Douglas Island news., 1910-07-27
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
Two Campaign Lies Mailed

Ing Dll TOT JuuStu, SldlSS' Nudl wickersham did was to introduce the bill in the House, and in the Senate the Wickersham bill was ineorpor- ated into the sundry Civil Bill and became a law" All of which is abso> lutely untrue The Douglas Island News published Q complete history of the bill in question, as gathered from the Congressional Record, and as everyone knows, the reports in the Congressional Record are official and one cannot any more deny such record than one can deny the records of court. The newspaper in ques- ton, and everyone else is defed to dis prove the facts set forth in the ar ticle which appeared in the Douglas Island News and afterwards publish ed in The Record regarding this mat Ser.
 Attention of the public anc the voters is called to the fact that there is in the office of the. governor, as well as at the Elk's Club in Juneau, all of the numbers of the Congress sional Record referred to in the ar ticle in question and the News con- t4ntion can be verified from them.
 The bill that passed and gaze Ju- ncau the money was H. R, No. 26,9S7 Known as the General Deficiency Appropriation Bill (see Congressional Record under date of June 21, 1910 P. 43S7). The fact iS that at tho extra session of Congress, year ago, Wickersham Introduced a bill GIT. R. 1O576) for public building at Ju- neau and the same was referred to the House Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds in June, 1909 and it never emerged from that com mittee and with that committee it died through Wickersham's neglect. Anybody who scrutinizes the Congress sional Record index in support of this statement. will find from such pub- llcatiOn that WickerSham's bill was never reported by the House Com- uittee or any other Committee.
 The Dispatch under the same date, in an article evidently written by it's legal adviser. in commenting upon "The Act Extending the Time in which to File Adverse Claims and Institute Adverse Suits Against Min- srai Interests in the District of Alas Ka. states: There is nothing vlc- ious regarding the new law, as no intolerance is placed in the way of mining claim locators as their assess ment work stops from the time the patent publication starts" Every miner in the country knows this is untrue. The assessment work must be kept up until final entry is made, the money paid into the Land Office and Receivers Certificate issued. Go and ask the Register of the Land office if this isn't true! Also. read the law, and ask the Register of the Land Office if he has not been in- structed by the Commissioner of the General Land Office and Secretary of the Interior not to make final entry of any mining claim until the eighth month period mentioned in the new law expires. and not even then, if an adverse claim Is fled
 In connection with this matter, at tention has been called to Lindley on Mines. Vol. ?, pages 11S1,section 6S2 wherein this author says: "The mere pendaney of patent proceedings does not. prior to the issuance of certif- Icate of purchase, excuse the perfor- nance of annual labor" Also, in support of the contention, the further authorities have figured in eases of this character: "The Marburg Lode Mining Claim" found in volume 30, page POP, Decisions of the Depart ment of the Interior, also "the case of Benson Mining and Smelling com- pany vs. Alta Mining and Smelling company 145 U. S., 42S)" Then you have Lindley on Mines the Lend De- partment and the Supreme Court of the United States against the state ments made in the Dispatch pertain fng to the last mentioned matter which is the truth?-Juneau Record. 
 The Valdez Prospector is not inclined to be humble, but on the contrary shows it's spirit of independence in the