. 0. BOYS
AT TAG
Takes Over A. Higgins’
Store and Stock On
April 1st.
$r$r- --
A mercantile tiansaetion of some im
portance was consummated on Monday
last when the Northern Commercial
Company acquired the store, stock and
good-wilj of the A. Higgins mertantile
establishment at Taeotna.
Pos-ession of same will be taken
over by the purchasing company on
April 1, according to announcement.
Manager Loomis, of the N. C. Co.,
who negotiated the deal, states that
the company, in enlarging its field of
operations, is making every prepara
tion to give its customers in the Ta
coma section the same high-class serv
ice, particularly in outfitting, as ren
dered at the McGrath store.
Failure of Stork to
Arrive Will Cost Her
One Year in Prison
Chicago.—A stork that did not ar
rive on schedule will cost Mrs. Irene
McAuliiTe Inks, former postmistress of
Franklin Park, a year in the federal
prison in Khode Island.
Miss McAuliflfe and Merle Inks were
arrested at Cleveland in January, 1920,
after tney had disappeared, simul
taoeouslv with the discovery of a shot •
age of $20,000 in Miss McAuliffe’s post
omce accounts.
While awaiting trial they married.
A year ago, when the case was heard.
Judge Mack suspended the woman's
sentence when told she was about to
become a mother. Investigation re
cently showed the stork never arrived,
so Mrs. Inks was committed to prison
fOr a year.
An old negro woman stood by .he
«raveof her husband and saidt “Poj
Rastus! I hope he’s gone where J
’spec he ain’t.”
Stealing Illegal
Liquor Not Theft,
Court .Judge Rules
\\ asbington.—Liquor illefrnlly ob
tained and owned is ‘‘no property.”
and a person arrested for “stealing”
so'-h liquor cannot be legally convicted
I of larceny. Justice Jennings Bailey de
I dared yesterday in criminal division
i No. 2, iJistrict Supreme Court. He
J made that ruling charging the jury be
| fore whicu Luther Kay had been tried
j on a charge of housebreaking aud lar
ceny in connection with the theft of a
quantity of liquor from the Post cafe.
Thirteenth and E streets northwest.
Kay testified he knew the liquor was
in the cafe, and entered the building
with a view uf appropriating some of it
for Lis own use. The liquor, it was
brought out, was the property of the
owner of the cafe. Kay entered the
cafe through a rear door.
Justice Bailey told the jury that if
they found the liquor had been ob
tained illegally, anti believed the story
told by Ray, they should return a ver
dict of not guilty.
A remarkable strike has been made
in the Noorvik-Oandle section, accord
ing to advices recently received at
I Nome. Andrew SaoDO. an ^Eskimo
miner, made the discovery on Koopuk
creek, a tributary to Bucklarid river,
eight miles from the mission aud thirty
miles from Candle. Pans run as 'high
$2 each, and in prospect holes two feet,
the pannings ran $24.75. Saonoo is an
Eskimo, formerly from Unalakleet, who
has been prospecting for-some time in
the vicinity of the strike.
r or Sate—A Dew hardwood sleigh; 10
foot basket. Louis Gorman, Bin
River.
Wanted—A small sled, suitable to
make trip to Kobi; must be reason
able. 1 nquire Times trtfiee.
Dr. D. €. Hardy
Dentist
At Tacotna
!
McGrath
Pool Room
and
Cigar Store
For Sale
Or Lease
Mrs. E. P. Werner
Proprietor
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT
United State-: L*nd Office, Nome
Alaska. A.pril 22, 1922.
I Mineral Application No. 0549
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that William Schneirla, whose post
office address is Ophir, Alaska, has
made application before the United
States I/and Office at Nome, Alas
ka, patent on behalf of himself,
and his co-o\. ners, Jacob W. Scihnei
rla, Charles Schneirla and Edward
Schneirla, for a United States pa
tent for the Consolidated placer
mining claim bearing placer gold,
known and described as No. 8 A
bove Gold Run, No. 9 Above uold
Run, No. 9 Fraction aBd. No. 10
Above Gold Run, situated on i.ittle
Creek about ten miles southeast
of the town of Ophir in the Innoko
Idi.ing & Recording District, Ter
ritory of Alaska, said placer min
ing claim being designated by the
United States Surveyor General of
said District as United States Min
eral Survey No. 1278, the exterior
I boundaries of which, according to
the plat, and field notes now on
file in this office with a magnetic
variation of from 1' deg. 21 min.
i E. to 24 deg. 21 min. E. are as
| follows:
NUMBER TFN ABOVE ON
LITTLE CREEK PLACER.
j Beginning at Cor. No. 1
A (hewn spruce post, 4 ft. long
4 ins. sq. set 2 ft. in ground scri
I t'f>d 1 1278-lOAh whence U S
1 L. M. 1278 bears S. 54 deg. 27 min.
W., 251 2 ft; thence N. 35 deg.
55 mm. W. 586.4 ft. to Cor. No.2;
! thence N 51 deg. 45 min. E. 6r<7.8
ft. to Cor. No. 3;ti.ence S. 35 deg.
38 min. E. 678.9 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 59 de'T 49 min. W. 656.9
■ ft. to Cor. No. 1 and place Of he
^lnmug, drxr-Kiiixxixg mi ansa ui ;7.U£U
; acres.
NUMBER NINE FRACTION
ON LITTLE CREEK PLACER
; Beginning at Cor. No. 1
Identical with Cor. No. 4, No. Ten
Ahove on Little Creek Placer this
survey, previously describ' d: whence
U. S. L. M. No! 1278 bears S. 58
! deg. 19 min. 57 sec.. W. 907.39 ft.
thence N. 35 deg. ?8 min. W. 67&49
ft. to Cor. No. 2: thence S. 89 deg.
j 49 min. E. 258.2 ft., to Cor. No. 3
thence S. 39 deg. 16 min. E. 527.9
i ft. to ( or. N<> 4: t-tence & 54 dee. 12
; min. W. 242.9 ft. to Cor. No. 1
and place of beginning. containing
i an area of 3.101 acres.
NITMREP NINE APOVF. ON
LITTLE CPFEK PLACER
' Beginning on Cor. No. 1.
Identical with Cor. *Tn 4, No.
' Nine Fract'on on Little Creek
Placer, this survey, nreviou^lv des
i crihed. WhenceU. S. L. M. bears
; 1278 bears S. 57 deg. 27 min. 34
i sec. W. 1149.8 ft. thence N. ?9 deg.
: 16 min. W. 52".9 ft. to Ccr. No. 2:
'thence N. 52 deg 12 min. E. 583 7
ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence S. 35 deg.
18 min. E. 4P3.1 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 48 deg. 28 min. W. 549.5
ft. to Cor. No. 1 and place of be
ginning, containing an area of 6.628
acres.
NUMRER F.ICHT APOVF ON
LITTLE CREEK PLACER.
Beginning at Cor Vo. 1.
Identical with Cor. No. 4, No.
Nine Above on Little Creek Placer
this survev, previously described.
Whence:- U. S. L. M. No. 1278
bears S. 54 deg. 33 min 16 sec. W.
1694.72 ft; thence N. 35 deg. 18
min. W. 493.1 ft. to Cor. No. 2;
thence N. 45 deg. 03 min. E. 672.1
ft. to Cor. No 3: thence S. 44 deg.
12 min. E. 657.1 ft. to Cor. No 4:
thence S. 57 deg. 52 min. W. 767 4
ft. to Cor. No. 1 and place of be
ginning, containing an area of 9.406
acres.
Total area contained in said Con
solidated Claim is 28 655 acres.
I Said Consolidated Placer Claim
is situated on Little Creek about
ten miles southeast of the town of
Ophir iri the Tnnoko Mining and
Recording District, Territory of Al
aska.
The adjoining cla’ms are on the
northeast No. 7 Above Gold Run
on Little Creek, unsurveved; on the
southwest No. 11 Above Gold Run
on Little Creek unsurveyed; on the
northwest and southeast, unknown
and unsurveved.
i/ocation Monument No. 1278 is
a hewn spruce post 8 in. sq., 8 ft.
long’, painted blue and chiseled U.
S. L. M. No. 1278, 3 ft. in ground,
j yith a stone mound 3 ft. high, 8
' ft. base, around same. This loca
tion monument is situated on high
| prominent point on the right limit
■ of Little -Creek, just above the
■confluence of Little Creek and Trail
Creek, whence W. Twin Peak bears
N. 49 deg. 30 min. E.; E. Twin
Peak bears N. 51 deg. 40 min. E.;
No.. 1 Dome bears N. 23 deg. 43
min. E
Latitude 63 deg. 04 min. N.
Longitude 156 deg. 25 min. W.
JOHN SUNDBACK
Register <>f United States Land Office.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To B. T. James, Ed MeArdle and
Charles Km 11, your /heire, executors
and assigns;
You are hereby notified''that. I, the
undersigned, your cc-owner, have ex
pended in latior and improvements the
sum Of not less than one hundred dol*
lars pMtKi.’Oj] for the years 1920 and
1921 • poti your interests iu i he Good
Lock Fraction, situated between No. 1
and No, 2 Above Discovery on Moore
creek, in the Mt. McKinley mining and
recording precinct, Territory of Alaska,
io order to hold said claim under the
provisions of Section 2324 i of the. Re
vised Statutes‘of the United States and
the amendments thereto concerning
annual labor noon minim? claims heimr I
tbe amount required t>. ■ id min
ing claim lai- iuu t-ending June
30, 1021.
And if within ninety days after the
publication of inis notice you fail or
refuse to contribute your proportion of
said expenditures, as well as the cost of
recording the same, aud tbe costs of
this advertisement, your interests its
said claim will become tbe property of
the undersigned, your co-owner, who
has made the aired expenditures
under the terms of. cutd section 2324 of
the Revised - Stututes of the United
States . .Cecil Barlow,
« Co-Owner.
Date of first publication, Jan. 6, 1923.
Date of last publication, April 7, 1923.
For Clean, Comfortable Rooms
Stop at
Snyder
House
Flat City. Good Dog Barns
C. M. PEDERSEN
i.
Northern Commercial Co.
of Alaska
f,
While, ft Lasts, Our
* Will Cost You
$7.50 Per Suit
Announcement is herewith made. that the-.'Northern
Commercial Company has acquired the stock and [
good will of the'A. Higgins mercantile concern
at Tacotna and will take possession of same
on April 1, when we will be prepared to
give every attention to outfitting.
McGrath Roadhouse
Excellent Meals
Service Prompt:arid Efficient
A. HIGGINS
Tacotna
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