DEMURRER SUSTAINED IN
MINING CASE, FAIRBANKS
(Fairbanks News-Miner.)
A laborer's lien on gold is void at
law unless the gold against winch
the lien is £U<d is still on the ground
lit the time the lien was claimed and
tiled.
Such, in effect, was the decision
handed down n district court Satur
day afternoon by Judge Cicil H.
Clegg in sustaining a demurrer hy
John A. Clark on behalf of the First
National Bank in the case of R de C.
.'luddert vs. the Tansna Gobi Dredg
ing Company and the First National
Bank.
He also held at the same time that
rthe lien law relating to dumps did
not embrace nor allow a lien on the
•cleanups.
The decision was important in the
legal history of Alaska mining and
was along the same lines ns a deci
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other Alaska £. irn -n the 1
past, a case n*. Nor a hav g * n de-|
cided in s r. ■ hi i-. iv■'ral J
years ar n et dons nif the
lien ltv 1C ;i . , 11 of
Judge C.l £ rofene.: *c u law
of 1915 of the Alaska „uture.
The suit comir.e ..a when Mr.
Studdert, rcprese...e^ Cy Albrecht &
Tayior, fi,ed a lien for unpaid wages.
.1 tlco sou0ht to obtain a lien on
gold dust for sixteen others besides
..unse.f, ail former employes of the
ikna:.a Valley Gold Dredging Com
pany whose rights .had been assigned
to him.
Recovery of wages from gold, gold
dust and amalgam to the approxi
mate value of $5,600, which had been
placed in the bank hy the Tanana
Valley concern, operating the Fish
Creek dredge, was sought in the suit.
In sustaining the demurrer Judge
Clegg said .the Territorial law defin
ing liens omits any reference to the
word “cleanup” and the fact that the
gold had been .cleaned up and re
moved from the ground left the
plaintiff without recourse to a lien,
which, under the law, is applicable
only if the gold remains on the
ground. Judge Clegg’s decision also
said that the gold was in the hands
of innocent third parties when the
lien was filed, which was ten days
after the gold had been removed
from the ground.
Pilots Frank Dorbandt and Barn
hill, :\ ng Pacific International Air
ways pianes, flying to Flat on Sun
day, had as passengers Mr. and Mrs.
McVey, Mr. an dMrs. Caughreen and
Mrs. Carl Olson. They returned and
remained in Takotna that night.
Frank J.. Guskey
Notary Public
McGrath, Alaska
NUGGET BCABH0USE
AND BAKERY
Best of Meals and Beds i
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Everyone Welcome.
Good Dog Barns.
Mrs. John Rieck : Prop. -
F. C. H. SPENCER
wm to Nart torn Conncrdal Co. At
Takotna, Alaska
!
Merchandise
Statement <1T the Ownership, Mrniw
merit, 'Circulation, 'Etc, Repaired
By the A'* -f Cnngreea-*# Aagutft
24, 1912
Of The Km , Uidwduweek
ly, at j H i. a, Jar .October
1, 193j
Territory of Ai.. >a,
Fourth Judi ;a Division
1
ss.
X.efjie me, a . otar.y Public in and
f r the Territory and Division af rre
a J, per so..a iy appeared A. X. t'rartt,
»v:.o, having been duly sworn ae.ord
'ng to law, deposes and rays that he i*
he editor, publisher, business man
ager a..d owner of The.Kusko Times,
and that the following is,'to the best
of his knowledge and belief, a true
statement of the ownership, rmanage
ent (and if a daily paper, the circu
lation), etc., of the. aforesaid; publica
tion for the date shown in the shore
npt'or., required by the Act of August
24, 1912, embodied in Section 411, Pos
tal Laws and Regulations, printed an
t :e reverse of this form, to wit;
1. That the names, and addresses of
the publisher, editor, managing editor
and business manager.are:
Publisher, editor, managing editor,
and business manager: A- .X. Grant,
Takotna, Alaska.
2 That the owner is: <(If owned
">y a corporation, its name and ad
,i .ss must be stated and a'so immedi
.iely thereunder the names and ad
dresses of stockholders owning or
holding or.e per cent or more of total
amount of stock. If not owned by a
corporation, the names amLaddresses
of the individual owners must be
given. If owned by a firm, company,
or other unincorporated concern, its
name and address, as well as those of
each individual member, must be
given.) A. X. Grant, Tokotna, Alaska.
3. That the known bondholders,
mortgagees, and other security hold
ers owning or holding 1 per cent ox
more of total amount of bonds, mort
gages, or other securities, are: (If
there are none, so state.) None.
4. That the two paragraphs nexl
above, .giving the names of the own
ers, stockholders, and security holders
if any, contain not only the list oi
stockholders and security holders as
they appear upon the books of the
company, but also, in cases where tht
stockholder or security' holder appear:
upon the books of the company a:
trustee or in:any other fiduciary rela
tion, the name of the person or cor
poration.for'whom such trustee is act
ing, is given; also that the said twe
paragraphs contain statements em
bracing affiant’s full knowledge and
belief as tto 'the circumstances and
conditions under which stockholders
and security holders who do not ap
pear upon the!bobks of the company
as trustees,'h6fd stock and securities
in a rapacity other than that of a
bona‘fide .-wrier; and this affiant has
no reason to believe that any other
person, association, or corporation has
any interest < direct o^jndireci in the
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Dr. von Zesch
Dentist
Headquarters:
FLAT. ALASKA
WIU be in Flat Early
September Until De
cember 1.
ITINERARY:
Flat,
Ophir,
Takotna,
McGrath,
Lamar Kuskokwia,
Bethel.
I
Du Rand’s j
Cafe and ]
Hotel |
Flat City j
said bonds, or other securities
than as so stated by him.
S. Hunt the average number of
copies of each issue of this publica
tion <<old or distributed, through the
: aJk or otherwise, to paid subscribers
— y the raise months preceding the
shown above is: . . . (This
ri.lv/miation is required from daily
.publications only,)
■A. X. Grant,
Publisher.
Sw n vo and subscribed before mt
.s 22 sc day of February, 1931
• CHRISTIAN BOLGEN.
Unitsd States Commissioner and
e:.-officio Notary. Public.
No Happy Ends.
Miss Isabel MacDonald,, i a great
reader, was discussing books with a
girl reporter in New York.
“In the past,” she said, “a bbok
had to end happily, or the publishers
wouldn’t publish it. How absurd .that
was,, for .nothing ends happily. -.Look
at .ife--it ends in death.”
Miss MasDonald shook her head.
“No piay has a happy ending,
, either,” she lontinued. “A piny rum
on and on, and at last it ends trag
ically in some ■ one-horse town, with
the entire road lompany stranded,
and without the prise of a sandwich
among the .lot of them.”
Charlie Nichols, after an absence
,< several days, returned to town to
day, following a trip down river.
Frank Guskey and Henry Martella
returned here today after a two-day
visit at Ophir.
•Sheec Metal Work
Olson Heaters
Sleighs Built
General
Blacksmithing
John Novak
\ McGRATH, ALASKA
Opposite N. C. Co. j
•Show. Enough.
A "militant',” .as Jthe more velte
ment type of advanced -«.vonian is
called, said to Philip^M. Plaot, the
noted huxtter, ata: dance
"We 'women are taking., all your
special .privileges; fro myou. We are
ousting you from the and. with
our enormous majority Tie’ll.oust you
fram politics and everything else.”
But Mr. Plant laughed ,aind direct
ed the militant’s .eye to a»group of
pretty girls in .backless And-nearly
frontless gowns.
| "And yet it seems- to rne.K’ he; said,
\"that the. ladies are giving .main, a
, better, show than he , Aveti had be
;ort.”
IK >P1(IRtSCfAN’.i'MiYSXERKES. -v A1
. .M..e,kt*!:s .for,Thei-offeal truth
. «»ie tv nijtiwii tv nth* uitctenu
iwriu- vf-ut).the .fre« hook.."Light ui
ligypt ■.’'. mailed without, .obligutior
tu occult .students. Librarian 111
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Proprietors »
Our Stock of General Mer
chandise is still complete.
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ments, whether a s:n all nobler or
a large one. We caiiiilbit.
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