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EXPOUNDS
RESOURCES
Alaska Cannot Be Held
Back, Says Governor
Scott C. Bone.
Seattle. Jan. 19—Despite many
natural and inherent difficulties,
Alaska is going'.ahead steadily,
according 10 Governor Scott C.
Bone, who arrived here today.
“My faith in the future of the
Territory is just as strong as
when I took up my duties at Ju
neau.” asserted the governor.
‘So vast a section of the na
tional domain cannot indefinitely
be held back.”
Governor Bone will be the
guest of honor and the principal
speaker at the Alaska products
dinner of the Washington State
Press Association, set for Sat
urday night.
Blue Laws in Indiana.
Wabash, Ind.—Simday blue laws
vere, enforced here for the first time
today ao a result of the fight against
Sunday movies being waged by the
Ministerial Society. Chief of Police
iolte closed everything except res
raurants xnd. garages when Sheri-?
Summerland refused to act without affi
davits being filed.
Next Sunday city street cars will be
stopped and everything closed, includ
ing lodge rooms, restaurants and gar
ages.
L. B. Loomis, local manager of the
N. C. Company, returned here yester
day, after a business trip to Tacotna
and Ophir.
Philadelphia.—Probate proceedings
reveal that the Penrose estate is esti
mated at one-half million dollars.
For a Nice Lunch
or First-Class Meal
Call At
Durant’s Cafe
Flat City
CHARLIE’S
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A Bath in a Real
Bath Tub
Shoe Repairing
Sign-j Writing
Paperhanging
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The Handy Man
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Big Span Will Be Com
pleted February 1;
News Notes.
Nenana, Jan. 20.—Tha Alaskan En-j
gineering Commission expect to com
plete the construction of the bridge
across the Tanana b.v B’ebruary 1. This
work, which has given continuous em
ployment to over a hundred men. lias
been a boon to the town. Fortunately,
weather conditions have been most
favorable throughout the period of con
struction, and the erect ion of the big
span was crowded to the limit, Many
structural steel workers were em
ployed, yet, notwithstanding the dan
gerous nature of the work, but few ac
cidents occurred, and those of a minor
| nature.
Major J. VV. Albrecht, accompanied j
' bv Charles E. Taylor, his law partner,J
arrived here yesterday from Fairbanks,
Having completed their business with
the district court in the Tanana cen
ter, they intend leaving for Nancy to
morrow. At this point they will pick
up their dogs and hit the trail for Me
Gra.tb and.the Itlitarod.
Postoffiee Inspector YVet.sder left-here
for Ruby, via Tanana, on a tour of in
spection. He wdl be away. *or some
considerable time.
Ira Wood, well known Idft&pod trans
portation man, and Dave Mutchler,
dealer in cold storage products, were
j arrivals here today, en route to the
Outside. Tffev will leave in the morn
ing for Big river, taking the Kobi trail
to the railroad.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To B. T. James, Ed McArdle and
Charles Knell, your heirs, executors
and assigns:
You are hereby notified that I, the
undersigned, your co-owner, have ex
pended in labor and improvements the
sum of not less than one hundred do!
lars [$100 00] for the years 1920 and
1921 upon your interests-in the Good
Luck Fraction, situated between No. 1
and No. 2 Above Discovery on Moore
creek, in the.Mt. McKinley mining and
recording precinct. Territory of Alaska
in order to hold said claim under the
provisions of Section 2324 of the Re
vised Statutes of the United States ami
the amendments thereto concerning
annual labor upon mining claims, being
the amount required to bold said min
ing claim for the period ending June
30, 1921.
And if within ninety days after the
publication of this notice you fail or
refuse to contribute your proportion of
said expenditures, as well as the cost, of
recording the same, and the costs of
this advertisement, your interests in
said claim will become the property of
the undersigned, your co-owner, who
has made the required expenditures
j under the terms of said section 2324 of
the Revised Statutes of the United
States. Cecil Barlow,
Co-Owner.
Date of first publication, Jan. fi. 1923.
Date of last publication, April 7.1923
1 LUMBER
j Any Iiength of
WOOD FOR SALE
Delivered to Your Order
J. HEINO
The raising of martens in captivity
is now commercially possible us a re
sult of the discovery of their breeding
season bv naturalists of the biological
survey of the Uuiied S’utes depart
ment of agriculture. These valuable
fur bearers mate late in only and in
August and appear to have a gestation
period of eight months, much longer
than most animals of the same group.
It was formerly thought that their
breeding season wi s iu the fall or
wiuter, t* e young being born in the
spriug.
New York. — Alton B. Parker, demo
cratic candidate for President in 1SD4.
and Miss Amelia Day Campbell, wete
united in marriage in this city today.
London — The Russian •armored
cruiser Trotzkv foundered in the Black
Sea yesterday all on board being lost.
Los Angeles. — VValluc- Reid, famous
thm actcr, died at a sana’arium near
here this afternoon, a viet.m of mor
phine habit.
Receiving and sending hours at the
McGrath station are as follows:
Week Days—lb a. m. and 4 p. m.
Sundays and holidays—9:4o a. m. and
4:30 p. m.
Jersey Hangman In
vited to Visit Herrin,
Marion, 111.—William 8. Gilbert, of
Trenton, N. J.t would-be executioner
of the defendants in the Herrin mas
sacre trial, has been invited to visit
Herrin, 111., near which city the mas
sacre took place, by A. T. Paoe, .
miners’ union official and mayor of
that city.
Mayor Pace, after reading the letter
that Gilbert wrote to Circuit Judge
D. T. Hartwell seeking employment as.
the official executioner, wrote him.as -
follows:
•‘You seem to be desirous of seeing
some of the coal miners dangle at the
end of a rope, and apparently you are
willing to do the job yourself. I invite
you to come to Herrin, 111., and let us
see tl e kind of a man you are. Un
doub y when you reach Herrin you
will iio i that the people of Williamson
county are the equal of those of any
place that you live or anv one else
lives.”
Tokyo.--Fire at Fukuoka destroyed
live hundred buildings this morning.
Northern Commercial Co.
of Alaska
While..It Uksts, Our
Stanfield Underwear
Will Cost You
$7.50 Per Suit
Trappers, do not forget that we will pay the best
prices for your Fur, or, if preferable, we will
advance a liberal amount of money on your
Fur and ship on a commission basis.
McGrath Roadhouse
Excellent Meals
Service Prompt and Efficient
A. HIGGINS
Tacotna