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Show v -J.-.- . O.y . 1 1 1 Stic 1: Invclvte $1,300,030 (o It Adjudicated by Artitratlcnin Ch!c::o.: , donQ0006 1i.e dispute reaches back to the first discovery of gold In Alaska and hlr- :s on the point whether a missionary sent into the northern wilds , . to make converts for his church Was likewise acting for his church when he staked out a number of mining: claims. These claims have been de- veloped Into highly profitable gold mines out of which several men have made fortunes. '$ .0 ' .CHlCAGb, March 8. A struggle for possession of an Alaskan gold mine which In less than five years haa yielded over $1,300,000 Is now going on secretly Wore a board of arbitration In Chicago. Chica-go. The claimant Is the Swedish Evangelical Evan-gelical Mission Covenant of America through a former . missionary, N. -O. irultebferg of San Jose, Cal. and the action ac-tion Is directed against P. H. Anderson of Chicago, another former missionary; Dr. C. "W. Johnson, also of Chicago; and the- 'Whits Star Mining ' company, In which a number of Chlcagoans are Interested In-terested 1 ' -In 1893 Mr. tiiilteberg was engaged by Mission society. In 1901 they formed the White Star Mining company of California. Cali-fornia. Last, May the White Star Mining Mi-ning company of Illinois was organized in' Chicago. . : It is charged . by President C. A; EJork of the Swedish missions that the sole object of the forming of these twtf I corporations, one selling out to the other, was to cloud the title to the prop erty and thus prevent the society from getting relief at law. .. Since 1839, It is declared, Mrv Anderson Ander-son has taken out about HS0.0OO tn gold-Claim gold-Claim No. 8, it Is said, has netted Mr. Price something like $300,000. All told, the amount taken from .these two claims alone aggregates nearly $1,300,000 and the representative of the Swedish! mission claim they can prove that a greater sum has been realized. I the Swedish Evangelical Mission Cove-, Cove-, nant to go to Cape Nome as missionary for the society. ' Mr. Hulteberg established estab-lished a school at Golovln Bay, where 'he remained until 1898, when falling health forced hlmr to return to the United States for a year. His assistant at Golovin Bay was P. H. Anderson- Just before returning Mr. Hulteberg found a "pocket" of gold and now claims to be the original discoverer of the Nome gold region. He located his claim and left It in the eare ot Mr. . Anderson with the understanding, he says, that it was to be staked out and held in trust for the church society. Mr. Hulteberg did not return to Alaska until un-til 1899. He found that during his ab-Vkce ab-Vkce Anderson; ' with the aid of (Jtrie Price, a practical miner, had awaked out nine claims adjoining the original Discovery claim. These claims were held in the names of various individuals. in-dividuals. The last two were known as No. and No. . It Is this claim, No. , that the' society seeks to recover. . Mr Anderson took into partnership with him Dr. Johnson of Chicago, who was acting physician for the Swedish |