Penetentiary Offense
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NOME, December 10.—Judge Moore
of the district court, H. M. Hoyt, dis
trict attorney, and John H. Dunn, U.
i S. marshal, have joined in a recom
j mendation to the department of justice
that the present law regarding the giv
. ing and selling of intoxicating liquors
! to natives be repealed, and that a new
and more severe law be enacted for the
punishment of this crime. The officials
are all agreed that the present punish
ment does not fit the crime. The long
est possible sentence under the present
law is five months and twenty-nine
days’ confinement in the federal jail.
The recommendations of the officials is
that this crime be made a felony, pun
ishable by sentence to the penetentiary
at McNeill’s island.
A telegram has been forwarded to
Attorney general Moody containing
this recommendatipn. — nugget.
The Newspaper Hog
An exchange thus pointedly attacks
the man who borrows instead of buying
his newspaper: “Say, dear reader,
this may be your neighbor’s paper you
are reading. Perhaps you are accus
tomed to read your neighbor’s paper
week after week, instead oi‘ subscribing
for one of your own. Some editors
would ’roast’ you for that, but if the
good judge of reading matter, who or
ders and pays for this paper, is willing
that you should ‘hog’ your information
out of his bin, we are not going to ob
ject. But has it ever occurred to you
that this good neighbor ot yours would
get a much better paper if it were not
for such as you, who absorb our pro
duct without making any returns there
for?”
Hale Williams returned with Dave
McQuesten. He will go prospecting.
Cy Noble left for Fairbanks Wednes
day morning. He took another large
consignment of hardware and nails.
Thronson, Gill, & Drake on Slate
creek broke the piston head of their
hoist which delayed operations some
what. Should the weather grow cold
• er they will be able to return to the
pay in the creek channel, from which
tiiey were driven by water a few weeks
ago. —
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NOTHING IN A NAME
- A notice in the Record-Miner signed
by some woman, addressed to Attorney
Barnes, warning him not to use the
name of her husband again in any news
paper again, calls up the fact there arc
many people who really believe their
names can be spoken or written only
when they are willing. There are men
women who would give a-million dollars
if this were only the law; but such is
not the law, and never will be.
A name is given a person, not for his
own use, but for the use of his friends,
and also his enemies. It is no more
yours than the tracks you make in the
snow are yours. To say that' another
cannot use your name, is just as fool
ish as to say that no one can step in
the same places you do on the sidewalk
—because those are your tracks. Your
name is just as public as the sidewalk
is. The law, in referring to a person’s
“good name,” does not refer to your
cognomen, but to your character or
reputation.
If one uses your name, or number,
by which you are designated from others
in such a way that the * ‘good name”
which you have built up by living a vir
tuous and righteous life, is injured,
then the law provides redress. You
have no individual remedy other than
the; meat-axe, and that is usually dis
astrous. Any threats to use violence
for the use of your name in any manner
not prohibited by the law, subjects you
to imprisonment, unless you give bonds
to keep the peace. — juneau transcript
C. H. GIBBONS. M. D.
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office Hours: 1 to 5 p. m. and when not otherwise engaged
Office and Residence, Second Avenue
James B. Wingate
NOTARY PUBLIC
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Forum Office Rampart
GEORGE A. SALISBURY
Attorney at Law
Rampart Alaska
Masonic Association of Rampart
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Meets on the last Saturday evening of each
month. All Masons invited to attend.
J. H- Hudgifi, M. D. Pres. J.' B, Wingate, Sec.
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WE FROGHT
Regular Trips to Glen and
Sourrounding Creeks Twice
a Week
TEAMING & JOBBING
One Team Always in Town
Cord Wood Sold and De
t. livered in Any Quantity
Jim McHugh Frank Smith
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To Mark C. Burns: You are hereby notified that
I have expended $800 in labor and improvement*
! upon placer mining: claims No. 4 and 5 below dis
covery claim on Ruby creek, Rampart recording
district, District of Alaska; as will appear by cer
tificate filed Aug. 16,1904 in the office of the Re
corder of the Rampart precinct in order to bold
said premises under the provisions of section ?I24
Revised Statutes of the United States, being the
amount required to hold same for the years It CO,
1901, 1902,1903, and if within ninety days from the
first publication of this notice you fail or refuse te
contribute your proportion of said expenditure as
a co-owner, year interest in said claims become*
the property of the subscriber under section 222t.
First publication Oct, 15. 1904 John C.Flug*
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To M. Nixon Kimball: You are hereby notified
that I have expended $400 in labor and improve
ments on placer mining: claim No. 28 above discov
ery claim on Little Minook Jr. creek. Rampart re
cording: district, District of Alaska, in order to
hold said premises under section 2324 revised stat
utes of the United States, being: the amount rcquir
ed Jo holdjiaid claim for the years 1901,1902, 190$,
and 1904, and if you fail or refuse to contribute
your proportion of said expenditure as a co-owner
within ninety days after the first publication of
this notice, your interest in said premises will be
come the property of the subscriber under said
section 2324.
First publication Oct. 29, 1994. Donald McLean
Walter Sundborg
FREIGHTER
Good* DELIVERED Anywhere
DRY WOOD FOR SALE
Leave orders a! MINERS STORE
Foxes are very plentiful this winter.
Every arrival from up or down river
reports seeing numbers of the animals
on the river. They are all of the red
or “cross” variety.
J. E. Stevenson, who has been pros
pecting with Ledger & Jack on Gunni
ron, came into camp Monday. He says
j that his two partners will be in camp
in about ten days.
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