MRS. STEEL, WIFE OF YUKON MINER,
TAKES POISON--W. H. TOLIN IS HELD
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SEATTLE, Monday, April 30. — Mrs. Steel, wife of
Lee Steel, owner of extensive properties in the Yukon,
took poison at her home in the presence of W. H. Tolin, a
Butte business man with whom she had l>een drinking.
Mrs. Steels condition is very critical. Tolin is being held
pending further investigation.
FIST FIGHT IN ARGENTINE CONGRESS
BUENOS AIRES, Monday, April 30.—The question
of Argentina’s attitude in the war was debated in a
stormy session in the national congress with the socialists,
during which several list tights occurred.
DUTCH SOCIALISTS APPEAL TO WORLD
STOCKHOLM. Monday, April 30.—The Dutch dele
gation to the socialist conference has addressed an appeal
to the socialists throughout the world, asking for support
and stating that they have started their labors at Stock
holm under great difficulties. _
All-Alaska News
Hobby Brown, a sawmill owner on
l>ime creek, near Nome, was tatally
injured on March ^‘*1 when one of his
legs was cut off by a saw in the mill.
As it was necessary to convey him to
Candle. 50 miles distant for medical
treatment, Leonard Sepaplas team ot
Siberian wolf dogs, winners for the
past two years of the Alaska Sweep
stakes races, were pressed into service
and the journey made over a heavy
trail in six hours.
A.
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A man by the name of Simpson is
reported in Fairbanks to have dis
covered a hitherto unknown hot
spring, on Martin creek, a tributary
of the south for of the C hena river.
The spring is twenty miles nearer to1
Fairbanks than are the old Big Chenaj
Hot Springs. . The discovery of the
spring was accidental, steam arising
• from the water attracting Simpson to I
the spot. Owing to the fact that it j
has never been discovered before by
the prospectors.ami trappers who fre
quent the country, the spring is be
hoved to have broken out lately.
• *. Walter Clarvi le. formerly manager
of the Koval Hotel at Ketchikan, re
i cently sent to Attorney Warder of
.that place a receipted bill showing
• that he had paid IS cents a nound for
4 Alaska humpback salmon cn the
i second of March in the Chicago fish j
market, this being the wholesale price
on that date.
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The Orphanage News Letter pub
lished at Wood island, states that the
little girl brought there from Seldovia
several months ago, and whose name
was unknown, has been discovered
through Marshal Cameron of Sel
dovia. to be Mamie Lowell, the daugh
ter of Billy Lowell of Seldovia. For
several months the little girl bore the
name of Seldovia Nameolf.
DRAUGHTSMAN IS
HELD REGARDING
STEALING PLANS
MARBLEHEAD, Mass., April 7.—
l’aul Conner, of Denver, Colo., form
erly employed as the draughtsman by
the Burgess Airplane company, en
gaged in the manufacture of airplane
for the allies, was arrested today
charged with the larcency of secret
plans from W. Starling Burgess,
president of the company. He was
held pending advices from the fed
eral authorities.
The company notified the police
that the plans disappeared shortly af
ter Conner left its employ. The police
say the plans were found at his home.
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NOW A PRISONER
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HAVERHILL, Muss, April 19.—j
A letter from Miss Pauline M. Jordan,
of this city, who went with a Rod
Cross party to Bucharest last Novem
ber, brought the information that she
had been imprisoned by the Germans.
She wrote that she had been placed in
a basement which was bitterly cold
and was provided with only a very lit
tle food.
Previous letters had told of Miss
l Jordan's escape to the Russian border
after the bombardment of Bucharest
and the place of her capture and im
prisonment was not made known in
her letter.
GRANDMOTHER
OF REVOLUTION
OUT OF EXILE!
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LONDON, April 11).—Telegraphic
communications from Petrograd, by
Reuter’s correspondent, says:
“Mme. Catherine Breshkovskaya,
‘grandmother of the Russian revolu-i
tion arrived here. She has been wel
comed by enormous enthusiastic
crowds.”
Mme. Breshkovskaya was recently
released from Siberia, after having I
spent forty-four years as a convict,'
prisoner and exile in Northern Asia.
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FORFEITURE—NOTICE
To M. IMHOFF, C. J. IMHOFF, A.
; M. IMHOFF, HARRY V. MILLER, H.
ID. THIELE, ESTATE OF H. 1).
(THIELE, Deceased, and AUGUST
| MELHORN, your respective heirs and
I assigns:
You are hereby notified and will
take notice that we, the subscribers,
H. P. Salisbury and A. A. Hein, have
expended, during the year 1914, the
sum of Three thousand, forty-six dol
lars and twenty ($3,046.20) cents,
during the year 1915, the sum of
Six hundred ($600.00) dollars, during
the year 1916, the sum of Two thou
sand, five hundred and sixteen dollars
and seventy (2,516.70) cents in labor
and improvements upon each of the
following described mining claims, to
wit: OPHIR QUARTZ MINING
CLAIM, COLUMBIA QUARTZ MIN
ING CLAIM, BESSY PLACER MIN
ING CLAIM, MILL SITE and WA
TER SITE OR LOCATION, all of
w'hich said claims are situated and lie
in the Moose Pass Mining District,
Kenai Recording District, Third Ju
dicial Division, Territory of Alaska.
The notices of location thereof are of
record in the office of the United
States Commissioner and District Re
corder for Kenai Recording Precinct
and District, at the Tow'n of Seward,
Territtory of Alaska, to which office
reference is hereby made for a more
particular description of said mining
properties. Said expenditures were
made for the purpose of holding pos
sessory rights and title to said min
ing claims under the provisions of
section twenty- three hundred and
twenty-four of the Revised Statutes
of tie United States and the amend
ments thereto, section one hundred
and thiry-six of the Compiled Laws ol
Alaska, 1913, and the Session Laws of
the Territory of Alaska, providing for
the annual labor upon mining claims.
If you fail and refuse or fail or re
fuse within ninety (90) days from the
personal service of this notice, if per
sonal service be had, or within ninety
(90) days after the publication of this
notice, to contribute your proportion
of such expenditure as a co-owner,
your respectice interest in and to said
mining claims, and each and every
one of them, will become the property
of the subscribers, who are your co
owners, and who have made the ex
penditures and improvements as
above-mentioned on said mining
claims, and each and every one of
them, pursuant to the provisions ot
the said statute, Compiled Law's and
Sessions Laws.
A. A. HEIN
H. P. SALISBURY.
First publication, March 21, 1917.
Last publication, May 23, 1917.
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ACREAGE—That is particularly suit
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ACREAGE—That is bound to in
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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, Geore 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
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. I). 1917, 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 ((J),
; 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
i town of Seward, and to continue Rail
road Avenue from its intersection
fith 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
said Street;
| mat unless you so appear anu 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
I 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 dam
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
1 be made by the court directing you
| and each of you to execute to plaintiff
j 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 tiie 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, Jud^e of the above entitled
court, this, the J6th day of February,
A. D. 1917.
ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk.
By ROBERT L. WEVER,
Deputy.
Date of first publication, March 5,
1917.
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