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NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.—Survey No. 993._
Serial No. 01018. United Slates
Land Office, Juneau, Alaska,
August 30, 1913.
Notice Is hereby given that In pursu
ance of the act or Congress approved
■May lu, 1872, Fred Liljegrcn, whose
postolfice address is Eliamar, Alaska, has
made application for a patent Tor 1,500
linear feet on the Copper Bullion No. I
lode mining claim and Tor 1,500 linear
feet on the Copper Bullion No. 2 lode
mining claim, bearing copper, together
with surface grounds as allowed by law,
lying, being and situate In the record
ing precinct or Valdez, Alaska, and de
scribed by the official plat and by the
Held Holes of IJ. S. Mineral Survey NO.
t»03. on Hie in the office or the Register
or tlie Juneau Land District, at Juneau,
Alaska, as follows, to-wlt;
Copper Bullion No. 1 Lode.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, whence u. S.
Mineral Monument No. 8 bears N. 40 de
grees 4 4 minutes 21 seconds E. 013.92 reel
distant; thence N. 01 deg. 09 min. W. 000
feet to Cor. No. 2; thence N. 28 deg. 51
min. E. 1500 rcet to Cor. No. 3; thence
S. 01 deg. 09 min. E. 000 reel to Cor.
No. 4; thence S. 28 deg. 51 min. \V. 1500
teet to Cor. No. 1, place or beginning.
Area 20.001 acres. The Additional and
Amended Location Certlllcate or the Cop
per Bullion No. 1 lode claim is duly of
record In Book 14 or the Records of the
Valdez Recording Precinct at page 301.
This claim is bounded on the north by
the Copper Bullion No. 2 lode claim.
Ooppar Bullion No. 2 Loda.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, identical with
Cor. No. 4, Copper Bullion No. 1 Lode or
this survey previously described, whence
U. S. Mineral Monument No. 8 bears S.
17 deg. 12 lnln. 50 sec. W. 934.98 feet
distant; thence N. 01 deg. 09 min. W.
000 feet to Cor. No. 2, Identical with
Cor. No. 3, Copper Bullion No. 1 Lode;
thence N. 28 deg. 51 min. E. 1500 Teet
to Cor. 3, whence a witness corner, a post
marked C B No. 2 Cor. 3 W C bears S. 28
lies', ii i Him. w. oao.4u uxi; uiniui; irmii
true corner S. 01 deg. 09 min. E. fiOO
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 min. W. 141.70
feet; thence from true corner S. 28 deg.
51 min. W. 1500 feet to Cor. No. t, the
place of beginning. Area 20.661 acres.
The Additional and Amended Location
Certificate or tile Copper Bullion No. 2
lode claim is duly.or record In Book 14
or Records of the Valdez Recording Pre
cinct at page 362. This 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 file
Their adverse claims with the Heglster
of the U. s. Land OITice at JtTneau, Alaska,’
within the time prescribed by law, or they
will be barred by virtue or the provis
ions of the statute.
FRED LILJEGREN,
Claimant.
It is hereby ordered t..at the foregoing’
notice.or application be published In the
Valdez Dally Prospector, the newspaper
published nearest the said mining claims,
Tor a period or slaty, days.
C. B. WALKER,
Register.
Date or first publication Aug. 27, 1913.
Date or last publication Nov. 6, 1913.
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ANCIENT RIDDLES.
Bamion It Waa Who Propounded the
Oldest One Known.
The oldest riddle known is that
one asked by Samson in Judges
xiv, 14-18: “Out of the eater came
forth meat, and out of the strong
came sweetness.” It was naturally
impossible for the guests at his wed
ding feast to solve the riddle, for it
referred to that very uncommon
incident of the bees making honey
in the carcass of a lion. The old
translators used the word meat in
the sense of food, its real meaaing
in the seventeenth century. This
riddle dated from possibly 1,000
years before the Christian era and
is evidence of the very ancient cus
tom of telling riddles or asking diffi
cult questions.
The riddle of the sphinx is so
old that no one can give a real date
for it, but it appears even in the
latest of books for awakening the
curiosity of children in this form:
“What is that which first goes on
four legs, then on two and then on
three ?” It will be remembered that
the answer is “Man,” who first
crawls, then walks and at last uses
a cane or crutch, and that the pen
alty of failure to answer this riddle
was that the person so failing should
be devoured by the sphinx. When
Oedipus answered the riddle cor
rectly the sphinx was changed into
stone.
Another famous Greek riddle,
dating from 570 B. C., was that pro
pounded by Cleobolus, one of the
seven wise men of Greece: “Who is
this father who has twice six sons?
These sons have thirty daughters
apiece, particolored, having one
cheek white and the other black.
They never see each other’s face
nor live more than twenty-four
hours.”
The answer is Time, who has
twelve months, his sons, with daugh
ters of thirty days, half day and
half night, each dying ere the other
is born. This is the fairest of all
the'old riddles, for any one with a
little thought can guess it. The
orientals are still very fond of pro
pounding riddles, and they sit until
all hours of the night trying to
puzzle one another.
The way to construct a riddle is
to start from the answer and work
back to the most misleading sugges
tions, which still may be molded
into the real answer. — Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The National Spirit.
The great baritone, Signor Foli,
when singing in grand opera in his
native city, Cork, had to sing one
of his songs from a stage balcony.
The arrangements were not very
perfect, and the manager, fearing
the carpenter had not made the bal
cony strong enough to sustain the
weight of the big man, told two as
sistants to hold it up from beneath.
The lengthy signor was only half
way through his song when one man
said to the other:
“Be jabers, Moike, this Oitalian
is mighty heavy.”
“Let’s dhrop him, Pat; he’s only
an Oitalian, ai'ther all.”
Voice from the signor above:
“Will ye, ye divils, will ye?”
“Tare an’ ouns! Pat, but he’s an
Oirishman! Mould him up for the
loife of yczl’WNew York World.
A Snail on a Razor.
That snails can pass over such
sharp instruments as a razor’s edge
without the slightest harm has been
demonstrated by a French scientist
in the course of his study of these
creatures. The snail walks with the
whole under surface of its body and
is provided with means to lubricate
the road on which it travels. A pe
culiarly complex system of muscles
enables it to cling in any position
to smooth objects. In lifting itself
over the razor’s edge it clings with
the hind part of its walking surface
to one side of the blade and extends
the fore part and bends it down on
to the other side without touching
the edge, thus accomplishing with
out harm what would naturally
seem impossible.
Impertinent.
The curute of a large and fash
ionable church was endeavoring to
teach the significance of white to a
Sunday school class.
“Why,” said he; “does a bride in
variably desire to be clothed in
white at her marriage ?”
As no one answered, he explained.
“White,” he said, “stands for joy,
and the wedding day is the most
joyous occasion of a woman’s life.”
A' small boy queried, “Why do
the men all wear black?”—Lippin
cott’s. _
Overstepped.
Jacques—My deaf sir, here in our
barracks we have the tallest soldier
sver seen. Jeems—The tallest?
How tall is he? Jacques—Six feet
line inches. Jeems—Six feet nine
inches? That is nothing. In our
barracks we have a sergeant who is
10 tall that he is compelled to kneel
when he wants to scratch his head!
—London Mail.
LINCOLN’S INVENTION.
Hit Ve*«el Lifter Had Only One Fault,
That It Wouldn’t Work.
For years in the model hall of the
patent office in Washington there
stood a tattered and torn model,
mute evidence of one of the greatest
intellects America has ever produc
ed. It is the model of the only pat
ent granted to Abraham Lincoln.
It is now one of the treasures of the
National museum.
Officially it was patent No. 6469,
granted in 1849 to Abraham Lin
coln, for a method of lifting vessels
over shoals. It is a simple device.
It had only one fault—it would not
work!
Lincoln, an experienced river man
in his younger days, made a journey
down the Mississippi to New Or
leans as a “hired hand” when he
was nineteen and later as the part
ner of one Denton Offutt, who built
a ilatboat and sailed it for the river
trade. Lincoln knew that the shift
ing channels and the strange river
bottom' formations often presented
obstacles to the operation of freight
laden “flats,” but it was not until
he had finished a term as member
of the house of representatives and
begun the practice of law in Illinois
that, pinched by poverty, he decided
to turn to practical account his
knowledge of river conditions.
Lincoln was forty when he work
ed out his device and had it patent
ed, though doubtless the idea had
been dormant since his boyhood.
His idea was the equipment oi
flatboats with huge bellows along
the sides. When the boat grounded
these bellows were to be inflated by
pressure brought to bear on the
poles controlling the bellows, which
were to be pressed downward, thus
opening the bellows by a windlass.
In the model this windlass runs
from end to end of the boat beneath
the “upper deck” or pole bolding
superstructure.
The inflating of the bellows was
supposed to lift the boat from the
bottom and make it draw less wa
ter. When it floated into deep wa
ter the bellows were to be deflated
and the boat would proceed as be
fore. Just why the bellows could
not remain inflated at all times the
patent does not show.
The silk covering of the bellows
is cracked and blasted by time, but
the rest of the construction is in
good condition. No use, so far as is
known, was ever made of the patent.
The river men fought shy of it,
and dredging made navigation more
practical within a few yeurs.—Kail
road Man's Magazine.
The Woman of It.
“Then you refuse me?” he asked
i dramatically.
| “1 do, John,” answered the
j maiden.
j “Is it because I have no fortune ?”
I “Not at all.”
| “Is it my looks?”
1 “Ye-e-e-s. 1 have just been read
ing that people who marry grow to
look like each other, and, although I
! love you, John, 1—I-—I really don’t
; think 1 could stand to look like
you.”
| “You silly girl!” he exclaimed,
j “Maybe it will be I who will grow to
look like you.”
“Oh, John,” she said joyously, “I
never thought of that! I’m sure it
would be great for us to look like
each other, wouldn't it? Won’t you
please forgive me?”—St. Paul Dis
patch.
No Fun Like Work.
“There is one motto,” wrote Sir
Thomas Lipton in the London
Strand, “which 1 should like to im
press upon every young man in busi
ness, ‘There is no fun like work.’ 1
always keep this motto before me.
Of course after a man has won the
game he set out to win, after he has
succeeded in life, he can do what
he likes. But while he is working
work ought to he all his life. It
ought to be work and play too. 1
have often worked eighteen hours a
day and enjoyed every minute. If a
man is constantly looking at the
clock the spirit of success which is
j,hovering over that man will soon
I take wing and fly away. There is
'< no fun like work.” ,
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Too Much.
The aspiring young author was
anxiously awaiting the postman’s
ring. Finally his patience was re
warded, and he hastened to know
the worst.
“Hang it!” he exclaimed as he
sank dejectedly into a chair. “That’s
what I call rubbing it in.”
“What’s up?”
“I sent that magazine two poems,
and it sent me back three.”—Har
per’s. _
Hor Culinary Crimot.
“Yes,” said Mrs. Slowgood, “I
like Maud to attend the cookery
class. Besides, it teaches charity,
as all the dishes are distributed free
to the poor."
“Well,” said Slowgood, “I know
Soverty is a crime, bedash me if I
on’t think that too severe a panish
ment.”—San Francisco Chronicle.
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