Judge Wickersham Pieads
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, The Infant’s Defense
How Our “Learned Jurist” Answers
The “Grand Old Man’s” Charges.
WASHINGTON, August 4.-The
secretary of the Interior has re
•; eeiyed a letter from Judge Jas.
Wickersham, of the Third judicial div
ision of Alaska, arraigning Gov. J. G.
Brady, of Alaska, for his criticism of
himself in the governor’s annual re
port, , The Alaskan jurist says the
governor attacked him because he re
fused to appoint H. D. Reynolds to a
court commissionership. Reynolds is
the head, of the mining and develop
ment company which Gov. Brady has
endorsed in his official capacity. —Ex.
WHAT THE REPORT SAID
“ .... There is, really, no appeal
from a commissioner’s court to the dis
trict court, for the judge usually ap
points some particular protege, and he
feels bound to sustain his man. It is
noticed that the appointments to near
ly all the' places that pay best are fill
ed bJP^Q^ whaarc peculiarly edit
ed, abcSHIy or politically, to the judge.
The attorneys and their clients under
stand this any sad: “What is the use
of appeal?"
' , . .. .One commissioner m the Ka
yak district was not content to charge
the high, legal rate for recording, but
charged a flat rate of $5 for nearly
every kind of instrument. His extor
tion has amounted to thousands of dol
lars,'for the location of coal and oil
lands have been numerous. While this
official has been removed from the
commissionership, he has not been made
to disgorge the amount illegally taken,
and still more wonderful he has been
appointed assistant United States at
torney at that place.
“The boarding and working of Unit
ted States prisoners who have been
sentenced for crimes against the laws,
should have the earnest consideration
of the department of justice. ”
The Inspector of hulls and boilers has
condemned the boilers of the Lavelle
■ Young and Wilbur Crimmins.
K General Greeley favors the construc
' tion of a new telegraph line between
Fairbanks and Valdez, paralleling the
mail trail between those places.
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DR. C. H. WHARTON will remain
in Rampart until August 25.
Office at the Ballou cabin.
James B. Wingate
NOTARY PUBLIC
Forum Office Rampart
GEORGE A. SALISBURY
Attorney at Law
Rampart Alaska
Masonic Association of Rampart
Meets on the last Saturday evening of each
month. All Masons invited to attend.
J. H. Hudgin, M. D. Pres. J. B. Wingate, Sec.
Vuko Perovich, tried for the murder
of Jack Jaconi, was found guilty of
murder in the first degree, by a jury in
Fairbanks recently.
The Chena Times has changed hands,
and presents a vastly improved appear
ance. E. J. Hutmaeher; the editor, is
also the local undertaker and municipal
magistrate.
The Forum is The Miners* Paper
United STATES LAND OFFICE
Juneau, Alaska. May 26.1904.
Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance of and
under the provisions of the general homestead laws
| and the special Act of Congre ss approved May 14*
1898, extending the same to the District of Alaska,
authorizing the acquisition of title through the ex
| excise of Soldier’s Additional Homestead rights.
I James E. Snevely, whose address Is 4112 17th
street, San Francisco, Cal., as assignee of Anna
Snevely, widow of John Snevely, has made appli
cation for patent to the following described tract
of land, to wit:
Beginning at a point identical with Corner No. 6
of the original Eagle City Town site Survey where
is set a large Mica Schist Stone scribed Sur. No.
361, Cor. No. 1, whence U. S. I. M. Eagle No. 2 bear
N. 23 deg. 10 min. W. 13.44 chs. the N. A. T. 6 T.
Co's. Store hears N. 39 deg. GG min. E. 20.50 chains
thence S. 23 deg. 10 min. E. along a line identical
with the east line of the Pomeroy Homestead 31.04
chs to Cor. No. 2. where is set a large stone scribed
Sur. 351, Cor. No. 2. thence N. 66 deg. 47 min. E.
36.33 chs. to Cor. No. 3 about 4 chs. nearly due
south from the left bank of the Yukon river where
is set a large stone scribed Sur. 351, Cor. No. 3,
thence N. 60 deg. 04 min. W, 44.66 chs. to Cor. No.
4 at the intersection of the south line of Adams St.
where is set alarge stone scribed Sur. No. 851,
Cor. No. 4, whence the southeast corner of the
original Eagle City Townsite [situatedon the brink
of the left bank of the Yukon river, near the N. A.
T. & T. Co. store], bears north N. 40 deg. 41 min.
E. 10 chs.. thence S. 40 deg. 41 min. V/. along the
! south line of Adams St. 10.G0 chs. to Cor. No.l, the
point of beginning, containing 79.65 acres situated
near the town of Eagle, Alaska and known as U.
S. Survey No. 351 of the Soldier's Additional home
stead of James E. Snevely.
Any and all persons claiming adversely to The
above described tract of land, as surveyed, platted
and applied for, are hereby notified that unless
their adverse claims are duly filed, according to
law and the regulations thereunder, within the
time prescribed by law, with the Register of the
U. S. Land Office at Juneau in the District of Al
aska, they will be barred by virtue of the provis
ions of said laws. John W. Dudley,
_ . , Register.
It is hereby ordered that the foregc Ing notice be
published for the statutory period in the ALASKA
Forum, a weekly newspaper publisl ed at Ram
part, Alaska. John W. Dudley,
K „ Register.
Date of first publication. May 27.1905.