Show 1 S 0 To nl at Cape Noun lit fur flit Washington March Root Hoot a brief statement to the Iho pres today In regard to the action ot of oft otI t I war department In granting licenses to to 10 dred dredge o the water front of cl Cap Some Nome Alaska In their search for geld 1 lie admitted that one ant or two such lIuch had beep issued but butto butto to whom ht he did not remember as It was In tM the regular routine of the tho tIe de vero about a dozen more all of oC the kind on file and they wm Will all II be granted The ser see explained that ide hili authority In Inthe Inthe the matter maUr was waH based upon the statutes giving the war department Jurisdiction o r the waters of the United Stat States Under th la law no ont one could hare done donean an any dredging un on the w tor front of Cape Nom within n a mile limit without the h authorIty of the war do de This ThIB authority the secretary Mid had In In because It was shown lie tho pro proposed posed dredging of snail sand would not Inter fire tHo with navigation of the tho of owners of adjacent territory The particular character ot of the saml to be dr dredged sed dId not enter Into the case ebl nt at all The further said laid that nn any anyone on one was 11 ecI to d dig for Cor gold In Iii Inthe the open su sea und the only question was whether such alterations conducted withIn th the hf mile limit were an In interference terrrence with navigation or an In of the rights of 01 others When Then these there conditions were ere compiled with the department Will was pre prepared and to grant to any one to dig i to 10 the beach It at Cape Nome or else elsewhere where at nn any poInt lying within three mIles of at In law mark Although be did not go Into detail Root made It clear that the privileges itt In Question were vere tree Ire to QU Oil responsible And no lion tion had been Intended In the tho case I that had been ui Un n Star Ollie The Tho refusAl of oC James ex cx president of lie Star Gold f of PIne Canyon to bow to tc I fI of the stockholders as ex cx at the tho recent election I the neW to lG gc to the lie o ot ci th the company last evening and take po poe session ot of the ottice property I which was aB hauled away to the lie edIct I of Secretary Sam Williamson In the h Ih Jennings block on First South Mr oIl has hoa been completely outgeneraled b by be new board The Tue of the last shIpment of cyanides mat as turned over oer to him on Monday before the knowledge reached the tho ot of the change The nw next mOrning notified the banks and prevented Mr Ir from the linice of the shipment from the th Kansas City otilee of the smelter corn com pony Inquiry at the bank elicited the information that Instead ol of funds fund the company had an overdraft At the same time the tho bank was noti fled fied against cashing cashin any checks from froni the ho oid It looks no now 1 os as Ii If Mr Moffatt has Jot got to the length of 04 his rope and will quietly bow to the In inevitable evitable |