The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-10-08
When the Lawyers Arrive. An Alaskan
Trouble.

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In the infinite variety of information
and misinformation which has been
waited down to us on the chilly breezes
from golden Klondyke, one can sift out
the solemn and threatening fact that
two lawyers, armed and equipped with
voluminous libraries of illegal lore"
and books filled with the accounts in
full of solemn decisions on both sides
of every fool subject which ever both
cred the sons of Adam, rendered by va
rious solemn judicial asses, have mi
grated TO that much sought land. Cold
with its deadening sleepiness, starvation
with its pangs and death in a myriad
forms may go there, and they are each
and every one more to be welcomed
than these two emissaries of evil. Klon-
dyke has heretofore been land with
out judges, courts, lawyers, or any laws
except natural justice, and as an inev-
liable result, it has been one of peace
and prosperity. If perchance some
poor devil with Unborn financial talents
which always shine best and brightest
when capturing the accumulations Of
others, put into use his peculiar abil-
tiles, he was unceremoniously hung up
to dry or given pressing invitation to
leave his country for his country's
good. Such thing as killing one an
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ton of the land are accustomed to do,
has not been INDUCED in by the Klon-
dykers. In fact it is said that Il man
can leave peck of gold nuggets on his
kitchen table, with his door unlocked,
when he goes to his daily shift OF fight
with ice or moSquctoes, as the season
compels, and find every nugget uu-
touched when he returns. Memory
and tradition say that once upon
time similar state of affairs prevailed |
in Gilpin County, Colorado, when gold |
dust and nuggets were more abundant !
there than they are now. Various 9TH
err golden and eiysian fields in this
wild and woody West have had exactly |
similar experiences. But when the |
lawyer and his books and courts and
demurrers and writs and other similar
devices of the devil, came on the field,
peace and honesty few away to the
stars, where heaven is said to be, and
was place in all this goodly mining
land, whether in the Arizona cactus,
where the Apache laid in wait for
scalps, under the pines of Colorado
gulches, in the shade OF Montana can
yons or in the frozen icebergs where
the first corners failed to get along in
peace and quietude until the pestifer-
GUS protectors of the morals and the
lives of men, known as lawyers, put in
an appearance. Among the sweetest
lingering with many a miner
and pioneer are those of the days when
a miners court, without quirlSs or Quib-
bles and chicanery, settled on basis y,
of equity only, any of the difficulties
which seldom arose, after which the
litigants went away good friends, and
all the camp was satisfied with the YER
dict. In some one of the ancient school
books, dealing with Greek verbs, kings, +
queens ond mythical gods, every lesson
Of which was religiously forgotten as
soon as learned, was an account of
province where the laws were as few
md short as those on Moses tablet :,
Of limestone, quartzite or some other ;,
'ock in place. 1t was also provided +,
hat any legislator who proposed new :,
aw should do so with rope around =,
lis neck, and il it failed of passage he ;,
hould hang as high as Hannah. O, for :,
UGH a regulation in these modern n
ines! The result was to discourage :.
he members from Squedunk and Pc
Junk from trying to tinker with thu :,
tatutes, and all the lawyers starved to -.
cath and the judges engaged in the "a
onorable ayocation of h0cing corn. 90,
t is unfortunate that the history and
xample of this lard Of wondr0us Juau-
y are not known to every denizen of +,
his troubled world, where the man I'll
18th "A bill and the lawyer with writ u,
re always disturbing IL proper, just II;
nd equitable condition. The sympa-
ny Of all is now due 30 the soon to be
aud protected AMI bedeyila1 !,
nd defended Klonjyi:ers.-M Mining III In
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