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WHAT MAY BE EXPECTED
IN WAY OF LEGISLATION
William Britt, member-elect of the house
of representatives of the next Alaska legis
lative assembly for the l irst district, says
in the Juneau Empire that while the Alaska
legislature may not pass a great many new
laws, he believes that there will be much
called to the attention of congress through
memorials on subjects requiring congres- j
sional action on account of the limitations |
placed on the legislature.
Among the subjects that have already
been discussed will be that of school legis- j
Iation, public land and homestead laws,
naturalization of Indians, fishing regula
tions. It is quite probable that a mercan
tile law will be introduced; also an amend
ment to the law governing the property
rights of women in the territory, and the
probate law.
It is a certainty that there will be a new
election law and a new revenue law, ac
cording to the ideas of a majority of the
new legislative assembly.
Mr, Britt thinks that what the legisla
ture needs first is more power. “The re
strictions and limitations placed in the or
ganic act must be removed in some in
stances in order to make the legislature of
Alaska something of real value to the terri
tory.” he said. “We should be permitted
to legislate for the best interests of our
people and the development of the terri
tory's resources.”
RISKS HIS LIFE TO
DESTROY UHLAN PATROL
PARIS, Nov. 28.—How an old peasant !
destroyed an Uhlan patrol at the risk of ,
his own life has just been told here. The
Trench troops in retiring blew up a bridge
over the Oise close to the old man’s house,
but there being many refugees who were
unable to get across, the old man ferried
a number of them to the other side. Then
a patrol of Uhlans rode down the bank and
the officer shouted: "Here, you dirty old
Frenchman, you can ferry us across; we
are going to find which way your runaway
army has gone.”
The old man, without saying a word,
pulled his flat boat into the bank and al
lowed the Uhlans to board with their horses,
then with the boat laden clown to the
water’s edge, he pushed ofi into the stream.
Half way across the Oise there was a dan
gerous c-ddy, and he guided the boat straight
into the current.
As the eddy swept the boa* from side
to side he gave a dexterous twist of one
of the sweeps, and in a moment the whole
party, horses and men, were struggling in
the water. The Germans had little chance,
for weighted down by their heavy boots and
accoutrements, and mixed up with their
plunging horses, all were drowned. The
old man, who had swam in the river from
boyhood, worked his way out of the dan
gerous current and reached the bank in
•afety.
“HENRY THE SIGNER”
IS BOOSTING ALASKA
The following clipping from the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, received in Thursday’s
mail, gives a fair example of “Our Heinie’s”
style of boosting Alaska:
“Henry Roden of Juneau, whose term as
a member of the territorial senate of Alaska
has just come to an end, is a recent ar
rival in the city, and is registerd at the
Barker. Mr. Roden will spend two weeks
or more in Seattle and will then go to San
Francisco, where he will spend the holiday
season. On his return to Juneau he will
town of Haines. They had been shipped
“Mr. Roden does not possess any exag
gerated ideas of the possibilities of Alaska,
or at least the interior, as a field for agri
cultural effort, as he believes that it will be
a great many years before farmers will be
forced to take up what agricultural land
there is on the Inside. “About the only
place in which the growing of fresh vege
tables can be profitable is in the vicinity
of some mining camp to which access from
the Outside is a pretty difficult matter,’
said he.
“That there is considerable land fit for
agriculture in some places along the coast
he doesn't deny. He tells of rather an
amusing incident in this connection. ‘A
couple of months ago.’ he said, ‘an order
came from Juneau to Seattle for some ruta
bagas, which were to be used for seed pur
poses. Some pretty fine specimens arrived,
and investigation proved that they had been
grown, not in the States, but in the coast
town of Haines. They had been shipped
out to Seattle and right back to Alaska
again.’ ”
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Lighted by Gas Heated by Steam
Artesian Well at Cordova
The core drill whi.di was set up for dem
onstration purposes at the shop of Harmon
& Dcever, and which began operations Mon
day morning, struck artesian wafer at a
depth of about thirty-seven feet, after pass
ing through eleven feet of gravwuck under
the gravel and sand. Operation of the drill
was suspended to permit of tests of the
water, which appears to be pure. A flow
estimated at ten gallons a minute continues
unabated from the casing. Tanks from the
refrigerator plant are to be tilled for the
purpose of testing the water for ice-making
purposes.— Cordova Alaskan.
Alaskan Exchange Suggested
The Alaska and Northwest Mining Jour
nal of Seattle has suggested that the differ
ent cities along the coast which are com
peting for Alaska trade join in the estab
lishment of an Alaskan exchange. The
Journal argues that such organization
would be of mutual benefit to outside mer
chants and machinery houses as well as to
Alaskans who have property to sell. A
place where Alaskans can list their propo
sitions that they bring out for sale, and
where capital can look when seeking invest
ments of this nature, is contemhplated. This
exchange could be under the direct charge
of a high-class man thoroughly conversant
with Alaska, part of whose business it would
be to give suggestions and assistance to
those Alaskans who had propositions of
merit but who possibly might not have the
acquaintance that would enable them to ob
tain a hearing in the proper quarter. Some
thing might also be done in a small way
toward looking after purchases, anil if the
business along this line grew too large, a
nominal fee could be charged to cover the
cost. One of the biggest expenses that
Alaskans have to contend with is going out
to purchase supplies and machinery. The
location should be central, but not be fitted
up as a club, as the Alaskans are well able
to pay for anything they want of that na
ture ; but any money spent in fittings would
be the best investment any city could pos'
sibly make. To equip and maintain a place j
of this kind and pay the salary of a first
class man would cost the merchants an in
significant sum each month, and the money
would be returned a hundred times over. An
Alaskan exchange established in any city
that had any pretensions at all to catering
to Alaska would go a long way towards
establishing that city as a headquarters
for Alaskans.
Matting Plant to Be Established
A. K. Props, out from the Kuskulina
and Kctsina districts for the winter, in
formed the Cordova Alaskan that German
capitalists, among whom is a count who
spent a portion of. the summer there, have
assured property owners that they will erect
copper matting furnaces in the near future
with sufficient capacity to handle custom
work in addition to the tonnage from their
own properties. The more prominent prop
erties are twelve to twenty miles from the
Copper Pdver it Northwestern railway,
Strelna being the nearest station. Forty
men have been employed in the two dis
tricts duruing the past season, as follows:
On the Hubbard & Elliott properties, 16;
Nugget creek. 8; Copper mountain, 6; do
ing individual assessment work, 10.
Appropriations Asked for Alaska
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo’s esti
mates of government expenses for the next
fiscal year amount to $1,090,000,000. Daviti
F. Houston, secretary of agriculture, asked
for $21,000 for administration of the for
estry service in Alaska. The appropriations
asked for in the rivers and harbors bill for
Alaska are as follows: Roads and trails,
$1,255,000; inspection service, 37.000; edu
cation of natves, 8200,000; reindeer, $6,000;
medical relief for natives, $75,000; protec
tion of game, $20,000; suppression of illicit
liquor traffic, 815,000; care of insane,
| $75,000.
Murder at Bristol Bay
On October 13 last Sakar Juiias shot and
killed a native named Wassella about fifteen
miles above Nahnex, on Bristol bay, and
shot and wounded Banley Kovik, also a na
tive, at the same time, according to a dis
patch from Valdez. The natives had been
drinking native beer, and were all more or
less intoxicated.' It seems Wassella had
been abusing the mother of Judas, a boy 12
years of age, and he secured a gun and
shot Wassella through the forehead, just
between the eyes, killing him instantly.
Kovik heard the shot and was coming to
the fish house, where the shooting occurred,
to find out what was the matter, when
Judas fired a shot at him, wounding him in
the chin. The last shot was made because
the boy was frightened, and not because
Kovik and Judas had had any trouble.
Judas has been bound over to the district
court, charged with murder.
Alaska Dogs for Movies
A beautiful team of large, fine-looking
husky dogs was brought down from Alaska
last night on the steamship Jefferson by
William Brady, says the Seattle Sun. Brady,
whose dogs are famous in the great North,
will leave shortly for Truckee, Cal., where
his team will appear in moving picture
dramas of Alaska life. The snow lies deep
in that part of the Sierra Nevada moun
tains, and several moving picture compa
nies come up from Southern California
every year to enact Alaska photo-plays
there. Brady’s partner came through Se
attle recently with another team, but Brady
stayed behind to assist, with his dogs, in ob'
taining funds for Belgian relief. In this he
was successful. He will take his teams to
San Francisco next year for the Panama
Pacific exposition.
An Early Candidate
A rumor is current in Seward that Don
| McKenzie, who was formerly United States
commissioner in the Koyukuk, is a candi
date for the chairmanship of the Alaska de
velopment board proposed by Secretary of
the Interior Lane.
Sure-Thing Devices Banned
Card machines, money machines and all
devices having the nickel-in-the-slot attach
ment for the lure of the 5-cent piece will
be a thing of the past in Southeastern
Alaska when the family clock strikes 8 to
night, says the Juneau Empire of December
18. The United States marshal's office this
morning issued an order fhat all slot ma
chines must go, and “forthwith” was tacked
to the writ to insure an immediate funeral.
By curfew t|me the whir of the cards will
cease, the lookout probably will tell the
porter to melt up his brass bingles, and the
nickel-plated machines will be relegated to
the obscurity of the back room, while in
the resorts where the money machines have
for so long reaped their harvest of coins
the muslin “profit sack” will be unburdened
for the last time.
Native Alaska Brotherhood
Close observers of the recent annual meet
ing of the Grand Lodge of the Alaska Na
tive Brotherhood, held in Sitka on Novem
ber 24 30, believe that it marked the be'
ginning of an epoch of advancement among
all the Southeastern Alaska tribes. Full
and free discussion of such topics as “Busi
ness,” “Education,” “Religion,” “Citizen
ship and How to Attain It” was indulged
in by the twenty-three members of the
grand lodge, and many illuminating facts
were brought forth. The purpose of the
Alaska Native Brotherhood is “to assist and
encourage the native in his advancement
from his native state to his place among the
cultivated races of the world; to oppose,
discourage and overcome the narrow injus
tice of race prejudice, and to aid in the de
velopment of the great American empire of
Alaska, etc. Great interest centered in
the discussion of the lodge’s purpose, espe
cially when the fact developed that by “the
narrow injustice of race prejudice” was
meant those obstinate harriers to progress
found within ihe native himself, instead of
the real and fancied bigotries and injus
tices of the white people. In nearly every
instance cited—failure in business, a mis
carriage in manual as well as intellectual
training, and the return to their unwhole
some habits, as well as to their ambition
less ideals, were traced most convincingly to
the reelentless influence of old custom, ideas
and practices. The Alaska Native Brother
hood has solemnly pledged its membership
to strive unceasingly for the eradication of
those blighting practices and to set forward
each English-speaking native man who is
ready and willing to forswear all old cus
toms and tribal ties that may in any man
ner or degree whatsoever hinder or detract
from his fitness for worthily bearing the re
sponsibilities and honors of American citi
zenship.—Verstovian.
Mysterious Wireless Messages
M any of the wireless operators on the
steamers on the Alaska run believe that
some foreign nation, presumably Germany,
is operating a wireless station on some of
the islands along the coast of Alaska. They
report that while sending messages they are
often interrupted by other operators. Re
cently one operator caught a message in
a strange code which he was unable to un
derstand.
Delivers Mail With Bear Team
Joe Spenard, the city expressman, who
has the contract to carry the mail from the
postoffice to the steamer. Thursday took the
mail to the Admiral Evans with his team
of young hear. Five thousand pounds of
outgoing Christmas mail was taken from
the postoffice in twenty seconds, a record
trip. Valdez Miner.
Business of Alaska Cable
The receipts for the Alaska cable and tele
graphs for the fiscal year ending June 30.
1914, amounted to $186,000. an increase of
nearly $5,000. All official messages are now
debited to the several departments and the
cable and telegraphs credited with half com
mercial rates on such dispatches. This has
resulted, however, in “official business” dis
patches having been curtailed exceedingly
both in length and number, none of the
other departments showing any willingness
to be hampered by the increased costs. An
agitation will be begun once more on the
part of those using the cable and telegraphs
to obtain reduced rates, which are at pres
ent considered to be abnormally high.
JIM FULLERTON’S CHRISTMAS
Communication between Dikeman and
Tditarod is not as expeditious this winter as
during the previous year, and in conse
quence the following letter, dated December
26. is somewhat belated. Jim Fullerton’s
annual Christmas dinner is looked forward
to by all residents in the vicinity of Dike
man, and appears to have been the usual
success. The letter is as follows:
“As is his custom, J. E. Fullerton gave a
very enjoyable dinner on Christmas day at
his hotel in Dikeman, being his fourth an
nual dinner on that day. Invitations were
sent to all who were near enough to come,
and they were there from the high sands
above to Slim’s roadhouse below. All came
with their appetites. There were prospec
tors, trappers, hunters, wood-cutters, road
house men. river men and squawmen. It \
was thought better to give the dinner early, !
so that those whose snaring grounds were
some distance away could get home before
nightfall. At 3 o’clock dinner was an
nounced and the large double doors were
thrown open and the stampede was on. all
bent on not missing this annual feed, as it
easily might be the only fill-up on good
things for the winter. And to see that
table loaded down with good things! The
writer fully expected it would turn out to
be a dream, and that he would wake up to
find himself moving up to a rabbit dinner
at home. Toasts were not in order—there
was no time for such delay.. The punch
dishpan, which was very much cherished
by the guests, was forgotten for the time
in the adjoining room, when it was discov
ered by the waitress that the cat had located
the punch, and it was thought for a time
had taken a bath in it. The cat was im
mediately placed in the cellar and a vote
taken as to what should be done with the
punch. It was decided to drink it, as Hud
son Bay rum punch is not to be had every
day. After voting Fullerton’s dinners, with
trimmings, the very best, and his hospitality
unsurpassed, the guests departed for their
strangling quarters, well pleased and well
filled, with a wish that they may be in a
radius of invitation next Christmas.
“ONE OF THE GUESTS.”
When you come in from the creeks,
don’t forget to stop in at the Crosby Mas
sage and Bath Parlors and try the Electric
Vibration and Vapor Baths.
Notice of Forfeiture
To John Pedersen and J. A. Carsow, the.ir
heirs and assigns:
Notice is hereby given that the under
signed lias done the annual assessment
work on No. 13 below discovery, first tier,
right limit bench, and also on No. 4 below
discovery, left limit, first tier bench, on
Yankee creek, Innoko recording precinct,
Territory of Alaska, as provided by Section
2324 of the Revised Statutes of the l nited
States and the laws ot' Alaska, for the years
19 10, l\)ll, 1912 and 1913. That John
Pedersen and J. A. Carsow are co-owners in
No. 13 below, right limit, and J. A. Carsow
is co-owner in No. 4 below, left limit, and
each has failed to pay his proportion. That
if at the expiration of ninety (?0) days
Trom the first publication of this notice
each or you should fail or refuse to con
tribute his proportion of said expense, your
interests will become the property of the
undersigned. , ....
Dated at Takotna, Alaska, this 6th day or
October, 1914. SID PAULS0N,
First publication, Oct. 31, 1914.
Last publication, Ja:>. 30,
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when you can get first-class Dried Silver
Salmon at 9c per pound.
Regular
RYE WHISKEY— Price Cut to
“Old Crow" Straight Hand-Made Sour Mash, bot
tled in bond.Per bottle $2.50 $1.50
“Hunter” Baltimore Pure Rye, a blend of straight rye
whiskies . 2.50 1.25
“Hermitage” Pure Straight Whiskey, mellowed by
age . 2.50 1.50
“Cyrus Noble” Blended Straight Whiskey, from
original old goods. 2.50 1.50
“Old Oscar Pepper” Hand-Made Sour Mash, bot
tled in bond, full quarts. 2.50 1.50
BOURBON WHISKEY—
-Cedar Brook" (formerly W. H. McBrayer) Hand
Made Sour Mash Whiskey. 2.50 1.25
"Cyrus Noble” Old Private Stock, very, very old.
Guaranteed to be a blend of pure, aged, natural
straight whiskies . 3.50 2.00
“Old Crow," bottled in bond.*. 2.50 1.50
“Jesse Moore AA". 2.50 1.50
SCOTCH WHISKEY—
“Black and White," specially selected for the House
of Commons . 3.00 1.50
"Strathmill" Pure Malt Scotch Whiskey 3.00 1.50
“Dewar’s Extra Special,” termed “the best product
of Scotland” . 3.00 2.25
“Usher’s Black Label” Grand Old Highland Whiskey 4.00 2.50
Wilson Whiskey, a mild blend of straight goods . 2.50 1.25
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Tire Pioneers Will Hold a Red-Hot Bean Feast at
A. B. HALL, IBITARGD, WED., FES. 3, 8:30 P.M. SHARP
Fifty-eight sour old sourdoughs had a tough time at Flat last meet
ing. They were walloped cn the pazukas with a slab of sluice-bex
lumber and dropped down the shaft. There are 114 of them now
banded together to stick to each other through hell and high water.
If you figure on joining, do it now. At this meeting the charter will be closed and the member
ship fee increased. So, if you break both legs ar. d cannot get to this meeting, hand your applica
tion, with $5.00 membership fee, to Frank Stanley at Flat or Jim Chronister at Otter, and you will
become a charter member. You can be initiated and ground-sluiced later.
IMAGINATIVE PICTURE
OF HORRORS OF WAR
(From “A World Set Free,” by II. G. Wells
When the rather brutish young aviator
with the bullet head and the black hair
cropped ‘‘en brosse” who was in charge of
the French special scientific corps heard
presently of the disaster to the war control
he was so wanting in imagination in any
sphere but his own that he laughed. Small
matter to him that Paris was burning. His
mother and father and sister lived at Caude
bec, and the only sweetheart he had ever
had. and it was poor love-making then, was
a girl at Rouen. He slapped his second in
command on the shoulder. “Now,” he said. •
“there’s nothing on earth to stop us going
to Berlin and giving them tit for tat. j
* * * Strategey and reasons of state
they’re over. * * * Come along, my boy. |
and we’ll just show these old women what <
we can do when they let us have our
heads.”
He spent five minutes telephoning, and
then he went out into the courtyard of the
chateau in which he had been installed and
shouted for his automobile. Things would
have to move quickly, because there was
scarcely an hour and a half before dawn.
He looked at the sky and noted with satis
faction a heavy bank of clouds athwart
the pallid east.
He was a young man of infinite shrewd
ness, and his material and aeroplanes were
scattered all over the countryside, stuck
away in barns, covered with hay. hidden in
woods. A hawk could not have discovered
any of them without coming within reach
of a gun. But that night he only wanted
one of the machines, and it was handy and
quite prepared under a tarpaulin between
two ricks not a couple of miles away; he
u * ,s going to Berlin with that and just one
cTtfher man. Two men would be enough for
what he we ant to do. * * *
He had m his hands the black comple
ment to all those other gifts science was
urging upon unregenerate mankind, the gift
of destruction, and he was an adventurous
rather than a sympathetic type. * * *
The face of the adventurer at the steering
darkly visible ever and again by the oval
greenish glow of the compass face, had
thing of that firm beauty whch all con
centrated purpose gives, and something of
the happiness of an idiot child that has at
last got hold of the matches. His com
panion, a less imaginative type, sat with
his legs spread wide over the long, coffin
shaped box which contained in its compart
''Unents the three atomic bombs, the new
'tombs that would continue to explode in
definitely, and which no one so far had
ever seen in action. Hitherto carolinum,
their essential substance, had been tested
only in almost infinitesimal quantities
within steel chambers imbedded in lead.
Beyond the thought of great destruction
slumbering in the black spheres between
his legs, and a keen resolve to follow out
very exactly the instructions that had been
given him, the man’s mind was a blank.
Hi saquiline profile against the starlight ex
pressed nothing but a profound gloom.
The sky below grew clearer as the central
European capital was approached.
So far they had been singularly lucky,
and had been challenged by no aeroplanes
at all. The frontier scouts they must have
passed in the night; probably these were
mostly under the clouds.
They began challenging him in German
with a megaphone when they were still per
haps a mile away. The words came to
him rolled up into a mere blob of hoarse
sound. Then, gathering alarm from his
grim silence, they gave chase anti swept
down, a hundred yards above him, perhaps,
and a couple of hundred behind. They
were beginning to understand what he w'as. j
He ceased to watch them and concentrated j
himself on the city ahead, and for a time j
the two aeroplanes raced.*
A bullet came tearing through the air j
by him, as though someone was tearing
paper. A second followed. Something |
tapped the machine.
It was time to act. The broad avenues, i
the park, the palaces below rushed, widen
ing but nearer and nearer to them.
Ready!” said the steersman.
The gaunt face hardened to grimness, and
with both hands the bomb thrower lifted
the big atomic bomb from the box and j
steadied it against the side. It was a black j
sphere two feet in diameter. Between its 1
handles was a little celluloid stud, and to
this he bent his head until his lips touched
it. Then he had to bite in order to let the
air in upon the inducive. Sure of its ac
possibility, he craned his neck over the side
of the aeroplane and judged his pace and
distance. Then very quickly he bent for
ward, bit the stud and hoisted the bomb
over the side.
“Round,” hr whispered inaudibly.
The bomb Hashed blinding scarlet in mid
air and fell, a descending column of blaze
eddying spirally in the midst of a whirlwind.
Both the aeroplanes were tossed like shut
tlecocks, hurled high and sideways, and the
steersman with gleaming eyes ana set teem
fought in great banking curves for a bal
ance. The gaunt man clung tight with
hands and knees; his nostrils dilated, his
teeth biting his lips. He was firmly
strapped. * * *
When he could look down again it was
like looking down upon the crater of a
small volcano. In the open garden before
the imperial castle a shuddering star of
evil splendor spurted and poured up smoke
and flame toward them like an accusation.
They were too high to distinguish the people
clearly or mark the bomb’s effect upon the
building until suddenly the facade tottered
and crumbled before the flare as sugar
dissolves in water. The man stared for a
moment, showed all his long teeth and then
staggered into the cramped standing posi
tion his straps permitted, hoisted out and
bit another bomb and sent it down after
its fellow.
Always before in the development of war
fare the shells and rockets tired had been
but momentarily explosive; they had gone i
off in an instant once and for all, and if
there was nothing living or valuable within
reach of the concussion and the flying frag
ments then they were spent and over. But
carolinum, which belonged to the B group
of Hyslop’s so-called “suspended degenera
tor” elements, once its degenerative process j
had been induced, continued a furious radi- )
ation of energy, and nothing could arrest it. j
Of all Hyslop’s artificial elements, carolinum j
was the most heavily stored with energy j
and the most dangerous to make and han
rile. To this day it remains the most potent |
degenerator known. What the earlier twen- j
tieth century chemists called the half period
was seventeeen days; that is to say, it j
poured out half of the huge store of energy i
in its great molecules in the space of seven- <
teen days; the next seventeen days’ ends' j
sion was a half of that first period’s out- '
pouring, and so on. As with ail radio
active substances, this carolinum, though
every seventeen days its power is halved,
though constantly it diminishes toward the ’
imperceptible, is never entirely exhausted,
and to this day the battlefields and bomb :
fields of that frantic time in human history j
are sprinkled with radiant matter and ao ;
tenters of inconvenient rays. * * ' Once
launched, the bomb was absolutely unap
rroachable and uncontrollable until its
:orces were nearly' exhausted, and from
he crater that burst open it puffs off heavy
ncandescent vapor and fragments of puni
tive rock and mud. saturated with caruli
nuni, and each a center of scorching and
blistering energy, were flung high and far.
Such was the crowning triumph of mili
tary science, the ultimate explosive that
was to give the “decisive touch” to war.
MRS. J. H. McLEAN, PROP.
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Forfeiture Notice
To C. 0. Nord, B. E. Johnson. 0. T. Olson.
John s we dal, Adolph Olson, Gust Er
icson, Joe Jerman.
You are hereby notified that 1 have ex
pended during the years 19 13 and 1914
two hundred dollars in labor and improve
ments upon the I.one Star Association {da er
mining claim, situate on Gold Hun crock, a
tributary of Hoar creek, in the Ku^kokwim
mining precinct. Fourth division, territory
or Alaska, the location certificate of which
is found of record in book No. 7. page 3 8,
in the office of the record* r of said pre
cinct. iu order to hold said claim under the
provisions of Section 23 2 4 of the Revised
Statutes or the l nited States, and the
amendments thereto approved January 22,
1S80, and other amendments thereto relat
ing, concerning annual labor upon mininr
claims, being the amount reuired to hold
said placer mining claim for hte pei.*»d
ending on the 3 1>t day of December, A. D.
1914.
And if within ninety (00) days after the
publication thereof you fail or refuse to
contribute your proportion of such expen
diture as a co-owner, which amounts to
twenty-five (25) dollars r**r each jou.
your interest in the claim will become the
property of the subscriber, your co-owner,
who has made the reuired expenditure, by
the terms or said section with amendments.
(Signed) CHARLES AMMIU'N.
Bear Creek, Alaska, Jan. 4, 1915.
First publication, Jan. 9, 19 15.
Last publication, April 10, 1915.
Notice to Creditor®
In the Probate Court Tor Otter Precinct,
Fourth Division, Territory or Alaska,
before George W. Albrecht, Coimnis
sincr and ex officio Judge.
In the Matter of the Estate of Timothy
Joseph Lynch, deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the under
signed, administrator of the estate of Tim
othy Joseph Lynch, deceased, to the cred
itors of and all persons having claims
against the said deceased, to exhibit them,
with the necessary vouchers, within six
months after the first publication of this
notice, to the said administrator, at the
office or W. F. Harrison, attorney at law.
Regina hotel, Iditarod. Alaska, the same b
tng the place for the transaction of trie
business of the said estate in the above
precinct and territory.
Dated January 20. 1915.
DAN McKENZIE, Administrator.
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