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Show COVENANT MISSION GETS VALUABLE MINE CHICAGO. April 15. By the decision of the board of arbitration In the matter mat-ter of the title and proceeds of the placer mining; claim "No. 9 above on Anvil creek," Cape Nome, Alaska, N. O. Hultberg, assignee for the Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant of America Amer-ica recovers , from the White Star Mining Mi-ning company of Illinois, Dr. Clacs W. Johnson and Peter' II. Anderson the mining claim In dispute and proceeds to the "amount of $263,686. The unusual arbitration case grew out of Alaskan gold mines staked out by Covenant missionaries in 1S98. Mr. Hultberg slaked the first claim for hi? society and when he returned to the States Mr. Anderson and others continued contin-ued the work. They declared, however, that the mines were their property, not tho mission society's. Not wishing to have the church organization appear as a litigant In court, private arbitration arbitra-tion -was deckled on. |