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THE ALASKA MINING LAW AGAIN
The article on “The Mining Lave on Association Claims,” taken
from the Nome Nugget and printed elsewhere in this issue, is well worth
* a perusal at this time, even if one cannot altogether agree with the sug
gestions contained therein. While many will maintain that
the clause of the territorial mining law requiring $100 worth of assess
ment work annually for each twenty acres of ground is a just provision
and should not be repealed, there will be no disposition to work injus
tice on anybody. The law in this respect seems to be eminently fair.
There is no good reason why a man holding a twenty-acre claim should
be compelled to do as much annual assessment work as the man who
holds a claim containing 160 acres of placer ground. Yet if under
the old law the holder of an association claim was not compelled to
do more than $ 100 annual assessment work for the entire 160 acres,
it is doubttul whether the present law changes the requirements in re
spect to claims staked prior to the passage ol the territorial law.
The article is significant merely as showing the inclination in some
quarters to make it possible for large interests to acquire and hold im
mense tracts of ground with the minimum of expenditure for assessment
work. The taik of confiscation of “the poor man’s ground" is, of
course, the veriest twaddle. One may be pardoned for doubting if
there has been any “confiscation” because of the operation of the ter
ritorial mining law. The law is doubtless defective in some respects,
anc! should be made plainer of language; and perhaps there are other
amendments that might be suggested. But it is doubtful if the people
of the territory as a whole—the miners and prospectors themselves,
even—desire that the law be changed in the manner suggested by the
Nome newspaper. __
MORE ABOUT THE PANAMA MATTER
Ex-President Roosevelt and his followers are still filling columns
of the press of the country with their wails about the proposed treaty
with Colombia, in which the United States proposes to make amends
ior an act committed during Roosevelt’s administration. The New
York World contains the following comment on the matter:
“In a recent public statement, James T. Du Bois, former Ameri
can minister to Colombia, said in reply to Mr. Roosevelt s assertion that
'the people of Panama were a unit in demanding the revolution’:
T sav, and can prove it, that a handful of men, wno were to oe
the direct beneficiaries of the revolution, conceived it, and not the hun
dredth part of the inhabitants of the Isthmus knew of the revolt until
an American officer, in the uniform of the United states army, raised
the flag of the new republic.’
‘ Every word and every syliaole or Mr. Du Bois indictment is
true. What took place in Panama was no more a revolution than a
train robbery is a revolution. It was a sordid, cash register commercial
conspiracy, backed by the Roosevelt administration. The revolution
was bought and paid for. Treason was purchased in the open market,
and the forces of the United States government were employed to en
able the buyers and the bought to get away with the loot.
“There is no other such shameful chapter in the history of the
United States, and whoever reads the ghastly narrative of this so-called
revolution will understand why it is impossible to arbitrate the differ
ences between the United States and Colombia. The United States
could not go into court with such a case. It could not permit the scan
dalous record to be submitted to the scrutiny of any legal tribunal.
There could be only one verdict, and that verdict would stand forever
agamst the American government in the courts of international justice.
“There is only one way to deal with Colombia s grievances and
the bitter Latin-American hostility toward the United States which were
bred out of the action of the Roosevelt administration at Panama.
That is to settle the case out of court by the regular processes of diplo
matic negotiation, as Mr. Wilson and Mr. Bryan have undertaken to
do. Tins is the policy that Senator Root inaugurated when he was Mr.
Roosevelt’s secretary of state. It is the policy that Mr. Taft and Mr.
Knox followed. If this is ‘blackmail,’ as Mr. Roosevelt alleges, then
he and Mr. Root, as well as Mr. Taft and Mr. Knox, were offering to
pay blackmail to Colombia. The crime of blackmail hinges on the
nature of the transaction, not on the amount of money to be paid.
“When Mr. Roosevelt afterward sought to settle the claims of
Colombia against the United States he himself knew that the record of
what took place at Panama could not stand the test of judicial pub
licity and judicial scrutiny. Although he has boasted that he took
Panama, he has everted every effort to suppress the true story of the
Panama ‘revolution.’ Not only that, but he has deliberately falsified
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(he record, and when he undertakes to brand President Wilson and Sec
retary Bryan as the accessories to blackmail and national dishonor, he
j must face the facts. Whatever measure of dishonor attaches to the
[ Colombian treaty attaches to the man whose lawless ambition made
the government of the United States a working partner of the corrupt
Panama canal lobby in its desperate battle for ^>40,000,000 of Ameri
can money.” _
An instance of the law’s perversion such as occasionally comes to
light is contained in the announcement that a woman has been indicted
at Milwaukee under the Mann white slave act. She is charged with
luring a man away from his home into another state for purposes in
violation of that statute. The man, Chester C. Laudenschlager, was
persuaded to leave his wife and family in St. Paul by Clara Holte, twice
a divorcee, who fell in love with him, the indictment charges. The
case, states the dispatch, was worked up by the chief of the Chicago
bureau of the department or justice and his aides, and provides an en
tirely new line of direction in application of the Mann act. Is it possi
ble that a beneficent law is being used for purposes of persecution and
blackmail, with a view of bringing it into disrepute with the courts?
The Mann act had a laudable purpose—the abolition of the white
slave traffic.” It has been the means of saving thousands of young
mrls from a fate worse than death. It has also disrupted an organized
gr^ng of shameless traffickers in human beings and destroy ed an enor
mcuslv profitable business, lliat the act was never intended to icach
cases such as the one in question is well known; they can be reached
under other and less stringent acts. It is time that common sense were
used in the enforcement of the Mann act and that its laudable purpose
1 .hull not be used as a cloak for persecution and blackmail.
I —-~~~
QUEER JUSTICE
When Bully Boozer beats his wife, we put him in a cell; and
there he leads a pleasant life, and likes it passing well. We fill his
plate with wholesome fare, when sounds the dmncr gong., and see
that while he lingers there his life’s a grand sweet song. We hand
him magazines and books, and papers day by day, so he can loaf
in cozy nooks and read the hours away. Sweet women call and
hand him tracts, and cheer him up so well that he forgets the uglv
facts which put him in his cell. Meanwhile his wife, with blackened
eye, is toiling o’er a tub; she has to toil, with sob and sigh, to get
the children grub. Her husband, sentenced by the court, earns
money when he s free, and though he is a yellow sport, lie feeds
his family. Because he filled himself with ale, and started house
hold strife, we lock him in our cozy jail and punish kids and wife.
He has the rest he s long desired, with time to read and sleep, the
while the woman, sick and tired, must worm and watch and weep.
Thus flows our justice in a nil—the kind we keep on tap; the inno
cent must pay the bill, while sinners have a snap.—Walt Mason.
! WICKERSHAM IS COMPILING
| COMPLETE ALASKA HISTORY
—
The Washington correspondent of the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer says that someday
in the dim and distant future, when a stu
dent in the University of Alaska is re
quired to write a thesis on the early history
of Alaska, all he will have to do wall be
to step across the campus into the W'icker
sham historical library to obtain all the
source material necessary.
Perhaps Delegate Janies Wickersham has
this possible student, possible university and
possible library in mind—he does not say
but for whatever reason he is building up
the best and most complete Alaska historical
collection that has ever been brought to
gether. It is altogether probable that no
such thorough work on these lines ever
before was done for a western state or ter
ritory. Certainly it was not done for Wash
ington.
The collection began with every govern
ment document on Alaska ever printed.
Pome two thousand titles under this class
were brought together, bound uniformly and
properly indexed. The services of an expert
librarian of long experience in the library of
congress were secured to help in this.
Then old book stores in Washington, New
York, Chicago and other cities were ran
sacked for books and publications treating
of Alaska. Hundreds of these were brought
together. Delegate Wickersham had agents
in Europe also hunt up Alaska material.
From Russia he not long ago received a
consignment of ancient tomes, as early Rus
sian reports on the territory, containing
i hundreds of beautifully engraved Russian
I charts of Alaskan waters, surprisingly ac
curate, as shewn by comparison with coast
and geodetic survey charts. These publica
tions are more than a century old, but are
I perfectly preserved.
j Historical documents, some original and
I some fac simile, have also been added. One
of these reached Delegate Wickersham from
| Chicago. It is a photographic copy of the
{ original warrant signed by President An
I drew Johnson, authorizing Secretary Sew
ard to deliver to the representative of the
czar the purchase price of Alaska.
The original some years ago was thrown
1 out of the treasury department as waste
paper. A collector in Washington secured
possession of it and sold it to a Chicago
collector for $125. One of Wickersham’s
agents heard of the transaction and traced
the present owner, who declined to sell, but
was willing to have a photographic copy
made.
Every important document connected
with the transfer of the territory by Rus
sia to the United States has been secured
by Delegate Wickersham either in original
or in authenticated copy.
Job Printing at Pioneer office.
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THE MINING LAW ON
ASSOCIATION CLAIMS
(Nome Nugget)
There has been considerable quiet discus
sion going on among the miners of this
district of the law passed by the late legis
lature compelling $800 worth of assessment
work on association claims, and it is evi
dently their intention that those who go
to Juneau as their representatives next
March will go pledged for or against the re
peal of that law. The following is a portion
of a letter sent to the Nugget which may be
a fair sample of many others which have
been received from the pioneer miners of
the district, who have spent years of sacri
lice and hardships in acquiring and holding
ground to find themselves now, by an act
of their own representatives, practically
robbed of their holdings. The letter referred
to is in part as follows:
“By the way, is there no movement on
foot in Nome for the repeal of that obnox
ious law passed by the late unlamented legis
lature compelling $800 worth of assessment
work on an association claim of 160 acres,
as applied to old stakings? Applied to new
stakings, no objections can be made to the
law, but it is confiscation of a poor man’s
ground, who can only earn a few hundred
dollars during the summer to enable him
to sink a few holes in the winter.”
Judge Lindley, commenting on the act of
tin* Alaska legislature, said: “The validity
of this provision of the requiring $100 worth
of work fur each twenty acres of placer loca
tion, especially in the case of those located
prior to this enactment, will doubtless be
seriously questioned. The federal statutes
(section 2J24 Rev. St.) provides not less
than S10U worth of labor shall be per
formed annually. Congress could, without
much doubt, increase the requirement, and
in the absence of such action by congress,
why may not the legislature of the state or
territory increase this amount?'’ Judge
Lindley thus indicates that in his opinion
tiiu law will hold and is in conformity to
the provisions of the federal statute.
But the provision of the United States
statutes permitted the staking of the 100
acre tracts and provided for the amount of
assessment work, fixing the amount at $100.
Many claims have been staked under thS
law. and many claims purchased by the
mining men who expected that the lav/ un
der which they staked and purchased was
a guarantee of their title. There are many
cases where men have spent years of time
and their money prospecting and develop
ing these properties to finally find that their
labor and capital invested and years of
struggle have ended in nothing because
their legislators in their wisdom took upon
themselves, unsolicited, and prompted only
by a sense of their own superiority over
the men who elected them without con
sultation with their constituents or the best
interests of the country, confiscated their
holdings. Miners throughout Seward penin
■Mila are asking why our members of the
late legislature unsolicited saw fif to confis
cate the holdings of miners which repre
rented years of sacrifice, expense and labor
and for what purpose?
The lev.- may have been bar! in thfe firs:
I instance; it may even have led to main
abuses in the past and may have needed
! many amendments, hut these considerations
are not grounds for our legislator- passing a
law which destroys long-acquired property
rights regardless of the injury to the hr Id
t*rs who. in many instances at least, have
spent the host years of their lives in ae
i quiring. It would be curious to know how
! many of < r.r members of the last lesi.-lat’ re
! hold interests in 160-acre tracts of pos-ibh
j dredging ground, or how many of them
! have been struggling for years to comply
; with the law by doing annual assessment
| work or ever have, as many miners have
' done, work all summer and sink prospect
I holes on their property during the winter
I at an expense of their summer earnings?
We venture the assertion that not one mem
ber who voted hr the bill which practically
c: nfiscates the poor man’s ground has ever
acquired ground by location or purchase or
held his givund by assessment work unless
I he be some fortunate member who has ae
quired a competency and can escape the
rigors of his own law by patenting his hold
mis
judge hindley asks why may not a legis
lature pass such an act, but the minor- are
asking why, if the government could but
would not pass such an act and did permit
the miners to hold placer mining properties
for ten and more years, why, they ask, did
those members of our legislature see fit to
pass the law which practically confiscates
the properties of their constituents
LIFE ON THE OUTSIDE
TOO STRENUOUS FOR THEM
(Skagway Alaskan, July 221
In the Daily Alaskan of July* 8 mention
was made of the departure for the Outside,
after fifteen years’ continuous residence in
the wilds of Southern Yukon, of Mrs. E. C.
Breaden and her five little girls, all of tin
latter having been born since the arrival in
the North of their parents in 1900.
It was the mother’s intention to take the
children to Vancouver, B. C., and place
them in school for a few years, while she
would make her home there and look after
them.
When they were here, although only a
few miles in distance and a few short hours
in time separated the travelers from their
home, it could be seen that their hearts
were already filled with a longing to re
turn. To them the marvelous sights which
they had seen upon their arrival in White
horse- the electric lights and the snorting
iron monster that carried them swiftly away
from the scenes to whicli they were accus
tomed, were objects which they regarded
with wide-eyed amazement, but which,
through reading and from the conversa
tion of chance visitors whom their parents
had entertained, they were in a measure
prepared for and ready to hail with de
light ; even the huge floating palace which
lay in the Skagway harbor to convey them
over a thousand miles of water to their
destination had not the power to eliminate
from their minds and hearts the memory
of the land they loved.
They left here on the rrincess Sophia on
July 9; they got into Vancouevr, B. C.. on
the following Monday, and when the vessel
left port for the North on last Saturday
they were all on board on their way back
to the Big Salmon, the place from whence
they had started only such a short time
before, with childish visions and dreams
of the fairy land to which they were hasten
ing.
Six days of constant excitement were
spent in the bustling Canadian city, and
during all that time the clang of the street
cars, the toots of the auto horns, the cease
less human footsteps on the pavement of
the passing throng, and even those sub
dued but constant noises that marked the
early hours of the morn so got upon their
nerves that they were unable to sleep;
they lost their appetites, which had never
failed them, and instead of the noisy, romp
ing quintette so full of health and exuber
ant life, they became listless, drooping and
without ambition.
The mother, alarmed at their condition,
very quickly reached a decision to forego
their schooling and to return with them
to the land of silence to which they had
been accustomed, and today they are speed
ing north behind the iron horse, which
no doubt, in their imagination, has changed
from the hideous monster of a few days
ago to a thing of beauty and promise, for
does not every puff of the engine mean a
steady annihilation of the distance that still
remains for them to cover.
We guarantee satisfaction.
Clemons & Koon.
Dissolution of Partnership
Notice Is hereby given that the partner
ship heretofore existing between the im
'i'Mssigned at Hat Pity, Alaska, under the
lirni name of Plant/, k Lngquisf. eonduer
ing the Grand Mar saloon, lias this flay been
dissolved. The Grand Mar will l>«
dueled from tin- flan* hv • Ikh-u
who will pay all bills against the said firm
or Ghmlz k I nguu -i. and i«» w a.i a.i ...
counts due the -aid llrm are payable.
hated August *j i, 10 1 i.
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