V
A LEGAL TANGLE:
SQUAWS NOW WHITE
* Commissioner J. Lindley Green In
structs Jury That Squaw Prosti
tute Is Same As Decent White.
In 1903 Commissioner J. Lindley
Green issued a warrant of • arrest on
complaint charging Thomas O’Leary
" with violating the law in giving liquor
to one Maria, an Indian women. At
this trial witnesses testified under oath
•t. that. the said. Maria was a married
woman, having been legally married to
Joe Carroll, a white man, at Ft. Yukon
several years ago, and had never been
divorced.
^ On April 3Q, 1905, a week ago, Com
missioner J. Lindley Green issued a
warrant of arrest on complaint charg
ing S. R. Hudson with violating the
0 law in giving liquor to • one Maria, an
Indian woman, and the same woman
mentioned above. At this trial wit
nesses testified under oath that Maria
was married to Joe Carroll at Ft. Yu
kon, several years ago. Commissioner
Lindley Green instructed the jury in
'this case: “That if an Indian woman
was married to a male citizen, she also
became a citizen, and became entitled
to all the political and civil rights and
-v privileges of a white woman, and it was
therefore no violation of th6 law to give
such Indian women whiskey.”
Commissioner J. Lindley Green be
came officially aware in 1903 that this
Indian woman Maria was married to a
whitemau, an x having been personally
acquainted with her ever since, why
§ did he afterwards issue a warrant of
arrest on complaint charging Hudson
with the commission of a crime in giv
- ing Maria liquor—and himself holding
at the time that it was no violation of
the law to give her liquor.
The jury rendered a verdict of not
^ guilty. The commissioner’s fees in this
case, which the government must pay
to him, amounts to over $25—not in
cluding other expenses to the govern
ment. Judge Wickershain has render
ed an opinion that all Indians from the
mouth of Copper river to the Aleutian
Islands are American citizens. Other
district judges of Alaska have' not 'so
classed the Indians in their judicial
divisions.
Yukon broke 9:30 a. m. May 11, 1904.
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United states^and 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.
1898, extending the same to the District of Alaska,
authorizing the acquisition of title through the ex
ercise of Soldier's Additional Homestead rights.
James E. Snevely, whose address is 130 Valentis
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. 2 bear
N. 23 deg. 10 min. W. 13.44 chs. the N. 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 seta large stone scnoea cmr. soi, uor. rso. 3,
thence N. 60 deg. 04 min. W, 44.66 chs. to intersec
tion of the south line of Adams St. where is set a
large stone scribed Sur. No. 361, 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. W. along 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 7he
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 foregoing notice be
published for the statutory period in the Alaska
Forum, a weekly newspaper published at Ram
part, Alaska. John W. Dudley,
Register.
Date of first publication, April 22,1965.
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