Alaska News Notes
The bridge at Dearlman slough. Fair
banks, has been completed.
Wire drag work for pinnacle rocks in
the inside channel has beeQ completed
by the Geological Survey vessel Ex
plorer.
Thtrtv-five men are engaged in the
construction of the vak lake highway,
near Cordova. The road will be com
pleted this summer.
Joe Covner, pioneer resident of the
Interior, was found dead in his cabin
on Ester creek, recently. Death was
due to natural cause
The Juneau oitv council recently put
up a price of.#13 for the Bov Scout
making the best showing in the paint
up and cleanmp campaign.
The Teeter ti ip settej' has been
placed on the mar ret by a Ketchikan
firm, which recently manufactured
3,500 traps. Or:I s are being received
from all parts of the United States.
Charles Erown. Sr., who has been
special officer for the prevention of sale
of liquor to natives, has resigned, and
Robert James, an old timer and former
president of Nome Igloo, has been ap
pointed to the position.
Carl Lumen, of Nome, a pioneer in
the reindeer industry, has arranged to
ship 6,500 ■ reindeer carcasses to New
York this season. The sales agency for
the company Is being removed from
Minneapolis to Seattle.
Evidences of progress are shown on
every hand, in Seward. Concrete and
stucco buildings are going upon every
lot: the local sawmills are employing
about sixt.v men, and the bureau of
public roads has taken every available
man on road work.
William Reid, of McCarthy, was in
jured a few days ago when a Ford car
he was driving took a notion to climb
the Copper River* rail way roundhouse.
He suffered a fracture of the hip. Wm.
Hair, who was with him, saved him
self bv jumping.' The car was badly
smashed.
The two mammoth gold dredges con
structed at Nome during the past win
ter were launched June 1, at Little
creek, the entire town declaring a half
holiday and turning out to witness the
ceremony. . The dredges were built for
the Hammond Consolidated Gold Com
i pa^y
Fred Bowers. 40, one of the best
known athletes in the Interior, died in
Dawson recently, under peculiar cir
cumstances. He was found unconscious
in his bachelor cabin and was evidently
suffering from internal troubles. He
passed away at the hospital without
regaining consciousness.
The Galena Bay Mining Company
■ has offered the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce a copper nugget, weighing
three tons, to be placed in Pioneer
Square, if the transportation companies
will take it to Seattle free. The com
pany tillers to move the nugget 16
■ miles from Strelna to the coast next
winter. The Seattle chamber lias wired
acceptance of the offer.
Hart Humber has been appointed
deputy United States marshal for the
Tokotna
First Class in Every
Respect
Private rooms, with spring beds.
Good Meals Served
for $1.00
Batli room, with sanitary toilet.
Pure well water.
Good, clean dog house.
First division. iTo was for years a res
ident of the Nome division, where fo" a
time he was mail carrier on the winter
run between UnaTakleet and Nome. On
this run at various times were such
men as Faul Denhart. Alex. Smith and
Sport Smith, all crack mushers.
Dr. L. S. Sugden. a noted lecturer
and pioneer of the Dawson district, was
I drowned a few days ago at Stewart
Falls. He fell oil a barge that wa
being towed to Dawson, and his body
was washed away and not recovered,
fie had come north to take pictures <
the Yukon district, with a view to i
corporating them in his lecture.
A 720-pound brown bear was killed
afewdavs ago by the purser on the
steamer Queen, when that vessel lar i
ed at Funter bay for a time. The pur
ser took a 22-calibre rifle and went out
in the woods a short way. Me hear ! a
noise and saw a brown hear looking
over a log at him. He t hrew the ri >
to his shoulder and fired, the bu!
penetrating the eye, killing the anii
instantly. The bear was feeding < u
the carcass of a deer, which was partly
eaten.
llobert McConnell, an old-time tr.:
per and hunter of the Dawson distri
who recently returned to that cry
from the upper Klondike vail y.
brought in a freak fur of some ani . I
which has not yet been classified by
the trappers of Dawson. Some think
the animal from which it was takeu
was an offshoot of the tiger family, as
the markings were exactly like th.o e
of the royal outlaw of India. The
measured 118 inches long and had an
average width of 8 inches. It was of
a tan color, and had markings on the
breast similar to those of a house cat.
The animal weighed about lifty pound.'
Dr. W. W. Council, accompanied by
Mrs. Council and J. W. Gueker, re
cently returned to Cordova from Yaka
taga beach with the pelts of nine black
bears, one of which was killed with a
bow and arrow. The doctor, who is an
ardent sportsman, recently claimed he
could kill a bear- with an arrow and
was laughed at by Cordova hunters.
He took his bow and arrow along to
prove it, and when he saw a black bear
across a creek from him he brought it
down with his first arrow, which sev
ered the spinal cord, and the bear
dropped as if shot with a bullet. One
arrow went clear through the body of
the bear, tha second being so deeply
imbedded that it could not he pulled
out. Clearings are necessary, says the
doctor, in hunting with a bow and ar
row. He claims the high power has
nothing on a how and arrow as a means
of killing game.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To Bennett. James, John Holmgren
Charles E Taylor. George VV. Al
brecht, and Edward MeArdle and
Charles Knell, and their and each
of their heirs, executors, adminis
trators.'successors in interest, and
assigns:
You and;each of you will phase take
notice that the undersigned, a co-ownei
in placer mining claim No. One above
Discovery on Moore creek, in the Mt.
McKinlev mining and recording pro
cinct, Alaska, has caused the annua.)
assessment work to he done on the
above described claim 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
abovfe named parties;
And you are further notilied 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.
Joseph H. Smith.
Date of first publication, .tune 9,1923.
Date of last publication. Sept. 8, 1923.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To Michael Lucey. vou- heirs, oleeutors
and assigns:
You and each of you will please take
notice that the undersigned, a o-owner
in placer mining claims No. and No.
3 Above Discovery on Moore creek,
has caused the annual assessment work
to be done on the above described
claims for the years 1921 and 1922,
amounting to one hundred dollars for
each year, and for each of said years
has paid for said work, iuclud, >- the
proportion due from the above named
co-owner.
And you are further notified that
unless you pay your proportion of the
assessment work none on said claims
for each of said years, within ninety
days after the last publication of this
notice, your interests in and to said
property will become .'orfeu & to the
undersigned, as provided by Section
2324 of the revised statutes of the
United States and amend men < thereto.
Uic;:ix, B ixjw,
Co-Owner.
Date of nrst publi ion, ■ i;.y 7. 1923.
Date of last publication, Oct. 13,1923.
Notice or Forfeiture.
To Bennett James, John Holmgren,
Charles E. Taylor, George W. Al
brecht, Edward Me. .rdie and Charles
Knell, and their and can i of their
heirs, executors, admiais..' ors, suc
cessors in interest, and as igns:
You. and each oi you, will lease babe
notice that the un iersigned,co-owner
in placer mining claim Good T >-,c|t Frac
tion, situated between No. ! sad Mo. 2
Above Discovery on Moore er; ek( ii.
tiie Mt. McKinley mining and record
ing precinct, Territory of Alaska, has
caused ’ he annual assessment work to
be done on the above described claim
for the years 1920, 1921 and l',i22,
amounting to one hundred dollars for
each year, and for each, of said years
has paid for said wot', including the
proportion due from the above named
parties.
And you are further notified that,
unless you and each of you pay vour
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 2224 of
the revised statutes of the United
;State-, and amendments thereto.
Josisph H. Smith,
Co-Owner.
Date of first publication, July ", 1923.
Date of last publication, Oct. i3.
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Best Brands of Clothing, Boots, Shoes, anti
Men’s Wen, ing Apparel
We Buv and Soli Fur
Rough and Dressed Lum
ber of All Kinds
McGrath, Alaska
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Indian Mitts. Moccasins and Snowshoes
Furs Bought and Sold White Fish and Lvt- Feed
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