SSEATTLE PAPER TELLS
t: OF "WICK’S” COME-BACK
Unde* the . heading .“alim Wicker
- sham Appears to Be- Staging Come
back,” the Seattle Times recently
... contained, the following:
“Itehegins to look as. if Jim Wick
f ershajn, nosing out Joihn Rustgard for
the Republican nomination for Dele
gate ■*<$', Congress from Alaska, and
slated to run against his old political
i enemy, -George B. Grigsby, the Dem
i acratic candidate, v> was staging an
t. other political come-back.
“And how many of the mhe has
c staged,in the more than forty years
i Jie has been active.in Territorial and
State politics of the Northwest.
“Pioneer, lawyer, jurist, author,
c congressman.:, and crusader, Wicker -
sham has been in the center of more
. stormy controversies ^han any other
{ figure who has grown up with Wash- j
mgton and Alaska. He has both
made and written history and may
'now. be, giving. a> new twist to the
story of the Northwest that is un
:> likely to be duplicated.
“Wiekeasham was on the probate |
c coutftain Pieatce county in Territorial
,^ys. die. was on the Federal bench
when Noyes and, Alex McKenzie, and
_ all theucharaeters that made early
_ Nome,# verb being shoved out of the
pictures and the Guggenheims, Hog
; gatt^lShackleford and the rest were
vccoming in. He had a twelve-year
, record in. Congress from the Nojth
,. *rn territory before he ^retired, he
s 8aid,uto. write the history of Alaska
v. and-to.master the Russian language
t saJie 'Cauld decipher the musty rec- <
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?1Qne orffirial art of Wicker sham’s
i:ii Tacoma curiously links the past
v withiithe ipresent. He lahnched a
. damage shit, when he was city attor
: ney of,-Tacoma. against C. B. Wright,
v who 'had sdld the ctty a water plant,
i. and; worn £ $750,000 verdict, which
\ was eventually compromised. In col
. Lecting on the verdict Tacoma seized
s. a lighting plant belonging to the
\ Wrightseatate and so began the first
v mhnicipality • owned ighting plant in
i: in the Northwest, probably in the en
t tiro' We&t,
Jm his.-law practice Wickersham
i was a. partner of Jhdge Ben Sheeks,
r- the veteran Grays Harbor jurist, who
< died a.fe wyears ago, and as George
* T.'®ejd»weho later was to become
vice president of the Northern Pa
«. cific; was graduating from messen
i ieced Wickersham’s office as a clerk
. and subsequently became his partner.
“Wickersham went to the State
- legislature in 1899 and, like several
of his fella .wtownsmen, was awarded
\ with a federal‘appointment when Ad
i dison G. Poster was elected to the
* United States Senate. In the North
west they .said jokingly that Foster
: sent. Wickersham to Alaska to get
him out.of Washington politics, and
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T Blacksmith,
■ Machine and
all kinds of
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v Work
Safetys
Stoves
' ROBERT LOWRIE
’ Proprietor
if he did he tossed a whole hornet’s
nest into the midst of the young
Northern Territory. He was fated in
the North to share in the cleanup of
Nome which followed the upsetting
of a famous mining conspiracy which
served the further purpose of provid
ing the material for Rex Beach’s
novel, ‘The Spoilers.’ He was in the
Fairbanks district during the early
fight of the Guggenheim interests
for an Alaska foothold. Some of the
history of that early fight also was
translated into novel form in Beach’s
'Iron Trail.’
“Wickersham rode into Congress
and stayed there on his anti-Guggen
heim issue. Originally a Republican,
he became a ‘Progressive,’ but more
than anythin gelse he \vas a whole
party by himself in Alaska for a de
cade or more. Grigsby, the Demo
cratic nominee, once was district at
torney at Nome and on the face of
L918 returns was elected as Delegate,
out Wickersham contested and won
the seat.
“While he spent long months in
Washington awaiting the outcome of
his contest, Wickersham worked on
ois Alaska history, which he subse
quently retire dto Juneau to finish.
In his present race Wickersham ran
igainst an old political enemy, John
Rustgard, who left the attorney gen
eral's office to make the fight.”
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MINERALS OF TERRITORY IN
1929 SHOW INCREASED VALUE
OF OUTPUT OfER YEAR 1928
(Continued from Page 1.)
Iredges produced gold to the value of
>2,932,000. They are estimated to
lave handled about 8,709,600 cubic
rards. Two new dredges were built
luring the year and three old drdtlgetf
hat had been idle during 1928 were
tgain active.
The output of copper in 1929 was
learly 911,000 pounds less than in
928, though because of the increased
telling price its value was $1,165,000
rreater than in the earlier year. Prac
ically the whole of the Alaska cop
ically the whole of the Alaska cop
ter comes from those mines operated
>y the Kennecott Copper Corporation,
wo of which are n the Copper River
egion and one on Latouche Island,
n Prince William Sound. The ore
rom the properties in the Copper
liver region is largely high-grade
opper sulphide and carbonate; that
rom Latouche Island i sa low-grade
opper-iron sulphide. All the Alaska
opper ore is shipped to the States
or smelting.
None of the Alaska ores are mined
olely for their silver content, but
onsiderable silver is recovered from
he ores of gold and copper as a
ninor constituent. In 1929 silver to
he' value of $187,400 was recovered
rom the copper ores, $50,300 from
he gold lode ores, and $14,300 from
he placer gold; the total was 472,900
mnces, having a value of $252,000.
Phis marks a slight falling off in
ralue fro ml928, which is attributable
o the lower selling price of silver,
or the quantity from all sources was
nope than 18,000 ounces in 1929.
The lead produced from Alaska
ires in 1929 amounted to 2,630,000
fUUUUO) Ml/ wtc MTb&agc 0^111*15
>rice of lead for the year was worth
1165,000. This marks the largest out
>ut and highest value for the lead
>roduction from Alaska since this
netal was first produced in the Ter
ritory. Most of the lead was recov
red as a Jby-product in connection
vith the mining of gold ores n South
eastern Alaska.
Coal to the value of $528,000 was
>roduced from Alaska mines in 1929,
irincipally in the Matanuska and
lealy River fields. This was a de
crease from the high mark attained
n 1928, but has .been exceeded in only
hree years in the entire period that
coal mining has !bee <nin progress. No
Alaska coal is exported, but 32,762
ohs was imported from the States,
chiefly fro mWashington, and 24,172
ons from foreign countries, chiefly
Jritish Columbia, so that the total
lomestie consumption. .,,in .1929
amounted to .approximately.^157,500
tons.
Among..the miner;j 1.products..that,
entered less. largely into the. Alaska
mineral industry in 1929 njay .be
menttioned tin, petroleum, platinum
metals, marble, limestone for cement, j
and quicksilver. The tin sheared a de- j
crease of about 15 perjcent from 1928.!
The total value of th eother products!
was $194,000; or about $30,000 more
than they brought in 1928.
The foregoing facts are taken from
a report of the Geological Survey en
titled “Mineral Industry of Alaska, in
1929,” which was prepared by Phjlin.
S. Smith and is now in course of pub
lication and which will form one . of
the series of similar reports that.the
Geological Survey has issued to de
scrbe the progress of Alaska mining
in each year since 1904.
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FIFTEENTH CENSUS.
Preliminary Announcement of Popu
| lation.
The population of the following
places or divisions, as. .shown . by . a
preliminary count of the returns of
the Fifteenth Census, taken as of Oc
tober 1, 1929, are as follows:
Mt. McKinley Recording District,
256; as compared with 246 on Janu
i ary 1, 1920.
| McGrath, 79; as compared with 90
1 on January 1, 1920.
! Medfra Village, 24.
Takotna, 64.
| Returns for the Otter recording
! district show the population at 388
on October 1, 1929, as compared with
346 on January 1, 1920. Seven farms
were enumerated in the region.
The population of Flat is 124, as
compared with 158 in 1920. The town
of Iditarod has only eight residents,
a decline of 42 since 1920. The popu
lation of Shageluk is 8$, as compared
with 130 in 1920 „
SENATOR JONES SAYS WILL
VOTE WET IF STATE WISHES
WASHINGTON.—Senator Wesley
Jones announced he would .vote . for
prohibition modification if his State
so votes in a referendum, be said, in
commenting upon .the .action of the
Republican State convention at Bel
lingham in favoring modification.
Jones predicted the “triumphant ac
quittal” of Lyle and Whitney. He
said the indictments were “made in
secret, one-sided charges .and pmb
ably will he found largely the confes
sions of convicted law-breakers.” )
KARL ARMSTRONG CASE RE
VERSED BY CIRCUIT JUDGES
SAN FRANCISCO.—The .United
States Circuit Court reversed thq .
Alaska Federal District Court . i%
finding Karl Armstrong guilty of
manslaughter and sentencing him to
1 to 15 years in connection with the
slaying of Eric Dahl Berg at Kodiak
on September 13, 198.
Judge Curtis Wilbur dissented
from the opinion of the court. The
TABLE OF DISTANCES BE
' TWEEN NENANA AND FLAT
Nenana ...
Tavern Roadhouse __
Knight’s Roadhouse ..
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse_
Diamond Roadhouse..
Roosevelt _
Lake Minchumina...
Trappers’ Cabin ...
Lone Star Roadhouse __
Telida Roadhouse_
Slow Fork Roadhouse___
East Fork Roadhouse-)
Berry’s Landing Roadhouse
Big River Roadhouse
McGrath____
Takotna ....
Bill Goss’ Roadhouse__
Ophir_
MeCafferty.....
Brown Creek shelter cabin
Frits shelter cabin __
First Chance shelter cabin —
Scbermeyer R. H._:~
Iditarod____
FUt___
Bonanzza shalwr »shin- 12
i Crooked Creek shelter cabin, 19
j miles from Bonanza.
| fromFlat. __
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majority opinion found the tria judge!
gulty of prejudicial'error in refusing'
to instruct the jury about the alleged
dying statement of Berg because it
was<not given under oath.
.For many years Armstrong was a
deputy United States marshal in!
Western Alaska. He, was tried in the J
Third division before Judge E. Coke;
Hill. Armstrong was defended by A.
J. Dimond, who returned to Valdez
last month after arguing the case be
fore, the Circuit Court.
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