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A case was settled this month in
Fairbanks where a man had staked
more than twenty acres in a placer
claim and another man located the
rxcess ground as a fraction. The
original locator started suit for
ejectment, and then had his claim
-urveyed, throwing off the excess
on *the opposite side to that, on
which the fraction had been staked.
Judge Wickersham decided that
the original locators had the right
to take their twenty acres from
any part of the staked ground and
it was not for the new locators to
vi v where the fraction should be.
The locator of the fraction was
ejected.
With Hoyt’s report on Wicker
~hsm tn the hand* of the president
there is a chance that the judge
will receive a Christina* present
from the executive. There is al
?<> a strong chance that the present
will not he rery acceptable to the
recipient.
Roosevelt appears to be doing
:i\e strenuous along the wrong
lines lately, judging from the
roasts that he is? getting from all
over the nation.
Now the grand jury at Juneau
has tackled the stea.rship com
panies. but all Alaskans know how
much attention is paid to grand ju
ry recommendations in this coun
} ry.
Fred M. Brown has a letter from
Delegate Waskey, in which he
'fates that he has every reason to
believe that the bill creating a
fourth judicial division will become
a law at this session of congress.
The bill favored by Mr. Waskey is
'imilar to the one drawn up here
three years ago, which was
defeated by Judge Wiekersham.
h provides for the appointment of
a complete new set of officers and
favors Valdez as- the headquarters
of the district.
Delegate Waskey says that he
will welcome any suggestions from
the people of this section regarding
desired legislation, and will do his
best to help them in any wav pos
'ible. This shows a good Fpirit in
the delegate when one considers
T est he did not get a vote in Val
dez.
Judge Wiekersham has handed
down a decision that the expense
i a jury is not a proper charge
against a litigant, but he also says
t te government has made no pro
vision for paying such expense.
Jurymen in the Tanana will have
to put a lunch in their pocket |
when subpoenaed.
The best place for poor prospec
tors to try their Hick at placer min
ing is certainly Alaska. There are
I there a large number of unexplor
ed creeks, some with pay dirt,
which arill repay splendidly the
labor# and hardships of the hardy
prospectors, strong and energetic
enough to go after them. But
prospering in Alaska is almost the
hardest work a man can find. To
bo successful requires a strong and
powerful frame, a will of iron and
an optimism able to overcome all
material hardships and obstacle#.
—Prof. Ritter in Profit & Loss.
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The Fairbanks Times say* that
the first and mo3t important mat
ter for the Alaska delegate to work
on is the appropriation of money
for roads. Valdez people will agree
heartilv with tha Times. If the
delegate will devote more time to
the road proposition and less to
the useless agitation for territorial
government the people of the
Third division will be hotter satis
fied. •
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Mining litigation has reached a
point, not only in Alaska hut in
other sections, where it is almost
obligatory that Congress take some
step to abate the evil. Now that
i Alaska will have a representative
! in Congress, the members of that
! body may no longer turn a deaf
| ear to the needs of the territory,
land will in all probability make
many changes in the present min
ing laws which will greatly benefit
the whole of Alaska.—-Alaska Min
ing News Record. i
Hudson Bay Company’s stock of
a nominal value at £10, i* selling!
at £86 a share, and paving a divi
dend of 80 shillings. This venern
ble corporation is now' in its 237 b
year. The company still deals
in furs and does a large general
trade, but its great profits are de
rived from its land sales. Thirty
six years ago it gave up its terri
torial rights to the Canadian gov
ernment in consideration of $1.
500,000 in cash and the right to
claim one-twentieth of the land in
any township or district surveyed
for settlement in fifty years after
1870,
Do You Want Dands In Alaska.
The quiokest, best, and absolutely safe way
to secure title is hv
Recertified Soldiers Additional Scrip.
I have several thousand acres of this scrip on
hand. Pieces vary in size from .19 of one acre
up to 142 acres.
Special attention given to Land and Mining
practice.
F. W. McREYNOLDS,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Colorado Bldg.,
Washington, D. C.
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General Allen In Favor
Of Doubling Alaska
Line
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Washington. Dec. ‘26— General j
Allen has sent his annual report j
to the House committee on mili- j
tary affairs. Among other things
he advocates the laying of another
Alaskan cable. He says that the j
present, line is ovorburdened with i
business and an additional cable j
would pay for itself in a short
time.
Mrs .M. M. PATTON,
Graduate Nurse
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Extension cf Delinquency
Be It Resolved by the Common Council of
the Town of Valdez, that the Town Treasurer
be, and is hereby authorized and instructed to
extend the term'of delinquency for town taxes
for the year 1906, from the first Monday in De
cember 1906, (December 3, 1906), at 7 o’clock
p. m., to December SI, 1906, at 7 o’clock p. m..
and not to make any charge for penalty and
interest until after said December ;>l*t, 1906, at
7 o’clock p m., and
Be It Further Resolved, that the Tow n Treas
urer be instructed not to allow'interest on Town
Warrants presented to him in payment of
raxes, after said first Monday in December, 1
1906. (December 3,1906).
Passed and approved December 3, 1906.
AttOHt: U.W. MILLER,
W. H.CRARY, Mayor.
Clerk.
Summons.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. TERRITORY
OF ALASKA, THIRD DIVISION.
! Georue M. Avten, Plaintiff \
vs > No. 166
i Nellie Attten, Defendant )
The President of the United States of America.
Greeting; To the above named defendant:
You are hereby required to appear in the
United States District Court, in and lor the Dis
trict of Alaska, Third Division, within thirty
days after the day of service of this summons
of this summons upon you, and answer the
complaint of the above named plaintiff, a copy
of which complaint is herewith delivered to
you; and unless you soappearand answer, the
plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief
demanded in said complaint.
This action is ior divorce, and summons is
herewith served on defendant by publication
pursuant to order of above Court dated Septem
ber 26th. 1906, signed by HONORABLE JAMES
WICKER^HAM, Judge of above court,
WITNESS, the IION. JAMES WICKER
SHAM, Judge of said Court, this 29th day of
November, in the year of our Lord one thous
and nine hundred and six, aud of our indepen
dence the one hundred and thirteenth.
Edward J. 8tier,
Seal Clerk
By 6. A. Crandall,
Deputy.
Brown & Smith. Valdez, Alaska,
Attorneys tor Plaintiff
Data of first publibation Nov. 29, 1906
Date of last publication Jan. 10,1907.
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