Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-08-18

Plenty Of ii Along the Beach
Sands.
Some Eight Thousand Eage Gold Hunt-
ers Rocking the Sands for W ss
the Dust. III
Details and Facts with Regard to the
famous Cape, as : Local Paper
a3ssS 555 Sees It.
The Nome Gold Digger, a weekly
paper published at Cape Nome, Alaska,
a copy Of which, dated July 20 is sent
the Tribune by. W, T. Perkins, contains
some interesting facts regarding the
gold region. The Gold Digger is pub
4 L lished every Wednesday, subscription
price $12 a year, 25 cents a single copy.
The first page of the paper contains a
description of the scenes along the
beach where it is estimated that 8 ZOO
men are rocking the sands for gold and
averaging 81 to SIG "a day. Some 300
or 400 different kinds Of devices are in
use among the miners for rocking the
sand and separating the gold. No
great clean ups are reported along the
beach, and miners are paid in some
81 EA.f ft ~
cases $5 a day and board, and are ex-
pected to return So to $25 worth Of
gold to the owners of claims and ma
chinery who employ them.
A meeting of the chamber OF com
merce is reporteu, in an endeaYor to
get the United States government to
take the poor who are out of employ
ment back to the United States. The
situation is described as frightful, hum
d. dreds OF men being out of money, sick
and helpless.
sa The steamer Oregon arrived, making
the trip from Seattle in ten days, the
record for the season, and the captain
says he can make the trip in eight
days. The Senator left carrying 400
persons back to the states.
itorially, Hhe Gold Digger dis
cusses the question Of ineorp ration,
which is said to be in favor with the
great ma Jointly Attention is called to
the fact that in August, 1899, the resi-
dents of the place, then known as Anvil
City to the number Of about I, 900, met
in mass convention, and settled on
local form of government, which was
successfully carried on until It'll gave
way to the military government. The
camp was governed in an orderly man
irler, and only one homicide occurred.
Speaking of the legal difficulties in
connection with the Anvil Creek
claims, for which Alexander Mckenzie
was appointed receiver by Judge
Noyes, the Gold Digger says: }s55
353 This series, of legal difficulties came
about in this way In the months Of
September and October Of 1898 certain
parties, not then citizens Of the United
States, discovered gold on Anvil Creek.
They proceeded Gat once to acquire the
same by location and otherwise.
Later on other persons came up from
4 oldoyin Bay and, for reasons that
will appear below, relocated most Of
the properties. The reIocators allege
sf1) that the original 1ocators, three in
number. were ait the time aliens; (2)
that they did not stake the properties
as required by the statutes, but merely
set up a notice setting forth their
claims; 90 that a majority Of the
claims were located on alleged powers
sof-at ttorney in behalf of persons
neither there and ], in instances, not in
the country. n
fter locating the properties many of.
the original locators left the country,
and and II was after that the Others APP
Jpeared on the scene. IN the following
spring certain Tepresenta ations were.
made 70 Court Comm ssioner Shepard,
and accompanied by a detachment Of
military he came from St Michaelsi
and instituted court ait Council City ito.
st try cases of alleged trespass set up
against the relocators The commits
.sioner gave judgment against the de-
fendants, and two of them, MelsingE
and Watterson were arrested taken to-
St. ~ ichaels and held there for some
time ater on Lieut.. Spauld ing,
with q detac chment Of soldiers. was
sent here and q number OF other men
We're elected from the involved claims.
During the following summer 1T be-
came known that Judge Johnson of the
United States court was to visit Nome,
and his coming was awaited With
much impati tience- He finally arrived
in August, but would give no irnne-
diate relief. However complaints
were fiIAf7 pajy1Sf .ta ,Ssfss, Nd !, ~ ~ M Z,