Show C Ui D A ENE 3IETHOJS Hops1 E Thc OlfoOluVStory BepeateclXotes From the North t 1 A letter ritte from Belknap contains = con-tains thefollowing jn reference to 0th CtajirldAlene method oft aininn pog session ol7a desirable claim An old Scotchman over 50 years of age reached the suppoed new goldfield gold-field early in June and with a dozen companions worked on until October hard work every day at clearing trails from claim to claim and digging dig-ging ditcbee for draining The amount of gold which he had taken oat of t bis claim was not enough to pay him wage there waa undoubtedly gold there but hs had hardly begun to work when oa coming out of ha cabin one morning he saw a party of seven mea down by his corner stake On walking up to 8e what they were doing he found they bad taken down I his notice of occupation and were putting UD note of their own What YuU ao not mean to say you are going to jump my chum beaked t Well I dunnonothing about your claim J7 replied one of the party pointing a Winchesterrifle at him U this ia our claim now There were seven of them four with Winchesters and the other three carrying revolvers ostentatiously stuck in their belts and when they allowed him half fin hour to collect his traps and git he wag discreet enough to take advantage 01 their forbearance for-bearance and got Of his companions compan-ions all but one or two have since been served in the same way and it is estimated that not one claim out often of-ten is i now in the hands of original owners Meanwhile the ejected ones hang about the hotels along the line comparing notes and crying vengeance ven-geance The memory of the four months of hard work is still green and they are by no means diepjsed to sit down and see the jumpers getting rich in their claims The jumpers only swagger around and cay they dont care a dn for the law and all the aherifid and injunctions in the world they are numerous determined deter-mined aid armed but popular feeling feel-ing is against them and would not allow the original occupiers to forego their olam it they wished it Ae soon as the snow is off the ground n serious effort will l be made by th8I lawand = order party to straighten matters oat There is only one recognized method of straightening such matters out in mining camps or at all events there is only one method which anybody thinks of here and that that will be the one resorted to everyone takes for granted That method has for its instruments in-struments Winchester rifles Biz shooters and pieces of rope and that the blithesome spring will come attended at-tended with music and lively shooting shoot-ing nobody here doubta The military at Fort Cesar dAlene it i is hinted will be nice and handy and seeing that the United States deputy surveyor has already been roughly handled by the jumpers and turned out of Eagle City it is reasoned that there might not be any difficulty when the time came in convincing the authorities that it is a government quarrel Matters hays in many cases been furtber complicated by therejumping of some of the claims by other parties more powerful than the original jumpers while in one instance clara has been jumped three deep Helena Mont Independent |