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NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.—Survey No. 993.—
Serial No. 01018. United States
Land Otl'ice, Juneau, Alaska,
August 20, 1913.
Notice is hereby given that in piirsu
ance of tlie act of Congress approved
May 10, 1872, Fred Liljegren, whose
postolllcc address is Ellamar, Alaska, has
made application for a patent for 1,500
linear l'eet on the Copper Bullion No. 1
lode mining claim and for 1,500 linear
rcet on the Copper Bullion No. 2 lode
mining clulm, bearing cupper, together
with surface grounds as allowed by law,
lying, being and situate In the record
ing precinct of Valdez, Alaska, and de
scribed by the official plat and by the
Held notes of U. S. Mineral Survey No.
993, on Ule in the office of the Register
of the Juneau Land District, at Juneau,
Alaska, as lollows, to-wit:
Copper Bullion No. 1 Lode.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, whence li. S.
Mineral Monument No. 8 bears N. 40 de
grees 44 minutes 21 secunds E. G13.92 feet
distant; thence N. 01 deg. 09 min. W. 600
feet to Cor. No. 2; thence N. 28 deg. 51
min. E. 1500 Tect to Cor. No. 3; thence
S. 61 deg. 09 min. E. 000 feet to Cor.
No. 4; thence S. 28 deg. 51 min. \V. 1500
rcet to Cor. No. 1, place or beginning.
Area 20.661 acres. The A ddltional and
Amended Location Certificate or the Cop
per Bullion No. 1 lode claim Is duly of
record In Book 14 of the Records of the
Valdez Recording Precinct at page 361.
This claim is bounded on the north hy
the Copper Bullion No. 2 lode claim.
Copper Bullion No. 2 Lode.
Beginning at Cor* No. 1, identical with
Cor. No. 4, Copper Bullion No. 1 Lode of
this survey previously described, whence
U. S. Mineral Monument No. 8 bears S.
17 deg. 12 min. 50 sec. W. 934.98 rcet
distant; thence N. 61 deg. 69 min. VV.
600 feet to Cor. No. 2, identical with
Cor. No. 3, Copper Bullion No. 1 Lode;
thence N. 28 deg. 51 rain. E. 1500 Teet
to Cor. 3, whence a witness corner, a post
marked C B No. 2 Cor. 3 VV C bears S. 28
deg. 51 min. W. 383.40 rect; thence from
true corner S. 01 deg. 09 min. E. 600
feet to Cor. No. 4, Whence a witness cor
ner, a post marked C B No. 2 corner 4
W C bears S. 28 deg. 51 mill. VV. 141.70
reel; thence Trom true corner S. 28 deg.
51 min. W. 1500 feet to Cor. No. i, the
place or beginning. Area 20.661 acres.
The Additional and Amended Location
Certificate of the Copper Bullion No. 2
lode claim is duly oT record In Rook 14
of Records of the Valdez Recording Pre
cinct at page 362. Tills claim Is bound
ed on the south by the Copper Bullion No.
1 lode.
Any and all persons claiming adversely
any portion of said mining claims or sur
face ground, are hereby required to flic
their adverse claims with tho Register
of the U. S. Land Office at Jtfneau, Alaska,
within the time prescribed hy law, or they
will be barred by virtue of the provis
ions of the statute.
FRED LILJEGREN,
< Claimant.
It is hereby ordered l.-At the roregolng
notice of application be published In the
Valdez Dally Prospector, the newspaper
?iubilshed nearest the said mining claims,
or a period of sixty days.
C. B. WALKER,
Register.
Date of first publication Aug. 27, 1913.
Date of last publication Nov. 6, 1913.
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The flrd?:* of Alaskan' Moose
TAILORS IN A TEMPER.
Th»y Rom In Riot Against a Play That
8atirix«d Thoir Art.
' In 1769 Samuel Foote, the Eng
lish dramatist, Imd produced in
London a burlesque, the author of
which has never been discovered,
jntitled “The Tailors—A Tragedy
For Warm Weather.” Dowton, the
ictor, announced the revival of
this piece for his benefit. As the
title implies, it was a satire upon
the sartorial craft, and upon the
bills being issued an indignation
meeting was convened by the
knights of the needle, who vowed to
oppose the performance by might
md main.
Menacing letters were sent to
Dowton telling him that 7,000 tai
lors would attend to his piece, and
one, who signed himself “Death,”
added that 10,000 men could be
found if necessary. These threats
were laughed at by the actors, but
when night came it was discovered
that the craft were in earnest and
that with few exceptions they had
contrived to secure every seat in
the house, while a mob without still
squeezed for admission. The mo
ment Dowton appeared upon the
stage there was a hideous uproar,
and some one threw a pair of shears
at him.
Not a word would the rioters
listen to, nor would they accept
any compromise in the way of
changing the piece. Within howled
and hissed without intermission
hundreds of exasperated tailors;
outside howled and bellowed thou
sands of raging tailors, who at
tempted to storm the house. So
formidable did the riot wax that a
magistrate had to be sent for and
special constables called out, but
these were helpless against over
whelming odds, so a troop of life
guards was ultimately summoned,
who, after making sixteen prisoners,
put the.rest to flight.
Conture and His Dainty Pupil.
An old pupil of Conture told how
the master cume into his school
room one day when the model was
in exceptionally good condition, the
light especially fine and the cir
cumstances of the seance altogether
auspicious. As he entered one of
the students got up and went to the
tub of water in the corner, leaving
all the rest buried in their work.
“What are you going to do?” asked
Conture roughly. The student
showed his hands, which had some
paint on them, and replied that he
was going to wash them. Conture
dabbed his thumb in some paint on
the palette of the nearest student
and made a smear on the dainty pu
pil’s forehead. “You’d better wash
your face, too,” he said. The face
washing was the last act of the
students when they had finished
their work for the day. The dainty
pupil took the hint to heart, apolo
gized and sat down at his easel
without visiting the tub. If he had
not done so he would never have en
tered the school again.
, Pressed to Death.
An English court has sentenced a
woman to imprisonment because
she refused to speak during a trial.
The old penalty for remaining mute
under similar conditions was being
pressed to death. The form of sen
tence set forth, “The prisoner shall
be laid in some low, dark house,
where he* shall. lie naked'on the
earth, and one arm shall be drawn
to one quarter of the house with a
cord and the other arm l^another
quarter, and in the same manner
let it be done with his legs, and let
there be laid upon his body iron and
stone, as much as he can bear—or
more.” There the man had to lie.
On the following day he was given
three morsels of bread without wa
ter, on the following water, but no
bread. And this was his diet until
he died.
Mexico's Fans.
In Mexico fans were used long
before the conquest, and when
Montezuma heard that the Span
iards had landed and were about to
visit him he sent for goldsmiths
and lapidaries and ordered, among
other gifts which were to he offered
to Gortes, two feather fans orna
mented with a sun and moon of
highly polished gold. Like the
Japanese and other uncient nations,
the Aztecs evidently considered the
fan an emblem of authority, for
they generally placed it in the hnnds
of Ometeuctli, god of paradise, and
of Totec, the military disciple of
Quetznlcohuatl.
Puzzled Grant.
Grant and Sherman were dis
cussing the plans of a campaign
when u third general, a brigadier,
entered the tent—a good soldier,
but notorious for his carelessness
as to I.is personal appearance. The
brigadier finished his errand and
went out. General Grant pulled
upon his cigar for a few minutes in
silence and then said, “Sherman, 1
wonder whom that man gets to wear
his shirts the first week."
• A PLOT THAT FAftEDr *
The 8«h«m* to Blow Up NapoUon III.
With Gunpowder.
Ail interesting story is that of a
frustrated plot against Napoleon
III. which has never got into the
history book.
In 1900, when the frontage of
the Theatre Fruncais was rebuilt
after the disastrous fire in which
one of the most charming actresses
of the Maison de Moliere lost her
life, several shops disappeared,
among them being that of the fa
mous restaurant Chevet. It was
not properly speaking a restaurant.
Chevet used to sell liqueurs, gro
ceries, smoked meats, etc., and in a
couple of low ceilinged rooms on
the first floor he would serve a meal
or two to connoisseurs. One day
in 1805 or 1800 two young men of
fashion, Russians both of them,
came in and called for dinner in
one of the little rooms which were
above the shop. They asked for
caviar, but when they got it they
protested loudly that the caviar
was of inferior quality and called
for the owner of the shop. He
came, apologized and was met with
the remark, tendered laughingly by
one of the diners, that next time
they came they would bring their
own caviar. They came again and
brought it in a little white wooden
barrel, and when they left they had
it put on one side for them. From
time to time the two young Rus
sians came and dined cliez Chevet,
dined invariably in the same room
and always began their dinner with
their own caviar. One day they
finished the barrel, and a few days
later, in the afternoon, one of them
brought another one. ' “Put it in
the little cupboard in the room we
always dine in,” he said to the
waiter, “and do not let anybody
touch it until we come to dine.”
The waiter took it, but on his way
upstairs something peculiar struck
him.
“Look at tins barrel, be sam to
the restaurant keeper. “There is
something queer about it.”
“That is no business of ours,”
said the master of the establish
ment, “and I am not going to look
at it anyhow. What will our cus
tomers say if they find we have
opened it?”
“Oh,” said the waiter, “we can
open it and close it again, and they
will never know. It is certainly
different from the last barrel. It is
heavier, to begin with.”
His insistence prevailed, and the
barrel was opened. The restaurant
keeper and the waiter started back
• in fright. There was no caviar,
but gunpowder in that little barrel,
which was an infernal machine.
| The little dining room was exactly
i underneath the imperial box, and
I there is little doubt that the em
j peror’s next visit to the Cotnedie
| Francaise would have been his last
j had the carefully laid plot not been
■ discovered. The plotters never
i were caught, although the secret of
the plot was carefully guarded and
traps were laid for them in Chevet’s
! restaurant for several days. — St.
I James’ Gazette.
Gladstone as a “Supe.”
A reference to “The Corsican
Brothers” recalls an amusing story
of Mr. Gladstone’s visit to the Ly
ceum when Irving was playing in
this drama. Mr. Gladstone at the
time was not burdened by the cares
of oflice, and one evening he drop
ped in at the Lyceum, where he was
occasionally accommodated with a
chair at the “wings.” On this night,
however, when the stage was set for
the opera ball in “The Corsican
Brothers” his-curiosity led him into
one of the boxes for spectators in
the scene. Up went the curtain;
Mr. Gladstone was at once descried
by the pit and greeted with shouts
of joy which caused him hastily to
withdraw. “This,” says Mr. Austin,
“was his first and only appearance
in the drama outside of the dear
old ‘legitimate’ at Westminster.”—
Westminster Gazette.
Who Got the Kiss.
There were three at table in the
cafe, a lady and two men. Sudden
lly the electric lights went out, and
the lady, quickly and noiselessly,
drew back. An instant later there
was the smack of a compound kiss.
As the electric lights went up each
man was seen to be smiling com
plaisantly.
“I thought I heard a kiss,” said
the lady, “but nobody kissed me.”
I Then the men suddenly glared at
| each other and flushed and look
| ed painfully sheepish.—Cleveland
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you do ?
She—I’d refer the matter to the
young man who proposed to me and
was accepted while you were trying
to make up your mind*
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