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CAN IT BE?
Our contemporary at Valdez has scooped us on our
own story providing he has the facts.
In the issue of August 11th he publishes the follow
ing under the headline “Are We Bunked?":
“The news that Seward is to be the terminal ot the
government railroad and that Expert Meyer had advised
against making a harbor at the Cook Inlet town will be a
hard blow to those who have taken the government state
ment in good faith and invested huge sums in town lots
and substantial buildings there. \\ hile Anchorage is not
a winter port, it seems possible that with the exercise ot
the abundant ingenuity found in the cabinet that it might
be made a first-class summer port. It certainly should
not present the perplexities of the canal or the Mississippi
delta, and they were quickly overcome. Old Alaskans
have become gunshy over the alleged intentions of the
government to build a large city on the Inlet, or any other
part of Alaska for that matter, as there have been too
many evidences of land sharks and town lot boomers to
please the average man. Every elfort has been made to
induce persons to purchase town lots "from the govern
ment,” along the railroad line, and while no verbal prom
ises have been given as to the future of the lots, it is nat
ural that people would rush to buy anything with the
stamp of government approval. If Anchorage proves to
be a “come-on" port, established for the purpose of sell
ing tundra to suckers, it will hurt this territory immeas
urably. Both Seward and Anchorage have great natural
advantages and many claims for government patronage.
It is not out intent to present argument for or against
either town, but if the reports coming in from the west
ward are true, people who have invested in certain rail
road boom towns stand to lose a great deal of money, and
they were induced to invest this money by government
advertising.”
Now, wouldnt that rasp even a tougn-sKinnea oui
scribe?
Mr. Meyer, not the expert, but the assistant to Secre
tary Lane, who acknowledged that he lacked the knowl
edge and had come north accompanied by experts to ac
quire it, which we considered right handsome of him, said
nothing while in Seward to give anyone the impression
that any announcement either official or otherwise would
be made pending a report to his chief.
As to the blame for advertising and selling lots at
Anchorage, we worry a lot. No one can accuse us of help
ing Uncle Sam's agent to obtain any money under false
pretenses from the buyers.
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DRAFT WAS KNOWN TO MOSES
Registration for a selective draft was known thous
ands of years ago. The first chapter of Numbers tells
how Moses in the second year after the exodus from the
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land of Egypt was commanded to choose from the vari
ous tribes numerators to tabulate the names of the men
more than twenty years old, who were able to go to war.
“Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the chil
dren of Israel by their families, by their fathers’ houses,
according to the number of the names, every male by their
polls from twenty years of age and upward, all that are
able to go forth to war, thou and Aaron shall number
them by their hosts. And with you there shall be a man
of every tribe. (Here are mentioned the men who are to
assist in the registration.)
“And Moses and Aaron took these men that are men
tioned and they assembled all the congregation together
on the first day of the second month, and they declared
their pledges after their families by their fathers’ houses,
according to the number of the names from twenty years
old and upward.”—Ex.
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NOTICE OF TERM OF COURT AT
SEWARD, ALASKA.
IN THR DISTRICT COURT FOR
the Territory of Alaska, Third Di
vision.
The President of the United States of
America, to the Residents of the
Third Division of the Territory of
Alaska, and to all Whom It May
Concern:—Greeting:—
You and each of you will please take
notice that by an Order of the Court,
duly made and entered, a Special Term
ot the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division, has been
called and will be held in Seward,
Alaska, beginning on the tenth day of
August, 1917, and will continue as
long thereafter as the public welfare
may require.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this Cth
day of July, 1917.
FRED M. BROWN,
District Judge.
Attest: ARTHUR LANG, Clerk.
(Seal)
First Pub. July 10,1917—
Valdez, July 28, 1917.
The above term of court is hereby
postponed until the twentieth day of
August, 1917, at the hour of 10 o’clock
;n the forenoon.
F. M. BROWN,
District Judge.
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I CHARLES CRAWFORD
GENERAL BLACKSMITH
Horseshoeing Wheel wrigh ting
SKWAKD. ALASKA
No. 02763.
In the United States Land Office at
Juneau, Alaska, June 21, 1917.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
(That under and in pursuance of the
' Act of Congress of May 14, 1898, as
amended by the Act of Congress of
March 3, 1903, granting additional
land to soldiers and sailors who served
in the army and navy of the United
States during the Civil War, the un
dersigned, Kennecott Copper Corpor
ation, a corporation, the post office ad
dress and place of business of which
said corporation is at the Town of
Latouche, upon Latouche Island, in
the Territory of Alaska, has made ap
plication for a patent to a tract of land
situated upon the westerly side of
Latouche Island, in the Territory of
Alaska, containing 20.73 acres entered
in the United States Land Office at
Juneau, Alaska, under the serial num
ber 02763, and surveyed and platted
as United States Survey No. 713. The
said Kennecott Copper Corporation
has entered upon the said tract of land
as the assignee of Henry J. Engel 1,
who served in the army of the United
States during the Civil War, from Oc
tober 2, 1861, to October 10, 1864, in
Company “I,” 86th Regiment of New
York Volunteers, and who received an
honorable discharge from said ser
vice.
The said tract of land lies adjacent
to the Town of Latouche, which said
town lies upon the western side of
Latouche Island, in the Territory of
Alaska, and upon the easterly shore of
Latouche Passage, at Latitude GO de
grees 0.‘i minutes north, Longtitude
147 degrees 54 minutes 50 seconds
west, and the said tract is bounded
upon the most northerly end by the
Gravina lode mining claim, United
States Survey No. 782, and by the
White Wing lode mining claim, United
States Survey No. 782; upon the west
erly side by the Julia lode mining
claim, United States Survey No. 584,
and by the Creek lode mining claim,
United States Survey No. 584; upon
the southwesterly end by the Eagle
lode mining claim, United States Sur
vey No. 584, and upon the southeast
erly side by the Chinega lode mining
claim, United States Survey No. 584.
A more particular description of said
tract is as follows:
Beginning at Corner No. 1, from
which Corner No. 1 United States Lo
cation Monument No. 1 bears south 87
degrees 20 minutes west, 25.55 chains
distant, and from which Corner No.
1 Corner No. 4 of United States Non
Mineral Survey No. 712, concurrently
entered by the Kennecott Copper Cor
poration, as assignee of the aforesaid
Henry J. Engell, bears north 34 de
grees 29 minutes west, 4.22 chains dis
tant; thence south 27 degrees 57 min
utes west, 22.82 chains following the
southeasterly side line of Julia lode
mining claim, United States Survey
No. 584, and the northerly part of the
southeasterly side line of Creek lode
mining claim, United States Survey
No. 584, to Corner No. 2; thence south
62 degrees 03 minutes east, following
the northerly end line or boundary of
Eagle lode mining claim, United
States Survey No. 584, 9.09 chains to
Corner No. 3, the said point being
identical with the most northwesterly
corner of Big Bonanza lode mining
I claim, United States Survey No. 584,
and the most southwesterly corner of
Chinega lode mining claim, United
States Survey No. 584; thence north
27 degrees 57 minutes east, 22.81 Vs
chains to Corner No. 4, the said Cor
ner No. 4 being identical with the most
northwesterly corner of said Chinega
lode mining claim, United States Sur
vey No. 5$&; thence north 62 degrees
03 minutes west, following the most
southerly end lines of White Wing
lode mining claim, United States Sur
vey No. 782, and Gravina lode min
ing claim, United States Survey No.
782, a distance of 9.09 chains to the
place of beginning. Magnetic vari
ation, 26 degrees 30 minutes east.
The foregoing description by metes
and bounds is according to the official
plat and field notes on file in the office
of the Register of the Land Office at
Juneau, Alaska, a copy of which said
official plat is posted upon the land
with this notice of application for pat
ent
Date of posting this notice on the
land, June 14, 1917.
C. B. WALKER,
. Register.
First Pub. Aug. 8,1917.
Last Pub. Oct 18,1917.