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VIcGHATH, ALASKA. MAY 6. 1922
Prohibition Law Joke,
Says Oldtimer; Former ,
Alaskans Now Outside
——
Nenana News.
In spite of all the money that is being
spent by Uncle Sam to enforce the 18th
amendment, the entire country, from
the west coast to the Atlantic, appears
to be very wide open, according to O.
M. Jackson, former pioneer business
mau of Nenana, who returned on Sun
day from an extended stay in the
States. And, in his opinion, the whole
trouble lies in the fact that the illieitt
traffic is given encouragement bv graft
ing officials, of whom there appears to
be almost as many as there are boot
leggers. By way of illustration, he
cites the case of one man, a former
resident of the Interior, who had occa
sion to make several contributions to
the Seattle police. In one instance he
left his car at the curb, and when he
returned he found two ttolicemen in hisj
machine awaiting his return. They i
had the goods on him. for he had care- j
lessly left one bottle of booze in the j
car. The officers directed him to drivr
to the nearest police station. lit j
obeyed, but instead of taking him into
the station they ordered him to drive
around the block and, on the wav
around, asked him how much money he
had. He had a little over $100 with
him and told them so, but they were
not satisfied, and ordered him to drive
to the station again. This operation
was repeated until they had circled
the block seven times, at the end of j
which time the former Alaskan stopped j
his machine and told his captors to
take his money, the bottle of booze and
bis car and let him go. Alter some
little deliberation they took $100 and
the booze and let him go with the car i
and some small chantre.
It is no trouble. Mr. Jackson says, to j
obtain good liquor in any part of the
country, and, in most of the cities vis
ited by him, regular bars are main
tained where one may get any kind of a
drink. Good whisky sells for 50cents
a drink, and mixed drinks are sixbits.
’Frisco is a very damp city, and, while
he was there, booze was one of the
three principal topics of conversation.
The other two were oil and Arbuckle.
Mr. Jackson saw a lot of old-timers
in his travels—so many that be cannot
recall all of them. He met a few in
Southern California, more in San Fran
cisco, and still more in Seattle. He
recalls one evening at the Atwood, in
Seattle, when the lobby was full of
sourdoughs. The hotel is headquarters
for Alaskans.
R. S. McDonald was met there He
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was staying at the hotel, waiting for1
passage on a steamer sailing north.
Claude Kelly, former clerk of court at
Fairbanks, was also there, having come
over from Tacoma to see some of the i
oldtimers. He does not think he will !
be able to stand it Outside more than a j
year longer. Dutch Blank held and Bd
Lund, both formerly of Nenana, have a
clothing store on First avenue. Tom
Rockwell has one of the best, barber
shops in Seattle. George Butler is still
in business in Seattle and doing well.
Louis Spitz was met in San Francisco, j
being at that time on .his way to Reno.
Ai Murphy, former Fairbanks ditch i
man. is in San Francisco, where he is
in the real estate business. Leroy 1
Tozier, it was reported, intended to.
return to Alaska at an early dale, j
Mrs. Belle Campbell is in Sud Fran - j
cisco. She has recovered the use of
one eye. but will have to undergo an-]
other operation before tier sight will
be fully restored. Norman Koon is
working for an oil company near Oak
land. Hunter Scales, Frank Wood and
Joe Morrow, all formerly in the employ
of Fairbanks banks, are now workiug
in San Francisco banks and apparently
well satisfied. Former Territorial Mine
Inspector Maloney is also in San Fran
cisco. J'l E. Peoples is reported to
have given up his coal land proposition
and is oow devoting his time to the fur
business in Seattle.
Conditions in Seattle are bad, Mr.
Jackson says. And tie attributes it
largely to the fact that taxes and rents
are too high. The Seattle tax rate
8| percent this year. Toe high rents
have forced many concerns to seek new
and smaller .quarters and a consider- 1
able number have quit business alto
gether.
The Portland fair, Mr. Jackson
learned, is very much up in the air
right now. One of the leading business
men of that city is now touring F.urope !
for tiie purpose of ascertaining sent!
inenl abroad regarding the proposed
fair, and it wili depend upon his report
whether or not the plans are carried
out. The fair talk attracted quite a
number of people to Portland to y in
the year, but the i»oom is waning at
present.
Mineral Application No. 0505.
U. S. Laud Office. Nome. Alaska.
February 2. 1022.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the Flume Dredge Company, a cor
poration, organized and existing un
der the laws of the State of Calif
ornia, whose address is Mills Build
ing, San Francisco, California, has
made application before the United
States Land Office of Nome, Alaska,
through James M. Streeten, its
authorized agent, whose address is
Nome, Alaska, for a United States
Patent for the consolidated mining
claim known as the MAYFLOWER
ASSOCIATION, No. 12 ABOVE, No.
13 ABOVE, and No. 14 ABOVE
DISCOVERY ON YANKEE CREEK,
in the Innoko Mining and Recording
District, Territory of Alaska, and
designated by the United States
Surveyor General of said territory
as Mineral Survey No. 1269; the ex
terior boundaries of said placer
claim, according to the plat and
field notes of said survey, now on
file in said land office (with a mag
netic variation of 20 deg. 12 min.
E.) being as follows:
MAYFLOWER ASSOCI A T I O N
PLACER—Beginning at Cor. No. 1,
a fir post, 4 ft. long, 4 ins. sq., in
earth mound, scribed 1-1269-M.A.:
whence U S. L. M. No. 1270 bears
N. 21 deg. 33 min. 06 sec. E.,
4353.23 ft.; thence S. 68 deg. 22
min. E., 656.5 ft. to Cor. No. 2;
thence S. 22 deg. 33 min. W.
2666.5 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence
N. 75 deg. 02 min. W. 545.55 ft.
to Cor. No. 4; thence N. 20 deg.
07 min. E., 2728.7 ft. to Cor. No.
1 and place of beginning. contain
ing an area of 37.109 acres.
NO. 12 ABOVE ON YANKEE
CREEK PLACER — Beginning at
Cor. No. 1, identical with Cor. No.
3, Mayflower Association, a fir post,
4 ft. long, 4 ins. sq., in earth mound,
scribed 2-1269-M. A., and 1-1269-12
Ab.; whence U. S. 1*. M. No. 1270
bears N. 16 deg. 34 min. 56 sec. E.,
7044.95 ft.; thence S. 29 deg. 51
min. W., 1411.0 ft. to Cor. No. 2;
thence N. 47 deg. 32 min. W. 502.2
ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N. 27 deg.
59 min. E., 1161.8 ft. to C6r. No.
4, identical with Cor. No. 4 May
Hi
flower Association, this survey;
thence S. 75 deg. 02 min. E. 545.55
ft. to Cor. No. 1, and place of be
ginning, containing an area , of
15.024 acres.
NO. 13 ABOVE ON YANKEE
CREEK PLACER—Beginning at
Cor. No. 1, identical with Cor. No.
3, No. 12 Above, this survey, a fir
post, 4 ft. long, 4 ins. sq., in earth
mound, scribed 3-1269-12 Ab , 1
1269-13 Ab.; whence U. S.i L. 'M.
No. 1270 bears N. 21 deg. 59. min.
12 sec. E., 8235.84 ft.; thence 5.
47 deg. 32 min. E. 502.2 ft. to Cor.
No. 2, identical with Cor. No. 2,
No. 12 Above, this survey;* thence
S. 39 deg. 03 min. W. 1187.left. ..to
cor. No. 3; thence N. 40 deg. 15
min. W., 511.05 ft. to Cor. No. .4;
thence N. 39 deg. 05 min. E. 1122.05
ft. to Cor. No. 1, and place of be
ginning, containing an area of
13.299 acres.
NO. 14 ABOVE ON YANKEE
CREEK PLACER—Beginning at Cor.
No. 1, identical with Cor. No. 4,
No. 13 Above, this survey, a fir
post, 4 ft. long, 4 ins. sq., scribed
4-1269-13 Ab., 1-1269-14 Ab.;
whence U. S. L. M. No. 1270 bears
N. 24 deg. 00 min. 58 sec. E.
9313.95 ft.; thence S. 40 deg. 15
min. E. 511.5 ft. to cor. No. 2, iden
tical with Cor. No. 3, No. 13 Above,
this survey; thence S. 44 deg. 41
min. W. 1252.8 ft. to cor. No. 3;
thence N. 34 deg. 22 min. "W. 524.0
ft. to Cor No. 4; thence N. 44 deg.
57 min. E. 1198.1 ft. to* Cor. No.
1,, and place of beginning, contain
ing an area of 14.401 acres.
Total area applied for, 79.833
acres.
The adjoining claims are: on the
N., Oregon Group, unsurveyed; on
the S., Perpr.yory Association, un
surveyed; on the E. aPd W., claims
unknown and unsurveved.
U. S. L, M. No. 1270, is a hewn
spruce post, situated about 75 ft. E.
of brow of small bluff on the right
limit of Yankee Creek and about
00 ft. in elevation of the bed of
-ame. Latitude 63 deg. 01 min. N.
Longitude J56 deg. 20 min. W.
J. SUNDBACK,
Register.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To John Neimi, E. Oksauen, John
Heine. Malt Bosnia. Matt Kivinen,
John Turtenaiti, Henry. Kleiinnla,
August Bel kola, vour heirs,. sx-,
editors, administrators, tand as
signs:
You, and each of you, are hereby
not ilied that we. the undersigned, have
done and caused to be performed labor
to the value of one hundred dollars
(4100.00) vearlv, for each of the years
1915, 1010, 1917, 1018, 1919, 1920, 1921,
upon placer mining claim known as
and called Neimi Association, situated
on Spruce creek, a tributary of Innoko
river, Innoko mining and recording
precinct. Territory of Alaska, in order
to hold thasaid claim under the pro
visions of Section 2324, and amend
ments thereto, of the revised statutes
of the United States of America, con
cerning.annual labor upon mining
claims.
And i4 within ninety (90) days after
the publication of this notice you fail or
refuse to contribute your proportion of
said expenditures, us well as the costs
of recording the same and the costs of
this-advertisement, • your interest in
said claim will become the property of
the undersigned, youtioo-owners, who
have made the required "expenditures
under the terms of said section 2324,
and amendments thereto, of the re
vised statutes of -the United States of
America.
’ t H J. Vinai.,
W\ A VlNAfc,.
Date of first publication, Feb. 4 1922.
Hate of last publication. May ti, 1922.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To Jerry Ford, your tieirs. executors
and assigns:
You, aud each of you, are hereby
notified that 1. the undersigned, your
co owner, have expended for labor anti
improvements the sum of not less than
one hundred dollars ($100) yearly for
the years 1920 and 1921 upon jour in
terests in the Pack Mule Association
placer mining claim, situated no Otter
creek, a tributary of Iditarod river, it:
the Otter mining and recording pre
cinct, Territory of Alaska, in order to
hold said claim under the provisions of
Section 21524 of the revised statutes of
the United Slates acd r.baiam end meins
thereto concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount re
quired to bold said mining claim for
ibe period ending July 1, 1921,
And if within the period of ninety
days after the publication of this no
nce you fail or refuse to contribute
your proportion of said expenditures,
as well as' t he costs of recording the
same and'the expenses of this adver
tisement. your interest, ic -said claim
will become the property op the under
signed. your eo~<owner,-wfao has- made
the required .expenditures under- the
terms of said- Section 242-1- of the re
vised statutes of the United States.
Dan S iMgPonell.
Co jwuer.
Date of first publication, April 8, 1922.
Date of last publication, July 8,
Geo. W. Hoffman
Pioneer Trader of the
Kuskokwim Valley
Napamute - Alaska
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