ALASKA NI NING LANDS Oflicial Statement of the United States Laws Governing Them. -WALL STREET’S GOLDFEVER Money For Investment In the Klondike 80 Free That the Bankers Have Actu- ally Been Compelled to Refuse It—A Rothschild Syndicate. Washington, Aug. 2.—The misunder- standing and contentions regarding the laws that are applicable to Alaska, so far as lands and claims are concerned, ehave been set' at rest by a statement made by Commissioner Hermann of the general land ofiice. Many inquiries on this question have come to the interior department and numerous applications have been made for copies of the public land laws, which however, do not apply to Alaska. All this is due to the gold boom. The general land officials have taken much interest in the reports that come from the gold belt and have in- vestigated the laws that govern there. Commissioner Hermann says there is no longer any question 'about which laws extend over Alaska, and that these laws are applicable: First, the mineral land laws of the United States; second, town site laws, which provide for the incorporation of town sites and acquirement of titles thereto from the United States govern- ment to the town site trustees; third, the law providing for trade and manu- factures, giving each qualified person 160 acres of land in a square and com- pact form. The coal land regulations are distinct from the mineral regula- tions or laws and the jurisdiction of neither coal laws nor public land laws extend to Alaska. the territory being expressly excluded by the laws them- selves irom their operation. The act approved May 17, 1884, providing for civil government for Alaska, has this language as to mines and mining pri‘v- ileges: “The laws of the United States relat- ing to mining claims and rights inci- dental thereto shall on and after the passage of this act be in full force and effect in said district of Alaska, sub- ject to such regulations as may be made by the secretary of the interior and ap- proved by the president and ‘parties who have located mines or mining priv- ileges therein under the United States inns applicable to the piiblic domain or have occupied or improved or exer- 2ised acts of ownership over such claims shall not be disturbed therein, but shall be allow ed to perfect title by payment So. provided for.’ ” There is still more general authority. Without the special authority the act of July 4, 1866, says: “All valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the Unit- ed States, both surveyed and unsurvey- ed, are hereb declared to be free and open to exploration and purchase, and lands in which these are found to occu- pations and purchase by citizens of the United States. and by those who have declared an intention to become such under the rules prescribed by law and according to local customs or rules of miners in the several mining districts so far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent with the laws ofethe United States.” The patenting of mineral lands in Alaska is not a new thing, for that work has been going on as the cases have come in from time to time since 1884. TURNING AWAY MONEY. The Klondike Drawing the Lambs In Droves to Wall Street. New York, Aug. 2.—Wail street has been seized with a genuine “forty.-nine" gold fever as a result of the discoveries in the Klondike. More than half a dozen banking con- cerns and as many individuals in Wall street, whose standing in the financial world is the very best, have actually turned away from $5,000 to $125,000 each, which clients and customers wish to invest under their guidance and super- vision in the great goldfields of Alaska. Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co., H. L. Horton & Co., Kean, Van Cortlandt & (30., R. L. Loundsberry & Co. and Charles Head & Co. are some of these firms who have more money offered them for investment in the Klondike that they have desired. The prejudice against mining is wear- ing off and the best concerns are be- ginning to mine in one way or the ~ other. Among these various down town ,, banking and business houses who ei- ther are interested in the Klondike, who have sent a representative there for themselves or customers or who have made up their minds to do so, are R. I... Loundsberry & Co, M. Guzzen- heim Sons, Kean, Van Cortlandt & 00., Nicholas Chemical company, H.‘ B. Hol- lins & 00., H. L. Horton & 00., Charles Head & Co. and Seligman & 00. It was learned on the best authority in Wall street that the Exploration company, limited, of London, the con— trolling interest ‘of which is held by the Rothschilds and whose chief expert is Hamilton Smith, wired the past week to Henry Bratnober, one of the best and most widely known engineers in the country, at San Francisco to visit the Klon __ike in their behalf. TO EXPLORE THE KLONDIKB. The Mission of Expert Dunham of the Federal Bureau of Labor. ' Washington, Aug. 2.—Expert Samuel C. Dunham of the federal bureau of 1a- bor has left here for the gold belt of Alaska, Where he will make an investi- gation and report in time for the pro- jected spring migrations. Mr. Dunham is well equipped for the work, having spent much time in the mining camps of the west, and for 11 years he has been one of the corps of experts of the labor bureau engaged in the investigation of special problems. He has been instructed by Commis- ’sioner of Labor Wright to make a crit- ical inquiry into the opportunities for business, for investment of capital, em- ployment of labor, wages, cost of liv- ing, climate, best means of reaching the goldfields and kindred subjects. He will go direct to San Francisco and will sail from there Aug. 9, taking the Juneau overland route and reaching the Klondike region about the middle of September. He will watch the winter and early spring work and is expected to send material for a special report, which it is hoped will be published about March. 'l'llE-Y WILL BOLT. The People of lho llorwalks are" Vi- lally Interested. One Case, and There are ' Others. There is alarge body of bolters in the Norwalks and vicinity. The movement has been gaining fo1ce f01 some time and has become so powe1ful that those interested are anxious to declare themselves. They a1 3 bolting ancient and useless methods of t1eat1n0 cata1 rh and hav fever, and they ham come ove1 in full force for Ca11f01 ma Catarih Cure because they have tried it and know its W01 th. Heie are the words from a N orWalk man who has tried many medicines and treatments before he got what he wanted California Catarrh Cure the greatest and only known cure for ca- tarrh: Mr. Alfred Platt, 9 Maple street, Norwalk. says: “ I have been a great suifererfiom catauh fo1 over thirty vears, having contracted the disease during the W211. My whole head seemed full of scab and the discha1ge from the nose and i to the throat was something awful. My head ached al— most continually, and I never got a good night’s sleep. I procured a bot- tle of California Catarrh Cure at Plais- ted’s drug store, South Norwalk. It has given me mo1e 1elief than I have had fo1 vears 1:; my head is vei y much improved and I can now sleep all night. It is certainly a great reliever, and am glad to recommend it. 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Eckel, .her paramour, stabbed him with a dentist’s excavator. ~ The confession, according to Mr. Woods, was made to Mrs. Dr. James Fowler, Woods’ grandmother and wife of the murdered doctor’s partner in dentistry. Mrs. Cunningham made a confidant of Mrs. Fowler because the latter had befriended her. Mr. Woods says. the. secret would not, have been di- vulged but for recent unpleasant expe- riences it has cost the Woods and Fow- ler families in making claims to the es- ' tate of Dr. James Fowler, who died a year ago at Bordeaux, France, where CHECKER-BOARD BUSINESS DIRECTORY. N ORWALK PII‘B IIlSIII‘IIIIIIB CO. In Successful Oper- ation Smce 1860, No Outstandinu Claims. Sales For nonl- nuuxnts S‘I’llllill IN .Safe Deposit Vault or THE NATIONAL BANK or Nonws'Lx. GAZETTE ADS. BRING / 6901) RESULTS G.'Ward Selleok, BEST GOODS. TEAS and corrsss 18 WALL ST. Geo. W.Raymond, DEALER IN Staple and Fancy , Groceries AND P r o v is i o n s No. 9 Main St. Frank T. Hyatt DENTIST, 8 West Avenue. 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The letters referred to made mysterious references to the Burdell murder. A CRISIS IN GREECE. The Rumor of King George’s Probable Abdiction Again Revived. Paris, Aug. 2.——It is rumored that the possible abdication of the king of Greece has inspired the following dis- patch from Athens: “It is stated on good authority that in the event of a proposal looking to the establishment of foreign control of Grecian finances being adopted by the powers the king will make a declaration of exceptional gravity.” Berlin, Aug. 2.-—-The Post says: “Rus~ sia and Germany having counseled Greece to submit to the conditions im— posed by the powers, M. Ralli, the pre- mier, replied loftily that Gre’ece would never accept the idea of financial con- trol proposed and that she would help herself.” The Poor Indian. Milwaukee, Aug. 2,—Judge Seaman of the United States court has rendered an opinion in favor of the Illinois Steel company against John Budzisz and oth- ers, known as the Jones Islanders, in a case involving the titles to a great amount of Milwaukee property. Judge Seaman holds that a United States pat- ent is the highest evidence of title where the grant originates out of the public domain and that the title to public lands never vests in the Indians The Palmyra Island Affair. London, Aug. 2.—The Daily News prints an article on Palmyra island, in which it says that the protest of Harold M. Sewall, minister to Hawaii, against the reported annexation of the island must be regarded as a ridiculous jest. “Palmyra," the article says, “is so diffi- cult of access that it is worthless even as a possible cable station. The folks who urged Minister Sewall to protest must now be laughing in their sleeves at the ridiculous fuss of the American jingo.’ Prehistoric Fort Discovered. 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