United States District Court.
district of alaska.
In the matter
of the proceedings to define, locate and fix
the boundaries of the secer.il judicial dis
tricts of the district of Alaska,
On this 30th day of June, v. i>. igoo, pursu
ant to tlie provisions of an act of Congres eu
luled “An Act making farmer provisions for a
civil governmcat tor \Liski, a id tor other
p.irpO'e-'.” approval June odi a. d. moo, lion.
.Arthur 1! Noyes, j udge ol the Second Judicial
District a.id lion james W icKersham , j ndge of
tne fund judicial District, of the District of
Alaska, met for tne p irpom of dividing tne Dis
U iv't ol A la •> Ka into mice recording divisions,
and designating the division of the ConrL to
supervise eaon, and to define the honndaries
thereof Hv piovided in Section 1,5 oil page 0 of
said Act. and after d ie eon adoration and delib
eration, .men division s and the houndnrle > there
of weie lived and deovmiued upon as follows;—
file Second j udiei d District of trie District
of Alaska sliall eon sist of ail that territory lying
west ol that ceiaaia line described as follows.
Commencing at tne mouth of the Colville River
on me noitn coast of me pi-unct of Alaska,
thence f>ito,ving the Colville River south and
west to a point where sa.d river crosses the one
hundred and iifty-fiflh meritlian line the second
tune: thence following tne one hnndredand fif
ty-tilth meridian line so itii and west to the
moatn of tlie SooukaKat River, where said S0011
kakat River empties into tile Vukon River;
thence in a soum and easterly direction to the
westerly side 01 .Mount McKinley; thence in a
so ithaesterly directioii around the headwaters
of me K ustvok vim Ri ver to the nortn wc.Acriy
end of bake Clark; thence down bake Clark and
Xogheling River to Jiaiuna bake; thence south
erly across bike llianiiia to ivakiionak; thence
ill a direct line tnrough tliecenter of ine Alaskan
Peninsula to the Straits of Isanotski; thence in
a southwesterly'direction embracing within tile
Second judicial District all the Aleutian islands.
Ketercncc 1 s uere nr nil to nut certain
map of Alaska hereto attached and made a part
of this order o.i whu'h map is dravvn a doable
red line separating tile second and Third jud
icial Districts of Ine ursine;. of Alaska, as near
ly as possible confonmng to the natural objects
and permanent land mark s heretofore reiered to.
idle . irst and rnird judicial Districts of the
District of Alaska shall consist ofsueh territory,
and be separated by such divisions and lines
snail iiereaiter be nxcd and determined upon by j
tne Hon.Melville t \ JU own ,j udge of first Judicial
District, and the lion. Janies Wiekei sham, judge
ol tne rnird judicial District of said District of
.tiaska. not included within the Second judicial
Di Urict as heretofore Described.
The subdivisions of.uiui District of Alaska
and tne boundaries of said judicial Districts
may he subsequently altered, enabled or modi
fied 1.1 the following manner:—
fiidt any part ol any district may be detach- !
ed from tne same and added to au_> other dis
trict, whenever m the j udgmeut of me . udges of
said districts so altered or changed,tne .>ame shall
be deemed advisable, aiulsucii cnangeor altera
tion snail be agreed upon writing between the
J udges oftiie judicial districts so aiiected, and
such cnange or alteration shall be published and
promulgated as provided tor in section 13, oil
page o of said .let.
t ins oruer snail lie executed i:i triplicate and
recorded in the minutes of the several District
Court * of said District of Alaska.
W. i'nkss tiie signature of the Honorable
Judges of the Several District Courts of said Dis
liK'iot Alaska this 30th day of June, a.d. 1900
i >1 .na-.o j Ai. C. Brown.
judge of the first judicial Dis.
f Signed j Arthur tl. Noyes.
Judge ot the Second judicial Dis.
| Signed | James Wickersham.
Judge ol the fund judicial Dis
In Tine United States district court
DISTRICT of ALASKA.
In the matter
ot the proceedings to define,locite and fix the
boundaries of the several judicial divisions
of the district of Alaska.
Ou this sixth day of July A. I), nineteen
hundred p irsuai t to the provisions of an act of
c ingress er titled “Ati act making farther provi- !
sio 1 for a civil government for Alaska a:id for
other purpoies”, approved June 6th, 1900, the |
Hoa.AI. C. brown, judge of the first judicial di
vision, and the Hon. .fames Wickersham , judge j
oftlie third judicial division, of the dtsti ict of
Alaska,met at Skagvvav in the district of Alaska
for the purpose of dividing the district of Alaska
into three recording divisions, to designate the j
divisions of the court to he supervised by each,
and to define the boundaries there of as provid- .
ed in section thirteen ofsaidact, And after due
consideration and deliberation the following
boundaries were fixed and determined upon to
wit: - ,
The order heretofore and on the thirtieth
day of dune, moo, made ami signed bv the Hon.
Arthur H. Noye s, j udge oi the second division of
said district id Alaska, and the Hon. dames
Wickersham judge of the third division of said
district, fixing me boundary line between tne
second and third divisions is in all things here
by approved and con tinned;
'1'he line di viding t he tirst and third divisions
of.the said district is fixed as follows, to-wit:
beginning on the line fixed in the order of J tine
30, lyoo, ami signed by tile judges oftlie district
court of Alaska, Where me same crosses Mi.Me
ls, in ley near the headwaters «.f the Sliushitna
River, the line shall run thence Ka->tward along
the divide bd.atn the headwaters of the said
Sliushitna and banana Rivers, and tlienee Jyasi.
vvard along the divide between t he headwaters
of the Copper River and the said Tanana River,
and thence So itherlv along the divide between
the river s running westw ardly into tiie Copper
River and other rivers running eastwardly
into the Yukon River, and thence Southward
along said di ride to Mt. St. Hlias, and tiience
following the national boundary line of South
eastern Ala. ka between the british and Amen
can Territories to Dixon Knlrauce.
Ami ll 1 s hereby ordered that all that por
tion of the di Uriel of Alaska lying South and
West of t lie above described line and all that por
tion of the district of Alaska lying South and
Hast of the line fixed in the order of J une thirti- I
etli aforesaid and being South of Ml. McKinley,
the initial point above named, shall constitute
the first judicial division of the district of
Alaska.
Aud it further ordered that all that por
tion of the district of Alaska lying North and
Hast of the watersheds of the said Shush itna
and Copper Rivers as above described, and ly
ing west of the boundary line between the dis
trict of Alaska and the Yukon territory and ly
ing Hast of the line running Northerly from Nit.
McKinley, and hxed by the order of June thirti
eth aforesaid, shall constitute the third division
of the district of Alaska.
It is further ordered that all that portion of
the district of Alaska lying 'Vest of the line fix
ed ia the order of June thirtieth aforesaid and
including all of the Aleutian Islands lyingtothe
Westwaid of Osatiotski Straits shall constitute
the second division of the district of Alaska.
It is further ordered that as soon as it
shall be ascertained that a convenient wav
exists of reaching Valdez and the mouth
of the Copper River country from Kagle
City so that the public business may be
more economically managed from the
court at Eagle City that a rearrangement
shall be made whereby the said Copper
River country may be placed in the third
division of said district.
It is turther ordered that this order
be attached to the order of June 30, 1900,
and the map attached to that order, and
that this order and the said order of June
30, 1900, and the said map,shall constitute
one order, and that said map shall be re
ferred to for a more particular indication
of said lines and that both of the said or
ders shall be recorded at large in the re
cords of each division of said court, and
that the map attached to the same shall j
be safely filed with the said orders and
retained for reference with the clerks of
each division.
This order shall be executed in trip
licate and and a copy forwarded to the
clerk of each court.
Witness the signatures of the Hon
orable Judges of the several divisions of
1
the said district of Alaska this 6th day of
July, a. D. /<;oo.
| Signed | M. C. Brown*
Judge of tile First Division.
Signed I Janies Wickersham.
Judge ofthe Third Division.
United States
District of Alaska, ss:
1, Albert R. Heilig, Cl *rk
of the District Court ofthe United States
for the District of Alaska, Third Division
hereby certify that the foregoing orders
are true and correct copies of the orders
of the Judges ofthe District Court of the
United States for the D.strict of Alaska,
defining, locating and lixingthe bounda
ries ol the several judicial d. visions of l iie
District of Alaska, [not including ho.v
ever the map attached to the or.gmal or
ders, ] as the same are of record and re
main oil file in my office.
In testimony where of I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of sa.d
court lliis sixth dav of December, Kgoo.
| SKA I,
Albert R. Heilig,
Clerk of said Court.
jan d’d 31 .fd> 7,11,21.2s
I'nited States of America.
I'ii ited States Di st rict Court. i>i stri jt of
A laska, Third Ti\ ision.
r,mu ; vi. son :*rcr,
Plain li ;t
VS.
Louis Koepcke,
WilliamV.Somerv’ille, j
P. King and
D. Donovan,
Defendants. I
vSniniiH 11s
tor
Publication.
The President oi the United St iles of Amer
ica, Greeting:
To tilt* above named defendants:
You are hereby required to appear i.i the railed
States District Court, in and for the Di Uriel
of Alaska, Third Division, within thirl /
days after the completion of the period
of the publication of this sum mo.i »,
to-wit: within thirty days alter the Ibui
teentn day of February, 1001, and answer the
complaint of the above named plaintiff; and un
less you so appear and ansu er, the plaintiff u ill
apply to the Court for the relief demanded in
said complaint, to-wit: to quiet and confirm in
the plaintiff the title of a part of placer mining
claim known as No. 7 above lower discovery,
jack Wade creek,-Alaska, and to grant him a
perpetual injunction 111 respect of said
property as against defendants. The date
of the order by the above named Court for ser
vice by publication is November 15th., moo.
WIl'NKSS the H011. James Wiekei sham,
judge of said Court, this fifteenth day of Nov
ember, in the year of our Cord one thousand
nine hundred and of our independence tlie
one hundred and tvventyfifth. Albert R.lieilig,
George K. French, Clerk.
Attorney for Plain tiff.
[SEAL,]
J a:i .3,10,17,21,31 ,feb,7,14.
Geo. Emmett, io Hunter, would
like all Hunter and Dawson creek
miners, and any others who may
be interested, to help him build a
bridge at the crossing. He is will
ing to give two mens labor toward
the completion ot such a bridge.
J. Duncan and H Wobber, ac
companied Stewart Menzies and «
party, up river,Saturday last. Dun
can aud Wobber will go as for as
Dali River; they expect to be gone
a week or ten days.