Tile Alaska Prospector
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Published at Valdez, Alaska, e%ery Tauisday
by the Promt; top. ITblishing » o.
Pii >ne Main 1.
Entered at tlie Va’doz P»»Bt office as second
class matter.
Subscription f3 per year. *.! >r fix months,
sinule Codes 10 cents.
According to a Juneau iauy, rs
interpretation of the Alaska eod< .
it is illegal ior any persons \vI»<
are divorced in Alaska to marry
again. This discovery will create
n panic* among tho.-«* who have re
married and may possibly disturl
the plans of others who are seeking
divorce, but such is th.- law.
Section 474 page 24b Alaska
code says: A judgment declaring
a marriage void or dissolved by
the action or claim of either party
shall have the effect to terminate
such marriage as to both parties,
except-that neither party shall be
capable of contracting marriage
with a third person, and if he or
she does so contract, sliail be liable
therefor as if such judgment bad
not been given, until the action
had been heard and determined on
appeal, and if no appeal be laken,
the expiration of the period al
lowed by law to take such appeal.
No appeal can be taken in a
divorce case because the apjellate
court is a United States court, and
is not authorized by any law of
congiess to hear and determine
divorce causes on appeal. Congress
has no divorce laws, neither has
the United States. Now. when no
appeal can be taken the expiration
of the period allowed by law to
take such an appeal never comes;
if a party divorced cannot remarry
until such expiration, and such ex
piration never comes, it looks as
if congress intended fur us all to
be good and stav home nights.
A number of improvements are
now being made at the courthouse,
in accordance with the recommen
dations of the ‘last grand jury, such
as having the building painted,
fences built around the grounds
and sanitary water appliances in
stalled in the jail and offices. A
seperate department will also be
provided in the jail building for
women prisoners.
S. W. Wible and M. H. Splllvan,
well-known mining men of the
Sunrise district, have gone west to
direct operations on their hydraulic
properties there. Mr. Sullivan was
accompanied by Mrs. Sullivan. He
is manager of the Elmore Mining
Company, on Six-Mile. Mr. \\ ible
owns property on Canyon creek
which yielded nearly $20,000 last
year.
Don’t Need Insuratce?
Are you sure? 271 persons died
during 1900, in the first year after
they insured in the New \ork
Life. Suppose they bad said the
same thing. See Crery today.
From Middiston Island.
E. V. Smith, better known as
"Middleton Smith” is in town
with a load of fox skins from his
ranch on Middleton Island. Smith
and his foxes are the sole ini abi
tants of this fertile little island,
which is on the open ocean just
outside of Prince William Sound.
Thorfe is a little gold in the beach
sand and at times he works a rock
er, but there is not enough pay to
justifv any groat am >unt of work.
At the present time iie garden on
.he island is as far advanced at
hose in tne States, the climate he
ing very mi id. Smith says that h«
'create'1 the wreck of the Discover}
,ist faii, on a rock about 15 mile:
roni Middleton, where the boiler.
.i ml machinery were visible at low
tide. The boat evidently broki
her back on this rock and sunl
immediately.
The first of the two disbarment
cases against Attorney J. H. Gobi
is being heard in the federal court.
This ease arises on the complain*
of the International Trust Com
pany that Cobb engineered a deal
whereby they were buncoed into
selling the Aurora mining clain
in Silver Bow basin for eigh.teei
thousand dollars worth of receiver.
certificates. They allege that Gobi
was at the time of the deal repre
senting three parties in the trans
action. The defendant sets up a
general denial.— Dispatch.
Quartz Strike In Nome Country.
Nome, — This camp is exciter’
over the discovery and location oi
an immense ore body at the mouth
of Dry creek, which is estimated to
have ore to the value of #4,000,00(
in sight. The geological survey
party pronounce it to be richer
than the famous Homestake mine.
A fight is now on at Cutalla bi
tween the Bruner railroad con -
pany and the C. R. & N. W. for a
right.of-vvay. A dispatch iron
Juneau gives the following partic
ulars:
“The Alaska Pacific Railway
Terminal Company applied in tht
United States district court here
today for a temporary restraining
order against the Copper River A
Northwestern Railway Company
to prevent the latter from continu
ing work on certain ground ai
Catala.
The complaining t company al
leges that the rival corporation has
made a preliminary survey which
conflicts with the permanent sur
vev of the former which has beer
approved by the secretary of th<
interior. Judge Wickersharn wih
hear argument upon the applica
tion for an injunction at an early
date.”
WANTED MEN to cut cord
wood by the cord. Apply to A.
Holman, Copper Center.
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Stait Telegraph Construction.
A party of 20 civilians will leave
Monctav for Gulkana to commence
work on the new cut off telegraph
line from that place to -McCarthy’*^!
on the Tananu. The men will be
in charge of tfargeant Munday
fhis line will he completed thisj
summer and will b< a great con
venience to travelers and the mail
men next season.
The Seattle Times lias the fol
lowing regarding the coming mar
riage of Ray Millard:
“Pretty Louise Baker is on her
wav from per hoqae at Chippewa
Falls, \'ris., to Seattle, where she
will hi* married to Ray Millard, a
wealthy veiling mine owner of \ al
dez, Alaska.
“The wedding will be solemized
early in May, at the home of his
oarents, 1010 Union Street.
“Back in the little Wis'ons.n
town the'young people were school
mates. Bv the time their studies
were finished their troth was
plighted and Millard moved with
his family to Seattle, going 1o the I
Alaska gold fields eight years ago.
;de is associated with his father B.
Millard, in the Galena Bay Min
.lir A: Developing Company as
manager.”
Made Itich By Man He Saved.
Los Angeles, April 17—-Ten
years ago Dr. William Arwine of
Long Beach, then on duty as a
Government surgeon at Prince
Will’am Sound, Alaska, heroically
rescued Dr. Von Gunther from
drowning after a shipwreck. He
plunged into the freezing water,
dragged the victim out and rinsed
dm to recovery. Von Gunther was
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grateful and said he would some
day repay the brave act. He has
since made a fortune and is reputed
to be a millionaire.
Yesterday Dr. Arwine received a
package from Alaska which con
tained a block of mining stock;
conservatively estimated to be'
worth $100,000. Dr. Arwine, in
addition to the stock, which he
could sell for a fortune, is appoin
ted general manager of the n ining j
company with a large salary.
A boxing contest between Stren
uous Teddy and .John Ij. Sullivan
ought to draw a good crowd.
C C. Hudolpb
CONTRACTOR
AND BUILDER
Doors, Windows, Builders’ Hard
ware, Mouldings and Finishings.
Tar, P. & B. and Build
ing Paper.
PAINTS OILS GLASS
Surveyor McPherson, who vent
west onjhe Dora ]j|st trip, left the
boat at Ungn. where lie secure ! a
sloop and started along the coa^t
to make surveys of the sites of a
number of Russian missions.
A cattle ranch tins been started
on Kodiak island, where fine stock
will be raised. Twenty blooded
Horefords were shipped to the
island last month and more will
come up later in the summer.
Governor Hoggat. claims to
have been the object of unfair
treatment on the part of certain
unnamed parties who were in
Washington lobbying last winter,
in the matter of the reports that he
was constant!v referring to advo
cates of home government as bums,
ruffians, etc. This. Governor Hog
gatt says, is a gross libel upon his
real expressions.
Dissolution Of Partnership.
Notice is h< reby given that the undersigned
sold his half Interest in the- Poplar Grove
Roadhouse to Ben Torbell on March ith. 1007
and lias no further interest in the business.
Mr. Torbell has assumed all the debts incurred
by the roadhouse and all bills are payable to
him.
CARL A. SWANSON.
The A. Van der Naillen School
of Civil, Electrical Mining Engi
neering. Established 1804
SAVED—Apparatus, Instruments, &c, Open
in all branches. Great demand for ex-students
in ail lines. Now undents should enroll at
cnee. Addri ss 510J Telegraph Ave-Oakland.
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