SMILES
Probably there is more fun in a
school room than any other one spot
on earth, if one only paused to ap
preciate tt. Out at Garvanza the
other day, the teacher asked a small
boy, "What is an oyster.*'
There was a painful pause and
finally this answer, pathetic and
hopeful:
"An oyster is a fish built lik*- a
An old negress went to a prison ;
governor in Tennessee and said.
"Massa, we’a mighty poor this win- |
ter, and Ah wish you would pardon (
mah ’usband.”
"What was he put in for?"
" ’Stead of workin* fo* it, that
g* od-fo’-nothln’ fellow’ done stole
some bacon.”
"If he’s good for nothing, why do
you want him back?”
"Well, you sees, we’s out of bacon
ag’in, said the negresn. Innocently.
Algy was not teeuug at all well ■
For some days he had been suffering j
from acute indigestion.
Having tried dozens of cures with. |
out any result, he at last decided to
consult his doctor.
Accordingly he called on the med
ico, and described the symptoms of
his malady in detail.
At the conclusion of his recital the
doctor told him to drink hot water
every morning an hour before break
"Well, well." said the doctor, a
week later, meeting Algy in the
street, "and how are wre this morn
ing? Did you follow my instruc
"I did my best," replied Algy;
"hut I couldn’t keep it up for more
than ten minutes at a stretch!"
•She was paying her first visit to
a cousin who lived in the country.
He met her at the station and after
half an hour’s drive told her that
they were approaching his farm.
In one of the fields that met the
girl’s attentive eye, stood a wind
mill and gathered around it were
ceveral pigs.
“Well, I’m surprised!’’ exclaimed
the fair one. “I didn’t know that
farmers were so considerate.”
‘‘What do you mean?” queried
the coutrny cousin.
“That over yonder.” replied the
girl, pointing a pretty finger. “Just
think of having a fan out in th**
field to keep those pigs cool!”
•I admire the man who laughs at
danger, don’t you?”
“No. I think he has a mighty
The victim of the bent pin knowns
when it is time to get up.
While walking along, enjoying
the bright sunshine, Jenkins’ ear
was assailed by a cry of:
“Special! Audacious swindle!
A hundred persons victimized!”
Curious to read of the sad down
fall of one of his fellow creatures,
and of the way In which a hundred
more had been victimized, he stop
ped the boy who was shouting the
news, and purchased a paper.
Hastily glancing through the col
umns he failed to find a reference
to any kind of heartless fraud. He
searched again.
Then suddenly upon his ears fell
the shrill cry:
“Paper! Special! One hundred
and one persons victimized! Pa
Things were slack at the office.
One of the clerks was left alone
with a pretty typist. He was a tall,
thin young man. Greatly daring,
he asked her for a kiss.
“Certainly rot!” she sa'd, as he
twined himself around her chair.
“I'd sooner kiss a snake.”
“Kiss me in that capacity, then,”
paid he. “I’m an adder.”
A man who had been dining well |
hailed a passing tax'. The offside ;
door apparently had not been closed
properly. At any rate the man in j
question, haring entered one door,
promn'ly rolled out of the other.
He p’cked himself up. replaced his
coat ard hat with care, brushed the
d rt oH h:° c^» n-d ‘ben asked the
driver: “How much?”
STOSiK TORSO OF YOVN(i
WOMAN IN KIVKIt BKII
SANTA ROSA. Calif.—A stone
torso of a young woman, turned up
in the river bed at Agua Caliente
Hot Springs, near here, by E. t».
Perkins recently, has aroused the
curiosity of scientists and has again
raised the question relative to the
possibility of the petrification of
human flesh. Mr. Perkins has the
torso on public exhibition at an into
mobile service station at Agua Cal
Visitors of more* nr lefcs scientific
mind have termed the discovery the
fossilized or petrified body of a
• onr.K Indian woman who lived h■•••*»
in the “Valley of the Moon’* thou
sands of years ago. However, oth
ers assert that the torso is not that
of an aborigine, but merely a stone
image carved by some ancient tribe.
The torso has been named “The
Frozen Beauty of the A g u,. Call
Air. Perkins, while hauling grav* I
from the river bed in Sonoma creek,
struck the torso with his pick, he
says, the "body" was about fifteen
inches under the bed of the s'rcam,
and was beneath many tightly im
beded rocks, he said. The figure.
Mr. Perkins stated, was yellowish in
color in contrast to the white rock.
The "body” was partly caked in
a matrix of what appeared to be
lava rock. Mr. Perkins said. Stud
ents who have visited the torso as
sert the "Frozen Beauty” was a
prehistoric woman; that she was
buried in a flow of lava, or la> in a
strata of mud; that she was dead at
the time of any volcanic eruption,
ns she was lying prone with arms
at her sides; that the lava came
from either Mt. St. Helena in Napa
county. California, or from a vol
cano about a half mile from Agun
Callente; that dur:ng the passing of
years there was an infiltration of
lime water, probably charged with
silica; that a crust-llke casing was
made over the body, due to the ac
tion of the lime and silica and that
the torso ultimately became petrl
Leading scientists, it is pointed
out. have stated that it is impossible
for human flesh to petrify.
TUX.AS MKSKKTS MKXIt'AX
Itoo/K KOK OWN ItK.A Ml
SAX ANTONIO.—Com hootch
has put the fiery drinks of Mexico
to rout, according to Frank Cole.
State Director of Federal Probibi
Seizure cf tequila, mescal. pulque
and aguardiente, made famous by
the Volstead Act. have almost fall
•en off to those of pre-dny days. Cole
declares. In their stead, however.
being seized by the dry agents.
In the days when the dry law
first became effective natives of
Texas were not the experts in the
manufacture of hootch that they ar«
today, and the market demand for
firry fluids was filled by the bands of
rum runners operating alor%r the
1.420 miles of Texas border. Every
tewn and city had its bootleggers,
from whom the best brands of the
Southern Republics alcoholic drinks
could be purchased at practically
the same price charged in Mexico.
Then came the increase in the
number of "pro” agents in the state
and. with their advent, greater vig
ilance along the border. Rum run
ners found it more difficult to bring
in their wares. The trails through
the mesquite. greaseweed and cac
tus. over which their pack trains
travelled loaded to overflowing
vith the illicit liquor, were more
closely watched. Prices soared and
became almost prohibitive for the
average drinker. Bootleggers were
unable to move their stocks, so they
turned to the manufacture of corn.
The fact that the evaders of the
dry Jaw had turned to manufactur-i
ing their own was first indicated to1
dry agents hy the increased number
of private stills seized. Bach suc
ceeding month the stills taken in
the raids were of bettor workman
ship. and the liquor found was of
much better grade.
Now. Cole declares, with a little!
aging, the illicit hooch seized In I
raids would be found to he on a par
with the. booze sold over the bar in J
the average saloon of pre-Volstead
days. Exchange. !
Laughing out loud is a sign of bad
taste and good digestion.
“The brightest boy in school"
never seems to know what to do
with hi* brightness afterward.
A vicous tongue requires fighting
Bear poverty patiently but not
Styles change. The old-time
stage vilTan wore puttees and car
ried a riding crop. The movie vill
inn merely flicks ashes carelessly
from his cigarette when he is cor
Goorl luck is mostly the absence j
You don’t need to believe all you '
hear, but you should be sure you |
hear ail you hear. j
ARMISTICE
GIVEN UNDER AUSPICES
SATURDAY, NOV. 10th
AT A. B. HALL
Doors Open at 8:30. Music at 9:00 P. 1*1.
GENTLEMEN $1.00
LADIES FREE.
Evening devoted to dancing~No Program
Come and look over what the Vic
and Buford left Behind.
ARE ALARM SIGNALS
* LOCATION
12 .Standard Oil Company
13 .Cold Storage plant. East
| 14.Alaska Lighterage Co.
15.Opposite Recorders Office
i 21.Cor. Steadman, 2nd ares.
104.cor. ® *n<* *st
i 2o. Catholic Church
31 . Polet’s Residence
32 . Ftre Station
41 .Opposite Webb’s Market
42 . Methodist Mission
.Fire Out
•..Shut Down
Turn on Water
FOR SAL*.
New and uptodate legal forms #o<
pM»of of Annual Armament Wor>
Oil Location blanks. Deed blanks
tor general use. Special and General
Power of Attorney forms, Pleesr and
Quarts Location forma now on sale
at Nugget Office. Price 15 cents eocr
or $1.00 per dozen.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
! Tn Cabell Whitehead, E. E. Alles,
j C. O. Cowden. Chas. Thompson,
A. Schneider. S. K. Rocks, and
, John Bums, y**ur and each of
.vour heirs, executors, administra
I tors and assigns:
You are hen-by notified that the
undersigned has expended during
.each of the years of 1907, 1910,
: 1911. 1912, 1914. 1915. 1916. 1920.
! 1921 and 1922. the sum of One
j Hundred Dollars, in tabor and Im
| provememts upon that certain pla
• cer mining claim known as and
l being BENCH NO. 5. BELOW
! OOODLUCK. situated on the left
1 limit of Anvil Creek, opposite placer
j claim No. 1, below, on said creek. ,
| :-n the Cape \’i»me Mining District '•
! and Precinct. Territory of Alaska:
the location certificate or notice of
which said claim is of record In the
office of the' recorder of said mining
district and precinct, in Vol. 2. at
Page 224. of tin* records of loca
tions of said mining- district and
precinct.
That said labor and .iimprovements
were performed and made upon
said mining claim during each of
said years for the purpose of hold
ing the same und,ir the provision^
• •f the laws of rho United States m.d
of the Territory of Alaska, concern
ing annual labor upon mining
And if wiihjT ninety da vs aft?r
fhe service of this notice, unon you
by the publication hereof for bhc
period of ninety days, you or either
of you fail. refuse or neglect to
contribute your proportion of such
expenditure as a co-owner with the
undersigned, your interest in said
mining claim wiM become the pro
perty of the subscriber, your co
owner. who has made tne required
expenditure necessary to hold said
claim under said Laws.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, this 3rd
day of November, 1923.
Pioneer Mining and D*tch
Company, Co-Owner.
By E. J. DORMAN. Agent.
Publish Nov. 3. 10. 17. 24. Dec. 1. 8.
15. 22, 29. 1923. and Jan. 5, 12.
FORFEITURE NOTICE
To JOHN A. DEXTER, and to his
executors, ad min 1st’••tors, heirs,
awl assigns:
You an* hereby notified that the
undersigned has expended one hun
dred dollars ($100.00) in work,
labor, and improvements upon “No.
4 SPECIMEN GULCH,” or the
"HESTER” Placer Mining Claim,
the location certificate of which is
recorded in Vol. 3, Page 48, of the
Records of the Cape Nome Record
ing Precinct, Territory of Alaska,
the recording precinct In which said |
claim is situated, for each of the
years 1910, 1911, 1912. 1913. 1914.
1915. 1917, lf20-21. 1921-22, 1922
-23. in order to hold said claim un
der the provisions of Section 2324.
Revised Statutes of the United
States of America; this being the
amount required to hold said claim
for each of the years above enum
erated. And if within ninety (90)
days from the service of this -notice
upon you, you fail or refuse -to con
tribute your proportion of such ex
penditure as co-owner, your inter
est in said claim will become the
property V»f the subscriber under
said Section 2324.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, this 3rd
day of November, 1923.
Pioneer Mining and Ditch
Company, Co-Owner.
By E. J. GORMAN, Agent.
Publish Nov 3. 10. 17. 24. Dec. 1. 8.
15, 22. 29. 1923. and Jan, 5. 12.
19, 26. 1924.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Guy B. Brubaker and Blanche
McGrath, you and each of your
heirs, executors, administrators
and assigns: . .
You. and each of you. are hereby
notified that the underdened. ■ as
co-owner tiherein. has expended tne
sum of One Hundred ($100.00)
dollars during the year ending JUi>
1. 1923. for labor and improvements
»*n and fo*- the benefit *>f the
tta bench placer MINING
CLAIM, situated on, the T^ft Umlt
of Dry Creek, opposite No. 13 Be
low Discovery, in t*e Cape Nome
Mining and Record’*** lDst.nct,
Territory of Alaska, notice of loca
tion whereof' Is recorded 4n ®°°*
91. a<t page 4*5..«» the records or
said recording district.
That said work was .performed *a
provided by Sec. $324. of the Re
vised Statutes of the United States
and supplemeittaJ legislation, for
the purpose of holding said claim.
And you are severally required to
contribute your proportion of such
expenditure according to your sever
al interests In said claim, to the un
dersigned co-owner with you there
in, within ndnety days after the ser
vice of this notice on you by publi
cation thereof, or your internet in
said claim wiU become forfeited and
vest In the undersigned, as provided
by said statutes.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, this 3rd
day of November. 1923.
F. S. PoweJl and Geo. W. Dutton,
Trustees for Nome Dredging Trust,
Co-Owner.
Ily E. J. GORMAN, Agent.
Publish Nov. 3. 10. 17. 24. Dec. 1. 8,
15. 22. 29. 1923. and Jan. 5. 12,
19. 26. 1924.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Nels Segotson, P. V. Davis, Wm.
A. Gilmore, you and each of your
heirs, executors, administrators
and assigns:
You a»nd each of you are hereby
notified that t/tie undersigned, as
co-owner therein, has expended the
sum of One Hundred ($100.00- dol
lars during the year ending July 1,
1923, for labor and improvements
on and for the benefit of GOLD
DUST BENCH Plaoer Mining Claim,
situated on the Left Limit of Dry
Creek, in the Cape- Nome Mining
and Recording District. Territory of
Alaska, notice of location whereof
is recorded In Book 10. at Page 86,
of the records of said Recording
District.
That said work was performed as
provided by Sec. 2324, of tihe Re
! vised Statutes of the United States
and supplemental legislation, for
the purpose of holding said claim.
And you are severally required to
contribute your proportion of such
expenditure according to your sev
eral Interests in said claim, to the
undersigned, co-owner with you
therein, within ninety days after the
service of this notice on you by pub
lication thereof, or your interest in
said claim will become forfeited
and vest in the undersigned, as pro
vided by said statutes.
Dated at Nome. Alaska, this 3rd
day of November. 1923.
F. S. Powell and Geo. W. Dutton,
Trustees for Nome Dredging Trust,
Co-Owner.
By E. J. GORMAN. Agent.
Publish Nov. 3, 10. 17. 24. Dec. 1. 8,
IS. 22. 29. 1923. and Jan. 5, 12.
NOTICK OF FORFEITURE.
To Mary E. Sear I, C. G. Cowden and
Wm. A. Gilmore,, you and each of
your tie'rs, executors, administra
tors and assigns:
You and each of \you are hereby
notified that the undersigned, as
co-owner therein, has expended the
sum of One Hundred ($100.00- dol
lars during the year ending <July 1,
1923. for labor and Improvements
onand for the benefit of LUCKY
TWO BENCH Placer Mining Claim,
situated on the Left Limit of Dry
Creek, second terir, in the Capt
Nome Mining and recording district,
Territory of Alaska, notice of loca
tion whereof in recorded in Book 86,
at page 34. of the records of said
Recording District.
That said work was performed as
provided by Sec. 2324. of. the Re
vised Statutes of the United States
and supplemental legislation, for
the purpose of holding said claim.
And you are severally required to
contribute your proportion of such
expenditure according to your sev
eral interests in said claim, to the
undersigned, co-owner with you
therein, within ninety days after the
service of this notice on you by pub
lication thereof, or your interest in
said claim will become forfeited
ar.d vest in the undersigned, as pro
vided by said statutes.
Dated at Nome, A task a. this 3rd
dav of November. 1923.
F. S. Powell and Cpo. W. Dutton,
Trustees for Nome Dredging Trust,
Co-Owner.
By E. J. GORMAN. Agent.
Publish Nov. 3. 10. 17. 24. Dec. 1. 8.
15. 22, 29. 1923. and Jan. 5, 12.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Peter Johnson. E. Ongman, V.
A. Graffam, Mary Newcomer and
Dan Kelly, your and each of your
heirs, administrators, successors
and assigns:
You and each of 'you are hereby
notified that the undersigned, as
oo-ownier therein, has expended the
sum of One Hundred (*100.09- dol
lars during the year ending July 1,
1923. for labor and improvements
upon and for the benefit of the
BONANZA ASSOCIATION Placer
Mining Claim, situated immediately
North of the shore of Bering Sea.
and in the East end of the city or
town of Nome, in the Cape Nome
Recording District and Precinct.
Territory of Alaska. The original
location of which claim is recorded
in Vol. 111. at Page 339. of the
records of locations in the office of
the recorder of said precinct.
That said labor and improvements
were made and performed in tbe
development of said claim and in
the performance of the annual labor
required by Section 2324 Revised
Statutes of the United States and
legislation supplemental thereto, tn
order to hold said claim.
And you and each of you are
hereby required to contribute to the
undersigned co-owners your propor
tion of such expenditure according
| to your respective interests In said
mining claim, within ninety days
after the service of this notice upon
you by publication thereof, or jfour
interest in said mining claim will
become forfeited to and vest in the
undersigned co-owners who have
made such expenditure.
Dated at Nome. Alaska, this 3rd
dav of November. 1923.
P. 8. Powell and Geo. W. Dutton.
Trustee* for Nome Dredging Truat.
Co-Owner.
, Ry E. J. GORMAN, Agent
Publish Nor. i, 1®. 17. 24, 1**- U9,
IB, 22, 29, 1923. and ***»• 5
19, 23, 19*4.