Hampton

The complainant alleges that on the 19th day of April, 1905, plaintiff entered upon and staked out and surveyed a piece or parcel of land on St. Mary’s Peninsula, on the north shore of Lynn Canal, in'Alaska. The land described in the complaint has for its southern boundary the meander line of the shore of Lynn Canal at high-water mark. The three other boundary lines, on the north, east, and south, are each 20 chains in length. It is alleged that at the time plaintiff entered upon said land the same was government land, unoccupied, unappropriated, and open to entry, bordering upon the navigable waters and extending down to the line of ordinary high tide of Lynn Canal, navigable water of the North Pacific Ocean; that said entry, staking out, and surveying were done by plaintiff with the intention of- obtaining title to said piece of land from the Government of the United States under what is known as “Soldiers’ Additional Homestead Scrip Act,” and it was then laid out and entered upon by plaintiff for, among *67 other purposes, building and constructing out from the shore line of said claim into deep water in said Lynn Canal what is known as a fish trap for the purpose of catching…