Mrs. E. P. Werner
Tells About Kodiak
Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Werner and
daughter. Miss Dora, formerly of Me
| Grath, and who left for the coast last
winter, are now located at Kodiak,
Writing from that place to a Tokotna
friend, Mrs. Werner says:
•‘Well, here we are oo an island, at
P Kodiak, the oldest and most permanent
town in Alaska, and 1 will say the pret
tiest place I have ever been in since I
came to Alaska. It has all the relics
j|‘. of the old Russian days.
“The hills are all covered',with thick
grass, and herds of cattle graze upon
them. Almost every one has a cow,
chickens and gee90. They run loose
everywhere and are not at all afraid,
The bay is so pretty. Everv day many
fishing boats come in to bring fish to
the cannery. There are quite a num
\ * ber of people employed. This will be
the apex of the western coast for the
fishing industry.
* “The New England Fish Company
are putting up a large cold storage
plant, which will cost one million dol
| lars, and that will make Kodiak a
great place.
“I got here in the right time. Have
bought a house and big lot, and have
a foundation for a building for a hotel.
f People are here from all parts or
Alaska. There is a fellow here who
‘ cut teD cords of wood for Charlie
Rebhun at McGrath two years ago.
“We left Anchorage the 29th of May.
Dora was promoted to the sixth grade,
anh passed high with her examina
!« There is a good school here, with three
teachers.
“The news has just arrived that the
Standard Oil Company has struck oil
at Kanatak, at a depth of 2,300 feet.
There is a terrific flow of gas. This is
considered by the oil experts to mean
that a gusher is there.”
John Dickson.
A letter has been received at the
+ Governor’s office inquiring as to the
I circumstances of the reported death of
John Dickson, native of Dundee, Scot
land. This information is desired bv
* his mother, who received word that
her son had disapprared in a blizzard
last April in Alaska, the locality not
being given; that a search party had
been sent out, but failed to find trace
of him. If there is any information
known about Mr. Dickson, kindly send
word to the Governor’s office, Juneau,
so that it may be transmitted immedi
ately to his mother.
IIBUfttH
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Tokotna
Pool Hall
Ice Cream
All kinds of Soft
Drinks
Stationery
Notions, Etc.
Where Oldtimers
Congregate
Jack Mutchler
Proprietor
No More Bonus for
Government Employes
The appropriation bill providing $240
a year bonus for all federal employes
in the classified civil service whose
salaries are $2,500 a vear or less and
allowing $5,000 for similar distribution
among those in the field service on ac
count of the high war cost of living,
failed to become a law in the recent
session of Congress.
This means $20 a month less pay
after June 30, last, for all government
employes whose pay is $2,500 a year or
less. It affects hundreds of federal em
ployes in Alaska, including those em
ployed in the Forest Service, Bureau of
Education, Bureau of Public Roads,
Alaska Road Commission. Customs Ser
vice, Immigration Service, Bureau of
Fisheries, Biological Service, Light
house Service, TJ. S. Land Office, Sur
veyor General's Office, Bureau of U. S.
Surveys, the postoffice service, Alaska
Railroad, etc.
Sick Workers Cost
Huge Sum Yearly
Chicago.—Sickness among industrial
workers in the United States causes a
money loss each year of nearly three
quarters of a billion dollars, declared J.
B. Andrews, secretary of the American
association for labor legislation, before
the meeting of the association of gov
ernment labor officials.
One-fourth of this loss, he said, can
be prevented.
“The most effective aid to the pre
vention of industrial sickness,” he as
serted, “in the absence of workmen's
health insurance laws, now lies in the
inclusion of occupational diseases,
along with work accidents, in our. work
men’s compensation laws."'
Flicker—We’ve simply got to cut
down expenses, Fannv.
Mrs. Flicker—I might learn to roll
mv cigarettes.
“That’s the spirit! And couldn’t
you make a permanent wave last a
week or two longer?”—Judge.
John E. Baker Fund
Ophir -
Carlson & Hounan .
Charles Isaacson
Mike Roki
Christian Liolgen
Matt Kivi
John Edwards
H Nicholson.
Lee Lamprecht
J W Downey .
Peter Donnelley.
John P Myklebust
Hubert Limberg.
Nels J Vibe
Wm Molyneaux
Axel Peterson
E L Daniel
Mike Mynti.
Virginia Howard..
Carl Westberg.
Frank Speljack
Alex Ciasson
John Griffin
Dan Nicholson
Paul Flynn.
John Krieger
John W Slayton.
Paulson’s Road house
Eric Hard
John Vik.
John Repo.
Carl Olsen_
Delbert Thompson .
John Collins.
Wm Lodge.
Joe Ferris.
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Tokotna Radio Station Schedule.
Following is the schedule now ob
served by the Tokotna radio station:
WEEK DAYS.
9:20 a. m.—Receive from Anchorage.
11:20 a. m.—Send and receive lditarod.
1:20 p. m.—Receive from Anchorage.
4:30 p. m.—Send and receive lditarod.
5:05,p. m.—Receive from Anchorage.
SUNDAYS.
9:30 a. m.—Receive from Anchorage.
11:30 a. m.—Send and receive lditarod.
4:30 p. m.—Send and receive lditarod.
5:00 p. m.—Receive from Anchorage.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE. I
To Charles Iiebhnn and Mas: Menard,
your heirs and assigns:
You, and each of you, are hereby
notified that I, vour co-owner, have ex
pended in labor and impiovements the
sum of one hundred dollars per vear
for each of the years 1921, 1922 and
19215 upon the Eva Bench placer mining
claim, on tbo right limit below Discov
ery on Yankee creek, tributary of In
noko river, in the Ophir recording pre
cinct, Territory of Alaska, in order to
hold said claim under the provisions of
law respecting annual labor on mining
claims, g
And if, within ninety days* after the
publication of this notice, you fail to
pay your portion of such expenditure,
your interest in said claim will be for
feited to the undersigned co-owner,
according to the provisions of Section
2324 Revised Statutes of the United
States.
9
Ed Not.eette,
('o-Owner.
First publication, July 5, 1924.
Last publication, Oct. 4. 1924.
THE
BY-SGOLLY
Tokotna
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Gandies
Cigars
Soft Drinks
Lunches
John Heino
Proprietor
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Rough and Dressed Lum
ber of All Kinds
The Kusko
Times
$1 Per Month
A Dredging or Hydraulicing
Proposition, Yankee Greek
I am the principal owner of a block of 'ground
on Yankee creek, about seveD nines long, “extend
ing from No. 1 Below Discovery down'to the,mouth
of the ereek.
Pay has been located all along for a distance of
about three miles fronTtho upper end, and pretty
well prospected and cross-cut.
The average depth of the ground 'is fromseven
to twenty feet. The top is all black muck, that can
be moved freelv. No rock bigger than one’s fist.
The width of the pay, for a- distance of about
three miles, is from 100 to ‘200 feet. Crosscuting
work indicates that the ground will go from 15
cents to SI per square foot of bedrock. My belief
is that the pay will average 50 cents per foot.
1 have a ditch on the ground, three miles long,
together with water rights. The ground is prettv
well cleared. There is also a drain, three miles
long, with the water right. I also have a water
right on Heady Bullion creek, from which water
can be brought to Yankee creek with a ditch less
than a mile long (4.900 feet), which will give four
sluiceheads of water,Iwith a pressure or fall of 120
feet, being 1000 feat to the work from the ditch.i
After doing away with the muck, there will be
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from four to six feet of dirt to handle. The pay
runs mostly in the bedrock of porphyry and slate.
The ground is virgin, only about $11,000 having
been taken out by windlass in prospecting.
Prospecting work during the present winter has
resulted in finding values that run up to $1 per
square foot of bedrock.
The Flume Dredge Company has a dredge above
this ground, which has been in operation for the
last three seasons.
The Government road crosses Yankee creek. T
also have a road down the creek that connects with
the Government road.
I am also the agent for owners of ground other
than that held bv myself.
The ground can be worked either with dredge,
drag-line scraper, or by bydraulieing.
I will either sell the ground or give a lease on
it. If the prospect is satisfactory to tho buyer, a
cash payment will be expected. A good bargain
will be given to the right party.
For further information, terms, etc., call on
ground, or write or telegraph me.
ED NOLLETTE,
Tokotna, Alaska.