First Winter Mail
Via Nenana Route
Fred Milligan, for several years a
well koown mail carrier driving out of
Ruby, but who this year is on the mail
run between Nenana and Plat, arrived
here Wednesday with the first load of
mail coming- from Nenana, from which
point he started out with a load of J2U0
pounds, including 400 pounds of mail.
Mr. Milligan describes the trip as a
father tough one, in which he was re
quired to do some bridging, portaging,
detouring and boating, it requiring
Gve days to come the first forty miles
out of Nenana.i
Speaking of roadhouses, Mr. Milli
gan said two new ones had been built
and a Dumber of improvements made
to former oi.es. Distances between ex
.sting roadhouses are practically as
follows:
First roadhouse out of Nenana, a
Acw in 18 miles.
To Knight, 24 miles.
To R Brown’s new roadhouse, which
is declared a fioe one, 27 miles,
To OlroD’s roadhouse at Diamond, 11
miles.
To Hanson Bros.’ roadhouse, at
Roosevelt. 14 miles.
To Kammisgard’s, on Minchumina,
25 miles.
To new roadhouse, called Lone Star.
,34 miles.
To New Talido, 18 miles.
To Slow Fork, Dative roadhouse, 18
(miles.
To ]East Fork roadhouse, 21 miles.
This is the new roadhouse built, by Bub
Jones and Carl Fosberg, which Mr1
Milligan says is a “dandy.”
To Med fra. 9 miles.
Fresh Killed
Reindeer
Meat
At Tokotna
and Ophir
30c Lb.
Send Orders to
A. H. Twitchell
Ophir, Alaska
20,000,000 Women Vot
ers, Gcal Set for 1924
Seattle.—Twenty million women vot
ers in the 1924 presidential election is
the goal of the National League of
Women Voters, according to Mrs. W.
H. Cray, of Keno, Nev., national secre
tary of the organization for the seventh
region, Composed of several Western
states, including Washington, who is
in Seattle._
Joe Cummings, bringing the third
mail out of Flat, arrived here Thurs
day, and started on his return to Flat
! on Friday, after having switched mail
i loads with Mail Carri.’r Milligan, who
also departed the same day on his re
turn trip to NenHna.
Mail Carrier Peter Oe Moski, bring
ing the second mail out from Nenana,
arrived here yesterday, aud left rhis
morning for Ophir, on his way to Flat.
Pete Jenseq, who arrived Sunday,
left for Candle Tuesday from which
point he will return to bis duties in
the Nixon section.
Ed Schneirla, wall known Little
creek mining man. after a day in town,
departed for his home this morning.
Walter Stephens and Ed Paulson,
coming from Flat, who arrived Tues
day, left Thursday for McCrath.
Jerry Frank, from Flat, was a Thurs
day arrival.
Telegraphic Ticks.
.
Seattle.—William G. Cheness, want
ed for trial at Ketchika-n on the charge
of having illegally sold Katalla oil
j lands aod worthless stock of Hyder
| mines, arrived here today in custody
I of officers, having been brought from a
mining camp in the Sierras, where he
was arrested. Cheness was a former
Klondike operator.
New York. — W. E D. Stokes, wealthy
New York hotel man, today, for the
second time, failed in his efforts todi
vorce Mrs. Helen El wood Stokes, for
merly of Denver.
Reno.—Maslon Fairchild, president
of ,v Smck Growers & Ranchers Bank
of was found shot to death in his
automobile this morning, evidently
murdered.
New York.—George Harvey, return
ing here on the Aquitania, after relin
quishing his ambassadorial duties at
PROFESSIONAL
Albrecht and Taylor
LAWYERS
Iditarod, Alaska,
Practice in all Courts.
a
DR. W. A. RYSTROM
Dentist
Scheduled to Arrive in To
kotna About November 15th
London, declared that, like Benjamin
Franklin, he was leaving the public
service to join the masses. . Harvey de
scribed himself as an optimist regard
ing conditions in "Europe.
Paris.—The French suoremc council
of national defense, which includes
Marshal Focb and all h11>h military au
thorities, met this afternoon at the
Elysee Palace, under the presidency of
President Millerand.
Seattle.—Winifred Gibbons, 19 year
old divorcee, who shot and killed Harry
T. LuceMe. & bridegroom, and it well
known advertising director, Wes'found
guilty of manslaughter by the jury,
this morning.
Oklahoma City.—Paul J. McCarthy,
a prominent attorney, was shot dead in
his auto at midnight last night. lie
had left home in response to a tele
phone call to meet an unidentified per
son.
Seattle.—Valdemar A. Smith, a clerk
in the postoffice here, when caught in
the act of rifling letters, confessed that
ho had been using the stolen money to
buy oil stock.
—
Budapest.—An unexploded shrapnel
bomb was found today in front of a
door of Karoli Palace, in which the
French legation is quartered.
Comptullo, Ore. — Arthur Covell. con
victed cripple astrologer, was sentenced
to death >day for the murder of Etta
Covell, his sister-in law.
San Francisco.—Colonel Richard A.
Nddy, 80, famous Indian lighter, and
founder of the town of Missoula, Mont.,
died here today.
Des Moines.—Clifford Thorne, Doted
Iowa attorney, and candidate last year
for the United Stales Senate, died in
London today.
Stockholm.—The Nobel prize for
ph sics was awarded today to Dr.- Rob
ert ' ndrew Milikan, of 'asudena. Cal.
Los Angeles.—George F. Bidwell,
former vice president of the Chicago-&
Eorthwestern, died here today.
Berlin.—The government of Premier
Von Knilling is now in complete con
trol in Munich.
Berlin.—Wirth, former chancellor of
Germany, died today from a stroke of
apoplexy.
Seattle.—Governor Scott C. Bone
sailed on the Alameda for Juneau this
morning
Paris.—General J. J. Pershing was
received today by Premier Poineaire.
Terre Haute—Eugene V. Debs is
dangerously ill.
Tokotna
First Class in Every
ResDect
.Private rooms, with spring'beds.!
Good Meals Served
for $1.00
Bath room, with sanitary~toilet.
Pure well water.
Good, clean dog house.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To Michael Lueey. vour heirs, executors
and assigns:
You and each of you will please take
notice that the undersigned, a co owner
in placer mining claims No. 2 and No
3 Above Discovery on Moore cre<
has personally performed the annual
assessment work 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 - r said work, including the
proportion due from the above named
co-owner.
And you are further notified 'that
unless vou pay your proportion of the
assessment work done on said claims
for eachof said years, within ninety
davs after the last publication of this
notice, your interests in and to said
property will . become forfeited to the
unnerstetied, as provided by SectioD
2.124 of the revised statutes of the
Boiled States and amendments thereto.
Cecil Barlow,
Co- Owner.
Date of first publication, Aug. 11, 1923.
Date of last publication, Nov. 11, 1923.
For Sale
Five Good Dogs
In first o'css condition
$50 Each
Innoko Lumber Company
Freighting
To All Parts or Any
Place.
Reasonable Rates
JOHN HEINO
Notice of Forfeiture.
To Leonard Dodge. P. Smith, Harvey
Wentz. R. H. Guffe, or R. H. Grif
tiths, and T. J. Coffey, their per
sonal representatives, heirs and as
signs:
You and each of you are hereby noti-'
tied that the undersigned has expended
for annual labor one hundred dollars
($100.GO) per year for the years 1915,
1010. 1917, 1920, 1921, 1922, upon the
following described mining claim, in
Roby recording district, Territory of,
Alaska: The Sandbag Association"
Claim, on Greenstone creek, a tribu
i*.ry of €j«mg creek, m order to hold
said claim under the provisions of law
respecting annual labor upon mining
claims.
And if within ninety (90) days after
the publication of this notice you, or
anv of you, fait to pay your portion of
the amount expended on the above
claim, your interest in said claim will
become forfeited to the undersigned co
rner. according to the provisions of
Section 2324 Revised Statutes of the
United States.
Dan StttheiitjAnd.
Date of first publication, Sept. 22. 1923.
Date of final publication, Dec. 29. 1923.
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LAUNDRY
McGrath
A Bath in a Real
Bath Tub
Shoe Repairing
Sign Writing
Paperhanging
CHARLES REBHUN
The Handy Man
NORTHERN COMMERCIAL CO.
OF ALASKA
Stores at McGrath and Tacotnal
Fall and Winter
Outfits
Star Ham, 50c Star Bacon, 60c
Sugar, $14 Per 100 Lbs.
Pillsbury Flour, $10 Soft Flour, $9
Leather Vests, $10 and $12
Federal Milk, $8.50 Star, $1 Plug
At Our Tokotna Stoae.
Dog Harness Dog Collars
Sled Runners Camp Stoves Tents
Crosscut Meat Saws
A Complete Line of Winter Clothing,
Including Patrick Brand
m-l&L. TANK GASOLINE, $55.00
At Our McGrath Store