Tanana Autocrat Has The
Fairbanks People Buffaloed
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NOME, August 19.—“Judge Wicker
sham, of the Third judicial division of
Alaska, has the people of Fairbanks
‘buffaloed," said Levin Carlson of that
place yesterday. “They are afraid to
express their opinion on any matter ap
pertaining to judicial affairs, but they
utter curses, not loud, but deep. Judge
Wickersham is esteemed a tyrant and
an autocrat by a big majority of the
people. Of course he has his hench
men and retainers, who shout praises,
if they think he will hear them, but who
are significantly silent at all other times.
“His decisions on town lots and other
questions have been peculiar. He owns
considerable valuable town property,
including tne Horseshoe saloon, and he
is besides the holder of mining proper
ty and water rights on various creeks.
‘'Recently he tried a town lot case in
which I was interested. I had bought
the excess or fraction of a town lot as
prescribed by a miner's meeting prior
to the incorporation of Fairbanks. The
^ judge was interested in a-case identi
cal to ttiat' of the party who was oppos
ing my title. He knew it, the people
knew it and the jury knew it, Yet he
withheld the case from the jury regard
ing the title, leaving them only to
assess damages. They assessed dam
ages in the sum of $50, and after the
case Was over one of the jurors said to
me: ‘We had to impose damages; we
didn’t dare to do anything else accord
ing to the instructions from the bench,
but I guess the boys are willing to pay
the damages assessed against you out
of their own pockets, I know I am will
ing to pay my share, for we saw very
well that it was an unfair decision. ’
“A story is told about Judge Wick
ersham which I know to be true, for I
knaw the man who told it, but I might
be unable to prove it, because he is out
in the hills prospecting, to the effect
that while he was staking the excess
of a lot owned by Wickersham in Fair
banks, the judge came along and caught
him in the act.
“ ‘What are you doing there?" he
shouted. The staker completely scar
ed, stammered, ‘I am staking this frac
'" tion for you, for fear you should lose it. ’
Wickersham, of course, remained in un
disputed possession of a lot that under
the law did not belong to him. ’’-Nugget.
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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
under the 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 4112 17th
street, San Francisco, Cal., as assignee of Anna
Snevely, widow of John Snevely, has made appli
cation for patent t£ the following described tract
of land, to wit:
Beginning at a point identical with Corner Ne. 6
of the original Eagle City Townsite Surrey 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 81.04
chs to Cor. No. 2. where is set a large stone scribed
Sur. 351, Cor. No. 2, thence N. 86 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. 8.
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. 351,
Cor. No. 4, whence the southeast comer of the
original Eagle City Townsite [situatedon the brink
of the left ban k 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. W. along the
south line of Adams St. 10.60 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 te 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 tho
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, May £7. 1905.