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Show FLOATING COURT RETURNS Ml HS TOI Of ALASKA Plan Declared Great Sac-cess Sac-cess Both for Litigants and Uncle Sam. VAL.DRZ. Ataxks. 9pt. Z-Judr f,y oh hts Ana ting court rlurn?d to VMsb last nlsfht on the rvnu cuttr ThftU, ronrludln an lrht wkaT tour to th westward. T n JuHm wra ronvenwl. one t InaLtakt and the othar at Nu-hat-Bit. Drlx-oll hay. Moat of th work don by tha court Wat hoarlnt criminal rate. Nineteen ronvlrUon were had, in-cludlnir in-cludlnir Japanwe. who wne Wen a Hfe nience for the murder of a countrymart. ; Another Jftpaneee wu Bents-wed to ten years' imprlfcinment for mesne. auhter and four were found futlfy ot aeallnf In American waters. A negro was ylven a tit year sentenre for arson and tlx persons were adjudged lnsana. The floating court, whlf-h was Instituted Insti-tuted last yrar. makes one trip a year to the remote points In southwestern Alaska, clearing up th legal business thst has accumulated during the year, I .Ait year the government saved $Jit00 by sending tha court on ths tour and this year a much larger amount was saved. In addition to the saving to tha government tn mileage for witnesses this mode of administering Justice has proved of great benefit to witnesses and other litigants who otherwise would lose many weeks .making tha kma jmirnev ta tha seat of the court. |