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Entered as second-class matter Febru
ary 1, 1922. at the Post Office at
McGrath, Alaska, under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
MCGRATH, ALASKA. MAR 10, 1923
Seafarers See Sea
Snake, Wearing Pig
Ears, and Tell of It
New York.—Captain John Roberts
brought the liner Baltic in today with
the story of a new deep-sea animal
whose like no mariner has ever report
ed before.
The beast, Captaio Roberts averred,
had ears and nose like a pig, was fully
nine feet in girth at the thickest di9
cernible section, and was about twelve
feet long above the water line, with
an inestimable number of feet sub
merged.
Chief Officer Williams, Second Officer
Greediudrod and Fourth Officer Sales
also saw the monster, Captain Roberts
said, and they are going to write the
American Museum of Natural History
a letter describing it in detail. They I
searched countless volumes of deep-sea !
life lore without finding anything that
resembled it.
Attaches of the Natural History Mu
seum confessed themselves at a loss to
catalogue the queer seafarer. Captain
Roberts said he was unable to provide
a more accurate description because
the monster, on sighting the Baltic,
displayed every evidence of fear and
rushed away, swimming alternately on
the surface and below it. Black and a
dun brown were its colors, he said. J.
T. Nichols, head of the department of
fisheries at the museum, recently sailed
on the Baltic and is acquainted with
its officers.
Range of Prices at
Late N. Y. Fur Sale
Declines in fur prices, ranging from
10 to 40 percent on various kinds of
skins, featured the recent fur sale in
New York. Muskrat, several lots of
which were on sale, brought 40 per
cent less than similar lots last Septero
ber, and with the exception of fox pelts
virtually all kmds of furs trapped in
Alaska showed declining prices. All
PROFESSIONAL
Albrecht and Taylor
LAWYERS
Iditarod, Alaska,
and at
706 L. C. Smith Bldg., Seattle, Wash
Practice in all Courts.
Dr. W. f. Green
McGrath,'Alaska
f xes, except cross, were higher. White
fox tod marteu showed an ad vaoce over
September prices of 10 per cent; musk
rat, 40 per eeot decline; wolverine, 10
per cent advance; black bear, U) per
cent, and brown bear, 30 per cent de
cline; northern wolf, 10 per cent de
cline; fisher, medium and small darks,
10 per ceut ad vaoce; fisher, large and
heavy furred, 20 per ceut decline; land
otter, 10 percent, decline.; skuntt. 20 per
cent decline; badger, 50 percent ad
vance; cross fox. unchanged; <blue and
silver fox, 25 per cent advance; dark
and rusty fox, 10 per cent ad vaoce; red
fox, 10 percent advance; beaver, 25 per
cent advance; fresh erejfne, 10 per cent
advance; old ermine, 10 percent de
cline.
PRESS SQUIBS.
Bootleggers can not incorporate, but
they can, nevertheless, make tunoty
out of watered stock. —New York Trib
une. |
If bootleggers can not be made to
pay an income tax, they at least should
be made to pay a water tax.—Detroit
News.
Traces of petroleum found in the
Philippines. No, the islands are not
ready for independence yet.—Omaha
World Herald.
A jury in Iowa has found a woman
guilty of first degree murder, and all
she did was kill her husband.-rPhila
delpbia Record.
Some dollar-a-year men apparently
coat the federal government something
more than appeared on the face.—
Omaha World-Herald.
One-half of the Republican pany is
worryiog about the lame ducks and the
other half about the blind pigs —Phil
adelphia North American.
Miners appear confident, for some
reason, that the government could run
the coal mines belter than it ran the
railroads.—Washington Star.
An astrologer foretells a lot of trou
ble for 1923. He probably refers to the
fact that state legislatures will be in
session.—Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.
What we’d like to see in Europe is
three or four of the Hohenzollero cbll
dren rebuilding houses in the devas
tated French villages.—New .York
Tribune.
Of all the arguments advanced by
the democrats against the tariff, we
have yet to hear any complaints from
demtHiratic manufacturers.—Wheeling
Intelligencer.
In the present effort being made at
Washington, .D.KX, to organize a “peo
ple’s bloc,” might tt cot be a good idea
to organize the entire Senate along
that line?—Seattle Times.
It is stated that there will be four
canneries in the vicinity of Seldovia
operating and packing the large spider
crab some time next month. These
crabs are found in aoundance in Cook
Inlet at certain seasons of the year.
They are a deep sea crab of tremendous
size, sometimes reaching seven feet
from tip to tip, the average size run
ning about five feet. The meat of one
of these average crabs will weigh from
ten to fifteen pounds, is delicious, and
is in constant demand in the States
and in Europe. With the exception of
the A retie ocean, Cook lolet is the only
place in Alaska, so far as can be ascer
tained, that the spider crab is found in
abundance._
A weather bureau observer has been
placed at McKinley Park and one at
Anchorage. Both stations are equipped
with variable barometers and electric
wind velocity registering instruments.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION “ FOR
PATENT
United States Lui Office Nome,
Alaska. April 22, 1922.
....Mineral Application No. 0550
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that William Schneirla, whose post
office address is Ophir, Alaska, has
made Application hefore the United
States Land Office at. Nome, Alaska,
on behalf of himself, and his co
owners, Jacob W. Schneirla Charles
Schneirla, and Edward Schneirla,
for a United States patent for the
Consolidated placer raining claim
bearing placer geld, known and des
cribed as No. 13 Above Gold Run
and No. 14 Above Gold Run, sit
uated on Little Creek, a tributary
of the Innoko River, about twelve
miles southeast of the town of Ophir
in the Innoko Mining & Recording
District in the Territory of Alaska,
said Consolidated Placer Mining
Claim being designated by the Unit
ed States Surveyor General of said
District as United States Mineral
Survey No. 1279, the exterior boun
daries of which, according to the
plat and field notes now on file in
this office with a magnetic varia
tion of 24 deg. 37 min. E. are as
follows:
NUMBER THIRTEEN ABOVE
GOLD RUN ON LITTLE CREEK!
Beginning at Cor. No. 1.
A hewn spruce pest, 4 ft. long, 4
ins. sq., in earth mound scribed 1-12
79-13Ab; whence: U. S. L. M. No.
1278 bears N. 56 deg. 22 min. 50
sec. E., 1003.09 ft.; thence S. 47
deg. 47 min. W. 681.7 ft. to Cor. No
2; thence N. 45 deg. 29 min. W. 640
ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N. 28 deg.
51 min. E. 701.5 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 45 deg. 49 min. E. 868.0
ft. to Cor. No. 1. and place of be-*
ginning, containing 11 740 acres. «■*
NUMBER FOURTEEN ABOVE
GOLD RUN ON LITTLE CREEK
Beginning at Cor. No. 1.
Identical witih Cor. No. 2. No.
13 Above, this survey, previous^
described; whenceU. " S. L. M.
No. 1278 bears N. 52 deg. 54 min.
12 sec. E. 1680.23 ft: thence S.
52 deg. 52 min. W 624.6 ft: to Cor.
No. 2; thence N. '38 deg. "55 min.
W. 514.9 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence
N. 40 deg. 39 min. E. 560 9'ft. to
Cor. No. 4; identical wVh'Cor. No.
3 No. 13 Above this survey, pre
viously described; thence S."45' deg. i
29 min.' E. 640.0 ft. to Cor. No. 1
and place of beginning, containing
nT*r-Q rtf 7 Rflfl aaroo i
Tot'd srrps contained in *aid Con- (
sobdated Claim ia 19.540 acres.
Said Consolidated Plncec Claim
is situated on Tittle Creek. a tri
butarv of the TtnoVo" Rjvpr about
twelve miVs «ort*heast Of’♦bo town
of Ouhir in the I^nolco' 'Mininop <t
■Rpeordine District in ' the‘Territory,
of Alaska.
The adfominir >laim« are on t-hp
no’dtipa’rt No. 12 Above on T.itt’p
Crppfc unsnrveved: on 'the south
west No. 15 abovp on T rVppt
unsurvpved: on the nohhwpct and
soiitheast claims unknown and un
surveved.
TT. S. T.oeation 'Monument atd
1278 is a hewn snmce nost 8 ins
SO 5 ft. above pronnd unjnted bine
with stone mound aunoud same aud
chiseled TT S. T,. M. Mo. l?7R-j
whence:- W. Twin “ PenV tioop-c at
49 dec. 30 min.' E. E. Twin Peak
bears N. 51 dec. 4f) min. E. at0. t.
Dome bears ATorth 23 detr. 43 min
Lot 63 d«o- 04 s<>c. AT
Lone. 15R do<r or m’n W.
JOHN pTTArpp a rv
Register of United States Land Office,
NOTICE "OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT f
United States Land Office 'at Nome
Alaska. April 22, 1922. |
Mineral Application No. 0546.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that "William Schneirla, whose post
office address is Ophir, Alaska, has
made application before the U. S.
Land Office at Nome. Alaska, on be
half of himself and bis co-owners,
Jacob W. Schneirla, Charles Schneir
la and Edwahd Schneirla, for j
United States patent for the Asso-!
ciation Placer mining ‘claim, bear
ing placer gold, known and descri
bed as No. 1 Below Gold Run or
the Fathergill Association Placer,
on Little Creek, a tributary of 8n- j
noko River, and situated about ‘ten i
miles southeast of the town of Ophir
in the Innoko Mining and Record
ing district in hhe Territory of Al
ms,- S»& dfcimcfeiioir Placer claim ,
being designated by the TT.“St -X, R^
veyor General of said Territory as
U. S. Mineral Survey No. 1275; the
exterior boundries of which, accord
ing t.« the plat and field notes i
thereof on file in said Land Office,
with a magnetic variation of 24 deg.
35 min. E., is as follows:
•“Beginning at Cor. No. 1,
A hewn »piuce p st. 4 ft. long.* 4 in.
sq-, in earth mound, scribed 1-1275
B; whence U. S. L. M. No. 1274
bears S. 68 deg. 21 min., E., 267.85
ft.; Thence S: 44 deg. 29 min E.
1291 ft. to Cor. No. 2; Thence S
37 deg. 01 min W. 5101.8 ft. to
Cor. No. 3; Thence N. 56 deg. 22
min. W. 739.3 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
Thence N. 31 deg. 17 min E. 5360
ft. to Cor. No. 1, the place of be
ginning, containing 120.205 acres.
The adjoining claims are, on the
southwest Discovery on little Creek
on the northeast No. 2 Below Gold i
■ r>-& 'fir.
Run on Little f>»( __..i unsur
veyed and claimu:vtj unknown; and
on the rortl • ~ --‘beast
claims unsurveyed ?mi claimants
unknown.
^ S. Ia M. No. 1275 is a hewn
spruce post 8 in. square, 8 ft long,
chiseled If. S. L. M. 1275, sitauted
on the left^Jimit of Rattle Creek,
about 50 .feet ^bove the bed thereof,
whence, West, - Twin Peak bears N.
53 deg..329-n,in. E.; East Twin
Peak bear?; N.,57 deg. 5g min E.;
Roch one?topfof. high mountain at
the: head - of Little Creek bears
S. 34 deg: b mi nr; W.; lat. 63 deg.
5 min N.; long. 156 deg. 22 min. W.
JOHNS’vSUNDBACK
Register y. Land Office.
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I Furs Bought and Sold
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