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THE SEWARD-IDITAROD MAIL SERVICE
As the time approaches when the change from trail to water tians
portation of mail will take place, a retrospective glance at the winter
mail service furnished Iditarod during the past winter, by way of com
parison with former years, may be of interest. It may serve also to
point out in what direction eliorts for its improvement should be Di
rected.
The Seward-Iditarod mail service went into effect on November 1
last, and will terminate on April 30. The contract provides for con
signments of 475 pounds weekly, this limit including deliveries to Kmk,
Takotna, Ophir and the Innoko, and points along the trail. In spite of j
predictions of failure, the service has been remarkably successful in
supplying the residents of this section with first-class mail, and the oui
rroing consignments have been delivered at tidewater so promptly as to
astonish even the most ardent advocates of the new route. A letter |
from Iditarod forwarded over the Sevvarci route simultaneously with '
one over the old route irom Iditarod to Fairbanks reached its destina
tion, San Francisco, sixteen da\ s earlier than the one forwarded
through Fairbanks. So far as first-class mail is concerned, the people
of this district have enjoyed ;• service which could nardly be excelled. |
Coming to tire matter ol second-class mail, however, quite the ic~
verse is true. To the people cf Interior Alaska, isolated from the rest
of the world lor several months in the year, the question of supplying i
newspapers, magazines, etc., is one of almost as much importance as
supplying letter mail. The manner of handling this class of mail over
the Seward route shows conclusively that those in charge either do not
realize its importance to the people, that they are extremely careless,
or that they are hampered by red tape or senseless departmental rules.
The fact that the contract was limited to 475 pounds weekly meant
necessarily that only a portion of the mail consigned to this district
could be delivered. The consequence has been ^that an enormous
amount of newspaper and parcel mail has accumulated at Seward. A
gentleman who presented an order at the Seward postoffice for a pack
age addressed to an Iditarod citizen was informed that there were a
hundred sacks of such mail for this district, and that it was impossible
to go through the lot and pick out the package wanted. Consequently
there will be a problem for the postal service men to solve in getting
the<e accumulations to their destination.
In last week s mail consignment received at Iditarod were a large
number of newspapers and other publications issued during October
and November of last year. There were but few Pacific coast news
papers of later date than November, and none later than December.
When this mail left Seward undoubtedly there were consignments of
newspaper mail in the Seward postoffice consigned to Iditarod of as
late date as the middle of March. It seems strange that this newspaper
mail should be allowed to remain in the Seward office while the mail
carriers were loaded up with newspapers six months old, and practi
cally useless. Such stupidity in handling mail matter is inexcusable;
and if postoffice rules are responsible for it they should be changed or
ignored. Subscribers for newspapers and periodicals do not spend
their money for the purpose of providing work for mail carriers alone.
They pay for news and reading matter. Common sense should dictate
that newspapers and magazines six months old should not be given
preference in the matter of delivery over publications of recent date.
Seldom during the life of the winter mail contract has a Seattle news
paper less than three months old been allowed to filter through to
Iditarod.
Anotner tning tnat mignt Dear loosing into dv tnose in autnority is,
the fact that certain publications reach Iditarod so promptly that their j
appearance on a certain date can be forecast almost to a certainty, in
spile of the fact that others may not make their appearance for six
months at a time. A certain popular weekly published on the Atlantic
seaboard reaches its subscribers here regularly in a little more than a
month after the date of publication, and there are certain magazines
which are almost as regular in their appearance. This may be only
the result of chance, but there is more than a suspicion that it is the
result of favoritism somewhere. Many persons here are subscribers
to Seattle, Tacoma. Portland and San Francisco newspapers, yet they
are unable to receive these for months at a time, while London and
other European publications are delivered with a few weeks of their
publication date.
During the winter of 1913-14 Iditarod enioyed an excellent mail
service, even though the time made over the Cordova-Fairbanks route
was considerably greater than over the present Seward-Iditarod route.
Tins was due to the fact that the consignment consisted of 600 pounds
weekly, all of which was destined for the iditarod district. This en
abled the contractors to supply the district with practically all the mail
consigned to it. A similar weight limit over the Seward-Iditarod route
would furnish a mail service that would meet all needs, if the full con
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signment were delivered here. But the fact is that the small consign
ment now handled is made to do service to too large a territory, and
the limit should be doubled.
The good people of Ruby have also been making complaint con
cerning their mail service, and have received but little satisfaction.
With the routing of the Iditarod mail by way of Seward, Ruby should
have received the benefit of increased mail service, as the consign
ments to Fairbanks were not diminished by reason of the establishment
cf the new route. This appears not to have been the case. A letter
from Delegate Wickersham to the Record-Cilizn says: “It is a matter
of almost daily complaint with me to the department, and they have
grown almost to hate me because I send them so many complaints of
this kind.” A letter from the second assistant postmaster general to
Mr. Wickersham says that “the matter will be given careful considera
tion, with a view to providing the best mail facilities possible.” 'But
it is more than consideration that is wanted. It is an understanding of
the situation and an intelligent handling of the problem. We already
have the facilities for a splendid mail service if the authorities would use
them to the best advantage. The trouble appears to be that, having
exaggerated ideas as to winter conditions in Interior Alaska, the au
thorities take it for granted that the fact that we are getting any kind j
of mail service here is evidence that everything possible has been done }
in that direction._
AMERICA COMES FIRST
In the midst, of all the recrimination and frantic endeavors of parti
sans of the European belligerents in this country to put one another in
a bad light comes a welcome note of patriotism and sound common
sense in the shape of a letter from Dr. Kuno tranche, head of the
Germanic Museum at Harvard, and one of the most vigorous advocates
of the German cause in America. In this letter he delivers a stunning
blow to the “hyphenated American.” Being asked to join the new
organization of German-Americans which is being formed for political
action and agitation during the war. lie is quoted by the New York
Independent as replying as follows, speaking with direct reference to
the question of exportation of arms to the allies:
The establishment of such an embargo would inevitably bring our government into
conflict with England, and might drive us into war with England. As a man of German
blood i might welcome the help which would accrue to Germany by such a conflict be
tween the I'nited States and England. Hut as an American citizen I cannot possibly sup
port a policy which would bring the terrors of war to our own country. What I feel
bound to support, as an American citizen, is a policy which holds itself strictly within
the now accepted rules of neutrality, although, to my regret, this policy, through cir
cumstances over which the I’nited States has no control, practically turn out to the ad
vantage of England and to the detriment of Germany.
Let us continue to have a prominent part in all endeavi rs for political, civic and in
dustrial progress; let us stand for the German ideals of honesty, loyalty, truthfulness, de
votion to work; let us cultivate our language, our literature and our art; let. us fear
lessly defend the cause of our mother country against prejudice and aspersions. Hut let
us refrain from political organizations which would set Germans in this country apart
as a class by themselves. Such an attempt would lead not to the raising, but to the
degradation of the German name in this country. It would foster hatred instead of sym
pathy; and only by gaining the sympathy of the majority of the American people can
we German-American- help the cause of our mother country.
Probably no fallacy is more firmly established than the belief that the moon’s
phases have certain effects upon the weather. This is especially noticeable among j
Alaskans, and perhaps is an inheritance from bucolic forebears. In the farming di.-tricts
of the great Middle West the belief is goner: 1. The most widespread idea with regard to
lunar influences, says Americana, is its supposed connection with the changes in the
weather. Many an old saying exists, handed down from the ages, giving a rule for prophe
sying the weather by its condition at certain stages of the nv on. Since the time when
careful daily records have been kept of the temperature, height of the barometer, rainfall,
etc., science has been empl veil in examining whether any kind of period can !**• trsced
in them, an:! especially periods connected with the moon’s change.-. Little positive suc
c has attended these effort-;, hut there is plenty of negative evidence. Every attempt
to connect a periodical change in the weather with one in the moon’s motion has resulted 1
in a failure. Undoubtedly some slight connection of a tidal nature must exist, but it is i
very small, and is entirely marked by variations of the weather due to unknown causes. \
A reason for the popular error is not far to seek. The weather changes, especially in
countries lying within the temperate zone, follow rne another in short and seemingly
irregular intervals; the changes of the moon’s phases occur also at short but irregular in
tervals. Coincidences between the two must frequently occur, but humanity is apt to
notice these, and to forget the failures of coincidence, which are just as numerous, if not
more so. Americana. _
Assuming with the Psalmist, that “all men are liars." in greater or lesser degree, the
Seward Gateway takes Delegate Wickersham to task f r calling Ccdonel Richardson a
liar. It says that there are two ways of showing that a public man does not tell the
truth—“one is the gentlemanly way and one is the reverse." Query: Which is the gen
tlemanly way of calling a man a liar?
TALKING TOO MUCH
This truth is sound as virgin ore, so salt it down a> such: The man who talks
forevermore is bound to talk too much. The silent man has many friends, who
think him smooth as grease, and if in season he unbends, and starts to speak a
piece, they listen to his every word as though he were a sage, and pay: “He is a
1; i'loo-bird, the wonder of this age!" The talksmith has no friends at all; folks
hate to see him come; they say to him: “Lit) hire a hall address the deaf and
dumb!” 1 know a hundred idle men who once were drawing pay; they limbered
up their jaws and then they talked their jobs away. I’ve known some dames, in
other days, who talked their husbands blind, until they sought more pleasant ways,
and jumped the beastly grind. I know a churchyard where the stones that dot the
windswept heath are piled above the crumbling bones of fellows talked to death. If
all the time we waste in talk were used in cutting ice. no homeless men the streets
would walk - all men would have the price! Walt Mason.
GERMANY’S FIRST EMPEROR
In 1861 his brother’s death transformed
him from regent into king. From the first
he had trouble with the reich.stag. He had
tried to reorganize the army so that a
large number of recruits might annually be
added. The people’s representatives re
sented the extra money levies this would
necessitate. and every year the reich.stag had
refused to pass the bill. The lords favored
it and so did the Junkers, or party of land
owners, led by Bismarck, but the king
could never muster sufficient votes. In de- j
spair ho contemplated abdication in fact, i
he even had the document written and j
dgned. Then someone suggested calling j
Bismarck to tho ministry. This was done, J
and on the advice of this new friend parlia- 1
ment was dissolved and the army bill
treated as though it had been passed. Taxes
were levied and the recruits raised.
This high handed act was resented by the
people, but those who resented it in speech
or article felt the weight of Bismarck’s wrath.
The fight went on for years, but so did the
recruiting, and presently Prussia had a for
midable army. From this time on Bismarck j
was the power behind the throne. It was he I
who got the backing of Austria which en- j
abled Prussia to wrest Schleswig-Holstein j
away from Denmark, and it was he who ,
cheated Austria out of her promised reward. ■
It was he who picked the quarrel which en- j
abled Prussia to wage the brief but de- !
cisive war which humbled Austria in 1866 i
and deprived her of a great part of her j
possessions, besides which Prussia absorbed i
certain South German states which had j
sided with the defeated empire. And it was
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Bismarck and no other who taunted France
with the prospect of a Hohenzollern king
for Spain and finally by a forged telegram
drew forth the declaration of war from
Paris which led to the Franco-Prussian war
of 1870-71, a war which toppled over the
French empire and cemented the German
one. At Versailles King William was
Stfowned the German emperor, ruler not of
Prussia alone but of all the German king
doms. principalities, duchies and states, to
gether with Alsace-Lorraine, taken from hu
miliated France.—Herbert Caxton in Ta
coma Tribune.
ORIGIN OF “TOMMY”
The use of the name “Tommy Atkins.”
applying to the British soldiers, dates back
to the Indian mutiny. In 1857. when the
rebellion broke out in Lucknow, all the
Europeans fled to the Residency. On their
way they came upon a private of the Thirty
second regiment (Duke of Cornwall’s Light
Ivfantrv), on sentry at an outpost. They
ur^ed him to make his escape with them,
but he would not do it. and was killed. His
ne happened to be Thomas Atkins, and
so throughout the mutiny campaign, when
a daring deed was done, the doer was said
to be a “regular Tommy Atkins.”—Ex.
LITTLE STATE OF NEVADA
DOESN’T WANT TO BE GOOD
CARSON CITY, Nev., March 19.—The
gambling bill passed this afternoon during
the last hour of the session of the legisla
ture, and nothing is now required but the
signature of the governor to throw the state
open to nearly all forms of gambling. The
new divorce law, making divorce as easy as
it was at the time that Reno became
famous, is already on the statute books,
and racing has been restored, so that Ne
vada is now to the United States almost
what Monte Carlo is to Europe. The people
confidently expect that the new laws will
bring a tremendous influx fo people from all
parts fo the country.
ATTITUDE OF THE JEWS
DISCUSSED BY ZANGWILL
“Placed between the devil and the deep
sea, the Jews of the world must hope for
the triumph of the allies and their cause/’
Israel Zangwill said; “not because they hale
Russia less, but because they hale Prussian ,
reaction and militarism more.”
It was in London, and I had been saying
to the celebrated Anglo Jewish patriot and
author that American Jews balked at the
idea of according their moral support to any
coalition of belligerents or to any cause with
which Russia was identified.
I reminded him that we of the United
States ourselves were at this time at logger
heads with Russia in a matter involving
inhumanity to Jews in general and our own
Jewish fellow citizens in particular. 1 tried
to make Zangwill understand that it was
hard for American Jews, even those whose
memories did not go back further than
KishinetT and Beiliss, to generate enthusi
asm for Russian arms.
Zangwill required no such assurances
from me. lie has had a stream of corre
spondents from America raising the same
pertinent point, and he gladly embraced the
opportunity, he explained, to argue it.
“The question for Jews everywhere to
consider,” he said, “is this: What is the
interest of the higher civilization in this
war : We should not approach the ques
tion purely from the standpoint of Jews by
race. We should weigh it unselfishly from
the standpoint of Jews by spirit.
“My own convictions are not born of the
fact that I am either a Jew by race or an
Englishman by birth. They are dictated
by the conscience of a man of letters who
is in har: 1 :iy with the univcrsalistic teach
ing of the III brew prophets and who boasts
that there i not a chauvinistic corpuscle
in all the blood that tlows through his
veins
‘‘When this war began I remembered that
I had produced, among many other works,
three at least which qualified me to claim
for myself utter impartiality.
“Du”in<T the Boer war I wrote ‘The Man
tle of IT'ah/ an indictment of the Briti.-h.
(Tun Paul’s secretary, Dr. Loyds, told me
when I visited Kruger in his exile in the
Riviera that the numbers of Harper’s con
taining it were read by the Boer soldiers in
the field and had cheered their hearts with
the thought that there were lovers of jus
tice in Engl :nd
“A few /ear- ago I wrote an indictment
of everything that Kaiserism and Prussian
militarism stand for, ‘The War God,’ played
by Sir Herbert Tree, a drama which in the
light of events was prophetic in detail of
the pre-ent attempt of Germany to impose
its armored domination upon the world.
“My earlier play. ‘The Melting Pot.' not
unknown in America, was among ether
things a sweeping condemnation of the Rus
da a Phor h of today.
“I think, therefore. I can claim to ap
proach the diagnosis of Armageddon in no
my pic. bigoted spirit.
“To remind me of Kishincff and ritual
murder on ecu;ions, a.- you and so many
of my correspondents do, is to bring coals
to Russia. Why. luv indictment of Russia,
The MTing Tot,’ is playing in England at
this very moment, notwithstanding that
Muscovy is our ally. But that very play
teaches also reconciliation and forgiveness,
and the molting up of the past into a finer
future.
ou toll me the hope of liberty and free
dom for the Jew in Russia is dim and dis
mal in the light of the czar’s broken premi
ses m the past. You say American Jews j
fear that Russia's triumph in this war will
-'pi 1 even greater oppression for its Jews
'han anyth :ig they have suffered hitherto.
You describe American wonder that liberal
ized England could have made common
cause with reactionary Russia.
“Let me deal with the last point first It
is trut that British conceptions of civiliza
•h n find their exact antithesis in Russia,
so far as the bureaucracy is concerned,
though certainly not so far as teachers like
Toy-toy and Kropotkin, my neighbor in the
country, by the way, are concerned.
“However, if we are strange and unnat
ural p< litic d bedfellows, it is the German
menace, the military terrorism which Ger
many has sought to impose upon European
mankind, that has compelled Europe to or
ganize and federate for its overthrow.
“Republican Trance alone was powerless
<o resist it. It allied itself with despotic
Russia in the hope that between them they
might roll it back.
“Then a peril which had long been merely
continental and military became pan
European and maritime. That compelled
England to affiliate itself with those others
who were lace to face with the German dan
ger.
“I admit that we have sunk below the
British level, ethically viewed, in our Rus
sian alliance. But it is Germany which
has dragged us down to the plane of brute
“The same leveling process has brought |
all Europe to the lowest strata of civiliza- j
tion, war. Put war waged for the highest )
civilization, that is. freedom and political
peace.
“When our victory is won, a victory in
which Russia will shade, another leveling
process will inevitably, if not immediately,
raise Russia to the strata of its democratic
British and French allies.
“That is the point for Jews to remember.
“Great Britain, to say nothing whatever
of France, relieved from the Prussian in
cubus, will be able, to impose upon Russia
influence for the emancipation of the Jews.
“Sir Edward Grey has already in a letter
to me pledged himself to encourage Russia \
to emancipate its Jews, and his influence is
to be used not simply at the close of the
war. as people imagine, but at once.
“Britain’s advice to Russia is ‘Do it now.’
But ;t the worst the British foreign secre
tary is bound to be a vital factor in the
peace to follow the war.
“There will be another factor which will
serve the Jewish cause in the hour of peace.
That is the really remarkable enthusiasm
with which the czar’s Jewish subjects are
doing their duty as Russian patriots and
soldiers.
The Russo-American Jews who write me |
denouncing my views should rather de
nounce the Russian Jews who put my views
in practice. But it is clear that those ex
iles in America have utte.iy lost touch with
the European situation.
“No men in the czar’s vast armies are
responding more cheerfully or effectively
than the Jews to the obligations of war.
The Russian Jews seem indeed the only
Christians left in Europe.
“Here in London, where the Russo-Jew
ish immigrants might live in peace, I know
of not a few burning with anxiety to enlist
in Kitchener’s army in order that they may.
even in the West, lay down their lives if
necessary for their native country’s cause.
“These things will not be forgotten. They
are being remembered in Petrograd already,
for I read favor to the Jews between the
lines of an imperial ukase, just promulgated,
accepting the duma's decison to allow all
communities to erect their own schools and ,
colleges without let or hindrance.
“This means that Jews have the un
precedented privilege of establishing and
maintaining their own educational insttu
tions. It is no mean concession. F. W.
Wile in Chicago Tribune.
HOW SEATTLE RECEIVED IT
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Nov. 6)
To the many disappointed citizens who
are today given to wailing and the gnashing
of teeth under the erroneous belief that the
state of Washington in going dry will sim
ultaneously be headed for the demnition
bow-wows the Post Intelligencer has this to
say:
Cheer up. Such dire forebodings will not
prove well founded, nor will present fears
be realized.
At best, a different verdict at the poll'
would have meant only a postponement.
For the movement which this year enlists
Washington. Oregon and Colorado soon will
enlist the country as a whole. States not
yet ripe for it arc rapidly or slowly getting
ripe. Even the casual observer of the
trend of thought must see that it is a
nation-wide movement.
Washington could with wisdom ha'
waited yet a while and continued its. a
herence to local option and home rule.
But it is all over, and there is no profit
in speculating upon what should have been
or might have been done. The thing
dreaded as tending seriously to affect ma
terial conditions has now actually hap
pened and is beyond reca’l. \\ c.d.rgton
soon will become a dry state and is des
tined to remain a dry state. That it will
have the company of all the states in the
Cnion in a few short years is as sure as
anything of the future can be foreetnld.
While the stringent law does nut even
aim to prohibit drinking, but strangely [iro
ns easy means of obtaining liquor from
the outside, it <ni- contemplate the abso
lute suppre'>ion of the saloon. Bv the
people’s verdict the flays of th::’ institution
are definitely and finally numbered. I: will
po net to return. All this involves a rad
ical economic readjustment. There is naught
to do but meet th.' situation cheerfully and
make the necessary readjustment in a busi
nesslike way.
af,./.,,, tm. i-.;... i . j —
ject, since W ashington is to put the liquor
question out of its commercial life, it h
peculiarly fortunate that Oregon also took
ihe step at this time. Tins means that
business mu.-t be done on the North Pacific
coast in a “dry” belt, whether the people
like it or not, and it also means that the
bu.-ine- will m* done regardL^s of this new
complication. Oregon’s vote should serve
*<• lay the fears of those who saw n thing
but calamity in prohibition. Irwin fe
standpoint of business advantages. Port
end and Seattle will remain in the same
relative competitive position as they did
••t’fore the recent election. If there i- any
business arKantage in it to others, it un
1 iiihiAllv lie- with San Franciso
But ti;e bi'sine-'-s interests that are in
clined to see clouds of gloom through the
approval of the prohibition law should re
member that the vote of the people has not
deprived Seattle of its great natural and
acquired assets upon which the pro pm;!v
of the city and of the '’ate have been
budded, it will not deprive us of the tii 1
her on the hills, the fi>h in tr. sea. the
coal in the mines, the coinmen.f the seas.
our advantageous position as a distributing
center, as a railroad center and as a shin
ning center, and oilier great assets which
wc possess. And they should also remem
ber that the vote of the people on the pro
hibition measure has not in any way dented
our great asset of a hand-painted climate.
There is one thought for the inconsolable,
and that is that the Seattle man who does
not like the new Washington legislation will
have a long way to go to get away from it.
unless he con-ents to invite new citizenship
by removal to British Columbia, a district
wnich may not be found particularly at
tractive in a business way in war times.
In all events, it will be well for the de
pressed to cheer up and look the situation
fairly in the face. Counting the assets as well
as the liabilities.
SEATTLE'S FIRST OWNERS
CLAIM BELATED PAYMENT
Three Indians came to Tacoma today to
make affidavits regarding land claims to be
presented to the government, which now
has an Indian commissioner investigating
the claims out here. One was Charley Sati
acuin, who is more than h'2 \ears old. and
perhaps the oldest living Indian >i the
Northwest. He. with Chief William Rogers
and James Moses, claim to be the only liv
ing members of the original Duwamish
tribe.
Chief Rogers lives at Suquamish, Kitsap
county. Sutiacum lives on a forty acre al
l trnent in the Puyallup reservation. Moses
lives in Renton. Sutiacum. still vigorous
for an old man. was a guard for Governor
Stevens in 1S53-54 53, when Stevens was
visiting the Indian tribes relative to mak
ing a treaty.
The Indians seek from the government
“two buckets of gold" and a reservation of
their own. or land allotment, which was
promised them by the treaty of 1855. Their
tribe once owned and occupied all the lands
where Seattle stands, extending along the
beach from the point north of Ballard south
to Point Pullv. and extending back beyond
the present city of Renton, including Lake
Washington and contiguous territory.—Se
attle Post-Intelligencer.
All patent medicines and sundries from
the Pioneer Drug Store stock for sale at
Outside prices at Dr. Moore's.
Fresh Olympia Oysters, for cocktails. $2
can. Iditarod Meat Co.
Profe»e>iona 1
Michigan, 188 J Alaska, 1910
Kentucky, 1891
George Woodruff Albrecht
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IDITAROD, ALASKA
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Z IDiTAROD, ALASKA
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Arcade Oafe
I'LAT errv
Open Dav arid Night
MRS. N. P. GILMORE
FURNACE HEAT
REASONABLE RATES
Second and Willow Streets
Warm Horae and Dog Barns
| OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
FLAT CITY HOHBACK &. DURAND
Bet. the Grand and Bagoy's Bars
THE BEST ALL THE TIME
WE ARE HERE TO STAY
PIONEER CREEK AGENCIES
FLAT CITY - . . Mrs. C. C. Chittick
DISCOVERY OTTER Harry Donnelley
For General Express and Deliver^
of Wood in the City
Leave Orders at Iditarod Hotel
DAN HARTNET
TAMING FATHER
\ careful assay of the lazy husband law.
the widow s pension law. the divorce law,
the community property law and the pro
hibition law will disclose ihe fact that
mother has father almost as lame as a pet
canary.—Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Notice of Forfeiture
To Robert Matbsun:
You are hereby notified that the under
signed lias expended in tabor and Improve
incuts the sum of one hundred dollars
i s 11mi for the year of I'.M l upon the
Gold Run Group placer inlnlmr claim, sitii
i , 'I Little rtvek. a tnliotary of date -
creek, lit lnnoko intiilna and reeonlin? nts
• trii-t, district of Alaska. .Notice or hirahnn
recorded in Yol. I e, Pafre 9(1, Illllnko Mlll
1 1 Vi II are further notilled that if at [be
expiration or ninety i9n day- a.tet tin
last publication -r this notice you ad i
I refiiso to contribute your proportion ot
-11eit expenditure. your inteie-tin saut
claim will become tile property o the un
|.. i.< • m 11,., | V >11 f CM-OVVID'!'. I i • i11' • I
•' ,{• the R( visecl Stat ito.s the l nlted
j lales' ROBERT EVANS. Go-owner. _
Hate or first publication. April 1j ®1 '•
| pate of last publication. July 17. 191a.
‘TP EJ Gold st- Fllt Clty
IH0 i|j§ramd Mrs-Ge°-Mutchierpr°p'
Nicely Furnished Rooms Barn for Horses and Dogs Baths in Connection
Fresh Meats
Beef, Fish
Second St. IDITAROD MEAT CO. 15 j