LAND SET ASIDE
NOWFOR TROOPS
An Associated Press communication
from Sydney, Australia, states that the
New South Wales government has set
aside 25,000 acres of wheat-growing
land and 260,000 acres of irrigation
lands for settlement by settlers.
As presented by Mr. Brittain, who is
closely in touch with official and un
official authorities who are directing
most of the Important business in con
nection with the war and after, as ap
plied to Great Britain and her colo
nies, large territory in all parts of the
9 dominions will be set aside for this
purpose. Every soldier who, when the
war Is over, desires to accept the of
fer, will not only be granted a tract
of land outright, but will also be fur
nished with sufficient means to make
an adequate beginning on the work,
and to care for himself and hla fam
ily, If any, during the first lean years
of emigration.
Further, this offer will be urged
upon men who have led sedentary lives
prior to the war, and who may he ex
pected to have gained some love of the
open and a more vigorous existence
with their experience at the front.
This Is regarded as one means of
rewarding the colonies for their gifts
of men to the army, by the efficient
method of re-populating their land ;
with fit. active men, for only such wil
be encouraged to avail themselves ol
the offer.
A second benefit is looked for In the
solution of the employment problem
when war is concluded, and it was tc
be expected that the great majority ol
England’s volunteer army would be
mustered out, and would be seeking
positions anew.
Where It is true that many con
cerns promised to keep Jobs open for
all their employees who enlisted, It was
anticipated that, granting all the good
Intention, this might not prove feas
ible under changed conditions that
must follow the strain of such an un
dertaking as the present war.
It Is thought that possibly four
fifths of the fit men of the British
volunteer army will welcome the emi
gration plan.
Canada and British Columbia will
offer land also for this purpose, as
well as all other British colonies, Mr.
Brittain Indicated.
The plan Is being worked out un
officially, but has the approval of the
government, and will be supported by
It.
Now is the time for fruit jars. Q«t
them at Holt's Cash Store.
HERO WHO LOST EYES AND
ARM IN WAR IS MARRIED
PARIS.—The most pathetic marriage
in Paris since the war was started was
celebrated in the church of the Antoine
Quarter between Lieutenant Camera,
who lost both eyes and his left arm in
the explosion of a shell at Vauquols,
Lorraine, and Mademoiselle Marcelle
Pothion, instructress at the normal
school, at Tunis.
There were attended by Comtesse
Jean de Castellane, sister-in-law o/
Boni de Castellune, Miss Holt, founder
of the Blind Institution of America, and
Mrs. Bliss, wife of the First Secretary
of the American Embassy.
The engagement dated from before
the war. After being so frightfully
wounded, Cantera offered to release his
fiancee from her promise. She refused.
Despite the multilation of his face,
the couple made a magnificent appear
ance. The scene at the Mairie before
the religious ceremony filled the spec
tators with deep emotion.
Upon the official excusing the bride
groom from signing the register, the
bride spoke up with charming and
tender eagerness:
“Yes, yes, he can sign. He would
rather. 1 can help him.”
Then, as she smilingly guided his
hand across the page, there were few
onlookers whose eyes were dry.
COPETTE LASTS ON STREET
JOB JUST 8 MINUTES
Gowned in a brand-new gold-braided
and gold-buttoned uniform, Blanche
Payson, the copette of heroic propor
tions who formerly patrolled a beat at
the exposition in San Francisco, went
to work for the Palace Hotel manage
ment. The duty assigned to her was to
conduct women and children guests of
the hotel through the maze of flying
jitneys from one side of Market street
to the other. She was to be a sort of
traffic copette.
Instead of being an aid to traffic,
however, the statuesque Mrs. Payson
completely blocked the wheels of pro
gress. She lasted on the job Just eight
minutes.
Six feet and four inches of altitude
have failed to keep the copette from
boasting lines akin to those of Venus
so men stopped. Her face is not at al
unpleasant to look upon, so more mer
stopped. And then there was the flasf
of gold braid and buttons, so womer
( stopped. So did the street cars, jitneys
doubledecked busses and regular autos
The presence of Mrs. Payson Jammed
Market street from the Chronicle build
ing to the banks on the next corner.
When the Jam was at Its crest the
Palace Hotel management came to the
conclusion that a copette Is not a
business.
School Text Books, 1915-16. Lomtn
Bros.
Sohool Books. Lomon Bros.
Tho Nugget will print veur etetio.i*
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Reties.
ALASKA FARMING.
There has been much uncertainty as
to the precise value of Alaska as a pro
fitable field for agricultural production.
The valleys of the southeastern and
southwestern portions of the territory
ire rich in the elements necessary to
successful crop raising and experiments
so far as they have progressed, Indi
cate that general farming may he car
ried on there with quite as much suc
cess as on the rich paraies of the
Middle West. It seems now assured
that a large farming population will
ultimately occupy these districts. Rut
for the country farther north there has
been less confidence that the land may
be utilized. Recent experiments show
that stock raising may be profitably
carried on as far north as the Arctic
circle.
The success of the natives In raising
reindeer encouraged settlers to try their
tuck with cattle. One of these has
show conclusively that cattle may be
wintered on the native swale grasses,
when put up as ensilage. In the ordi
nary silos in use in the states. The
summer pasturage is abundant and
rich
The department of agriculture re
ports the success of a settler who im
ported twenty-six head of young cat
tle, on land close to the Arctic circle.
With good pasturage continuing until
October 15, the settler converted the
ordinary swale grass into ensilage. He
filled a silo with it and ndded a small
quantity of salt.
“After October 15 the stock was given
the fermented grass of the silo,” says
I the department report. “This they ate
eagerly and grew fat on the salty food.
From a herd of twenty-six head the
number has increased to forty-five of
the finest cattle to be found anywhere
At no time since the first winter has
any hay been imported for them."
The problem of Northern cattli
raising has been tho winter feeding
With the successful use of natlvi
grasses in ensilage and the abnndanci
of summer pasturage, it seems pro
bable that the industry may be mad
profitable.—Ex.
ORDER MINING EDITIONS
The forthcoming number of the Nora
Nugget Mining Edition Is progresslni
nicely. It will undoubtedly be mor
Interesting than any previous edition
and will contain many subjects othe
than mining—in fact a magazine de
plcting the entire peninsula. An in
creased edition will be published thl
year and there will probably be enougl
for all, but to insure receiving you:
copies it would be best to send In youi
order at once, 60c per copy, or $6.06 t
dozen. Postage 6 cents per copy.
NOTICE OF MARSHAL’S SALE.
Public notice Is hereby given, Thai
under and by virtue of a writ of exe
cution issued out of the clerks' ofllci
of the District Court for the Distrlc'
of Alaska, Second Division, upon t
certain judgment therein rendered oi
the 3rd day of August, 1915, and en
tered in favor of Andrew Sheflin, plain
tiff and against Salim Abraham, de
fendant, for the sum of ten hundret
eighteen and 36-100 ($1018.36) dollars
with Interest thereon at the rate o
eight (8 per cent,) per cent per annum
together with costs of suit taxed at om
hundred seventeen and 80-100 ($117.80!
dollars, I will on the 20th day of Sep
tember, 1915, at 12:30 o’clock p. m. o:
said day, at the front door of the Uni
ted States Court House at Nome, A1
nska, as commanded in said writ o:
execution, offer for sale and sell to thi
highest and best bidder for cash all o:
the right, title, and Interest which th
defendant had on the 2nd day of March
1916, or at any time since in and t<
certain placer mining claims and othe:
real property, situated In the Fair
haven Recording Precinct, District of
Alaska, and known as,
Placer Mining Claim No. 2 above
Discovery on Bear Creek, a tributary
of Buckland river: placer mining claim
known as Bench Placer Claim, first tier,
right limit of Bear Creek, adjoining
No. 1 above Discovery on said creek;
Placer Mining Claim known as Bench
Claim, firs; tier, right limit of Bear
Creek, adjoining claim No. 2 above DIs
l eovery on said creek; Placer Claim
known as No. 1 above Discovery on
said Bear Creek, being a fraction about
50 feet wide, off of the upper end of
No. 1 abo\ j Discovery on said creek
and adjoins No. 2 above Discovery on
said ere i .
That certain water right and ditch
thereon connected known as the Split
Creek water right, on Split Creek, a
tributary of Bear Creek, and the Split
Creek ditch connected therewith and
also known ; , and called Salim’s Dower
Ditch, together with all app jrtenances
and privilege:. Including the water and
the diversion thereof through said
ditch;
That certain water right and ditch
known as and called Salim' Upper
Ditch on said Spilt Creek, together
with the water rights. Intake and dam
therewith connected, and the iter
and the right of diversion through
same.
E. R. JORDAN,
United States Marshal, Second Divis
ion, District of Alaska.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, August 20.
1915.
Aug. 20, 27, Sept. 3, 10, 17.
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