BONDING COMPANY STUCK
FOR BIG SUM IN CASE OF
FAIRBANKS P. O. ROBBERY
San Francisco.—When a new post
master does not change the combina
tion of the office safe upon assuming
“his post he is guilty of negligence, ac
cording to the United States Circuit
*P&urt of Appeals, which held in up
Jjplding the judgment of the Fair
banks trial during the last term of
<court,. Registered mail packages
'were rifled of $9,900 and magazines
:substituted in the pouches for cur
rency at the Fairbanks postoffice five
.ybars ago.
Postmaster T. II. Deal and the
Ibonding company lost their suit which
•was brought against them by the
United States government to recover
tthe missing money, which was depos
ited with Deal at Fairbanks on Sept.
15, 1921. Deal and the bonding com
pany sued the United States on writ
• of error, but during the trial the
• court's judgment was upheld. Julien
‘ Hurley, district attorney for the
Fourth division, presented the case to
ithe Court of Appeals in San Fran
< cisco, three months ago.
Mr; B. J. Boyd, Takotna school
1 teacher, will leave within the next
jfew days for a visit to the Outside, to
• extend over the summer months, dur
ing which time she will attend the
'Teachers’ College at Cheney, Wash.,
but will return here on one of the last
Iboats. Mrs. Frank Joaquin, a most
• capable and efficient substitute, will
• continue Mrs. Boyd's work to the end
• of the school term.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Laneley, fol
ilowing a visit of several months on
Ifhe Outside, were scheduled to sail
from Seattle today, on their way to
; Seward, and headed for McGrath.
Charlie Konietzky returned l»> town
'Thursday, after having given atten
tion to some assessment work over on
♦Ganes .creek.
Tokotna igloo of
Pioneers, No. 14
Regular Meeting*
J Wednesday, Mar. 17
At 8:30 P. M.
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PROOFREADER AND DEVIL
ALMOST COME TO BLOWS
That was a bad error in last week’s
issue of The Times, occurring in the
second line of the article “Town’s
Name is Takotna, Not Tokotna, Says
P. O. Dept. Order.”
The first two lines of the article, of
course, as must have been apparent
to all readers, should have read:
“You might as well get the habit—
hereafter spell it T-A-K-O-T-N-A.”
The proofreader, who got an awful
calling down, said he marked the
error, and placed all blame for its
non-correction on the devil. The devil
countered back with something about
a liar, and for a moment or so it
looked as though there might be a
mix-up.
But, despite all this exhibition of
ill feeling, these two worthies, again
warming up, were later overheard
saying something about “mental ab
erration.”
And there you are—all can see
what an honest newspaper man is up
against in his own office.
H. K. Carlisle, timber agent of the
United States Land Office at Fair
banks, after a trip to the Lower Kus
kokwim, returned here Monday, left
Tuesday for Canes creek, and again
returned here today.
Dave Mutchler, well known local
meat magnate, is scheduled to leave
Seattle on March 19th, headed here,
recording to recent advices.
Scotty Auld was among today’s ar
rivals, coming from Flat, after a visit
o. several days at that place.
Frank Joaquin, from the Joaquin
dredge, on (lanes creek, was a today
arrival for a brief town visit.
G. \Y. €. Glass and Lee Lamprecht,
after a number of days on Ganes
creek., were today arr'.sls.
Frank Gusk- i. son and
Peter Snow ay ar
rivals from
Boh Low ‘ • -i <j ; 1 day from
a brief bush:.-:. Ophir.
Axel Ahnsdahl, from Ganes creek,
is a late arrival.
Owen Gray, bringing up Vivian
Howard and Jean Keith, arrived fco
ay from McGrath.
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Alaska Notes
Gleaning! From Territorial
Kxrhnnges.
Otto Smith, an employe of the Cop
per Rivet; & Northwestern Railway
sTiops, was found guilty under the
Territorial law prohibiting the theft
of electricity, and was fined $250 and
giVen a six-months’ suspended sen
tence by United States Commissioner
Boyer, at Cordova. Tie was also re
quired to pay a $250 light bill, in ad
I dition to his fine. Smith was appre
j hended through investigation of the
Alaska Public Utilities Company,
which beearoe curious on account of
Smith’s bills, which grew less and
less as the days became shorter. It
was found that Smith had put.a wire
around the meter, sidetracking the
current so that it did not pass I
through. While his bills were exceed
ingly small, he was heating his home
with three 500-watt electric heaters,
used a motor in his sh<rp, operated a
sewing machine by electric power,
burned seven 100-watt lamps, and had
a small electrically operated .moving
picture machine.
According to a well known and'
fairly authentic source, the Standard
Oil Company will continuue opera
tions in the Cold -Bay district for a
period of at least ten years. It was
also stated that the fact that the
company has already drilled two dry
holes means nothing, for in producing
oil fields throughout the world thou
sands of dry holes have been drilled,
while, sometimes, at a short distance,
gushers emit the liquid gold by the
hundreds of barrels. It is also a well
established fact that prior to the |
entry into the westward district of
the big oil companies, nationally
known experts and authorities had
visited the district and pronounced
that oil was there. The recent shut
down of the Associated drilling crew ,
means little aside from what the re
cent news item- ‘gt.-d, that the-work i
had ceased p? «*u -account of
lack of fuel an. oeral weather con
ditions. Drilling will be resumed in
the latter part of March. The Stand
ard Oil crew has been cut down to
some extent, hut there is still ;u crew
at work carrying on drilling opera
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
In the Probate Court at Ruby, Nulato
Precinct, Fourth Division, Terri
tory of Alaska, before Stanly R.
Morgan, United States Commis
sioner and ex-officio Probate Judge.
In the matter of the estate of Seth
Steven Gilman, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the un- |
! dersigned has been appointed admin
istrator of the estate of Seth Steven
Gilman, deceased.
All persons having claims against
| said estate are required to present
i them, duly verified, with proper
I vouchers Attached, to the under
signed, at the United States Commis
sioner’s office, Ruby, Alas"ka, within
six (6) months from the date of this
notice.
Dated Ruby, Alaska, March 13, 1U26.
JOHN W. DUNN,
Administrator.
First publication, March 13, 1926.
Last publication, April 17, 1926.
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Toketna, Alaska
tions. A recent dispatch from 'the
head offices of the company in San
Francisco announced that drilling will
be continued indefinitely or until '&
well is broughtin.
Frederick 'D.' Brown, formeHy 'dis
trict engineer for the Alaska. Jtail
rond, -with : headquarters -.at Nenana,
died at Merced, Calif., some -weeks
ago, according to a letter': received in
Juneau from the chief engineer of the
Southern Pacific 'Railroad. The fu
neral services-and interment was at
Raphael, Calif. Mr. Brown was con
nected with the Alaska Railroad dur
ing the construction days- and when
the operation was under the direction
of the Alaskan Engineering* Commis
sion. He succeeded Thomas Riggs,
'Jt., former governor of Alaska, when
the latter left the commission. Forj
some years past Mr. Brown had- been
m California, and was with .the South
ern Pacific Railroad ..at the time of
his death. Mr. Brown was born Sept.
24, 1865,. at Montreal,'CCanada.
Harry'Platts,-an oldtimer of the
North,-was receatlyJdgported to Eng
land, his native country. He is rail
oldtimer and well-known around Daw-,
son, Fairbanks,'Iditardd, Nome and:
the Portland* Canal district. Convic-,
tion <Sf violations of !the. prohibition j
and narcotic >acts brought about the!
deportation.
iCaptain W.'J. McDonnell, Kodiak’s
most picturesque inhabitant, commit-^
ted suicide there some weeks..ago He’
was'. 75 years old and a pioneer Alas-’
kan. The Captain was a graduate of
McGill University Law. Sehool. He
took to the sea early in life and lom
manded the trading schooner Marion j
Rennie, which cruised-among the then
cannibal islands of the;’South Seas.
Part c' his career is portrayed sin
Julias Thomas’1 book, “Cannibals and
Convicts.” the scene of which is laid
in the French penal colony- lat New
Caledonia. McDonriell was reputed to
be one of the first commanders of the
famous clipper ship Glory of the Seas.
He served as deputy collector of cus
toms at Unalaska in 1902, and in 1904
he was collector i>f: customs at Unga
and agent of the Northern Commer
cial Company.
Goimar Kasson, who returned to
Nome several weeks ago, made ■■ a
much different trip this winter than
he did last winter. ': He left Nenana
with his dog team, carrying.ii load of
Fleischman’s yeast cakes, expecting
to make a record trip. Last winter
he took to Nome the diphtheria anti
i toxin during the diphtheria epidemic.
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Those who travel
the Nenana-Mo
.Grath .Trail < will ’
\ find the Old Trail f
•via Lake Minchu- \
mina -kept ? open l:
. and in i?ood con- {
difcion. v
c&oadhous&aeeom- v
modations.
• Price, .$5.00.
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