A Little of Everything
Newfoundland has an area of about
40,200 square miles.
Girls born on a Monday, according
to an old belief, are beautiful but jeal
ous.
Amsterdam, Holland, has more than
300 bridges.
Delhi, India, is famous for its cash
mere shawls.
Buenos Aires has a hotel for the ex
clusive use of women.
Landladies in London are forming an
association for the protection of their
common interests.
More than 13 per cent of all the peo
ple gainfully employed in Kansas are
women.
A new automobile feature has the
gear shaft mounted upon the steering
wheel.
The Brooklyn, N. Y., Chamber of
Commerce has decided to admit women
to membership in the organization.
Belgium has a corps of women cus
toms searchers whose duty it is to sub
ject women passengers on trains from
Germany to the closest scrutiny.
Wrist watehes are not a modernidea.
As long ago as the year 1571 Queen
Elizabeth received a richly jeweled
wrist watch as a present from the Earl
of Leicester.
The first income tax in the United
States took effect in 1863, when a tax
of 3 per cent was made on all incomes
• over $600, and 5 per cent on incomes
• • above $10,000.
In India Xiger meat is esteemed as a
> food, partly because there is a super
stition that it imparts to the eater
some of the strength and cunning that
• characterizes the animal.
One of the institutions of Turkey is
an Agricultural bank, with a capital of
$15,000,000, the business of which is to
advance money to farmers upon the se
curity offered in their farms.
The British army is to be reduced to
33.000 officers and men. The personnel
involves the disbandment of 24 bat
talions of infantry, 47 batteries of ar
tillery, and 5 cavalry squadrons.
The Tai Mahal, at Agra, is the
world’s most famous mausoleum. Built
of white marble and inlaid with pre
cious stones, it cost $10,000,000. and
20.000 men were occupied 20 years in
the building of it.
Ellen Terry, the famous English act
ress, has declined the title of “dame
commander of the British empire,’’ an
honor which was to be conferred upon
Max Simel
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her by the British government in rec
ognition of her talents and long sent ■
to art.
The highest priced tobacco grown
the world is produced in a certain area
near the west coast of Cuba, which .s
more than 2;» miles square. The fi
aromatic tobacco grown there can I •;
produced nowhere else.
One of the latest inventions is a self
playing cornet. A music roll is at
tached to the side of tho instrume ,
and all the player has to do is to bl v
into the mouthpiece. This cornet s
invented by an English soldier.
No. 10 Downing street, London, i is
been the home of the prime ministers
of England for nearly two hund: 1
years. The first floor of the house s
given over to council rooipp and t o
offices of the premier’s secretaries. , a
second floor contains guest chamber- a
library and the usual appointments t
is interesting o note that the 1 t
three occupants of the famous hous —
one from the aristocracy, and two from
the middle class—have refused all
honors anil titles.
Ex-Dice Expert, Penni
less, Dies by Own Hand
San Bernardino, Cal.—Lew Ft -
man, said to have been one of the clev
erest dice experts in the country, is
dead by his own hand—the hand t at
rolled “seven” and “eleven” for nearly
half a million dollars in the last twenty
years.
Friedman cheated ,or the first time
in his life, his friends say, when Mon
day he beat the spectre of tuberculo-is
by shooting himself- tie died penni
less.
A year ago he came back from Cuba
with $20,000 he had won in a few weeks,
but he gave it away in a short time to
youngsters in the streets from New
York to San Francisco.. Friends pro
vided him with a tent near Victorville
i There he died.
Mineral Application No. 0551
U. S. Land Office, Nome, Alaska
April 28th, 1922.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN th;A
the Flume Dredge Company, a cor
poration, organized and existing ur
dor the laws of the State of Calif
or nia, whose postoffice address
Mills Building, San Francisco, Cali
ornia, has made application, throu
James M. Streelten, its authoriz
agent, whose post office address
Nome, Alaska, before the Unit
States Land Office of Nome, Alas]
for a United States Patent for the
consolidated placer mining cla
known as, THREE STAR ASSOCI
TION, No. SEVEN BELOW D)
COVERY ON YANKEE CREEK,
and No. SIX BELOW DISCOVERY
ON YANKEE CREEK, in the In
noko Mining and Recording District
i Territory of Alaska, and designat
J by the United States Surveyor Gen
oral of said territory as Mine
Survey No. 1274; the exter
I boundaries of said placer claim, ar
cording to the plat and field notes
of said survey, now on file in said
land office (with a magnetic varia
tion of 20 deg. 12 min. E.), being
as follows:
THREE STAR ASSOCIATION
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, a hewn
spruce post, 4 ft. long, 4 ins. sq.,
set 2 ft. in ground, in earth mound,
scribed 1-1274-38., whence U. S. L.
M. No. 1274 bears S. 52 deg. 38
min. E., 148.5 ft.; thence S. 46 do '
39 min. W., 3034.2 ft. to Cor. No.
2; thence N. 28 deg. 48 min. W.,
646.15 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
34 deg. 28 min. W., 662.65 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; thence N. 47 deg. 06
min. E., 2769.1 ft. to Cor. No. 5;
thence S. 43 deg. 26 min. E., 1259.1
ft. to Cor. No. 1, and place of be
ginning, containing an area of
84.12 acres.
NUMBER SEVEN BELOW DIS
COVERY—Beginning at Cor. No. 1,
identical with Cor. No. 3, Three
Star Association Placer, this survey,
a hewn spruce post, 4 ft. long, 4
ins. sq., set 2 ft. in ground, in
earth mound, scribed 3-1274-3S., and
1-1274-.; whence U. S. L. M. No.
1274 bears N. 61 deg1. 34 min. E.,
2996.95 ft.; thence S. 41 deg. 09
min. E., 705.65 ft. to Cor. No. 2;
thence N. 35 deg. 24 min. W. 898.9
ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N. 60 deg.
34 min. E. 700.5 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 34 deg. 28 min. E., 662.65
ft. to Cor. No. 1, and place of be
ginning, containing an area of
12.389 acres.
NUMBER SIX BELOW DISCOV
ERY—Beginning at Cor. No. 1,
identical with Cor. No. 2, No. Seven
Below on Yankee Creek Placer, this
survey, a hew spruce post, 4 ft. long
4 ins. sq., set 2 ft. in ground, in
earth mound, scribed 2-1274-7B.,
and l-1274-GB.; whence U. S. L. M.
No. 1271 bears N. 57 d43 min.
32 sec. E., 3666.52 ft.; thence S. 36
deg. 57 min. W., 909.30 ft. to Cor.
No. 2; thence N. 50 deg. 48 min. W.
840.2 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
36 ‘leg. 05 min. E., 1148.3 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; thence S. 35 deg. 21
min., E., 898.9 ft. to Cor. No. 1,
and place of beginning, containing
an area of 19.998 acres.
Expressly excepting and excluding
from this application the Three Star
Association placer of this same survey,
total area applied for 32.387 acres.
The adjoining claims are: on the
N. E., No. Ten Fraction, unsurvey
ed; on the S. E., claims unknown
and unsurveyed; on the S. W., No.
5 Below on Yankee Creek Placer,
unsurveyed, and on the N. W.,
claims unknown and unsurveyed.
U. S. L. M. No. 1274 is a hewn
spruce post, 3 ins. sq., 8 ft. long,
3 ft. in ground, situated on sloping
hillside in prorn_nent place about 40
ft. in elevation above the bed of
Yankee Creek, Latitude - 63 deg.
03 min. N. Longitude - 156 deg. 19
min. W.
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