The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-22
"OLD WAY GOOD ENOUGH

With the quartz development well under way there seems to be al this time nothing to hinder it's rapid progress bur the possibility of iltlgahon. the ancient bugbear of all Hlhing camps. Fairbanks has al ready had more than it's share of this curse and it's miners are well posted as 10 it's evils. so it is to be hoped and expected all possible steps will be taken to see it does not get as tight hold Cf the quartz as ii did Of the placer mining business
 The greatest possible menace to the miner who honestly starts on the development of a quartz claim is the professional tunnelsite stalk CT, who. in his way. is much more detrimental to the camp than the claim jumper. It was hoped that this question had been disposed of couple of years ago. and there was to be no more trouble: but already there are rumors to the ef feet that enc. at least. of these pencil miners is getting busy again Tn the hope of being able to hold up the owners Of a promising prop erty in which hundreds of the resi- dents Of the camp have taken stock "O years ago, when rope was placed around this mans neck. fol loWlng the custom which worked so well in the old days of the miners meetings called to deal with claim jumping, he was made to take up the stakes he had set out with such abandon, and il was hoped that the scare he received at that time was enough to hold him during the rest of his stay in the district. Re cent developments would indicate, however. that the rope was not pull ed tight enough.
 10 the credit of the members of the local bar, be it said, there has not been found one lawyer. we are informed. willing 10 take this case into the courts. We choose to be lleVe that this stand has been taken by the lawyers because they are convinced the would-be holdup is not actuated by a single honest motive.
 Those men who are doing the work in the hills, which is opening up so bright future for the camp. are prospecting properties they have every reason to believe they own. l ne fact that some two or three years ago tunnelsite was stalk ed in the neighborhood on which there has since been done no req sonable amount of work. should not be allowed to interfere with their operations, and it is not likely that will Tho mi Df Io mile and Circle districts had a way. which seldom needed repetition, of convincing claim jumpers of their mistake, and there are quite a few Of those oldtimers here who have not forgotten the efficacy of the treatment.
 Let the camp stand as unit in the determination to help the honest prospector and go the limit in the punishment of the man who seeks to enrich himself dishonesty at that prospector's expense, and also in that of the lawyer who helps him in his dirty work"
 with the intent, then and there, to injure and defame the said Peter Steil, to whom the aforesaid article printed and published, and caused to be printed and published by the said defendants, particularly re- ferred, especially the last two sen tences of the second paragraph of the above quoted publication, all contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the United States of America
 Dated at Fairbanks, in the Divis- ion and Territory aforesaid, this fifth day of January, A. D. one thor- sand nine hundred and twelve.
 JAMES J. CROSSLEY
 United States District Attorney.
 The names of the witnesses ex- amined before the grand jury upon the finding of the foregoing indict- ment are as follows:
 Peter Steil, Larry Gleason, John F. Dillon, E. L. Scrafford, Louis 1 Golden, Lew B. Clark, Peter McDon- aid, William Jackson. C. E. David l son.