The Alaska daily empire., 1912-12-10
Alaska
 Matters

SEATTLE, Dec. Tt is report
 ed here on excellent authority that
 the gold output Of the Iditarod coun
 try win this year reach three millions
 or a little better The Yukon Gold
 Company, a Guggenhelm corporation
 is credited with having taken out a
 million from August 15 to the clos
 ing down of operations, with one
 dredge working. They cleaned up
 every four days aud according to the
 statement made, the smallest clean. up was 54,OOO and the largest $SS,, 900.
 Otter creek, on which the Guggen. helms had options, has not passed in to their hands; the options having lapsed. Riley & Marston's on Dis. coyery claim, Otter, increased their price and purchased lotof adjoin- ing ground. Their option price was $SOOOO.
 Representatiye.elect Milo Kelly, of Jlnik. is out in an interview here in which the statement is made that the Alaska legislature will petition President Wilson to retain the pres cit federal officials in Alaska, on the grounds of experience and various other qualities. Democrats and Re- npblicans here alike laugh at the statement-not because there are not lacking Republican officials in Alas. ka who have had experience and who have given satisfaction-but because the Democrats have been so long ab' sent from the "pie.counter," that ex- perience and qualifications for offices ere not likely to avail them to any extent in their efforts to retain their offices. Those who know Mir. Kelly well, say he must have been perpetrat- ing one of his jokes on a newspaper writer. Kelly himself Is Repub- lican.
 Juneau is not likely the only place in Alaska that is experiencing min ing boom. The Kougarok district of Seward peninsula, is attracting much attention. James Kelliher took in a dredge to the Kougarok last win te, and last summer it paid all eX. penses incurred in three clean-ups, so next summer will see three more dredges going in there, and there is now quite scramble for river chan nel ground.
 The proposed impeachment pro- ceeding against Judge c, D. Murane, of the Second judicial division is causing some little excitement here and quite a few are wondering if it will end there. Probably 1t will, in view of the fact that there will be a administration after March i, and it will be passed up to. the Democrats who can use the charges against Judge Murane as a. Dretext for removing him from office, if they so desire.
 There have been several columns of newspaper notoriety over the Mu- rane matter and the Tiberg case. Ti- lcrg was arrested at the instance of the Pioneer Mining Company, off Nome, on an indictment charging him with having stolen some $14OOO from the company's sluice boxes while i'm the employ of that company. He was tried last fall at Nome and was &C., cuitted. He is now sueing the Pic. neer Company and Deputy Marshal Joel F. Warren and other, who made the arrest, for $66O,OOO damages for false arrest, and also for the return of his $14.OOO which was taken from him and which he has not been able to get back. This $14,OOO was in the shape of a draft on a Seattle bank, and when Tiberg was acquitted the craft was a part of the court records, and when his attorneys claimed and