JOHN L. SULLIVAN DEAD
Addington, Mass., Feb. 2.--John Ij.
Sullivan, for many years champion
heavyweight boxer of the world,
dropped dead in his home here today.
Dftaih wv tine to heart trouble from
which he i d been suffering for sev
eral v oa
Ju!v; L s ,'livan was born in Boston,
October id 1358. His height was 5 feet,
10} incites. He was a heavyweight.
The following is the record of his
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IsSO—Knockout—George Hooke, 2
rounds.
Exhibition—Joe Cross, 3 rounds.
1881— Won—Steve Taylor, 2 rounds.
Knockou —Fred Crosslev, 1 round:
James Dalton, 4 rounds', Jack
Burns, 2 rounds.
1882— Won —Paddy Ryan, 0 rounds;
John McDermott, 3 rounds.
Knockout—Jimmy Elliott, 3 rounds.
Exhibition—Tug Collins, 4 rounds
Joe Coburn.
1883 - Won—Charlie Mitchell, 3 rounds;
Herbert A. Siade. 3 rounds.
1884- Won—Fred Robinson, 3 rounds
George M. Robinson. 4 rounds;
Enos Phillips, 4 rounds, John
Tallin, 3 rounds; Alf. Greenfield,
2 rounds.
Knockout—A1 Marks, 1 round;
Dan Henry, l round*, vviiuam
Fleming. 1 round.
1885— Won—Aif. Greenfield, 4 rounds
Jack Burke; Dora McCaft'ery, 0
rounds (police interferred); Paddy
Ryan.
1886— Won —Frank TIarold.
Knockout —Paddy Ryan.
Draw—Duncan McDonald.
1687—Draw—Pat sy (,’ardiff.
1888— Draw—Charlie Mitchell, 39
rounds.
1889— Won—Jake Kilrain, 75 rounds,
at Richburg.
1892—Lost—Jim Corbett, 21 rounds,
at New Orleans.
1896—No decision—Tom Sharkey.
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The average ages of the registrants
for the selective draft in this section is
just a trifle under twenty-six. Tolstoi
shows the oldest with 29, and Flat the
youngest, with 25 years and 9 months.
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Ed Van Kirk recently purchased
Frank Larson's team of white horses
and sleds.
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Job Printing at Pioneer office.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To Charles Courtright, and to his heirs
and assigns:
You are hereby notified that the un
dersigned has expended in money.labor
and improvements during the year 1916
the sum of one hundred dollars ($100)
upon placer miningclaim known as the
Ophir Fraction, on Willow creek, a
tributary of Iditarod river, in the Otter
mining and recording district, territory
of Alaska, in order to hold said claim
under the provisions of the law respect
ing annual labor on mining claims.
And if within ninety days after the
last publication of this notice you fail
or refuse to pay your proportion of such
expenditure, your interest in said claim
will become the property of the under
signed co-owner, according to the pro
visions of Section 2324, Revised Stat
utes of the United States
Dona LaChance, Co-owner.
First publication, January 5. 1918.
Last publication, April 6, 1918.
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THERE'S $700,000
IN THE TREASURY
That there is $700,000 in the Territo
rial treasury of Alaska at the present
time, but that this will be depleted
greatly when the school and road ap
propriations are made is the statement
of Territorial Treasurer Walstein (!.
Smith, according to the Juneau Kin
pi re.
The Alaska legislature has in
structed the territorial treasurer to
allot. $50,000 per year, for a period of
two years, to each division for road
work. This totals $200,000 per year.
However, some of the divisions have
not used their full allotment, which
money still remains in the treasury,
for use the coming season.
Big appropriations have been made
for schools outside incorporated towns,
and in addition $315,000 has been set.
aside, each year for school in incur
poraled towns. The latter school send
their bills to the treasury every three
months, and up to this time none has
been received. When this payment is
made a considerable shrinkage in the
the funds will take place.
Mr. .Smith stated the reason for the
big expenditures hv the territorial
treasury was because of the decrease in
federal taxes, causing a shrinkage in
the Alaska fund, and because of the
decrease in taxes from incorporated
towns which were returned to those
towns.
The Alaska fund set aside 65 per cent,
for the road commission, 25 per cent, to
supply schools outside of incorporated
towns, and 10 per cent, went to judges
for the relief of destitution in their
districts. This fund is constantly
shrinking, necessitating larger appro
priations on the part of the territorial
treasury, as authorized by the legisla
ture.
The heaviest tax season for this year1
is yet to come, from January to April.
The biggest sources of revenue to the
territory are from fish and mining; the
former pay a graduated tax aud the
latter pay 1 per cent, of their net in
come. Fish traps pay SI00 a year.
Doctors, dentists, lawyers, bakeries,
laundries and registered boats pay a
yearly tax. Telephone companies, elec
tric and water companies pay one-half
of 1 per cent, of their gross receipts.
Autos for hire pay a yearly tax of $5;
public messengers pay $25; meat mar
kets and cold storage plants pay a grad
uated tax, and the railroads of Alaska
pay a tax of 1 per cent, on the gross in
come.
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Amsterdam.—German victory in the
war would mean that the Germans “as
the dominant race” would have to
keep in subjection by force of arms the
•‘crushed and dispossessed people,” as
serts George Gothein, a leading Lib
eral member of the German Reichstag
in an editorial article in the official
organ of the influential German Asso
ciation for Commercial Treaties.
“Should we actually succeed in gain
ing a decisive victory, which only a
few persons believe possible,” he
writes, “we would have to bear a
weight of armaments for that purpose
which would make it impossible for our
national strength, so terribly weak
ened in any case by bloody losses,
again to regain its economic power.
And yet without this, permanent polit
ical strength is impossible. One day
the world would rise against the Ger
man sway, would burst its fetters,
would destroy our powers, which would
be lacking in economic support. For
if we have been able to hold out this
time, we have above all to thank our
economic efficiency.
“There remains only one solution,
peace by understanding. A peace
which is permanent must remove from
the world the rivalry of power.
“An economic war after the war
would be unbearable for Germany.”
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LOW POINT REACHED
Washington. Feb. 21.—The low point
of available Allied shipping has been
passed three weeks earlier than offi
cials expected, and confidence is ex
pressed that the amount of shipping
available for the future would increase
steadily. Several factors have contrib
uted in advancing tho amount of ship
ping available, among them the in
creased efficiency of offensive against
submarines, and the beginning of de
liveries from American shipyards.
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Tub and steam baths at all hours.
Snyder House. Flat.
San Francisco—Like “The Man v\ ith
ont a Country,” Mrs. Margaret Cornell
learned an abiding patriotism in a
prison cell.
Nearly a year ago sentenced lor con
spiring with Franz von Bopp, then
German consul general in San Fran
cisco, to violate American neutrality,
she entered the penitentiary at San
Quentin, having renounced the Fritted
States and reviling too flag.
Today site is a freo woman and a
woman reborn. Long days of reflec
tion behind stone walls have implanted
a deep love for flie Stars and Stripes
where venom and defiance had blazed
into traitorism.
She said after being freed: “It has
been a bitter lesson, but I have learned
it. Today my one wish is to have my
American citizenship restored. Losing
for a time the freedom that is America,
I have come to appreciate it perhaps
more deeply than those who have never
had such an experience.”
When sentenced Mrs. Cornell asked
no mercy of the court—no special con
sideration because of her sex. Pub
licly she denounced her country and
renounced allegiance to the Stars and
Stripes.
Her change of heart began when she
became convinced that Germany’s
adept plotters had used her as a tool,
ready to be cast aside after they had
made of her a living dagger at the
heart of the nation.
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Joe Gilcrease, the well-known old
timer of Interior Alaska, now holds
the position of janitor at the public
schoolhouse in Nenana. Mr. Gilcrease
left Iditarod last spring for the rail
road
By the last mail it was learned that
our former townsman Jack Hunnewell,
who left here last October, is now a
member of the Canadian ambulance
corps.
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Russia’s reds appear to be giving the
the people the blues. —Nashville South
ern Lumberman.!
The country may submit to a meat'
less day. but congress—never .'—New
York World.
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and take in the big
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Something doing every minute. Other attractions be
sides shaking your leg* “Pull-Your-Leg” Riley will be
there with a rip-snorting high dingeretta shell game
—something new from Anchorage—limit off—no dan
ger—everything fixed.
The Big Event
of the Season
Hitch up Old Dobbin to the sleigh and come prepared
to be fleeced—as the net proceeds go to RED CROSS
GRAND PRIZES
GOOD EATS
SYNCOPATING MUSIC
Special Prizes for All Mermaid Costumes