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TOLOVANA CAMP
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According to accounts published in the
Fairbanks newspapers of May 27 to June 1.
received this week, there is considerable
activity at the scene of the new strike in
the 1\ lovana country. One of the boats
leaving for the new camp was the old
Grizzly, a product of Iditarod, which has
been renamed the Tolovana. She has been
refitted with machinery and boiler powerful
enough to push a small barge and a poling
boat up the Tolovana river. Her crew con
sisted of Bob Smith, Frank Manton and Os
car Haines, and she is taking Tom Patterson
and a restaurant outfit up to the new camp,
besides a mining outfit for E. Sells, two tons
of potatoes and a large supply of other stuff.
George Comstock and Billy Ward are
aboard the Elmer G.. looking after a con
signment of some five tons for Paul Ring
>eth for his store at Lake City.
Telephone Equipment Shipped
Dan Kennedy left Olnes on the morning
of May 27 with a pack train loaded with |
telephone equipment destined for the new :
camp. Only a small part of the equipment j
necessary to establish such a line on the i
cut ks and connect with Fairbanks was!
taken out on this trip, and more will go as |
rapidly ;■> it can be taken out. C. W. Pat- ;
terson. the lineman who will put in the !
system, went to Olnes the same afternoon, !
and will leave at once for the new camp.
Wickersham Visits New Camp
James Wickersham, Alaska's delegate in
congress, returned to Fairbanks from the
Tolovana on May 25. He went in by way
of the Oliics trail, and after spending the
greater part of two weeks there, came out
by the river route.
Ilis opinion of TJovana, according to the
News-Miner, is that it is a good prospect,
with more work done there was done in
the Fairbanks district the first two years.
The situation looks encouraging to him. and
he believes that it is likely to be a small
camp of value, to say the least. How exten
sive a camp it may develop into can only
be guessed at by the best prospectors. It
will justify a great deal of work and ex
amination. He says that two iines of pay
gravel have been opened, one about thirty
feet fleep. running along Livengood creek,
and one between ninety and one hundred
feet in depth, on the right limit bench.
These lines, however, have not been suffi
ciently crosscut and extended to determine
width, depth and continuity of the pay, and
fur this reason more prospecting is going on.
The delegate showed a small vial contain
ing Mime coarse gold, about SI.25 worth,
panned by himself from six pans out of
tlie Harry Patterson shaft on the Cascaden
bench. Patterson found one small nugget
worth 75 cents. It is paystreak gold, be
yond a doubt.
Substantial Developments Looked For
One thing that impressed Delegate Wick
ersham was the presence of so many first
class mining men in the new camp. It is a
favorable sign, he thinks, as it means that
the ground will be opened right by men who
have made a success of it. lie looks for
substantial developments in Tolovana within
the next few weeks, but also added that
there was no heavy machinery in there now
and that none could be taken in until it
went over a good winter road.
FORMER DAWSON BOY
KILLED ON BATTLEFIELD
(Dawson News. June 4'
Ilarrv McLennan, a former Dawson boy.
was killed in action at the front recently.
He went through the historic charge at
Langemarck unharmed, and later was killed
outright while in a trench. Harry was
the 19-year-old son of R. P. McLennan,
formerly in business here at the head of the
hardware firm of McLennan & McFeely. The
boy lived n Dawson with his parents when
he was a mere youngster, and attended the
Dawson schools and was a member of the
Presbyterian Sunday school. So far as
known he is the first Dawson boy to have
been killed in the great war. The Van
couver Sun reports his death in connection
with a letter from his own cousin, who was
in the same regiment, and who writes the
details. A photograph published in the Sun
in the same issue shows Harry in his High
land costume. He was a splendid specimen
of manhood.
DEATH OF MRS. A. X. GRANT
IN TERRITORIAL CAPITAL
The death of Mrs. A. X. Grant, formerly a
resident of Iditarod, which took place in
Juneau on May 8. is thus chronicled by the
Juneau Empire:
"Mr.-. A X. Grant, wife of the pioneer
Alaska printer, died at St. Ann’s hospital
this afternoon. She has been an invalid for
many years. Her husband, who is em
ployed in the Dispatch office, was foreman
in the office of the Nome Nugget and Idita
rod Nugget when Governor Strong was
owner and editor of those papers. Later
he was one of the owners and editors of the
Ruby Record-Citizen. Mr. and Mrs. Grant
came to Juneau in January.”
The funeral was held at the Catholic
church on May 10, and interment was in
Evergreen cemetery.
Mrs. Grant, nee Thelen. was born at
Detroit, Mich., 48 years ago. In addition
to her husband, a sister, Miss Fannie L.
Thelen, and a brother. Henry N. Thelen, sur
vive her.
W. F. Duffy was a returning passenger
from the Outside on Tuesday last. He spent
the winter in Montana. He reports that
business is extremely quiet in that section
of the country, although there is a revival
in evidence at Butte.
Harry Yeager and A1 Walsh have been
in the city for several days during the past
week.
If you are in need of anything in our
line, see us. Two stores—Flat and Iditarod.
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Noted Greek Priest Dead
The Rev. Sergius J. Kostrometinoff, rector
of St. Michael’s cathedral, at Sitka, and
dean of the Greek church of Alaska, died
May 1 in Seattle from cancer of the neck,
while en route to Victoria to seek medical
relief from Dr. Simpson, the specialist at
that place. Father Sergius (he was chris
tened George, but given the name of Ser
gius when ordained as priest) was born
at Kodiak 62 years ago, his father being di
rector of the Russian-American lee Com
pany', a concern which was engaged in ship
ping ice from Wood island to San Fran
cisco. After his father’s death the family
moved to Sitka, and here, at 14 years of
age, young Kostrometinoff witnessed the
official transfer of Alaska from Russia to
the United States by the lowering of the
Russian colors and the raising of the Stars
and Stripes. Later he entered the employ
of the King Lear Mercantile Company at
Warngell, and here learned the Indian lan
guage, an accomplishment which won him a
position in the government service a few
years later. He was employed later in busi
ness houses at Sitka, one of them being that
of N. A. Fuller, and then he entered the
government service as official interpreter
for the navy, continuing this during the
naval regime of Alaskan affairs. He trav
eled much with the navy in Northern waters,
his most hazardous trip being to the Arctic
on the man-of-war Thetis, when he was
away for eight months and endured many
hardships. When civil government was
given Alaska, Father Sergius became court
interpreter, and served in this capacity for
^bout twelve years, during which time he
was a special deputy marshal under the ad
ministrations including that of J. M. Shoup.
He accompanied Governor Lyman T. Knapp
to the world’s fair at Chicago as one of hts
official staff, breveted by the governor a
colonel of the Alaska militia. In 1886 he
was appointed head warden of St. Michael’s
cathedral at Sitka, and served in this ca
pacity for twenty-six years without com
pensation. and brought the Sitka church
tip from a dilipidated condition to one of
prosperity. For these faithful services he
received a loving cup of chaste silver from
the hands of Czar Nicholas 11., also a medal
of the Knights of Daniel II. In November,
1912, he was ordained a priest by Arch
deacon Platon, who was visiting Sitka at
the time, and made rector of St. Michael’s
cathedral with a salary. He was held in
great esteem by the ecclesiastical consistory
at New ^ ork, and on January 1 of this year
he was made dean of the Greek church of
Alaska. He is survived by a brother, widow
and two children, residing at Sitka, and a
sister in Portland. Juneau Empire.
Disruption of Noted Native Settlement
The Ketchikan Progessive of March 27 |
says; A few days ago a report was circu
lated to the effect that the residents of the
iMetlakahtla settlement were to divide and
part company. Tracing this report to near
its source, it was found that the followers of
Mr. Duncan were out looking for a new loca
tion. It was at first reported that the fac
tion whose dissension with Mr. Duncan
caused the trouble were to leave the settle
ment; now the contrary appears to be the
case. What will be done with the property,
‘in which the Metlakahtlans claim an interest
in common, is not apparent, and neither fac
tion seems to know. However, it is known
that a party is out looking for a new town
site.
Literally Blown to Death
A report from Cordova says that Oliver
Baker, who met his death near Yost’s road
house, on the ChitinaT airbanks trail, March
(51, really was “blown” to death. The Delta
fiver at that point from the summit down
the few miles intervening is nothing hut a
great glacier, with sometimes snow on it
and sometimes not. On this occasion a
sixty-mile wind took it off. leaving glare ice
in many places. Baker, it is holiered h>
those who were with him and who found
the body, slipped and fell, perhaps while
catching'his hat, and the wind simply blew
him around until he was dead. Once down,
ft would be almost impossible for him to
rise. These heavy winds will take a double
ender and turn it'around and around, which
causes the stage company to provide their
double-enders with knife clamps for use in
heavy winds on the ice. Baker’s body was
bruised black and blue all over. He was
lierally pounded by the ice. If he was not
frozen, death would have resulted anyway.
The upper Delta country is a dangerous
country at any tine, and especially so in
a winter or spring blizzard.
Object to Saloon Lcense
The matter of a petition for a renewal
of the saloon license in Marshall City was
before the district court this morning,_ says
the Nome Industrial Worker of May 15, the
petition having been forwarded by the com
missioner at St. Michael. There were two
objections, and the matter was put over
until these could be examined. The saloon
will be permitted to run pending a decision
by the court.
Fatal Row Among Cannerymen
Bert Howen, a canneryman, met death at
mile 55, on the Copper River railway, as
the outcome of a quarrel over hot cakes.
Howen threw a can of milk and a brick to
emphasize his remarks, and Ed Lee Thinnus
came back with a sugar bowl, which
knocked Howen against the table, inflicting
wounds from which he ciied. The coroner s
jury said it was self-defense.
Body of Sicotte Found
A special to the Nome Nugget from Can
dle, dated May 20, says that the body of
Alex Sicotte, who was lost in a blizzard
while returning to his cabin on the evening
of March 20 last, was found by Adolph
Escholtz about a mile below the roadhouse
run by the latter, from which point the de
ceased miner started out on the fatal jour
ney. As Sicotte’s cabin was some distance
above the roadhouse, it is surmised that he
attempted to return to the roadhouse on
finding it impossible to face the storm, and
missed his wav in the darkness, with the
result that he passed the shelter. No in
quest was deemed necessary.
Many Reported Destitute
A Seward dispatch of May 27 says the
government engineers repairing the Alaska
Northern railroad have opened the line for
operation twenty-seven miles out from Sew
ard. Section crews are repairing the track
and the dock at Seward. The telephone line
is being repaired from Seward to mile 72,
■land later will be extended to Ship Creek,
where the engineers constructing the new
railroad to the Matanuska coal fields are
making their headquarters. Reports from
Ship Creek says that of 1,500 people who
have gone there in the expectation of get
ting work on government construction, only
300 have been employed. Many men at
Ship Creek are said to be destitute. Men
are clearing the right-of-way along twelve
miles of the line from Ship Creek to the coal
field. A temporary dock is under construc
tion, and grade for the railroad is being
built through the construction camp.
Land Department Engineer Coming
George A. Parks, mineral examiner and
mining engineer for the land department of
Alaska, arrived in Cordova recently. He will
go to the Interior, where, during the course
of the summer he will visit and make in
spections of all mines throughout the en
tire inhabited part of northern and central
Alaska. Mr. Parks will go over the trail
to Fairbanks and proceed to the Nome coun
ty. From there he will go back to the Iriit
arod, and before returning will work his
way out to the farthermost of the Aleutian
islands where mineral has been uncovered.
Alaska Natives’ Work at Exposition
The only representative Alaskan exhibit
at the Panama-Pacific exposition is that as
sembled by the Alaska Cruise Club, of
which Mrs. Mary E. Hart is president, and
which is placed in the Transportation build
ing, says a San Francisco newspaper. Above
the display, in an inclosure built to repre
sent the upper deck of a steamship, is a
commodious rest room for visitors. Mrs.
Hart, who presides at the booth and dis
tributes information and literature concern
ing the far North, is vice president of the
Pacific Coast Women’s Press Association.
The exhibit consists of baskets made by
both Alaska Indians and Eskimos, and other
utensils and ornaments made by the abo
rigines. Mrs. Hart has assembled some of
the rarest and most valuable curios to be
found in the West, and the displays are lent
under bond by collectors from all over the
coast. Besides the curios lent by San Fran
cisco ladies, Mrs. Hart has on display her
own valuable collection, the result of many
years of travel and residence in Alaska.
Sailor on Revenue Cutter Drowned
The United States revenue cutter Man
ning. Captain F. G. Dodge, arrived at Ju
jieau on April 2S from Sitka, and confirmed
the news of the drowning of Seaman Fred
erick Engleman in Sitka harbor. Engleman
end two companions were out in the harbor
in a canoe, which capsized. His companions
reached shore, but Engleman became chilled
end sank. The effort to locate the body
failed. The Manning left for Sitka on April
29. where she will take on coal and sail
direct for Seattle to prepare for the Bering
sea cruise. The Manning has been in serv
ice along the Alaska halibut banks, aid
ing vessels in distress and sick seamen. This
is the first year this has been done, and
the halibut fleet men are loud in praise of
the service rendered.
TWELVE PARTIES SENT OUT
BY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
The United States Geological Survey is
dispatching twelve parties to Alaska to con
tinue the systematic surveys and investiga
tions that have been in progress for the last
eighteen years. Of these parties, three will
he sent to Southeastern Alaska, one into
the upper Chitina region, one to Port Valdez,
two will work in the Turnagain arm-Knik
rceion, one will make investigations in the
Yukon-Ten ana region, and two in the Ruhy
Kuskokwitn region, and another will tra
verse ihe little-known area lying between
the Ruby district and the Tanana river.
One party will be engaged in general inves
tigations in different parts of the territory.
These parties sailed from Seattle during
Mav. so as to take full advantage of the
field season. All the men needed for the
work have been engaged, and the purchase
of horses, supplies and equipment is well
under way.
One of the most important of the under
takings is the extension of the surveys in the
Ruby district, on the Yukon, and in the
adjacent regions. C. E. Griffin and G. L.
Harrington will undertake the surveys in
the Ruby district proper, which is now an
important gold-placer camp. R. H. Sargent
and J. B. Mertie will carry surveys south
ward to Takotna, on the Kuskokwim river.
H M. Eakin will explore the region lying
between the mouth of the Cosna river, a
tributary' of the Tanana. and the Ruby dis
trict. The only other work in the Y ukon
basin is that of Eliot Blackwelder, who will
make a geologic examination of the White
mountains, southwest of Circle.
The region lving between Knik and Turn
again arm, tributary to the proposed gov
ernment railroad, has been only partly
mapped, and here both geologic and topo
graphic survey's will be undertaken. The
! reparation of the topographic base map
will be undertaken by one party under the
leadership of ,1. W. Bagley, and the geology
and mineral resources will be studied by an
other party under S. R. Capps.
Alfred H. Brooks, geologist in charge of
thr Survey’s Alaska investigations, will be
engaged in office work until about the end
of June. He will then leave for Alaska, and
hi? work will probably include investiga
tions in the Iditarod, Fairbanks and Valdez
districts.
PRESIDENT WILSON DEFINES
IDEAL OF FIGHTING MAN
My interest in the neutrality of the
United States is not the petty desire to
keep out of trouble. I have never looked
for it, but I have always found it. I
don’t want to walk around trouble. If any
man wants a scrap that is an interesting
scrap and worth while, I am his man. I
warn him that he is not going to draw me
into the scrap for his advertisement, but
if he is looking for trouble, that is the
trouble of men in general, and I can heln a
little, why, then I am in for it.
But I am interested in neutrality because
there is something so much greater to do
than fight, because there is something—
there is a distinction waiting for this nation
that no nation has ever yet got. That is
the distinction of absolute self-control and
self-mastery. Whom do you admire most
among your friends? The irritable man?
The man out of whom you can get a “rise”
without trying? The man who will fight
at the drop of the hat, whether he knows
what the hat is dropped for or not?
Don’t you admire and don’t you fear if
you have to contest with him the self
mastered man who watches you with calm
eye and comes in only when you have car
ried the thing so far that you must be dis
posed of? That is the man you respect.
That is the man who you know has at bot
Itom am uch more fundamental and terrible
courage than the irritable fighting man.
Now, I covet for America this splendid
courage of reserve moral force.—From
Woodrow Wilson's speech before Associated
Press, April 20. I
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INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS
FROM THE RUBY DISTRICT
(From the Record-Citizen, June 5)
Alvin Bruner, a brother of the late Terri
torial Senator Bruner of Nome, was an ar
rival in Ruby on Sunday, having drifted
down the Yukon from Whitehorse in a
small boat. He expects to go to Marshall
City. He gives a gloomy picture of condi
tions in the Alaska coast cities.
William Has to “Go Round”
Deputy Marshall Tom Long went to Tan
ana on the Washburn as escort for William
Turner, who is in custody pending a hear
ing by the grand jury at the Ruby term
of court. Tunana and Ruby each has a fed
eral jail, but Wiiiiam is the only inmate.
Literally, he has to “go ’round." Pretty
soon he will return, and mayhap be given
his old room again. If he had only been
considerate enough to have been born twins
he would now be either giving employment
to twice as many guards or the transporta
tion company would have a few extra fares
to ring up—and either eventuality would
heh) a little. But there's only one of him,
and he just has to “go ’round.”
Court Officials Arrive
The Delta arrived at 6 o’clock this morn
ing, having on board the court party, con
sisting of Judge C. E. Bunnell. District At
torney R F. Roth. Clerk of the Court J. E.
Clark; Miss Grace Fisher, stenographer to
the clerk of the court; E. T. Wolcott, court
stenographer, and Deputy Marshal J. C.
Wood Assistant District Attorney G. Ellis
Gardner arrived in Ruby some time ago.
Arrivals From Outside
Among the arrivals from the Outside were
Sam Godfred, Godfrey Baer and Charles
Craig.
Senator Sutherland's Opinion
Senator Dan Sutherland, who was in the
Tolovana country for a week or ten days,
was asked his opinion of the camp upon his
arrival at Ruby on the Delta this morning.
Mr. Sutherland knows too well the uncer
tainty of new mining camps to make posi
tive statements regarding the future of Tolo
vana, but said he found nothing there to ge!
excited about. IF Patterson undoubedly has
good pay on a bench of Livengood creek.
On a bench lower down Livengood here is
low-grade pay, and the same may be said of
some of the tributaries. Outside of that,
prospects are all there is to the district so
far. If the Livengood pay proves to be con
tinuous Tolovana will be a very good little
lamp. Mr. Sutherland says the Tolovana is
navigable for small river steamers for nearly
a hundred miles to where a log jam chokes
the channel. Above the jam it is open to
launches for a distance of forty miles to
within seven miles of the diggings. A tram
way to connect the two stretches of open
vater will render the camp fairly easy of
access.
Wedding at Tanana
Theodore Diederick, postmaster at Tan
ana. and Miss Elmina Wheeler, money order
clerk in his office, were married on May 25.
Strike in the Koyukuk
Among the strikes and rumors of strikes
that are claiming public notice with bewil
dering frequency these d: Vs is one that “got
out” by the narrowest kind of a margin.
It is a perfectly good strike, and the news
of it. while lacking particulars, is as au
thentic as strike news can be which travels
by word of mouth for a considerable dis
tance. It is on Emma creek, one of the old
creeks of the Coldfoot section. Axel Linne
took out 182 ounces from a hole on Emma
creek -a matter of about §3,000. On the
very last mail coming out of the Koyukuk
this spring Mr. Linne forwarded a letter
telling of the strike to his friend. Axel Peter
son, at Ophir. In the nick of time the
letter reached Ruby and caught the last
overland mail of the season for Ophir. From
Ophir the news has been passed back to
Ruby, being brought into town from Poor
man by people coming for supplies.
Ruby Club Closes Its Doors
The Ruby Club has closed its doors, and
will no longer offer Ruby’s bachelors a
pleasant home in which to loaf and enter
tain their visiting friends. The members
of the club did not feel like paying the
§1.000 tax that the decision of the court of
appeals on the appeal by the “Mumm” Club
iof Nome seems to make a conditon of main
taining a sideboard—nor like bidding de
fiance to the law; hence it is closed until
the text of the decision referred to can be
obtained, and if reports of the interpreta
tion of the law are correct, the club will
pot reopen.
NEW BRITISH SHIPS
LONDON, May 10.—England is building
six battle cruisers of 32-knot speed, which
will be equipped with a new 16-inch gun.
It is expected all will be launched within
a few months from the date of laying down.
Within the next few weeks she will have
five new' superdreadnaughts of the type sim
ilar to the Queen Elizabeth class in com
mission, equipped w-ith 15-inch guns.
These will make twenty-five battleships
and battle cruisers additional to the British
navy since the beginning of the war.
Fresh Olympia Oysters, for cocktails, $2
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SUNDAY- CLOSING REPEAL
YETOED BY GOVERNOR
Anent the Sunday closing law, a Juneau
dispatch says:
“It was generally believed that both
houses of the legislature would refuse to
sustain the governor’s veto of the bill re
peeling the Sunday closing restrictions, but
the senate upheld the veto. As a conse
quence Representative Coombs in particular
is wrathy, and declares that he will take it
upon himself to see that the people get
' enough of the law. It has been practically
a dead letter throughout the territory with
the exception of at Nome. There it has
been enforced recently, and as a conse
quence much complaint has arisen. At
Seward, also, a clause has been observed
that closed the moving picture show on Sun
day evenings.
“Representative Coombs states that he
has written to the department of justice at
Washington, calling attention to the law
which is on the statute book and stating
that it is being generally violated. He re
quests that the district attorneys in the
several divisions be directed to see that
the law is enforced. He anticipates a speedy
compliance with his request. He then ex
pects to see all the moving picture houses
anil theaters, as well as stores, closed on
Sundays. He believes that this will came
such a protest upon the part of the public
that by the time the next legislature meets
there will be a very general demand for the
repeal of the old ‘blue law.’ The law which
V was sought to repea'i is in the federal
statutes, and reads as follows:
“ ‘That, if any person shall keep open any
store, shop, grocery, ball alley, billiard room
or tippling house, for purpose of labor or
traffic, or for any place of amusement, on
the first day of the week, commonly called
Sunday, or the Lord’s day, such person,
upon conviction thereof, shall be punished
by a fine not less than five onr more than
fifty dollars: Provided, That the above pro
vision shall not apply to the keepers of drug
stores, doctor shops, undertakers, livery
stable keepers, barbers, butchers and bakers,
and all circumstances of necessity and mercy
may be pleaded in defense, which shall be
treated as questions of fact for the jury to
determine, when the defense is tried by
jury.' ”
WELL-KNOWN OLD-TIMER
MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARS
The Fairbanks Times of May 30 publishes
a lengthy story concerning the mysterious
disappearance of Homer Leonard, an old
timer well known in this section of Alaska.
He is described as 5 feet 11 inches tall and
walked with a slight stoop. He was smooth
shaven when he left Fairbanks. His hair
was dark brown, tinged with gray. He had
been in the North for many years, and was
one of the Dawson pioneers.
Homer Leonard is said to have left Fair
banks about a year ago in a small boat for
Kuby. He arrived at Tanana and is said
to have left there for Ruby in the same
small boat. That is the last that is known
about him.
Leonard was a steamboat engineer, and
during the season of 1913 he was engineer
on the Iditarod stern-wheeler Little Delta,
of which Si Atwell is master. The last
work he did was in the vicinity of Fair
banks in the spring of 1914. He quit work
shortly after the river opened. He worked
for Rowson & l-'inlayson on the creeks.
When he left Fairbanks he advised Si At
well to send money due to him to Ruby, in
care of the Northern Commercial Company.
On August 17 Si Atwell wrote Leonard a
letter, inclosing a postal money order for
$82.50. The letter was never called for. The
Kuoy manager 01 me nuiumu
Company knew that Leonard had been in
Fairbanks since he left Ruby in the fall of
1913, and he forwarded the letter to the
Hotel Northern, in Fairbanks, where Leon
ard was in the habit of stopping. After
holding the letter for some time, and learn
ing nothing of the missing man. William
Casey, proprietor of the Northern, and a
warm personal friend of Leonard, opened
the letter in the hope of gaining some clue
to the whereabouts of the man to whom it
was addressed.
Inquiries have been marie for the nursing
man by his sister in Portland, and the post
office authorities are also seeking his ad
dress. His partner, Jim Halloran. knows
nothing of Leonard since the latter left Tan
ana in the small boat for Ruby last spring.
Beyond Tanana no one has been able to
trace him.
Captain Si Atwell, when asked regarding ,
the case, said he knew nothing of Leonard's j
disappearance until he reached Ruby this J
spring on his way to Iditarod. He made
inquiries there and learned that the man
had not been heard from since leaving Tan
ana in the spring of 1914. Mr. Atwell could
furnish no information that would tend to
unravel the mystery.
One of the Chicago municipal court judges
has established a library for foreign boys
in the boys’ court. Arrangements have been
made by’him with the public library to fur
nish . books written in the native tongues
of the nationalities most frequently repre
sented in the court.
J. A. Solmes, sales manager for Grommes
& Ullrich, wholesale liquor dealers and dis
tributers, Chicago, is on his annual trip, to
the Interior of Alaska. He expects to visit
' Iditarod about July 4.
JITNEY DRIVERS TO GIVE BOND
OLYMPIA Wash., March 11 -The jitrn y
bus bill, req .ring drivers to give a surety
bond in the sum of $2,500 to indemnify
the public against damages, was passed over
^Governor Li-ter’s veto. The \i. <* in the
house was 63 to 31. In the senate the vote
was 38 to 12.
ORDER
In the District Court for the Territory f
Alaska, fourth Judicial Division. In the
matter of a Special Term of Court at
Iditarod, Alaska.
It satisfac orily appearing that it i.- nec
essary for i. public welfare, and for the
despatch of the business of this court, that
a special term of said court be held at Idit
arod, in Otter precinct, commencing it 11
a. m. June 2S, 1915. and the judge of said
court now deeming it expedient to hold such
term.
It is ordered: That a special term of this
court be held at stiol town of fhtaroo. ...
mencing 11 a. m. June 2s. 1915. at.,, if..*
the clerk of this court cause due nonce ,
be given thereof.
Witness the Hon. Charles K Bunnell,
judge of the district court for the fourth
judicial division, Territory ol Alaska thi
28th day of May, 1915. and tin- seal then •
(Seal i ' J. f CLARK. Cl'-rk
By G. G. GERAGHTV Deputy
NO l ICE TO CREDITORS
In the Probate Court, Otter Pp ' in i, Terri
tory of Alaska In the matli
Estate of Joseph Auh't, deceased A
Aotu'e is liereby trfyeu tint He- under
signed has been duly lppomti’l nhnuu>
Irabu or the ( stab <>t : - till A'ulel
erased, and all persons liavink ' i i ins
against tin estate of the -aid >■ - ; h a f t
are hereby nolilied tn [present the same.,
verified in the manner requlrml by law, t i
the undersigned at his resldeni’e on I r nit
stri et, ii the town or Dis overy. niter,
utter Preiini't, Alaska.
PETER THtRAl.'t.T.
Hated Mav 27, 101.7.
t'.-iti- of first ptiblb'itiiiii. May 20, t ■ t;
[tate of last [publication, June 10, 1915
Notice of Forfeiture
To Robert Matlison:
YtiPt are hereby untitled that til" under
signi'il ha - cxpi’iided in labor and imp’ *'
nii’iiis tin sum or one Ininrtiid il”llars
?tnn fi i- tin’ '.i-ar or ion m i ■ ■
r.nld Run drmip placer mining claim, situ
ati d on i. til.' iTi’i'k. a tril utarv
■•I.. in Innok’i mining ami n 'lone ‘I s
trii t distrn't of Alaska. A..In of I .I’ation
rei or led 1 . Vo] I", Pagi tnn ki Min
ing Itiu-ords.
X mi are rurlher m.lifled that d a; tip
expiration of nin.’lv on days aft• the
last puhli-.iti"ii ..r litis notii-e y-.n fail or
refuse to contribute y-iir proportion ■!'
such expenditure, your Interest in said
claim will become thi* property or the un
riorsigned. X P.11 r i-..-owner, under s. inn
8.12» r the R. visi-d Statutes or the Cnlb'd
Stall s.
RUPERT EVAN?. Co-owner.
Iiate or first publication. April 17, f915.
Pate of last publication. July IT, 1015.
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