ASSEMBLE TEN HYDRO-AIRPLANES
AT SEATTLE FOR “PREPAREDNESS”
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(By I’ntlrd Stair* t'ablr)
SEATTLE, Friday, March 9.—Ten hydro-aero
planes are being assembled here. The shipment is intend
ed to provide Puget sound with an aerial patrol protection
and is a part of the government plans for military pre
paredness.
TO BUILD WARSHIPS ON FLAT RATE
(Rv United State* Cable) ,
WASHINGTON. March 9.—Ship builders engaged in
government work have entered into an agreement with
Secretary Daniels to accept new contracts for warships
at a flat rate of ten per cent net profit and have pledged
co-operation in rushing to completion the navy’s construc
tion program._
ARMY ENLISTMENTS BREAK RECORD
(Rv l mted States Cabled
WASHINGTON. Friday, March 9. — General
Scott has been redetailed by the president as chief of staff j
of the army.
Statement is made from the war department that en
listments during the month of February broke all records
for the United States in time of peace.;
THE LINER CORMANIA ESCAPES SUBS
^Ity I'niteii State* Cable)
\K\V YORK. Friday. March !).- Blockaded zone in convoy of a squad- ]
Xhc Brit sh inei Cart* ron. Nine other ships l>oun<l to
h ay, North and South America were in
having passed safety through the the convoy.
STATESMAN OF
JAPAN WARNS
OF BANKRUPTCY
WASHINGTON, March 1 .—The
text of a recent statement of Marquis
Okuma. ex-premier of Japan, has just
been receive* l in Washington, in
which he express*'*! the opinion that
the world is on the brink of bank
ruptcy; that the United States gov
ernment should cut down her arma
ments to the minimum rather tnan
expand; that the Entente powers
should maintain their status quo in
armaments; that the whole German
navy should be surrender*!, but that
Japan should he permitted to com
plete the naval program she now has
on hand.
WOLVERINE PUTS
UP SOME SCRAP
WHEN SURPRISED}
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CHITINA. — (Special.) — Whih
hunting near Copper Center recently,
R. Macaulay was attacked by a larg*
wolverine, anil severely bitten and
scratched. The animal had killed a
rabbit and was siting over his prey
when Maccaulay stepped around a
rock directly onto him. Before hr
could shoot the wolverine leaped for
him. and for a time it looked as if tha
man would get the worst of it, but he
beat the animal off with his gun and
shot it. Macau’ay had scratches ten
inches long and half an inch deep on
one S'de.
Watteffill and Frazier whiskey at
the Branch.
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Picture Framing. Painthn:. Tinting
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2 C. Kodak, Jr., Kodak $12.G0—
Seward Drug Co.
Proof of labor blanks at Gateway.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR
THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA.
THIRD JUDICIAL DIVISION.
The town of Seward, Alaska, Plaintiff
vs.
George Turner, 0. G. Labaree and
Alexander H. Bradford, Defendants.
Cause No. S-104
Summons by publication.
IN THE NAME OF THE PRESI
DENT OF THE UNITED STATES:
To the defendants in the above en
titled cause. Geoie Turner, 0. G. Lab
aree and Alexander Bradford,
GREETING:
You, and each of you, are hereby
summoned and required to appear in
the District Court for the Territory of
Alaska. Third Judicial Division, with- j
in thirty days after the completion of
the period of publication of this sum
mons, to-wit: within thirty days after
the fourth day of May A. D. 11)17, and
answer the complaint of the above
named plaintiff, which has been filed
in the above entitled court, by which
plaintiff seeks an order and judgment
of the court for the condemnation of
Lots numbered One (1), Two (2),
Three (3), Four (4), Five (5), Six
(6), and Seven (7), in Block Six (G),
in the Town of Seward, in Kenai Re
cording District, Third Judicial Divi
sion of the Territory of Alaska, as
shown by and according to the map
and plat of the Frank L. Ballaine
Townsite of the Town of Seward, Al
aska, and appropriate said Lots to a
public use, as a public park with
street and drive-way therein, for the
town of Seward, and to continue Rail
road Avenue from its intersection
fitn the south end of the Alley in said
Block Six, in a northeasterly direction
to intersect with Adams Street in said
Town of Seward at the East end of
That unless you so appear and an
swer the complaint of plaintiff, with
in the time above stated and show
cause why such order should not be
made, plaintiff will take judgment
against you, and apply to the court
for an order of the court, condemning
the above named lots to be appropri
ated by the plaintiff for the uses and
purposes above stated, and for a
further order of the court, ap
pointing three appraisers, as is
provided by law, to * appraise,
the said lots, and each of them,
and to assess the benefits and flam
ages, to each of you and report to the
court their findings, and that upon the
payment of the amount or amounts
found to be due each of you by said
appraisers, into the above entitled
court to be paid to you and each of
you as therein provided that an order
be made by the court directing you
and each of you to execute to plaintiff
a deed conveying any and all interest
you and each of you or any one of you
may have in any one or more or all of
said lots, as the case may be, and will
apply to the court for such other and
further order or orders in the prem
ises as to the court may seem meet
and proper.
Witness the Honorable FRED M.
BROWN, Judge of the above entitled
court, this, the 26th dav of February,
A. D. 1917.
ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk.
By ROBERT L. WEVER,
Deputy.
Date of first publication, March 5,
1917.
(SEAL.)
BREAK AERIAL
RADIO RECORD j
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SAN DIEGO, March 1. — A radio
message from an airplane was sent
112 miles by E. J. Simon, radio en
gineer attached to tin* army aviation \
school here. The current for sending j
the messages was derived from a,
small generator driven by a two-!
blade wind propeller.
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Mining Notes
The first clean-up of the C’ube mine,
at Valdez, which recently installed a
mill and other machinery, will occur
on March 10. It is expected that a
large amount of gold will be secured
as the on is exceptionally rich
At the Tacoma smelter the largest
smokestack in the world will be built.
The giant stack will be 550 feet high,
20 feet higher than the one at 1 Suite,
Mont., now the largest in the world.
The stack will he built to secure a
large part of the precious metals
which are now lost to the smelter in
the form of dust. The stack now in
use, it is said, has been equipped with
an electrical device which recovers a
large part of this valuable dust. The
new stack, it is reported will double
the amount of dust recovered. The
device consists of a wire screen which
hangs in the interior of the stack.
This screen is charged with an electri
cal current and acts as a magnet for
the minute particles of metal in the
smoke. At regular intervals the
screen is violently shaken and the
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General Blacksmith
Horseshoeing
Wheelwrighting
Corner Sixth Avenue and
Railway Avenue
SEWARD, ALASKA
Seward Steam Laundry
HARRY KAWABK, Prop.
Fifth Avenue Phone Main 157
Best of Work—Latest Machinery
Work Delivered in 24 hours
Extra Charge
Rough Dry 10c a pound with flat
work finish.
Cleaning and Pressing
(lust falls to the ground. It is said
that more than 20 tons of valuable
metal are recovered every day by this
process in the present stack, and that
the construction of the new stack will
bring this amount up to more than 40
tons a day.
The ore being taken out from the
Bonner mine near McCarthy is being
relayed from the mine to Spruce
creek and will then bo relayed to Mc
Carthy. It is expected that three car
loads- of ore will he loaded before the
snow trail gives out.
S. W. Taggart, C. M. Taggart, Mike
Stepovieh and Thomas E. Lee form
a quartette of interior mining men.
on their return to Fairbanks, where
they own a valuable mine of tungsten,
from which 270 tons of raw ore was
shipped to the states last fall and
netted them quite a sum of money.
Tungsten is worth from $17 to $20 a
unit of twenty pounds, which must
run sixty per cent. The Fairbanksans
brought considerable machinery with
them, including a concentrator of
three rolls and a sawmill outfit, which
will he freighted from Chitina over
the government trail. The outfit
weighs fifteen tons, and fourteen head
of horses were brought from the
states to transport it to its destina
tion.
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take, on every biscuit.
AT ALL CROCERS
* 25c per Pound
CRESCENT MFC. CO.,
Seattle, Wash.
Fresh llntterkist popcorn at the
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