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NUGGET MINING AND OREDGING
MAGAZINE,
Usauta Annually in Octeber.)
Price per copy.40c
price per copy, mailed.48c
Halt* Tor advertlalag spans in any
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PHONE MAIN 48.
Entered ice second-class nutter Feb
2t. 1007, at the poatofflee at None
Alaska, under tbe Act of Coagreas et
March ? 1878.
Cop; (or regular advertisements
must be la by Ml o'clock on vke Ok; of
publication.
NOME, ALASKA, SEPT. 13, 131*.
The proposal of the Mexican-Amer
ican commission to eolve the question
of border protection by both parties
agreeing to maintain an armed patrol
of their respective side of the border,
is doubtless animated by a spirit of
leniency for the present governmental
weakness of our neighbor republic.
Were it not that the defacto govern
ment is totally unable to maintain an
adequate control of its own citizens
such an arrangement would assured
ly have no other effect that to add
still further to the unenviable reputa
tion of the administration for dilly
dallying in all matters pertaining to
Mexico.
By all rules of international puroce
to demand of any slate whose borders
impinge upon its own, that the gov
ernment of the contiguous nation shall
so far maintain control of its people
that their acts shall in no degree jeo
pardize the lives or property of Am
erican citizens. Not only has it the
right to demand that all necessary
precautions be taken in this direc
tion, but is also granted the equally
just right of taking such steps as may
be necessary to compel such
action in the event that unwarranted
offenses against the national peace
and dignity are permitted to continue
by a neighboring government.
Were the situation other than as it
is, the failure of Mexico to take all
possible steps to prevent a continu
ance of belligerent incursions by its
recognized citizens on the soil of the
United States, could be looked upon
as a Just cause of offense, even to the
extent of being made the basis of ac
tive hostilities between the two gov
ernments.
In view of the fact that the state
constitutes itself the nominal guardian
of its citizens, a government which
disregards its obligation to protect, as
far as may be consistently possible,
the lives and possessions of its neigh
bors from the illegal activities of its
own citizens during times of peace, Is I
fully as culpable as the policeman
who knowingly permits a burglar or
other malfactor to operate without
molestation.
The fact that the state does not ex
ercise complete control over tha Indi
vidual acts of its citizens is no de
gree exempts It from responsibility
in the matter of preventing their1 in
dividual activities from injuring the
lives and possession of the citizens of
neighboring states.
In the case of Mexico, however, it so
happens that there is a serious ques
tion of the ability of the de facto
government to maintain suflcient
control of its people to prevent the
perpetration of acts which might ordi
narily be restrained.
In the absence of a complete govern
mental control of the country it can
not reasonably be expected that Mexi
co can take upon herself the full duties
and responsibilities of a settled state.
In its present disorganized nondl
tion It is hurdiy possible that the Mex
ican government can, alone and unaid
ed. prevent the more lawless spirited
from committing depredations such as
have occurred along the border from
time to time. However willing the de
facto government might be. It certain
ty possesses neither equipment or
means to take upon itself the tremend
ous task of maintaining an adequate
guard along the many hundred miles
of boundary forming the dividing tine
between the two nations.
It is, therefore, up to us to assist
in guarding the border until such
time as Mexico enn tnke upon itself
the full duties of government. To
• many of us it may appear a trifle
humiliating that the great and power
ful nation is which we abide must
descend to negotiations to achieve
what it might justly demand, but, at
the same time, there is some consola
tion in the thought that after all it is
better than forcing upon the hapless
Mexicans a torrent of death and blood
shed by way ob avenging the wrongs
which they obviously could not pre
vent. *
LIFE.
Life is what we make it; to each,
according to his light, it hears a differ
ent phase; a bubble to the frivolous;
a joke to the blastphemer; terrible to
the dissipated; serious to the thinker;
grand to the big of soul; wonderful I
to those who love. To those who
realize the unsolved mystery of our
yesteryear and the farness of the in
finite beyond, it is but a tiny space of
time alloted mortals in which to per
fect themselves against the inevitable.
But to all of us, it is the one thing
we prize most, and the thing we strug
gle and strive to keep, so long as san
ity remains within us.—A. D. McC.
WILL OFFER AN
AMENDMENT!
The difficulties sometimes experi
enced in obtaining a qualified judge
to sit on cases wherein the presiding
judge is disqualified for any reason
from hearing them, has led to some
discussion among attornsys as to a
rented}. It is held that the delay con
sequent upon the failure ta promptly
secure a jurist qualified to hear the
diigiti result detrimentally to
one sale or the other through the dis
appearance of witnesses and other
ca uses.
While Acting Attorney Ueneral Cobb
was in Valdez a few days ago Attor
ney J. L. Heed took up the matter
wtth him and tentative *f'1- — -*
formulated to remedy the matter. To
this end Mr. Heed has drawn up and
will submit at the next session of the
territorial legislature the following
amendment:
Resolved, That section 1540 of the
compiled laws of Alaska, chapter 70
01 the code of civil proceedure be and
is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Whenever it appears that the Judge
of the district court presiding in the
division where the action is pending
is disqualified under the provisions of
the section, last preceding the action
shall be transferred to another division
of said court unless a judge of an- j
other division will appear and preside
during the disposition thereof: Pro
vided, however. That the parties may,
by written stipulation, agree upon a
member of the bar of said court to
try the same.
'Provided, .further, That upon the
demand of either party the marshal
shall, after having given one days' no
tice in writing by posting same in a
conspicuous place at or near the court
house door, setting forth the time and
place of said meeting which shall be
held in the district court room, call
a meeting of the bar of said court
then in attendance and said bar shall j
elect one of its members to try said I
cause as district Judge pro tempore.
The compensation of the district judge
pro tempore shall be twenty dollars
per diem, which shall be paid them the
territorial treasury."—Chitlna Leader.
ALASKA MINING LAW
IS UPHELD
Tbe circuit court of appeals has de
cided that the failure to record a pow
er of attorney in Alaska invalidates
title to a mining claim, thus interpret
ing the Wickersham act, as passed by
congress in 1912, This is a decision
growing out of the Sushanna strike,
and the case involved was Instituted
in the Third division, at Cordova,
brought by Dan Sutherland vs. F. W.
Purdy. O. A. Tucker, now of the Ju
neau bar, filed the suit, and during
the trial at Cordova, associated with
him were Messrs. T. J. Donohoe and
E. E. Ritchie.
The legal points involved included
the question us to whether It were
necessary to recorcl a power of at
torney before the location of the claim.
The plaintiff, through his attorney. In
sisted that the recording of the power
of attorney was a prerequisite to the
location. The court, then sitting at
Cordova, held that the recording prior
to leeatlon was not a prerequisite to
location. According to the telegraphic
report received, Judge Brown has been
reversed, the contention of the plain
tiff sustained, and the title to the
ground given to Sutherland.
The case is one of several that ex
cited a great deal of comment ^ia tho
Sushanna district for several years.
Gold was first discovered in the Sim
shanna in 1913, and a man named Wil
liam James of Dawson, V. T., hearing
of the same, rushed into tho now eaini
.accompanied by G. L. Gatos, W, E.
McKinney and William Johnson, and
located about twenty claims for them
selves and about twenty more by pow
er of attorney. Other prospectors,
who arrived later, found the best
ground practically all located, as jhey ;
claimed "blanketed,” and many of the ,
claims so located by proxy were re
located by the later arrivals, and out 1
of this condition grew the controversy.
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Judge Tucker arrived in the camp
during the month of August, 1913, and !
was later employed to represent many
of the litigants.
'Shopping done for particular people
and information given regarding lat
est novelties and styles. Orders
promptly and carefully filled. Refer
ences given. Address Katherine Rid
dle, 2543 Boyer avenue, Seattle, Wash, j
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FOR SAKE Art Garland stove, No.
400. Inquire over the old postoffiee
building.
OVERSTOCKED.
To ilie public.
We nave just finished stock taking,
and find mat „-e are heavily overstocked i
so are making enormous reductions In
Hardware-ns much as per cent in
certain lines. Notwithstanding immense
advances outside, especially in Hard
ware and Metal Goods, we are still sell
ing on the basis of goods purchased tho
past two or three years.
We Will sell for cash on’y ,-n these
prices, and for a liniite time, until we
bring our stock down to Hie require
ments of the camp.
lr you nave an order to be filled, let
us figure on it; we can save you money.
We have proved it to ottiers, we can
prove it to you.
L1AKI.1NG AN H DEAN COMPANY.
NOTICE.
Wanted—Beer bottles, quarts, bought
at 18 cents per doen at Nome brew
j «ry
Professional Gards
Dr. A. F. Heimlich
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office and Re*idence.
OVER HILL’S PHARMACY.
Office houre: 2-5 and 7-8 p. m.
Phone Main 7.
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Now Open for the Season j
Home Cooking a specialty !
Nevt to Alaska Stoamship Co. •
The Pictorial Review edition of the
Nugget In magazine form to be pub
lished in October will be tbc greatest
issue ever published in Nome.
SOMETHING NEW.
.lust arrived on the last boat over
500 of this seasons’ latest styles and
patterns, the most beautiful line of
woolens ever armed in Nome. We
invite you to see these samples wheth
er you buy or not. If you wish to
lake advantage of this offer order be
fore the next sailing of the Victoria,
in order to have order arive on last
boat.
We also make alterations, and we
do cleaning, pressing and repairing.
We appreciate your patronage. Yours
to please.
NOME TAILORING CO.,
Next door to Segerstorm & Hagen,
Jewelers.
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Sunday In each month xc 11 a. m.
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