The Alaska citizen., 1916-07-03
.OF INTEREST ID ALASKANS
ANOTHER SUIT BROUGHT.

district court for the Third judic al division of Alaska, suit was started on Saturday morning by John end Frank Ballaine against the Alaskl Northern railroad to recover s4jO .0et been sustained as the result of tho action of the Canadian bondnolder which kept the plaintiff out of the when lots there had value and b fore Judge Brown decided that t.., Ballaines owned the townsite
 In connection with the suit filed Saturday, papers Were served on the Alaskan Engineering comInis. sion. This suit may result in the withholding Of the final payment of the $650,000 which is due the Ca nadian bondholders on July !
 SENATE PASSES BILL.
 WASHINGTON, D c. June 2S The senate this afternoon passed the sundry civil bll appropr atm . in all s12S0OO 900. O. this amou { an appropriation O $6247,160 was made for the construction of a gov ernment railroad in Alaska Tner, was no opposition t. the biI n the senate.
 BIRCH COMING NORTH.
 SEATTLE June 28.-St-p'.n' Birch arrived in Seattle today en- route to Alaska He states that the Utah Copper and the Braden Mines company are in the market for Alaska properties and that they will improve the Latouche and Bo- nanza plants MT Birch Is accom- panied by his wife. who was Mary Rand. of Minneapolis They will sail for Alaska on July fifth.
 IN ALASKAN WATERS.
 SEATTLE. June 28.-In compli- ance with the wishes of the deceased and with his promise to the de ceased, Barney McGee, of Skagway. will cast into the sea the rAmaine of the late R. E. Nixon, the well known hotel man.
 After MT. NiXon's death the body was cremated and MT McGee is taking the ashes north on the steam ship Alameda, which sailed las, night.
 DRY CAMPAIGN STARTS.
 DAWSON. |. T, June 29.-TsC Yukon legislature today passed an ordinance providing for the refer enle to the electors of the Yukon territory the question of prohibition not later than the first day of Sep tember of this year.
 The action was taken on a peti- tion submitted by an organization of the people oi the Yukon terrr tory known as the Yukon Prohibi tion Movement" The leaders of the Dry" forces claim that the pc tition they presented to the Yukon legislature represents two-thrds cf the qualified voters of the terri tory, and they declare that victor! for the "Drys" Is certain.
 On the other hand the "Wets" presented a petition to the legisla- ture, containing about one, third the number of names as that presented by the "Drys" Both sides argued lature The "Drys" won the first round.
 NEW RULING MADE.
 JUNEAU, June 30.-In releasing Councilman R. H. Vuch, of Haines, on a habeaS corpus warrant today, Judge Jennings decided that. under the Alaska code, United States com missions in Alaska must give a jury trial to all defendants answer ing to a criminal charge, even though the defendant waive d jury trial. before a conviction can be sustained against them in commissioner s court
 Immediately after Councilman Euch was released he was rearrested upon the same charge that of destroying (wilful destruction of) a fence erect ed by J. w. Coombs, deputy mar shal at Haines, over ground which had been used as public highway for years and which had recently been located under the homestead laws by Coombs as an SO-rod strip of homestead ground,
 Judge Jennings decision in the Nuch habeas corpus proceedings de- clares that Section 2527 of the Com- piled Laws of Alaska passed by con gress is void because it is viola tion of Section ? of Article 3 of the Constitution of the United States and of the Sixth Amendment, and holds that neither the government nor defendants can waive jurie9 IT such cases.
 WHAT WILL WE DO'
 JUNEAU, June 30.-This evening Governor Strong wired Washington to ascertain the present status of Alaska under the new act, the un- ierstanding being necessary recause of the large number of applications made by Alaskans for enlistment in the Federal volunteer service to fight against Mexico.
 FORMING BAR ASSOCIATION.
 JUNEAU, June 30,-Owing to the fact that Judge Jennings is un- able to keep the calendar clear in the First judicial division, there is movement on foot here to get an associate judge, A bar associa- tion is also being organized. In the future the authorities expect to be more careful about admitting attor- neys to practice. as it is charged that some of the new ones arriving from the States are men who were disbarred on the Outside.
 Before anyone is admitted in the future he must be thoroughly investi- eated by the bar association.
 WICK AFTER TRUSTS.
 WASHINGTON, D. C., June 30.- Charges were filed with the Inter- state Commerce Commission today by Delegate Wickersham of Alaska that the United States Smelling X Refining Co.,, (the "Smelter Trust -Guggenheim) dominates practically all the railway lines in Alaska cni the steamship lines between Sc attle and San Francisco and Alaska
 The commission immediately is sued a general service upon them all including the Alaska Steamship