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CALENDAR
JANUARY
8 M T W T F S
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 0 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 10
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 20 30 2*1
Moon’s Phases.—
Last quarter. 7th;
new moon, 13th;
first quarter, 20th;
full moon, 29th.
FEBRUARY
8 M T W T F 8
1 2
3 4 5 (5 7 8 !1
10 11 12 13 14 15 111
17 18 11* 20 21 22 23
24 25 20 27 28
Moon’s Phasks.
Last quarter, 5th;
new moon, 12th;
first qiiaretr, 19th ;
full moon. 27th.
Wednesday, January 30, 11*07.
WICKERSHAM.
Assuming that President Roosevelt is
fully informed at least as to the designs
of the stronger and more noteworthy
men who are so anxious to see Judge
Wiekershatn off the bench of this divis
ion, it does not appear probable that
the judge will bs displaced unless the
United States senate by vote shall fail
to confirm him.
Judge Wickershain’sopponents in this
division are men who wanted to see the
mining law requiring discovery ignored,
in order that tracts of land might he
acquired and held illegally, to the great
detriment of legitimate prospectors and
miners. On a former occasion they ad
vocated a measure to tax mining claims
and abolish the requirement of an
amount of annual labor—a measure that
would have become law if the miners
had not bestirred themselves and might
possibly have permitted the holding of
160-acre tracts for $25 a year. They
openly call for Alaska to 1h* taken from
under the United States mining law and
placed under one better suited to their
own purposes. The interest of legiti
mate prosja’ctors and miners is not the
concern of the leaders of the tight against
Wiekersham.
If the president fully grasps these
facts, he is likely to stand by Wicker
sham a littie while longer.
A bill was introduced into congress
sometime liefore Christmas to provide
for the compulsory recording of assess
ment work on mining claims in Alaska.
Some papers say it is also intended to
knock out association claims and loca
ting by i>owcr of attorney. It is I>ele
jjate Waskey's bill, and if it contains
the two last-named provisions it ought
to Is- enacted for the whole 1 nited
States. _
The kairl sinks telegram about lloyt's
report on Wiekersham is from a reliable
source, anil also one from which the
judge's reup|s>intmeiit has not lw-en
advocated _
cat is never dead as long as there
an any liras on it. (han't |«»s judg
ment mi the t'handlar yet awhile
THE MESSAGE ON THE COURTS.
Here is a quotation from the presi
dent's message that is almost pathetic
in its admission of the people's helpless
ness to remedy by legislation not alone
the evil complained of, but many others
that threaten the public welfare:
“In iny last message 1 suggested the
enactment of a law in connection with
the issuance of injunctions, attention
having been sharply drawn to the mat
ter by the demand that the right of
applying injunctions in labor cases
should be wholly abolished. It is at
least doubtful whether a law abolishing
altogether the use of injunctions in
such cases would stand the test of the
courts; in which ease of course the
legislation would he ineffective.”
“(iovernment by injunction'' is thus
admitted to be so strongly intrenched,
with the judges of courts in a position
to pass upon their own i>ower in the
premises, that congress is virtually im
potent, and the extent to which it may
be employed will continue to depend on
the convictions or caprices of the judges
themselves. In Alaska, the judge of
the First division has said that injunc
tion is an extraordinary remedy which
should be applied only in cases of ex
treme emergency; while in the Second
division it has been employed in its
most sweeping form to defeat the ob
jects of an ordinary labor union. In
this territory it has not yet become a
public menace; but there is plenty of
room for the system to grow.
In another part of the message the
president showed that he knows
where the responsibility for the law’s
delay and the miscarriage of justice
rests in a majority of eases. He says:
“In connection with this matter, I
would like to call attention to the very
unsatisfactory state of our criminal law,
resulting in a large part from the habit
of setting aside the judgments of inferior
courts on technicalities absolutely un
connected with the merits of the case,
and where there has been no attempt to
show that there has been any failure of
substantial justice. It would be well to
enact a law something to the effect that:
No judgment shall Is- set aside or new
trial granted in any case, civil or crimi
nal, on the ground of misdirection of the
jury or the improper admission or re
jection of evidence, or for error as to
any matter of pleading or procedure,
unless, in the opinion of the court to
which the application is made, after an
examination of the entire cause, it shall
affirmatively appear that the error com
plained of has resulted in a miscarriage
of justice."
In other words, the president would
hav.. realize that the right of
ap|N-al is intended to safeguard justice,
rather than to afford op|s»rtunitv for
disquisitions on rules and practice.
pMHitviiK* will forever atnn.l out
xliijtly iiiul alone u< tin- only mining
r«n>|> <>ti eurth where every tiling turn*
■ nit Iwtter tlevn anvhialv liml exiieete*l
Notaaly l*-lievetl there nti\tiling
there in the lira! |>htee. Alwnit two
yewra atfn a t'hena mun mill there wax
nothing to it hut "Yiekeraham nml
vital " l'eo|i|e Innumerahte have wial
ainre then that one ereek ail|>|airt< the
Chas. A. Traeger,
Hats, Clothing
and Furnishings.
Complete Line
New Ladies’ Goods,,
Flannels, Blankets,,
Gents’ Furnishings.
H. J. RODEN,
Attorney at Law,
Fairbanks, Alaska.
J. l.INDLEY QUEEN,
Lawyer.
Office at the Courthouse.
OFFICE OF
Commissioner and Recorder.
Rooms 1 and 2, Courthouse
Modern Dentistry
In all its Branches
CHARLES D. CARTER, D. D. S.,
Prices reasonable. Work guaranteed.
OFFICE—BALLOU RESIDENCE.
A. B. NOTICE.
Regular meetings of the Arctic Brother
hood Lodge are held at their hall on the
second and fourth Fridays of each month at
8 o’clock n. m.
W. W. CROCKETT,
JULIUS RAHMSTORF. Arctic Chief
Arctic Recorder.
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JOSEPH TWAN,
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Ant I UU seldom write home? \
They will know you ore all right if you I
send them the YUKON VALLEY' NEWS. I
Mail yours or let us send one weekly, f
whole camp. Hut they seem to go right
on uncovering the pay, and it looks like
it will have to la* acknowledged that it '
is really a great camp regard lean of
what people have thought and said.
This nun was on time. Its rim was
visible Monday for the first time in 78
days.
BY WIRE YESTERDAY
Thi* interstate commerce commission
announces hrilieryof state in»|ievtor» by
Standard I til.
Eiftv slop-* were sunk by a cloudburst
at Hongkong.
The father of t'hester Thompson, the
youth on trial for the murder of Judge
Kmory at Seattle, addressed ||i«* jurv
yesterday It was very pnthrtn*.
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