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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In ihe Probate Court for the Precinct of
Inuoko, Fourth Division. Territory of
Ala.-ka.—In the Matter or the Estate
of Frldjof Anderson, deceased, be
fore \Y. A. Vina!. Commissioner, cx
olllcio Probate Judge.
Notice Is hereby given by the under
signed administrator of the estate of Fridjof
Anderson, deceased, to the creditors of and
all persons having claims against the said
deceased, to exhibit them, with the neces
sary vouchers, within one year after the
first publication of tins notice, to the said
administrator, at Idltarod, Alaska, in the
precinct of Otter, territory of Alaska, the
same being the place for the transaction of
the business of .-aid estate.
Signed and dated this -.'.id day of Decem
ber 191ft. LEO CLIFFORD,
Administrator.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To Arthur iverett. and to his heirs and
VoiT'a'e'Vierehy nodded that the under
signed. having expended in each of the
yea's IPOS. i'.'tO. 131 i. 1812. 1913. i9ls,
1 0 I 3 ami l!M:' the sum e.f .e.n- hundred d 1
ia.-s ,:i labor amt Improvements upon each
i r the quartz mining claims known and de
scribed as follows, to wit: The Parks No.
l lrtic mining claim, the Parks No. 2 lodf
mining claim, the Parks No. 3 lode mining
claim, the parks No. 4 -lode .mining claim,
the banner lode muting claim, siiualrd on
cinnabar lode, on the right limit or the
Kuskokwim river, about fifteen miles below
the mouth of the oiitna river, in the Kus
k.ikwim mining district, territory of Alaska,
in order to hold said claims under the pro
V miens of >■•>. 2324 of the Revised Statutes
or the United states, and the 'amendment
thereto approved January 22, ISsu, eon
oemlng annual labor upon mining claims,
being Ute amount, required to hold said
mining claims for tile period herein men
tioned.
And ir within ninety days from tin per
sonal service of this notice, or xxiihln
r.lnetv davs afur the publication there"!',
von fail or refuse to contribute your pro
portion of such expenditure as co-oxvnci.
vour interest in said five lido mini.if
claims will become the property of the
-ubseriber. vour co-owiice. who has made
the rrcuireil’ exp. admires by the terms of
--.lid s, *]oii. K. AA. PARKS.
" p ir-s: publication. I>ec. 2. 10 J »'*.
Last publication. March J, HM7.
FORFEITURE NOTICE
To F Vent F Crompton and C. Smith, their
heirs, administrators r.nd assigns:
You and each id .vou are hereby notified
that the undersigned has expended m
money, labor and Improvements during each
of the years 1909, 1910. 1911. 1912. 1913.
191 i, 19 19 and 10 16 the sum of one hum i
dred' dollars (?100l upon placer mining)
claim known as the Last Chance Assocla- J
i:i,n, at mouth of and on Oane creek, a
tributary of Innoko river, in the innoko |
mining am! recording district, territory of
Meeks, In order to hold said claim under j
the provisions of the law respecting annual :
labor on mining claims.
And If within ninety days after the last .
publication of this notice you, or either of
.. ■ oijf. to pay your proportion
c.f such expenditure, your interest in said
...in liccuine the property of the un
dersigned ro-owner, according to the pro
visions of Section 2324, Revised Statutes,
of the United States.
ARTHUR VAI.LENTiNE.
First publication, Dec. 9, 1916.
Last publication, March 10, 1917.
PIONEER STEAMSHIP LINE
GOES OUT OF EXISTENCE
With the merging of the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company with the Admiral line
recently the historic “toot” of the former
company, which has echoed along the Pa
lie slope for the past forty years, passed
into history. The change attracted consid
erable attention along the Anacortes water
front when the steamship Queen, one of
the best known of the old P. C. S. S. boats,
came into port and, instead of sounding the
old familiar signal of two long and one
hort blasts, she sounded the toot of the
Admiral line of steamships-—one long, one
short and one long whistle.
For more than a generation the Pacific j
Coast Steamship Company’s “toot” has been ;
known to practically everyone living in a
Pacific coast port of call from Sail Diego
to the coast of Alaska. The historic “toot”
of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company
dates back to early days on the Pacific
.oast, when the Pacific Coast Steamship
| Company was without rival in the field, and j
I when it.' house flag was familiar to everyone j
who lived on the coast.
In those days the sound of two long blasts j
followed by a short one meant only one j
thing—that one of the big Pacific Coast I
Steamship vessels was coming into port
and nearly everyone knew the name of the I
vessel by the tone of the whistle.
The passing of the historic “toot” is j
viewed ith a feeling of regret in Anacortes. |
Its sound for years has been anxiously J
awaited by longshoremen and those who !
were expecting freight from the south and j
since the first of the year it has had a joyful j
sound for those expecting shipments from j
California.--Anacortc' American.
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I Brutscher, Michael McLean, Wm.
! Burman. T. H. Manning, ('. R,
! Bader. George McGrath, J.
j Erickson. Victor Miletisnech. Mane j
J Foster. J. H. Miles. Teddy
I Godbold, Frank Parks, Wm.
j Hannigan, Joe Phillips, W. II.
I Hughes. Thomas Popovich, John U. |
I Havs. James Parse, George
, Hevd, Louis R. Ruark. Mrs Graham
1 Hill. Ike Roosevelt. Hugh
Hendrickson, Oscar Reed, C. R
j Lott. Frank Stoyanoff. Stoyan j
I Lorman, Paul Turner, T. F.
Linenger, Albert W ilson, R.
Lebert, E. F. W ilson. R. 0.
McKenzie. E. Warren, Wm.
McKenzie. Aneus Vetter, Wm.
McDonald, John R.
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SENSATIONS OF AIRMEN
WHEN BIG SHELLS APPROACH
“The most striking thing to me about
! being under gun fire in an aeroplane is the
I unreality of it,” said a British aviator who
! has been flying in Flanders since the out
break of the war. "The roar of your own
engines drowns the sound of the gut ■- on !
the earth, and even the detonations of the ;
shells which do not burst very close at
hand arc rarely heard. Shrapnel bullets fiy
in a broad cone straight ahead that is.
in the same direction as th: t 'n which
he shell itself is moving—so that practi
cally the only shell that ever does any
harm to you is the one which bursts di
rectly beneath your machine, and which,
therefore, you do not see explod.*. The
ittle puff balls of smoke which blossom
out around you are perfectly harmless. At
the worst a few of their spent bullets may
shower back upon you, sometimes so gently
that you can see and even reach a hand
and catch them. A shell bursting even im
mediately over you is not dangerous in
itself, but rather ominous as indicating the
fact that the 'Archies’ have you well ranged.
The back kick from the shell casing might
tun you if it hit you on the head, but
the chance of that is almost negligible.
“Ordinarily heavy artillery is rarely used
j against air craft, but occasionally one’s work
| takes him into an air zone in which some
) if the big shells are traveling. This is one
| of the most remarkable experiences that
.-an fall to the lot of an airman; in fact, i
he weirdest sensations of my whole flying
experience are connected with the occasion I
rn which I blundered into the road of a i
passing ‘42.’
| "As you doubtless know, the Germans
| have used their 17-inch guns for the inter
| uiittent bombardment of Dunkirk and other
I points fifteen or twenty miles behind the
! lines right down to the present time. Well,
{ I was at an altitude- of about 6,000 feet
j me day. and climbing higher at- an easy
angle, when one of these big fellows, almost
at the end of its long flight, came plowing !
along in the opposite direction. First a |
lurk little blur appeared in the air ahead, ;
and at an angle of about 35 degrees- a little I
■ teeper than the one at which I was climb j
ng—above me. At first it seemed to be
coming right at me, and 1 swerved to the j
left in an instinctive effort to dodge the
threatened blow. Then a sort of droning j
hum became audible, even above the roar j
•f my engine, and this sound inertVed dur j
ng the two or three seconds that elapsed !
lefore the big missile came even with and |
-wept by me. It was probably several bun
Ired yards away, at its nearest, but- the j,
istance seemed less.
“A few fuint stirrings of air began to I
:ck nn machine even before the she’ll went
;y, but the full force of the ‘air wash’
\as not felt for a fraction of a second
later. Then an almost solid wall of air
nearly threw me on my ‘beam ends,’ and
t was really hard put to get the reeling ma
•bine hack on an ‘even keel.’ For the
next mile or two the air was like water
it the wake of a big side-wheeler- - a 1
hopped to pieces —and the machine roeke;
like a spring!??* motor lorry going over
cobbles. The air was disturbed fur sonic 1
•eccnda after a big roar sstern told nn 1
he ‘42’ had come to earth.”—Popular Me- 1
shanics.
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strange disappearance
OF NOTED NEWSPAPER MAN I
Is Ambrose Bierce, the "Min of Mystery,” (
boy major in the civil war and author of j
stories that have won him the title of
Maupassrnt of the West”- dead or alive?
l ks a Washington correspondent.
For nearly two years he has been mys
erioutly missing, being reported dead at
tines, then appearing again in some un
expected corner of the world.
In December, 1911, the state department j
received a report that Bierce had been i
silled while fighting on Vil.a’s staff in Chi- •
huahua. No American consul could find 1
race of him.
On April 2, 1916, Bierce's daughter, Mrs.
Helen Cowden of Bloomington, I1L, received
a letter supposedly written by her father,
aying he was a member of the staff of
Lord Kitchener.
On June 6, 1916, the death of Lord Kitch
ener, with members of his staff, was an
nounced, end Bierce’s friends feared he hau
.ied, under an assumed name, with Kitch
ner.
Only a few weeks ago word was received
rom Paris that Bierce was lying wounded
n a French hospital. Later his death was
ain reported.
A well-known medium claims to have re
eived this message from the spirit world;
'Tell my friends and my enemies that I,
Bierce, the Bierce, will return to America
although I have read my obituaries three
lifferent thugs.”
And so in literary, military and journal
istic circles, where Bierce’s name may be
heard frequently, the question is asked again
and again, “Ls Bierce dead or alive?”
Soldier, editor, author—hermit, bohemian, I
adventurei—cynic, sentimentalist, egotist—
Bierce’s life story remains incomplete, and
t may remain so forever.
Born in Ohio in 1842, Bierce enlisted for j
the civil war in an Ohio regiment. Peace
arrsnged, he flipped a coin to see whether
he would fo.low a military or'a literary ca
reer. Head, “literary,” turned up, and Bierce
began editing the News Letter in San Fran
cisco.
Six years later he went to London and
made a hit with a book of satire published
under the title of “Cobwebs from an Empty
Ekull.”
The most extraordinary piece of journal
ism he did in his whole career was editing
a journal. The Lantern, for Empress
Eugenie, in order to prevent Henri Roche
fort, after his escape from Caledonia, from
| reviving La Lsnterne in London and again
| attacking the exiled empress in the vicious
manner that had caused her much suf
fering.
Returning to California in 1876, Bierce
did one remarkable thing after another,
making for himself a name that was praised,
! lamned and ridiculed. He lampooned peo
le in public life, and he wrote some of
’he most harrowing tales ever published in
this country.
In one of his poems, “Convalescent,” he
took this view of life:
“I’m safe, is that what the
physician said?
What? Out of danger? Then,
by heaven, I’m dead!”
Nevertheless, the question still remains
unanswered, “Is Ambrose Bierce dead or
alive?”
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Caps made to order. Furs repaired. Mrs.
?h filer. Flat City.
LONDONERS THESE DAYS
AFRAID TO GO HOME IN DARK
LONDON, Dec. 10. If you are afrairl to
go home in the dark these days you’d bet
ter not venture out after tea time in Lon
don. You feel as if you had been trans
ported hack into the medieval or more fit
tingly the dark ages, when you step blink- |
ing like an owl into the murky, dimly
lighted thoroughfares.
Most of the theaters give daily matinees
and but two night performances a week.
It is far from a cozy thing after the play
to be ali alone iu London irs the dark and
,n the outside of a taxi looking in with
bsolutely no hope of being on the inside
looking out.
The price of petrol is so high and the
chauffeurs are so scarce that taxis at night
fell become as fleeting and elusive as bats
a wing. Thev whizz by you deaf to your
uts and Wind to your tears.
Taxi drivers are now known as “haugh
lies,” so fastidious and particular have they
occome about their fares. If they size you
up and like your looks, even then you
must not look too optimistic. They
may not like your destination and re
'use to take you after ell. Indeed so near
perfection do yon have to be in appearance
uul address that it is really simpler and
afer to begin your walking right away.
There are not many women driving taxis
at, but they are running elevators, acting
as conductors on busses, cle: ning streets,
| working iu railway yards, running delivery
I wagons and working in munitions factories.
I t is a curious thing that in all the manual
tenuous anti more virile work heretofore
| one by the men the* women now excel, but j
those trying to replace the men in the finer, j
•ltingly more feminine tuffs of cooking [
. ailoring and hair dressing are but sorry I
ubsiitutcs for the sterner sex.
As a tcveler of sexes and classes the war
is doing wonders that vie with its horrors j
for a balancing result. Women are com j
ing into their own as independent wage j
corkers and the “colonel’s lady and Judy *
O'Grady” are rubbing elbows in the hos- j
dal* and munitions factories. The rich j
nr! titled arc working side by side with |
he poor and lowly. The pampered pets
have given up their motors so the poor
wounded Tommies may ride, and after the
theater they, too, are forced often to hoof
it home to the ancestral manse, since the
“haughties" are no respecters of either birth
or breeding.
Yes, times are dark and streets ere dark
n London, but there are bright spots. For
•hough it’s Zepps that make London dark.
•London makes light of Zepps. Sometimes
thev make the alight and sometirnse they
make alight of them. When word arrives
hut Zepps are on the way there is sonic
rest and thrill in staying up all night end
■ip on a roof to glimpse a huge, flaming !
mass, pointed out by the silver lingers of j
’■he searchlights, that falls from the sky :
like a Gargantuan skyrocket set off by an i
r.trcpid young British airman.
But bringing airships blazing out of the i
clouds and women filhng bombs instead of j
nursing bottles, and pedestrians blundering |
around in the Stygian streets, are but com- j
oiontTace.
When it comes to turning all the clocks |
ip an hour for summer and now back again !
n hour for the winter season, then it dees •
.-cm going 3 bit too far. It’s really un- I
-ettling for one’s social engagements, don’t j
■u know, end for the life of her Ladv :
Dana can’t remember whether her date!
with I ..ord Percy is at 5 o’clock winter time, j
• r puinmer time. Verily, tempting fate is j
is nothing to juggling time.
The two men whom it took to personally ■
adjust Big Ben’s hands across his start 'd |
face undoubtedly felt the truth of this ,
riginsl aphorism, the like of which I al j
ways heve on tan on time.—Kx.
GOOD WORD FOR THE “TANK”
Cheer up, all you whisky-topers. Some
body has said a good word for you. Conte
closer, boys, and listen to this close har- J
tnony from the Kps of none other than the
Hon. Ira B. Landrith (first time we ever
heard of him), who was the Prohibition can
didate for vice president He said in an ^
address before college girls: "Don’t judge J
the drunkard too harshly. For one thing, ^
he never is a tightwad. He who worships
the eagle on the dollar seldom worships
the bottle on the shelf. The mean, miserly,
narrow skinflint does not get drunk. The
man who becomes a drunkard likes men;
the miser has no social instinct. Prohibi
tion of the liquor traffic will save to us a
generation of men who wid give blessing
to their time.”
The eminent prohibitionist seems to know
something about the good old drunks who
have staggered down into the darkness of
he grave. More than commonly he fath
oms the hearts of the James Whitcomb
Rileys, the Visschers, the Davises, the Hoyts,
the Londons and the whole list of those who
loved good fellowship.
But was he wise in telling those young
women that drunkards are not tightwads,
that they are so generous that they give
everything away, including themselves? It |
is said that women love generosity best, of
all the masculine traits, and despise mean
ness in man more than any other defect. |
Possibly the speaker, looking forward to ,
that bright day when all the booze will be !
converted into fuel for autos, expects the
young ladies to select for husbands those
who would have been drunkards if they
had the chance. This sounds reasonable,
and is recommended to all girls for exactly
what it is worth, which is nothing. Nome !
Nugget. _ __
WHITE MAN IS ARRESTED
BY NATIVES OF KAKE VILLAGE
John Peterson, who was brought to the
federal jail at Juneau and sentenced to
serve 250 days in the jail for peddling
whisky to natives, was originally arrested
by the native policeman of Kake, says the
Juneau Empire of December 12. Peterson
went to Kake in company with a native
with a supply of whisky, and several na
tives partook of the beverage and became
intoxicated.
The city council of the towrn of Kake,
j composed of and elected by the natives, act
ing under an ordinance passed by them,
caused the arrest of both the white man and
the native. Later Peterson was taken to
Petersburg and turned over to the federal
authorities, and the president of the coun
cil of Kake presented the case to the jury
which sat in the commissioner’s court at
Petersburg. The native who accompanied
Peterson is serving thirty days in the Kake
town jail^__ _
For steam baths, go to the Snyder House,
■ Flat. 1
TALE OF FABULOUS WEALTH
BROUGHT FROM ARCTIC
BY SWEDISH EXPLORER
NEW YORK, Doc. lb.—Bringing a talc j
of a land where- gold is more plentiful than I
it is in Alaska, Christen Leden, a young \
Swedish explorer, has returned to this city I
after three years spent in the Arctic. As |
evidence of the truth of his- story he has |
a harpoon head hammered out of gold by j
.he natives of a camp since wiped out by j
.tisease. He also has several specimens of |
^old-bearing quartz brought to him by F*s- *
kitties, who dared many dangers in order to ;
et them. I.edcn said he had visited a land
where the ground was so full of oil that
n the warm months the smel. of it filled
he air.
Mr. Leden’s exploration? carried him over
housands of miles in the country northwest
of Hudson bay. He went alone, and lived
and traveled with the natives and as one i
if them. He visited the Iglukiks, near Fury |
and Flecia straits; the Kinipetus, between i
he Great Fish river and Chesterfield inlet; |
the Netehiliks, near Booths and the mag- |
netic pole, end the Elvisliks, near the Wayer j
river. His outfit was shipped by boat to ;
Fort Churchill, in Hudson bay, which was j
he starting point of his travel?.
Just where the gold and oil are Mr.
Leden, who is now at the Waldorf Astoria,
will not say. The place where the gold is
o be found he did not visit, because to |
have done so, he said, would have meant j
another two years in the far North. The
'.erritory was described to him by some Es- |
kimos. who told him of a great hill that |
had been so split that the different strata j
were 'uncovered. Here the reddish-yellow ,
metal could be seen. Mr. Let’eu persuaded
■otiif of those journeying north to search [
:tit the place. |
“The Eskimos who cut in to find it had
d terrible time,” he said. "Their dogs died [
md they had to win their way hick to the ;
face where I was staying through terrib c |
■leather. They attempted to bring back |
overal large specimens of the gold, but |
conditions became so Lad they- had to throw .
them away.
"One very old man told how his grand- |
father, the possessor of an old-fashioned ,
o'g bore gun, had found a yellow metal j
■ hat ho had hammered out to make bullets. I
The stories of the Eskimos would indicate |
that geld is up north in greater abundance J
than in Alaska. The natives, of cour.-c, -
have no idea of its value.”
Mr. Leden’s expedition was planned with j
the idea of making a scientific survey of j
the country and its people. He said he I
be'ieved that Eskimos had a common an- j
cestry with the American Indian. He bases I
i is opinion chiefly upon their folk lore and I
(heir music. He took a phonographic outii;
into (he far North, and he brought back
many records of Eskimo music.
"The Eskimos have a wonderful tan
nage,” he said. "It is hard to master be- 1
cause the same word will express so many
afferent things, depending upon the m
fection. the pronunciation and relative po- 1
ition. I( is much the same a< the Indian
language. There is the seme similarity
■n their myths and in their poetry.
"Each individual composes his own songs, j
and by them gives expression to his feeling, i
Th'-ir instrumental music is entirely con -
fined to the drum."
Traveling with the natives, he said, was
not only full of peril, but required the ut
most diplomacy. The natives are. supersti
tious and they have a firm belief in good
and had spirits. A white man is consid
ered more of a bad spirit than a good on?.,
and this, Mr. Leden said, makes him at all
times a sort of Jonah in the camp. If the
weather is bad, if an accident happens, or
if sickness comes, it is always the white
man who is regarded as the cause. If he
becomes very sick they are sure it is an
other manifestation of the anger of the good
spirit, and so they never lack for er> excuse
to abandon him.
Tribes living within a few miles of each
other he found had no words in common,
but the roots of their words were the same
Their common blood is also shown, he said,
by the structure of their music and the
manner of delivery, and it is by these means
that he hopes to prove to the scientific
world that the Eskimos are related by
blood to the Indian, and not to the Mongol.
Although he is but 35 years of age. Mr.
Lc-den has mark; Eve trips into the uti
1 known regions of the Its- North. He i:
i coEituissiooed l»y the University .of N'.-r
way, r.t ObristiarJx. and he tka collceter
for the Geological Survey of Gaaadn.
SPIRIT OF GERMAN NATION
WILL NEVER EE CRUSHES
NEW YORK. Dec. IN. -A regenerated
Europe, with a better understanding of the
meaning of “international brotherhood,’
was the hopeful prediction of the rtsult ol
the present war by Kuno Franeke of Har
vard University, in a lecture here liefore the
Germanistic Society of America, lie spoke
on GermanyJs future-.
“I know no better than any of the bel
ligereut nations', or the commanding officer
of tins armies, when the war will end,” hr
said, “or what will lac the grouping of the
world powers.” He added, however, that
“only ignorance and hatred” could deny
that in Germany bus come “the consum
mate ability of greatness.” At the supreme
moment, he asserted, every class in Germany
feels itself as one.
Dr. Franeke predicted that the future
would harmonize the Protestants and Ro
man Catholics, as well as the various po
litical functions of Germany, including the
Socialists, to ■» greater extent than ever. Cer
tain industries, he declared, probably would
have to be nationalized fur the common
good.
“1 do not believe,” continued Dr. Franeke,
“the war will end with German politic.!
and economic destruction, but should hei
armies he overwhelmed by numbers and
money, I do know that her spirit will n.-ver
he crushed.”
There is little hope. Or. Franeke said,
that there will be less need of prep&r<*dntvs
after the war. The vast accumulation ot
hatred, jealousy and fear will make nation.*
feel, he added, that they will have to rely
on military forces to preserve peace. Ger
many would not disarm, he declared, un
kvs she received pledges that her interests
would not be jeopardized- lie asserted that
it w.as “hard to see how such pledges can
be given.”
STUBBS WiLL CARRY ARSENAL
Duke E. Stubbs, who was in the city this
week from Aniak, had an adventure recently
which increased the number of gray hairs in
his thatch and which will be remembered
by him to his dying day.
Last October, while traveling near the
mouth of Bear creek, he encountered e. targe
brown bear and two husky 2-year-old cub-.
He was unarmed, and so he endeavored to
avoid attracting their attention. The o'd
bear spied him, however, and made for him.
Stubbs stood still, believing that, his hour
had come and hoping lh:.: it would be a
psinless as possible. Incidentally he remem
bers having hoped that the impending met!
would give the cubs indigestion. When
within striking distance the old female
rose on her hind feet and came p.t the terri
fied United States commissioner with up
lifted paws. The ground was icy and she
stumbled over a niggerhead, and rolled over
in an undignified heap, and if Stubbs had
been possessed of any kind of weapon he
might have had bear for supper. She arose
and came toward him again. But just at
the critical moment the two cubs started a
demonstration of some kind and took to
their heels, and the old bear abandoned her
prey and took after them.
Mushers who meet Stubbs on the trail
hereafter will perhaps be reminded of the
European war, because he intends to carry
a whole arsenal with him—high-nower ride,
heavy revolver for close-range lighting, and
perhaps a. pocketful of bombs.
. ♦-- —~
GETTING BACK AT HIM
Politician- I have nothing to say. All I
know is what is in the papers.
Reporter—I see now what you meant
yesterday when you said there is nothing in
the papers nowadays.—Puck.
GEORGE BITTEL
Information wanted of the above party,
who left home (New York city) in 199K.
Any news of him will be greatly appreciated
by his mother. Address
CHRIS BITTEL
Box 323, Albany, N. Y.
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