| Summary: | Vice Accusation Inflames Alaska: Telegrams Pour Into Associated Press Denouncing Charges Made In Senate./Pastro Is Misinformed./Catholic Bishop In Juneau Defends Territory -- Sue Prohibition Officer. VICE ACCUSATION INFLAMES ALASKA Telegrams Pour Into Associated Press Denouncing Charges Made in Senate. PASTOR IS MISINFORMED Catholic Bishop lit Junean Defends Territory -- Sue Prohibition Officer. SEATTLE, Feb. 5.-A sheaf of telegrams from Alaskan points to the Associated Press denouncig charges made Wednesday before a senate subcommittee, was in hand here today. A Cordova dispatch said that two lawyers of that city had telegraphed Senators Overman and Cummins of the subcommittee, demanding a certified copy of a letter from D. W. Flanigan, prohibition enforcement officer, to Congressional Delegate Sutherland, saying that James Galen and Harry O'Neill of Cordova belonged to a bootleg ring. The lawyers said they had been employed to sue Flanigan for libel. The telegram to the senators declared that Dr. Clarence True Wilson, of the temperance board of the Methodist Episcopal denomination, "has been utterly misinformed and probably induced innocently to make false statements regarding Alaskan moral conditions." In Juneau, capital of the territory, Joseph Raphael Crimont, Roman Catholic bishop for Alaska, said that "general conditions of morality and obedience to law in Alaska are as good as, if not better than those in the states." At Ketchikan yesterday Galen and O'Neill, on their way to Seattle from Cordova, hunted up Flanigan and asked him for a denial of statements in his letter, which sutherland read to the subcommittee. Flanigan gave the visitors a signed statement to the effect that he had not authorized Sutherland to use the letter in the way the delegate did. Charles D. Garfield, Alaska secretary of the chamber of commerce in the city, declared "I know conditions in Alaska compare favorably with those in the states."
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