THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO S. MAYNARD. Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD. Manager.
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Interesting Items
About Alaskans
Culled From Exchanges
Air. and Airs. Fay Jeffries
of Fairbanks, are the par
ents of an eight pound dau
ghter. born recently.
Sixteen auto drivers in
Anchorage have taken out
new licenses. Some 375
autos are in Anchorage,but
so far only 16 have been is
sued. Anyone driving a
car on or after January 1,
1936, is required to have a
license.
Airs. Jennie Lander John
ston was recently married
to A. Baabsgard in Arcta,
Calif., according to reports
received by friends. Airs.
Baabsgard was the wife of
the late A. Johnston, Fair
banks photographer. She
left the north several years
ago for California.
W. S. Horning, who pass
ed thru Anchorage on his
way outside, says that the
present price of gold makes
it worth while to mine a
grade of ore which was un
touched in past years. He
has a mine in the Wasilia
district which works a big
crew. Formerly, he said, it
did not pay to more than
skim the ground for high
grade, but now low grade
ores can be mined with a
profit.
Thruogh the checking of
dental records in Portland,
a fisherman who lost his
life in Alas1' i was identifi
ed a° T. 3. Alstad. Ills wid
ow ; win., in Pen ‘land.
The body was found on the
shores of Lu'.u Island, last
August. An empty fishing
boat belonging to Alstad
was found several montns
later. A description of den
tal work was sent the wid
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT TO MISSION SITE
Mineral Survey No. 2082
Nome Serial No. 0923
IN THE UNITED STATES LAND
OFFICE AT NOME. ALASKA.
December 20, 1935.
NOTICE is hereby given that
the CALIFORNIA' YEAR L Y
MEETING OF FRIENDS CHUR
CH. a religious corporation whose
postoffice address and principal
place of business is Whittier, Cal
ifornia. has made application in
the United States Land Office at
Name, Alaska, for a patent for
its mission site to be known as
the “Friends Mission Reserve” at
Kotzebue, Noatak-Kobuk Pre
cinct, Territory of Alaska, and
within the Nome Land Office Dis
trict, and officially designated U.
S. Survey No. 2082, the exterior
boundaries thereof being as foll
ows, magnetic declination 22 de
grees, 30 min. E -
Beginning at Cor. 1 whence U.
S. Location Monument No. 2082
bears N. 45 deg. 55 min. W., 8.94
chains; thence S. 44 deg. 05 min.
W., 4.00 chains to Cor. 2; thence
S. 45 deg., 55 min. E., 29.46 chains
to Witness Corner, and .40 chains
further in the same direction to
Cor. 3; from Cor. 3 S. 67 deg. 43
min. VV. 10.60 chains to Cor. 4;
thence N 45 deg. 55 min. W., .30
chains to Witness Corner, and
25.30 chains further in the same
direction * Cm. 5; theiwe S. 44
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H. J. NELSON F. H. WHALEY
o\v and she checked the de
scription with the records
of a Portland dentist. The
commissioner’s description
tallied with tliat of the den
tist.
A group of Ketchikan
men have organized a com
pany to utilize airplanes to
take out hunting parties,
deg. 65 min. W, 13.30 chains to
Cor. 6; thence N. 45 deg. 55 min.
W., 8.94 chains to Cor. 7; thence
N. 44 deg. 05 min. E.. 12.92 chains
to Cor. 8; thence N. 45 deg. 55
min. W., 6.00 chains to Cor. 9;
thence N. 48 deg. 09 min. E., 14.12
chains to Cor. 10; thence N. 45
deg. 55 min. W., 1.30 chains to
Witness Corner and .49 chains fur
ther in the same direction to Cor.
11: thence N. 55 deg. 35 min. E.,
3.29 chains to Cor. 12; thence S
27 deg. 33 nnn. E., .68 chains to
Witness Corner and 1.31 chains
further in the same direction to
Cor. 13; thence S. 44~ deg. 05 min.
W., 2.60 chains to Cor. 14; thence
S. 45 deg. 55 min. E.. 2.25 chains
to Cor. 15: thence N. 44 deg. 05
min. E., 1.10 chains to Cor. 16;
thence S. 45 deg. 55 min. E., .70
chains to Cor. 17: thence S. 44
deg. 05 min. W., 1.10 chains to
Cor. 18; thence S. 45 deg. 55 min.
E., 1.30 chains to said U. S. Loca
tion Monument No. 2082, and S.
45 deg. 55 min. E., 8.94 chains
further in the same direction to
Cor. 1, the place of beginning;
the total area being 59 50 acres;
and excepting therefrom a tract
of 0.28 acres known as the "Ver
non tract” for a description of
which commencing at Cor. 1 of
said “Vernon tract" from whence
said LT. S. Location Monument No.
2082 bears N. 55 deg. 54 min. E..
11.87 chains; thence S. 44 deg. 05
min. W., 2.00 chains to Cor. 2 of
said tract; thence N. 45 deg. 55
min. W., 1.40 chains to Cor. 3 of
.said tract; thence N. 44 deg. 05
min. E., 2.00 chains to Cor. 4 of
said tract, thence S. 45 deg. 55
min. E., 1.40 chains to Cor. 1 or
the place of beginning on said
tract; leaving a net of 59.22 acres.
This mission site is on unsur
veyed ground and is within and
adjoining the town of Kotzebue,
Noatak-Kobuk Precinct, Terri
tory of Alaska.
U. S. Location Monument No.
2082 to which this site or reserve
is tied is situated in Latitude 66
deg. 53 min. N., Longitude 162
deg. 38 min. 30 sec. W., in the
said town of Kotzebue.
ALMER RYDEEN,
, Register
First Publication Jan. 14, 1936.
Last Publication March 16, 1936.
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eliminating the slow boat
trips. The firm is compos
ed of Wesley Meyers, veter
an guide; Ed. Lynch, busi
nessman, and Charles An
derson, pilot. The men
have bought a six-place
plane formerly usel by the
Treadwell Mining Co.
When Frank Dufresne, as
sistant director of the Al
aska Game Commission sat
down to his turkey dinner,
recently, he thought of a
fried snowy owl he once
had for his dinner on the
shore of the Bering Sea. It
was near Shaktoolik in the
winter of 1923,and the near
est turkey was many miles
distant. Not so snowy owls,
one of whom Dufresne’s
friend, E. Silleriak picked '
off with his gun. With Eb- -
en, his wife and two child
ren, Dufresne enjoyed the
dinner, despite the lack of
cranberry sauce and tree.
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