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Hotel N >rdale , the largest hos;
telry in the Interior and next to
the oldest hotel in Fairbanks
was totally destroyed by fire re
cently. The loss is estimated to
be around $100,000, only $20,000
insurance being carried. Wm
Zacharios who formerly conduct
ed a barber shop in' the Tolovana
was the only victim of the hola
caust.
The blue fox farmers associa
tion are planning to start a fur
market at Ketchikan for market
ing fur raised by the association
alone. There are over one hun
dred thousand dollars invested
in foxes in the vicinity of Ketchi
kan alone, and this vicinity has
invested even more heavily in the
industry.
Recently an Alaskan trapper
was treed by four timber wolves
Soon two ot them moved off.
They returned in a short time
with a beaver between them. The
• beaver was then forced to start
gnawing on the tree. Before it
had finished it’s work however,3,
hunting party came along and
the tragedy was averted. The
, trapper quit the country, say
ing, the wolves were getting too
well educated for him to keep
up with them.
The Standard Oil Company’s
rig that is now drilling in the
Cold Bay field is the most power
ful oil drill ever erected any
place in the world.
Dan Hires an old time Indian
fighter and a pioneer in the Can
district near Nome recently pass
ed away, in Sitka.
Capt. Mike Jensen one of the
most popular steamboat masters
ever in Alaska is now skipper
of the Admiral Line boat Presi
dent Grant. The boat is on the
Seattle-Oriental run, and on one
trip Mike busted the speed re‘
cord all pisces.
A copy of ”Svit ”, a Russian
paper was recently received at
Sitka. It states that the heads of
the former Czar and his family
are preserved in alcohol and
kept in the government archives
A monter eagle measuring
six feet from tip to tip was re
cently killed near Dawson. The
bird has been mounted and is
to be used as an ornament.
During the past six years end
ing December 31, 19?2, 15,664
eagles were killed in the Terri
tory and bounties payed on them
Many were killed for which no
bounty was paid. The new law
increases the bounty from fifty
cents to one dollar.
If President Harding is able
to visit Alaska this year, it will]
hasten the statehood of Alaska,
according to Hon. Dan Suther
land.
The recent basketball game be
tween Skagway and Ft. Chilcoot
was a general Donnebrook Fair.
Players on either team hitting
their opponents with everything
but the benches. When the smoke
of battle cleared, Skagway found
her score was fourteen to her
rival’s Umpty-something or a
nother.
Haig & Haig Ltd. have begun
liquidation. Not demand for su
erfine whiskey is given as the
reason.
Copper River
and Northwestern Railway
THROUGH SERVICE TO CORDOVA TWICE WEEKLY
CALEB CORSER Supt. C. M.BOROUGHS . Agent
STATEMENT OF THE OWN
ERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIR
CULATION; etc. Required by the
Act of Congress of August, 1912.
the McCarthy weekly
NEWS published at McCarthy; A*
laska for October, 1922.
United States of America.
Territory of Alaska.
Before me a U.S.Commissioner in the
Territory aforesaid, personally appear
ed R. E. Lander, Who, having been
duly sworn according to law, deposes
and says that he is the owner of the
McCarthy Weekly News, and that
the following is, to the best of his
knowledge and belief, a true statement
of the ownership, management, etc, of
the aforesaid publication for the date
shown in the above caption; required
by the Act of August 1912, to wit:
1. That the names and addresses of
the publisher, editor, managing editor
and business managers are:
Publisher, R. E. Lander, McCarthy
Alaska.
Editor; R.E.Lander, McCarthy, Alas.
Business Manager, L. M Lander, Mc
Carthy, Alaska.
2. That the owner is:
R. E. Lander, McCarthy, Alaska.
3. That the known bondholders; mort
gages and other security holders, own
ing 1 per cent or more of total a
mount of bonds, mortgages or other
-ecurities are:
John W.Barrett, McCarthy, Alaska.
Nils Tjosievg,
Wm. Longley, ” ’*
(Signed) R. E. Lander
Sworn to and su bscribed before me
this 6th day of April, 1923.
Wm. D. Coppernol]
U.S. Commissioner. Territoay of Alas,
ka, Third Division, McCarthy Precinct.
NOTICE TO DELINQUENT
CO-OWNERS
PETE DIECH and J. B O’NEILL
their heirs and assigns.
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED
That daring the calendar year
of 1921, the undersigned ex
pended more than One hundred
dollars on each claim in labor
and improvements upon the Ram
bler group of Copper Claims Nos.
4, 6, 7 and 8 situated along the
Dan Creek, a tributary of the
of the Nizina River, in th*3 [un
organized ]Mining District with
in the McCarthy Precinct, in the
Territory of Alaska, in the lode
mining locations you show an
undivided interest as shown in
the Notices of location thereof,on
record in said recording precinct
That said labor was performed
and the expenditure and improve
ments made as and for the an
nual labor for the respective cal
endar year by the provi
sions of the Revised Statutes of
the United States, and amend
ments thereto, concerning the
annual labor and improvements
upon mining claims, and the a
mount so expended was the a
mount required by law to hold
said claims for the year of 1921,
which year the same was ex
pended.
You are therefore indebted to
the undersigned in the sum of
$133.33% and an additional sum
of $2.00 recording fees, a total
of $135.33% and you are notified
that unless you contribute and
pay the undersigned your por‘
tion to wit: The sum of $135.33%
within ninety days after the per
sonal service of this Notice upon
you, or within ninety days after
the publication ef this notice,
which ninety days shall be com
puted from the date of the last
publication as below stated,your
claim shall be forfeited to the
undersigned who has made such
expenditure and will become his
property by law.
Payment of such amount may
be made to the undersigned at
McCarthy, Alaska,
Dated this 24th day of Peb. 1923#
George Marhoffer
First publication Feb .24, 1923.
Last publication J une 2, 1923.