ALASKA AGRICULTURAL COL
LEGE DORMITORY NOW OPEN
The College dormitory is now ready
for occupancy, or rather it is being
made ready day Ir day, and enough
rooms are finished sot hat those whc
have heen waiting. for them ever
since college opened.can be accommo
dated. It is expected xzfifl zfififf zfifl
• dated. At the end of the first week
in December all the rooms were
finished, and there are accommoda
tions for at least twenty short-course
men. It was expected that at least
that many in addition to the regular
students would desire to take the
short course in mining and would pre
fer to have quarters at the college.
The Territorial Legislature did its
part in providing funds for the build
ing of a dormitory, and now the board
of trustees at the College is deter
mined to extend every possible oppor
tunity, to it hit students. To those whc
. have lived in Interior Alaska for the
I . last, twenty , years or more it seems
impossible that one can secure £
steam-heated room, electric lights
bath, board and.’generally the accom
modations * of., an up-to-date apart
ment,.for the sum. of $55 per-month
This, however, i- just what is being
done at. the College. The. College fur
nishes the bed, springs, mattress
chairs, study table and chiffonier foi
i. the..room... Th< student furnishes his
own bedding and linen. Such articles
can be purchased at the College book
store slightly in excess of the cost a
wholesale. The library at the Col
lege remains open until 10:30 p. m.
and the lights at the dormitory are or
until 11:30 p. m.
The second short lourse for miner:
and prospectors will begin February
1. It is well worth while, and everj
one who. can possibly afford to do si
should 'arrange tencome to the College
for a period of ten weeks and make
use of this exception- 1 opportunity
' The laiiaruto'-ies have equipment that
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PoflHall
Cigars
.Tobaccos
Candies
Fruits
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Soft Drinks
A Place to Meet
Your Friends
Geo.' Mutchler
Proprietor
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neau gold r*
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496 worth of t\
is estimated to K,
of the total gold pro
for th eyear.
IMPROVING CONDI!
AT HOME
Washington,
conditions at horn
the year justify
will see continue
world •stabilizatio
sury Mellon dec.
statement noday
s Mine
Order Solicited
is unexcelled in its line, and the col
lection of mineralogical and geolog
ical specimens is by far the largest
and most complete ever assembled in
the Territory.
Those who intend to take the sec
'ond short course should communicate
with President Bunnell so that reser
vations for rooms can be made. One
rooming at the dormitory has plenty
! of opportunity to visit Fairbanks, for
1 the electric car makes seven round
! trips epr day between Fairbanks and
the College. The expense for books
! and supplies for the course will
amount to approximately $25, but
there is no charge for tuition.
PRESS SQUIBS.
Crime, too, has its permanent
wave.—Wall Street Journal.
One reason why few recognize Op
portunity is because it is a hard job.
—Austin American.
One ,-shudders to think what will
i constitute a radical fifty years from
i now.—El Paso Herald.
Another thing the consumer re
! minds us of is the dummy that the
football..players tackle.—-Ohio State
Journal
Women in Africa acre, said to be
clamoring for American clothes. Af
rica has the climate for them.—Min
neapolis Journal.
I
| A piece of felt never knows
! whether it will be a masculine hat at
$5 or a feminine hat at $18.115.—New
Bedford Times.
A bee dies when it stings you. Now
if it could be crossed with the man
who sells stock.—Beaumont Enter
prise-Journal.
The trouble with a good many boys
is that they insist on doing as father
did instead of as father says.—Osa
watomie (Kan.) Graphic.
The reason there are • so many
failure among marriages is that
there are so many marriages among
failures.—Columbia. Record.
John D. Rockefeller is said to be
writing poetry, but we .want to warn
the poets that he made his money
first.—Cleveland Times.
People living in Florida have the
same expression as those with a
large pile of chips in front of them
at a poker game.—Florida Times
Urion.
“Pretty Girl Aids in Novel Swin
dle.”—Headline. They’ve been doing
it ever since the publishers started
putting their pictures on book cov
ers.—Arkansas Gazette.
“I have always found,” says Prime
Minister Baldwin, “that pipe smokers
have a wisdom, a calmness and
breadth of vision denied to others.”
Well, as regards calmness, there is
our Mr. Dawes.—Detroit News.
Progress consists of swapping old
troubles for new.Col—umbia Record.
The navy rule nowadays seems to
be three years afloat and three years
on the witness stand.—Detroit News.
If France pledges posterity to pay,
her next job is to provide a posterity.
—Associated Editors (Chicago).
Rival says Ford doesn’t believe in
cows because they never need spare
parts or a new horn.—Wall Street
Journal.
With the quantity of soiled linen in
sight now, the convening of Congress
will seem like washday.—Anderson
Herald.
The new security pact will be a
failure unless it substitutes the sales
of justice for balance of power.—Vir
ginian-Pilot.
Russia is coming back to booze.
Thus far this seems to be the only
come-back she’s been able to stage.—
Mannila Bhlletin.
The aviation inquiry recalls to our
memory that somebody said the next
war would be fought in the air.—Co
lumbia Record.
STOLE POLICE CHIEF’S DIA
MOND STUDDED BADGE
Detroit.--Tne ostensible reason for
“Slippery Jim” 'Cushway’s re-arrest
by Milwaukee nolice when he left
Marquette prison Tuesday morning
after a five-year sentence was that he
was wanted there for several bur
glaries. That is not quite the whole
truth. Why Milwaukee police wanted
Jim so. badly was becaause the slip
pery one, after playing fast and loose
with other people’s property, escaped
from jail there, returned to police
headquarters immediately after,, and
stole the gilded, diamond-studded
badge of the chief of police.
Wouldn’t that make any police de -
partment, angry?
The story was told yesterday tby,
Detective Lieutenant William I. Cross
of Highland Park, as h< heard it from
Jim’s own lips when Cross arrested
him in 1922, after one of his fifteen
escapes from Michigan jails.
Operating in Milwaukee, Jirr en
tered a house which he thought,
empty. There was a little girl there,
however, and Jim. said he wanted to
rent a garage. The little girl appar
ently believed him, hut the second
Jim left the house she telephoned po
lice. He was piekeri up tiv e,minutes
later.
At headquarters Jitn was recog
nized by his ringer prints. The offi
cers chuckled on discovering who
their distinguished guest was and let
him know he was not going to do any
slippery work in Milwaukee.
ini'* t Vi < ■ cfnrv tn r.r/reof f'luK
| way hail the bad taste to mimic t.hg
Teutonic accent of some of the, Mil
waukee police, adding' that their sat
isfaction only made hirn the more
anxious to make his escape as a
point of professional pride.
By smuggling a letter out of jail
to a woman in Chicago he obtained ia
ball of string- which he let down from
his cell windoow at midnight. His
woman accomplice attached a pair of
saws to the string, and he spent the
rest of the night sawing through the
bars of his cell door. The next day
“Slippery” left without leaving hii
address.
He felt mighty pleased at having
outwitted h is friends, but his aesthetic
taste wat not satisfied. So he re
turned to police headquarters and re
moved the chief’s badge from the coat
which was hanging on a door.
He eventually worked around to
Tokotna
Cigar Store
Tobaccos
Cigars
Soft Drinks
Fred Dubois
Proprietor
gKaaasa^saMB
CHARLIE’S
LAUNDRY
McGrath, Alaska
A Bath in a Rea!
Bath Tub
Shoe Repairing
Sign Writing
Paper Hanging
Charles Rebhun
The Handy Man !
Decrob
iron, tI
eouV
itself.
‘ed the diamond
'ge and sold it, but
rket for the badge
t it to Detroit police
l with u> courteous request asking them
i to fo*v?ard it to the chief of police at
Milwaukee. , H< explained that he had
j sold the diamond, nut had no use for
| the badge, itself, not being in that line ,
i of business. |
i "Slipix-.ry Jim” is now pack in the
| Milwaukee cooler, and is probably
i complaining of the excess of service
he is getting.
G«x>rge Townsend, an oldtime pros
pector of Chitina and the Copper
niv^r district, died a few weeks ago
at the Copper River Lodging House
ifl Ohitina, from heart failure. He
bi»d recently returned from the States
and hj»d been in fairly good health.
Shirking.
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There was much discussion in an
English city recently as to whether
the public houses should be allowed
to remain open until 11 o’clock in
stead of 10:30. One of the town
councillors emphatically opposed the
change.
“What I say is,” he announced ir
the council chamber, “that if a man
ain’t drunk by ’alf past ten, he ain't
trying.”—Cosmopolitan.
E. Lowden, who arrivedin Sewar
recently from the Kougarok, where h f ^
had been engaged in mining on Ste\
ens creek for many years, exhibite*
a forty-ounce gold nugget, which hndi\ :i
said he was going to put on displa s:
at the mining exposition in Neveri
York. 2r>u
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Are You Going to Build?
We have in stock lumber of all kinds, rough and
dressed. Lately we have added a ftiw lines, such
as Uystic and Shiplap, 1 aud ti-inch Flooring, Win
dow and Door' Casing, Window aud Door Stopping.
Boat Lumber of all kinds.
nd if you are going to build a sled, call «>c us.
best hickory m Alaska.
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A Dredging or Hydraulicing
Proposition, Yankee Creek
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About 7 miles loop, extending from No. 1 below discovery to
the moutn of the creek.
Pay located all along for a distance of about three miles from
tipper end, and pretty w*l- prospected and cross-cut.
Average depth pi' gromid is fre m 7 to 20 feet. Top is all blafcj
muck,that can bp scraped freely. No rock bigger than one’s fist. *,'
•Ground will go from Ji> cents to ?1 per square foot of bedrock, a
Ditch on tiao ground, 3 miles long, together with water rights."
Ground is pretty well cleared. There is also a drain, 3 miles long.
Also a water right oa Steady Bullion creek, from which water can
-be brought to Yankee creek with a, ditch less than a mile long
<4,900 feet), with a pressure of 120 feet, being 1600 feet to the
work from the ditch.
After doing away with mnek there will be from 4 to 6 feet of
j dirt to handle. '
Only about $11,000 has been taken out.
Prospecting work during the past winter has resulted in finding
values that run up to $1 per Square foot of bedrock.
I will either sell the ground er give a lease on it. If the prospect
is satisfactory to the buyer, a cash payment will be expected.
Por further information, terms, etc., call on ground, or write or
telegraph me.
• if ED NOLI-ETTE,
Tokotna, Alaska.