CONCERNING S081 NEWS BAY STRIKE
Gus Schaefer, the Bethel store
keeper jand well known in Nome,
■ends word to Ira Ranke of the U. S.
Mercantile Co., giving all particulars
of the Good News Bay strike. The
•trike was made by a native who
arorked for a while for some tnen on
Sear creek, last winter or fall. lie is
called crazy by the other natives be
csuse he won't catch and dry fish, but
is just crazy to prospect for gold. He
worked a short time for the white men
but got tired, and they guvo him a
pick and shovel and pan and started
him out prospecting.
Later he came back to Batch Smith
and showed him a few colors, they
did not pay much attention to him and
he again returned with a few grains.
Then they sat up and took notice.
Butch Smith and Frank Lott started
out with him and the native showed
them his discovery. He bad lost his
pick and was using an ico pick and a
frying pan to pan his dirt with. Smith
says that the pan was all covered with
aeal oil and it was a wonder he saved
any gold.
The gold, however, was there from
the grass roots down, and pans run
from 15 cents to #2.50 a foot on bed
rock.
They then staked the ground.
Charley Thorsen, Vernon Wilkins,
Swan Everson, Tott and Smith and the
native, who has discovery, getting the
first seven claims.
Seventeen were staked when Schafer
was writing and pay had been found on
all of them, but how rich he could not
say. The creek is called Watermouse
creek from the native who staked it,
that being the aborigine's name. It
flows *into Good News liver, aoout
thirty miles from where the river,flows
into Good News Bay. Although tla-ed
some one hundred and fifty miles l o n
Bethel, Schaefer says u’s a genuine
and very good strike. It will prove a
blessing to the whole Kuskokwim sec
tion and will bring lots of miners and
prospectors there. !
Butch Smith avers that the whole
country tributary thereto is a good
looking country from a placer miner’s
point of view. There is, however, no
limber around except cottonwood, and
aider and willows. Hence lumber will
Come in
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HIPPODROME
POOL ROOM AND CIGAR STORE, FLAT
|have to be imported there, probably
'from the outside or from the timbered
sections of the upper Kuskokwim.
They will probably start a town on
Goad News Bay or on Good News Giver
and developments are expected during
tho winter.—From Nome Industrial
Worker.
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TELLS DANISH PEOPLE
WAR MAY LAST YEARS
Copenhagen.—Alexander Foss, head
of the Danish export and import con
trol organization, in an address before
the industrial congress hero today,
said members of tbe Danish trade and
industry should adjust themselves to
war conditions, which might last years,
it beiug unwise to count on the speedy
termination of the war.
Under the former principle where
by Great Britain permitted Denmark
to import not only what was necessary
for her own consumption, but also to
continue her industries, Mr. Foss said
the war years of 1914, 1915. auu 191(3
had been prosperous ones for Denmark.
America, which iie declared had
been forced into the war by the Ger
man submarine campaign, had now
adopted another principle regarding
exports. It was: “First for ourselves
and our allies, then for neutrals, and
nothing to the enemy.”
Denmark, the speaker contended, no
longer could count on receiving vari
ous American products on which the
Danish industrial life was dependent.
The solution, ho continued, was t<>
build up a Scandinavian interchange
of raw materials and products.
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NORWAY'S SHIPPING
ONE-THIRD DESTROYED
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^ Philadelphia. — .vi'«re than one-third
of Norway’s commercial fleet has been
destroyed by Germany, and prospects
are that it the present situation con
tinues long, the remainder will be seni
to the boitom, according to Dr. Friedi
jof Nansen, of the Norwegian mission,
now in this country, He was one of
t ie principal speakers before the Na -
ional Conference of the World’s Food
Supply.
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Has Sons in Three Armies
Cripple Cieek, Colo., Dec. 1. — With
one son fighting in the German army
and another enlisted under the tri-color
of France, Mrs. Jablousky of this city
recently bade goodbye to her third son,
Antons, who was called to aid in the
ib’-ht for the preservation of democracy
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Tub and steam baths at all hours. Sny
der House, Flat.
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London, Nov. 27.- -Bounder Starr
Jameson, leader of the liistoric .Tatne
son raid in the Transvaal, died at his
home here today after an illness tliatj
has lasted several weeks.
Jameson was born in Edinburgh in
1853. Ha was appointed administrator
of Rhodesia, British South Africa com
pany, in 1891 and served until 1895. On
December 29, 189,), he led the raid on
the Transvaal; took part in the battle
of Krugersdorp, January 1, 1890, and
the following dry surrendered to the
Boers. He was removed to London
and after trial was sentenced to serve
ten months in tiro penitentiary, but
was released after serving a few
months, owing to ill health. Tie
served with British forces in in 1899
1900, and was appointed director of the
De Beers company.
He has been prominently connected
with many large financial enterprises
of the British empire and has served
in a number of public positions during
the past 15 years.
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ONLY GERMAN OFFICIAL
TO SHOW HUMANITY
—
London.—German 'newspapers point
out, says the correspondent at Amster
dam of the Exchange Telegraph Com
pany, chat after the resignation of Dr
von Sandt, the civil governor of
Belgium, his assistant, Herr von Lutz,
iIso tesigned. No successors yet have
bjen appointed.
T* e designations are said by the Ger
man newspapers to be in conjunction
with Germany’s plans regarding the
future of Belgium.
The correspondent at Amsterdam of
the Exchange Telegraph Company an
nounced on September 11 that Dr. von
Sandt, had been dismissed, and added:
“His dismissal is incomprehensive, ;
as the German government had trusted
him to write the history of the occu
pation of Belgium. He was the only
German official in Belgium who ever '
gave any evidence of humanity in the
treatment of the people”
NOTICE (^APPOINTMENT
Estate of Mathias Sehernthaner, de
ceased.
Peter Stegrer has been appointed and I
qualified as administrator of the estate j
[of Mathias Sehernthaner. late of Kus-:
[ kokwim precinct, Fourth division. Ter-!
I ritory of Alaska, deceased.
Dated this 30th day of November,
1 A. D. 3917. D. E. STUIUSS,
, Probate Judpe of Said Precinct.
Partnership Dissolution
Notice is hereby given that the co
partnership heretofore existing be
tween the undersigned, Joseph E. Riley
and Lottie R. Marston. under the firm
name and style of Otter Dredge Cora
j panv, at Otter precinct, Fourth, divi
! sion, Territory of Alaska, is this day
dissolved by mutual consent, Lottie R.
Marston selling her interest to Joseph
E. Riley, who will continue the busi
ness under the same firm name and
! style, Otter Dredge Company.
Joseph E. Riley.
Lottie R. Marston.
Dated September 30, 1917.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To J F. Baird, Marie Baird and Char
ges Hoxsie, and to their heirs and as
signs:
You are hereby notified that the un
j det sipned have expended in each of i lie
j years 19:5 and 1916 the sum of one hun
jdred dollars in labor and improvements
upon each of the placer mininp claims
known and described as follows, to wit:
The Rainbow association, situated at j
the head of Flat creek,in Otter pre
cinct, Fourth division, territory of
Alaska, the location certificate of which
is found of record in book one of loca
tions, [tape 318, in the office of the re
corder for said precinct: the Montana
association, adjoininp the above-de
scribed Rainbow association, the Lpca
tion certificate of which is found of rec
ord in volume one of Locations, pape
318. in the office of the recorder of said
1 precinct; in order to hold said claim
under the provisions of Section 2321 of
the Revised Statutes of the United
States, and the amendment thereto ap
proved January 22,1880,concerning an
nual labor upon mining claims, being
the amount required to hold said placer
mining claims for the periods ending on
the 31st dav of December, 1915. and 1910.
And if, within ninety days from the
personal service of this notice, or within
ninety days after the publication there*
[of, .you fail or refuse to contribute your
proportion of such expenditure as a co
j owner, your interests in the said two
! placer mining claims will become the
property of the subscribers, your co
owners, who have made the required
'expenditures, bv the terms of said sec*
! tion. Geo. W. Albrecht,
Chas.E. Taylor.
j ''First publication Nov. 3, 1917
| Last publication Feb. 2. 1918.
FORFEITURE NOTICE
To Gus Johnson, his heirs'and assigns:
You at e hereby notified that during
each of the years of 1913, 1914, 1915 and
1916 the undersigned has expended at
least one hundred dollars in labor and
improvements upon each of the follow
ing named placer mining claims, to-wit:
Lower 3, 4 and 5 above upper discovery
on Ophir creek in the Innoko mining
and recording district, in the territory
of Alaska, in which mining locations
you claim an undivided one-half inter
est, as shown by the records of said re
cording district. The said labor was
performed as and for the annual repre
sentation of the said claims and each of
them for the said years of 1913, 1914,
1915 and 1916 as required by the laws
of the United States concerning- annua!
labor upon mining claims, and the
same was the amount required to hold
said claims for said years, ou are
further notified that unless within 90
days after the completed service of
j this notice upon you and within 90 days
| after the publication thereof, you con
tribute your portion of said expendi
! ture as a co-owner, to-wit: The sum of
! two hundred dollars for each of said
claims and six hundred dollars in all,
your interest in said claims or in any
one of which you so fail to contribute
I will be forfeited to the undersigned,
who has made such expenditure, and
will become his property in the manner
provided by law.
Dated at Ophir September 4, 1917.
ALFRED JOHNSON, Co-owner.
First publication Nov. 3, 1917,
Last publication Feb. 2, 1918
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