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Delegate From Alaska flakes Serious Accusations Against Attorney
General in His Fight on the Guggenheims and is Called Upon
By the Judiciary Committee to Substantiate Them
Washington, July 15.—Chagrinned at the rollapse of the investiga
tion of the Controller Bay matter, Delegate Wickershain, who was the
real instigator of that fiasco, has made charges that Attorney General
Wickershain deliberately permitted the statute of limitations to run
against any prosecution of Capt. Jaivis or agents of the Alaska Syndicate
charged by Douglas with having defrauded the government in the sale
of coal at Nome and elsewhere. These charges were presented to the
judiciary committee of the House. This whole matter has been lie fore
the congress for solution for some time and up to this time the delegate
has not been taken seriously. He now produces before the House
Committee a copy of an affidavit relating to alleged criminal conduct of
Capt. Jarvis in the trial of the Keystone Canyon matter. The judiciary
committee, in secret session, has now decided to dispose of the matter
finally, and will favorably report a resolution that a full investigation
IS
The Lucky Strike Mining company has bonded its gold
quartz claims at McKinley lake to Stephen Birch, of the
Alaska Syndicate, after he made a personal examination of
the mine. The purchase price is said to be more than $200,
000. As soon as J. F. B. Erdlets, mining expert for the Mor
gau-Guggenheims, completes his investigation which he is
now conducting, and in case his report is favorable, a large
force of men will be put at work developing the property not
later than August 1. Arrangements are also being made with
the Katalla Company for men to make an immediate sur
vey of the claims.
This deal following so closely on the heels of the one
closed by Messrs. Bratnober and Lukach, who have practi
cally taken over the Kice mine at McKinley lake for $150,000
verifies the prediction made by the Daily Alaskan on Septem
ber 10 last, that Cordova had wonderful gold quartz possi
bilities and that within a year this -fact would be verified.
It is a source of great satisfaction to know that our rich
mineral belt has already attracted the attention of two of the
biggest combinations of capital that is seeking investment
in mines.
As both of the properties bonded are owned and control
led by local people the consummation of these deals means
considerable direct benefit to the community as well as the
development of one of our greatest resources on an extensive
scale. This large body of low grade ore will now be opened
up and Cordova will contribute its full share to the gold out
put of Alaska. Within a twelve months there will be sev
eral hundred stamps dropping at McKinley lake and the much
desired big pay roll produced.
EXPERTS OFF FOR
The sudaen withdrawal of the
Guggenheim forces from the Tanana
valley is not, as was at first sus
pected, an indication that the op
tions held by the big company on
Fairbanks creek are to be forfeited.
The sudden calling in of the ex
perts and their departure on the
same day for the Iditarod rather is
an indication that there is some
truth to the stories which have come
up from the lower camp to the ef
fect that Flat creek has been op
tioned and is to be tested immedi
ately. It is said that the options
secured in the lower camp are of
short duration, and the employment
of a large force will be necessary in
order to complete the tests within
the time limit. -• -
Additionol color is given to this
explanation by the report which has
been received from Dawson to the
effect that every available Guggen
heim man has been rushed from that
camp to the Iditarod.
AT THE SENATOR’S
There's a small cafe up Chitina way
Where the tired may eat and rest.
There’s chicken and steak and oyster
pattee
And the Senator’s smile for zest.
There are onions and greens
And colored ice creams
And a coffee cup a la gem,
But what strikes one most,
Save the smile of the host
Is the collection of good looking men
AT THE SENATOR’S 6-17-tl
Let us do your Job work.
Washington, July 15.—J. B. Cava
naugh, assistant chief engineer ol
the army, and Dr. Alfred H. Brooks
of the geological survey, testified be
fore the Investigating committee in
the Controller bay affair that the
coal resources permits the war de
partment to build wharves and
testles.
DOUBLE TRAGEDY
AT SEATTLE
Seattle, July 15.—Harry Robinson
a Deadwood miner, and Bessie Car
ter, committed suicide by asphyxia
tion at the Lilly house.
FRANCE READY TO
SIGHJREATY
Washington, July 15.—France is
about ready to sign an arbitration
treaty with the United States, simi
lar to the one with Great Britain.
HELD FOR DUAL
Tacoma, July 15.—Swan Peterson,
the left handed section man, has
been arrested for the double murder
of Archienette and Cobles, which
deed was committed at Rainier.
NOTICE
The former firm of McCutcheon
& Griffiths, conducting a saloon in
Chitina, Alaska having dissolved on
June 29, 1911, I will not be respon
sible for any bills contracted since
that date and all previous bills
against said firm are assumed ' by
the present firm of Griffiths & Hy
land.
Signed: H), H. McCUTCHEON.
Guadalajara, July 15.—The first
political convention held in Mexico
for the purpose of restoring peace
ended in a riot.
be had.
It is now up to the delegate to make good his charges, but it is
the general belief that this investigation will prove a gi-eater farce than
the Controller Bay matter.
The Attorney General will undoubtedly hold the delegate respon
sible for his wild assertions, and he has probably succeeded in getting
himself into serious trouble. The democrats, meanwhile, will make all
possible political capital out of the matter, and some of the more en
thusiastic talk of ini|>eaehinent of the Attorney General.
Washington, July 15.—The Attorney General this afternoon entered
a vigorous denial of all the rharges made by Delegate Wlckersham and
says that the statute of limitation ha» not run in these cases. It is not
improbable that a criminal prosection will be instituted against the
delegate for his reckless and untrut hful charges.
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Mining Companies and
Mineral Claim Owners
Publication of Final Proof Notices
Preparations are now making by many com
panies for the securing of patents to copper and
gold claims in that rich mining section known
as the Chitina-Kotsina-Nizina district. Publi
cation of final proof must be made in accord
ance with the requirements of the law- which
are contained in the following excerpts of in
structions issued by the General Land Office at
Washington:
A notice of intended final proof must be published
in a newspaper of established character and of general
circulation in the vicinity of the land affected thereby,
such paper having a fixed and well known place of pub
lication.
So newspaper shall lie deemed a qualified medium
of notice unless it shall have been continuously publish
ed during an unbroken period of six months immediate
ly preceding the publication of the notice, nor unless it
shall have applied for and been granted the privilege of
transportation in and by the United States mails at the
rate provided by law for second-class matter, a privilege
available to all newspapers having a legitimate list of
subscribers and a known place of publication.
The notice must in all cases be published in the news
paper which may be issued at a place nearest to the lands
which the notice affects. By the word “nearest” as here
used it is not intended that geographical proximity shall
be measured on an air line drawn between the land and
the place of publication, but by the length of the shortest
and principally traveled thoroughfare between such
places, being the highway ordinarily used and employed
for travel by vehicles of any kind.
The law invests registers with discretion in the se
lection of newspapers to be the media of notice in such
! cases as are here referred to.
Persons seeking to establish their right to a legal title
to any public lands are not authorized to interfere with
the discretion of the register in the choice of a news
paper in which to publish notice of their claims; nor
will any designation of a newspaper made by a register,
in the reasonable exercise of that discretion, be disturbed
on the ground that the claimant recommended another
newspaper.
Upon the receipt of the papers, if no reason appears
for rejecting the application, the register will, at the ex
pense of the claimant (who must furnish the'agreement
of the publisher to hold applicant for patent alone respon
sible for charges of publication), publish a notice of such
application for the period of sixty days in a newspaper
published nearest to the claim, and will post a copy of
such notice in his office for the same period.
The law imposes upon registers the duty of procuring
the publication of proper final-proof notices, and charges
the claimant with no ooligation in that behalf, except
that he shall hear and pay the cost of such publication.
The Chitina Leader
fills the above requirements, and will publish
the necessary notices at less than 50 cents per
line, the price allowed by law to weekly news
papers, for the entire publication during sixty
days. So that there may be no delay, publish
ers’ agreement should be secured by writing to
WILL A. STEEL, HARRY G. STEEL,
Publishers of
The Chitina Leader, Chitina, Alaska
Cordova Daily Alaskan, Cordova
Or to the SEATTLE OFFICE, 551 Column
Building.
GEO. DOOLEY
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THE WORKINGMAN’S RESORT
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WINES, LIQUORS,
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FURNISHED ROOMS AND COTS.
SOLO, POOL AND BILLIARD TABLES.
Comfortabe Chairs and Reading Room.
Restaurant and Barber Shop in Connection.
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The Northern Pacific will not at
tempt at this time to convert its
locomotives into oil burners, because
of its extensive coal mine holdings
west of the Cascades and its annual
pay roll in these mines of $2,000,
000 a year. Should the road burn
oil hundreds of men would be thrown
out of employment.
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