STRIKERS
ENJOINED
Nome Court Takes a Hand
in Labor Dispute.
A strike was declared by the Federal
1 .aIter I’ninn against the North Coast
I.ighterage Company at Nome June 4.
Complaint was made to Judge Moore by
the company, and the judge granted a
‘'temporary restraining order” pending
ii j motion proceedings at a later date.
This is as perfect a sample of govern
ment hy injunction as the notorious
proceedings that tilled the hull pens
in Colorado and Idaho with men under
Ihe han of certain corporations a few
Vi ars ago.
Judge Gunnison, of the First division
of Alaska, not long ago in an opinion
said that injunction is a measure only
ju -titled hy extraordinary circumstances
and should not he adopted except in
eases of great emergency. It will not
he contended that the judge of the
Second division shares Judge Gunnison’s
view.
The order, in part, reprinted from the
Nome Nugget, is as follows:
“It is ordered that the said defend
ants, and each of them, show cause lie
lore this court, at the courthouse, in the
city of Nome, on the L’Oth day of June,
ltiOti, at - p. in., why an injunction
should not he issued restraining them,
and each of them, and all persons act
ing in connection with them, and all
persons whomsoever, from in any way
or manner interfering with, hindering,
obstructing, or in any manner delaying
or stopping the building and making of
repairs, alterations and improvements
to tlie <l*H-k and piers mentioned in the
complaint, and luring partially u|K»nainl
immediately south of lots 25 and 26, 38
and 36, in block 6, of the city of Nome,
Alaska, and extending into liering sea,
by the said plaintiff, or any one acting
by, through or upon, the same, or any
part of said improvements, or from in
any manner eelaying, stopping or inter
fering with, or attempting to delay, stop,
hinder or interfere with the business of
said plaintiff in its lightering or ware
house, or machinery now being built or
placed upon, or hereafter to be built or
placed in it* yards or otherwise, or at
all, and from picketing the works, yards,
pters, warehouses and places of busi
ness of the plaintiff, and from interfer
ing in any way with the employes of the
plaintiff, and from compelling or indu
cing, or attempting to compel or induce
by threats, intimidation, |*er.-Utt.-ioii or
force or violence, or intimidate or in
duce any of the employes to leave the
employment of the plaintiff, or to refuse
or mil to )«Tiorm any of their duties as
employes of said plaintiff, and from at
tempting, by threats, force or violence,
undue inlbienee or persuasion to pre
vent any person wItotiutoever from en
tering the employment of said plaintiff,
and ironi aiding, u-.-isting or aUtting,
h\ act, word or in any in.inner what***
e\er, any p rs»n or pernoti* to commit
anv act, or attem|»t t«» commit any • f
the acts aforesaid, or hereafter in tbia
w nt inferred, and from in any manner
publishing publicly or privately any
statements concerning tin? matter in
controversy in tliin suit, or any of them,
or any of the allegations of the bill or
complaint herein, until the further or
iler of this court, either for the purpose
of dissuading persons from entering into
plaintiff’s employ or for any other pur
pose.”
SEASON’S WORK
OF THE W. C. B. CO.
Bedrock was reached in the ground
sluicing work by the What Cheer Bar
Company on Boothby creek last week.
The depth of the ground will average
about 18 feet. The known paystreak is
1.800 feet long and is estimated to he oO
feet wide. The company expects to
work out all this ground the present
season.
If Boothhy creek produces as well as
prospecting indicated it will add greatly
to the season’s output of the camp.
On What Cheer bar the company will
also work out a plat of ground 300 by
dot) feet this season. The bar ground is
8 or tl feet deep.
The company has given out no esti
mate of the season’s cleanup, which, of
course, is hard to arrive at; hut it is
believed that all previous records will
he greatly exceeded. Eighteen men are
employed, and, while more water could
he used to advantage, the dry weather
has not seriously hindered the work.
MINING PLANT
BOUGHT BY SPICER
Heorge Spicer, on discovery, Eureka,
has purchased outright the L. H. Ilall
plant, which had heen employed on his
ground the present season under lease.
The operations carried on with the ma
chinery continue to be highly satisfac
tory.
Mr. Spicer is hoisting and dumping
into the boxes, and the daily cleanups
are said to average exceedingly well.
Items from Tanana.
From the Y ukou Press. June -t.
Aaron Hardin was charged before the
commissioner, on Monday with giving
liquor to two native women. He pleaded
not guilty, bua was considered so by the
commissioner and sentenced to six
months in jail.
The marshal arrested two natives, Joe
of Unmpnrt and Matthew. They are
held as witnesses against the one who
gave them liquor. We presume they
will lie put through the third degree
a la lns|K-etor Ityrnes to find out the
eriminal.
The Delta was held until the arrival
of Mr. Menzies, the N.C. auditor, when
she pulled out for the Koyukuk, where
the scene of his labors w ill he for aw hile.
Sergeant Ib id.-man also went away to
the Koyukuk us hug in*|a-ctor for the
government. Our esteemed fellow citi
zen Mr. Kemble went with him as chief
hug catcher.
\\ . II. Holmes left on tin- Delta to
work in tlw interests of Thomas t ale.
Thomas Mi t ttiwan, attorney for the
N t‘. t o., has formed a law partnership
with John A. t lark, at Kutrlsuik*, and
will in future reside in tluit city.
S. K. IIEKTKR.
HARRY BURRUSS.
HEETER&BURRUSS,
FREIGHTERS and PACKERS
Freighting and Packing to and from all Creeks.
Good Equipments and Service Unexcelled
Federal Licenses
Required in Alaska
Following is a list ol‘ federal licenses
taken from the Douglas Island News:
Abstract offices, $50.
Banks, $230.
Boarding houses, 10 or more guests,
$15.
Brokers, $100.
Billiard tables, each, $15.
Bowling alley, $15.
Brewery, $500.
Bottling, $200.
Cigar factory, $25.
Cigar store, $15.
1 )rug store, $50.
Docks, warehouses, per ton, 10 cents.
Light plant, $300.
Cas plants, $300.
Hotels, $50.
Halls, $10.
Insurance agents, $25.
Jewelers, $25.
Quartz mills, per stamp, $5.
Mercantile establishments, doing a
business of $100,000, $500; $75,000, $375;
$50,000, $250; $25,000, $125; $10,000, $50;
under $10,000, $25; under $4,000, $10.
Meat market, $15.
Physicians, itinerant, $50.
Pawnbrokers, $300.
Peddlers, $25.
Restaurants, $15.
Ileal estate dealers, $50.
Steam ferries, $100.
Sawmills, per 1,000 feet, 10 cents.
Toll road or trail, $200.
Tobacconists, $!•>.
Transfer companies, $50.
Tramways, jier mile or fraction of, $10.
Taxidermists, $10.
Theaters, $100.
Waterworks, $50.
Manufactories, same as mercantile
ill Illscs.
Applications for mercantile licenses
must state the amount of business done
annually, and it must be sworn to
Fordoing business without a license
the law provides a penalty for the first
offense of a sum eipial to the license; for
second offense a tine twice the license;
for third offense a fine three times the
license and imprisonment for not less
than thirty days nor more than six
months.
Items have tieen printed in coast pa*
|s*rs to the effect that the Klondike
Kstatcs t'or|H>ration, limited, of l.oinlon,
will cx|>ciid half a million dollars and
employ fifty men this summer in in
stalling hydraulics on Seventy •mile, la
low Fugle. If the statements are Inu
tile fact does not seem to la* generally
known along the Yukon.
It is claimed that floury, in the Fair
banks district, is the world's riclw—t
placer creek.
F. M. A. L.
SMITH & COLLINS,
Proprietors
FIRST-CLASS
Wines, Liquors and
Cigars.
CASE GOODS
A Specialty
BISHOP ROWE
EXPECTED SOON
Bishop Iiowe will visit Rampart in
the near future. The ladies are plan
ning an informal reception to give all
the Rampart jieople an opportunity to
meet him. The date will lie announced
later.
The ladies hojie that every one will
he present and join with them in giving
Bishop Rowe a most cordial welcome.
It is learned on good authority that
capitalists will investigate ground on
the up|s-r Rovukuk as a dredging prop
osition. Frank Whnlley, an old t'old
fisit pro*|>ectnr, now in the Fairbanks
country, has interested moneyed men in
the far-northern district.
A ditch carrying I,OHO miner's inches
will cost, under fair conditions, $2,lM)
per mile. One with the capacity of
I.I1UI miner’s inches will cost between
♦ I.Wtl and |A,UOU per mile. Though
much affettcii hy varying l<sal condi
tions, a conservative estimate for gen
eral work is #1 per cubic yard through
out.—t»col**gival Report.