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BIG RAILROAD
PROJECT HAS
BEEN HALTED
I'OUT AXiiKI.K^. Wa>h.. Jan.. -
Washington's ttatkiess 0'ympic>
a> the towering Olympic Mountains u.
the far Northwestern tip of the VvM
e«l States are nnetimes ended, were
penetrated tost summer h\ hug.
crews of soldiers and civilians hastdv
laying a govei nment railroad an.' pie
paring to got out spruce t*»i airplane.* |
".lasting aside rocks almo t mow
tainous in size and cutting thcr wa. i
into apparently primeval forest ot
hemlock and sp Uce. the ce\ s unde
general ehaige of Major Mott Sav
wer. 1’. S. A., hev.a d railr. ud rig
of way thirty - six mi s u ng, .
rails along twenty-two of the mi'“
and were almost ready to make thei“
first .*hipm. nt of spruce over the line |
when the aimistice terms were signed
Men and money were thrown into
the \v*»rk l<y the government in order
t > gel to what is said to be one ol th
finKt bodies of standing timber on the
continent. It has been esti mated th .
in the a on blocked out by army en
gineeis there are SOO.(MH),000 feet ol
spruce, probably the largest sing'
tract of spruce anywhere in the work!
Unofficial estimates place th*
amount of money spent by the govern
meat on the work at between foui an* •
five million <lollars. When the ta<!
was at its height 6,000 men wetv
employed, most of them soldiers o.
the spruce production division of the
signal corps.
Unprecedented progress was made
\
ay the railroad builders. At lirst tie
crows progressed about l»,00t) feet a '
d. \. later the cows made over t ***•
mile a day . Kail layipg frunirs fo -
lowed tue pioneers and. in plan .
>t,>o! was down on the graded rijjht •
way almost before the timber eutte. • i
veto out of the path. .Many difficul •
os were met. On one mile ot a nv« r .
canyon im>re than 100,000 cubic teet •
olid lock hml to be blown out of ti c
way. •
brigadier tSenera! I*rice 1*. bisqii*
who.-* head.juaiters are in Portland
Ore., and who had charge of tk
umy’s task in the Pacific northwest
t* getting out timber, spent a great
leal of time at the b:g job m ar hove
\ lew raiiroad town and one of th
mny towering mountains along tk<
ne have been named bisque afte*
tv* officer.
Tiie main lire <> the road start
bout t \«» mile* wp.v or Joyce, wide'
- west of here. The road runs in ;
ren**i;d • to !y diim-bon of a to
')*’>ti' ; • l ik 1 Pe asant. The line «*
ill >tami; • • ge. Ore humired an :
mile, of logging roads wou
danned to radiate from, the Lak
"•■*a ant teimums. tThe bisque end iv
•tin e I \ ith tin* Milwaukee Chi**r.
;o • ml St. lfau! Railroad.
Now that airplane spruce is no
•i v i needed by the armies ovc»*
a >. the road npiy be completed and
•s si to own up not only the yir.
ndeu- tracts but also a rich and \
en.* '\*e ayricultina) section. The cot:1
ry has possibilities abrny dairy in
and farminy lines. There are very !V
>f th. many rich valleys in the Olym
nics heiny cultivated. Plans call f<
he movement of 2.000.000 feet of loy
. da> ov-»r toe toad when it was run
day full blast.
X * definite unnounci mont has b*> »
made reyarcljny the future of tc
I
road. Possibly some of the bi^ trans
continental roads may take it over.
Lute di patches said the government
probably would complete it.
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PARIS , Jan., •"»— Fifty-dollurs
collected by a small tfroup of engin
eers employed by a copper company
at Valparaiso, Chile, for wounded Am
erican boys, came all tin* way to head
quarters of the M. C.A. in 1 ari•*
the other da\. and this is what hap
pened to it. F. C. Carter, chief of the
Y. M. C. A. overseas activities, gave
the money to his secretary telling her
to spend every cent of it on boys in a
certain hospital who needed some ex
tra comforts.
The . ecu tary and two other jrirls,
all in tit-’ uniform of the Y. M. C. A .
col’e ted a lot of the latest newspa)
os> and magazine from home,
b oupli up cigarettes, chewing
ei'.o olate, jam and a basket full .»f
fit i white «;• japes, and then, la«h n
way bcy< nd the limit of their ancieni,
e .. dro . o to the bi^- base hospital on
■':e'\voiId-famous rave track at Au
teuil just out. ide Paris, once the honv
of sport and now the home of a thou -
mi .• n re wounded American sol
diers.
Cig; el es were given to every iikui
•1 four wi rds, also a hox of niatehe *.
Com t le three girls went into the gas
wa d. where hoys are not allowed to
bacco i i any form until the gas is en
tirety i*u^ of their systems. Each <f
he o ho\ s was given chew ing gum.
and some of them were so glad to g«*
it that they actually cried. Others
weie not >o far down with the ravag
es m the attack and sang out glad i
“Unsays,*’ but there wasn’t a man in |
ha*, ward whose day was not nun to
•asicr hv the package of gum.
The giapes were taken into tin
ncdical w; rd, where fever patients
.vit«i pa: *h. d throats were relieved hv
whe M»oli:ig fruit. The jam was given
.ari »us mil es. for there was none Mo
nuch of it and not nearly enough for j
ill the Inr •«. The nurses take thes. 1
•tC. exit.-, and hide them under lock ,
md ke> la incir medicine chests. Ann
iow and then it is given to bed ridden ,
path nts whose appetites, as well a
heir tired bodies, need nursing.
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JAP TROOPS WITHDRAW
1 oklO, .Jan., •*»— It is stated hoioj
hat there will he a gradual with- ,
Irawal of Japanese troops from Sib. r
ia.
NOTICE OF SALE
in The District t ourt For The
l’erritory of Alaska,
Third Division.
The Haniman National Dank oi
Alaska, at Seward, a corporation
Plaintiff.
VS
Don Carlos Rrownell, as Kxecutoi
>f tin K tate of Don Carlos Drowned,
Deceased. Ada Waite Drowned (Alias
Ada M. J. Drowned, Don Carlo®
Drowned, Ada Lillian Drowned
French, John Fitzhugh French, Phillin
French and Dorothy French.
Defendants.
In and by virtue of a special Exe
cution issued out of the United States
District Court at Seward Alaska. ;n j
the above entitled cause, and date*
the 14th day of December, 11)18. I
have levied upon all the right, - tit i'
and interest of the defendants in and
to All the land embraced in U. S. Sur
vey No. 703, amended, situate near
Seward. Alaska, more particularly
bounded and described as follows:
Heginning at Corner No. 1, a slate
stone in place 8x4x3 feet, marked with
cross (X) at comer point and S-703,
Cor. 1 from which U.S. Location Mon
ument No. 72(» bears south (J degrees
45 minutes east one and sixty- sev
en- hundreths chains distant; thence
west twenty-two and seventy - threo
hundieths chains intersect line 2-3 and
4-1 of the Northern Light No.l and
the Northern Light No. (> lode claims.
respectively, Survey No. 1)81, at south
- . * *
eighteen minutes east five and three
-tenths chains from corners Nos H
and 4; forty chains to corner No 2, a
slatestone 24x14x12 inches, marked *S
703 Cor. 2, with mound of stone; then
ce >rth five and three-tenths chains (
EVERYTHING IN
THE DREG LINE.
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intersect Line 8-4 of said Northe* .1
Light No. 0 lode claim, at sou-.li
eighty-nine degrees, fifty-one minute
west seventeen and twenty-scven-hun
dreths chains 1'ioin corner No. 4; sev
enty - .‘even and thirty- five- 11 u..
drctiis chain; to coiner No ’> wo
mountain side and not cstahlisln..
thence east twelve chains
witness corner to said corner No.
a slatcstone, 11x11x10 inches; marki <i
VV. C. S-708, Cor. 8, with a mound -■
stone; forty chains to corner No. 1
greenstone Mix 12xt> inches, marked S
7 O’I Cor. 4; thence south forty-inn
and thii ty-two-hundreths chains i
Cor. No. 2 of the Northern Light No '
lode claim, said Survey No. DM, sw
eat \ t\.o and five hindreths chains to
.ornee No. 1 of said Northern Ligl
No. lo<le claim, also Cor. No. 4 o,
said Noithem Light Number one Lo<;»
Claim. and from corner No. 1 of sad
Northern Light No.lode claim corm
.no. 1 bears south eighty-nine degree . i
.* 1 minutes west nine and mno-hur '
ireths chains distant and from corm s
No. 4 coi ner No. 0 bears noith eig!*- i
ceen minutes west twenty-two and I
. eventy-thi oe -hundreths chains di •
taut, and from corner No. .’I corner No j
2 bears north eighty-nine degrees, j
.*>1 minutes east nine and nine-hun
.{reins chains distant; seventy-sec* .
and thirty '-five-humlreths chains
Cor No. 1. the place of beginning; e.%
pre-ssly excepting and excluding fro .
these presents all that poition of 11',
ground hereinbefore described, em
braced in said mining claim or Sum .
No. !»M, and all veins, lodes and Ie< (
gos throughout their entire depth, tl
tops or apexes of which lie inside
such excluded ground; the premis
herein granted containing two hun
dred sixty-seven and sixty-two Inn
dreths acres, according to the office1,
plat of the survey of the said land, n
turned to the General Land Office ! •
the Surveyor General.
Together with all and singular the ;
tenements, hereditaments and appur
tenances thereunto belonging, or in
anywiso appertaining.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that
I \ ill on Monday the 20th day of Jari
ura-y 1919 at 11, o’clock in the fore
noon of that day at the Office of the ;
United States Marshal at Seward
Alaska, sell all the right, title and in
terest of the defendants in the above
described real property, at Public
Auction to the highest and best bidde. j
for cash, to satisfy said Special Ex
ecution and accrued cost.
Dated at Seward Alaska this 19th ;
day of December, 1918. ^
E. R. Brenneman, United States
Marsha1. |
By Isaac Kvans Deputy,
first Pub., Dee., 20, 1018.
Last, Pub., Jan., 17, 1010.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
IN THE COMMISSIONER’S
COCRT EOR KENAI PRE
CINCT THIRD Jl’DICIAI.
DIVISION, TERRITORY Ol
ALASKA. IN PROBATE.
In the Mattel* of the Estate of Fred
A. Stienman, Deceased. Notice i.^
hereby given that Peter M. Ogle, ha.;
appointed administrator of the estate
of Fred A. Stienman, deceased, and to
the creditors of, and all persons hav
ing claims against the said deceased,
to present them with necessary vouch
ers, within six months after the first
publication of this notice, to the said
administrator at the office of S. 0.:
Morford, Seward, Alaska.
Peter M. Ogl^,
Administrator of Estate of
Fred A. Stienman, Deceased.
First Pub. Dec., 13, 1918.
Last Pub. Jan., 10, 1919.
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