REPORT SHOWS
GERMAN BIRTH
RATE FALLING
COPENHAGEN, Wednesday, June
13.—'The immense decline in the Ger
man birth rate due to the war con
tinues to produce disquietude among
German socio^gists. Official statis
tics of the imperial health bureau for
cities with populations of 15.000 and
over and 200,000 and over show a
further heavy decline in the birth rate
of 1916, as compared with that in
1915, which itself was some 20 per
cent below that of 1914.
Twenty-six German cities in the
class of population of 200.000 and over
report a decrease of 98.093 births, or
28 per cent, as contrasted with the
number of children born in 1914, while
the percentage in all cities with popu
lations of 15,000 and over is slightly
higher, namely 39 1-2 per cent.
The decrease in births was accom
panied by a corresponding fall in the
death rate of infants under 1 year old,
which was 13.3 per cent per hundred
births.
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All-Alaska News
Delegate Charles A. Sulzer has
nominated Dennis E. Sutphen of
Ketchikan as a candidate for admis
sion to the U. S. naval academy. The
examination takes place June 27.
T. D. Shelton and a crew of two
men, left Douglas recently on a hali-!
but fishing trip and after an absence
of a week returned with 12,000 pounds
of fish valued at between $1,000 and
$1200.
Jerry Murphy, editor of the Week-;
ly Democrat, of Anchorage, went
through on the Admiral Watson for
Seattle en route to Minneapolis in re
sponse to a telegram announcing that
his brother. John S. Murphy, was very
aick at that place.
IN PROBATE COURT
ADMINISTRATORS 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 ag'tir.st said
estate ar3 notified to present them to
me, at the offite • f I. Lindley Greer,
over Bank of Sewatd, within six
months frvn the ('ate of the first pub
lication of this notice
Date of first publication June 8th,
1917.
RADONA MILOSIVICH,
Adrr.iuistrator.
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(we do not pack a hundred pounds
in three boxes), and you will then
understand why our service to
Alaska purchasers (where the dis
tance from shipping point makes
absolute correctness in filling or
ders so vitally imporatnt) is fam
ous all over that territory.
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We have been here 10 years.
SHIP BUILDING
REACHES HIGH
MARK IN U. S.I
WASHINGTON, June 13.—There
are 161) steel ships of 1,024,000 aggre
gate tonnage, building here for Eng
land, at $170 to $200 a ton, and 64 for
other foreign nations. General Coe
thals has placed contracts so far for
214,000 tons, and Chairman Denman
of the shipping board for 72,000 tons.
The board purposes to spend $450,000,
000 to build 3,000,000 and commandeer
more than 1,000,000 tons. The cost of
ship construction to the government
is placed at $135 a ton for wooden
ships and $153 for steel ships. The
shipbuilding yards of the country have
a capacity of 5,000,000 tons and are
producing at the rate of 1,500,000 tons.
PUT AMERICANS
AT FRONT UNDER
FLAG HIS PLAN
—
LONDON, Wednesday, June 13.
Lieutenant Colonel C. Seymour Bul
lock, of the Canadian army, former
Ch cago clergyman, 1: t» completed
organization plans for a first all
Anurran army, to be formed in Eng
land to fight under the Stars and
Stripes in France.
If congress will accept this means
of speedily placing the flag in the
trenches, the force will be constituted
as a unit of the United States army,
with a strength of 10,000 seasoned
American officers and men who have
already been in service on the British
front. It is hoped to add to the
strength at least 2,000 mere from the
r. population of CLtac Britain
and France.
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The Idaho rooming house at Juneau
was recently damaged by fire to the
extent of $3000.
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If your sweet tooth is your wisdom
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Oyster cocktails at The Branch.
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“Stand the Gaff for any use you put them to. Built
in all sizes, from 1 to 7^2 tons, they offer you just
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Mack Trucks are practical trucks, built to
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AMERICA NOW
DECADENT OR
FULL OF ILLS
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, June
I.'!.—A careful examination of the
registration returns show that nearly
fifty per cent of those registering
Tuesday will be exempt on some cause
or other.
The officials on the registration
boards report that America is either
a decadent nation or the persons who
signed the roster are afflicted with a
multiplicity of diseases. A careful
medical examination will be made of
every person so as to allow no slack
ers to get by on the plea of physical
ailments.
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Cheer Up Folks
THERE'S MORE IN THE KITCHEN
A Very Good Reason
During the lesson one afternoon a
violent thunder storm arose, and to
lessen the fright of the children the
teacher began telling of the wonders
of the elements.
“And now, Jimmy,” she asked, “why.
is it that lightning never strikes twice
in the same place?”
“Because,” said Jimmy, confidently,
“after it hits once the same place
ain’t there any more.”
Illustrating the Idea
A school inspector was examining a
class in grammar, and trying to eluci
date the complex relations of adjec
itves and nouns by a telling example.
“Now, for instance,” said he, “what
am I,”
That was an easy question and all
the children shouted:
“A man.” and then looked around
triumphantly.
“Yes, but what else?” said the in
spector.
This was not so easy, but after a
I pause a boy ventured to suggest:
j “A little man.”
“Yes, but there is something more
than that.”
This was a poser, but at last an in
fant phenomenon almost leaped from
his seat in his eagerness and cried:
“Please, sir, I know, sir—an ugly
, little man.”
FORFEITURE—NOTICE
—❖—
To M. IMHOFF, C. J. IMHOFF, A.
M. IMHOFF, HARRY V. MILLER, H.
D. THIELE, ESTATE OF H. D.
THIELE, Deceased, and AUGUST
MELHORN, your respective heirs and
assigns:
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 nrovisions 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 causo, Geore Turner, 0. G. Lab
aree and Alexander Bradford,
GREETING:
You, 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 after the completion of
the period of publication of this sum
mons, to-wit: within thirty days after
the fourth day of May A. D. l‘J17, 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 (6),
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 aDove 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 or 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, Jud^e of the above entitled
court, this, the T6th daj of February,
A. D. 1917.
ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk.
By ROBERT L. WEVER,
Deputy.
Date of first publication, March f\
11917.
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