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Yukon Valley news., 1906-03-28

either fix rates or establish an appointed tribunal with plenary power to deal with the matter, provided, however, that such tribunal be composed of Alaskans.
 In conclusion, we desire to impress upon you the importance of speedy ac- tion in this matter. People here are almost daily forced to let go of their legitimate holdings by reason of the monopoly on water. New ditches are constantly being built and others plan ned, and it is possible that some of these may have been so conceived as not to come under the operation of the police power of the government, and prompt action is for that reason necessary to diminish the possibility of public injury from that source, for where water is appropriated for purely private pur- poses without any pretense of farming it out or serving the public a more difficult question to deal with is presented.
 Very respectfully,
 NOME MINE WORKERS UNION.
 By JuD MATTER, President. By E. J. HICKEY, Secretary.
 Nome, Alaska, Nov. 25, 1905.
Yukon Valley news., 1906-03-28
CIRCULAR LETTER
From the Panama Miners Associa- tion Regarding the Election of
 a Delegate to Congress.
To the Miners of

To the Miners of ......................
 Gentlemen: The miners of the Panama have organized themselves under the name of the Panama Miners Association.
 They recognize that mining is the industry of Alaska.
 They define the term ''miner' to mean and include those who are actively and personally engaged in the finding and developing of the mineral resources of Alaska. We do not include those who speculate in mining as an incident to their presence in Alaska. We confne the meaning of the word to include those, and those only, who give their time, energy and means under their personal supervision to the development of Alas ka's mineral resources; in short, whose principal occupation is either prospect ing, working in mines, or personally operating or experimenting their own properties.
 We recognize the need and presence of the merchant who follows us with our supplies; of the transportation compa- nies; of the fishing industry, and of all other industries of benefit to Alaska.
 We recognize all these and the proper consideration they deserve, while main- taining that they lack in a proper con ception of miners and mining.
 We know now that Alaska is to be represented at Washington by delegate to be elected next August. We believe firmly that miner should be that rep resentativc: one who is possessed of good common sense, whose honesty and integrity are above suspicion; one who
Yukon Valley news., 1906-03-28

understands the abuses that dogs our steps, and is able to work for our remedy.
 Alaska has many such men roaming her hills and working her mines.
 Considering these premises, the exec utive committee of the Panama Miners Association submits the following sug gestions for your earnest consideration and action:
 a. They earnestly request you, the miners of ........................:.. to organize and begin looking for a suitable candidate.
 b. To fully realize your power and your privilege, and periodically exercise them. c. To not overlook a good man because he is "broke." The miner does not expect any one to pay or buy his way to be his repre- sentative.
 d. To beware of the politicians graft. With us the resources of Alaska are our best graft, and they most earnestly and in- tently court.
 e. To communicate with us and all other mining centers of Alaska.
 We are addressing a similar commu nication to the following mining centers of Alaska, to wit: Forty-mile, Eagle, Circle City, Rampant, Koyukuk, Nome, Valdez and Juneau. We ask them to look for suitable candidate: we our selves are looking for one.
 If, as time reveals the development of mining federation, we may arrange the meeting of a convention to select one of the many candidates to be the miners candidate for election as dele gate to congress, we trust that the press of Alaska will aid us in our endeavor.
 All of which is respectfully submitted by the executive committee of the Panama Miners Association for the earnest con sideration of the miners of Alaska
 R. MCVICAR,
 Pres. Panama Miners Association.
 D. F. MCCLURE,
 Sec. Panama Miners Association.
Yukon Valley news., 1906-03-28

united states:
 The Nome Mine Workers Union, of Nome, Alaska beg leave to call your earnest attention to the following facts, and respectfully ask speedy action in the premises
 At the present time gold-bearing gravel deposits in this vicinity are, and for decades will be, practically the sole sup port, directly and indirectly, of our pop ulation. The same is equally true of all Seward peninsula and the country trib- utary to the Yukon.
 To the working of these placers water under pressure is an absolute necessity. Without such water for washing the gravel these deposits are absolutely worthless. To sustain placer camp, then, water is as essential as air. New ertheless, under the peculiar law govern ing the right to water in this country it is possible for single individual or corporation to gain, without purchase, absolute and undivided property in and control of all available water to the exclusion of all others. This exclusive and absolute right to the water gives natural monopoly over all the property to which this water is indispensable.
 There is every reason to believe that no riparian right obtains in any Alaska placer country, but that the only manner in which property in water can be acquired at such place is by actual appropriation and diversion. The fact that person locates placer claim in d creek or river does not in itself establish a right to the water flowing over the claim. It is the person who first diverts the water to particular beneficial pur- pose who acquires complete and perpet ual property in it to the extent of his diversion. The person who first locates water right notice on river and within reasonable time thereafter pro- ceeds to build and complete a ditch con- veying the water to other parts of the country will have absolute and exclusive property in such amount of water as his ditch is capable of carrying, though it be every drop that the river contains.
 Even if the courts should hold that the law of riparian right obtains at this place it would be applied only where the placer claim was located prior to the water right. This, at best, would pro- tect only the creek claims, while the benches, which constitute by far the larger portion of the auriferous deposits, will still be at the mercy of the ditch companies.
 Although it has always been the aim of congress to divide the public domain into small tracts, to be apportioned among as many individuals and families as possible and prevent it from falling into the hands of syndicates; yet, under the peculiar conditions prevailing in this country, one individual or corporation is enabled to become absolute master of hundreds of square miles of ground by the mere fact of being on the ground first and posting water-right notice, provided he has the necessary capital with which to make the required diver sion.
 There k as yet considerable ground
Yukon Valley news., 1906-03-28
THEFT OF FURS.

The theft of $500 or $500 worth of furs from Charles R. Winter at Fairbanks Feb "A, mention of which was made in the telegraphic news of this paper, was accomplished through an entrance of rear window by removing the glass.
 Among the furs taken were sixty mar ten skins, several mink skins, five or six crossed-fox skins and several ermine skins.
 So far as known, there was no private mark upon the skins, and it will prove a difficult matter to identify them.
 Esther creek, Fairbanks district, pre- sents lively scene these days. Opera tors are busy the whole length of the creek. There are IS men at work on No. d. which includes three sets of lay men and the men in Albert Trabold's employ.
Yukon Valley news., 1906-03-28

| great bulk of the gravel deposits must be worked by hydraulic methods in or der to yield a reasonable profit, and all such ground becomes the absolute prop erty of those who own the water.
 We now request of you, who have as stunned and are exercising complete and exclusive governmental control over this country, such legislation as will put the water monopolies of Alaska under re- straint. We submit that this is within both the authority and duty of congress as much as is the regulation of railroad rates. The big ditch companies on Sew ard peninsula claim to be public corpora tions, serving a public purpose, and as such claim and exercise the right of eminent domain in condemning rights of way for their ditches and fumes. This they do on the pretense that they are farming out their water to whoever wishes to buy. Under these circum- stances we maintain that congress has the right to compel said companies to accept such rates for their water as is fair and reasonable and no more.
 During the last summer the manager of the Miocene Ditch Company at this place testified under oath in court that their ditch carried 5000 miners inches of water and that they sold it at no less than $l 50 per inch, but did not care to part with it at that figure, as it was worth more to them in working their own claims. This statement discloses the fact that the water in this ditch is worth to the company at least $7 300 per day. As the sluicing season in this part of the country will vary from S5 to no days, and the average will be about 100 days-from June 25 to Oct. 1.-the sea- sons run in that one ditch yields $750, ,0O0. This is the profit for the cost of maintaining the ditch after it is once built is purely nominal. In another case the officers and attaches of the same company testified that with pipes and mining machinery their ditch cost s35O,- GOO. This will bring the cost of the ditch proper down to about $3OO,O ,OOO or less, and discloses an annual profit of 250 per cent. to the capital invested, a profit that is made possible by reason of the monopoly enjoyed. We have referred to this one ditch for the purpose of an illustration of what is true in kind of all ditches on the penin- sula.
 We now submit that it is necessary for the protection of the public and in no way unfair to the investor to have the rates of water reduced to where a ditch will return profit of no more than 70 per cent. the first and second years, and no more than h or 70 per cent. thereafter. That law to that effect, accompanied by no other provisions, would be nuga- tory k self evident, for the reason that it could be evaded by giving, in the dis tribution oi water, preference to persons or companies interested in the ditch. i But this k not difficult to guard against.
 We should certainly prefer, and we consider it both just and wise, that congress delegate to the miners in each mining district authority to establish, by election. tribunal to fix rates for
Yukon Valley news., 1906-03-28
A QUESTION OF WATER MON0POL|ES

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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-03-22

Don't you know that Daniels &
Plumb have sold more real estate
than any other firm 10 Cherokee
county. and don't you know that
they never misrepresent property,
ana that every man who has bought
or sold through them 10 we'll
pleased, and thoroughly satisfiedf
II you don't believe this, just ask
any or all who have dealt with
them. Now. then, IL you have prop.
erty for sale, or wish 20 buy, call
and see Dsniels q Plumb at once.
They. atill have some good bar.
Rslns In city and country property,
and also mining lands and leases.
Don't wait gill spring when there 10
likely 70 be q sharp advance In all
kiuds OF real estate, but do Il now.
Get . home while prices are within
gouE reach. Do Il now.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-03-22

q number Of friends nj her home
Friday evening. March O. Every.
body had q good time, 90 they al
ways do when Miss Thomas enter
tains. The evening was delightful.
iy spent, after which delicious re-
freshments were served. Those
present were Misses Jones, Cove. ,
Williams, Masters, Bei,zhoover.
Kelsey, Staiismith, Livingston, Bal
lard, Wayne Bel,zhoover, Bernace,
Bessie and Oracle Themas, and
Miss Hammett Of Columbus; Mes'
era. Haskell. Hauber, r. d. Jones.
Stewart, Livingston, Labadie. Swat
ley, Coe, aud Chamber. - Noi M
bus.
Mesdamrs Cooper. Ddv,e-. Wiz
bur. Hilemau. Sparlin. Hhinrs. ana
Buchan. Miss Alice Buchsn aud
Lennie Wilbur spent the da, with
Mrs. Livingston Saturday, March 10
Mra. Anna Cooper will soon move
to Galena 10 keep house for her
father. We will miss her.
10 Oren Calls u Woodmanf He
was out chopping wood by moon
light the other night.
John Jones has been nureing II
bad cold the last few days.
Master Charlie Thomas has the
mumps.
VIM. Davies, who has been sick
for two weeks, 10 improving In
health.
lease Fancher, who has been quite
Ill, 10 better, but not able to attend
school yet,
Mise Fannie Stallsmith completed
q very successful and satisfactory
term of school at Mount Hope last
Wednesday. The parents took well
filled baskets and had picnic din
ner although the weather was in
clement. Carl Buchan received the
prize for perfect attendance.
We are sorry to say Edward Swal'
ley has the mumps.
Miss Mabel Coleman visited Mrs'
s. T. Coe Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. q. DUNCAN of Melrose visited
her sister, Mrs. s. T. Coe, Tuesday
Mrs. Mary Crume, who has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. John Jones'
returned to Seneca Sunday.
RIO. Thomas and L. c. Hooker
have been shipping hay.
Mrs. NJ. A. Funk, who has been
quite sick at her home in Galena, lie
improving in health.
John Paxson and family visited
A. Paxson and family Sunday.
MOUNT HOPE.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-03-22
TIME YOU WERE DOING IT.

Owners of stations and JACKIE will
be Ia need of billie and cards for an.
uouncing the place and terms OF
season right away. The NEWS is
we'll equipped with q variety of the
latest aud newest styles Of display
and body type, cuts, and paper and
card stock with which TO print At
tractive bills that will be read By
those you want to become your cue.
TONERS. Remember that good print
ing 10 always cheaper than poor
printing. The News will charge
you no more for first class printing
than other Offices will for poor
printing.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-03-22
BLUE MOUND news.

Hazel Pigg 10 on the sick list.
Willie Stoskopf has the measles
Mrs. c. A. Endres Of Pittsburg
vas here visiting friends for q few
lays. She returned home Monday
afternoon.
I. A. Stoskopf and family visited
Mrs. stoskopfs brother, Charley
Aaderson, and wife sesr etowell
school house Sunday.
Jim Barr has coal 20 cell and Il 10
good coal, too, on Blue Mound.
Valley stoskopf and wife visited
at Charlie Paxson's Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Els. capp Of Galena
visited at J. W. Llndsey's Saturday
night and Sunday.
iW.B. Davis seems 70 be getting
better rather. slowly. -
Ia. ssetkepi lots . yeATIing calf
tkis bsd speii Of ssathsr. Il set
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-03-22
First published Feb. az, I9o6.]
NOTICE.

Notice Il hereby given that I have made
application to the probate court Of chero-
kss county. Kansas. for druggists per.
init to sell intoxicating liquors for medical,
mechanical and scientific purposes, at my
place Of business on lots ? and 8. in block
8, original plat, Baxter Springs, Kansas.
Said application will be heard at the Office
Of the probate judge In Columbus, Kansas,
on Friday. March 80. 1906, at S o'clockp. m.
A. z. CARNEY.
Applicant.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-03-22
: First published March /, ioo6)
LEGAL NOTICE.

In the district court OF Cherokee county,
Kansas, sitting at Columbus.
Henry B. Worrell. plaintiff. vs.. Nettie
Worrell, defendent
The state Of Kansas to Nettie Worrell,
greeting: You are hereby notified that
you, a. defendant; have been sued by
Henry B. Wortell, as plaintiff, in a cause
Of action set forth in petition now on file
in the clerks Office in the district court Of
Cherokee county, Kansas, sitting at Colum.
bus. and unless you plead to the same on
or before the 18th day of April. 1906. the
same will be taken as true and judgement
rendered % ,inst you, granting the plain.
40 q divorce from you on the grounds Of
abandonment for more than one year.
"A HENRY B. WoRRELL, Plaintiff.
- By A. L. MAJORS, his attorney.
J lsSAI
At,ess: ]. B. RUDOLPH, Clerk Of the Dis
trict Court.
% Bye H. McNAy, Deputy.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-03-22
MOUNT HOPE NEWS.

Mrs. Abe sWalley gave q quilting
Thursday, March 9Th, which wss 1t.
tended BY Mesdames olines, Pax.
con, Luckey, Gunderman, will
Swalley, and Miss Susie Luckey.
Mrs. W. B. Faucher entertained
the Earnest Workers at her home
on Thursday, Msrche. Those pres.
ent were Medicines wilbur, HaInes,
BuchHn, Living6ton, Beltxhoover,
callis, Hooker. Rools, r. o. Thomas,
sparIin, John Thomas and coe,
The day was spent % eating, quilt.
Ing, and social conversation Every
one present,hsd o. delightful time.
The farmers have been pushing
the Iork Until the recent IintFy
Weather. go - Z
slisl Myths thomas s;aitsrtai6sd
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-03-22
LOWELL. NEWS.

Will Winters and family moved
to Baxter Syringe Thursday.
Lowell hae one case oil measles.
Mrs. Gard and daughter, Treela.
bell, Mrs. Stuckey, Mrs. Hammett,
Ars. Cash Stuckey. all spent Wed.
uesday evening with Mr.. and Mira.
Davis.
Mics Gard and Misc Annie Roe
we're In Baxter Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver went to Bax.
ter Saturday morning to take the
s:l5 train for Cherryvale. where they
will make q Wait.
Ellsworth Chambers was home to
spend Sunday with HE mother.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-03-22
THURSDAY, MARCH ~.
GOOD ROADS.


EDITOR Nkws:-As the good
roads question 10 being discussed
quite extensively I thought ! would
add my mite, and will ssy that be-
lieve that the King drag 10 one OF
the coming implements for work.
ing roads. One man and Q team
can do more with . King drag In
two hours toward keeping the roads
in order at the the proper time land
that 10 just after . rain) than two or
three times that number could 81
any other time.
Now We want to cay that We don't
believe the townships could do
any thing that would be more bene.
fetal than to expend some money
for drags of that kind. Have SUIT
6cient number of them 90 that
those who seem disposed to drag
the roads could get one when they
wanted to use Il. II seems email
thing to ask the township to pro-
vide, but at the same time. when We
consider that every man has not the
material to make one, and besides
they are few men who have the
tools or the ability to make one, 90
you will see that in order to get
them in use IL will be necessary for
the townships to provide the drags'
We verify believe there 10 plenty OF
men who will be willing to spend
several days in . year for the bene'
at that they would get ont Of It for
their own use, and there 10 no ques.
ton but that IL the roads were kept
dragged and the holes and ruts
filled up that they would not wash
away 90 bad from heavy rains.
Every one who has travelled the
roads much knows that the roads
get rutted 10 dry weather four OF
Eve inches deep; then when heavy
rain comes the water follows those
ruts and the result 10 that great
CUTTERS are washed out aud great
damage done to the road, whereas. II
the ruts were kept filed Q great
deal of the damage would be
avoided.
10 the most natural thing in the
world for men and teams to follow
the ruts. Now II they were kept
flied and the roads kept level teams
would not follow the futs, but
would travel all over the road con.
sequently ruts would not get
started and the road would keep
smooth till the next rain, when the
same process should be gone over
again, and In the end We honestly
believe that IL would not take more
than half the work to keep the roads
in good order.
We wish the township officers
would consider the advisability 81
the scheme and would provide Q
few drags, and further provide the
material to to those who would
construct them, and We believe
there would be come improvement
Ia the roads.
Now let's hear what Good Roads"
has to cay to the scheme. SPEAK
up? Yours truly,
NEW CoNvERT.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-03-22
lFirst published March 8. 1891
Notice Of Final Settlement.

The state of kansas. Cherokee county So
In the probate court In and for said
county.
In the matter OF the estate Of Reuben
Polk. deceased. Creditors and all otheI
persons interested Ia the aforesaid estate,
are hereby notified that ut the regular
term of the probate court. In and for said
county. TO be begun ssd held at the pro-
bate court room. In Columbus. county OF
Cherokee. state aforesaid, on the hrst Mon
day In the month of April. A. d. 1909.
shall. on the 18th day Of April. 1905. apply
20 sSid court for full and Anal settlement
Of said estate. CHAs. /. SMITH.
Executor of the will Of Reuben Polk. de.
ceased
Columbus, Kansas, March Q, A. d. 1905.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-03-22
Special Rates Via Frisco.

Dallas, Texas.-March 10 TO Il,
1905. Live Stock Convention.
Fl. Worth, Texas.-March Y 10 "a,
1908. Live Stock Convention. For
the above occasions one fare plus
80 cents for the round trip. Dates
of sale March IL to 10 inclusive, and
March II to 20 inclusive; return linn.
il, March 81. 1905.
St. Louis, Mo,-Convention Com.
mercial Clubs of the Southwest,
April l6 to II, 1905. One fare plus
so cents for the round trip. Dates
April IA and Is. Return limit, April
10, 1900.
Mexico City, Mex.-Special excur'
sion rates, April rs to May 5, 1905.
One fret class fare for the round
trip. Final return limit. July 81, co.
St. Paul, Minn.-Biennial Meet,
ing, General Federation of Women's
Clubs. May 30 to June z, 1903. One
fare plus $500 for the round trip.
Dates of sale May %, %. 20. 30, 1906.
Final return limit, June 9, 1905.
Monte Ne, Ark. Effective March
1, one way rate $s.55, round trip $3.50
Sold daily.
Eureka Springs, Ark, round trip
rate $3.50. Sold daily.
Louisville, Ky, American Bowl.
ing Congress, March II to q. Dates
of sale March IS to IS, final return
limit March 81. One fare plus ~
for round trip. in. WILSON, Agt.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-03-22
DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL COM
MITTEE MEETING.

A meeting ofthe Democratic Cen.
trail Com mittee of Cherokee County
10 hereby called to be held 10 the
Office OF r. n. Cheshire, in Coium-
bus, Saturday, March n, 1909, at one
o'clock in the afternoon. Every
faembef Of the comds5flee 10 urged
to be present and ell others inter.
ested are cordially invited TO attend
the meeting.
N. T. ALLISON, Chairman,
E.w. YoUNeAAN, Secretary.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-03-22

into the creek and drowned.
MrssRansom PiEg and hrs. Han
nah Bar called on Mrs. i. b. Lytls
Saturday afternoon.
49,. BLUE MOUND.