CHRISTENSEN
SAYS TOWN LOT
SALES NO MORE
Andrew Christensen, manager ot*
the land and industrial department of
the Alaskan Engineering Commission,
yesterday appeared before a joint
committee meeting to show why An
chorage, Nenana .and other towns
along the government railroad should
he supplied with tuuds by the terri
tory to support thoii schools, and in
the course of his statements to the,
committee he declared that the gov-1
eminent inteiuls t«• sell n«* more town
lots in Alaska as the work of railroad
construction is progressing so well
that the necessity for government
owned towns will soon pass. He also
sated that the drastic dry law enacted
for the territory removes one of the
reasons why the government desired!
to have complete control «*t the rail-1
road cities Christensen arrived on
the Northwestern to appear before
the committee. He stated to the com
mittee that the government has no
authority to tax th»* propert\ holders
of Anchorage or the other govern
ment-owned towns foi school ex
penses. they are assessed tor tiie
protection, sanitary improvements,
sidewalks and other necessities hut, it
is stated, such assessments were pro
vided for in the bargain with the gov
There is a Just
Price
Crescent
Baking
Powder
Is sold at a price that is a just
price. Just one price—One just
price. It saves the housewife
money. It fcives the housewife
perfect service.
AT A 1.1. CROCKPS
2’»c per Pound
( RKSC KM MFC. f O.
Seattle, Wash.
FOR ELI TUBE—NOTICE
To A. K. SPRAGUE, YOUK HEIRS
AND ASSIGNS.
Your are hereby notified and will
take notice that 1, the subscriber, J.
G. Gil pa trick, have expended during
the year A. D., 1916, the sum of One
hundred ($1UO.OU) dollars in labor and
improvements upon each of the fol- j
lowing described mining claims, to-:
wit: “MEAT IN THE POT,” i
“CLARA,” “OLYMPIA,” “SUMMIT,”
“LISBON” and “HATTY,” all of
which said claims are situated and lie
in the Moose Pass Mining District,
Kenai Recording District, Third Judi
cial Division, Territory of Alaska. The
notices of location thereof are of
record in Book One of Locations, at1
pages lo2 and 15d, and Book 5 of Lo-1
c ations at pages 45, 46 and 84 in the |
office of the United States Gommis-|
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
pose of holding possessory rights and
title 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
ing the sums required in each instance
to hold said mining claims during the
period ending the thirty-first day of
December, 1916.
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 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
1 ^iws.
J. C. GILPATRICK.
First publication, Feb. 2. 1917.
Last publication, April 27, 1917.
All-Alaska News
Stefan Tremba, who stabbed Ernest
Bonat to death at Tanana, will be
tried at the present session of court
i at Fairbanks.
Three Shetland ponies were recently
taken to Fairbanks from the outside
and made the trip in ffood shape.
The owners will experiment to see if
they can be used to replace dogs in
many instances where lifirht loads are
hauled.
Fair tank* fox ranchers are offer
i ing fifty cents each for rabbits for
fox feed. Ordinarily rabbits bring
from 10 to 25 cents each, but this
I |
year they are extremely scarce.
Townaite Manager Kuas, ol Ne
nana. has announced that he will soo.i
levy an assessment on the lots w!?hin
the townsite to recover about £<> 000
expended in improvemnts in the town.
Dr. and Mrs. E. M. Spauld'Tg are
erecting a hospital in the i I iow
creek section near Anchorage, where
the doctor is employed by sevnr.-.ll
companies to look after the 11 is andj
injuries of their employees.
Captain John Robinson, V0 years
old. and one of the early pioneers of
Alaska, coming north to Sitka in 1X11,
was instantly killed at Nome recent
ly while attempting to lower the mast
of the Elk. The mast fell striking
Robinson on the head and crushing
his skull. Deceased at one tinv* err
ed the rich “My Own" claim on Mc
Donald cioek.
The wrecking train on the >Pper
Uiver & Northwestern railroad net
with an accident in the yards at Cor
dova recently. While hoisting a heavy
load the boom became unbalanced an«
fell to the ground taking the engine i
with it. James Hennett, an cinp o. ee.
was badly burned about tV» head,
wrists and body and I.ars Salv/ sus
tained a sprained back.
\ number of (,'hatanika mining men
have formed a co-operative associa
tion for the purpose of prospecting in
Poker creek. PoKer creek comes into
t’hatanika river a few miles above the|
town and is now completely stakc.d.
Pay is reported to have been fuu ' l on
the creek in two chafts at a depth o!
iiS feet.
C aptain Smith, of the Pathfinder, •
reports that Turner, Young and Hen* i
sell, who have been at Galena bay for
several months past, arrived at El la
mar a few days ago, sate and >01 nd,
and in good health. Some uneas’ness
has been felt here concerning the j
safety of these men. as they had not
been heard from for some time, but
their safe arrival at Ellamar sets at
rest all fears for their safety. Dur
ing the cold snap of several weeks
ago Galena bay froze over and '.he ice
remained firm until a few days *»go,
preventing them from getting oot
with their boat.
The Cordova public school has an
enrollment of 75 pupils, 48 boys and
27 girls, and with a 94 per cent at
tendance.
While no liquor license has ever
been issued in the town of Tolstoi it
is said there is no difficulty in obtain
ing hootch there, and the authorities
are looking into the matter.
ernment, or commission, when the lots
were purchased.
It is calculated that the schools in
the government towns would require
17 thousand dollars from the ter
ritory. CThristensen made one of the
usual strong talks which made him
famous out west as the most success
ful of auctioneers.
MAN WHO FOUGHT
ON MONITOR DIES
SPOKANE, Wash.—(Special.)—C.
J. Freese, one of the last survivors of
the battle between the Monitor and
the Merrimac during the Civil war,
died recently at his home here, aged
To. Freese was born in Germany and
came to Americu in the ’50s. He
served through the Civil war with the
union naval forces.
Mai! your letters at The Key.
City Express meets all boats and
trains. Phone Maine 122.
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Andy's Express, phone Madison 14o.
Proof of labor blanks at the Gate
way.
I EFFORT IS BEING
MADE TO GET
i CHEAPER TOLLS
—
A telegram was sent yesterday
I by the News-Miner and Citizen (f air
banks), asking the officer in charge
of the telegraph system at Seattle to
grant a cheaper rate to Alaskan pa
pers. The wire reads:
“When war broke out Canada re
duced press tolls one-half. Please
call chief signal officer’s attention to I
this fact, and that war support in Al
aska is ‘high-headed’ by newspapers.
Also that increased telegraph service
is advisable and necessary to Alaska
papers. Now, that tolls are already
too high for Alaska newspapers and
that they cannot stand the increased
strain. Please endeavor to got us war
rate.
(Signed “News-Miner and Citizen.”
It is believed by the Fairbanks pa
pers that Alaskans generally are en
titled to more news and that it will
stir their patriotism to greater depths
to have all the news printed that im
possible. The assistance of the Fair
banks’ commercial club hits been se
cured, and it is believed that action
should be taken by other Alaskan
newspapers and commercial bodies at
once.
The complaint of the Fairbanks*
papers is a just one and their request
most worthy. During this '-risis and
the impending warfare with Germany
we certainly are entitled to know all
that is worth knowing.
To get very much news is expensive
and to get all the important news pro
hibitive. The Gateway has expressed
its support of the idea by wiring to
the officer in charge at Seattle, and it
has been brought to the attention of
the chamber of commerce.
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LOSER MUST NOT !
PAY FOR GAME OF
POOL IN MONTANA i
HKLKNA. Mont, March 8.—Cards
cannot ho played for drinks or cigars,
and at a jfamo of billiards it is
gambling; for the loser to pay for the
use of th“ table for the game, held
Attorney General S. C. l ord today in
construing two laws placed upon the
statute books by the fifteenth ass cm- j
bly. The opinion was rendered in
response to a query from County At
torney I’*. K. Burg of Stillwater
county.
If the laws are enforced, it is said,;
it will mean that all pool and billiard |
halls in the state will be put out of
business, social games of cards at
clubs cigar stores and saloons will be i
under the ban, and women who offer
prizes at card parties are subpect to !
prosecution.
Mining Notes
A correspondent concludes a letter
1
to the Nome Nugget about the Tolstoi
diggings as follows: “This is a typi
cal frontier camp—everything goes.
There are six women—two married,
I two of the soiled dove type, a merry
| widow and Lizzie, who helps in time
of trouble, is a good cook and drives
her own dog team. Although some of
the boys may spend $500 in a night
I and have a big head the next day, the
dry vote was large. We have never
yet had a light and only one man has
i lost money by theft. No arrests have
been made and there is no marshal.
! There have been two relocations for
■
failure to record the assessment work.
: Why can’t our laws be made so that
they can he understood? Tell Dun
and Frank to get busy. Make the
laws so plain that the hyphenates can
decipher enough of them so that they
| will not bother men who have com
plied with the laws.
H. L. Thane, manager of the Alaska
Gastineau Mining company, sailed re
cently for San Francisco and the east,
to be absent some time conferring
w ith his associates who have been ex- •
amining sundry mining properties on
the Pacific coast and British
Columbia.
It is reported that Steel and Ber-j
man have struck good pay on St.
Patrick creek, near Fairbanks. The
gold was found in a different locality
than that of previous strikes in that
district.
Representative Jos. Murray uses an
ink well made out of the ore of the
Bonanza copper mine. This well is of
nice design, well carved, and over
seventy per cent copper. Jewelry is
also made out of the ore, which is
black and takes a line polish.
Robert Nolan, superintendent for
Colonel W. L. Stevenson, is making
arrangements for freighting in a
quantity of tools and supplies to Por
; cupine and Rainy Hollow for Colonel
| Stevenson, who will develop the prop
erties recently purchased there on a
large scale.
The Glacier Mining company is
; making preparations to work its prop
erty near Haines on a large scale dur
ing the coming summer.
The Sea Level Mining company at
Chiekagof, operated by Fleming
Bros., on the west coast ol the island
has devloped a high grade deposit of
copper and nickel ore.
We carry Symphony I*wn Station*
ary the Seward Drug Company.
OyUer cocktails at the It ranch.
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Fresh red snapper, halibut and
: black cod at the Seward Fish Co.—
i Phone Madison 89. tf.
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Remodeling of ladies’ and gents’
! clothes, by a tailor, a specialty, next
to Alaska S. S. office. tf i
with friends and the folks at home by
sending them
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