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Civil Docket Goes
Into Quiet Oblivion
With startling suddenness the civil docket in the district court
has been shot to pieces and there remain but a few cases that will
actually be tried before Judge Overfield returns to Fairbanks in a
few weeks. The cases have been compromised and settled, with
the result that an imposing calendar has faded to insignificant
proportions.
The criminal docket remains practically the same as before,
with the addition of the indictments returned by the grand jury
This will be taken up first and disposed of rapidly, after which
the civil cases will be tried.
The following cases were dismissed last Monday upon the
calling of the motion calendar:
Chas. Worden vs. William Barrett, nuisance, nonsuit; Annie
Clifton vs. Anna Myrick, ejectment; F. A. Martin vs. E. J. Car
sow, accounting; Annie Clifton vs. T. L. McGrath, ejectment;
Clifton vs. Carlisle, ejectment; W. JI. Thomas vs. William Wise,
debt.
In the case of Sanderson vs. Schwartz, the demurrer to the
complaint was overruled and the defendant ordered to answer.
Default was entered in the case of W. S. Clark vs William Eisen
menger, and in G. W. Mitchell vs. Fred Chapman, the demurrer
to the complaint was argued.
In Thos. Klog vs. Thomas Aitlcen, an action to declare a trust
in certain properties on Willow, a motion to make the complaint
more definite and certain was sustained as to part and denied as to
part. This case is not yet at issue.
In the case of Tiffany vs. Craig, although the case has been
at issue, there will be delay on account of the fact that both parties
desire to amend their pleadings. This case has gone to the foot of
the calendar and will not be tried until the arrival of John McGinn
from Fairbanks.
Taylor vs. Buckley, being a dispute over a Flat city lot, was
dismissed as settled and the divorce suit of Anna Nee ys. Joseph
Nee was referred to A. E. Maltby as referee, with a report due
today.
The case of United States vs. William Rooney was dismissed,
as was Hunt vs. Sheppard, John Bjerved vs. Fred Bruhn, and
United States vs. Andrew Wdgar, the latter being a trespass case
from Georgetown.
The case of J. C. Derosie vs. W. F. Teneyck, for goods sold
and delivered and money loaned, is at issue, and the Oro Mining
Co. vs. A. V. Thorns, which is to declare a trust in certain pro
perty on Flat creek. Both of the cases will be taken up after the
criminal calendar with the Tiffany case. There will doubtless be
other cases at issue within another week or so, but even at that
the civil docket does not loom very large in the foreground as far
as trials are concerned.
“Hutch'' Hutchinson has sold out his
interest in the Horseshoe saloon to his
partner, Jake Mutch'er, who is now
the sole proprietor.
Save the pieces! broken lenses re
placed at Simpson's.
Dan Sutherland, an Otter-creek op
erator, was a visitor in the city t'.iis
week.
Will make daily trips to all points of
the creeks, leaving Iditarod at il a.m.
Temporary office, Red Cross dru^r store.
Prompt delivery tfuai anteed. Joe .Me
Nainee and C. 6. Fowler, agents.
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Joe Keaeock, Agent
Jim Chronister and Casper Ellinger,
two of the pioneers of Granite and
Otter creeks, were in town this week
sizing up the court docket. They are
interested in a civil case that will bo
tried this term.
A considerable Dikernan delegation
has visited the city this week, among
them being James P. Mulligan, X. C.
Co. agent down there, Tom Markuson,
who runs a cigar store, and Claude My
rick, formerly mayor of that town.
As arnounced in these pages some
time ago, we are long on garden seeds,
and if you want them it is just a ques
tion of corning after them. Jim Wick
ersham sent us a whole sack, and if
you are interested in gardening, we
have a lot of funny things here that
you might try.
The heavy rain of last Sunday raised
ihe river to a pleasant stage of water,
and the Reliance arrived in the harbor
for the first time in several weeks.
She brought a barge of freight from
Dikeman, and dropped down river
Tuesday night.
Charles Martin, captain of j.he good
ship Emerald, made a hurry-up trip to
the Yukon, leaving here Monday night.
•John Hanson went with him, and their
object is to get to the wires in order to
pick up definite news from St. Louis in
regard to a reported illness in the fam
ily of Mrs. Frank B. Ingles, of Flat.
They expected to make the trip in live j
days.
The road commission has decided to
assist the good people of Fiat in clear
ing up the debt that still clings to
their Otter-creek bridge. Lieutenant
Edgerton remarked that the citizens of
Flat were to be commended for their
enterprise, and that he would assist
them all he could. He thought, how
ever, that the middle pier would need
more rock.
W. F. Copeland, head of the Guggen
heim party that left last week, wished
to have it come to the attention of the
public that any bills iie has overlooked
should be forwarded to Fairbanks ad
dressed to him. The bill should bo ac
companied by a full statement of par
ticulars.
The N. C. Co. is building a large
addition on the west side of their store
building to be used as warm storage j
this winter. They rushed the work
and are about to move freight in.
Judge Thomas succeeded in landing
a large shipment of goods some days
ago and is now an extremely busy per
son trying to dispose of them.
The grand jury held its sessions in j
the old commissioner’s court room.
Miller & Slenter, of the Merchants
Cafe, who have been shipping in their
own goods to the extent of nearly 75
tons, have a barge at the foot of their
property, where they will store most
of their supplies. This method of
EVENINGS AT ^OME.
I'm sitting in tny easy chair,
before the fireside’s cheerful glare.
All modern comforts are at hand! j
electric lights and music canned: j
the triumphs that great men have
wrought, are gathered in my cozy
i cot. The neighbor children gather
round to hear me drivel and ex
pound about the good old times gone
by which I appiaad—I wonder why?
I wonder why old men are prone to
j view the present with a groan, and
: talk of vanished years as though
they were the smoothest goods
below? The children listen while
1 tell of times when everything was
; well, when girls were angels minus
| crowns, and men were saints in
j handmedowns, and life was one long .
i round of joy. And in mv heart I’m ;
1 conscious that I’m simply talking
through my hat. I’d hate* to read j
hy smoky lights, and sleep on ticks j
of straw at nights, and go to bed at
six o'clock, because no candles are
in stock, and go outdoor to get a !
drink, and find the cistern on the |
blink. I’d hate like thunder to be
swung, back to the times when I was
young We lived like horses in
those days, and yet, much to my own
amaze, I brag and brag in prose
and rhymes, about the good old
vanished times.—Walt Mason.
storage has been adopted not only to
keep the gooods within easy reach,
but to cut it loose in case of fire.
Three bailiffs were appointed to keep
matters peaceful in the court room.
Roy E. Bigham is court crier and Lew
Baldwin and Chas. Maltby assist him
with the heavy thinking. Bert Wal
ker is caretaker of the building.
Aaron Longnecker hiked across the
hills to Moore creek early this week,
having received a report that his
ground over there was going just
about twice what it was expected to.
He took two pack horses to supply
some shorts, and a bunch of news
papers to the colony working there.
More Warehouse Boon!
The firm of Anderson Bros, and Ner
land are making preparations for the
housing of their new stock of building
material and house furnishings, and
have been busy the past week building
warehouses. They are putting up a
structure 30x30 in the rear of their
store on Second and will also have a
warehonse on First.
THE HE5GHT OF LUXURY
A steam bath, a nice lunch, a
furnished room to sleep in. Klite
Baths, Caribou street.
Select Outside Lumber, corrugated
iron and roofing paper at Ross & Nes
tor’s.
^ NORTHERN PERSONALS }
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O P. Gustad, of Cleary creek, Fairbanks district, is back in Fair
banks from a trip to the Outside. He has purchased an orange grove
near Los Angeles, where he left his wife and children.
Mrs. L M. Drury, wi.e ot the Fairbanks as ayer, gave birth to a
son recently.
Dan Kennedy, the well known freighter, is a Rub/ stampeder.
W. H Link, the freight and passenger agent for the old X. A. T.
& T. Co., has gone to Nome to close out the affairs of that concern.
J. Albert Jackson, the former Fairbanks banking man, has secured
a position with a Portland bank, and w here he will shortly be joined by
his w ife.
J E. C'>ffer, attorney for the city of Fairbanks, has been appointed
commissioner at Hot Springs.
II. II Ross, who made an tin ticcessfu! attempt to run an automo
bile between Iditarod and Flat, is now back in Fairbanks, running be
tween that town and Chatanika.
Ed Bartlett, the Fairbanks freighter, will be connected with the
Alaska road commission during the summer freighting supplies in the
Hot Springs Sullivan district.
The Jesson brothers, of Ester creek, Fairbanks district, have pur
chased io.ooo acres ol land in Mexico, in the Lower California country.
“Big Cuief” Dan Callahan, of Fairbanks, was one of the stamped
ers to Ruby City.
T. II. Veasey, attorney for the English syndicate which has se
cure.! options on Fairbanks creek, is at present in the Tatiana metropo
lis, where he is engaged in the task of inquiring into the titles of the
properties optioned.
Dr. S Hall Young, at present visiting the Iditarod district, had an
interview with President Taft when he was in Washington last winter,
ind says that he believes the President will sign the Alaskan home rule
bill when the same has passed both houses of congress.
W. J. Fitzgerald, an old-timer of the Dawson country, w'as drowned
recently in Whitehorse rapids.
Mrs. Mark E. Sullivan, widow of the late Mark E Sullivan, is vis
ting Fairbanks in connection with the settlement of her husband’s es
ate.
Fred Jorgenson, the former Tenderfoot miner, whose neck was
broken while lie was working in a diift, and who was sent Outside last
• ear to die, lias returned to Fairbanks a well man. While in the States
Jorgenson underwent an operation which has proved remarkably suc
ess'ul, the: e remaining no indication that his neck has ever been in
the least injured.
Harry Edwards is said to have 500 feet of desirable waterfront
staked off at Ruby city.
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During the course of liis examination
n a bankruptcy proceeding at Fair
banks, Judge Kellutn gave some
nteresting information regarding the
lisposal of the big poke of nearly
5150,00.!, which he took from G-b on
Jlearv.
The judge states, says the Fairbanks
rimes, that be has nothing to show for
his Cleary operations but a home in
Fairbanks, two trips Outside and sup
port since 1906.
Of the one-time fortune, $70,000 was
dropped in the Tenderfoot, $32,000 in
payment of a note for Dunbar, and
$38,000 for which there is nothing to
■ihow’ but a note signed by Dunbar.
The Tanana Electric Company absorbed
$15,000; Hot Springs mining enterprise
with Palmer and Ferguson, $5,000;
Tanana Bottling works, $4,500; Tanana
Valiev railway stock. $5,000: grubstak
ing in the Kuskokwim, $2,000; and in
numerable small enterprises of a simi
lar kind.
The firm of Kellum & Petorson owes
in the neighborhood of $30,000.
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