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TOKOTNA, ALASKA. SEPT. 8, 1923
Will of Late Lewis T.
Erwin an Unusual One
“I want no expensive coffin bought
Ifor cremating my remains. I want only
•sthe plainest box that undertakers use.
i wish the money saved for the living
■rather than wasted on the sensei,
■dead,” runs a statement in the will c
fthe late Lewis T. Erwin, former IT. S.
.marshal of the Fourth division, Alaska,
who died last March at Koehester,
Minn., where he had gone for treat
tnent, for cancer of the stomach.
The will, says the Portland Ore
* gonian, is one of the most unusual ever
filed in the circuit court. In disposing
-of an estate in Multnomah county, val
ued at $40,000, and property elsewhere,
the document is tilled with ex plana
tions, appreciations, rebukes, and auto
biographical references.
Bequeathing ‘‘Elk tooth No. 318” to
a, daughter,” Mr. Erwin cites that it
was given to him by the “great Indian
Tennewasha” while he was serving as
United States Indian agent on the
Yakona reservatTdnf'Adding the his
torical touch with reference to the
■donor that “He was afterward mur
dered.” In bequeathing to Warren A.
Erwin, son, living in Portland, a moose
head, the testator referred to it as the
one he had “killed at Jarvis creek,
Alaska, the first shot.” With like
ajomment. the decedent-disposed of such
treasures as the blue wolfskin, white
bearskin, caribou, ptarmigan, etc.
Faith Is Greatest of
Virtues, Says Depew
Oq the occasion of his birthday, re
cently, Chauncey M. Depew declared
that faith is the greatest of virtues.
“Out of the troubles of ancient days.”
he said, “the Good Lord evolved the
three elements of suceess and happi
ness and universal consideration—
faith, hope and charity. We have
tried charity in our relations with the
world. Our hopes have not been en
tirely justified. But we have not lost
faith. I have found, with very broad
opportunities for observation and ex
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periences, in what can fairly be called
a long life and a very active one, that
the foundation of hope and of charity,
the foundation of life and friendship
and associations, the foundations of
government and its successful adminis
tration, and the foundations of rela
tions between man and his God, are all
in faith. l’l\e man and the woman who
are joined together and have faith in
etch other, whose children have faith
in them, and the whole family which
has its faith undisturbed by revolution,
by propaganda, by dulse doctrine, aud
serenely pursues us way in life under
the protecting banner of faith, be
comes part of that great and control
ling constituency which has made the
United States what it is, which will
preserve it upon its past principles and
traditions and transmit it to posterity
as did Washington and the fathers of
the country hoped it would be.
‘‘Well, my old friends, you have
smoothed the real, accelerated the
pace aud added to the joys of travel
over tiie highway of life for a third of
a century. With the eighty-ninth mile
stone behind, J enter npoti my ninetieth
year. Oue of the sources of healthy
and continuing longevity is to forget
verything of the past except its gifts
of pleasure auu happiness. I had a
fiiend who on learning of any disease
said, 'Oh, 1 have that,,’ and another
who believed the wealth of the world
his, though he never had a dollar
There is misery and worry in extremes,
and all the good possible is uot at
either end, hut can be found along the
middle road. ,
"J have been near enough to vast
riches to be grateful for my escape and
close enough to bankruptcy to feel its
pangs. Deaiti has robbed me of pre
cious lives, but love has alleviated sor
row and glorified the years. Keep ap
petite within heaknful limits aud place
no boundaries against friends, and you
will uot suffer from physical ills or feel
lonesome in age. The world is full of
good men and women who will gladly
reciprocate all the cheer and joy tney
get from you.”
Tiie favorite tactical maneuver in
the political campaigns of the Anti
Saloon League, which, by the wav, has
thus far refused to comply with ihe
order asking it for a statement of its
campaign receipts and expenditures, is
to threaten to annihilate Lhe political
future of all who refuse to obey ltf
commands. Very dignified was the
answer of Governor Smith, of New
York, to these threat.-, repeatedly ut
tered in hearings and in the Anti-Sa
loon presf. He said:
"I have no political future that I am
willing to attain by the sacrifice of any
principie or any conviction of what in
my mind is for the welfare aud benefit
of tills state and nation.'1
If more people possessed courage
like that of Governor smith the intol
erant Anti-Saloou League would be
come less arrogant, and, perhaps, more
weakling politicians would talk and
vote as they beiieve.—Juneau Umpire.
Charles Dressier, who was taken to
Morcingside asylum during last win
ter, died at that institution on Febru
ary 24, according to information re
ceived recently by Deputy U. S. Mar
shal McMullen, which shows that it
takes some time for news to travel
from that unfortunate haven to parts
and parties most immediately con
cerned.
Frank W'askey is prospecting on
Nushagak river, and Las enough sup
plies on the ground for two years’
work. Reports say he- has received
considerable encouragement.
George C. Cotter, game warden for
the Kenai peninsula, received word
recently to take over the district for
merly served by tienry Dohrman, of
Anchorage. Mr. Cotter’s supervision
now extends from Seward to Anchor
age, Susjtpa and the M.atauuska valley
as far as Broad Pass. Jo addition, he
supervises game conditions to the far
westward, considerable of a job when
one considers the district is largf^
than all the New Kngland and South
ern states combined.
A report from Seattle says that Col.
Frederick Wears, former chairman of
the Alaskau Fngineering Commission,
in charge of t-he construction of the
Alaska Railway, has been appointed
chief engineer for the company build
ing the St. Patti union depot, and will
direct the construction of that station,
involving estimated expenditures of
815,000,000. __
Lafe Spray, for the past eight years
an employee in the ortiee of the clerk
of the district court at Juneau, has re
signed. He was the last hold-over
democrat. Walter B. King will be
promoted to Spray’s former position,
the chief clerkship, and Norman B.
Cook has been selected by Clerk J. H.
Dunn to fill the position formerly held
by King.
Arthur J. Downer, former wireless
operator at McGrath, is now located at
Gird wood, a few miles out from An
chorage, where he is acting as station
agent for the Alaska Railroad.
Starting out. of Cordova recently ori
a bear hunt, two residents of that town
were hucK*v/ibh their bear in just 41
tri tuutes.
The passengers in the smoking cat
chatted on many subjects, finally reach
ing ambition. "Yes. gentlemen,” said
one, "real ambition starts in childhood.
And if we obey its impulse we not only
attain it, but actually we go far beyond
it. Yes. our ambition is gratified be
yond our wildest dtvams. Look at me.
In my bovhnod I was anxious to become
a pirate Today”—and he gazed proud
ly around the car—"today I run a suc
cessful hotel.”—Argonaut.
Notice of Appointment.
Estate of Henry Jung, deceased.
Bertha .lung has been appointed and
qualified as administrator of the estate
of Henry dung, late of Kuskokwim
precinct. Fourth division, Territory of
Alaska, deceased
Dated at Napamute this 2bth day of
June, A. D. 1923.
Geo. W. Hoffman,
Probate Judge of said Precinct.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To Bennett James, John Holmgren,
Charles E. Taylor, George W. Al
brecht, and Edward McArdle and
Charles Knell, and their and each
of their heirs, executors, adminis
trators, successors in interest, and
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.
McKinley mining and recording pre
cinct, Alaska, bas caused tbo annual
assessment work to be done on the
atnive described claim for the years
11*20 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
alwve 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 last pub
lication of this notice, your and each of
your interests in and to said property
will become forfeited to the under
signed, as provided by Section 2324 of
the revised statutes of the United
States and amendments thereto.
Date of first publication, June 1), 1923.
Date of last publication, Sept. 8,1323.
Joseph H. Smith.
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