| Show I GOBBlE UP All GOOD CLAIMS CLIQUE FORMED OP FEDERAL OFFICIALS IN ALASKA Miners Wrought Up to High Pitch and Protests Arc Sent to Washington Wash-ington Against Practice Seattle Wash July 26Adv1ces received re-ceived today on the steamer ElIh1j Thompson from St Michael Indicate that the miners of Cape Nome and Anvil An-vil City are wrought up to a high pitch on accortnt ot theuction of United States Commissioner Shepard ° backed by the United States soldiers A miners min-ers meeting of nearly 1000 men WaS dispersed on the night of the lOth by a lieutenant and a quad of soldier on the ground that they were not prop ertyowners The meeting had been called regularly regu-larly after five days notice to protest against the policy that has been followed fol-lowed In locating claims The miners declared that a clique or ring had been I formed to gobble Up all the good properties prop-erties In the country It is charged by miners who came on I the Thompson today that the machinery machin-ery or the federal government on the Yukon has been turned to these illegal practices They say that some of the Laplanders who were sent up there der1e years contract by the gay I crnmem nave since arrIving been naturalized nat-uralized and claims staked in their names Even the reindeer which these Laplanders were hired to take care of have been used for hauling stakes into the country 10 mark the claim boundaries boun-daries for the members of the ring The miners were signing a protest which Is i to be forwarded one copy to Sltka to the federal authorities and another copy to Washington The protest pro-test allege that the officials at St Michael are conductIng the affairs o the government to their own selfish endsWhile While relations between the miners and ofiiclals are at a high tension I there has been no desire shown to resort re-sort to force and no serious trouble Is anticipated The conditions are In such a contused shape that nothing Is being done Hundreds of contests have been filed but that is as far as the men cia go The rich claims on Anvil creek and Snow gulch have been filed on three and four times over Men are afraid to prospect because they say if one should strike anything he would not he able to hold the cpm |
