BANK AT RUBY
OPENED JUNE 1
RUBY, May 5.—A. J. Day is pre
paring for a banking enterprise to be
ready for business on June 1. with a
capital of $25,000, to be incorporated
under the name “Bank of Ruby.” He
anticipates the arrival of his charter
about May 25.
A building is to be erected on
Front street at the junction of the
government highway, which is to be
thirty feet by thirty-nine feet, said
building to be used for general barr
ing purposes as well as a residence
for Mr. and Mrs. Day, the latter of
whom is expected to arrive in Ruby
on the first boat.
Building paper and flooring are to
arrive from Fairbanks shortly, and
the office fixtures and stationery are
coming from the Outside.
The Bank of Ruby will be organized
with Volney Richmond as president
and A. J. Day as vice president and
cashier. The directors are to be W.
H. Fairbanks, Volney Richmond, F. H.
Hamilton and A. J. Day.
The Outside correspondent will be
the Bank of California, which has
offices in San Francisco, Tacoma and
Portland, where drafts drawn on the
Bank of Ruby will be honored.—Rec
ord Citizen.
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CITATION TO HEIRS AND ALL
INTERESTED PARTIES
In the Probate Court for the Kenai
Precinct, Third Division, Territory
of Alaska.
In the matter of the Estate of Anna
Ximmo, Deceased.
—
It appearing to this Court by the
petition for Order of Sale of real
property, filed herein on the 17th day
of May, 1917, by Leon C. Booker, ad
ministrator of the Estate of Anna
Ximmo, deceased, that it is necessary
to sell all of the real estate of said
decedant in order to pay her debts and
the expenses and charges of adminis
tration; therefore,
IT IS ORDERED that all persons!
interested in the said estate appear
before this Court on Wednesday, the
25tn day of July, 1917, at the hour of
two o’clock. P. M., on the aforesaid
day in the court room of this court,
in the town of Seward, Alaska, and
show cause, if any cause there be, why
an order should not be* granted said
administrator, authorizing him to sell
said real estate for the purposes afore
said; and it is further
ORDERED that a copy of this Or
der be published once a week for a
period of four successive weeks in the
Seward Gateway, a newspaper of gen
eral circulation, published at Seward,
Alaska, and the one most likely to give
notice to all parties interested in this
cause; and it is further
ORDERED, that a copy of this Ci
tation shall be posted at three public
places within Kenai Precinct, one of
which three places shall be the U. S.
postoffice in the town of Seward,
Alaska.
WITNESS MY HAND and official
seal this 19th day of June, 1917.
(SEAL) FRANK G. ENNIS,
U. S. Commissioner and Ex-officio
Judge of Probate.
Jun-19-26—Ju.-3-10-17l24.
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of all kiods, lighting outfits, oils
and greases, batteries, carburet
ers, tanks, steering wheels,
whistles, rowboat motors, fire
extinguishers, piston rings of all
sizes and the other common gas
engiue ane taunch accessories.
We will secure for you at reg
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. S. V. B MILLER
72 Marlon 3t., Seattle
REGISTRATION
BLANKS SHOULD
. BE HERE SOON
JUNEAU. — (By mail.) — W. W.
Shorthill, secretary to the governor,
has been forwarding registration
forms, recently received from the war
department to the mayors, city clerks
and health officers in the municipal
ities of every Alaskan city and to the
marshals, clerks of the court and as
sistant health officers in each of the
four judicial divisions, which otficials
have been designated by the governor
to act as registration officers under
the act of congress, approved by the
president May IN 11)17, entitled “An
Act to authorize the president to in
crease temporarily the military estab
lishment of the United States.”
The forms consist of a registration
card upon which the eligible writes
name, home address, date of birth,
whether natural born or naturalized
citizen or alien, where born, occupa-;
tion, by whom employed, where em
ployed. names of those dependent upon
the person registering, whether mar
ried or single, what military service,
if any, the person registering has had,
and whether or not exemption is
claimed on any specific grounds. On
the back of this card the registrar fills
in certain details as to height, build,
color of eyes, physical defects, etc.
There is provided a registration certi
ficate which the registrar issues.
Copies of the act, a thirty-page
pamphlet of registration regulations
and large printed directions “How to
answer questions on registration
cards” are being mailed with the cards
and certificates throughout the Ter
ritory.
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Dr. II. C. DeVighne, of Juneau, has
been commissioned a first lieutenant
in the U. S. army medical corps.
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Twenty-two Scotch girls came north
from Seattle recently on the Despatch
to work in the plant of the Alaska
Herring Sardine company at Port
Walter.
J. f. Ward, a Glacier Point rancher
near Skagway, is authority for the
statement that (>00 bushels of potatoes
were grown on an acre of ground :.1
Glacier point l:^>t year.
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The new cannery of the \ aide/.
Packing company steamed up the
fore part of the week and saluted the
people of the city by blowing its
whistle long and loudly. The ma
chinery is now in place, the boats and
crews on hand and the manager is pa
tiently awaiting the arrival of the
first run of salmon.
Plans have been completed for the
erection of a Parochial school and
parish hall at Juneau by the Catho
lics of that place. The building con
templated will be a two-story and
basement structure with every mod
ern convenience pertaining to an up-«
to-date school building.
Fire of unknown origin, but believed
to have arisen from a short circuiting
of electric wires, gutted the Fairview
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hotel at Fairbanks recently, causing
a loss of about $15,000 which was par
tially covered by insurance.
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IN PROBATE COURT
ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE TO
CREDITORS
All creditors of the estate of Bob
Labich, deceased, are hereby notified
that I, Radona Milosivich, have been
duly appointed administrator of the
estate of Bob Labich, deceased, and
all persons having claims against said
estate ars notified to present them to
me, at the office • f I. Lindley Greer,
over BanK of Sewatd, within six
months from the date of the first pub
lication of this notice
Date of first publication June 8th.
1D17.
RADONA MILOSIVICH,
Administrator.
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FORFEITURE—NOTICE
To M. IMHOFF, C. J. IMHOFF, A.
M. IMHOFF, HARRY V. MILLER, H. i
D. THIELE, ESTATE OF H. D.
THIELE, Deceased, and AUGUST
MELHORN, your respective heirs and
assigns:
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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
which 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 Town 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 the United States and the amend
ments thereto, section one hundred
and thiry-six of the Compiled Laws of
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 of
the said statute, Compiled Laws and
Sessions Laws.
A. A. HEIN
H. P. SALISBURY.
First publication, March 21, 1917.
Last publication, May 23, 1917.
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:
Y'ou, 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 alter the completion of
the period of publication of this sum
mons, to-wit: within thirty days after
the fourth day of May A. D. PJ17, 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
(G), 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
'ith 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;
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 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
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, Juci^e of the above entitled
court, this, the 26th day of February,
A. D. 1917.
ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk.
By ROBERT L. WEVER,
Deputy.
Date of first publication, March F\
1917.
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