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McGrath, alaska. july 8, 11122
Tan ana River Bridge
for Alaska Railroad
The Tanana rives bridge, which will
'orrh the last connecting link on the
Alaska railroad between Seward and
Fairbanks, will be practically of the
same type of construction as the ods
spanning the Snsitna river. rt will be
a single track structure1 and will be
com;>osod of one main truss span 700
feet long, one north-approach girder
span <‘5 feet long, one south-approach
deck span 1'iO feet long, a viaduct com
posed of four 30-foot towers and tower
girder, and live 60-foot girder spans al
ternating with the tower girders. The
approximate weight of the steel struc
ture will be 2,283 tons.
A pproximately 0,000 cubic yards of
concrete will be used in the construc
tion of the two big piers and the lesser
niers which will carry the steel bridge
and approaches.
In terms of the contract with the
Alaskan Engineering Commission, the
delivery of the steel at the contractor's
works is to commence not later than
September 1, and completed not later
than November 1, the actual erection
of the bridge to begin not later than
November 15, by which time all of the
preliminary work, consisting of the
sifb-structure and trestle work, will be
completed by the Commission forces.—
Nenana News.
Church Sentence Makes
"Sinner’ Plead 'Mercy’
Chicago.—‘‘Judge. I ll stop drinking
and take the baths, but have a little
pity. I can’t go to church. Pm a jinx
in a place like that. Every time I go
something happens Once a mad dog
came in when I went another time a
rafter fell right near me; last time the
church I attended caught fire. Judge,
please have pity.”
This was the plea made yesterday by
James Jensen to Judge Adams in the
court of domestic relations after he had
been sentenced to take a bath every
Sunday morniDg and attend church
with his wife and children. Jensen
had been arraigned on a charge of fail
ing to provide for his family.
“If you will take the pledge and take
a bath every Sunday morning 1 won’t
sentence you to go to church,” replied
the judge. “But you will have to be
good or we will have to see that you do
go to church.”
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Geo. W. Albrecht, Iditarod, Alaska
Chas. E. Taylor, Seattle, Wash.
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Alaska News Notes
The annual convention of the Amer
ican Legion in 1023 will be held at An
chorage. in March
Members of the marshal’s office at
Fairbanks recently dumped about 800
quarts of ‘ white mule” into the slough
at that place.
Sidney Charles, well known in news
paper circles in Alaska for the past 20
years, has started a newspaper at Sitka
under the title of the Sitka Sun.
William M. Paul, grand secretary of
the Alaska Native Brotherhood, will
run as an independent candidate for
the Territorial legislature at the No
vember election.
Donald L. McGinnis, formerly of
Fairbanks, but now a leading merchant
of Anchorage, and Miss Katherine
Walsh, of the latter place, were mar
ried at Anchorage, recently
□ Dr. Aline Bradley lleegler, of Fair
banks, was recently appointed referee
in bankruptcy by Judge Cecil Clegg.
She is the first woman referee in bank
ruptcy to serve in Alaska.
Milton Boyer, of Anchorage, recent
ly completed a thirty-day fast at Ket
chikan. During that time he partook
of nothing but water and orange juice.
He lost 80 pounds, although he still re
tained 220 pounds of flesh.
Rev. Fr. i . H. Turnell, who was at
one time pastor of the St. Xavier Cath
olic church in Valdez, and for more
than a year past in charge of the Cath
olic parist) ai Douglas, left recently fur
Anchorage to take charge of the parish
there.
Goidbottom creeK, one of the old
producers of the. Dawson camp, and
the stream on which the iirst gold in
the Klondike watershed was discov
ered, produced steadily the past win
ter. and promises to be a payer for
years to come.
A band of seven caribou ambled over
the brow of Midnight dome, back of
Dawson, recently, and down the hill
siee to a point near the head of Albert
street, where tbev remained fora long
time within a stone’s throw of tome of
the homes in that vicinity.
While on his way home recently, Kd
Oroahjan, a butcher at the Central
market in Ketchikan, was hit on the
head with a piece of iron pipe or some
similar instrument, and rendered un
conscious, and while in this condition
was relieved of the sum of $220.
The first shipmont of ore from the
Silverado mine, in the Hyder district,
to the Tacoma smelter, yielded very
gratifying returns to the operators, J.
J. Coughlan and Capt. James Anderson.
The first grade ore is reported to have
yielded $475 per ton, and the second
grade $210 per ton.
Two gasoline tenders left Seattle re
cently to establish a Scotch-cured her
ring plant on Evans island, near La
touche. Scotch lassies will be sent to
Evans island to see that the herring
are properly turned into Scotch cured.
The Nelbenrich company, recently in
corporated with a capital of $200,000, is
owner of the tdant, and plans to run a
fertilizer plant in connection there
with.
Equal Alimony Rights
for Men, League’s Aim
Baltimore.—Cupid’s activities will
be regulated and “divorce easy’’ colo
nies put out of business, if the League
of Women Voters has its way.
Uniform marriage and divorce laws,
which would aim to sound the death
knell for Gretna Greens and divorce
colonies like t?,eqo, are recommended '
in a report to be presented to the third
annual convention of the League.
Equal alimony rights for men were
advocated in an interview by Catherine
Waugh McCulloch, well known woman
lawyer of Chicago, chairman of the
committee which will make the report.
“If a man marries a wealthy woman
and she encourages him to believe that
he will have an interest in her prop
erty, he should he given the right to
claim alimony in case of a divorce,”
said Mrs. McCulloch. "Also, if the
woman has money, he should have the
same alimony rights as a woman under
the law if he is incapacitated or old.”
According to League leaders, the re
port of Mrs. McCulloch’s committee
will start a drive by the organization,
which represents approximately seven
million women voters, to put the rec
ommendations on the statute books of
every state.
Health certificates would be required
In each state from every couple apply
ing fora marriage license, if the laws
proposed are adopted.
Elopers would have their impatience
checked by a jirovision demanding a
live or ten days’ notice of intentiou to
marry before a marriage license was
granted.
Pour grounds for divorce are recom
mended—adultery, drunkenness, deser
tion and extreme cruelty. The aim is
to make these and wr.atever others
may be added the universal grounds
for divorce in the United States
through uniformity of state laws.
A person divorced in one state could
not, under the divorce laws proposed,
evade the laws in his own state by
marrying again in another.
x'ighteen years would be the mini
mum age for marriage for women in
each state and 21 for men, according to
the program;
The abolition of common law mar
riage is recommended.
For a Nice Lunch
or First-Class Meal
Call At
Durant’s Cafe
Flat City
W. F. Green
Notary Public
McGrath, Alaska
Geo. W. Hoffman
Pioneer Trader of the
Kuskokwim Valley.
Napamute - Alaska
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim.
Capt. Wallace Langley, Manager.
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John E. Baker
Independent Candidate
for
Territorial Representative
-Paid Advt.