The Alaska citizen., 1910-10-10
ALLEGED TRESPASS
 SUIT FILED
OWNERS OF WILD GOOSE BRING SUIT AGAINST OWL
 OWNERS.
ENGINEER CLAIMS INVOLVED
Complaint Charges That a Block of Ground on the Wild Goose Ground Was Secretly Worked Out By Own CTS of Adjoining Claim.

On Friday suit was filed in the district court by the owners of the Wild Goose association claim on En- ginecr creek against the owners of the owl association claim. which ad- joins the Wild Goose. alleging that the laymeH on portion of the Owl claim had trespassed on the Wild Goose claim and had extracted therefrom auriferOus Eravcls to he value of ten thousand dollars In their com plaiut they claim actual damages in the sum of ten thousand dollars and punitive damages 10 the same amount
 The suit is entitled Charles L. Thompson, Ed McArdle, C. P. Ped ersen, Al Moreucy, Robert J Geis Louis Ballard Jane Johnson. Peter Nidoyich and Morton F. Stevens vs Charles Schaefer. F. A. Williams Dora Williams. H. II. Mcdonald. the First National Bank of Fairbanks and the Washington-Alaska bank
 The complaint. after alleging that the defendants. E. A Williams. Dora Williams and II. H. Mcdonald. are the owners of the Owl Association claim on Engineer creek ayers that the plaintiffs are the owners of the Wild Goose Association claim. on
 Engineer, which adjoins the Owl association on the right limit thereof for a distance of about 3112 feet.
 l. then states that on March 6. 1909. the owners of the Owl and the Wild Goose in a written con tract agreed upon a dividing line, which line has been recognized by the owners and laymen of the TWO claims ever since,
 The sixth section of the complaint states that the defendant E. A Will liams has been mining, as agent of the owners of the Owl claim under T lease from his cO-owrers. a DOT tioa of tLe owl claim lying along the dividing line between the two olaims for a distance of j1S feet more or less. and that the defendant Schaefer now is and for long time has been thc mining foreman for Williams. and as such has had charge of the min ' ,l.
 In the next section il is charged that the defendant Schaefer acting particularly for the benefit of the sad defendant r. A. Williams, and himself in his mining operations, . within eight months last past, know inCly. WnlaWiully, maliciously and ] with the intent to cheat and defraud 1 the plaintiffs drove a tunnel across said dividing line between the two i claims and into the Wild Goose claim 1. fer q distance of sixty feet, more or less. and did thereafter open up mine in the Wild Goose claim and l extract large quantities of gold there | from, the exact value of which is | unknown to plaintiffs, but which is | believed to be not less than $10.00O | That the said Schaefer, acting as foreman for defendant, Williams, car. | ried all of the auriferous gravel | of the said value of $10,O0O into the | Owl association claim and hoisted | the same to the surface of the ground | together with other auriterous gravel . from the said Owl claim, thereby f mixing the gravels of said claims and | SluiCed and washed the said gravels and cleaned up the gold therefrom and delivered the same to the defen- dant E. A. Williams and to the de- fendants Dora Williams and H. H. Mcdonald, and that said cleanups of gold dust were from time to time de livered to the defendant, First Ma ti0nal band, and the defendent Wash ingtonA!aska bank, and it's predeces- sors, the Fairbanks Banking Com pany. and that the said gold dust was by the defendants F. A. Will Hams, Dora Williams and H. H. Me Donald. sold to the defendant banks and the proceeds thereof divided among all of the defendants herein except the defendant banks. and the plaintiffs further allege that all of such proceeds or a portion thereof are now in the possession of the First National bank and the Wash ington-Alaska bank.
 Alleging that the defendants, other than the defendants banks. had gull ty knowledge of the wrongful acts Of their agent Schaefer, and that they threaten to remove the S1O.O00 from the jurisdiction of the court, the plaintiffs demand judgment against the defendants Charles Scha-