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thermometer to drop to 47 de
grees below zero. The coldest in
T2 23 was 48 below. Who says
we won’t grow, ’’cffi banan” some
c|ay, in Alaska?
The Douglas cable office has
suspended operations. Lack of
business is given as the cause.
Many cottages are being sold
for taxes in that same town. The
amount of taxes is, in most cases
from 10 to 17 dollors.
The lumber mills at Juneau
comtemplate cutting six million
feet of lumber this year, the
work commencing the latter part
of this month. About 60 men
will be employed.
Wolves in the Scroggie-Black
lulls district recently became so
thick that a drive was instituted
by the residents of the district.
They obtained a sled load of am
munition and every body went a
hunting for wolf skin [ not a rab
bit skin.]
Jack McMillan, pioneer miner
and trapper in the Atlin country
was recently found dead in his
cabin. A bullet wound in his head
indicated the cause of his demise.
A coroner’s jury decided that
death was accidental.
Capt. J. W. Beytes, who, until
a few years ago. was in command
of theMounted Police at Dawson
died recently at Regina. For some
time prior to his promotion he
w as an active member of the
force and achieved a name for
himself in making several note
worthy captures, chief of which
was a year’s chase in the Hud
son Bay country after two Eski
mo murderers.
Andrew Merickle, nightwatch.
man on the Treadwell ditch for
the past 30 years, recently plum
ged to his death over a four hun
dred foot cliff while performing
his duty. He was walking the
ditchliue, which was cohered with
ice, and fell to his death before
a companion could reach him.
IN THE UNITED STATES
COMMISSIONER’S COURT
FOR THE TERRITORY OF ALA.
SKA, THIRD DIVISION, MCCAR
THY PRECINCT.
IN PROBATE
No. 53
Notice and Citation.
In the Matter of the Adoption
of George Pippin, a minor child.
THE PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES to Harry
Pippin, Hilda V. Pippin, and to
any porsori or persons in
terested in the adoption of
George Pippin, a minor child,
Greetings: »
By order of this court,
you are cited to appear before
the judge of this court, at the
court room thereof, at McCarthy
in the Third Division of the Ter
ritory of Alaska, on Tuesday the
5th day of June, 1923, at the hour
of two o’clock in the afternoon of
that day, -and then and there
show cause,if any you have, why
O. A. Nelson and Sarah L.Nelson
should not adopt one George
Pippin, a minor child under the
age of two years, as provided
by Chapter Four of the Civil
Code of the Compiled Laws of
Alaska, 1913.
On the 5tb day of March, 1923
the said O. A. Nelson and Sarah
L. Nelson filed in this court
their petition setting forth that
George Pippin, said minor child,
was the child of Harry Pippin
and Hilda V. Pippin; that the
said child was born at the City
of Concord in the state of New
l
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O
Copper River
and Northwestern Railway
THROUGH SERVICE TO CORDOVA TWICE WEEKLY
CALEB CORSER Supt. C. M.BOROUGHS . Agent
Hampshire on the 24th day of De1
dember, 1921; that the said Hilda
V.Pippin, mother of said minor
child directly after the child
was born abandoned and gave
it over to one J.L. Clough of
Nashua, New Hampshire for the
purpose of adoption, or to get
the said child adopted by some
reliable and respectable people,
and consenting to such adoption;
that the said Harry Pippin, pre
vious to the birth of said minor
child as aforesaid, willfully des
erted and abandoned the mother
Hilda V. Pippin, and has contin
ued and now <£oes continue such
abondonment of the mother and
child.
. That the said petitioners O. A.
Nelson and Sarah L. Nelson in said
petition have prayed that a de
cree be entered herein that they
shall be allowed to adopt said
minor child George Pippin; and
that thereafter and thenceforth
such child shall be regarded as
and treated in all respects as the
child of the petitioners; that the
said child’s name be be changed
to Philip Clough Nelson, and tor
other relief.
You and each of you are fur
ther notified that if you fail to
appear before this court at the
time and place hereinbefore
named,the court will take such
action in the matter as shall be
meet and just in the premises.
Wittness my hand and the seal
of said court, this 5th day of
March, A.D. 1923.
( seal ) ' Wm.D.Coppernol^
Probate Judge.
Publish March 10 17-24 31 and
April 7.
NOTICE TO DELINQUENT
COOWNERS
PETE DIECH and J. B O’NEILL
their heirs and assigns.
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED
That during 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 the [ un
organised ]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 $135.33y3 and you are notifiea
that unless you contribute^ and
pay the undersigned yoi*r 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,
wThich ninety days shall be com
puted from th4 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 Feb. 1923.
George Marhoffer
First publication Feb .24, 1923.
Last publication J une 2, 1923. .
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