SHI EST TOWN HU
The Stuart (Fla.) Daily News
again comes forward with the
claim that it is the smallest-town
daily in these United States. The
claim now is based on the devel
opments of the 1930 census, which
gives Stuart a population of 2.004.
Several months ago when this
paper asked for information on
this subject we made an investi
gation which showed that several
other towns with smaller popula
tions have dailies.
Now the census has taken two
or three of these out of the small
er-town class because of the large
increases n population, and the
LEGAL NOTICE
CALL FOR BIDS FOR OPERATION
OF VESSEL ALONG COAST OF
COOK INLET—SEASONS OF 1931
AND 1932.
Telegraphic or written bids or
offers for subsidy provided by the
Tenth Alaska Legislature will be
received at the office of the Gov
ernor of Alaska, Juneau, up to
noon, June 3, 1931, for the op
eration of a vessel of American
Registry and shown on U. S. Cus
tom’s House records to be not less
than 60 feet in length, not less
than 40 tons gross capacity with
a passenger carrying capacity of
not less than twenty-five (25)
persons, and berth accommoda
tions for at least sixteen (16)
persons, and of a maximum speed
of not less than eight (8) miles
per hour; from Anchorage to
Seward, along the coast of Cook
Inlet, touching on each trip at
Kenai, Kasiloff, Ninilchik, Homer,
Seldovia, Port Chatham and Sew
ard and returning from Seward
via Port Chatham Iliamna, Snug
Harbor, Seldovia, Kasiloff, Kenai
and thence to Anchorage artd
make regular stated trips not
less than once in fifteen <16) days
when navigation is open in the
above mentioned waters, as a com
mon carrier of freight and pas
sengers.
The law appropriates the sum of
Seven Thousand Five Hundred
Dollars ($7,500.00) and provides
that not more than Three Thous
and Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars
($3,750.00) shall be expended dur
ing any one year, and defines the
open season to be from May 1st
to November 1st; the amount ol
the subsidy will be computed froir
the time the successful bidder be
gins the service and pro-rated ac
cording to trips. Bids must state
proposal for complete round trip
and include a complete descrip
tion of boat.
Bidders will be required to ac
company bids with a tariff oi
freight and passenger rates (whicl
shall be reasonable and subjec
to approval by the Governor) anc
from which there shall be no var
iation if bid is accepted.
The contractor will be required
at the close of the season, t<
make a report, under oath, to ac
company his claim for subsidy
giving the following information
(a) Tariff sheet of freight anc
passenger rates for the route cov
ered; (b) Total tonnage and tota
number of passengers carried; (c
Gross earnings from passenger
freight and mail service rendered
segregating the same according t<
the three classes here mentioned
(d) statement in detail of all ex
penses incurred and on wrhat ac
count; the names and addresse
of all persons employed, and th<
gross earnings and gross expense
of the route covered.
Contract will be entered inti
immediately upon the award t<
the successful bidder, who mus
be prepared to furnish a bom
acceptable to the Governor in ai
amount equal to 50% of tli
amount of the bid.
The right is reserved to rejec
any and all bids.
GEO. A. PARKS
May 11, 1S31. Governor
Pnh Dates Mav 15. 16. 18. 1931.
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Seward (Alaska) Daily Gateway is
the only daily paper admittedly i
published in a smaller town than
Stuart, and with the Siskiyou (Al
aska) Daily News as its close rival
with a town of 1,123. The Corry
(Pa.) Evening Journal, which last
year held the palm with a town
population of less than 1,000, is
now credited with a city popula
tion of 7,338.—Inland Printer.
ENGLISH YOUTH LEADS
PUF16T01NIIMENT
SOUTHPORT, England, May 18.
(/P)_Four Americans qualified for
the $7,500 professional golf tourna
ment. The top score was turned
in by Joe Tumesa, who shot 142.
Other survivors and scores were:
Horton Smith, 149; Tony Manero,
155, and Joe Kirkwood, 156. Tur
hesa and Smith shot 69 each in
the second round.
Len Holland, English youth, had
141 to lead the field.
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A DIRTY STUNT
i EL PASO, Tex., May 18. (/P)—
1 Three bandits robbed the First
i National Bank at Santa Rosa, N.
| M., of $6,000 and fled in an auto,
i said State telephone advices to
’the Federal Reserve Branch Bank
here. As the bandits fled they
threw roofing nails in the road
to hinder pursuit.
EARL VISITS SPEAKEASIES
LONDON, May 18. (/P)—While in
New York, the Earl of Beauchamp,
Chancellor of the University of
London, admitted he visited and
drank at speakeasies. “I was do
ing what every self-respecting
Englishman, wrho like to drink
now and again, was doing every
day,” he said.
TO TRY FOR LONG DISTANCE
LONDON, May 18. {&)—A giant
monoplane, with a span of 90 feet
and 1,000 gallons of gasoline ca
pacity, is nearly ready for an air
attack on the world’s long dis
tance flying record of 4,912 miles
set by Coste arid Bellonte on a
non-stop Paris to China hop.
GANDHI HAILED .
SIMLA, India, May 18. (/P)—Ma
hatma Gandhi was hailed by
! thousands of fugged Indians from
the hills when he arrived here
for a series of meetings with
| Viceroy Lord Willingdon in con
! nection with the forthcoming
j second round table conference in
London.
| BIRTH CONTROL
j NEW YORK, May 18. (/P)—A
j country-wide referendum on birth
j control in Congregational church
| es was proposed at the New York
convention of that denomination.
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FEARS RUMANIAN REVOLT ]
NEW YORK, May 18. (/P)—Korn- j
rad Berovichi, author and arch:
critic of Rumania predicted a rev- j
olution of throwing the republic, j
if King Carol remains on the !
throne.
WIFE SHOOTS SELF
LOS ANGELES, May 18. (/P)—1
When her husband complained i
about her cooking before a guest, j
Mrs. Eleanor Fisher told him to i
apologize or she would kill her- ;
self. Fisher refused. His wife
kept her word.
UNDERGOES OPERATION
LOS ANGELES, May 18. (A3)—
Enrico Caruso, son of the late
singer, underwent an operation for
appendicitis. He will leave the
hospital in three weeks to resume
voice study under Adolfo Huerta,
former President of Mexico.
LEGAL NOTICE i
IN THE UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE
FOR THE JUNEAU LAND DISTRICT. I
AT ANCHORAGE. ALASKA.
In the Matter of the Application of
CROSBY FISHERIES INCORPORATED. A
corporation, for soldiers' additional home
stead embraced in U. S. Survey No. 1826.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR PATENT
SERIAL NO. 06981 .
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That Cros- |
by Fisheries Incorporated, a corporation or- ]
ganized under the laws of the State of
Washington, and doing business in Alaska,
has filed application Serial No. 06981 for '
patent under Sections 2306 and 2307 Revised \
Statutes of the United States for a tract
of land embraced in U. S. Official Survey
No. 1826, and situated on the south shor-j
of Zacher Bay, west side of Kodiak Island.
Alaska, in latitude 67 deg. 32 min. 00 sec.
N. and longitude 153 deg. 46 min. 20 sec.
W., and more particularly described in the
field notes and plat thereof, and containing
an area of 9.39 acres. Corner No. 1 of said
survey is situated at a point on Zacher Bay
from whence U. S. L. M. No. 1826 bears
south 86 deg. 59 min. 01 sec. E 8.17 chains
distant.
Any and all persons claiming adversely
any of the above describe* land should file
their adverse claims with the register of
the United States Land Office at Anch
orage, Alaska, within the period of publica
tion or thirty days thereafter or they wl
be barred by the provisions of the Statutes
DATED at Anchorage, Alaska, this 8 day
of April, 1931.
J. Lindley Green.
Register.
j First- Plication May 18, 1931.
Last Publication July 13, 1931
D—May 18,. 25, June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29,
July 6, 13.
3-ROOM apartment lor rent at
J. L. Graef.
Purser George Wunderlick of
the SS Starr did not sail with
his ship Sunday because he must
got to Valdez next week to ap
pear before the grand jury in
connection with the large beaver
skin confiscation at Seattle last
fall.
NEW SHIPMENT MELOTO.VE RECORDS
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