Arizona republican., 1900-09-14

sons, who represents a well backed company at the head of which is Gen eral H. G. Otis of Los Angeles.
 Speaking of W. K. Meade, MT. Bark said that he owns some valuable claims on Jack Wade creek in the KlOndyke country, which he worked to good profit last winter and in the spring went down the Yukon and around the coast line to Nome in a small boat. He arrived safely and had a nice sack of yellow dust with which to begin opera tiOns.
 Messrs. Fowler, Meade and Bark To- cated a mile and a half of beach but did no work on it this year, as they were too late in the season to begin operations. Some of it has banned 25 cents. but whether or not that will hold out is a question. They also have couple of men at work at Bristol Bay, 500 miles south, where a big strike has been reported.
 The great drawback of the country is the lack of records, titles and properly administered courts. A 'squatters right is the only title that can now be secured and every claim is jumped from one to ten times and frequently held with a shotgun. Possession is ten points of the law at the present time and an appeal to the courts simply re- suits in the appointment of a receiver, pending litigation, and his fees eat up the output. As near as he could figure it out 92 per cent of all gold secured goes to the courts through the machin- cry of a receiver.
 It was of frequent occurrence for a man to lease a claim then refuse to
 pay rent and hold it with a shotgun
 while he worked it. If it is taken into court under present conditions it would have to be a big strike to pay out. This abuse by the courts was carried so far that a receiver was even appointed on the discovery claim on Anvil creek, the first in the district.
 Asked about MT. Freezes claim, he
 said it was the richest in the district,
 if he can get a title to it. MT. and Mrs. w. A. Davis are well, have a years provisions and will prob ably stay through the winter. The report that Wyatt Earp was shot
 was erroneous as he had had no seri- ous difficulty up to the time MT. Bark l left. An inquiry regarding religious ad- l Vantages was made and MT. Bark said there was one Presbyterian minister preaching in a tent and a Holiness band was also pointing out the straight
 and narrow path.
 A new strike has recently been re- l ported in the Bluestone district, north | and east of Nome.
 There was lots of typhoid fever and pneumonia through the summer, 1 though probably not so much as many ! imagine, from newspaper reports | Pneumonia never bothers a man but | two days. however After that nothing l bothers him in this world. i There were probably 30,000 people there at one time during the summer
 and about 5000 will spend the winter 1 there. Tn another year the camp will i settle down to it's level, the surplus in- | ha;j,rants V ill move on and tt will then i be a better camp than it is now for ] hose who remain. just as Dawson City
 is better now than in its early days i There were probably 5000 Dawson reople there this summer. but most of
 them have returned to the KlOndyke region.
 | Asked about martial law. MT. Bark
 said the city was never under martial { law. but when the big rush came, at
 the request of the business men the
 city was policed by soldiers under General Randall, as there was no mu-
 nicipal organization.