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MONDAY, MAY 17, 1915.
MOVING PICTURE BUSINESS.
The moving picture theater is the
most popular and most profitable
place of entertainment we have today.
California is the first state to make
a thorough investigation of the at
tendance at this and other places of
amusement, its recreation inquiry
committee reports that in 1914 there
were 19,436,583 admissions to mov
ing picture theaters. This means
that every man, woman and child in
the state was able to go eight times
during the year. In those states
which have larger city populations
than California the movie patrons is
even greater. Here is where the
nickels and dimes of the poor go.
-What might constitute the weekly
savings of many a poor family is eat
en up by the movies. When to this
is added other small amounts spent
at the candy and tobacco stores or
at the saloon, it is not surprising that
so many families never rise above a
hand-to-mouth existence. The sup
port of moving picture theaters is
the biggest item in the amusement
world. In poor families the movie
often becomes the biggest extrava
gance.—Ex.
ADMIRAL WATSON
LEAVES SEATTLE
SEATTLE, May 17.—The Admiral
liner. Admiral Watson, left here last
night with every inch of available
cargo space filled with freight, most
of the cargo being destined to South
western Alaska points. The steam
er also carried a capacity load of first
class and many steerage passengers.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
John Matthews, who was released
from the city jail a few days ago, is
again under arrest charged with the
malicious destruction of property of
a resident in Block 40. He will be
given a hearing tomorrow morning be
fore United States Commissioner Geo.
Love.
Corporal Hayes, Valdez Cameron,
Herbert Cameron, Toy Spence, C. G.
Ganty and Mrs. Albert White gave
a tree each to the beautifying of the
Valdez school grounds.
The launch Onward made the trip
from Valdez to Anchorage in fifty-one
hours. No trouble- was experienced
in making the trip.
The Seward Gateway insists that
the right way to Anchorage is via
Seward and not the shorter way
across Portage from Prince William
Sound to Kern. Several days and
some money can be saved on the
Portage route but that does not in
terest the westward editor.
Professor Davis and the children of
the public schools spent this after
noon cleaning off the grounds and
planting trees and flowers.
George White gave a lecture this
morning to the members of the high
school class on "The Metallurgy of
Gold.”
The following is a summary of the
statisti s of the reindeer industry
maintained by the Bureau of Educa
tion in the Northwest district, which
covers the region from Norton bay
to Barrows, says the Nome Nugget.
In this district there are 37 herds.
24 of which are on the Seward pen
insula. The total number of reindeer
in the Northwest district number
32,326, of which 17,000 are on the
Seward peninsula. These are dis
tributed as follows: Seven hundred
and twenty-two natives own 25;900
reindeer, and the government, mis
sions and Lapps own 6,426. The
number of marketable male deer now
number 4,200. The year’s bearing
fawns is 72 per cem.
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DERNBERG WILL
QUIT THE U. 5.
Kaiser’s Personal Representative To
Return Home—Denied Is Being
Ordered From Country.
WASHINGTON, May 17.—Count
Bernstorff, German ambassador to
the United States, admitted today that
Dr. Dernberg, the special representa
tive of the German kaiser in the Un
ited States, and who has been lec
turing in many parts of the United
States in an effort to show the ac
tion of the German government in a
different light to the people of this
country, would leave the United
States at once. )
Dr. Dernberg denies that he is
leaving because of threats and says
that he has always avoided state
ments that might tend to embarrass
President Wilson and the American
administration. He also states that
he is leaving voluntarily and is not
being expelled from the country, as
many pro-English papers have'assert
ed. ;
It is, however, generally known
here that the administration looked
with keen displeasure on the repeat
ed defenses made by Dr. Dernberg of
the sinking of the merchant vessel
Lusitania and the loss of many Amer
ican lives. The administration has
not taken kindly to any attempt to
justify the sinking, claiming that no
justification is possible. The posi
tion taken by Dernberg was directly
opposite to that taken by President
iWilson and Secretary of State Bry
an and brought the administration’s
heads and personal representative in
direct opposition, causing much fric
tion.
Just how the German diplomat will
reach Germany again is unknown.
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MED SAFE
Big Cunarder Goes To Greenock, Scot
land, and Does Not Try To
Reach Liverpool.
LIVERPOOL, May 17.—The big Cu
narder Transylvania reached Green
ock, near Glasgow, Scotland, this
morning, making the new port of call
rather than to take the chance of
coming on to Liverpool because of
the activities of the German subma
rines near this port. The passengers
and freight were brought to British
ports on smaller ships and by rail.
The admiralty ordered the change
in destination of the boat and kept
the fact from the public so that the
Germans could not know of it.
The 900 passengers on the vessel
were greatly relieved when the big
ship was docked and they were trans
ferred to waiting trains and rushed
to London. . The Transylvania left
New York the day after the Lusi
tania had been sunk.
BRUISD SHIPPING
HAS HEM LOSSES
! _
Since Beginning of War 500,000 Gross
Tonnage of British Ships Exclu
sive of Warships Sunk.
LONDON, May 17—The British ad
miralty announces that since the
beginning of the war the merchant
marine of Great Britain has suffered
a loss of 500,000 gross tonnage by the
work of the enemies’ warships. The
greatest losses have resulted because
of the activities of the submarines,
which have been very effective the
past few weeks, and have sent sev
eral large ships to the bottom. The
greatest loss was the sinking of the
Lusitania with a tonnage of 32,000.
The German sea raiders are also
responsible for the loss of many ships.
The raiders avoided the British war
ships and preyed on commerce until
overtaken and destroyed.
The Admiral Evans made the first
call of any big steamer at the new
cannery of the Deep Sea Salmon com
pany at Goose bay, eight miles from
Anchorage.
GAS BOAT WRECKED
TO THEWESTWARD
The marshal’s office received word
this morning that the fifty-ton gas
boat, Highland Queen, owned by
Captain Knuteson and operating out
of Unga, was wrecked several weeks
ago and was a total loss. The crew
escaped to shore and reached Unga
in safety.
T. M. Fiske went south on the Ad
miral Evans from Seward to bring
up to Seward his tin shop and plumb
ing plant now in operation in We
natchee, Wash. Fiske has purchased
a half interest in the Boe establish
ment.
Sidney Drake, who made a trip to
Seward recently, returned yesterday
on the Mariposa.
SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION.
In the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
Geo. C. Treat, Edmund Smith and
Logan Archibald, plaintiffs, vs. IL E.
Ellis, defendant.—No. 721. Summons.
The President of the United States
of America, greeting:
To H. E. Ellis, the above-named
defendant:
You ore hereby required to appear
in the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division, at Val
dez, Alaska, within thirty days after
the completion of the publication of
this summons, to-wit, within thirty
days fropa and after the 28th day of
June, 1915, and answer the com
plaint of Geo. C. Treat, Edmund
Smith and Logan Archibald, the
above-named plaintiffs in the above
entitled .cause.
The said cause is a suit brought
by said plaintiffs against you, pray
ing a decree of this court that you
specifically perform a certain con
tract entered into between you and
the above-named plaintiffs, Treat and
Smith, on the 9th day of July, 1908;
and by which it was agreed that a
certain corporation was to be formed
to be known as “Mystic Gold Min
ing Company”: that after the for
mation of said corporation you were
to deed to said corporation eight ceiy
tain lode mining claims, situati on thb
northerly side of Valdez bay, betweei
Gold Creek and Shoups bay, in the
Valdez recording precinct, Territory
of Alaska, and known as and called:
The Mystic No. 1 lode claim, no
tice of location of which is of record
in Book K of Mining Locations, at
page 506, of the records of said Val
dez recording precinct, at Valdez,
Alaska;
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lue raysm: i\o. z moe claim, notice
of location of which is of record- in
said Book K, at page 505, of said
records;
The Mystery No. 1 lode claim, no
tice of location of which is of record
in Book O of Mining Locations, at
page 452, of said records;
The Mystery No. 2 lode claim, no
tice of location thereof being record
ed in said Book O, at page 453, erf
said records;
The Mystery No. 3 lode claim, no
tice of location thereof being record,
ed in said Book O, at page 605, of said
records;
The Parallel No. 1 lode claim, no
tice of location thereof being of rec*
ord in said Book O, at page 607, of
said records;
The Parallel No. 2 lode claim, no
tice of location thereof being of rec
ord in said Book O, at page 606, of
said records;
The High Bar lode claim, notice of
location thereof being of record in
said Book O, at page 451, of said
records.
Twenty per centum of the stock of
said corporation was then, by the
terms of said contract, to be trans
ferred to plaintiffs Treat and Smith,
and twenty per centum of the said
stdek was to remain in the treasury
of said corporation, to be sold by said
treasury as directed by the board of
directors of said corporation, the
money received from the sale of the
said twenty per centum of treasury
stock to be used in establishing a re
duction plant upon said mining claims
and in the development of the said
claims.
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tiffs Treat and Smith an undivided
one-tenth interest in and to each and
ail of said eight mining claims. That
the plaintiffs herein be adjudged and
decreed to be the owners of an up
divided one-fifth interest in and to all
tools, machinery, equipment, buildings
and improvements placed upon said
mining claims by the Cliff Mining
Company, a corporation, in the fol
lowing proportions: Plaintiff Geo. C.
Treat, an undivided one-tenth inter
est; Plaintiff Edmund Smith, an un
divided one-twentieth interest; plain
tiff Logan Archibald, an undivided
one-twentieth interest. That you,
your agents, attorneys and employees,
be enjoined and restrained from sell
ing or removing any of said tools,
equipment or buildings pending this
suit. That you be enjoined from
transferring the title of each and all
of said mining claims pending the
final determination of this suit. That
tlie said plaintiffs have such other
and further relief as lo the court may
seem just. And that plaintiffs have
judgment against you for their costs
and disbursements incurred in thjs
suit.
The order for the publication of this
summons was duly made and entered
tn the above-entitled court on the
10th day of May, 1915.
And you are hereby notified that
if you fail to appear and answer said
complaint as herein required, the said
plaintiffs will take judgment against
you for want thereof for their costs
and disbursements incurred in this
suit, and will apply to the court for
they MAKE LIFEjS WALK EASY
THE CROSSETT SHOES
The last steamer brought us a large shipment of these justly
Celebrated Dress Shoes For Men In The New Models.
We have handled these shoes for sometime, have sold many of them with
great satisfaction to our customers, both for Wear and Comfort.
CROSSETT seems to have solved the problem of making
Shoes That Fit The Foot.
Besides making the regular lasts he specialises on a shoe intended to
relieve people with low insteps or broken arches.
They are built up with
Sole Leather and Steel
to raise the instep, and
have an advanced heel
which gives the foot
great support.
This Shoe has proven a
great boon to people so
afflicted. If you are
having trou b 1 e with
your feet come in and
try a pair on. Ask for
The Crossett
showing tme/doctor arch supporting SHOE —Doctor Last
Price $6.50 & $7.00—The regular models sell for $5.00 & $6.00
We also received a shipment of
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Piiigree Shoes For Women
in the new styles. We are showing the New Mili
tary Model in I,ace Shoes with gray and black
cloth tops.
Price $5.00.
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the relief demanded in said com
plaint, as heretofore set out.
The date of -the first publication
of ‘his summons is the 17th day of
May, 1915, and .the date of the last
(Ablication thereof is the 28th day of
June, 1915.
Witness the Honorable Fred. M.
Brown, Judge of said Court, and the
3eal thereof, this- 15th day of May,
In the year of our-Lord one tohusand
nine hundred and fifteen, and of our
independence the one hundred thirty
ninth. ARTHUR LANG,
(Official Seal.) . Clerk.
Lyons & Ritchie and Donohoe &
Dimond, attorneys • for plaintiffs.
Publications May 17, 24, June 1, 8,
15, 22, 28.■ _.
SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION.
In the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
Anthony J. Diniond, plaintiff, vs.
Rambler Gold Mining Co., a corpor
ation, defendant.—Summons. No. 714.
—Summons. No. 714.
The President of the United States
of America, greeting:
To Rambler Gold Mining Co., a cor
poration, the above-named defendant:
You are hereby required to appear
in the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division, at Val
dez, Alaska, within thirty days after
the completion of the publication of
this summons, to-wit: on the 20th day
of July, 1915, and answer to the com
plaint of Anthony J. Dimond, the
above-named plaintiff in the above
entitled cause. The said cause is an
action brought by the said plaintiff
against you to recover from you the
sum of twenty-two hundred ninety
three and 14-100 dollars ($2,293.14).
together with interest thereon from
the first day of January, 1915, until
date of judgment at the rate of eight
per centum per annum, and the said
plaintiff’s costs and disbursements in
said cause. The order for the pub
lication of this summons was duly
made and entered on the 7th day of
May, 1915.
And you are hereby notified that
if you fail to appear and answer said
complaint as herein required, the said
plaintiff will take judgment against
you for the said sum of twenty-two
hundred ninety-three and 14-100 dol
lars ($2,293.14), together with inter
est and costs and disbursements, as
above stated.
The date of the first publication of
this summons is the 7th day of May
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1915, and the date of the last pub
lication thereof is June IS, 1915.
Witness the Honorable Fred. Jl.
Brown, Judge of said Court, and the
seal thereof, this 7th day of May.
in the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred fifteen, and of our in
dependence the one hundred thirty
ninth.
ARTHUR LANG, Clerk.
CHAS. A. HAND,
(Seal) Deputy Clerk.
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June 4, 11, 18.
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