A Little of Everything
Montreal is planning a nev; hotel, to
cost $9,000,000.
Iceland is nearly five times as large
as the state of Massachusetts.
Pekin’s streets, unlike those of most
Chinese cities, are wide and straight.
Italy has 4,800,000 lemon trees, which
produce 1,290,000,000 lemons annually.
By adding pulverized mica, concrete
can be made closely to resemble gran
ite.
Denmark’s kings have been called
either Christian or Frederick for over
400 years.
It has been found that salts of lead,
in very small amounts, will stimulate
plant growth.
The inhabitants of Jutland are. be
lieved to be the most genuine speci
mens of the old Danish stock.
A large part of the wage earners in
Argentina are women, more than one
million being engaged in gainful occu
pations.
Six thousand “hello girls” are em
ployed in the telephsne exchanges of
Tokyo. The Japanes'e call them “moslii
moshi” girls.
Peary’s first North Polar expedition
’asted four years, 1808 1902, during
w hich period he failed to get nearer
than 343 miles to the pole.
Miss Steno Scorup, school teacher,
has been elected mayor of Salina, Utah,
defeating her brother, a prominent
business maD, for the'position.
Within the limits of the city of New
York there are 800* farms, valued at
$35,373,780 The principal products of
the farm are hay, corn and potatoes.
Miss E. Pearl Cartmill, of Chicago,
is examiner of small loan agencies for
the State of Illinois, the only woman ip
the United States to hold such a posi
tion.
Miss Alta Norton, living on a farm
in Burton county. Kansas, travels 10
miles aud passes through three coun
ties on her way to and from school
each day.
Miss Netti Seheerer, representing
I llinois Wesleyan University, won the
annua! state-! oratorical contest over
six young men representing various
other Illinois colleges.
A tortilla-making apparatus has been
invented by Sr. Borgg, of Nicaragua,
The machine takes the corn, grinds it
to the proper fineness, mixes the dough,
3hapes the tortilla and passes it to an
oven*, where it is rapidly baked,
The girls in Joplin, Mo., have diseov
Max Simel
The Pioneer Trader
Furs Bought and
Sdld
Miners’, Prospectors’
and Trappers’
Supplies
Steamer Service On the Inoka
River.'3
Ask the People Ophir.about, us.
STATION
fairview, Innoko River)
ered that the white cloth of sugar
sacks, cleaned and dyed, makes pi < tty
waists and smocks, as well as milk
strainers and shoe polishers. One ste
nographer has a sugar-sack waist em
broidered in wool.
Wind-blown pollen (sulphur rain ) is
known to be carried far. The Swedish
experiment; station -epor's a quite ex
tensive rain of tree pollen on two fire
ships, 20 and >7 miles from shore, and
the pollen of the algae is known to
have been carried as far as 200 miles.
j? Children’s clothes, as well as lace
curtains, can be fireproofed by soaking
in a solution of a pound of ammonia
phosphate in a gallon of cold water.
The solution, no more harmful than or
dinary water, makes any article fire
proof until washed or drenched with
rain.
1 A whiteelephact is considered sacred
‘ in Siam, and when one dies it is given
: a funeral grander than that accorded
to princes rf royal blood. Buddhist
priests officiate, and thousands of de
vout Siamese men and women follow
the deceased animal to the grave.
Jewels and offerings representing much
wealth are buried with the elephunt.
Zoos are no new' institutions. China,
which anticipated European civi'.iza
i tion in almost everything scientific,
started a zoo in J] B. C., and that it
was a true zoological collection and not
a menagerie is shown by the name they
gaye it—“Intelligence Park.” Mex
ico, in the days of its greatness before
its conquest by the Spaniards, had
zoos, aviaries and aquaria.
A recent note tu Science records
what is believed to be the temperate
zone record for a single season’s growth
of a shorn of .he tree type of the woody
plant. This phenomena! shoot grew
from the stump of a beheaded Paul
ovvnia, and reached a height of 21 feet
6 inches, a circumference of 10 inches
at the base, and had 24 leave-., ODe of
which was found to be 38 inches long in
the largest dimension.
Mineral Application No. 055‘
U. S. Land Office, Nome, Alaska
April 28th, 1922.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the Flume Dredge Company, a cor
poration, organized and existing un-i
der the laws of the State of Calif- j
ornia, whose postoffice address s,
Mills Building, San Francisco, Calif-j
ornia, has made application, through j
James M. Streeten, its authorized i
agent, whose post office address is {
Nome, Alaclra, before the United '
States Land Office of Nome, Alaska,1
for a United States Patent for the
consolidated placer mining claim!
known as, THREE STAR ASSOCIA- j
TION, No. SEVEN BELOW D1
COVERY ON YANKEE GREEK, j
and No. SIX BELOW DISCOVERY!
ON YANKEE CREEK, in the In-j
noko Mining and Recording District,1
Territory of Alaska, and designated
by the United States Surveyor Gen- i
oral of said territory as Mineral
Survey No. 1274; the exterior
boundaries of said placer claim, ac
cording to the plat and field notes
of said survey, now on file in said
land office (with a magnetic varia
tion of 20 deg. 12 min. E.), being |
as follows:
THREE STAR ASSOCIATION—!
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, a hewn
spruce post, .4 ft. long, 4 ins. sq.,|
i set 2 ft. in ground, in earth mound,
scribed 1-1274-38., whence U. S. L.
M. No. 1274 boars S. 52 deg. 38
min. E., 148.5 ft.; thence S. 4G deg.
39 min. W., 3034.2 ft. to Cor. No.
2; thence N. 28 deg. 48 min. W
(546.15 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
34 deg. 28 min. W., 662.65 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; thence N. 47 deg. 0(5 i
min. E., 2769.1 ft. to Cor. No. 5;
thence S. 43 deg. 26 min. E., 1259.1
ft. to Cor. No. 1, and place of be
ginning, containing an area of
84.12 acres.
NUMBER SEVEN BELOW DIS
COVERY—Beginning at Cor. No. 1,
identical with Cor. No. 3, Three
Star Association Placer, this sufvey.1
a hewn spruce post, 4 ft. long, 4 |
ins. sq., set 2 ft. in ground, ii
earth mound, scribed 3-1274-3S., art
1-1274 , whence U. S. L. M. No
1274 bears N. 61 deg. 34 min. E.
2996.95 ft.; thence S. 41 deg. 0!
min. E., 705.65 ft. to Cor. No. 2
thence N. 35 deg. 24 min. W. 898.!
ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N. 60 deg
34 min. E. 700.5 ft. to Cor. No. 4
thence S. 34 deg. 28 mi: E., 662.6:
ft. to Cor. No. 1, and place of be
ginning, containing an area o
12.389 acres.
NUMBER SIX BELOW DISCOV
ERY—Beginning at Cor. No. 1
identical with Cor. No. 2. No. Sevei
Below on Yankee Creek Placer, thi
survey, a new spruce post, 4 ft. lonj
4 ins. sq., set 2 ft. in ground, ii
earth mound, scribed 2-1274-7B.
and 1-1274-6B.; whence U. S. L. M
No. 1274 bears N. 57 deg. 43 mi.i
32 see. E„ 3666.52 ft.; thence S. 3i
deg 57 min. W., 909.30 ft. to Cor
No. 2; thence N. 50 deg. 48 min. W
840.2 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N
i | 36 deg:. 05 min. E., 1148.3 ft. to
! Cor. No. 4; thence S. 35 deg. 24
. min., E., 898.9 ft. to Cor. No. 1,
, and place of beginning, containing
) an area of 19.998 acres.
; Kx press] y excepting and excluding
> from this application the Three Star
. Association placer of this same survey,
; total area applied for 32.387 acres.
• The adjoining claims are: on the
; N. E., No. Ter. Fraction, unsurvey
ed; on the S. E., claims unknown
and unsurveyed; on the S. W., No.
' 5 Below on Yankee Creek Placer,
> unsurveyed, and on the N. W.,
1 claims unknown and unsurveyed.
3 U. S. L. M. No. 1274 is a hewn
' spruce post, 8 ins. sq., 8 ft. long,
1 3 ft. in ground, situated on sloping
> hillside in prominent place about 40
■ ft. in elevation above the bed of
; Ytnkee Creek, Latitude - G3 deg.
3 03 min. N. Longitude - 156 deg. 19
• min. W.
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i Seattle to Kuskokwim River
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Furs Bought and Sold White Fish and Dog Feed
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