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MINERS AND PROSPECTORS
MISINFORMED BY WICKERSHAM
Told to Expend Money and Labor for Assessment
Work of Which They Have Been Ex
pressly Relieved by Congress
(By Charlc A. Derry)
I I If ~|>«• •• i It a I t' inlet a tile til li<• t
in 'll I it'r \V Vh ha la. in tinier I
make a cate against his I h'lmieralir
neculler,I i iteil that the law passed
I. \ ei in a re ■ a year ago. t'li pettsing
w it!* tin tieee .sily 11ig lining assess
ne at work on mining claims during
tile years 1 :• 17 ami IP Is. did nut apply
til Alaska, and that those who li tti
failed tn tie tills assessment work had
II. 11 their i 1 lints open to relocation,
or to lie "jumped." in other words,
lie laid the illume for this eomilf.
ell I telegale Slll/.cr \s lawyer. it"
advised claim holders to do tlieir ::s
e tmeiii a ei I. iii order to avoid
i*Fk of hi 'a ■ their claim:.. This per
t ion i ■ i, . ..li w . :; :. pproxil’i;: lely
as foil iv. s*
"'i’ll e miner.. and prospectors of
M. h In -I Inherit.g ntid *r ; n"
lie’ isinn ; hat tit ring I lie ' nr t" rio'l
tiley . ild Hut in i i ill i p-'l lei; to lie
tie ■ i 11.ia 1 . .sup.n; w ork on their
mininr claims Tiny gained this im
pre inn thrteiglt I lie pa age oi
hill by tip' national eongres:. suspend
IIP the operation 111 that section of
tile I'nited Stales mining law teiat
mg to annual a. sossmetti v • 1. dill
ing i la period of lh" wr T' *. t
tn.ill- snpp"sed that the suspension
of this section of the federal mining
law applied to Alaska a. .veil as the
I'niled Siaos proper. The I'nited
States mining laws do not apply to
Alaska, and hence tip. suspension of
any section thereof hy act of congress
does not apply to the milling laws of
Alaska. This requires a little further
eluridation In make it clear and to
show why the United States mining
laws do not apply to this territory
"When Frank Waskey. Alaska's
first delegate to congress from Alaska,
went to Washington, he thought he
had to secure a mining law especially
applicable to Alaska lie did secure
the passage of such an act. which
superseded the United States mining
laws so far as this territory was con
cerned. latter, at the first session of
the Alaska legislative assembly, an
other mining law was enacted.
Whether this territorial mining law
supersedes tile Waskey mining law
is a moot question. Hut tip* question
as to which mining law Alaska is *tn
der. as between the Waskey act and
the t' rritoria! net. is not under con
silient! inn now. The p iint I make is
that tin* suspension of the annual a«
se-si,,,mi work in* mining claims tip
tdie: to those located under the United
Stale's milling laws. The congress iliil
not suspend this section in the Whis
key act. and of course it did not sus- 1
pend this section in (he territorial act.
It remains for the territorial legisla
ture to perform that function if It so
elects Now. we are under e'ther the
Waskey act or the territorial act. and
they differ in many respects. The na
tional congress has not suspended the
assessment section of the Waskey nr'
and the territorial legislature has not 1
suspended the assessment section In <
the territorial act So there you are.
Had he been on his Job it would have
been au easy matter for the acting
delegate, Mr Sulzer, to have had the
congress pass an act suspending the
assessment section of the Waskey
mining law. hut it Is quite apparent
that he gave the matter no thought
whatever.
"I point tills matter out to miners
and prospectors merely for their pro
tection. If they possess valuable
holdings I advise them, as a lawyer,
that if they wish to protect them they
must do the annual assessment work
as usual, or they will awake some tim ■
to find themselves Involved in expen
sive litigation, should the claims be
come relocated."
Willfully Misleading Miners
Now I dislike very much to take
issue with Judge Wickersham on a
matter of legal interpretation, tie
cn 11 se he is a lawyer, and I am not.
And I would not presume to do so in
this Instance were 1 convinced tliai
he meant what he said But I am not
so convinced. In fact, what I am con
vinced of is that Mr. Wickersham is 1
willfully misleading the claim-owners j
of Alaska into doing many thousands
of dollars’ worth of unnecessary as
sessment work on their claims merely j
for the sake of making a ease against !
his opponent. The hardships and ex
pense to the miners and prospectors
involved count .as nothing against the
political juggling of this "friend of
Alaska."
When the law was passed, a year
ago, there was much telegraphing be
tween Alaska and Washington to learn
In tli* r tl « exemption applied to
' 1 k 11 as learned t hat it did.
I *’ -sheds of men weiif outside the
<• Miin firm in the belief that their
rights had been protected. And they
■ i i lit Wickersham says "The
i'i i - d Static mining laws do not up
• !y tn Ma-ka. and hence the suspen
.iii *u any section thereof by act of
congress does not apply to the mining
laws el Alaska."
Positive Proof of Falsehood
For t!i< truth or falsify of thi - a
• •lion read Section HIP of the Coni*
" ] 1 Laws of Alaska, as follow
• The laws of the United States
i c i: • ‘ i s, t c mining cl “‘ms. min
e -1 Iccations. and rights inci
ocm iccrets are hereby extended
the district of Alaska."
* i T»ot Tioeessary to tate that a«l>
i I d b> etlliaress takes pl’e. «•
, .. . \. ••! i itoria 1 acts " In-re they
< • Whether the terri'ori 1 min
in la - upc ede ! he V. a: k'-y . ct
• . .. .| :.1 sti• ei. - h" - ate :
• , i • ’,• ' tin L ; d S‘ *
i • I. : V \ !’ e:i . In I- 1
I . ,, S', ‘ < - ' oi,e i • s • is not a in*- t
. . • i :i And th. t am» :i ’re'll pr -
\ ides tor the exemption of mi:ii:i ;
< lainis from the annual a < sment
provision.
Wick Encouraging Claim-Jumpers
Hut granting for the .ke ot argu
ment. and in deference to the legal
standing ol Judge Wickersham. that
there is truth in his assertion, and
that through a quibble or a technical
ity it should he held that the act did
not apply to Alaska- which is. of
course, absurd does Judge Wicket
sbam believe that there is a man
alive, who would dare to "jump" an
other’s claim, for which the required
affidavit had been filed, merely on his
statement that it could be done? 1
imagine that Alaska, which •contains
more than half a million square miles
of territory, would be scarcely big
enough to hold such a being.
And Judge Wickersham, for politi
cal advantage, advises the thousands
of Maska miners and prospectors that
they must go to unnecessary expense
and troubb*, not to speak of the anx
iei \ caused, because he desires to put
Ids opponent "in a hole " And this
man announces that he is a "friend**
of Ma Ua and asks the suffrage of its
citizens to elect him to office.
A Despicable Act
Hon* i one of the most despicable
nets of Wiekersham's career After
holding office in the territory for
almost a score of years, he rewards
hi: benefactors and supporters by
endeavoring to cause them unneces
sai.v expense and greater anxiety
merely that he may discredit the man
who has the temerity to oppose him
for a position which he has come to
regard as his own peculiar preroga
live He told his audience that he
would receive his salary for the past
two years as though he had served as
delegate. And yet he sat idly by and
;-llowed his former constituents to be
deceived and cheated.
Hut no alarm should he felt as to
tills advice of Wiekersham's. Alas
kans know him so well now that prob
;.l ly not one man in a hundred will
believe him And to the hundredth
mail it can he said that there* is ab
solutely no truth in the* cx delegate's
content ion.
TO CARE FOR
ALASKA PACK
ANCHORAGE. Oct 10. Fish pack
ers on Cook Inlet In the vicinity of
Anchorage are encountering difficulty
in obtaining cargo space for ship
ments from Anchorage to the States.
A steamship recently refused to take
aboard 7,500 cases of canned salmon
that had been brought from a cannery
at Kenai to Anchorage for shipment
to Seattle. The vessel, before reach
ing Cook Inlet on her way north, had
contracted with canneries for all her
cargo space for the southbound voy
age of the craft, so she was unable to
accept the Anchorage fish for ship
ment.
MAYOR OF
SHOT IN FIGHT
NOGALKS. Son.. Oct 1<> Kighteen
newly made graves, flower covered
and cross guarded, in the municipal
ter. were silent proof of the
skirmish which occurred on the bor
der here recently.
The little municipal cemetery is on
the crest of a hill overlooking the
border and the American town op
posite. It is reached by way of u
narrow canyon along which an auto
mobile has difficulty in traveling. At
the foot of the cemetery hill steps
hewn from the solid rock lead to the
entrance of the burying ground. Up
these winding steps the caskets of
tin* victims of the shooting were car
ried on shoulders of men.
One of the graves is that of the
1 mayor of Nogales. Sonora, who was
killed during the fighting. Another
grave is that of a three-vear-old baby
killed by a stray bullet. One grave
was dug but not used As the muni
cipal cemetery is tin* civilian burv
i ing ground, a number of Mexican sol
diers killed during tin* lighting were
buried on the sides of tin* hills near
where they fell.
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Utah Woman Is
Able to Handle
101 Acres Land
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FILLMORE. Utah. Oct 10. Women
have demonstrated It) numerous in
stances their ability to handle the
[ work of men. but the residents of
Meadow, near here, are boasting of
| the exploits of Miss Melba Scott, who
j is doing every bit of work formerly
done by her brother, who is In the
| army Miss Scott is taking care of
| a tract of 100 acres anil doing it nil
alone Resides handling the tract all
j spring and summer. Miss Scott has
just completed the plowing of the en
tire 100 acres. She handles eight
horses in a manner that would do
credit to any old-time stage driver.
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Sec. 21. Election laiws. That in any precinct where the election
has been legally called and no official ballots have been received tin*
voters are permitted to write or print their ballots, but the judges of
election shall. In this event, certify to the facts which prevented the
list* of the official ballots, which certificate must accompany and h»*
made a part of the election returns.
SAMPLE BALLOT
THIRD JUDICIAL DIVISION
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MARK "X” IN THE SQUARE AT THE LEFT OF THE NAME
OF THE CANDIDATE FOR WHOM YOU DESIRE TO VOTE. IF
NAMES OF CANDIDATES FOR WHOM YOU DESIRE TO VOTE
DO NOT APPEAR ON THE BALUIT, INSERT WITH PENCIL IN
BLANK SPACES.
For Delegate to Congress (Vote for one.)
0 JAMES WICKERSHAM
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For Territorial Senator (Vote for one )
H| J.W. WARD
For Territorial Ueiireapntativo (Vote for four. >
0 HENRY SLATER
(xj JOSEPH H. MURRAY
0 JOSEPH L. REED
[x] J. LINDLEY GREEN
For Road Commissioner (Vote (or one.)
0 I JAMES L. GALEN
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WHEN YOU VOTE FOR THE ABOVE CANDIDATES YOU
WILL BE VOTING FOR THE BEST INTERESTS
OF ALASKA
ELECTION NOVEMBER 5th, 1918
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