L, 0, 0, M.'S “FIRST" OF 1917-18 SEASON
Entertainment and Dance
Thanksgiving Eve.,
Wednes., Nov. 23,
At Moose Hall, Flat
Entertainment First, Followed by Dance and Lunch
TICKETS $2.50 EVERYONE SNViTED
SAMMIES LOCATED
BY BASEBALL GAME
Controle American, American
Expeditionary Army, Sept. 4.—
An extensive set of photographs
of the American army camps
taken by a German aviator will
not reach Berlin. The Bauche
flyer was interrupted on his way
back by three French planes and
brought to earth. The aviator
was killed by the fall, hut lus
camera was only lightly damaged
and the F rench authorities de
veloped the films.
They found that the German
had taken pictures all along the
line. Although flying at a great
height he had obtained excellent
results with a telescopic lens.
It was observed by the Ameri
can officers that the German
continued his flight until he
came over the great open field
where the soldiers were playing
baseball. He then turned back
toward the German lines and the
theory is that the baseball game
furnished him conclusive proof
that the troops he had discov
ered were American.
No suggestion has yet been
made, however, that cricket be
adopted for deceptive purposes.
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BOOTLEGGER CINCHED
Nenana, Oct. 14. — Having pleaded
guilty to the charge of selling liquor
without a license, John Carlsen, one
of the cabin boys of the steamer Cana
dian, was fined $200 and costs by
Commissioner Burns. The costs
amounted to $25. Carlsen, when ar
rested, bad $400 in cash and two suit
cases of whiskey, so that he was able
to pay the fine. The booze was con
fiscated and destroyed. In fining Carl
sen, the commissioner said that the
next case of the kind that comes up
will result in the offender being given
the maximum punishment.
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Late arrivals from Fortuna Ledge
report that the launch Comet (Captain
U. Grant Norton in command), sailing
from this port about October 7, was
frozen in about four miles above
Russian Mission, and that the eaptair
was preparing to freight his cargo by
dogteam to Fortuna Ledge.
Come ini
And Get Your Feet Warm I
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POOL ROOM AND CICAR STORE, FLAT
STORM STORIES
FRO® SISSQBRI
The following from the Princeton
(Missouri) Post will cheerfully be ver
ified by Thco and Charley Hurst of
Jungletown;
You can believe anything you hear
about a tornado. Laws of nature seem
to be whacked when a twister comes.
If one tells you that straws are driven
into a tree like a nail, don't sneer; be
cause he can take you to the scene of
last Tuesday’s storm here in Mercer
county and show you. If you are told
that hide was peeled from a cat’s back,
feathers picked from chickens, horses'
ears taken off, hogs neatly scraped, sod
skimmed oft' the ground as if done by a
spade, people's clothes torn from their
backs, trees two feet through twisted
off and their butts splintered into
toothpicks, buildings completely blown
away and joists from good solid houses
torn out and left sticking in the
ground like flag poles, don’t question
his sanity. He can produce the proof.
Much of this the writer saw after the
tornado passed, and his ideas about
storm stories were matierially changed.
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WOULD CONTROL PRISE
London, Nov. In.—The United
States and Great Britain are
planning to control the output of
silver in the United States for
one year in order to prevent
other countries raising the price
to a point where it would be un
profitable to coin it. The price
fixed would be less than the
present one of 8G cents.
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It is reported that the molybdenum
property belonging to Mr. Courtland,
roadhouse keeper at Mile 32|. has rec
ently been examined by parties repre
senting large capital, with a view to
purchase. This property is in the
Willow creek district and consists of
seven claims. The vein is said to be
large, carrying good values in gold and
molybdenum. Samples show an abun
dance of this latter metal, which is
worth about $2 per pound at present.—
Anchorage Times
Mr. Gardner at Old Home
Fairbanks News-Miner: In the laat
mail from the States, letters were re
ceived from G. Ellis Gardner, formerly
assistant United States attorney. He
is now located at his old home in North
Carolina. He reports that he has been
quite ill for some weeks, but at the
time of writiug he was on the high
road to recovery.
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The express companies throughout
the United States have asked permis
sion to raise their rates 10 per cent.
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Tub and steam baths at all hours. Sny
der House, Flat.
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{DITAROD, ALASKA
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General Banking Business Transacted Gold Dust Bought and Assayed
Drafts Issued on Any Part of the World
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OFFICERS'
CHARLES ROSS, President
CLAUDE BAKER Vice-President
R. C. BUTTON, Cashier
ONE IN FIFTEEN
HAS BEEN SLAIN
Boston. —Roger Babson, the
eminent statistician of Wellesley,
has gathered the following
figures from a close study of war
casualties: fourteen men out of
every fifteen have been safe so
far. Under present conditions,
where man power is being saved,
not more than one in thirty is
killed. Only one man in 500
loses a limb, a chance no greater
than in hazardous conditions at I
11UlIK;.
Mr. Babson’s figures are based
on the mortality figures of the
French army for the full three
years of the war, and attention is
called to the fact that present
fighting is not resulting in any
where near the number of deaths
recorded for the first two years.
“Most of the wounds sustained
in the trenches,” said Mr. Bub
son, “are clean cut and of a na
ture that a few weeks in the hos
pital makes the subject as fit as
ever. But 300,000 French sol
diers have been discharged on
account of wounds during the
three years of the war. Fight
ing in the trenches, most of the
wounds are in the top of thej
head, simply scalp wounds, j
Practically speaking, a wound is
either fatal or slight, but with
few in between these two ex
tremes.”
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Seattle.—Declaring that with the
coal and oil fields of Alaska closed to
entry, and the territory forced to
import all the oil its citizens use—ap
proximately fi00,000 barrels yearly—
Falcon Joslin, who returned from a
six months’ stay in Washington, D. C.,
recently, said that there was little
hope that congress would afford any
relief to the territory at its present
session.
Because oil lauds were ail with
drawn from entry seven years ago
which stopped development entirely,
Alaska, he says, has been obliged to I
import all of its oil from California, j
Mr. Joslin believes that all of this1
could be easily produced from the 1
Alaska tields if there were any way by !
which title could he obtained to the
lands. A bill, he said, is pending in j
congress providing for the leasing of.
the oil lands, but at the time Mr. Jos- ;
lin left Washington there seemed to !
be very little hope of its passage, j
An effort was made to induce the
President to cancel the withdrawal
order of oil lands in Alaska and restore
them to development, but so far with
out success, Mr. Joslin said.
“Three years ago congress passed
an act for leasing the coal lands in
Alaska,” said Mr. Joslin, “but the
form of lease adopted by the depart
ment is so drastic that it makes it im
possible to obtain capital to open any
coal mines. The law has, therefore,
proved inoperative, this being the
sixth time that congress has legislated
upon the Alaska coal lands without
eirect.
“Recently the government has been
obliged to undertake the opening of
cool mines itself in order to secure fuel
for the government railway, but this
will not provide fuel for commercial
purposes, there being no authority for
the government to mine coal for com
mercial uses. The severe shortage of
California oil threatens to cut off the
supply for Alaska entirely, and the
very high shipping rates make it
nearly impossible to ship coal there,
so that the industries of the territory
are threatened with absolute ruin
unless relief is shortly granted.”
Mr. Joslin also learned at Wash
ington that coal for the navy is now
being shipped across the continent by
rail at a rate of more then 100 carloads
a w'eek, aggregating about 5,000 tons,
which is now being sent from West
Virginia to the Pacific ports at a cost
for freight of $8.59 per ton, or a total
of more than $10,000 a week, while
excellent naval coal, he says, lies un
developed in the Alaska fields, almost
in sight of its harbors, and yet the de
partments at Washington are unwill
ing to make a workable lease.—
Seattle P.-I.
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On the last mail Mrs. Clark received
a letter from Mrs. McDowell stating
that Joe McDowell was in the Good
News Bay country where he ha3 un
covered good pay, and will remain this
coming year. A new strike was made
there last fall.
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Job Printing at The Pioneer office.
ARCTIC EXPLORER
REPORTS ALL WELL
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Donald A. Gadzow, who has been in |
the Arctic during the past year col-j
lecting specimens for the New York j
museum, arrived at Fort Yukon the!
latted part of September, and teports
that Steffansson, the Arctic explorer,
wrote from No Man's Land to John
Ferth. the chief factor of the Hudson
Bay Company, at Fort McPherson, sav
ing that all was well with his party, j
He expected to leave for the Atlantic, :
through the North west passage, next j
summer. This is the first news that |
had been received from him at the post j
since the latter part of 101G. StefTans- i
son has been in the Arctic since the I
summer of 1913.
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Fairbanks, Oct. 11. — In a report re-'
ceived by tlie marshal’s office from Dr- j
puty Frank Miller, at Brooks, the let- j
ter reports that many Russians are
preparing to leave the district, ex
pecting to go Outside. A number of !
them have stated their fears of being j
drafted in the army, saying that if[
they must fight, they would rather re- ,
turn to Russia, to fight under their j
own flag. From orders issued in the j
states, however, it is believed that few ;
of them will be allowed to return to j
Russia at this time as many of them
Russians who returned to the land of;
their nativity have become the worst j
agitators.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To J. F. Baird, Marie Baird and Char
les Hoxsie, and to their heirs and as- ’
signs:
You are hereby notified that the un- j
dersigned have expended in each of the ]
years” 1915 and 191(1 the sum of one hun
dred dollars in labor and improvements
upon each of the placer mining claims
known and described as follows, to wit:
The Rainbow association, situated at]
the head of Flat creek, in Otter pre
cinct, Fourth division, territory of
Alaska, the location certificate of which
is found of record in book one of loca
tions, page 318, in the office of the re
corder for said precinct: the Montana
association, adjoining the above-de
scribed Rainbow association, the Loca
tion certificate of which is found of rec
ord in volume one of Locations, page
318. in the office of the recorder of said
precinct: in order to hold said claim
under the ptovisions of Section 2321 nl
the Revised Statutes of the Lnited
States, and the amendment thereto ap
proved January 22, 1880,concerning an
nual labor upon mining claims, being
the amount required to hold said placer
mining claims for the periods ending on
the 31st day of December, 1915. and 1919.
And if, within ninety days from the
personal service of this notice, or within
ninety days after the publicat ion there
of, you fail or refuse to contribute your
proportion of such expenditure as a co
owner, your interests in the said two
placer mining claims will become the
property of the subscribers, your co
owners,'who have made the required
expenditures, by the terms of said sec
tion. ' Gi;o. W. Ai.urkcht.
Chas. K. Taylok.
First publication Nov. 3, 1917.
Last publication Feb. 2, 1918.
FORFEITURE NOTICE
To Gus Johnson, his heirs and assigns:
You are hereby notified that during
each of the years'of 1913. 1914, 1915 and
191 ti the undersigned has expended at
least, one hundred dollars in labor and
improvements upon each of the follow
ing named placer mining claims, to-wit:
Lower 3, 4 and 5 above upper discovery
on Ophir creek in the fnnoko mining
and recording district, in the territory
of Alaska, in which mining locations
you claim an undivided one-half inter
est, as shown by the records of said re
cording district. The said labor was
performed as and for the annual repre
sentation oi the said claims and each of
them for the said years of 1913, 1914,
1915 and 1916 as required by the laws
of the United States concerning annual
labor upon mining claims, and the
same was the amount required to hold
said claims for said years. You are
further notified that unless within 90
days after the completed service of
this notice upon you and within 90 days
after the publication thereof, you con
tribute your portion of said expendi
ture as a co-owner, to-wit: The sum of
two hundred dollars for each of said
claims and six hundred dollars in all,
your interest in said claims or in any
one of which you so fail to contribute
will be forfeited to the undersigned,
who has made such expenditure, and
will become his property in the manner
provided by law.
Dated at Ophir September 4, 1917.
ALFRED JOHNSON, Co-owner.
First publication Nov. 3, 1917.
Last publication Feb. 2, 1918
Mitchell Lumber Co.
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