The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-07-07

 SERVICE IS MADE

WASHINGTON. D. C.. June o. Especial from Juneau.) James Wick. ersham last Saturday served formal notice of contest in the 1918 delegate election upon George B. Grigsby, who was awarded the certificate of election as the result of the vote cast in the special delegate election held in Alas ka June 3rd. Mir. Grigsby has until July 2S in w'ich to make answer.
 Wickersham also asks all summer in which he may take testimony. This would allow Grigsby the same time, Following this each side has thirty days in which to prepare briefs then the hearings will be set for argument Wickersham is opposed to the passage of the resolution recently introduced seeking to seat MT. Grigsby, and ob jects to MT. Grigsby being seated and asks that he and his opponent agree upon West Point and Annapolis ap. pointments
 The plan of procedure as set forth by Wickersham would consume at least year. and in the meantime. if he gets what he is working for, Alaska would be entirely without delegate. He alleges that the special election was not legal because all of the pro visions of the congressional act were not complied with.
 SOME OF HIS CHARGES.
 Some of the specifications in the proposed contest over the regular 1918 election follows: Sixteen votes at Ketchikan illegal because the voters were not residents of that place. Five at BaranOff and one at Rake for the same reason, Seven Indians at Douglas and 21 at Juneau were induced to vote file. gally by District Attorney Smiser and Began. Twenty Indians at Sulzer and twenty at Craig are also alleged to have voted illegally.
 The soldier vote again figures in the contest. He alleges that large num- Der at various precincts voted illegal. ly. The number of votes cast by sol, diers is not specified.
 He claims that he lost thirty-one votes at Jack Wade and the same number in the Steele creek precinct because of the abOlishment of voting places. He alleges that ten votes at Copper Center were lost to him thru threat made by his opponent, Chas A. Sulzer, to move the pOstOffice from Blix's to some other establishment Fifty-four illegal ballots are declared by him to have been cast at Unalas- ka At Cache creek the polls, he states. were opened at o'clock in the morning, and the twenty-three votes cast are aaid by him to be illegal for that reason. He claims to have lost fifteen votes because of the change of polling place from Sour dough to Gulkana. Ten votes are claimed to be illegal at Naknek on account of unofficial ballots being used. Fifteen are alleged to illegal at Kusalani because there were two polling places instead of only one. He says he lost twenty votes at Nusha- gak because there was no election held there. Fifty legal Wickersham votes, he alleges. were not counted by the canvassing board. Fifty legal Wickersham votes. he asserts. were refused permission to vote by judges. and fifty illegal Sulzer voters permit ted to vote by judges.
 In addition to these few small items on the political criminal cal endar he makes wholesale charges of fraud, corruption and felonies by judges, clerks. district attorneys, commissioners and election officers at various voting places. He figures that had be got what he was en, titled to he would have been returned winner over his late opponent by about 500 plurality.