IDITAROD, ALASKA
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MONSTER KRUPP GUNS
EXCEED FICTION FANCIES
The descriptions of the great Krupp guns
used by the Germans in the present war are
as varied as the number of writers who
have ventured upon the subject. The fol
lowing. which is given for what it is worth,
is a fair sample of them:
“The wildest fancies of fiction writers are
eclipsed by the great Krupp monster which
leveled the forts at I.iege and Namur—if
reports sent out from Berlin are to be be
lieved.
“Technically known as the 16.5-inch
Krupp mortar, the great gun carries with
it the destructive powers of a volcano—a
■ hained volcano, which can be directed at
will and can be fired with precision.
The secret of its power is known only to
the Krupps. Each workman makes but
small parts of it. No part of the German
army knows its secret. The inventor him
self, instead of being honored and rewarded,
is said to be marooned, for fear that he
might be tempted to sell his secret—and on
hat secret Germany pins its hope of vie
* “One ‘hot to a fort” is the slogan of the
makers of this most terrible death-dealing
n.'-rument ever designed by man. It car
ries with it a power as great as that which
hhaltered San Francisco. It is as deadly as
the iceberg which sank the Titanic. It is
as inevitable as fate itself, and even the
armies on whose side it battles turn away
with awe and fear before its awful havoc.
One shot, say the Berlin reports, reduced
the forts at Namur.
YV hen it was directed against Liege, after
seven days of fighting, in two hours that
stronghold of Belgium was a waste and
turned to such a scene of coinage that from
if rushed men drilled and trained to know
the terrors and horrors of war.
Here is what the Berlin reports say of the
gun:
It fires a projectile with accuracy a dis
tance of twelve miles.
So great is the concussion at the point of
firing that it is necessary to construct a
subterranean chamber 100 yards away for
those who tire it by an electrical device.
The projectile at Namur pierced four
walls believed to be impenetrable, lay silent
for several seconds, and then exploded with
such force that every wall was leveled and
the great steel plates twisted like tin.
The gun was invented eight years ago,
but was brought to its present perfection
only this year.
The Krupps defied the government when
a demand was made that army officers be
allowed to learn its secret. The gun is fired
by their trusted men. The army has for
its share only the clearing of the way so
* that it can be planted within twelve miles
* * of its target.
It requires an entire train to transport it
and about 500 men from the Krupp organ
ization.
Ihe mortar is set in concrete of a radius
of 100 feet, and a depth of twenty feet.
From this runs a tunnel to the subterranean
chamber provided for the protection of
those who fire it.
Life is impossible within 200 feet of the
gun when it is fired. A half mile away one
officer lost both sight and hearing when
that concentrated volcano was turned loose.
Each shell costs $2,500.
The Berlin reports point, as proof of
the wonderful power of the gun, to the
English newspaper reports on the battle at
Liege, which said that twro French regi
ments, coming to the relief of the garrison,
turned and ran in terror at the sight of
carnage which met them after the one shot
had been fired.
The great power of the gun explains,
says the report, the German strategy in
the movement on Paris.
The armies formed a great semi-circle.
The purpose was to move forward to points
twelve miles from the Paris forts. The
Germans have twelve of these great guns,
and their purpose was to direct their fire
against Paris. Had the armies not been
turned back, it is declared that Paris in a
half day could have been wiped from ex
istence and left a mass of ruins.
This is the Krupp monster, the most ter
rible of war machines, the most dreadful
device ever known, according to the reports
given out from Berlin.
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THE MAIL SERVICE
On the last mail, which arrived here
January 7. the postmaster at Iditarod re
ceived from the Seward postmaster a com
munication under date of November 29, in
which the latter official stated that there
probably would occasionally be "lean” first
class consignments of mail front Seward
to Iditarod. This he explains on the ground
that connections will not always be made
with the steamships. It is inferred from
this that all the vessels regularly making
Seward a port of call do not carry mail.
He intimates that there will always be
sufficient second-class matter to make up a
full contract consignment.
Our Fast Mail!
(Juneau Empire. Nov. 25)
The Alameda arrived from the westward
at li :30 this morning, making a very fast
trip. She has on board mail that is four
days ahead of schedule from Iditarod, and
will be out only twelve days from its
original starting point when it reaches Se
attle.
Mail Waiting for the Trail
(Seward Gateway. Nov. 281
The amount of mail now in the Seward
post office for Iditarod, Susitna, Knik and
other places on the trail is about twelve
hundred pounds. The amount to be taken
each trip is 475 pounds, and this amount
will go next Monday.
May Account for Congested Mail Service
(Seward Gateway, Sept. 17)
The largest second-class mail for two
years arrived on the Evans last night. It
consisted of more than one hundred sacks
for the Seward district alone. Part of the
mail was made up of a lot of pamphlets
from mail order houses that are using
Uncle Sam as a cheao drummer.
BILLY SUNDAY IS ELOQUENT
AS WELL AS SLANGY
That slang phrases are not the sole de
pendence of Billy Sunday, but that he
reaches the heights of eloquence, is shown
in the rermon which left his audience spell
bound by his message, says a Denver news
paper.
In his journey through the Scriptures he
tells the story of his own conversion, gives
the reason for his evangelism in this man
ner :
“Twenty-odd years ago, with the Holy
Spirit as my guide. I entered at the portico
of Genesis and went into the art gallery of
the Old Testament, where, on the wall, hung
i the pictures of Enoch, Noah, Jacob, Abra
| ham. Elijah, David, Daniel and other fam
I ous pro one ts of old.
" I hen I pa-.-ed into the music room of
the Psalms, where the spirit swept the key
board of my nature and brought forth the
dirge-like wail of the weeping prophet, Jere
miah, to-the grand, exultant strain of the
twenty-fourth Psalm, where every' reed and
pipe in God’s great organ of nature seemed
to respond to the tuneful harp of David,
as he played for King Saul in his melan
choly moods.
‘‘Next I passed into the business office of
the Proverbs and into the chapel of Eccle
siastics, where the voice of the preacher
was heard; then over into the conservatory
of the Songs of Solomon, where the lily of
the valley and the rose of Sharon and the
sweet-scented spices perfumed my life.
“I stepped into the prophetic room and
saw telescopes of various sizes, some point
ing to far-off stars or events and others to
near-by stars, but all concentrated upon
the bright morning star which was to rise
above the moonlit hills of Judea, while the
shepherds guarded their flocks by night.
“From there I passed into the audience
the standpoitn of Matthew, Mark, Luke and
room and caught a vision of the King from
the standpoint of Matthew, Mark, Luke and
John. I then went into the Acts of the
Apostles, where the Holy Spirit was doing
His office work in the formation of the in
fant church. From there I went into the
correspondence room where Matthew, Mark,
Luke, John, Jaul, Peter, James and Judge
sat at their desks penning their epistles to
the church. Then 1 passed, last of all, into
the throne room of revelation and saw the
King sitting high upon His throne, where
I fell at His feet and cried: ‘God be merci
ful to me, a sinner.’ ”
REV. FATHER CRIMONT TELLS
OF MURDER OF ARCHBISHOP
Seme time ago The Pioneer reprinted a
-tory from the Seward Gateway in which
it was said that Robert Michaelson, served
on the jury in the first murder triad in
Alaska, the defendant in which case was
“Father Fuller, a Jesuit priest, who was ac
cused of murdering Bishop Biegele, below
Anvil:, in the year 1876."
Referring to this story, which was widely
copied in Alaska newspapers, the Rev. R. J.
Crimont. S. J., writes interestingly in the
Juneau Empire as follows:
“Regarding the first murder trial, which
took place in the last monlhs of 1SS7 (not
1876) at Sitka, and mention of which was
made in your issue of November 18, as a
reprint from a Fairbanks paper, and the
Seward Gateway of recent date, allow me
to give you some statements and particulars
from our archives, f think they may prove
interesting to a number of people and dispel
a wrong impression, conveyed by the in
exact reminiscences of the person quoted. In
fact, almost every detail given by the above
named papers is faulty. Here is the au
thentic history:
“Francis Fuller, the murderer of Arch
bishop Charles Seghers, was neither a priest
nor a Jesuit, but a secular, who, previous
to his arrival in Alaska with the archbishop,
had been a teacher in a mission school in
Idaho. When the great prelate, regarded
as a saint and an apostle, a gentleman and
a scholar by Catholics and non-Cat holies
alike, on the Pacific coast, undertook the
evangelization of the natives in the Interior
of Alaska, he took with him F. P Tosi and
Father A. Robault, both of the Society of
Jesus, and Fuller, a secular helper, whose
services, he thought, would prove valuable
during an expedition of this kind in a wild
country.
“The missionary party had reached no
further than Juneau, by the steamship An
son, July 19, 18S6, when the two Jesuit
priests, alarmed by the unmistakable signs
of mental disturbance, gloomy disposition
and wanton irrascibility of Fuller, begged
the archbishop to send him back to the
States by the same boat. Under the cir
cumstances the zealous prelate could not
heed their warning, and besides he was con
fident that a temporary absence from civ
ilization. as he himself asserted, would cure
Fuller of his persecution mania.
“At Harper’s Post, on the British Yukon,
the missionaries parted. Fathers Tosi and
Robault stopping there for the winter and
the archbishop, with Fuller, proceeding
down stream to Nulato. where the prelate
had spent the season of 1877 78. On this
occasion Fuller enthusiastically gave the
fathers a solemn pledge of loyalty to the
archbishop, declaring that he would be ready
even to lay down his life for the prelate.
“In the course of the journey, when they
had arrived at the trading post of Nukluk
ayet (Nuklorhyet), some sinister influence
was made to bear upon the man, who hence
forth began to look upon the archbishop as
an enemy to get rid of From day to day
Fuller’s tits of frenzy became na're accen
tuated. The prelate’s diary bears witness
to many instances in which the man showed
himself insanely enraged, violent and
threatening. The travelers were at their
last camp before making Nulato, near a low
projecting bill, which has since been known
as ‘Bishop’s rock,' when, Fuller’s mania
having come to a climax, on the morning
of November 27, 1880, he aroused the arch
bishop and shot him dead. The bullet sev
ered the aorta, and death was instantaneous.
“The Very Rev. P. F. Hylebos of Tacoma
(then at Portland. Ore.), during the night
of November 26 to November 27 of that
same year, saw in a dream the saintly
archbishop killed “by a rille shot. Vividly
impressed with the strange occurrence, he
noted it down in his diary; and later on
he thus ascertained that he had seen in his
sleep the scene of the murder at the very
moment the crime was being perpetrated.
“The murderer was brought by the
steamer Rush to Sitka for trial. The pro
ceedings took place towards the close of the
year 1887. Fuller, who until then on many
occasion, by word of mouth and in a letter
to his evil genius, Walker of Nukiorhoyet,
had coldly boasted of his dastardly deed,
now before the court, in his defense, con
tended that the rleathlv shot had been acci
ental; that while lifting his rifle to pro
tect himselt against one of the Indian guides,
who was attacking him with an ax, the gun
had gone oil and the bullet struck the
bishop. ‘I could even sustain, said he, that
I did not kill him at all; and he may have
died a natural death.’
“The jury was out sixty-one hours, and
the votes were taken nineteen times, eight
(T the jurors constantly returning a verdict
of guilty of murder in the first degree, while
j the other four persisted in opining for ac
quittal, until a solution was suggested in
agreeing to eompronisie on a verdict of
manslaughter. The accused was sentenced
to ten years’ imprisonment and a fine of
§1,000. *
“Oil the plea of good conduct, the pris
oner was remitted a part of the term. But
God’s justice seems to have overtaken him,
for he died a violent death not very long
after.
“A reverend gentleman by the name of
P- , who was at St. Michael when Ful
ler arrived there, a month or so after com
mitting his crime, promptly wrote to the
Moravian mission on the Kuskokwim that a
‘Jesuit priest had murdered an archbishop.’
| At least it was believed that the aforesaid
gentleman had written the letter, until he
justified himself by saying that not he, but
his wife, had done it. The report spread
like wildfire along the coast, and later on
in the States. If Mr. P. — started the
slander on its errand of mischief he cannot
wash himself clean of malicious untruth;
for he wed knew that Fuller was neither
a priest nor a Jesuit, since he had (pies
tinned the assassin carefully, and Fuller had
answered emphatically “I am not a Jesuit,
nor have I anything to do with that gen
eration of men.”
Assessment Work Blanks at Pioneer.
Knik Figuring on Telephones
An impromptu meeting of the citizens of
Knik was held early in December to listen
to a telephone proposition made by J. ('.
McEachern of Iditarod, says the News of
that city. The gentleman claims to have
had much experience in the telephone busi
ness, and gave some figures to show what
a telephone line would cost approximately.
The question \vas argued by several citi
zens, but no steps further towards an or
ganization were taken at that meeting. Mr.
McEachern left for Seward, where he pro
poses to learn more concerning what can
be done in interesting capital in this enter
prise. He expects to return to Knik before
he leaves for the Outside.
Vote of 3ristol Bay
Bristol Bay cast 192 votes, according to
A. H. Bradford, who passed by on the Ev
ans, says the Seward Gateway. He says
that Bunnell probably got a majority there,
but he did not know the exact figures given
for any of the candidates.
Skeletons of Missing Persons Pound
The roadhouse keeper at McLeods, in tile
Chisana district, has reported the finding
of the hair, a few bones and some papers,
all that remains of Mr. and Mrs. James
Schmidt, who were lost crossing the Scolai
pass several years ago. Animals had eaten
the bodies and carried away most of the
bones. McLeods roadhouse is in American
territory. Marshal Brenneman has not yet
received any official advices regarding the
finding of the bodies.
To Contest Hubbard's Election
It is said that the Democratic territorial
organization is taking up with the national
Democratic committee the advisability of
contesting the election of 0. P. Hubbard
to the Alaska senate. The organic act pro
vides that a man elected to the legislature
shall have been a resident of the division for
two years prior to the date of election, and
it is now claimed that Hubbard had an of
fice in LaSalle street, Chicago, and main
tained his residence there for two years
prior to 1914. It is also claimed that his
family has been absent from the territory
for five years. Funds are now being col
lected, it is said, in Valdez, Cordova, .Ju
neau and other cities to contest the election.
The opponents of Hubbard also say that the
senate will refuse to seat him and will de
clare the seat vacant.
Alaska Salmon for Belgians
One thousand cases of canned salmon
from Alaska have been shipped to Belgium,
via Washington, the gift of the packers
to the starving millions in Europe. The
shipment is worth $2,500.
Death of Iditarod Inmate o* Home
John Murphy and Joseph Whelan, in
mates of the Pioneers' home at Sitka, died
a few days ago at that institution. Murphy
was admitted to the home from Iditarod,
and died September 11. Whelan was ad
mitted from the First division, and died
September 12.
Gold Bricks Common in Valdez
Gold bricks are becoming so common in
Valdez windows that they no longer at
! tract much attention, according to the Com
moner of that city*. Johnson & Erickson ,
have one in the window of the Bank
Trust Company’s place of business that ;
would buy 2,000 silver dollars. The Granite
company the other day brought up a brick !
worth $14,000, and buttons worth four or
five hundred dollars are being carr:'*d (
around in the pockets of ’most any old |
Rube.
"Siwashes" Himseif
The following notice appeared in recent |
issues of a Juneau newspaper: “To All;
Dealers in spirits and Malt Liquors: You
and each of you are hereby notified and j
warned not to sell or give to the under- :
signed any whisky, wine, beer or other in- ■
i toxicating liquors. Dated at Douglas, !
Alaska, this 19th day of November. 1914. |
(Signed) C>. F. Carlson."
A. B. SMOKER
Last Sunday evening the first of a series
of smokers was held by Camp Iditarod No.
| 27, A. B.. at the close of the regular busi
ness session of the camp. It was attended
by quite a number of members, and re
freshinents were enjoyed, together with
; music and other forms of entertainment.
Herefter the camp will meet every other
| Sunday, and it is the intention to hold a
“smoker" or social session at the close of
each meeting. The next meeting of the
camp will be held on Sunday, January 23. ■
A CORRECTION
The article in last week’s Pioneer on the
new revenue measure contained an error
in the item under the head of tobacco
dealers. The sentence should read: Dealers
in tobacco whose annual sales are more
than $200 must pay $4.80 for each store.
Billy Stoneman, who is engaged in the
wood-sawing business at Flat City with
Jesse Rogers, was in town last Monday,
lie came in Nels Glantz’ automobile, it be
ing his first experience with the modern
“joy-ride.” He says he approves of auto
mobiles.
“NO QUARTER” GENERAL DEAD
BORDEAUX, Nov. 24—The death of
General Stcnger, who commanded the Fifty
eighth German infantry brigade, was re
ported here today. General Stenger figured
in the war news late in September, when
the French war office stated that he had
issued an order that no prisoners should be
taken; that all who fell into the hands of
his men, including the wounded, should be
shot. The Germans repudiated this report.
While waiting for a train a newsboy said:
“Paper, mister?” “No,” muttered the man.
In a few minutes the boy came around
igain and said: “Paper, mister.^” “No,”
replied the man, angrily, “I just told you a
while ago I didn’t want a paper.” In a
little while the boy came back and in
meekest accents said: “Please, mister, what
time is it?” Taking out his watch, the
man replied: “Ten minutes to 1.” “At 1
o’clock you can go to h—,” shouted the boy.
and darted away. The man started after
the boy, and as he turned a corner he rail
right into the arms of a policeman. “What’s
the matter?” said the policeman. “Why,
that little whelp just told me to go to h
at 1 o’clock.” Taking out his watch, the
policeman said: “Well, what’s your hurry9
You’ve still got five minutes.’ St. Louis
Glebe-Democrat.
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"Strathmill” Pure Malt Scotch Whiskey. 3.00 1.50
“Dewar's Extra Special,” termed "the best product
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WAR LETTER FROM PARIS
PARIS. Nov. 5.— If you have been fol
lowing the statistics of the war, if you have
been reading the complete list of killed and
wounded, you will have seen what a large
proportion of the dead, wounded and miss
ing consists of officers. This proportion was
much greater at the beginning than at the
present.! Now the French have left the
heroic period behind them anil have started
on the practical period.
Ill those first days each man thought lie
was doing his duty to offer his breast to
the enemy and to spill his blood for his
country. Now the officers realize that the
hardest and most necessary tiling for them
to do is to protect themselves at all costs.
During the first days of August down at
Dinant, at the very beginning of the war,
the French charged with schoolboy impetu
osity over the hills and through the under
brush. The German officers, posted far otf
with glasses, noticed with amazement that
the young leaders wore white gloves. They
simply signaled to their sharpshooters to
kill the men with the white gloves, and
more than three-quarters of those French
officers wrere killed.
i oor young entnusiasuc lenows, au m
them young officers from St, Cyr, who the
day of the declaration of war pledged one
another to go into their first engagement
with white gloves! Why? Just a charm
ing fantasy of youth—to wear the immacu
late white gloves that they had been ac
customed to wear on drill at their military
academy. And this oath cost most of them
their lives.
Whereupon the order went out from
Joffre- no mere white gloves. And still the
officers fell out of nil proportion to the
number of soldiers killed.
Another order went out; the officers
must cease wearing the short trig coats and
put on the long, unwieldy overcoats of the
soldiers. The enemy’s marksmen could eas
ily tell the difference in the length of red
trouser leg that showed.
Still the officers fell.
Again Joffre, who is above all a practical
man and cares not at all for show and sen
timent, demanded that the officers should
wear clothes exactly like the soldiers, with
out stripes on the legs of the trousers 01
gold bands on the sleeves.
The only thing that was left was the dif
ferent cap. In action the soldiers pull on
dull blue covers over their red caps, which
hide all numbers of regiment or signs. The
officers, however, have a little window in
the front of their caps, outlined in gold,
with the number of their regiment show
ing.
And now the last order has gone out for
them to cover up this sign. F oor officers!
Many a one with a secret pride in the gr it
and the trappings, with an affection for the
tight, smart uniform which has really
cheered him through many trying times!
Now he has to dress himself just like any
of his soldiers. The only thing that is
spared him is carrying a gun. And if this
last order doesn’t prevent the enemy from
spotting the officers at 500 yards he will
probably have to carry a gun, too.
l suppose one wm nave 10 wan, ior me
war to be over before one learns the truth
about all the legends of fame and fable
which appear in the newspapers, and which
one hears in the wards of the Red Cross
hospitals. But one which my favorite little
corporal at the Yal de Grace hospital told
me as a fact is worth recounting.
A Belgian sergeant had been detailed to
a railroad bridge quite out in the open
country, where there was only one house
near. A train approached one day, full of
German soldiers and ammunition. The en
gineer and fireman got out and went to the
little house, presumably for a drink. Our
Belgian sergeant, who was a mechanician,
c^JJn’t resist the temptation to do a little
abducting, and he got in the engine and
started it. off at full speed, arriving inside
the Belgian line with a train full of 320
unsuspecting prisoners with all their bag
gage and ammunition.
I hat exploit was met oy tne ooy in tne
next cot to my corporal with a story some
one had read him from an Italian paper.
He is one of the Italian volunteers, and
from now on some one will always have to
read him the news from the papers.
“There was a Cossack prisoner in Aus
tria,” he began, his face turned toward the
sound of our voices, “and an Austrian gen
eral had him called out in front of the
Austrian troops so they could see he was
just an ordinary fellow and not a devil,
because they think the Cossacks are hardly
human. The general gave him a saber and
told him to do the stunts with it that all
the Cossacks know how to do.
“The Cossack obeyed, and then of a sud
den he gave an awful yell and bounded right
up on the horse on which the general was
mounted. He held the general in his arms
and set the horse off for the Russian camp,
and of course the soldiers didn’t dare fire
for fear they’d kill the general. So the gen
eral was made a prisoner.”
A faint smile hovered about the boy’s
lips—they were all you could see of his face
under the bandages—and he said with a
chuckle: “I guess that general thinks Cos
sacks are devils now, all right.”
A moral little tale entitled “Virtue Is Its
Own Reward” might be made of the ex
perience of M. and Mine. Cyril Rouseadei
of the Place du Chatelet.
M. Rouseadei was talking to a policeman
last Sunday evening when a soldier came
limping along, dragging a stiff leg.
“I want to know,” he said to the police
I man, “where there is a cheap) lodging house.
! I’m just out of the hospital, and tomorrow
1 1 m going to Courbevoie to my parents for
the twenty days’ convalescence allowed me.
Only the hotel must be cheap."
M. Rouscadel felt moved at the sight of
this young “piou-piou” who had achieved
his little glory—he was wounded in the
charge at the Marne—and he told the sol
dier to come home for the night with him
i for a good meal and the bed which he had
so long been deprived of.
At 1 o’clock in the morning the two of
: them entered the house and M. Bouscadel
called to his good wife:
“Quickly, something to eat and a bottle
of wine for this hero."
In honor of the occasion Mme. Rouse a
del descended into the cellar to find some
particular wine which had been left them
as a legacy from a queer old aunt. Imagine
the stupefaction of the mistress of the ,
house when she brought the bottle to the
lighter to find a 500-franc note wrapped
| around the neck with the words:
“Since you have decided to drink this
1 win:* to celebrate the first baby, I’ve got
i a surprise for you." Carolyn Wilson in Chi
I cago Tribune.
BARBER "CUTS” A GERMAN
A Swiss newspaper says that a German
officer who went to a barber shop in Brus
sels was asked to pay 50 centimes for a
shave.
The German complained, saying: "But
yesterday I paid only 30 centimes.”
“I know,” the barber is said to have re
plied; "but today your face is much longer.”
Fresh Olympia Oysters, for cocktails, $2
c«r; _hi:::.rod Meat Co.
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A FRANK GERMAN STATEMENT
(Juneau Empire)
The following extracts from a German
professor’s justification for Germany’s war
and her violation of the neutrality of Bel
gium is from a German newspaper received
in Juneau, and translated by William E.
Britt :
“German culture and German civilization
is so superior to that of other countries
that any steps which now must be taken
to secure this civilization are justified, and
Germany’s destiny to become the dominat
ing power in Europe and in the world is so
clear and apparent that the common moral
laws are too narrow and inadequate for the
guidance of Germany at the present time.”
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TAKOTNA
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Forfeiture Notice
To C. O. N'ord, B. K. Johnson. O. T. filsnn.
John Swedal, Adolph Olson, Oust f.i -
leson, Joe Jerman.
You are hereby notified that I have ex
pended during- the years 19 13 and 19 14
two hundred dollars in labor and Improve
ments upon tin* Lone Star A— c-iatioii placer
mining- claim, .situate on Hold Hun <■: • •«• k. a
tributary or Hear crook, in the Kuskokwun
mining- precinct. Fourth divi-ion. territory
of Alaska, tie* location certificate of whi'di
is found of record in hook No. 7. pa ye as,
in the office of the recorder of said pre
cinct, in order to hold said claim under the
provisions or Section *J 3 '21 of tile He vised
Statutes of the 1'nited States, and the
amendments thereto approved January J9,
1SS0, and other amendment.- thereto relat
ing-, concerning- annual labor upon mining
claims, being- the amount reuired to hold
said placer mining claim f<*r hte penod
ending- on the 31st day of December, A. D.
19 14.
And if within ninety (flu: days after the
publication then of you fail or refuse to
contribute your proportion or >m-h • •\pcn
ciiture as a i-a-i.wner, which amounts to
twenty-live (9r> > dollars for each you,
your interest in the claim will become the
property of the subscriber, your cu-owncr,
who has made the reuired expenditure, b\
the term1* of said section with amendments.
( Signed » CHARLKS AMMIM-.T
Bear Creek, Alaska. Jan. 4. 19 15.
First publication, Jan. 9. MM 5.
Last publication. April 10, 19tr>.
Notice of Forfeiture
To John Pedersen and J. A. Carsow, there
heirs and assigns:
Notice is hereby given that the under
signed has done * the animal assessment
work on No. 13 below discovery, tirst tier,
right limit bench, and also on No. 4 below
discovery, lert limit, first tier bench, or
Yankee creek. Innoko recording precinct.
Territory of Alaska, as provided by Set lion
2324 of the Revised Statutes of the I'nlted
States and the laws or Alaska, for the years
19tO, 1911. 1912 and 1913. That John
Pedersen and J. A. Carsow are co-owuers in
No. 13 below, right limit, and J A. Carsow
i< co-owner in No. 4 below, left limit, and
each has failed to pay his proportion. That
tr at the expiration or ninety (90) day*
from the first publication of this notice
each of you should fall or refuse to con
tribute his proportion of said expense, your
interests will become the property of
undersigned.
Dated at Takotna, Alaska, this Mh day or
October, 1914.
SID PAULSON.
First publication, Oct. 31, 1014.
Last publication, Jan. 30, 1915.
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