ROAD-TAX LAW
TO BE ENFORCED
Either Work or Pay $4 a Day
for Two Days—Ages from
18 to 50 Years.
The Alaska road law, approved
April 27, 1904, is to lie enforced in
Rampart precinct. Ir lias already
been in operation in other parts of
the territory, and in Circle and
Fairbanks precincts men have had
to pay fines as well as the $S tax
when convicted of non compliance
with the law.
The law has not heretofore been
enforced in this precinct on account
of the 11011-receipt of necessary
blank forms. The blanks have now
come to hand and Commissioner
Green has appointed S. E. fleeter
road overseer. His duty is to direct
the labor of persons working out
the tax and to expend the money
collected under the law in laying
out or improving roads
All male persons between 18 and
50 years of age who have resided
thirty days in the teriitory must
pay, work or furnish a substitute.
The overseer will give notice to
persons liable, of the time and place
and kind of woi k expected to be
performed, and may direct what
implements shall be brought along.
The Fairbanks News recently
said in an editorial that it was a
sorry kind of citizen who would try
to evade the tax Results in that
precinct doubtless convinced some
such that they were at least an un
wise kind of citizens.
.Nome 'Tipplers*
Lead tlie Nortli
Some one has figured out from
the customs report that enough
whisky was drunk in Nome in 1904
to make 500 drinks for every
man in the camp. Supposing that
a quarter of the population drank
none at all, then the average Nome
drinking man took 625 drinks last
year. Kvery camp has a few then
who drink at least ten times as
much as the average tippler; and
calculating from this we come to
the conclusion that Nome's leading
drinking men each took ^>,250 dr
during the year or 17 each week
day, 20 each Sunday. 34 ou Christ
mas, 25 on St. Patrick's day and
23 on the Fourth of July.
1'ulcs* the figure* are misleading
we may look out lor new* ol a *ea
serpent s e-caj-ade* on the golden
hcacb when the Nome paper* ar
rive.
Public Records for June
June 3—M. S. Gill to J. Lindley
Green, undivided half ia Glen.
June 3—Bill of sale to Della Bran
don, log cabin known as Doherty
, building, Xanana.
June 7—Quit claim deed from
Kris. Falkenberg to S. A. Cutting,
several claims on different creeks.
June 10—G. Krastning, notice of
location, No. 3 Williams gulch, Pi
oneer creek.
June 11 - Deed to J. Willis Booth
by, half inteiest in No. 3 and all of
No. i Boothby cieek.
June 12-—Thomas Loveland, no
tice of location, discovery bench
between Omega and Thanksgiving.
June 12—W. C. Nichols, notice
1 ot location, Kureka bench, being
No. 2a Chicago creek.
June 12—Fred Strickland, notice
; of location, Tacoma mine, discovery
Chicago creek.
June 12—James Clirnie, notice of
location, Kilmaruook claim, No. 3a
Chicago creek.
June 12—Nels B. Jones, notice of
location, Mildred claim, ib Chicago
creek.
June 12—E. T. Townsend, notice
of location, Florida mine, iaChicago
creek.
June 13—Frank Stevens, bill of
sale to No. 4b Eureka creek. Same,
notice of location, part of No. 4b
Eureka creek.
June 14 — H. F. Thunirn to Frank
Stevens, lease, upper half of 4a
Glen.
June 15—Belsea and Beardsley to
M. S. Gill, 2a and 3a Glen.
June 15—Charles Nelson, notice
of location, Riverside bench claim
on Denver bench, Denver creek,
Pioneer.
June 15— Charles Nelson, deed,
quarter interest in Xo. i, month of
Joe Bush, Pioneer.
June 16—Thomas Loveland to
j M. Kgbert Koonce, deed, 51a Big
1 Minook.
June 20—M. J. Sechrist, notice of
location, 1a Chapman creek.
June 20- Mrs. Fannie Burns, 110
1 tice of location, 2b Chapman creek.
June 20—James F. Howard, 110
1 tice of location, 5b Chapman creek.
June 20—K. B. Howard, notice
! of location, 6b, Chapman creek
June 20—Mrs. H. F. Beckwith,
notice ot location, 4b Chapman.
June 22- O. A. Anderson, power
of attorney to locate and handle
mining claims.
June 24—O. A. Anderson, notice
of claim of half interest in discovery
Thanksgiving.
June 24 — Frank Stevens, deed.
4b Fureka.
June 24 Frank Stevens, bill of
sale, 4b Fureka.
June 2> J. F. Nellanv, notice of
location, Washington claim. North
Fork Pioneer.
June 2.S Mrs. J. F. Nellany, no
tice of location. iphir claim. Head
wood.
June 26 W. II Pavia, notice ot
location, 2 helot* lower discovety
Moretock creek.
June ih K. T. Tow use ml. notice
of location. Williams claim, north
erty bench of Pioneer
RECEPTION SALOON
S. K. HEETER
WINES,
LIQUORS
and GOOD
CIGARS
St. Louis
ABC
•BEERS
The Highest Priced but
the Best Quality.
W. W. CROCKETT
BILLIARD
and\
POOL
ROOMS
12-year-olil Crow Whiskey—The Only Stock.
Something New — Try Our Apricot Coclctoil
Leaves for Glen Every
Five Days.
Freighting and Packing
To and From All
tile Creeks.
Good Teams.
Good Service
THE
HEETER
TANANA, ALASKA
S. E. HEETER, ED FERGUSON,
PROPRIETOR MANAGER
FI ISST-CL ASS
Wines, Liquors and Cigars
EASY WAY
OF MINING
About the easiest money making
scheme ever seen is at Jerome,
Arizona, says an exchange. There
is a little brook that 111ns out of the
lower workings of Senator William
A. Clarke’s United Verde copper
mine. This water percolates all
through certain sulphuretic copper
and gold deposits in tire bowels of
the earth, and as a result, when it
runs out of a mine into a pool ar
ranged for its reception, it is heav
ily loaded with liquid copper. The
mining people dump scrap iion of
I all kinds into the pool, and the
presence ot the iron in the water
precipitates the copper in solid form
to the bottom of the pool, where it
is picked up in irregular shapes. It
is said that Clarke’s people pick out
of that scrap-iron pool about 5600
or $700 worth of practically pure
copper every twenty-four hours.
That's what may be called an easy
way of making tnonev.
Nothing in nature is absolutely
permanent. Changes are going on
slowly, but steadily, every moment,
parts of the earth being elevated
atiove the sea, parts sinking lielow
it. the ocean wearing away the
coast in one place and building it
out in another, and so on to intin
ity. lixchatige
There was no full moon in the
whole of February, iHt* Accord
ing to astronomer* this will ind
occm again until the year J4
PIONEER SALOON
OUT OE BUSINESS
With the close of last week the
Pioneer saloon went out of business,
at least temporarily. Joe Anicich,
proprietor of the place, has been up
from Tanana several clays looking
after the Rampart branch of his
business, and said the present out
look does not justify a renewal of
the expiring license at the present
time, especially with 1 salaried
manager.
Only three saloons are now open
in the camp.
jCY NOBLE RETURNED
FROM TANANA SIDE
Cy Noble arrived from the tuou'h
of the Tanana in a poling boat Sat
urday night. Hefore the breakup
Mr. Noble went across country to
the Fairbanks district and staid in
! that country till a few days ago.
He comes back determined to "leave
his bones" at Rampart.
In sizing up the Tanana country
he has reached the conclusion that
most ot the good ground is too deep
for > poor man to make j>ay, and
there is not wage work to go round.
He Irelieves the Delta country will
turn out to be a fair place for indi
vidual workers.
Mr Noble says miners as a rule
are not squandering their money,
and as a consequence the business
outlook is a hard proposition.
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