THE LACEY BILL
GIVEN IN FULL
To Amend Laws Governing Labor
or Improvements on Mining
Claims in Alaska.
In n letter from Congressman Lacey
United States Commissioner J. Lindley
Green has received a copy of the hill
introduced in the house Dee. 18 to amend
the laws governing what is generally
termed assessment work in Alaska.
Through the courtesy of the commis
sioner the bill is hereby reprinted in
full:
He it enacted Dy the somite and House
of representatives of the United States
of America in congress assembled, That
during each year and until patent has
been issued therefor, at least seventy
five dollars’ worth of labor shall lx; |« r
forined or improvements made on, or
for the benefit or development of, in
accordance with existing law, each min
ing claim in the district of Alaska here
tofore or hereafter located, and in addi
tion thereto the locator or owner of each
such claim shall perform twenty-five
dollars’ worth of work upon highways,
roads, or trails within the recording
division or district in which such claim
shall be situate, or, in lieu of such work
upon highways, roads, or trails the sum
of twenty-five dollars may l>e paid to
the recorder for such division or district,
who shall give a receipt therefor anil
enter such payment upon a record of
affidavits of annual work done on mining
claims; and in case work of the value
aforesaid shall la* performed upon such
highways, roads, or trails as aforesaid
the affidavit of the locator or owner of
such claim, or of some other person
having knowledge of the facts, showing
the performance thereof and specifying
the highway, road, or trail and the char
acter and extent of such work done
thereon, shall be made and filed with
said recorder and be recorded by him in
bis said record, and such affidavit when
so mado and filed shall lx- prima facie
evidence of the ix*rformance of such
work. Anil in like manner the locator
or owner of such claim shall also make
ami tile with the said recorder an affida
vit showing the }K*rformanc<.* of labor or
making of improvements to the amount
of seventy-five dollars as aforesaid and
specifying the character and extent of
such work, and such affidavit shall Ik*
priina facie evidence of the |**rformance
of such work <»r making of such im
provements. And ii|M>n failure of the
locator or owner of any such claim to
comply with the provisions of this act,
or any of them, such claim shall liecoiuc
forfeited and «»|k*ii to location by others
.is if no location of the same had ever
iteen made. The affidavits required
hereby may Ik* made liefnre any officer
authorised to administer oaths, and the
provisions of section fifty-three bundled
and ninety-two of the Itevised Statutes
are hereby extended to such affidavits.
Si* If. That tlit* recorders for the sev
eral divisions or districts of Alaska shall
nit'll give ImumI in sin It amount as the
secretary of the treasury may require
and in such form as the attornev general
may approve, ami shall account to the
secretary of the treasury f* r all moneys
received by them under the provision*
of this act; ami all such money* shall,
umlrv the direction ami control of tit*
roiul commissioners of Alaska, be ex
pended within the mining district where
collected in the opening and improve
ment of highways, roads, and trails in
Alaska.
ALASKA AFFAIRS.
Up to Nov. 27 last 888 claims had been
recorded in the Kantiahna district.
George Ilaldwin, in charge of the sur
vey party for the Alaska Central rail
road, commenced work between Cliena
and Fairbanks Jan. 15.
A postoffice is desired at Hichardson,
a new town on the Tnnana river ninety
miles above Fairbanks. McCarty & Son
are establishing a trading jsjst thece.
A table of distances printed in the
Fairbanks Sunday Times places Dia
mond City, Kantishna, 180 miles from
Fairbanks and 128 from Fort Gibbon.
The Miocene Ditch Co. has begun pro
ceedings in the district court at Nome to
secure a right of way across the Kajah,
Omisk and Ruby claims between Nome
river and Hobson creek.
Scarlet fever has been prevalent among
both natives and whites at Nome. A
month ago it was hoped that the quar
antine regulations were sufficient to pre
vent the fever from spreading.
A postoffice has been established at
Fort McPherson, on the Arctic coast,
and a regular mail route will be run in
future, being served in winter by dog
teams from Edmonton northward.
Council City and Nome were placed in
direct communication Jan. 8 over the
Seward Co-operative Telephone Co.’s
new long-distance line. The line worked
like a charm and conversation was car
ried on l>etween the two towns with the
utmost ease.
Fairbanks Sunday Times, Jan. 14: It
is currently reported in Fairbanks that
('apt. FI. T. Barnette is at present in
Washington, 1>. C., furthering his can
didacy for the governorship of Alaska.
It is believed that he stands a good
show of obtaining the appointment.
The Nome grocerymen's association
was formally dissolved Jan. 2. The ac
tion, it is understood, was taken on the
advice of its attorney employed to de
fend the members of the association in
a suit brought against them a month
previously under the Sherman anti
trust law.
Nome Hold Digger: A telegram lias
lieen received in this city from a clone
friend of Major L. II. French that the
major had already raised a half million
dollars in cash for the building of a rail
road from (irantley Hurlsirto the Ktigit
rok district. The road is now an as
sured fact and will la- constructed next
summer.
The Nome Nugget names three claims
which a well-known mining man says
will produce a million dollars this win
ter. They are discovery on Little creek,
the Portland lieiich and the Ault frac
tion, which ure owned by the Pioneer
Mining t'o. J. brown's Little creek
claim is also pr<*iueing some very tine
dirt, the I»est yet extracted.
Shot down a •haft.'ki feel and receiving
practically no injury was the experience
of \V It Hays, a well known milling
man Jan •">, rekitrs the Nome Nugget.
Mr Hays was bring hauled up when the
man at the windlass slipped, and at the
same lime the handle of the windlass
split Ikiwn went the bucket like a
shot trout a gun, ami by the tune it was
nearing the hottom Mr llays had pre
pared himself for (lie impart of the
bucket »« the rwrth, ami he slid ml
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8. E. HEETKR.
HARRY BURRUSS. =
HEETER & BURRUSS,
FREIGHTERS and PACKERS
Freighting and Packing to and from all Creeks. *
Good Equipments and Service Unexcelled l
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from it, lighting on some snow that had
been thrown down the shaft the night
before. Outside of a few slight bruises
he was unharmed. He had been a rail
road man and used the knowledge thus
gained in alighting from the “wild”
bucket.
Skagway Alaskan, Dee. 28: The estate
of Ole I.inge recovered a verdict in the
district court at Juneau Saturday even
ing against the Treadwell Company for
|10,(XX>. This is one of the more or less
famous damage suits which K. \V. Jen
nings has against the Treadwell Com
pany. It was tried last spring and re
sulted in a disagreement.
Fairbanks newspapers are warning the
business men of that place that unless
they bestir themselves hustling little
Tanana will secure a big share of the
Kantishna trade. Tanana through her
chamber of commerce ojvened a trail to
the Kantishna and sent out posters ad
vertising her advantages as a supply
point, for which she deserves both
credit and patronage.
Bill Fox, a Chilkat Indian who shot
end killed Private Becholdt, of the Third
Infantry hand, Christmas morning at
Haines, was discharged by United States
Commissioner Ford, after a preliminary
hearing. The testimony showed that
Becholdt, accompanied by an ex-soldier,
entered the Indian's house, a light en
sued between the whites and the Indian,
and the ex-soldier handed Becholdt a
gun and told him to lix the Indian. Fox
then fired.
\V. A. Reid, formerly secretary of the
Y. M, A., has been appointed general
Alaskan missionary for the assoeiation.
He will visit the principal cities along
the coast of southeastern Alaska, then
return south again, coming north in the
spring, preparatory to making a trip
down the Yukon. For this latter trip,
says the Skagway Alaskan, Mr. Reid is
now having built in the south a steamer
with which he will visit all the small
places on the Yukon and its tributaries.
This steamer will represent a floating
home for Mr. Reid’s use. lie will not
Is- alone on his Yukon trip, Imt will lie
accompanied by his wife, whom he will
marry in the spring. The bride to la- is
Miss F.mmu Sehlbrodc, formerly of
Skagway.
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RECEPTION
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S. E. HEETER, BOB SCHABER,
Proprietor Manager
Wines, Liquors and
GOOD Cigars_
_Billiard and Pool Rooms
Barber Chair in the House. £
St. l.ouls
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and Seattle
Ranier Beers
A. B. NOTICE.
Regular meetings of the Arctic Brother
hood Lodge are held at their hall on the
second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at
P o’clock p. in.
WM. SIPARY. G. A. KETTERER,
Arctic Recorder. Arctic Chief
Ben Baker and Partner
Prospering at Nenana
Messrs. Stanley anil Noble, who ar
rived from Fairbanks Monday, report
that Ben Baker and Jim I hike are doing
a line business at Nenana. They have a
roadhouse and store, and are well |ut
roni/.ed by whiten and natives.
Ihm Kennedy, an employe on the
Seward long distance telephone line,
is thought to have (srishcd in a blizzard
1s t w een Candle and Cottneil the last
pa rt of Ibti'iiiber.
Grand Ball and Cake Walk
BY THE
JOLLY COMPANIONS
Postponed to March 30