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TOKOTNA, ALASKA. OCT. 20, 1925
"Floating Rum Palace’
to Invite ‘One and All’
Houston, Tex.—A floating “rum pal
ace,” accommodating one thousand
persons and on which the finest liquors
■will be sold._wil! be anchored otT Gal
veston harbor, just beyond the four
mile limit, within three weeks, accord
ing to an announcement made here
.Monday.
The resort will be located on the
•four-masted schooner Atlantico, and
will be operated by Captain N. S. Cope
land, of Galveston, and Tom Turner, of
Ceague City. Captain Copeland said
Monday.
Three carloads of 6 per cent beer are
’®n route from Germany to stock the
.-ship, in addition to a large cargo of
whiskys, champagne, gin and other
liquors. All drinks will be sold at pre
war (trices.
The Atlantico, which is in Galveston
harbor at present, will tty no Hag,
being under the status of an American
ship out of commission. A picked crew
■of twenty men will man the boat. Ma
chine guns will be mounted on the fore
.3nd after decks.
Arrangements are being made by
Captain Copeland and Turner to run
an excursion boat from Houston to the
^hip.
No liquors will be allowed to leave
the boat, which will act as a depot for
incoming ships to leave the liquor sup
plies before entering American terri
torial waters.
War of Chorus Tights
Cleaves Staid British
London.—Bare legs or tights for
ibeautv choruses?
Theater goers, managers, critics, and
rsome of the beauties themselves are
(trying to decide the question.
The girls themselves favor tights.
'The men are about equally divided.
“Carados,” one of the critics of The
Sleferee, the leading British theatrical
newspaper, innocently started the dis
cussion, when he expressed a prefer
ence for tights.
“I have never liked to see dancers
with bare legs,” said Evelyn Layne,
starring at Daly!s in “The Merry
Widow.” ‘‘Often the effect is far from
beautiful.”
“1 prefer bare legs,” Edward Shanks,
the poet, said briefly.
C. W. K. Nevinson, one of the lead
ers of the modern school of art, agreed
with Shanks, but added that the pre
vailing weather put him off clothes,
anyway.
Alfred Praga, miniaturist, likes them
PROFESSIONAL
Albrecht and Taylor
LAWYERS
Iditarod, Alaska,
and at
7tl6 L. C. Smith Bldg., Seattle, Wash
Practice in all Courts^
undraped. "There is nothing indecent,
i iu the bare human leg,” he said.
Tights seem to me to be an aid to
*. estiveness, if such is intended.
Imagine the Veous de Milo in tights.”
Arthur Machen, the novelist, is for
"bare legs with gypsy brown or pole
make-up, as the case may be, for men.
"Tights for women.!”
Herman Finck, well known composer
itnd musical director of Drury Lane,
after years of watching assorted legs
from the orchestra enclosure, prefers
tights. “Hare legs may be suitable for j
so-called classical dancing.” he said,
“but certainly not to rhythmic danc
ing. Why, by the way, when dancers!
cannot dance at all. do they always call |
themselves classical dancers? Anyway, j
if t he public likes the mixture of beau- I
tiful music and u^beautiful ve'ms, I |
suppose they must have it.”
“It depends on the costume,” said
Charles B. Cochran, Britain’s greatest
producer. "In some costumes hare legs
are appropriate, in others they aro not.
They are suitable to some oriental
dances. But I always insist on bare
legs being made up In my theaters
when ordinary costumes are worn with
them.”
Alaska Copper Pro
duction Increasing
Washington.—The copper production
of Alaska in 1922 was 77,967,819 pounds,
valued at $10,525,6.7,7, compared with
57.011,597 pounds, valued at $7,354,496,
in 1921, according to the Department
of the Interior. The produclion in 1922
came from one mine in the Ketchikan
district, three in the Chitina district,
and one in the Prince William Sound
district. These figures are taken from
the annual report of the Geological
Survey on Alaska mineral resources,
now in preparation.
Senator Pat Harrison, of Mississipi,
said in a Washington address:
“I am an optimist, but at the same
time I always remember that human
nature is human nature. Some people
don’t.
"Judge Dallas Sanderson remarked
learnedly to a jury one day:
*• *A witness, gentlemen, may contra
dict himself without being a liar. i.
for example, would have sworn when I
entered court this morning that I had
my watch in mv vest pocket, but T now
remember that I left it on my desk at
home.’
“Well, when* the judge got home
that night his wife said:
“ ‘Dallas, dear, what made you so
crazy about your watch today, sending
t'ght or nine men for it?’
“ ‘Goodness gracious” groaned Judge
Sanderson. ‘What did you do?1
“‘Why, naturally,’ said his wife, ‘1
gave it to the first man who came.’ ”
Jujiro Wada, known all over Alaska
as Wada the Jap, a celebrated dog
musher and racer, recently returned to
Winnipeg from Herschel island, where
he had been on the trail of a reported
gold ledge. He made his 2,500-mile
trip alone. Wada made his first jour
ney to the Arctic from San Francisco
over 32 years ago, and since then has
been identified with the country, lie
narrowly escaped hanging at one time
by a body of 800 gold hunters whom he
led on a stampede which failed to find
the precious metal as reported.
N. Ej. Bolshanin, of Unalaska, who
for the past twenty years has been
deputy collector of customs at that
point, started a fox farm in that vicin
ity in 1916. As a beginning he had
three pairs of blue foxes. As an indi
cation of the increase and profit in the
business, Mr. Bolshanin in 1921 sold
172 fine pelts; in 1922 he sold 152 pelts,
and sold ten pairs at $300 per pair to
the other farmers, retaining twenty
pairs for breeding purpose?.
Gold Dredging Opera
tions in Alaska, 1922
Washington. Twenty-throe gold
dredges wore operated in Alaska dor
ing 1922 and produced $1,767,750 worth
of gold, according to a statement given
out by the Department of the Interior
through the Geological Survey. Of
these dredges, lifteen were on Seward
Peninsula, and the others in the In
terior of the Territory, including three
in the region served bv the Alaska
Railroad. They excavated 3,186,340
cubic yards of gravel; hence the value
of the gold recovered was 55 cents to
•he cubic yard. Dredge mining is on
the increase in Alaska. This informa
tion is contained in an advance state
ment from the annual report on the
mining industry of the Territory by
Alfred H. Brooks, chief Alaskan geol
ogist, now in preparation.
A negro called upon an old friend,
who received hitn in a rocking chair
and continued to rock himself to and
fro in a most curious way.
“Yo’ ain’t sick, is vo’, Harrison?”
asked the caller, anxiously.
‘•No, l ain’t sick, Mose,” said Har
rison. |
There was a momentarily silence, j
during which the caller gazed wide-'
eyed at the rocking figure.
“Der,” continued Mose, "why does
yo’ rock yo’self dat way all de time?”
Harrison explained:
‘‘Yo’ know Bill Blntt? Well, he sold
me a silver watch cheap, an’ if 1 stops
movin’ like dis, dat watch don’t go.”— i
Tid-Bits.
Flashlights.
The rnan who can be happy with
what tie has is infinitely richer than
the tnan who has to wait for what he
may or may not some day.
There is always an opportunity wait
iog for the man who wants to be a
iriend in need.
A conceited tnan should visit a ceme
tery and realize how many truly great
men have died without the worfd shut
ting down.
The best way to convince a woman
is to let her go ahead and do it and re
jret it.
Everyone has to waste a little time to
learn the value of it. —Ex.
Notice of Forfeiture.
ro Bennett James, John Holmgren,
Charles K. Taylor. George W. Al
brecht, Edward McArdle and Charles
Kneli, and their and each of their
.lieirs, executors, administrators, suc
cessors in interest, and assigns:
You. and each of you, will please take
notice that the undersigned, a co-owner
in placer mining claim Good Luck Frac
tion, situated between No. 1 and No. 2
Above Discovery on Moore creek, in
the Mt. McKinley mining and record
ing precinct. Territory of Alaska, has
personally performed the annual assess
ment work the above described claim
for the years 1920, 1921 and 1922,
amounting to one hundred dollars for
each year, and for each of said years
has paid for said work, including the
proportion due from the above named
parties.
And you are further notified that,
unless you and each of you pay vour
proportion of the assessment work done
on said ground for each of said years,
within ninety days after the last pub
lication of this notice, your and each of
your interests in and to said pro erty
will become forfeited to the under
For a Nice Lunch
or First-Class Meal
Call At
Durant’s Cafe
Flat City
sigued. as provided by Section 2224 of
tbe revised statutes of the United
States and amendments thereto.
<Jkg.ii. Barlow,
Co-Owner.
Date of first publication, Aug. 11, 1923.
Date of last publication, Nov 17, 1923.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To Michael Looey, vour heirs, executors
anti assigns:
You and each of you will please take
notice hat iie undersigned, a co owner
in plan mining claims No. 2 and No.
3 Above Discovery on Moore creek,
has personally performed the annual
assessment work on the above described
claims for the years 1921 and 1922,
amounting to one hundred dollars for
each year, and for each of said vear.^
has paid for said work, including the
proportion due from the above named
co-owner.
And you are further notified that
unless vchi pay your proportion of the*
assessment work done on said claims
for each of said years, within ninety
davs after the last publication of this
notice, your interests in and to said
property will -become forfeited to the
undersigned, as provided by Section
2.J24 of the revised statutes of the
United States and amendments thereto.
Cecil Barlow,
Co-Owner.
Bate of first publication, Aug. 11, 1»21T.
Date of last publication, Nov. 17,’ 192.'!.
Tokotna Pool Hall
Best of Everything in
Fruits Candies Cigars Tobaccos
All Fresh Goods j
Jack Mutchler - - Proprietor
Larson Roadhouse
(Formerly The McLean, Tacotna.)
Best of Home Cooked Meals. Prompt Attention
New Dog Houses
C
Mrs. Frank Larson - Proprietor
•ffi&anam
Geo. W. Hoffman
Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokwim Valley
Napamute, Alaska
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Good Prices for Your Fur
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim.
Capt. Wallace Langley, Manager.
IBM
Arrange to Spend the Night at the
Big River Roadhouse
Best possible meals. Private rooms
New dog kennels, and the best of lower river fish
for dog 'feed.
Diamond Dick
Proprietor