The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-09
Action to Collect Two Hundred
Thirty Thousand Dollars.
STORY OF RICH STRIKE
Peter Anderson, Poor Mission
airy, Found a Valuable Claim.
Religious Society Which Sent
Him Out Sued Him.

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ceeds of claim number 9 on Anvil
Creek, in the Cape Nome district of
Alaska in which Peter H Anderson OF
Chicago, formerly of Kansas, who
blossomed out as a millionaire from a
poor missionary is a defendant has
reached the United States circuit court
after a circuitous route through state
and national courts.
Attorneys for Nels O. HuItberg the
plaintiff, fled suit in the United States
circuit court here Saturday against
Peter H Anderson and thirty-four 9TH
ers for the recovery of $232, 600 which
the plaintiff claims is being WrougfuI1y
concealed from him
The tale OF Anderson's fortunes reads
like novel from Frank Merriwether.
In 1897 Anderson was a student at
North Park college at Chicago a de-
1ominatiOaaI school under the manage
ment of the Swedish Evangelical Cove
nsnt- 1t is alleged that for three years
Anderson had been fed and educated at
the expense of the Covenant and in 1897
he left for Alaska as q missionary and
shortly thereafter he acquired claim
to a valuable placer mine on Anvil
creek from which he took out 1850, 900
in six years. It is stated that this
placer mine was acquired by Anderson
in trust for the Covenant but that he
turned the proceeds in other channels
and used II 70 further his own personal
fortunes in acquiring other mines
When the Covenant heard of the rich
ness of claim number on Anvil creek
they sought to get possession and later
NeIS O. Hultberg secured the rights of
the Covenant to the claim on the prop
erty- In an attempt to settle the own
ersnip Of the placer between HuItberg
and Anderson It was decided to leave
the dispute TO a board OF arbitration
consisting Of Abram NJ Pence of Chi
ago, an attorney; David F. Lane Of
Berkeley California, a mining man, and
Hiram F. Gilbert Of Chicago, an attOr-
ney
The board of arbitration decided that
the placer properly belonged to HuIe-
berg and that CIaes w johnson and
were in partnership with Anderson
based on the placer should pay over
$3.50 to Hultberg. that Anderson should
pay $232. 600, in addition to $500 in costs
This decision was supported later
by an order from the circuit court of
Cook county. Illinois in 1904 In April
1905. the state supreme court affirm
ed the decision of Cook county court.
Anderson brought an appeal to the
United States supreme court on wrfts
OF error but lost because of the courts
want Of jurisdiction The dismissal of
the appeal came on May 81, 1907.
CIaes W. Johnson and the White Star
company. paid. over their $26,-
UOb DuE refer H. ANDERSON, ! Is as
serted, has failed to make a payment.
Writs Of attachment were secured
from the district court in Dickinson
county against Peter H Anderson and
F'rideborg A Anderson. his wife, for
property held by them These Wrfts
are still in effect In January of this
year Judgment was secured against
the two plaintiffs in the same district
court and property sold to satisfy the
Judgment. the property, however, it is
claimed netted on a sale but $4,000
Hultberg alleges that in reality An
dersou is possessed of considera Bile
IN order to evade the payment of the |
s232 900 which is justly due It is |
stated the defendants named, pretend (
10 hold under a species OF trust ar
-augemeut moneys and property be-
onEfng to Anderson, and Hultberg
that he knows for q verify that {
Anderson has at least $4,000. Among
hose named as acting trustees are the 1
Mcpherson bank. Swedish German
State bank Citizens State bank. Peo-
,Ie's State bank. Farmers and Mer-
chants bank and the school assoeia-
ion of the Swedish Evangelical Mis-
ociatfor under whose auspices a col
ege was founded by Anderson at Nc
oharsou Anderson secured consider
bile prominence upon his return from
he KIondike when he announced that
- would scatter a portion OF his
wealth among his fellow countrymen
" the esta bIishment of a denomina-
iouaI college III
p c Little of Abilene and David
Richie of SaIina are the attorneys for
IuItberg-