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TOKOTNA, ALASKA. [JULY 7, 1023
Cols. Mears and Steese
Engage in Fist Fight
Valdez Miner.
The steamer Northwestern, arriving:
.n i port yesterday morning from the
westward, brought the story of a fist
fight between Col. Frederick Mear9,
head of the Alaskan Engineering Com
mission, and Col. J. G. Steese, his suc
cessor, in which Col. Mears is said to
naive come out second best and went to
the Anchorage hospital for repairs
According to the story, Col. Mears,
who was recemly relieved of his posi
tion as head of the Engineering Com
mission through the consolidation of
the Engineering and Road commis
sioins, being succeeded by Col. Steese.
has been very peeved over the situa
tion, claiming that he had no knowl
edge of the contemplated change until
heisaw it ie the newspapers, and alieg- j
log that Col. Steese had been cognic- j
ant of the coming change for mouths,:
autl had gone so far as to locate a route I
ion a railroad spur into the Kantishna i
country last summer. ThisCoi. Steese
denied.
It is alleged further that Gol. Mears,
while Col. Steese was in Anchorage a
.lew day3 ago, publicly attacked the
war record of Col. Steese and ques- j
iioced his ability to operate the rail
road.
It is also said that the- proieqt for
coHsolidating the EngiDeering and the I
Ilohd commissions originated with Gol.
Mears himself while in Washington, in
the belief that if such a consolidation
should be made he would remain at the
head of the two commissions and would
Chus be in a position to divert a large
share of the wagon road appropriation
to the building of feeders for the rail
road. The appointment of Col Steese
;o the head of the combination- was a
wholly unlooaed-for event and, it is
said, contributed largely to the bostil
•itviof Col. Mears to his successor.
The building of the Alaska railroad
was a feat of which any man might
well be proud, and that Col. Mears was
desirous of bringing it up to a caving
institution is unquestionably true, and
t is also unquestionably a fact that he
PROFESSIONAL
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Dr. W. F. Green
McGrath, Alaska
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! was willing to sacrifice every other
] portion vf Alaska to this end.
j That he conferred with Secretary
| Tall on the project he admits, aud it is
(generally believed that the agitation
j for moving the capital, the court aud
cable headquarters to Anchorage has
been materially aided by Col. Wears. '
n view of these facts, it is Fair to pre
sume that in working for the consolida
tion of the Engineering and Itoad com
missions he had in view the develop
ment of the railroad section, regard
less of the rest of Alaska.
With Col. Steese at the head of af
fairs-, it is generally believed that while
the railroad district will not suffer, it!
will not thrive at the expense of the
rest of the Territory.
PRESS SQUIBS.
The modern girl may have her little
weaknesses, but she isn’t effeminate.—
Fresno Republican.
King Tut seems to have been at the
right end of the income tax collection.
— Wall Street Journal.
Why doesn’t France threaten Ger
many with prohibition unless fhe pays,
up?—New York Tribune.
Germany might stabilize her cur
rency by leaving it blauk on one side to
serve as note paper. — Bridgeport Star. '
An Arkansas woman has cremated
her third husband. This is what comes
of the coal shortage.—Boston Shoe and
Leather Reporter.
Another explanation of the modern
child’s manners is that too many wood
sheds have been turned into garages.—
Associated Editors.
Tut-ankh-Amen iisn’t the first de
funct monarch whose tomb has become
a source of riches. There is John Bar
leycorn.^-^Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
Theorists who try to abolish poverty
seldom are able to see that a lot ot
other things must be abolished first.—
Boston Shoe and Leather Reporter.
What we can’t understand is why j
statesmen never seem so wise in (Jon {
gress as tbev do on a Chautauqua plat- !
form.—Kitchener (Ont.) Daily Record.
Eight million more Russians are said
to be facing starvation. Lenin seems
to be a grand frost as chairman of the
committee on refreshments.—Detroit
News.
The outlook in the automobile trade
is excellent, as theie are still thou
•sands of bouses that haven’t been mort
gaged to buy cars.—Nashville South
ern Lumberman.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To Beonelt James, John Holmgren,
Charles E Taylor, George W. Al
brecht, and Edward McArdle aud
Charles Knell, and their and each
of their heirs, executors, adminis
trators, successors in interest, aud
assigns:
You and each of you will please take
notice that, the undersigned, a co-owner
in placer mining claim No. One above
Discovery on Moore creek, in the Mt.
McKinlev mining and recording pre
cinct, Alaska, has caused the annual
assessment work to be done on the
above described t' tim for the years
1920 and 1921, amounting to one hun
dred dollars for each year, and for each
of said years has paid for said work,
including the proportion due from the
above named parties:
And you are further notified that,
unless you and each of you pay your
proportion of the assessment work done
on said ground for each of said years,
within ninety days after the lust pub
lication of this nonce, your and each of i
vour interests in and to said property ■
will become forfeited to the under-1
signed, as provided by Section ?324 of
the revised statutes of the United
States and amendraents thereto.
Joseph H. Smith.
Data of first publication, June 9,1923.
Date of last, publication. Sept. 8,1923.
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