Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-06-27 | Page 27 | Only Court That Gets Seasick

1 The he Only Court That Gets Seasick Do you know where the most unique court in in the world is located Its It's in Alaska and its it's known as the the floating court If you'll get out the old school geography and look at the Aleutian island group off the Alaska peninsula you'll see where whore the the floating floating float float- floating ing court does docs business busine s. s The Al Alaska peninsula and the Aleutian islands comprise the third judicial division of Alaska and cover t a stretch of territory which if placed on the map of tho the United I States would extend cast and nud west as far as 5 from San Francisco 1 to Chicago There are several hundred of these islands inhabited almost I entirely by native Aleuts who gain their livelihood by r fishing sealing and walrus and sea lion hunting The problem of administering justice along this stretch of islands is a 0 difficult one The department of justice has solved it this wa way Every year about July 1 the secretary of the treasury details ra a revenue cutter for fOl the else use of the department of justice This ar the McCulloch l commanded nde by Capt B. B L L. L R Reed ed was assigned assigned as- as signed for the tho service ser The boat proceeds to Val Valdez ez Alaska on rinse Prince William sound and takes aboard United States District rudge Frederick M. M Brown Court Marshal F F. F It B. B Brenneman the tho clerk lerk prosecuting attorney and other court attaches together with Ju w. w grand jury Then this this floating the court court court the the only one of its kind in the world proceeds proceeds west stopping at the various principal places in inthe the islands down through h the tho group to and then up into Bering sea The trip lasts two months and the court hears all thc cases that have accumulated since the thc previous summer for summer for the trip can only be he made in summer J Naturally enough court costs are high Witnesses ha have haC C some some- to make mako journeys of many hundreds of miles and witness secs ces have run rim up to 1000 for a single witness at times IJ fhe They do sa say too that the court gets geh pretty seasick sometimes for the currents run nUl strong between the islands and the sea gets sets angry even in n summer