THE KUSKO TIMES
A. X. Grant, Publisher, Sole
Owner and Editor.
Published Every Saturday
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Entered a« second-class matter August
29th. 1923, at the Post Office at
ToKotna, Alaska, under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
TOKOTNA, ALASKA. OCT. 11. 1924
J. E. Beattie Opens His
New Hotel, Longview
Longview Times.
Hotel Broadway, Longview’s new
three-story hostelry, formally opened
for business last evening, with 25
guests occupying rooms. The hotel
has 00 rooms.
J. E. Beattie, late of Iditarod, Alaska,
is proprietor and manager. H. R. ’
Johnston is chief clerk.
The new hotel is declared by tran
sients to be the most elaborately fur
nished and thoroughly equipped mod
erate-priced hostelry in the Pacific
Northwest. Each room is to have a
telephone. There are ten connecting
baths and two public baths on the sec
ond and third floors. Each room has
hot and cold water and a spacious
closet.
There^re fire alarms and fire hose
on each floor, with exits to a tire escape
on Eleventh avenue. Every room is an
outside room.
The lobby, a billiard parlor and bar
ber shop occupy the first floor.
The color scheme in the lobby is blue.
There is treadlight. covering on the
floor. Twelve upholstered leather
ehair6, two Davenports, two oak writ
ihg desks and the clerk’s desk and
telephone switchboard are in the lobby.
Axminster carpets, padded with felt,
cover the stairs, halls and rooms
throughout the building. The furni
ture in the rooms is of walnut.
An electric sign, 50 feet long and 20
feet high, for the top of the building,
will be erected next week, states Mr.
Beattie. Operation of a taxi service in
connection will also start next week,
Machine, Black
smith and
Sheet Metal Work
All Kinds of Repairs
Stoves Built
and Repaired
Robt. E. Lowrie
Tokotna, Alaska
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be announces. It will be conducted by
C. II. Beattie, of Vancouver, B. C.,
brother of the hotel owner.
In June, 1923, Mr. and Mrs. Beattie
drove through Longview while on a
tour of the Pacific Northwest. They
became so impressed with the project
here that Mr. Beattie returned to
Alaska, straightened out his affairs
there and returned to make arrange
ments for entering business here.
J. E. Beattie came to Longview from
Iditaaod, Alaska. From 1910 to 1915
he conducted a hotel in that city. From
1915 to 1922 he carried all mail and all
flold shipments for the American Rail
way Exprecs Company from Interior
Alaska to the coast by dog team. Ais
dog team is sa;d to have been the best
canine mail carriers in Alaska during
Mr. Beattie’s service.
‘Burning Waste’ Only
Man Smoking Stogie
Lompoc, Calif.—Considerable delay
was caused on the Eompoc lo Surf rail
way today by the efforts of the conduc
tor to locate a hot box.
Half wav betweon Lompoc and Surf
the conductor called a halt for the
train, declaring that he smelled burn
ing waste, which meant that oil had
run out of one of the bearings.
He made a thorough inspection, but
to no avail.
Returning through a passenger
coach, the conductor stopped before a
well known Lompoc citizen.
“What are you smoking?” the train
man demanded.
“Home-grown tobacco,” the man re
PROFESSIONAL
Albrecht and Taylor
lditarod, Alaska,
LAWYERS
Practice in all Courts.
For a Nice Lunch
or First-Class Meal
Call At
Durant’s Cafe
Flat City
Tokotna
Pool Hall
Ice Cream
All kinds of Soft
Drinks
Stationery
Notions, Etc.
Where Oldtimers
Congregate
Jack Mutchler
Proprietor
plied. “The best I ever smoked, too.”
The conductor swore softly and sig
naled the train to move on.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To II. H. Brown and Frankie Chew,
vour heirs and assigns:
You, and each of you, are hereby no
tified that I, the undersigned, your co
owner, have expended in labor and im
provements the sum of not less than
one hundred dollars per year for the
years 1921, 1922 and 1923 upon the
Pack Mule Association placer mining
claim, situated on Otter creek, a trib
utary of Iditarod river, in the Otter
mining and recording precinct, Ter
ritory of Alaska, in order to hold
said claim under the provisions of Sec
tion 2324 of the Revised Statutes of
the United States and the amendments
thereto concerning annual labor upon
mining claims.
And if, within ninety days after the
publication of this notice, you, or either
of 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
interest in said claim will become the
property of the undersigned, your co
owner, who has made the required ex
penditure under the terms of said Sec
tion 2324 of the Revised Statutes of the
United States.
D. S. McDonull,
Co-Owner.
Date of first publication. Sept. 20, 2924.
Date of last publication, Dec. 27, 1924.
Blackburn
6c Eldridge
McGrath, Alaska
Fresh Goods
Provisions, Notions
and Hardware
Hood’s Rubber Goods
The best Shoe Pac. They stand
the wear.
Fish Netting
fur Bought and Sold
Bring us your fur to be made up.
VVe represent a good and
reliable house.
J. H. McLEAN - TOKOTNA
We Have the Best
Swift’s Premium Hams and Bacon
Golden State Butter
Star Ham 45c Bacon 50c
All Fresh Goods
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Geo. W. Hoffman
Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokwim Valley
Napamute, Alaska
New Goods Have Arrived
One of the best stocks ever brought into the
Kuskokwim Valley. Prices are right.
Good Prices for Your Fur
Larson Roadhouse
(Formerly The McLean, Tacotna.)
Best of Home Cooked Meals. Prompt Attention
New Dog Houses
Mrs. Frank Larson - Proprietor
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating: Lig:ht Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim.
Capt. Wallace Langley, Manager.