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The daily progressive-miner., 1917-12-24
DEPARTMENT OF INTERI OR CLEARS UP
 MIDDLE CREATED BY JAMES VvICKERSHAM

, ion as to whether said resolution is rendered imperative as to certain Al aska mining claims by section 3 of the act of April 2L 1915, of the Alas ka legislature.
 This Alaska act is based upon and follows with some amplification the provisions of section 1 of the act of August 1, 1912 (37 Stat. 242), which reads:
 That no association placer mining claim shall hereafter be located in Alaska in excess of forty acres, and on every placer-mining claim hereaf- ter located in Alsaka, and until pat ent has been issued thereafor, not less than one hundred dollars worth of labor shall be performed or improve ments made during each year, includ- ing the year of location, for each and every twenty acres or excess fraction thereof.
 The mining laws of the United States which were extended to Alaska first, by the act of May IT, 1884 (23 Stat, 24) and again by section 26 of the act of June 6, 1900 (31 Stat, 92D, including said section 2324, of the Re vised Statutes, referred to in the joint resolution. These laws were, as to lands in Alaska, amended by the act of arch ?, 1907, (35 Stat, 1243), and said act of August l, 1912.
 By the act of December 1, 1913 (3S Stat, 235). entitled. An act to amend section twenty three hundred and twenty four of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to min ing claims" it was declared:
 That the provision of section twen- ty three hundred and twenty four of the Revised Statutes of the United States, which requires that on each claim located after the tenth of May eighteen hundred and seventy two, and until patent has been issued there for. not less than one hundred dollars worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made during each year, be suspended for the year nineteen hundred and thirteen as to mining claims situated on Seward Peninsular, in the District or Territory of Alaska west of longitude one hundred and fifty eight west and north of latitude sixty four, so that no mining claim which has been regularly located and recorded as required by the local and mining regulations within such area so described shall be subject to for feiture for non-performance of the an nual assessment for the year nineteen hundred and thirteen.
 The latter act was clearly a legisla- tive recognition, if not indeed posi-
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-12-24
Serial 02924 UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE, Juneau Alaska

Notice is hereby given that Wards ion, has filed in the U. S. Land Office for Juneau Land District, at Juneau, Alaska, it's application to purchase un- der and pursuant to the provisions of Section 10 of the Act of May IA, 1898, as Trade and Manufacturing Site, the following tract of land situated on the Northeast shore of Wards Cove on Tongass Narrows, navigable arm of the Pacific Ocean, and on Revillagig- edo Island, at latitude 55' 23' 30" N, and longitude 131o 43' 50" w., in the Territory of Alaska, designated as U. S. Survey Mo- 1907, and more partic- ularly described as follows, to-wit: Commencing at corner Mo- 1,
 at line of mean high tide of Wards Cove; whence U. s. L. M. No. ?
 bears N. 15o 25' E. 57.33 chs. dist;
 thence s. 42o 55' E. TIP chs. dst;
 to corner No. 2; thence s. 47' 05' w. 1461 chs. to corner No. 3; thence N. 420 55' w. TYP chs. to
 corner No. 4; situated on line of
 mean high tide on Wards Cove;
 ttonce along the meander line
 of Wards Cove. in general North
 easterly direction to corner No. 1:
 tie place of beginning; containing
 1850 acres. Mag. var. 290 35' D.
 A duly authenticated copy of the plat of said Survey No. 1907, together with a notice of the said application n purchase, were duly posted at a
 oicuous place upon said premises l-a 2nd day of October A. D., Nine- cen Hundred and Seventeen.
 T d at Juneau, Alaska, Oct. 23, l917.
 c. B. WALKER, Register. First Pub. No. 1, 1917.
 Last Pub. Jan. II, 1918.
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-12-24
Ketchikan Progressive Miner,
 Ketchikan. Alaska.

Ketchikan Progressive Miner, Ketchikan. Alaska.
 December 8, 1917 Dear MT. Rivard:--
 Because of t1e great fuss that has been stirred up by Mir. Wickersham labout the law suspending the assess ment work on mining claims, I took up the matter with the Secretary of the Interior. and he has answered me in great detail. I am enclosing a let ter which includes the opinion of the Department of the Interior. If you would be kind enough to print it, am sure it would be greatly appreciated.
 With best wishes and kind regards. believe me, I am,
 Sincerely yours,
 CHAS. A. SULZER,
 Delegate from Alaska
 Following the passage by Congress of the Senate resolution providing for the suspension of assessment work on all mining claims during the years 1917 and 1918, I was surprised to find that certain persons were attempting to dscredit the operation of this law, so far as Alaska was concerned. The former Delegate to Congress raised the point that the Federal law could not supersede the territorial law, and some attorneys in Alaska attempted to show that the Waskey act, passed in 1907, established requirements for Alaska which were not suspended by the resolution which passed the last Congress unanimously.
 Upon my return to Washington at the opening of the present session of Congress on the subject, l conferred with the Secretary of the Interior on the subject submitting some of the newspaper comments which had been made on the law.
 Today I received the following let ter from the Department of the Inter- for signed by First Assistant Secre- tary, Alexander T. Vegelsang:
 Hon Charles A. Sulzer,
 House of Representatives My dear Mr. Sulzer.
 You have recently requested my opinion on the question as to whether Joint Resolution No. F, of the 65th Congress, approved October ,. 1917, entitled Joint Resolution To suspend the requirements of annual assess ment work on mining claims during the years nineteen hundred and seven teen and nineteen hundred and eigh- teen" applies to the territory of Alas ka.
 In that connection you submit two newspaperclipping from which ap pears that there Is difference of opin-
The daily progressive-miner., 1917-12-24

FOUND-A double-ender rowboat, painted white Apply at the Baden baugh shipyard across the bay.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-23
Mrs. E. N. MOrSman Head
Of the Fine Arts Society

Mysterious Miss Snyder" caused
brief sensation at the meeting of the
Omaha Society of Fine Arts, which
was held at the Fontenelle Thurs
day. The report of the nominating
committee had been presented and
the president had called for further
nominations.
Miss Snyder" came the call from
the back of the room. With a start
the members turned to see that at the
psychological moment a page had
thrust his head in at the door, calling
for Miss Snyder.
Mrs. Edgar NJ. Morsman, Jr., was
unanimously elected president; Mrs.
J. E. Summers, first vice president;
Mrs. Palmer Findley, second vice
president; Mrs. Duncan NJ. Vinson-
haler, secretary; Mrs. w. J. Hynes,
treasurer; Mrs. Charles r. Kountze,
member Of the executive committee:
Mrs. Leonard Everett, chairman of
the lecture committee; Mrs. Ward
NJ. Burgess, exhibition; Mrs. Walter
D. Williams, membership; Mrs. Louis
{. Nash, courtesies; Miss Ida B.
Wilson, publicity; Mrs. George B.
Prinz, house and grounds. and Mrs.
Charles O'Neill Rich, auditing COM
mittee.
Six hundred and sixty-eight men,
bers constitute the Fine Arts society.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-23
Discovers How InfantiIe
.... PARALYSIS is Spread

Rutland, VT, March 22.-Announce-
mcnt that DR.. Edward Taylor, profess
sor of tropical medicine at the Uni
versity of Vermont, had made an
important discovery as to the man
ner in which infantilc paralysis is
spread. was made today by DR..
Charles S. Cavcrly, president Of the
state board OF health.
"Dr. Taylor has apparently shown"
DR.. Caverly said, that diseased
noses and throats allow the passage
OF the virus into the central nervous
system, while normal noses and
throats seem to neutralize this poison.
The simple process of, cleansing the
nose and throat with warm water in
which table salt has been dissolved
is perhaps as good preventative as
we have
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-23
CZAR'S PALACE NEST
OF GERMAN SPIES
Petrograd Journal Says Mem
bers Of Court Clique Will
Be Tried for Treason.
RAsPUTIN A GERMAN TOOL

Petrograd, March 2l.--Via Lon
don, March 22.)--The Russkia VOLTA,
in a long unsigned article. exposes
what it terms the treason of the court
clique and alleges that Tsarskoe Selo
was "nest of German spies" The
paper says that a special committee
has been appointed to investigate the
Grimes of former ministers during
the last bacchanalan nightmare years
of the dynasty, on which Rasputin put
the final touches" The article says
in part:
"The first crime was treason, ard
espionage had its nest in the palace.
The court was partly and chiefly Ger
man, and the pitiful role of Sturmer
in his efforts to drag Russia toward a
separate peace was known every
where. The press of our allies accused
Russia of giving Germany Russian
military secrets.
"Alexei Khvostoff. who was dis
missed as minister of the interior be-
cause he aimed to divorce Nicholas
and Alexandra and kill Rasputin, de-
clared to friends that he had docu-
ments showing the connection be-
tween the court and Berlin, and that
Rasputin was surrounded by German
spies, who were sending out military
secrets, easily learned from the
drunken monk. Khvostoff, himself
one of the band of dark forces, did
nothing to hinder the treason at
Tsarskoe Selo.
1--WE know from the letter Of Cen
eral Guchkoff, minister of war, to
General Alexieff, that Sturmer and
Belaief refused England's offer to
give half a million rifles to the Rus
sian army. Similar facts have been
collected by the defense committee Of
the imperial Duma. We know the
consequence of General Soukhomli-
noff's doings when he was only gov
ernor of Kiev and when he surrounded
himself with spies. His nearest friend
was commander of the Austrian spy
organization. Our military secret
service knew, but could do nothing.
The result of his treason was a Rus
sian defeat. costing millions of lives.
What are we to do now? Allow Mich
olas to live in beautiful Livadia,
among the flowers he was so fond of
and among the conditions of freedom
he always denied TO others? Allow
him to do this, so that he may Or
ganize other dark forces for tho re-
establishment OF the Romanoffs?
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-23
U. S. TO REJECT
NEUTRAL OFFER
FOR MEDIATION
Kaiser Back of Plan to Create
a Division of Sentiment
in the American
Congress.
WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED
Proposition Cannot Be Dis,
cussed Till After Subsea
Campaign is Abandoned.
ARMY AND NAVY ARE BUSY

Washington. March 22.-Offers Of
mediation to prevent actual war be-
tween the United States and Ger
many are expected among the next
Developments,
Administration officials heard TO-
day that European neutral was
contemplating such plan, and they
frankly regarded it as another ef-
fort, backed by Germany, 10 divide
sentiment in congress AMI cmbarrass
the president.
1t was declared authoritativcly to-,
day that no proposals of mediation
or for discussion will be considered
unless Germany first abandons the
campaign of ruthlessncss.
All administration officials, from
the president down, take the position
that the United States never has and
does not now desire war with Ger
many, but is being forced into il TO
protect lives and rights of its citizens
against unlawful aggression. r
Unless Germany is prepared TO
completely change its position, it was
declared today, offers of mediation
and discussion are useless. Germany.
it was recalled, never accepted former
Secretary Bryan's proposal to sign
one of his peace investigation"
treaties, which would have bound the
United States to inaction for year,
while commission investigated the
situation. -
Meanwhile every preparation for
any cventuality is being carried for
ward by the army and navy, and the
president is awaiting the assembling
OF congress.
Unless there is some great change
in the situation before April 2, it is
expected he will detail in his address
how Germany has in fact been max
ing war against the United States by
the ruthless operation Of its U boats
and leave 1t TO congress to declare
state oft~ar existing and -otc. nlnney,
and men to protect the interests OF
the United States.
Plan to Aid Entente.
I Plans for rendering financial assist
ance to the entente allies in case OF.
war between the United States and
Germany are under consideration iii-
formally by the federal reserve board
and other government officials.
Two courses are said to have been
prcsented-one, the placing OF gem
eral credits to entente governments
in this country by individual banks
to greater extent than heretofore;
the other, official action by the United
States government in placing large
sum at the disposal Of the entente.
Should the latter course be adopted
it is thought possible the government
would raise the sum desired by bond
issue TO be designated for that pur-
pose, the proceeds to be loaned as
needed to France, Great Britain and
probably other entente governments.
Plans are said to be still in forma-,
tive stage and may not be definitely
shaped until after congress convenes
April 2.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-23
Chairman LOvett
Says Car Shortage
Is Only Apparent

Washington. March 22.-Unusual
shipping conditions, caused chieflyNby
the European war, arc mainly re-
sponsible for the unfounded belief
that a freight car shortage exists in
this country, R. S. Lovett, chairman
OF the Union Pacifc's executive
board, testified today before the New
lands investigating committee.
IF shipping were normal and
there was not abuse of the use OF cars
by consigners, ! don't think there
would be serious shortage" he said.
Senator Cummins, member OF the
committee, declared in the course OF
Mr.. Lovett's examination that he be-
lieved the strong railroads should
take over the weak il, order that all
might make a profit. Mr.. Lovett said
this plan scarcely could be carried out
without government ownership or the
repeal OF the antitrust laws.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-23
McAlIister Champions Bill
To Publish County Tax List

Lincoln. March 22.-(Special) -
Senator McAllister OF Neigh was cas-
lily the head-liner in the senate today
and the large crowd which had gath
cred to hear a discussion OF the prohi-
bition bill heard the Antelope county
statesman deliver two speeches.
The bill under consideration was
one compelling the publication in
newspapers OF the tax list in each
county. Senator McAllister favored it
on the ground that it would compel
tax dodgers to do their share.
The bill was sent to third reading
by vote OF q 10 II.
House Roll No. 207, the Bates bill
distributing 10 per cent Of $4l5,000
rental on school lands among the
western Nebraska counties in proper
ton TO the amount of unsold school
lands in those counties, was recon-
mendcd 10 pass.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-23
Cousin of Kaiser
Reported Killed in
An Airplane Raid

Berlin March 22.-(By Wireless to
Sayville. e.)-Announcement is made
that an airplane pioted by Prince
Friedrich Karl, a cousin of Emperor
William, has not returned from a raid
over the lines between Arras and Pc
rome.
Prince Friedrich Karl and his
brother. Prince Friedrich Sigismund
sons of Prince Friedrich Leopold of
Prussia, joined the German flying
corps in January. Prince Friedrich
Karl was % years old, two years the
junior of his brother.
These princes have been enthusias-
tic sportsmen and before the war
Prince Sigismund designed a success
ful airplane. Prince Karl in his teens
was known as the finest cavalier OF
the German princes. He was one of
the German officers who participated
i'll the Olympic games at Stockholm,
where he won prizes against the most
experienced army riders of the world.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-23
All Members of
ROmanOff House
Give Selves Up

London, March 22.-(12:l5 p. ny
All the members of the former Rus
sian dynasty have placed themselves
at the disposition of the provisional
government, according to a Reuter-
dispatch from Petrograd. Grand
Duke Cyril has resigned his COM
mand of the naval guards.
Nicholas Romanoff, as the deposed
emperor is now known, departed Sun
day for his estate at Livadia, in the
Crimea. It has been understood that
he would be permitted to live in re-
tirement at that place, far removed
from the capital and the scenes of
military operations. s a ..
Accounts of his last hours as ruler
of Russia depicted him as resigned to
his fate and determined not to stand
against the wishes of the people.
Nothing has been heard, however. in
regard to the attitude of the former
empress, a German, whose powerful
influence at the Russian court is said
to have been exerted against all
democratic tendencies.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-23
BLUFFS YARDS TO
Be MOVED TO OMAHA
Northwestern Has Fifty Acres
Of Land Near Roundhouse
for Passenger Coach Use.
MEANS IMPORTANT CHANGE

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The passenger coach yards OF the
Northwestern will be moved from
Council Bluffs to Omaha. according
to an announcement made yesterday
at local headquarters. The change
will mean the moving Of large num-
bers of families and single trainrnen
and ~ehginemen to this side OF the
river, according to railroad men. Z
The new yards in Omaha are to be
located southeast OF the present
roundhouse between Forty-first and
Forty-second streets and West G and
West D streets. This tract, which
comprises fifty acres. has either been
purchased outright or is secured by
options. Plans have already been
drawn also for huge trainmen's ho-
tel in the yards district.
Present System Awkward.
At present with the passenger
coach yards in the Bluffs Northwest
ern trains are made up there and
brought across the river to the Union
depot. When the new Omaha yards
are opened all Northwestern passen-
ger trains are to be made up here. II
IS not known whether new engine
shops will be built in Omaha, in view
OF the fact that the Northwestern re-
Gently acquired additional land il,
Council Bluffs. General Manager
Walters made no statement concern
ing the company's plans in connec-
ton with the moving Of the yards to
Omaha.
There is some trackage at the pres
ent time on the site of the new yards.
The Northwestern has owned a large
tract of land east of the roundhouse
for some time. The, Union Pacific
has been asked to join in the move
ment for the closing OF the streets
in the new yards district. The over
land system owns considerable prop
erty north OF the site of the new
Yards.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-23
Senate PUTS OFF
BONE DRY BILL AS
AMENDED BY VETS
Measure Distinctly Changed
by Standing Committee Of
Upper Chamber and
Drys Protest.
TO PRINT AMENDMENTS
Consideration Will Be Resumed
Tuesday of Next
Week.
WHAT THE CHANGES ARE
How Senate Plans to
Mo1sten Prohibition

(From Staff Correspondent
Lincoln, Neb., March 22.-(Spe-
cial Telegram.) - Among the
changes proposed in the Nebraska
prohibition bill by the senate
standing committee are:
Allow unlimited amount OF IL
quor on hand.
Allow ethyl-alcohol to be manu-
factured.
Allow anyone to make wine or
cider for home use.
Give saloons thirty days after
May | to dispose Of stock.
Give distilleries time necessary
to dispose of bonded goods.
Raise restriction against adver-
tislng liquor.
Not unlawful to have liquor in
ones possession.
Property owners free from
prosecution when place is used for
illegal sale of liquor.
Clause allowing suits for liquor
damages against cities and coun-
ties removed.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-23
Burlington Agent Says Settlers
Are Pushing to the West

Since the long-awaitcd 640-acre
homestead law became effective" F"
says S. B. Howard, immigration agent
of the Burlington railroad at Omaha.
there has been marked increase in
the number OF desirable homestead
ers who are moving from Illinois,
Iowa and Missouri into western Ne
braska, eastern Colorado and Wyo-
ming and taking up the most desir-
able of the lands still available. Ever
since January an average Of twenty
five settlers daily have filed on new
lands through the general land office
at Douglas, Wyo., alone"
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-23
Grand Duke Nicholas Says
Old Regime Won't Return

London, March "a dispatch to
the Exchange Telegraph company
from Copenhagen, gives the follow
ing statement made by Grand Duke
Nicholas, commander-in-chief OF the
Russian forces in the Cacausus, to
the correspondents at his headquar-
tiers in Tifiis, Transcaucasia:
"A return TO the old regime is I'M
possible and | would never consent
to such retrograde step. ! look
forward to ultimate victory in the
war, but necessary condition in the
interval is internal peace. ! am sure
the government will be able to pre-
vent anarchy, but only with the sup
port of the people"
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-23
BILL FOR PUBLICITY,
NO CASH FOR EXPENSE
Measure Passes House and
May Yet Be Changed as
Desired.
COMPENSATION MEASURE
tFrom a staff Correspondent, ,


Lincoln, March 22.-(Special,) All
who want job with no salary at
tached, please hold up their hands, or,
as Representative Soren Fries would
say, All in favor OF the motion, rise
to your feet and stand OIL en-" The
state publicity bill was reported to
third reading in the house this morn
ing, but the appropriation formerly
attached which was stricken out by
the committee of the whole still stands
stricken and the bill is minus the
needful to make it worth the while.
However, it is believed that the
finance committee may yet devise
some way to make the job just little
might attractive.
Compensation Bill.
The substitute bill amending the
workmen's compensation law, which
has been pending in both branches of
the legislature, passed the house by a
vote OF IS to 9. 1t is known as House
Roll No. SIS. Under its provisions in
jured employees cannot elect to sue
after injury unless employer has vio-
lated safety appliance laws.
Weekly compensation minimum
and maximum is raised from $5 to Sc
a week and from Sc to $12.
Benefits are to be rs per cent OF
wages, subject to maximum and mini
mum.
Loss of fingers, toes, ears and nose
entitle victim to compensation.
Employment Agency Licenses.
Another bill affecting labor whoch
was passed is H. R. 400, to license and
regulate employment agencies. 1t
imposes a license fee OF 500 per year
on those doing business in Lincoln
and Omaha, and SIS year elsewhere.
The bill re-enacts large part OF the
1915 statute which the supreme court
held to be unconstitutional.
Irrigation Bills.
The house passed t. following ir-
rigating district measures:
Authorizing suits to determine va
lidity of irrigation contracts and
levies; payment and refunding of ir-
rigation bonds; Withholding water for
non-payment of assessments; con-
veyance of property by districts; bor-
rowing money to pay on district
contracts with the federal govern
mnt; purchase + land at tax sale by
drainage and irrigation districts.
School Tax Limit Raised.
The bill increasing the limit Of
school tax from IS to IS mills went
through with 81 votes for and none
against. Other bills passed were:
Increasing fire commissions sphere OF ac-
tivity.
Governor to appoint United States sona-
tor In case OF vacancy.
Authorizing reciprocal inter-insuranco
agreements.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-23
AMERICAN SHIP
HEALDT0N SUNK
BY A SUBMAREl
Amsterdam Repo9 &don
Newspaper &hdard
Oil Tank u Tor
pedoed byU- Boat.
SEVEN OF CREW LANDED
No Further Details Concerning
Thirty-Eight Men Aboard
Destroyed Graft.
ON WAY TO ROTTERDAM

London, March 22.-The American
steamer Healdton has been torpedoed,
according to all Amsterdam dispatch
to the Central News Agency.
A boat containing seven Of the
Healdtons crew has reached Ter
schelling North Sea), the dispatch
adds.
Carried Cargo Of Oil.
Philadelphia, March p. - The
steamer Healdton sailed from Ches-
ter, Pa, on January 26, for Rotter-
dam with 2,137,7l1 gallons OF refined
petroleum valued at $l06,886. 1t was
last reported three days later 720
miles east of Delaware Breakwater.
1t was commanded by Captain Chris
topher and carried crew OF thirty
eight men. 1t was built at Greenock,
Scotland, in 1908. Its home port was
New York.
The steamer Healdton is a tanker
of 4,480 tons gross and is owned by
the Standard Oil company of New
Jersey. 1t was built in 1909.
The sinking of the American
steamer Healdton is confirmed by
Reuter- dispatch from the Hague.