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Cordova, April 8
Jack Dalton went out on the
Mariposa and will go back to Wash
ington, where he has some matters
to adjust in connection with his con
tract with the government to
freight 900 tons of Matanuska coal
from the mine to tidewater.
Mrs. W. H. Chase was an out
going passenger on the Mariposa
this morning. She will visit her
relatives in New York.
Cordova, April 9
Several days ago U. S. Marshal
Brenneman offered the appointment
of deputy marshal at Nushagak,
located on Bristol bay, to Tom
Price of Cordova. After consider
ing the tender Mr. Price today
decided that he did not care to re
move from this place and conse
quently declined the position. This
is the first instance on record during
the present administration of any
n.an having declined a federal
appointment when it was actually
offered him.
Sergeant W. B. Gilbert, formerly
located at Cordova but for the past
three months at Valdez, came over
from the latter town on the Mari
posa and will soon take charge of
the IT. S. cable office at this port.
He will succeed First Class Sergeant
Robert L. Patton, who has been
transferred to Seattle. Mr. Patton
has been connected with the Cor
dova office for the past four years
and has given universal satisfaction.
, Both he and his wife have a host
of friends who will sincerely regret
their departure on the steamer
Alameda next Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar J. Davis
entertained at dinner last night in
honor of the newly married couple,
Mr. and Mrs. Howard H. Fields.
Griff Ellis, who was injured at
Shushanna Junction by falling off
an engine, and who has been at the
Cordova hospital for a couple of
weeks, is again on the ...streets .in
good condition.
W. A. Baldwin, who -has heep the
efficient chief clerk at the Hotel
Windsor for several months pasi,
has resigned his position, effective
Saturday, and will leave on the
Sampson for Seward. He has secured
an interest in the Hotel Seward and
will look after the active manage
ment of that house. Mrs. Baldwin
and daughter will remain in Cor
dova for a time.
k Cordova, April 10
When the train went out yester
day a slide was encountered at Mile
100. Gangs of men were immedi
ately put to work and in the early
morning the slide was cleared up
and the train was enabled to get
through, reaching Chitina at 5:40
this morning. As the law requires
that the erew must have ten hours
rest it was impossible to bring a
train back today. The train will
leave Chitina tomorrow morning and
reach Cordova early in the after
noon.
Fred Rayer, who has been' con
nected with the dining room of the
Hotel Windsor, has been named as
ajprk for the hotel, succeeding W. A.
Baldwin, who leaves for Seward
tomorrow.
The steamer Admiral Sampson
arrived in port this morning about
^ 9 o’clock and sailed before noon to
the westw-ard. She had a large num
ber of passengers leaving Seattle,
but the number reported leaving
for Cordova was the total for all
ports. The following were aboard
for this and neighboring ports:
For Cordova, from Seattle—W.
F. Welch, Wm. Fitzgerald, W. R
Julian and 5 second class. From
way ports—G. Kindland,. Fred
Olwon, C. E. Nelson, W. A. Lempke,
C. B. Hurt, Sophie Suomela, C.
Daniels, Steve Gust, Ernest Gust, J.
McSweeney, T. H. Fasher, P. <M
Pursal A. C Meagher and wife, and
8\ second class.
For Valdez from Seattle—W. W.
Foster, L. A. Foster, and wife, G. E.
H. Smith, Wm. Wiley, L. C. Larsen,
f. D. Westbrook, D. E. Kellogg, J
. Porter, Vance D. Stine, Edith
Moore, A. J. Windier, wife and
child, John Hazlett, John Miller, W.
W. West, Ernie Davis, R. L. Weaver,
B. F. Thompson and 30 second
class. Form way ports—W. Sim
mons and Nels McGunn.
For Seward—J. W. Kemp, B. k.
Paulsen, F. H. Doolittle, White
Doesbury, Antone Stander Sr., An
tone Stander, Jr., and wife, Minnie
. Kohler and 13 second class.
For Latouche—Geo. J. Hodge.
For Yakataga Beach—Kay Smith,
Geo. Sherwood, Vic Blodgett, Mrs.
iftc Blodgett, Miss M. Blodgett, R.
H. VanMilligan and 14 second class.
For Port Graham—25 second
class.
For Seldovia—Wm. Bowder, Geo.
Palmer, A. F. Sprague, P. J. Laplin,
Cap). Ck H. Williams and 1 second
claw. 1 - $ !cA
Mrs. Jas. Rockefeller came down
from Chitina this afternoon with
her two children and will spend a
few days at the Northern Hotel.
A cable was received this morning
by the Daily Alaskan stating that
Charles Jones had died at Seattle
last evening from tuberculosis. The
young man was formerly a resident
of Cordova and prior to his de
parture was engaged as electrician
at the moving picture house. He
was also employed at Valdez in the
same capacity.
Frank Townsend, who has been
placer mining on the Bremner river,
came to town on the afternoon
; train. He is at the Northern hotel.
Antone Stander, who made a big
stake in the early days of the
I Klondike ,is on the Sampson going
to Seward to look into the mining
possibilities of that section of the
country. He is accompanied by his
son Antone Jr., and the latter’s
wife.
Geo. K. Gilbert, formerly of Cor
dova, but who is now engaged in
business at Juneau, was a candidate
for council at Tuesday’s election. He
was on Emory Valentine's ticket
and was not one of the two who
were elected.
Cordova, April 11
Kay Smith, president of the White
River Mining Company, operating at
Yakataga beach, was a passenger on
the Sampson. He brought 12 men
and 25 tons of supplies with him,
all of which was landed at the beach
and extensive placer work will be
done this season.
The Alaska-Gastineaii Mining
Company is to erect a large steel
building at their Sheep Creep oper
ations. Thoimas McCurnan came up
to Juneau on the Sampson, and will
lofrlc after 'the erection of the build
ing. *He is the superintendent of
erection; for the Kansas City Struc
tural Steel Company.
• Jbhot. A.:' Hazelet and Jack Miller,
both of whom are largely interested
in -placer operations near Chisna, in
the Slate creek district, are pas
sengers on. the Sampson. They will
go through to Valdez to attend to
some business and return to Cor
dova on the steamer Alameda. From
here they will go over the railroad
to Chitina, and from there by trail
to the diggings, freighting in sup
plies for the season.
Cordova, April 13
This morning shortly after 8
o’clock the fire department was
summoned to the Burkhart flats
and soon extinguished a fire that
had not time to do much damage.
It started from a mattress in a room
on the second floor being pushed
close to a stove pipe that run up
from an apartment below'. When a
fire was built this morning the heat
from the pipe started a blaze that
might have proved serious had it
not been for the prompt response
and energetic work of the depart
ment.
This morning Judge Brown issued
an order for special terms of court
i to be held to the westward. Court
officials will leave from Valdez on
the revenue cutter Thetis the fore
part of August. Court will be held
as follows: Dillingham, August 10;
Unalaska, August 22 and 25; Unga,
August 26 and September 1; Kodiak,
August 29 and September 5. Grand
and petit jurors will be called. The
second dates have been indicated
providing there is delay and couit
cannot be held on the first dates
indicated.
The freighter Seward is on her
way to the north with 700 tons of
Nanaimo coal for Cordova and Val
dez as well as 100,000 feet of lum
ber, 100 tons of cement and ship
ments of powder and gasoline.
Cordova, April 14
The passengers who went out yes
terday on the train returned to town
this morning at 9 o’clock. By rea
son of a heay snow and a hurricane
that blew at the rate of 70 miles an
hour, the cut at Mile 33 filled in
and caught the train and rotary that
preceded it. Another rotary and a
train was sent out last night and
succeeded in pushing through to
near where the train was stalled.
The passengers were transferred
and were brought back after having
spent the night in the coaches. The
wind had not gone down this after
noon and until it does nothing can
be done toward clearing the drift
ing snow. It is not now liaely that
a train will again go out before
Thursday. There are seven passen
gers for Fairbanks and a few for
the Nelchina and the Shushanna.
POSITION' AS COOK
Strong woman wants place to do
cooking in road house or mining
camp. Good cook. Address P. O.
Box 332, Cordova.
The Cordova term of the district
court is about at an end, althougn
formal adjournment will not be
taken until Wednesday, as there are
a few motions and incidental mat
ters yet to be disposed of. This
morning a number of orders were
entered concerning the mining cases
that have been at issue. This after
noon the jurors were all discharged
and received their fees from the
marshal’s office.
Court was called for March 3rd,
at Cordova and has been continu
ously in session since then, except
for a ten-day recess awaiting the
arrival of certain witnesses re
quired by both parties.
There were sixteen Shushanna
cases on the calendar. The de
fendants in ail these cases were the
original locators of the ground. The
plaintiffs were those who had made
later locations, claiming the first
locations to be invalid for various
reasons. Twelve of the disputed
locations were made by power of
attorney, and it was claimed that
these were invalid because the
power of attorney had not been re
corded prior to staking the ground.
The defendants were mostly pio
neers in the White River region,
some of them having been there for
12 years, but all of them operated
from Dawson and White Horse as
their base of supplies. They were
in the Shushanna before the arrival
of H. E. Morgan, whom Judge
Overfield appointed last May as the
recorder of the new White River
precinct.
The three most important law
questions were all decided by Judge
Brown favorably to the defendants.
Every verdict rendered by the jury
was also in favor of the defendant.
It was thus again demonstrated that
the first locator of a mining claim
has every advantage in court. Tile
second locator rarely triumphs
where the good faith of the first
locator is shown in a reasonable
effort to comply with the law.
The three important law proposi
tions decided by Judge Brown were,
first, that the power of attorney
need not be recorded under the
Wickersham act prior to staking,
but that the location is valid if the
power of attorney be recorded and
all the acts of location completed
before the rights of the seconl
locator intervene.
secondly, In the particular case
of Woodman vs. Erikson, the powe»
of attorney from Erikson, the first
locator, was not recorded in the
White River precinct until aftei
Woodman had staked the ground,
but Erikson’s discovery was made
and his other acts of location were
completed first, and Erikson had
also recorded his power of attorney
in the Forty Mile district before the
ground was even staked for him.
The transcript of the Forty Mile
records, including the Erikson
power of attorney, was made a part
of the White River records by order
of court entered last May, and hence
the defendant contends that the
Erikson power of attorney is a valid
record in the White River district
from the time it was recorded in the
Forty Mile district.
The third proposition decided by
Judge Brown involved certain de
fective records made by the White
River recorder. His books had not
yet arrived from the outside, so in
stead of copying the documents at
I length, he simply made a memoran
dum of each document as recorded.
The court held such record suffi
cient, and that the locator suffi
i ciently complied with the law when
he deposited his document with the
i proper recorder, and paid the re
cording fee, and was not responsible
for any errors or defects in the work
of recording. The opinion of Judge
Brown on this point was published
in full in the Daily Alaskan
The cases were tried and disposed
of as follows:
Likaits vs. James was tried twice,
the jury disagreed on the first trial,
but on the second trial found a ver
dict for the defendant.
Sutherland vs. Purdy. Verdict
for the defendant. This case will
be appealed.
Cloninger vs. Finlaison. The
court granted defendant's motion
for a non-suit and judgment was
entered for the defendant. In this
case it is announced that an appeal
will be taken.
Woodman vs. Erikson. Judgment
was given the defendant upon the
pleadings, and in the same way the
defendant obtained judgment in
Hussey vs. Erikson. It is under.
I stood that one of these cases will
be appealed and that the other will
abide by the result.
Nickell vs. Johnson, Likaits vs.
Johnson and Foster vs. Johnson
were all tried to the court upon an
agreed statement of facts, and judg
ment wras given in each case for the
defendant.
Delander vs. McPhail, verdict for
the defendant.
Maddox vs. Merkley and Clon
inger vs. Merkley were stipulated ta
abide the decision on appeal ’n
Cloninger vs. Finlaison. Judgment
will be entered for the defendant in
these cases if the circuit court of
appeals affirms Judge Brown, but if
a new trial be ordered in the Fin
laison case, then all three cases will
be set for trial.
Costello vs. Purdy was stipulated
to abide the decision upon appeal :n
Sutherland vs. Purdy.
Delander vs. James was dis
missed. ' «
Hertzberg vs. Doyle resulted in a
verdict for the defendant.
Tibbs vs. Verreau was continued
upon stipulation to abide the deci
sion upon appeal in Woodman vs.
Erikson.
Wolf vs. Gates resulted in a judg
ment for the defendant.
In five cases wherein appeals will
be taken, the court entered orders
permitting the defendants to placer
mine the ground this summer, but
they are to pay into court 25 per
cent of all gold extracted. This will
be held by the court to abide the
decision on appeal. The defendant
in each case however may withdraw
the gold deposited in court any time
upon filing a bond to be approved by
| the court in an amount equal to the
value of the gold deposited. In this
I way, every claim involved in litiga
tion is placed free for this sum
mer’s work. Not a single piece of
ground in the Shushanna is now
tied up by litigation, as it is riot ex
pected that appeals will be taken
in the other cases. It is known
that there are several other claims
in the Shushanna which have been
“relocated,” but upon which no suit
has been brought and further liti
gation is deemed unlikely in view of
the results at this term of court.
The court’s decisions were all favor
able to the first locators upon ques
tions of law, and every verdict ren
dered by a jury was also in favor
of the first locator.
o—o—o--—
SEATTLE, April 14.—The North
western League opens this afternoon
and base ball enthusiasts are look
ing forward to some good games.
WASHINGTON, April 14.—Presi
dent Wilson declared this morning
that the outlook for the repeal of
the free tolls to American coastwise
vessels was improving. He stated
that many of the men who had ex
pressed themselves as having con
vincing arguments to present to the
senators were getting cold feet and
are not appearing before the Senate
committee in such numbers as was
expected.
-o—o—o
The members of the Cordova Fire
department met in regular monthly
session last night. The selection
of a man to recommend to the
council as fire chief was an impor
tant consideration. John Berry,
the present chief stated that he
could no longer fill the position. It
was then by unanimous vote decided
to recommend Clark Byers for the
office. The election of three trustees
resulted in the selection of John
Berry, James Flynn and James
Lyons. It was also decided to re
quest council to increase the com
pensation of fire chief from the
amount of $25 per month which is
now paid.
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