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Construction of the long-awaited
new federal court house in Fairbanks
»hy be expected to start within a
short time. A wire received a few
»days ago by the United States Mar
shal’s office served notice on federal
officials to' he prepared to vacate
their offices within a month’s time.
’* Razing of the present structure, it
is believed, will be begun this winter,
and it is probable that, construction
of the new building' will start in the
spring.,
*■* Building of the new court' house
will mean the expenditure ‘of several
hundred thousand dollars, a large
portion of which will be spent ' lo
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Np' marked depression in general
business conditions' is evident in
r* Alaska, said Tom Gaffney, who re
turned to his home at "Nome a. few
days ago, after mhking.^a tour of the
"foiir divisions of the Territory.
But as h specific instance of hard
times he', told the Fairhanks""News
o Miner of the serious curtailment of
F the lumber industry in the First di
vision that.' has come through adop
tion of fiber Pokes instead of lhmber
hoxes by the packing concerns.
“They ‘have a very difficult prob
letifk to iontend with,” said Mr.'Gaff
ney. “About 2,000 persons are nor
■' * mhlly engaged in the lumber business 1
Dorbandt
and
Cope
Fly in corpfort to all points in
A1 ska in oar four-passenger
cabin plana. Large baggage
compartment separate from the
cabin. Equipment for water >
landings.
Sig?' -seeing trips any tim\
$5.00 pe. passenger.
For Rates to Alaska Points
SEE
J. P. TAYLOR
in the Fitst division, and sawmills
have been depending to a great ex
tent on making box shooks for the
canneries. Now 50 per rent of the
pack is put up in fibre containers and
no doubt the wooden box is a thing
of the past.
“Ail the chambers of commerce are
debating the solution of the problem.
The only solution seems to be to force
the canneries by taxation to continue
using wooden boxes. This method is
crude and primitive and not sound
economic doctrine. Leading business
men of the First division seem to feel
that while it might remedy the situ
ation for a time, it is very unsound
philosophy, but some such measure
may have to be adopted. By using
fibre containers packers save seven
cents per box, and brokers also effect
large sayings ,as more fibre boxes'
can be' shipped in a ailroad car than
wooden boxes.”
Casey Moran is still alive. De
ceased in Venezuela and buried in
Louisiana in*reports recently received
by his son, B. H. Moran, captain of
the U. S. fisheries boat Blue Wing,
the elder Moran was resurrected in
a telegram received'at Juneau recent
ly by the younger Moran from his
wife at Wrangell.
“Father very much alive,” said the
message;” which added that Mrs,
Moran had received word from Casey
Moran at Caracas, Venezuela.’ The
elder Moran, famous in the annals of
the North and widely known news
paper man of Seattle, Dawson. Fair
banks and other frontier towns, has
been publishing a newspaper at Mari
caibo, Venezuela, fo several years.
His "son, while in Juneau several
weeks ago, met a stranger named
Raynhor.si P. Smith, who claimed to
have been an intimate friend of Ca
sey’s. He declared that Casey had
died some time ago in Venezuela and
that he had brought the body back to
Louisiana for interment. Having no
reason to doubt Smith’s word, Moran
accepted L at its face value but wrote
to Maricaioo for details.' In response
to this a dv-nia Jof tin report was re
ceived by mm.
Smith, who later left Juneai and
went to Wrangell, was picked up
there for observation and later a
charge was filed against him for ob
taining money at Juneau under false
pretenses. Captain Moran came back'
to the Capital City to appear as a!
witness in the case, and it was while j
thus engaged that he received the
message informing him that his
father was still alive.
Floyd Morton, of Fairbanks, whose
wife claimed he trailed her from that
place to Seattle to kill her, was ar
rested at the latter city a few days
ago. He had been released a day or
twqi before, when he promised the
judge he would leave the city, but in
stead, police said, he made the rounds
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Revigator Restores Water’s
Lost Element
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tinue to live healthfully unless we live with some respect
to the laws of nature. Life is but cellular buildiny and cellu
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Sir Arbuthnot Lane, the great English physician, says “Most
diseases are directly traceable to bad drainage in the body"—to
the accumulation of clogging waste matter or poisons at vital
organs.
For centuries the world has recognized the value of health
springs, and medical officers now attribut the value of the famr
ous springs to the natural radio-activity of their waters. This
radio-activity is one of nature’s ways of dissolving and elimin
ating these health-destroying poisons and building healthy cells
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Order one today from any of the following sub-agents: Vic
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Fred Roethlisberger, Ophir; Chris Petersen, Takotna.
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of 14 hotels on Sunday and seven ho-'
tels Monday, trying to pass forged
checks.
He succeeded in passing most of
them. In each case he hired a differ
ent taxi, rushed up to the hotel clerk
and said he was usjt in from Alaska
and needed cash to pay for the taxi.
Morton collected more than a hun
dred dollars. Some clerks were sus
picious and phoned police. He was
later charged with grand larceny.
One of the finest dairy herds in
Alaska was completely wiped out by
a fire which destroyed the barn at
Henry T. Bentley’s dairy, near Fair
banks, a few mornings ago.
Twenty-three Holstein cattle,, two
horses and many chickens were suffo
cated and the barn and all its eon
tents were hurried.
Mr. Bentley estimates his.'loss at
over $35,000. He was protected by
only $1,000 iri insurance.
An adjoihing; building was used as
a chick
garage,
Sixty tons of hay went up in the
flames. The bottling machine, separ
ator, light plant,' pump, milking ma
chine and cases and bottles were de
stroyed.
The dairy herd was built up after
years of careful selection, and with
the exception'of *sa|riie of the younger
stock, all the animals were regis
tered.
The number of‘fur seal in the Prib
ilof islands, Alaska; has been in
creased by 73,574, or nearly 8 per
cent, as compared with' the total for
last year, according to a'computation
of August 10,' received' in the 'tm
merce Department's Bureau of Fish
eries
The total number of animals in;
herd f<yr this year'is 1,045,101. In-j
TABLE OF DISTANCES BE
TWEEN N-ENANA AND FLAT
Rouse, boiler' room
and ;
arid "this.'was also destroyed.
Miles
Nenana ..„... 00
Tavern Roadhouse . 17 Vi
Knight’s Roadhouse . 23 %
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse . 58 .. j
Diamond Roadhouse.76
Roosevelt .,.. 89
Lake Minchuntina.. 115
Trappers’ Cabin . 132
Lone Star Roadhouse . 150
Telida Roadhouse .._. 169%
Slow Fork Roadhouse !. 187
East Fork Roadhouse .) 206
Berry’s Landing Roadhouse . 227%
Big River Roadhouse._... 241
McGrath . 263
Takotna . 280
Bill Goss’ Roadhouse.. 291
Ophir . 300
McCafferty .. 806
Brown Creek shelter cabin.. 318
Fritz shelter cabin . 833
First Chance shelter cabin . 346
Schermeyer R. H. 360
Iditarod .376
Flat . 384 •
Bonanzza sheler cabin, 12 miles
from Flat.
Crooked Creek shelter cabin, 19
miles from Bonanza.
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Pioneer
Shop —
Blacksmith,
Machine and
all kinds of
Sheet Metal
Work
Safetys
Stoves
ROBERT LOWRIE
Proprietor
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eluded in this number were 1*32,084
young, or pups, of the season, and a
like number of breeding females.
Since the commercial sealing season
is over by the end of July, the num- j
oer given for August 10 is exclusive
sf the 42,500 seals killed during the
summer sealing operations.
The increase shown this year is
considered very satisfactory and in
Lhe opinion of the trade there is
every reason for looking forward to
further increases from year to year,
both in th esize of the herd and in
the number of pelts that may be
taken for commercial purposes.
Point Barrow and vicinity recently
campleted celebration of the comple
tion of one of the largest reindeer
roundsups in the history of the Arc
tic, one herd numbering more than
14,000. Ice block corrals, six to eight
feet high and a quarter to a half mile
in diameter, wei'e constructed by na
tives. The deer will be held while
they are counted and branded.
Several thousand dollars in gold '
bricks was brought into Seward re-1
cently by Babcock & Downey as a
result of a 14-day mill run at Nuka
Bay, which is developing into one of 1
the richest properties in the Terri
tory. They also brought in seven
tons of high-grade concentrates that
went out on the Alameda to a Ta
coma smelter. It is figured the con
centrates will go a thousand dollars
to a ton.
The mine has just been inspected
and sampled by an engineer of the
Alaska Juneau Company, who is re
porting to the company.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
You, Ralph J. Rivers, Hans Gal
neck, co-owners with the undersigned
in the Garnet Lode Claims No. 1,
No. 2, iNo. 3 and No. 4, situated on
the reght limit of Otter, on Mala
mute Pup, in Otter Recording Pre
cinct, Territory of Alaska, will please
take notice that the undersigned, for
the years of 1927, 1928, 1929, did
perform more than $1,200.00 worth
of work for the benelt of the above
described claims. If each of your
proportionate share of assessment
work dues is not paid within ninety
days after last publication of this no
tice, your interest in each of the
claims will become forfeit to the
undersigned in accordance with the
provisions of Section 2324 of the Re
vised Statutes of the United States.
RASMUS NIELSEN.
First publication, September 21,
193°.
Last publication, December 27,
1930. 21
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Furs Bought and Sold Clothing
All Kinds of Nice Fresh Groceries and Fruits
Canned Goods of All Kinds Beds and Bedding
A. R. Eldridge - McGrath
Rough and Dressed Lum
ber of All Kinds
INNOKO LUMBER CO.
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