The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-16
ATLIN CLAIMS
 ARE CONTESTED
 IN THE COURTS
Amount Involved Reaches Large Sum According- ing to Account in Van
 COuVer Paper.

From recent copy of Van couver, B. C., paper is taken the following account:
 A bargain in mining ventures. whereby Frank H. Mobley, M LA. for Atlin, some time ago purchased under the sheriff's hammer at Prince Rupert, fifty-two gold placer claims, number of mineral claims, a lake dam, ditches and water system, blacksmith's shop, machine shop and equipment, engines, boilers, machin- cry, telephone system, electricians shop and supplies and 'one certain Ford automobile" all for the sum of $60, has given rise to law suit in the courts.
 The matter occupied the atten- tion of Justice Morrison yesterday on an application to set aside an order whereby some time ago the registrar of the County Court at Atlin was appointed a receiver of all the gold which was taken out of two of the claims.
 The history of the suit is said to be somewhat as follows: After obtaining possession of the proper ty under the sheriff's hammer. MT. Mobley leased it to A. Berger and Vic Stron@, who agreed to run the property and pay all expenses of op- eration in return fer 75 per cent. of the gold recovered J. Tallmire and A. T. Wesche, min IFS, who are said to have mad an j. crest i'll sthu property before it's s~le, anI whose counsel, Mr. w. P. Grant, alleges were unable by reason of the win try weather, to reach Prince Ru pert in time to buy in the property, later went to work on two of the claims which they restaked. Their position is that the claims were open for restaking, as they allege that $19,000 rentals were due on the property, and that the mining recorder has no legal authority to accept a transfer of the claims to Mr. Mobley unless this $19,000 was first paid.
 Tallmire and Wesche, it is said, are now both under arrest at At lin on a charge of having taken a false oath in connection with the proceedings instituted by their counsel Mr. w. P. Grant, to en- force their claims to the ownership of the property. Recently the civil action was remitted by Justice Nor rison from the Supreme Court here to the County Court at Atlin, which opens on Septk 16. This morning MT. L. Reid, K. C., counsel for Messrs. Mobley, Berger & Strong, appeared with an application that the case be tried here and a fur ther application that the order plac- ing the gold in possession of the registrar at Atlin be revoked.
 "The laborers can not get their pay, nor can the laymen (Berger and Strong), get money for their operations" he said.
 MT. Reid protested further that it was improper to force his client into trial by September 16.
 lHeIc lS pIOpeIty Fdlueu dl $100,000 at stake in this trial" he said.
 After further discussion, his lord ship still adhering to the view that it would be more expedient and ec- onomical to have the trial held at Atlin on September 16, MT. Reid took further exception to the trial having been remitted to the County Court at Atlin.
 Quoting judgment of Justice Gregory, MT. Reid argued that the case being neither one of contract or of tort did not come within sec tions 73 and "A of the County Court Act and so could not be remited from the Supreme to the County Court.
 'The case might have been start ed in either the Supreme or the County courts but having been