V VOLUME 5. NO. 29 . VALDfcZ, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1906. OFFICIAL CITY PAPER
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STATION KliY MINING LOCATION NOTICES
Agents Co. Ph4°0ne
The trouble over the poachers
on St. Paul island emphasizes the
necessity of a better revenue cut- j
ter service in these waters. If it
was possible for a cutter to re
main in the waters adjoining
St. Paul island all the time,
during the seal season it would as
sist greatly in protecting this herd
from raids. Under present con
ditions a crew of poachers w ho are
armed can raid tiio island and des
troy the fur seal industry entirely.
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Our Delegates.
“Thomas Cale is a working
miner owning interests in Fair
banks. He came to Alaska in
1897 and spent several years with
varying success. He was among
the earliest discoverers of the
Fairbanks district, and has opera
ted there for three years.
“He is a native of Fond du Lac
Count}-, Wisconsin, and is about
fifty-three years of age. He, too.
is a man of sterling character and
has had experience in public life.
Of so unblemished character is lie
I that lie is known in Fairbanks as
‘Honest Tom Calc.’ He is a typical
old farmer and looks the part, but
withal is educated, well-read and
keen.
‘.‘Mr. Wnskey came to Cook In
let in the spring of 1898, mining
for himself and achieving success
from the start. He went to Nome
in 1900. He is the owner of some
excellent properties in various dis
tricts. He was born in Lake City
Minnesota, in 1973, being there
fore at the present time 33 years
if age. About three years ago he
■lurried a Miss Edna Blodgett of
Ballard, Washington, and now has
a young son about a year old.”
Bornite Struck At White River.
Several prospectors have arrived
at Dawson from White river lately
] and report that they have located
a lead of the finest kind of bornite,
which has been traced for 1.70(J
feet, with the width yet to be
determined.
Although (be news of the dis
covery did not reach Dawson, it
spread about the head of White
River, with the result that sonic
100 or 150 miners stampeded from
the Copper River district, some
from as far as Valdez, and the
Bratnober* men from the district
between tho head of the Tananci
and White River.
Telegraphic Items.
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Washington, Ansr. 30—Han- !
iahra third secretary of the Jnpan
!ese legislation left today for -Scat
I tie and will sail on the revenue
cutter Rush for Valdez to attend
the trial of the Japanese poachers, i
Racine, Wis., Aug. 30—Judge,
Fowler, in describing Baker’s dam
age suit for boycott declares that
the closed shop is unconstitutional
and that contracts with labor
unions are illegal.
Washington, Aug. 30 The pres
ident has extended the new order
■ for reformed spelling to all parts
of the gt vernment set vice. The
; list of words to which the re
formed spelling applies numbers
three hundred.
! New York, Aug. 30—Hearst
i announces that he will he a candi
date for governor on the independ
ent ticket, but will not object to
the democrats voting for him. He
characterizes Jerome as insincere
and the foolish plaything of the
jbosses who wish to divert attention
! from the campaign against corrup
tion. Hearst announces that he is
a friend of Bryans but could not
participate in the reception for
fear of identifying the independent
forces with the Bryan party.
Jerome announces, that he is con
ducting his fight because the dem
ocratic party has fallen into hands
of people whom the public cannot
trust.
Seattle, Aug. 30—W. B. Poland,
former chief engineer of the Alaska
Central announces that he resigned
to accept a position in the Philip
| pines.
Alaska Copper Mining Exchange.
A meeting was held Tuesday
evening to receive the report of tlie
committee appointed last week to
draw up articles of incorporation
for a mining exchange. It was
decided to incorporate tiie concern
with a capitalization of $ 1(H),000
and limit the membership to 200.
! Slock will be sold at the par value
of $5 per share. The exchange will
be managed by a board of ilirect
ors of seventeen members and
among the officers will be a presi
dent, three vice-presidents and a
secretary-treasurer, who will have
the handling of all business subject
to the approval of the board of
directors.
The object of the exchange will
be to list stock and property oi
any responsible corporation or
| individual in this section, for which
! a fee will be charged, and to make
i reports to outside parties desiring
I information regarding any prop
erty. The running expenses will
1 be pioyided for by annual dues of
: $5. and the listing fees,
j At the meeting Tuesday the
1 articles of incorporation and by
laws, after some amendment, were
adopted and a board of directors
j named.
Following are the*names of the
! directors: A. \V. Swanitz, C. (J,
Hubbard, A. L. Levy, H. D. Key
; nolds, O. Z. Buzzard, S. Birch, B.
IF. Millard, J. L. Steele, \V. A.
! Dickey, Geo. C. Hazelett, George
! Barrack, Andrew Holman, A. K.
i Beatson, Oliver P. Hubbard, H. 0.
Elliott, John Lyons, Geo. Max
! Esterly.
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Circle City District Is Divided.
Judge Wickershain divided the
j Circle City recording district and
appointed Samuel L. Marsh com
missioner-recorder of the new dis
; trict, which will be known as
! Chandler.
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Governor Coming.
A telegram was received this
morning by S. Blum announcing
that Governor lloggatt will come
to Valdez ou the Bertha.
Discovery Defined.
Keen interest l as been displayed
on all sides by the report of the
opinion handed down by the ap
pellate court for the ninth circuit
in the case of Cascaden vs. Barto
lis, which was originally tried in
the district court for this division
at the last session. It was a stub
bornly fought case and when the
court rendered a verdict against
Cascaden, his attorney Judge
Pratt, appealed from the decision
to the appellate court, which tribu
nal has ordered a new trial, on the
ground that Judge Wiekersham’s
instructions to tin; jury were er
roneous, and that the law as to
discovery is satisfied when it is
shown that a “locator has found
mineral in such quantities and
under such conditions that an
ordinary prudent man, not neces
sarily a miner, would he justified
in expending his time and labor in
the development of the property ”
Dave Cascaden located claim
No. ‘Jl>, second tcir. right limit, on
Cleary creek, the ground on which
Cleary city now stands. Many
began to squat on the ground
refusing to pay rent. A test case
was made against Bartolis. The
defendant maintained that plain
tiff never had a valid mineral
location and that he, Bartolis had
entered under the townsite laws.
Plaintiff introduced evidence at
the time of the trial that he had
expended much money in prospect
ing the claim and that he had
found as high as thirteen cents to
the pan, and was prepared to con
tinue work on the ground.
Judge W'ickersham instructed
the jury in the case that “thirteen
cents worth of gold is not necessar
ily a discovery” and that it de
volved upon plaintiff to show that
the ground in controversy was
more valuable for mining than for
townrite purposes. Upon these
instructions the jury brought in u
verdict against plaintiff. Upon
appeal to the U. S. circuit court
of appeals at San Francisco the
exceptions of plaintiff to the
court’s instructions were sustained
and a new 'rial oulered.—Tanana
Teller.
Grub Stake Club.
A corporation known as the
Grubstake Club, organized in New
York, for the purpose of sending
prospectors to Alaska, is about to
move its headquarters to Seattle.
They expect to send out from •>()
to 10*) men each year.
A copper strike is reported to
have been made on the Knik river,
Knik arm. Yerv little is known'
of it. ,
The Palmer Creek .Mining Com
pany has shut down it- hydraulic
works on Palmer creek near Hope.
Yerv little is expected to he taken
out as much dead work was done
this year.
The Bear Creek Hydraulic Min
ing Company is the only concern
outside of two smaller plants now
wot king at Hope.
Afognak, Alaska, Aug. 15—A
strike of rich ore has been made
this summer on the claim known
as “Dougherty’s” in Uvak hay.
The ore was encountered at a
depth of 70 feet in a shaft sunk in
the end of the lower tunnel. It is
conservatively stated that the ore
carries value, besides other min
erals, of over *100 in free gold to
the ton.
Election was held in Afognak
on Aug, 14th for the election of a
delegate from Alaska to Congress
with the following results:
For Snour Term
C. D. Murahe So
Ex-Governor Swineford 8
For Loxo Term
C. D. Murane 90
I Judge C. E. Mellen 2
District Court.
The case of the I'nitcd States vs.
the Japanese accused of seal poach
ing on St. Paid island has occupied
most of the time of the court for
the past week. The original in
dictments were quashed and by
order of the judge the grand jury
returned a corrected indictment
Thursday.
K. Keoka, M Kamie, T. Shiraka,
It. Mashida and I). Oto plead
guilty, and will he sentenced later,
but the trial of tbeTVilance of the
accused has been a hard fought
one. Attorneys Ostrander, Loedy
and Hay were appointed to defend
them. A jury was selected and
after hearing the evidence retired
Saturday to deliberate, hut being
out till Sunday noon the jury re
ported that they could not agree
and were' dismissed.
Another jury was called and
w re out thirty bout's returning a
verdict yesterday evening of guilty.
The ease against K. Matsumoto
for killing seals was tried yester
dav and will he- turned over to the
jury today. This will dispose of all
of the poaching casts.
The matter of E. E. Doty selling
liquor without license came up
Friday and she was lined $300.
The Daily murder case has been
continued over till the next term
of court, in order to allow witnes
ses tor the defense to be secured
i and to insure an impartial trial.
The witnesses have been released
on $500 bail.
The grand jury returned an in
idicunent "not a true hill” against
j Elsie baker, who was charged with
i larceny, claimed to have been
le mniitted at Seward.
Sold Miller Gulch Claim,
; The claim oil Miller Gulch
| owned by the Hurd brothers, .has
! been purchased by Geo. Murbnrgcr
jand Jes-e Garver. The richest
portion of the ground had been
worked out and the Hurd hoys
were anxious, to close up their
business in this section.
Sold Yukon Property.
Win. Brennan, of this place, has
sold a one-half interest in some
mining property on Birch creek,
near Ft. Yukon for $12,000. He
received the payment this week.
Quartz On Lo.ve River.
T. M. Daniels reports finding ft
forty-foot ledge of copper hearing
quartz about eighteen miles from
town near the government trail.
Fight At Seward.
The railroad officials at Seward
are in the throis of a scran regard
ing who has charge of the company
business, and the Gateway is de
voting colmns to roasting different
ones. Since the dismissal of Poland
the new ollieers seem to he unable
to decide which ones are entitled
to a place in the blue book.
Assay Office.
II. \V. Waterman, who has heen
conducting an assay office at Sew
ard has moved his business to
Valdez ami opened up on Mc
Kinley street, opposite the Tilii
kum duh. Mr. Waterman is an
nssayer of ability and much ex
perience and his patrons can he
assured of correct returns on work
given to him.
Dance a* McKinley Hall Satur
day night.
COAL— COOK INLET —COAL
$11. i>er Ton.
L. AKCillHALi) & CO.
Extra select ranch eggs 43 cents
S a dozen. Valdez Cold Storage Co.
Fruits of all kinds at the Val
dez Market. Phone -d.
Seward is con ternplntiYig incor
j poration and Sept. 1! has been set
as the date for a hearing on the
matter before Judge Gunnison, at
the court room in Valdez.
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