DECLARES PDG A
“SLACKER;" MAY
STDP THE FIGHT
Gov. Whitman Says Darcy
Should be Fighting
in the Trenches
ALBANY, Saturday, March —
Branding the pugilist Darcy, as a
“slacker,” who ought to be lighting in
the British ranks. Governor Whitman
declared yesterday th?»t the State
Athletic commission would prohibit
him from entering the ring at Madi
son Square Garden on Monday even
ing for his bout with Jack Dillon.
Darcy came here from Australia on
an oil tanker, but denied that he had
left that country to escape military
service. He recently signed for a
bout with Dillon for a $.“0,000 purse.
FATHER OF ATTY.
GENERAL OF ALASKA
DIES IN ALABAMA
JUNEAU. — (Special.) — Colonel
Melvin Grigsby, originator of the idea
of Rough Rider cavalry, frontiers
man, leading lawyer of South Dakota,
of which state he was a former At
torney General, former United States
district attorney of Alaska for the
second division, father of Attorney
General George B. Grigsby, of this
city, died on February 15 at Birming
ham, Alabama, aged 72 years, of
pneumonia. News of his death was
received the next day by Attorney
General Grigsby. Col. Grigsby was
enroute to Florida at the time of his
death, and his wife and son. John T.
Grigsby, were at the bedside when
death came.
WASHINGTON CADETS
TO DIG TRENCHES
EOR THE MOVIES
UNIVERSITY OF- WASHING
TOX, Saturday, March .*t. — One of
these fine, bright days the University
of Washington cadet corps will be
sent out upon the campus drill
grounds to march before all the Unit- j
ed States. A Pathe Feres camera will
catch the movements of the cadets as
they drill. The films will be shown as
part of a regular Pathe's Weekly pro
gram.
The engineering corps will dig
trenches under the direction of Wil
liam F. Allison, professor of highway
and municipal engineering at the uni
versity, and the other units will prob
ably give special exhibitions in their
lines. For several years the Pathe
camera men have filmed the cadets.
City Express meets all boats and
trains. Phone Maine 122.
Mail your letters at The Key.
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Mining Notes
Ole Berg returned on the Alaska
recently from a trip to boston, where
i he secured the necessary capital to
develop his copper property near
Strelna.
McDonald & Kapp are having a hy
1 draulic outfit freighted from Chitina
to Canyon creek, about 20 miles west
of Mier’s roadhouse, where they will
operate this summer on a group of
I
1 claims owned by Mier. Prospecting
; done last summer on this ground in
dicate that it will prove a very profit
able venture.
Information recently received from
tiie Tolstoi is to the effect that pay
has been found on a now creek. De
tails are lacking, but it is said that
three holes were sunk, and that $2.50
was taken from the bottom of one of
them. The creek is named Flat,
which is a tributary of Esperanto,
the latter being a tributary of Madi
son.
1’he Valdez creek horses, in charge
of L. S. Wickersham, returned to
Chitina on February 15 from the
creek, bringing with them the sleds
used last year. Extreme cold weath
er and many overflows on the Gulk
ana river made a trip a long and dif
ficult one. Several of the horses got
their feet and legs frozen, traveling
in the overflow, with the temperature
at fifty below. Under the direction of
N. I\ Sias, who has charge of the
transportation the company is now
freighting in the outfit for this year.
One hundred and fifty tons, of which
GO tons are railroad rails, used for
riffles in sluicing.
SUBPOENAS HERE
FOR STOKER CASE
Subpoenas have been received from
Yalaez by Deputy V. S. Marshal
Evans for witnesses who will be
summoned before the grand jury in
the case of Walter Stoker, held for
killing John Hendrickson ami shoot
ing E. K. Irving.
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REAL ESTATE AGENTS
Houses for Rent Rents Collected
Lots for Sale Large Listing
Phone Red 147 Seward, Alaska
Pete Jepson, a Ruby merchant
states that the coming season prom
ises to be one of the most profitable
one in the history of the camp.
Percy Sholto Douglas, Marquis of
(Jueensbury, of Dumfries, Scotland,
recently arrived in Ketchikan. He is
interested in mining property in that
vicinity
On March 17 the Ruby Derby will
be run as usual with prizes* of $225,
$175 and $75 to the winners of the
first, second and third places, respec
tively.
K. Anderson arrived at Fairbanks
recently from Hot Springs with his
dog team, and bringing Mrs. Cordelia
Karshaner as a passenger. He made
the trip in two days, the record for
the distance.
Wrapping a piece of cheese cloth
about his face and neck to protect
* him from the stinging blasts of the
, Taku wind, Elmer Peters, an employe
of the Treadwell company went to oil
the pumps near the Treadwell dock.
As the work required but a few min
utes he did not remove the cloth and
while oiling the shaft it caught and
wound up, dragging him down and
choking him. He attempted to reach
his knife to cut the cloth but before
accomplishing this he fainted. When
he came to he was lying on the lloor.
the rapidly revolving shaft having
worn the cloth in two. He was un
conscious about If) minutes.
Waterfill & Frazier whiskey at
The Branch.
FO R FEIT U R E—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., 1916, 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 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, at
pages 132 and 133, and Book 5 of Lo
cations at pages 45, 46 and 84 in the
office 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
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 miping claims during the
period ending the thirty-first day of
December, 1916.
If you la.iI 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,
“CliARA”, $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
Laws.
J. C. GILPATRICK.
First publication, Feb. 2, 1917.
Last publication, April 27, 1917.
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| WASHINGTON, Saturday, March j
| 3.—The senate late yesterday adopted j
ah amendment to the naval bill i
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Hay, including an appropriation of
$500,0000 to purchase the site.
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HOT WATER BAGS
FULL OF HOOTCH,
SEIZED BY COPS
SEATTLE, Saturday, Mar?h 3.—
The police seized 18 “hot water bags"
lilled with whisky yesterday, whi'h
were in the possession of A. J. Ellis
and T. J. Smith, Great Northern rail
road “spotters."
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