The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-15

0ov. BrS1y viii Be present.
Disorder WithS1t : Law.
Ths discussion became Of unusual earn
estness q timea Gov. Rrady said the de-
srs g & Ss 4 asi ss
81 some Kind 70 regulate these beach claims
1 Win Eng AZ S:s g pso wsss e 1T NORTH e
next spring when thovsends Of men would
e & 81, sls%S e: I'M t & ,. re s beach s, s:
81 4 ssrisus rsxars would be, sure 70 FOL
low tlsis condition, he said, ana the govern.
ment might - wsn send its transports Of
e A cs. :. v ss e S v Tts
Particulaffsins, the governor held that
. & tssss claims & en e e hs lana ds
isnds.s said Gov. brady. sunder such reg
sons e ~SaS ss y nifty c ssst s
nary high tide mark and a. far out into
SSser tss e s y sens hs s
choose. Bo n not charge more than Us year
s ~. gsrs ana 1 nsSs ry s.s ss n
would enable them to resist the efforts Of
There would thus Be none Of the terrible
disputing that win be sure to result II there
IL no law. We should have at least four
death Of q one. II would not be right to to
leave all those varied and important inter-
ests resting ON the life Of one man"
Congress Has Power to Act.
Judge Thomas Burke said he thought he
Scsities q this tidesnd matter &c could if he IS
thrust. He said that In deciding the case
q shivsly y ,l noalby, sl alluded n binEer
preme court had held that congress had ab-
the. lands Of the United States; Congress-
"and II It could sell all OF 1t. 1t naturally
follows that 1t could sell or otherwise dis
pose Of any part Of II. 50 what We should
slider this matter and send to washington
q properly drafted bill covering the things
believed to be desirable to be enacted"
ana said that those held on the Yukon
were disgrace. to civilization, and made .
laughter 81 Justice. "A lot Of saloon men
ns a sd sss would not &c
tolerated bsI honest Tsn ONE In
5000 and compelled to pay hundreds Of doll
lars costs, simply on complaint Of q drunk
ard and the woman he was living With:
have been forced to BY these lawless men,"
Miners Meetings Defended.
This brought out warm response from
Josiah Collins WHO has spent considerable
time in the Klondike. and is familiar with
the workings Of miners meetings there. He
said everything moved along without fric-
ton and with very little trouble, until the
the country. 1T is generally recognized
that minUs in the north are competent to
manage their own affairs" he said. They
the best men in the country. Leave the
Nome beaches to the miners to regulate.
was glad to read that the land department
knew that the miners Of the Nome country
would make and enforce regulations that
would be for the. common good. If YOU
beaches. It will not be the end Of. the season
before nearly the entire strip will be owned
BY the corporations. and thus the benefits
be gone. and the big transportation COM
panies will have all the gold"
Andrew Knox spoke Of the early days In
California, when he was one OF the men
who came across the plains In a wagon and
engaged in mining for. several years. I'VE
had no laws there" he said and there
and made the regulations for their district
and everybody obeyed them because the
welfare Of all was in their preservation.
These Nome miners are composed OF the
best people in our land. people who love
law and order. and they will not make any
rules that SoS w Al not Be for The o9d Of all
Legality of the Meetings.
A. r. Crifiths went into the legal aspect
OF the case. from the side Of the miners
1t was common custom on part OF courts
ne said. to recognize the action Of min
ers' meetings when such acts were ad.
Judged reasonable, no matter what might
be the law on the statutes. The proceed
ings OF miners meetings stand as the law
Of the community. You need courts there
OF course but those courts would stand by
the miners meetings. and would decide
the cases that MIGHT be before them on the
basis of the reasonableness OF those acts
II the resolutions OF the miners were adj
Judged to be reasonable they were as
though they were printed IN the statutes
and II they were not reasonable they had
"a be changed. There was no mining law
until 1866" he continued land the placer
act was not passed until 1870 or 1872 long
after the placer development of California"
There was some other discussion, sew
eral of those present fayoring law to
with the stipulation that the lessee should
not have the right to dispose of his lease
and II he did not wish to work his claim
10 abandon II and let Il revert TO the gov
eminent. none to be entitled to a lease
unless he worked the property in person:
and still others favored doing nothing at
all, The position the Chamber OF Com
merce and real estate bcayd take In the
natter win be deternninsd upon the result