The daily Alaskan., 1908-10-13
DOME CREEK CASES SETTLEDi

The fact the famous Dome creek cases were tried before Judge GunnIson of this district and that the lawyers on both sides came all the way out from Fairbanks last summer to argue points before the court iu this city will give additional Interest here 10 the announce ment that the case. so long snd bitterly fought in the courts has at last been settled out of it. The Fairbanks Times, In heavy black face type, three-column measure, announces the settlement as follows:
 The so-called "Dome creek case," the source of more mischief and heavy damage to the general interest of the Tanaua than any other factor is ended.
 The great piece of news, vouchsaied by all parties to both sides of the famous litigation, comes ss the result of negotiations that were brought to sn end when Captain BsrnetJe, ct al on the one side and Fernand de Journal, ct al, who had so bitterly fought him in the couI ts, affixed their name to an agreement in which 1t is provided that the claims of all are forever settled, and that the owners stipulated by the instrument shall remain in peaceful and uncoutested possession.
 The ground involved is the iamously rich bench claims, and below in the first tier on the right limit. Captain Baruetts, John L. McGinn, Mark Sulli- van, Henry Cook and Jack Ride-our are the claimants to whom perfect title is given by the agreement. The terms Of settlement were sl5O,OOO 8 substan- tIal cash payment being made upon the signing of the agreement, with the re- maiuder to be turned over st later intervals.
 Thus is drawn to 8 close the greatest piece of mining litigation the north has ever known, law shit, that, having its beginning in an insignificant contro- Yersy between Captain Barnette anG associates ou the one side and the allied original locatOrs of the ground jumped in the association sEaking on the other, grew and expanded until every member of the Tanans Bar association was involved, lined up on one side or the other; an action that caused entirely new principles of law tu be worked out. The cou llry's most sub sEantisl mining and professional men were frs. rent by the dispute; soon the whole Panama wsS drawn into the wrangle and naturally peaceful people was split into vindictiye factions, eternally aE war. The case brought into question the integrity of the divisions Unued States cour. and even brought Washington into the wrangle, for Judge Wlckersham re- fused to sit in judgment because Of the aspersions aud lusinuations that were common gossip, aud the department had to send a judge from another diyis- ion to hear the trial.
 In a money sense the effect of the case was tremendous. It arrested de- yelopment of the very heart Of the Tan, sna's richest psYstresk. One below contains probably more than sl,OO0,OOO worth of gold, and all other properties involved are believed to be rich ss well,
 Worse than all the foregoing the dispute had finally grown to the pro portions of life and death struggle; one litigan., Jack RIdenour, having been shot down by another during a quarrel over the ground.
 This summary Of the vast significance the settlement is to the Tanana is far from complete, but eYen so 1t will servH