fflE KUSKO TIMES
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Owner and Editor.
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intfred as second-class matter August
‘29th, .923, at the Post Office at
'Toaotna, Alaska, under the
A at 02 March 3, 1879. -
JTOK0TNA, ALASKA. DEC. 20, 1924
Leppold David, High
ly Esteemed Anchor
age Citizen, Passes On
Anchorage Times.
At 13 minutes to II last night [Nov.
72} ^Leopold David, beloved and re
spected citizen of Anchorage, trustee
of J.he Alaska Publishing Company,
suddenly passed into the great beyond.
His death, while sudden, was not total
ly upexpec-fed, for it was kmiwn that
the ,‘‘Judge.” as he was universally
called, had been in poor health for
jorne time
Dr. J. B. Beeson who attended Judge
David for the past three weeks, during
the various part, of his illness, attrib
Jted, the cause of death to heart failure.
A little previous to his passing Judge
David had felt his own pulse, and
seemed to feel, according to friends at
the home at the time,-a premonition
that, the end was near. As the Judge
slipped away, a clock in tho room
stopped with the expiration of iife.
Leopold Da7id was born-in Brooklyn,
N. Y., and was i5 vears of age. At the
time^ofthe Spanish-Amerieaa war he
served in the medical corp3 through
out the Philippine campaign. He came
to Alaska about 20 years ago, and was
employed by the Alaska Central Later
he tpok up the practice of law and be
came United States commissioner at
Knilf, moving to Anchorage in 1916,
where he was commissioner for about
i wo ,vears. 3e formed a law partner
ship, with L. V. Ray, of Seward, about
i wo^ears ago. Judge David was the
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PIONEER
SHOP
Machine, Black
smith and
Sheet Metal Work
]
ii All Kinds of Repairs
8
5
Stoves Built
I
and Repaired
Robt. E. Lowrie
Tokotna, Alaska
' '*u\
first mayor of Anchorage, in 1921, ami
was re-elected in 1922.
Although active in community af
fairs, Judge David declined again and
again to eater active ixilitics. He was
a past master of Anchorage lodge. No.
221. a member of Seattle con-istory,
Scottish Rite, and Nile Temple. He
was also a past president of the An
C horage Shriners’Club He also be
longed to Anchorage Lodge, No. 1351,
13. P. O. E., the Odd fellows, and was
one of the first officers of the Anchor
age lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose.
Fie had the distinction of being one of
the few honorary members of the Pio
neers, having been accorded that honor
by the local igloo as a recognition of
his many services on behalf of pioneer
Alaskans.
Society Scion Discov
ers Bride Has Negro
Blood; Asks Divorce
White Plains, N. J., Dec Z.—Lnfard
Kion Rhinelander, scion o? one of New
York’s oldest and wealthiest families,
whose marriage to Alice Johns, daugh
ter of a opgro driver of New Rochelle,
shocked New York society a month
ago, filed in the Westchester county
clerk’s office this afternoon a suit ior
the annulment of the marriage, charg
ing fraud, and maintaining in the com
taining in the complaint that his bride
deceived him as to her lineage and that
she deceived him as to her negro
blood.
U. S. Army Deficient
in Many Ways, Says
Secretary War Weeks
Washington, Dec. ll.s-The United
States is unprepared to repel any at
tempted invasion of outposts and even
soil of the mainland, Secretary of War
Weelts says in his annual report to the
President. The army is deficient in
t he strength of its air fore .. the prin
cipal part of the planes are obsolete,
aod the defenses of the Panama canal,
Hawaiian islands and the coast of con
tinental United States are wholly in
adequate. are among other high points
brought out by the Secretary.
Attacked Cleanliness
Stanford University,
Student Humiliated
San Francisco, Dec. 1.—Manacled,
pinioned and placarded, J. J. Collins., a
graduate student, who recently at
tacked the cleanliness of Stanford Uni
versity in an article in astudeDt paper,
stood chained to a tree before the
campus postoflice for nearly an hour,
subject to jeers from a swarm of stu
dents. Pinned to his chest was a sign
which readr “J. J. Collins, traitor to
Stanford. He is a man without a col
lege.,*’
Chicago Bandits Get
$150,000 in Jewelry
Chicago —Three robbers eDte-ed the
Rother & Ebann jewelry store immedi
ately after opening, Monday morning,
held up the manager and two other
employes, and escaped with jewelry
valued at 8150.000.
For a Nice Lunch J
or First-Class Meal
Call At *
Durant’s Cafe
Flat City
Britain Anxious About
French Debt to America
'London, Dec. 12.—The British gov
ernment will address a note to the
American aud French governments
soon, requesting those governments to
inform Britain what steps are to be
taken or are anticipated 10 settling the
French war debt. The idea that the
United States mav agree to fund' the
French debt on more favorable terms
than the British debt continues to agi
tate a section of the press, which is
making front page features of it.
Seattle.—Purchasing Agent Dale an
nounces that he has awarded the con
tract to the United States Products
Company for $24t' 000 for thirty steel
bridges to replace wooden structures
along the line of the Alaska Railroad.
Delivery of the material, totaling 2.700
tons, at Seward, will commence ia
February, and will be completed in
May. __
Washington.—John Van A Me !
Garray appointed assistant secretary
of state. I
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
I’o R. H. Brown and Frankie Chew,
vour heirs and assigns'
\ ou. ami each of you, are hereby no
tified that I, the undersigned, your co
owner, have expended in labor and im
provemeots the sunt of not less than
one hundred dollars per year for the
years 1921, 1822 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
lion 2324 of the Revised Statutes of the
United States.
D. S. McDonbuc,
Co Owner.
Date of first publication. Sept. 20, 1924.
Date of last publication, Dec. 27, 1924.
In the Probate Court for Otter pre
cinct, Fourth division, Territory of
A.laska, before the Honorable E. ,1.
Steir, Commissioner and ex-otJioio
Probate Judge.
In the matter of the Estate of William
Pringle, deceased—Probate No. 50.
Notice of Final Hearing.
Notice is hereby given that the heat
ing of objections to the final report ami
account of Samuel Applebauro, as ex
ecutorof the estate of William Pringle,
deceased, will be held in the Probate
Court room at Flat, Alaska, on Satur
day, January 17th, 1925. at 2 o’clock in
the afternoon.
Dated, Flat, Alaska, Sept. 27th. 1924.
E. J. St™,
Probate Judge.
PROFESSIONAL
Albrecht and Taylor
Iditarod, Alaska,
LAWYERS
Practice iD all Courts,
Leon G. Loomis
Notary Public
Tokotna, Alaska
Mrs. Jean McLean
Notary. Public
Tokotna, Alaska
Tokotna
Pool Kali
Ice Cream
All kinds of Soft
Drinks
Stationery
Notions, Etc.
Where Oldtimers
Congregate
Jack Mutchler
Proprietor
Blackburn
& Eldridi
-,c%
McGrath, Alaska
Fresh Goods
Provisions, Notions
and Hardware
Hood’s Rubber Goods
ihe bust Shoe Pac. They stand
the wear.
Fish Netting
fur Bought and Sold
Brings us your fur to be made up.
YVe represent a good aod
reliable house.
McGrath Pool Hall
George Matchler, Proprietor
Cigars,Tobaccos, Candies, fruits
,Old-Timers' Popular Resort
Geo. W. Hoffman
Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokwim Valley
Napamute, Alaska
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Good Prices for Your Fur
Larson Roadhouse
Best of Home Cooked Meals. Prompt Attention
New Dog Houses.
Mrs. Frank Larson - Proprietor
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ALASKA RIV2SS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim.
Capt. Wallace Langley, Manager.