FARCE FEATURE OF ALASKA NIGHT
-ARCTIC CLUB MEMBERS IN CAST
THK MISHKK
By Arthur l». Grindell
I’ve been up North since ’1*7,
Mushed around till 1911.
Dropped my roll.
Locating coal.
Now in the hole.
There’s none to sell.
They say back Hast where they run
the nation
Keep vour coal; we want conserva
tion.
Como away.
Let it stay.
Some other day
Ain't that h
Chorus
There’s enough coal in Alaska,
Hooray, hooray!
For any dime ti!l the end of time; j
So let’s get in and have it mined.
Away, away, away up in Alaska!
Away. away, away up in Alaska!
The farce. “The Bureau of Pro
crastination. department of Interfer
ed **. Washington, d. was staged
recently in the Arctic Club, and what
was called a farce b\ its authors,
Charles Kugene Banks and Richard
Seel ye Jones, w.is declared by those
present at the club’s observance of
Alaska night to be the literal truth
concerning the federal government’s
treatment of that territory.
Judge Charles K. Clay pool, repre
There is a Just !
Price
Crescent
Baking
Powder
Is sold at a price that is a lust
price. Just one price—One just
price. It saves the housewife
money. It gives the housewife
perfect service.
AT ALL GROCERS
2 V per Pound
CRESCENT MFC. CO.
Seattle, Wash.
FORFEITURE—NOTICE
To A F. SPRAGUE, YOUR HEIRS
AND ASSIGNS.
Your are hereby notified and will
take notice that 1, the subscriber, J.
C. Gilpatrick, have expended during
the year A. D., H>16, the sum of One
hundred ($100.00) dollars in labor and
improvements upon each of the fol
lowing described mining claims, to
wit: “MEAT IN THE POT,*’
“CLARA,” “OLYMPIA/* “SUMMIT,**
“LISBON** and “HATTY/* all of
which said claim* are situated and lie
in the Moose Pass Mining District,
Kenai Recording District, Third Judi
cial Division, Territory of Alaska. The
notices uf location thereof are of
record in Rook One of Locations, at
pages 122 and Uio, and Rook 5 of Lo
cutions at pages 4o, 46 and 84 in the
otfice of the United States Commis
sioner and District Recorder for Ke
nai Recording District and Precinct,
at the Town of Seward, Territory of
Alaska, to which book and pages ref
erence is hereby made for a more par
ticular description of said claim. Said
expenditures were made for the pur
Dose of holding possessory rights and
ntle to said mining claims under the
provisions of section twenty-three
hundred and twenty-four of the Re
vised Statutes of the United States
and the amendments thereto and the
Session Laws of the Territory of Al
aska, providing for the annual labor
upon mining claims, said amounts be-1
mg the sums required in each instance j
to hold said mining claims during the ;
period ending the thirty-first day of
December, 1916.
If you fail and reiuse or fail or re- j
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, J
your proportion being in the total the
sum of Two hundred and eight dol
lars and thirty-two ($208.32) cents,
made up of the following amounts to
wit: ‘MEAT IN THE POT” $50.00.
“CLARA”, $25.00. “OLYMPIA/*
$33*33, “SUMMIT.” $33.33, “LIS
BON.” $33.33, and “HATTIE,”
$33.33, your respective interests in
and to said mining claims, and each
and every one of them, will become
the property of the subscriber, who is
your co-owner, and who has made the
expenditures and improvements as
above mentioned on said mining
claims, and each and every one. of
them, pursuant to the provisions of;
the said statute and the said Session
141WS.
J. C. GILPATRICK.
First publication, F ®b. 2, 1917.
Laat publication. April 27, 1917,
sented the chief clerk of the depart
ment of procrastination, aod Fred
Johnston, the under clerk The re
mainder of the cast and the periods <
covered follows:
1904, Clarence Cunningham. George j
H. Boucher, 1905, Gifford Pinchot,
Maurice 1). Leehcy; 1900, Theodore
Roosevelt, Cassius K. Gates; 1907,
Thomas P. McDonald, a real miner, H.
W. Moulton; 1908, l/ouis R. Gluvis,;
chief of field division, Joe Sullingei;
1909, Norman Hapgood, of Collier s
Weekly, James C. Gaffney; 1910, An
drew Christensen, an investigate;
George Murphy; 1911, Secretary
Walter L. Fisher, of the interior,
Robert H. Armstrong; 1912, Mr.
Whorf, honest coal claimant, Ivan L.
Hyland; 1911?, John D. Rockefeller,
an oil baron, Bert R. Meyers; 1914,
Congressman Lenroot, Robert S.
Terhune; 1915, Commissioner Tail
man. Ross McDonald; 1910, Chair
man Kdes, George McK. McClellan;
1917, Dr. Alfred Brooks, United
States geological survey, Judd Klliott;
Means, Riggs, Alaska railroad com
mission; quartet of singers, costumed
as prospectors (sourdoughs).
Sarts With Coal Discovery
Hu' farce began with the entry of
l>r. Alfred Brooks, of the United
States geological survey, to repoil as
to the coal fields of Alaska after
the awakening from his year’s sleep
of Chief Clerk Claypool and after
the latter’s refusal to accept an invi
tation to play golf that the work of
the bureau of procrastination might;
not be needlessly delayed.
Ivan L. Hyland’s representation of
Mr. Whorf, a sourdough and honest
claimant, and Bert R. Meyers’ repre
sentation of John l>. Rockefeller, both
in costume, brought down the house.
Chief Clerk Cluypool’s answer to
nearly all his callers, “The mutter will
receive our prompt and immediate at
tention,” never lo>t interest among
his hearers during the entire pre
sentation. Maurice 1). Leehey, who
placed tlie role of Gifford Pinehot,!
“simon pure conservationist, 24-carat j
refined and undefiled.” also made a!
big hit. j
May Be Given to Public
The presentation proved such a suc
cess that Alaskans urged a furher
public presentation of the farce wnth
all tlie characters fittingly costumed.
The singing which accompanied the
farce, and comprised hits on govern
ment agents, was rendered by the
Knickerbocker quartet.
Prior to the presentation, addresses
were made by l)r. Dorsey A. Lyon, di
rector of the United States bureau of
mines of the University of Washing
ton: Col. II. F. Millard, of Valdez, Al
aska. and William Martin.
A buffet luncheon was served after
the presentation of the farce. The
affair, which was the first formal one
held by the club in its new quarters,
was attended by the largest number
of Alaskans seen in Seattle for a long
time, and was in charge of the enter
tainment committee of the club, con
sisting of F. J. .Johnston, chairman;
R. H. Armstrong, vice chairman;
Charles R. Brown, K. P. Clark, Miller
Freeman, W. C Henry, R. J. Kinnear,
H. W. Moulton, J. W. Merriman, R.
D. Pineo, Charles E. Clay pool, M. J.
Falkenberg, Maurice D. Leehey, J. L.
McPherson and W. T. Perkins.
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EYELESS POTATOES
APPEAR ON MARKET
PORTLAND.—(Special.)— Eyelesa
potatoes are the latest commodity on
the market in certain east side stores,
according to information brought to
the city hall today by Commissioner
Bifcelow.
Th spuds are not eyeless because
they are of the eyeless variety, for
they had perfectly £ood eyes at one
time. Somebody has cut out the
eyes of the potatoes and used them
for seed and placed the main part of j
the potatoes on the market for tood. j
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Andy’s Express, phone Madison 143.)
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Proof of labor blanks at the Gate- j
ir ay.
Milling Notes
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F, H. Andrews, of Moose creek, has
some likely looking property on
Craigy creek, in the neighoborhood of
the Gold Bullion, and expects to re
sume operations as soon as the sea
son opens.—Anchorage Times.
It is said to be practically certain
that the amount sought by the Nome
chamber of commerce to secure a co
operative diamond drill will be guar
anteed by Nome mining and business
men.
Carl Seleniua, Swanto and Karl
Kemp are reported to have struck
fair pay on Raymond claim, Center
creek. This claim adjoins the Cebu
fraction, on which the laymen Aspila
and Nicko, are rigging up a tripod
and hoist.
Pete Rass reached bedrock at a
depth of 1(>2 feet on his ground on
Derby creek, near Nome. He has not
decided yet if he will do any drifting
after the elusive paystreak.
Hed brothers on Holyoke, in the
Nome district have completed install
ing their self dumper and are prepar
ing to work on a larger scale. They
recently hauled out another house to
their claim.
Thos. McLoughlin and Frank
Friedle have left for McDougal. They
recently secured some valuable prop
erty in the Cache creek district and
will spend the summer in working the
claims.
The report of the new strike on Dis
appointment creek in the .Marshall
district as published in the Industrial
Worker at Nome recently, has excited
considerable interest and bids fair to
cause a later exodus from this camp
to the now one.
Thomas Hlukney, "ho is superin
tending the development of the liua
property on Knight island, states that
he has completed the work of install
ing the power plant and compressor
and will immediately start in the
work of development on a large scale.
This property is generally conceded to
be an extremely valuable one, con
sisting of an immense deposit of rath
er low grade copper ore, that can be j
mined at an extremly low cost.
The miners on the submarine |
bench have been quietly getting in.
line on the new channel which was!
first struck by Mebes and company. |
There are three feet of low grade dirt, j
the best of it is not over three cents j
on an average, and it is located in
gravel under a clay bank, the gravel j
resting on true bed rock. The pay.
low grade as it is, is sufficiently ex-;
tensive to warrant profitable exploits- j
tion. Now not less than six outfits
are either lined up on the pay or are
sinking with a view of doing so. Thej
latest to join the submariners is An-,
derson & Co., who recently moved in
from the Cyrus Noble bench.
City Express meets all boats and
trains. Phone Maine 122.
ENDEAVOR MADE
TO LAND TRADE
IN HARDWARE
Because Germany, Holland, Den
mark, Norway and Sweden will all be
under the necessity of restocking with1
hardware when the war is over, the
bureau of foreign and domestic com
merce ,of the department of com
merce, has just published a report on
the character of goods required in
those countries and the possibilities
of getting some of the business for
American manufacturers.
Before the war Germany was able
not only to supply domestic demands
for hardware, but to carry on a most
f flourishing foreign trade. The prob
abilities are that, with the exception
of a few lines that America has al
ways supplied she will again be able
to supply her own markets when the
war is over. The Scandinavian coun
tries, however, which have always
purchased certain lines of hardware,
in the United States, will be promis
ing fields for pushing American trade.
The report is made up of discussions
of general conditions governing the
hardware trade of each of the coun
tries mentioned and of detailed des
criptions of each article successfully
sold in the markets.
In connection with the investigation
by tin* American commercial attache 1
at Berlin, upon which the report is
based, an extensive collection of
samples was purchased. These
samples will be exhibited in the prin
cipal manufacturing centers of this
country and then added to the
bureau’s permanent exhibit at the
New York customhouse.
The new report is entitled “Markets
for American Hardware in Germany,
The Netherlands, and Scandinavia,”
Miscellaneous Series No. 4S. It con
tains 126 pages and may be purchased
for the nominal price of 15 cents from
the superintendent of documents,
Washington, or from any district ol-(
fice of the bureau of foreign and do
mestic commerce.
We carry Symphony Lawn Station
ary the Seward Drug Company.
OyU*'r cocktails at the Branch.
Fresh ml snapper, halibut and
black cod at the Seward Fish Co.—,
Phone Madison 89. tf.
Remodeling of ladies' and gents’
clothes, by a tailor, a specialty, next
to Alaska S. S. office. tf
Jacob Phile has returned to the city!
and will open the Alaska Harness & ■
Shoe Repair Shop Monday, April 2, j
in the former location, Washington
street, between Broadway and Third
avenue. 3-31—f>t
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