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LAWS.
Governor Strong gave sage advice
io the Alaskan legislature when
he urged them to pass only such
laws as were absolutely essential,
for in effect there were already too
many laws. In this he re-echoes the
almost forgotten dictum of the then
Attorney-General Knox, when prose
cuting the Northern Securities Co.
that the crying need of the hour
was not more laws but a more gen
eral recognition of such laws as
were already on the statute
books.
The main objection to represen
tative government is the facilities
that it has opened up to all and
sundry to make laws. And so many
.solons in these days have an itch for
introducing bills that some sucu
counsel as that given by the Govern
or of Alaska doubtless is timely.
The law maker of today has simply
got the habit and he lives under
rlu- impr« -.'ion tlint law ran makfe
the crooked straight and the evil
good.
Accordinglv his pursuit of this
law making instinct is as diversified
as the poet who chooses anything
and everything as his subject from
religion to his mistress’s eyebrows.
"There one general grievance
in the nation. It is the law . So
spok- with stern sincerity Oliver
Cromwell to the Parliament, whom
b,.- mplor. 1 to remedy matters. And
in truth there are few countries
where the law itself is not the sub
j,.,t matter of general complaint
and grievance.
It is obvious that the remedy for
this .state of things is not as seems
terally b< lit 1 to be more
av. but all amendment or an alter
jtion a repeal of such as are the
Ut, t. matter of such grievance.
jt will bo.-conceded that laws
w!..,h exasperate the people will
». , ourir.ual sore if not removed
which will ultimately threaten .the
general health of the hotly politic.
Ij.-iite if some tine day a legislator
would enter upon his duties ob
fith the not t ol pass
ing additional legislation, but ol
removing such as is of no avail,
such as is evil, such as is a source
of irritation, tie country w. u'.d in
«lee,l in many ways I. bee-fitted by
t hat.
A recent writer paraphrasing the
epigram of lhe h.stortan w ••
said that happy is that country
which is without a history, says that
happier is that country which is
encumbered by few laws, seems to
have struck a homely truth that is
lot very generally realized.
It was Jefferson who contended
,hat that was Up best government
which governed the least, and truly
it is a hard thing to deny. Vet so
many persons today have made an
idol of the law. have endowed it
with a quasi divine nature that they
. tuded in this frame of mind the
more laws the better. Heme they
riot in the luxury of continuous law
passing, to the infinite confounding
of the people who no longer even
afteet to understand the jargon in
which the laws are indicted.
It is a funny thing that there is
a universal ignorance of what is »<•
mall' the law on any particular
subject, and that the people to avail
themselves of the laws’ protection
or to seek redress under the law.
have to hire a specialist who will
take refuge in that law which Is to
be interpreted for the people who
made it by a special jurist.
It is an extraordinary thing that
the laws should be made by thc
people and for the people, yet the
people know so little about them,
even oftentimes that there are such
laws, they needs must choose one
who makes a study of the matter
to aid them in taking advantage of
such as they may imagine do exist.
Of late years every state legis
lature and every federal congress
has been passing multitudes ot
laws. Volume after volume is pas
sed and approved, and today it
would be an impossible feat even
during an ordinary life time to read
all the laws passed by the differ
ent law making bodies in a few
years.
Accordingly the statutes are di
gested severally and individually,
and the scope of labor to familiar
ize one with these would be the toil
of a Hercules. Needless to say it is
not done; and tor that reason ex
cept in elementary matters two ex
cellent lawyers may maintain dis
tinct and different positions, because
they have absorbed their views from
different sourc es of inspiration.
What has happened then is that
a form of metaphysics has sprung
into being.. Just as in the scholas
tic era theological metaphysics af
forded different schools of thought
endless subject matter for debate,
controversy and ragchewing. so to
day different legal attitudes follow
ing the enormous array of statutes,
precedents, rulings of all kinds,
have developed sundry schools of le
gal lore which depend upon the sx
cathedra pronouncement finally of a
Supreme Court whether they will be
accepted or not as matters of legal
faith 1
Following the establishment of
an elaborate theological metaphysics
in the earlier ages, there resulted
also a theocracy of tremendous power
and energy which gradually arro
gated or established itself supreme
over all other social forces. Ar.d
the analogy between the two condi
tions is so c lose that today we find
established in the midst of a demo
cracy a legal aristocracy which
take upon itself to say what laws
the people shall obey, what laws
Hi*- people may understand, and
wherein they may and may not le
gislate.
It would be well to understand
that teh scolasticism of the Middle
Ages led almost directly to the re
fc rmation. unless we accept the .to*
too r 'stricted view that the reforma
tion came from the Devil. Facing
this accumulation o.f laws, this arts
tocrac;. of law-interpreters with
their own obsolete ritual and jar
gon which no average minded lay
1 man can understand, it is almost
-.■I', to say in the future distant or
! do ,»• by. is a revolutionary reform
ation which will put an end to the
vagaries of such metaphysical mys
ter.es.
No one will hesitate to believe
hat the Alaska legislature will be
ready benefitted if the solous do
lot give way to the instinct to
sake as many laws as possible with
it as short as possible space of time,
end if following the address of the
inventor, some of them feel that
hey should restrict the field ot
heir legislative propensities, the
■ ■rritory will he keen to appreciate
hat theirs was the- hesitation ot
njp-i. where the fools would have
ushed in headlong.
There are good laws and bad laws,
'lie law is a human institution
nade by man or supposed to be
nade by mail for man. It is not
divine institution. it is not
a< rn sand, it partakes of the lta
are of those who inspire it. who
irge it, who enact it. And when
iad men pass laws if is certain tl.ft
-hey will have an evil tendency;
when evil men inspire laws, the pro
i liability is that they will also be evil;
! when laws are passed for selfish and
: cruel and opressive purposes by e
dominant power, the laws will be
! selfish and cruel and oppressive,
j They may be a man's instrument
for social preservation and orga
nization. But they have too often
made men the legal Instrument of
class preservation and the organi
zation of the power of a powerful
few’.
Daws to be ideal should be made
for man, not men for laws. Some
day this fact will be realized clearly
enough in practice as well as theory.
Anything in the live or Job work
it the Industrial Worker Ofllce.
Satisfaction assured.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Herman Nelson your Heirs, ex
ecutors, assigns or personal repre
sentatives:
You are hereby notified that I
have expended in labor and im
provements the sum of one hund
red dollars each year for the years
of 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915 and
1916 on the Plutus, a placer mining
claim situated on the left limit of Dry
creek and recorded and more fully
described in Vol. 190, Page 5 in
the records of the Cape Nome Min
ing and Recording District, Second
Division, Territory of Alaska.
The above amount has been ex
pended under the provisions of the
law concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount re
(juired to hold said claim.
And you are further notified that
if you fail to contribute your pro
portion of said expenditure within
ninety days after the last publica
tion of this notice, your interest In
said claim will become the property
of the undersigned, your co-owner,
under section 232 1 Revised Statin s
of the United States. »
ARCHIE MCDONALD.
Co-Owner.
Date of first publ., Feb. 14. 1917.
Date of last publ.. May 16, 1917.
Prepare for the winter by patron
izing the advertisers of yonr paper.
Mr. Miner!
No. 0 314.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR A
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
Nom... Alaska, February 26, 1917.
Notice is hereby given that John
F. Arnes Trustee with residence and
post office address at Cleveland.
Ohio. through his authorized at
torney in fact V. V. Dickenson
whose residence and post, office ad
I dress is Nome. Alaska has filed ap
plication on behalf of himself and
his co-beneficiaries under said trust
Mortimer P. Ames also with resi
| deuce and post office address at
Cleveland, Ohio, and Charles Wente
of Nome, Alaska, before the United
States Land office at Nome. Terri
tory of Alaska for a patent for
I placer mining claims situate in the
! Council City Recording District, in
! the Second Division, in the Nome
1 Land District, in said Territory, said
I claims comprising the following
; placer locations: — Imperator. Mor
I timer Bar, Eureka. Little Bloom
I field. No. One and No. One and One
Half, situate on Dixon Creek and the
| Casadepaga River, the Mineral Sur
! vey thereof being designated as No.
■1 200. The description of said claims
'as set forth in the Field Notes an I
! Plat of said Survey duly approved
j bv the Surveyor General o' the
said Territory, being :.s t'oi'nvs-—
Magnetic variation from 20 deg.
' 05 min. E. to 20 ueg 40 min L
Imperator Claim on Casadepaga
K'c.cr.
Beginning at ( or. No. 1 in the
| Casadepaga ' River and liable rc de
i struction by i< 1 and Hood, whence
r. s. L. M. No l2o * hears '5 : ■ c!«g
..t.5 E.. 3570.25 :r witness < timer,
a limestone 24xSxG ins. chiseled W.
C. 2 M B I. 1-1200 with mound oi
j earth 24 ins. base, IS Ins. high on
:east side. Lears N. 54 deg. 0\ min.
W.. 2 IS.10 ft. distant; thence S.
54 deg. OS min. E. 3S0 ft. to Cor.
! 2; thence S. 57 (leg. 15 min. \V.
1223.40 ft. to Cor. 3; the: e N.
4 5 deg. 14 min. W. 350 ft. to Cor.
4 in river and liable to destruction
j by ice and flood, whence witness
| corner, a schist stone 24xS>:6 ins.
chiseled W C No. 3 B M 4. 1-1200
| with earth mound 24 ins. has*-. IS
I ins. high on west side, bears N. 45
‘deg. 14 min. YV. 209.50 ft. distant;
thence N. 55 deg. 39 min. E. 127S.40
ft. to place of beginning. Area
' 10.409 A.
Mortimer Bar Claim.
Beginning at Cor. 1. a schist stone
| 26x14x5 ins. chiseled I, M B-1200
' and mound 24 ins. base IS ins. high
j on south side, whence U. S. L. M.
No. 1200 bears N. 22 deg. 42 min.
E. 3345.30 ft. distant; thence S. 34
deg OS min. E. 384.6 ft. to Cor.
2. identical with Cor. 1. Imperator
; previously described identical wit
ness corner previously described
hears N. 34 deg. 08 min. W. 218.10
ft.; thence S. 55 deg. 39 min. YV.
, 1278.40 ft. to Cor. No. 5, identical
with Cor. 4 Imperator previously de
scribed and with identical witness
corner previously described bearing
N. 45 deg. 14 min. \Yr. 209.50 ft.;
thence N. 43. deg. 14 min. YV. 346.70
ft. to Cor. 4; Thence N. 54 deg. 15
min. E. 542.70 ft. to Cor. No. 5:
thence N. 57 deg. 44 min. E. 673.60
| ft. to Cor. 6; thence N. 45 deg. 17
min. E. 322.80 ft. to place of be
ginning. Area 10.337 A.
Eureka (or Discovery) Claim.
Beginning at Cor. 1. a greenstone
24x7x6 ins. chiseled 1. E. 2, L B
1200. with mound 24 ins. base 18
ins. high on west. side, whence l).
5 L M No. 1200 bears N. 42 deg.
,17 min. E. 3009.40 ft.; thence S.
i 24 deg. 54 min. E. 1198.50 ft. to
Cor. 2, identical with Cor. 6 of M
B claim; thence S. 57 deg. 44 min.
YV. 673.60 ft. to Cor. 3, identical
1 with Cor. 5 of M B claim; thence
N. 23 deg. 29 min. YV. 1209.20 ft.
to Cor. 4; thence N. 58 deg. 16 min.
E. 642.80 ft. to place of beginning.
Area 18.020 A.
I.ittle Bloomfield Claim.
Beginning at Cor. 1, a fir post 3
ft. by 4 ins. square set 18
ins. in ground, scribed 1, L B, 1, No.
1-1200 with earth mound 24 Ins.
base 12 ins. high around same,
whence U. S. L. M. No. 1200 bears
N. 48 deg. 25 min. E. 2936.55 ft.
distant; thence S. 31 deg. 4 6 min.
E. 326.60 ft. to Cor. 2, identical
with Cor. 1 Eureka claim previous
ly described; thence S. 68 deg. 16
min. W. 642.80 ft. to Cor. 3, iden
tical with Cor. 4 Eureka claim;
thence N. 26 deg. 56 min. W. 267
tt. to cor. 4; thence N. 52 deg. 42
min. E. 623 ft. to place of begin
ling. Area 4.288 A. j
No. One Dixon Creek.
Beginning at Cor. 1, identical j
with Cor. 1 Little Bloomfield prevl- j
Dusly described; U. S. L. M. No.
1200 having identical bearings; j
ihence S. 52 deg. 42 min. W. 623 ft. I
to Cor 2, identical with Cor. 4 L B j
daim; thence N. 33 deg. 28 min. W. |
1330 ft. to Cor 3; thence N. 55 j
leg. 06 min. E. 583 ft. to Cor. 4; j
thence S. 35 deg. 07 min. E. j
1303.20 ft. to place of beginning.
Area 18.222 A.
No. One and One Half, Dixon. I
Beginning at Cor. 1. a limestone j
24x12x3 ins. in ground 12 ins. chis- i
pled 1, l’s. 1200 with mound 24 j
ins. base 16 ins high on east side, ■
whence U. S. L. M. No. 1200 b^ars J
N. 77 deg. 57.5 min. VV. 3064.57 ij
ft; thence S. 11 deg. 45 min. E. 24 8.4 j
ft. to Cor. 2. identical with Cor. 4 j
No. One claim; thence S. 65 deg. I j
06 \V. 583.80 ft. to Cor. 3. identical 11
with Cor. 3 No. One claim: thence !
N. 21 deg. OS min. W. 241.50 ft. to • i
Cor. 4; Ounce N. 55 deg. 40 min.
E. 624 ft. to place of beginning. '
Area 3.215 A. !
This claim embracing 6 contiguous ,
locations, area 6 4.491 a. is on un- ■
surveyed ground and situate on;
Dixon Creek and the CasadepagaI)
River about 20 miles west of the j
town of Council.
U. S. L. M. No. 1200 to which
Survey is tied is a limestone bluff.
about 100 ft. in elevation above the |
Casadepaga River and about 400 ft. j
west of the left bank, a cross x i
marking true point, whence Cor. 1 !
Mortimer Bar claim bears S. 22 j
deg. 42 min. W. 3345.30 ft.; a cross
x cut on limestone bedrock chiseled j
B R bears N. 51 deg. 40 min. E. 9.7 !
ft. distant;' a mountain peak bears,
N. 76 deg. 34 min. W. about 2 miles'
distant. Said monument is about j
1. 25 miles up Casadepaga River |
from mouth of Big Four Creek, and
in Lat. 64 deg. 54 min. N. Long.
164 deg. 11 min. 30 sec. W.
Adjoining claims on all sides are
unsurveyed and claimants unknown.
The notices of location, original and
amended are of record in the said
Council City Recording District as
follows:—Imperator Vol. 23 page
81; Mortimer Bar. Vol. 4. page 115;
Eureka (or Discovery i Vol. 2. page,
106; Vol. 16. page 17, Vol. 4, page j
119; Little Bloomfield Vol. 16. page
IS; Vol. 4, page 117; No. One. Vol.,
20, page 267; No. One and One j
Half Vol. 22. page 134.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., Feb. 27. 1917.
Date of last pub.. April 28, 1917.
No. 0313.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska. February 23. 1917.
Notice is hereby given, that J. E.
Bonnell. a citizen of the United
States, over the age of .twenty-one
years, whose post, office address is ,
Tacoma, Washington, by F. It. !
Cowden, his Attorney-in-fact whose |
post office address is Nome, Alaska,
has made application before the
United States Land Office at Nome.
Alaska, for a United States Patent
for the “Cross Bench Fraction” |
Placer Claim, on the left limit of
Cooper Gulch in the Cape Nome Re-;
! cording District, Alaska, Mineral
| Survey No. 1198, said claim being
; more particularly described in the
: field notes and plat of the official
! survey thereof now on file in said
Land Office at Nome, Alaska, as :
follows;
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, identical
with Cor. No. 2, Sur. No. 1189.
Rainy Day Placer, Cor. No. 5, Sur. i
No. 1175, No. 1 Lake Creek Placer
' and Cor. No. 2 Sur. No. 098, No. 2
Lake Creek Placer, a nr post, 4 ins.
, sq. 2 ft. above ground, in earth
mound, scribed,1-11S9 C F,, 2-1189
R D, 5-1175-1 L, 2-698, whence U.
| S. L. M. No. 11, bears S. 11 deg.
i 08 min. E. 0227.80 ft. thence N.
! O deg. 50 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 15
•min. E. 1013.00 to Cor. No. 2;
1 thence N. 67 deg. 53 min. W. Var.
! 19 deg. 10 min. E. 470.00 ft. to Cor.
j No. 3; thence S. 2 deg. 01 min. E.
1 Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 309.00 ft.
I to Cor. No. 4; thence S. 44 deg. 45
I min. W. Var. 18 deg. 15 min. E.
336.20 to Cor. No. 5; thence S. 45
deg. 17 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 00
min. E. 910.00 ft. to place of begin
ning. Containing an area of 10.060
acres, and is situated on unsurveyed
ground in the Cape Nome Recording
District, Alaska.
U. S. L. 55. No. 11. to which this
claim is tied, is a fir post, 6 ins.
sq. 5 ft. above ground, in stone
mound, 0 ft. base, 3 ft. high and
scribed U. S. L. M. No. 11. It Is
situate about 70 ft. East of what
is known as the Bessie Road and
about 3.5 miles Northeasterly from
Nome, in Lat. 04 deg. 32 min.
North, Long. 105 deg. 22 min’ West.
The original location Notice is re
corded in Vol. 105 Page 163, and
Amended Location in Vol. 165 Page
346, records of said district.
There are no conflicting claims.
The adjoining claims are, on the
North, unsurveyed, name and claim
ant unknown, on the East, Sur. No.
1189, Rainy Day Placer, Carl Wick,
claimant. On the South No. 2 Lake
Creek, Sur. No. 698, claimant un
known. On the West, Survey No.
1193 and unsurveyed claims, nameii
and claimants unknown.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date ot first publ., Feb. 24, 1917.
Date of last publ., April 25, 1917.
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