Alaska New&Notes
Tuily O’Malley, a bridge carpenter
3* the Copper River &.North western
railroad, fell from the Wye bridge at
Miles glacier, recently, a distance of
twenty-live feet, and brokec-bis, right
leg between the knee and thigh.
A letter to the Nome Nugget from
Anadyr say9 that the Eskimos north of
there are on a debauch as a result of
manufacturing and drinking hootch
and also drinking raw alcohol, and that
as a result a number of children have
died on account of lack of food aod
medical attention.
A truck belonging to the Alaska
Furniture Store, of Juneau, driven by
Nick Kockovitch, ran off a bridge re
cently and turned completely over. The
top of the car and the windshield were
smashed, but three men riding on. the
truck escaped uninjured.
Charles Fogelberg, a pioneer Yukon
prospector, arrived at Dawson from
Chisana, recently, and told the people
of the Klondike that there are thirty
people working in the Chisana district.!
He says that William Jones, the dis
coverer, Dudley McKinney, and a num
ber of other old-timers are successfully
mining there.
One of the oldest totem poles in
Alaska has been erected on the WraD
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This rare totem was first erected by
tlie Indians in the old town of Howkan,
which was deserted years ago. The
totem was transferred by the Indians
to John K Craig, who in turn sold it to
the late Charles A. Sulzer. Recently
Walter Waters purchased the totem
from Ai II. Zeigler, tne administrator
of the Sulzer estater The totem na-,
been erected jointly by Waters and the
McCormack Dock Company.
An appeal has been taken to the U.
S. circuit court of appeals in the Terri
tory’s suit against the Annette Island
Racking Company from the decision
rendered some weeks ago by Judge T.
M. Reed in the Federal court at Ju
neau. The suit in\plves the right of
the Territory to tax the cannery lo
cated on the MeMakatlah reservation.
In the present ca°e the Te-ritorv’s
taxes for 1919, amounting to ¥4,443.64,
are involved. Tne company clnirred
that under the contract it was exempt
from the taxes. The cohtrac.t was en
tered into between the Secretary of the
InieriorJ acting as agent for the Met
lakatlah Indians, and tne caD -ery in-i
terests. Judge Reed held* agaic-ut the
Territory in his decision.
‘‘Vitamins” Considered, by
Messrs. Potash and Dooley
“Vot I mean—’ began Rotash.
“•Vitamin,’” interrupted Dooley.
“Vitamio” is the word of the hour.
] Rotash, Dot ‘vot i-mean.”
'r “Vot I mean to sav,” continued-Rot
ash,, scowling at the interruption, “i3
,that life is becoming every day more
(‘complicated. Dr. Rosenwasser was tell
iug Rosie and rue only last night from
■ the uadesigDed glands, and now you
are beginning with vitamins.”
“ 'Tis quite clear, Rotash, that the
Marshal’s Sale.
Under and by virtue ot_an execution
.issued out<of the District Court for the
,Fou'-th division, Territory of Alaska,
fin an action wherein Robert Lockwood
was plaintiff and Tilluksak Gold Min
Hng Company, a. corporation, was de
fendant. upon a judgment rendered od
rlbe 3rd day of July, 1922, in favor of
j said plaiotiffmod against said defeod
! nnt, for the sum. of two thousand one
>hundred:.eighty five dollars ($2.185.00).
current lawful money of' the United
States o? America, w,th. interest. at the
rate of 8 per cent pec annum, costs, and
iucreRsed costs, I did, .on the day
of September. 1922. levy .open all the
Tight,, title, claim, and interest of' said
defendant in r.nd to the following de
’scribed real proper;v, to-wit: That
-certain placer mining claim known and
described as ‘’Spruce Creek Associa
tion”, aud also that certain placer min
ing claim known aud described as the
“Minnie Claim”, both said claims being
•situate on Spruce creek, a tributary of
Bear creek, Bethel recording precinct.
Fourth judicial division, Alaska; and
also that certain ditch and water right
known and deset ihed as the Spruce
Creek Ditch and Water Right, said
ditch extending from toe head of Little
Bonanza creek, a tributary of Bear
creek, to a point on Spruce eree^, as
aforesaid, near the lower end of said
Spruce Creek Association Placer Min
ing Claim, together with all vested
.rights to divert the waters of said Lit
tle Bonanza creek into said ditch.
And I did. on the 3td day of Septem
ber, 1922, levy upon all the right, title,
claim, aDd interest of the said defend
ant in and to the following described
real property, to-wit: That certain
placer mining claim known and de
scribed as the “Little Bonanza Associa
tion”, situste on Little Bonanza creek,
a tributary of Bear creek aforesaid.
Notice is hereby given that I will, on
the 15th day of December, 1922, at 10
o’clock a- m. of said day, at the office of
the United States-Marshal, in toe towo
of Flat. Alaska, sell at public auction,
for current lawful money of the United
States of America, all the ri tht, title,
claim, and interest of said defendant in
and to the above described property, or
so much thereof as may be necessary
to satisfy said-judgment, with interest
and costs, and increased costs, to the
highest bidder.
Dated this 27th dav of September,
A. D. 1922.’at Flat. Alaska.
Giebert B. Stevens,
United States Marshal,
By James A. Davidson,
(Special Deputy Marshal.
public must be ijicated in matters med
ical. Me own medical adviser, Due
Plaiiagsa, was in only a few minutes
ago. ‘A glass of beer,' he says to me,
' ’tis full of vitamins, Dooley.’ An’
thin, for Flanagan is full of blarney,
Potash, he tells me of the vitamins,
for years an’ years, Potash, you an’
me have been takin’ thim, an’ niverabit
did we know of it. An’ yit, had they
been missin’, Potash, tumble would
have been the results ”
“It ain’t a new germ, is it, Dooley?’’
“The germ of the wheat is full of it,
Potash but ividently ’tis not a germ
like the coccuses an’ the wlgglers that
is in the wather. Milk is full of it an’
belike ’tis for that very reason you an’
me ntver missed thim.”
“Which proves again, Dooley, as
what you don’t know selfdom could
damage you.”
“Ignorance is a blister, Potash, and
folly makes men wise. As I was savin ,
they are in lettuce an’ in orange juice,
an’ in vegetables an’ in fresh meat an
in most of the fruits of the field an’ the
fish of the sea.’’
“Where are they not, then, DooleyV”
“Doc Flanagan says that 'tis his be
lief they are not in most of the little
tablets that claim in the papers they
have thim.”
“Vot I mean—” began Potash.
“ ‘Vitamin’ is the word,” said Doo
ley, ‘an’ don't be afraid you’ll forgit it.
The fellys that make the tablets will
see to it thot ye reroimber.”—Amer
ican Medical Association Journal.
Might Dot Uncle Sara refer to Europe
as his debtor half?—Wall Street Jour
nal.
The U. S. Shipping Board ought to
change its Dame to the American Bar
Association.—Life
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