The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-31
Prof. Carlson Is Digging
 TaIeof Gold and viIlany
 From Ter. Library Files

If you happen to enter the Ter ritorial Library today and see someone in a corner energetically cxaming numerous books and pa pers, it will probably be Dr. Le- land H. Carlson, professor of his- tory at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
 Arriving in Juneau on Saturday Prof Carlson is now busily engaged in research for additional material for a book he has been writing during the last two years. The book will include a history of the discovery of gold in the Seward Peninsula with emphasis on it's disclosure at Nome, Council City and Topkuk. In connection with this discovery he plans to include the early history of the town of Nome
 According to Dr. Carlson, he is dividing his book into two parts. Part I is to include a chapter on the discovery of gold, another on the first mining season of 1899, a third chapter on the fight in Con gress over the Alaska bill and a fourth chapter regarding the great stampede of 1900 At the present time the professor and traveller is devoting his time to Part II of the proposed book Here he will be telling a story as fascinating as the famous Shooting of Dan McGrew; Y" however, in this instance the story is authentic, and the plot ex- changes a murder for a famous Alaskan swindle.
 Conspiracy + Center
 Part II of Dr. Carlson's book will center around a great conspiracy in which Alexander Mckenzie, a powerful politician from North Da- kota, and Arthur H. Moves, a crook ed judge from Minnesota, were planning to steal all the best mines on Anvil Creek, four miles north of Nome. The conspiracy took place in the Second Judicial Division where Moves and Mckenzie had plans to carry out their plot through hiring professionals to jump the claims in that vicinity force the cases into court and secure the appointment of McKen zie as receiver.
 The entire case involves episodes which rival the tales in Hallibur toms books Because of deep in- terest in the case of the scheming Judge Moves, Dr. Carlson has been searching government publications newspapers and legal documents throughout the States and now h Juneau in an attempt to reveal the exact happenings involved in the historical case.
 As the story book" story of 1900 continues, a good friend of the Judges whose name was Oliver P. Hubbard sailed to Nome seeking to assist him in the stealing of the Alaskan mines Dr. Carlson ex- plained that the mines were eX- ceedingly wealthy providing an output of from ten to fifteen thou sand dollars per day Upon land ing in Nome on July 19 Hubbard proceeded to work at obtaining the mines. Papers were hastily provid- ed asking for receiver. Prem then on the story involved the seizure of the mines, the attempt of the Nome miners to recover their claims and their oispatching to San Francisco an agent to obtain protection by writ of supersedeas.
 Character Revealed
 A shocking revelation of the character of Moves and McKc..-.c was provided when the Judge and the Receiver refused to obey the writ of supersedeas brought back to Nome against them. On Octo- Der Is, Mckenzie was arrested and brought to the U. s. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, fol- lowing which the case caused con- siderable comment and excitement in the States.
 Carlson's interest in the case has | taken him to numerous libraries and courts in checking the out come, as it came before the Su- ; preme Court of the United States