in Alaska
were building out of the Arctic waste
a new empire for the United Slater
and he held that fair gOvernmerx
could do no less than offer them Liberal
treatment. To lock up from present
use vast resources needed by Alaskans
would be a mistaken policy, narrow
and perverted application of the docs
trine of conservation. The territory
should be thrown open to the world.
If capital were invited in to do its
share of the building, immigration
would flow rapidly northward. Within
the lives of the present generation the
new empire would take shape and
wealth would pour inevitably into the
United States from it's frozen treasure
house.
The view held by Macdonald was
one common to the whole Pacific coast.
Seattle Portland San Francisco were