THE KUSKO TIMES
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Owner and Editor.
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Entered as secona-ctass matter Au
)gust 20th, 1923, at the postoffice at
'Tokotna, Alaska, under the Act of
-March 3, 1879.
Takotna, Alaska, March 17. 1928.
j-RESS SQUIBS.
The itching palm may be a forerun
iner of the mailed fist.—Council
-Bluffs Nonpareil.
The worst thing about wisdom is
that it can only be acquired on the
instalment plan.-—Boston Transcript.
Uncle Sam has earned the credit of
introducing two kinds of diplomacy:
Shirt-sleeve and airplane.—Boston
-Herald.
Those who say that Prohibition is a
failure have never tried it, says
Pussyfoot Johnson. The same may be
said of capital punishment.—New
York Periscope.
To be a success, a political issue
unust be like a bond issue. It must
(draw interest.—Louisville Times.
The farmer would have no problem
tto solve it hjj surplus were in as
.great demand as his vote.—Virginian
Pilot.
De Valera wants to start a news
paper. The Irish always were glut
tons for punishment.—New York
iEvening Post.
What face was it that launched
;another thousand Marines Nicarag
uaward? The face on the silver
(dollar?—Tampa Tribune.
Medical science, we read, is still
hunting for the cold germ, hoping, we
presume, if it is found, to make
things, hot for it.—Philadelphia In
(quirer.
A Spanish Toreador says Colonel
Xindebergh would be a great bull
lighter. Considering his marvelous
-resistance to bull, he already is.—Ar
kansas Gazette.
Keeping up with your friends isn’t
an easy job—especially when they ex
poet you to be quoted in The Literary
Digest every week.—Marshall County
j (Minn.) Banner.
; Society pays for its sins. It once
made Willie speak pieces on Friday
afternoon, and now it must listen to
his after-dinner speeches.—Portland
i (Me.) Express.
We would suggest to the numerous
hunters of lost treasures that they try
the New York stock market. The re
sults would probably be the same,
and the hardships much less.—Man
1 Chester Union.
More than 1,500 of the 2,000 super
visors, inspectors and agents of the
Federal Prohibition forces have
failed to pass the civil service exam
ination. Evidently they found stuly
; ing too dry.—New York Ebening
i Post
Flappers are the sa meas as they
were 1,000 years ago, declares Chief
! Justice Brothers of the Criminal
| Court. Many inveterate flappers
would appreciate the cimpliment if
told they were the same as they were
: ten years ago.—Chicago Daily News.
Some drinks play havoc in an
empty stomach, and some ideas act
that way in an empty head.—Chicago
this country this year will be politics
i Journal.
—
One of the greatest struggles in
! trying to get rid of prohibition and
prohibition trying to get rid of poli
' tics.—Tampa Times.
However, eight years of prohibition
hasn’t been sufficient to dry* up the
controversy.—Philadelphia Inquirer.
Bobby Jones has gone into the
financial game, evidently thinking
bankers will be just as easy as bunk
ers.—New York Evening Post.
The man who blew hot to warm his
hands and cojd to cool his soup has
nothing on The candidate who is per
sonally dry and politically wet-—Bos
ton Herald.
Scientists claim that man’s cycle of
life will soon be extended to 100
years, which iwll be a great boon to
the installment business.—Columbus
Dispatch.
Several new books have been pub
lished about Adam and Eve. These
“fictional biographers” seem to be
bent on raising Cain.—Boston Tran
script.
“Briton Foresees Generation That
Will Never Get Out of Bed.”—Head
line. It will differ radically from the
present younger generation, which
never goes there.—Virginian-Pilot.
In China, according to Captain M
B. Curtis of the United States Marine
Corps, every soldier takes his wife t«
war with him. It may be a govern
ment plant to keep the boys in a
Takotna Pool Hall
Fresh Fruits Candies Soft Drinks
Tobaccos Cigars Cigarets
Apples Oranges
Mutchler Gold Storage Barge
Pork Beef Veal Mutton
Boiled Hams Pickled Tongues
Sausage in variety Head Cheese
DAVE MUTCHLER - PROP.
fighting mood.—New York Evening
Post.
With Mr. Coolidge positively out of
the running, we make a bid for the
concession of checking hats a tthe
ringside.—Atlanta Constitution. I
TABLE OF DISTANCES BE
TWEEN NENANA AND FLAT
Miles
Nenana ....... 00
Tavern Roadhouse . 17%
Knight’s Roadhouse . 11%
Nineteen-Mile Roadhouse . 58
diamond Roadhouse . 76
Roosevelt .._... 89
l Lake Minchumina ... 115
Trappers’ Cabin . 132 j
Lone Star Roadhouse .. 150 i
Telida Roadhouse ........169%
Slow Fork Roadhouse . 187
East Fork Roadhouse .) 206
Berry’s Landing Roadhouse . 227%
Big River Roadhouse . 241
McGrath ...... 263
Takotna .. 280
Ophir..... 300
McCafferty .. 306
Brown Creek shelter cabin.318
Fritz shelter cabin . 333
First Chance shelter cabin _ 346
Schermeyer R. U... 360
Iditarod....376
Flat ...... 384
Bonanzza she lor cabin, 12 miles
from Flat.
Crooked Creek shelter cabin, 19
miles from .Bonanza.
In the Probate .Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Fourth Division,
Nulato Precinct, at Ruby, before
William N. Growden, United
States Commissioner and ex-officio
Probate Judge.
In the matter of the Estate of
Mickie (Michail J.) Dugan, deceased.
Notice of Settlement of Final Ac
count.
Notice is hereby given that John W.
Dunn, administrator of the estate of
Mickie (Michail J.) Dugan, deceased,
has rendered and presented for settle
ment and filed in said Court the final
account of his administration of said
estate; and that Wednesday, the 20th
day of June, 1928, at 3 o’clock in the
afternoon of said day, at the Court
j Takotna j
1 Cigar Store j
Tobaccos
Cigars jj
J Soft Drinks j
Fred Dubois j
| Proprietor §
McGrath!
Pool Haul
Fresh Fruits |
Candies j
Tobaccos )
Pipes I
Cigarettes J
Soft Drinks I
Cigarette Holders f
George Walters
Proprietor
1
Room of the United States Commis
sioner’s Office, at Ruby, Nul&to Pre
cinct, Fourth Division, Territory of
Alaska, has been duly appointed by
said Court as the time and place for
the hearing of said final account, at
which time and place any person in
terested in said estate may appear
and file exceptions in writing to said
account and contest the same.
And notice is further given to .the
heirs of said deceased that the above
entitled Court will at the same time
and place hereinbefore mentioned for
the hearing in said final report and
account, adjudge and decree who the
heirs and distributees of said de
ceased arc, and on or before said .date
any person or corporation may file
his or its claim to heirship of said de
ceased.
JOHN W. DUNN,
Administrate rof the Estate of
Mickie (Michail J.) Dugan,
Deceased.
Date of first publication, March 10,
1928.
Date of final publication, April 7,
1928.
j Du Rand’s j.
I Cafe and |
j Hotel
The -single-track mind h seldom
well ballasted.—Shoe bud leather
Reporter.
Vivian’s
Place
Vivian Howard, Prop.
Soft Drinks
Candies
Cigars *
Cigarettes
Tobaccos
S/f
A Gentlemen^?
Resort
Ikey Hayes - Mgr.
Max Simel : EX'
STATION: F.UKVIEW, INN OK O RIVER.
Miners’, Prospectors’ and
Trappers’ Supplies
FREIGHTING
General Transportation
How About Wood Hauling?
Joe Ferris - - Takotna