JUDGE WICKERSHAM
ADMITS CHARGE
Mining Claims Staked Personally By
Him—Without Discovery—Open
‘Through His Own Decision
A very important decision was ren
dered by Judge Wickersham last week.
An injunction was asked for by Redden
A Dempsey to keep Harlan et al from
prospecting. The plaintiffs located 8
and 9b on Cripple creek on June 19, '04
On May 10, 1906 defendants located the
same ground. On the aqme day the
plaintiffs began to sink. The. day fol
lowing the defendants began to work.
On May 16, before either party had
struck bedrock, plaintiffs brought suit
basing their rights upon their location
of June 19, 1904.
The court said in part: 4 ‘Plaintiffs
do not show why they did not make a
discovery during the eleven months pro
ceeding the location of the defendants.
A discovery is necessary to the validity
of a placer claim. If the act of discov
ery follows the acts of staking and re
cording, the validity and life of the
claim begins only with the discovery.
44In the case at bar there is yet no
valid placer mining location by virtue
of the acts performed by either plain
tiff or defendant. Plaintiff's appeal to
the court to hold defendants' hands
'
while they sink their discovery shaft.
This appeal comes with little force
from -a locator who has had eleven
months to comply with the law.
“The application for am injunction is
denied!’’—Times.
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Rex Beach On Nome Grafters
s,
Rex E. Beach,. at one time mining in
Rampart and later at Nome, is gaining
fame as a writer of short stories for
the magazines is about to undertake to
write a series of .articles to be publish
ed In McClure’s giving the inside his
tory of the remarkable conspirators
to appropriate to themselves the rich
est mining claims on Anvil creek in the
Nome district. Mr. Beach has been
securing data for his articles for some
time, and the story promises to be sen
" national, inasmuch as it will implicate
tin the conspiracy the names of a num
ber of men of national reputation and
^notoriety.
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one of Seattle's most prominent law
yers and pioneers, died this morning.
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The Forum is The Miners' Paper
United states land office
Juneau. Alaska. May 26.1904.
Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance of and
underthe provisions of the general homestead laws
and the special Act of Congress approved May 14.
1896. extending the same to the District of Alaska,
authorizing the acquisition of title through the ex*
excise of Soldier’s Additional Homestead rights.
James E. Snevely, whose address is 4117 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 Townsite Survey where
is set a large Mica Schist Stone scribed Sur. No.
351. Cor. No. 1. whence U. S. I. M. Eagle No. Z bear
N. 23 deg. 10 min. W. 13.44 chs. the K. A; T. & T.
Co’s. Store bears N. 39 deg. 00 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 in terser
tion of the south line of Adams St. where is set a
large stone scribed Sur. No. 351, Cor. No. 4( whence
Cor. No. 7 of the original Eagle City Townsite
[situated on the brink of the left bank of the Yu
kon river] bears north N. 40 deg. 41 min. E.:10 chs
thence S. 40 deg. 41 min. V/. a-ong and identical
with the south side of Adams St. 10.60 chs. to Cor.
No. 1, 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 Ad
ditional homestead 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. Jdhn W. Dudley*
Register.
It is hereby ordered that the foregoing notice be
published for the statutory period in the Alaska
Forxjm. a weekly newspaper published at Ram
part, Alaska. John W. Dudley,
Date of first publication. May 26. 1905.