Miners & Merchants Bank
IDITAROD, ALASKA
Capital, $50,000.00
General Banking Business Transacted Gold Oust Bought and Assayed
Drafts Issued on Any Part of the World
SEATTLE CORRESPONDENT. SCANDiNAYIAN AMERICAN BANK
OFFICERS:
CHARLES ROSS, President
JOHN HOLMES, Vice President
R. C. BUTTON, Cashier
ADMINISTRATORS APPOINTED
Harry Nonogaki has been appointed ad
ministrator of the estate of Kekuturo
(Jimmy) Yamato, and Einar Makela of
Discovery, Otter, a cousin of the departed,
has been appointed administrator of the
estate of Charles Maki. E. M. Stanton is at
torney for both. The esta'e in each case is
quite small, the assets consisting chiefly of
sums earned by the men during the past
summer.
THE BEATTIE HOUSE
Under New Management
MISS LILLIAN SMITH, Prop.
If You Are Interested in
LIFE INSURANCE
Let me talk it over with you
EARL B. HUNT
Pioneer Machine'Shop
ED J. UHL, Prop.
GENERAL REPAIR WORK
All Kinds of Metal Welded
BEST LIQUORS AND CIGARS
Three- Times-Move Bar
(Formerly the Stenley House)
JOHN BAGOY, PROP.
GOOD ROOMS CLEAN BEDS
FLAT CITY
PIONEER CREEK AGENCIES
FLAT CITY.Mr«. C. C. Chittiek ,
DISCOVERY OTTER Hirry Donnelley
METLAKAHTLAN FACTIONS
EXPECTED TO SEPARATE
From late and reliable reports it is learned
that the long-anticipated step toward the;
separation of the factions at Metlakahtla
is about to be taken. The separation will
l>e effected by the removal from the present ;
settlement of the followers of Mr. Duncan j
to another place, the location of which
has been partly decided upon but kept to
themselves. The informant said that some
sixty persons had signed an agreement to
start anew by the establishment of another
settlement, and to that end every prepara
tion is being made. The informant said ;
that due to the latest move of the govern- |
nient, through Commissioner Claxton, in,
taking possession of all the buildings and :
other property in trust for the natives, no j
amicable relations ever could exist between
the factions, hence the decision to migrate.
All kinds of reports are being circulated
about the doings of the government officials.
One of them was to the effect that an ofti
cial had broken into a warehouse. In order
to ascertain the facts in the case, an investi
gation was made, with the result that the
contrary was found to obtain. It was found
that the opponents of the government had
removed the lock and, by the use of an
other door, had nailed pieces across the
inside of the “broken-in door,” presumably
to prevent the officials from using the ware
house.
Inasmuch as no satisfactory division of
the property can be made, it is said that
both factions have been advised to take the
matter up before he Utnied States supreme
court for adjudication, and such is being
seriously considered. -Ketchikan Progres
sive.
Hot Air and Vapor Baths with Electric
Vibration and Osteopathy Massages have the
power to cure such functional diseases as
I.umbago Indigestion
Rheumatism Disorders of Liver
Stiff Joints Melancholia
Dropsy Obesity and
Locomotor Ataxia Gout
THE CROSBY MASSAGE AND BATH
PARLORS
Building and roofing papers.
Crowley & Porter.
WATCH REPAIRING
ENGRAVING
TAYLOR, Flat.
WHEN IN DISCOVERY CALL AT 'f
I BISMARCK’S PLACE
B Cigars, Tobaccoe, Cigarettes, Pipes, Candies, Fruits, etc
Hn, n Stores at
PKJ MA S IDITAROD and
■ FLAT CITY
A Full Line of Clothing, Gents’ Furnishings, Rubber Boots, Pacs,
Boots, Shoes, etc.
THE BEST OF GOODS PRICES REASONABLE
FINNEGAN & CAMERON
POOL ROOM CIGARS AND TOBACCOS
FLAT CITY
MERCHANTS' CAFE
HERBERT E. RILEY, PROP.
The Best of Everything the Market Affords
TABLES FOR LADIES TELEPHONE
GRAND BAR nothing out the best
FLAT CITY
Your Friends
NICELY FURNISHED ROOMS BY DAY OR WEEK
Warm, Clean Well Ventilated
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
TUC nnnODV Massage and
I Hi lliUoDI Bath Parlors
MEDICATED, MINERAL VAPOR, STEAM, B|_ —
TUB, SALT AND FRESH WATER ||S3»LrlS
Caribou St., Bet. Black and WillowSts., on Watorfront
Electric ted Faradic Massage Treatments by Expert Attendants
Lighted by Gas Heated by Steam
NEWS OF OFHIE
Machinery Coming Into General
Use, With Splendid Results—
More Ordered
According to Toni Boyd, the mail carrier,
the Ophir district had an exceptionally pros
perous season this year. Much work was
done, a large number of men being em
ployed, and for the first time machinery was
in use there. Several scraper outfits also
have been ordered for the various creeks of
the district.
The H. H. Co. (Harlan & Higgins), on
No. 2 above discovery, on Yankee creek,
have been working with scrapers on tail
ings, and according to accounts have been
most successful. •
Ole Olson and John Mackie. on No. 8
above, Yankee creek, took out $20,000 this
season. The ground mined had been worked
previously, but with the use of scrapers
was found to be most profitable. One nug
get weighing $1”>0 was found, which [ire
viously had been through the riffles, and
by the merest chance missed going through
again.
Two scraping plants are going in on Ganes
creek. One of these is for Higgins & Thorns,
who also have ordered a sixty horse power
boiler. These may have arrived on the last
trip of the schooner Bender Brothers at
Bethel.
On Little creek the Schneirlas are putting
in a hydraulic plant.
Billy Donahue, Tom Donahue, Gus Olson
and Joe Basche have ordered a sixty horse
power boiler and drag-line scraper for the
Oregon group, on Yankee creek. rIhis plant
was ordered early in the summer, but did
not arrive.
On discovery, Ganes creek, Jones & Spen
cer also have ordered a scraper plant, and
there are others in prospect.
The outlook from a mining standpoint
was never brighter in the Ophir district, so
it is said, and it would not be at all sur
prising to see a great deal of activity there
in the near future.
There appears to have been the usual dif
ficulty in getting supplies into the Kusko
kwim this year, in spite of the promises of
improved service by the transportation com
panies. The Alliance made but one trip to
Bethel, the Ruby made one trip, and the
Bender Brothers one. It is possible that
the latter may have made a second voyage
previous to the freeze-up, although this was
not yet known at Takotna when Mr. Boyd
left.
The wireless telegraph plant that was or
dered for Takotna was supposed to be on
board the Bender Brothers, but even though
she had arrived at Bethel, the plant cannot
now be installed until next summer
Bert Green and Bobbie Gerkie are run
ning a store at Ophir. and the latter also
is conducting a roadhouse. Bert does the
freighting of supplies from the Kuskokwim.
FUNERAL OF CHARLES MAKI
The funeral of Charles Maki. the young
Finn who died at the Flat hospital on
Wednesday, October 20, was held on Satur
day afternoon last. The services were held
at Smith’s undertaking parlors, and were
conducted by E. M. Stanton. Burial was
in the Iditarod cemetery. A number of
young Maki’s fellow-countrymen from the
creeks attended the funeral.
ALASKA COAL OUTLOOK
DISCUSSED BY OFFICIAL
For the purpose of investigating with a
view to the establishment of a great naval
station in Seward, George W. Brown arrived
last night under commission from the United
States government. Mr. Brown is in charge
of the government naval station at Tivurno,
about six miles from San Francisco, and
states that without question a naval sation
will be established here, and that the navy
of the United States and the commercial
needs of the whole Pacific coast will be
supplied from the Matanuska roal Helds,
and possibly from other Alaska coal fields
if they prove to be of the proper value
after tests.
“There is no coal on the Pacific,” said Mr.
Brown, “which is equal to the coal of the
Matanuska not even the British Columbia
coal. Matanuska coal has been shown to
be equal to the best standard coal in the
United States, which is Pocahontas and West
Virginia, so that for the supply of the re
quirements on the Pacific, Matanuska has
no competitor."
Mr Brown says that the amount of coal
required annually by the United States navy
alone on the Pacific is hardly more than
two hundred thousand tons, and that all of
that amount will come from Alaska without
a question. It is likely, he thinks, that the
navy will soon be increased, and that the
Pacific will have more naval vessels.
To sum up the story of Mr. Brown’s com
ing, it may be said again that he has come
to make the preliminary investigations for
the establishment of a great naval station;
that the naval station will soon be con
structed, and that this bit of Alaska coast
will soon be awakened by an exraordinary
development whose purpose will be to sup
ply vast areas of thickly populated regions
around the Pacific ocean.—Seward Gateway.
TAX OF FOURTH DIVISION
The account of the Pioneers’ Home at
Sitka against the Fourth division for the
quarter ending September 1 amounted to
8644. This money is payable by order of
Judge Bunnell from the territorial indigent
fund. The amount received by the indigent
fund for the same quarter was $1,432.49.
CARD OF THANKS
Harry Nonogaki wishes to express the
thanks of himself and his fellow-countryuien
to those friends who so kindly assisted at
the obsequies of the late Kekuturo \ amato.
Reindeer chops, steaks and boiling pieces.
Crowley <£ Poster.
HOLD-UP CHARGED
Man Who Charged Another With
Robbery Is Himself in Trouble
on Similar Charge
Deputy United States Marshal W. B.
Thomas left for Dikeman on Thursday
morning last, with a warrant for the arrest
of John Schneider on the charge of robbery.
The complaint was sworn to by Dan S. Suth
erland. Thomas was accompanied by
George Adams with a dog team.
Sutherland, who claims to have been on
his way to the Ditna on a hunting expedi
tion, says that when half a mile out of
Dikeman, carrying a pack on his back and
a rifle in his hand, he was confronted by
Schneider, who pointed a gun at him and
commanded him to throw down his weapon.
He did so, and was told to drop his pack,
which order he also complied with. He ,
then took to his heels and made his way to
this city to swear out a complaint. He says
that he was robbed of five days’ provisions,
an axe and a rifle.
Grows Out of Previous Trouble
The incident is a sequel to a charge of
robbery against Sutherland made by Schnei
der last summer. The latter caused the ar
rest of Sutherland on a charge of robbing
him of a large sum of money, and was him
self locked up on a charge of insanity. The
charge against Sutherland was dropped, ow
ing to the peculiar actions of the complain
ant.
After being in jail here for several days
Schneider evinced a desire to drop the
charge of robbery against Sutherland, and
told the officials that he wanted to get out
of jail and go to work cutting wood. He
accompanied Deputies Thomas and Maltby
to Flat creek, where he had cached a con
siderable sum of money, and this he dug
up. He showed the officers another cache
from which he said he had taken $2,300,
which he ch;rged Sutherland with stealing.
Owing to the fact that Schneider was said
to have become indebted for several small
amounts with business men, on the plea of
poverty, his story was generally discredited,
and as there was no other evidence to be
secured in the case, it was thought to be
useless to hold Sutherland on the robbery
charge.
Schneider Follows Sutherland
Recently Sutherland made known his pur
pose of going to the Ditna country, and
Schneider, who still claimed that Suther
land had robbed him and thought he had
the money in his possession, followed him.
If Sutherland's story of the hold-up near
Dikeman be correct, it is presumed that
Schneider took the desperate step for the
purpose of recovering the money which he
supposed Sutherland carried with him.
“JIMMIE” YAMATO BURIED
The funeral of Kekuturo Yamato, widely
known throughout the district as “Jimmie,’
who died suddenly last week on Flat creek,
was held from Smith’s undertaking estab
lishment on Sunday afternoon last, E. M.
Stanton conducting the service. There was
quite a large attendance at the funeral, a
number of well-known citizens acting as
pall bearers Interment was in the Iditarod
cemetery.
ARRIVAL OF TEDDY H.
(Fairbanks News-Miner, Sept. 28)
Going right through to the log jam from
the Iditarod with a load of passengers and
freight, the Teddy H. came up from Tolo
vana, having delivered her freight and pas
sengers safely at the head of steamboat
navigation on the Tolovana. The Teddy H.
brought up a load of stock for Mutchler
Bros., the Iditarod freighters, who are go
ing into the freighting business in the new
camp.
Captain Morgan reports an uneventful
journey from the lower river.
ROMANTIC ALASKA STORY
IN FIGHT OVER ESTATE
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13.—A new will,
alleged to have been made by the late
John M. Keith seven days before his death
here on April 27, 1914, was tiled today in
the superior court. By its terms Mrs. Louise
Thomson of Los Angeles, who recently an
nounced that she was the lost daughter of
Keith, was bequeathed the entire estate ap
praised at $631,000, except $5 “to anytKie
claiming any interest in my estate.”
The will was filed by the attorneys for
Mrs. Thomson. Dr. Sarah Tedford of Los
Angeles was named as executrix without
bonds. Mrs. Tedford is a sister-in-law of
Mrs. Thomson,
Under the terms of a will previously filed
for probate, Mrs. Frank W. Wakefield, for
merly Mrs. Edith Spreckels, was left $50,000,
as also was J. J. Mack, named as executor
of the will, and Miss Inez Kinney Chamber
lain.
Mrs. Thomson, through her attorneys, re
cently offered objection to distribution of the
esate, and alleged that she was the daugh
ter of Keith, formerly an oil operator at
Bakersfield. She said she and her father
were separated when shipwrecked on the
Alaska coast thirty yeaors ago, and that she
lived for fifteen years in an Eskimo village
and learned that her father was alive only
through newspaper notices.
Objection to distribution of the estate also
was filed by the regents of the University
of California, upon the allegation that Keith,
pledged $150,000 to the university, of which
he paid but $5,000, and made no provision
for payment of the balance in his will.
Attorneys for Mrs. Thomson asserted the
paper had been in their possession for sev
eral weeks, and that they were convinced
it had been drawn up by Keith.
NOTICE
On and after this date freight received
after 12 noon will not be forwarded until
the following day.
Oct 23. 1015. MUTCHLEB BROS,.
OD
O
Td
p
a
®
-4-»
O
0
cq
£
3
rv*
i-M
£
rt
K
cti
22
Ball Band Rubber Boots and Pacs [""""] N. C. Co. Sole Agents for AJaska
IPS
Dog Lard, SOc lb.
Dog Bacon, lOcand 15c lb.
Ball Band Rubber Boots and Paes
N. (’. Co. Sole Agents for Alaska
X
V*»>
G
r'-'
*•
"i
X
£
if
X
STORY OF THE SIXTH DRUNK
"No. 10,379, Private Michael O’Flannigan,
you are charged, first, with being absent
from roll-call on the 21st instant until 3:30
a. m. on the 22d, a period of 5 hours and
30 minutes; second, being drunk; third, as
saulting a non-commissioned officer in the
execution of his duty.
“Private O’Flannigan, this is your fifth
drunk. In addition to that you have struck
a non-commissioned officer in the execution
of his duty, one of the most serious crimes
a soldier can commit. I’m sick of you. \ou
do nothing but give trouble. The next
drunk you have I will endeavor to get you
discharged as incorrigible and worthless.
As it is, I shall send you up for court-mar
tial. Perhaps they will save me the trouble.
March out.” ,
Now all that happened eighteen months
ago. The rest is concerning the sixth drunk
of Michael O’Flannigan and what he did;
and it will also explain why at the present
moment, in a certain depot mess in England, j
there lies in the center of the dinner table
every guest night a strange, jagged-looking
piece of brown earthenware. It was brought
home one day in December by an officer
coming on leave, and it was handed o\er
by him to the officer commanding the depot.
And once a week officers belonging to the
Thirteenth and Fourteenth and other bat
talions gaze upon the strange relic and drink
a toast to the Sixth Drunk.
One evening it came about that the Huns
tactlessly decided to deliver an attack just
about the same time as the rum was usually
issued. O’Flannigan had been eyeing the
traverse in his trench round which it would
come hungrily for some time, when sud
denly the burst of firing all along the line
proclaimed an attack* Moreover, it was
an attack in earnest. They reached the
trenches and got into them, and though
they were twice driven out, bit by bit the
battalion retired. O’Flannigan's trench be
ing at the end, and more or less uncon
nected with the others, the Germans passed
it by, though, as the sergeant in charge very
rightly realized, it could only be a question
of a very few minutes before it would be
untenable.
“Get out,” he ordered, “and join up with
the regiment in the trenches behind."
“And phwat of the issue of rum?” de
manded Michael O’Flannigan, whose ntle
was too hot to hold.
“You may think yourself lucky, my
bucko, if you ever get another," said the
sergeant. “Get out.”
O'FIannigan looked at him. If you re
after thinking that I would be leaving the
rum to them swine you are mistaken, ser
geant.”
“Are you going. U riannigan :
“Bedad. I’m not! Not if the king him
self was asking me.
At that moment a Bosche rounded the
traverse. With a howl of joy O’Flannigan
hit him once with the butt of his rifle.
From that moment he went mad. He hurled
himself over the traverse and started. It
wa-s full of Germans, but this wild appari
tion finished them. Roaring like a bull and
twisting his rifle round his head like a cane,
the Irishman fell on them and as they
broke he saw in the corner the well-beloved
earthenware pot containing the rum. He
seized the whole thing in his right hand and
poured the liquid down his throat, while
the rest of it ran over his face and clothes.
And then Michael O’Flannigan ran amok.
His great voice rose high above the roar of j
the rifles as, with the empty rum jar in one
hand and his clubbed rifle in the other, he
went down the trench.
What he must have looked like with the
red liquid pouring down his face, his hands
covered with it, his clothes dripping with it,
in that eerie half light, heaven knows. He
was shouting an old song of the Fenian
days, and it is possible they thought he was
the devil. He was no bad substitute, any
way. And then of a sudden his regiment
ceased to shoot from the trenches behind
and a voice cried, “O'Flannigan!” It passed
down the line, and as one man they came
back howling the word “O’Flannigan!”
They drove the Germans out like chaff and
fell back into the lost trenches—all save one
little party, who paused at the sight in front
of them. ' There stood O’Flannigan astride
the colonel, who was mortally wounded.
They heard rather than saw the blow that
fetched home on the head of a Prussian of
ficer—almost simultaneously with the crack
of his revolver. They saw him go down
■ith a crushed skull, while the big earthen
ware jar shivered to pieces. They saw
O'Flannigan stagger a little and then look
around—still with the top of the rum jar
in his hand.
“You are back,” he cried. "It is well,
but the rum is gone."
And then the colonel spoke. He was near
death and wandering. “The regiment has
never yet lost a trench. Has it, O’Flanni
gan, you scoundrel?” And he peered at
him.
“It has not, sorr,” answered the Irishman.
“I thought,” muttered the dying officer,
“there were Prussians in here a moment
ago.” I
“They were, sir, but they were not liking
it, so they went."
Suddenly the colonel raised himself on
his elbow. “What’s the matter with you,
O'Flannigan? What’s that red on your
face? It’s rum, you blackguard. You’re
drunk again.” His voice was growing
weaker. . . . “Sixth time . . . dis
charged . . . incorrigible and worthless.”
And with that he died.
They looked at O’Flannigan, and he was
' eagging at the knees “Bedad! 'tis not all'
■uni, the red on me, colonel, dear.” He
dowly collapsed and lay still.
And that is the story of the strange table
idornment of the depot mess, the depot of
[he regiment which has never lost a trench
yet. Cincinnati Enquirer.
PICTURE SHOW AT FLAT
Phil Caswell has removed his motion pic
ture outfit to Flat City, and has been giv- j
ng a series of entertainments there, which |
rave been well attended. A feature of a j
recent entertainment was a vocal solo by j
Louis Seyler. Louis made a hit and was
presented with a bouquet.
INTERESTING REMINISCENCE
OF EARLY DAWSON DAYS
The following letter, dated Butte, Mont.,
August 13, 1915. is published in the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer of August 10, and will be
read with especial interest by early Klon
dikers:
Dear Sir: In your issue of August 7 you
publish a brief report of a stereopticon lec
ture by Edgar C. Raine, given on tne pre
vious evening at the First Methodist church.
Mr. Raine is credited w>ith the statement
that “in the spring of 1898 Sant Humes
brought a consignment of Post-Intelligencers
into the North country. A resourceful citi
zen purchased the entire lot, burned all but
one copy, and then charged 82 to enter
a huge tent and hear him read the news.
Mr. Raine tells that the tent was packed
for three sessions each evening.”
In the interest of historical accuracy, and
for the benefit of future generations when
a true history of Alaska and the Yukon
territory shall have been written, I deem
it only fair to give the facts connected
with that $2 admission fake story, according
to Mr. Raine.
On December 1, 1897, the Post-Intelli
gencer published my departure from Seattle
for Dawson, together with a companion, and
equipped with a $1,000 outfit. We were!
both in the employ of the Post-lntelli- j
gencer, and under contract to make the J
trip over the ice as rapidly as possible, I to I
write up the scenes and incidents of the
trip, and my companion to illustrate my
letters.
W7e had four oxen and over five tons of
supplies, feed and provisions. Owing to
inexperience, storms and blizzards, it took
us one month to make the foot of the sum
mit of White pass. There my companion
got "cold feet,” and w’e agreed to disagree.
We divided the outfit and I went on alone,
reaching Dawson after four months of un
told hardships early in April. 1898.
I was under contract with the Post-In
telligencer (then under the management of
the Piper boys) to write up the trip over
the ice, which 1 did in a series of thirty- j
five letters of about two columns each, !
of which some thirty reached their destina- j
tion.
The Post-Intelligencer at that time was
the only reliable paper from the Outside
that was eagerly looked for in Dawson, and j
from which the Dawson papers secured their
world’s news.
The garbled incident referred to by Mr.
Raine occurred in Dawson, A ukon terri
tory, and not in Alaska It took place in
one of the large dance halls—the Tivoli, I
believe, and not in a huge tent, and lasted
only one afternoon.
The occasion for this special excitement
and patriotic demonstration was Admiral
Dewey’s great naval victory at Manila. The j
date of this I cannot recall, but it must
have been some two or three weeks after i
the fall of Manila, somewhere about the
latter end of May, 1898.
At any rate, the only copy of the Post
Intelligencer. with its first page devoted
exclusively to brief bulletins of the naval
battle, reached Dawson in the hands of a
newcomer who had mushed it over the ice
from Skagw-ay. This man, whose name I
cannot recall, when he reached Dawson
had all his interest in Admiral Dewey and
his historical achievement lost to get in on
the wild, insane hunt for gold, and so,
when asked for news from the Outside, he
handed out this one precious, pocket-worn
copy of the Post-Intelligencer, of course, the
only one in camp. My memory for names
is poor, and I can’t recall into whose hands
the paper fell. At any rate, he appreciated
the full importance of that news to the
Dawson camp, where fully seventy-five out
of every hundred were Americans. He and
two or three more secured the dance hall j
or the afternoon (for the reason that at J
night the dance halls were running full
blast), word was sent around town of the
reading from the stage, of the nature of the
news, and of a 50-cent admission to be
I charged, and, it is needless to say, the hall |
| was packed at the first reading, each .'nan |
paying his 50 cents cheerfully, myself in
cluded.
If I recall it correctly, the hall was cleared
| and refilled three times. Several hundred
dollars were secured and divided among
| the “damned smart A'ankees,” as the Cana
dians dubbed the Americans, nor did I learn
whether the newcomer who brought in .his
solitary copy ever got in on that 50 cent
admission deal. One of the promoters of
this scheme was a bright young lawyer, at
that time well known in Seattle.
E. B. WISHAAR.
Fresh Olympia and Eastern Oysters, 81.50 ,
rer ran. Iditared Meat Co. |
5AM ADAMS IS DEFENDANT
IN SUIT TO RECOVER MONEY
A suit was filed in the district court u
ruesday last in which Mr-: M L Peter-.on
s plaintiff and Sam C. Adams is defendant.
I'he plaintiff seeks to recover judgment lor
various sums of money alleged ' jJf.
ind unpaid.
The complaint recites that the plaintiff is
ny profession a stenographer, and that tin.
lefendant is a miner of Hat. and alleges
that between January 13, 1913. ami Nov.
5, 1914, plaintiff rendered services for de
fendant in preparing certain legal in-" r
nents and reporting and transcribing tc-’i
liony in certain actions pending in justice
tourt, wherein defendant was a party; id->
n preparing certain deeds of conveyance tor
lefendant. It is also alleged that plaintiff
idvanced cash to defendant for filing and re
lording said instruments in the office f the
recorder, for all of which said services ren
tiered and cesh advanced, the said defendant
nee a me indebted to plaintiff in the sum of
5310. An itemized account is included in
the complaint. It is stated that defendant
repeatedly his promised to pay plaintiff, but
no portion of said account has been pain,
and that there is still due from defendant
to plaintiff the sum of $310, and interest
thereon at 8 per cent per annum.
As a second cause of action a promissory
note given by Adams to one Barney McKin
ley for $100, at 1 tier cent per annum, se
cured by a two-sixths interest in the Ben
Hur Association, on Chicken creek, -hich
was assigned to plaintiff, and which i- now
due and payable, is cited.
A third cause of action given i- that - n
nr about October 15. 1915, “one J. J Peter
-oil loaned to the said defendant the -mm ,.f
$20, which the defendant then and them
promised to pay forthwith," and which -til!
remains unpaid. The claim was sob: and
assigned to plaintiff.
Judgment is asked for the above sunn
together with interest, costs and disburse
ments.
Charles E. Taylor is attorney for plaintiff.
WHEW!
(Capt. James J. Doyle of Funter, Alaska, in
Juneau Empire
In your Saturday's Sayings Lieutenant
Pryor of the Whipple is quoted as saying
that the smallest muscle in the human body
is the levatorlabiisuperiorsalliquanDasae.
Please inform Lieutenant Pryor when
promulgating his esoteric cogitation, or in
articulating superficial sentimentalities and
philosophical or psychological observations
to beware of platitudinous ponderosity Tell
him to let his conversation possess clarified
conciseness, compacted comprehensibilities,
coalescent consistency and concatinated co
gency. Tell him to eschew all conglomera
tions and garrulity, jejune babblement and
asinine affectations. His extemporaneous
discontations and unpremeditated explana
tions should have intelligibility without rho
domontacle of thrasonical bombast. He
should sedulously avoid all polysyllabilical
profundity, pompous prolixity and ventrilo
quai verbosity. He should shun double en
tendre and prurient jocosity, whether ob
scure or apparent, and then perhaps he
might grasp the meaning of the famous
word which, if properly supported in the
center, would bridge the waters of Gastineau
channel.
HOW SUBMARINES ARE
HUNTED AND DESTROYED
A London dispatch of September 15 says
that the London News of that date carries
a feature story reciting the loss of the
German submarines and announces how the
under-sea craft are discovered. According
to the story, all submarines leave a tell
tale wake behind them. The News says
that the losses of German submarines have
been more than formidable—they have been
irretrievable.
A submarine, no matter how deeply it is
immersed, invariably leaves a peculiar trail
on the surface. This trail is marked by
air bubbles. Auxiliary boats follow this
curious wave, which seamen soon learn to
recognize. The wave is difficult to dis
tinguish in rough water.
The story states that there are now 2,300
trawlers engaged in hunting the German
submarines.
A REMINDER
That I still retain my business and stock
until after the first of January, and that my
Cut Glass, Silver Deposit and Christmas
Novelties are selling at prices most reason
able.
All Hamilton and Howard Watches at a
factory-tagged price.
WILLIAM TAYLOR, Hat City.
Reindeer chops, steaks and boiling pieces.
Crowley & Porter.
Job Printing at Pioneer office.