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Editor Iditarod Pioneer: .Noting the wail fioni Nome in your paper of June 21,

1913, over the new mining law enacted by the first session of the legislature of Alaska, and what they propose to do to nullify the same provokes reply. They claim:

First- That it confiscates mining property. Second- That it multiplies burdens. Third--That it prevents future locations. Fourth—If enforced, will ruin the dredging industry

of Seward peninsula. Fifth Huy urge presenting a huge memorial to con-

gress to have 1 he law annulled, and request all other dis- tricts in Alaska to join in such memorial.

Now what’s ailing these dredge operators at Nome ? The wild geese leave Alaska every fall to seek a milder

winter, and fatten on the grainfields. The Nome dredge operators leave Alaska every fall to wander over the world on a good time, and spend the fat they accumulate during three or four months of their summer's labors. Annually the first boats of the spring fleet bring them back to fatten for the next annual winter’s sojourn. Upon their arrival this year at Nome they discover Alaska has had a legislature in session this winter that had passed some Territorial laws —one of which was a new mining law, and instantly up goes the wail: confiscate mining property, multiply the bur- dens, prevents future locations, if enforced will ruin the

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dredge industry, etc. They call a council of war and get busy to go in a body

to Washington (Nome people always like to go to Washing- t-m in winter), if need be, at the next session of congress, and lobby in the interests of the dredge masters' industry. And they call aloud with a strong voice upon all sections of Alaska to-join them in tiiis protest against the law.

Wherein will their property be confiscated? They have no title to government land until they have complied with the requirements of the statute, anil the government has

passed title to them by Lb S. patent. Why should the gov eminent cany indefinitely the ground for them as a mere

claim to relieve them of spending! the money necessary to patent ? The law makes it easy and char how to secure

title to a claim after §500 worth of work has been done on it. Under our federal regime these dredge operators have!

been among the favored. The government has carried their burdens of investment of real intrinsic value, i. e., their claims, without the cost of one dollar to them. The federal government has been tiring of many of its old practices, and congress changed the mining law of Alaska last year, j and bitted the location law with a (Spanish) bit. Alaska’s First legislature lengthens the bit a little, and slips the bridle onto every cay use in Alaska. These Nome and other dredge operators don’t like the feel of the Spanish hit. It brings them to a short halt on their haunches and opens their jaws ana they make a noise tnat sounds as though they were hurt badly, lint they are not.

The time is ripe now for every elaimowner in Alaska, if, he seeks security in the ownership of his ground, to go the route and pay the price the government requires and secure j the title in his own name, and relieve the government from j bearing further his legitimate burden.

If these Nome dredge people will consult O. 1). or El- wood Bruner, or George Griggby, or George Scofield, or

some other good lawyer, pay than a fee, then put the U. S.

surveyor at work—between them they will be able to per- manently remove all danger of confiscating, under the new

law, any legitimate mining claim. Stay in Alaska next winter and spend the money on

patenting your claims that you have heretofore spent going Outside, and you will solve the lirst, second and fourth problems of your complaint against the law, and at the same time give your country, your lawyer, the surveyor, and your neighbor an even break.

Your third complaint has long required radical treat-j merit, and the new law looks the look of good medicine.

W hat effect do they think their memorial will have at Washington ( Do not these disgruntled big boys under- stand the meaning of the schoolm ister’s language when lie j asks: 11 What are all you big fellows doing around Wash.!

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CAFTAIN G. P. SPROUL, FAIRS AN ICS

iiigton for indefinite periods ? One can’t throw a brick in

any part of town without hitting a lobbyist representing some interest.’’

If tiiat memorial shows for signatures, turn it down, down', DOWN.

Stand by the work of our legislature. It has done good service for Alaska. It is possible they do not know the United States has gone Democratic? and will approve the acts of our legislature. WILLIAM KNOX.

Very few people understand themselves. There are

men and women who honestly think they are kind and sym- pathetic and yet when they buy a newspaper don’t think

they have theii money’s worth unless there is something about a horrible tragedy in it.—Alaska Empire.

The buffalo on our coins makes the dragon on the Chi- nese empire coins seem a comparatively handsome brute.—

Washington Star.

THE SETTiNG HEN

Sr*33HE old hens sits, with feathers ruffled, upon her bunch of

jH.Hl fourteen eggs; for three long weeks she hasn’t scuffled around the yard on scratching legs. She’s tended

strictly to her knitting—fidelity’s the old hen’s boast; by day and night still brooding, sitting, the martyr mother at her post. And now the time has come for hatching, and soon the old hen, swelled with pride, around the dooryard will be scratching, her fluffy offspring at her side. Then mark, O marl: her guard and

cherish the welfare of her little flock. Before she'd see one

chicken perish, she’d whip a wildcat or a hawk. And when the lightning and the thunder announce the sudden, pelting storm, the chickens crawl her wide breast under, and she protects them with her form. There’s nothing, truly, more affecting than mother love that old hens bear, as they go clucking round, prospecting to find their children’s bill of fare. I sympathize with orphan chickens hatched out in patent tin machines; I can’t imagine what the dickens that sort of innovation means.

To rob a chicken of its mother—to ride its owner on a rail: One crime’s as low? down as the other, and each should send a man

to jail.—Walt Mason.

Since the last published list of

subscribers to the road fund, Knute

Koland reports: .1. E. Hiley & Co..$200 Northern Commercial Co.. 200 L. N. Ellis 50

1'om McMahon 2o

J. R (Chief) McGovern, looking all to the good after spending the

winter on the Outside, was an

arrival on tire White' Seal, and was

glad/ffiSP’ed by his many old lilli-

cutns hereabouts.

On the trip down the Yukon the

‘‘chief’' made a diligent study ol

the hen industry, so his fellow-pas- sengers say, and hv the time the

boat reached Dikeman Mac could

get fresh eggs out of Fiank Man-

ley ’s chicken coop whether the liens

laid them nor not.

Notice of Marshal's Sale United States of An.eriea.>_ Foil rill District of Alaska,*

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Public notice is herein given, that by i virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias (or exe-

cution). dated .Tune IS. A-D. Ibid, issued out of the District court, of the United States for the Fourth (list rict of Alaska, on a judgment rendered in said court, on

t t,e iSi h day of June, A.D.. ibid, in favor of U. Ji. Cites ley. J. M. Ryan and

j F. Ij. Kehoe, and against Joint Oleson, ! i have, on this dl-t day of June, A.D..

1:113, ho ied upon the following de- scribed rail estate, situated in the

j Otu-r t ecurding district, Territory ul Alaska, to wit:

All of the right, title and interest of John OU son it: and to placer mining

j claim known as No. 7 above on Slate creek, tributary to Otter creek, and that I w: I. accordingly, off -r said real (■state for sale, at public vendue to the highest ittal best bidder, for caslt, on

the dUt, day of July, A.D., Ibid, at 1 o'clock }>.in.. at the front, door of the marshal's oilice, iu the town of kliiarod, Alaska.

Out i-d. Iditarnd, Alaska. 2ist day of June, A.D.. Ibid. II. K. UOVIC," U.S. Marsiial Fourth Distric* of Alaska.

I ty 11. i Slope in ta'. Depot y. U. M. Stamen. PlaintilFs Attorney.

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In Hie United States Land Office at Horne, Alaska In the matter of the application of Joa-

quin, Fowler and Twitchell lor pat- ent for TraO'ng Site.

NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that. in pursu-

ance to tlie provisions of the act of ('im- press approved May 14, 1898 (30 Stat. 400) entitled “An act extending the homestead laws and providing for right, of way for railroads in the district of Alaska, and for oilier purposes,” and amendments thereto, Frank Joaquin, whose postolflce address is Tacotna, Alaska, G. A. Fowler, whose postottice address is Bethel, Alaska, and A. 11. Twitched, whose postotliee address is Bethel, Alaska, claiming twenty and sixtvone hundredths (30.01) acres of laud at Bethel, on tlie Kuskokwim river, Alaska, have made application to tlie United States fora patent for the saiii land, as a TRADING SITE, and said land is more fully described as to the metes and bounds thereof by the official plat thereof and by the field not< s of the survey thereof now on tile in the office of the register of said land office, which is U. S. Survey No. 10u3, as follows, to wit:

Beginning at, corner Mo. 1, identical with corner No. 1, Moravian Mission Reserve. Bethel, at, ordinary high- water murk on Kuskokwim river, from which point IMS. local ion monument at Bethel bears S. 723 12’ \YM, 12.05 chains, and S.W. corner dwelling 21x2b feet, bears NM 2-> nT lv, 4.00 chains; witness corner set N. 24° 24' W., 1.21 chains, an iron pipe 2 inches in diain- ter projecting one !M t above the ground, marked on S.W. side. M-M- Cor.-l-W-C. and M-C on side facing the river, and on N. 1M side S-l002-( ur-i- \V-(M Bit, 2bx2bxl2 inches bears N. 210 24' \\M, S feet distant. Mound of earth 4 feet base, 2 feel high, bears N. 24 ° 2 B W. of corner.

Thence N. 2 l 3 21’ \V. ldchains along S.W. boundary, from t rue corner ov^-r

rolling land on line 1-2 of Moravian Mis- sion Reserve survey to corner No. 2. at which point is set an iron pipe 2 inches in diameter. 2 feet long. 2 feet in the ground, marked on the east side, S-10 *2- Cur-2. Under this corner broken glass is deposited at base of pipe as memo- rial. Bits are dug on lines -approaching and departing from corner and b feet (listant 18x 1 *x 12 inches.

Thence N. b7 ° 10' !M 18.84 chains along N.W. boundary in coiner No. 2 at which point C set an iron pi pci 2 inches in diameter, 2 feet, long, 2 feet in the ground, marked < n S.W. side S.-1002- < \>r-2. Bn;n r tlii Corner broken glass is deposited at base of pipe as a memo-

rial. Bits are dug l~'\i‘'.\l2 inches on

lines approaching and departing from corner and b feet distant.

1'hence S. 21° 2U B. 111*7 chains along N.U. boundary to corner No. 4. at

'inary higb-wat- r mark on Kusko- kwim river. Witness corner set NM24C ’.;i W., 28 linksuistant. which is an iron pipe 2 inches in dianv er, 2 feet long. 2 feet in the ground, marked on N.W. side S-10d2-Uoi-4-W-< '. and M-<\ on side facing the river. Broken glass is de- posited at base of pipe as a memorial.

Thence following the meanders of the Kuskokwim river at ordinary high- water mark, along sandy beach down stream from true corner 1. N. s8° 47’ W. 11.7b chains: 2. S. Oz IT W. 8.24 chains to (.’or tier No. 1. the pi ice ui be- ginning. containing 21.01. acivs.

The U. S. location monument to which this survey is tied is an iron pipe 2.4 inches in diameter 4 fern long set 2 feet in the ground, marked on the north side U. 8. L. M.. Bethel M M. and is situated in the center of the plaza at Bethel Mission.

Any and all persons claiming ad- versely the said land or any portion thereof so described, surveyed and plat 11 d as abort- a*v herein roMm-d link, unless their adverse claims are

duly filed accca !;ng to law with tin* register of the Uni ed States land office at Nome. Aia-ka, they will he barred by virtue of the provisions of said stat- ute. ./. SUN DB AC X. Register.

In the Probate Court f -r the Inneko Precinct, coin th Iudioial T;i vi Dist\ ict of 1 ■ k i.

Matter t Dreg Peter son cea.-\ !. Refer W. A Vinal. Commi- -a •.

s; ttiin; as Probate Ju !ge. N< vise is hereby ei .cn that lire und.o -igm-d.

administrator uf the estatt < thirty. Petci o.. de- cs :>• to the creditors of. and all persons h :.o cl: in: s :o ainst the said «lcc« ased, to exh:! ;t them, with li’.c nece->sarv vc. ck.ers. wiih.in *dv months after the first publication of thi- notice to the said administrator t hi: h nt at Inneko precinct, Alaska, th.e seme being the 1 lace for the transaction of the business of s.::d cst.l 10.

Dated am! signed at fu-.hir. Ah-i-ke. t!:is 14th day of June. 10:3. CHRISTIAN IHiDlIX,

Admin. t! ator. ORDER

It is or b1 that notice to t!ie creditors of Oreg I’ctcr on. deceased, requiring all persons having claims against the said deceased to ex- hibit them, with the ncces-m v vouchers, to the administrator of the estate of said deceased be gi'-cii by publication in tiie Milan d Pioneer, a fcws; c.j er printed and publish.cd i.i the city ot Iditarod, Ala.-ka, at he. ;t once a week fur four successive weeks, am! that a copy of the ala e notice be p( sted in three public and conspicuous places in the t-11 of ophir, Alaska, one of w inch, places shat! be at th.e postoffice in said town of ophir.

W. A. ViNAL. Probate Judge.

Ophir, Alaska. June 14. 1913.

MRS. M. L. PETERSON,

Notary Public

First, A vo., Opp. Heat tie House.

Dr. Heinrich Wortmann,

Offices: Iditarod and Flat City

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HENRY RODEN,

Attorney at Law Iditarod, Alaska

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