NO more blanketing
of placer field?
Under the new mining law
a- pa-'t-u l»y the Alaska Legis
lature, tlie blanketing of wide
are; - will be impossible. Whea
a man stakes a piece of placer
ground be must proceed al
i nr e to do work upon it- He
must do * 100 worth of work
for every 20 acres within nine
ty days from the date of dis
covery. and he cannot record
b:s claims until he had done
s :ch work upon them. Furth
ermore. he may not stake mor
than two > laims a month for
himself, and not more than two
apiece for each of two friends
or grubstakers. Fancy anybody
staking an entire creek and do
ing #100 worth of work for
every 20 acres within ninety
d r s. The thing is impossible
The dusk of the hatchet-and
1 cneil man has arrived. It is
dawn for the honest prospector.
- —Fairbanks Times.
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INSPECTOR HANKINSON
TAKES NORTHERN TRIP
Lighthi use Inspector Hank-|
iuson i- a passenger north on:
Die Northwestern today, en
roll to to Juneau. This is prob
ably the ist trip he will take
in his ial capacity, as he i'
expect ue hi> successor in of
fice. "\\ A: er C. Dibrell, from
the Seventh District Florida,
some time this week.
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D. W. Hunt is putting a new!
i »i f over Ji -■ head these eves
digs. I* j5 of shingles—not
hair— -b be is beginning
to soiib, need the latter.
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NOTICE TO DELINQUENT
CO-OWNER
To Adelaide V. White, her heir
and assigns. and all the heirs,
devisees and assigns of A
Hollis \\ bite. deceased;
Yon and each of you are
hereby notified that during the
years 1910. 1911 and 101?.
and en.'h thereof, the under
signed. your co-owners, have
expended #100.00 in labor and
improve pi. - mounting tc
$800.00 in 1910, $800.00 ir
1911 and #800.oq in 1912. up
on tne '(".rockerjack No. 1".
“'Crackerjack No. 2". ‘'Cracker
jack No. 3 '. "Craekerjaek No
\ \ “Craekerjaek No. 5 ”. “Hol
bs". “Goodenough” and “Brain
tree " Lode mining Claims, sit
uated in (he Ketchikan Mining
and Recording District oi
Prince of Wales Island on :hr
northerly -lope of Hollis Moun
tain about 1 3-5 mile- frorr
Hollis on Twelve Mile Arm ol,
Ka-aan Bav. the original lo
cation notices thereof being of!
record in the recorder"? office
a- Ketchikan. Alaska, in Bool- j
“B " of the Swineford records
at pages 52. 43, 44 Book ‘T.’
c-i Swineford records at pages
4.. -5 8. 1 50, \ ol. 10 of Mines
"M range 11 records, at pasre 2**2
and \ ol. 1. of mines at pa?”
33 5, No. 332: The said lafior
v a- performed as and for the!
annual representation of said
claims for the said years, lOioJ
1911 and 1912. a- required by !
the provisions of Section 2324
of the Revised Statutes of the
United States, and amendment
thereto approved January 22nd
1880 and the amendment;
thereto approved March 2.
1907. concerning annual labor*
upon mining claim-, being :ht ,
amount- required to and for the
purpose of holding -aid claim- ,
lor -aid years, and in which j
you ci-uri an undivided seven- j
sixteenths interest;
You are further notified thai
rule-- within ninety day- after;
the personal service of th'sj
notice upon you, or within
ninety day- after the publi* a- j
lion thereof, you contribute
your portion of such expendi
ture a- a co-owner, to-wif.
#350.00 for 1910, #350.00 for
J911 and #350,00 for 1912, or
one-eighth- thereof for each of]
said cbijrn-. your intere-t in;
♦ he said claim- and e.-n h there-'
of will be forfeited to the un
der-igued <o-owners who have
made such expenditure, and
will become their property in
the manner provided bv law.
Dated Mav 23. 1913.
JAMES BAWDEN.
OTTO B. RI.'FE.
First Publication. May 23. 1913
Last Publication, Aug. 13, 19131
COAL EXPERIMENT
PROMISES FAILURE
/
—
There i< every probability that
Lie attempt on the part of the
I government to get enough Ber
ing lake coal to salt water for
a battleship test will end in a
i failure. According to the of
: Leers of the Sampson, the gov
erument has spent close, to six
ty thousand dollars thus far in
the work, and have less than
one hundred tons available for
shipping at this time, and can
gel out not to exceed as much
more before the freen up. As
it was estimated that eight
hundred tons would be nece
sary lo make the test- the a
mount which will he available
will be totally inadequate.
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THE MONAGHAN
!N COMMISSION
The tender Monaghan, under
t barter to the Lighthouse Ser
vice. which arrived up from the
Sound a few days ago. and was
compelled to go on the ways af
the Northern Machine Works
for minor repairs. >s in commi -
- on and within the next few
days will leave for Lincoln Rock
where the work on the light j
there will now he finished.
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“BIDDY” GOES TO WORK
IN JUNEAU BANK
According to word received j
from Juneau, J. A. Malone—our
• Biddy”—has accepted a posit
ion in the B. M. Behrends
Bank at Juneau. He left Ket- j
ch han with the avowed inten-i
non of taking a rowboat trip!
down the Yukon, but evidently
(hanged his mind.
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RETURNS FROM
SAN FRANCISCO
J. Daly, the mill man, re
! Ii’^ued on file Northwestern
; this morning after a hurried
business trip to the states.
V.'hile away he was a= far
I'Oiith as San Francisco and re
ip."!' business in the Califor
• i; metropolis as apparently
| pretty good.
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Sale of National Forest Timber
Sealed bids will be received
ny the Forest Supervisor. Ket
chUan. Alaska, up to and in
eluding July 7. 1013. for 1.
■>00.000 feet 13. M. more or less
n Sifka spruce and Wester:!
hemlock sawlimber upon a des
ignated area on the southwest
shore of Thorne Bay, Prince o(!
'\ ales Island, Tongass National j
! orest. Alaska. No bil of les~ j
than §1.00 per M. feet B. M.
for sawtimber will be consiiT!
ared. Deposit with bid §200
The right to reject any and aiil
lads reserved. Before bids ar<
submilled full information eon
cerning the timber, the con I
•h’tions of sale, and submission
o fbids sbov’ld be obtained from i
the Forest Supervisor, Ketchi
i>an, Alaska.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
in the Commissioner? Com-i j
tor .’he Precinct r.r Ketchikan;
territory of Alaska. DiiDr..n
No. 1: In Probate.
E-tale of B. S. Holt, deru-ed.j
Notice is hereby given that
Dan Nelson has been duly nn
poinled administrator of the es
‘aU- of R. S. Holt, deceased;,
an.! all persons l.a\ir.s claim-: j
against said estate a:? hereby j
notified to exhibit tlis.n with
the necessary vouchers within
six months after the first pub
bcalion of this notice with th°
undersigned at his post office
address at Kasaan, Alaska
Dated this 10th day of June
1013. I
DAN NELSON,
Administrator o fthe Estate;
of R. S. Holt, deceased.
Ehas. If. Cosgrove, attorney or !
Administrator. , i
GO PR08PECTINQ
“Bobby” Clemensson and J.
Johnson left for Prince of
Wales Island yesterday. They
will try the near to nature
J stunt for a few weeks, and in
jcidentlly do a little prospecl
in*‘ • .. Ji.
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COURT SUSTAINS
LYONS* DECISION
_
Sustaining the decision made
by Judge Thomas R. Lyons that
| the title of the Hawk Inlet fish
trap belongs to the user, C. J.
|Alexander, the Ninth circuit
j court of appeals, sitting in San
il’iancisco, upheld Ihe ruling °t
the federal court in the Altx
ander-Barron fish trop coulrt*
\ersy ami a precedent that will
'undoubtedly stand forever has
been established.
The decision establishes the
fact that trap sites may not be
held without trap construction.
The case was one of the herd
c.-l fought ever heard in Ju
nea.i. Winn & Burton appear
e l for Barron, plaintiff and ?•
Pi. Cheney representing Captair
Alexander.
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The betrothal of James J.
Mulally, who was elected a
member of the first Alaska
Legislature from the Fourth Di- i
vision but who did not attend]
the session, and Miss Augusta j
Gunnerson, also of the Fair-1
banks district, has been an
nounced.
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A baseball team representing
Ibe. United States soldiers at
Fort Gibbon and another r.
e«J from the various teams of;
Fairbanks will play a series of
August if the plans that have
Leen made are carried out. A ;
s milar series la«t year resulted
in \ictorv for Fairbanks, but it
i- said that, the soldiers are
playing better this year, and an
interesting contest is looked
for. ,
Senator Cummins has a bill
prohibiting folks from telling
lies over the telephone. If pen
j pie have to do their lying face
1 (c face, ‘he profession is cer
tain to languish.
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Secretary of the Treasury
M Adoo says he is ready to is-j
-ne five hundred million dol- i
;lurs currency any time the conn j
jfrv wants it. Well, the Miner
Man will lake his now.
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Chicago politicians are wor
rying as to how the 400,000 i
Illinois women will Vole in the
i.ext election, having just been :
granted the franchise. Well
i‘s a certainty that their worse
fears will be realized.
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One cannot help wondering!
whether the remains, after the
Pulkan fighting is all over, will
he worth enough to warrant
sn\body claiming them. Pro
bably Turkey is figuring on
getting them back again be-'
cause nobody else will want
hi bother with them.
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A SCARE AMONG
THE-LAUNCHE3
Pome burning gasoline
thrown overboard from one of
the launches at the Newtown
float about, eleven o'clock Sat
urday night, resulted in a fire
alarm being sent in. It was ex
t-nguished before the gear got
a pood start, and the recall took
the outfits back into the fire
house again.
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MILO CURER HERE
Pngelbr. Wiese, bead of the i
f'sh curing company of that
name is iri town today, having ■
;■ ’rived on the Northwestern ,
tii.- morning. He is conferring 1
O’i business'matters with his!
Alaska manager, Wm, gemar. ]
HE TWICE inEf TS TO SUICIDE
John Hillhorn made two oi
more attempts at self-destruc
t on by jumping off the New
town float last night and would
1 nve succeeded had it not been
for bystanders who putled him
out of the water and held him
until Marshal Si Howell ar
i ived, who took him up to the
11’. S. jail. As the man acted
strangely and persisted in his
attempts, a doctor was called
in who decided that the poor
fellow as suffering from an at
tack of the delirium tremens.
He was treated and today is not
so violent. lie is only partially
conscious however, and in a
bad way apparently.
DRY SUNDAY AT
WASHINGTON
The new excise law of the
District of Columbia has gone
into effect and }he reports arc
lhal the national capital for
the first time in history is al
coholically day on Sunday. The
law prohibits .the sale of in
toxicants in saloons, hotels,
restaurants or at private clubs.
Washington has had a Sun
day closing law for many years
but it has worked little hard
ship on those wanting a drink.
The hotels have been allowed
to serve drinks with meals oi
i:i the rooms to guests. There
is u club of some kind in neartj
every block in the heart oi
"Washington and these club?
have been allowed to serve
drinks to members. The new
law prohibits all this and con
tains a provision prohibiting
the giving away of drinks or
Sunday. As yet. this provision
has not been enforced in pri
vate homes but many citizens
fear that that will he ihe nexi
step.
'•'he significant feature of
tiie new law is the ease with
which it is being enforced.
Congress is the town council
of Washington and citizens ar-'
verj" careful not to violate a
federal law. Strict enforce
ment of the law will probably
prove another reason why Con
gress v*!I hurry up and get
through with the tariff and
currency bills and adjourn.
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Governor Sulzer declares that
•Sfiig Sing prison is a disgrace
to (lie state of New York. Well
its inmates arc of that class,
also.
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“Don’t wear too many clothes"
in the hot weather advice of
Dr. Wiley’s successor. The ad
vice, we lake it, was intended
for men.
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William Hesse, the moving
picture man who was at Ju
neau for some time early in
Ihe spring, has secured films of
Ihe volcanoes on the Alaska
peninsula in action. lie says
they were taken from the cra
ter edge, and will lie of intense
interest to both the general
public and scientists.
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rl wo comedies at the Dream
tonight. adv
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The Dally Miner, S1 per mo.
According to word received
down on the Humboldt this
rooming, the prosecution in
McDonald murder trial rested
its case Thursday, after using
the following witnesses in di
rect testimony. R. J. Kinzie,
who identified a plat of the
Treadwell grounds in 1912.
Mrs. Marks and Mrs. Anna Ol
son, who were eye witnesses to
the shooting; L. H. Keist and
Claude Erickson, who saw the
last shots fired into the body
of Junes, and J. R. Thompson
and Gus Roene, who reached
the scene as Jones was dying
alongside, the hydrant, and W.
T. Burns, who testified U
ing the dead body of Jono
'these witnesses, were little
-haken on cross examination
and from their testimony it
goes to show that Jones wn
unarmed, did not attack Mac
Donald and was shot foul’
l ines the last shot being D"
I*- Jones was backing away
a cay from MacDonald. All
[the other government witnes
!'Os are being held for rebuttal.
The prosecution by placing
on the stand members of the
grind jury, who heard the evi
dence of the alleged eye wit
nesses at the time of the first
grand jury investigation, is at
tempting o impeach the evi
dence of the prosecution’s wit
nesses claiming that they are
testifying'differently now than
they did at that time.
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11 has been established that
President Wilson does not
swear when ploying golf. 11
May be accepted as proof that
he does not swear under any
provocation if it can be shown
that he is not cussing Congress
row for delaying action on the
tariff and currency bills.
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Apparently a little perjury
l ow and then is relished by
some Wall street men.
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MONEY IN CHICKENS
Capt. For«s is demonstrating
that there is money in chick
en- in’Alaska if a man handles
them right. He sold two to
one of the local restaurants
this morning for which he re
ceived §4.00 in cash. One el
even months old weighed eight
pounds and two ounces, while
Inc other which was but seven
i 'onths did tipped the scales at
an ounce over five pounds.
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The Dally Miner, $1. per. mo.
-Iiff iv-inf flnr/l fVirf nr»
S& If You want Reliability, Silence, Economy, Freedom *3
U From Trouble, and General Satisfaction
I The Ralaco |
WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS «
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d s
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d d
£ S. M. JONES
^ For full Information Write W
| STANLEY OAKSMIH, Ketchikan, Alaska |
A NEW ORDER ISSUED
The Juneau Dispatch says
Dial the federal officials in A
ash a have received a corannin
u alion from the Attorney Gen
e-ial informing them that of all
the insane, patients sent from
Alaska to Mt. Tabor, 90 per
cent arc of foreign birth and
aiiegiance.
The departments also in
s cruet that in the future the lo
cal officials shall ascertain the
nationality of the patients in
order that the expense of at
tending them may be collected
from the country to which they
beiong, or in order that they
may be deported.
Heretofore this fact was not
ascertained and all were sent
cut as Americans.
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WORKS WIRELESS
AT LONG RANGE
y
Wireless Operator Thompson
v as in direct communication
hsl night with the Dominion
wireless station at Ikida Head
mi the lower end of Queen
Charlotte island fully 200 miles
from Ketchikan. It was fortu
nate that he was able to reach
it. as the station at Prince Ru
pet w as out of commission for
several hours during the night
on account of trouble writh the
generator plant. Prince Ru
pert was wmrking all right this
morning however.
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LOADED WITH GYPSUM
Tne tug Tatoosh, of the Pu
get Sound Tug Boat company,
with the barge James Drum
mond in tow made port south
bound this morning. The barge
is loaded with gypsum con
signed to Tacoma. Capt. Jacob
son of the Tatoosh reports the
present as the stormiest trip
he has ever experienced at this
season of the year.
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ARE AT NOME
St. Michael, Alaska, July 17—
Deporting having enjoyed their
lour down river immensely,
meeting with enthusiastic re
ception at each point w’here
slops were made, the Seattle
clamber of commerce excur
sion arrived here Tuesday and
ief* yesterday on the steamer
' ictoria for Nome. None of
Inc members of the pilgrimage
have suffered illness on the
long trip.
federal licenses
Federal license monies which
have been pouring into the Un
ited Stales clerk’s office at Ju
neau will be transferred to the
territorial treasurer, W. G.
Smith within a few days.
Follestions fom incorporated
towns in the first division for
itie quarter ending June 30th
are as follows:
Juneau - - - $3,576.30
Petersburg - - 2,570.22
Douglas - - - 790.00
Ketchikan - 975.00
Skogway - - - 240.00
Wrangell - 260.00
Karnes - 215.00
From unincoroprated towns
;r. the first division $2,779.88
was collected.
For the quarter ending Sep
tember 30th 1913, for which
license Monies have been col
lected the figures thus far are:
Juneau ... $10,995.00
Ketchikan - - - 9,970.00
Douglas - - - 8.610.00
Skagway - 3,215.00
Wrangell - - 2,205.00
Haines - - - - 4,225.00
Petersburg - 1,345.00
For tins quarter $15,256.83
was collected from territory in
the first division outside of in'
corporaled towns.
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Where everybody goes. The
Grand. adv.
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The Ball# MJner, f1vper. mp.
«!. E. Wordv.n i.Uo Lcv.u r-ap
pointed postmaster at Wran
gell.
J. J. O’Brien, a rancher living
i ear Knik, was adjudged in
sane last week and is being
brought to Seward by Deputy
Marshal Dwyer, says the Gate
way.
News reached Tonsina on
July 1st that Miss Lou Wheel
er, C. A. Widmaier and son and
August Reischel were drowned
while crossing the Nizina on
their way to the coast.
Fish are a little slow' getting
into the traps this season.
Guess they are peeved because
the Alien Fishermen’s bill was
vetoed by Gov. Clark a few min
ulcs before the Alaska legis
lature adjourned. -- Wrangell
Sentinel.
An outfit of prospectors or
ganized at Fairbanks left re
cently with supplies sufficient
to last the members of the par
'y for one year to prospect the
Simshana river and its tribu
taries There were four men
in the party, and they started
in a poling boat.
Andrew Jackson Maiden, rep
i ted to have sunk more pros
pect holes in the Tanana valley
than any other man is lying
sick in his hut at the head of
the Big Chena river, 150 miles
from the mouth. Every effort
to have the federal authorities
render aid to the stricken pio
neer were fruitless. The Fair
banks Igloo of the Pioneers of
Alaska dispatched an expedi
tion to the old man’s cabin and
will bring him out to Fair
banks for treatment and care
bu him as best they can.
The Progressive states that
the rnild curing season is end
ed in the vicinity of Petersburg.
Lieut. D. D. Pullen, Alaska’s
first representative at the Un~
ited States military academy,
has been ordered to go to
West Point where he w'ill a
gain become an instructor in
mathematics for the first half
of the next academical year,
end, incidentally will again
coach the football team for the
contests of next fall.
FRED PURINTON
IS SUPQENED
Fred Puririton was notified
b day by the Marshal’s office
liiul he is wanted by the gov
ernment as a witness in the
MacDonald murder and will go
to Juneau on the first boat. He
wc.s working at Treadwell at
Iue time that Jones was shot.
LIGHTNING ARRESTERS
BEING INSTALLED
The Cozens Light, Power
c'ikI Water company is install
ing lightning arresters on its
telephone system. Of course
there is practically no danger
of lightning in this region, but
Iho arresters would come in
very handy in case an electric
l.ght wire falls across one of
the phone wires by preventing
fire.
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NATIONAL FOREST
TIMBER FOR SALE
Sealed bids will he received
1 y (he Forest Supervisor, Ket
chikan, Alaska, up to and in
cluding August 15, 1913, for
500,000 feel B. M. more or
less, of Sitka S' lice and West
ern hemlock sawtimber upon
a designated area beginning a
lout one mile from the en
trance of Thorn Bay and ex
tending southwesterly approx
imately two miles along the
northwest shore of Thorn Bay,
eu«i coast of Prince of Wales
Island, Tongass National For
est, Alaska. No bid of less
than $1.00 per M. feel will be
considered. Deposit with bid
$200.00. The right to reject
any and all bids reserved. Be
Iore bids are submitted full in
formation concerning the tim
ber. the conditions of the sale,
and the submission of bids
should be obtainod from the
Forest Supervisor, Ketchikan,
Alaska.
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Five full reels at the Dream
tonight, udy